uk-hop (was Re: roots manuva )

From: dj t-bird (djt_bird@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:09:53 MET

  • Next message: Jason Mariyappan: "Re: uk-hop (was Re: roots manuva )"

    Who says the UK don't know Hip-Hop?!?!
    >
    > no one i know. the uk has only reinvented hiphop about 5 times
    (drum'n'bass,
    > big beat - best forgotten, so-called 'bristol' type shit etc etc) and now
    > its putting out some of the best stuff i get through my office... maybe
    i'm
    > biased as a contributor to ukhiphop.com but 95% of the stuff out of the
    u.s.
    > is all sugary puff daddy type nonsense.

    it's the best & worst of times for u.s. hiphop, in the words of erick sermon
    (!) "i'll stick to underground, you keep the cross-over." actually i'm not
    that hard-core, some groups i like are crossing over (e.g., styles of
    beyond) but they're not really going for the pop thing, they're just
    somewhat accessible to non-heads.

    > i'm not trying to put the US down at all ... just trying to big up the UK.

    u.s. heads need to recognize--the u.k. massive has skills!!

    > i suggest tracking down stuff by skitz, task force, numskullz, lewis
    parker,
    > braintax, blade, harry love, hundred strong, herbaliser, new flesh for
    old,
    > mystro... labels like hombre, lowlife, son, ruf beats, big dada, apeman,
    > deal real, ronin, jazz fudge, k-boro

    second on that emotion!! i'm not really down w/lewis parker & new flesh,
    but there's other talent on big dada i can get with --juice aleem & part 2,
    man like manuva!! don't forget funky d.l.--i know he can get kinda "pop"
    sometimes but he gets down, too.

    u.k. producers have been getting props for a while, but now there's a lot of
    m.c.s that are solid too.

    -t

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