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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
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Did you notice the music wasn't from the 30's, it's was Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang from 1980. I know this stuff because I sold records for 30 years, not that I liked it. That's the first commercially viable rap song I ever knew or heard of, Rapper's Delight.
After that, rap died down until, we can thank Aerosmith for this. Aerosmith was dropped by their original label CBS they put out a couple of lackluster albums on Geffen. Then with advent of MTV, they rehashed a 1975 hit of theirs, 'Walk this Way' and joined up with Run DMC and made a new version with video. Aerosmith was now relevant again.
Then rap kind of cruised along, the white audience was still listening to rock. Then some white guy named Robert Van Winkle came out as Vanilla Ice and released the single Ice Ice Baby with video. Now rap was selling to the white audience, of course he stole his melody from David Bowie/Freddie Mercury's tune "Under Pressure". They later sued and Ice had to pay them $7 million dollars. Then came a funny looking fat black guy named Sir-Mix-Alot with the tune "I like Big Butts", now rap was also funny, as if Vanilla Ice wasn't funny enough.
The early 90's brought what's called gangster rap, and then grunge knocked hair bands out, so we had gangster rap and grunge, not much to choose from. That's where we stand now, probably the most popular rapper is another white guy, name MM or spelled Enimen. Which are his initials for Marshall Mathers.
I did get some good news the other day, Jay-Z has turned down the NFL's offer to do the Super Bowl halftime show. For those of us who still watch the NFL, that is good news.
I keep reading posters saying how our fathers hated Elvis, my dad was the biggest Elvis fan there was, and if was still alive he would be 90. We went to every Elvis movie that came out, watched every TV appearance and once drove 60 miles to see Elvis at Weekie Wachee Springs in '62. So not all of our parents were behind the times.