Enjoy.. or hate, your opinion is welcomed.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Ghetto on Westwood.
I am very new to Grime but I was put on to this dude by a friend of mine from the UK. I think he's very dope at what he does. His teeth seem extremely yellow but according the youtube comments (always a good source of info... and racism) thats caused by the lighting in the studio. An education in both lyricism and dental hygiene.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Prime & Purpose in Obese Carjack Tour
This Saturday night Purpose and I team up as a duo for the first time since our 2007 World Rap Championship Partnership. No, we are not battling at a very high level, we are checking in for the Adelaide leg of Obese Records' national Carjack Tour and setting the show off. If you feel like seeing us on the same stage as Pegz come down and say hello. I'll try and get some video to throw up early next week.Heres the flyer with the full lineup.
Australia's Got... Nothin?
I should probably get the ball rolling on this one by saying that I had never watched a full episode of the Australia’s Got Talent until recently. Maybe I can put it down to being busy whatever night it was on. Maybe I heard from a friend or co-worker that Dannii Minogue was on TV again and ran. Maybe I saw the nauseating ads and decided I’d rather listen to Bill O’Reilly and Rebecca Wilson dissect a Too $hort album then watch a nanosecond of footage. Whatever the reason, I had never watched a single episode of Australia’s Got Talent, quite an achievement given I usually give shows an episode to impress me. Even the worst show ever, or “The Wedge” as pronounced by some, got a whole episode before I cried myself to sleep.
Why then, would I spend time writing a blog about it? Fair question, even if it was pre-emptively asked by me and not you, and it comes with a fair answer. I write this blog because I think Australia’s Got Talent lets us down. Here’s Why…
First of all, Britain seems to, um, got, more talent than us. It also seems to got cooler stories about said talent than us. The British version of the same show produced Paul Potts, the technically alive but dead inside penguin man who sang his way into our hearts in 2007 by singing Nessun Dorma on the show. When this happened the images of the hot, slightly older female judge crying real tears at the mere sight of Pottsy’s performance echoed around the world as people flocked to YouTube to see a truly inspirational ‘rags to riches’ tale unfold in front of their very eyes. Potts went on to sell over 2 million debut albums worldwide and is now referred to as “International Opera Singer Paul Potts”. In Australia’s Got Talent the same year, 2nd place was given to some bloke who is only listed as a “Gum leaf musician”. No world class opera singer, no 2 million records.
Last week some old Scottish lass pretty much jacked Paul Potts’ swagger by doing the exact same shit 2 years later. The same response happened all over again, including crying hot 39 year old judge and worldwide pandemonium. She, Susan Doyle her name is, has been on Oprah and every news service except Fox News (presumably due to the aforementioned album review). Also this week, In the Australian version of “Got” (since we love shortening TV show names to the point that saying a complete word seems over the top), a kid who does tricks of a Yo-Ho Diablo made it to the grand final of Australia’s Got Talent.
Britain got world class opera singers and life-turning moments of inspiration. Australia got gum leaves and fucking yo-yo tricks. Embarrassing.
The other thing I don’t like about our version of Got is the name itself. No it’s not the fact that it’s bordering on being grammatically correct. My iPod is full of people like Eazy E, Yungun and Tech N9ne so to me that’s not a problem. I just think the name is inaccurate. Not to say we don’t have talent, more to say it is not found within this show.
Even the judges don’t got talent. Dannii Minogue is not talented. The only way you could possibly say she had talent was if she was in a pub and someone said “There’s a bit of talent in here.”, but even then, probably not. My friend said to me “Danni Minogue is the least talented person in show business”, to which I replied “what about Kim Kardashian?”. He said he thought Kim had more talent because you could watch her sex tape without being physically ill. Red Symonds is just Simon Cowell without the ideas and the millions. Tom Burlinson you could make a case for but at the end of the day he’s best known for imitating someone else. There is really not talent on this show at all, and that’s why the name is wrong. It would be like having a show called “This Room Is Full of Fish tanks”, only to discover it was a cop drama.
That about covers it. I don’t like Australia’s Got Talent. I’m pretty much over reality TV in general to perfectly honest, although Masterchef looks like it could be fun, even if isn’t the Masta Ace/Raekwon collaboration album it hints at.
Peace to all (including Dannii Minogue).
Why then, would I spend time writing a blog about it? Fair question, even if it was pre-emptively asked by me and not you, and it comes with a fair answer. I write this blog because I think Australia’s Got Talent lets us down. Here’s Why…
First of all, Britain seems to, um, got, more talent than us. It also seems to got cooler stories about said talent than us. The British version of the same show produced Paul Potts, the technically alive but dead inside penguin man who sang his way into our hearts in 2007 by singing Nessun Dorma on the show. When this happened the images of the hot, slightly older female judge crying real tears at the mere sight of Pottsy’s performance echoed around the world as people flocked to YouTube to see a truly inspirational ‘rags to riches’ tale unfold in front of their very eyes. Potts went on to sell over 2 million debut albums worldwide and is now referred to as “International Opera Singer Paul Potts”. In Australia’s Got Talent the same year, 2nd place was given to some bloke who is only listed as a “Gum leaf musician”. No world class opera singer, no 2 million records.
