MC 900 Foot Jesus: Classic or dud?

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I don't know, man. I just know it's totally uncool.

Adam A. (Keiko), Sunday, 20 April 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

You wouldn't be a keen surfer from Australia by any chance?

Nay, sadly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 April 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

>People, have you gone mad? He is a dud, a dud, a dud! And you should've seen him live. He belongs with MC Tunes in the 'early white rappers we
>thought were good at the time' bin.

Did anyone at any time think Stakka Bo was good?

fletrejet, Monday, 21 April 2003 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

All cred has been overdrawn and refused.
Well...how does one "deposit" more cred into the "believability bank"?

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 21 April 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

>People, have you gone mad? He is a dud, a dud, a dud! And you should've seen him live. He belongs with MC Tunes in the 'early white rappers we
>thought were good at the time' bin.
Did anyone at any time think Stakka Bo was good?

Er, yeah, Fletrejet, I did. I couldn't help myself. It was so catchy.

Hmm. Maybe I'm really not the one to be judging other white rap artists after all.

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Should have joined this thread earlier but have been stuck arguing with Geir for what feel s like an eternity. Anyway, as I'm sure y'll know, MC 900ft Jesus had some fabbo record sleeves, too, and there's a great article on designer Steven R Gilmore in this month's XLR8R magazine (full disclosure, I write fot it a lot, but the piece is good all the same.)

http://www.xlr8r.com/article.php?uid=8C716CED3F1699F5B00B440C683CEA09

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

coalescence.

My previous car met an untimely end about 4 years ago. The CD in the stereo at the time was One Step Ahead... That CD has been in the player which is sitting on a shelf in my closet under the stairs since then. I do miss it.

Last week the chef at the restaurant where I work and I traded some MP3 discs. That album was on it. I'd say 1/2 of it is definite classic. I still could listen to tracks 2, 3, and 4 quite often.

And, to further cement my own dudness in some minds, last week, I also got a free copy of stakka bo. I haven't heard that record in 10 years. I was in Turkey at the time, and while I recognized it wasn't "good" music, I did enjoy it. "Temple of Consumption" has rattled around in my brain for the last decade. Having finally heard it again---man is it dated! And it's still not "good" music...but I'll listen to it once or twice more.

nick ring (nick ring), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine years pass...

All cred has been overdrawn and refused.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:07 PM (9 years ago)

wrong.

having just spent the evening ripping the cds into the archive i have to say that mc 900 ft jesus has me totally hooked in.

the love of noir atmoshperes,
the love of 70s funk,
the old school loops-n-rhyme,
the random jazz explorations of the .. spider .. album ...
the fucked up, out there vocal declarations ..
etc

of course, this is all easy to dismiss, but i would say that no-one in 2013 and beyond will be given such artistic freedom by a major from hereon ..

hence making the mc. 900 ft jesus trilogy a bit of a sought after classic in years to come ...

if i am proved to be wrong : i care not.

i love this stuff ...

mark e, Friday, 8 February 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link

seven years pass...

I asked my band's guitarist about him, and he says he's got a track with VERNON REID on it! Can anybody identify this track?
― nickalicious (nickalicious),

until half an hour ago, i had no idea about this.
but the guitarist was correct.

https://www.discogs.com/MC-900-Ft-Jesus-One-Step-Ahead-Of-The-Spider/release/29856

mark e, Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link


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