Riddle me this, The Coast! How is it that a band which is nominated for Hip Hop Single Track Recording of the Year for this year’s ECMA’s, Music Nova Scotia’s Hip-Hop Recording of the Year AND won your Best Vinyl this year/a previous runner-up for your Best New Artist 2010, STILL has no Showcase at The ECMAs? And didn’t have one at Nova Scotia’s Music Week? I know those illustrious hip hoppers applied! What does that even mean about the way our music industry runs or how we support our local talent locally? No, they aren’t the status quo– and that’s why we love these bros! Why isn’t the industry jumping on The Caravan?
Novelty alone, they win the throne. These beauties are hard working and delightful and actually play all LIVE, Haligonian hip hop. AND HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR GLORY LIVE??? That is where their magic is, and yet industry professionals and audiences are getting robbed of the opportunity to be enchanted by their sincerity and skill. They are not an apparition: They’re a real, struggling, stupendous, band o’ beauties. Goodness gracious, if this is how the industry hypocritically treats its hard-working, nearly-there sorts no wonder people leave the province to thrive… you need to be seen to get heard. They might not be scenesters or herd-able, but people love their sound and Halifax deserves their better brand of hip hop. Stop kickin’ these beauties in the buns and give ’em some love! —Need to Play Live to Thrive
This article appears in Apr 7-13, 2011.
Please refer to all previous bitches about tools who are “POP”ular but can’t sell tickets… TV= ratings, and I’d suggest these “bro’s” don’t play stuff that people who watch these shows want to hear. The crowd they appeal to is probably out swarming people or “taggin'” someone else’s property… not watching the awards.
I’m shocked *!!!!!!!!*
at the lack of response.
and the cow says…..
mooooooooooooooooooooooooving on
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there is just no accounting for people’s ugh, musical taste anymore. from hip to crap, most of it sucks elephants balls. now don’t get me wrong, all you poor tone deaf/deaf scmucks. you are entitled to your opinion of this shitty crap, that you wanna call music. as well as i am. and in my opinion, it sounds like a bunch of cats in heat, being drowned, in a pit of hot coals.
Sorry, who?
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big girl toys too hugo^^
ffs *like*
lolz painie, lots of girls have the big toys.
LS check out this hip hop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIW-5Zau9Pw
For the record this is the ONLY rap song that never made me want to bust a cap in my own jheri curls;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxcPNolorUI
Also – Check out NGF bustin some really dope moves in the background. >: )
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oh, I hate double posting but this is too cute
http://files.myopera.com/AOTEAROAnz/albums…
You do realize that good rap music when scored, incorporating all the musical changes is on par with or more complicated than Mozart stuff, classical stuff etc …
I think it’s a big misconception that all rap music is just utter crap.
I once had someone compare Nirvana and rap and say, “Nirvana is real music” … have you listened to it! It’s pop vocals over chording …
Music is music. If it’s constructed well, melodies are put together well, gets me dancing then it’s all good stuff. I had a DJ tell me once … “I don’t play Britney Spears, I’m against her” … ok, whatever loser.
Sorry Donk but Ivan the Anti-Christ of Hip has an image to protect. Waging a 1-man war against popular culture since 1981. >; )
My only beef with rap/hip-hop is that a lot of the newer stuff is incredibly shallow and self-centered.
“You do realize that good rap music when scored, incorporating all the musical changes is on par with or more complicated than Mozart stuff, classical stuff etc …”
You’re joking, right?
What “musical changes” are you referring to? A typical rap song uses samples from old jazz or motown tunes (or newly recorded drum and bass tracks in a similar style), and loop them for the entire duration of the song while the “vocalists” do their thing over it. The whole thing happens over a progression of 2 or 3 chords at most. How is this comparable to a complex piece of music of sometimes 20 min in duration, with tempo and/or key changes, where every single note of every single instrument in the orchestra came out of the mind of (very often) one man only?
Nothing against rap, but to compare it to classical music is just fucked.
The only rap I listen to is 80s and 90s :)! I requested Naughty by Nature’s OPP once on 103.5 and they played it ;D!
Anytime i see something about this band its someone in the band or a fan crying about how they didn’t get this or that.
Boo-fucking-hoo.
Actually it’s funny because I was randomly wondering the same thing myself about this band when Chad Hatcher came on the radio for the 3rd time in the work day. God that new song of his annoys the hell out of me.
Normally I wouldn’t post on such an old bitch but the coincidence is too weird to pass up. I don’t really follow the local scene but these guys are really good. I have heard them and they’re just as good produced as what the OP says they sound like live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enbsVzvRC5k