The strawman of the white, DJ Shadow/Jurassic 5 loving, university student hip-hop fan

Come To Daddy would be morelike the token pick for 'open minded'-but-not-really metal fans FWIW (Dillinger Escape Plan covered it for example)

good thread.

bring back the old Dom!

Amount of people who know I like hip-hop and have tried bringing up scroobius pip or whatever that shit is in the past 6 months: 7.

Amount of people who know I like hip-hop and have talked to me about Jurassic 5/Dj Shadow etc. ever: O.

Amount of people who have talked to me about Lil Wayne/T.I.: 1.

I hate only knowing students.

yikes, i just ran into the blog post that inspired this revive by accident.

A producer and a poet from Essex weren't the most likely candidates to become the saviours of intelligent hip-hop, but with Scroobius Pip's wit and biting social commentary backed up by Dan le Sac's 8-bit bleeps and beats, it's hard to disagree.

Should we invite that dude on her to defend himself?

unfortunate typo there robinho.

it really takes a lot to raise my ire these days when it comes to music, but le sac and pip do it every. single. time.

so yes let's get that blogger on here.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oa218zfUV7w/SQXLDuHTbwI/AAAAAAAAACo/5Sfuh4worQE/S220/Head.jpg

http://musicfromagreenwindow.blogspot.com/

...."scroobius pip?"

In an age where hip-hop stars are regularly lambasted for inciting violence, misogyny and homophobia, and where a lot of the time this is true, it could be all too easy to slip into a jaded view of the whole genre. But by dismissing it out of hand, a whole world of musical pioneering could be missed - for every Ludacris there's a Mos Def, for every G-Unit there's a De La Soul. Hip-Hop can have something to say, and it can be as meaningful as any lyric sung by some misanthropic indie singer.

― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

also, dunno where that's from, but it *sounds* like something from my high school newspaper

Dan Le Sac should've produced 'Slime And Reason'

Haha I was about to say, surely this strawman grew up and started writing for Hip-Hop Connection?

Can I get my own grandmother pregnant first?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, July 25, 2005 7:09 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol italians

She's dead now :-(

hope you're happy and what

i got nothing...

of course not. he said she's dead, didn't he?

As if by magic, Chipmunk's new single has just come on the radio and seems a brazen attempt to appeal to this market. :(

what, dead grannies?

Nothing to do with dead grannies, no. I'm not sure what magic has to do with anything either really.

"Sometimes songs will reappear in your head for no reason. You'll start humming a tune, and only recognise what that song is a minute later. I love it when this happens, it's a true affirmation of loving a song, that it's buried almost subconsciously into you. For me, today, it was "Midnight Surprise" by Lightspeed Champion."

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/420368047_f9160de2b6.jpg?v=1173822608

If Lightspeed Champion had sold some records, we could easily have used him as a punchline more often.

Or if he had a drummer

If Lightspeed Champion had sold some records, we could easily have used him as a punchline more often.

Can't think of any other pop musician to have had no sales bump whatsoever after an untimely death. RIP big man.

I used to know a lot of "heads" (all white guys, natch) who listened to music such as this on their studio quality headphones while walking around town, their dreadlocked hair tucked neatly into their rastafarian hats

Man, that must have been an awful fictional town.

Bay Area, late 90s. But thanks for calling.

"Bay Area" indeed!

Berkeley, if you want to be specific.

cliche area

most of them seemed to live in the co-ops, now that I think about it.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oa218zfUV7w/SQXLDuHTbwI/AAAAAAAAACo/5Sfuh4worQE/S220/Head.jpg
CLICHE AREA

cliche area

I see. So now if you witness something, you should change the place you saw it to be "less cliche."

that last Shadow album did pretty much suck tho (except 3 Freaks) right?

http://www.fulana.org/images/if-you-see-something.JPG

I used to know a lot of "heads" (all white guys, natch) who listened to music such as this on their studio quality headphones while walking around town, their dreadlocked hair tucked neatly into their rastafarian hats

― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Where is Ed?

no hat on Ed, he lets it flow

"that last Shadow album did pretty much suck tho (except 3 Freaks) right?"

shadow basically started hating his fans. more 'corny indie rap fuxor' self hate.

lol otm

lol otm

― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:58 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol otm