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sharing // October 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment

When Jay-Z Was Good

Over a month late on this, but my recent subscription to The Rub has yielded the quintessential Jay-Z mixtape, featuring a pre-bubble wrapped Hova. “…I wanted to go back and pull out a bunch of his music that made you bob your head, marvel at his flow, puff out your chest, or even raise the little hairs on the back of your neck. The feelings you got from songs like “Where I’m From,” “D’Evils,” “1-900-Hustler” and “You Don’t Know.” Not included: #1 singles you’ve heard a million times, lazy one-take flows, lyrics about inventing the button-down shirt, songs dissing rappers who would later be signed to Jay-Z’s label, and songs produced by Eminem.” — “D.O.J.: Best of Jay-Z Mix”   The Rub

 

sharing // October 21st, 2009 // Comments Off

Yes, Homeaux.

Hip-Hop owes Cam’ron, whether it would like to admit it or not. Thank you, Cam’ron. “Of course, the straight guy who types ‘no homo’ with impunity isn’t the best person to argue that ‘no homo’ is unoffensive to gays. According to another IGN poster, ‘no homo’ is ‘pretty wrong, kinda like saying i could go for a watermelon, “no negro.”‘” — “How Censoring “No Homo” Will Help Hip-Hop” Amanda Hess / Washington City Paper

 

sharing // October 14th, 2009 // 1 Comment

cantstopbkcoverI suppose there’s no accounting for taste. “Has hip-hop grown up? Duh. It always has because we always do. Every time the ex-kids who feel like they reinvented it get a little older, the new kids behind them start turning it into something else. How do the older ones react? They holler about ‘Hip-hop is dead’—the first time someone said hip-hop was dead was in 1979, the year ‘Rapper’s Delight’ came out. Meanwhile, the shorties have new clothes, new slang, new dances, new styles, new art, new music. Hip-hop still ages gracefully—we see you Erykah, Ghostface—and remains indecipherable to 30+somethings—whose knees never jerk the way they’re supposed to. The rest is just a small, if hot, argument across a mini-generation gap.” – “The Small, Hot Argument Across Hip-Hop’s Mini-Generation Gap” Jeff Chang / The Root

 

 

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