Lil Scrappy - No Problem

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This is from a great album, and i think it's an interesting choice for a single - it's certainly not a balls-out crunk track like "FILA" or Trillville singles like "Get Some Crunk in Yo System" and "Neva Eva." More subtle, menacing, threatening to explode, brimming with potential energy. GRRRRR. Cuz we don't want no problem.

Stylus' singles review section reviewers gave it a 5.8 average out of ten which I think is ridiculous - it's like an 8 easily. Not to pick on them cuz I write for stylus too. Jus sayin.

djdee2005, Saturday, 7 August 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

cool video too.

adam west (adamwest), Saturday, 7 August 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i like that song 2. its hard to define the poetics of scraps style but its so real and raw, to put the pi in the onion. stylus could never understand the choral nature of crunk rap. the entire verses are fatter and more cyclic than what stylus is used to hearing.
esp the trillville half of that disk somewhat transcends the verse-chorus-verse form, and almost gets to something more unified, like one long chorus that can be an interesting piece by itself.
this lil jon sponsored shit is really checking rap by paring it down to what they think is its core. fewer symbols that hold more power, no nonsense wordplay. i think they might be right

Peter $2, Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Lil Jon is as retro as rap gets.

addy, Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

as rap has gotten

peter $22, Saturday, 7 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

which is good. as now it can reinvent itself.

addy, Saturday, 7 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm I guess he's retro in some senses, but really he's a huge jump forward...I mean, nothing hip-hop has ever produced really sounds like that (certainly not his inspirations - Miami Bass, Mantronix etc)

djdee2005, Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

And the whole chorus-chorus-chorus form (or absence of standard verse-chorus verse structure) doesn't have much of a precedent from what I can recall.

djdee2005, Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree w/you on lil jon. it's very poetic. two murderdogs ago, black dog bone was trying to get the crunk artists to tell him the "chant" form was akin to african tribal music, and i like what he was getting at, but i wish some ethnomusicologists could do it with his charisma

Peter $21, Sunday, 8 August 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not downplaying the influence of his music's african via african-american origins by saying that I think the whole chant thing is a very human element - crowd participation. Very democratic. Populist (in fact, this is why I thought all those folks comparing crunk to fascism in their blogs were being ridiculous).

djdee2005, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)


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