Comments on: Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Negril, The Roxy, Fab 5 Freddy's Change The Beat http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634767 noah django Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634767 McLaren was well known to simultaneously be a tastemaker, an opportunist, a leech upon the truly creative, and also the only person in a scene full of drug addicts and nutcases who could actually get anything done.  Before reading this book, I didn't realize that he had started with managing (some would say "puppeteering") the New York Dolls before doing the SEX clothing shop with Westwood, whereby he put together his next group from the kids that bought the clothes:  the Sex Pistols. love him or hate him, I gotta give him credit for trolling the Queen's silver jubilee celebration on the Thames with his own boat:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TikbXfPNg Brilliant. McLaren was well known to simultaneously be a tastemaker, an opportunist, a leech upon the truly creative, and also the only person in a scene full of drug addicts and nutcases who could actually get anything done.  Before reading this book, I didn’t realize that he had started with managing (some would say “puppeteering”) the New York Dolls before doing the SEX clothing shop with Westwood, whereby he put together his next group from the kids that bought the clothes:  the Sex Pistols.

love him or hate him, I gotta give him credit for trolling the Queen’s silver jubilee celebration on the Thames with his own boat:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TikbXfPNg
Brilliant.

]]> By: Oz Vinyljunkie http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634714 Oz Vinyljunkie Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634714 cant wait for the book you should also do a triple vinyl lp release with tracks included in the comics. Licensing would be a nightmare though. cant wait for the book you should also do a triple vinyl lp release with tracks included in the comics. Licensing would be a nightmare though.

]]> By: Incipient Madness http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634480 Incipient Madness Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634480 So Ed, are you going to continue this long enough to cover the spread of hip-hop scenes around the country? You've given a little hint about the spread to the west coast, but I'd also like Atlanta, Houston, and Memphis to get some attention. Thanks for covering all the early New York stuff. By 1980-1981 I was fairly well aware of much of this music. It was very popular in some of the Houston suburbs. I lost interest as soon as hip-hop became white jock elite music in my HS. I am happy to learn from you the history I sort of knew and then refused to care about. So Ed, are you going to continue this long enough to cover the spread of hip-hop scenes around the country? You’ve given a little hint about the spread to the west coast, but I’d also like Atlanta, Houston, and Memphis to get some attention.

Thanks for covering all the early New York stuff. By 1980-1981 I was fairly well aware of much of this music. It was very popular in some of the Houston suburbs. I lost interest as soon as hip-hop became white jock elite music in my HS. I am happy to learn from you the history I sort of knew and then refused to care about.

]]> By: Anibal Gonzalez http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634410 Anibal Gonzalez Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634410 !!!! !!!!

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634079 Ed Piskor Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634079 Ruza Blue talks about the club scene. http://downtownpunkrockmeetsuptownhiphop.blogspot.com/2011/03/kool-lady-blue.html Ruza Blue talks about the club scene. http://downtownpunkrockmeetsuptownhiphop.blogspot.com/2011/03/kool-lady-blue.html

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634074 Ed Piskor Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634074  I think everybody has the same reaction the first time they hear this.  I think everybody has the same reaction the first time they hear this.

]]> By: chris jimson http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634072 chris jimson Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634072 Yup. . . the edited "BEEP . . .ahhhhh. . . Fressssssh" now appears on almost every "DJ Battle Wax" LP. Yup. . . the edited “BEEP . . .ahhhhh. . . Fressssssh” now appears on almost every “DJ Battle Wax” LP.

]]> By: Ted Mills http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634027 Ted Mills Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634027 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqauvQkC6VQ So *that's* where it's from. Nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqauvQkC6VQ
So *that’s* where it’s from. Nice!

]]> By: OtherMichael http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-43.html#comment-1634010 OtherMichael Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=206714#comment-1634010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqauvQkC6VQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqauvQkC6VQ

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