Other FmrToken's Obscure Musician Superthread (feat. Shameless plugs)

[Black Cobain]

Part 4: Belated edition

#31. Arthur Verocai
Repping: Brazil
Years active: 70's-???
Genres: Bossa Nova

Somewhat of a cult figure in the indie rap scene for being a good source of samples, Verocai only recorded this album after having to take up a civil engineering job for the repressive government at the time.



#32. Evelyn Evelyn
Repping: the US
Years active: 2007-Present
Genres: Dark Cabaret

Two conjoined twins were orphaned shortly after birth and kidnapped by a circus, they escaped on their conjoined elephant and make music [not really].



#33. Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers
Repping: the US
Years active: the 60's
Genres: Folk, Pop

There's nothing too special about this group, standard 60's cac shyt..other than the fact that its' bassist became a self-hating Jew who's popular in white supremacist circles.



This guy:


#34. Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Repping: France/New York
Years active: 80's-2001
Genres: No Wave

The pioneer of New York's short lived No Wave movement, made France a hub for tryhard expat artists again for a while.


#35. Handsome Boy Modelling School
Repping: the US
Years active: 90's-mid 2000's
Genres: Boom Bap

A producer duo with Prince Paul and Dan the Automator, they based this whole project on the TV Show 'Get a Life'!

 

[Hope]

Will check these out on weekend. Used to love Fear Factory, so Brujeria was always cool.

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 4.5: This time, it's personal

#36. The Dixo Wankers
Repping: the Netherlands
Years active: the 80s
Genres: Ska, 2-Tone

I dunno what a dixo is, and I can't say wanker unironically without sounding weird, but this Dutch band was headed by a Black chick and did covers of then-popular songs



#37. The Shaggs
Repping: (white) America
Years active: 60's-early 80's
Genres: Pop, proto-punk

Imagine your grandmother told your dad he'd have three daughters and they'd be a world famous band. Imagine if your dad went through with it, forced you and your sisters to make music all day then record a whole album after months of practice. That's how the Shaggs came to be! Kurt "the white man's Tupac" Cobain was a huge fan.



#38. Vengeance Rising
Repping: Jesus
Years active: 80's-90's
Genres: Thrash metal, Christian rock

Youth Pastor Roger Martinez and three friends were devout holy rollers who totally dug radical secular rock music, man. They wanted to get down with the fellow kids, so they made brutal metal with christian themes. The band imploded after Martinez left Pentecostalism and became a Laveyan Satanist then an atheist.



#39. Human Rights
Repping: the US/Rome
Years active: 80's-Present
Genres: Reggae, Dub

H.R. from Bad Brains split up from the band for a while and worked on more mellow reggae. Apparently, he and a friend would use the money to go to Nigeria and start a commune.



#40. Shonen Knife
Repping: Japan
Years Active: 80's-Present
Genres: J-Rock

"I saw them play and I was like a girl who saw the Beatles for the first time"
-Kurt "2cac" Cobain

I swear, it isn't even surprising that Japanese chicks would play such heavy stuff, just look at Babymetal.

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 5: In which he posts less or

#41. The Kominas
Repping: the US, Pakistan
Years active: 2010's-Present
Genres: Taqwacore, Punk

Taqwacore is Islamic punk rock and the Kominas are arguably the most well known and relevant. I used to be a Muslim and these guys made me sorta proud to be one for a while.



#42. Those Two Ethnics
Repping: the US/Guyana
Years active: 2015
Genres: Taqwacore

Shameless plug but this was my band/collab with an online friend of mine, I played guitar, he did vocals.

Wannabe Arab by Those Two Ethnics - Clyp

Lyrics: This one's called wannabe arab..I miss eating bacon, I miss jerking off, I screwing hags, I miss liking fags, I miss cheap pork in bargain bags/I'll keep the beard and the TSA name, wannabe arab but i'm Afrikan all the same/I learned a Black trader's language! [x3]/I ignore my own ppl, but for the M.E. I bleed, smile and grin, they just call me abeed!/All within my language, it kinda broke down/Brothers and sisters gather around, I need to tell everyone here something important/lets pop open a beer, to me this is torment/we turn to pray several times a day/its not punishment but the choice we made/I don't understand the reason we swallow, i'm fukking tired of the rep that follows/LABELS ALL BASED ON FABLES! fukk it! I'll just hang with the Desis instead [x2]/fukk it!

