The Beauty in the Bass Line
According to The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, the best stories ever written are the result of genre bending of some kind. Taking something that people are used to experiencing a certain way, and blending it with something they wouldn’t expect, like mash potato quesadillas. It’s awesome try it. A lot people have purported to combine punk rock with hip-hop. With the success of 311 in the mid 90’s, a slew of hip- hop-mixed-with-everything-else bands emerged, most of them rap-core, most of them boring. Therefore, when people describe POS as a rapper with punk rock influences, it doesn’t really convey the reality of what he does. POS’s brand of punk rock hip-hop is more visceral. Rather than carefully inserting rock and roll moments into rap songs, he injects the energy of punk into hip-hop songs. Hip-hop is his style, without question, but behind it lays an attitude, an ethos that we don’t usually equate with hip-hop. He’s collaborated with artists such like The Bouncing Souls and Jason Shevchuk from Kid Dynamite. Listening to these collaborations there’s a sense of shared excitement between the artists, and never an awkward mashing of styles.
Punknews writer Jon Reiss, having grown up in DIY punk, believes that it can be a meaningful experience that can affect any number of aspects of one’s life. Perhaps most interesting are those who carry that spirit into things we wouldn’t expect, be it music writing, cooking or even parenting. He’s written extensively on the subject looking for examples of people whose roots in punk manifest in interesting and different ways. POS’s music is a great example of how punk can pop up where you might not expect to see it.
The Beauty in the Bass Line
According to The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, the best stories ever written are the result of genre bending of some kind. Taking something that people are used to experiencing a certain way, and blending it with something they wouldn’t expect, like mash potato quesadillas. It’s awesome try it. A lot people have purported to combine punk rock with hip-hop. With the success of 311 in the mid 90’s, a slew of hip- hop-mixed-with-everything-else bands emerged, most of them rap-core, most of them boring. Therefore, when people describe POS as a rapper with punk rock influences, it doesn’t really convey the reality of what he does. POS’s brand of punk rock hip-hop is more visceral. Rather than carefully inserting rock and roll moments into rap songs, he injects the energy of punk into hip-hop songs. Hip-hop is his style, without question, but behind it lays an attitude, an ethos that we don’t usually equate with hip-hop. He’s collaborated with artists such like The Bouncing Souls and Jason Shevchuk from Kid Dynamite. Listening to these collaborations there’s a sense of shared excitement between the artists, and never an awkward mashing of styles.
Punknews writer Jon Reiss, having grown up in DIY punk, believes that it can be a meaningful experience that can affect any number of aspects of one’s life. Perhaps most interesting are those who carry that spirit into things we wouldn’t expect, be it music writing, cooking or even parenting. He’s written extensively on the subject looking for examples of people whose roots in punk manifest in interesting and different ways. POS’s music is a great example of how punk can pop up where you might not expect to see it.