Pitchfork discusses new rapper RAWKAN

[Brian]

i think dude said they got paid (not very much) per review but i could be wrong.

 

[RidiculousPAZ]

I can't believe I'm jumping into this, but Breihan tends to know his shit, and I have a feeling he knows what Raekwon sounds like. I would wager he maybe received a promo with a misspelled name on it, and thought he'd continue the joke a bit further. Clearly, no one here would have any idea about how uproariously funny misspellings can be.

I have no defense for the Oschino/Sparks/Young Chris misidentification, except to say I could not ID any of those cats on a verse.

If you want to ask dude, he's not hard to find: www.dipdipdive.blogspot.com. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he lurked here too.

 

[Brian]

It would be funny if it wasn't coming from a source that knows nothing about rap music in the first place.

 

[RidiculousPAZ]

Don't get me wrong, the 'Fork still bums me out when it comes to rap reviews (I still remember the error-laden, chronology-busted review of Get Rich or Die Tryin). I'm just saying that it's still possible that this might have been an intentional, taking-the-piss sort of goof.

I mean, I HATE PITCHFORK!!! ALL THE TIME!!!

 

[noz]

I can't believe I'm jumping into this, but Breihan tends to know his shit, and I have a feeling he knows what Raekwon sounds like. I would wager he maybe received a promo with a misspelled name on it, and thought he'd continue the joke a bit further. Clearly, no one here would have any idea about how uproariously funny misspellings can be.

that's a little far to go for an inside joke, no? although that would be in line with the pitchfork mentality.

i mean, i don't expect anybody to be perfect, far from it, dude made a stupid error, we all have. but i think it's indictive of the pitchfork staff as a whole that someone somewhere down the editing line (not that i expect it to be that intense) wasn't just like "dude... that's raekwon".

i feel like hip hop is such an insular style of music that it's hard to adequtely critique it without having at least some sort of attachment to the culture. and much of the pitchfork staff appear to be outsiders. and this (as well as that young gunz review) is a reflection of that

I have no defense for the Oschino/Sparks/Young Chris misidentification, except to say I could not ID any of those cats on a verse.

but if you're writing about their record why not just fact check and get it right. you can throw on any mixtape where they're solo and compare voices. that takes five minutes. it's not like these guys came out of nowhere (like RAWKAN did), they have substantial enough of backcatalog to figure out who they are.

or was that another joke? that all second string state prop rappers sound alike. if so that could've been articulated better.

If you want to ask dude, he's not hard to find: www.dipdipdive.blogspot.com. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he lurked here too.

i did not know that it was the same tom. in all fairness, i've looked at his blog in the past and he seems to have his head on straight. but aligning himself with the knownots at pitchfork and making 'jokes'/errors like this probably isn't doing wonders for his credibility.

 

[emynd]

Dude, Pitchfork (Rollie Pemberton to be exact, who no longer works for them to be fair, but still) said this: "'Dipset (Santana's Town)' is-- and this is no exaggeration-- the worst song of the year."

Ever since then, I realized, they are all stupid.

-e