yeah got that in the queue
― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
Puffy's interview bits (idk why he's even in it tbh) are straight out of that Chappelle sketch about him. At one point an intern walks on camera and gives him a vial of some sort of clear liquid to drink and all I could think of was "the finest breastmilks"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
please someone test drive that pimp doc and tell me if a 30 minute complex video is worth sitting through
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
no
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
watched most of it. was fine.
― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Freeway talks about his kidney failurehttp://www.okayplayer.com/news/okp-exclusive-freeway-on-kidney-failure-dialysis-free-will-album.html/2
― ulysses, Friday, 29 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwDrhSNn3Y
― dylannn, Thursday, 28 July 2016 09:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1f-94TjF9M
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 16 October 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/golden-age-of-hip-hop/
Is this rap’s real golden age?
It’s long been the dominant style of American pop, but this year, the music’s sweep feels astonishing
By Chris Richards
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
wrong thread? wrong thread
― Spottie, Monday, 17 October 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Ok. Just stuck it on Industry Plant one...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 October 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Dear friends and fam,I'm delighted to share the news that Cornell University has posted a significant batch of materials from the Adler Archive on their website. Largely comprising hip-hop-oriented newspaper and magazines articles spanning 1979 through 2013, the trove concentrates on the careers of LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Salt-N-Pepa, Eric B. & Rakim and the roster of rappers who recorded for the Sugarhill and Enjoy Records labels.Here's the link:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/adler.htmOnce there, click on "View the collection" and you're rolling.It is a fine start to the digitizing of the whole collection, which encompasses over 1400 files on some 900 subjects:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08092.htmlEnjoy,Bill Adler
I'm delighted to share the news that Cornell University has posted a significant batch of materials from the Adler Archive on their website. Largely comprising hip-hop-oriented newspaper and magazines articles spanning 1979 through 2013, the trove concentrates on the careers of LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Salt-N-Pepa, Eric B. & Rakim and the roster of rappers who recorded for the Sugarhill and Enjoy Records labels.
Here's the link:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/adler.htm
Once there, click on "View the collection" and you're rolling.
It is a fine start to the digitizing of the whole collection, which encompasses over 1400 files on some 900 subjects:http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08092.html
Enjoy,Bill Adler
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Thursday, 13 April 2017 03:49 (seven years ago) link
I did this
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-oral-history-of-2pacs-digital-underground-years-w474890
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
cool
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
good piece well done whiney
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
thx man :)
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
loved it
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Thursday, 13 April 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify_in_residence/playlist/18c2td4Wd6sFuEU30csvDl
Mogul: The Life and Death of Chris LightyBy Spotify OriginalsChris Lighty was a giant in hip-hop. He managed Foxy Brown, Fat Joe, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, 50 Cent—anyone who was anyone worked with Lighty. But in 2012 he was found dead at his home in the Bronx, a death that left the music world reeling.
