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Hip Hop
Wed, 2012-01-25 14:59
#1
Catchfire
Hip Hop
Wed, 2012-01-25 15:34
#2
Boom Boom
I love reggae, not sure how it differs from hip-hop.
Sat, 2012-01-28 04:59
#3
RevolutionPlease
Wow, keep getting shut down. Reggae's way different than hip hop Boom Boom. Reggae's forgiving, hip hop, not so much.
Sat, 2012-01-28 05:14
#4
RevolutionPlease
Here's a better intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY&feature=related
Catchfire, I don't get the OP? It's a good intro but I'm not sure where you want to go? And I keep getting logged out and stuff. I'd actually like to carry on this conversation. I guess I should start.
I'm yet to be refuted by the anti-hip-hoppers? Point to any lies we tell? Where you coming from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQaVIoEjOM&ob=av2e
Sorry if I'm defensive, folks are always after our ass.
Sat, 2012-01-28 05:20
#5
RevolutionPlease
Sat, 2012-01-28 05:23
#6
RevolutionPlease
Let me clear my throat!:
Sat, 2012-01-28 05:26
#7
RevolutionPlease
Sat, 2012-01-28 08:52
#8
Boom Boom
I just love early reggae, from about the 1960s with Toots and the Maytals up to just past the Peter Tosh era, with Bob Marley and Johnny Nash in between. My favourite album cover, by the way, is Peter Tosh's Legalize it.
Tue, 2012-01-31 01:10
#9
RevolutionPlease
Yes, Boom Boom, Peter Tosh did represent some hip-hop influence. I had to go back, although I've listened to him many times before. I'm not sure if you can view it but here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnurT1Ikcbk&feature=player_detailpage
Lot's of different pics and a good thump.
Tue, 2012-01-31 01:40
#10
RevolutionPlease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkQd0Tk7_mQ
Interesting conversation. Worth a listen. Hip hop dudes debating where we need to go. The preacher don't know. BET says "We can't play this"
Think about it...if you watched it...
Thu, 2012-02-02 12:13
#11
ebodyknows
For some of the canadian history see love, props and t.dot doc the cbc made: http://www.t.isgood.ca/video/love-props-and-the-t-dot-cbc-toronto-hip-ho...
See this podcast to see where we're at now: http://www.t.isgood.ca/podcast/episode/Toronto-is-Hip-Hop/
Thu, 2012-02-02 14:19
#12
i actually think reggae had a huge influence on hip hop...think of the dub records from the mid 70's, it was essentially the first version of sampling and taking breaks and bass lines and making a new song. Dj culture and the "block party" was also a jamaican invention with the "sound systems" (dudes with mobile PA's they would build to have parties) of the era, replete with intense and sometimes violent confrontations between sound systems....
And compare the political views of people like afrika bambaataa with the views of the rastafarian culture. Different religion, similar principles and both based around black power and liberation.
if you love reggae you have to see this movie:
Fri, 2012-02-03 23:44
#13
RevolutionPlease
I haven't digested the new content, but am looking forward to it.
Check out the Dead Prez:
Fri, 2012-02-03 23:56
#14
RevolutionPlease
Great video milo, but we un lose that. Where to go?
Yes Sir! Gotta make it real.
Sat, 2012-02-04 00:08
#15
RevolutionPlease
Sat, 2012-02-04 00:38
#16
RevolutionPlease
Sell your soul and you're good.
Sat, 2012-02-04 00:51
#17
RevolutionPlease
Sun, 2012-02-05 02:47
#18
and it's pretty cool, all the actors are the best reggae musicians at the time like sly a robbie, horesemouth, inner circle, joe gibbs, dirty harry etc and the best ...it's like a snapshot of 70's jamaica music culture.
Fri, 2012-02-10 05:10
#19
RevolutionPlease
Thanks for the video's folks! Cheers!
Just checking out some First Nation hip hop, like others, not appropriate for here but I'm feeling it.
Fri, 2012-02-10 05:36
#20
RevolutionPlease
Guess I gotta do some devil's advocate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jwYHn0iwgI&feature=related
A bit creepy. What to do? Go back to PE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQaVIoEjOM&ob=av2e
Na, yeah, what do as I as a white dude say about the shit "these" folk say?
You gots to watch some of the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31FO_4d9TY&feature=related
If you don't get the drift from the last one, ask me what's up?
Fri, 2012-02-10 05:45
#21
RevolutionPlease
And perhaps a little prophetic? Almost 30 yrs old.
Mon, 2013-08-12 01:04
#22
Catchfire
Kool Herc: We are Still Here on the Block as Hip Hop Turns 40 This Weekend
August 11 1973 should be a day all of us remember, but sadly many have not.. It was on that date that two siblings Clive and Cindy Campbell decided to do a back to school party in order to raise some money for school cloths and supplies. The party took place in the rec room of their apartment building on 1520 Sedgwick Ave in the West Bronx.. It would be the first of many parties the pair would throw..
Cindy was a budding entrepreneurial type who was good organizer who was the backbone to putting this party together. Her brother Clive was a hulking athletic type who had access to his father’s speakers, and a nice collection of funky records including pristine cuts from his idol James Brown.
It was at this party that Clive who was just starting to deejay and had taken on the nickname Herc, short for Hercules, would introduce a new style of deejaying that would eventually take hold and change the world. What he did was repeat the percussion breakdowns of popular songs… he discovered that the crowd reacted when he played the drum beats so rather than wait for song to play all the way through , he would go straight to the breakdown.. Herc would eventually come up with a system to keep those percussion breaks extended indefinitely. He dubbed it the Merry-Go-Round.. Later we would call them percussion breakdowns, breakbeats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4H2FZjfpo