Sales of Rap Albums Take Stunning Nosedive

Foxnews.com ^ | March 1, 2007 | Foxnews.com

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

NEW YORK — Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.

The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.

[weegee]

They thought that disco had died too. It may die only to be quickly "revived".

[Red Badger]

Don't worry. They'll ALL BE DEAF in a decade or so...........

[rabidralph]

Don't you remember "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang?

[durasell]

I am assaulted by boom box cars going by my house with white kids, hats on crooked, blasting this aberration...probably looking to kill whitey





I have the cure for that. An all-expense paid trip to Brooklyn, N.Y.

[reasonisfaith]

"Rap was around in the 20s.
Then they were called 'patter songs.'
'I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dumas,' is a prime example."


I would say it's not rap's musical form that is losing popularity but the destructive cultural content of contemporary rap that is turning people off.

We certainly have Bill Cosby and of course black conservatives in general for leading in this direction.

[RightOnline]

Rap is decidedly 'un-musical'.....and has been done to death. The ....ahem.....urban culture has beaten the dead horse and took it the only direction left: straight down the toilet.

It was a fad, a flash in the pan that held on WAY too long for one simple reason: the ridiculous mindset fostered by the entertainment media that "anything inner-city is cool so LIKE IT".

[Fresh Wind]

http://www.ci.dumas.tx.us/legend.htm

Now, I know all, you all don't know who I is
Because I just got here today
My hometown is a little town
Way down Dixie way

Now, everybody down there from miles around
All calls me by my name
Now that I'm up here
In your big city
I sure wish you'd all do the same

Because I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Why, I'm a clean cut fella
From Hohner's Corner
Ooh, you oughtta see me strut

I'm a paper cuttin' cutie
Got a gal called, Katy
She's a little, heavy lady
And I call her baby

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Yes, a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

I'm a ping pong papa from Pitchfork Prairie
Oughtta see me strut

I'm a ding dong daddy
Got a whiz bang mama
She's a Bear Creek baby
And a whompous kitty

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

-Instrumental Break-

Just a ding dong daddy from Dumas
Ooh, you oughtta see me do my stuff

I'm a cornpone popper
And an apple knocker
You oughtta see me strut
I'm a momma lovin' man
And I just left Mary
She's a big blonde baby
From Peanut Prairie

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas now
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

-Instrumental Break-

Just a rinky dinky daddy from the Dumas
Who you'll see me doin' my stuff

I'm a peach pie papa
From Jackson's Holla
Ah, you oughtta see me strut

I'm a honey drippin' daddy
Got a hard-hearted baby
She's a sheep shakin' Sheba
And hallelujah!

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me strut!

[Cuttnhorse]

Disco has revived?

[Lloyd227]

Ok, not quite 30. Looks like the roots might be traced to about 1979. The Beastie Boys

[rabidralph]

The lyrics are here.

[HIDEK6]

Here are the lyrics:

DING DONG DADDY FROM DUMAS

(Baxter)

Recorded by : Louis Armstrong; Lawrence Brown; Eddie Condon; Arthur Godfrey; Benny Goodman; Phil Harris: Eddy Howard; Ben Pollack; Somethin' Smith; Squadronaires; Bob Wills

Now, I know all, you all don't know who I is
Because I just got here today
My hometown is a little town
Way down Dixie way

Now, everybody down there from miles around
All calls me by my name
Now that I'm up here
In your big city
I sure wish you'd all do the same

Because I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Why, I'm a clean cut fella
From Hohner's Corner
Ooh, you oughtta see me strut

I'm a paper cuttin' cutie
Got a gal called, Katy
She's a little, heavy lady
And I call her baby

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff
Yes, a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

I'm a ping pong papa from Pitchfork Prairie
Oughtta see me strut

I'm a ding dong daddy
Got a whiz bang mama
She's a Bear Creek baby
And a whompous kitty

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

-Instrumental Break-

Just a ding dong daddy from Dumas
Ooh, you oughtta see me do my stuff

I'm a cornpone popper
And an apple knocker
You oughtta see me strut
I'm a momma lovin' man
And I just left Mary
She's a big blonde baby
From Peanut Prairie

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas now
And you oughtta see me do my stuff

-Instrumental Break-

Just a rinky dinky daddy from the Dumas
Who you'll see me doin' my stuff

I'm a peach pie papa
From Jackson's Holla
Ah, you oughtta see me strut

I'm a honey drippin' daddy
Got a hard-hearted baby
She's a sheep shakin' Sheba
And hallelujah!

I'm a ding dong daddy from Dumas
And you oughtta see me strut!

[taxed2death]

I never could get into 100% "canned" music. Drum machines have their place. Synths have their place...but somethings just weird about going into a studio and programming a bunch of boxes and then yacking some nursery rhymes over the top of it. I never got into this whole sampling thing either. Plagiarism is plagiarism. How devoid of originality does one have to be to rip off another musicians tunes?

About the only music as bad as (c)rap music would have to be smoooooooooooth jazz... where some dude abuses a sax with some really cheesy early 80's drum machine thumping in the background. It's non-music. Give me some HUMANS please...
Sam Cooke, Django, Metheney, Rush, Black Label Society, Al Dimeola, Benny Goodman, Viovod, Johnny Cash, J.S.Bach.............

Who will remember any of these (c)rap "artists" 20 years from now?

[L98Fiero]

"Get Rhythm" by Johnny Cash was rap-esque and released in the 50's, I rhink.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It's about time if you ask me. The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

Somewhere in the tales of Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus does a rap-like recitation:

Ole Mars Jackson
Fines' confraction
Fell downstairs to get satisfaction
Big Bill Fray, he rue de day . . .

But that's all I remember.

Anyway, "talking blues" have been around for a long time.

[HIDEK6]

How about Gilbert and Sullivan?

Same idea.

But they weren't very crude.

[william clark]

As I said to my wife the other day:

You know, forget about the question of whether it should even be called music. How the hell do you not just get bored with it fairly soon? I don't care what it is, if the sound is so fundamentally the same from one "song" to another, I get burnt out on it pretty quickly. I remember really liking the first thing I heard by Hootie and the Blowfish, so I bought their debut album. I was bored with the sound before I'd heard the whole thing, and never played it again.

[Aquinasfan]

The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

I couldn't believe it either. But then, I think "Rapture" by Blondie was arguably the first rap song.

I thought this crap would die out after a few years. I guess I was wrong.

[MrB]

"I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dumas,"

And the "dumasses" just kept listening to it...

[jammer]

Okay. Thanks. And there was another post that demonstrated my ignorance. I'll rephrase and say, "at least since the 60's, but there are earlier examples."

[HIDEK6]

Disco has revived?

Cue the guy playing the Jaws music.