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Who really wrote the first Rap Ballad? LL or TLR?
[Edited 2/14/15 16:34pm] "Never let nasty stalkers disrespect you. They start shit, you finish it. Go down to their level, that's the only way they'll understand. You have to handle things yourself." | |
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LL of course
They other one I don´t know, but i doesn´t sound like a ballad at all.
LL was the first single i bought actually |
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Technically not raps, but how about these You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Gil Scott heron FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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Whodini's One Love dropped a year before LL Cool J I Need Love Also UTFO's Where Did You Go
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^^Is that the same Moments as Ray, Goodman, & Brown? I didn't know they did anything for Sugarhill You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Most of the rappers used to strictly make 12 Inch singles which were mainly fast jams. The few that actually made an album, usually had a slow song or two on them and I remember most of them being sung rather than rapped. Most of them didn't sound worth a damn but this one stood out and was pretty good and actually got a lot of airplay. . Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Oh my God, I haven't heard that one since it was popular. Gotta download that one. . The term rap was totally different back then though. Back then, if you rapped to someone, you held a conversation with them. And in music, the rap part of a song was the part where folks like Millie Jackson or Betty Wright broke it down and talked. . . . [Edited 2/16/15 12:09pm] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Yes, it is. Makes sense that they followed Miss Rob over to her new label, as they often collaborated with her, right?
But weren't they already Ray, Goodman, and Brown when Sugarhill Records came around? I have their album with Special Lady on it and it's on Polydor. The group lost the name The Moments to their earlier label, who said they owned it. That's why they changed the group name to the members names. Similar to Jackson 5/Jacksons & The Time/Original 7ven. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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But not when they recorded with Sylvia (Sugar Hill Records). She's who they lost their name to. | |
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vainandy said: Most of the rappers used to strictly make 12 Inch singles which were mainly fast jams. The few that actually made an album, usually had a slow song or two on them and I remember most of them being sung rather than rapped. Most of them didn't sound worth a damn but this one stood out and was pretty good and actually got a lot of airplay. . I didn't remember this one getting play but I know Where Did You Go got airplay. It was the followup to We Work Hard. One of their members was actually in jail at the time that's why there were only 3 on this cover instead of 4. Don't laugh at my funk
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I am actually more leaning towards giving the Force M.C.s the credit as they sang-rapped a lot of their routines in the bootleg cassette tape era (early 80s), and transformed on wax into a full-on singing group with "Tears", "Forgive Me Girl", and "Let Me Love You" in 1984. | |
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I am so glad to have helped you with that! I actually really love that track, so if you haven't already found it, hit me up! | |
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