How's about Afrika Bambaata? Grandmaster Flash? The Sugarhill Gang? They're all my fave's. Originators!
who is your your favourite rap singer
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Originally posted by PeteLX
How's about Afrika Bambaata? Grandmaster Flash? The Sugarhill Gang? They're all my fave's. Originators!
I didn't want to sound like an old fart but I would have nominated Grandmaster Flash and the Last Poets.
Damn straight! And I gotsta get me one of those Beatmaster 2000's!!!
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...and (another one from left field) Blondie!!!Originally posted by PeteLX
How's about Afrika Bambaata? Grandmaster Flash? The Sugarhill Gang? They're all my fave's. Originators!
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The original White Rapper. Mum.
And the best Rap song, her 1981 masterpiece "Rapture"
And the best Rap song, her 1981 masterpiece "Rapture"
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Rapture was crapture.
I'm a fan of Blondie, but that song was complete rubbish. A rapper she ain't ... "mars ... bars ... guitars ..." That's bloody pathetic.
I've only ever heard one rap song that I like. And that was the FIRST rap song I ever heard ... "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.
At that stage I didn't even think of it as a rap song because I didn't know what "rap" meant.
It was a great song. Very powerful. Very moving. The voice of the ghetto.
But that's ALL it was ... a great song.
Unfortunately it gave birth to a genre.
Since then, black American music has disappeared up its own arse. There was a time when African-Americans set the agenda of popular music ... but when rap came along their culture degenerated into a pathetic parody of itself.
I detest rap music .... with a passion. Consumerist rubbish. It's nothing more than the soundtrack to an advertising campaign for over-priced sportswear made by underpaid sweatshop workers.
As much as I love your song, Grandmaster Flash, you've got a lot to answer for.
I'm a fan of Blondie, but that song was complete rubbish. A rapper she ain't ... "mars ... bars ... guitars ..." That's bloody pathetic.
I've only ever heard one rap song that I like. And that was the FIRST rap song I ever heard ... "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash.
At that stage I didn't even think of it as a rap song because I didn't know what "rap" meant.
It was a great song. Very powerful. Very moving. The voice of the ghetto.
But that's ALL it was ... a great song.
Unfortunately it gave birth to a genre.
Since then, black American music has disappeared up its own arse. There was a time when African-Americans set the agenda of popular music ... but when rap came along their culture degenerated into a pathetic parody of itself.
I detest rap music .... with a passion. Consumerist rubbish. It's nothing more than the soundtrack to an advertising campaign for over-priced sportswear made by underpaid sweatshop workers.
As much as I love your song, Grandmaster Flash, you've got a lot to answer for.
I agree. I really should have put a wink next to my Blondie call cause it was a joke, but she was one the first popstars to "rap". It is a very funny song and the film clip rocks!
Gotta love The Message. Funny how that was near enough to the first ever rap song ever and it got everything so right!
Fear of a Black Planet and Straight Outta Compton are albums that I consider to be as powerful. Another artist called Paris that noone here would know released an album called The Devil Made Me Do It in 1989, which was extremely powerful and simply an awesome album!
Love how the kids lap up the top 40 stuff thrown at 'em and call it rap! It's pop lads!!!
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Del tha funky homosapien.
I like all of them that are dead. The sounds of their corpses rotting are better than anything they ever produced in the studio.
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Tone Loc?????????????
I'll take that as a compliment thanks Rohan
In all seriousness (hey I am an accountant afterall) - wasnt Tone Loc a little "soft" to be called rap?
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Whoa!! Totally forgot about Coolio too...his song Gangsta's Paradise is an all time great. Dont mind a bit of Coolio.
Tone Loc, thats the guy. He is a one album legend!
Calling him soft is a bit harsh. He was one of the first rappers to make it big in the mainstream industry. Think of him as a trailblazer opening new markets to the rappers that followed.
or maybe its just me....
Kurrupt??? Thr guys got nothing but some funky beats!
You seemed to have mised some east coast rappers like:
Prodigy of MOBB DEEP
Havoc of MOBB DEEP
Method Man
Redman ( the two most talented artists around!)
Raekone of Wu
Ghostface of Wu
Common
Copone N Noreaga
M.O.P. these guys are mad!
Jadakiss ...........i could go on and on and on but i think youv really missed the talent in your servey.
If you havn heard any of these guys dowload and enjoy some "RAP" and Hip Hop the way it should be heard........
You seemed to have mised some east coast rappers like:
Prodigy of MOBB DEEP
Havoc of MOBB DEEP
Method Man
Redman ( the two most talented artists around!)
Raekone of Wu
Ghostface of Wu
Common
Copone N Noreaga
M.O.P. these guys are mad!
Jadakiss ...........i could go on and on and on but i think youv really missed the talent in your servey.
If you havn heard any of these guys dowload and enjoy some "RAP" and Hip Hop the way it should be heard........
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Rapture CRAP. I don't think so. Sure the lyrics were weird, but the lyrics to "I am the Walrus" are weird too.
Anyway one of the reason I dislike most rap songs is due to the pathetic, "Aren't I great" lyrics that most of these no talent "theives" pander about. They are no better than Mum's attempt, and at least she doesn't have her head up her own butt.
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Yeah the poll is very west coast orientated...i like both, like a bit of Wu, Mobb Deep and i like Snoop, Dre, Warren G etc
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