BS Hip Hop Draft

[cpwilson80]

So, if you're #8... then it'll go 8,9,10,10,9,8... so you'll go twice within a couple of picks. The people on the ends need to go twice immediately.

I thought I liked the sound of it, but it's been confusing.


I think this draft process is the most fair...it's just been slow going with people not around at times (this process works fantastically for my fantasy football drafts.)

And speaking of people not around... ;)

I'm heading out on a business trip on Tuesday, and will have sporadic online access until next Sunday. Would anybody mind picking for me if I send them a ranked list of 15-20 albums?

[minorthreat]

Sorry for the delay.

I'm going with arguably the most important record in the history of the genre: the immortal Planet Rock: the Album by Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/AfrikaBambaataa&theSoulsonicForcePlanetRocktheAlbum.jpg

[vivzig]

Sorry for the delay myself--
When Disaster Strikes...
http://images.musicmp3.ru/bcovers/alb3719.jpg
The man himself, Busta Rhymes. Surprised it made it this far.

[Mel Brennan]

"When the moment hatches in time's womb there will be no art talk. The only poem you will hear will be the spearpoint pivoted in the punctured marrow of the villain....Therefore we are the last poets of the world."

Because I’m not going to be online today, and because I’m fairly sure that noone else is picking this album – if I’m wrong, let me know! – I’m going now, if that's okay...

My next pick is my ostensible ace-in-the-hole, an album picked as the most shining example of the music from a group – The Last Poets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Poets), who, on the birthday of Malcom X, 1968, in Harlem, came together to make music, taking their name from the above poem by South African Willie Kgostile - that came together in the decade prior to the initial explosion of so-called rap music, but grounded in the formative juices of hip-hop (the cultural expression as opposed to the corporate expression…see my above KRS_ONE link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/realmedia/hiphop/krsone_parts1to7.ram) for his, right imv, discussion of that difference):

Be Bop or Be Dead – Umar Bin Hassan

http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/pics/bebop.jpg

Most of you, I’d wager, now really know Bin Hassan from his appearance on Common’s The Corner from the album Be. On his own album, alongside Abiodun Oyewole, his compatriot from The Last Poets, Umar Bin Hassan takes material from that era – the era when the Last Poets were formed – as well as new material, and (with just the first side, let alone that B-side!) helps each and every one of us understand where, exactly, all that we identify as hip-hop, across the spectrum, emerges…

An Aside: I stumbled across this album while waiting to talk with Brother Bey ( http://foxo.org/aboutus.htm) down in his (community-based economics driven) stores in D.C. about putting this album, by one of my groomsman, in his store. Bin Hassan’s album was on the wall; Bey gave it to us. Cultural transaction, not corporate.

There’s no other album that better lays down the imagery by which we identify the best hip-hop music. From **************s are Scared of Revolution, to my favorite, AM, to Bum Rush – “the streets are calling!” – to the seminal and utterly undeniable This is Madness to the exploratory and image-laden Malcolm and on and on…

This is, in any effort to understand hip-hop, where each and every aficionado of the culture ought to begin. It’s where Charles Ridenour, Gil-Scott Heron, Lawrence Parker and countless others who have produced hip-hop-as-cultural-content/critique began; it makes sense for us too…if you can’t tell, I feel like this is the most important album in hip-hop; were I crafting a hip-hop Broadway extravaganza, I'd beg Bin Hassan to allow me to use "AM" to open it.

The lyrics for that track can be found here (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2211319&postcount=76).

[Mr. Bee]

For my sixth pick, I'm going a bit more mainstream, but I'm also trying to show a bit of love for the city that I basically work in, and spend nearly half of my life in. I've also got to get something mildly current in... so I can't think of anything better than one of my favorite rappers of all time:

Trick Daddy - WWW.THUG.COM

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000AG9C.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

"Hold On" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

[MikeLastort2]

Who's turn is it?

[Mr. Bee]

Who's turn is it?

Hell if I know

[stevieg987]

Its Minor Threats I think.

[minorthreat]

Its Minor Threats I think.It is? Okay, I didn't know. Give me a second.

[cpwilson80]

We're totally out of order right now (not that I helped things):

This round is:

1. Vivzig – Disaster strikes
2. Distrunner – Viktor Vaughn – Vaudeville Villain
3. Mike Lastort – Common – Resurrection
4. CpWilson – Wu Tang Forever
5. Minor Threat - Planet Rock
6. Mr. Bee - Trick Daddy
7. IceBlink
8. Mel Brennan - Be Bop...
9. Stevieg987
10. Fleck
11. Metroweenie

So, it should be Ice, Stevie, Fleck, and Metro to wrap up round 6.

Round 7 then goes Metro, Fleck, Stevie, etc....

Skipping people and not doing this in real-time makes this confusing quickly.

[cpwilson80]

Moral of the story: IceBlink is up.

[Iceblink]

Yeah, me. Sorry... busy day at work. Was on but had to get off quickly.

Anyway, I'm ready.

Here... check this out....


Gonna check and make sure this wasn't taken then edit the message to choose in a couple minutes...

Ok... looks like I'm good.

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_i/300_80/2b983146-98d6-4c25-b039-cea3e03e398f_600308886025_800.jpg

Mr. Lif - I Phantom

Good stuff... smart... Nice backing tracks, but it's just so interesting as far as lyrics go.

[minorthreat]

Ah. Snake draft and all that.

Snakes on a PLANE!

[stevieg987]

Ah. Snake draft and all that.

Snakes on a PLANE!
ur pick

[minorthreat]

ur pickIs it? cpwilson seems to think otherwise.

[stevieg987]

Ice Blink went now its you

[minorthreat]

In that case, I take Stetsasonic's In Full Gear.

[cpwilson80]

Steve, you're up dude.

It's you, then Fleck, then Metro to wrap up the round.

Metro's second pick would start the second round.

[cpwilson80]

In the interest of avoiding confusion for the rest of the time, here is the order for the rest of the draft:

End of Round 6
01 Stevie -- We're here
02 Fleck
03 Metro

Round 7
04 Metro
05 Fleck
06 Stevie
07 Mel
08 Ice
09 Bee
10 MinorThreat
11 Wilson
12 Lastort
13 Dist
14 Viv

Round 8
15 Viv
16 Dist
17 Lastort
18 Wilson
19 MT
20 Bee
21 Ice
22 Mel
23 Stevie
24 Fleck
25 Metro

Round 9
26 Metro
27 Fleck
28 Stevie
29 Mel
30 Ice
31 Bee
32 MinorThreat
33 Wilson
34 Lastort
35 Dist
36 Viv

Round 10
37 Viv
38 Dist
39 Lastort
40 Wilson
41 MT
42 Bee
43 Ice
44 Mel
45 Stevie
46 Fleck
47 Metro

The end

[minorthreat]

I like that I alternate between being MT and minor threat.