The snap music backlash
UPDATE: Check out this Killer Mike track from the “I Pledge Allegiance” mixtape.
Ouch! Visit the site Laffy Taffy Rots Your Teeth for more. Check the video “Everything is Different Now,” which is actually a hot ode to traditional hip-hop. You can also download and pass around the 10-track album mixtape.* Think of it as freeware hip-hop :-).
Via Cheryl Coward.
And also via Cheryl, and Rod 2.0: a rememberance of Willi Ninja, the dude who taught Madonna how to vogue. The New York Times has a piece: “Willi Ninja, 45, Self-Created Star Who Made Vogueing Into an Art, Dies”
*Haven’t listened to the album yet. Not sure how good it is.It’s a pretty decent collection.
I watched the video, and it was cool. But you know what would really work for me, people actually making the type of music that they make music complaining about people not making these days.
Whining about the current state of Hip Hop is a subgenre of its own now, and in this case I have to take the senior citizen route of noting that I see nothing here that Common didn’t do 10x doper 10+ years ago with “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
I’ll check out the album.
This album is nothing short of dope. In all fairness, it’s not 10 tracks of overt whining about hip-hop being dead, but a responsible alternative to substanceless mainstream music. What’s ironic is that the production is far from backpacker beats, but could command both mainstream and underground respect. I especially like how they flipped the “Laffy Taffy” song and tucked away relevant subject matter in a commercially friendly beat and hook…