Last
night hip hop DJ and Radio 1 presenter Tim Westwood played in Suede
nightclub, Longworth St Manchester.
Some
love him, some hate him. Some disregard him as a middle-class white
son of a bishop from Norwich, or as some kind of wigga clown. Whatever your opinion, he's been at the forefront of the UK hip hop scene
since the 80s. I first stumbled across his rap show in 1996 and was
equally perplexed and fascinated. What is that accent? He sounds
white. Is he white? How has he got to where he is? Regardless of
these questions, the biggest rap stars poured onto his show week in
week out. I heard him interview Snoop Dogg back when he was Snoop Doggy Dogg. Wu Tang Clan (including now deceased Ol'
Dirty Bastard) took over his Friday night show. Other stars followed
as hip hop became more mainstream at the turn of the century. I've
been a fan since then, and I've wanted to come to his shows for a
while.
Last
night, though, his popularity was confirmed: the 58-year-old took to
the decks of Suede, which must have reached capacity. Before long, he
began discussing the vaginas of the female customers. Well, why not?
“It's
time to go and give a shout-out to the girls with the tightest
pussy,” he claimed. “If your pussy's tight and clean, scream!”
There
were a handful of affirmative responses.
Westwood
stopped the record. “That white girl didn't scream,” he claimed,
pointing to the dancefloor. “That's because she put her drawers on
back to front and her pum pum smells of doo doo.”
He
then busts out Vybez Kartel's Romping
Shop, which- if I'm interpreting correctly- is about a brothel.
This
was not a sole occurrence. He discussed such matters a number of
times throughout the night, at one point asking us to “point to the
person you want to fuck.” I thought I'd been teleported to Magaluf
at one point.
I
must be getting old- a lot of the music I didn't recognise, and
didn't rate compared to 2000-era hip-hop. On a few occasions I seemed
to be the only person who didn't know the song at all, let alone
blast out the lyrics. I'm not massively bothered by the language, but
I can see why it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Pics
from the night will be here.
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