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Posted by streetcarman1 on Thu Jul 29 14:42:08 2010, in response to Re: Black Teen Attacks White Man for Listening to Hip Hop Music, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jul 29 12:55:07 2010. Yes you are: (PS. who is "alot of people?" you and your wife? lol)------------------------------------------------------------------ The claims made in this post are a dubious, unacceptable, and tortiously false attempt to revise and rewrite the history of rap, hip hop, and American popular music. Without casting aspersions on Mr. Celentano, it is irrefutable that rap as a tradition and musical genre derives from elements based upon toasting from the island of Jamaica in the sixties, and before that, griot storytelling in Africa (a practice that spans millennia). In between these two points of reference, doo wop music in America also played a role in melding rhythmically-based spoken word with music, rhythm, and melody. There are several published works that have articulated the history of rap and hip hop, both musically and stylistically, including those by David Toop, Nelson George, Tricia Rose, and the editors from the late magazine Ego Trip. Any hint, suggestion, or statement to the contrary -- like the one in this post that attributes rap's invention to an Italian actor in the 1970s -- is absolutely and completely false, and requires this publication's editors to issue a retraction and a formal, published, and conclusive correction. K. Matthew Dames Executive Editor Copycense http://copycense.com |
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