January 2011
3 posts
A B-Boy's Alpha © Cannibal Ox (The Evolution Of...
I’ve written about how the “Backpacker” went from becoming a term that meant “thugged out Hip Hop head” to “cornball indie Hip Hop purist” in the past. Now I’m going to explain how the “Backpacker” came into being in the first place.
Let’s first retrace our steps and go back to the end of the end of the 1st Golden Era Of Hip...
The Limits Of Control © Jim Jarmusch
Things are broken. The industry is failing. The current business model is simply not working. The artists the media are forced to write about are exceedingly mediocre. Remember when awards shows used to be looking forward to because it was a showcase for the best and most talented artists to perform alongside the most popular artists of the day? Well, awards show nowadays have completely lost...
Recovery © Eminem
As I’ve mentioned before in a previous post, the one thing that separates men from animals is the fact that they’re “time binders”. Men feel the innate need to catalog and keep records of past and current dates and events. I’m no different. Back when a music fan could actually be introduced to new music via the radio or Viacom owned music video stations I made it a...
