It's the second odd musical trend in the SNAP column this week as, following yesterday's plugging of video artist Mr No Hands, today's link takes you to the page of 'trance hop' pioneer Wiz Khalifa. Indeed, following the success of Kanye West's Daft Punk sampling 'Stronger' and the Mitchell Brothers' courtship of Calvin Harris, it seems there's no better way for hip hop artists to go than to head for the synths and glitchy beats of electronic artists, though Khalifa's use of Alice Deejay's 'Better Off Alone' on new single 'Say Yeah' is perhaps at the less credible end of the trail. As such, I'm still toying with the idea of 'trance hop' being a success as a genre, yet with strong support from 1Xtra and Warner (his label) the single, at least, has potential to be the next 'Crank That'. Then we're back to the rise of 'shit gaze' for the rest of 2008. No, really.
http://www.myspace.com/wizkhalifa