So, it's three days into December, and I attempted something similar last year. I thought I'd try something a little more specific to my genre, so here it is: the 30-Day Hip-Hop Song Challenge. It's a year old, but eff it.
I'm prolly gonna fail a lot of this because I just haven't been paying a lot of attention lately to my genre as I'm not too keen on what direction it's taking. Weird, I know. But it's like family. You are a part of it, but you don't have to be down with whatever they're doing.
Come to that, I'm not sure I can do all of this at all. But then, it wouldn't be a challenge, would it?
I'm doing days 1-4 to play catch up. And apologies in advance if you get double posts on Fridays, because I have regular blogs scheduled.
Day One: "Favourite intro track to a project".
Ugh. Uhm...
De La Soul-- "Intro", "3 Feet High and Rising"
IDK. This is just the goofiest intro ever. It has an amazing level of "WTH?!" factor going for it, which is what makes it so endearing.
Day Two: "Favourite track on your favourite album".
That's hard. What even is my favourite hip-hop album?
I think I can pick one of my favourites. I'm warning you: most of these are like Golden Era af because that's my fave time. And prolly weird af too...
Beastie Boys-- "Shadrach", "Paul's Boutique"
I wore this album out. I had tracks that I loved more than others, but this one was definitely one of my faves. So many people slept on this album.
Day Three: "Favourite track of 2017 2018 so far".
(I did say it was a year old.)
Also hard. Like I said, haven't been paying attention...
Okay--you're gonna think this is a cheat but it really isn't.
The Real Mike Wilson--"Blk Jesus"
So effin' what he's mah boy. This track here kills a lotta shxt out there. Deal with it.
Day Four: "Favourite remix to a track".
Here's one.
Naughty By Nature-- "Uptown Anthem"
I guess you could technically call this a remix, since the original mix did not have that "naughty" sample in it. IDKY, but that one tiny thing made this track better to me. It gave it a bit of purrsonality.
Sometimes certain stuff sends me off on Twitter rants. De La Soul released a song yesterday that had them drawing inspiration from the Wu-Tang Clan, whom I respect but wasn't always a fan of their stuff cuz I couldn't relate to much of it (yeh, I know, sacrilege and blasphemy). Interspersed with the song's lyrics was a track from a Wu-Tang intro from a past album, about what hip-hop has/had become.
The song is brilliant, though. And fresh-air simplicity.
But it sort of sent me off on a tirade.
Read from the bottom of each picture:
At some point in the song "fxck a party" was said.
"Fxck a party"?
Really?!
WTF do you think hip-hop and rap came from? How can you deny that? I just don't understand, I guess. It's like spitting in the face of your mother. And the really sad part is some of this attitude is coming from the pioneers who did the damned music in the first freakin' place!
The reason why I take emotional issue with this is because I am normally dismissed along with the other mainstream rap artists who are putting out less than quality stuff. I am viewed as riding a gimmick, when I'm merely being who I am...and they think this is all there is, theGATA City project. Even it, in all its danciness, is more hip-hop than most people will admit. It makes no apologies for what it is, and neither do I, to be honest.
People can sit round and say I'm not real, and my stuff is just dance and therefore useless mainstream fodder, but I truly believe in my pores that I am more hip-hop than most people think, simply cuz I'm being true to me, and to its roots. For fxck's sake, one of the first--if not THE first-- rap song committed to wax was done over a bloody disco song. Are you fxcking kidding me, people?
As a certain band once said, "Don't damn me."
As a certain icon once said, "I'm not your bxtch/don't hang your shxt on me."
