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Is this a rap song in a 50's movie?
Youtube ^ | 5/23/2011 | Unknown

Posted on 05/23/2011 5:03:15 PM PDT by Krankor

Is this the beginning of rap?

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To: MeganC

George Carlin joked about it in his album “Occupation Fool”


21 posted on 05/23/2011 5:52:26 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: Selmore

Rapture was 1981. The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was 1979. The ONLY rap song I ever liked.


22 posted on 05/23/2011 5:57:56 PM PDT by Gumption
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Bee-oo-ti-full!


23 posted on 05/23/2011 5:59:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: scorchedearther; Gondring; Rebelbase

So this isn’t rap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM0-ZU8njdo


24 posted on 05/23/2011 6:01:12 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: Krankor

Yes it’s rap but it doesn’t have a lyrical melody like the subject video you posted.


25 posted on 05/23/2011 6:11:24 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Krankor

Not even close to rap. Melody. Terrific harmony.


26 posted on 05/23/2011 6:15:14 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: apillar

No, I think it was the CDB’s “Uneasy Rider”.


27 posted on 05/23/2011 6:54:51 PM PDT by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: Krankor
That was rap as much as this really big hit by a white guy was Here
28 posted on 05/23/2011 6:55:54 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Gumption

I agree.


29 posted on 05/23/2011 7:09:12 PM PDT by Hotmetal (Live your life to the fullest with no regrets.)
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To: Selmore

Check this out.

Blondie vs The Doors - Rapture riders

http://youtu.be/bOE47Ym5bPo


30 posted on 05/23/2011 7:15:43 PM PDT by Hotmetal (Live your life to the fullest with no regrets.)
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To: Krankor

The first time i heard rap I immediately thought of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” done many years before, and many years before Run DMC covered it, leading to the explosive crossover to the white audiences.

Sure, there were earlier nibbles at rap, but “Walk This Way” crashed the walls down from both sides.

BTW, I hate rap. Someone called it Dr. Seuss set to music. So I tried just that with my kids, rapping “The Cat in the Hat” to the long, drony jams of “Derek and the Dominoes in Concert” (specifically “Got to Get Better in a Little While”). It worked really well and my kids loved it.


31 posted on 05/23/2011 7:16:40 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: Gumption

Isaac Hayes came before that


32 posted on 05/23/2011 7:18:53 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
Sure, there were earlier nibbles at rap, but “Walk This Way” crashed the walls down from both sides.

Beat me to it. Aerosmith's original 1975 version of "Walk This Way" was very rap-like.

33 posted on 05/23/2011 7:19:43 PM PDT by MCH
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To: Krankor

No. No it’s not.


34 posted on 05/23/2011 7:30:07 PM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Krankor
So this isn’t rap?

Why would that not be rap?

35 posted on 05/23/2011 7:31:10 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Vision

Yes. Yes it is.


36 posted on 05/23/2011 7:42:51 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: Krankor

To me, the beginning of rap was when Blondie hit the charts with the song called “Rapture” some 30 years ago. Could it really have been that long? The Rapture never happened but unfortunately, rap did.


37 posted on 05/23/2011 7:43:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 52 days from outliving Wendy O Williams (of The Plasmatics))
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To: Gumption
Rapture was 1981. The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was 1979. The ONLY rap song I ever liked.

Yes...rhyming "little worm" with "super sperm" and "imp" with "pimp" demonstrates lyrical brilliance.

38 posted on 05/23/2011 7:52:27 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
Someone called it Dr. Seuss set to music.

I actually spoofed in a talent show in the 80s by rapping Dr. Seuss to Herbie Hancock.

39 posted on 05/23/2011 7:58:02 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gumption

BTW, Fatback’s “King Tim III (Personality Jock)” was one month before “Rapper’s Delight”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPz2cBuOnw


40 posted on 05/23/2011 7:59:53 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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