On 6/27/07, J.T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i dunno man, sometimes it's unfair to blame the artist. blame the hypemachine(s). everything i've read about him is very humble and straightforward -- and doesn't even mention bmore. it's all nyc...i dunno. other bmore stuff can blow up in it's own right, i don't see that ayres and spank are holding anybody down, unless they really did steal someone else's sound straight up...but i don't hear that, at least not with what i've heard...
its not about straight up stealing a sound, its about getting popular with a watered down version of something that isnt even his to water down. theyre the elvises of club music.
i mean technics and a bunch of other bmore guys are all up in the soundtrack to The Wire and i thought they had some major record deals stemming from that? they are definitely representing bmore in that show at least, which is a pretty big deal...
yeah, they also reference it in dialogue as well, which is really dope. the guys who make that show go out of their way to make sure that they represent baltimore properly.
i don't hear it that way. their music is a joke, but that doesn't mean the music they are influenced by is, or that their music isn't still good. see pubahs
at least pubah's was still getting play from real ghetto and electro deejays in detroit. ive never seen or heard of one of the real bmore deejays dropping spankrock tunes.
you probably will hear some bad stuff and get turned off...they're all like 17-19 years old, max. and they are hot on mtv etc. still, i approve. if you don't like too short, you probably won't like this either tho (lyrics are cleaner, but the rest is too short evolved...)
im down with some shorty the pimp. tom
