pick pockets, and even panhandlers you say i m cool when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play that again. don t push me because i m close to the edge everyone knew the game of 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 and 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 make 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. schoolgirl sleazy kind of sexy 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 w
say? put the record back. put the record back. play that again. don t push me because i m close to the edge everyone knew the game of changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. it s not michael jackson when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock and 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 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 run dmc s latest album titled 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 for an album. wake up late for school, man, you don t want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then here culminate beastie boys. we were afraid we were going to lose it. you got to fight for your right to party 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. i love brass monkey but beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. it was straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope, if you know what i mean. brass monkey that funky monkey license 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 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 mc. 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 rhythms
process of using two turntables 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. a child is born with no state of mind blind to the ways of mankind 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 you say i m cool when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just