Hey...let's take a short break from Electro Compilations and stray onto the controversial turf of who was the first Rapper person?
Not quite Old School, more like Pre-School Rap, where six year old Angela Simpson out does Roxanne by 8 years to be the youngest Rapper on the block.
This ain't no Rap I hear you cry,even though there's a track actually called 'Rapping' .....so stuff that in yer pipe and smoke it. Proto-Rap is the category I've crowbared this into.
Who invented 'Rap'anyway? The word is certainly Afro-american, but Ian Dury was a crippled Cockney white-man,and John Cooper Clarke was similar,but Mancunians both, appearing a couple of years before The Sugarhill Gang, and Issac Hayes did some Rap's on the "Black Moses" LP,although they were more of a croon than Rap as we know it. The Last Poets get the prize for inventing Hip-Hop culture,them and Gil Scott Heron I reckon? Big Youth, Prince Far-I, Mark E. Smith....Hell..I dunno what I'm rapping on about really,but I have noticed that it usually takes several individuals to come up with the necessary pieces of the Jigsaw Dunnit!?.....personally....and NO! it wasn't Debbie Harry either!
Anyhow,there's one person who definitely didn't come up with Rap music, and that's Angela Simpson, I'll tell yer That!
Tracklist: A1 Angela Simpson– Give The Children A Chance 0:55
A2 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. I 2:45
A3 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. II 2:45
A4 Angela Simpson– Lenox Ave. 3:15
A5 R. Brown– I Just Want To Be 3:42
B1 Angela Simpson– Rapping 5:00
B2 Angela Simpson– Love Thy Neighbor 4:00
B3 Lily Fields– M-L-K 6:45
B4 R. Brown– Bellwoods Trinity Park 3:12
A2 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. I 2:45
A3 Angela Simpson– Little Children Pt. II 2:45
A4 Angela Simpson– Lenox Ave. 3:15
A5 R. Brown– I Just Want To Be 3:42
B1 Angela Simpson– Rapping 5:00
B2 Angela Simpson– Love Thy Neighbor 4:00
B3 Lily Fields– M-L-K 6:45
B4 R. Brown– Bellwoods Trinity Park 3:12
11 comments:
I'd go with Nervous Norvus
Sprechgesang is as old as music. Improvising text over music also. Woody Guthries' talking about something blues. Jazz poets and why is Alice's Restaurant never mentioned. There were reggae toasters early on. When it got reinvented in the late seventies in the usa, bang it became the thing. My mom used to say "if you cannot say it, sing it". Rappers do the opposite, they can not sing so they say it.Queastion: a musical genre that begins with a C. rap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oir6Xo_Esd0&list=PL2uXR-GmLt_r-3Yjsedb1PuJ0yJ_YhQQ-&index=3
Got to be Lord Buckley.
Rap is anti-music, part of the Rockefellers' meisterplan to destroy real art, hence shite like Jackson Pollock, Hirst, Emmin, etc., art includes movies, music, poetry, literature, etc. A nation fed on shit has no taste.
I thought Lord Buckley was one of Madonna bought and paid for brown Children?
I suppose anything that consists of one note only is by its very nature Non-Music?
Isn't that a Stranglers album?
Yeah yeah.....I suppose any speech that is delivered with in a rhythmical manner, could be called 'Rap'.....working out where it becomes a genre with a certain style is the hard bit. The musical backing is what makes this suff interesting and innovative. Rap musick got da Funk, thats the difference.....i prefer it all without the Rap part, like the techno bit of Electro and House. Its music to dance to full stop.
Nah! I love pollox,Hirst (except his shite Dot paintings) and I like the way Emmin gets up people likes you's nose.....yeah "Real Art"....thats a laff,please tell us what that is exactly? Reform Party member I think.
Yes the real Tim Buckley does make an appearance or two on Angela's LP......hopefully he behaved himself and kept away from drugs and deep water.
Real art.. always reminds me of a quote by some german 80-90 years ago
Wenn ich nur das Wort Kultur höre, greife ich nach meiner Pistole
btw a misquote from: Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning
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