I
think that's how the quote goes from 'Wild Style', the first ever hip-hop movie. Sure, production qualities were a bit on the whack side, but this was a real slice of life from the early 80's rap scene, way before all the bling-bling-jigga-jigga-booty-shakin'-video-pimps-n-ho's. I've always searched for music that was real, honest and from the heart, and when I discovered hip-hop in the early 90's I immediately fell in love.
Sadly, my interests in hip-hop dwindled for quite awhile after I discovered Kurt and those other long haired flannel wearers in Seattle. Rapcore almost looked like a perfect melding of the two until Fred put out Chocolate Starfish (derivative), P.O.D. got huge (no flow whatsoever) and Linkin Park burst the bubble (I liked Linkin Park until MTV played it constantly for a year. From then on if anyone mentioned the words to 'Crawling' I'd choke them with a rubber chicken and leave them to the roaches).
I then discovered more and more guitar based music, delving deeper in time to AC/DC, Motorhead, Led Zep and Sabbath, but somehow or other I always seem to find my way back to the cuts and scratches and the MC patters. I've been logging on via a colleagues more higher-end eMac to download stuff on acquisition and check out what's out there that's original, but I don't know where to start. The occasional Kanye West, some Mos Def & Talib Kweli, a couple hits of DJ Danger Mouse and DJ QBert. Apart from them, I'm up turntable towers without a needle.
Thank God, then, for
the Low End Theory.
Discovered via
Soul Sides (which was discovered via
Moistworks), I've been spending a good hour or two on the site reading the posts and downloading some of the dopest tracks on the planet. It's not just hip-hop, but some of the classic soul, jazz and funk tracks that were sampled to produce those hip-hop tracks we all know and love.
I also got this pic from there, which cements
the Low End Theory's rep even more in my book.
hit it up. Foshizzie my brizzie and all that bollockizee.
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Bollockizee. Sounds like an italian dish. Or a strange monkey.
