Re: hip hop

From: Lynne d Johnson (ldj00@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 23:45:04 CEST

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    What I meant was

    >> I think there is just good hip hop and bad hip hop.

    Here are some other compilations that give you a pretty good history

    They're all on priority records
    Hip Hop Classics Vol 1
    Hip Hop Classics Vol 2
    Pass The Mic The Posse Album

    You get a little bit of the best on all these CDs.

    Gang Starr
    Big Daddy Kane
    Main Source
    Heltah Skeltah
    Eric B and Rakim
    Public Enemy
    BDP
    NWA
    The DOC
    MC SHAN 

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    > From: Lynne d Johnson <ldj00@earthlink.net>
> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:35:31 -0400
> To: John Book <johnbook@yadig.com>, <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: hip hop
> 
> Ok, I think I agree with you.
> 
>>> the best stuff is the underground stuff though...or the eclectic stuff, what
>>> they call alternative hip hop<
> 
> let the academics and the media try to define, the music producers, true
> listeners, and DJs should simply say that about all music
> 
> there is only good and bad
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>> From: "John Book" <johnbook@yadig.com>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:55:16 -0700
>> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>> Subject: Re: hip hop
>> 
>>> the best stuff is the underground stuff though...or the eclectic stuff, what
>>> they call alternative hip hop<
>> 
>> Oh really?  I think it was Me'Shell NdegeOcello who once said "the
>> alternative 
>> to hip hop is silence".
>> 
>> I think there is just good hip hop and bad hip hop.  The more one tries to
>> define what a certain style is, the more we steer away from the actual music.
>> Did anyone mention Big Dada?
>> 
>> 
>> p.e.a.c.e.
>> -John Book
>> 
>> www.john-book.com/Crut
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