#43. p*ssy Riot
Repping: Russia
Years active: 2010's-Present
Genres: Riot Grrl, Punk

They're doing what Bikini Kill sang about, shyt! shyt! The Lord is shyt!



#44. Ariel
Repping: USSR
Years active: ???-80's?
Genres: Funk, Folk

The USSR had state mandated bands, many weren't really special and Ariel didn't stand out, the USSR encouraged blending American instrumentals with folk/patriotic lyrics, this song is about 4 birds and its mother iirc



#45. Burzum
Repping: Norway, cacs
Years active: 90's-Present
Genres: Ambient, Black Metal

Burzum means Darkness in the language of the Uruk-Hai, mercenaries created by Sauron in Lord of the Rings, Burzum is also a one-man group lead by Varg Vikernes, a dork who eventually became the Suge Knight of Black () Metal - he burned down a church and killed Euronymous, an old bandmate of his by stabbing him in the head 23 times. He's since been out of prison and lives in France now. Oh yeah, he's a neo-Nazi too.

shyt slaps though.

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 5.5: Stuff that white girl got me into

#46. Kurt Vile
Repping: Philadelphia
Y.A.: 2000'S-Present
Genres: Folk, Indie, Lo-Fi

Her parents were travelling pastors of some sort so she transferred to our [Black and Hispanic] school, she was in a few of our classes and latched onto me after hearing me call my friend, "A Kurt Cobain looking motherfukker" (he looked nothing like 2cac, of course).

Cacette: Kurt Cobain? You like Nirvana?
Me: They're OK, I guess
Cacette: Oh, what else do you like?
Me: What do you think I like?
Friend: He likes angry yelling rock music
Cacette: Really?
Me: Uh, Bad Brains, Big Black, GG Allin, Gerogerigegege, stuff like that
Cacette: I'm a fan of Red House Painters, um, Arab Strap, Jose [pronounced it Joe-say] Gonzalez
Me: I'll hafta look 'em up



#47. Arab Strap
Repping: Scotland
Y.A.: 1990's-Present
Genres: Indie, Sadcore

After that she just sorta hung around me and my friends, the dorks and failed artists (I was the most normal though ), her name was Lynette and was from Wisconsin but moved a lot and just came in from Dallas, our main lunch group was like a damn episode of Community:
Me -> Breh, voice of reason
Victor -> Hispanic, obsessed with anime, failed artist
Paul -> Haitian, self-proclaimed nerd and proud of it
Hasnain -> Immigrant from Pakistan, we were brehs in Islam
Jason -> Jamaican, annoying pervert everyone else liked, was a c00n too
Jessica -> Bahamian brehette, 10th grader we let hang around
Lynette -> Token cacette, Yankee



#48. Red House Painters
Repping: L.A.
Y.A.: 90's
Genres: Sadcore

A week later, she gave me her kik and we'd talk music from time to time, however, Victor happened to be using my phone and saw that I was talking to her.

Victor: Lynn has kik?
Me: Yeah, that's her
Victor: When I asked her, she said she didn't have one
Me: I guess she just made an account, ask her again
Victor: Okay. But don't try taking her from me.
Me: I'm not attracted to white people, breh
Victor:



#49. The Whitest Boy Alive
Repping: Sweden/Norway
Years active: 2000's-2015
Genres: Electronic, Pop

Victor was and is a simp, great guy, but a huge simp. I wasn't even surprised but after thinking over I just decided to tell her what happened on kik

Me: You know Victor, right?
Her: Your Latino friend?
Me: Yep
Her: What about him?
Me: Well, he thinks i'm trying to take you away from him
Her: Oh, man, really? I mean, really?!
Me: Yep..he's harmless as hell though, just let him down easy, please.
Her: I'll try, oh man, this is so crazy, cheese and mice*...