Chris Lighty was a giant in hip-hop. He managed Foxy Brown, Fat Joe, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, 50 Cent—anyone who was anyone worked with Lighty. But in 2012 he was found dead at his home in the Bronx, a death that left the music world reeling.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 28 April 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Hey gang,
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/funk-you-up-legacy-of-the-sequence-hip-hops-first-ladies-w483588
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
looks good man; checking it out
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
Sweet!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
Netflix Stretch & Bobbito doc is great fyi
― Οὖτις, Monday, 12 June 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
I assume you are all listening to the podcast Mogul: the Life and Death of Chris Lighty
― President Keyes, Friday, 23 June 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Another one from me: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/salt-n-pepa-our-life-in-15-songs-w500728
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Man, really sad about Combat Jack. I'd listened to him a little bit before, but really enjoyed his podcast about Chris Lighty this year and was starting to go back through his radio shows. Seemed like a really great dude.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
this has a lot of good nuggets. what a life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqKCqmD213M
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
the interviewer/narrator dude in Netflix's Hip Hop Evolution is a total clown but there's some good clips/bits from various folks in there. The south and Bay Area ones were v good. The more recent one about the "underground" was... odd. I really never thought Freestyle Fellowship was that big a deal?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 September 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
flow innovatorskinda awkward to go straight from a Puff/Jiffy era hagiography to "ok now here's a whole episode about ppl who hated that shit" lol
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 September 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
I like the series ok but it focuses almost exclusively on MCs & lyrics. Has he even mentioned the concept of sampling?? I can only remember producers showing up on screen to talk about MCs.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 September 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
that hadn't occurred to me but that's an interesting point. You'd think that would have come up re: like, PE/Bomb Squad or Organized Noize (or even Puffy lol)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 September 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah exactly. I think narrator dude said in initial episode he was a (failed) MC so I get that would be the lens he primarily views the genre thru but cmon now.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 27 September 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
I feel like there's a clear from Freestyle Fellowship to Kendrick
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 September 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
Btw Season 2 of the Mogol podcast is running now, this time about Luther Campbell
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
It's really good so far
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.amc.com/shows/hip-hop-the-songs-that-shook-america/full-episodes/season-01/episode-04/elevators-1996
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
lol is that just where Big Boi does interviews now? For the Netflix Hip Hop Evolution segment on Outkast he was in the same seat/backdrop
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
prob his studio?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
I assume so
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed thishttps://theundefeated.com/features/oral-history-shaq-shaquille-oneal-shaq-diesel-the-making-of-rap-hip-hop/amp/
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Loving the Open Mike Eagle podcast that's just him interviewing Prince Paul, it's called What Had Happened Was. Three eps out so far, on Gravediggaz, "Three Feet High & Rising" and "A Prince Amongst Thieves". Paul is a really funny, engaging speaker.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 16 July 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
It’s so great! I just posted about it in the Prince Paul thread yesterday.
― Yelploaf, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's really great - I'd love a version with more production and longer excerpts of the music, but Paul is such an entertaining speaker that it makes sense they're keeping a light touch.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4H2FZjfpo
the story of kool herc extending breaks comes up in a lot of birth of hip hop celebration articles, but the way the story is told doesn't really make sense to me... beat-juggling relatively short breaks is extremely tricky, and ime generally done to impress a crowd (or win a DMC championship) - cool as it is the groove suffers and it's not something you dance to (I'm also uncertain abt the chronology of this because it seems to me that the craft of beat juggling is a much more recent development, maybe something from the golden DMC days of the... 90s?)
so... maybe he was doing this with longer breaks? or maybe the whole merry go round/beat juggling between the same record thing is not the key as much as the novelty in itself of using a double turntable setup?
what kind of mixer would be availabe for him? not something with a crossfader I imagine
I really would like to hear a recording of one of his sets from that era, but I guess it didn't make sense to tape it (although tbh if your primary goal in 1973 was to extend and repeat breaks then tape would probably be the easiest way to achieve this, I believe that's what they did on a lot of classic 4/4 disco kick beats)
― corrs unplugged, Sunday, 17 December 2023 11:47 (nine months ago) link
I've always been under the impression that the breaks early hip-hop DJs played were typically several bars long, and so wouldn't require super fast technique to work with.
I believe they did have mixers with crossfaders, or approximately equivalent functions, by the mid/late-70s as well
― JRN, Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:40 (nine months ago) link
And I also think the ability to "cue" records with your headphones via mixer is a Flash innovation
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:36 (nine months ago) link
according to this article Kool Herc at some point acquired a GLI 3880 which has a crossfader, but it appears to have been after 1973https://djmag.com/news/dj-kool-herc-soundsystem-sells-over-200k-christies-auction
in an interview in The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries (by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton) Grand Mixer D.ST (Derek Showard) recalls that Kool Herc did not "cut", explaining that the transitions "would be all off-beat"
https://i.imgur.com/Pi6VsHr.png
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 18 December 2023 14:49 (nine months ago) link