What's wrong with NBN?

Asian Sensation · Nov 12, 2009

Sounds like they got "Aussie cred"

Steve_Francis_rules · Nov 12, 2009

I don't think there's anything wrong with NBN. I like probably about half a dozen of their songs.

aussie rocket · Nov 12, 2009

pouhe said:

Their best hits were two goofy anthem songs that relied on samples of popular songs and generic catch phrases. They did this at a time when the VERY BIGGEST commercial draws in ALL of rap music were MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. That kind of guilt-by-association made them an extinct species by fall of '93: when John Singelton movies, Death Row and Bad Boy made gangster rap both terrifyingly authentic and unexpectedly marketable.

Also, Mr. Rocket, the group was around the U.S. almost twenty years ago; and novelty rap music has literally no shelf life. Limitedly objective or enduring musical value in terms of instrumental, vocal or even writing talent (no symbolism or metaphors) that targets a small (black) and fickle (young people) demographic.

But to be an identity-starved, middle-class black kid in the early '90s, man I ate this crap up. I remember the bus ride back to school after Winter Long Weekend, Third Form year: "hip-hop hoorayyyy-hooooo-haayyyy-hooo.."
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Best post of the thread, cheers for the insight.

I really liked 19naughty9.

Maybe people didn't give that a chance.

cson · Nov 12, 2009

pouhe hit it on the head aus, most see NBN as a kind of disposable gangsta-pop

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