splitting hairs vs. stating the plain facts
The new thing was called "rap" in NYC back in the '70's. Been there, done that! And "rap" was in Jamaica decades ago; D.J.'s called it "toasting." Hip Hop is a lifestyle from the freakin' 80's.
amir
okay brother, as you like to split hairs by now, then here we go: hip hop is indeed a lifestyle that contains rapping by the so called mc(s) (master(s) of ceremony), deejaying, breakdancing, beatboxing (which amazed kraftwerk so much that they decided in 1986 to do a track called "boing boom tschak" to open their "electric cafe" album!) and -last but not least- spraying or graffiti art. all of those parts that finally made up, what's called hip hop in general were already introduced "on the streets" on n.y.c. in the mid-70s and not just in the last 70s or early 80s. that's just another plain fact! go back and check your history, brother! peace, y' all! ..::=|X|=::..
Sorry, brother. There was metal, funk, rap, disco, Happy Days and even Prince in the 70's. "Goin' to the hop" was an expression the Fonz used to describe a party. That hop *was* probably hip, brother. While rap music is only a form a of music, Chuck D said, hip hop is a term applied to black culture since 1975. "Hip hop is not a culture but a sub-culture of a people with a culture." http://www.onlinerecords.co.uk/History/HipHop.html There was no hip hop music in the '70's. Rapping was a way of mixing, old tunes with two turntables and a mic, born in the late seventies. Hip hop was a funky lifestyle in Brooklyn when TEE was kickin' it worldwide, brother. amir "..::=|X|=::.." wrote:
The new thing was called "rap" in NYC back in the '70's. Been there, done that! And "rap" was in Jamaica decades ago; D.J.'s called it "toasting." Hip Hop is a lifestyle from the freakin' 80's.
amir
okay brother, as you like to split hairs by now, then here we go: hip hop is indeed a lifestyle that contains rapping by the so called mc(s) (master(s) of ceremony), deejaying, breakdancing, beatboxing (which amazed kraftwerk so much that they decided in 1986 to do a track called "boing boom tschak" to open their "electric cafe" album!) and -last but not least- spraying or graffiti art. all of those parts that finally made up, what's called hip hop in general were already introduced "on the streets" on n.y.c. in the mid-70s and not just in the last 70s or early 80s. that's just another plain fact! go back and check your history, brother!
peace, y' all!
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I met Chuck D at a Jamaican restaurant in DC years ago. A bunch of fellas were coming downstairs and one dude pulled out an Amex Corporate Card that looked like one I just got in the mail, and since I was next to the cash register when the waitress laid the card down after a swipe, I noticed the name actually had "Chuck D" on it. I struck up a conversation with D, a very nice and intelligent guy. I wish that I had the Sly Stone web site back then; I know he would've been interested in it. I found KW-related quotes from Chuck :-) : "Americans are basically taught to be robots." And if they want to be ready for the next century, he said, then they must begin to think independently. "Although we're heading into an information age, we're also entering a misinformation zone," he said "There are going to be a lot of people picking electronic cotton and digging digital ditches." amir
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