single- single-handedly changed the phrasing of hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. i learned different rhythms, listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style. you know, not just a regular dum, dum, dum. what i am trying to do. i m trying to set examples for the little kids. you know what i m saying? got to teach the babies. you know what i m saying? try to lead them in the right path. the summer of 1987, rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said we want to be music s worst nightmare. public enemy s extreme politics has met almost no raid your air play even on black stations. it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution.
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 flood gates for the next generation of rappers. when run dmc came out, they were taking rock-and-roll music, and then putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. run dmc kind of led zeppelinized hip-hop because it was fit for an arena. knocking the scoreboard down. aerosmith had sort of fallen off the map at that point. and sort of brings them back into the fore, and it also breaks run dmc in a much big ware because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. run dmc s latest album,
to play at all 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 turn tables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already-existing albums. 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. 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 of these things that were hitting these communities really hard. when a message hit, man, it was, okay, put that down. wha
entitled raising hell has sold more than a million copies in just-13 weeks. a first for a rap record. the album is called license to ill. that s a stupid name. you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop is our baby, this is our culture, this is our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we are going to lose it. you gotta fight for your right to party and then, when we started listening to their music, they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right. beastie boys come out. people who thought would be a pop/hip-hop group. they were straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope. you know what i mean?
rod kim single-handedly changed the musical phrasing in hip-hop. i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style, you know, not just the regular i was in between. what i am trying to do, i m trying to set examples for the little kids. you know what i m saying? got to teach the babies, know what i m saying, try to lead them in the right path. summer of 1987, rebel without a cause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said we want to be music s worst nightmare. public enemy is extreme politics. it s met almost no radio air play even on black stations. it s rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution.