Hip-Hop Poll Poll #2 - Is 'No Diggity' or that song by Saint Etienne or whatever Last Poets/Gil Scott Heron was nominated hip-hop?

well I nominated Murray Head so I should probably abstain here

nah "No Diggity" is R'n'B and Saint Etienne are like ethnically cleansed pop or something

but fwiw Blackstreet no, St Et hell no, Gil Scott Heron yes

Gil is maybe proto-Hip Hop i guess

we should call the music 'rap'

not as cool sounding as 'hip-hop,' but less confusing?

maybe not. allmusic has the primary genre for the Last Poets as "Comedy/Spoken" hahaha.

thanks to this poll, I've learned not to care about the labels so much.

moka-hop can have its own poll imo

we should call the music 'rap'

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

these all fail the delmar test

tbh i just like 'hip hop poll poll'

not really taking genre-naming instructions of some guy called lo-fi

sorry if you thought I was offering instructions.

and rap/hip-hop was lo-fi for its' first glorious ten years or so.

still is tbh

which Saint Etienne track is being referred to? their track(s) ft. Q-Tee?

ship otm

voted St Etienne

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"No Diggity" is hip-hop (two verses by two rappers plus a hip hoppish beat is enough for me), 1970s Gil-Scott Heron isn't (just because you influence a genre doesn't mean you belong to that genre, otherwise Muddy Waters was doing hard rock back in the 1950s). I have no idea what this "Saint Etienne" thing is.

how are you even

oh shit are nominations over?? i forgot to nominate! i had some cool trax lined up

i wanted to wait & nom them all at once so they looked cool listed together

Nominations end tomorrow iirc

All of these were my nominations... I guess a hoy is baiting me.

This is the St. Etienne track in question, which I actually removed from my noms after a second thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68d_wfuXcX4

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution will not be Televised

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0

That's actually the live version of revolution... here's the real one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw

Not supposed to be baiting, just... ok yeah accidental baiting.

I nominated Hustler's Convention and I won't be voting for it even if it doesn't get bumped now.

Fwiw, I first heard Saint Etienne's "Filthy" on this album:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5176SK41Z2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

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disappointed that "Wait..." lost to "yes"