diplo baile funk new video

i'm probably exaggerating though. it's just that i'm surprised at how little attention this track got - it's obv in the same league as the best from dizzee/MIA/dfa et al. maybe just because it was buried in the album and the single was a quiet mid-november release.

I really want more stuff in the vein of that Andrea Parker/DJ Assault/DJ Godfather track Freaky Bitches.

Boomin bass getto tech but not so fast as assault plays his own stuff.

he does a great job with the edits, but it's no match for the "percao" version which is just absolutely unstoppable and really makes me want to hear the unedited "newsflash". i suppose i can understand why he didn't just put all three versions on the album. i really hope this gets a cd-single release.

But yeah, the reason why I like "Diplo Rhythm" best is that it's the only thing on there with the energy of his mixes, plus the way it shifts back and forth between dancehall and baile funk shows off his diverse influences, whereas most other Florida tracks are just merely very good Shadow pastiches with programmed rather than sampled drums.

http://www.ninjatune.net/qtvideos/epks/diplo_epk.mov

http://www.ninjatune.net/qtvideos/epks/diplo_epk.mov

full time when i get in my whims
mash up the place and me run things
not cause of love
cause of little bling blings
dubs, ???????? and diamond rings
quick time i look up on tour
limousine, yeah, don't know the score?
me like them jeans, me might buy more
him tune gonna sell out the store

have you heard the newsflash?
this here gonna ???????? some cash
gonna make it last
you better know that

have you heard the newsflash?
this here gonna ???????? some cash
gonna make it last

bust ??????? pure ????????
big shout to new york and brooklyn
this ??????? the clique ???????
zing-ding ding-a-ding ding ding
who are you and know for the ????
zing-ding ding-a-ding ding ding
take my time singing
zing-ding ding-a-ding ding ding
yo yo yo yo yo

(more chorus etc etc)

what's my name y'all
c'mon!

(etc etc)

"up 2 di time" - you know it's vybz kartel
some say singer, blinger ... who's that girl over there?
i think i need her ... over there

baby!
come here please
????????
what is your name
you look like
a denise, no?
step in mercedes
drop top! you like breeze?
is your boyfriend weak in the knees?
kartel will satify your needs
you want cars or SUVs?
rings with so much ice it makes you sneeze
come cherry bee-yotch
????????
smoke some peepee
(that's trees)
speak to the man kartel
i'll say your name
baby!
just turn on the tricks
them sunbeams
fully kitted out with rims
that's easy like means and ?????????
you're beautiful like songs that sing that they sings
me and you can do lots of things

she'll never know
it's a trick
or this smile i show
it's a trick
i never ????? my ?????
it's a trick
that's how misled
it's a goddamn trick
she'll never know
it's a trick
judas man for sure
it's a trick
that's how misled
it's a trick!

aha!

honeybunch!
can i say that
i hope and pray one day that
me and you cruise in the maybach
(your sedan)
vanna white and pat sajak?
me, your love, i'll never betray that
or hell's fire will be my payback
seventy years from now, i want say
ma, me and you go way back
let's exchange contacts
we don't have to sign
prenuptial contracts
my love is contagious like anthrax
give me one back
baby!
??????? dirty facts
seems without you
just can't relax
three things in my life is certain
death, you and income tax

It comes 1/4 - 1/3 of the way throught the video (link above), right after the shot of the one white girl you see in the whole dance. Timbaland-style bounce beat, male voice saying "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Canyafeelmenow Canyafeelmenow Canyafeelmenow Canyafeelmenow" followed by female voice saying the same thing. HOT.

im still suprised/saddened by the universal ostrich to diplo's cultural imperialism. for someone who supposedly recognizes the importance of multicultural acceptance, and the embrace of subaltern identity, favela strikes back is straight bullshit. it makes you seriously question his sincerity/motives.

He mentioned that he was going to do a Greensleeves Rhythm album at some point -- did that ever happen?

not that anyone cares 12 months after the question was posed but I think the chorus is "have you heard the newsflash / this year gonna stack some cash"

pretty sure this -- "dubs, ???????? and diamond rings" -- is dubs, furs and diamond rings

you betta know dat

at least point me to an ilm thread, or something somewhere, that at least gives serious discussion to the issue.

it seems that this is more first world culture imperialism, albeit dressed a little smarter.

