Pitchfork has apparently retroactively changed the tagging on all the grime albums they've ever reviewed from being "Electronic" to "Hip-Hop". This includes everything going back to 2003 and 2004 with Dizzee Rascal and Ruff Sqwad and instrumental grime compilations too.
In a recent article, they described grime as being "the style of British trap rap with future garage influence that has bubbled up out of the post-Yeezus/Death Grips musical landscape".
What's next? Kode9 and the Spaceape are now hip-hop? The Ragga Twins? Buju Banton is hip-hop? Any jungle or garage or dubstep mix/set with an MC over it is hip-hop?
Just when you thought they couldn't be any more ignorant about club/rave and soundsystem culture (particularly in the context of dance music), they prove you wrong.
>Just when you thought they couldn't be any more ignorant about club/rave and soundsystem culture (particularly in the context of dance music), they prove you wrong.
They only care about this scene on a very surface level. Hip Hop is more "culturally diverse" and marketable/relevant so obviously they're going to emphasize it more than anything else
Christopher Hall
>inb4 Americans thinking they invented MC'ing
looool cultural appropriation
Owen Morales
i can't imagine my life ever being so bad that this upsets me. i can't imagine my life ever being so bad that i would even care about this.
Liam Bell
>I spend time on a music board but don't care about music
Christopher Rodriguez
>I go to pitchfork.com and claim to care about music
Christian Mitchell
the problem is the amount of people here who do go there and will be miseducated
Oliver Sullivan
Yeah, real serious problem that one.
Get a fucking life.
Thomas Baker
>they described grime as being "the style of British trap rap with future garage influence that has bubbled up out of the post-Yeezus/Death Grips musical landscape" why are yanks allowed to pose as ""experts"" on things they dont know about
Anthony Carter
Who fucking cares people who go there are hipsters who care about the image than the music anyways
if this isn't proof that british people shouldnt be allowed to make music i don't know what to tell you. particularly black british people.
Zachary Fisher
Last one isn't even british you retard
Noah Brooks
Yes, because they're rapping over a beat. Why is this so hard for you to get.
Also, all that shit fucking blows chunks. It may be hip-hop, but that doesn't mean it's not a total abomination.
Jaxon Kelly
How about MF Doom
Josiah Young
I fail to see the problem?
Christian Baker
You should call your senator's office, this is an outrage. I'm writing a letter right now, we need to mobilize and get organized. They can't get away with this!
Evan Stewart
>multiple threads attacking British music and British culture It's not like we're trying to do our thing or anything. I wonder who could be behind these posts?
Nathaniel James
modern british music sucks dude
Isaiah Thompson
this especially the edm shit
Julian Morgan
>caring about how some online publication categorizes music
Literally the antithesis of caring about music.
Daniel Taylor
the uk makes better edm than the states and you know it
