Hey, No Offense, But All Your Blogs Bite It

i'm going to give the author a headstart by saying that it's REALLY REALLY easy to figure it out

I totally don't know who it is! Do tell.

Brent D

Ott

edan

The general premise of the site seems like something Ott would appreciate, but I guess I assumed he liked indie rock too much to want to ruthlessly take on its champions.

you guys can figure it out with logic!! you CAN!

slocki you hush!! i mean it!

I stayed up watching The Wire until late. I don't feel logical.

xp-hmmmmmm

raggett

blount

now THAT is a very interesting speculation.

My next review for the Seattle Weekly is so so so totally gonna excerpted to be on the indierock4eva blog. I know it. I KNOW IT.

dammit, 3! you knew i was gonna do a dipset4eva blog and now you gave away the idea! fuck it.

haha i actually started one of those months ago but gave up after two posts

the policeman who stopped you

id take a six of tecate over any rocafella release since 2001 besides sigel and maybe that bleek with 'round here' on it

speakin of 2001 there it goes

I did some investment banking while we were back there, I'm a millionaire now.

haha look what i found-

Subject: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:55:18 -0400
From: ethan
To: ryan@pitchforkmedia.com

youll have this by next week

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:25:06 -0500
From: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
To:
References: 1

Give it to NLYPM, I can't use it.

Ryan

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:33:03 -0400
From: ethan
To: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
References: 1 , 2

why the fuck not

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:27:49 -0500
From: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
To:
References: 1 , 2 , 3

You know why, we don't cover mainstream rap. A Cam'ron review would be totally out of place and weird.

Ryan

-- simon trife (simo...), August 26th, 2002.

MEEEEEEMMMMMMREEEEEEEZZ

robble

hahaha whoa bizzaro world!

so what's happened since June '01? did Sosa pass Hank Aaron yet?

Times sure change. Predicted this in 2001?

freaky zeaky testifed to congress bout his steroid use

Jay-Z vs Nas.

I wanted to like the Cam album, really, but man I sure didn't and I also didn't have any beer in the fridge. that Tecate hit the spot, too.

sterl are you submitting that for consideration on dipset4eva.blogspot.com

haha gear right now my entire life revolves around turnin wack rap cds into hard liquor

I received two bucks one time for a CD by this chap named Hard Todd

He runs Stylus now.

i just wanna agree what means the world to u is amazing, um like you meet a old friend and they look better than imagination. has there been a ts dipset vs pootie tang?

only if you'll take it, 3.

i think i just wanted to brag about how i was up on dipset before the blogosphere.

also remember when everyone loved cam'ron because of "boys" back when the whole kanye/justblaze thing was breaking? haha yeah those were the days.

(dipset qua dipset -- i.e. not the individual dudes -- also gets plenty of b.e.t. play, so its not just the blogosphere that digs em. tho maybe the blogosphere is fairly alone in rilly digging the mixtapes. speculation: dipset mixtapes are real easy to get ahold of & becuz of low album sales & lack of source covereage are therefore hipper than say 50 vs. LL Cool Jay AND Tigra pt. 48 & therefore are custom-made for indie-ethos consumption? "whoa -- he rhymed apple with snapple with dapple with lapel with crabapple with paffle with grapple with clappel!")

yeah i mean my listening is v determined by what i cn find at actual well stocked best buy but idk if dipset is in fact easier to get ahold of than any other mixtapes on the internet, that is, is this just some most bloggers are connected to nyc thing? or has dipset allowed for this in a unique way, i havent seen their website. but theres absolutely some lack of coverage meets accesibility shit goin on

but cmon you gotta love lapel in a hypothetical rhyme!

i fucking hated Purple Haze at first, but i do like Juelz - "What's It Gonna Be", a lot.

(thanks SFJ! best track i ever downloaded! ...oops)

you want to talk about bloggers running up on somebody they never would have given the time of day to four years ago, having since lost his damn mind -- R fucking Kelly anybody?!!?!?!?

yeah but it isnt like cam ws on some batman wagon like r, but still all this arguin and knashing whats basically late 90s dbl discs from my hs pep rallys is bizarre but im not abt to get in the way of some 2nd coming shit cuz i think on principle, better or worse its worth it to take that 2nd look

I'm totally shocked anyone EVER thought dipset was only popular with bloggers. Wasn't "Hey Ma" a huge fucking pop single?

it ws huge and on mtv and the only comparable things i cn think of are big pimpin and maybe its that 50 thread but in da club, too, but those songs arent similar really, theres no cam on a treadmill, hey ma maybe cld rolled into some jlo duets school?

but like i remember and as sterling put it this dipset qua dipset thing is a whole nother animal from hey ma whats up?

Was the first incongruous-blogger-into-Dipset Robin Carmody?

i just googled robin now but maybe he she introduced them to adjectives

I think the first time I heard about dipset having an "internet fanbase" may have actually been on ILM. But I might be totally off on that.

i remember that caramanica like it ws yesterday

I'm pretty sure Kelefa was fucking with Cam back then. He wrote that great piece on Jay-Z right before the first Blueprint came out, he seemed pretty aware of what was going on.

Robin Carmody:

"Cam'ron's Harlem-raised protege Juelz Santana is most intriguing of all because he doesn't even try to deny his sympathies (I wonder how many similar facades will fall before too long). Santana (and what a historically provocative name *that* is) actually boasts about identifying with those who would censor and destroy his own music; the much-vaunted "courage when he was driving the plane / reminds me of when I was dealing the 'cane" line, alluding to the perpetrators of September 11th, is actually a piece of headline-seeking self-importance which doesn't really shock at all; what does make me almost fall out of my chair in shock, especially in context of everything Bush has stirred up, is the casual, presumably approving shout of "Taliban!" at the intro of the Diplomats' "I'm Ready", and again towards the end (I almost described the song as a "posse cut", but to call this a posse cut would be like calling "Anarchy In The UK" skiffle). The word is not presented as some universal evil, just as something casual to say, JUST ANOTHER WORD, JUST ANOTHER ANALOGY. The song itself sounds fascistic in its sheer bludgeoning of the point; Mark E. Smith would have approved of this when he sang "Repetition in our music / And we're never going to lose it" (inspired by Neu!, of course, as were the Sex Pistols' fundamentally defunkified rhythms - indeed you could say this 2003 wave of fascist-hop is doing to hip-hop what the Pistols did to rock music, fundamentally removing it from its inherently black rhythmic roots) a quarter of a century ago. Same sped-up vocal sample for the best part of 5 minutes, no flux or sonic evolution at all, no trace of the flexibility of black pop past and much of the present."

Not that talking about Juelz Santana in August 2003 makes Robin some visionary seer or anything, but it was the first time i remember being surprised to read someone talking about Dipset.