What are you listening to?

[The_Silversword]

Justed saw these guys opening up for CoC and BLS, pretty good, kinda reminds me of a heavy Primus.

[video=youtube;elfuaxHQWlQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elfuaxHQWlQ[/video]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hmmm...more like Clutch to my ears. Nice!

 

[Scott DeWar]

like this?

 

[megamania]

Chilling before my operation on Monday. Listing to 80's Rap and Hip Hop. You know- before it became a political platform and was just fun to listen to.

 

[Scott DeWar]

take good care of your self. keep us appraised of your post op healing

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Listing to 80's Rap and Hip Hop. You know- before it became a political platform and was just fun to listen to.

Ummmm...”not political”? That was like...almost never. Politics & social commentary go back virtually to genesis.

 

[megamania]

Meaning gang and blunt anti-police lyrics.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Anti-police? Gang related?

Gangsta rap evolved from hardcore rap, and that genre originated in the early 1980s. The difference is mainly in lyrical focus- not all hardcore rap songs are gangsta related, but many are. Run-DMC popularized the genre style, then Too $hort and especially Schooly D were early exemplars of acts that started bringing up that kind of stuff 1983-86.

NWA’s classic anti-police brutality song, “F*** the police” dates to 1988, and it wasn’t the first of its kind, just the most famous. KRS One’s “Sound of da police” came in 1993, and is about driving while black.

 

[cmad1977]

Anti-police? Gang related?

Gangsta rap evolved from hardcore rap, and that genre originated in the early 1980s. The difference is mainly in lyrical focus- not all hardcore rap songs are gangsta related, but many are. Run-DMC popularized the genre style, then Too $hort and especially Schooly D were early exemplars of acts that started bringing up that kind of stuff 1983-86.

NWA’s classic anti-police brutality song, “F*** the police” dates to 1988, and it wasn’t the first of its kind, just the most famous. KRS One’s “Sound of da police” came in 1993, and is about driving while black.

Hey!
Kid N’ Play were good wholesome fun!


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[Dannyalcatraz]

So were DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fesh Prince, De La Soul, and many more!

But rap’s subgenre explosion after Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) was rapid.. Besides gangsta rap and the stuff with heavy social commentary hitting in the early/mid 80’s, Stetsasonic (1981) became the first group to use live instrumentation (a la The Roots), were co-pioneers of beatboxing along with Doug E Fresh*, and basically laid the groundwork for jazz-influenced rap that began to really break in the 90s (ironically, right as they were breaking up).





* Doug E Fresh got his big break in the early 80’s with Get Fresh Crew (Barry Bee and Chill Will) along with a newcomer named MC Ricky D (who would later achieve fame as Slick Rick).