{"id":208,"date":"2003-10-10T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:03:11","slug":"skykicking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/skykicking-2\/","title":{"rendered":"skykicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skykicking.tripod.com\/2003_10_01_archive.html#106550626625805463\">skykicking on Sizzla<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like most ragga DJs, Sizzla has carefully cultivated an inimitable vocal style: a quavery, unpredictable growl-whine, impassioned and strangulated as it struggles to get the words out. It&#8217;s this sense of struggle that I find fascinating; not &#8220;struggle&#8221; in the social\/religious sense, but rather the difficulty of verbal expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is also a struggle at times, against actually holding down a fucking tune. It&#8217;s worth checking the link above, because Mr Skykicking makes some excellent thought-provoking points, but I can&#8217;t help feeling that Sizzla has missed the boat &#8211; buried under 20,000 leagues of generic tunes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not to say that he hasn&#8217;t come up with the goods recently &#8211; the &#8220;Mama&#8221; track on Digital B is excellent and I rediscovered his cut on Mexican yesterday and thought it pretty fine. But&#8230; (leaving aside the fiya bun everything content) there is no way you would buy anything by Sizzla on spec these days, not even an album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skykicking on Sizzla: &#8220;Like most ragga DJs, Sizzla has carefully cultivated an inimitable vocal style: a quavery, unpredictable growl-whine, impassioned and strangulated as it struggles to get the words out. It&#8217;s this sense of struggle that I find fascinating; not &#8220;struggle&#8221; in the social\/religious sense, but rather the difficulty of verbal expression.&#8221; It is also &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/skykicking-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;skykicking&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5744,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/5744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}