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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.
1 posted on 03/01/2007 5:11:50 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Down with "C"rap music.


2 posted on 03/01/2007 5:13:53 AM PST by brivette
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Rap was around in the 20s.

Then they were called "patter songs."

"I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dumas," is a prime example.

3 posted on 03/01/2007 5:14:26 AM PST by HIDEK6
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I enjoyed a lot of different rappers in the 90s. A few in the early part of this millenium. And now there's none that I would listen to on the radio, let alone buy a CD.

Maybe I'm getting too old. More likely, it's all crap.

4 posted on 03/01/2007 5:14:41 AM PST by the808bass
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Looks like da homies have finally gotten into downloading mp3s.


5 posted on 03/01/2007 5:14:56 AM PST by KoRn
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I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

Actually, I pinpoint the birth of rap (no one else does that I've heard of) to the 60s with Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.

6 posted on 03/01/2007 5:15:50 AM PST by jammer
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

The crackheads died off, the Gangstas all killed each other, and everyone else grew up.


7 posted on 03/01/2007 5:15:58 AM PST by Gorzaloon (Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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How many rap records do you need? They all sound the same.


9 posted on 03/01/2007 5:16:27 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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You can olny go so far with a vocabulary of 30 words and referrring to every woman as a ho.


10 posted on 03/01/2007 5:16:58 AM PST by Disturbin ("Had I not known I was being taxed unfairly, I would have mourned my loss of income")
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'Jocko' Henderson, a black Philly 50's RnB DJ, did alot of rap on his Rocket Ship show.


11 posted on 03/01/2007 5:17:09 AM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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A ray of hope for our culture!

But I'm not going to get my hopes up too high. .


12 posted on 03/01/2007 5:18:40 AM PST by AIM-54
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Established rap artists have been heading for the mainstream for years now. Ice T is on TV, Usher is/was on Broadway, Ice Cube is in movies, and Queen Latifah does make-up commercials. And Will Smith isn't even thought of as a rapper anymore.


13 posted on 03/01/2007 5:19:06 AM PST by durasell (!)
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Rapture by Blondie...1980?


16 posted on 03/01/2007 5:21:48 AM PST by Blackirish
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? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

A lot of rappers trace their interest in the genre to The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," which was released in 1979.
17 posted on 03/01/2007 5:22:16 AM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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Yep. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five started in the Bronx in the late 70's.


18 posted on 03/01/2007 5:22:27 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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rap...which is not music, is a perverted phenomenon.


daily 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....
19 posted on 03/01/2007 5:23:06 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Actually it's "Roots" go back hundreds of years. Have you ever heard (of) "The Signifyin' Monkey"?........


20 posted on 03/01/2007 5:24:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Britney Spears shaved her head............Well, that's one way of getting rid of headlice.........)
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Don't you remember "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang?


23 posted on 03/01/2007 5:25:27 AM PST by rabidralph
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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".


26 posted on 03/01/2007 5:27:50 AM PST by RightOnline
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Ok, not quite 30. Looks like the roots might be traced to about 1979. The Beastie Boys
29 posted on 03/01/2007 5:29:33 AM PST by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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The lyrics are here.
30 posted on 03/01/2007 5:29:38 AM PST by rabidralph
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