Rap is almost 30 years old (1 Viewer)

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

It just really sunk in last night. I was listening to some old BDP and on I'm Still #1 when he's talking about there's no such thing as old school because rap's not even 20 years old so yet so it's still the new school. Then he said maybe after 50 years we can talk about old school. My initial reaction was "well #### we're a ways away from 50 years old" then when I did the calculation in my head, it's more than halfway there! I take him seriously when he says he'll still be rhyming then.

If you count the release of King Tim III as the "birth" of recorded rap, then it turned 28 this past July.

Still young compared to rock and roll or jazz, but no spring chicken anymore either.

 

[Colin Dowling]

I said hip, hop a hippee to the hop and the hip hip hop you don't stop a rockin...

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

hell, we've been spending most our life living in a gangster's paradise

 

[zamboni]

I'd like to have the last 30 years back.

 

[TommyGilmore]

"Doriella Du Fontaine" by Lightnin' Rod (featuring Jimi Hendrix on guitar) -- 1968

 

[belljr]

Now there's steak with the beans and rice

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Now there's steak with the beans and rice

Top 5 BDP song.

 

[dickey moe]

Now there's steak with the beans and rice

I'M bound to tell the suckas every day DON'T START IT

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

"Doriella Du Fontaine" by Lightnin' Rod (featuring Jimi Hendrix on guitar) -- 1968

Never heard the song, although I've heard material from Lightnin' Rod. I would not call what he does rapping anymore than the narrator on How the Grinch Stole Christmas is rapping.

 

[The Noid]

When I saw in the paper one day that Chuck D was almost 50 (turned 47 recently), that drove it home.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

White lines....blow away.

 

[The Z Machine]

Now there's steak with the beans and rice

I'd put it at #3 for me."Back in the day I knew rap would never die"

 

[whitem0nkey]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

 

[SR388]

Now there's steak with the beans and rice

I'd put it at #3 for me.

My favorite BDP song.When I was a 4th grader in elementary school we all had to make a rectangular name tags for our desks. We were allowed to draw and/or color them. All the boys drew cars or bikes. The girls drew flowers and the like.Mine was covered with BDP, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Public Enemy, ect.... Nobody, I mean nobody had a clue what the hell I had on mine.

 

[The Z Machine]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

 

[oldmandrummer]

Rap is almost 30 years old

Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around....but then again, society has been F'ed up for what...say....30 years. Seeing any correlations?

 

[14U2NV]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

 

[redman]

Well, rap would have been 30 years old, but it was tragically shot and killed outside a nightclub six years ago. It's still releasing albums though.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around.

Sure is. you've been posting for what, 2 + years now?

 

[SR388]

Rap is almost 30 years old Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around....but then again, society has been F'ed up for what...say....30 years. Seeing any correlations?

I'd say 90% of rap music that has come out over the years is crap. The other 10% is stuff that people have never heard on the radio. 5% of that is pure unadulterated genius.How is that any different then any other music genre?

 

[SR388]

Well, rap would have been 30 years old, but it was tragically shot and killed outside a nightclub six years ago. It's still releasing albums though.

 

[whitem0nkey]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

 

[Dexter]

I sold tapes every day me and freddy B

Been famous since 1983

give me 10 dollah's

and you'd straight get blasted

rap all about you called the special request

 

[The Bad CEO]

Rap is almost 30 years old Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around....but then again, society has been F'ed up for what...say....30 years. Seeing any correlations?

I'd say 90% of rap music that has come out over the years is crap. The other 10% is stuff that people have never heard on the radio. 5% of that is pure unadulterated genius.How is that any different then any other music genre?

Seriously

 

[oldmandrummer]

Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around.

Sure is. you've been posting for what, 2 + years now?

Actually, quite a bit longer....if you were around, footballguys switched over servers or something and everyone had to re sign up again. But nice attempt at the humor

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Its amazing how $H|tty something can be and still be around.

