Re: (idm) kool kieth and the current state of hiphop
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jeezus...Mace and TLC dont represent hip-hop....theyre r'n'b acts...
and british hip-hop is amazing....funky DL, Blak Twang...and some other names i
dont know coz i forget to ask all represent the u.k.
i dont think that british hip-hop will ever be that well known stateside because
of the saturation of rap acts in the u.s.
alt rock = m.o.r. for 'disaffected' youth
Tomas Jirku wrote:
quoted 25 lines alt-rock. IMO that's a great thing, because no matter how bad pop hip-hop> > alt-rock. IMO that's a great thing, because no matter how bad pop hip-hop
> > gets, at least you can dance to it, whereas with 3rd Eye Blind, there's no
> > recourse except hiding in a corner.
>
> here in canada, alt-rock is much more prevalent than hiphop. thank god.
> i'm much rather listen to Weezer or Pearl Jam than Mace or TLC. i don't
> want no "i don't want no scrubs".
>
> > I ask because it seems like British hip-hop will never get to be
> > amazing unless it acquires a mass popularity there. I mean, an artist
> > here
>
> this comment is ridiculous! stylistically, nothing requires mass
> popularity to be amazing. you obviously need to look deeper to realize
> that all "amazing" genres exist despite and before mass popularity.
> maybe you were introduced to techno/IDM by the chemical brothers or
> prodigy.
>
> > or there, sure. But the reason for US hip-hop's continual self- renewal
> > is that it has so many fans, and thus so many creators. Same way with
>
> it is becuase of this that hiphop and techno is so trite and watered
> down.
>
> tomas