Got my current issue of Wax Poetics today & was readin the Kurtis Blow piece (fun article, btw).

They mentioned Hollywood & it reminded me to pull this sucka up & give it a spin...

From a time when hip-hop was just F-U-N.

From '80...good times Any y'all remember this jam from BITD?

That bassline is pure murder!

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Harlepolis said:

That bassline is pure murder!

[Edited 6/6/12 3:25am]

Innit tho?

My first response was to laugh a lil bit at the archaic "braggadocio / call & response" thang that was so tre chic at the time......

but that bass & Hollywood's charisma snapped my ass back to reality

JamFanHot said:

Harlepolis said:

That bassline is pure murder!

[Edited 6/6/12 3:25am]

Innit tho?

My first response was to laugh a lil bit at the archaic "braggadocio / call & response" thang that was so tre chic at the time......

but that bass & Hollywood's charisma snapped my ass back to reality

Give me the "call & response" element anytime Its so sad to see that it became kind of a lost art - in the studio that is - it sure is a helluva way(and a fast one) to make the listener get lost into the energy of the recording process.

And he sure sounded like he was having the time of his life

and NO substitute for "call & response" in the live setting either. Without it, hell, I don't even consider it much of a show.

Check out the crowd on "Dr. Funkenstein" (from the Parliament "Live" album)...or maybe the live version of Rick's "Mary Jane" from 1981 @ the Forum. Yeah...like THAT.

no sub for that. Like I said, my early memories of those first (actual) mix tapes with what we then called "rappin" were just of pure fun. Somehow (I know how...ugh) a lot of that has been lost in the genre.

Crankin the box wasn't always a political act.