Comments on: YOUR BOY ABOUT TO PEAK http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/ NEW YORK TROPICAL. podcast mixes from Dutty Artz family. dutty bass, nyc grime, dancehall forwards, hiphop & rap, african coochie pop, bastard dubstep, fresh heat on the regular. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:43:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: bok bok http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/comment-page-1/#comment-59 bok bok Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:57:22 +0000 http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/#comment-59 i really fucking love this song this crew have other hits too i really fucking love this song
this crew have other hits too

]]> By: rupture http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/comment-page-1/#comment-48 rupture Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:43:01 +0000 http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/#comment-48 nobody's saying L played great 'because' he was high Matt, i think Wayne's saying that you cant disconnect the fact of his deep stonedness from the overall circuitry -- which includes a ton of other factors like the more talked about vectors of aesthetics audience race class etc -- all pointing towards the idea of meaning in music being greater than a song or even musician, something generated almost communally. yeah, some bad criticism overvalues drugs, but i feel its valid to talk about certain scenes & venues & moments as having a 'vibe' determined in part by the drugs a bunch of people there are taking or on. in part.... the flip side is that alcohol is the biggest drug, in all music scenes, which is a good argument for drugs having no critically discernable stylistic impact at all (since few folks argue the creative relevant of booze on subgenres and producers and such) nobody’s saying L played great ‘because’ he was high Matt, i think Wayne’s saying that you cant disconnect the fact of his deep stonedness from the overall circuitry — which includes a ton of other factors like the more talked about vectors of aesthetics audience race class etc — all pointing towards the idea of meaning in music being greater than a song or even musician, something generated almost communally.
yeah, some bad criticism overvalues drugs, but i feel its valid to talk about certain scenes & venues & moments as having a ‘vibe’ determined in part by the drugs a bunch of people there are taking or on. in part….

the flip side is that alcohol is the biggest drug, in all music scenes, which is a good argument for drugs having no critically discernable stylistic impact at all (since few folks argue the creative relevant of booze on subgenres and producers and such)

]]> By: matt http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/comment-page-1/#comment-47 matt Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:47:18 +0000 http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/#comment-47 Scratch smoked a lot but took breaks because he worried about the effect of too much smoking on his creativity. Louis I can't say much about but I think it'd be borderline insulting to say he played such great music 'because' he was high. I'd say garden variety human brilliance and talent are a lot higher on the list of probable causes. Scratch smoked a lot but took breaks because he worried about the effect of too much smoking on his creativity. Louis I can’t say much about but I think it’d be borderline insulting to say he played such great music ‘because’ he was high. I’d say garden variety human brilliance and talent are a lot higher on the list of probable causes.

]]> By: w&w http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/comment-page-1/#comment-46 w&w Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:56:50 +0000 http://www.duttyartz.com/2008/your-boy-about-to-peak/#comment-46 I hear you on chanting down drug determinism and all, but I gotta say for myself that I've had some truly transformative experiences thanks to several amazing chemical substances (and these experiences are not mutually exclusive from being fucked up -- one can have one's spacecake and eat it too). And I don't know if we should discount the effects of something like ganja on something like reggae aesthetics (even if cats like Tubby's never touched the stuff; cats like Scratch sure did), or say, on the style of perennially-stoned musicians such as Louis Armstrong. It may be too much to credit the drugs rather than the people on the drugs, but I do think there's something to the circuitry between certain altered states and certain musical effects, approaches, etc. It's hard to extricate these things; it's also hard to celebrate them as central. Crucial, maybe. At any rate, this song seems more suited to syrup than E anyhow. I hear you on chanting down drug determinism and all, but I gotta say for myself that I’ve had some truly transformative experiences thanks to several amazing chemical substances (and these experiences are not mutually exclusive from being fucked up — one can have one’s spacecake and eat it too). And I don’t know if we should discount the effects of something like ganja on something like reggae aesthetics (even if cats like Tubby’s never touched the stuff; cats like Scratch sure did), or say, on the style of perennially-stoned musicians such as Louis Armstrong.

It may be too much to credit the drugs rather than the people on the drugs, but I do think there’s something to the circuitry between certain altered states and certain musical effects, approaches, etc. It’s hard to extricate these things; it’s also hard to celebrate them as central. Crucial, maybe.

At any rate, this song seems more suited to syrup than E anyhow.

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