How Hip Hop changed the world


A bloke with a loud tracky on..covered in daft gold jewellery..diamonds on his teeth..flashing bunches of dollar bills..talking or even coming out with daft rhymes accompanied by supermarket muzak in the background..absolute talentless garbage.
Fuck me. I've seen some lazy, blinkered, ignorant as fuck takes on here in me time but this tops the lot.
 
Yes they were rebellious and challenged the status quo. James Dean and Rebel Without a Cause summed up that generation. Then there were the "Hippies" in the 1960s whose music was classed as Underground followed by the Punks in the 1970s. It's interesting that working class art movements correlated to these expressions but there has been nothing since really. From Buddy Holly's I Fought the Law to the cover by Clash they are all connected but not much since.
I don't think Buddy Holly ever recorded 'I Fought The Law'. It was written by a bloke who joined The Crickets post-Buddy.

Really enjoyed the Hip-Hop programme.
 
But rock and roll didn't just appear out of nowhere and was influenced by the Jive, Boogie, Lindy Hop and Jump Blues.
Technology has generally pushed music on
A composer is a composer ,with different tools they'll make different compositions
Electric guitars , basses etc at first then keyboard technology etc ,the ability to multi track
 
I watched all four episodes back-to-back last night.

Some superb footage of New York in the 70's and some great tunes as well, Public Enemy still sound as raw now as they did back in the day.

Only down side was Monie Love wittering on like she was from the Bronx rather than Battersea.
 
Wish it was the early/mid nineties again when hip hop was amazing
Yo MTV Raps, Westwood, Hip Hop Connection Mag, The Source Mag, Murder Was The Case on VHS, The Chronic, Doggystyle, Enter The Wu Tang Clan, Illmatic, them were the days…
 
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A big comet or meteoroid
The assassination of franz Ferdinand
1969 moon landing
Nelson Mandela
Live Aid
There's an even bigger one...PM me if you want to know :D
A bloke with a loud tracky on..covered in daft gold jewellery..diamonds on his teeth..flashing bunches of dollar bills..talking or even coming out with daft rhymes accompanied by supermarket muzak in the background..absolute talentless garbage.
I used to write melodic bridges for hip hop tracks...it was wonderfully challenging to say the least, but I wouldn't listen to it.
 
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Wish it was the early/mid nineties again when hip hop was amazing
Yo MTV Raps, Westwood, Hip Hop Connection Mag, The Source Mag, Murder Was The Case on VHS, The Chronic, Doggystyle, Enter The Wu Tang Clan, Illmatic, them were the days…
Doggystyle was one of the greatest albums of the 90’s, the first debut album, of any genre, to go straight to number 1 in the US. Game changer.
30 years ago ffs.
 
Wish it was the early/mid nineties again when hip hop was amazing
Yo MTV Raps, Westwood, Hip Hop Connection Mag, The Source Mag, Murder Was The Case on VHS, The Chronic, Doggystyle, Enter The Wu Tang Clan, Illmatic, them were the days…

Heard Coast Contra ? They will take you back to then. Only new stuff I listen too.
 

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