Re: why Black eyed peas "suck"

Nathaniel Rahav (nrahav@ixl.com)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:46:26 -0400


I didn't read the hip hop newsgroup thread but have been following the
discussion on here and, based on the recommendations I read on this list,
bought the BEP album.

I have to say I didnt find it all great. Although the beats were pretty
tasty for
many of the songs I think they're lyrics and flow leave much to be desired.
This is considering the album was very lyric-centric rather than
beat-centric.
Definitely not the Roots.

I know a lot of people really dig it & I dont want to start a flame war... I
just
wanna make my voice heard as an AJ subscriber who loves hip hop and jazz but
wasnt that into the BEP album. But I can see why people would like it. I
just dont think we should knock hip hop headz as narrow-minded & ignorant
for not liking it.

Also, the little interludes that they have between songs - is that not a
direct rip off of 3 feet high and rising? I could see how one could make a
reference to De La but change it around a bit, but this seemed to be almost
the same as the De La interludes except not as funny.

whats up with that?

peace

.·´¯`·.¸¸.N·a·t.¸

-----Original Message-----
From: Elson Trinidad <elson@westworld.com>
To: Tony Reid <t-bird@salata.com>; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: why Black eyed peas "suck"

>At 06:58 PM 2/13/99 -0800, Tony Reid wrote:
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>> jumping in w/little previous knowledge of the root of this (i.e. the
hiphop
>> newsgroup discussion) the thing that occurs to me is that there is
probably
>> a bias against a dj-less hiphop group.
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>No, that's actually far from it. There's a lot of DJ-less hip-hop out there
>nowadays that transcends their tastes.
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