The problem with that article was....
....there was no subtlety.
What you have to remember about Hicks is, his stuff is over 20 years old now. Of course it's dated, of course it's sledgehammer, of course it lacks the nuances of todays finest....the layers, structure and irony. But for fucks sake no-one was doing what he did back then. Pryor was on Crack, Martin had sold out, Williams had over coked, Pete and Dud were a thing of the past, shit a watered down Cosby was all we had. He stood up and critised America when no-one critised 'Merika.
And they hated him in America, we (in the UK) took him into our arms as soon as we heard him. The bitterness was fantastic. The hatred of all things "popular" was lovely. As far as I'm concerned he was an Englishman stuck in an American body in America. Just imagine the pain of that.
No doubt if he was still alive today he'd be in the next prequel to Marley and me, doing "Relentless" re-run tours and and nirorette ads...but I like to think he'd be doing acid under a bar light moaning about how music is shit nowadays. He did pave the way for Chris Rock, Loius CK and Dave Chapelle but no doubt you'd call them clumsy and un-subtle too.
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The only Dave is pushing things forward, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 21:39,
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^This^
The article is flat wrong.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 22:32,
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