QUIZ6 Flashcards
Kris style → the philosophy of krs-one
→ an unreleased interview W/ krs-one 2003
→ music from the album medical cures for the chromatic commands of the inner city sound track
→ co-produced by Ron Westray
KBS-one quotes
Hip hop: his/her infinite power help and depressed people, a reflection of the reality of the inner city
Golden age of hip hop → earlier vs / latter,
Break beats , no break-beats
Dream machines/ sampled drum line
Tape loop/sampler
akai 5900 sampler → newest device after TRL
→ first digital equipment
→ late 1980
→ in golden age virtually all music was created using this
Breakdown of song to sample → sampling technique
→ diminishing / augmentation of orig sample
→ tempo increase / decrease
→ addition of beats, instruments, solos or. vocals
→ metaphorical manipulation
Mm → subs or alteration of original philosophical theme
1975 → little Milton Campbell, packed up and took my mind
2007 → ghostface killed - walk around
Eric b& rakim → Eric barrier & William Michael Griffin Jr
→ Long Island
→ debut album - paid infull - 1987 @ Marley’s home studio
Eric b and Raheem
→rakim → slow flow and mesmeric lyrics
→ paid in full → sampling from Bobby Byrds _ I know you got soul
Public enemy → known for its politically charged eyuics and criticism of American media
Chuck d → carton ridenhoour
Flavor flat → William dray-ton → founders _
DJ Lord, Professor Griff, S1W group, terminator X, sister Souljah
Long Island 1982
LL cool j →
James Todd Smith Queens New York City
LL cool J = ladies love cool James
→ I can’t live without my radio 1985
→ I’m bad
→ The boom-in System
I need love
Around the way girl
Hey lover
DJ jazzy Jeff & the fresh prince
Jeffery dj jazzy Townes
Will smith
Philly
Known for wills clean music
1st rap Grammy → Parents just don’t understand 1989
Salt n pepa → most commercially successful group rap → Queens
Salt, Cheryl Wray
Pepa, Sandra Denton
DJ spenderella, Dee Dee roper
Digital underground → Oakland Cali
Shock g, Gregg Jacobs
Chop-master, Jim Dwight
Tupac shaker
Kenny k, dj Kenneth waters
Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine
March 18,1970
Newark, New Jersey
Tommy boy records
Founder → Tom Silverman 1981
NY, NY
Bought by Warner brothers 1990
De La soul, digital underground, jonzun crew, biz Mark, Queen, stetsasonic
Def jam records → NY, NY
Founders → Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons,1984
Hip hop & urban music
Public enemy, foxy Brown, the beastie boys, comedian Dave Chapelle,, Ja Rule, Funkmaster flicks
Russell Simmons the older brother of Joseph Simmons from run DMC
Jazz rap → hip hop sub genre
→ to establish cultural legitimacy by connecting African diaspora
→ negativeSiri types in the violent and misogynistic lyrics of gangsta rap and its connection to the street
→Politically oriented and socially progressive lyrics and also by tapping into perception of jazz in the late 1980s as well mannered own music.
→ only forms of rap incorporate jazz elements with Eric B and Rakim and additional underground set template for hip-hop through use of heavy funk examples
Stetsasonic → Brooklyn → “ talkin’ all that jazz” response to radio broadcast by James intume in 1988
Me delete, frunkwan, Prince Paul, DBC,Bobby Simmons, daddy-o, wise
Gang Starr → Boston → dj premier, guru
These lyrics have knowledgewisdom and understanding
Jazz and rap
Use jazz samples
Gang Starr
→Film director Spike Lee who asked the gang story to create a theme for his 1990 film mo better blues
→Gang story created “jazz thing” for sound track 1990
Jazz thing → touch on several societal issues deals with John Coltrane
John coal train a supreme man, he was the cream, he was the wise one, the impression of Afro blue, and the promise that was not kept, he was a giant step
Now listen see the real mystery, is our music history, created Paul white man, or any other white man, the pretended he originated, and Colton tended that he innovative, a jazz thing
Jazz rap - a tribe called quest
Saint Albans Queens New York City
Parts of the native tongues collective collective
Members → q-tip, Kamala Ian John freed, Ali shaheed Muhammad, fife dawg, Malik Taylor, Jacobi white
