I'm a baby boomer. Those are just names to me.
When rap/hip hop was young and innocent I listened to it for fun, but never considered it as real music. No way would I have ever spent any coin on those records.
When the gangsta rap became the thing, I tuned out hard.
I agree.. when I first heard ‘rap’, I thought it was great freestyle poetry with a good beat...
As soon as the ‘gansta’ came out, it was down the garbage disposal for me.
(actually not totally true.. I was still kinda young, and Luke Skywalker/2 Live Crew won a court case in Florida about their music (1st Amendment case).. and, so, the beginning of the RAP mutation began. At the time, I loved their rowdiness and balls to step up against the system... but I did not foresee what a mess it would make of the whole society :/ (SO was born Gansta-Rap)...)