mattie b
History, early Rap
People said Rap music wouldn’t last and was just a fad. I was one of those who thought it was going to be around for a long time. I never thought it would have taken over the music world the way it did. I still listen to Rap music as a 37 year old, mostly the late 80’s early 90’s. I think those were the best years for Rap music but that’s just my opinion. Rap music had more talent when it was more of an underground art form. I was shocked I heard a Old School Rap group as a background beat in a kids show (I think it was the Sprout channel playing A tribe Called Quest during birthday wishes).
I remember taking the train from a suburb of Boston into Downtown Crossing and getting the newest tape almost every Tuesday. It’s about a 40 minute trip in so you could rock last weeks tape till you picked up the latest release to rock it on the way home. After a few weeks of heading into the city you had enough material to make a mix tape of all the top joints. You would be in school trading these tapes to listen to while you were in school.
I must say all that is HISTORY with the digital age. It’s such a sad thing that kids don’t get to flip through vinyl, tape or even cd’s. I can’t begin to tell you how many things I purchased while I flipped through the racks of music, some good some bad. You would make it a half day thing running from record store to record store to find something because not all stores had extensive Rap selections. If you wanted some to cheap out you could go to the local used music store and take a lot of chances on music for short money.
This is a two part history picture. First is the brief history of the early days of Rap music and the other is the fact that the cassette tape is "history" as afr as a source of music entertainment.
To the cassette tape.... Audi 5000
EPMD 1st album 1988
Run DMC 3rd album 1986
LL Cool J 2nd album 1987
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll_cool_j
NWA 2nd album 1988
Eazy E 1st album 1988
Compact cassette history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette
History, early Rap
People said Rap music wouldn’t last and was just a fad. I was one of those who thought it was going to be around for a long time. I never thought it would have taken over the music world the way it did. I still listen to Rap music as a 37 year old, mostly the late 80’s early 90’s. I think those were the best years for Rap music but that’s just my opinion. Rap music had more talent when it was more of an underground art form. I was shocked I heard a Old School Rap group as a background beat in a kids show (I think it was the Sprout channel playing A tribe Called Quest during birthday wishes).
I remember taking the train from a suburb of Boston into Downtown Crossing and getting the newest tape almost every Tuesday. It’s about a 40 minute trip in so you could rock last weeks tape till you picked up the latest release to rock it on the way home. After a few weeks of heading into the city you had enough material to make a mix tape of all the top joints. You would be in school trading these tapes to listen to while you were in school.
I must say all that is HISTORY with the digital age. It’s such a sad thing that kids don’t get to flip through vinyl, tape or even cd’s. I can’t begin to tell you how many things I purchased while I flipped through the racks of music, some good some bad. You would make it a half day thing running from record store to record store to find something because not all stores had extensive Rap selections. If you wanted some to cheap out you could go to the local used music store and take a lot of chances on music for short money.
This is a two part history picture. First is the brief history of the early days of Rap music and the other is the fact that the cassette tape is "history" as afr as a source of music entertainment.
To the cassette tape.... Audi 5000
EPMD 1st album 1988
Run DMC 3rd album 1986
LL Cool J 2nd album 1987
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ll_cool_j
NWA 2nd album 1988
Eazy E 1st album 1988
Compact cassette history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette