Combat Jack Remembers Keith HaringA[nother] really good article from the best blogger in town/the internets. This one discusses the late great Keith Haring and the late 80's art scene in New York. CJ actually had the fortune of "burning a few L's" with the dude and for that...he is even cooler in my books. Everyone goes on and on how they wish they grew up in the 70's and could have enjoyed the hippie age and the Zeppelin jams....but me... i wish I got to experience the griminess that was New York in the 80's. Super cheap rents in a beaten down Manhattan turned NY into a artist and musician haven. The shows must have been crazy; the partis must have been crazier and life in general must have been so free. All this while in the boroughs Hip Hop was becoming its own phenomenon... ahh sooo good.. now NY is bullshit tourist everything and you have to be a gabillionaire to afford a small joint on a tiny street....in Brooklyn. annnyways this article is good ..along with the movies Downtown 81 and Basquiat along with lots of others that I have not found yet.
...and to add my opinion (on the previous Drake post).. i don't think there will be any kind of frenzy from American labels trying to sign Canadian Hip Hop artists...(ain't they hear about Classified and Moka Only aleady??? ha) i think they got enough to choose from in their own country (where is Drake's pops from?? Memphis? step your game up Memphis rappers...the labels are watching! lol) oh and I don't think he's signed to Young Money... that would be foolish ..
EDIT: It seems I am the foolish one... Drake did sign on with Young Money..but props to him for going the indie route and not giving the majors what they want.
Good looks my dude.
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