@@hephner78 People were calling it Rapping before Rapture. Also Debbie Harry wasn't really a rapper of any sort. She had been to a few club in New York where they were playing this new hiphop music, and it was around this time.that some of the New Wave crowd in New York and the hiphopers were starting to mix and mingle in Manhattan, going to parties and Debbie Harry was intrigued by the sounds and eventually Met Grand Master Flash and met Fab Five Freddy. Thats why she mentioned them in the lyrics. And Fab Five Freddy encouraged her to release rapture
this is definitely the first mainstream hit for what would become hip hop. the beat itself is sampled from a song called ''good times''. hip hops infancy was songs just like this one where well known songs of many genres would be sampled and have an emcee rapping over a breakbeat live in a cypher or crowd (freestyle), that would evolve into a legit song writing and beat production. would be really dope to see you do more early hip hop, more advanced wordplay and lyricism wouldnt come around until the mid-late 80s but hip hop has always had its fair share of ''party'' songs like this one and others like ''white lines'' and ''the message'' that despite being hits still carried a deeper meaning in its message (no pun intended). ive gone on a little long but keep up the good work. NY were definitely the originators and kings early on of the genre but being from the west coast itd be dope to see you react to mc fosty / lovin c - radio activity rapp .
This was a big roller skating song and we were always diverse back in the day. It only started becoming bad when the media and politicians realized we were getting along together.
I am 57 Years old and memorized the 7 Min Version of Rappers Delight. Most everyone my age did. You heard the 14 Min version at Clubsand Skateing Rinks and School Dances.Please react to the 14 Minute version.
I remember when this came out... I was in jr high (aka middle school - 7th grade). Our local R&B/Soul station debuted it one night & it was an instant hit. The next day people were calling into the station constantly to request another play. We had never heard anything like it. Sure we knew the melody of "Good Times" but what was this fast talkin' form of "singing"?!?! All of us kids ran out to the music store & bought the (cough) vinyl record, so we could memorize the lyrics. For weeks, all you heard while walking down the school hallways were various kids rapping the lyrics. I'm sure our teachers were quite sick of it after the first few days. I'm 54 now & can still recite it verbatim - HAHA! That's how much we listened to this first crossover hit. Shortly after, Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five busted onto the scene with their much more realistic & gritty song called "The Message" - one of my all time favorite old skool bangers. Please check that one out sometime. :-)
Rappers Delight (released September 1979) is the 2nd commercially released song on wax but is the most well known and had the most commercial success. "King Tim" by Fatback was released in March 1979, before "Rappers Delight" however, it did not see the same success.
This was a staple of the Saturday afternoon session at the roller rink when I was 10. Great memories. You should check out "Rapture" by the band Blondie from the same era. Cheers!
How did rap get started? Back in the 40's and 50's there were poets who rebelled against mainstream America and became known as Beat Poets. Eventually Beat Poets began to give public poetry readings. Overtime poetry was used in music. Bob Dylan is an example of someone who used poetry/rhyming in his songs. He was influenced by Beat Poet William Brown (Big Brown) from New York. At some point, Coke La Rock began "rapping" at parties and it caught on. Who influenced Coke? Maybe the Beat Poets? Maybe Dylan? Groups like Sugar Hill Gang and The Furious Five and other early groups perfected it (wrote lyrics) and it evolved into hip hop.
The core of rap is the underlying music track. Disco and dance tracks were mixed and extended so that people could dance along for longer stretches. These "remixes" had long stretches of instrumental sections which were easier to loop and stretch. During these instrumentals, MCs would talk or "rap" along to the track to hype up the people dancing. Similar things happened in Jamaica with instrumental tracks or dubs, where DJs would talk or "toast" to the track. After a while, the MC vocals became just as important, and at times more important than the music track.
This was the anthem in Jr high in 1980 when I first came out.this is where it all began.I’ve had a front row seat for the evolution of rap and hiphop. It’s Been Amazing!✔️
The full length is almost 15 min,but this was the start and slowly but surely it kept gettin popular- party/club raps to braggin,flossin more aggressive style,to the gangsta/reality rap from the mid 80's on. This was 1979
One of the most influential songs ever. Not many can say they are largely responsible for a whole new genre of music. This version is a bit different to the normal single version. The full version is over 14 mins long!
