>WRONG. Read Nelson George's new book HIP HOP AMERICA and get yourself
>schooled...Def Jam records/russell simmons/rick rubin/NYC b-boying/breaking
>ground ZERO...while you're at it read BOMB THE SUBURBS by William Upski
>Wimsatt...
>
>See you at the Eminem show is Austin next week! xojns
>
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>>From: JP Riedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "passenger side" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: All The Way Down
>>Date: Fri, Apr 23, 1999, 3:44 PM
>>
>
>>And i said they are not making music from a hip-hop cultural
>>perspective
Why don'y you quit reading that pencil dick stuff and go find some people
to teach you how to dance?
Anyone who claims License to Ill is hip-hop is fronting - I don't care who
they are. Such claims are revisionist history. At the time of its
release it was widely recognized as a jokey joke from a gang of upperclass
brats. If the Beasties had not dug down deep, found their muse and gone on
to artistic triumph with Paul's Boutique the urge to re-cast them as
hip-hop all along would look even silllier than it already does.
Now I know a couple of hip-hop guys who disagree with me. And everybody
rightly respects the Beastie Boys. But it does not invalidate their
accomplishments to get real and face up to the fact that they did not come
from a hip-hop scene - look at their music prior to License to Ill... And
just because they thought the Soul Sonic Force was cool doesn't mean a
thing. Hey, I love Prince, but no one could say that I'm anything close to
funky, or that I know where he's coming from. Carpetbagging ain't nothing
to be ashamed of.
And nope, I ain't gonna waste my time at the Eminem show, even if the
chance of seeing you there is tantalizing
