Posted: Wed 28 May 2008 15:12 Post subject: Speaking of Old School Hip Hop...
I'm getting old.
Run-DMC and crew in Hollis, Queens, 1984
The Fearless Four: the Great Peso, the Devastating Tito, Mighty Mike C, and DLB, with DJs OC and Krazy Eddie, Manhattan in 1983.
The World Famous Supreme Team at the Roxy, Manhattan, 1984
Rick Rubin photographed in Manhattan, 1985.
Grandmaster Flash, New York City, 1986
Salt and Pepa, New York City, 1987
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, New York City, 1987.
Female artists photographed in Manhattan in 1988. Top row: Sparky D, Sweet Tee, Yvette Money, Ms. Melodie; middle row: Millie Jackson, Peaches, Sparky D dancer #1; bottom row: Sparky D dancer #2, Roxanne Shante, MC Lyte, Synquis.
Russell Simmons, New York City, 1988
Slick Rick photographed in New York City, 1989
Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor and the Idolmakers Posse: Salt-n-Pepa, Kid and Play, Dana Dane, Sweet Tee, Antoinette, Non Stop, Steevee-O, Clark Kent, Ron Won, Prince Sundance, and Candy, New York City, 1989
2 Live Crew, New York City, 1990
Queen Latifah, New York City, 1990
Afrika Bambaataa at Rapmania concert, Apollo Theater, New York City, 1990
Tone-Loc photographed in Los Angeles, 1990.
Eazy-E photographed in Torrance, California in 1990.
Ah, memories! I guess we are old, anonymouse. You got all kind of lyrics floating through my head with those pics..
"And like all fairy tales end, you'll see Jay again, my friend"
"I'll take your man, your fiance, your husband, you ain't Alice, this ain't Wonderland"
"Cinderfella Dana Dane" "U.N.I.T.Y" "Funky Cole Medina"
OK, I'm done.
I used to see Run DMC, LL Cool J and all those cats all the time - I lived in Cambria Heights which is right next to Hollis...well kinda. My littel brother knew Busta Rhymes before he blew up and was just the wild skinny guy from Leaders of the New School. Who would have thunk that rap would become mainstream music?
I can't believe people wore jeans so tight back then! I remember dry cleaning my jeans so they wouldn't fade (this is b4 stone wash/acid wash became popular).
I couldn't afford Cazals glasses with the money from my newspaper route so I bought Gazelles.
I remember getting a spanking from my dad for wearing my sneakers untied and I was in high school!!! He called it "emulation of prison culture" and never budged in his stance. I got around it by tying my laces under the tongue. There is always a loophole
I remember my brother playing Eazy Duz It by Eazy E and I thought he cursed waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much. I was from the Sugarhill generation, when the word 'DANG' was still in use
Posted: Sat 31 May 2008 13:37 Post subject: Re: Speaking of Old School Hip Hop...
Grasshoppa wrote:
G-Man wrote:
anonymouse wrote:
The Fearless Four: the Great Peso, the Devastating Tito, Mighty Mike C, and DLB, with DJs OC and Krazy Eddie, Manhattan in 1983.
Back when Puerto Ricans were all up in Hip Hop. Didn't they do "Problems of the World Today" back in '83?
You speak as if puerto ricans aren't in hip hop now.
The popular narrative today is that Hip Hop is a black art form born of opression, etc. If Puerto Ricans are mentioned at all they are seen as peripheral to the music's development, or subsumed under a Latino label as if Chicanos and other Latinos were involved in this music equally.
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). I can whip out some pre-Hip Hop bands that actually played instruments.