Make no mistake I consider eskay and n8tion from Nah’Right my close friends. In internetspeak that means we e-mail each other and G-chat occasionally. Nah’Right is also the site that this website along with the other associated online projects I have worked on owes a debt to their popularity and interweb prestige (read: No money yet, but tons of impressions). When my homey at UnKut threw me the link to Brandon Soderberg’s blog No Trivia where he threw Nah’Right under the bus I almost laughed out loud. To keep from crying of course.
Brandon Soderberg is definitely one of the writers that will be the Ira Gitler, Ralph Featherman and Nat Hentoff (I would add the Stanley Crouch but we all know that is just ridiculous) of the cRap music genre. I won’t say Hip-Hop genre since there isn’t a strong connection to the comprehensive Hip-Hop movement in relation to fashion, dance, art, religion, commerce and society on the No Trivia blog, but that fact isn’t here nor there in twenty years when no one else knows the difference and I am surely deceased. So this makes me wonder why a future professor like Brandon has the need to take shots at the throne. Any boom bap dinosaur aficionado could tell you, “kings lose crowns, but teachers stay intelligent.”
Brandon lost points in my book with his later comments to Abe Beame in the subsequent thread. That was unnecessary and damaging to several people, including Brandon himself, who should get a timeout penalty from G-chatting with people until the appropriate time is served. I should further include that I feel a little ways towards Brandon since I sent him some shit in the mail and he hasn’t acknowledged receipt. Don’t get my words or emotions twisted though I do not like the animosity shown towards Nah’Right because if there is any blog site that has made Hip-Hop vis e vis cRap music still enjoyable to me it is to their credit first. ByronCrawford and Crunktastical stand up as well.
I pride myself on the fact that the comment threads here have always had a level of respect and discourse for the content and commenters that you won’t find on all forums. At the end of the day the online community is a relatively small portion of all the people on this planet. We would like to think that we are the majority of thinkers and actors in the population but this just isn’t the case. If we can’t be mindful and respectful of one another who will we bring with us on the spaceship? I salute Nah’Right for being able to be one of the respected voices of the Hip-Hop movement when it matters most. Brandon will have the rest of his life to cash in off rap music when he and the other haters write their encyclopedia.
“Talking silly words on the mic is still irrelevant.
Especially when you’re not college material,
Wake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cereal.”
I Big Homie approve this message
*just realizes I have those kicks you sent me when I won your first cRap Fantasy league*
true, true. homey writes, sounds like, from a Tom Breihantastic pov.
Still, I got to say that his breakdown on Asher Roth was pretty fiya
Yo Dallas, I’ve sent you e-mails every time I’ve gotten a post and/or a kind comment on your blog. I’m staring at a stack of comics I planned on sending you, which I mentioned here in a previous post (you didn’t respond, I didn’t cry about it, I still plan on sending them to you when I build up enough of a package). I got your ‘Next Men’ stuff like a day ago–if that’s what you’re referring to here…–because you have my old address and my dad had to forward the shit to me.
I’m not sure how I took shots at Nahright other than to suggest he’s kinda corporate which he is. Eskay turned it into it being about him by misreading my obviously joking “sucked off” comment as being something more. You as well as anyone should know, sometimes it’s fun to be outrageous and hyperbolic.
Additionally, go back and look at Abe’s initial comment. Not to be tough or anything, but in real life or internet life, when people say bullshit I say bullshit back. I’m petty like that and yeah, it makes me look bad. Sometimes my girlfriend gets mad at me when I start shit with some dude at a restaurant who’s being a prick; it’s something I’m working on I guess.
I’m mainly disappointed in this because you could’ve/should’ve commented on the original post, not waited a week when this was OVER and then wrote this.
DP– re: jazz cats, I’m very down on Crouch. He had some talent early but he’s mostly an egotist whore and at his best, he’s a third-rate Albert Murray. Although not music writers per se, you can’t kill either Ishmael Reed (prose) or Nathaniel Mackey (poetry).