People were rappin before they had the music. Just added a a beat and made hip hop music. Good reaction good and music to listen to bring out people's smiles
The song that gets credit for having the first “rap” in it was Rapture by Blondie. This was the first actual song to hit that was rap, released on album size vinyl, with 3 versions of this song, about a 4-5 min. one and I think a 7 minute one on one side, and the other side had one cut, a 12-13 minute version. I had the record.
I was a young teen in this era and I remember this song and have seen pictures of the sugar hill gang, but I’ve never seen this video. I love that I will always picture that tight t-shirt and hips shaking back and forth when I hear this song now. ❤️
I remember roller skating to this tune, also The Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - it's Nasty or One Way - Cutie Pie. Definitely roller boogie tunes.
Rappin started when DJs like Flash would cut breaks in the park. He would take 2 turntables and made a crossfade and only play the funkiest parts of disco and funk tunes over and over just like that music in this song which is a classic Nile Rogers riff taken from his disco group Chic. DJ Flash would play these funky breaks in an endless loop for the people to dance to but he said people would stop and stare at him because they'd never seen anyone do that before. So that's when he had MCs jump on a mic and hype up the crowd with lyrics to get them back to dancing and that's how the rappin part of hip hop started. Sugarhill Gang were not really originators of anything, not even real rappers, just in the right place at the right time. I was in 7th grade in 1979 when this came out and everyone was crazy for it trying to memorize all the lyrics. It was my first hip hop record, 12" single. For most cities outside of New York, it's not like you could just turn on the radio and hear this.
Some street history from an old man... In the 90's I heard "planet rock" for the first time... Understand this was the era of west coast gangsta rap and "planet rock" had come out back in the day from my back in the day already...I was 13...I was always a nerd, wanting to know EVERYTHING about whatever I got into... That song pushed me into breakdancing... We were taught that there are 4 tenets to hip hop.... breakdancing (b-boying), tagging, dj'ing, and rapping... From what I was told, rhyming out loud had always been a thing with young, black teens until the 70's when the New York burroughs like the Bronx began to throw these underground parties where young black and Latino youths would compete in dancing, turntabling, and rapping...DJ Herc was supposedly one of the first DJ's who took their parents old vinyl funk records and mixed it with modern drumbeats aka "breaks" or "breakbeats" to play at these parties to showcase their mixing skills and rapping complemented this new form of music... The BIGGEST hip hop heads you'll EVER meet are b-boys... They take that shit SERIOUSLY... Ironically though, the other tenets of hip hop eventually faded but expanded outside of the states...so if you're TRULY into rap and hip hop, there are other tenets besides just rapping... On the street level though, breakdancing was initially a way for groups of adversaries to compete without fighting, hence why rapping has such a big "battling" format, because it used to be one of the nonviolent ways to settle shit besides b-boying, tagging and turntables.... But on the street level, first you battled... Then it went to fists... Then you began to take sides and gangs naturally came afterwards...I was a horrible breakdancer lol... Like for real... But I still tried and went to battles before guns started popping off and I stopped... So it was never JUST rap.... There's a big history behind it...I only know what I picked up when I was younger so I could be close but not accurate
Come on you ain't ever heard Rapper's Delight until just now. Man you been missing out! This is the Jam! I grew up in the 80's and this was the Jam! "I said a hip hop hippie to the hippie"😎
Great one young couple, growing in hip hop when this came out you definitely knew every word.. Their is alot of stories about this song. One of my favorite MCs Verse got jacked, RIP Hank... You guys are young but I salute you for wanting to learn the history, because alot of young ones don't. You guys are lucky, there is 1000s of hours of documentaries and stuff out there for you to look into. Its way better than nothing (if you weren't there), but still take it with a grain of salt because some are more accurate than others, depending on whose version it is. Much love & Enjoy...💜✌🏼
I was 9 when this came out. Early early hip-hop was all party music. How rapping came about was early hip-hop was just DJs. Then, DJ's added a hype-man to motivate and lead the crowd ("throw your hands in the sky, and wave them from side to side" and stuff like that). Then hype men, the Master of Ceremonies (MC), started getting cleverer, funnier, and started rhyming. Now it's all about the MC but in the beginning it was all about the DJ. And, yes, there is a shorter radio version of this song. The guy y'all like, Wonder Mike, was a school teacher (I think..). Big Bank Hank worked at a pizza parlor. That crowd looks so diverse because that is a disco crowd.
