Well it also does depend on what state youre in... Im from NY, and
Carleen got no airplay when her album came out. Jhelisa, D*Note, etc
etc... none of these artists get any airplay in the US. It is annoying
that everything has to be categorized and if it doesnt fit into the
typical urban contemporary format (or if it wasnt remixed to sound like
everything else) chances are we wouldnt hear it on the radio. As far as
the rest of the UK artists you mentioned, (not addressing the
Reggae/Rockers artists) there are limited UK artists that get to
establish themselves as album artists(ie Soul II Soul, Loose Ends, Five
Star at their peak), VS a hit single here and there. Not even Caron
Wheeler(where is this Rowdy album I heard about?) got play. It took
Seal being on the Batman Soundtrack to get any real credibility beyond
"Crazy". Even sad ass Mark Morrison crossed over, sounding like typical
US R&B, but we have yet to see anything else on his CD get airplay
(which I am NOT complaining about). And its very sick how when I went
to London, all you heard on the radio was US artists...
RJ
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Subject: Re: omar
Author: "KEVIN D. ENGLAND" <kengland@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> at Internet
Date: 10/29/97 10:05 AM
Wow, here I am on my third post of the day already....
Lets see? Non-American black artists .... You got Soul II Soul, we had
Loose Ends, Monie Love, Maxie Priest, Shabba Ranks, Chaka Demus and
Pliers, Ini Kamoze, Wyclef Jean (may be American...but I've heard'em
rapping in Haitian french on DC radio), Super Cat, Five Starr had a hit,
Carleen Anderson was getting airplay for a while, of course there is Sade
who is massive...and a little Seal (but not much Seal. They put out a
really shitty re-mix for Seal...that pissed me off)
It doesn't happen every season...but we do get heavy rotation from time to
time....just not from the Goldies, Roni Size's, Tricky's, Guy called
Gerald's and anyone else pushing the envelope. Black America shys away
from experimentation and "being different" ... at least the Black America
I live in does....Remember, they didn't start playing hip hop on urban radio
until a few years ago....and the hip hop they do play is generally pretty
damn weak.
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