Real talk...Detroit is criminally underated on a musical level...

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Shyt...I'll say it like this. Many people think of Detroit and they think of urban blight and decay or whatever...they don't know what Detroit was and has been about.

Detroit...I've always been fascinated with cause it has a rich musical history and culture behind it as one of the more prominent black metropolises in America. And everything that comes out of Detroit musically is just so unique I can't help but respect it.

The fact that a city like that could produce acts/labels/artists like Motown, MC5, kiss, Eminem, Jay Dee/J Dilla, Platinum Pied Pipers, Slum Village, Phat Kat, Frank N Dank, DJ Godfather, Moodymann/Kenny Dixon Jr, Kid Rock, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Robert Hood, Juan Atkins, Drexciya, to even fringe acts like Insane Clown Posse (I fukks with them mainly cause they carved out their own niche and made their own subculture..."juggalos") is just amazing to me.

Listening to Techno for so many years and learning about the first generation of producers/djs out there made me realize how powerful that city is...Techno becoming a worldwide phenomenon is pretty much the legacy of Detroit. Go to movement/DEMF...I've been. People from all over the world go there to show respect and appreciation to what Detroit has offered and still offers from a creative scale.

That's why I gotta when I hear people talk smack on the city...if you've never been you just don't know.

 

[Playeroni]

Shyt...I'll say it like this. Many people think of Detroit and they think of urban blight and decay or whatever...they don't know what Detroit was and has been about.

Detroit...I've always been fascinated with cause it has a rich musical history and culture behind it as one of the more prominent black metropolises in America. And everything that comes out of Detroit musically is just so unique I can't help but respect it.

The fact that a city like that could produce acts/labels/artists like Motown, MC5, kiss, Eminem, Jay Dee/J Dilla, Platinum Pied Pipers, Slum Village, Phat Kat, Frank N Dank, DJ Godfather, Moodymann/Kenny Dixon Jr, Kid Rock, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Robert Hood, Juan Atkins, Drexciya, to even fringe acts like Insane Clown Posse (I fukks with them mainly cause they carved out their own niche and made their own subculture..."juggalos") is just amazing to me.

Listening to Techno for so many years and learning about the first generation of producers/djs out there made me realize how powerful that city is...Techno becoming a worldwide phenomenon is pretty much the legacy of Detroit. Go to movement/DEMF...I've been. People from all over the world go there to show respect and appreciation to what Detroit has offered and still offers from a creative scale.

That's why I gotta when I hear people talk smack on the city...if you've never been you just don't know.

I've had some of the best times of my life at movement, shyts amazing

 

[USSInsiders]

Shyt...I'll say it like this. Many people think of Detroit and they think of urban blight and decay or whatever...they don't know what Detroit was and has been about.

Detroit...I've always been fascinated with cause it has a rich musical history and culture behind it as one of the more prominent black metropolises in America. And everything that comes out of Detroit musically is just so unique I can't help but respect it.

The fact that a city like that could produce acts/labels/artists like Motown, MC5, kiss, Eminem, Jay Dee/J Dilla, Platinum Pied Pipers, Slum Village, Phat Kat, Frank N Dank, DJ Godfather, Moodymann/Kenny Dixon Jr, Kid Rock, Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Robert Hood, Juan Atkins, Drexciya, to even fringe acts like Insane Clown Posse (I fukks with them mainly cause they carved out their own niche and made their own subculture..."juggalos") is just amazing to me.

Listening to Techno for so many years and learning about the first generation of producers/djs out there made me realize how powerful that city is...Techno becoming a worldwide phenomenon is pretty much the legacy of Detroit. Go to movement/DEMF...I've been. People from all over the world go there to show respect and appreciation to what Detroit has offered and still offers from a creative scale.

That's why I gotta when I hear people talk smack on the city...if you've never been you just don't know.

don't forget Royce tha gawd and Guilty Simpson

 

[CELL]

Black Milk is one of my favourite artists at the moment, he's CRIMINALLY underrated.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I've had some of the best times of my life at movement, shyts amazing

Same. First time I went was in 2008.

I saw Carl Craig headline (one of my influences musically) and he was talking about when he started making music and when techno started...it was all about invoking the future. And now...it is the future. And this is the sound of it.

Also, it was dope to go down to the Made In Detroit stage at Hart Plaza and see the underground Detroit DJs do their thing. It was especially dope to see female DJs rock the tables too. And black female DJs as well. People usually think of DJing as a mans game, but those women in the game rock hard as f*ck.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

don't forget Royce tha gawd and Guilty Simpson

yeah, I can't forget Royce the 5'9" and Guilty...those are some of my favorite MCs of all time.

And Proof...RIP.

 

[Will Ross]

They allowed a white boy to be the biggest dude out the city

 

[Amulet of Immortality]

They allowed a white boy to be the biggest dude out the city

And he probably raped your favorite rapper on a song.

 

[Playeroni]

Same. First time I went was in 2008.

I saw Carl Craig headline (one of my influences musically) and he was talking about when he started making music and when techno started...it was all about invoking the future. And now...it is the future. And this is the sound of it.

Also, it was dope to go down to the Made In Detroit stage at Hart Plaza and see the underground Detroit DJs do their thing. It was especially dope to see female DJs rock the tables too. And black female DJs as well. People usually think of DJing as a mans game, but those women in the game rock hard as f*ck.

I went 2007-2009
Dj godfather, the cool kids, girl talk, drugs and abundance
shyt was out of control
And I agree with everything you said. Movement shows you how dope Detroit can be at times.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

They allowed a white boy to be the biggest dude out the city

Man...I got respect for Em though. He came up battling, put on many people in his city, and atleast has respect for hip-hop as a culture.

Like I remember when 8 mile came out. In retrospect...he didn't even have to do that movie...but I feel he did cause he felt the pressure as a white rapper to show and prove and he did.

 

[Yoda]

MOODYMANNN !!! I fox wit that dude.

 

[Playeroni]

Same. First time I went was in 2008.

I saw Carl Craig headline (one of my influences musically) and he was talking about when he started making music and when techno started...it was all about invoking the future. And now...it is the future. And this is the sound of it.

Also, it was dope to go down to the Made In Detroit stage at Hart Plaza and see the underground Detroit DJs do their thing. It was especially dope to see female DJs rock the tables too. And black female DJs as well. People usually think of DJing as a mans game, but those women in the game rock hard as f*ck.

I went 2007-2009
Dj godfather, the cool kids, girl talk, drugs and abundance
shyt was out of control
And I agree with everything you said. Movement shows you how dope Detroit can be at times.

 

[hustlemania]

Black Milk is one of my favourite artists at the moment, he's CRIMINALLY underrated.

yup..

alot of folks slept on that Mel album he produced too.. dudes a beast.. been on a serious tear the last year..

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

MOODYMANNN !!! I fox wit that dude.

Same...KDJ is a beast. One of y biggest influences as a producer and DJ...

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Also...I gotta gloat about Jay Dee/J Dilla and his brilliance with his production. I read in a Fader interview with him that he would spin house & techno records in his studio before he trainwrecked and then stopped.

But yeah, Kraftwerk inspired the first wave of Detroit techno producers.

Going to this track off of Welcome To Detroit...you can definitely hear that influence...


And this samples "Trans Europe Express" (the drums)