― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 08:42 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
Digga shit, like its only slightly more ludicrous trans-Pacific counterpart, Nip Hop, was born to be comical. Exponents are either consciously or unconsciously so.
Unlike Japanese Wa-do-shu-mis-u, however, Diggas have been not been allowed to adopt weighty gold jewellery (unless their family held some interest in a kebab shop) or the bandanna-under-cap affectation. Likewise, film clipz featuring doe-eyed Aussie bitches in fishnets, skirts and Ghetto-Fabulous-Polyester-Flamingo-Feather crop tops riding alongside our Digga heroes in Holden Statesmen are ruefully absent. No sexual braggadoccio, no limber aspiring Roppongi strippers gyrating their arses or tracing O's in the air with their fashionably trimmed centres of gravity...
Jiggas 1, Diggas 0.
But "Bloke" has been used occasionally with relish as a rhyming word, as has "Fuckin' Oath" to great effect. When the US navy comes to town the happy young Yanks tend to get their cliches bashed up in radio freestyle battles, but they're generally otherwise riding in a Holden Statesman knee deep in some girl named Natarsha who herself harbours wistful hopes of a melanoma-less future for her child, whom she just might christen Lonsey, or Desree. Seamen of the States have learned to avoid provoking conflict with Vietnamese ex-pats in nightclubs, especially when a number of said ex-pats sport knives like Mick Dundee to tragic effect. Metal detectors in clubs everywhere now.
FATTY BOOMSTIX (of COOLISM), from Canberra and of unclear racial origin (maybe Samoan), is fluid and witty. Very listenable, very bedroom.
One of the guys in PNEUMONIC ASCENT (Mexicans, I believe) has a voice to which a travel agent I once knew flicked off; she's now in Mongolia, but they're still in Melbourne.
BRAD STRUT (Mexican)has a farkin Aussie twang if you ever heard one, a turn of phrase, and is consciously comical, but unfortunately monotone as fark...(I'm from a place/ where people show no pity/ a straight face/ welcome to Melbourne city/ I'll make ya chicky rub her clitty like her name Was Mimi/ MacPherson in person catch me slurpin' on a tinny).
BIAS B (Mexican)is more nasal then Dennis from "Meet the Feebles", plus he lisps a bit. Wears the similarly Feeble Hip Hop Traditionalist badge. Skills and respect and all that. Good name, but.
DECIPHER have the distinction of being the only Digga crew with no less than 4 useless Journalism degrees, and 2 members whose lungs have collapsed. They always smoked the best weed, and enjoyed a wholesome reputation as Blokes you wouldn't mind having around even if they were shagging your sista (as long as you got to shag theirs').
2D is the best and most versatile beat producer in 'Stralia.
RAMAN, the offspring of cranky Hippy parents, is hilariously serious yet strings flows together nicely....(Please chill/ and integrate my mental state's perspective/ I'm effective with the breath 'cause I check kids/ who ain't up to scratch and can't match the skills I hatch/ and if ya think ya can let's do this/ I'm servin' balls like Phillopousis/ 'cause suckers saying "yo, who's this?"/ Dude with creative juices/the loosest/mc ta let ya melon elevate/ and if ya can't relate feel free to evacuate the premises/ of the poem when I deliver this I'm flowin' like a lunar eclipse/and leavin' mc's in my shadow 'cause ya had no depth or consciousness/and ya words 're monotonous/synonomous with wackness/the fact is/ that stagnation's separation from the essence of myself/ and wealth is understanding that I have no limits/though i'm explicit with the vivid vocab from the spirit/ya know it when ya hear it/ the lyrics as opposed to the gimmicks/that come and go like periods/I don't take the shit too serious...) I don't really believe that closing line but it sounds good. Ramse sorely lacks the Bitches in Statesmen necessary to spicing up his image.
DNO, one of the RESIN DOGS' longtime rappers, is the 'Strine Eminem.
Another longtime RESIN DOGS' rapper LAZY GREY (w. cohort Len One) is arguably the best 'Strine rapper ever...seems to like Mobb Deep(the hash-pot eaters/gourmet prawns/banana fritters/seafood barbecues and Vic Bitters/it sounda lovely/a dozen gone in a hurry/six-packs get cracked like skulls in rugby).
There's a guy with curly hair from Adelaide who sounds like a cross between Black Thought and Old Dirty Bastard (astonishingly, though, not on hard drugs).
PROWLA sounded good too.
Digga shit may well deserve a look in from overseas punters but that remains incidental to Digga's primary task of convincing their own music buying public their musical endeavours are worth paying money for.
― TripVanJangle (TripVanJangle), Saturday, 28 June 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Stewart (Tim Stewart), Saturday, 28 June 2003 05:28 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 28 June 2003 07:20 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 28 June 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link
― sandra, Friday, 31 October 2003 08:44 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:00 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:11 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
download "Bias B - Hursty"
u can get it off kazaa.
that is good aussie rap
― james S, Saturday, 3 April 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 3 April 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
We also have a lot more recent Decipher tracks with Rainman (who's now in Sydney) which we are itchin to release. And I've just finished my solo album (not purely hiphop) and I am producing DNO's atm too. And Raman and myself recently had a track on Hempilation which I like- "In the clutch" :)
If any good rappers want to collaborate (or nick one of my beats) please let me know. I am especially interested in any political "REAL" raps. Expose the truth!
the only and one Two Dee...BOTU....DC...RTV
twodee@mail15.com or two_dee76@yahoo.com.au
― Ali McBee, Sunday, 11 April 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.abeltoro.com/audio.htm
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Has anyone checked out the Bliss & Eso record? I only have the mixtape and its hit and miss, the two tracks I do like don't seem to be on the album either?
― Mil (Mil), Thursday, 7 October 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jb, Saturday, 28 January 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 28 January 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Saturday, 28 January 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
You bard you.
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 24 February 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― yani, Friday, 24 February 2006 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 24 February 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 24 February 2006 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― destroye's noobies (haitch), Friday, 24 February 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― poo jerk, Sunday, 9 April 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
http://cdbaby.com/places/5AU0?cat=8
(I was going to make a Falco joke, but he's AUSTRIA, duh.)
― xhuxk, Sunday, 9 April 2006 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always found them to be consistent without ever doing anything really spectacular, and this album seems like more of the same. Nothing really jumped out at me much - the posse cut with Funkoars etc sounded good at least.
― Mil (Mil), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― wtf, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― ratty, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― boychild, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha x-post
― ratty, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― boychild, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link