Ninjaboy said:
so you revised your opinion of someone because PE told you to?
Tim Westwood Radio 1: WTF?!
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so you revised your opinion of someone because PE told you to?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
wouldn't be the first ...Dubversion said:
Lisarocket
In bed with me dinner
red rose said:
He's fucking awful on Pimp My Ride. Whoever chose him to present it needs shooting. I was looking forward to the UK version as i've been watching the US one with Xzibit for a while. If Westwood wasn't so crap it's be funny...
oooomegrapes
steals toilet rolls
rednblack said:
i thought exactly the same......couldnt believe someone could possibly be that much of a twat without it being a pisstake....
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
surely you mean "rinse joints"jrj2020 said:
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
pass me a copy and I'll digitise itbristle-krs said:<nudges blank c90 sunspot-wise>
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ska invita
back on the other side
ChrisFilter said:
THe man is absolutely dedicated and broke rap in the UK, fighting against much hating that was around in the industry in the eighties. Works HAAARD, and hasnt stopped since day one...like him or not, he is a legend.
Getting to introduce Public Enemy on "Nation of Millions..." is a claim to fame in itself... Co-founder of Kiss Fm...The fact that he has survived to this day is a testament to his dedication.
Is he embaressing...yeah, but: Thats REALLY HIM!!! - its not fake -he lives it! - let him have the benefit of the doubt
gentlegreen said:pass me a copy and I'll digitise it
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I have the tricknology to digimatize the thingamibobs.
A friend of mine has recently completed doing that with all his old tapes, tidying up, hiss-reducing and EQ-ing them as he went...
Personally, I think life's too short to bother attempting that with hundreds of them.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
He was still claiming to be 27 when he was 45, so I've heard. Despite the fact that he started broadcasting in about 1982. How sad?Sunspots said:
I also remember reading a feature about him having had a few caps put in his ass after a gig at Home or somewhere. Pretentious, narcissistic filth in my very humble.
Go KRS-One!
acid priest said:He was still claiming to be 27 when he was 45, so I've heard. Despite the fact that he started broadcasting in about 1982. How sad?
His actual age was shrouded in mystery for many years. It shouldn't really matter how old somebody is, but he obviously seems to have felt that he had to keep quiet about it.
According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1958.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
even older than me thenSunspots said:
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Well, exactly.Sunspots said:
Treacle Toes
Time
Tim Westwood knows his stuff but he is more than a tad annoying!
gentlegreen said:even older than me then
Age isn't really the issue though. (-Good luck to him; none of us are getting any younger!)
The issue is that Westwood (-or more specifically, his on-air persona) is frankly ludicrous. That's the main reason he's so widely ridiculed.
Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
He;s just turned into a bit of a walking cliche. Not worthy of any hatred though.
Was well respected in the 80s though. If the thing about his shooting is true (because he refused to pay protection money) then all power to him.
Was well respected in the 80s though. If the thing about his shooting is true (because he refused to pay protection money) then all power to him.
niksativa said:
apparently, after spending months working with co-actors that weren't really there on Roger Rabbit, Bob Hoskins would find himself talking to non-existent people on the bus. he went batshit.
so if you do anything for long enough, i'm sure you're no longer faking it and it becomes who you are.
but so what? now he's REALLY a twat rather than pretending to be one?
even when he got shot, he tried to get real mileage out of it, boost his image and ego related to how fucking real he was.
in the end, turns out they were after his driver.
i don't dispute that he champions hip hop in this country, but anybody who thinks it wouldn't have happened without him is mental. Hip Hop is the most successful music genre in the world, has been for a decade probably. do you really think the UK would have resisted it without Westwood saying 'aiight' and coming out with some really dodgy homophobic shit on his shows?
in the end, turns out they were after his driver.
i don't dispute that he champions hip hop in this country, but anybody who thinks it wouldn't have happened without him is mental. Hip Hop is the most successful music genre in the world, has been for a decade probably. do you really think the UK would have resisted it without Westwood saying 'aiight' and coming out with some really dodgy homophobic shit on his shows?
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
he does seem to get some respect from the big US hiphoppers.
hmm, that's all i can think of to say about him.
the man is a joke. look upon his works, ye mighty, and tremble.
hmm, that's all i can think of to say about him.
the man is a joke. look upon his works, ye mighty, and tremble.
Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
Dubversion said:even when he got shot, he tried to get real mileage out of it, boost his image and ego related to how fucking real he was.
in the end, turns out they were after his driver.
i don't dispute that he champions hip hop in this country, but anybody who thinks it wouldn't have happened without him is mental. Hip Hop is the most successful music genre in the world, has been for a decade probably. do you really think the UK would have resisted it without Westwood saying 'aiight' and coming out with some really dodgy homophobic shit on his shows?
I did say if thankfully regarding the shooting.
I don't think anyone would dispute the second part but then thats the same with any imported American music.
I don't listen to his show so is the homophobic stuff his words or the records?
Harold Hill said:
nor me, but i'm reliably informed he used to pretend to out rappers considered a bit 'light on their feet'. i'll google..
Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
Dubversion said:nor me, but i'm reliably informed he used to pretend to out rappers considered a bit 'light on their feet'. i'll google..
Never heard about that. But that is something like what Hot 97 in New York used to do.
noodles said:
oh, don't be an arse. nobody is mocking a funny accent or his age.
we're mocking an ENTIRELY AFFECTED AND INAUTHENTIC vocal pretension and someone who consistently lies about their age.
not the same thing and it's disingenuous of you to claim it is.
the issue has always been whether he was actually supporting UK hiphop...
Eventually it got to him and he tried harder to have british guests and play UK music. I recall people I knew revising their opinions - whereas before they criticised him as a tool of US cultural takeover they began to respect him when they saw he could help them.
A strangely powerful man really
Eventually it got to him and he tried harder to have british guests and play UK music. I recall people I knew revising their opinions - whereas before they criticised him as a tool of US cultural takeover they began to respect him when they saw he could help them.
A strangely powerful man really
Harold Hill
Jay Emm forgot his p/word
noodles said:
Anytime he has uttered the words 'Keeping it real' or 'repping my ends' then he invites this on himself.
Sorry but a 40plus man boasting on Radio 1 about lapdancers in his hummer is a sad cunt.
