lol ok sorry, I sort of expected you already knew the source sample but didn't want to draw any conclusions since it seems noone else has mentioned the Sleigh Bells connection in this thread. Yeah, gotta agree MIA's vocals on this one are extremely lazy... feels like she's excusing her apathy by quoting post-punk.
― Moka, Monday, 21 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean on the whole album, not just this song.
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201007/mia-profile
no mention of truffle fries
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 June 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
When GQ asks me for a 7,000-word piece on M.I.A., I agree quickly. (M.I.A.—what fun!) The next day, I wake up with buyer's remorse. Did they say 7,000 words?
what the
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
is that really
― super sl0cki double dare (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
who the hell is g4ry sht3yngart -- never seen that byline in GQ before from what i can recall
― ripe dick clark (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Novelist who wrote "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" and "Absurdistan"; some of his work has been featured in the New Yorker.
― o. nate, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol for all the similarities in our cultural interests jordan there are clearly some large non overlapping territories
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't read the new yorker
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hes a pretty famous novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, for a novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I should write that line down.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he should stick to novels
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
She also drops finer lyrics than just about anyone with a gold chain knocking against his chest.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao super ilxor convo just there
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
Seven thousand words, though. Holy shit.
For me, listening to contemporary hip-hop is just a way to summon an attitude, to blend in with a more powerful person's sense of himself and to pretend that I also possess some of that ineffable power
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i meant message board ilxor btw not ilxor 'ilxor'
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think to myself, The refugee is strong in this one.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yo this is insufferable -- is this guy "famous for a novelist" to the point where he thinks it's okay to start writing about what he was like in college or?
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
like, it's not cute to be all "they want me to write so many words!" and then just write boring bullshit and then print it in a magazine -- this is why we have had editors
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice Cube seemed like he came from a world where the apocalypse had already wiped clean any vestige of hope—an exciting, existentialist posture for a 20-year-old cracker still unsure of how to play the opposite sex.
HOW AM I READING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE ARTICLES
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
he can peer right into Ice Cube's mind
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Since its East Coast inception and up to its recent blinged-out downfall, hip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle, Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab about the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate. And your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries.
seriously how can someone even print this -- even a magazine by and for old white men
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I stopped seriously listening to music when Ice Cube began appearing in the Friday movies
its recent blinged-out downfall
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ban novelists
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Since its East Coast inceptionand up to its recent blinged-out downfallhip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle,Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab bout the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerateAnd your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries."
http://blog.reidreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/steele-intern.jpg
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate
amazing
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
like many men and women stumbling headlong into middle age, I just stopped giving a shit about music.
Despite her ubiquity on every iPhone in Williamsburg, there's clearly still some brand-building ahead for Maya and her label.
a highly valuable opinion
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda wish people would just stop writing about williamsburg, like, forever.
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Six hours later, she approaches my table with a just-got-out-of-bed look, resembling one of the sloe-eyed Israeli girls who sleepily haunted my Hebrew school.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i'm down with that
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess you have to be really good at writing in one genre to be allowed to write so flagrantly bad in another
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Alfred
― an artist-mutant going beyond gender (The Reverend), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
theres always something corny when white writers self-referentially refer to themselves as crackers -- like, its referencing quoting black dudes talking about white ppl so why is it quoting what maybe a black panther would have said in '68?? just weirdly outdated -- but other than that this sentence is alright
the others i dunno
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this gets much better once he stops talking about himself & what he did with MIA during the interview
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, diplo stole a line directly from gucci mane for this album, apparently -- i wonder if he'll get a songwriting credit
But if there's another "Paper Planes" on this album, it's "Tell Me Why," a Diplo-produced ditty that has probably the most instant catchphrase—Start throwing your hands up like you're mad at the ceiling!—since André 3000 told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder how this guy would feel if he found out that the best line on maya's album is stolen from the current bastion of rap's blinged out downfall
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
devastated probably
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
understandably so
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh lord
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that shit is hilarious to me -- how perfect
I haven't read the piece yet but I would like to generally recommend modern fiction and literature, which I think is really good, probably better than Drake
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the rare but pointed nabisco zing
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i stick to non fiction
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
*non phixion
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, it's not too pointed, most just kidding.
I do understand and share some of the annoyances of when not-music people get assigned big music features. I think ILM also has plenty of conversations that lit people would find every bit as weird or embarrassing in the other direction, although of course I don't know that many ILM posters would be willing to tackle a magazine feature about a novelist, so it's kind of a different standard.
but there are a couple things here about dude's prose that are a bit like ... they might be different coming from someone who was more steeped in fiction/lit/magazine-writing than music writing? I don't mean that in a snotty way, it's just both things have norms and insides.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
liked this profile, psyched for his new book
― just sayin, Friday, 25 June 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the new book is really sharp and funny, I'd say much better than the first two
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
modern fiction can blow me
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link