The Straw That Stirs The Drink - White Hip Hop Head - Grill God - Real Estate - Pissing people off since 1976
Seattle, WA
Joined January 2012
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You can read the comments here and see who was actually a head in the 80’s and 90’s
Step in the Arena came out when I was a freshman in HS
Every hip hop head had that shit on heavy rotation and bought every subsequent Gang Starr single and LP up through Moment of Truth
IYKYN
I think a legit discussion is these groups. Gang Starr catalog vs Mobb Deep. This comparison makes sense to me.
Gang Starr >>Mobb Deep when it comes to albums???
Studio albums
•No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989)
•Step in the Arena (1991)
•Daily Operation (1992)
•Hard to Earn (1994)
•Moment of Truth (1998)
•The Ownerz (2003)
•One of the Best Yet (2019)
Step in the Arena to Moment of Truth 4 Album run might beat Infamous to Infamy or tie with it but Gang Starr debut >Mobb Deep debut…BOTH groups have classic singles as well.
With all due respect to the legend (groz), Who would you be happy with?
Seattle sports media, loves to criticize, but doesn’t offer alternative solutions
Vogt was the m’s bullpen coach before getting the Cleveland job
Is his success a miracle?
What I learned from listening to Jason Kanzler PC today.
He apparently never thought of being an MLB manager
till the Mariners called. Running a minor league system is great preparation for running an MLB team (I don't think so). That his zero managing experience.....
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This is how full service restaurants have worked my whole life
If you don’t want to tip, then don’t, but you are gonna have to own that
It’s disingenuous to pretend you don’t know how tipping works
Also, tap is available at most places, even some that are full service
Paying at a restaurant in America has gotten completely out of hand.
In Europe:
- You eat a burger.
- You ask for the bill.
- It's €18.
- They bring the card reader right to your table.
- You tap your phone and leave.
Done.
In the United States:
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I haven’t been on here for a minute, I know there are still a few people here who rock with me
For my hip hop and golf homies
I shot even par for the 1st time today
5 bogies and 5 birdies
Had a 12 footer on 18 for bird and made the easy par
Peace
I’m kinda old, but I don’t really need to hear coke bars anymore
Definitely don’t want to hear coke bars from a 50+ emcee
This doesn’t get mentioned enough on this app
Easily one of the best hip hop records ever made
Inner circle HOF
Personal top 5 record
Ace Mahony retweeted
Run DMC's live performance on Graffiti Rock will always remain one of, if not, the illest performance on TV, to me at least. JMJ 🕊️ essentially remixed it on the spot. No backing vocals. Just raw & real. And just take in the folks grooving and moving.
"Sucker M.C.'s"
'84(live)
Closing deals and enjoying the evening
What’s up ya’ll
It’s been a minute
What are yall bumping right now?
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I’m gonna help old boy out
Hip hop started with the DJ mixing vinyl records
Two turntables and a microphone is the essence
Collecting/hunting vinyl is about
as hip hop as it gets
At least he said “on vinyl” and not “vinyls” like a bunch of people in the comments
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This is what hip hop twitter needs more of
Gang Starr - “Mass Appeal”
“Mass Appeal” was a turning point for DJ Premier. I remember the first time I heard “Mass Appeal.” It was on Gang Starr’s 1994 album, ‘Hard to Earn.’ I played this song over and over. Serious repeat!
What caught my attention the most was how Premier chopped the sample, and then arranged it in a way that the ends exploded every time the loop turned over.
What’s more, at the point where the loop turns, there isn’t a dominate kick, which was typical of most hip hop/rap songs of that period.
The absence of the kick on the loop turning point convinced me that Premier was in the midst of a sound change. Having heard his beatwork on ‘Illmatic’ just a couple of months before, I was wondering if his beats would be in the same vein or take a different direction.
Two songs into ‘Hard to Earn,’ I knew Premier was going for a new sound. And what tipped me off was his experimentation with his drums.
I was paying extra close attention to Premier’s use of the kick drum. Specifically, I was studying the ways in which he was starting to “relax” the punch of his kicks while still coming up with non-conventional drum frameworks.
On “Mass Appeal,” it was if Premier had challenged himself to devise a moderately syncopated kick pattern underneath a deceptively simple sample arrangement.
If you listen to “Mass Appeal,” pay careful attention to how the end of the sample seems to speed up. Truth is, it doesn’t. By chopping the end of the sample the way he did, and by easing up on the attack (the front-end) of the sample, an otherwise simple 1-bar measure is transformed into something akin to break in a record being “pushed” forward by the DJ.
And what makes this all more complex than most people realize is the fact that the tempo — which stays the same throughout — is managed thoroughly by the kick pattern and shuffling hat pattern.
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Hip hop twitter still talking about
Who’s the goat
Rank em
How many classics
and generational taste divides
Ok
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Ace Mahony retweeted
R.I.P. to one of the iLLest Engineers of all time...
Mr. BOB POWER.
Thank you for your various pointers in recording from D'angelo to ATCQ'S Low End Theory, Erykah Badu's Baduizm and so on! 🫡🙏🏾🕊️
None of them are best
All elite 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
Inner circle HOF shit
Diff’rent Strokes for different folks
An era where everyone had their own voice and sound
Not trying to juice the algorithm
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