Post by tafkac on Mar 29, 2005 14:28:05 GMT
OK, rant time. I don't know about you, but I still read Pitchfork with a combination of a genuine desire to find new music, and a morbid fascination with their absurd hipster posturing. But, their obsession with "grime" is getting totally out of hand.
Their entire review of Roots Manuva's new ("post-grime") album might be substituted for the phrase "fuck this, look how much I know about grime". Maybe this would be suffixed with "this style of music is the 'UK's Answer to Hip-Hop©', and is can also be known as eski, dubstep, sublow etc. etc." ASIDE: I don't know what these terms mean, but if I just list them, you will perhaps be bewitched by my knowledge of the exotic.
Its like watching a car crash - the constant attempts by people who wouldn't know East London if it kicked them in the betrucker-capped head to namedrop as many MCs they've probably never heard as possible is strangely compelling. If you can refer to Lady Sovereign as "Sov", as if you are good friends, bonus points. Thankfully, there is a chink in their armour. The next rule states "if you are carrying out today's obligatory M.I.A. wank session, you must make at least one totally incongrous reference to grime". This helpfully demonstrates to anyone reading that you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Very soon we will get university educated white Americans coming over here all "wass gwaanin, blood? Big up to the Massachusetts massive." Maybe Britain gets the last laugh.
Check this shit. Tafkac out.
Their entire review of Roots Manuva's new ("post-grime") album might be substituted for the phrase "fuck this, look how much I know about grime". Maybe this would be suffixed with "this style of music is the 'UK's Answer to Hip-Hop©', and is can also be known as eski, dubstep, sublow etc. etc." ASIDE: I don't know what these terms mean, but if I just list them, you will perhaps be bewitched by my knowledge of the exotic.
Its like watching a car crash - the constant attempts by people who wouldn't know East London if it kicked them in the betrucker-capped head to namedrop as many MCs they've probably never heard as possible is strangely compelling. If you can refer to Lady Sovereign as "Sov", as if you are good friends, bonus points. Thankfully, there is a chink in their armour. The next rule states "if you are carrying out today's obligatory M.I.A. wank session, you must make at least one totally incongrous reference to grime". This helpfully demonstrates to anyone reading that you don't actually know what you're talking about.
Very soon we will get university educated white Americans coming over here all "wass gwaanin, blood? Big up to the Massachusetts massive." Maybe Britain gets the last laugh.
Check this shit. Tafkac out.
