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Just came across J-Tong's Mohican And The Barefoot from last October: hip-hop but with rhythms that are hard rock more than they're R&B.* I like the album version of "개판" ft. Nobrain far more than the one from two years ago that gets streamed online, so here's a raw live clip of what I assume is the newer, better version:

[LIVE CLIP] SpeakShow9 Busan Tour 26. J-TONG - 개판


Question: Is there a lot of this rap-rock stuff in Korea, or is J-Tong the main guy?

*Of course, the people who invented hard rock in the '60s, the Stones and the Yardbirds most prominently, were saturated in R&B. That late '60s and early '70s groups like the MC5 and the Stooges were also saturated in R&B helped them to rock harder than most of their contemporaries. As did Miles Davis in the '70s, running together rock and funk and R&B and that other genre he's associated with (not to mention Sly, Isaac Hayes, Kool & The Gang, and a host of others). So I'm not saying that R&B and hard rock are opposites. But nowadays what's called rock and what's called R&B are pretty distant from one another (in genres like country the rock and the R&B do sometimes meld together, but they're rarely called rock and R&B); the broad area designated "hip-hop" is one place where rock and R&B do occasionally, explicitly rub shoulders.

Anyway, I've been arguing that over the last quarter century techno and acid house and rave more than rock have been playing the social role that rock once played.

Date: 2013-09-11 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com
Don't know about Korea. But I have a "Rock-rap" genre tag in my music library, thanks to a couple anime themes and a franchise (manga, anime, live action movie) about the rise of a fictional band, which involved many actual bands contributing to covers and a tribute album and such, so that I get the impression that it's a fairly established sub-genre in Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2maJyMSXxU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fciWeBOXnCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz-lDWV55n8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJKU6HUEqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkZ3NNoExA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC2X_6avSp8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQBDXHOpbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxZHy_PAeI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfp58OvycAA
Edited Date: 2013-09-11 01:01 am (UTC)

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