Hi guys funny enough I know every word to this brilliant rappers delight tune I just learnt it when I was 19 and I still know it now even though I'm 64😂👍
I love you alls reaction. Yeah this was the first rap song that actually went gold and open the doors for all the other rap artists that followed like Grandmaster Flash and LL Cool J and everything else. I was alive back then and this was way before Internet or phones you could carry around. We actually carried around record players that were portable when they came out. You all probably don’t believe me because you are so young and it’s pretty funny to me also. Everything is instant now. Back then you had to grind for everything. Lol
This was the first rap song I listened to at the age of 12. One of my best friends taught me the words to a lot of it and we would walk around rapping it. Unfortunately she passed away in her 20s. Whenever I hear this song I think of her and how much fun we had as kids ❤💔
To answer your question about how they came up with this sound you need to check out "Grandmaster Flash Talks "The Theory" Of Being A HipHop DJ & The Beginnings Of Hip-Hop". Type that title into youtube. He was the original! Invented the "Sound" of hip hop.
I am no expert in this genre by any means. But what I found fascinating was how The Beastie Boys talk about Rap battles on the streets of New York in their song "Root Down". That made me do a little research and I guess a lot of the really big name early Rap stars were also apart of these rap battles. They would do it right though they would steal electricity off of telephone poles. They would have their PA's and turn tables. I guess much like rock and metal music which I am much more familiar with, they would also make tapes and people would trade them getting their name out there.
Rap existed before this - check out Kurtis Blow if you're not already familiar - but this was the first Top 10 hit on the mainstream charts for this new genre. Of course it's different, this was 1980. Forty years makes a difference, you think 1955 rock sounded like 1995 rock? It was just dance music, which was big at the time (disco was still hanging on at the time). Run-DMC changed things a bit, but it took awhile for NWA and the rest to bring the social relevance.
Original song by CHIC th-cam.com/video/Er9xGRolrT4/w-d-xo.html what you were seeing was a Disco Club as disco music was going out something new was bubbling up out of NYC called Rap music this song the instrumental music by the group CHIC and was already a hit Disco song so this was a remix of sorts for the listeners
They brought rap to the masses, but it wasn't the first. But they DID makr it "mainstream". This was the beginning of rap's commercial success. Blondie even incorporated rap in a song before this. "Rapture" I believe was the song.
I see the question you asked about how Rapp evolved it is partially jamaican when only using one turntable somebody had to entertain the crowd until the record was switched later they would use the break in the beat that's when the band would solo and the dj would cut it back to back continuous play to Rapp over that was the birth of sampling and hip hop. Grandmaster Flash is the true pioneer of this of the furious 5 who you have reacted to. Cool Herc is another dj who was instrumental in the early days from jamaica now has a hip hop museum in Kingston. Will start to follow you from my other channel (World Baddis)
This song was the first rap/hip-hop song to hit the Billboard Top 40 chart back in early 1980. The song peaked at #39. This was a groundbreaking song indeed!!! The song that they sampled from the r&b disco group, Chic featuring Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards. Good Times was a big r&b crossover hit for Chic.
If you want to learn about the history of how rapping began you have to look into DJ cool Herc. He and his sister would get together and throw parties in the Bronx. During those events people would get on stage and start rapping over songs. I believe that is how it went.
This is just part of the "original" version. When first released this was a 15 min long song. And still today I remember every word. It was released in different lengths, but the 12" vinyl was the longest. So you're missing out on some good rap that you didn't hear. I will post the link below for the full version. th-cam.com/video/rKTUAESacQM/w-d-xo.html
Yes guys this is the first born of hip hop in 1979. It has begun!!! It's definitely a badass hit in history. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Well hiphop existed before, this is the first commercially successful Hiphop recording
if ya'll are doing "historical" rap songs, you def want to do the song "Rap" took its name from, Blondie's Rapture
people are shocked to learn one of the first rappers was a tiny white girl lol
th-cam.com/video/pHCdS7O248g/w-d-xo.html
@@hephner78 People were calling it Rapping before Rapture. Also Debbie Harry wasn't really a rapper of any sort. She had been to a few club in New York where they were playing this new hiphop music, and it was around this time.that some of the New Wave crowd in New York and the hiphopers were starting to mix and mingle in Manhattan, going to parties and Debbie Harry was intrigued by the sounds and eventually Met Grand Master Flash and met Fab Five Freddy. Thats why she mentioned them in the lyrics. And Fab Five Freddy encouraged her to release rapture
this is definitely the first mainstream hit for what would become hip hop. the beat itself is sampled from a song called ''good times''. hip hops infancy was songs just like this one where well known songs of many genres would be sampled and have an emcee rapping over a breakbeat live in a cypher or crowd (freestyle), that would evolve into a legit song writing and beat production.