Sure is. you've been posting for what, 2 + years now?

Actually, quite a bit longer....if you were around, footballguys switched over servers or something and everyone had to re sign up again. But nice attempt at the humor

yeah, I was around. that was in '03.

 

[anguskahn]

I'd argue that rap is 32 years old.

It was born in 1965 when Bob Dylan recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues.

 

[dickey moe]

I'd argue that rap is 32 years old. It was born in 1965 when Bob Dylan recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Even if this were true, rap would be 42 years old.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

#1 song of all time.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Well, rap would have been 30 years old, but it was tragically shot and killed outside a nightclub six years ago. It's still releasing albums though.

 

[anguskahn]

I'd argue that rap is 32 years old. It was born in 1965 when Bob Dylan recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Even if this were true, rap would be 42 years old.

Ok, so my math isnt very good. 42 years it is.

 

[Neo]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

It's fantastic. I'm addicted to it. I listen to it all the time. Listening to it right now and Scenario is on.

 

[Zaxxon]

I sold tapes every day me and freddy B

Been famous since 1983

give me 10 dollah's

and you'd straight get blasted

rap all about you called the special request

blessed

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

It's fantastic. I'm addicted to it. I listen to it all the time. Listening to it right now and Scenario is on.

I have a hard time calling Scenario "oldies".

 

[The Z Machine]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

It's fantastic. I'm addicted to it. I listen to it all the time. Listening to it right now and Scenario is on.

I have a hard time calling Scenario "oldies".

That's what I was thinking. It's like what 11 years old?

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

It's fantastic. I'm addicted to it. I listen to it all the time. Listening to it right now and Scenario is on.

I have a hard time calling Scenario "oldies".

That's what I was thinking. It's like what 11 years old?

16 to be exact. Legal in most states.

 

[belljr]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

#1 song of all time.

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of gamesa lot of suckas with colorful namesI'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm thathuh, but they all just wick-wick-wackI'm not white or red or black I'm brown.. from the Boogie DownProductions, of course our music be thumpin'others say their bad, but they're bugginlet me tell you somethin' now about hip hopabout D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La RockI'll get a pen, a pencil, a markermainly what I write is for the average New Yorker

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

#1 song of all time.

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of gamesa lot of suckas with colorful namesI'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm thathuh, but they all just wick-wick-wackI'm not white or red or black I'm brown.. from the Boogie DownProductions, of course our music be thumpin'others say their bad, but they're bugginlet me tell you somethin' now about hip hopabout D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La RockI'll get a pen, a pencil, a markermainly what I write is for the average New Yorker

That song is so ahead of its time...

 

[belljr]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

#1 song of all time.

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of gamesa lot of suckas with colorful namesI'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm thathuh, but they all just wick-wick-wackI'm not white or red or black I'm brown.. from the Boogie DownProductions, of course our music be thumpin'others say their bad, but they're bugginlet me tell you somethin' now about hip hopabout D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La RockI'll get a pen, a pencil, a markermainly what I write is for the average New Yorker

That song is so ahead of its time...

It may be my favorite song ever

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

So......You're a Philosopher??? Yes......I think very deeply.

#1 song of all time.

Rap is like a set-up, a lot of gamesa lot of suckas with colorful namesI'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm thathuh, but they all just wick-wick-wackI'm not white or red or black I'm brown.. from the Boogie DownProductions, of course our music be thumpin'others say their bad, but they're bugginlet me tell you somethin' now about hip hopabout D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La RockI'll get a pen, a pencil, a markermainly what I write is for the average New Yorker

That song is so ahead of its time...

It may be my favorite song ever

Listening now.You got to have style and be original!

 

[belljr]

not very deep but I do have a place set aside for.

Just keep in mind when Jimmy grows

It grows and grows and grows, so let it

But keep in mind about the epidemic

When Jimmy releases, boy it pleases

But what do you do about all these diseases?