*Jesus Christ for Midwesterners, she had a weird mix of slang because of moving

The next day came and we had lunch together, she finally told him how she felt

Lynette: Victor?
Victor: Yeah Lynn?

Lynette: Please, it's Lynette..um, a little birdie told me you have a big crush on me
Me: [in my mind:]
Jason: Yeah dude, it's obvious, we all have a crush on you
Lynette: what.

Me: He's just trying to creep you out
Jason: No, it's true, we all want to bukakke you
Paul: I'm asexual, my only love is video games so don't get any ideas!
Jessica: I'm bi
Hasnain: She is very preety, but I am waiting until marriage
Lynette: guys, wow, guys, please, guys
Victor: YOU fukkS BETTER LEAVE MY GIRLFRIEND ALONE
The whole table:
Lynette just stood up and told Victor, "I don't fukking like you or your pervert friends "

She went to an empty table and had her head down.

Victor: You guys are jerks!



#50. Purity Ring
Repping: US
Y.A.: 2010's-Present
Genres: Electropop

I was conflicted, normally, i'd be giddier than a schoolgirl who just ate a bushel of peaches, Victor got mad and a white person was crying, those things are hilarious! But this time, I felt bad as well as catching secondhand embarassment.

I gave the table the face and couldn't find Victor, so I went to Lynette

Long story short, we talked a bit, she said sorry for calling me a pervert and up until she moved to Anchorage three months later, Victor didn't talk to me and the group just became me, her, Paul and Hasnain [who got tired of the constant Bin Laden jokes].

Moral of the story: White women ruin everything

 

[Billie Jean]

^

All that and the cacette vanished

 

[Black Cobain]

Last I heard of her she was in Idaho, I dunno why there's a demand for pastors anymore but that's life

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 6: Stuff I showed the white girl, and other tales

#51. African Head Charge
Repping: the UK
YA: 80's-Present
Genres: Dub, Electronica, Ambient

I didn't know how I felt about Lynette, really, aside from our electic music tastes, we had nothing in common besides our age [17, 11th grade at the time] and how well travelled we sorta were. She'd just sit there and stare when I wasn't talking to her directly. Paul being Paul was too busy playing emulated games, and Hasnain's nervousness and language gap didn't help out either. I tried starting conversation at first but it always ended up becoming about music. We were cool though, I was the only person she hugged goodbye [Paul and Hasnain just got waves ]



#52. MDC/Millions of Dead Cops
Repping: The US
YA: 80's-???
Genres: Punk

I met Paul first, in tenth grade, I was bumped up to advanced geometry class for some reason and we just took an instant liking to each other, must've been me letting him keep my English-Spanish dictionary. Honestly that guy had so much patience with me, I was loud and angry all the time and he was the opposite. He's studying Civil Engineering in Seattle or somewhere, recently he told me he thought whites were walking trash



#53. Infest
Repping: The US
YA:90's-???
Genres: Powerviolence, Grindcore

I met Hasnain next year, in eleventh grade, I was a flip-flop Muslim, one day i'd be passing out daw'ah material, the next i'd be drinking and watching porn (yes it was hijaab porn, I'm a horrible person). I was just sitting at a table, copying Arabic letters, he sat near me and did a look back when he saw my Qur'an. I was all like, "Salaam alay'kim, akhi " His eyes lit up and he replied, "Wa Salaam ".

In retrospect, I wasn't too good a friend, my varying piety would turn me into an a$$hole, I got mad at every "un-Islamic" thing he did some days, others I wouldn't. It dawned on me later that he didn't want a Muslim friend, he just wanted a friend. I still feel guilty about that.

Still, there were good, corny cultural exchanges, we'd trade food and teach each other curse words.

He vanished sometime early in 12th grade though



#54. Oddisee
Repping: The US/Sudan
YA: 1999-Present
Genres: Alt. Hip Hop, Boom Bap

Another Simp Story: Part 1

Jason, like many of the people in my circle weren't so good in the girlfriend department. This was in mid-12th grade and the lunch group regressed to Me, Victor, Paul, Him and a new addition, Joe [Haitian, chill as fukk, more of a geek than a nerd].

