Taking Sides: Eminem vs. I-Roy

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They sound pretty similar to me for some reason. (Not the flow, or even the persona. Something vague - "cut of the jib" as the Brits might say?)

dave q, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't you hate the way I never actually 'take sides' in my 'taking sides' questions? Back to question - it was the I-Roy track "Hospital Trolley" that made me think of this. The TITLE as much as the track, if not more so, and I think that people's 'character' or 'personality' or whatever comes out in seemingly thrown-away things like titles (esp. in genres like hip-hop, dub and jazz where the titles are usually 'functional' titles, i.e. not obviously predetermined by a vocal, although I know there's loads of cabalistic significance in dub titles like Perry's "Bafflin' Smoke Signals" [Vatican, geddit?] but then Perry was an auteur so that's why he's more well-known to non-dub fanatics), like a Freudian slip

dave q, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bizarre Theory Too Far Out For Ian Brown Dept:

Reagan did for the Hip-Hop Nation what Hitler did for Zionism

dave q, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that theory isn't bizarre at all.

ethan, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

They sound pretty similar to me for some reason.

i-man say WHA?

am0n, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)


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