March 27, 2004

A brief history of Hip-Hop, told in album covers.

A rather more, er, one-sided look at Hip-Hop album covers can be found here

posted by dng 20 years ago
  • History "You'll be surprised at how many people have just learned how to speak English from just listening to rap records. They start repeating the words and then they start to get the feeling of what you're talking about. They start putting it to how they're living from country to country and the problems that they're going through. This is music for the young adults and the youth. that's speaking upon the government, the community, whites or blacks. Hip hop can deal with all types of subjects, in addition to peace, unity or 'love you baby-I wanna get down tonight'. It's the fact that the message in rap telling it like it is what's really grabbing hold of young adults throughout the world." Afrika Bambaataa - 1991 dng I was transported directly back to high-school, thru college and after... I hate to admit, I even owned a copy of 2LiveCrew.
  • It's hard to believe the Souls of Mischief's groundbreaking '93 til Infinity' is over ten years old, and De La Soul's Eye Know is 15(!) I feel like such a geezer.