Monday, January 16, 2017

PAGING RAY MUNNS AND DJ LETHAL: I HEAR THE EARLY '00S CALLING



RAMP MPUSIC HSYTERIA! is just a product of this toilet culture. It's an unavoidable fact: ya boy came up in the age of the rap-metal DJ. Crazy Town and P Roach is in my bloodline. I was permanently damaged seeing Method Man muggin it up w/ Fred Durst, hit my first lick listening to a radio-dub of "This Means War." Even a hardline trueschooler like P. Diddy contributed to the normalization of this strange, unnatural coupling. U gotta wonder if it was all part of some deranged Clintonite psyop. Put fluoride in the water and hormones in the milk and MC Shan on a Sum 41 record - enfeeble an entire generation when they young and impressionable. Try as I might to distance myself from the rap-rock naval, it's exactly as da god Chester Bennington said: I tried so hard, and got so far / But in the end, it doesn't really matter!

So this blapper from DaBoii fits me like a red Yankees cap and camouflage cargo shorts (optional wallet chain add-on). Metal guitars over a "Boyz N The Hood" beatjack? Chuuuuuch indeed, but what's good with that throwback jersey? Oooh shit, it's a throwback jersey for Calvin Cambridge of Like Mike (2002)? Now that's what I call peak early '00s, boy! All that's missin is the duckbill hair-swoop, Sammie on the hook, and some 9/11 references. Now that the wheels are falling off of Cash Money homages, turn of da millenium rap-rock is ripe for nostalgia mining.

6 comments:

  1. There's something weird about seeing Lil Wayne on a song with Lil Zane and Bow Wow in retrospect

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    1. It seemed odd at the time. There was a Making The Video ep on MTV, and Wayne seemed very out of place.

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  2. Ive to get w DaBoii asap

    I used to put rap metal and the rock remix in two distinct camps like one is jncos, black contact lenses, white rap hands n whatever the reverse of turntabilism is + rap rock was just actual rappers over metal guitars. But when I listen to Jay from 5ive or w e this century Im like man everyone was rapping this whole time, everyones rapping.

    Keanu awkwardly rapping Platers Anthem in Hardball was a magic moment imo

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    1. U just put me on to the 5ive guy's rapping.

      I think what makes this period unique is it's when real rappers tried pandering for the JNCO crowd's money. Jay's album with Linkin Park is probably the most egregious example of this, a guy who never showed any interest in metal or rock doing a corny album w/ an awful band purely for demographic expansion. You can probably lay the best and worst of rap-rock mash-ups at the feet of Rick Rubin.

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    2. I think Jay & Linkin Park was the end of the rock remix 100%, to the point Nappy Roots had one a yr or two later(guitared by David Banner lol) n I was like stall baby.

      Jay always supported the bumbags n weekend conference movement https://twitter.com/vanglorious_/status/820365887366713345

      If you rly go back its crazy, every cunt was rapping or had a instrumental. Think how mad itd be for a Coolio or Tone Loc to do your kids fav theme tune now

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  3. While we're on the topic, kinda, I still want to see a Radiskull and Devil Doll movie!

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