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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 07:51:41
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I remember the song well, but it's the first time I've heard his name mentioned.
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 12:54:47
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Whoopee!!!
Oh...never mind.
I thought you were announcing the death of Secretary Henry Paulson.
Sorry to hear about the dead rapper.
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 15:08:38
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I always found it odd, growing up in NY and NJ that the rap song that in retrospect launched in era in pop music was made by guys who were not actually rappers. R.I.P. Hank. No matter how one feels about rap, this guy helped launch a genre to the world and is part of history. Not many of us will have the opportunity to launch songs that will be mentioned long after we are gonel
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 15:31:58
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Not many of us will have the opportunity to launch songs that will be mentioned long after we are gonel
So, The Forum Monkeys will just have to live forever then.
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 15:40:37
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dubdisciple
Not many of us will have the opportunity to launch songs that will be mentioned long after we are gonel
So, The Forum Monkeys will just have to live forever then.
Huh...what about Benny Fitt and the Jennifer Tillies???
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bapu
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 15:42:34
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bapu
dubdisciple
Not many of us will have the opportunity to launch songs that will be mentioned long after we are gonel
So, The Forum Monkeys will just have to live forever then.
Huh...what about Benny Fitt and the Jennifer Tillies???
They ent ben borned yet. 2015 I here.
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/30 15:50:34
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My brother bought the 12" single when it came out. I used to bug him over and over to play it. :)
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/31 04:04:01
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Hey! I remember that song. I had to play it when I was a DJ (from '80 to '84).
Had a few conflicts during that time: Playing disco and rap at my job, then playing in a rock band when not working... Oh well!
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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jamesg1213
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/31 06:21:22
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2014/12/31 09:42:58
bapu
jamesg1213
bapu
dubdisciple
Not many of us will have the opportunity to launch songs that will be mentioned long after we are gonel
So, The Forum Monkeys will just have to live forever then.
Huh...what about Benny Fitt and the Jennifer Tillies???
They ent ben borned yet. 2015 I here.
Actually, we could just skip straight to 'Broadsword and the Beast'...
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DragonBlood
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/31 14:21:52
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dubdisciple
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/31 16:57:34
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DragonBlood
One more for the road. Really love this song http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwpBYQn3S8
I do miss the days before rap became big business and was simply a party music based on the Jamaican/African tradition of toasting. As a child in Brooklyn, we would have big block parties and MCs would generally do call and response type rhymes similar to this style of rap over breakbeats provided by the dj. It was simple fun. I realize things change and probably accept it better than most, but can't help bu have fond memories.
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DragonBlood
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2014/12/31 18:02:23
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DragonBlood
One more for the road. Really love this song http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwpBYQn3S8
I do miss the days before rap became big business and was simply a party music based on the Jamaican/African tradition of toasting. As a child in Brooklyn, we would have big block parties and MCs would generally do call and response type rhymes similar to this style of rap over breakbeats provided by the dj. It was simple fun. I realize things change and probably accept it better than most, but can't help bu have fond memories.
I thought Hip Hop started as a reaction to the government cutting funding for school music programs in black neighborhoods and youth responding by taking samples of instruments from different songs and looping them over one another to make music, since they couldn't really play instruments anymore. I wasn't there. It was before my time but I tend to like the awesome narrative I heard a lot better. Makes for awesome legendary history lessons. (Don't really care how accurate that is for some people, History is told by the winners and is partially false. History isn't a single chronological narrative anyways, it's thousands of perspectives happening at once. It isn't taught that way though.)
post edited by DragonBlood - 2014/12/31 20:08:23
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dubdisciple
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Re: Nobody Mentioned how Big Bank Hank is Dead?
2015/01/01 01:14:15
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LOL. That story sounds like a combo of both left and right wing propaganda meshed into one odd story. Hip Hop, like most modern music form simply evolved from was twas already there. Looking at all the early pioneers in what we would recognize today as hip-hop, very few had political motives. Ther closest to that i can think of is Afrika bambaata's stated desire to reduce violence among youth by fostering healthier outlets. Good point about history
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