Rant
scrabble
Apr 24th
Dang! Kevin Nottingham, one of our favourite blogs, has his website (we hope) temporarily and NOT permanently taken down. Check his message:
“KevinNottingham.com is offline permanently until further notice. After being threatened by my hosting company to take the site down for overloading server resources, I found a new host. Spent the last 24 hours moving everything over to the new server. After moving it to the new server, it crashed their server within an hour and they have suspended the site. Not sure when it’ll be back online”
As frequent downloaders to his website for ever fresh mixes, mixtapes and sample albums we’re poo’d for the meantime so we’ve resorted to twiddling thumbs and playing scrabble
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I’ll beat that ass.
Feb 5th
Xpizzle’s Bitch Slap
The most unintentionally hilarious thing one encounters in their journey as a hip hop journalist are press releases. Seriously who the fuck writes these things, people, that’s who, what’s worse than this is they are getting paid, actual money! There is one company in Australia doing an outstanding job largely, other than that it is a constant stream of rubbish into our mailbox, both online and the old fashioned postal way. Rather than helping launch their acts into the stratosphere of superstardom the third rate writing promises, they instead make them mocked and judged before the music has even hit the ears of a handful of listeners. If everyone is “the future” and every album “definitely the years best” what exactly does that leave? I long for the day where I read something along the lines of “CD contains an attempt at a Triple J single, three BBQ songs, some stolen beats & gratuitous use of the word fuckholio”. If those writing these releases are really serious about both their jobs and the careers of those they are looking to promote they need to step their shit up or step the fuck away from the Microsoft Word document.
Press release writers, you’ve been pimp slapped.
