Tuesday, 12 July 2016

No blacks in Hauntology please, we're British

After decades of speculation about whether Simon Reynolds views the voices of ethnic minorities in rap music as a surface noise to be endured rather than enjoyed, his Wire magazine review of KanYe West's last album finally confirms what many of us have suspected all along: Grimey Simey™ doesn't care about blk ppl.

Whereas Reynolds would usually dismiss Rap's labyrinthine complex stories of life in AmeriKKKa as "some same old shit about bling and hoes" he tolerates for the thrill of the Mantronix/Bomb Squad/Dr. Dre/Timbaland/Mannie Fresh/Neptunes/Lil' Jon/DJ Mustard production backing it, his Life Of Pablo review finally makes it explicitly clear that he's always viewed the black voices in rap music as an undesirable sub-human nuisance he'd hate to share airspace with, let alone swap bodies with on some Castor Troy shit:



Moral of this story? As far as ex-Melody Maker scribes called Simon go, even Pricey has less #problematic views about ethnic minorities than Grimey Simey™.

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12 comments:

  1. Queez12 July 2016 at 21:00

    Uh oh.

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie12 July 2016 at 21:14

    Really can't believe that quote comes from an album review in The Wire and not a Britain First post on Facebook.

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  3. CrowleyHead12 July 2016 at 23:50

    Two years ago Simon asked if Schoolboy Q naming a song after "Hoover Street" had anything to do with the 'Hoover Bass' from 90s techno records.

    Mind you he's living outside of Los Angeles if memory serves right, so that says it all.

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  4. noz13 July 2016 at 00:05


    reynolds shouldn't be allowed to have an opinion until after he's stood in a room full of ppl all shouting I JUST BLEACHED MY ASSHOLE

    can't believe he literally wrote "these people" twice and not one editor was like say bruv

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  5. d13 July 2016 at 00:50

    This dude always struck me as a Clapton and Ive only read a handful of his shit.

    Also just dawned on me Pastor Troy is a takeoff of teh gawd Castor Troy
    man im slow as shit thats took me lets say ten years plus at least

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  6. d13 July 2016 at 00:53

    Also feel like theres a massive undercurrent of racism or at the v least classism in half this current #wave of skin deep woke music journalists

    Reynolds just more old school overt like yr granda who hasnt learned any of the language wary slight of hand yet

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  7. d13 July 2016 at 00:57

    White ppl, the cheek that has you calling their student newspaper The Gospel of Hip Hop or w e the sources slogan was, 1988- prsent

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  8. Kelvin Mack10zie13 July 2016 at 09:42

    Does Reynolds follow any ethnic ppl on Twitter?

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  9. Dissensus Truther13 July 2016 at 13:21

    Joe Muggs sneak edited the review when Derek was busy

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  10. Anonymous13 July 2016 at 20:51

    If Muggs edited that review, it was to throw Reynolds under the bus.

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  11. CrowleyHead13 July 2016 at 23:09

    The Muggs/Reynolds Nemesis relationship is almost Soderbergian enough to make that last comment perfectly fair.

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  12. Normski Yo gurt16 July 2016 at 00:33

    You still read magazines? yall some bitches.

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