Old Skool Rap Vs. New Skool

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For sake of argument, everthing post-Run DMC is new skool. I prefer old skool; much rawer.

(Sorry for my use of the word "skool", it's how they say it!)

David Allen, Monday, 25 November 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's "they," exactly? Everybody pronounces it "skool," it's called phonetics. Okay, so maybe somebody out there pronounces it "schoo-uhl" or "suh-chule," but not anybody I've ever met.

My vote goes to middle skool.

hstencil, Monday, 25 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't listen to anything released before '97.

d k (d k), Monday, 25 November 2002 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

bob holness invented rap

mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Sugarhill Gang was so raw! Yes!

Actually, I think a case could be made that Run-DMC spawned even the possibility of using the word "raw" about rap.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

All that I know well is the Sugar Hill stuff. Were the less commercial records of that era rawer?

B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

schoolly d? kool moe d?

mark s (mark s), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(hstencil is my hero)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

[opinion concealed]

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

hstencil is not my hero (esp. when he's quoting one of the beastie boys)...

he can still come over and watch gatchaman with me though.

gygax!, Monday, 25 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish that the world could decide that new skool/school/skewl was heralded in by the jiggy era...as soon as Jay-Z said "Big pimpin--It's a movement" BAM! new skool rap.

cybele, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, thanks for the (non) answers.

David Allen, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Grad school~!

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I find this question baffling. I mean, sure, lots of great records before Run-D.M.C., but shit...might as well ask if we like 50's rock or "new rock"...


Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"We are neither commercial nor underground. We are hip hop".

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom, that's crazy talk! You have to be one or the other! And you CAN NOT LIKE BOTH!!!!

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Shit man, you're right. I'm gonna go off and buy some retro hockey shirts I think, maybe patronisingly listen to some Saian Super Crew as well.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I figure most people are going to push for more recent commercial rap stuff anyhow and I won't bitch about that, really. But there's some pretty good pre-RUN-D.M.C. material that comes to mind that'll argue the early '80s case - Treacherous Three's "The Body Rock", Family Four's "Rap Attack"* (which sounds like Keb Darge/DJ Shadow 'rare groove' fetishization about fifteen years early; also it is FUNKY TO DEATH), the general early ouevre of Afrika Bambaataa, etc.

*Off the comp "Harlem World - The Sound of Big Apple Rappin'", which I have been trying to get ahold of since Matos pimped it to me. I can only imagine that the other songs on this comp (including Grand Wizard Theodore's "Can I Get A Soul Clapp (Fresh Out the Pack) are semi-lost classics.

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

But gygax! you're my hero! Where did I quote the Beastie Boys?

Seriously, I'd say like 1985-1995 = middle skool.

Mostly I just like Playskool.

hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that pronounced "suh-chule-lee dee" or "schoo-uhl-lee dee" or what?

I finally saw "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" the other day, Schooly D does the theme song. MC Pee Pants rocks the candy, yo.

hstencil, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)


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