early hip hop is rapping over disco records. 'good times' - that's a disco
record.
hell, they even rap about going to discos and dancing. the first thing that
super rhymes does when he arrives on earth is head to the disco "...i went
to studio 54 but they wouldn't even let me in the door..." (sung with a
transylvanian accent!) once he gets in, he does a freak attack on the dance
floor by doing the "the translyvania boogie - seven days a week."
the stuff on tuff city, early spoonie g, patrick adams and peter brown
stuff. t-ski 'catch a groove' and many many more.
the early rapping over disco basslines stuff is as good as it gets!
brilliant music.
james
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Kent Williams wrote:
>It reminds me a bit too of the stuff written about early hip hop --
>people like Grandmaster Flash thought of what they were doing as
>making their own kind of disco. Nearly 30 years on, any commonality
>between Disco and Hip Hop would seem unlikely to people who don't know
>the history.
>
I was into disco in the 70s and when I first heard hiphop I didn't see
any commonality between it and disco.
I still don't see the connection between early hiphop and disco, unless
the comment "making their own kind of disco" is synonymous with "making
their own kind of dance music" in which case the only real commonality
is that they're both forms of dance music and has little to do with
disco per se.
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