would be really dope to see you do more early hip hop, more advanced wordplay and lyricism wouldnt come around until the mid-late 80s but hip hop has always had its fair share of ''party'' songs like this one and others like ''white lines'' and ''the message'' that despite being hits still carried a deeper meaning in its message (no pun intended). ive gone on a little long but keep up the good work.
NY were definitely the originators and kings early on of the genre but being from the west coast itd be dope to see you react to mc fosty / lovin c - radio activity rapp .
Rapper's Delight gets the credit, but The Fatback Band's King Tim III (Personality Jock) came out before Rapper's Delight
@@2apocalypsex but this was a FAR bigger hit all over the country. That's just the facts.
Dont forget Curtis Blow
Technically, the beat wasn't sampled. They hired a musician to play the bass riff, and it wasn't even a looped.
This was a big roller skating song and we were always diverse back in the day. It only started becoming bad when the media and politicians realized we were getting along together.
If u guys liked this song u should check out Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message
Took the words out of my mouth.
Mannn...that song really was the message.
Don't forget "White Lines" too 🎶😎🙌👍
Freedom is my fav!
I am 57 Years old and memorized the 7 Min Version of Rappers Delight. Most everyone my age did. You heard the 14 Min version at Clubsand Skateing Rinks and School Dances.Please react to the 14 Minute version.
I learnt the words in maths. Got zero in maths exam 😅
Yes, I was coming to ask about the full version is so dope
It's a rapper's delight, the title is a pun because they offer a variety of rapping styles
What’s the pun?
@@DWQJVB delight is a dish I believe, so they offering a variety of flavors or dishes
Dancing was big, disco era, you can hear it in the mix. Everybody was learning the moves. We even bought the dresses
Now check out Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - The Message. 1982 it dropped 40yr anniversary of that track in a week.
I remember when this came out... I was in jr high (aka middle school - 7th grade). Our local R&B/Soul station debuted it one night & it was an instant hit. The next day people were calling into the station constantly to request another play. We had never heard anything like it. Sure we knew the melody of "Good Times" but what was this fast talkin' form of "singing"?!?! All of us kids ran out to the music store & bought the (cough) vinyl record, so we could memorize the lyrics. For weeks, all you heard while walking down the school hallways were various kids rapping the lyrics. I'm sure our teachers were quite sick of it after the first few days. I'm 54 now & can still recite it verbatim - HAHA! That's how much we listened to this first crossover hit. Shortly after, Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five busted onto the scene with their much more realistic & gritty song called "The Message" - one of my all time favorite old skool bangers. Please check that one out sometime. :-)
Rappers Delight (released September 1979) is the 2nd commercially released song on wax but is the most well known and had the most commercial success. "King Tim" by Fatback was released in March 1979, before "Rappers Delight" however, it did not see the same success.
This was sampled from legendary producer/guitarist Nile Rodgers' band Chic. "Good Times".
“It’s six minutes long!”…. Oh you sweet, innocent star child. If you only knew… 😂😂😂
This was a staple of the Saturday afternoon session at the roller rink when I was 10. Great memories. You should check out "Rapture" by the band Blondie from the same era. Cheers!
How did rap get started? Back in the 40's and 50's there were poets who rebelled against mainstream America and became known as Beat Poets. Eventually Beat Poets began to give public poetry readings. Overtime poetry was used in music. Bob Dylan is an example of someone who used poetry/rhyming in his songs. He was influenced by Beat Poet William Brown (Big Brown) from New York. At some point, Coke La Rock began "rapping" at parties and it caught on. Who influenced Coke? Maybe the Beat Poets? Maybe Dylan? Groups like Sugar Hill Gang and The Furious Five and other early groups perfected it (wrote lyrics) and it evolved into hip hop.
The core of rap is the underlying music track. Disco and dance tracks were mixed and extended so that people could dance along for longer stretches. These "remixes" had long stretches of instrumental sections which were easier to loop and stretch. During these instrumentals, MCs would talk or "rap" along to the track to hype up the people dancing. Similar things happened in Jamaica with instrumental tracks or dubs, where DJs would talk or "toast" to the track. After a while, the MC vocals became just as important, and at times more important than the music track.