If ya’ll don’t know it, check out A.B. Spellman’s “Four Lives In The Bebop Business”; it isn’t impossible some of the B-Tech kids here have even seen Cecil Taylor around Fort Greene over the years.
The best recent jazz book is by an older white guy from Chicago, Larry Kart; it’s a collection of essays called “Jazz In Search Of Itself”; his critical but enthusiastic listening and strong writing are a useful mode for anyone who fucks with music, period.
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Confession: no comment on Nah’Right because I cameto DP on the Brooklyn/Queens side, not hip-hop and don’t really follow the web-hop scene except what I pick up here.
The Music Director
Who Walk In Brooklyn
I was pretty much on Brandon’s side with the whole Nah Right thing because I didn’t even understand why Eskay cared so much in the first place. He can put up whatever he feels like cuz Nah Right is his site. If someone says something about sideways or derogatory about what he decides to post then they can read something else…Fuck ’em. At least that was my take.
By Eskay responding FIVE TIMES when I don’t even remember him commenting there before I was like “For real, son?”
One.
how many ways are there to read “sucking off”?
maybe if you knew me to be lobbing statements like that in my direction, then I might laugh it off…but where I come from, insinuating that one man is sucking off another usually leads to somebody getting the shit slapped outta them.
but whatever, I’m done.
what can I do if a certain faction of bloggers has decided that Asher Roth is trash and anybody who posts his music must be getting paid off to do so, because God forbid everybody’s tastes don’t fall in line with theirs.
Guys, i don’t know if you are all just messing around or what, but wow — am i the only one that understands that “Asher Roth” isn’t a person at all, but just a Facebook Profile? And not a very interesting one, at that?!
He’s, like, not really real, dude!
Eskay, no one asked you in the first place. Why are you announcing you’re done (and then add another two lines of bitching)? And if you’re this or that kinda guy, why were you whining about this on your twitter and stuff? Silly.
but that’s the beauty of it all Sorryberg, you can’t put me in a box. what, you think you’ve got me all figured out because I have a Twitter account? that’s the type of thinking that got you in this mess in the first place.
the fact of the matter is, you and I will likely never end up in the same room together, and so you feel comfortable poking your head out of your little hole and spewing your slick talk every few days.
Font fighting is for ’90s babies.
Eskay, although you despise any back talk directed towards you with homo toned phrases such as “sucking off” the fact that you name is being mentioned is good for publicity.
not that you need any because your site is THE site, but in this business the fact that you’re still relevant should mean something.
The only way you should care if there’s a reasonable reason to is if he’s in your tax bracket. Eddie Shades told me how much advertising cost on your site. That alone besides your undisputed rep should give you enough juice to do a Jay-Z to beef or snide remarks–not reply at all.
but what do i know…
Don’t make me call you out again Soderberg. I thought maybe I’d gotten through to you
Who’s Disco Vietnam again?
How popped shots at an XXL cover has come to the Battle At Wounded Knee is beyond me.
Every blogger take sides…Im with Dallas. Im standing right behind this motherfucker with a a pack of smokes, my laptop, and 5 zShare windows open LIKE WHAT.
Brandon,
See the thing is that I like you, [ll] of course, so I find myself disappointed in you when you reduce yourself to the inane chatter that non-blog owning commeters make.
“Corporate”, “Paid off”, “Sellout” and the similar speak is off base. Don’t you realize that when ANY one of our websites gets shine it increases the prestige of what we all do which is to broadcast information as INDEPENDENT media outlets.
If heads are salty that Nah’Right, ByronCrawford, Crunktastical or whoever is making a living then I suggest people switch their pitch to emulate those sites. You should never be salty though because you have a lane and it will increase in value as time passes.
And send me some comic books.
Also,
The reason I end up talking about this shit now is I have been high and drunk for the past two weeks. I’m just now figuring out what the hell is happening in the world.
