No it isn't you dirty ass CAC.Paper planes is making fun of the tacky excess proclivities of the hip hop community though.
I don't even know much about Diplo, I jumped on that wave a lil late but after reading all the posts, it really sounds like he went from being an artist to a label manager who prob has less time for his own music and to succesfully promote teh artists he signed. I'm wondering : isn't that, in a sense, the same as Kanye, Dre (how many people signed to Aftermath never released anything?), Rza ?
And how exactly can a DJ be a "culture vulture" when his job is precisely to play music from other people
Now the fact that he's become mainstream is obvious and a friend of mine who actually followed him quite early more or less stopped checking for him like already 3 or 4 years ago, but I guess that's what happens with success...
He makes money off his setsIs it introducing people to the music? sure. But he's the one making money. Like I said, it's a fine line.
I think ppl need to seperate Diplo as an artist and Diplo as a label owner/businessman.I've seen him twice.
It's just... like @Tetris v2.0 said...his own artists seem to have a short shelf life same with the people he cosigns and he's quick to move from one thing to the next.
I still wonder why Switch left Major Lazer though at times...
Diplo produced all of her Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape.
She still has a fanbase but after that NYT article in 2010 it seems like she sort of alienated many people with her politics...being Sri Lankan and all that.
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/m...-lanka-is-2010s-1-tourist-destination-6654750What article
Mia still cool with me. Saw her in concert a few years back and it was![]()