Lovin' It
Little Brother's The Minstrel Show is one of the most anticipated hip-hop records this fall and has been generating positive buzz and stellar reviews in mags like Scratch and XXL. Looks like the record is going to get more publicity now that the editor of the Source has resigned over a dispute over the rating assigned to the record.
This is the second time an editor at The Source has resigned over a review.
Politics aside, the new Little Brother video "Lovin' It" has surfaced.
"This is annihilating every thing in its path in any genre" - A typically modest Kanye West at a T-dot listening session for Late Registration
And finally, congratulations to Joe Schloss aka Joe Twist on winning the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s 2005 Book Award for his tome Making Beats.
Schloss' book is groundbreaking in the fact that he deals with the ethics and logic surrounding sampling and speaks from the vantage of an immersed hip-hop head and not that of a disengaged academic. I've seen and heard and read interpretations of hip-hop before by people who may not care much for the music, as if the whole thing was an exercise in curiosity more than anything else. Schloss though is in the field, making beats of his own and in the bedroom studios of producers getting inside their heads. This isn't about mindlessly jacking for beats.
There's been a lot of ink spilled on the lyrics of MCs in studies on hip-hop and not enough on the creation of the music itself. This book goes along way to redressing the balance.
Add Jeff Chang's American Book Award, for the ridiculously thorough and superbly written Can't Stop Won't Stop and it's been a pretty good year for hip-hop texts.
This is the second time an editor at The Source has resigned over a review.
Politics aside, the new Little Brother video "Lovin' It" has surfaced.
"This is annihilating every thing in its path in any genre" - A typically modest Kanye West at a T-dot listening session for Late Registration
And finally, congratulations to Joe Schloss aka Joe Twist on winning the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s 2005 Book Award for his tome Making Beats.
Schloss' book is groundbreaking in the fact that he deals with the ethics and logic surrounding sampling and speaks from the vantage of an immersed hip-hop head and not that of a disengaged academic. I've seen and heard and read interpretations of hip-hop before by people who may not care much for the music, as if the whole thing was an exercise in curiosity more than anything else. Schloss though is in the field, making beats of his own and in the bedroom studios of producers getting inside their heads. This isn't about mindlessly jacking for beats.
There's been a lot of ink spilled on the lyrics of MCs in studies on hip-hop and not enough on the creation of the music itself. This book goes along way to redressing the balance.
Add Jeff Chang's American Book Award, for the ridiculously thorough and superbly written Can't Stop Won't Stop and it's been a pretty good year for hip-hop texts.
posted by vibesandstuff at 11:21 PM
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