Blue Scholars
mp3: The Ave
Dear Blue Scholars-
I’d like to congratulate you on your tremendous success thus far in your career as an exceptional deejay/emcee duo. While Utah still seems to be a little outside your sphere of influence I’m sure it is only a ma
tter of time before you’re your presence in this dry state reaches the level it is in many others.
Let me express my relief that people will soon have a big name to link Seattle and Hip-Hop together by that is NOT Sir Mix-A-Lot. Don’t get me wrong. Anthony Ray was a giant of his time, but over the years has gone the same way the rest of the hip-hop genre seems to be moving that is- out of the revolutionary and insurgent and into the purely novel (remember when Sir Mix-A-Lot did a short stint with the Presidents of the United States of America?).
There is a lot of sharp, edgy, intelligent hip-hop out there (rhyming about education and pertinent issues- What!?) that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves. I think you Geologic and Sabzi could do a lot of good to the genre with the attention you merit and work you are putting out there.
Thanks for giving me hope for the recovery of hip-hop. Let me give a shout out to Geo for writing some of the most provocative and entertaining material I’ve heard from you since you told me my first dead baby jokes in the sixth grade. To Sabzi, your beats are solid, original, and awesome. I don’t know you, but had I’d known you before I’m sure we would have been good friends.
Keep up the good work,
Nathaniel
