Rap music decoded...

I lasted twenty seconds. Painfully unfunny, and I'll leave it there.

Yes,
Total garbage together with the rest of the genre IMO..............

The words don't even rhyme.

Rap always sounds like people having a moan to me - Deck of Cards is the best rap song I've heard.

Frank Rappa was OK though he did go on about Cosmic Debris

Imo rap is like any genre, there's good and bad. Tribe Called Quest, Roots, Wu Tang, Kanye West...all great in my book. But there's also lots of tat.

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Originally posted by Mat Cork:
Imo rap is like any genre, there's good and bad.

IMO the Goats are head and shoulders above the rest. Tricks Of the Shade is THE classic rap album.

Tricks Of the Shade

Do The Digs Dug

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Originally posted by munch:
I like alot of early RAP music before they called it R&B.
That OP was cras.
I was one of the first three people to get the 12" of this
original single in the uk nearly a year before it came out.
I took a copy to the Hard Rock Cafe in London, Played it once and it was the only record in there history that was played everyday and night for a week.
No other music was played other than that on track.
People just danced the workers in the open kitchen and on the floor.
Good old days.
Stu

I loved Rapper's Delight as well (12" obviously) ...I also bought Funkadelic's "One Nation Under a Groove" Very early on also ...was it really the first ever commercially released 12" single?

A thread re 12" singles has been a long time coming methinks!

When it comes to rap, all I can think of is the Tom Hagan (Robert Duvall) line from the first Godfather movie:

"Can't do it Sallie..."

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Originally posted by Tonepub:
Just thought I'd share this.

http://www.funnyordie.com/vide...ed-from-blackness#at

LOL! That was funny as shite!

Bro

Do you think Ant & Dec put a lot of folk off?

No thread about rap would be complete without a mention of Kool Keith (aka Dr Octagon, Dr Dooom, The New Black Elvis, etc). In many ways, he's the George Clinton of rap, recording albums under different personae, inventing his own elaborate mythology, and generally subverting the conventions of rap music:

Livin Astro

halfsharkalligatorhalfman

He also recorded the greatest "dis" ever:

No Chorus

Your f*ckin cadence is off!

And no mention of Kool Keith would be complete without Kenworths with Wings, since you called out halfsharkalligatorman.

Mos Def would also get a mention in my world

Prince Paul for me and a bit of De La Soul

I'd also add my personal favourite...cubano's: Orishas.

How's that one go Munch?

A Gangsters Life Aint Fun

From "Fear of a black hat". Raps version of Spinal Tap. Excellent film.

jeff, i found this hilarious thank you.

i love hip hop. always have. always will.

for me, rap music has been no more homogenised, stylised, brutalised and had the meaning sucked out of it, than any other facet of popular music. eg 'indie music' in the mainstream hasn't been independent for at least a decade.

if our kids are embracing the moronic, gross, misogynistic side of Hip Hop and , through their desire, turning that into the dominant proportion of pop music in general - then doesn't that say something about we the people?

Well I guess it saves them the problem of writing a new tune each time, they can concentrate on the lyrics.

Life's to short, file under not needed.IHMO.

Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina will always be No.1 in my world.

Also Blondie's "Rapture" must be the first cross over hit.

Jono

Ah; Fab Five Freddie; Change the Beat...