Does anyone here listen to HIP-HOP aka RAP?

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Dan the Man84, Jan 30, 2007.

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Do you listen to hip-hop?

Poll closed Oct 26, 2009.

  1. Yes, quite often

    6 vote(s)
    30.0%

  2. Never

    8 vote(s)
    40.0%

  3. Here and there

    6 vote(s)
    30.0%
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  1. Zakariya04

    Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Dear Zenbablefish

    Rappers delight was out in 1979 (iuf not 1978) and i think White lines was either 82 or 83, perhaps we should google it.

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    Zakariya04, Feb 7, 2007
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  3. Facial

    Facial Valued Senior Member

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    It's everywhere on the radio. So I can't say I never do.
     
    Facial, Feb 7, 2007
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  5. Ayodhya

    Ayodhya Registered Senior Member

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    Genji -

    Watch, "Malibu's Most Wanted"
     
    Ayodhya, Feb 7, 2007
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  7. Redefine91

    Redefine91 I piss excellence Registered Senior Member

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    Handsome boy modeling school had a song called rock and roll couldn't hip hop like this

    It had jazzy-j from the zulu nation, grand wizard theodore, Mike Shinoda and lord finesse.
     
    Redefine91, Feb 7, 2007
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  8. Zakariya04

    Zakariya04 and it was Valued Senior Member

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    Impressive, Most impressive!!!

    Rgose names take me back a bit!!!

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    Zakariya04, Feb 7, 2007
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  9. spidergoat

    spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    spidergoat, Feb 7, 2007
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  10. Fraggle Rocker

    Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    I feel somewhat like you do. But I hate to talk that way because I sound like my mother nagging me about Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
    People have been reciting lyrics over the beat of whatever style of music was in vogue forever. We used to call it the "talking blues" back in the 1950s and 60s and even Hank Williams did a few. Kris Kristofferson's "To Beat the Devil" from his 1970 signature album is still covered by bar bands.

    "Rap" is just talking blues updated with a funk beat.

    Blondie's 1980 hit "Rapture" is generally credited with making rap respectable and introducing it to the mainstream radio audience. It was the first rap music video on MTV.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, Feb 8, 2007
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  11. Syzygys

    Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    Congratulations, I was thinking Blondie. Altough Kristofferson's movie Convoy also had a "rap" song titled Convoy in it, I am not sure who played it, and that was a few years earlier than Blondie...
     
    Syzygys, Feb 8, 2007
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  12. Syzygys

    Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    From Wiki:

    "Rapture" is track number eight on the 1980 album Autoamerican by Blondie. This was the second and final song to be released from the album, where it reached number five in the UK singles chart and number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It was the first Hip-Hop song to ever reach number one in the world,

    "Although "Rapture" wasn't the first successful hip-hop/rap song (the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" reached the top 40 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart), it was the biggest rap hit for a number of years. Its lyrics were tame, even playfully nonsensical, even name dropping hip-hop pioneers Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash (Freddy and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat made cameo appearances in the music video, one of the first broadcast on MTV). For a large segment of the population, it served as an introduction to the burgeoning hip-hop genre. This was arguably the first instance of a radio-friendly mainstream white pop act branching out into hip-hop..."


    Convoy was made 2 years earlier. The song is from:

    "Convoy"
    Chip Davis and Bill Fries, Composers
    American Gramaphone, SESAC
    Bill Fries (as C.W. McCall)
     
    Syzygys, Feb 8, 2007
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