Rapper speaks of Hip-hop roots [Funny or Sad]

The Lehigh University Brown & White ^ | 2/9/04 | Aliza Jennifer Zelin

[Gothmog]

OK, is it worse that this fool has 16 gold platinum records or that a University gave him a venue to spout this nonsense?

[Sacajaweau]

Rap is crap.

[bc2]

as far as I know, KRS-One and Grandmaster Flash came way before, and rejected the "gangsta rap" garbage that wrecked black youth culture of today.

Origional hip-hop was about parties, bettering yourself, struggling against poor inner city education, and advancing from the poverty of the ghetto.

Others can correct me if I'm wrong.

[DAPFE8900]

Totally have to agree with you..And well not all rap is bad..The old school is good, and that was before the gangsta crap..But now rap is just flat out garbage...

[laotzu]

Rap is angry disco.

[reagan_fanatic]

Rap is not music, it is trash.

[1stFreedom]

Rap is music. Remove the lyrics and you'd have a very difficult time convincing anyone that it isn't music.

People like you have a problem with the VOCAL STYLE. You may be better off saying rap isn't singing rather than rap isn't music.

[laotzu]

"..you'd have a very difficult time convincing anyone that it isn't music"

I'm convinced.

But, you see...there's the problem.

Rap has a problem with people like me.

Also:
There's nothing I enjoy more than hearing someone that calls themself Snoop-Diggy-Dawg, or Bitch-Masta-Ho, complain about how I am denying them their heritage.

Do you know the difference between a snow tire and a rapper?
The snow tire doesn't sing when you put chains on it.

[Gothmog]

Actually, according to the founding father:

"The beginning of Hip-hop, as Parker described it, flourished out of racism, integration and riots in the 1960s. He said the FBI was running counter-intelligence programs, attempting to stamp out all budding or existent social movements through assassinations and the distribution of heroin into black and Latino communities."

So Hip-hop was founded because the government was trying to kill and drug blacks and latinos. OK. Anyone got the lyrics to any old hip-hop songs that helped fight against the government program to destroy black and latino cultures?

Did former Sen. Pat Moynihan rap?

[Gothmog]

Rap isn't music or lyrical. It's hate speech to a beat.

[LisaMalia]

The first rap/hiphop song I ever heard was "Rappers Delight" in 1980. It had a real catchy beat. I remember it, because we had a neighbor at the apartment complex who played it over and over again. My daughter was a toddler, and we used to dance to it together....:)

That was way before rap turned into such a violent music genre. I still like some hiphop songs, just because I love anything that I can dance to.

That reminds me...anyone else remember the old Dick Clark rate-a-record? "It has a good beat, and you can dance to it"....

[Oschisms]

Now way back in the days when hip-hop began
With CoQue LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam
Beat boys ran to the latest jam
But when it got shot up they went home and said "Damn
There's got to be a better way to hear our music every day
Beat boys gettin blown away but comin outside anyway"
They tried again outside in Cedar Park
Power from a street light made the place dark
But yo, they didn't care, they turned it out
I know a few understand what I'm talkin about
Remember Bronx River rollin thick
With Kool DJ Red Alert and Chuck Chillout on the mix
When Afrika Islam was rockin the jams
And on the other side of town was a kid named Flash
Patterson and Millbrook projects
Casanova all over, ya couldn't stop it
The Nine Lives Crew, the Cypress Boys
The real Rock Steady takin out these toys
As odd as it looked, as wild as it seemed
I didn't hear a peep from a place called Queens
It was seventy-six, to 1980
The dreads in Brooklyn was crazy
You couldn't bring out your set with no hip-hop
Because the pistols would go...
So why don't you wise up, show all the people in the place that you are wack
Instead of tryna take out LL, you need to take your homeboys off the crack
Cos if you don't, well, then their nerves will become shot
And that would leave the job up to my own Scott LaRock
And he's from...

South Bronx, the South South Bronx (8X)

[WhiteGuy]

What a racist industry.................

When did you last hear of a polka band selling that number of records.

hip hop (funny name) is a trend...........

Polka is a way of life.

[Oschisms]

Fresh! For 1986, you suckas!

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

At the time, I thought Grandmaster Flash had a new & exciting sound. Who knew what it would morph into?

Sugarhill Gang/Funky Four +1/Run DMC/De La Soul bump!

[mountaineer]

the FBI was running counter-intelligence programs, attempting to stamp out all budding or existent social movements through assassinations and the distribution of heroin into black and Latino communities.

Yeah, something like that.

[Gothmog]

Sounds like a cry for help for escape from their own brothers, not a response to government 'crack downs,' but then I'm just quoting the expert (KRS).

"When Afrika Islam was rockin the jams."

A lot better came out of soul, R&B and jazz.

[freedomluvr1778]

Famed hip-hop artist Kris “KRS-One” Parker, who has 16 gold platinum records,

Interesting statement, considering that the RIAA website says he has 1 gold record.

LINK TO SEARCH ENGINE

[Gothmog]

A fraud on so many different levels, how surprising.

[freedomluvr1778]

Let me do state that I have found a few problems with RIAA and their search engine. RIAA officially certifies gold and platinum(Im not sure what this gold platinum nonsense is, I think they meant gold or platinum), but it sometimes seems wrong. Anyway, I'm quite sure KRS-One has not put out 16 records, let alone had them go gold or platinum. The way artists fudge about records sold is to include international sales. The problem is that there is not a recognized method of counting international sales from many countries, thus anyone can claim anything they want.