{"id":199,"date":"2002-08-01T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-01T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/urban_x-posure_2002.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:47:51","slug":"urban_x-posure_2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/culture\/urban_x-posure_2002.html","title":{"rendered":"K-OS wins for best rap\/hip-hop recording at UMAC 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to yesterday’s entry<\/a>, Nelly Furtado did not win for best hip-hop\/rap recording. Instead, K-OS<\/a> won for his track Heaven Only Knows<\/a>. I’ve had a listen to Exit, K-OS’ last, and first, album, and it’s pretty tight, containing a lot of energy and positivity. Check it out when you can.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Urban X-Posure Awards<\/a>, why is “urban” synonymous with “black”? I mean, check out this flyer for UMAC 2002<\/a>. Not a pale face among them even though the winner in the gospel category is a white boy from Winnipeg. Whitey just can’t get no marketing representation, yo.<\/p>\n

Actually, this whole idea of a Canadian urban music awards is seriously flawed. Is gospel really<\/em> urban? How come there are R&B\/soul and hip-hop\/rap categories but only one “electronic” category which lumps house, techno, jungle, etc. under one banner? Let’s look at that DJ category: all hip-hop\/R&B with Baba Kahn, Baby Blue Sound Crew, and Starting From Scratch pretty much the only nominees for the past three years<\/em>. While these guys might be good DJs in their own right, they’re nothing against the likes of Richie Hawtin, Kid Koala, A-Trak (1997 DMC champ) and many more who are internationally known<\/em> as some of the world’s top DJ talent. And a “best promoter” category? What the fuck is with that?<\/p>\n

If a music awards show is just a bunch of friends and record execs patting themselves on the back, then UMAC succeeded. That’s too bad, because it could be so much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to yesterday’s entry<\/a>, Nelly Furtado did not win for best hip-hop\/rap recording. Instead, K-OS<\/a> won for his track Heaven Only Knows<\/a>. I’ve had a listen to Exit, K-OS’ last, and first, album, and it’s pretty tight, containing a … Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}