Orange UnsignedAct is another "competition" where artists perform every week and judges vote off the people they didn't like. HipHop, this year, made it to the final ten. But today I saw the reason why it doesn't regularly reach those levels in competitions like this .As long as the said hiphop artist is doing "poppy" type rap music then they stand a chance it seems. However the 3 judges on OrangeUnsignedAct really pissed me off.
Regardless of lyrical content flow and delivery, only the pop-factor seems to matter to Lauren Laverne, Simon Gavin and Alex James. The idea that these 3 authorities on Music don't seem to understand urban contemporary music beyond the level of Will Smith. From the get go they seemed to use this years rap entrant as little more than a token hiphop presence.
My point is why don't they ever just say : " No hiphop artists unless you are out and out pop because we neither respect or understand that genre". One of the judges tried to argue that "scratchin" is not relevant in 2008 rap music and have the sheer ignorant effrontery to described it as that "wigga-wigga-noise" At that point I knew that there would be no more black music in this years contest because record label bosses wouldn't know how to market it even if it won the whole thing. I wouldn't have minded if they really just didn't like it but they showed me they didn't know what they were listening to.
At the very least Pyrelli got some exposure out of it as he took his rejection like a man and didn't appear to be too fazed by the decision. I hope that R&B and hiphop artists don't stop entering after the bulls*t I've just witnessed because these buffoons need to open up their minds a little bit more or select better judges with larger tastes than these indy-rock focused judges.
Changing Alex James for Damon Albarn would be a great start as they aware from the same group yet Damon went on to create the Gorillas when embraces different styles of music.
Pyrelli, H-money,Phoebes Big Up .. You're still going to do damage ..
Rudey
Regardless of lyrical content flow and delivery, only the pop-factor seems to matter to Lauren Laverne, Simon Gavin and Alex James. The idea that these 3 authorities on Music don't seem to understand urban contemporary music beyond the level of Will Smith. From the get go they seemed to use this years rap entrant as little more than a token hiphop presence.
My point is why don't they ever just say : " No hiphop artists unless you are out and out pop because we neither respect or understand that genre". One of the judges tried to argue that "scratchin" is not relevant in 2008 rap music and have the sheer ignorant effrontery to described it as that "wigga-wigga-noise" At that point I knew that there would be no more black music in this years contest because record label bosses wouldn't know how to market it even if it won the whole thing. I wouldn't have minded if they really just didn't like it but they showed me they didn't know what they were listening to.
At the very least Pyrelli got some exposure out of it as he took his rejection like a man and didn't appear to be too fazed by the decision. I hope that R&B and hiphop artists don't stop entering after the bulls*t I've just witnessed because these buffoons need to open up their minds a little bit more or select better judges with larger tastes than these indy-rock focused judges.
Changing Alex James for Damon Albarn would be a great start as they aware from the same group yet Damon went on to create the Gorillas when embraces different styles of music.
Pyrelli, H-money,Phoebes Big Up .. You're still going to do damage ..
Rudey
<---- Pyrelli, Out but not down ..>
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