tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330388309277921186.post691879545158330003..comments2007-05-02T19:30:37.355-07:00Comments on Sleep's Cousin: Why I Will Always Hate Indie RapSrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10287468889845574414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330388309277921186.post-87098413709913837632007-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:002007-03-23T11:01:00.000-07:00oh, btw, to answer your initial question, I'm only...oh, btw, to answer your initial question, I'm only 17Srihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287468889845574414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330388309277921186.post-30001818246643218362007-03-23T10:57:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:57:00.000-07:00yeah, i guess i went too hard on El-P, it was more...yeah, i guess i went too hard on El-P, it was more meant to be why i hate the "white-emo-poet-abstract-rap crowd" you mentioned. but i had just saw an interview on mp3.com and i felt that he was overhyping his shit. He said his new album was an "attempt of the eloquent translation of the demented psychological state of my generation"...i mean, seriously? i listened to it, and it was aiight, but not mindblowing. Plus i know kids who think this dude is a god, and although you're right about him being a head from back in the day, i don't think he's anything close to my producing heroes.<BR/>Maybe because he produces for dudes from Def Jux who i really don't like, like the whole atom's family, cannibal ox, etc. It's not that they're white, cus they're not all white, I just hate that kind of hip hop.<BR/>Lastly, the title said Why I Hate Indie Rap, it's an opinion. I didn't like Funcrusher Plus, it was odd, you have to admit. I may be a snob, a purest you could say, but i completely respect your input and thank you for viewing my first post. I'll try to keep an ear open when listening to him again.Srihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287468889845574414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330388309277921186.post-86332884284117535282007-03-22T23:05:00.000-07:002007-03-22T23:05:00.000-07:00and since you mentioned Primo, check the liner no...and since you mentioned Primo, check the liner note shout-outs on Momemt of Truth.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17689345959231169573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7330388309277921186.post-78613402398545682722007-03-22T23:02:00.000-07:002007-03-22T23:02:00.000-07:00Curious how old you are. Because most of El-P's st...Curious how old you are. Because most of El-P's stuff is highly influenced by being a New Yorker growing up as a hip-hop head in the 80s.<BR/><BR/>To me there is nothing really new age or spacey about his music. It is descended from stuff like BDP and PE,etc. He grewup listening to that stuff and battling cats in NYC. He wasn't in some all-white abstract poet fratboy crew or anything. If anything his msuic is that "real hip-hop" in that vein.<BR/><BR/>I have never understood lumping him in with the white-emo-poet-abstract-rap crowd. The only similarity I see is whiteness. It's strange that if you are white you can either be considered a Vanilla Ice-like caricature ( or maybe as Cage called his earlier period, "subtle blackface") or a "nerd" but nothing in between.<BR/><BR/>Honestly I thought I would HATE his new CD because it has a who's who list of Indie-Rock hipsters as guests, and well I hate emo-rap indie-rock-rap or whatever you want to call it. <BR/><BR/>But it's not like that. I barely noticed any of the guests who were all really nothing but subtle samples.<BR/><BR/>And honestly, a lot of the classic/golden age/80s rap icons sampled music that was a lot "nerdier" than El-P. And his drums and stuff hit hard ( like old BDP and PE Bombsquad but updated not a nostalgic fascimile).Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17689345959231169573noreply@blogger.com