Comments on: XXL Magazine Describes Unkut

By: chronwell

chronwell — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:59:58 +0000

Rap Nerd? I’ll be that!

By: Killahh bee Dublin

Killahh bee Dublin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:46:58 +0000

XXL is so shit – that nowdayz i use it to wype my arse …

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:09:53 +0000

XXL is not what it used to be! I hate to say it, but they remind me of The Source (late 90s to now). I stopped reading XXL in 2003.

By: Roy Johnson

Roy Johnson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:59:30 +0000

If someone called me a rap nerd, I would take it as a compliment.

By: P

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:27:46 +0000

Brad Strut pretty much summed it up with the line “You’re still in the mix like Poison Clan at Robbie’s”.. Hehe.

By: brutalLee

brutalLee — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:58 +0000

Xxl. More like a smedium!
Its a label magazine. If u
Aint on interscope or u
Don’t buy 8 pages in a row of
Ad space. Oh well. Guess
Looking at hip-hop as a
Culture makes me a nerd! I’m
Ready for my pocket protector.
Just remember in our era we
Actually had to PAY for ours!
So we had to contemplate whether
It was worth the money or not.

By: Ogre

Ogre — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:21:07 +0000

Poor choice of words but I guess its one way of flagging it as a knowledgable blog rather than an up to the minute ‘what did 50 say about Jah’ blog. And if you can list the year, label, lyrics and production credits of an underground jam from 87 off the dome – thats pretty nerdy in my books – but also evidence of a deep passion for the music…

Revenge of the nerds! dont get caught up in semantics this is a good thumbs up.

p.s. Nerrrrrrrrrrddzzz lol

By: keatso

keatso — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:03:16 +0000

Im the UN Jefferson of this ish

By: fosterakahunter

fosterakahunter — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:52:15 +0000

F@#k dem lists, Robbie; They’re useless.

By: dj blendz

dj blendz — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:04:28 +0000

^^good point..and just to add to that it’s not just musical history but history period where they’d just prefer us to be ignorant

By: digglahhh

digglahhh — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:56:11 +0000

In general, I think you guys are being a bit oversensitive, but there is one important meta-point and gstatty nailed it:

“are their rock nerds? country nerds? pop nerds? baroque nerds okay i can see that, but still, rap nerds?”

In most, presumably all, other well-cemented genres of musical culture, it’s considered laudable to be knowledge about the history of that culture, its influences, etc. But, since rap is thought to cater to poor, brown people, of course it’s surprising and worthy of scorn to actually do the knowledge. It’s not just that they don’t want people realizing how badly they’ve pimped and raped the culture, it’s even worse than that. They are flabbergasted that some of us bother to read, research, and remember the history of the own culture. We’re not supposed to do that. We’re just supposed to chase materialism, make funny signs with our fingers, and revel misogyny. The term “rap nerd” is not just dismissive, it’s implicitly racist/classist.

By: PR2

PR2 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:25:16 +0000

cheers BIGSPICE that’s the best laugh I’ve had all week.

By: gstatty

gstatty — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00:48 +0000

are their rock nerds? country nerds? pop nerds? baroque nerds okay i can see that, but still, rap nerds? gtfoh, just cause no one reads your stupid magazine doesn’t mean you gotta call out sites that actually have interesting articles to read, just cause this site doesn’t have the latest and greatest news about the new soulja boy pimple cream, or what decible level whisper rap is recorded at, or any articles about the next southern rapper to be forgotten about in six months, muhfucka please, let us revel in our culture, you can have that marketing gimmick of music played on 106 and Park and mtv jams to promote your new hip hop body spray/clothing brand/beer coozy/slap bracelet bullshit

By: QUNYC

QUNYC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:16:02 +0000

…and further more whats a rap nerd? wtf?
do they mean like drake? kid cudi? guys in the smedium v neck sweaters and tight jeans…you know…nerd apparel? those guys ARE the epitomy of nerd if you asked me…
just cause I know who afrikka bambatta is…Im a nerd though? wow…wonder how they feel about KRS and guys like that..then I wonder if they would ever call them a nerd in public?
kinda makes sense though…when your dealing with a POP magazine with guys who main goal is to shift your attention from the pioneers to this new school of…nerds….
guys who want to SEEM tough to the ladies but not actually BE tough or come off aggressive…
aka rich kids…

By: QUNYC

QUNYC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:01 +0000

yup, they tryin to FURTHER divide hip hop into a them vs us attitiude…
not only is XXL bitter about blogs takin over but they hate the fact that people read “that stuff”…you know the stuff pop america wants you to disregard and totally forget about…100%pure hiphop “unkut”….
salute!