 

[DrJ]

Let me see, let me see, how shall I start?

If I say stop the violence, I won't chart

Maybe I should write some songs like Mozart

Cuz many people don't believe rap is an art

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

The best lyrics ever laid down in rap:

Some emcees be talkin and talkin

Tryin to show how black people are walkin

But I don't walk this way to portray

Or reinforce stereotypes of the day

Like all my brothers eat chicken and watermelon

Talk broken English and drug selling

See I'm tellin and teachin pure facts

The way some act in rap is kinda wack

And it lacks creativity and intelligence

But they don't care cause the company's sellin it

It's my philosophy on the industry

Don't bother dissin me or either wishin we

Soften dilute or commercialize all the lyrics

Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it

And hear it first hand from an intelligent brown man

A vegetarian no goat or ham

16 bars written in 1988 that still resonate 20 years later.

 

[Mr. Chumley]

That's almost 30 years to old then.

Though I did enjoy Run DMC and Aerosmiths' "Walk this Way" and the Beastie Boy's "License to Ill".

 

[Neo]

It hit me when I noticed on my sirius radio the Backspin channel an oldies like station for rap.

I've heard of this station. Is it any good?

Yeah if you a fan of older rap.

It's fantastic. I'm addicted to it. I listen to it all the time. Listening to it right now and Scenario is on.

I have a hard time calling Scenario "oldies".

That's what I was thinking. It's like what 11 years old?

16 to be exact. Legal in most states.

Yeah, I think most of the music on it is from the eighties, but you get the early 90's in there too. Sugarhill Gang, Easy E, Masta Ace, Boogie Down Productions, Biggie, Snoop.....just some of the stuff I heard in the last hour....oh yeah, and Krush Groove!

 

[Ilov80s]

I'd argue that rap is 32 years old. It was born in 1965 when Bob Dylan recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Johnny's in the basementMixing up the medicineI'm on the pavementThinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays he's got a bad coughWants to get it paid offLook out kidIt's somethin' you didGod knows whenBut you're doin' it againYou better duck down the alley wayLookin' for a new friendThe man in the coon-skin capIn the big penWants eleven dollar billsYou only got tenThe phone's tapped anywayMaggie says that many sayThey must bust in early MayOrders from the D. A.These are great lyrics and talking about D.A. busts, wiretaps, drugs and paranoia- all classic hip-hop motifs.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

I'd argue that rap is 32 years old. It was born in 1965 when Bob Dylan recorded Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Johnny's in the basementMixing up the medicineI'm on the pavementThinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays he's got a bad coughWants to get it paid offLook out kidIt's somethin' you didGod knows whenBut you're doin' it againYou better duck down the alley wayLookin' for a new friendThe man in the coon-skin capIn the big penWants eleven dollar billsYou only got tenThe phone's tapped anywayMaggie says that many sayThey must bust in early MayOrders from the D. A.These are great lyrics and talking about D.A. busts, wiretaps, drugs and paranoia- all classic hip-hop motifs.

Typical, trying to give the white man credit for the black man's labor.

 

[riverrat]

A funny thing happened the other week. A friend of mine, who is a few years younger than me, e-mailed me about sitting with his 13 year old daughter watching rap videos. Everything she thought was new and fresh was something he'd seen an older rapper do back in the 80's. Same stuff, just brought back out again. That weekend I went to a Nickleback concert (my girlfriend and I were probably the oldest ones there). Everything they did, the fireworks, light show, fire pots, etc. that the young kids thought were so cool was stuff I've seen countless rock bands do (I'm too old for rap-it started after my musical tatstes were already formed). It was just funny that although he and I have very different musical tatste, we both had similar experiences at about the same time.

 

[The Noid]

is a nice merge of how rap and sports can remind us how old we are.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

The rap era's out of control brother's selling their soul

to go gold going going gone another rapper sold

to who? to pop and r&b not the MD

I'm strictly hiphop I'll stick to Kid Capri