Word-Up!

So.. I'm kinda trapped at home after a vehicular-malfunction, thus missing the boat for a roadtrip to da'Gong (see LJ-post for details).. I thought I'd kick things off by giving a bit of an understanding about some of the things that I might drop in the future. (MY understandings, anyhow. If there are corrections or things that I should know, please feel free to hit me up!)

CRUNK
Codename for being completely belted (stoned/drunk.. chronic/drunk).. but also a type of music. Hip-hop-esque stuff originating from the South (of the U.S.Aiiight), so it has a lot of influences from the ghettotech/booty-miami bass thing. Lots of drums and fat basslines. Jyeh. Known a bit more as an 'Eastside' thing.. as I guess the 'Westside' has their Bay-area/Hyphy thing going on. Notables being people like Lil' Jon (and his Crunk Juice. Sue drank from his cup!), Three 6 Mafia, Ciara, Ying Yang Twins...

HYPHY
Pretty similar to Crunk.. but things like Wikipedia tell me its not. I guess the more 'up-beatness' is associated with ecstacy use. Whatevz. But we're talkin hawt tunes by the likes of Keak Da Sneak, Turf Talk, E40, The Federation... Even DJ Shadow got on this bandwagon.

BAILE FUNK
aka Favela Funk
Not the funk as most of us know at all! Think Rio, think Carnivale, drums, booty-bass type thing.. with people singing/rhyming/screaming in Portugese. Diplo (and his Mad Decent label), Bonde Do Role (and other "Bonde" groups). Diplo was involved with M.I.A's 'Piracy Funds Terrorism vol.1' which basically bootlegged/remixed most of her tracks from her 'Arular' album. I was thinking Cansei De Ser Sexy (CSS) should fit in this too (my vote being coz they're brazillian), but Dayna thinks they're more indie-pop.

BOOTY BASS
aka Miami Bass, Ghetto tech, Bmore
As you might already guess, the different names are just for different areas.
Miami = Florida, duh. Ghetto tech = Detroit. So chuck in some techno/electro. Bmore = Baltimore! The Good stuff. DJ Godfather (Milkbar Nick supported him @ Questacon. Haha!), DJ Assault, SpankRock, Low Budget (half of Hollertronix.. the other half being Diplo), Aaron LaCrate...

I could keep on keepin on. But thanks for reading thus far. I'll get to posting some examples soon hopefully.. or yous all have Google, so go look for some yoselves. Bitches.

But as a present, I'll leave you with something from the new Amy Winehouse album Back to Black. I realise its a bit contradictory to all thats written above, but thats why I like it. See? I'm varied. I'm eclectic. Her first album, Frank, was released in the UK when I was there a couple of years ago. I thought it was naff coz my boss loved it. But this album has the Mark Ronson touch. (You'll be hearing HEAPS more about him). "What kind of fuckery is this? You made me miss the Slick Rick Gig.." Sing it, GF.

Amy Winehouse - Me and Mr Jones (Fuckery)