Post by The Curmudgeon on Apr 30, 2015 17:27:33 GMT 2
There's a tradition that where America goes in music, the UK inevitably follows. In the 90's the charts were clogged up with glossy, smiling drone boybands aping Max Martin's uber polished products. When Limp Bizkit and Korn were king, we tried to emulate that success with our own (terrible) nu-metal bands. And the least said about one of them, the better.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897365/Paedophile-singer-Ian-Watkins-shared-sickening-fantasies-girlfriend-sex-tape-court-hears.html
Enjoy reading that.
There was a time however, when our attempts to emulate hip-hop was something of a joke. And WHITE rappers? Hoo wee, that shit just did. not. happen.
Thankfully, those days are long gone, and UK rap and hip-hop is HUGE.. and often complete shit. As is the case when things go mainstream, the genre gets watered down and suddenly the voice of the streets (tm) is the same pop garbage you hated already.
There are, of course, a few bright lights. Mentioned more than once in this Fortress Scroobius Pip, Plan B (also on here before with the ferocious "Ill Manors") and this gentleman, Jamie T.
Replacing hip-hop bling cliches with grimy lyrics about fighting, drinking and all other fun stuff, Jamie fuses rap with a punk sensibility to create something that blows chart shit right out the water.
Here's "Sticks and Stones", a song that you think is going in one place, and then it hits you with a chorus that is pretty damn irresistible. Take a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9APEZMeH0o
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897365/Paedophile-singer-Ian-Watkins-shared-sickening-fantasies-girlfriend-sex-tape-court-hears.html
Enjoy reading that.
There was a time however, when our attempts to emulate hip-hop was something of a joke. And WHITE rappers? Hoo wee, that shit just did. not. happen.
Thankfully, those days are long gone, and UK rap and hip-hop is HUGE.. and often complete shit. As is the case when things go mainstream, the genre gets watered down and suddenly the voice of the streets (tm) is the same pop garbage you hated already.
There are, of course, a few bright lights. Mentioned more than once in this Fortress Scroobius Pip, Plan B (also on here before with the ferocious "Ill Manors") and this gentleman, Jamie T.
Replacing hip-hop bling cliches with grimy lyrics about fighting, drinking and all other fun stuff, Jamie fuses rap with a punk sensibility to create something that blows chart shit right out the water.
Here's "Sticks and Stones", a song that you think is going in one place, and then it hits you with a chorus that is pretty damn irresistible. Take a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9APEZMeH0o
