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Professor Snuggles:
Do you perhaps mean "bandana?" also comment on solja and nuffink else, rly?
valley_parade:
Dude it certainly sounded like "bandela" to me.
As for other rap, I'll agree with Zombiedude that Das Racist are cool shit. And Shad is cool shit (and a pretty nice dude!)
Scandanavian War Machine:
I've been listening to a lot of Big L lately because I've been rocking my iPod on shuffle and letting it choose for me, and I have waaaay more Big L on my iPod than I even realized existed. Classic.
I've also been listening to that Astronautalis album from the MF thread a little while back and, while I certainly hate a lot of aspects of it, I can't help but get hyped on some of the songs. The guitar solo in the beat of the first track "do you believe in life after thugs" is fucking sick, and some of the later tracks are awesome too, though usually for weird reasons.
Skibas_clavicle:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 24 Nov 2010, 07:19 ---Anyway, downloading the new Soulja Boy, and I'm psyched.
--- End quote ---
What is WRONG with you?!
Johnny C:
hey if you think chart hip-hop across the board is minstrelsy or misogynistic or whatever and you have jstor access then i'm going to suggest that instead of publicly clowning yourself as you are currently doing you should actually look at the broad, vast field of study that's been done on the subject and understand that it's way more complicated than that and the stuff you've been exposed to or intentionally exposed yourself to has been remarkably narrow and that there are arguments to be made but your contextualization of them is seriously lacking. yes khar i am speaking directly to you but also anyone reading this thread. i know these discussions are being held elsewhere because i just wrote up a research proposal on gender roles & sexualities in chart hip-hop and had to do a lengthy annotated bibliography.
also cali swag district is probably my favourite current rap crew i think, their beats are just so awesome and they're such a playful bunch of dudes
e: and like relatability is a weird argument. what do you need to relate to? why do you need to relate to it? do you relate to the immediate & direct content or do you kind of hope for like an aristotlean universal in the particular, rather than just relating exclusively to the particular itself? and why can't the contents of rap express things which are deeply relatable, even stuff that's big on the charts? i have so many questions cause as a critique it just doesn't make sense. like i definitely don't relate to latter-day scott walker or a bunch of parenthetical girls songs or fela kuti, at all, but i love records and songs from those artists.
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