On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 09:39, skip heller wrote:
on 11/12/03 9:27 AM, Ben Axelrad at soulfrieda@hotmail.com wrote:
I don't really understand why Dr. Dre is doing innovative work. Can you please give some examples? When "The Chronic" came out I was very annoyed that he was sampling the same old P-Funk records...
You're white, aren't you?
While a snappy comeback/accusation, it doesn't quite answer the question. I'm curious as to this too, since, while I've been hearing hip-hop since Back In The Day (I still remember playing the newly released copy of "The Message" at a college disco event at which I was sorta assisant-DJ), I hadn't been paying attention for a couple of decades, so it's as much of a challenge for some of us to hear it in context as it is for, say, some of my young co-workers who are into the The Strokes to hear what was striking about the Velvet Underground. Or, for that matter, to hear why Stravinsky caused a riot.