British and US hip-hop both pale in comparison to Japanese hip-hop!!! Steady
and Co. forever!!!!
dave
On 10/30/02 11:51 AM, "CAPOIIEE@aol.com" <CAPOIIEE@aol.com> wrote:
quoted 29 lines its not really fair of us to criticize uk hiphop too much.. they do try very> 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:
>
>
>> 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.'
>>
>
>
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