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Goldie: “Mother”

Pitchfork·Ben Cardew·about 1 month ago
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You could never accuse Goldie of lacking ambition. In 1998, just three years after the British producer’s debut album, Timeless , brought new levels of sophistication to the nascent jungle sound, Goldie opted to kick off his second LP with “Mother,” a gut-wrenching, hour-long cry for help. “It’s like looking at your mum’s vagina and knowing: ‘I know this is going to be a very difficult life but it’s the one life you need to make count,’” Goldie later said , neatly summing up the brazen lack of self-consciousness that would make “Mother” one of the most notorious songs of the decade. Goldie, born Clifford Price in Walsall, England, in 1965, had a complicated childhood. His father disappeared soon after Goldie was born and his mother put her son into care at the age of three, where he remained for the next 15 years. Goldie grew up fiercely driven.…

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