its not really fair of us to criticize uk hiphop too much.. they do try very
hard.. but alas british and european peoples lack one thing that the american
urban culture has.. rhythm. the british mcs have very weak flows. (plus the
producers mix that shit all wrong. they turn the vocals up too much, and the
beat is all weak and drowned out by the music samples, when the kicks and
snares should be the loudest thing...)
there are definitely exceptions, im sure.. and they will develop that british
mc style into a new genre that will be huge, im sure.. until then i'll
continue to listen to pharoahe monch (np. organized konfusion: stress(the
extinction agenda) ..what!?what!?)
In a message dated 10/30/02 10:04:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
eggy@eggytoast.com writes:
quoted 10 lines I'm not sure if it's just the british rap that I've heard, but even> I'm not sure if it's just the british rap that I've heard, but even
> the stereotypical "urban black" dialect in the US is based around a
> very rhythmic matter of speaking. That just doesn't exist in the
> stereotypical "british accent" (and if you want to know what a
> british accent is and don't have a brit at hand, go up to any white
> college kid (preferrably male and quite geeky looking) and ask him.
> He'll happily demonstrate), and the lack of vowel variation ends up
> making a 'british rap' too much like 'trying to read bad poetry over
> a beat.'
>