On Jul 5, 2005, at 8:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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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.
totally agree, nice breakdown. now let's have a jbucknell custom mix
of this era! Your nu groove one is in heavy iPod rotation.
There is a fun compilation on P&P called "super rap" which is all disco
raps from that era, recommended if you can stand epic long disco raps,
they're not for everyone but i love 'em. There's such a charming
naivete in the music at that point... they have no idea it's going to
evolve to the the overwhelmingly dominant commercial meme in popular
music 20 years later. Back then it was just kids storytelling over
disco basslines and drumbreaks... and it sounds like it.
peace
