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...Beastie Boys and Eminem is featured in a lecture on “whiteness” in the genre. This atomistic treatment does a disservice to rap elders like the white MC Serch of old-school group 3rd Bass—who helped break the careers of Nas and MF Doom (both black)—and to the multiracial breakdancing crews seen in 1982’s “Wild Style.” Neither example conforms to the neat classification of rap as a purely “black” form.Still, to deny the tumultuous interplay...
It’s a common enough story in the music world: an aging artist loudly insults the current style, sending waves through the whole scene. But this time, the feuding parties aren’t Nas and Benzino.Barry Burns, the guitarist for Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, called recent BRIT Award winners James Blunt and Coldplay’s Chris Martin a “twat” and a “fuckface,” respectively. MCs have been capped for much less.But given all the news coverage and corresponding hype—and increased record sales?...
...Nas who said, “Nah, this is the time we destroy and rebuild...
...damn near the same beat every time. Grime, by definition, sounds almost the same. With all this repetition, it’s a lucky thing that there are no “bad” songs on the compilation. Again, it has an album-like listening arc, so the Nas-sampling track “Can’t You See” by Klashnekoff, although little more than hip-hop with a British accent, doesn’t sound out of place. The relative conservatism of this song portrays grime as an evolving genre of its own, yet still...
...culture of hip-hop is a few levels flakier than other types of music,” says Larry Legend, a New York-based hip-hop producer and engineer who has mixed and made beats for mainstream stars like Nas and Jadakiss, as well as underground heroes C-Rayz Walz and DJ Logic...