One more for the road. Really love this song http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwpBYQn3S8

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
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.)

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