{"id":10772,"date":"2011-08-19T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2012-03-08T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:24:28","slug":"almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike-a-rap-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike-a-rap-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a rap music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0iRTB-FTMdk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/08\/19\/fighting-trousers-quality-victorian-parody-rap-video.html?dlvrit=36761\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Koerth-Baker at <em>BoingBoing<\/em><\/a> (and I&#8217;m still a bit astonished I didn&#8217;t see it at <em>Ghost of a Flea<\/em> first . . .) [In-line update: of <em>course<\/em> he got there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostofaflea.com\/archives\/015330.html\" target=\"_blank\">months<\/a> ago. Silly of me to think otherwise.]<\/p>\n<p>From the comments at <em>BoingBoing<\/em>, it&#8217;s apparently called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703716904576133674200088328.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chap-Hop<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For some British rappers, nothing goes better with laying down rhymes than a gin and tonic and a Sunday afternoon stroll.<\/p>\n<p>They have created chap-hop, fusing the American urban musical genre with the imagined lifestyle of the British upper classes. And this coastal town, with its candy-colored Victorian villas and seafront promenade, is the setting for the latest hip-hop feud.<\/p>\n<p>In chap-hop videos, hip-hop tropes are subtly undermined: Barely clothed models are replaced with a ladylike redhead in a summer frock, cricket bats are substituted for uzis.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Elemental, a self-styled &#8220;Steampunk Mad Professor&#8221; and leading chap-hop MC, is one of its top exponents. He is easy to spot in the Marwood Caf\u00e9 here, even amid its d\u00e9cor of spectacle-wearing stuffed owls and dismembered mannequins. Clad in Victorian-explorer garb, complete with pith helmet, he is eager to talk about his planned trip across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T to Maggie Koerth-Baker at BoingBoing (and I&#8217;m still a bit astonished I didn&#8217;t see it at Ghost of a Flea first . . .) [In-line update: of course he got there months ago. Silly of me to think otherwise.] From the comments at BoingBoing, it&#8217;s apparently called &#8220;Chap-Hop&#8220;. For some British rappers, nothing goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,57,28],"tags":[200,463,796],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","tag-music","tag-parody","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}