Hmm…fuck’em yo.
Write what you like, let’em take swipes. Then knock all they pieces off the board.
That’s how I look @ it lol.
AGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH&&$$$#####!!!!!!!!
Just when I haven’t heard the name Asher Roth for a full day and a half, you innanet guys bring me back in………………………….
Gotty™ Says:
Hmm…fuck’em yo.
Write what you like, let’em take swipes. Then knock all they pieces off the board.
That’s how I look @ it lol.
Dart Adams says:
That’s pretty much my blogging philosophy. I wrote it because that’s how I feel or what I wanted to write about. If you don’t like it then read something else. If you say something derogatory about it I don’t give a fuck…you ain’t sending hooded thugs to my rest so why stress it? I save my concerns for REAL LIFE SHIT.
One.
Dallas-
I was looking for a few other issues of ‘Elephantmen’ for ya, but I’ll just send the package as is, in light of all this silliness. Do I too have the right to be offended if you don’t thank me numerous times for comics I offered to send you that you didnt like, ask me to send? They’re more than appreciated and it’s generous, but more than anything, I’m bummed you took it into this implication that somehow I wasn’t appreciative.
I’m kinda mad you dug all this back up Dallas, was this necessary?
While I agree we all are part of some internet community, the fact of the matter is
A. Eskay never commented on my blog or anything, so I don’t become part of his community until he’s salty I said something about him.
B. I’m a dude with a blog spot. You write for XXL, Eskay used to and has Nahright. You guys make money off this shit. I don’t. In one way it’s very flattering to be mentioned as being on the same level, but on another level its offensive because well, we just aren’t the same. You guys are by definition “professionals” and I am not.
C. Anyone with a brain who has read my blog KNOWS that I don’t see a word like “corporate” as negative and so, I was more pointing out a reality of Nahright than anything else. A reality that took on greater importance when Eskay couldn’t parse out his defense for his site, whether he co-signs all that posts or co-signs it because his readers will like it, or whatever else. No one’s salty that the site is what it is–note, I’ve never once said anything against the site, just where its interests lie–
D. Eskay, this is the internet dude. Stop the tough talk. I’m not going to say this or that, but I’d be the same asshole to you in person, I assure you. We could play a cowardice game on how I use my full, pretentious government name and you don’t, but I won’t because it’s retarded and I don’t care.
the best thing about THIS is—
eskay acts like this ‘gangsta’ who has to clean up his name on the internet, as if some unpaid blogger is tarnishing his website’s mega-status
don’t you have a wife and kid(s)? are you one of those “o.g.” bloggers that is too old to list your birth year on facebook?
when i think about your life outside of the internets, dude- i can’t imagine young jewberg in the room with you either
disco vietnam is music that dudes suck other dudes off to
eskay shuld post that on is website
No Brandon, you did not have to thank me for anything I sent you whether you asked for it or not. An acknowledgement of receipt is by no means obligating you to be spiritually generous to me or any other human. It just speaks to me as to who you are as a person. Tons of folks get shit from me in the mail and I never know whether they have received it or not. The quality folks take a minute to get at me via e-mail or whatevs. The shitbags act like I owe them something. Is all I’m saying.
I decided to put my two cents into this conversation so that the last word might come from the sage of these here internets, at least while Combat Jack is off raising his army.
dat narly nigga: don’t be the simpleton that your screen name implies. what asshole puts all of his info up on facebook for public consumption? don’t you know that people can use your birthdate and your hometown to mine your name for ID fraud? you prA’li didn’t realize that while you were facebook stalking eskay. stay off the ghey shit homey. this is why you should shut up and listen when old heads is talking. you might could learns something.
Smear said…
I don’t necessarily agree with the some of the (in my opinion) unwarranted attention (see Roth), but callin out Nah you’re insin uating some foul shit? BTW what the fuck have you done for up and coming artists in this music brav?
