[shotgun]

That was still prior to MTV and I doubt any middle class 19/yo white frat boy was listening to, or even knew what RAP music was in 1980

[ealgeone]

That was still prior to MTV and I doubt any middle class 19/yo white frat boy was listening to, or even knew what RAP music was in 1980.

If you played ball you knew what it was.

[ealgeone]

That was still prior to MTV and I doubt any middle class 19/yo white frat boy was listening to, or even knew what RAP music was in 1980.

If you played ball you knew what it was.

[Augie]

That was still prior to MTV and I doubt any middle class 19/yo white frat boy was listening to, or even knew what RAP music was in 1980

I was a middle class white frat boy back then.

You don't have a clue what you're talking about.

[RegulatorCountry]

Junior high and high school white kids knew what it was, Curtis Blow, Sugar Hill Gang. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic was shifting over to almost rap, but then again they’d been sort of that way all along. MTV might have cemented the appeal of far better known acts but they didn’t create it.