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.
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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
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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.
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Looks like da homies have finally gotten into downloading mp3s.
5 posted on
03/01/2007 5:14:56 AM PST by
KoRn
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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
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.)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
How many rap records do you need? They all sound the same.
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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")
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
'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.)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Rapture by Blondie...1980?
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
? 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.)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Yep. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five started in the Bronx in the late 70's.
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)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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.........)
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
Don't you remember "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang?
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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".
To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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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