Maybe you just misrepresented yourself and in that case should focus a little more your articulation. Or maybe your just a dickhead whose misplaced idealism leads them to believe anyone with any credibility should wallow in journalistic obscurity…….
Half of the shit posted on nah is debated and/or ridiculed mercilessly and herein lies the beauty of it. There’s no major pretension of “tastemaking” influence, just an all-access platform that allows you to make your own fucking consumption choices and occasionally enjoy a semi-intelligent dispute or a complete piss-take with other cynical pricks who have some spare time on their hands. Get over it
^^^^
damn i was late on that one
But Dallas, I’ve e-mailed you and in other times sent a comment on one of your blogs about it. I’ve thanked you and mentioned before that I have some stuff for you; that’s why I don’t get where THAT part of this post came from…
I had to miss your blog comment Brandon since I basically up a series of drops overnight to post while I am at work or away from the computer. And please reread the section where I say that I don’t want this oversight of no acknowledgement to become emotional.
Here is what I take this whole story to revolve around…
The idea that somehow nah’right came into this thing with the advantage of industry connections and just the idea that these dudes are different from the rest of us now that they have reached some modicum of success is wrong. It is wrong of you to put that into the universe. What will be the situation when heavily funded media (corporate?) comes to you for your consultation.
The notion that they were somehow “connected” from the gate is crazy too. That is like how sportcasters will say that an athlete is born gifted while others are scrappy and hard workers. That boy at Nah’right worked for everything he has received. We all have.
So when you are finally paid for writing will your attempts to bring information to your audience become “sucking off”. Fuck no! So why does that verbiage go to eskay, when in the same sentence you call XXL a hype machine. Why does Nah’right get your venom? I’m not editing you as a fan of Nah’right. I am editing you as a fan of Brandon Soderberg.
Your brand deserves the best from you.
Take is as you want it.
This is just sad, I’m just sayin. Because DP and Brandon are top notch dudes, just do it like you know Craig in SP, I’m not doing this anymore, just walk away.
Why does Nah’right get your venom? I’m not editing you as a fan of Nah’right. I am editing you as a fan of Brandon Soderberg.
Your brand deserves the best from you.
Take is as you want it.
^^^
well said
“You guys make money off this shit. I don’t. ”
^ FAIL.
@ Robbie
LLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAOOOO I had the same initial thought, b.
@Brandon
“But Dallas, I’ve e-mailed you and in other times sent a comment on one of your blogs about it. I’ve thanked you and mentioned before that I have some stuff for you; that’s why I don’t get where THAT part of this post came from…”
^^^Wild emo….borderline Stan-ish.
@DP
1) DP to dat narly nigga: “don’t be the simpleton that your screen name implies… stay off the ghey shit homey. this is why you should shut up and listen when old heads is talking. you might could learns something.”
^^^Rollin @ that reality check.
I can play the last word game until the end of time.
>>I’m not going to say this or that, but I’d be the same asshole to you in person, I assure you.
not for long you wouldn’t.
>>We could play a cowardice game on how I use my full, pretentious government name and you don’t, but I won’t because it’s retarded and I don’t care.
you’re a smart guy, spend two minutes on Google.
So if someone else wrote some distasteful (in his opinion, witty in others) words towards Eskay, he’s going to go in their comment section and e-beef? Really? It’s that serious though?
Do you really think that all of the internets pass through Brandon’s blog and will believe every word he says about the functions and position Nah Right ? Like, unless Brandon was one of the corporate heads that offered to buy nahright.com or holds clout in the industry to know what Eskay’s operation really is, what does Brandon know? It’s opinion. It isn’t factual. And almost anyone with a keyboard can separate opinion from facts.
This dude Eskay defended himself on stupidness as if Brandon scanned and posted financial & contractual documents to back up his 2 seconds of mentioning nahright.com in his blog.
