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I was born in Nottingham, moved to Birmingham just after my brother was born when I was about 2 years old, then I moved again to Manchester when I was in year 3, soooo about 8/9?? I have since stayed and grown up in Manchester, so I'd consider myself more from Manchester than anywhere else.
But I have family all over the world aswell, I have russian cousins and my uncle moved with his family to New Zealand a few years ago so I guess he couldnt be more far away.
At 11/21/09 01:48 PM, DizzeeRascal wrote:
I think there's just more of a tradition of that kind of music in the US, hip hop originating from 1960s African American culture. Grime as a genre is much more influenced by Afro Caribbean tones, the demographic who incidently make a very arge part of the black community in the UK. So yeah, essentially it's a cultural thing.
Yeh Grime is kinda accosiated with urban black youth, I always thought of it as the UK version of crunk, I think the grime scene in the UK is closely related to dubstep, I know alot of grime MCs who spit over dubstep and alot of it works.
At 11/20/09 06:18 PM, Brendan-Harris wrote:
I'm a fan of all music, seriously like mainstream pop, dubstep,
DUBSTEP?? :P
You're speaking my language boy, what type of dubstep are you into??
I'm similar I guess, I listen to a range of stuff. Got some Indie type shit, mainstream, Hip Hop, Grunge, Rock, Metal, Drum&Bass, DUBSTEP, even got some traditional african shit on my ipod, anything with a decent riddim.
Don't want to rub your faces in it, but I just found a really sweet video of that Halloween Illegal rave I went to last month, you get a really idea of how big / the vibe it had, check it out gang link
At 11/18/09 11:42 AM, DizzeeRascal wrote:
Some more hip hop breaks if anyone's interested:
Loving these.
More American style hip hop than British grime. Still sick though.
The way I always saw it, is that america has always done the whole hip hop scene better than the UK, simply because it originated there and they know how to do it so well. Artists such as these are hard to find (UK artists that can do hip hop well).
At 11/20/09 03:41 PM, Luis wrote:
One cool thing about english people is even when they are being rude or trying to insult you it sounds polite. Must be the accent thing.
Only if they are southern :)
I think the most challenging thing for me in the many times ive gone there is getting acquainted with the slang. People would say are you pissed. I'd be like 'no, i am quite happy right now please get me a beer.' and then theyd be like no you are definately pissed. and then id say ill be pissed if you dont get me another beer... apparently the term pissed in amerikkka is different. fuck you gais
We use both terms, pissed as in 'you drank so much you're pissed', and we use like 'pissed off', but I will agree we do have alot of very difficult and pointless slang. Don't even get me started on cockney rhyming slang, it's like another language.
If they are REALLY young, I think it can help them to learn. I'd say when they are under the age of about 6/7, like if they run out into the middle of the road I might give them a quick slap to teach them that it's wrong.
I would never go so far as to really hurt them, or beat them as a form of punishment.
At 11/20/09 01:47 PM, Zoraxe7 wrote:
But it IS called Soccer, 'Soccer Football' is the full but less known title anyways. American foot ball, or simply Football is closer to the sport Soccer and football evolved from, called Medieval football.
American football is the real football. Non-American football is... Soccer.
This is just the sort of thing that is gona cause friction with you if you come to the UK :)
It is FOOTBALL, and has been called that for literally centuried before 'american' football came along, have you noticed that every single country other than the US calls it football?
I think the UK opinion on americans has changed alot since obama became president, I think we all regarded americans as fat stupid arogant twats when bush was in office, now I think we're more accepting. But yeh, depending on where you go I think you should get a fairly positive reception. I come from Manchester, and we have the highest student population in europe, so I've met a fair few americans and they all seem pretty nice, relaxed & friendly people, you should do fine.
I usually work 40-48 hour weeks, even though I'm only contracted to work 20.
I gota say I'm abit annoyed about the stereotype teenagers get, that we lounge around all day eating and wanking. Often I get the morning shift which starts at 4.30am which means I gota get up around 3, and I've never been late for work once.
I'm not sure if this belongs in this thread at all is it is more grime than dubstep. I keep hearing this tune everywhere recently, which is odd because I first heard it many many months ago, it was released about Febuary but it's started to get really famous. Am hearing rusko, cookie monsta, etc dropping it in their mix
At 11/17/09 09:33 AM, Fim wrote:
I'm from the UK but I was wondering about visiting NY at some point anyway so this interests me, I'm curious though, I am 18 and old enough to drink in the UK, is it true you need to be 21 to drink in the US? :/
you have to be 21, you can watch me drink tho if that helps!
or you can be a good pal and share your beer with under aged folks.
Technically I would not be underage in my own country :P
But seriously though, 21 is way too old to wait, especially as you get to drive in the US when you're like 16? I don't see the logic.
At 11/17/09 01:41 PM, TheMaster wrote:
If you're not looking for anything in particular, this section and this section on HMV's website are excellent. Sort by genre or price. I often just put the under £10 box sets up, or the £2.99 DVDs, and see if there's anything worth getting on them. Some great prices on there. Dollars trilogy + Hang Em High for £9, and there's loads of good films in the £2.99 section.
This is by far the most helpful advice so far :) cheers
I can't believe how many good films are in the 2.99 section, and it's free delivery aswell ;) nice nice
At 11/17/09 02:02 PM, Monocrom wrote:
Cheap films?
Try Target or Walmart.
I live in the UK :)
I was also thinking of trying random DVD stores, like DVD rental shops such as blockbuster and raiding their bargin bins?? I'm not sure if they still do this but I might get some hidden gems :P
