And your comments about musical/artistic integrity being paramount at the end was great food for thought, and i totally agree. It’s a bit of a scourge of the local scene in Aus. Radio and people in general over-rep alot of wack artists just because they’re aussie hip hop and not acutally just straight up dope hip hop.

Im not a hater, but i believe in quality control.

The GS and not the BS

Old school Casios are cool, but you can’t take one on the train! I’m still sticking with the DS.

And I think the Beatles comment was probably in a similar vein to the whole Elvis basically swagger jacking where Black music was at the time and presenting it to an audience that (the media people felt) wasn’t interested/ready for a Black performer. The royalties instead of reparations is sort of an interesting idea.

P and thanks to the magic of the Internet, I am in Australia! Ha. But yeah, as far as where I get my stuff, I’m lucky enough to have a bunch of people keeping me up to date and/or hitting me with their own projects.

SCJ18 – both those acts are still doing their thing, and both those tracks came out within the last couple months or so. Check their myspaces for touring info – I can personally vouch for Blu being dope live.

vince78 – been a minute, fam. And yeah, a lot of these dudes are putting out really short tracks – but in a way I sort of prefer that a lot of times.

hang’n out till the next one, keep work’n ya magic

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A. They don’t understand it
B. It’s not marketable to their people
C. It’s not normal or “hip” to be involved in it

I think it boils down to a sort of cultural myth that surrounds our world subconsciously.
Because I’m black I shouldn’t like Sci-fi movies, or read Tolstoy, or like sushi. It’s ridiculous! But, it’s funny people willfully succumb to this ignorance. I’m a comic book artist and my comics aren’t all African American themed. I don’t want to be stifled to one theme, I use all sorts of themes, people, and places to make my stories. Along with my music too. You have to be well rounded in this world or you’re cheating yourself. I don’t want to be judged by my works as an artist not by my race.

Secondly, lol to that gameboy beat, you can also get one of those old casio keyboards off ebay for cheap too. You’re crazy Dex.

Big ups to Mamiko I dig the cover!

And lastly whats up with the Co$$ track, why he say the Beatles robbed my people?

Can’t wait till da next ep

Erasumus – Thank you fam.

Oux – wheres that email you promised me?

TigerMendoza – Agreed – in an imaginary 2-tracks-equally-dope situation, I’d give the underdog the win and put that out there. And not only does pulling punches just for the sake of “adding diversity” not work right, but it gives already closed-minded people more fuel to say “wow, yeah, white/black/mexican/gay/mormon kids really can’t rap/make beats/do backflips.” And I am definitely all about getting the word out that black mormon kids can do backflips just like anyone else can, and I’m not about to let some punk that keeps landing on his head screw it up for the whole black mormon population.

Good to be quote unquote back. Hopefully I can get these next few episodes I have waiting in the wings out soon.

Which reminds me, I am currently accepting beats…

No worries about the DS thing man, I’m telling you MTV music generator got A LOT of people in to production (anyone say Dizee Rascal?). That there is Hip Hop with a punk spirit to use what’s at hand to make music. Glad to have you back – keep the tunes coming.

Glad you’re back Dex!

how yah been mr digital ima bang this episode after i cath myself up just wanted to show love and say IM GLAD U HAVNT CHANGED and plz dont cut your hair >.>

and on the 1xtra/grime thing, I was only partially kidding. I believe that it is totally possible that some kid could get his hands on a DS, have a moment of inspiration, and crank out some absolutely mad tune and then it’s just game over. And I would fully and wholeheartedly support that. Regardless of what anyone wants to say about the Gutenberg effect, I definitely look on the positive side of the possibilities there.

oux – i like how you always comment before you’ve actually even pushed the play button. Let’s see if I can stay quote unquote “back” this time…

mirateck – just when I was like “oh wait I need to hit dude back to thank him for hitting me with that track”, you’re already on it.

fixed the link. That’s what I get for trying to shortcut copypaste on some library computer. And yeah, Bambu is definitely doing his thing.

btw – you got bambu’s myspace link wrong. it’s:
http://www.myspace.com/bambumusic

he’s been putting out some good music for a minute now.

anyway.. you’re back!!

keeip it oaan