BBC on Brit-Hop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4455862.stm

Brit-hop is coming OMG OMG etc - yeah good work BBC but look at the comparison to Select magazine's "notorious" Britpop cover!!

Did anyone else buy this at the time? (1993) and what did you think?

Also if someone could YSI a few good recent (like last 6-12 months recent) hem hem Brit-hop records I'm sure we'd all be grateful.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wish people would just drop the big British/Britishness empthasis, and that includes the rappers themselves. It happened too much with jungle as well and is now really boring, esp. in hip-hop because of the obsession with making it clear they're not trying to copy Americans.

I'm not sure about Lethal B but I like the Sway, Killa Kela and Rolldeep. I'm still not sure how/if they will manage to sell more records, but Wiley's comment that it will take another four years to make real impact is interesting.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

oop, that was me btw

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i find the britishness thing a lot more tedious when q does it with people like joss stone, franz ferdinand et al, they always seem to be coming at it from a v dodgy 'look at the way they are making the ECONOMY bigger' angle. whereas with uk hip hop it isn't ideal BUT there is this kind of necessity to distinguish itself from us hip hop. and in the case of someone like sway, who uses his 'britishness' to such great effect in his music, it's pretty ace.

(also the socio-cultural factor of immigrant groups reinterpreting what it is to be british which i approve of)

no ysi-ing from me unfortunately but there were great albums this year from part 2 and baby j; the antourage single out at the start of next year is awesome; baby blue and c-mone are doing really good stuff. not 100% convinced about klashnekoff. still prefer grime though it all seems to be being lumped together anyway.