Posted on 03/01/2007 5:11:49 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
NEW YORK — Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.
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"I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy..." it was all about sex and screwin' back then too????
Good point! Actually, a DJ on WBCN in Boston covered this song in the early '80s, in a similar way to Run-DMC's cover of "Walk This Way."
Bob Wills?
Rudy Ray Moore - Dolomite?
No, they weren't. And they have a melody.
I have a black coworker who listens to the old-school rap hour from 12:00-1:00 and I must say it is pretty good and brings back memories. I have to agree with him that the cRAP that is out nowdays is in his words "Nonsense". Today it's all about the bling,cheese,22"s and big booty beeotches.
Holy crap, it really is almosy 30 years, isn't it.
I'm a ding dong daddy
Got a whiz bang mama
She's a Bear Creek baby
And a whompus kitty
That's the one I was thinking of, too.
Now, I know all, you all don't know who I is
Because I just got here today
My hometown is a little town
Way down Dixie way
Now, everybody down there from miles around
All calls me by my name
Now that up here
In your big city
I sure wish you'd all do the same
Because I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Why, I'm a clean cut fella
From Horner's Corner
Ooh, you oughtta see me strut
I'm a paper cuttin cutie
Got a gal called, Katy
She's a little, heavy lady
And I call her baby
I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Yes, a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
I'm a ping pong papa from Pitchfork Prairie
Oughtta see me strut
I'm a ding dong daddy
Got a whiz bang mama
She's a Bear Creek baby
And a whompus kitty
--Instrumental Break--
Just a ding dong daddy from Dumas
Ooh, you oughtta see me do my stuff
I'm a cornpone popper
And an apple knocker
You oughtta see me strut
I'm a momma lovin' man
And I just left Mary
She's a big blonde baby
From Peanut Prairie
I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
--Instrumental Break--
Just a rinky dinky daddy from the Dumas
Who you'll see me doin' my stuff
I'm a peach pie papa
From Jackson's Holla
Ah, you oughtta see me strut
I'm a honey drippin' daddy
Got a hard-hearted baby
She's a sheep shakin' Sheba
And hallelujah!
I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me strut!
Yeah, the birth of rap for white folks. Debbie harry and the band were seeing NYC kids beat-boxing and rapping in NYC while palying CBGB, etc. as well as kids doing similar stuff in the UK. They mainstreamed it. DAMN THEM!
The standouts will be remembered . . . Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest . . . but like the British Invasion, the vast majority will be relegated to the dustbin of history. Rap is not unlike Disco, it just enjoyed a longer shelf life.
Yeah, and Blondie wasn't even blond.
I must say for some white jew Kids from N.Y. they kick ass!!! A friend at work loaned me "Paul's Boutique" 2 days ago and I've been listening to it in the car and on the computer here at work. Had to import it to my iTunes library (here at work)up to 507 songs so far! Wish I had "License to Ill".
Laquidara? Parenteau?
The only thing the Beastie Boys did was to revive Aerosmith's career.
...Or maybe that was Run-DMC?
The Clash's "Magnificent Seven" (on Sandinista!) was one of those things going on in the UK.
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