fuck seabreeze w. @diplo
"You’re kind of old, I guess: If you don’t like Lil B. Maybe he sucks at rapping or whatever, but if you don’t see his appeal, you’re kind of backwards.” →
"One thing I learned with M.I.A., we were on tour with her and she was opening for this rapper and said, “Nobody likes me around here, he’s good and skilled, but I’m 90% attitude and 10% the music.” She had the attitude without having the musical ability, and that’s half of what you have nowadays! You don’t need a lot of music anymore. I like to fuck with people’s brands and attitudes because music quality has decreased and as far as songwriting and things, other than Bon Iver, it’s very packaged. It’s very tight with the way you make music. It’s like G.I. Joe figures and X-Men; they have their own cultural personalities. It’s ideas and people and characters and stuff."
Diplo: GQ October 2011 Interview: Wear It Now: GQ
For obvious reasons, this interview goes lots of places it shouldn’t, but I like what Diplo says here. This is one area where he really gets it. I wonder if he would work with Lana Del Rey?
