you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can t take the ghetto up out of me, dog. it s a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. boom, there it is, platinum record. country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce. aren t these girls just crazy? yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my
yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my cherry pie cool drink of water such a sweet surprise tastes so good make a grown man cry sweet cherry pie a lot of hairspray going on. there s a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not particularly deep music, but mtv pushing it. so that s selling. when i would turn on mtv, all the rock bands looked a certain way. they played a kind of music. they were expected to have a certain facade. mtv s ratings are surprisingly small. but those who do watch, mostl
My, how times have changed. I see hustling, i see killing. Thats what i rap about. You can take me out the ghetto but you cant the ghetto up out of me, though. Its a tough time to grow up in. Nirvana and kurt cobain particularly reflect the angst. I learned how to write for myself, and its pretty ironic that most people related to it. Boom there it is, platinum record. Country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. The honeymoon is over. Now we are down to real commerce. Arent these girls just crazy . Yeah, they are. You may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the Music Business in this country. Unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. Its as if there were just one National Radio station for new songs. Ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, youre getting a lot of hair bands. Youve got poison, ratt,
they modeled their sound on death row in a lot of ways, kind of a gangster rap for the east coast. jump in the rover and come over tell your friends in the gsv i got the chronic by the i love it when you call me big papa throw your hands in the air if you s a true playa i make music about what i know. you know what i m saying? if i d have worked in mcdonald s, i d have made rhymes about big macs and fries and stuff like that, you know what i m saying? brooklyn, i see hustling, i see killing, i see gambling, i see girls, i see cars. that s what i rap about, what s in my environment. keep banging and the winner is notorious b.i.g. b.i.g.! puff daddy in the house. i hosted that source awards. mayhem almost broke out in that place that night. any of y all want to be an artist and want to stay a star and don t want to don t have to worry about the producer trying to be all in the videos, all on the records, dancing,
it was such a refreshing change from the competitive sort of l.a. hollywood 80s. and it was just suddenly so cool to be from seattle. one of the biggest music biz stories these days is the so-called rain city renaissance with the emergence of noisy punk metal grunge rock. bands like soundgarden, nirvana, alice in chains, and pearl jam from seattle, washington. i m feeling i m feeling outshined outshined outshined outshined why don t you tell me what the biggest misconception about the so-called seattle music scene is? everybody s a grunge band. all these bands that actually sound pretty different from each other were being lofted up to the mainstream as, this is what grunge is. tell me a little bit about the seattle music scene. with all the attention, no one s ever asked us that before. we ve never heard that question. so, tell me about the seattle sound? what s going on up there? what s in the water?