16 responses so far ↓

• 1 don king // May 16, 2009 at 10:23 pm

  For the love of God why doesn’t Eminem ask Alan the Chemist for some beats?

• 2 brian beck from wisconsin // May 17, 2009 at 6:05 am

  First time i’ve hard We Made You.

  The mention of Ice T was the highlight of the interview.

• 3 S to tha Izzo // May 17, 2009 at 5:53 pm

  i swear the amount of BBc employees that are old skool Hip Hop heads is ridiculous. Stewart Lee’s routine on his recent series was classic:

  ‘When it was Ice T, Public Enemy and NWA, it was full of social comment, now its a just a bloke standing on a dustbin…’

• 4 gullier than thou // May 18, 2009 at 3:15 pm

  I don’t know why this site is so obviously written with the conviction that it’s at the absolute edge of edginess, what with its lackadaisical, post-cynical attitude towards political correctness and its bland, predictable iconoclasm (a steelo presumably ripped off of any number of other “edgy” hip hop blogs that have been plowing the same furrow for a half-decade, at least) . Because it’s fucking shite. “Cracker rap”? Ho ho! White people!

  And who the fuck cares about Alchemist, he’s been churning out (largely very boring) beats for crossover-concerned turdsworths like Fat Joe, Linkin Park and Camron for years, not to mention his long and strong association with the hip-hop-for-people-who-dont-like-hip-hop crowd. And has been Eminem’s DJ for at least three years. This isn’t X-Clan performing “Outrage” on Blue Peter. What are you excited about again? Or is Alchemist actually being used as a sly cover, like people who claim they’re “really here for the support act”?

• 5 Dan Large // May 18, 2009 at 6:15 pm

  one of the better comments left on this site for a while, thanks gulliver, or whatever.
  X Clan performing Outrage on Blue Peter, almost as good as Sway baking cakes whilst they show his Silver & Gold video featuring Akon a few weeks back.
  Hijack never got that kind of love.

• 6 102 names // May 18, 2009 at 7:03 pm

  Ross has been supporting hip hop since day one, he had chick d on his show in the late 80’s (or maybe early 90’s) I think I still have that on VHS, the same cringy interview style, but he was reppin back then and he is Shameless’ uncle so it runs in the family.

  That stuart lee shit was hilarious. More middle aged white blokes should be appalled at new rap crap instead of trying to pretend their 16 still and supporting such nonsense. Grow the fuck up. Eminem’s been wack since his early stuff in 1998. He has flows but his voice is annoying and his beats and the beats he uses are mostly wack. That corny single he’s got out now is even worse than ‘ice ice baby’ or ‘you cant touch this’ and the video is EMBARRASING, dre’s gone from the geri curl bad look to the corny video with eminem look, full circle.

• 7 102 names // May 18, 2009 at 7:04 pm

  obviously ‘chuck d’, not chick d!

• 8 brian beck from wisconsin // May 19, 2009 at 10:35 am

  Stewart Lee epitomises the type of person who can only listen to black music if it has a social/political edge to it like 102 Names epitomises the modern hip hop version of the old Northern Soul fan with a peculiarly narrow view of black music, only instead of turning his nose up at Parliament, Zapp, Rick James, Prince and whatever else Northern Soul cunts deemed impure in the 80s, he turns it up at anything made since 1997 which doesn’t mention the 4 elements at least once every verse.

• 9 Rich // May 19, 2009 at 1:55 pm

  Yeah, Stuart Lee would have liked whatever the NME / Melody Maker was championing back in the day – I’m sure he’s probably got a few Credit To The Nation and Disposable Heroes records in the crates. His rappers routine was hilarious, though.

  I’m not sure I agree with Ross’ supposed hip-hop credentials, mind. Last year, Ashton Kutcher appeared oh his show armed with an anecdote about peforming The Humpty Dance on stage with Digital Underground at some porn awards show. Ross was absolutely clueless about the peculiar song Kutcher was referencing.

• 10 102 names // May 19, 2009 at 5:29 pm

  you have me wrong brian. There is much new black music I like, but much I don’t like too. Whilst people were turning there noses uop at zapp or parliament or rick james, the people who liked zapp, parliament and rick james may very well have been turning their noses up at some of the trashier stuff around at that time. Stuart Lee was talikng about asher d who is ridiculously shit if you hear him and not up there with any rap legends old or new.

  All I was saying is that there’s certain artists that 40 something white blokes aka rap journos, seem to love although they are crap and they go on about them like they are incredibale and up there with music legends of the past when with their experience of music they know that isn’t true. It’s self delusion. Eminem is one of them to me. Lil Wayne isn’t because he’s made some good tunes (and he does get political at times, although if he didn’t it wouldn’t matter), TI has made great tunes (I just didn’t like the one with whats-her-face, umbrella’ girl).

  I actually hate most of that throwback stuff and that new record on breakin bread is prime example of what gets my blood boiling, some record about loving hip hop the way it was with a sloppily mixed in verse from ‘times up’ over some nonsense beat. Hip Hop NEVER sounded as shit as that back in the day. A Milli sounds more like a classic from just-ice to me than any of that ‘lets take it back to how it was’ bullshit. Words like Giant and Panda put together make me puke. I hate that kind of shit.

• 11 brian beck from wisconsin // May 21, 2009 at 10:36 am

  Don’t lie, son.

  We saw you in da streetz with some Zeb Roc Ski records.

• 12 Drew Huge // May 21, 2009 at 3:04 pm

  Gullier, you fucking idiot. We’ve been doing predictable iconoclasm since before blogs existed – check your history. this site isn’t written with any ‘conviction’ at all, other than the conviction that we know more about hip-hop than you. We like Alchemist, he’s a nice guy, he still makes hot beats. Now clear off.

• 13 102 names // May 22, 2009 at 4:40 am

  lol. zeb roc ski…classic brian, that made my day.

• 14 funkcake // May 23, 2009 at 10:58 am

  102 Names – what’s wrong with Giant Panda? Have you listened to their last album? It was a step forward from the usual ‘take it back’ type of rap, with proper musical ideas. It’s all about good MUSIC at the end of the day.

• 15 102 names // May 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm

  I’ll check it funcake, I’m sure I had a flick through it and it wasn’t doing it for me, but I’ll go back to it. I really want to hear somehthing hard hitting and powerful with some balls to it. I liked ‘ duck down’ off the ruste juxx album.

• 16 102 names // May 23, 2009 at 5:26 pm

  just checked it online, speakers funk, laser ray and justin case had real nice beats, just can’t get with the MC’s to be perfectly honest.

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