HIP HOP HORRAY!!!

Current mood: CHIPPETY PLIP PLOP
Category: CHIPPETY PLIP PLOP Music

I was browsing through the myspazz music front page last yesterday and noticed that Hip Hop is the genre with the most musical profiles - 1,707,505 to be exact.

This is followed by Rap with 1,620,731

and Rock with a measely 1,256,487

Yes boss, as if it needs to be said, Hip Hop is clearly the big baby these days and rock is moving off into the big deep blue and about time...

I can't say I've ever been a huge lover of Hippety Hip Hop.

I had a phase on Ice Cube, Ice T and Public Enemy and since then have dipped my toe in from time to time and enjoyed acts like Gravediggaz, Wu Tang and associated spin offs.

Some of the alt.hop is also interesting, Prefuse 72, Blackalicious, The Phracyde..

I suppose my issue with Hop, is that I like music to be abstract and soundsz based. I'm generally not a lover of lyrics. In music I want to disappear from humans, not hear them chatter away and if I want poetry (and I rarely do, because to be quite frank most poetry is completely fucking awful) I read it.....

Anyway, the Hop Hip I'm most enjoying at the moment is Dr Octagon all over the place and the older Ultramagnetic MCs stuff.

Kool Keith AKA Blonde Man AKA Keith Televasquez is an enigma, most definately a proper artist and quite possibly the most creative man in Hip Hop

So prolific and easily bored is Black Linen that he's recorded under more than 60 pseudonyms...

Exotron Geiger Counter One Gama Plus Sequence AKA Fly Ricky the Wine Taster AKA Big Willie Smith knows no bounds...

Mr. Gerbik started out with The Ultramagnetics MCs way back in the day. The Ultramagnetics made clever and competant Hip Hop with that ENERGY!!! cleverness and BURST!! that so much of todays commercial shit completely lacks..

So, whilst I fix my virused up second computer, here's one of Rico from Puerto Rico's latest efforts.

Hear it out - it's GREAT!!! And the vids tasty as well...

Currently listening : The Return of Dr. Octagon By Dr. Octagon Release date: By 27 June, 2006

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	KvKvG	hey, im enjoying cloudead, dose one and those lex people. art-hop, or maybe wank-hop. but i like them. hip hop is definatly king these days, ODB is the new elvis. denis rodman is the new dusty springfield. patrick swayze is in my bath. dEUS RULE!!! Posted by KvKvG on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 03:01 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	YOU LIAR!!! SWAYZE IS IN MY BATH!!! HE'S SCRUBBING HIS- "GIOVANNI???? WHERE'S MY BODY LOTION???" "I'LL GET IT MY SWAYZE!" gotta run... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 12:29 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Baku Llama	WHERES MY BITCHES!!! Posted by Baku Llama on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 00:00 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Nonstop Everything	agreed, kool keith is definitely a stand-out. mad lib's projects are worth a mention. immortal technique is one of the most relevant lyricists of all time, w/ an aggressive delivery that is actually genuine. and i'd like to add that the myspace page set up for him doesn't showcase his best work. the coup are sweet... i think hip-hop has evolved into a very important form of music. it is the currently the truest rebellion and has helped shift philosophy. but, yes, that is a large number of acts on myspace and most of those acts aren't stand-outs. Posted by Nonstop Everything on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 10:59 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	simon	I'm Totally prehistoric in my Hippety hop tastes, and I mean back to the 1930's to 50's with cats like Slim Gaillard, cousin Joe, Victoria Spivey all with lethal rhymes and loads of drugs and guns and sex all over there lyrics. they don't come more hood that MS Spivey who wrote Dopehead Blues in 1927 about being a Cocaine Addict working in a brothel. She ended up with her own Recording studio and label and ran her own music festivals that toured the world in a true Hippety Hop empire style, she also put out the first ever record by some guy called Bob Dylan when no one would touch him! Oh and find a copy of her tune He's A Rank Stud!! Posted by simon on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 19:16 [Remove] [Reply to this]

Steve | Version Sound

I'm a fan of the classics. Hip Hop and otherwise. Ultramagnetics, anything produced by the Bomb Squad (PE, Ice Cube, Son of Bezerk, Terminator X, etc.), old King Tee, Pharcyde, Masta Ace, EPMD, Eric B/Rakim, Pete Rock/CL Smooth, KRS-ONE etc. Most of the Cold Chillin releases are great. Today's Hip Hop is mainly contrived and focused on one thing - making money. But not in the respect that the classic artists wanted to make money. This is the premise of most radio hip hop lyrics. They rap about money, clothes, girls and make drug references here and there to get the attention of kids in the streets. It's all fairly transparent these days. Posted by Steve | Version Sound on Monday, October 15, 2007 at 15:14 [Remove] [Reply to this]