stop!
Angel: He is dead. Technically, he's undead. It's a zombie. Connor: What's a zombie? Angel: It's an undead thing. Connor: Like you? Angel: No, zombies are slow-moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh. Connor: Like you. Angel: No! It's different. Trust me.
'Destiny'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Laga - Feb 18, 2008 8:52:55 am PST #7205 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
lisah - Feb 18, 2008 9:30:26 am PST #7206 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
(I found that list linked off a blog called "Things White People Like," and Mos Def was the most recent entry.)
I bet because of The Wire .
Jon B. - Feb 18, 2008 9:32:50 am PST #7207 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I was with Aimee, though I was phrasing it as "white and was in musically formative years in the late 1990s."
P.E. & N.W.A. were ten years earlier, actually...
Seekret message to Aimée: Pthhhhhhhtttt!!!1!
Laga - Feb 18, 2008 9:33:33 am PST #7208 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I first heard of Mos Def during casting for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie.
Aims - Feb 18, 2008 9:46:28 am PST #7209 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Seekrit message to Jon: Pbbbllllttt! Just between you and me, I owned the Kid Rock cassette with "Yodelin' in the Valley" on it. Ouch.
lisah - Feb 18, 2008 9:49:39 am PST #7210 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
I bet because of The Wire .
Holy cow am I ever brain dead today. Rapper on the Wire is Method Man. sheesh.
Sue - Feb 18, 2008 10:00:39 am PST #7211 of 10003
hip deep in pie
The only rap albums I own are by a white guy from Mt. Uniacke, NS. And he's been labelled Emo Rap.
flea - Feb 18, 2008 10:16:47 am PST #7212 of 10003
information libertarian
Um, yeah, that was what I intended to say. I went from "I remember NWA and PE in high school" to "I graduated from high school in 1990" to "the later 1990s."
Have I mentioned that I was a lot smarter in high school than I am now? I blame too much listening to cheezy rap music. "I like big butts" has got to kill brain cells.
Hayden - Feb 18, 2008 10:25:49 am PST #7213 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I have a lot of older-white-guy rap, too (Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, PE, Grandmaster Flash), but I like quite a bit of hip-hop that seems directly aimed at indie-rock nerds. For instance, MF Doom in all his incarnations (that's Viktor Vaughn, Danger Doom, Madvillain, and King Geedorah, that last of which would probably best appeal to Jon, I think). Uh, also Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, cLOUDDEAD, Lyrics Born, Latyrx, anything Peanut Butter Wolf puts out. Nerd-hop.
Sheryl - Feb 18, 2008 1:24:54 pm PST #7214 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
The only rap album I own is De la Soul's "Three Feet High and Rising". Make of that what you will...