My eldest offspring has been in South Asia all
summer, getting involved with the hip hop scenes over there, and has been
feeding me music suggestions since they were old enough to do so. It’s
interesting when your kid becomes grown and then you see them posting IG pics
wearing fucking Nikes on a roof somewhere in Singapore or Malaysia or idek.
Anyways, I’ve always been interested in hip hop’s global spread, and the twin
roots of that – both as organic artistic outlet at localized level, as well as
larger entrepreneurial dream for those local artists who transcend being local.
I mean fuck man, my actual local people social media feed is full of
Charlottesville rappers still chasing dreams, making videos and posts and hoping
to blow up to an economically abundant life none of us have ever known. Same
thing with Richmond. Same thing everywhere. We all want to escape the struggle,
it is a universal human desire. I think they even wrote something about that
shit in the Declaration of Independence, essentially founding father old white
dude semantics for “WE TIRED OF STRUGGLING, FUCK Y’ALL”. I’ve always wanted to
have a website that had more international hip hop coverage, not from consumer
perspective but from an artistic perspective, hyping up the good shit from all
these various corners of the Earth where those tendrils of what blossomed in
the cracks of 1970s South Bronx depression has spread. It’s amazing actually.
Anyways, KOHH’s “Dirt Boys” is a fuckin’ anthem.
This shit has gotten stuck in my head at least 69 times over the past year.
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