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

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"But if radio stations are not playing British hip-hop, it is because the music is not yet good enough and too few fans want it, Sway believes."

HURRAH someone finally talking sense. Can someone pls forward this to ALL UNSIGNED INDIE BANDS EVAR.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

give it another week and we'll have timmypopkins on here, and we won't be able to move for recent Brit-hop releases.

[(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.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course I bought it, but then again, I would, wouldn't I?

I also bought the Vanity Fair thing, as well. That, I still have somewhere.

-Kate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

needless to say, i bought that issue of select and, as with all music journalism before the advent of teh interweb I BELIEVED EVERY WORD (except the bit about denim obv.)

BBC on Brit-Hop

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a theory of that Select cover: it had a lot to do with internal politics. Collins, Maconie and Steve Lamacq, recently arrived as a package deal from the NME, had no particular love for Cypress Hill, who were the office faves of the day. What they shared with boy editor Andrew Harrison is that they weren't really rock fans, and thus had no great love of the wave of sludge that surrounded (rather than followed) Nirvana. The flag-waving followed from that, rather than being the starting point.