― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Sorry I'm not cool enough to answer The Chronic.
― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― Claire (Claire Miccio), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)
then, after a period away, wu-tang clan and mobb deep
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― David (David), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)
"Adventures on the Wheels Of Steel" would be my answer, but I didn't know it was 'hip-hop' at the time and, again, there were few follow-ups to get your teeth into at the time (if you were in the UK). I guess "The Message" sealed it for me tho'.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― g.cannon (gcannon), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)
With Scott PL on this one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)
m.
― msp, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)
New York radio in the early 80s
Absolutely.
― Jody Beth Rosen, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― minna (minna), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)
'Dangerous' Dave Pearce on Radio London (sellout!)
― nebbesh, Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)
― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― edward (big E.D), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ess Kay (esskay), Thursday, 17 October 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Honda, Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:15 (twenty-three years ago)
Yes, Will Smith.
And not when he was calling himself The Fresh Prince either.
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan I., Monday, 7 July 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)
a few years later i started to listen to the music for real, mostly because it was all over the place at school. stuff like B.A.Deffer. , by all means necessary, paid in full, n.w.a., ice-t, de la and such. you know. i remember a friend got a promo of the first tribe album, so that must have come out during my senior year of HS
anyways, then it basically took over my listening for the next ten years or so, along with the side-interests - jazz and soul etc, largely from a sampling perspective (at least in the beginning)
― ron (ron), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)
That one track about "I'm sorry mrs. johnson" though. That was really good, like a real change from all that gangster stuff about hoes. But some people are doing real intresting music -- almost like IDM, if you can ignore all the talking over it. This timbaland guy -- you heard of him? He's like this secret genius behind all these hit tracks!
― Quentin E. Sential (s_clover), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Meat Beat Manifesto. (I'm not kidding)
Please be talking about "CUTMAN"! Fuck yeah.
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― adam west (adamwest), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
and honestly the biggest nest of misapprehensions about early rap that i know of is probably in the voice crowd (witness that long-gone northern state: too shouty? thread). i mean its more sophisticated, but somewhat similar.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)
Man, I miss early 90's hip-hop.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)
everybody goes quiet.
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)
But didn't care about hiphop until "3 Feet High and Rising"
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Don't listen to much hip-hop at all these days, though I did just interview El-P about an hour ago.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)
Second time, eighth grade (mostly white public middle school now): Gradually got back into it via Cypress Hill's Black Sunday and Ice Cube's The Predator.
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Viewed within the context of the time, it was actually one of the most radical hip-hop records of the time, bringing a slick pop version of the cut 'n' sound sound only availble on NY mixtapes!!!! And it was a UK top 10 hit!!!! And the video brought all the famous images of early 80s hip-hop (turntablism, breakdancing, graffitt art, body-popping, etc.) direct into the living rooms of UK viewers when it was show on Top of the Pops!!!! In fact, you could argue it launched hip-hop proper in the UK!!!! Not that you'd know this from most "historians" of hip-hop, even UK one's...
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)
I bought the tape, mostly because I was a big Freddy Krueger fan. The rest is history. I was seven or eight.
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)
When i was 10 we moved to Chicago from VT. I listened to the radio non-stop. This was '93. Wu-Tang, Tribe, Gang Starr, Dre, Snoop, 2Pac, Biggie, Digital Underground, Geto Boys/Scarface, Domino...all this stuff was played on the radio, on the same radio station! They'd seriously segue from Gang Starr's "Mass Appeal" to some snoop track! When I was that age it was all hip-hop to me, no "jazz hip-hop" or "gangsta rap" or whatever, it was all hot, the rap stations played all the same stuff.
― djdee2005, Friday, 23 July 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― djdee2005, Friday, 23 July 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/guest/greg_wilson.htm
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)
BTW, Run-DMC's "Walk This Way" I never liked at all. I thought Aerosmith's original was superior and funkier, and I still think so. "Walk This Way" is in fact the low point of Raising Hell, in my opinion.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 23 July 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― lovebug starski, Friday, 23 July 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― coco, Friday, 23 July 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Very typical rock-to-rap conversion, I reckon...
― stevie (stevie), Friday, 23 July 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 July 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)
And, erm, uh, gulp, KRS-1's bit on R.E.M.'s Radio So- please don't hit me!!!
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 23 July 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)