This is like you, a grown man, fighting a crumb snatching ass kid…. and he’s winning. Pointless entertainment.
@DP
I get the principle of it all, but in the bigger picture Eskay’s activity on Brandon’s blog + your blog about this dumb shit is retarded. Like, I respect anyone collecting the check off of this internet thing. Defending this stupidness from a person who doesn’t, not so much.
OMG, Eskay, you can’t be serious.
I’m 2 seconds from sending you freestyles from Freshmen rappers just to keep you off the comment section on this topic.
…the fuck!
I don’t really give a fuck what you think. my site is my bread and butter, so yes I’m going to defend it as I see fit. any web based businessman would do the same and ya’ll know it. something is different because my business is hip-hop blogging?
honestly, I was done with all of this, but Brandon is obviously the type of dude who has to keep poking so, on it goes.
for the record, here are the reasons why I responded to Brandon’s post.
1. while I have posted music by the artist in question, I never at anytime made any ringing endorsement of said artist, and certainly did nothing that could be misconstrued as “sucking off”
2. I didn’t appreciate the insinuation that I was posting dude’s shit because of my “industry connections” and nothing else.
3. I can’t stand elitist bloggers who think they can dictate what people should post or enjoy. normally I would ignore this type of shit, but the first points already had me riled up.
So no, I’m not gonna pop up in the comments section of every blog that mentions me or my site in a negative manner, but you’d better believe that I’m paying attention and I’ll respond to anything I feel warrants a response. this whole back and forth between me and Brandon started out civil and has only recently descended into this back and forth tough talk because he doesn’t know how to shut his mouth and admit that he was being a pretentious fuck boy.
You’ll never see anything on this from me again, I promise. Never said ONLY because of industry connections, that’s part of it though dude, it just is. I’m still not sure where, other than my initial post with “sucking off” in it, I’ve been uncivil, while you’re yapping your trap on Twitter about it and I guess threatening me via Maino? Here it is in my apparently Breihanic and pretentious writing style. If I cared enough to continue this outside of a comments section and on my blog, it’d read like this….
Let’s stop playing rapper with tough-talk and hints of physical violence and get serious, because that’s all I’m ever trying to do on my stupid blog anyway. What my post and that initial post by Dukes were about was: “Who and what is creating and developing hip-hop hype?” In a discussion like that, Nahright is bound to come up and in many ways, get some of the blame. Whether my post included the phrase “sucked-off” or not, Eskay would be bummed because no one wants to be called out as kinda corporate, especially when their persona is based on this sense of being both an insider–when it’s cool to be one–and an outsider when one of his Sharebee links is removed.
In many ways of course, the fact that Eskay ever read–or maybe reads?–my blog disproves some of my more high-falutin’ accusations. But like everything he does, it’s half bullshit because he comes in angry and I guess expects a quick apology because other people cream their jeans when some “big-name” blogger comments on their blog.
Eskay getting mad that someone took shots at him and accused him of being basically a big-name tastemaker and therefore, subject to the fucked-up obligations that position puts you in, is as flat-out retarded as if Ghostface read a blog I wrote about how he’d fallen off and got super-offended (“Fallen off??? Really??” he might write). The accusation by some that it was somehow to drum up popularity for my blog is silly because that would again, be like saying I’m starting controversy by calling some new Ghostface song wack or something.
Imagine a situation in which an angry Rick Ross sends e-mails or comments or bitches about it on his Twitter that Eskay keeps calling him “Officer Rawse”. Would Eskay take this kind of bullshit seriously? Would respect to one’s elders be invoked? Would it be anything more than laughed-off? Everyone would think, “Why is Rick Ross wasting his time?”. Why’s Eskay wasting his time with me?
As far as I know/knew, Eskay didn’t even know my blog existed. He’s never commented, he’s never linked me (which is fine, not complaining) and so, I’d only be flattering myself to assume he’s reading. This of course, makes it pretty weird when he’s treating me half as his blog peer and half as some turd that needs to say “Sorry” because I talked the same bullshit everyone else talks everywhere about everything.
