im sick of aaron lacrate, amanda blank and co getting more coverage for their music than the real artists and DJs from the b-more club scene

xpost - i live in england, yes. i have a friend from baltimore though who i rely on for info.

Does he send you Oreos and Proper American Peanut Butter through the post like all good American pen pals should? Actually, you can get Oreos in England now, so they've lost their appeal.

Not that that really has anything to do with the question at hand...

Anyway, I think it's pretty easy to see why Spank Rock and XXXchange are getting all the attention. The singles, mixes and album are SPECTACULAR. (And - let's face it - white/indie/critic friendly.) That, in turn, draws attention to other Spank-associated, white, indie B'more players. Enter LaCrate and Blank.

Not at all fond of A. Lacrate, though I do think Amada can be funny. Doesn't surprise me that they're getting lots of attention. And, yeah, Bmore Gutta Music is garbage.

you can get skippy peanut butter in england too. my flatmate and i are fucking addicted to it, we buy massive tubs of it from the offie downstairs and eat it with spoons straight out of the tub.

I had a British roommate for a year in college and that guy ate peanut butter like it was going out of style (PB with Oreos more precisely). He also seemed to be rather impressed with MacDonalds. Apparently the US McD's and UK McD's taste entirely different.

but on a street level???

there stuff is widely distributed, you can find it in stores, and it's sent to critics. thus, the attention. i don't know if its a quality issue. though i like the spank rock album. actually, i have no idea about xxxchange, so scratch that. but it's true of the spank rock stuff. the one and only record store where i live sells their singles and album.

Relying on iD for accurate coverage of US club music is like asking for hair care tips from a Denny's waitress.

i was lucky in philly. they always had a good supply of up-to-date baltimore stuff. going back to the 90's.

but yeah, a lot of hometown club DJs/labels have sites now, many of which sell CDs or vinyl or mp3s:
DJ Technics
Unruly Records
K-Swift the Club Queen
Doo Dew Kidz
Harm Squad Ent.

but the actual because, of course, is this: on a street level, from what i know from people that live there, they dont mean much at all to the real bmore scene

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lmao

Todd James wrote:
MilkCrate sticks up Rap Bandit

This is pretty funny. I designed the Rap Bandit a long time ago, the design ran with the column in the Source and then in Vibe. I’ve seen it in funny places, drawn on a wall all the way out in Liverpool, England and tattooed on people, even next to a Chain 3 piece (that was an honor) . Last night I get this image of the Rap Bandit on a t-shirt some kid’s selling, the irony is that Keo sent it to me, and the same kid who made this shirt also made a shirt with a photo of Keo, Pete Nice, and Myzer on it but didn’t really know any of them back in the day. I think if you’re going to steal other people’s work at least make it your own and by that I don’t mean slap your logo on it. He could have changed the pencil to a gun since it beneath the Bandit he wrote “stick up kids”. So I went to the site where the shirt gets sold, and how funny it was to find a bit of philosophy on creative theft from Jim Jarmusch ( Who I’m sure hadn’t intended to inspire this type of thing, but who knows?) “It’s not where you take things from it’s where you take things to.” Well in this case the work was taken through Illustrator and Auto Trace .