Though I never really listened to Jay Z before, a friend put me on to The Story of OJ and that made me appreciate Jay Z a little bit more, and it made me to go listen to some of his older works. But as far as the shift in the sound of hip hop, I believe it happened with the introduction of crunk music. I want to say crunk music originated in Memphis and can be linked to three Six Mafia
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:06
I just don't have any memories or poignant moments in my life to tie to it. So it just becomes, oh, this is the song that comes on when I ask Apple Music to do a random hip hop playlist while I work out. And then that's how I'm introduced to newer rap music
Curtis Tarver
@cwt302 · 3:36
But I also do think that it's got the key characteristics that I laid down that sort of lead to, I think, some justification of that era calling itself a golden age of hip Hop
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
The dirty backpack era, where you have native tongue, you have De la Soul, you have Queen Latifah. And when the women started standing up, you know what I mean, like, we here, we nice, and we're going to continue to do what we're doing with Ladies First and unity. And I guess that probably was no, the second UK rapper over here behind Slick Rick the Ruler, and that was Moni Love
You know what I mean? It was a lot going on. We was rocking Lee jeans and Fat Laces and Adidas and the white dudes in the school, they was watching. I was rocking the Z Cabarici and all that kind of stuff. And everybody was carrying on to carrying on to the music. And the delivery, the smooth delivery can take something basic and make it sound good like RA Kemp when he's like, Picture a mic
phil spade
@Phil · 2:18
But as hip hop evolves, it's continually evolving and that's just one shift that I can remember that was particularly maybe a seismic shift, in my opinion, just the use and then disuse of sampling
Curtis Tarver
@cwt302 · 3:07
And so then as I started to think about The Devil Went Down To Georgia being reimagined as a turntable battle, I was like, surely somebody else had this idea at some point. And so I hopped on Google and come to find out that there was a group called KMC Crew out of Michigan, a hip hop group that did The Devil Went Up to Michigan and it came out in 91. So it was steeped in that early 90s hip hop era aesthetic
So the older cats had this journal and it was like Disco Fund Incorporated. So we would have the hall and have a party like what they would I was a kid and have the party like every Saturday. And sometimes we go to the skating rink and they let us carry the records. My man, he scratching. And they had a nice case. It was like a Cedar case. It had two turntables, had the mixer in the middle. But we never mixed with the crossfader
And some people played with it, but when they put the RMB together well, the samples and then putting the RMB together, like, let's say, like the wutang clan, SWV, anything you want me to do. I'll do mean it's a know samples, no know, pure rap, whatever you want to say, but that's some kind of song. But I'm just glad it's still going. A lot of people thought it was a fad
Curtis Tarver
@cwt302 · 4:44
So while the breakers were breaking, then folks started hopping on the mic and then rapping and everything like that. And so I think it was that particular combination of elements at that party in August of 1973 that I think are what sort of is calling that era the birthday of hip hop. Now, Phil, I tagged you in on this as well because I know you sort of started the conversation on sampling and that continued as well
Curtis Tarver
@cwt302 · 4:47
One of the ways that we saw Sampling return with a vengeance was in much of the production done by Bad Boy Records by Puff Daddy, p. Diddy diddy whatever name he's going by at the given time. And he in the production that he put forth was very heavy in the use of samples. And I think probably in most cases it was cleared properly and with the appropriate writing credits and the financial backing that went with that
But Early Morning trying to remember the guy's name because he went and collected all the music from all over the place, from Israel, everywhere. And then they put the music in the Library of Congress to represent all nations in the United States or just all cultures. And it's called early morning. It's a prison work song and it's from 1935