Also I’m hella stoked that I found Let’s Get Free on vinyl yesterday for a reasonable price. My copy got burnt in a friend’s house fire and they’ve been too expensive for my wallet for over a decade.
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No doubt, not sure how minneapolis became a hip hop mecca but rhymesayers really cultivated some talent. I assume you have, but if you by chance haven’t seen saul williams movie from the late 90’s called slam it’s truly an epic piece of lofi film art. Same director (marc levin) who did brooklyn babylon with black thought and that comedy parody called whiteboyz from around the same time period. Now levin works pretty much exclusively on documentaries but he was really connected to hip hop culture back then.
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Never heard of it. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Slam is honestly my favorite collection of saul williams performances, I would have never bought amethyst rockstar in 2001 when it came out if I hadn’t watched slam prior to that, really like that one as well but slam is super real (to me at least!)
Not to downplay brooklyn babylon which is also good and features a lot of good actors who either cameo’d or later made it big, but it’s less transparent as a film and has a bit more of a scultped feel, slam comes across as a hunk of raw materials even though there is a plot, it’s saul williams first and probably only real acting gig, and a lot of it (from the commentary) was totally on the fly, just dealing with what came up and directing the actors by telling them the mood more than the dialogue.
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Such a milestone moment. It’s one of those videos that I have to watch again when someone post it. The fact he’s able to recall all these bars in the moment from the enormus library of flows he keeps in his head is truly amazing stuff.
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what does not writing it down have to do with not remembering your own lyrics?
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I almost forgot about these guys! They’re more electronic, but with rap collaborators etc. Kind of like more hop less step Bass Nectar or something like that.
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these old ladies know more about hiphop than most of the shit coming out today
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fuckin mark curry, hangin with mr shorter.
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damn
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Happy 20th anniversary.
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That’s amazing! Thanks for posting!
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