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'Rapper's Delight' (And Commercial Hip-Hop) Turns 30
MTV Viacom ^
| 10/13/09
| Kyle Anderson
Posted on 10/14/2009 12:16:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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To: a fool in paradise
And society has been better for it ever since..not!
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:20:07 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...
This week marks a key moment in hip-hop history, as the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" the first real hip-hop single was unleashed a full 30 years ago. If you had described the concept of "Rapper's Delight" to somebody ("Hey, I've got this breakdown in the middle of a disco song let me rhythmically recite poetry over it!") in the age before rap music, that person probably would have rolled his eyes at the very concept. WTF is this "the first REAL" hip hop nonsense all about?
Rappers today cite The Last Poets, Iceberg Slim, Rudy Ray Moore, and Blowfly (who had Rap Dirty back in 1965) all of whom are pre-1975.
There is also Jaggerz's The Rapper (1970).
And if we look to country there is One Piece At A Time, I've Been Everywhere, Smoke The Cigarette, The Hot Rod Race and countless other rapped songs (spoken word, often in rhyme, over a beat).
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:20:40 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: a fool in paradise
Ah, the memories.
In the summer if '81, my roommate, from the Bronx, returned from a trip home with a 10" record in a blue jacket, and played this disk for us in the record player. He said it was this new thing called "rap" that was big in New York. We played it so many times that I memorized the damn thing. It was innocent fun back then. Little did I know that it would become the music format of choice for all black and some white people, and in the process, become obscenely vulgar. The debasement of national culture continues apace.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:28:17 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(The absence of bias appears to be bias to those who are biased.)
To: a fool in paradise
I vote for I’ve Been Eveywhere by J. Cash.
To: a fool in paradise
It was a just a rip-off of Chic’s “Good Times.”
To: I Buried My Guns
Every, Evey, Eveery, Evel, whatevah.
To: Defiant
But it was obscenely vulgar circa 1970. Rudy Ray Moore would appear full naked photophed on his album covers with numerous naked women.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:30:45 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: I Buried My Guns
How about “The Auctioneer” by Leroy Van Dyke?
To: Defiant
I've heard that this is Johnny Otis, but I don't know. It's got some nasty rapping, from the 1960s.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:32:49 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: a fool in paradise
What about “Ringo” by Loren Greene?
To: a fool in paradise
I like the old lady in Happy Gilmore’s version better!
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:35:42 PM PDT
by
albie
To: a fool in paradise
modern rap is nothing other than synchopated tribal grunting.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:36:19 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: a fool in paradise
Jimi Hendrix released several songs that I'd characterize as "rap", as well.
Listen to this music video of "Crosstown Traffic":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCNsZXCd58
Right after the 1 minute mark, it sounds just like every hip-hop song I've ever heard.
And it was released in 1969.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:36:48 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
To: Defiant
. Little did I know that it would become the music format of choice for all black and some white people, and in the process, become obscenely vulgar. The debasement of national culture continues apace. It boiled down to economics, producing rap records and hiring rap artists is cheap, compared to real bands who play instruments.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:38:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: GodBlessRonaldReagan
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:39:16 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.)
When this started I remember thinking surely this will die-off soon, like disco. But no, they keep churning it out.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:43:33 PM PDT
by
isom35
To: justlurking
I prefer Shat’s take on “Mr. Tambourine Man”. Truly mind-munching!
To: a fool in paradise
Rap and Hip Hop - the minor leagues of "music" genres.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:45:26 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(The DemocRat Party is no longer an American political party.)
To: dfwgator
The same was true of discos. Play records (and sell drugs) rather than pay and promote bands.
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posted on
10/14/2009 12:49:51 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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