On the topic of music
June 6th, 2004 by Sarin
I have been reading this retroCruch piece about a reader’s 50 coolest song parts…it’s a pretty good read, but it would take weeks for me to every complete a list like that.
Quite a good time to be into the alterner rap scene right now. With albums like Dizzee Rascal, Atmosphere, The Streets, Beastie Boys getting much props, and another Kweli album due to drop in the summer, things are starting to shape up. Backing back up into the Streets, I started listening to his stuff earlier this week, and the guy seriously rhymes with a British accent. Accents don’t exist in the world of music, but Mike Skinner pulls it off nicely.
Pretty old complaint/prop. I actually don’t think the Black Eyed Peas are a good hip hop band anymore. I am grateful they made some good party songs on their last album, but still their new sound sounds tooo sold out. When you go from artistry, to getting your songs sold to the NBA, you know something fell off in the process. So BEP, stop cashing in on Fergie and your bad hip hop joints, where all the underground love at?
So downgrade for BEP and upgrade for Kanye West. It is as if the music scene can’t get enough of the Loius Vuitton Don. Now that, in my opinion is going mainstream without selling out. The brother has been in the game for years, doing beats for Jay and stuff, but in the process of him finishing up his solo debut, he didn’t lose any artistic integrity in the process. The College Dropout is one of the finest hip hop start to finish albums you will find this year. Kan can swing from underground to club, soft to hard, and stays so without being ‘gangsta. His music and rhymes are so individual in his style, that I wish more rappers in this day would open up as much as Kan did in his debut album.
I am currently listening to the new Beasties’ To The Five Boroughs, and it sounds kinda whack. From what I have been hearing, they sample Rappers’ Delight, sound really geekish, and have Mixmaster Mike on some scratching. I hope it grows on me, but I don’t think it sounds very New York, and it sounds too geekish to be political either. It might be time to put these suckers off the map.
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