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Printed In Canada mmm ___• i-ieft i{,roi_ive Grumpy Old Dog BY BLAINE K still don't understand the it's one thing to be influenced by necessarily happen with hip vhole rap/hip hop thing The and to appreciate another cul­ hop. Hip hop is the first musical : I :haracters, personas, and at­ ture — Laura Love writes very form that was created with the titudes are completely foreign to Celtic music, for example — it's knowledge that the dominant me. I mean, who is this Busta another thing altogether to pre­ white culture would ultimately Rhymes guy? I know he was tend to be the real thing. Just subvert and commodify it for nominated for four MTV Video another case of the dominant their own gain. Hip hop and rap Music awards, but I have a hard culture trying to capitalize on artists constantly change the time taking someone seriously what is born of a subculture or form and style of their music. when their first name is "Busta." a minority. They essentially redefine hip hop Likewise "Puff- It happened to soul music. It with every release, so that even if Even though I don't have an happened to rhythm and blues. the dominant culture tries to copy appreciation for the music, I get It happened to Jimi Hendrix. them, they are already onto some­ pissed off when some guy Hendrix became an icon of the thing else. By redefining their style, named Vanilla Ice (he's now call­ '60s and '70s because of his they are always ahead. ing himself — get this — Iceman) B death and also be- So despite my finding Busta's comes along. Just another white Woods name laughable, his comment guy making a buck off a musi­ that one of the reasons he raps cal form that was developed and more now that it ever did then. so fast is so no one can steal his established by black musicians But Hendrix wanted more than lyrics is a classic example of cul- Our North American culture anything to be recognized as an — dominated by white tastes experimental blues guitarist. He And even Puff Daddy, who and preferences — has always wanted to be listened to by his samples, in their entirety, many commodified other cultural black community. And although songs recorded and made fa­ forms. It's another way to make he is most certainly listened to mous by other musicians, isn't a buck. In fact, North American by black music lovers today, how doing anything that white culture culture has always fed off the do we remember him? We re­ hasn't been doing for years. ideas of others because we member him at Woodstock, a Like I said, I still don't under­ havt festival attended by young stand hip hop, and I'm not sure sally create some­ white hippies, playing a I'll ever be able to put those al­ thing that is uniquely ours. Either warped version of "The Star bums into my own private rota­ that or we're simply not creative Spangled Banner." tion. But I'm learning to appreci­ enough to do something new. But Despite ol' Iceman, it won't ate the ideas behind the music.*' «^99 Field would be bolstering CanCon statistics at every station in the country (PO Box 48165, 595 Vancouver Burrard, Vancouver, BC, V7X 1N8) Special 'WP*^ SUPERCHIEF When I Was Young ... BY JANIS McKENZIE (Nefer) From the drum intro of the first song, "Don't Ask Me Why," you COCO LOVE ALCORN 45 Overlea Blvd, Toront list ung tc might guess what you're in for Happy Pockets EP M4H 1N9) here: 10 exuberant, loud, and (independent) CHRIS FIELD speedy-catchy songs that don't Ms. Coco Alcorn has been BY DIVINE RIGHT Chris Field shy away from poppy hooks or playing around Vancouver clubs Bless This Mess (Horton Music Publishing) even (gasp!) the subject of love and restaurants for years. The (Nettwerk) Chris Field has put together a Strong songwriting sets these only time I ever heard Coco she While Chris Field's CD c nearly irresistible package: slickly boys apart from most others who was singing jazz standards in mod-slick (see next re\ w), this good-looking cover art by local know how to rock this hard in the some West Side location, but one looks as girly-pop as can be, Renaissance man Ralph post-punk world. Superchief that was a long time ago, be­ with its cute/sad/futuristic draw­ Alfonso, real-life string and horn have two all-ages shows coming fore she sang backups for ing, childlike colours and hand- sections, and stylish, lushly-pro- up: April 23 at the Cloverdale 54*40 and toured with Ani lettering, but it is the nearly exclu­ duced songs that combine ele­ Rec Centre (1 1 bands and a Featured Merchandise DiFranco, for one thing, and sive creation of the definitely male ments of Tony Hatch (who wrote skate competition) and April 24 there's not even a hint of Cole Jose Contreras, recently seen on most of Petula Clark's hits), at the Prince George Arena.