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...glorified way of saying ‘bitches ain’t shit.’” Battle raps and posse tracks often serve to pad out “albums” lacking any unified theme, even in the “underground?? scene in which he operates. An inextricable part of Aesop’s appeal is the relative lack of such pseudo-macho posturing in his work; in his own words, he doesn’t want to spend his “15 minutes of fame shitting on someone...
...mission, and on a normal day, despite the fact that the cash register towers over the racks from atop a raised platform, the employees treat their customers like friends. It’s a local music scene with none of the usual pretension of the “underground??—a collective of fans and musicians who love hip hop more than just about anything else...
...tune (which incidentally shares a rhythm with the Velvet Underground??s monolithic and massively influential “Sister Ray”) came across as an averaging of the band’s entire output as well as input, merging both their old and new styles with those of their progenitors. By the end every eye was transfixed on Wareham: the past and the future were both on stage at once, and it was beautiful...
...innovation Blackalicious bring to their music seems hard to reconcile with their popular acceptance, perhaps it is only because a conflict between the two has been artificially imposed. Although fans love to play up the fundamental differences between “mainstream” and “underground?? artists, according to Gab, the scene has gotten to the point where “anyone selling less than 10,000 records calls themselves underground,” regardless of their values and the messages they convey. This stereotype has been changing recently, as artists such...
...ultimately Green says he felt that the events of September 2001 made it more important to bring out the issues raised by the Weather Underground??s actions, no matter how uncomfortable that sometimes...