Sasha on Shadow, Diplo, Eminem & Minstrelsy

I haven't looked at this thread in a while but I think it might be one to start with.

I don't really agree with the characterization of him as a "minstrel" though, if anything I'm starting to think he's more like this cultural middle man who appeals to middle class (mostly) white kids by saying "Look, this is the rawest, most hardcore, most sexual, craziest music from the streets." That's what the baile funk thing is really about to me, cause let's be honest, it's good dance music, but I don't think so many white college kids where going crazy for booty bass when the American version came out.

I don't know if that exactly makes Diplo Rudyard Kipling on turntables (the "cultural imperialism" thing), but I do think it's worth examining why middle class white kids need to project their desires to act a little crazy and have some fun onto "Brazillian street people" or whatever, and why they still need a white DJ to make doing so seem acceptably hip.

lmao
-- $#@!$! ($#!@$!$!), January 10th, 2006 10:17 AM.

i still have the video on my laptop! but i haven't picked up the diplo album ...

also i was thrilled to find out the melody was sampld from "ninja gaiden". that game was hot. uber-nerd, i know.

maybe. I like "High Noon" best of all Shadow tracks so perhaps that b-sides collection should go before Endtroducing.

But I think most people are more into Diplo's mix stuff than his albums.

also he's worked with some brazilians like DJ marlboro hasn't he? one man != the whole scene obv, but would be interesting to know what they think.

and your point about keeping his discoveries to himself so he doesnt get ripped off doesnt answer my complaint. if anything it proves it. he could give a rats ass about subaltern culture. crediting the artists is far more important than trying to keep a leg up. this line of priveleged thinking is bankrupt, and if thats the real reason he did it, he is a fucking fraud.

the artists who produced the original work, are not being credited for it. their work is being stolen. fuck hipster cred/exclusivity all this other nonsense. its a bullshit smoke screen that doesnt justify his actions.

and yeah, he should be held accountable for it. regardless of his motivations, THE ACTION is still wrong. and i will get uptight, bc exploitation and cultural theft should be called out. but wesley loves the music.

yeah

Not only is it unfair to the artists, it's annoying if you, like, want to know who does a song - so you can check out their album or whatnot. This is kinda half the point of a mixtape in the first place.

i don't know though, maybe i'm grasping for straws here. i mean it seems that the right thing to do - on a real obvious level - would be to credit people, and I can't think of much other than selfishness (either to keep the artists as "his" or to profit from their work) that would motivate not crediting them

it's funny that this charge is being leveled when the entire genre is based on really really blatant unpaid-for samples and loops

I know, apples and oranges ... but just sayin'

the lack of tracklists on the favela mixes is kinda lame but I think the attempt to drum up outrage is out of proportion.

-- cheshire05 (cheshire_0...), January 11th, 2006.

Yeah, actually I suppose you're right. I wonder if to some extent it isn't just downright petty theft, as in "I can get away with this, so I'm going to do it," or "I don't feel like going through the legal hassles that would be involved if I credit these people/get the rights to their music." I'd still like to hear his explanation though.

Incidentally, I just picked up BMore Gutter Music (Low Budget/Aaron Lacrate). I noticed that doesn't credit artists either, but I wonder if to some extent it isn't just because there's so much stuff mixed into each track that it'd get silly to list all the credits. I mean it doesn't say "Smokey Robinson" or "The Eurythmics" anywhere either, and those artists certainly have legal recourse.

Both of those discs list the artists and titles (they are both fully licensed releases - the Funk Carioca one is excellent - the other is somewhat boring and unrepresentative).

xpost both of those mixes are more 'official'.

i do have a question though. what exactly is his relationship to these tracks? he flew down to brazil and did what??? he doesn't own these tracks does he? it would have probably been more prudent to ask these questions before i went off.

hmmm, to me baile funk (well, and m.i.a.) actually brought me to diplo, not vice versa.

great cut, btw.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMUaxHO8GY

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Diplomatic wrote this on thread diplo baile funk new video on board I Love Music on Jan 12, 2006

BTW, there are two other generic-sounding Favela mixes available on Amazon, neither of which seem to credit the artists - Slum Dunk Presents: Funk Carioca, and Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats.

Both of those discs list the artists and titles (they are both fully licensed releases - the Funk Carioca one is excellent - the other is somewhat boring and unrepresentative).

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