you can take me out of the ghetto, but you can t take the ghetto up out of me, dog. it s a tough time to grow up in. and nirvana and kurt cobain in particular reflect the angst. i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. boom, there it is, platinum record. country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. the honeymoon s over. now we re getting down to real commerce. aren t these girls just crazy? yeah, they are. you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china, occasionally your teeth, and hypnotizes your children. but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. unskinny bop just blows me away mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. ending the 80s in terms of rock music, you re getting a lot of hair bands. you ve got poison, ratt, warrant. she s my
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their parents. i m coming everybody wants to party. ain t nothing wrong with partying. right? at all. puff daddy built an empire out of it. it wasn t vogue to be conscious anymore. the more we coming the more brothers we see the sound shifted, and the use of samples exploded. mo money mo problems was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say, well, that sounds familiar to me, so maybe this isn t all bad. i see myself in the pistol smoke you have songs like coolio s gangsta paradise which is, on the surface, a heavier song but the hook is so inviting and warm. been spending most of their lives living in a gangster s paradise hip-hop had hit this point where it had become mainstream, and all of a sudden it starts appearing in other forms of music. there s this kind of rock-rap happening. sometimes, something kicked there s hip-hop that can be found in pop music. harrison ford getting frantic
it was just like, okay, what are we going to do? seems like yesterday we used to rock the show i laced the track you locked the floor so far from hanging on the locker door notorious they got to know i ll be missing you was diddy s song about b.i.g. suddenly it s like, oh, damn, puffy s going to be a legitimate solo act and enters the next phase of hip-hop. every step i take there s sampling and then there s sampling. to take the every breath you take police sample and rap over it, puff daddy finds a way to appeal to young listeners and their parents. i m coming everybody wants to party. ain t nothing wrong with partying. right? at all. puff daddy built an empire out of it. it wasn t vogue to be conscious anymore. the more we coming the more brothers we see the sound shifted, and the use of samples exploded. mo money mo problems was a diana ross sample that an older crowd could hear and say, well,