>- what you like and what you want for america is irrelevant.
> you are a kiwi, who can't even be happy in your own
>country, so you've migrated to the UK, now you aren't even
>happy there, so you are trying to infiltrate america. it's
>sad really.

do you guys share dossiers on me or what??
look, skippy. the only reason i'm not happy in the UK is because of the weather, and the fact that i miss home.
As much as i resent giving you sheisty assholes more 'ammunition'; London's been good to me. i'm represented in a few galleries here, i've DJ'd in some of the biggest clubs in the world, and i've got an on-point literary agent representing me. i also have a brilliant flat, some excellent friends, and a beautiful girlfriend.
i've spent time in the US, and i definitely don't want to 'infiltrate' it. i've got a Kiwi passport, you fool. i'd have to be seriously self-hating to want to go and live in the States when i have one of those.


>-there are downtrodden in New Zealand, go back and help
>them.

can you say, "postal vote"?
beside, our country has a working welfare state, and is a world leader on sexual, environmental and scientific issues. they'll do fine while i'm gone.


>-that's apparent. and excuse me, but how was OUR culture
>FORCEd upon you? If i'm correct, you are espousing your
>anti-American pop culture rhetoric on an American artists
>website, consisting predominately of americans. Tell me who
>is forcing you to write on OUR site? Please, i'll take the
>sick fuck out myself, because nothing would please me more
>than to eradicate your anti-american sentiments from these
>boards.

my first memory is watching Sesame Street.
the first toys i remember owning were GI Joe, Transformers, Spiderman and Superman.
the first movie i remember seeing was Bambi.
the first record i ever bought was Run DMC. the first cassette was LL Cool J.
the fact that we even had a local entertainment industry wasn't apparent to me until i was 13.

the only reason i'm on here so much is because the artists represented on OKP are among my favourites. this might be a valid point if this was, i dunno, the MTV message boards. but considering this site has Aaron MacGruder on the front page, it's hardly a bastion of the mainstream American entertainment industry.
oh, and the traffic at hiphopnz.com can get a little bit slow, these boards are a lot more fun. (for one thing, if i did a post like this on there, all i'd get would be agreement. this is more fun.)

and i'll reiterate this for the hundredth time; being anti-Bush does NOT equal being anti-American. i don't know why you tosspots keep on thinking the two are synonomous... by this logic, over half the population of the US is anti-american.


>-so buy an elton john album and shut the fuck up. no one
>tells you to love our culture, you do it on your own.

....now that i have a choice, and now that i can limit my appreciation to a select group of artists. which i couldn't do in my younger years, the same as a lot of the world.

and what the hell has Elton John got to do with anything? if you'd said, i dunno, Scribe, King Kapisi, Nesian Mystik, Che Fu, the D4, Crowded House, Footsouljahs, Rhombus... well, you'd have a point. except i already have everything that all these Kiwi artists have released.


>so decide what the hell you can do for your own country and
>leave ours well enough alone KIWI.

i already covered this in another reply.
AMERICAN.