Quote Originally Posted by Offshore Toon View Post
Yeah, they had a much bigger crowd than you'd expect at Glastonbury. Anybody that's into their music knows who they are. Even people that generally don't like hip hop, and they're pretty well liked by that demographic too. Pitchfork have given them great ratings, so I guess that's had an effect. I won't hold it against them if they carry on, and I'll always check out what they put out. They're great musicians and deserve to get paid.
Yeah, this is always a big thing. If you can make it with that "I don't normally like Hip-Hop, but......" crowd then there's money to be had.

I don't know about you, but those people always piss me off a little bit. The supposed "serious" music people who think they're being all eclectic and shit by giving their stamp of approval to a couple of rap acts but probably couldn't hold more than a 30 second conversation with you about the genre as a whole. This is partly (or perhaps largely) just my own rap snobbishness coming through though, to be fair.

Anyway, I may be imagining this, but did I see you mention the new Wiley album somewhere else on the board? I haven't checked out anything by him in quite a long time but I'm really liking his new one.