Slug, “Blah Blah Blah” ( Shadows on the Sun, Rhymesayers Entertainment, 2003) Southern rappers compress everything into a couple slurrrrred syllables Northerners E-NUN-CI-ATE every word. Public Enemy play the Mainstage at 8:15 p.m. Of course, this is the album where PE decided to streamline their hyperkinetic cut-and-paste as they got even preachier, a move that cost them their mass audience.
Mainstage 3.3 roll back tv#
Later, I heard Public Enemy do “Can’t Truss It” live on TV it wasn’t half as powerful. The opening is a seasick meshing of distant moans, screams, ship creaks, slave-ship statistics, and Malcolm X. It was the most terrifying thing I’d ever heard. Public Enemy, “Can’t Truss It” ( Apocalypse 91 … the Enemy Strikes Black, Def Jam, 1991) Halloween 1991: I sat with my headphones on as my father handed out trick-or-treat candy and kept rewinding this track. “You’re a slave to a page of my rhyme book,” Nas taunts, and between his vocal’s steely menace and the deadly rhythm track (who’d have figured you could make a break as old and overused as “Apache” sound so new?), I’m guilty as charged.
Nas, “Made You Look” ( God’s Son, Columbia, 2002) This opens with a gunshot and ends suspended in midair in between, one of hip-hop’s greatest and most uneven MCs gets hungrier than he’s been in a decade. The result, a heady stew of rock, hip-hop, jazz, R&B, electronica, aural slapstick, and various combinations thereof, sounds pretty great - even if it isn’t quite like being there.ġ.
Rules were simple: one song per artist, from any point in their career. What would a Bumbershoot disc look like? The answer, of course, is both “long” and “varied.” So this year, we decided to put together our own conceptual package - which, as it turned out, took four CDs to house - that doubles as a highlights map and a go-to concert schedule. The idea was simple: From Woodstock to Barcelona’s annual Sonar festival, lots of music festivals have released commemorative albums.
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