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I would direct you all to my review in the village voice on Balckalicious and El-P but, um, I don't know how to. I'm kinda dumb that way. Anyway, I was kinda scared of all that icky positiveness dripping from Blackalicious's album, but I got over it and learned to love some of the best beats I've heard in a while. They are cool in my book.But then I'm a huge fan of the psychedelic in Rap. If I could get all the rappers off of blunts, cough syrup, and brandy and hand them some acid, I would.Then we would see a revolution!!! And no, I don't meann Brandy the singer. I mean the sweet stuff that gives you a headache. And no, I don't mean Brandy the singer. ( gotta watch yur back with all these smart-arses around ) Oh yeah, I also got a lot of hate-mail from El-P fans who thought I was a sorry-ass British Faggot rapper wannabe. When really I'm just a Yankee from Connecticut in the court of public opinion.

― Scott Seward, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh hey. I don't think you're British or gay or anything but man that article made me want to smoke mad crack.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Not because you didn't like the album but because you expressed a fairly obnoxious and uninformative way of saying so.)

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

jerk

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

blazing arrow starts off really weak - the title cut is not so grate. i've been waiting for years for somebody to sample the point, and i was thinking it would be better. it gets going after that - there are some nice songs. i like the gil scott-h song, even if he is kind of ridiculous. my favorite song is 'nowhere fast', although i admit i've not made it through the whole album. :-( i don't think i'm in a rap mode right now.

― ron (ron), Thursday, 22 August 2002 00:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi scott! I hope you stick around. I liked yr. review bunches, and I think we had a heated debate here on it, somewhere, because we have heated debates on lots of vv. articles. I did search that one EL-P battle track and it was k-rad though. I also thought yr. rhymes were great, but then I have a weird sense of what constitues good flow. Also, I think acid messes with the linearity of time which might be bad. (whaddya think about the "e" revolution -- and now its cooption by ja rule's "bitches on e"?)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 22 August 2002 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked the rhymes too! I larfed non-stop and so did dr vick

isn't kool keith a big fan of lsd?

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 22 August 2002 02:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think "E" might make you think you have good ideas when yur on it, but creating under the influence could get messy. I could be wrong, but the best dance music that was at least tangentially related to ecstasy was created by people either sober or on whiskey. Acid, while messy, can have residual effects for weeks ( and heightened by pot or hashish ) that enables a user to tap into the drug-induced visions of a hallucinogen for a creative spark that rivals no other. "E" really is a party favor. Acid is something that could make Sonny Bono and William Shatner crawl on hands and knees to the recording studio in order to immortalize their frazzled thoughts for future generations to gape at in awe.What I wouldn't give to see Jay-Z do the same. It is one drug that really did change what you could or couldn't do with music! Kool Keith is probably the one example of someone who doesn't need ANY drug to achieve nirvana.Same for my hero and mentor, Divine Styler.

― Scott Seward, Thursday, 22 August 2002 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

mark s: if you're having trouble on the rockism, the start of the Onion's AVClub review of the new Sleater-Kinney should provide some inspiration.

Here

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 22 August 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jeez, I've created a monster.... nice thread actually, you've all done well. It's veering away from Gab and Xcel now, but I might as well throw my tuppence in.

I like it. A lot. I could write 10,000 words on it, but let's just say it's the hip hop equivalent of indie songs with recorded solos.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 August 2002 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

more pertinent q anyway: how can you put Kik Off in at 2 and NOT be embarrased about it?

>:)

― bob zemko, Thursday, 22 August 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Andrew! Perfect! That quote is exactly what I needed for something I'm writing.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 22 August 2002 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I saw the opening of that Onion review and wanted to strangle the writer. Fucking fuck, that person must be such fun to hang around with.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 August 2002 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

The review doesn't work though, because I only buy Sleater Kinney CDs because they're HOT.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 August 2002 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"That track with Cut Chemist where Gab raps the entire periodic table"

Yeah, but didn't he just rip that off of Tom Lehrer?

― Nick A., Thursday, 22 August 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

twelve years pass...

ha so daniel radcliffe

― jaymc, Thursday, 30 October 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link

like sorry to get all Facebook on you guys but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKdV5FvXLuI

― jaymc, Thursday, 30 October 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link

I found lots of copies of the extended Melodica e.p. Cd going for £2ir in a sale in the mid 90s. Loved the copy I bought and played it a couple of times a day. Shame I can't find it now.
Don't think I followed what Blackalicious were at for years afterward until they turned up playing in Galway which I thought was a great gig. Followed them over to the Dublin date and only bought the then current Blazing Arrow in the wake of that.
I've always loved Gab's mellifluous cadence, not heard much else that sounds like that. I'm not massively up on hip hop though. Do have bits I love but they're pretty well known stuff like early Public Enemy, first wave Wu Tang, Epmd, Schoolly D, New Kingdom and the Goats first lp.
I do have Blazing Arrow on my walkman where tracks pop up at random intervals and sound great. But I haven't followed what they've done since.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 30 October 2014 09:16 (nine years ago) link

What's with this wave of nice dude actors demonstrating good memories and speed rapping?

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 October 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Blackalicious' "Shallow Days" is awesome

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link

otm

― brimstead, Thursday, 26 November 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link

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