Gritz
I am here only to post the most ignorant of things.
That being said. This is my friend Gritz. He graduated from Harvard and writes about the current state of hip-hop.
Harvard Education + Hip Hop = Down Syndrome Ignorant.
Isle of Rhyme aka Bare Means A Lot - Part 1
In June and July of 2005, almost two years ago now, I went to England in hopes of making a documentary about the convergence of hip hop and uk garage / grime influences in London. Having done no pre-production and with the help of a couple of friends, namely Ben aka Eyez Ari, I set out to find different MCs and DJs and people on the scene willing to speak to me and be interviewed on camera. I ended up only being able to stay for three weeks, and with lots of cancelled interviews and a terrorist attack interrupting production, it didn’t go exactly as planned. After nearly two years of having the footage half edited and sitting around and being in and out of the country and working on other projects, I’ve decided to put it online and do justice to all the MCs and the people who took time out of their day(s) to help on the project. Does it do justice to the music and give a full picture of things? No. These are only a handful of the hip hop and garage/grime mcs, producers, djs, etc that are actively making music in The Big Smoke, but they are some of the most vocal and interesting cats out there. Skinnyman gave us a whole history of the evolution of the hip hop scene in London and in the UK, and the audio on his interview is muffled which is a shame but there it is. J2K took us around Bow and his ends for a day. The Foreign Beggars met up with us. We went to Rinse FM for Jammer’s birthday and did the same with Jon E Cash and the Black Ops camp… and there were many, many others. It was a three week crash course at a time when grime music was fresh (it still is) and getting a lot of hype, and now that some of that hype has died down the comments that Braintax and Jon E Cash make in this video are all the more poignant…where is grime going and what is the evolution of the music? A lot of people feel it’s become stagnant (silly considering they’re working with Just Blaze on some new joints) or that the MCs are wack or that it’s been absorbed by dubstep or this that and the third, but the truth is it doesn’t matter what people say or talk about because it’s always a back and forth with the melting pot that exists in London and the rest of the UK and people are going to keep doing what they’re doing, as Crazy Titch says in the third part of the clip. The movie was a learning experience and a step on the way to some of the bigger things that are going on now with Selva Films (check out Selva.TV soon for an idea), and it will always be a good memory.
I am posting Part 1 for the moment and Part 2 and 3 will come over the next couple of days…Enjoy it!
The new season of Os Gemeos To Paint A Castle
Os Gemeos, the Brasilian brothers whose murals and characters have become world famous in the so called street art world are planning on going BIG on a castle in Scotland.
mira mira, cumbia cumbia
sean was telling me about this dude a lil while ago and then he popped up on the maddecent blog…
this cat, Oro11, is onto something right hurr. slowed down cumbia with some crunk accapulskis
this is why i’m hot remix bumps ridiculously hard in a long walk with your pod in Buenos Aires. trust doggy. peep the myspace for some other cumbia blends, but this one is the hottest.
p.s. sean (vj lupis fiasco) and i (dj pint) are spinning, as the newly formed “Dengue,” on the same night as oro11 at the weekly on wednesday “zizek” (niceto club) in BsAs.
Primo in the Lab (Classic)
Rakim Allah, Nas, KRS-One, Kanye (??) and Premier…now we´ll just hold our breath for that next Primo and nas collabo esp. on the heels of the new Primo produced Royce Da 5´9 mixtape…
Links of the Day
New cameras have actors reloading
60 things worth shortening your life for…
Plus the new SA-RA jawn is sounding hot…