Re: rap versus hip hop (part thirty-eight thousand)

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@speakeasy.org)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 01:57:34 CEST

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    At 07:14 PM 7/11/01 -0400, BigKumquat@aol.com wrote:
    >In my mind, it works like this:
    >
    >Hip hop is a musical form that emerged in the seventies. It is based on
    >taking the instrumental "breaks" from soul and funk records and continually
    >repeating them using two turntables, a technique that dj's in this era began
    >to employ when they realized that the crowd danced the hardest during the
    >funky instrumental breaks...so why not keep them going longer?

    Originally a Jamaican technique, imported by DJ Kool Herc to the
    Bronx. Tons of examples of this kind of thing, toasting/MCing, etc., in
    seventies Jamaican dancehall culture.



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