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I was originally going to use Vanessa Carlton, but the more I thought about it, she had some elements that translated well into a lot of other music I listen to, so here's another genre. How about rap?
I have a very small list of rappers that I listen to, but there's one artist whom I ended up getting into twice.
I will disclose there's a few rap songs that I liked through my childhood and they are a very small number since I was brought up to hate rap, but when I started working for a hip hop mag, I started to be more open minded over rap. One day, on WNYC while watching this compilation on classic rap, between the politically charged violent lyrics of late 80's to early 90's gangsta rap, there's this funny rap that had a bit of that hard lyric work you don't expect from "safer" venues like Will Smith and the stuff they sell to kids.
At the same time, I ended up enjoying eMusic and, finding more stuff to look into, I noticed Adult Swim pushing this artist who is hilarious. The tracks he uses reach into all the TV shows I grew up off of too.
I didn't realize it until I wiki'd it, but that same artist was in the same group I looked into.
The band's name was KMD.
And if you watch Adult Swim, you probably know that the artist I'm talking about is MF Doom.
Although KMD is a bunch of kids doing a lot of really hard racial discussion on being black in a world that we still are having difficulty with accepting, you can see a lot of them still being kids having fun despite this. Just as significantly, you can find the same track laying that you would find in Zev Love X turned MF Doom's later work.
That it lead to him turning into this nerdcore rapper's rapper who both epitomizes but chagrin's the rap industry's traditions just feels right to me. He's still the playful nerdy kid willing to play by his own rules, and god bless him I gotta love him for it.
I know this is about one song, but I gotta do two just to compare. First, from his KMD days: a song that verbally plays with words that have a different meaning in the street into a parable.
-and something that feels like a followup response so many years later, on an album whose entire theme is food.
I will also add that I always feel insecure trying to describe hip hop properly so if someone corrects me in how I define this mythos, it probably would be for the best anyway, ha!
( 30 Days of Music )
I have a very small list of rappers that I listen to, but there's one artist whom I ended up getting into twice.
I will disclose there's a few rap songs that I liked through my childhood and they are a very small number since I was brought up to hate rap, but when I started working for a hip hop mag, I started to be more open minded over rap. One day, on WNYC while watching this compilation on classic rap, between the politically charged violent lyrics of late 80's to early 90's gangsta rap, there's this funny rap that had a bit of that hard lyric work you don't expect from "safer" venues like Will Smith and the stuff they sell to kids.
At the same time, I ended up enjoying eMusic and, finding more stuff to look into, I noticed Adult Swim pushing this artist who is hilarious. The tracks he uses reach into all the TV shows I grew up off of too.
I didn't realize it until I wiki'd it, but that same artist was in the same group I looked into.
The band's name was KMD.
And if you watch Adult Swim, you probably know that the artist I'm talking about is MF Doom.
Although KMD is a bunch of kids doing a lot of really hard racial discussion on being black in a world that we still are having difficulty with accepting, you can see a lot of them still being kids having fun despite this. Just as significantly, you can find the same track laying that you would find in Zev Love X turned MF Doom's later work.
That it lead to him turning into this nerdcore rapper's rapper who both epitomizes but chagrin's the rap industry's traditions just feels right to me. He's still the playful nerdy kid willing to play by his own rules, and god bless him I gotta love him for it.
I know this is about one song, but I gotta do two just to compare. First, from his KMD days: a song that verbally plays with words that have a different meaning in the street into a parable.
-and something that feels like a followup response so many years later, on an album whose entire theme is food.
I will also add that I always feel insecure trying to describe hip hop properly so if someone corrects me in how I define this mythos, it probably would be for the best anyway, ha!
( 30 Days of Music )
