Some of the boldest sing and rap experimentation came from artists not endemic to hip hop, who were nonetheless deeply influential. But the Sugar Hill team wanted you to notice the rap as distinct from the music, in essence, the debate over whether rappers should be melodic was baked right into the genre’s first hit during rap’s early years. As we’ve covered several times on Hit Parade, the team at Sugar Hill Records stole from the best the baseline from Chics 1979. Of course, Rapper’s Delight has plenty of actual music supporting the rapping. S1: The B is that the Sugarhill Gang actually self consciously tell you they’re rapping. S2: hip hip hop, you don’t stop the rocket to the Bey make up just the beginning to the rhythm of the beginning. S1: The major difference between these two 1979 tracks and the single that’s now known The World over as rap’s official first recorded hit Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang activity, the
S2: And you’ve been listen to this album is. These early rap experiments were just extensions of the call and response music they’ve been making for years. S1: hands for artists like Battan or funk group, the Fatback Band, whose King Tim the third personality Jock, we played you in our Def Jam’s episode of Hit Parade three years ago. For example, on his one off single rapper LAPO in 1979, Latin Boogaloo and salsa vocalist Joe Barton came up with a clap your hands invocation that became a timeless rap trope. It was only when musicians better known for their singing, began experimenting with a more recognizable rap style that the genre began to take shape on record. S1: but while Jill Scott Herron’s albums would feature his singing and his protoje rapping side by side, he generally did not combine them. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and songs that were sung such as this heartbreaker Kanye West would sample decades later. S1: Next, Scott Heron produced both spoken word tracks like the legendary.
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S2: The revolution will not be televised. S1: Jazz poetry is vocalized by Last Poets co-founder Jalal Nuriddin, but you’re probably more familiar with another last poet who broke away and did his own thing, Gil Scott Heron. The roots of rap, in other words, have the cadence of song. They weren’t exactly rapping, but their patter was clearly musical. Given the words of jazz and poetry being smashed together by the artistic collective known as The Last Poets, critics have long credited this sprawling group of artist cool musicians with prefiguring hip hop more than a half century ago, with their bespoke blend of spoken word lyrics and groovy rhythms. S1: This track is called DeShazo Tree and appropriate title. S2: regenerated less complicated by advocating stimulating But regardless of what these disdain or say from that grumpy, rock loving uncle you see at Thanksgiving to famous grumpy uncles like David Crosby or Gene Simmons, the fact is, from its very origins, rap records have carried a tumor For decades, we’ve heard closed minded complaints that rap quote isn’t music or has nothing to do with singing. S1: but the story of saing, rapping goes back even further than that. S1: didn’t know my lady that was giving it up and well before the twenty first century rapping and singing were being hybridised, as we noted in last month’s hit parade, Frank Ferenz late 80s uro pop confection, Milli Vanilli fused tunes and bars from the jump way back in 1989, including on the hit they stole from a Baltimore hip hop crew.