Last week some old Scottish lass pretty much jacked Paul Potts’ swagger by doing the exact same shit 2 years later. The same response happened all over again, including crying hot 39 year old judge and worldwide pandemonium. She, Susan Doyle her name is, has been on Oprah and every news service except Fox News (presumably due to the aforementioned album review). Also this week, In the Australian version of “Got” (since we love shortening TV show names to the point that saying a complete word seems over the top), a kid who does tricks of a Yo-Ho Diablo made it to the grand final of Australia’s Got Talent.
Britain got world class opera singers and life-turning moments of inspiration. Australia got gum leaves and fucking yo-yo tricks. Embarrassing.
The other thing I don’t like about our version of Got is the name itself. No it’s not the fact that it’s bordering on being grammatically correct. My iPod is full of people like Eazy E, Yungun and Tech N9ne so to me that’s not a problem. I just think the name is inaccurate. Not to say we don’t have talent, more to say it is not found within this show.
Even the judges don’t got talent. Dannii Minogue is not talented. The only way you could possibly say she had talent was if she was in a pub and someone said “There’s a bit of talent in here.”, but even then, probably not. My friend said to me “Danni Minogue is the least talented person in show business”, to which I replied “what about Kim Kardashian?”. He said he thought Kim had more talent because you could watch her sex tape without being physically ill. Red Symonds is just Simon Cowell without the ideas and the millions. Tom Burlinson you could make a case for but at the end of the day he’s best known for imitating someone else. There is really not talent on this show at all, and that’s why the name is wrong. It would be like having a show called “This Room Is Full of Fish tanks”, only to discover it was a cop drama.
That about covers it. I don’t like Australia’s Got Talent. I’m pretty much over reality TV in general to perfectly honest, although Masterchef looks like it could be fun, even if isn’t the Masta Ace/Raekwon collaboration album it hints at.
Peace to all (including Dannii Minogue).
Styles P feat. Pharoahe Monch - My Life
It's 7 years old now but I've been playing this repeatedly lately thanks to a reminder from a friend of mine. One of the catchiest hooks in hip hop history I reckon. It comes from Styles P's album "A Gangster and a Gentleman". Enjoy.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Welcome To The Future Of Right Now.
I’ve been thinking about starting up a blog for a while. A handful of you, or more realistically the ones I tell directly about this, will remember some of my blog entries on MySpace ( www.myspace.com/primeishere ). Life-altering as they were, they were also very infrequent (one in the entire 2008 calendar year and not many more in 2007), and so I have decided to focus, at least some of my attention on a much more regular journal.
Those old MySpace joints were usually about 2000 words long, rarely ever about anything in particular and often included speculation about when Saigon’s debut album might be released. The Saigon album still doesn’t exist but those other things I said a sentence ago are going to.. also not exist. What you will find here on PrimeIsHere are more regular, to the point, quick and consumable updates. There will still be the occasional hour long rant about how Stephanie Rice would be attractive as a check-out chick but not so much compared to other famous chicks, but these will be very much in the minority.
For those of you who never read any of those blogs, disregard everything I’ve said to this point (except the bit of about Steph Rice obviously because it’s a valid point) and welcome to the future of right now. I’m not trying to take over the world; I’m just trying to take over your house. If I can have even a small group of people read this regularly I’ll be thrilled, If not then I’m one step closer to being justified for a murderous rampage. Don’t worry though; as long as Zeke from Neighbours never releases an album everyone is safe. Ish.
Oh by the way I’m currently working on 2 solo releases and one with the very fashionable Pagen Elypsis Rap Unit. You will hear and read a lot more about this in the following days, weeks, months and generations.
That’s it for the intro, sure it wasn’t much but at least you didn’t have to listen to DMX talk about Jesus again. Blogging begins for real in no time flat.
Roll With Me in 2009.
Those old MySpace joints were usually about 2000 words long, rarely ever about anything in particular and often included speculation about when Saigon’s debut album might be released. The Saigon album still doesn’t exist but those other things I said a sentence ago are going to.. also not exist. What you will find here on PrimeIsHere are more regular, to the point, quick and consumable updates. There will still be the occasional hour long rant about how Stephanie Rice would be attractive as a check-out chick but not so much compared to other famous chicks, but these will be very much in the minority.
For those of you who never read any of those blogs, disregard everything I’ve said to this point (except the bit of about Steph Rice obviously because it’s a valid point) and welcome to the future of right now. I’m not trying to take over the world; I’m just trying to take over your house. If I can have even a small group of people read this regularly I’ll be thrilled, If not then I’m one step closer to being justified for a murderous rampage. Don’t worry though; as long as Zeke from Neighbours never releases an album everyone is safe. Ish.
Oh by the way I’m currently working on 2 solo releases and one with the very fashionable Pagen Elypsis Rap Unit. You will hear and read a lot more about this in the following days, weeks, months and generations.
That’s it for the intro, sure it wasn’t much but at least you didn’t have to listen to DMX talk about Jesus again. Blogging begins for real in no time flat.
Roll With Me in 2009.
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