Word: underground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call it alternative hip-hop. Don't call it neo-rap or jazz-rap or anything that would separate it from itself. What it is, straight up, is hip-hop. Call it underground hip-hop, if you have to; call it the Next Wave, if you need a name; but whatever you call it, it's already arrived...
...there are great hip-hoppers out there--Lauryn Hill and Nas to name two--but as record labels jump on the rap bandwagon, the disposable acts are piling up. As two female performers, Bahamadia and Rah Digga, observe on a recent duet, "Mediocre rappers gettin' all this play/While the underground rappers stay around...
...Right...The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Stooges. Moving on into punk, the Ramones, UK punk, then you kind of get into reggae, dub reggae...
...thought it was interesting that you mentioned Velvet Underground. I can definitely see a similarity between your music and something like "Sister Ray," with that almost intense repetition...
...very good at the moment, British radio. I'm seriously thinking that we could start a pirate radio station that's going to play across the board, from punk to techno to dub, but just underground music, because most stations in the U.K., they have advertising, so they have to find a mainstream audience, to sell adverts. [BBC] Radio One, evening-time, is bearable... you know John Peel? He's probably the most famous radio DJ in the U.K. He's always interesting, but I don't really listen to the radio or watch...