Comments on: The Hip-Hop Aesthetic

By: A Narration of Melancholic Elation » Headphones & Headnods - 90s East Coast Hip-hop Podcast

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:50:26 +0000

[...] rock like it were fresh, I love the 90s and early 00s hip-hop. Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates and David Sasaki both dug through the archives and gave their favorites from this era, thus kicking me to finally [...]

By: ChrisN

ChrisN — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:21:23 +0000

Glad I finally took a listen – you made my evening.

By: oso

oso — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:52:59 +0000

Greg,

I’ve had the same bizarre experience – perfect recall in a dream of details that I’d never be able to remember in that portion of life we call wakefulness. I still don’t know how I feel about Blackstar. I think I mix them up with Gangstarr.

Jillian,

Yeah, he throws out a good amount of subtle love to both Nas and Talib. But the overall tone and style seem (to me) to be founded in early 90′s hip-hop.

Revaz,

That’s just because it’s the only track on the podcast that is outside the realm of what you would consider “hip-hop that white people like”, innit?

By: revaz

revaz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:43:36 +0000

Nice man. It’s interesting because I’ve been putting something similar together in my head. I’ll drop it soon. I was especially impressed by your 2Pac selection. I think the “Me Against the World” album is a pretty underrated record in his discography, but it’s the most potent and emotional.

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:59:13 +0000

Um, I’m not running Firefox, I’m running Flock. Tell your blog to get with the program!

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:58:06 +0000

I’m tempted to comment – and so I will – that even the title of the book could be construed as a hip hop reference (hello, 2005 Talib Kweli album!).

Anyhow, love the podcast and it represents a lot of my favorites too

(although, as you know, looking at my last.fm profile, you’d never know that)

Also hilarious? Your captcha just gave me “Nas”

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:40:22 +0000

David,

Thank you for the podcast – other than listening to my old-school station on Pandora, this is the best way I could spend a Monday morning. After watching the videos of Ice-T and whatever his name is that you bookmarked yesterday, I had a dream that I was asked to put together a mixtape of what I think “good hip-hop” is. In our dreams, I believe that we have perfect recall – I can remember every lyric to every song, but only in my dreams. Along the same lines, I knew the names and albums of every song on my dreamy mixtape. Among them were songs off of

Mecca and the Soul Brother – Pete Rock and C.L Smooth
Midnight Marauders – A Tribe Called Quest
Stakes is High – De La Soul
Illmatic – Nas
Common – Like Water For Chocolate
Blackstar – Blackstar

It appears that sharing links, sharing what we read, can lead to shared thought, shared experience.