http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161 Fear of a Brown Blogger Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:34:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-14507 GFunk413 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:22:27 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-14507 Kid Cudi - 50 Ways to Make A record Kid Cudi - 50 Ways to Make A record

]]> http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-8401 FOBBDeep: Fear of a Brown Blogger » Blog Archive » Another 50 Ways Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:30:11 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-8401 [...] One more to add to the list of Hip-Hop tracks influenced by Paul Simon. [...] [...] One more to add to the list of Hip-Hop tracks influenced by Paul Simon. [...]

]]> http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-991 “How would we ever get over losing our minds?” « the transcontinental schlep Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:15:26 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-991 [...] August 10th, 2007 With the new Common album now out and “The People” now making it’s way off the radio, I wanted to do something like Ninoy Brown’s earlier post on the album’s title track, and bring attention to the fresh-ass wah-wah keyboard sample from its chorus. It comes from Gil Scott-Heron’s 1977 track, “We Almost Lost Detroit” and, if you listen closely, you’ll also recognize it in Black Star’s “Brown Skin Lady.” I’m not much of a sample detective, but the track always struck me ’cause it so local, and well, ’cause, how many other tracks contain such earnest lines like “When it comes to people’s safety, money wins out every time.” [...] [...] August 10th, 2007 With the new Common album now out and “The People” now making it’s way off the radio, I wanted to do something like Ninoy Brown’s earlier post on the album’s title track, and bring attention to the fresh-ass wah-wah keyboard sample from its chorus. It comes from Gil Scott-Heron’s 1977 track, “We Almost Lost Detroit” and, if you listen closely, you’ll also recognize it in Black Star’s “Brown Skin Lady.” I’m not much of a sample detective, but the track always struck me ’cause it so local, and well, ’cause, how many other tracks contain such earnest lines like “When it comes to people’s safety, money wins out every time.” [...]

]]> http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-967 Re-iterations and Citations « Daily Fortune Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:54:32 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-967 [...] Inspired by the writings of George Lipsitz’s Dangerous Crossroads, Joseph Schloss’s Making beats, and Ninoy Brown’s illustration of Paul Simon’s musical family tree, I decided to trace but also make educated guesses on how these cultural borrowings and syncretisms work in the context of their appropriations. Upon coming here (my current geographic location), I found out that George Lipsitz’s ideas circulated far and wide like mono in undergrad student populations. Lipsitz was not just a professor I deeply admired, but apparently a verb, adjective defined by an ethos of unending optimism. Lipsitz becomes an adjective in the sense that the writing is really optimistic (critically tho) but I guess you have to be if you have faith in a better future considering what a wacky world we live in today. I guess it also refers to the syncretic, hybrid ways of viewing life, finding the unlikely connections between peoples that contradict what people generally think about identity and nation; Lipsitz exposes, in the words of Greil Marcus, the “secret histories” of the United States. I guess it then becomes a verb when you put those optimistic thoughts into text on paper or computer code. So, here is my attempt at being “Lipsitzian” in considering the politics of musical citationality (if there is one…). [...] [...] Inspired by the writings of George Lipsitz’s Dangerous Crossroads, Joseph Schloss’s Making beats, and Ninoy Brown’s illustration of Paul Simon’s musical family tree, I decided to trace but also make educated guesses on how these cultural borrowings and syncretisms work in the context of their appropriations. Upon coming here (my current geographic location), I found out that George Lipsitz’s ideas circulated far and wide like mono in undergrad student populations. Lipsitz was not just a professor I deeply admired, but apparently a verb, adjective defined by an ethos of unending optimism. Lipsitz becomes an adjective in the sense that the writing is really optimistic (critically tho) but I guess you have to be if you have faith in a better future considering what a wacky world we live in today. I guess it also refers to the syncretic, hybrid ways of viewing life, finding the unlikely connections between peoples that contradict what people generally think about identity and nation; Lipsitz exposes, in the words of Greil Marcus, the “secret histories” of the United States. I guess it then becomes a verb when you put those optimistic thoughts into text on paper or computer code. So, here is my attempt at being “Lipsitzian” in considering the politics of musical citationality (if there is one…). [...]

]]> http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-893 sd Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:06:55 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-893 50 Ways by Kool Moe Dee off the How Ya Like Me Know album... 50 Ways by Kool Moe Dee off the How Ya Like Me Know album…

]]> http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161&cpage=1#comment-875 Ivan Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:53:06 +0000 http://fobbdeep.com/?p=161#comment-875 Awesome post man! Didn't know it was used for <i>that</i> many songs. ;-D Awesome post man! Didn’t know it was used for that many songs. ;-D

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