First of all, top interior decorating want:
Second, I recently spent a good two hours performing tape surgery on my copy of 93 'til Infinity and it was time well spent. Tape is hype. And this video is killin' it with the out of doors, nature vibe. I realize rap is an urban genre, but this video makes you think. Loungin' on a rock and shit. On a related note, fuck this shit. Funds, holla at a bro when you need to unload your rap tapes.
Finally, this review, which is hilarious. For what its worth, I disagree that "the word 'culture' is vulgarly misunderstood." According to Raymond Williams, it is one of the most complex words in the english language. In my reading, its use here may actually illuminate and critique the word's unique etymology and seemingly contradictory forms of common usage.
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ReplyDeleteFor giving me the Purple Tape, I suppose returning the favor with "Runaway Slave" is the least I could do.
ReplyDeleteRegarding "culture," I am not familiar with its etymology nor am I particularly interested in parsing contradictory uses of the term. In describing the word "culture" as "vulgarly misunderstood" in FACE's lyrics, "Suds Denim" intends to extract FACE's unique idea of culture from the text. This "readerly" perspective is a "bass-ackwards" approach to semantics (a relic from an Evergreen education?). "Suds'" dismissal of FACE's lyrics cannot obviate the primary need of the reviewer to sidestep teleological interpretation of a text. But that Snakerun review was hella tight, tho.
I would agree that the lyrics to "cultural awareness" constitute a writerly text. I would have assumed, however, that an Evergreen education would have challenged teleological interpretations in favor of some overly utopian notion of an empowered reader or something.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, Snakerun is making a comeback in a big fuckin' way. Top demo-only mid-00s ripper.