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Cyrus Malachi: Ancient Future

byThe Music Critic ~Thursday, 17 March 2011 Labels:

Ok, I take it. I know basically nothing about the whole hip hop scene here in the UK. I am of an age where the whole thing passed me by. I ain't got a 'crowd' or flow from the 'street' and I just don't refer to it. The endless repetitive beats and samples strike me as lazy but the one thing most it that I do get is its lyrical nature.

The Music Critic: Cyrus Malachi: Ancient Future

Cyrus Malachi: Ancient Future

byThe Music Critic ~Thursday, 17 March 2011 Labels:

Ok, I hold it. I know basically nothing about the whole hip hop scene here in the UK. I am of an age where the whole thing passed me by. I ain't got a 'bunch' or fall from the 'street' and I simply don't pertain to it. The endless repetitive beats and samples strike me as lazy but the one matter about it that I do get is its lyrical nature.

what is happening to hip hop?

Is hip-hop dead? Thatdepends on what you necessarily mean by "hip-hop". For hip-hoppurists,hip-hop is and has been an avenue for mostly youthful,disenfranchisedpoor inner-city black men to categorical themselvescreatively andgive voice to their frustrations and their fears, dwellingas they haveon the fringes of American society. It started as a motionthatincorporated not only new music but break dancing moves and freestyle battles.

Wisdom Seeker-Beats, Rhymes, Life. FAT LACES AND FADES OLD .

Written by: WISDOM

For one night, 12 N. Eutaw Street in downtown Baltimore was the position for hip hop royalty. The Hippodrome Theater was transformed into anold school mecca for what can be considered the"Golden Era" of hip hop. Aptly named "Fat Laces and Fades", this concert event represented a who's who of those artists that shaped my musical upbringing in the 1980's: Special Ed, Dana Dane, Whodini, MC Lyte, Slick Rick, Doug E.