Get a dog up ya Sydney

Chris Bass says:

12:20pm | 12/12/11

“Upper middle-class white boys imitating the middle-income Sydney Lebanese boys who mimic the middle-class black American entertainers who pretend to have risen from the streets.”...What a joke. 

Firstly, the Hoods have never imitated anyone (let alone someone from Sydney? regardless of racial origin which seems to be extremely important to you Frankie V.).  The Hoods have always done their own thing, which is why so many artists are imitating them now. 

Upper-middle class is a stretch,  Suffa is my younger brother and at the time I was born my parents were living in a caravan in Menindie, so I guess now you’ll call us trailer-trash (in doing so granting us the same background as your beloved Iggy).

Also, if you wish to call A Tribe Called Quest, Master Ace, Pharoah Monche, Black Sheep etc., (or any other of the Hood’s early influences) pretenders, make sure you do it face to face and let us all know so we can watch as you get verbally humiliated and laid out.

One final point I love Iggy, but at times he has not been too far removed from Pat Boone; both of them crooners wearing too much make-up.

S.L says:

12:10pm | 02/03/10

Some people just don’t get it. I had to go to a 50th birthday party with a 70s theme (why do parties always have a theme these days?)last year so I went to the hairdressers the day before to style my hair into a mullet. The young trendy girl barely out of her apprenticeship asked me what I would like so I said “mullet”. As she looked at me like I had 3 heads I said “ok number 2 at the sides and just clean up the back. Before I knew what she was doing the first number 2 cut was travelling up the back of my head. When I protested she said “well that’s what you asked for!” Changed of tact I went as a sharpy instead.

formersnag says:

06:44pm | 01/03/10

Youse blokes have got nuthin on the bogans from Logan, just south of Brisbane. We don’t drink beer in stubbies, we suck down “tallies” or “long necks”, when we’re not doing shots of bundy with a beer chaser. Of course, there are those territorians, with their “Darwin stubbies” or those Europeans with their Heineken kegs.

Frankie V. says:

04:13pm | 01/03/10

“”“.  .  . the only genuinely hard and competent hip-hop group in Australia, The Hilltop Hoods, come from Adelaide’s gritty northern suburbs.”“”

Upper middle-class white boys imitating the middle-income Sydney Lebanese boys who mimic the middle-class black American entertainers who pretend to have risen from the streets.

The Hoods make Pat Boone look like Iggy Pop.

Jonathan says:

01:08pm | 01/03/10

I’m another one who’s not really sure what this is all about.  You’re extrapolating the mood of an entire city from a (probably supposed to be) humorous tongue-in-cheek comment at a fish market (ffs).  Clutching at straws, trolling, baiting etc etc.
As a blow-in myself (although not from Adelaide), I realised pretty quickly that Sydney-siders don’t give a rat’s arse about what’s happening in other capital cities.  All of these articles about state rivalry and Sydney blowing it’s own trumpet are just a beat up.  But then I expect no less from the Australian media.

WKBent says:

10:13am | 01/03/10

I’m quite happy for the other states to bag Adelaide. By all means, please don’t come here.

Liz says:

08:17am | 01/03/10

Come on home then Pembo to the small town feel with soul.Ambition, salary and rising up the ladder are nothing compared with lifestyle and having serious fun.Adelaide has it all and Coopers as well. But don’t spread the word too much we don’t want them all over here.

Mrs James says:

08:06am | 01/03/10

This is ramblings of a chief stirrer, Australia is one country. Each city has something wonderful about it.

steve parker says:

06:09am | 01/03/10

You have been too long in Sydney - I knew you had lost touch with your bogan Marion self David! Australian hip-hop outfit the Hilltop Hoods formed in Adelaide in 1993. MCs Suffa and Pressure met as classmates at Blackwood High School [not far from where you went to school] - not Adelaide’s gritty northern suburbs.

I’m from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla,
Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer,
And in the winter, the city sleeps dead in the freeze,
Where I’m from you might see Pressure MC,
Walking the traps trying to escape the map,
Ninety three was my shit I’m trying to take it back

Al says:

12:36am | 01/03/10

Love bogans David. Makes the chk chk boom girl look like a trendy version.