This past February, two musical powerhouses/infamously egotistical windbags have graced our shores, attempting to both cash themselves up in the twilight of their careers and provide a feel-good nostalgia burst to both aging Baby Boomers and kids who were out clubbing fifteen years ago. That’s right, sports fans, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and G-Unit’s 50…
Category: Down Under Blunders
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Too white for Kendrick, not white enough for Bronson?
My annual attempt at writing something vaguely serious about rap writing. Normal service will resume shortly. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Too white for Kendrick, not white enough for Bronson?
No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Iggy Azalea – The New Classic Album Review
I really went above and beyond the call of duty on this one. No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Iggy Azalea – The New Classic Album Review
Hear A Legendary Brooklyn MC Attempt To Rap With An Australian Accent
Remember how you used to hang out with your pals, wondering outloud when somebody would make a rap record where the MC would promise, “I’m going to come Australian, then I’m going to come Reggae, and then I’m going to come Hip Hop”? Turns out that Sir Ibu did that in 1987 on the b-side…
More Backstage Thievery Down-Under
Just because Australia was once filled with the crooks that England didn’t want doesn’t mean that it’s a nation of ‘tea-leafs’, right? Here’s the latest installment of people stealing shit from Americans On Rap Tours. While Talib Kweli was able to get his laptop back (but not his fitted), it seems that this story has…
Are EPMD Going Senile?
So I checked out this EPMD show the other night, and it was pretty entertaining for the most part. Getting drunk and shouting along to ‘It’s My Thing’, ‘Headbanger’ and ‘So Whatcha Sayin’ is never a bad way to pass a Friday night, but there was one major fly in the ointment…the massive ENCORE FAIL…