Hip hop skits : C or D?

I gotta call time, I *know* this was done somewhere on here before...

Always classic... from De La on...

classic in theory - usually dud in practice

Did this one already, didn't we? Can't be arsed to link, as usual.

We did do this, I said they were crap and annoying, then Ian White got all smart ass on me and goes off on how the Holy Bible has all these "skits" on them, and I'm all like, "Yeah, I skip those too, they are crap but they aren't skits they're samples" and then I just gave up because really, hip hop skits are god awful stupid. So are Turbonegro skits. They were all covered.

De La were the only ones who did it were they consistently worked, though. Especially _De La Soul Is Dead_.

The original thread is here, but nobody covered *why* the skits are so prevalent, which might be interesting. When did it start? De La or earlier?

And I still say the skits on the Holy Bible are basically skits. They serve the same purpose as hip-hop skits by providing thematic interludes, and they all set up specific characters and situations. The only difference is that the Manics aren't actually in them: Richey didn't record himself waving a Glock in Nicky's face or something (which actually would've been better)

Dude, that would've been way better, where the hell were you and your ideas when they were recording this stuff? I mean, I can totally imagine that, and it would be possibly even better than Speed. Anyhow, they aren't skits in the sense that none of them were written as purpose of skits nor were they made for the album, they were taken off of tv/radio broadcasts and interviews the band (read: Richey) had found. They serve a similar purpose to skits but are not what I would consider strictly speaking, skits. That being said, they still suck, I don't want fucking Ballard interrupting my song with his ruminations on rubbing humans into their own vomit for fuck's sake.