RIP Adam Yauch/MCA of the Beastie Boys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_DMX ?

sounds right

Pete Nice article is interesting, but shows a complete lack of understanding of the Beasties as a punk band -- which is no sin, but leads to not getting the Beasties at all.

http://networkawesome.com/2012-5-11/beastie-boys-infomercial-for-hello-nasty

i thought it was common knowledge that that DMX started out as a beatboxer in the '80s and that that was how he got his name. apparently Just-Ice worked with a guy called Human DMX, who was neither that DMX nor Davy DMX, though.

maybe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberheim_DMX

maybe Pete Nice talked a drum machine in that anecdote?

talked TO a drum machine

Wasn't DMX the DJ in Material, among other Laswell projects? Like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit?"

that was D.S.T.

i feel like i'm in a room full of tuomases

Not to worry, I'm sure knowledge of this sort of thing will become more widespread and valuable in the future, so everything should even out.

if only there were some sort of computerized information store we could access

maybe connected via a series of tubes

I just think it's dumb that 3 different guys named themselves DMX.

i feel like i'm in a room full of tuomases

― some dude, Friday, May 11, 2012 9:45 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know, i can't even

I just think it's dumb that 3 different guys named themselves DMX.

― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, May 11, 2012 10:07 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there it is, the dumbest post

"Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Guitar Slim, Johnny Guitar Watson... blues musicians sure are dumb assholes."

Fair enough.

But now name me some other rappers named after specific drum machines.

these guys all are (or started out) as human beatboxes, not rappers. that's why they're named after the most common drum machine of the era in which beatboxing flourished.

gr8080 started out as a beatboxer

But now name me some other rappers named after specific drum machines.

― i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Friday, May 11, 2012 10:20 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

D-Nice called himself "the TR-808" a lot, Ready Rock C was the "Human Linn Drum" etc etc

And let us not forget Def Jam main man Russell Simmons.

i lolled

^

D-Nice called himself "the TR-808" a lot
Tbf he did say you could just call him d nice

so Pete Nice was named after a guy named after a drum machine, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

wait, there a d-nice and a pete nice? so confusedd

Also I knew davy dmx but not human dmx

Though I think it's kinda weird for pete nice to drop it in there and have ppl not assume he's talking about DMX....dude had been around for awhile before he blew up, with that born loser stuff, but it's not out of the possibility that a really young dmx and just could have performed together

Edward III, it's ready to get them confused, just remember pete nice was the prime minister of canada at the the time and also rapped in the ny scene, camron and company did a concept album about his life called ”diplomatic immunity”

Though I think it's kinda weird for pete nice to drop it in there and have ppl not assume he's talking about DMX....

to be fair it was a Deadspin editor's job to clean this up, not Pete Nice's

Pete Nice probably forged the anecdote like he forges baseball memorabilia amirite

said editor probably didn't know there was any other DMX's

listening to "Goin' Way Back" right now...this is one of the best rap songs ever

75 and the Black Spades

my 2 favorite ppl in that song are Muscleman Ron and the homie Zignaut

what happened to this beautiful thread

yeah "going way back" is an all-time jam

what did you guys DO while I was asleep, jeez

sparked a Davy DMX revival and got schooled on the ways of old bluesmen.

Worse ways to spend an evening imo

Nicky Wire dissed the Beastie Boys in the press and even in song

Probably wasn't worth it, bringing 3rd Bass into the thread.

I'm glad I was asleep

xx-post
he was punished for that by having to wear a banana suit though

I was thinking this morning about MCA, and how his gruff voice would have transformed really well into old age.

Don't click on this photo link unless you want to be bummed out. (Yauch at the Jackass 3D premiere in October 2010)

http://media.idahostatesman.com/smedia/2012/05/04/13/59/nURjQ.AuSt.55.jpg

have any other rappers ever dissed 3rd bass?

Well, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8cwkGvWneo

wait, there a d-nice and a pete nice? so confusedd

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, May 11, 2012 2:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Edward III, it's ready to get them confused, just remember pete nice was the prime minister of canada at the the time and also rapped in the ny scene, camron and company did a concept album about his life called ”diplomatic immunity”

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 11, 2012 2:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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