blog #7

The Debourgoing piece was a really interesting read.  I never really gotten to hear anything from LA or even cali for that matter besides the mainstream songs.  One of the arguements that really got me thinking was that they talked about how New york and ATL and other east coast rap cities are still sounding the same.  The havnt moved on passed their ancestors while LA/west coast are.  There sound is much more different then that old school beat/basic drum that you use to hear.  The rappers rap differently from slow/fast/ putting their own flare to it.  And twitter and the web has really helped local artist keep doing what they want to do.  You dont have to get signed to keep doing what you love as these rappers talk about.  Also one of the rappers gave a great example El Prez, he mentioned that he got a beat that sounded like another "9th wonder" beat but didnt want that. he wanted something different. Which kind of hurt me cause I love 9th wonder haha.  But after listening to the other beat, it really did meld together well with his style of rap, and it sounded great.

 What im trying to say is that rappers are moving forward with a great future ahead of them.  The tools they can use, the way they can collaborate, spread out to different markets has really expanded their talents.  They are being more inovative and creative as technology advances.  As the rappers said, they are moving on from their rap ancestors and growing into something new.  Like how Doc Adams talked about remixing and sampling, we all do it, and we can create something better out of it.

More on sampling and remixolgy.  It really compares to what we have talked about in class and also what we have read about.  Access to information is vital in our world, and sharing is just as important.  The more you know, the more tools you have, the better equiped you are to take on the task at hand.  Just like how wikipedia uses this to the fullest, so do these rappers for example making one of their rap videos as cheap as possible with the resources they had to work with.  They posted it up online and now others can see it.  They even got the idea from another source online so that is how they got the idea. So the creative inovative way that rappers are moving forward to get their music out and get known, is really no different then how a journalist wants to branch out and write a piece on blogger that they couldnt do at work.

The Miller book was a pretty hard read haha.  I feel like hes the smartest dj in the world. His choice of words and metaphors are out there.  But what I really got out of the reading was that your environment you put yourself in is just as important as your ideas you have.  We live in a technology advanced day in age where if you want to do something truly, you really have to put yourself out there.  You have to be open to listen to different music if your a dj.  You have to use the web as a means to branch out and even expose your work also. Sharing is key because you are doing the same thing when you take ideas from other djs.  And the environment, wither its living in new york, or going on blogs about different sampling techniques.  Its all changing, and you need to change with it.

What I can put in comparison with the article, miller, and the class is that taking something old, and adding something to that idea or just doing it in a different way is perfectly acceptable.  And it should be, this is how our world has worked for so long.  If people wernt so greedy for money, sampling would have never had to go through those stupid cases about taking something that wasnt theirs.  We live in a world where folksonomy is important for moving forward.  Even if its for djing, or writing a article on how you feel about the current day politics, your not only helping everyone around you, but yourself as well.