hip hop as 21st Century D &D

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I saw this in some post somewhere, and I think it's truer than truer.
Have turntables replaced ten-sided dice as the accessory of choice for the humid basement suite at mom's house?

― Michael Renfrew, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing can replace d10s.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I roll my d-20/got plenty of chances/got swords and lances/I cast Meteor and you're defeated bodies hit the floor/I boldly brandish rhymes outlandish with my 'Iron Mic +2 vs. Evil MCs/so clerics please/try to cure yourself of these/diseases I spread like a Carrion Crawler/I ain't no B-baller/I'm a Red Dragon caller/and fire breathin' down that ass/get ready to feel the blast

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

If Hip Hop is D&D, then what is RuneQuest?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha-HAH! You just fell into my nerd-snare!
DV is a nerd! A nerd I tell you!

― Mike Renfrew, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

huh, you're the one who knew what I was talking about.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah ... what's the difference between Wu Tang sitting around fantasizing about Kung Fu and Mafia flicks ,and Dream Warriors rapping about "the roll of the twelve sided dice"?

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

If Insane Clown Posse is included, then absolutely without a doubt.

Hip Hop & t-tables/Cubase are really just the new favorite musical pastime of D&D/Battletech/MMORPG middleskool-through-college students.

Seriously. Name the number of 'headz' you know of that don't also get heavily involved into one or more of the following:

• comic books

• tabletop RPGs

• collecting gundam/transformer/robotech type memorabilia

The next hip-hop revolution is going to be about giant mecha. You fuckin' watch and see if I'm wrong.

P.S. 'Dexter's Lab: The Hip Hop Experiment'.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe MC Merlin has a way back in, after all!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Runequest = Def Jux ... duh.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ever hear Del's "Cyberpunks"? Holy shit. It references every bit of nerd culture EVER.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Good god, he sounds like Killah Priest.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

tolkien invented hiphop

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Del often refers to "mecha" things on Deltron 3030..."I used to be a mech soldier/but I didn't respect orders...", somewhere he says "I hijack a mech", etc.

Del is like Ice Cube's geeky D&D playing cousin. Oh wait, he IS Ice Cube's geeky D&D playing cousin.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

~~"Good god, he sounds like Killah Priest."~~

Who, moi?

I'm kinda torn opposing ways with Killah Priest. Some of his music just shatters my gourd with how cool and original it is (like his biblical flow on the Gza/Killah Priest remix of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's "Greyhound" or the beatless droney "Heavy Mental"), but the majority of it kinda bores the stuffing out of me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no. You flow like RZA ... see, like this ...

got plenty of chances ... got SWOArds and lances ... I cast ... MeteOAR ... and YOARRR ... defeated bodies hit the floor

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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