A Music Thread

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[Meticulous Man]

Suomisaundi FTW.

[Al B. Sure!]

Some interesting songs there Alby. Thanks to AAHZ for making me aware of those posts of yours, never would have thought to come by this thread otherwise. Stopped a long time ago because of AAHZ's spamming of awful songs.

Nikolai

Really it was intended for Sloww, though. Hopefully he'll go back behind all of AAHZ's posts and check them all.


AAHZ, don't be mad cause your hero, Mystikal, stole his whole style from Joe Tex

[DaShi]

This thread is a wasteland. Who cares what happens to it?

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[Nikolai]

Some interesting songs there Alby. Thanks to AAHZ for making me aware of those posts of yours, never would have thought to come by this thread otherwise. Stopped a long time ago because of AAHZ's spamming of awful songs.

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[Al B. Sure!]

I can't resist for AAHZ:

Joe Tex vs. Mystikal:







But Sloww, the point is that rap goes back at least to the late 1950's and is likely even older. Who knows what those blues singers were doing on sharecropper farms in the Deep South in the 1920's that never was recorded? Wouldn't be surprised at all if they were rapping in ways that could immediately be recognized as rap today. Is there any reason to think that what Joe Tex, Pigmeat Markham, and Kent Harris were doing in the 1950's and 60's (Pigmeat's act is actually older than 1968 it just wasn't recorded til then) originated from them? It's just as likely it came from an even older source, especially considering that by the time of Pigmeat, rapping was already fully formed.

Don't let your old white guy prejudices cause you to discount an entire genre of music that evolved directly from and developed alongside the music that you love Rap is Blues.

[Al B. Sure!]

Sloww,

Rap from 1956:



That song was also re-done by the Coasters a few years later.

[Al B. Sure!]

Sloww,

Rap from 1968:






1968 for God's sake! And that is unmistakably rap. On the second song, they even trade bars. Rap came straight from the Blues.

[Al B. Sure!]

Sloww,

Joe Tex 1972... by now, the rap similarities should be obvious:




I actually kind of wonder if AAHZ will like it since it sounds very similar to Juvenile or Mystikal

[Thoth]

Oh. so you mean he wasted his time.

'tis the way of the modern age.