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k_orr
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37540 posts Nov-28-04, 03:23 PM (EST)
Subj: “10 steps to perfection”1. Hip Hop was created by 1 guy - Kool Herc (black)
2. The next 2 important dj’s - are AFRIKA Bambatta and Grand Master Flash (both black)
3. Graffiti - is conceptually hard to link with the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue party. - so any non-black folks in graffiti - pretty much don’t count - when it comes to the development of rap music.
4. B-Boying - fell by the way side in the early 80’s, eliminating the large non-black contingent
5. Djing - fell by the way side in the late 80’s. So the development of turntablism (by many non-blacks), although important to dj’ing, is no longer important to hip hop as a whole.
6. Hip Hop for all practical purposes is now 1) rap music and 2) the context that it is created in.
7. Vast majority of all the important mc’s in hip hop history are black.
8. Black mc’s often times talk about topics that specifically pertain to issues of blackness.
9. When black mc’s rhyme about other things not specifically black (say poverty), they rhyme about it from a black perspective and use language, despite poverty being everywhere on the globe.
10. Black mc’s don’t envision non blacks when composing their rhymes, nor do black producers envision non-blacks when creating their beats.Therefore, hip hop is made by blacks for blacks.
got that from http://www.fwmj.com/word/