i cant explain the fun i have had these past few weeks. i thought i didnt know much about hip hop, but i guess i wasnt that far removed from the 8th and 9th decades of the 21st century. let me try to breakdown the research of east coast, the plymouth rock if you will...these were my favorites, the artists that inspired me and gave me hope. small messages with enormous impacts along with skills to be unmatched and passions yet to be questioned. im sure there are plenty more artists out there, but hey its only been 3 weeks since my journey commenced and cant i wait to continue my education. playlist (so far):
breakin:
kool moe dee
grandmaster flash
kurtis blow
afrika bambaataa
run dmc
swagga:
rakim
big daddy kane
ll cool j
slick rick
wiz khalifa
leaders of the new school
rob base
teachin:
public enemy
krs-one
nas
immortal technique
empd
gang starr
the poets:
de la soul
black star
the roots
tribe called quest
and the hoods:
das efx
wu tang
lords of the underground
one thing about this month, is that its cured the bad case of ignorance i had when it came to sampling. old school is my life, soul and r&b is what i breath and absorb on a daily, hence the protection against todays hip poppers. is it an amege as i would like to think? probably not, but im gonna to stick to with this reasoning cause its the right thing to do. my reason for sampling songs was to bring that familiarity to the forefront and exude the comfort that soul music brought. but im sure its as simple as using beats that can be used in a repetitive and flowing manner. i remember my days hangin out in the "studio", listening to the same track over and over and over again for hours at a time and not in the good ukiah kinda way, but the in a way that would drive one mad. its kinda like what im putting my office through by bumpin the bass. they probably have thoughts that i have lost my mind, back here in my corner office. i have went from morning jazz w/ thelonius, to breakfast with wu-tang, its a nutfest back here - 51/50 sho' nuff...anyway as i was saying... but samples that were used back in the day were for filler or something to groove to, cause the rappers / emcees didnt have the time to make tracks, well... they did but who wants to do all of that...the point WAS, was to get on the mic and spit the story....operative word being "story". so i can respect the entire reasoning for sampling, or whatever. today??? today is just wrong, the sampling isnt even backed up with a half descent story. if folks had something to say besides talking about shoppin and clubbin (mostly in da south) i could hang w/ the entire scene. its just an opinion and i know somebody likes it (millions, actually). and not all of these kids are horrible, some cats are out there doin there thing and representing with true artistic skills, its just some these suckasses that are cloggin the toilet, i dont know y'all. i just dont know.my mom felt the same way about prince...and so it goes. but again like sly said "different strokes for different folks."
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