Tag: De La Soul
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…
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RC 256: I Have No Name For This (Fix It In The Edit)
[image: John, Hackney 2013] The same rappers say they’re trooping the frontlines, and casually use the word ‘Faggot’ as a punchline. That’s not a man, that’s not a tough guy. That is a sucker and a fraud to the culture! Hip Hop is folk music grown from the struggle and half these fools could put…
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More bad news – RIP Lloyd Brevett & MCA
(Skatalites – Nimrod which has been completely scrubbed off YouTube. Odd.) Hmm after Nitro Deluxe the bad news keeps on coming, it always comes in threes…one you probably don’t know and the other you do. Of course everyone’s talking about the death of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys – I’m sure as…
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Crimes Against Pop set
It went really well – slightly odd crowd though, one that wanted rock and responded well to metal (?) but everything had to be HITS! HITS! HITS! and nothing even slightly unknown – not even indie classics…they ended an hour early since a few people got way too shitfaced and had to be wheeled out…
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Thou Shalt Not Think Having A Blog Makes You A Journalist
New version of Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip’s Thou Shalt Always Kill – no not a remix, a new version via De La Soul’s Posdnous : A brilliant new version – love the Kid Carpet reference, the Facebook and YouTube snarks and the styles bit. Out in January apparently!