As a former player in the world of Hip Hop, who was BFFs with Russell Simmons and who knew every major and minor artist of note, due to my work at MTV and as a director of music videos and hanging out in that world, knowing and meeting with and getting jobs from the players in the industry during the Golden Age of Hip Hop, I must say that this track and artist, Fokiss - while the video is of fairly high quality for an unknown - the only problem is that this is not Hip Hop. It is awful. It's good that he stopped doing this.
that's puttin' it mildly--I know this is your wheelhouse totally--that's why I said it's for a laff and I wuz purdy generous when I said "crummy"--even your "awful" is generous! he stinks an' looks like a bad white boy immitatin' the likely mind-controlled Eminen! Also such a dumb name... he's beyond cringey... didn't make much've a bounty hunter either--
ps. I'm no fan of the new stuff but my kinda rap is ol' Grandmaster Flash / Melle Melle, Fab 5 Freddie...veeeely old skool 'fore it got too nasty... (former DJ here among my many hats! now I jus' wear the Minnie Pearl one when my crackpot "pot" comes off!)
Yeah, it was a real grassroots movement that got usurped by the West Coast, which, allegedly made a deal with the US GOV to exclusively create "Gangster Rap". It didn't start out that way. That was the beginning of the end. I was involved in 4 crossfires of shootings (one on my set) and thankfully, I got out alive.
Wow, didn't know how W. Coast got involved as it started out totally local (I'd say original)--Sugar Hill, etc.--Also had no idear 'bout the US Gov but it makes sense they co-opt anythin' original an' turn it dark -- like Laurel Canyon too (an' a lotta young'uns went dark with those changes)-- That "Gangster Rap" was not my cuppa tea (it also wasn't as clever by half either!)--I think some'a the old guys are still around but they left the biz long time ago... Rammellzee & Freddie went inta art--kinda graffiti stuff connected but both got outta rap an' had gallery representation... some fun stuff even tho' not my typical "thang." (I went to some shows that were actually not half bad) I heard Afrika taught at Cornell (most improbably but true) but then it came out--he was like Puffy--molested a lotta fellas--dark stuff, mebbe illuminatti-related?
All those guys came/went to the E. Village venues (Peppermint, Danceteria) -- it wasn't all separate then, right? Now it's so compartmentalized.... (mentalized!) an' bad... (not baaaad but just bad)...
Thankfully the awful "Stew" mess came 'round long after I too got out! But he's like "The Great Pretender"--pretended to be a white rapper, pretended to be a cop while pretendin' ta be a decent bounty hunter, pretended to be a good white Christian talk show host while gettin' drunk, cursin' like a maniac, an' throwin' stuff at his wife (mebbe worse?)---an' now he's taken on a cause celebre against the chews--which may be an' act fer "likes" an' paid subscribers? I dunno but he's just a big fake...
OMG the shootin's--you were there? All that Lil' Kim / Biggie stuff? One other guy that got taken out uptown... not recallin' all the names. Read bout it all in the funny papers--those guys meant bizness--serious stuff--drug traffickin'....lord know what else... Even the white rap producers I knew packed heat IN THE STUDIO!
Thankfully I was spared all've that--the rock / indie side got funky (many've those fellas played totally wasted)---but that's not at all like what you saw--risked! ...nobuddy went out gunnin' fer anyone!
We all gotta thank our lucky stars 'bout near misses (got my share too!)..
one moment of "zen" (if laffin' does ya good!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB9tS6y5W6U
bonus hilarity...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f8RjkGilXk
....listen ta the "good christian" swear worse than any gimlet-eyed sailor I met!
It's all ACTIN' (this seems ta be gig numba 4)
As a former player in the world of Hip Hop, who was BFFs with Russell Simmons and who knew every major and minor artist of note, due to my work at MTV and as a director of music videos and hanging out in that world, knowing and meeting with and getting jobs from the players in the industry during the Golden Age of Hip Hop, I must say that this track and artist, Fokiss - while the video is of fairly high quality for an unknown - the only problem is that this is not Hip Hop. It is awful. It's good that he stopped doing this.
that's puttin' it mildly--I know this is your wheelhouse totally--that's why I said it's for a laff and I wuz purdy generous when I said "crummy"--even your "awful" is generous! he stinks an' looks like a bad white boy immitatin' the likely mind-controlled Eminen! Also such a dumb name... he's beyond cringey... didn't make much've a bounty hunter either--
ps. I'm no fan of the new stuff but my kinda rap is ol' Grandmaster Flash / Melle Melle, Fab 5 Freddie...veeeely old skool 'fore it got too nasty... (former DJ here among my many hats! now I jus' wear the Minnie Pearl one when my crackpot "pot" comes off!)
Yeah, it was a real grassroots movement that got usurped by the West Coast, which, allegedly made a deal with the US GOV to exclusively create "Gangster Rap". It didn't start out that way. That was the beginning of the end. I was involved in 4 crossfires of shootings (one on my set) and thankfully, I got out alive.
Wow, didn't know how W. Coast got involved as it started out totally local (I'd say original)--Sugar Hill, etc.--Also had no idear 'bout the US Gov but it makes sense they co-opt anythin' original an' turn it dark -- like Laurel Canyon too (an' a lotta young'uns went dark with those changes)-- That "Gangster Rap" was not my cuppa tea (it also wasn't as clever by half either!)--I think some'a the old guys are still around but they left the biz long time ago... Rammellzee & Freddie went inta art--kinda graffiti stuff connected but both got outta rap an' had gallery representation... some fun stuff even tho' not my typical "thang." (I went to some shows that were actually not half bad) I heard Afrika taught at Cornell (most improbably but true) but then it came out--he was like Puffy--molested a lotta fellas--dark stuff, mebbe illuminatti-related?
All those guys came/went to the E. Village venues (Peppermint, Danceteria) -- it wasn't all separate then, right? Now it's so compartmentalized.... (mentalized!) an' bad... (not baaaad but just bad)...
Thankfully the awful "Stew" mess came 'round long after I too got out! But he's like "The Great Pretender"--pretended to be a white rapper, pretended to be a cop while pretendin' ta be a decent bounty hunter, pretended to be a good white Christian talk show host while gettin' drunk, cursin' like a maniac, an' throwin' stuff at his wife (mebbe worse?)---an' now he's taken on a cause celebre against the chews--which may be an' act fer "likes" an' paid subscribers? I dunno but he's just a big fake...
OMG the shootin's--you were there? All that Lil' Kim / Biggie stuff? One other guy that got taken out uptown... not recallin' all the names. Read bout it all in the funny papers--those guys meant bizness--serious stuff--drug traffickin'....lord know what else... Even the white rap producers I knew packed heat IN THE STUDIO!
Thankfully I was spared all've that--the rock / indie side got funky (many've those fellas played totally wasted)---but that's not at all like what you saw--risked! ...nobuddy went out gunnin' fer anyone!
We all gotta thank our lucky stars 'bout near misses (got my share too!)..