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May 11, 2006
status ain't good · by Rafi Kam
One purported hip-hop blog that spends half its time discussing white rock acts is more than enough for the link list. We already have Bol for that.
Still there was no real reason to get rid of the link to Village Voice blog Status Ain’t Hood. At least there wasn’t until today when Tom called California Love one of the 2 best rap videos of all time.
Sorry, I know opinions are like voices – we all have a different kind – but I can’t endorse this kind of thing with a permanent link.
Comments for "status ain't good"
Hahahaha Useff and I were just talking about how abysmal California Love is.
Sure, it’s an opinion, but it’s a horrible opinion. Dr. Dre with an eyepatch. Death Row meets Mad Max.
What’s next, Bad Boy meets Star Wars?
— Noah May 11, 10:30 PM
omg
— Tones May 11, 10:49 PM
I knew when the dude said he had just heard the DJ Khaled record in mid-April for the first time a good three months after it dropped and most hip hop blog nerds like myself had heard it, that this dude was not real with his.
Frankly, I find most of these so-called hipster hip hop bloggers corny. I f-cks with Barat and a handful of others and that’s it.
— ian May 11, 11:00 PM
Co-sign Ian’s post. Don’t even get me started on these hipster hip-hop critics.
— Joey May 12, 02:40 PM
shorty crunk
— randolph the iv May 13, 05:59 AM
why does everyone get the idea that it’s a hip hop blog? click around, you’ll see that it covers all types of music.
its almost funny how everyone throws a hissy fit just because a dude talks about “white rock acts” in a blog that also discusses hip hop.
— me May 14, 09:14 PM
ha
This entry and “that one” are both funny. Yeah, WTF @ California Love. Claiming that’s a great video is so MTV ‘98 . . . Guy said “rap videos suck now” without realizing something like California Love is the reason why.
Sideroll politics.
— fletch May 14, 09:24 PM
i thought the california love video was cool…..
(hides)
— David May 14, 09:33 PM
“its almost funny how everyone throws a hissy fit just because a dude talks about “white rock acts” in a blog that also discusses hip hop.”
I don’t think that most people have an issue with him covering different types of music; The issue is with Village Voice (though they are hardly unique): they allow people raised on indie or pop rock and who are in their element when talking about it to review hip hop; however, they would never in a million years allow a hip hop person to review indie or pop rock.
While it’s not Breihan’s fault that the VV has such little regard for rap music and criticism, it is his fault that his knowledge of rap doesn’t extend before the late 90s, that his taste (and that of white music critics commonly labeled hipsters) in rap is mad suspect, and that he has a tendency to make “outrageous” statements that invite criticism.
Having said that, I think folks are giving him too hard a time. He may not know much about rap, but he’s entertaining.
— eauhellzgnaw May 14, 11:43 PM
Cosign on that one. I thought I was trippin when I read that. I hated the California Love video myself.
— P-Matik May 18, 07:43 PM
“No matter great some of the stuff from Lord Willin’ remains (and the “Ironic, the same place I make figures at / That there’s the same place they used to hang niggas at” line from “Virginia” still gives goosebumps), Got It 4 Cheap 2 remains their greatest triumph, the street mixtape elevated to high art.”
— wtf May 19, 04:40 PM