To add nuance to my initial discussion–because clearly, it really needs it–the simple point was that blogs are not ruining rap, it’s that certain blogs have replaced the old way rappers got big, but these blogs and these rappers play the very same game as The Source did a decade ago (with probably less sexual harassment, but still…). This game is an uncomfortable and complex mix of music appreciation and musical obligation (a perfect description of Nahright, mind you) and I’m just putting my dumb-assed opinion out there and being like, “This blog and blogs like this are not ‘ruining’ rap, it’s blogs that essentially operate like big, corporate magazines that should be blamed (if anybody needs to be blamed at all).”
Asher Roth to me, seems like an example of Eskay feeding into a certain kind of hype not because I dislike Asher Roth but because shit is fishy when you see constant videos, freestyles, etc. from some rapper that was a total no-name a couple of months ago. Nothing wrong with this, this is how people get careers, but don’t call it something different than it is. A year ago, when Jay Electronica was kinda the biggest thing out there and I was eating up every single song that showed up on Nahright’s feed, I had the same icky feeling even though I loved the songs (when I found out he was banging Badu, it seemed even weirder/questionable). Despite Eskay’s simpleminded return to this argument again and again, it’s got little to do with taste and everything to do with silly fanboy desire for sincerity and authenticity that probably never existed. But still, it bummed me out.
My only point, which became intensified as Eskay ran circles around me and my readers’ questions about Nahright’s “quality control” was: “Dude, just admit what you do! You post pretty much anything that’ll grab your readers. Nothing wrong with that but cut the bullshit.” And additionally of course, a great deal of what he posts comes from and is pushed by labels, certain artists, promoters, etc. and in that sense, Nahright is less a “breaker” of artists and more a supporter of artists that many corporate–indie, underground, or mainstream–have deemed acceptable to break. Are there exceptions to this? Yes. But most of what he posts very much feeds the machine and that’s fine, but it is what it is, just don’t tell me it’s something different.
1. I still have avoided listening to ANY Asher Roth track.
2. I have seen the same people bickering about this on more than one blog now. Let’s not spread the tension, why not contain it to one space?
3. ITS THE BLOG WORLD. Goodness. It ain’t that serious (c) Rey. You know how much shit people talk on the internet about ALL of us? If we spend all of our time acknowledging it and trying to counter it with witty, defensive e-words for the whole world to see…what good are we accomplishing? Are we not just reinforcing the whole bloggers
aaaaaand half of my comment went away.
it went like this:
4. If someone doesn’t like NahRight that much, good grief, there are a LOT of alternatives to it these days. Just move along and never look back. It’s not difficult.
5. eskay – yeah, “sucking off” was wrong, but repeating it a million times is just going to make “nahright sucks off asher roth” show up even faster in a Google search. With all the e-thugs that infest the world of internet hip hop, I would have thought someone with the reputation and longevity that you possess would be the last one of us to take some random rant personally at this point.
…in other words, I agree with Mo.
ok, there are a couple of points in Brandon’s last post that I’d like to argue, but in the interest of putting this shit to rest, I’m gonna refrain. he’s said his peace, and I’ve said mine.
what I will say, and this isn’t aimed at any particular person: I don’t know where people get this idea that I am (or I think I am) some big media personality who can’t respond to a blog post. to my knowledge, I’ve never made any (serious) statements that would create that impression, so it must all be in you people’s minds. the last time I checked, these comment boxes were here for a reason.
so I don’t understand why Dart and some other people are so amazed that I responded and continue to respond. yes, I’m gonna post what I want to post on my site and fuck everybody else. this was never about defending Asher Roth, it was about defending the way I operate my site.
I’ve subscribed to Brandon’s RSS for some time now and I read a bunch of other sites that may surprise some of you. I consider any blogger to be my peer on some level and so I would never consider myself too good or too popular to respond to anything.
