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For anyone following along at home, MC Solaar might be a really good entry point into French Hiphop. Give La concubine de l'hémoglobine a try - talk about smooth.
Solaar is super smooth. If you're looking for a little edge I'd recommend Les Sages Poètes de la rue. Gènèral P is on high rotation at my place
I've thought about this quite a bit. I'm a big fan of the record label Bear Family, a German label that specializes in releasing boxsets from R&B/Rock&Roll/Country artists from the 20's-70's. Want to hear every song The Carter Family ever recorded in their original incarnation? They have a 12 CD boxset for you! They generally do this be acquiring the original master tapes from the labels, which often include a lot of…
> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be released today as it samples an incredible number of other artists.[0] [0] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kI8XoDoiHcrG0aGmtvq1g
https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/ https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/publicenemy30/
Back when I first started listening to hip hop music (around 1982; i'm old), it wasn't easy to get your hands on it if you lived in the suburbs. Record stores in the suburbs didn't stock hip hop until the Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill" and Run DMC's "Raising Hell". I had a circle of friends that could get me bootlegs - basically, mixtapes from people with hip hop records. I threw all of them away years ago. And I've…
I think people often recorded off the radio on to cassettes. Local stations played local artists. Or your friends would drive in to the city and you could come across the music.
Make my request, and wait for it
Holdin my finger on the pause button, like "now go"
I guess that was the original download
-Atmosphere - Don't Forget
A little off topic but funny enough to mention. Here in France, Skyblog.com is closing its doors in the next days. It was a blog platform ran by the #1 hiphop radio. It's not related to hip hop at all, even the radio only play crappy mainstream rap since 30 years ago, but back in the days, it was an easy way for a lot of teens to have a voice on the Internet. It wasn't deep at all, often really dumb, and it was mocke…
Just a nuance: the true number one hiphop radio was always génération 88.2 :-P SkyRock even has rock in its name. Just being playful :o)
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Just a nuance: the true number one hiphop radio was always génération 88.2 :-P SkyRock even has rock in its name. Just being playful :o)
You are right, but most famouses are not always the best unfortunately. Cheers !
Generation is the more niche station.
:o)
Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games A lot of suckers with colorful names I’m so-and-so, I’m this, I’m that Huh, but they all just wick-wick-wack
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly. They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
Even in a rap context MC Hammer got the MC part of his name from being master of ceremonies at various clubs. Aka the guy who controls the mic.
Tangential, but I think the streaming services are preserving the story just fine on their own. No matter how many times I skip or dislike a hip hop song, they all keep shoving them down my throat with their recommendation engines. Very frustrating. /rant
Please, stop. If you don't like the genre, then you are absolutely in no position to comment usefully or intelligently on whether it is being preserved properly.
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On a similar note, Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album" remixing Jay Z's The Black Album over samples from The Beatles' White Album... Amazing. It's pretty findable, but it's unfortunate that there's no canonical source.
Somewhere I have a dead iPod shuffle with the grey album on it. Listened to that non stop in undergrad. Have not been able to find another bootleg of it :(