Just listened to what I consider the best rap song of the 80's.
Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick performing The Show.
Absolutely brilliant, still.
Best of the best.
Thought of it, because of all these pedo rappers going down. Seems to be high ranking leadership involved. I.E. Clive Davis.
No idea for sure, but damn.
This is an 80's classic when rap was a true artform.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkqz5C62SM&pp=ygURZGogZnJlc2ggdGhlIHNob3c%3D
Rap used to be fun, 59 now, but when I was late teens and very early 20s say '85 to '87 I went into that phase of listening to stuff no one around mewas listening to. Horrible sentence there, English man English, but I remember it being fun trying to learn the raps. Never felt as dark and ignorant as late rap. If you haven't heard it, Salt-N-Peppas Showstopper seems to be a rebuttal of sorts to "The Show" Like UTFO Roxanne Roxanne and the Real Roxanne. Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Mantronix, I could go on and on, it was so much fun to listen to that stuff.
Right.... then all of a sudden the genre changed over night. It went from inventive fun loving dance music to killing, whores, drugs, and fuck the police.