Tribute to old skool Rap

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 10:56 PM

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.

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 10:58 PM

Slave - late 70's Ohio band - Watching you

War - Low Rider - late 1970's

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:09 PM

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

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:15 PM

Commodores - 1977 - Brick house

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:29 PM

Ohio Players - 1975 - Love Rollercoaster

Fire - 1975

Skin Tight - 1975

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:33 PM

Jimmy Spicer - 1981 - The Bubble Bunch

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:41 PM

Spyder D - Smurphy's Dance 1982

**HerringRollins** · 03-26-2008, 11:49 PM

JJ Fad - Supersonic

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 12:47 AM

Whodini - Freaks come out at night - 1983

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 12:51 AM

Bobby Jimmy & the Critters - We like Ugly women 1984

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 12:57 AM

Kurtis Blow - We like Basketball 1984

The Breaks - 1980's

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 01:08 AM

Fat Boys - Human beat box - 1985

Jailhouse Rap

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 01:22 AM

Rick James - king of the Super Freak, and some other rap classics

Super Freak - early 1980's

Give it to me baby - 1980's

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 01:32 AM

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

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 01:47 AM

Smiley - the first female rap artist from Detroit, and the first from Detroit to receive a gold plaque.

Lyrics by Smiley 1991

**HerringRollins** · 03-27-2008, 02:00 AM

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