Check out Apache Jump On It by these guys. It's FIRE!✌
This was the anthem in Jr high in 1980 when I first came out.this is where it all began.I’ve had a front row seat for the evolution of rap and hiphop. It’s Been Amazing!✔️
React to The Message. It’s what turned rap into what it became in the late 80s and 90s
my dad had that single on vinyl and there was a 16 minute version of Rapper's Delight!
...and this song was CRITICAL to the rap/hip hop genre
Man i am 64 and i remember when this came out. And you are right rap sounds so different now then it did back then. That was the rap style back then.
The full length is almost 15 min,but this was the start and slowly but surely it kept gettin popular- party/club raps to braggin,flossin more aggressive style,to the gangsta/reality rap from the mid 80's on. This was 1979
Rap is a take on Jamaican toasting, introduced to NY by DJ Kool Herc a jamaican immigrant, he s basically the godfather of hiphop
Respect to our Legend OGs of Hiphop
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
One of the most influential songs ever. Not many can say they are largely responsible for a whole new genre of music. This version is a bit different to the normal single version. The full version is over 14 mins long!
Rakim - I ain’t no Joke
Yo they all killed it but *Big Hank* is my favorite 😂🔥. Great reaction
planet rock - afrika bambaataa
People were rappin before they had the music. Just added a a beat and made hip hop music. Good reaction good and music to listen to bring out people's smiles
Extended version = even more lit
Fam Rappers Delight was a first (thank you for honoring them. 🤎🤎🤎🖤🖤🖤
The song that gets credit for having the first “rap” in it was Rapture by Blondie. This was the first actual song to hit that was rap, released on album size vinyl, with 3 versions of this song, about a 4-5 min. one and I think a 7 minute one on one side, and the other side had one cut, a 12-13 minute version. I had the record.
Chooooooooon.
We were there first time.
Beautiful sample of Good Times, Chic. XX
They were the best on the block party’s and young entrepreneurs said “Let’s get a record deal!” Pioneers and sampled forever!
Rap back then was about dancing music
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
I was a young teen in this era and I remember this song and have seen pictures of the sugar hill gang, but I’ve never seen this video. I love that I will always picture that tight t-shirt and hips shaking back and forth when I hear this song now.
❤️
Iconic song in hip-hop for sure
I remember roller skating to this tune, also The Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - it's Nasty or One Way - Cutie Pie. Definitely roller boogie tunes.
Real Hip Hop
this is the beginning of hip hop, they paved the way without knowing it
The first rap record was " King Tim III" by the Fatback Band ,1979
I was 12 when this came out, we listened to it endlessly trying to learn all the words.
Watch the full 16 minute version.....You guys are great always honest reviews !!!! Keep it up !!!
Awesome!! I’m 53 and still remember all the words to this lol 🔥🥰🤘😎
No swearing.
how about Grand Master Flash and their 3 monster songs New York New York, The Message and White Lines
They were just coming out of the late 70's Disco Era
Netflix has a series hip hop evolution, one episode is dedicated to exactly this happened
This was the first rapp I ever heard on 8track baby.. Then it was poppin battles here in N cali ..
Rappin started when DJs like Flash would cut breaks in the park. He would take 2 turntables and made a crossfade and only play the funkiest parts of disco and funk tunes over and over just like that music in this song which is a classic Nile Rogers riff taken from his disco group Chic. DJ Flash would play these funky breaks in an endless loop for the people to dance to but he said people would stop and stare at him because they'd never seen anyone do that before. So that's when he had MCs jump on a mic and hype up the crowd with lyrics to get them back to dancing and that's how the rappin part of hip hop started. Sugarhill Gang were not really originators of anything, not even real rappers, just in the right place at the right time. I was in 7th grade in 1979 when this came out and everyone was crazy for it trying to memorize all the lyrics. It was my first hip hop record, 12" single. For most cities outside of New York, it's not like you could just turn on the radio and hear this.
"I didn’t know it was 6 minutes long…"
This is the short version.