Mo suggested that I should “do a Jay-Z” and ignore criticism. not only is that not in my nature, but is that really where we want blogging to go? do we really want to see a bunch of “big time bloggers” who envision themselves as celebrities with no time to engage the masses?
Basically, my end of this shit amounts to: I have a hard time letting negative criticism slide without responding, and I love to argue (obviously, so does Soderberg). I also felt disrespected by the language dude used and felt I had to say something.
So Soderberg talks shit (in fairness to him the same kind of shit he talkes alot), Eskay gets mad, Soderberg whines, Eskay pulls out a gat-shaped keyboard, Soderberg gets teary, Eskay whines.
The amount of collective dignity involved in this is fucking stunning. How many tears you two mothfuckers stain your screens with?
Robbie Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Brandon Soderberg said:
“You guys make money off this shit. I don’t. ”
^ FAIL.
So what chu sayin?” © EPMD
One.
“Hey guys I got a great new album in the mail…”
@ambassador
THANK YOU.
@eskay
I’m elated you “don’t give a fuck about what I think.” The thing is, nah right is YOUR bread and butter. From the outside looking into this combative debate, what little ol’ brandon said is totally irrelevant to your contribution to hip-hop via internet. To me, Nah Right is THAT site to go to first. Seeing you font fight or respond to this like you’re Soulja Boy’s weed carrier is tainting.
like, it’s on the same level as brandon whining about comic books and emails to Dallas.
The people who fucks with your site and who’s BEEN fuckin with you since XXL days will know the real deal. and if you need a reality check, there are more of those people then there are of brandon’s penis lickers. Responding to that 2.5 seconds he mentioned your site in his comment section gave it more power than it needed.
and if it were that big of an issue and it rubbed you that bad, I’m sure brandon has an email address on his site that you can go IN on him with. This shit right here is what i expect “These Posts Are Racist” and the other fools in XXLMag comment sections to do, NOT YOU.
Having other people like Dallas and perhaps another heavy weight blog site in your defense SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
but, carry on and up your “eskay of nahright.com complains about ‘sucking off’ comment in various blog sites” google search results.
150,000 Chinese Monkeys Says:
November 6th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
So Soderberg talks shit (in fairness to him the same kind of shit he talkes alot), Eskay gets mad, Soderberg whines, Eskay pulls out a gat-shaped keyboard, Soderberg gets teary, Eskay whines.
The amount of collective dignity involved in this is fucking stunning. How many tears you two mothfuckers stain your screens with?
LMAO!!
I’m late reading this ish…but WOW! WTF?
Smart by way of linkbait. Like when you consider taking shots only to incite other blogs and commenters to discuss his blog and mention him in the same breath as NahRight. It’s a common practice in the linkbait world, though I feel dirty each and every time it rears it’s ugly head.
Anyways, stay up Dallas!
Hav
“Eskay would be bummed because no one wants to be called out as kinda corporate, especially when their persona is based on this sense of being both an insider–when it’s cool to be one–and an outsider when one of his Sharebee links is removed.”
You cultural studies majors… yeah, his persona is totally based on this complex insider/outsider dialectic. An outsider when one of his Sharebee links is removed. You seriously typed that. Like people go to Nahright or something because he’s cultivated this outsider persona that depends on his links getting removed. (Maybe he removes them himself to cultivate the persona!) He doesn’t have a “persona.” And if anything, that’s the stupidest feature of the site, not the Asher Roth shit*, the fact that he makes you open two tabs and then if it’s anything really good the artist’s had it removed half the time. If you’re reading this, eskay, embed your mp3’s like noz does.
* who isn’t that bad by the way, aside from, as you noted in your post, his tendency to go into this kumbaya bullshit about how we all worship the same god but call him different names, and let’s have world peace, and blah blah blah.
you guys aren’t getting anything accomplished