tumblr rapper kitty pryde

lol

of course black people watch animes, but it's definitely white hipsters leading the charge in co-opting anime imagery for their art in 2013: i.e., Elite Gymnastics/Dead Girlfriends, Laurel Halo, Oneohtrix Point Never, etc

lol john zorn fan

white critic who's made his career defining what is and isn't real black culture while working at places that don't hire blacks

― balls, Sunday, December 15, 2013 11:17 AM (3 hours ago)

balls deep

still dont understand why there isnt a tumblr of anime gifs + lyrics from this album yet

eva unit 02 in battle macro'd w/ I WOKE UP LIKE THIS I WOKE UP LIKE THIS

These things take time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8OIYZaOBho

Really struggling to care about any of this

Kitty pryde is the worst tho obv

in retrospect, i feel bad for ever having suggested otherwise

vice magazine still the worst, before kitty pryde there was momus

her apology essay on tumblr was pretty decent, esp considering she's like 18 or something

the rise of noisey may actualy be the single worst thing about music in 2013

she's almost 22 but hey

ha yeah i had no idea for sure

vice magazine still the worst, before kitty pryde there was momus

― balls, Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love whiney's comment about black people appropriating anime via white people backtracking, conclusively proven by instances of black artists using anime-like imagery

unrelated but w/e

if i have to spell it out, there's

A) black artists influenced by anime (kanye, chris breezy, waka's "bitch call me goku", my diamonds they say pikachu, they say pikachu) because it's a popular cultural artifact like anything else

B) And then there's a specific form of predominatelty white post-Altered Zones Tumblr electronic musician (ie, OPN, Elite Gs, Laurel Halo et al), who use anime imagery for trangression/internet points/#feels that predated like Flatbush Zombies or w/e.

I might have been projecting, but I assumed Kitty Pryde was excited that Jay-Z said "anime" because he was slumming in it her world of Young Tumblr people, just like the entire blogoverse shit their pants when Jay Z showed up at a Grizzly Bear show like that validated a predominately white scene

sorry i brought up race in the kitty pryde thread, it won't happen again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMaSh20qBbg

Whiney did you ever watch any anime growing up

Have you ever played Pokemon

whiney you're completely talking out of your ass

fyi

it's as simple as that

whiney doing some sort of dumbed down megyn kelly routine now

let's change the subject for no reason
https://medium.com/facts-only/b7deb1cb614c

like there's a dozen different places that would better belong, in the medium thread maybe but this one keeps popping up in my bookmarks

um, i didn't get the sense that kitty pryde was "freaking out" about the anime thing because it validated her own cultural existence

i think it was entirely "lol this old rapper sounds like a total weirdo trying to make a reference to a cultural phenomenon two decades removed from his own generation"

like, pretty much a default pre-25 y/o reaction to anything. i prob do it all the time \(o_O)/

the funny thing to me is that she didn't stop for a second and consider if "eat the cake/anime" made any sense at all then think about what else the line could've meant

aka people probably shouldn't consent to having unedited liveblogs posted to web sites with millions of monthly uniques

"A cultural phenomenon two decades removed from his own generation" how new do you think anime is

i thought he was talking about shanghai express

we had our robotech and what not but anime as a thing that lots of americans are into def seems like a millennial thing

i mean adjust the timeline for however you see fit, i think my point stands

btw i know literally nothing about anime so i'm generalizing

its ok u can tell us abt ur anime

we had our robotech and what not but anime as a thing that lots of americans are into def seems like a millennial thing

― lag∞n, Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:27 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really? i think it goes back a decade further, that's when I started seeing huge all-anime sections in video stores etc.

i think perhaps the cultural associations around anime have shifted, as cultural associations are wont to do, but I'd say anime fandom was a notable subculture in the 90s/early 00s (i.e. when kitty pryde was a zygote/urchin)

come on dude

opn released a shitty video someone directed for him that was a weak satire of negative stereotypes about people who like anime, not a celebration of it or an attempt to score internet points by using anime aesthetics, laurel halo had an album cover with japanese schoolgirls committing harikari on it that didn't really have anything to do with anime

there is no art-tumblr internet anime appreciation cognoscenti, kitty/hemsworth/friendzone pokemon namedrops on twitter are just representative of the wider cultural penetration of 4chan and video games as a general thing

adult swim on cartoon network shows anime shows, the odd future show, and the boondocks which is literally an anime show about black culture and rap, to suggest that a bunch of obscure white electronic musicians most people have never heard of have a monopoly on anime references is just a completely bizarre new york internet music writer echo chamber bullshit assertion to make

but i guess this is the kitty pryde thread so whatever i mean if there wasn't a new york internet music writer echo chamber this thread wouldn't even be here

sick burns of endearment

this clusterfuck really isnt deserving of anyone's time

james, i would argue back, but it's basically the whole "Did Rihanna steal #seapunk's aesthetic" argument for a hypothetical Jay Z line that doesn't actually exist anywhere but as a mondegreen on a Noisey liveblog

let's all just bump this and call it a night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovA6iPznvzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

not sure rappers have heard of daft punk, might have to touch on a stronger case

http://ghostlightning.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/neon-genesis-evangelion-end-of-evangelion-eva-series-smiles.jpg

i woke up like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYv8wvT2Xy4

http://rapgenius.com/832008/Del-tha-funkee-homosapien-proto-culture/We-transform-like-macross

"proto culture' by del seems like it was super influential on the low

all credit to H4a, the main rapper in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y3NQi_RAY

lol no way i remember that vid, it's from some helldump thread ages ago right?

rap classic "one week" by the barenaked ladies namedrops sailor moon, pretty sure that's the tigres-euphrates for all hip-hop/anime crossover

1998 canada trailblazin yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu1glrMvsPo

1:35

I'm just going to bump the thread and post this song from last year which was good, moving and got some positive write-ups (shout out to tsj but she's mostly ignored by everyone for some reason) .. anyway, just when you thought she was going to go away forever after the mild initial hype died away (admittedly I lost interest myself), and who could've blamed her with how ugly people of all sorts were being when talking about her, she went and did some gorgeous stuff and confirmed, I guess, that she will keep on creating music because she has things to say and show, and found a real new strength of voice- and I can conclude to myself that my initial interest was not misguided

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X45LLOdVIz8