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August 6, 2014

This paved the way for the last 35 years of rap. And we all know how wonderful that’s been.

Brown’s songs have been the most sampled of the hip-hop era. Although he didn’t rap himself, it now seems obvious that he anticipated the three keys to hip-hop: rhythm, boasting, and money mania. Brown didn’t have an ideological theory for stripping away many European refinements from his music. (He was not what you’d call a reasonable man, but his views on race were usually quite sensible.) Due to his cast-iron self-regard, he simply was among the first blacks to not care about impressing white people as being cultured. He was an uneducated Southern black and he made music for uneducated Southern blacks. To be honest, all 99 of James Brown’s Billboard hit singles sound alike to me (as they do to Eddie Murphy). There’s “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and then there are 98 more songs that are just like “I Got You (I Feel Good)” except they aren’t as catchy. Get On Up: Godfather of Subtitles

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 6, 2014 8:13 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Which describes Rap. What some low IQ people desire is liberation from silence.

Posted by: james wilson [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 10:40 AM

Static? Don't start none, won't be none.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 11:08 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5shDFmGtA great James Brown pisstake from the mid-eighties by the Dead Milkmen

Posted by: Joseph [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 3:57 PM

@chas, aren't you full of surprises.
I have #1 (DC) boarded and bagged right here in a box, with about 3000 other originals from that approximate era. Yep, got Superman #75 too and all the accompaniments.

There's 4 people that I don't understand how they ever made it in music.
1. Willie Nelson
2. Joe Cocker
3. Rod Stewart
4. James Brown

That these people soared as high as they did is testament to the downward spiral that continues still - seems the bottom has no bottom. sigh

Wanna hear something funny?
A white gurl started rap, back in 1978 I think.
r a p t u r e

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 6, 2014 6:25 PM

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