I just bought Whiskey Blanket’s It’s Warmer Down Here (2004) on the basis of a few tracks they offered on MySpace.
It’s hip hop, socially critical hip hop (crit hop?), set atop a well constructed downtempo trip hop music bed (yeah, I’ll cut it with the hops already). It immediately brought to mind MC 900 Ft. [...]
Posted May 17, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: boulder, boulder co, Colorado, crit hop, cultivation, free mp3, hip hop, land of the free, mp3, music, politics, rap, social criticism, trip hop, whisky blanket. One Comment.
Michael Sauers pointed out Q-Unit, a mashup of Queen and 50 Cent. They’re sure to have Disney (the rights owner for Queen’s catalog) on their back soon. At least, it didn’t take Disney long to shut down The Kleptones, whose “A Night At The Hip-Hopera” has a spot on my iPod.
And that’s where the story [...]
Posted December 7, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property. Tags: copyfight, copyright, copyright law, disney, hip hop, mashup, music, q-unit, queen, rap, remake, remix, rock. 2 Comments.
