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if you listen to house or electro or electro house or something, you might know about diplo.
as i read in one interview, he’s pretty much about mixing house and hiphop. his sound speaks for his self though.

Diplo: Well I mean I kind of grew up on hip hop and Baltimore club was like the hip hop version of house music. So even the guys I work with like Switch are even more influenced by hip hop than me, because they were rappers before they were house producers. I’ve been producing a lot of hip hop though. I think for every house beat I’ve made, I’ve made probably four or five hip hop beats.

It’s all about combining the best of these little micro-genres of music though. I’m always up to do some hip hop beats. The PRGz, that’s a big hip hop project for me. Blaqstarr does a little hip hop. Rye Rye is on Interscope now. Locally, not so much in Philly, because there aren’t that many rappers left there. Wale, I did some beats for him. The track with Kid Sister actually has David Banner on it.

from this issue on, im gonna publish all (more or less.. we’ll see) the tracks i mention in my column over at raveline magazine on schakkerhart.com, youll . so back to diplo: one track he did with santogold, star struck, was rescently used by hipster rappers proton for their song fade away. dope thang, really. if you think so too, you should do what i havnt done yet: check Proton‘s Red & Purple Volume 1 Mixtape (Download). more infos is on fader mags site.

ahaha i just started listening. laptop sounds like an old neptunes song with a houston screw hook – difference is, instead of grippin grain, the voice of doom proclaims its working on its laptop^^. neerrrd.

Proton – Laptop [Download]
on with working on my laptop: another project we should check is Fear and Loathing in Hunts Vegas, an album (mixtape?) Diplo and Benzi did with alabama rap crew paper route gangstaz. i heard Bama Gettin Money, which is bouncin.

PRGz – Bama Gettin Money (Diplo Remix) [mp3]

listening to juicy fruit from proton at the moment, they have some dope old school rap tracks next to electro experiments, swagger jackin the cool kids in some way. next to outkast and hipster godfather pharrell, who they took some rap styles from. difference to the kool kids is, proton are bringing nineties back. love it. ice cream beat by wu tang. just wetted my boogy. told ya nineties is coming back! which sample is inside my love by the way??? is she singin “do you wanna cum inside me” or am i just a day late with the current cum shot? after all, they have a bunch of funny remixes talkin bout fuckin and even akinyele on it^^ didnt hear that for years. it was all a dream – i used to read raveline magazine…

PS: proton have a skit suggesting a hater hotline^^ i should build sth like that for hiphop.de, so people pay a buck for every minute they tell me to go fuck myself – yeeeaah

buy: Diplo & Benzi present Paper Route Recordz – Fear & Loathing In Hunts Vegas