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Wondered if any here had heard this yet? Don’t know if it’s made it onto national radio. Basically, it’s a really commercial hip hop/pop track, with a load of references to growing up (black) British in London in the seventies/eighties. One version has got Rodney P, Rootz Manuva and several other UK MC’s so on. It name checks loads of stuff a lot of the UK contingent here will remember– Grifter bikes, breaking, Thatcher Milk Snatcher, 2-Tone, the Brixton Riots, and so on.
I love it ‘cos it references a lot of my childhood, but I wondered what others might think about. It is definitely the kind of record, that’d get voted Single of the Week in Guardian Weekend, for instance (For those not in the UK, The Guardian is Britain’s whiny white liberal paper, subject to mucho piss-taking in”The White Hip Hop fan’s CD collection” thread). Is this sort of thing too self-conscious and clever for it's own good?
I wondered what people feel about the trend in Hip Hop for nostalgia trips – another great example would be Nas’s “Doo rags”. Does all this harking to past times get right up your nose etc etc ? |
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