Music in Europe: Whats Your Opinion On Westwood

[Sean2]

What is peoples opinion on BBC Radio one Hip Hop DJ Tim Westwood. Propably the biggest wigga in the UK. I'v heard his show a few times now and the first half an hour is almost always identical. He talks in this halarious version of an "American Accent" He reguralary plays Outkast 'Hay Ya'(dont laugh) and in general he often plays kinda chart/R&B remix stuff. Hip Hop aint my "first love" when it comes to music but I do like it but know all this commercial stuff is crap.

Also Westwood is constantly "biggin himself up" and getting other rappers to do so. Is it just to sell records ,in the UK, that they do this. Also he is constantly using a bomb sound effect...

I'v heard other DJ's on 1Xtra on Digital Radio and these seem quality. The dont speak in a fu*#-with makeshift American accent, they speak in London accents and in general the music is better.

What do other people think of this...?

[Ice]

Never heard of him.

btw how was this year's st patricks day, did yall drink some good beer

[Sean2]

St Patricks day was,of course, a day of drinking for us Ice LOL. It always is. But if you think this subject is getting off the point of Street Gangs then think again. There was alot of trouble in Dublin, especially in Tallagh, as youths were causing mini-riots in their area. One paper, had one story which showed a picture of a womans car window smashed in, the front of her house damaged and a report of members of her family being attacked. Also a fella got stabbed in Swords, a town in north Dublin

She caught four youths beating-up a relative outside their house. When she tried to stop it she was chased with her young son. Her older son was also chased and got beat with Golf clubs. After this around 20 youths joined in the attack on their house using bricks, stones, poles and other stuff. It lasted around 20 mins before the Garda(police) were called. These were not gangsters though just thugs, or as we call them over here skangers.

It was a good day apart from this though, lots of nice birds(girls) around and plenty of drink.

[Snowman]

Westwood is the worlds biggest wigga.

FACT.

He is completely unrepresentative of UK hip hop. Over here we don't listen to commercial radio for ou music. We listen to pirate. Most pirate stations only play garage and drum n base but there are some, like Itch FM that are exclusively hip hop.

Here are the best UK soundclicks.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/steelcityhiphop.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/rolldeepcrewmusic.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/ukund ... dbeats.htm

[Sanderino]

i like teh so solid crew and some good dutch hiphop brainpower u.n.i.q. e-life ambush rmxcrew ebon-e

[Anonymous20]

Some Swedish hiphop (english)

Glaciuz the i.c.y
http://www.blao.com
http://www.blao.com
http://www.blao.com

[T~]

I jus looked at a Westwood CD on a website...all it was is a load of commercial crap thats been in the charts...

[Loyalheart]

yeah westwood's cd are usually full of comercial stuff,but his radio show isn't that bad.but his voice his feckin annoying,anyone remember the time a motorcyclist let rip with an uzi on him?

[T~]

anyone remember the time a motorcyclist let rip with an uzi on him?

When was that, was he hurt?

[Loyalheart]

maybe 6 or 7 years ago he got hit i think, not entirly sure.

[Loyalheart]

5 people were hurt after the gunmen on the bike shot at his jeep wetwood got hit in the arm

[T~]

do you know who did it, an why

[Loyalheart]

when it happened there was talk of the yardies but nothing was proved. maybe somebody fae london can help.

[T~]

when it happened there was talk of the yardies but nothing was proved. maybe somebody fae london can help.

who are the 'yardies'?

[DOH]

when it happened there was talk of the yardies but nothing was proved. maybe somebody fae london can help.

who are the 'yardies'?

there a jamacan gang, there known as the yardie posse in america i think

[T~]

Are the Yardies big?

[Snowman]

Yardies is a generic term for Jamaican organized crime in england. It's a shame they didn't kill tim Westwood who's a boring 40-year old wigga who plays utter shite on his shitty radio show.

The best UK underground music simply doesn't go commercial. It stays underground on pirate stations. anything that goes commercial, like So Solid Crew did, justgoes under in a few weeks.

Here are some UK soundclicks:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/chr1smusic.htm
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/steel ... pmusic.htm

This is the real face of UK music.
As you can see it's got pretty much it's own style, but alot of that is fading thanks to people like Westwood playing imported commercial stuff.

Also do a websearch on 'Channel-U', probably the only music station to play underground UK videos ahead of commercial US stuff.