Jason had a huge crush on this girl, Jada, he'd wax poetic about all the time, it was getting annoying, personally.

Unfortunately, Jason and I had the same physics class, and he sat with that group too which also consisted of:

Vanessa -> Brehette, friendly with me, was a good artist, had natural hair []
Frantz -> Haitian, cool guy, looked just like Kodak Black, funny enough
Carl -> Haitian, he was just like Mike from the Young Ones but actually made money [or whatever his function was]

We were talking about crushes or something, then I blurted out that Jason liked Jada, a lot.

Jason: liar!
Me: He does, he'd stop watching Japanese cartoons for her [I love anime, but I hate weebs]
Vanessa:I know Jada, i'll tell her!
Jason: Nooo! Tell them you're kidding @FmrToken!
Me: Sit and spin, nikka


Days later, I thought it blew over, but Jada and Vanessa came up to me while I was walking to class,

Vanessa: Does Jason really like Jada?
Me: shyt, he's obssessed with her
Jada:

Me, being the vindicative bytch that I am, felt like Newman one upping Jerry and bolted after class to tell Jason

 

[Billie Jean]

Hasnain arc
That @FmrToken character...so petty,so rude,so cockblock

 

[Black Cobain]

Hasnain arc

Think I found him on Facebook last night, hopefully it's him and he's alright
That @FmrToken character...so petty,so rude,so cockblock

@FmrToken is a shytty character, but he holds the show together and redeems himself in the pre-Graduation Filler Arc

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 6.5: Simp Story, Morning Glory (blur is overrated though)

#55. Anamanaguchi
Repping: New York
YA: 2000's-Present
Genre: Chiptune, Nintendocore

My dislike of Jason wasn't unwarranted, I knew the kid since middle school and was generally just an a$$hole and a dork, he was the type of nerd nerds bully, but he was a dikk about it. This trait stayed with him in high school. shyt, he watched and drew hentai during downtime in class, matter of fact.

I was rushing to lunch, ready to be the bearer of bad news, and there they were, sitting in their usual spots.

Me - Hey y'all
The Table - Hey/Yo/what up/hi/etc.

I had a stupid grin on my face the whole time, I was too excited to tell him, just my luck Vanessa and her friend Nadine came up to us.

Vanessa - Hey @FmrToken, did you tell him?
Me - Not yet
Vanessa - Jason, Jason, Jada doesn't like you at all!
Jason - Whatever, I don't care.

Vanessa - Ok..

She left, and we just ate and talked as if nothing happened, no harm, I thought.

Next Day: Physics Class​

Usually, I came to class pretty early, right after Jason did [School breakfast was actually good, school lunch was ], this day was no different.

I went inside, shook the teacher's hand [A young, New York cac we called Mr. O] and sat down.

Jason was just staring into space, normally, he'd try to make a gay joke, a Muslim joke, or a gay Muslim joke to piss me off or even try to take my headphones out but no. Pretty good day so far!

Jason - She said no.

Me - Hm?

Jason - Jada, I asked her and she just wanted to be friends.

Me - That'll happen, plenty of fish in the sea.

Jason - I want her. We've been friends for years!

Me - And? She said no, get over it.

Jason - I bet Vanessa told her to say no!

Me - Really.

Jason - She's too nice not to say yes!

After that exchange everyone else came in and Jason was giving Vanessa the death glare.

Believe it or not, nothing really happened after that, aside from a few jokes at his expense, everything blew over...until December came around
​

Up until December, Jason was back to his old ways, annoying and socially retarded, all was well, but he started talking about Jada again, specifically, he had a convoluted plan..

Jason - I still love her, and she loves me

Me -

Jason - You and your little friend thought you could take her away from me, but I stayed low, I've saved up for months, i've spent my whole Christmas present budget, forgotten family birthdays and sold my old laptop for this!

Me -

This had to be an unprecedented moment in simp history, get this, he got her $20 dollar Visa gift cards, yes, plural, not two, not three but - 25 Visa cards, this moron wasted $500+ on gift cards, gift cards! If it was one, fine, but 20 fukking 5!

