Brief Notes on 2011 SDMA’s
I’m back. Sorry for the short absence, but you know how it is, I just get burnt out sometimes (also, I was spending way too much time watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix). Thanks for understanding and coming back.
The SDMA’s went down this past Monday. It was better this year than last year for a few reasons:
- As you already know, the hip-hop nominations were substantially better this year than last.
- SoundDiego had me covered on drinks to burn away my feelings of douchebaggery as I stood surrounded by elbows grossly rubbing up on each other.
- I finally met Dominique aka El-Gun Legro.
- 1019 the Numberman became the first person to get the whole point of this website, which is for me to make rapper friends who will throw women at me on general principle. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any Asians around and I like to keep it real in terms of interracial dating (damn, I think I’ve already referenced Common).
- I’m no expert, but I like Little Hurricane.
- The announcers for each hip-hop award miraculously did NOT cheese it up with their outsider status. Good move.
- Vokab Kompany won “Best Hip-Hop” and played “Ridin’ My Bike (Mr. Ridley remix)” as they came up to the stage. They also shouted out Ridley real quick.
- Blame won “Best Hip-Hop Album.” Unfortunately he wasn’t there due to some communication issue (no, he did not snub the SDMA’s like I thought). But fortunately, this other North County rapper, Change, rushed the stage and said something to the effect of “Yo, I just wanna say, thank God it wasn’t MC Flow again. This is for real hip-hop!” And while I want to stay away from continuing to use MC Flow as a punching bag (because she’s entirely too nice and I think she’s putting music on the backburner anyway), I am a fan of rappers rushing the stage at awards shows.
I mentioned before that, in the grand scheme of things, the SDMA’s don’t matter too much. MC Flow has won several SDMA’s and even she’s said that the award itself has had little effect on her career. I doubt that Blame will suddenly start caking after this award though that’d be cool (um, buy Endurance here though). But I think it’s useful, at least for the hip-hop community, to look at as a sort of report card for the local entertainment media to see how we’re doing in our coverage. And I think having good media coverage is one of the pre-requisites for fostering a healthier scene. Hopefully, next year will be even better.
Reading be fun though:
