Think I'm going to check this out - just got the new Rascal album -
shocking cover but great flow...
On 25 Aug 2004, at 13:09, Ken Odeluga wrote:
Ok, Tom, I hear what you're saying about MF Doom's MCing style. I've
heard
someone else say something similar (and they actually like this stuff.)
There is a certain flatness to his expression and I think I agree,
it's not
his greatest strength (which is quite a minus given that he's a
rapper!). I
feel the quirkiness and even creepiness of some of his lyrics go some
way to
making up for this though. And I disagree with you about his
'beatmaker'
status. If you mean by that production, and general 'swinginess', I
think
he's up there amongst the best right now. His songs are tight and also
he's
not afraid to push the boundaries in terms of the texture and sounds he
uses. It's still quite rare to hear straight-up-in-the-mix synths in
Hip Hop
(granted there are a lot of samples of course, but it's not all
sampled, I
think).
You might want to have a listen to the Viktor Vaughn LP too if you
haven't
already, which is just as good as the Madvillain LP I think, although
perhaps darker and not so quickly accessible.
I should say that next to most afficionados, I know next to jack about
Hip
Hop, but I'd like to think I've still got a point in the above.
Cheers,
k
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 12:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: (313) for the Madlib fans
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "J.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ken, i will stomp a mudhole...!! hehehe
no, my opinion is dumb, i don't really go for jazzy hiphop much
these days anymore so whatever. i thought it was done to
perfection a long time ago i guess, now it all just sounds like
more of the same...it would take some really different, out there
jazzy stuff to grab me. (like quasimoto did).
yeah that quasimoto album was madlib's best stuff, by far. i love
that record.
and mf doom sounds kinda generic mc to me, but ahh whatever...
i was just saying this to my friend the other day: i like mf doom,
but i dont love him. mainly because i feel like if hiphop didnt
suck now, he wouldnt be anything special. he would just be a
moderately interesting average emcee and beatmaker. he's elevated
because everything else sucks so crazily bad anymore.
tom
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