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1. I agree with this comment on BoingBoing:

   There’s something that often bugs me about lots of mashups of hiphop + a more melodic and generally more interestingly written song, like this one or DJ Danger Mouse’s whole Grey Album – the boring, dick-waving hiphop track gets included almost completely, like it’s so deserving of respect its lyrical integrity must be preserved, and the more interesting piece gets included only in the form of a looped riff to put behind the rapping, and a repeated chorus.

   Mashups where neither piece is hiphop don’t seem to suffer that problem. Maybe it’s because it’s easy to fall into the standard hiphop production style – make a loop to rap over, make a longer sample for a chorus, and go…

   I totally don’t understand the love for these Grey Album-style mashups. Is it just the novelty of good music because most hip hop loops are so boring? Personally, I like the chorus hooks in hip hop much more than the rap verse.

   

   Jared

   25 Aug 10 at 10:28 am
2. @Jared:

   Is it just the novelty of good music because most hip hop loops are so boring?

   Partly, yes. It’s about hearing the verse in a new juxtaposition…

   Personally, I like the chorus hooks in hip hop much more than the rap verse.

   … which is not something you care about if you’re not into rap.

   That said, this is a hip-hop dance track. It would have been a lot better if JC’s rhymes were used intertextually with Easy’s. In that sense the track is as much about hearing Johnny over drums as it is hearing Easy over a “gangsta beat” on country guitar.

   It’s something you’d mostly hear in-da-mix.

   

   Jack

   25 Aug 10 at 11:24 am
3. I there’s a danger that my comment is just rephrasing what you’ve both said, but in a more simplistic way:

   This would have been better with more Johnny and no repeating of his lyrics. In other words, the first minute of this mashup was interesting.

   

   Don

   27 Aug 10 at 8:25 am
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