nz hip hop crush thread

Who are other shining stars in this nascent scene?

hiphop nz

Scribe, Mareko, Deceptikonz, et al. are good--but they are so fucking New York. Scribe could very easily be Jay-z if he weren't shouting out Blindspott and the D4!

Mongrel Mob, et al. seem pretty huge right now (runnin' this P business) and are particularly big in South Auckland, I gather. Gang associations in the same way as Snoop, Dre, Eazy--probably not members themselves, but likely not very far removed. Obviously I was never making a concrete statement as much as I was trying to flesh out a kind of fanciful comparison that or may not have any actual basis in reality!

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i'm just the white man on the Poly-chromatic street these days but nz hip-hop just seems to me like another imported sports franchise to keep people busy. Suffering from the cultural disadvantage of not having gangsta/goodie-boy rap shoved down my throat for the last few years, i can't differentiate the local stuff from american "culture". Maybe i should take the local night class that's being offered in "hip hop aesthetics" (incidentally also part of the music degree the university now offers), but "education" for "street talk" ? huh ?

maybe i'm just too out of touch for them streets. i couldn't give a fig about it. they play it on tv programmes that have coca cola ads, so i admit i haven't checked out that video either, sorry.

b.t.w.
(a)the flying nun material is more typically likely to turn up in museums these days.
(b)why do people spell my (normal) name with two 't's ?

it's the video for "dreaming", he's out on our balcony (haha lunkish brazilian-d&b-fan guy packing up the gear after the shoot's summary - "acting like a pussy to get some pussy". he also reckons DLT & Che Fu(!!) are mad P addicts right now!) writing rhymes & being all reflective.

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other hott MCs - hmmmn, none of the underground kids is that good-looking; um, unique is sorta cute inna westie fashion. patriarch (on the left) is nice - see if you can find the "highway" video . . . king kapisi in screems from da old plantation is great. hmmn, I'm a bit out of touch w/the hip-hop scene - there's some cute MCs in the dub scene.

hey george EVERYBODY knows that P-Money got called that coz his first name's peter (aww!) & he was huge into ca$h money back in '97 or whenever.
fuck the great kiwi knocking machine, "why even bother" bullshit.

I admit i hadn't gone out of my way to find out though. Maybe other people who don't know (if any other such people exist) will jump to that obviously incorrect suggestion i made above too. It _is_ a pretty loaded monicker. So the the gangsta implication is some ironic joke ?

I _did_ find out today that Scribe is from Christchurch (South Island), and that i'm the only person that hasn't heard his #1 single, and that P Money is 3rd placed in the world for his turntable skills (though i guess everyone knew that too)

good luck to them -- obv. i'd rather nz artists commanded the respect and attention that american acts can by comparison have taken for granted for all these years, if they're good.

but expressions of ignorance, that's not the same as "the great kiwi knocking machine", and the expressions of indifference are just boredom with a music genre, wherever it's manufactured

btw how is the on yr balcony video going to look! do you have a good view?