Comments on: Sci-fi hip-hop

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:43:40 +0000

I was lucky enough to get to take a whole class on hip hop taught out of the critical studies dept of USC’s film school way back when. The most memorable class was when our professor, the unmatched Dr. Todd Boyd, walked in and said whatever he had been planning on teaching that day was off the calendar. Instead he wanted to focus the entire day’s class on the Wu-Tang Clan. And then spent two hours digging into their mythology and symbolism and made a very spot-on point that Wu Tang did for hip hop what P-Funk did for funk in the 70s. We’ll take a crazy mythology that we all love and build a whole personality around it. Space for P-Funk. Kung fu for Wu Tang.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:07:14 +0000

Excellent track. Just what I needed.

By: Matt Penniman

Matt Penniman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:54:53 +0000

I’ll have to check it out. I’m reminded of my first (and so far only) hip-hop purchase: Pete Miser. “Scent of a Robot” was his classic sci-fi piece — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2_3rvNUL8

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:37:09 +0000

Kinda diggin’ this whole album by Kid Cudi, by the way.