Admittedly, Wesley Pentz better known as Diplo is one of the dictators of cool that I’m always going on about. But when your crew’s (Hollertronix) parties help set off a craze as big as mash-up; you popularize entire genres that are marginal (Grime) or even completely unknown to the U.S. (Baile Funk); discover, date and DJ for a phenomenon like M.I.A. (regardless of the fact that she is way over hyped); and on top it all off your debut album gets released by Big Dada (subsidiary hip hop label for Ninja Tune) and is as dope as Florida; one could argue that your credentials for such a title are solid. I mean, he’s not some snotty journalist with a degree working for a “meta”-music site, he’s an actual DJ who’s tastes are club tested and crowd approved.
Hip Hop Bootleggers
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http://www.myspace.com/diplo
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