RADIO SUX, DT ROX
First off, apologies to anyone who has emailed or messaged me, I’ve been totally off DT for a while (more than two weeks… a record!) because I’ve been away on holiday. I don’t know if any of you have heard about this big old volcano that has erupted in Chile? Well, I’m quite close to that and the city I’m in has been covered in ash and I’m stranded!!! So I figured I’d get to doing a new blog and a new track…. But still I cant hear stuff cos the internet in Argentina is so slow, so it will take me a little while to get commenting.
So, this morning I woke up to the radio playing standard hip hop charts and latest tunes. It was a Spanish station but a fair chunk of it was American hip hop. My first thought was “screw this, I’d rather be listening to my Deetz”. (oh yeah, I’ve been calling us Deetz, because I can’t be bothered to write/say ‘people on DT’ all the time). Now, if you think about it, that’s kinda messed up. Why would I want to listen to a bunch of amateurs making music in their bedrooms, when there is a whole industry of professionals with slick-ass equipment, teams of writers and musicians and time to be thinking about making music full time?
Don’t get me wrong – not everything on the radio sucks. I don’t believe anyone that says they hate everything on the radio, because a lot of the most inspirational artists get plenty of airplay and there always the odd pop hip pop track that finds it’s way into your heart (come on, who doesn’t like Kelis?). But because we know what we like and we all like GOOD MUSIC, it’s frustrating when you hear some plastic hip hop clones make plastic hip hop… and those fraudsters get PAID for it!
I’m not saying that if the radio suddenly started playing DT music it would be good. Let’s face it; if most of the music that we hear on DT came on the radio, we’d probably wet ourselves laughing. Even the frontpage stuff would often make you switch channels if you were in your car. But I think that because most of us who listen to this music are also making the music, we’re part of the process. Even if we don’t know the other people on DT, we know of them. And we kinda have an idea of what they might be like, even if we are totally wrong about them, they are a character in the world of DT. (In fact, I often see DT world as a bunch of cartoon characters… is anyone real out there? Dominion… when you gonna do a DT cartoon??).
We kinda know what we’re gonna get when we click on a track by Grip, Stripez, Seoul etc etc.. all the deetz who keep putting tracks out. Of course, sometimes we’ll get a surprise, but you get what I mean. That part is not really different from the radio. Some people you like, some you don’t. But another thing that makes DT more enjoyable than the radio is the progression. You see people learn and get better. No offence Skittles, but you were lame when you started out, but every time I listen to your tracks I’m like, ‘damn, this is getting hot’. There’s a lot of cats like that. Hell, I think EVERYONE seems to have gotten better – I know I have. We all push each other because we all wanna be better than the next man/woman.
Plus there are artists and tracks on DT that I honestly think are better than a lot of what I hear on the radio. Maybe it’s slightly because they are a little bit rough and raw, and because we feel closer to the music because we’re part of it, but some stuff just IS better. I get to hear that on the kkrunch tapes and it’s obvious. Make sure you keep tabs, someone has to blow soon, no?
VOLCANO MASTER!!!!!!
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Very well said, I agree
your right k.. everyone like good music/….for whatever type..genre…good music will always come to the surface somewhere…somehow..
theres alot of mother nature going on around the world it seems …cyclones,hurricanes,..volcanoes to…crazy stuff…everything is a precursor to something else..its wild how it works
glad 2 hear from u again,so its safe to say,you’re okay…and the argentina thing i feel you–wifey is from uruguay(right next door)my father in law lives in buenos aires….everything is slow there…lol–well to let you know,if you havent already seen…FAMILYTIEZ!!! is back–i guarantee @ least 10 of us on your next mixtape….DA GLOBAL TAKEOVER IS IN FULL EFFECT…WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!!1RRRRRAAAATTTT,DUCK DOWN WHEN WE BUST ROUNDS!!!!!’NUFF SAID
You already know Im witcha K…You on point wit everything u sayin.. much love girl
Yo man. fellin you
k i was feelin the same way a couple of days ago
i forgot my ipod which mostly consists of DT
tracks, so i was like i’ll put the radio on
and i can honestly say…out of 4 hip-hop songs
i could only stand one of them.
stay safe and get home soon…
L
k i was feelin the same way a couple of days ago
i forgot my ipod which mostly consists of DT
tracks, so i was like i’ll put the radio on
and i can honestly say…out of 4 hip-hop songs
i could only stand one of them.
stay safe and get home soon…
L
YEAP,,
KK very glad to hear you are safe and sound……. also its funny because i made dt radio attempt two right before you sent me an email like this
http://www.americanmafiaproductions.com/radio/
yo proper, get at me, i cant wee teh email,, i figure i’ll make that next blog about it… its loooking cool man…. anyone who doesnt know, make sure you click this http://www.americanmafiaproductions.com/radio/ kristikrisis at gmail dot coconuts
Completely agree with ya on all that KK. I have lived in Australia now for over 3 years and the best part is that I have no idea what is hot on the charts. You kinda have to go seek that music out here, whereas in Canada you cannot escape it. I think DT quality and talent has gone down the toilet in alot of ways lately, however the best stuff is still hot as ever. Its just seems to be alot more diluted with garbage lately. But I’m always, bumpin the KKrunch mixes in my mp3 player, due to the fact that its raw, dope and completely original. And that shows that the best stuff on the site is still dope.
And I hope ya get out of there alive. lol. But seriously, I could think of alot worse places to be stranded in the world. Enjoy the rest of your trip
KK,GLAD YOU ARE SAFE AND SOUND,THA DEETZ MISS YA!! PEACE AND GOD BLESS!
yo appreciate you playing the kk’s man… i need to hear that!! i been away so long nad so many new faces so i havent got a feel for whats hot ubt certainly some new sicknesss…. i have only scratched teh surface and havent put my feetingo the new tracks sections… damn the idea of it feels scary…. BACK IN UK NOW…PEACE.. yo if anyone hasnt checked double on the caravan jolt, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE http://www.dopetracks.com/track/95070
that was actually meant to be a reply to kdubz… but peace y’all!! rtell me whats hot cos i have lost the story on DT!!
good luck with your volcano, sounds pretty fiesty. as far as the “deetz” go, i know you’re (and i probably shouldn’t say this, but what the hay) pretty upbeat about the way dopetracks is right now, but here’s some food for thought: positivity vs. violence… i’ve been struggling since the very beginning to understand why some of the more violent stuff isn’t cut. i mean to say i personally have observed some extremely aggressive, assaulting comments/tracks. in fact, thinking about it now i would wager thirty percent is geared toward that. if the national socialists (an american neo-nazi party) ever were to devote music and web-space to provoking each other into fistfights, every minority community would be laughing until the cows came home, but when it’s disaffected urban populations doing the same thing we somehow feel the need to coddle it as ‘artistic expression.’ don’t get me wrong, i’d rather be on the “deetz” than in an art museum anyday, and minority communities (did you guess that i’m a WASPy prick yet?) have a right to hold their ground, yet still i’m feeling the need to say something. your other post about the “gun goes click” cliche was decent, and worthy of the blog, but i think the problem here may be more serious than just a matter of styles. i know these people aren’t your kids, your children, but as such you do have a mother hen air about you that will definately continue to change things for the positive. you got a lot of eggs, lady. godspeed.