Some street history from an old man... In the 90's I heard "planet rock" for the first time... Understand this was the era of west coast gangsta rap and "planet rock" had come out back in the day from my back in the day already...I was 13...I was always a nerd, wanting to know EVERYTHING about whatever I got into... That song pushed me into breakdancing... We were taught that there are 4 tenets to hip hop.... breakdancing (b-boying), tagging, dj'ing, and rapping... From what I was told, rhyming out loud had always been a thing with young, black teens until the 70's when the New York burroughs like the Bronx began to throw these underground parties where young black and Latino youths would compete in dancing, turntabling, and rapping...DJ Herc was supposedly one of the first DJ's who took their parents old vinyl funk records and mixed it with modern drumbeats aka "breaks" or "breakbeats" to play at these parties to showcase their mixing skills and rapping complemented this new form of music... The BIGGEST hip hop heads you'll EVER meet are b-boys... They take that shit SERIOUSLY... Ironically though, the other tenets of hip hop eventually faded but expanded outside of the states...so if you're TRULY into rap and hip hop, there are other tenets besides just rapping...
On the street level though, breakdancing was initially a way for groups of adversaries to compete without fighting, hence why rapping has such a big "battling" format, because it used to be one of the nonviolent ways to settle shit besides b-boying, tagging and turntables.... But on the street level, first you battled... Then it went to fists... Then you began to take sides and gangs naturally came afterwards...I was a horrible breakdancer lol... Like for real... But I still tried and went to battles before guns started popping off and I stopped...
So it was never JUST rap.... There's a big history behind it...I only know what I picked up when I was younger so I could be close but not accurate
Groundbreaking 👏🏽 It’s just poetry set to music!
I remember dancing and sweating to this long ass party song. Talk about fun days😂
One of the best songs ever!
there was a doc on i think net flix history of rap or something to that fact it will answer all your questions
the origional is like 17 min or something
Come on you ain't ever heard Rapper's Delight until just now. Man you been missing out! This is the Jam! I grew up in the 80's and this was the Jam! "I said a hip hop hippie to the hippie"😎
This is the first modern rap song. They were rapping in the 1930's to big band music in black clubs.
The music sample is Good Times from Chic
Great one young couple, growing in hip hop when this came out you definitely knew every word.. Their is alot of stories about this song. One of my favorite MCs Verse got jacked, RIP Hank...
You guys are young but I salute you for wanting to learn the history, because alot of young ones don't. You guys are lucky, there is 1000s of hours of documentaries and stuff out there for you to look into. Its way better than nothing (if you weren't there), but still take it with a grain of salt because some are more accurate than others, depending on whose version it is.
Much love & Enjoy...💜✌🏼
Went to see them in concert 2 years ago in the UK touring with grand master flash
Notice the content and bars are very tame/different in this era than now
1979! Straight NYC! The Mecca of Hip Hop!
I was 9 when this came out. Early early hip-hop was all party music.
How rapping came about was early hip-hop was just DJs. Then, DJ's added a hype-man to motivate and lead the crowd ("throw your hands in the sky, and wave them from side to side" and stuff like that). Then hype men, the Master of Ceremonies (MC), started getting cleverer, funnier, and started rhyming. Now it's all about the MC but in the beginning it was all about the DJ.
And, yes, there is a shorter radio version of this song. The guy y'all like, Wonder Mike, was a school teacher (I think..). Big Bank Hank worked at a pizza parlor. That crowd looks so diverse because that is a disco crowd.
It's actually a 13 minute song. Check out the full version.
I sang along with this video. I am surprised I remembered most of the words. I was 12 when it came out in 1979. I am 54 now.
Hi guys funny enough I know every word to this brilliant rappers delight tune I just learnt it when I was 19 and I still know it now even though I'm 64😂👍
I got a chuckle when you said rap went from this to the Island Boys.
I love you alls reaction. Yeah this was the first rap song that actually went gold and open the doors for all the other rap artists that followed like Grandmaster Flash and LL Cool J and everything else. I was alive back then and this was way before Internet or phones you could carry around. We actually carried around record players that were portable when they came out. You all probably don’t believe me because you are so young and it’s pretty funny to me also. Everything is instant now. Back then you had to grind for everything. Lol
This was the first rap song I listened to at the age of 12. One of my best friends taught me the words to a lot of it and we would walk around rapping it. Unfortunately she passed away in her 20s. Whenever I hear this song I think of her and how much fun we had as kids ❤💔
To answer your question about how they came up with this sound you need to check out "Grandmaster Flash Talks "The Theory" Of Being A HipHop DJ & The Beginnings Of Hip-Hop". Type that title into youtube. He was the original! Invented the "Sound" of hip hop.
