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Well, one thing. I never knew that indians didn't have the right to sing the blues. I think it is an interesting way to open up a song like this though. I think he is recognizing a kind of cultural legacy that runs through African-American music.
When I first heard Bunky rhyme I was sort of nervous like man I wonder if he can rap? Then as the song went on, his inflection or his lyrics became more important than this style, which i think added to a sense of honesty.
I think it would be kind of cool to see Bunky perform live, if he felt as though he wanted to share more of his music.
agreed. i also thought it was odd that he opened the song with that. i was like of course you have the right! as long as you really got some blues. and i think as the song goes on the lyrics prove his "right" to sing em.
and yeah... at first his style is like... ummm... but then his talent for storytelling takes over... which is exactly why blues is not hip hop and hip hop aint the blues.
But, then he is not really singing per se, I think he really is rapping. And, um, I think he comes off as someone who wanted to experiment with a certain genre of music rather than as an artist working within a genre. What's interesting then as that he uses not beats, but the blues to create this sense of honesty. I also found it sort of intersting that he finds so many expressions for cheating. He must have really been dishonest!
Is he reaching out to other guys in this song...?
I have to say I think this is a very unique piece within contemporary native music. It's not altogether a blues song, which there is a lot of to be found in native music. It's not a hip hop joint exactly, either. It's a really a hybrid of two forms of contemporary music. It's like he wanted to reach a certain age group, or maybe identify with a certain age group with his style, and connect to another, older generation with his choice of music. And, I think he recognizes a kind of call and response theme within African-American traditions as does sort of sample the blues piece... giving it a hip hop feel.
also, I wanted to drop a note about Hollywood, Hip Hop and its influence on contemporary native drum and dance music. I was a sophomore at South High in Minneapolis in 90-91. I went to school with the guys who formed a drup group called the Red Crow singers. A couple of years later, the younger brothers and a slightly younger group of guys formed the drum group that would be called The Boyz. They were from Minneapolis and were the first--to my knowledge--to really embrace hip hop culture within pow-wow circles by calling themselves The Boyz. I am guessing when I say it was probably a distant reference to Singleton's Boys in the Hood. Last spring, the Boyz were the winners of one of the largest pow-wow singing contests held in the U.S. at the Gathering of Nations pow-wow. The influence of hip hop culture on young urban native youth by 1990 was widespread. in fact.Their songs, etc. were contemporary and traditional styles of pow-wow singing and so forth, but their style of dress, the music and culture they identified within and outside the pow-wow arena was rap music and hip hop culture on the whole. I don't remember their first CD cover, but I if I am not mistaken it was graf. art. The point of which is to say the group took elements of pop culture and remade them, and indianized them.
i guess he's kind of an outkast them. because hip hop purists would disown him as would a blues man like son house.
i guess that's not a bad thing tho because thats how new types of music are invented.
the key in creating any new form of music i think is to be aware and be honest about the historical path.
music is such a source of history. it's like a book of words but better because songs and new styles of music store much more historical information in them than books and words.
the indianizing of pop culture is a given in todays world. basquiat and worhol probably are the best symbol of that. its what much of the art in todays culture is based on, reworking shit. it feels like we're just in one of those ages where originality isn't necessary because so much old information to draw from is being re-exposed. and the pop is able to be recycled in so many ways. technology has allowed us to reuse cultural substance many more times over than we ever have.
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