When you see an old prostitute in a slaughtered body, Annie appeases Comrade Shaolin: Mommy will pay to help you record, please engineer, please sextet. And our lovely, inexperienced Shaolin comrade is stunned: the band? what band? (It is estimated that there are 10,000 grass-mud horses running wild in Shaolin's heart.) I was sure that the role of annie was alluding to the proprietress of sugar hill records, and also Sylvia Robinson, who sang obscene lyrics in the 1970s. And "the get down" fell into a commonly known cliché from the juvenile mood of the first half of the season: a touch of sadness.
Where does this sadness come from?
Time went to 1979, and the teenagers who attended hip hop parties in the early years reached the legal drinking age, and some people turned to nightclubs for consumption. And the wind direction of the dj circle has also begun to change. In order to make money, some dj can hold three or five parties in three or five places in one night like a guerrilla team. The leading big brother like grandmaster flash was surprised when he heard the news. After inquiring, he realized that these DJs don't have their own sound system. They only need a car and a box of records, and they can run around all night.
The sound system is no longer the focus of music fans. DJs with a huge set of sound systems have become extinct dinosaurs. At this point in time, sylvia robinson contacted grandmaster flash, afrika bambaataa and others privately, hoping that they would record a single and release an album, but they were rejected by the big brothers. Hip hop is pure live performance, how can it be recorded? fuck your sister!
The eldest brother did not agree, Sylvia Robinson continued to find people to join the game, and finally found a few unknown juniors to form a group and directly named it sugarhill gang. There is no DJ in this group, and it is a studio product to put it bluntly. As for how their first single [rapper's delight] swept the United States and the world, it is a well-known history, and I will not repeat it.
The original version of [rapper's delight] is fifteen minutes long. To outsiders, especially radio DJs, it sounds very fresh, oh oh, this song is actually fifteen minutes long, isn't it just for parties! And the response of hip hop insiders was weird and angry. Hip hop is a live performance of two or three hours, how can it be shortened to 15 minutes and recorded on one record?
but. . . But money can change everything, and the big sale of [rapper's delight] made hip hop go to recording and production overnight. Just a month after the release of [rapper's delight], grandmaster flash & the furious five released their first single [superappin'].
This single is very intriguing, you might as well listen to it from the beginning:
It was a party night, everybody was breaking
The highs were screaming and the bass was shaking
And it won't be long till everybody knowin' that
Flash was on the beat box going that
Flash was on the beat box going that
Flash was on the beat box going
And, and, and, and
Sha-na-na
If this is a live show, when it comes to Sha-na-na, the furious five brothers will stop and point the microphone to the grandmaster flash, the audience will fall on the finger of the grandmaster flash, and his quick mix will be unique Focus. But on the single "superappin'," in other words, on the recording, the grandmaster flash disappears, he becomes a veritable stealth man, and the studio musician takes his place in the bass line of "Seven Minutes of Funk". Although the furious Five Brothers rap said: You'll say Flash is the king of the quick mix, the grandmaster flash really disappeared without a trace, and the tension between the rapper and the dj dissipated immediately. go with.
When the rapper began to be the protagonist of the recording, when the rapper began to become the center of the record, the strength of the record sales reversed and affected the hip hop party. DJs and dancing b-boys are no longer the centerpiece of the party, and rappers take over the party after taking over the record. In the past, there was a saying that "hip hop died in 1980". To put it bluntly, it was actually hip hop that died in [rapper's delight]. The funny thing is that [rapper's delight] was also regarded as the first song in history by a group of music critics. Hip hop single, it seems to be another dawn, a beginning. Music died so-and-so, jazz died so-and-so, rock died so-and-so. . . . . . Such alarmist clichés have been said countless times by countless people. Looking back, hip hop went to recording and production with 【rapper's delight】. In 1979, no one would have thought that there would be public enemy, beastie boys, a tribe called quest, dj shadow, J Dilla and others in the future. Rap, play with sampling to the point of magic, and engrave the dignified word "niubi" on hip hop's forehead. Not to mention that in the future there will be mixmaster mike, q-bert and others who will sublimate scratching to performance, and use turntables to form a mighty orchestra.
The love for music will always be passed down from generation to generation. Many years ago, dj shadow had an exclusive interview, which made people feel moved after reading it. Shadow recalls 1988, when he was 16 years old. def jam was putting on a big show at the Oakland Coliseum, he got into the hotel party after the show, and every now and then someone would come up and hand him a cassette and ask, "Are you a dj? Come and listen to my new album." He saw the flavor Flav was carrying a portable tape recorder, playing "it takes a nation of millions." . . . When I met Chuck D, the other party looked suspicious, and probably thought to himself: How old is this hairy boy? ? After chatting with chuck, I started talking about [rebel without a pause] how loop sampling is. Chuck D was even more suspicious, and he was probably thinking: How could this brat understand this?
When I recalled this, Shadow stopped, and seemed to summarize the tone: I think I had an attitude back then. When you go deep into rap music, how can you not understand?
This equal weight attitude, this equal weight love, fell to the likes of baz luhrmann and nas in 2016. Lao Ma borrowed the 3D trend, fooled capital, used capital, and wrote a super gorgeous love letter to the movie with "Hugo". baz luhrmann also fooled the capital, used the capital, and spent $120 million to write a love letter to hip hop (to paraphrase Jiang Wen, they faced the new money of netflix without thinking about improving their personal life first). This is a great blessing for music fans, and it is more likely a luxury that music fans no longer have. When you see kool herc, grandmaster flash, afrika bambaataa at the get down brothers' party in episode 11 at the same time, it's a musical dream moment. I was half-joking and chatting with my friends: at this moment, baz luhrmann, nas and the diversity director all turned into Gong Er; kool herc, grandmaster flash, afrika bambaataa all turned into Ip Man.
To be honest, I have you in my heart. Of course it's not illegal to like someone, I can't stop at it until I like it, I'm going to smash this love out and tell you loudly!
(btw, 120 million US dollars is not spent, how can the funds be stretched at the end of the shoot. With another sum of money, it will be perfect to restore the posture of zulu nation)
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