it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. smugglers scramblers, burglars, gamblers pickpocket, peddlers even panhandlers you say i m cool when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just say? pull the record back. play that again. don t push me cause i m close to the edge everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. it s not michael jackson and this is not thriller when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock n roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. you can t touch me with an eight-foot pole and i even made the devil sell me his soul run-dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. little skirt hanging way up her knee
at the block parties to slowly but surely hip-hop taking over. the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it s a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. the thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. a child is born with no state of mind blind to the ways of mankind god is smiling on you but he s frowning, too because only god knows what you go through the message was the first hip-hop song that wasn t just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. smugglers scramblers, burglars, gamblers pickpocket, peddlers, even happen-handers