Tuesday, December 23, 2008
History The Best of 206 Hiphop in 2008
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Number one is...
Jake One's White Van Music (Why? For being flawless.)
The rest:
2) Common Market's Tobacco Road (Why? For being a hiphop epic.)
3) The Gigantics's Die Already (For the overflow.)
4) Silas Blak's Silas Sentinel (For being consistent.)
5) Mad Rad's White Gold (For being next.)
A closing note: I organize local hiphop into two great moments. The first is its Eden; the second is its exile from Eden. The first moment is Edenic because there is no real knowledge of a split—the mainstream and the underground. There is only one understanding, hiphop music, and one mode or ethic, innovation. Even "Baby Got Back" was as original as it was commercial. In its time, there was nothing or little to compare with its sound and style. The period of hiphop oneness ends in Seattle with the fall of Sir Mix-a-Lot. After the fall, innovation is banished to the underground. In this moment there are two clear waves and a possible third, which is presently taking shape. That third wave might have Mad Rad as its point of emanation.
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Charles, please stop.
@8 U sound like whodini and gremlins (the movie)
As would the They Live!/Drobots EP, if it wouldn't be my usual conflict of interest.
Charles, last November you called Silas Sentinel "the purest hiphop record of 2007". I look forward to it being on your list next December!
I do take some issue with your model of Seattle hiphop, but whatever. Oldominion/SUTN certainly qualify for their own wave (and are naturally hard to pin down to a certain neighborhood). Mad Rad, aside from P-Smoov, have as much to do with local hiphop as Sofcon or Datz Cold did in the early 2000's, or even as the Nerdcore scene does today; that's not a diss either, they have explicitly stated that they're "Out For Stardom"- they're not thinking about their place in local rap.
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