This is where rap started kids ! I'm 56 listened to them, still love it! ❤
Watch "Krush Groove" 80's movie....as well as "The get down" the start of everything!
The LONG version is 14:30 long. Check out the long version on youtube!
The Dj was the dude back in the day.. The mc just got the party hype and was 2nd to the dj..
First hip hop and maybe the first sample; "Good Times" by Chic.
Believe it or not Blondie open the door for the founding Father's of rap to come out from the streets and bless us with the Word.
Danced in the club to this ! With the sparkly disco ball above 👍💜🤣
Original rap at its best
I am no expert in this genre by any means. But what I found fascinating was how The Beastie Boys talk about Rap battles on the streets of New York in their song "Root Down". That made me do a little research and I guess a lot of the really big name early Rap stars were also apart of these rap battles. They would do it right though they would steal electricity off of telephone poles. They would have their PA's and turn tables. I guess much like rock and metal music which I am much more familiar with, they would also make tapes and people would trade them getting their name out there.
Wow memories. i was in 8th grade in 1980 when I first this. I have only heard a few times since and had forgotten how much I loved it.
Rap existed before this - check out Kurtis Blow if you're not already familiar - but this was the first Top 10 hit on the mainstream charts for this new genre. Of course it's different, this was 1980. Forty years makes a difference, you think 1955 rock sounded like 1995 rock? It was just dance music, which was big at the time (disco was still hanging on at the time). Run-DMC changed things a bit, but it took awhile for NWA and the rest to bring the social relevance.
Original song by CHIC th-cam.com/video/Er9xGRolrT4/w-d-xo.html what you were seeing was a Disco Club as disco music was going out something new was bubbling up out of NYC called Rap music this song the instrumental music by the group CHIC and was already a hit Disco song so this was a remix of sorts for the listeners
Lex Luthor must love the dissing of superman in this song.
This is a cool fun song but y’all should try the message by grandmaster flash and the furious 5
Great song, it's a piece of hip-hop history for sure. You should check out Squeeze The Trigger by Ice-T as well as Paid in Full by Eric B. and Rakim.
Old school hip hop 💪
There is a show on Netflix called évolution of hip-hop. Season 1 shows you How hip hop started . Its 4 Seasons 4 épisodes . Easy binge watch
Oh snap ..old school in the house
They brought rap to the masses, but it wasn't the first.
But they DID makr it "mainstream". This was the beginning of rap's commercial success.
Blondie even incorporated rap in a song before this. "Rapture" I believe was the song.
I see the question you asked about how Rapp evolved it is partially jamaican when only using one turntable somebody had to entertain the crowd until the record was switched later they would use the break in the beat that's when the band would solo and the dj would cut it back to back continuous play to Rapp over that was the birth of sampling and hip hop. Grandmaster Flash is the true pioneer of this of the furious 5 who you have reacted to.
Cool Herc is another dj who was instrumental in the early days from jamaica now has a hip hop museum in Kingston.
Will start to follow you from my other channel (World Baddis)
This song has been sampled in LOTS of other songs.
This song was the first rap/hip-hop song to hit the Billboard Top 40 chart back in early 1980. The song peaked at #39. This was a groundbreaking song indeed!!! The song that they sampled from the r&b disco group, Chic featuring Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards. Good Times was a big r&b crossover hit for Chic.
Def squad(Redman, EPMD, and Keith Murray) I think do a remix of this song that's pretty good
This was THE 1ST rap song and it was the shit!!
Play At Your Own Risk
Cheap Thrills
By
Planet Patrol
King of the break dance cardboard in the street boom box era beats
This is the short version of the song. The full version is about 14 minutes long! I still own the original long version.
As said before the 14 min version is cool.
If you want to learn about the history of how rapping began you have to look into DJ cool Herc. He and his sister would get together and throw parties in the Bronx. During those events people would get on stage and start rapping over songs. I believe that is how it went.
This r&b n soul n pop
This is just part of the "original" version. When first released this was a 15 min long song. And still today I remember every word. It was released in different lengths, but the 12" vinyl was the longest. So you're missing out on some good rap that you didn't hear. I will post the link below for the full version.
th-cam.com/video/rKTUAESacQM/w-d-xo.html