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It's good that we actually video taped the Seattle show and the Portland show, so I will be posting recorded footage from both shows. I don't think that actual video footage lies. I will have some footage for your shortly, since the Seattle Times writer wasn't impressed. Thanks for the props to the cats on here that have seen the show before and given us our props. I appreciate that support, as we take great pride in our live show. Right on ya'll. Like I always say "without the fans there is no show, or no reason to put albums out". Thanks for the support.
here's some criticism...if you talk down on artists in the town (like neema, or anyone doing shit for real), fuck you. 
how's that?
nah, but really i don't think i've read any of your shit. unless it's been posted on here, and there have been a few articles over the years that made it to this forum.
I should hit up the seattle times about their hip hop writing...i'm about to be out of school, and i KNOW that i can write. fuck the bullshit.
how's that?nah, but really i don't think i've read any of your shit. unless it's been posted on here, and there have been a few articles over the years that made it to this forum.
I should hit up the seattle times about their hip hop writing...i'm about to be out of school, and i KNOW that i can write. fuck the bullshit.
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here's some criticism...if you talk down on artists in the town (like neema, or anyone doing shit for real), fuck you. how's that?
how's that?
i've spilled ink on a lotta fools, from Neema to Twin-G to Blue Scholars to Cut-Lace & Explicit. you can check my weekly column "My Philosophy" online at www.thestranger.com and my archives are at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=18608.
Gatby:
I met a guy named Charles Mudede who wrote hip-hop stuff for the Stranger. I was very pleased w/ him b/c he wrote a great article on Framework a few years ago, not the typical cornball shit.
The Stranger, given it's readership, will always have a persuasion to the Common Market / Blue Scholars more backpackish stuff and that's fine. Just so long as the preference towards that style of music is not self-righteous (which is how a lot of the backpack cornball writers come off).
I met a guy named Charles Mudede who wrote hip-hop stuff for the Stranger. I was very pleased w/ him b/c he wrote a great article on Framework a few years ago, not the typical cornball shit.
The Stranger, given it's readership, will always have a persuasion to the Common Market / Blue Scholars more backpackish stuff and that's fine. Just so long as the preference towards that style of music is not self-righteous (which is how a lot of the backpack cornball writers come off).
you're absolutely right. Charles and I have tried to diversify coverage as much as possible- but the readership in town definitely is predisposed to the more 'conscious' stuff. i'm real familiar with the self-righteous writing you talk about; there's a real history of divisiveness and tokenism when it comes to mainstream's seattle's perspective on it's hiphop.
Yep readership being the key word. I don't have to point out that you go to South Seattle, South King County, Everett, Tacoma and all the other blue collar spots and they would be more likely to be down with the straight up gangster shit. This profiling of hip-hop fans is something that continues to fascinate me, it is so predictable what type of rap people will like based on race, class, education & political leaning.
Only 1 in 7 people in our metro area lives in the city limits of Seattle, I would guess that over 50% of the readership of your paper is from inside the city limits. When I think Stranger, I think white, urban, liberal.
White-Urban-Liberal = Preference To BackPacker Stuff
Only 1 in 7 people in our metro area lives in the city limits of Seattle, I would guess that over 50% of the readership of your paper is from inside the city limits. When I think Stranger, I think white, urban, liberal.
White-Urban-Liberal = Preference To BackPacker Stuff