introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. can you give us some definitions of the lls in your name? ll stands for ladies love for long and lean lover of ladies last of the red hot lovers looking for a little. lesson learned and one you re liking, just a lot of ls. the guys only be talking about yourself. how much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance. how bad they are. nobody better not mess with me and all of that kind of foolishness. if they were to address the issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power. you see what i m saying? all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. planet earth it was my place of birth thought to be the sole controller of the universe rakim is the god emcee. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a poet. hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different
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 ll 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 pick pocket, pedestridlers, e pand handlers when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just say? pull the record back.
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 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 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 bec
that funky monkey licensed to ill really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. can you give us some definitions of the lls in your name? ll stands for ladies love for long and lean lover of ladies last of the red hot lovers looking for a little. just a lot of ls. the guys only be talking about yourself. how much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance. how bad they are. nobody better not mess with me and all of that kind of foolishness. if they were to address the issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power. you see what i m saying? all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. planet earth it was my place of birth rakim is the god emcee. he single-handedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hip-hop. he came to the world like a
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 there were three young ladies aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. it brings them back into the fore and also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. walk this way talk this way run dmc s latest album titled raising hell has sold more than a million copies in just 13