Do you remember Downset? If you were around buying CDs and records back in the 1990s, then you will definitely remember them. They found themselves, probably unfairly, badged with the epithet “rap metal”. Whilst that epithet went some way to describe the dynamic that underpinned their work, it didn’t really cover all the bases, missing, for example, their debt to the LA hardcore scene as well as their overt political sensibility. As the more forensically minded among you might recall, Downset emerged out of LA politicos Social Justice from the late 1980s. Continue reading
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