Motorbooty, aka the Greatest Music Magazine Ever, once featured this four page collection of baseball cards dedicated to the history of saltine rappers dudes and dames. Salutes to Mark Dancey and Mark Rubin for putting this pioneering work together.
3 thoughts on “A Collector’s Guide To White Rap Players”
Uh… ??? Motorbooty might have looked good, if that’s your taste, but it was also more superficial and smug than not. Mark Dancey was in fucking Big Chief, one of the lamest goddamn white “funk” licks Iggy’s balls bands of their or any other era.
Mike Rubin was– still is?– a painfully ‘clever’ hack music writer (later techno groupie?), torn between third-rate Catskills schtick and, I don’t know what… Neo-Nick Kent-ism with a suburban Detroit accent?
Not to say that piece is wholly worthless– Michigan has A LOT to answer for in white rap hell– but… it ain’t all that either.
You know what ofay you should interview, Robbie? Blake Lethem aka KEO, reputed to be THEE first white rapper, though it’s not something he asserts and in fact he refutes it. Still, see what you think, I’m sure you’d have great questions he’s rarely if ever been asked.
@DDDN: Agreed on the idea of a Lord Scotch interview. As for Motorbooty, it may have been a self-indulgent circle jerk on many levels, but it was still highly entertaining and the early issues featured some quality long form interviews. Big Chief, however, is proof that music critics should never be involved in trying to making music on any level.
+1 for the Lord Scotch interview.
Btw – why is Serch on these cards but Pete Nice isn’t?
Uh… ??? Motorbooty might have looked good, if that’s your taste, but it was also more superficial and smug than not. Mark Dancey was in fucking Big Chief, one of the lamest goddamn white “funk” licks Iggy’s balls bands of their or any other era.
Mike Rubin was– still is?– a painfully ‘clever’ hack music writer (later techno groupie?), torn between third-rate Catskills schtick and, I don’t know what… Neo-Nick Kent-ism with a suburban Detroit accent?
Not to say that piece is wholly worthless– Michigan has A LOT to answer for in white rap hell– but… it ain’t all that either.
You know what ofay you should interview, Robbie? Blake Lethem aka KEO, reputed to be THEE first white rapper, though it’s not something he asserts and in fact he refutes it. Still, see what you think, I’m sure you’d have great questions he’s rarely if ever been asked.
http://www.egotripland.com/interview-blake-lethem-keo-graffiti-white-rapper/
DDDN
@DDDN: Agreed on the idea of a Lord Scotch interview. As for Motorbooty, it may have been a self-indulgent circle jerk on many levels, but it was still highly entertaining and the early issues featured some quality long form interviews. Big Chief, however, is proof that music critics should never be involved in trying to making music on any level.
+1 for the Lord Scotch interview.
Btw – why is Serch on these cards but Pete Nice isn’t?