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UK hip hop is More Realer then US

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Lord Funk:

--- Quote from: Don Seer on October 08, 2003, 02:16:37 AM ---People are quick forget about the old UK originals London Posse, and Hijack... we've had our share of us-wannabes too tho... nothin much from the UK has really grabbed me, apart from Aspects, but i'll admit i'm biased because I know 2 of em, well knew, I heard one of em got booted for being too much of a stoner.. lol

i can only remember one of there lines (from the guy that I heard got booted 'bubberlouie' )

i rock around the hills of the south west region / stick my head in caves and rap in natural coleseums

that sure aint talkin about where they live now (bristol) thats talking about here, their home town coz we live in between two ranges of hills (quantocks on the north, blackdowns on the south)

i liked their stuff because I grew up with them and i could related to everything, because some of those experiences were shared... i dunno how it strikes other people.

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Know exactly where you're coming from. I'd always rather hear something I can relate to on a personal level ... problem is that unless you're willing to really look hard, a lot of UK stuff isn't in-your-face enough to find easily... hence the perception that we'll never keep up with the US... I honestly would struggle to name 10 current UK acts I knew a lot about...

Think I responded to one of your posts about Hijack before... great album... lol at 'Don't Talk To Strangers'... good memories of bumping those tunes... might sound a little corny now In guess.

lol... just remembered a couple of pop hip-hop acts here... anyone remember Eusebe or Subsonic 2?

Don Seer:
its behind in the commercial sense yes, technically only because the money for expensives studios isnt there, they're all at home with asr-10's (mark b and blade started that trend i believe), the themes arent 'gdup', they cover how we really live over here.. UK culture.. yeah we've got yardie influence in places.. London Posse had a lot of that.. u remember that old rave track 'i was standing in the corner... i had some marijuana' shit that used to be blasted out by Ratpack.. thats a London Posse cut the junglists latched on to. (i used to be a junglist at the peak.. '93 -> '96, my best mates been a jungle dj for over 10 years, he now plays nu skool breakz too, and right now is playing that more coz its not so popular. i've met a lot of the major players in that game - good people)

Uk duo Hijack used to be signed to Ice-Ts Syndicate imprint, their stuff was definitely UK influenced, dancey style beats. i think "bad man is robbin" was their big track, but i remember "doomsday of rap" more.. DJ Supreme from hijack capitalised off his rep from hijack, and moved off into more dancey stuff..

the days of uk rappers (like i said us-wannabes) sounding like US rappers is gone now, it wont wash anymore. uk hiphop is very similar now to underground US hiphop, the bad attitudes are beginning to fade.. they just gotta learn to have fun with it, and not take it so seriously, Aspects partly paved the way with shit like "we get fowl".. who else would make a whole song just about chickens and geese?

T.J.:

--- Quote from: Sticky-Toez on October 08, 2003, 02:07:07 AM ---
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isnt pegasus ozzie??

Adam Donnelly:
A lot of acts try and sound American or Jamaican
And there all from fuckin London

And WTF does Realer mean

da_notorious_mack:
Klashnekoff....if he was american would be rated top 5 emcees at the momemt...worldwide...

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