On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, James Bucknell wrote: > there isn't much crossover in the birthplace of hip hop in the south > bronx/upper manhattan. when i'd go to the police athletics league gym on > 118st and manhattan ave. any house, electro or techno cds i put on promptly > got thrown off and replaced by hot 97 (bringing you blazin hip hop). i > declined to dj at our block party because it was patently obvious that > nobody was interested in hearing anything but hip hop (and the electric > slide, of course). but block parties are a genre of their own. > james
I don't know if I'd expect cross over there though. The Black east coast, for reasons I don't completely understand, has always looked to hiphop as its dance music of choice. Not house (exception perhaps being the hip-house craze), not techno. Much more diversity in spots like detroit and chicago, largely because they'd created musics of their own that were played alongside of hiphop. peace lks
