[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How did rap ever get started? (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 1/31/2012 1:11:50 PM EDT
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I hate rap music. Whenever there's rap on television or on the radio, my wife hides all my guns. I swear the very thought of rap music drives me almost to the point of madness. What I want to know is who was originally responsible for rap and how did it get started? I want to know because if time travel is ever possible I want to go back in time and kill the *&%@#!$ bastard who dreamed it all up. |
| It started, I believe, in the mid to late eighties. Even though most modern rap comes from Atlanta or Los Angeles, most people agree that rap really got it's start in West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin out max and refreshin all cool and all shootin some b-ball outside of the school. When a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said you're moving with you auntie and uncle in Bel Aire! |
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Sugar Hill Gang is credited with being the first rap artists, but they were merely the first to be successful and sell records. At some point, someone figured out that talking over top of a 909 drum machine was easier than learning to play music, and viola. There is some rap I like, but it's very few and far between. Mostly, it's lazy and uninspired dreck from a culture I don't admire or respect...and that's including the people who share my skin color. |
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I hate rap music. Whenever there's rap on television or on the radio, my wife hides all my guns. I swear the very thought of rap music drives me almost to the point of madness. What I want to know is who was originally responsible for rap and how did it get started? I want to know because if time travel is ever possible I want to go back in time and kill the *&%@#!$ bastard who dreamed it all up. Earliest rap song I have ever found, 1964. 
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In my college music appreciation class, we were told it started out and has its roots in recitative.
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Quoted: Quoted: youre listening to rap on the radio. theres your main problem. Trust me over here it's on all the radio stations. That is with the sole exception of the CBC. And I can't listen to the Communist Broadcast Corporation because that's even worse. right . basically what im saying is, despite the fact that you hate it, theres plenty of good, intelligent, lisenable rap music out there. you just wont find any of it on the radio |
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I hate rap music. Whenever there's rap on television or on the radio, my wife hides all my guns. I swear the very thought of rap music drives me almost to the point of madness. What I want to know is who was originally responsible for rap and how did it get started? I want to know because if time travel is ever possible I want to go back in time and kill the *&%@#!$ bastard who dreamed it all up. If you're that unstable you probably shouldn't have guns. |
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Who do you think Fab Five Freddy is? |
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Two guys from Düsseldorf invented Hip Hop music in 1970. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x298/hurtzc/3b1913b1.jpg And who might these young men getting revenge for WWII be? |
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I'm very stable. I can endure any insult with the greatest of patience. But something about rap music brings out the worst in me. And I have to wonder if it is just me. Why are all the rappers shooting each other? ( Not that I mind or it's a bad thing) But why? Is there something in this raucous, hellish, brutish, cacophony that brings out the beast within? |
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Two guys from Düsseldorf invented Hip Hop music in 1970. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x298/hurtzc/3b1913b1.jpg And who might these you men getting revenge for WWII be? Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. |
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I hate rap music. Whenever there's rap on television or on the radio, my wife hides all my guns. I swear the very thought of rap music drives me almost to the point of madness. What I want to know is who was originally responsible for rap and how did it get started? I want to know because if time travel is ever possible I want to go back in time and kill the *&%@#!$ bastard who dreamed it all up. I'm curious, what do you consider acceptable music? |
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Quoted: I never even realized that's what she was saying, much less who that is. Who do you think Fab Five Freddy is?  |
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Two guys from Düsseldorf invented Hip Hop music in 1970. http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x298/hurtzc/3b1913b1.jpg And who might these you men getting revenge for WWII be? Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Would it have killed you to use the word "Kraftwerk" somewhere so people actually knew what you were trying to say? Sheesh...
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+did+rap+come+from Did you want to know or were you just trying to start a discussion... |