rap music - where were you when it started?

[whiskeytown]

the compton thread made me think about Rap.

It was 1986 - Rap was starting to make an impression with Run D.M.C. and "Walk this Way" - I'm hearing snippets of it from far away cities/states like Canada - in Montana you couldn't hear Walk This Way unless you wanted to hear the Aerosmith version, which got a LOT of airplay -

so I hear Rumors by the Timex Social Club, and Friends by Whoduni, and find both on a tape called "Rap's Greatest Hits, Vol II" - a compilation put out by Priority records and sold at the local Woolworth's in MT

I was just listening to a lot of hippie music, but somehow some of the tunes on that album were more melodic and more interesting - Old School Rap is like Johnny Cash - you respect the pioneers and it wasn't nearly as Gangsta back then. I remember the Fat Boys - Run DMC had "King of Rock" on there which is a kickass song -

And somewhere in white bread Montana I said to myself "gee, it might be cool to play in a rap band someday"

A rap band - I could not be more redneck if I tried -

wish I still had the tape tho. Introduced me to a world I would little care about but it's stars (like Wyclef Jean) still stay in rotation once in a while on the mp3 player.

bought the Kayne West albums - maybe I'll listen to them someday too.

woolworths - man - a rap cassette in woolworths. That is where the magic begins

RB