Who says the UK don't know Hip-Hop?!?!
>
> no one i know. the uk has only reinvented hiphop about 5 times
(drum'n'bass,
> big beat - best forgotten, so-called 'bristol' type shit etc etc) and now
> its putting out some of the best stuff i get through my office... maybe
i'm
> biased as a contributor to ukhiphop.com but 95% of the stuff out of the
u.s.
> is all sugary puff daddy type nonsense.
it's the best & worst of times for u.s. hiphop, in the words of erick sermon
(!) "i'll stick to underground, you keep the cross-over." actually i'm not
that hard-core, some groups i like are crossing over (e.g., styles of
beyond) but they're not really going for the pop thing, they're just
somewhat accessible to non-heads.
> i'm not trying to put the US down at all ... just trying to big up the UK.
u.s. heads need to recognize--the u.k. massive has skills!!
> i suggest tracking down stuff by skitz, task force, numskullz, lewis
parker,
> braintax, blade, harry love, hundred strong, herbaliser, new flesh for
old,
> mystro... labels like hombre, lowlife, son, ruf beats, big dada, apeman,
> deal real, ronin, jazz fudge, k-boro
second on that emotion!! i'm not really down w/lewis parker & new flesh,
but there's other talent on big dada i can get with --juice aleem & part 2,
man like manuva!! don't forget funky d.l.--i know he can get kinda "pop"
sometimes but he gets down, too.
u.k. producers have been getting props for a while, but now there's a lot of
m.c.s that are solid too.
-t
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