Comments on: Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Kool Moe, Spoonie Gee, and the Treacherous 3

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:11:00 +0000

This strip introduces a handful of my favorite pioneers. You ever hear this ditty from T La Rock on Red Alert’s radio show? I listen to it often. 1985! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMtzh3mvoAc

By: jonathan zwickel

jonathan zwickel — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:42:00 +0000

Butter.

“I Go To Work” was one of the first raps I learned by heart. Still kills in so many ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agnKPLrG2E0

By: ill lich

ill lich — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:32:00 +0000

No no, I’m just making a wry comment on Peter Brown, which is lost if you don’t know him personally. What you depict is probably accurate.

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:58:00 +0000

I’m definitely making a huge effort to keep the work as accurate as possible. I have 3 good sources using similar language when describing Peter Brown. At least in the context of 1978-79. If you’ve got some good references which talk about him differently, I’ll be sure to amend the semantics when the comic sees print.

By: ill lich

ill lich — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:41:00 +0000

Nope. Same Peter Brown, he puts out “Spoonin Rap” in an upcoming episode (then unwittingly signs away the rights to that song years later), the guy who famously claimed to be “the first person to triple park in Harlem”, NOT the white Florida disco producer. He’s in his 70′s now, still hustlin, still dressing like a pimp.

“He ran many tiny NYC labels in the 70′s and early 80′s…” — exactly, that’s why he might take offense at “small time record producer”, though even I admit most of his labels were one-offs and today very hard to catalog. And that photo on his discogs page is Patrick Adams, not Peter Brown.

By: rewhu

rewhu — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Excellent work, yet again.

Just read your mtv interview. I’ll wait for your book as long as it takes, damn it.

By: benher

benher — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:06:00 +0000

The BBS family tree! The baddest 1200 baud in his-to-ry!

By: Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:02:00 +0000

Different Peter Brown than you have in mind. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Peter+Brown
“He ran many tiny NYC labels in the 70′s and early 80′s…”

I can’t argue the height of this Peter Brown, though. A piece of artistic license.

By: ill lich

ill lich — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:27:00 +0000

When Peter Brown finds out you called him a “small time” record producer . . . .

He’s also about a foot taller than depicted.

By: MrJM

MrJM — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:16:00 +0000

Butter!

By: ablestmage

ablestmage — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:01:00 +0000

I never liked that font.. the U’s look like a L and I with bad kerning. CHUMP looks like CHLIMP..

By: signsofrain

signsofrain — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:00 +0000

Oh Ed Piskor, next you should do a comic about BBSes and FidoNET, like that awesome BBS documentary but told as a story! I love your stuff dude. Wizzywig hooked me, and Hip Hop Family tree landed me. When this comes out in print I’m buying a bunch of them to give to other people.