Twee Hip-Hop...

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...and other dream genres. What magic genres haven't we quite found yet?

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still waiting for the much-vaunted Slowa Trance scene to kick off, personally, but I'm also well up for the genesis of:

Deathenbacker
Hong Kong garage
Softstep

C'mon now.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee hip-hop (twip-hop!) = P.M. Dawn? I'd be up for that.

― B:Rad (Brad), Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

pm dawn = twee hip hop

― gygax!, Thursday, 19 September 2002 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

ugly duckling

― minna (minna), Thursday, 19 September 2002 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

microghettotech
hip-house retro movement

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 19 September 2002 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, Slabco records yo! Land of the Loops, Sukpatch... Twee Hip Hop has been DONE... (and quite well too)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 19 September 2002 08:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee hip hop: "My Dad's Gone Crazy"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 19 September 2002 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee rapper = LLPJ.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 September 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee hip-hop = Jay-Z vs Little Orphan Annie, surely?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 19 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Micro-grunge!

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Nelly is twee hip hop.

― Jeff (Jeff), Thursday, 19 September 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

gayngsta

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 September 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee Papa Girl Rappers?

― Paul (scifisoul), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard a hiphop track on the radio a few weeks ago that referenced "Thundercats", specifically the childhood activity of playing with

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 19 September 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

it was that luda track from the last album i bet.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

mitch did the chorus go "we were tryin so hard...hard to survive..." etc?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Basehead's _Play With Toys_.

― Mike Appelstein (mike a), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

How is that twee its all about drinking? And staying in your room and getting dumped.... never mind.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Twee hip-hop: 'Soft Like Me' on the new Saint Etienne album.

― DavidM (DavidM), Friday, 20 September 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was referring more to the overall tone of the Basehead record - the sleepy samples and self-effacing vocals. "It's not my fault that you had to get dumped during the Quiet Storm!" = one of my favorite interjections ever in a hip-hop record.

― Mike Appelstein (mike a), Friday, 20 September 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Nono, I agree, its just I hadn't though of it that way, it was always Mellow Gold minus two singles to me.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 20 September 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

radical-femme hiphop

country/metal hybrids...though i can see hetfeild taking this and running with it.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 20 September 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

black eyed peas
jurassic five
ugly duckling
blackalicious

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

skee lo

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

In the next five years I'd like to see:

--Afropunk
--Latin oldies as a radio format north of the border
--Somali funk bands singing in English
--a rocksteady revival band, just one, with three-part vocals and everything
--any band mixing any of the above

I would bet good money there already is "Hong Kong garage"

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Microcrunk

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, there is HK Garage, also

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Twee hip-hop: 'Soft Like Me' on the new Saint Etienne album.

nah, i'd say "calico" or "filthy" from so tough are more twee. the rapper on that track did call herself q-tee after all. always wanted to hear her album.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

buck 65 is pretty twee hiphop

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.heavenly100.com/img/covers/hvn/hvn160/hvn48_160.jpg

― joni, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm, buck 65's not exactly twee, but i totally know what you mean ambrose. a lot of his lyrics are pretty murky and unsettling is you pay close attention to them, but i think it's that sort of bucolic wistful tone of what he does that makes him possibly come across as a bit that way. still, whatever... but i have to add that that Q-Tee record has been a guilty pleasure of mine for many a long year!!!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dennis Driscoll has been talking about doing a rap album.

― Kevin Erickson, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Neurobluegrass
Bluestep
Shoegazer Soul

― d.w., Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard afropunk although it sounds just like any other shitty old punk music, it just happens to be made by South Africans.

Blackalicious isn't always so wishy washy nicey nice, but if there's a more twee hip-hop song than "Make You Feel That Way" that's performed by humans and not Parappa the Rapper, I've never heard of it.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Symphonic punk

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Symphonic punk country disco? (that's said on the end of some Coldcut mix)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

You're all wrong, the twee-est hip hop track ever* is obviously One-T + Cool-T's "The Magic Key"! Especially in tandem with the mindnumbingly cutesy cartoon video. It's been a European hit for many months now, and it's still getting heavy airplay on MTV2 (presumably the kiddies can't get enough of it). I've heard it so many times that now I'm totally loving it!

* (Though it's perhaps not as twee as Stefan Raab's "Hier Kommt Die Maus", or whatever it's spelled. My vintage guilty pleasure. And now there's this German kid called Cecil Jonni Lauro with "spooky" carribean twee(n) novelty hip hop-ish stuff like "Everybody Cha Cha" and "Buckle Up 'n' Chuggeluck". I wouldn't exactly say it's good but it's... interesting to say the least.)

― Mind Taker, Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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