Bun B: SENSETIVE THUG

BB: From my parents? My parents never actually heard Southern Way. My mother didn’t really understand I was a rapper ’til probably around “Big Pimpin.’”

BLVR: Really?

BB: My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It’s like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it’s a duck. And if you ain’t quacking, you ain’t no duck. My mom’s whole thing was, “Why ain’t you on TV? Everybody else that makes music is on TV.” So I’m like, “Well, they don’t really deal with Southern people.” And she’s like, “That’s not true, ’cause Ray Charles is from the South and James Brown is, too.”

BLVR: I’m just saying, thirty-two bars, you might be allowed a punch.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

Or Pro Tools, whichever. I'd been told by a fellow engineer that rappers have bragging rights as to how long they can rap without a punch-in, and that exchange confirms it for me.

totally makes me want to hear more of his music too, btw - I only know him from guest spots on various things.

what I mean is, there's no other aspect of a rap track that places any privilege on "liveness"- really rap was key in banging against the "you have to have live instruments" idea, really radical in this way, and it's usually at the forefront of new technologies in recording, so the "doing it live!" aspect of things is kinda discordant - it's not like there's any rap privilege on a drummer who can keep an unvarying 4/4 for three straight minutes, right? but the "no punches" thing sounds so much like Pat Travers or something, rather charming to me, just a little surprising

interview totally excellent, what a wonderful read

ROFLZ - is this why 99% of live rap shows are horrible and boring?! I'm kinda with J0hn on this one - its an amusing, if not altogether shocking, sidebar in hip-hop aesthetics.

on the punch-in thing, i would think rappers would be kind of like jazz guys on that -- it's the pride in the solo. especially in a guest spot, where you're invited in to show what you can do and to push the other guys around you.

this is stoopid. it's good to be good at what you do. that's the whole point. anti-rockism's whole faux-naive b.s. drives me nuts like "oh my oh my why is it BETTER to be able to do it all in one punch, that's looking at it through a rockist mindset" it's like fuck if you can't understand why it's cool for someone to be able to go and kill a whole verse in one take, then i don't really even know where yr coming from.....i'm not saying everything boils down to some kind of wierd guitar magazine bullshit where say, pumpkinhead is supposed to be better than too short or something, but at a certain level skills DO matter.

ethan if you can hear a punch it just means it's a shitty punch, I've seen guys punch in single snare hits at 120 bpm and the end result was indistiguishable from live

Anyway, all this aside, "I wouldn't dare punch in mixed company" is a great line.

if I understand correctly hip hop pretty much began as a live phenomenon --- ie a dj rockin parties and this is before the rapper was even a big part of the equation.

it doesn't have to be an old-timey instrument to play it live, anything that makes a noise works fine --- I mean when you put a beat together on an MPC you pretty much bang shit out live, albeit quantized, right?? --- what does somebody mean when they say a track sounds "live" anyway??

and CLEARLY punches are gonna attenuate the feeling of a track --- you're gonna lose some ooomph in exchange for the extra precision/control.

Like everyone else has said, that's an awesome interview.

OTM. Great interview, so much so that it actually makes me feel guilty for not being familiar with the dude's work (other than "Big Pimpin'", of course).

Given the direction mastering has been moving in the past few years, I have the feeling most music fans' ears are gonna be devolving as time goes on, getting used/inured to uglier and uglier sounds. A few years from now, you'll be able to punch stuff in with all the subtlety of Captain Beefheart's "The Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back" and no one will give a shit.

http://hiphopwired.com/2010/10/20/bun-b-confirms-teaching-class-at-rice-university-photo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hiphopwired+%28HipHopWired.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

url says it all

http://hiphopwired.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/bunbid.jpg?w=479&h=640

:D

:D :D :D :D

rmde

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what's your deal

i mean, great that he has the respect of our national educational institutions, i guess

would audit

i mean, great that he has the respect of our national educational institutions, i guess

― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:47 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's just a cool thing, asshole

i dunno what youre deal is with me but as someone who spent awhile playing jazz i kinda just rughghheghgh at these things
i like that hes getting deserved attention, if that makes u happy

idk i think it's cool that a legendary rapper is teaching a college class, it's a pretty simple thing

& what does this have to do w/ jazz?

the institutionalization of cool things is not cool

rofl

fight the power

historicism isnt the same thing at all doofus

criticism either

willing to bet there's some awesome "school's not g4ngsta^" post about to happen from deej now that luriqua doesn't post here anymore

was about to say, 'bet theres some really shitty post coming since whiney still posts here' & what do you know

sensitives not thug

i knew my post was sub-whiney anyway

lol "sub whiney"

lol

drown it in olive oil

thread delivers

"when waka's brother died he said fuck school this is disrepectful to waka's brother rmde TWO QUESTION MARKS"

institutionalization of jazz may not be "cool" but it's sort of a necessary substitute for a once-vibrant and competitive scene where the learning & teaching happened on the ground, or it can be

What does 'rmde' mean

RIP hip hop

we still have odd future wolf gang kill em all

& skyzoo

and lil b

i think we're gonna be okay

what is "Hip Hop and Religious Studies" class about anyway? Like 5% Nation stuff?

it's a class so rice's students can feel like they go to a cool college

also rice is a religious school so it might be some sort of lip service

^^^

really wanna see the syllabus tho

wow, if only bun b had you guys around to let him know what a mistake he made!

you guys?? it was just me. man up & name names next time

i dont think its a 'mistake' btw

im more of a 'too bad u couldnt respect him when he was actually making great music' type dude

fyi last time someone named your name you got all deej on em

name display names obv

ok, i'll concede that deej was the only one being a dick. sorry, flu vaccine got my mind in a frenzy ... anyways, not like it, you know, matters at all, but fwiw rice is one of the best universities in the nation, right? not some backwater christian school.

anyways it really speaks more than anything else to your own neuroses if you think anyone who didn't already respect bun b is going to care about this. who is this strawman who only 'respects' rappers when they become faculty members at elite private universities?

i used to have trouble differentiating this guy from soulja boy, and now i respect him

bun b = a lecturer, soulja boy = the dean

soulja boy tellem abt the many ways in which they can help their alma mater grow and prosper