Hip Hop Against Sucker MCs - how did the sucker MCs react?

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Before 1984 I assume Hip Hop was dominated by sad faced clowns from the wackest part of town who made a living by trying to bite lines. Then Run-DMC released their debut and all of a sudden it was no longer okay to be cheating on your wife or walk around the town like a hoodlum with a knife.

So did the sucker MCs find new jobs or did the movement just go underground?

― We Built This City on a Small Industrial Slum in Los Angeles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 December 2009 08:42 (fifteen years ago)

The Sugarhill Gang never again topped the charts, though they had a few minor hits, such as "Apache", "Eighth Wonder" (which was performed on the American music show Soul Train in 1981), "Rapper's Reprise [Jam Jam]", and "Showdown" (with the Furious Five). In 1999, they reunited and recorded Jump on It, a hip hop children's album. They continue to tour.

― "can´t you be just normal?? be normal just once!" (a hoy hoy), Friday, 18 December 2009 08:45 (fifteen years ago)

I wonder what they encore with?

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 18 December 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago)

Short answer: I don't know. But apparently from "Sucker MC's" on you had to take a test to become an MC. I would guess that those who failed the test went on to become consultants or something.

― Josefa, Friday, 18 December 2009 08:49 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHA-OfFCXCM

Evidence?

― We Built This City on a Small Industrial Slum in Los Angeles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 December 2009 08:52 (fifteen years ago)

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