Hip hop skit
A hip hop skit is a form of sketch comedy that appears on a hip hop album or mixtape, and is usually written and performed by the artists themselves. Skits can appear on albums or mixtapes as individual tracks, or at the beginning or end of a song. Some skits are part of concept albums and contribute to an album's concept. Skits also occasionally appear on albums of other genres.
The hip-hop skit was more or less pioneered by De La Soul and their producer Prince Paul who incorporated many skits on their 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.
The Hip Hop Skit although dominant throughout the 90s and the early 2000s began to be phased out in the later half of the 2000s and the early 2010s. Reasons for this include the popularity of MP3 as well as the invention of the iPod Shuffle, which could only play tracks in a random order.
Writing for The AV Club, Evan Rytlewski opined that skits may have originally been in vogue because an expanded tracklisting would look more appealing to would be buyers, although he noted that their first inclusion on a De La Soul record was most likely just them being "eccentric".
JML
JML may refer to:
- JML Direct TV, a series of British television shopping channels owned by John Mills Limited
JML (John Mills Limited)
JML (John Mills Limited) is a UK based consumer products company, specialising in retail promotions and TV home shopping. Founded in 1986 by John Mills, it has two divisions: a retail division which sells products in stores via on-screen promotions and its direct division which sells them direct to consumer via TV home shopping channels, its website and through its catalogue. In 2010 it was named as one of Europe's Top 500 Growth Companies.
History
Mills founded JML in the basement of his house in Camden in 1986. Reverting to a model of selling at trade shows, the company expanded into consumer selling after a trial involving end of aisle video demonstrations in third-party owned retail shops.
Today, JML has its headquarters based in Kentish Town, North London. Home to one third of the company’s 300 strong workforce, it contains the retail sales office, media editing suites and broadcast operations. The fulfilment centre is based in the Port of Tyne, comprising both a call centre, warehouse and distribution facility.
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