Beside (beside@makeme.com)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 17:42:53 +0800
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>From: Jason Mariyappan <jason.mariyappan@ic.ac.uk>
>Just to stir things up a little - the place and environment has a lot to do
>with the music people come up with. Good hip hop from the U.S. cannot be
>made in the same way in Europe unless, which of course, happens, is just
>very weakly copied. The urban experience for those into hip hop is real
>different to that in the U.S., e.g. listen to the French hip hop.
Well, hiphop isnt just about "the urban experience" tho. Some of the topics
various mcs go on about is truly universal and will seem just as familiar to
someone in Korea as someone in the Bronx.
Listen to The Grouch's "success is destiny" (the whole album, not just the
titletrack)... he's from Oakland and im from a small city in Northern Norway
(just about as far from Oakland as you can possibly get), still i can relate
to 90% of what he talks about (that album even made me quit my old job!
thats how much i can relate to it). Alot of Public Enemys, X-Clans and Brand
Nubians songs will make just as much sense to a kid in South Africa or
France as to someone in Brooklyn. Aceyalone is from LA, but even a pigfarmer
from Spain might be able to relate to "Faces"...
Its not all guns and blunts you know, and they really arent kidding when
they say that hiphop is universal.
p's
Beside
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