The Black Keys Fan Lounge Forum

actually rather pissed I missed it all.

pm me next time shit gets hairy if I dont seem to be in on it. I have this really calming effect on people, I could have defused this a while ago.

ahh go f*&^ yourself Mirby

wow, i make two posts and leave the board for a day and looks like guy here had some trouble quitting his own presumptuous stream of consciousness attack. you pegged me as a "100% hip-hop, hat banged to the side, homophobe" etc. where are you getting this shit from? why the hell would somebody like that come to the "black keys fan lounge?" you're sharper than sherlock holmes eh? sorry, detective joke, no offense to any "detectives" you may be friends with.

first of all "crookedbill" refers to the fact that my first name is actually "bill" and i'm a fan of the band "them crooked vultures." woah, weird how that works. second, i'm a fan of music. i don't "hate" any music, no matter what genre, though i do have my favorites (that being, rock&roll). music is my life, my passion, and actually my livelihood. 100% hip-hop? not really, though i was a big hip-hop fan for part of high-school and consider myself pretty knowledgeable about the genre.

my favorite hip-hop group growing up was the wu-tang clan, specifically with rza producing. now, i think dan has stated more than a few times in interviews that he and pat were big fans of rza production and attempted to mimic this when they first started with the black keys. in accord with that, anybody with discerning ears can easily tell that blakroc is their closest emulation of that rza-style production. furthermore, anybody who's been paying attention to hip-hop in the last decade (whether they enjoy it or not, which i personally don't) realizes that nobody produces like the rza anymore (save for a few underground artists). now, your derisive comments about hip-hop tells me you made a snap judgement equating blakroc to some horrible contemporary hip-hop you apparently hear "spewing out of car windows" with the purpose of insulting the blakroc project. weak.

that said, i live in dc in a part of town called adams morgan, just a few blocks north of dupont circle (aka, the gay area of town). weird how a homophobe chooses to live anywhere near there huh? i have gay friends too (good for us right? you and i are both so "progressive" and the world looks so much better from atop these high horses), and i know if they read your enraged pseudo alpha-dog territorial pissings here they'd say "damn, this bitch needs to grow some thicker skin."

now, that out of the way, any fellow fans want to talk about the black keys?

i LOVE RZA's production. One of my biggest influences for production too. WU TANG

Liquid Swords by GZA
Enter the 36 Chambers by Wu Tang
Only Built for Cuban Linx by Raekwon
Return to the 36 Chambers by ODB

All classic productions by RZA. You wanna talk about rawness..look no further.
super raw drums !

Some magazine or website , can't remember, did an interview with RZA where he talked about all the movies he used for samples. It was pretty cool!