MUS 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Big Bank Hank, The Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Caz
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1st recorded song w/ rap = fatback band king tim iii (july 25, 1979) Love de-luxe here comes that sound again (1979) Loaned book of rhymes to big bank hank (sugarhill gang) Big bank hank uses his name in rapper"s delight. I was mad when i irst heard it. These people came from out of nowhere we were making so much money from dj-ing that making records just wasn"t our thing. Hollywood and starski, you would always hear them say hip-hop-da-hippit-da- hippit-to-da-hip-hip-a-hop ya don"t stop" and shit like that, they started it. Superrappin released on enjoy records based on breakbeat from whole darn family"s seven minutes of funk . Call & response, party beat, breaks = hard imes of life, no dj, not bragging. Charlie ahern talking about the inluence of early commercial rap. Mcs were onstage and people were looking at them. In other words, hip hop is dead by 1980.
