Hip hop, R&B, and gangster rap would not be where it is today without the original street corner rappers, the scratch contests and mic showdowns, the funky transitions, by the pioneers of rap.
They laid it down for others to follow.
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Hip hop, R&B, and gangster rap would not be where it is today without the original street corner rappers, the scratch contests and mic showdowns, the funky transitions, by the pioneers of rap.
They laid it down for others to follow.
Slave - late 70's Ohio band - Watching you
War - Low Rider - late 1970's
Parliament & P funkadelic
They helped bridge the transition from R&B, Rock, and Rap. Also associated with George Clinton and Bootsy Collins
1979 Gamin on ya
1979 Flashlight pt1
1979 Flashlight pt2
Commodores - 1977 - Brick house
Ohio Players - 1975 - Love Rollercoaster
Fire - 1975
Skin Tight - 1975
Jimmy Spicer - 1981 - The Bubble Bunch
Spyder D - Smurphy's Dance 1982
JJ Fad - Supersonic
Whodini - Freaks come out at night - 1983
Bobby Jimmy & the Critters - We like Ugly women 1984
Kurtis Blow - We like Basketball 1984
The Breaks - 1980's
Fat Boys - Human beat box - 1985
Jailhouse Rap
Rick James - king of the Super Freak, and some other rap classics
Super Freak - early 1980's
Give it to me baby - 1980's
Grandmaster Flash - significant because they took rap, mixed a little anger and social commentary in. Part of the beginnings of gangsta rap in the late 1980's
The Message
White Lines
New York
Smiley - the first female rap artist from Detroit, and the first from Detroit to receive a gold plaque.
Lyrics by Smiley 1991
Big E Smalls aka the Notorious Big. He started out on a Brooklyn street corner, rhyming to anyone who would listen. This was the beginning of gangster rap and the violence that went with it. Rap was much simpler and mellower before it took a harder detour.
He got famous, rivalries developed with the West coast rappers, and he was shot on the streets. Murder never solved, RIP Biggie.
Biggie on Bed Sty street corner at 17
KRS one - MCs act like they don't know
ll coolj I'm bad
Beastie boys Hey ladies
Snoop, still DRE still reppin 213 :thumbsup:
Salt n Peppa, push it:D
Biz Markie, vapors "she caught the vapas" :thumbsup:
Hey, just found this thread browsing, old school cool. :clapping: Some great music here.
eazyE, easier said than done
pinhead, like eazy E? how about NWA, straight outta Compton, gangsta :blackeye: :D "gats pointed at your azz"
Good thread, brings back memories. I remember Big E, saw him rappin on the corners a couple times. RIP, biggie. :thumbsup:
War's low rider is da bomb, man. Exodus also did that song, little faster.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by HerringRollins
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^^Classics. :thumbsup: Anyone into Public Enemy? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by HerringRollins
Fight the power
jam on it, hope I got this video posting thing right