Comments on: The Flobots Make Modern Rock Radio Safe For Rappin’ Whitey Again

By: Jean Bon

Jean Bon — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:10:52 +0000

I must try what you say, it sound interesting. I’ll talk about your blog to my friends :). Sorry for my bad english :S

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:35:23 +0000

@Al Shipley:
don't know if it strictly qualifies as hiphop or rap but i remember HFS playing "Oh Carolina" by Shaggy quite heavily in about 93 i think.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:46:13 +0000

Did we already forget about Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda’s side project “Fort Minor” from last year?

By: Butch Huskey

Butch Huskey — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:22:50 +0000

until i found out these guys thought of themselves at a rap unit, i thought they sounded just like Cake

another recent "rap" styled Modern Rock charting band was Transplants and of course Gnarls Barkley

By: jus10j

jus10j — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:29:35 +0000

You know, I actually like this song…mainly because it’s (now) different from what’s played a lot. However, I have one complaint: The version in the video (and the album) isn’t the same as the one on the radio…the radio mix has some different effects to it, and builds much better. I dunno, I just like to be able to get the version I like.

And they’re definitely like angry Cake. I can’t imagine that guy raising his voice.

By: Clevertrousers

Clevertrousers — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:37:27 +0000

@Reidicus: ...and Frank Stallone

By: Reidicus

Reidicus — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:25:15 +0000

@Clevertrousers: Right, like Hall & Oates.

By: Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:46:05 +0000

@Al Shipley: Just wait until it gets to 420 views.

By: Al Shipley

Al Shipley — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:48:37 +0000

Another kinda-rap Modern Rock hit popped into my head: Us3's "Cantaloop."

@Audif Jackson Winters III: Ah, good catch. It's definitely telling that Rabin wrote that article 8-9 years ago but all you'd have to do is change/add a couple names to update for any point since then.

@Chris Molanphy: Yeah, I can kinda hear the Cake comparison in the voice. But I mean, Cake's approach to rapping is very deadpan and droll, these Flobots guys very clearly had their lives changed by Zack De La Rocha (or maybe Sage Francis).

@beta.rogan: They don't seem to have ever made the rock charts, but that's not surprising. HFS always seemed a little more rap-friendly than the average alt station, a lot of songs I'd mentioned here were stuff I heard them play a lot, but turned out not to have enough national Modern Rock exposure to chart.

By: beta.rogan

beta.rogan — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:34:13 +0000

I'm not sure if they ever officially made it on the Modern Rock charts, but 3rd Bass got some play on WHFS with Pop goes the weasel. That could have been more because of their Dj "Weasel" rather than anything else I suppose...