Pitchfork has apparently retroactively changed the tagging on all the grime albums they've ever reviewed from being "Electronic" to "Hip-Hop". This includes everything going back to 2003 and 2004 with Dizzee Rascal and Ruff Sqwad and instrumental grime compilations too.
In a recent article, they described grime as being "the style of British trap rap with future garage influence that has bubbled up out of the post-Yeezus/Death Grips musical landscape".
What's next? Kode9 and the Spaceape are now hip-hop? The Ragga Twins? Buju Banton is hip-hop? Any jungle or garage or dubstep mix/set with an MC over it is hip-hop?
Just when you thought they couldn't be any more ignorant about club/rave and soundsystem culture (particularly in the context of dance music), they prove you wrong.
>>70719423
hmmm rlly makes u think
>>70719423
>Just when you thought they couldn't be any more ignorant about club/rave and soundsystem culture (particularly in the context of dance music), they prove you wrong.
They only care about this scene on a very surface level. Hip Hop is more "culturally diverse" and marketable/relevant so obviously they're going to emphasize it more than anything else
>inb4 Americans thinking they invented MC'ing
looool cultural appropriation
i can't imagine my life ever being so bad that this upsets me. i can't imagine my life ever being so bad that i would even care about this.
>>70719516
>I spend time on a music board but don't care about music
>>70719534
>I go to pitchfork.com and claim to care about music
>>70719543
the problem is the amount of people here who do go there and will be miseducated
>>70719560
Yeah, real serious problem that one.
Get a fucking life.
>>70719423
>they described grime as being "the style of British trap rap with future garage influence that has bubbled up out of the post-Yeezus/Death Grips musical landscape"
why are yanks allowed to pose as ""experts"" on things they dont know about
>>70719560
Who fucking cares
people who go there are hipsters who care about the image than the music anyways
https://youtu.be/r7XuW7UVz_w
https://youtu.be/mL2Bgj-za5k
https://youtu.be/uH6uRTB4VcY
Are these hip-hop too then?
>>70719619
if this isn't proof that british people shouldnt be allowed to make music i don't know what to tell you. particularly black british people.
>>70719651
Last one isn't even british you retard
>>70719619
Yes, because they're rapping over a beat. Why is this so hard for you to get.
Also, all that shit fucking blows chunks. It may be hip-hop, but that doesn't mean it's not a total abomination.
>>70719651
How about MF Doom
>>70719423
I fail to see the problem?
>>70719560
You should call your senator's office, this is an outrage. I'm writing a letter right now, we need to mobilize and get organized. They can't get away with this!
>multiple threads attacking British music and British culture
It's not like we're trying to do our thing or anything. I wonder who could be behind these posts?
>>70720418
modern british music sucks dude
>>70720485
this especially the edm shit
>>70719534
>caring about how some online publication categorizes music
Literally the antithesis of caring about music.
>>70720574
the uk makes better edm than the states and you know it
>>70720851
prove it
post some examples
>>70719492
>inb4 europeans think they invented club music
how is that wrong?