It went as well as you'd expect, the story goes he each had them in an envelope and said, "I love you, Jada" as he passed out each one. Jada, apparently, was very shy and got embarassed easily, she just walked outta class in shame, leaving the cards with him and getting detention for leaving.

We made fun of Jason all the time after hearing that.

 

[Billie Jean]

This had to be an unprecedented moment in simp history, get this, he got her $20 dollar Visa gift cards, yes, plural, not two, not three but - 25 Visa cards, this moron wasted $500+ on gift cards, gift cards! If it was one, fine, but 20 fukking 5!

It went as well as you'd expect, the story goes he each had them in an envelope and said, "I love you, Jada" as he passed out each one. Jada, apparently, was very shy and got embarassed easily, she just walked outta class in shame, leaving the cards with him and getting detention for leaving.

No no no I refuse to believe it, I refuse!

 

[Black Cobain]

No no no I refuse to believe it, I refuse!

I wish I lying brehette, but nah, the whole male gender took an L that day

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 7: The girl who got away/9th grade arc

#56. The Panics
Repping: New England
YA: 80's
Genres: Punk, lo-fi

9th grade was just an extension of 8th grade for me - I wrote shytty goth poetry, I was a huge weeb and I cut myself because I thought it made me cool (it didn't).

We met in Algebra class, our teacher was Mr. S, a young cac from Baltimore who was on that, "How can I reach these urban youth?" shyt until we put him in check (he's a pretty cool guy, have him on facebook).

She was a very pale Latina, like me she never went out the house, self-mutilated, listened to whiny emo music and wanted to be different (she dyed her hair blue, I wore a distressed flannel jacket in Florida weather), her name was Alex.

Rounding up the group were fellow burnouts:
Regla -> Hispanic pothead who was mad instead of mellow
Demetrius -> Huge football player who was smoking buddies with Regla
Benedict -> Haitian class clown, was pretty gay with Raheem
Raheem -> Benedict's partner in crime, was very gay with Benedict

We'd only meet up as a group during breakfast and Algebra, but I liked them better than any of the people I knew in middle school. Besides, the dynamic was fun.



#57. King Giddra
Repping: Japan
YA: 90s-???
Genres: Hip Hop

Being a weeb, I had an unhealthy obsession with Japan and Japanese women, so much I wouldn't even entertain the idea of going out with anyone else, even if they made it obvious they had a crush on me.

She was the only one in the group I really hung out with outside of class, we'd skip lunch and sometimes class back in an old stairwell no one went through anymore and just talked, shared cigarettes [realllly fukked up my speaking voice, it's all gravelly and low af] and listen to really shytty emo crap.

Sometimes, but not often, hold my hand and sit in my lap, but I just thought she was being friendly, very friendly ().

Besides that, nothing ever came of it and she ended up going to beauty school in 10th grade, saw her once after that, just a hi and bye.

 

[Black Cobain]

Part 7.5: I had a crush on a lesbian arc/10th grade

#58. Skanking Pickle
Repping: Commiefornia
YA: 90's
Genres: Punk, "Ska"

I was a right-wing, gay bashing, Muslim,
She was a left-wing, lesbian, atheist.

At the time, I had a huge crush on her, she looked perfect, a textbook example of a tomboy, but with a very deep tan (she was Mexican too, a rarity in Miami).
And I had someone to argue and inflate my ego with.
Naturally, we hated each other but enjoyed giving each other shyt.
It was a vitrolic friendship.

We had PE together, and when there was downtime, all we'd do was call each other names and debate-
She was a kaafir,
I was a God botherer,
She was a dyke,
I was a 'breeder',
She was a Communist rat,
I was a bigot.
It went on and on.

Eventually, she had to move to California before 11th grade started, her parents were in marketing iirc so we still talked on kik and facebook but way less frequently.

One day, however in 11th grade we were arguing over something (what else is new?) and me being a 17 year old moron for some god damned reason decided to "accidentally" send a dikk pic.

So I did.

I was waiting for her to get mad but you know what she said?

"Oh, I guess you weren't trying to compensate for something after all."

I just looked at my phone and left her on 'R'

g-good comeback you confusing, boyish girl