![]() Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Telephone Bill, Modern Romance - Queen Of The Rapping Scene, Stevie Wonder - Do I Do / The Crown (Gary Byrd), Blondie - Rapture, Teena Marie - Square Biz Then there were singers and bands who put some rap in their songs: Beastie Boys played on most of their records themselves after the 1st 2 albums and have put out instrumental albums. Jam Master Jay from Run DMC also played instruments. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers played bass on Bust A Move by Young MC. There were were people like Orange Krush, Thomas Dolby, & Eddie Martinez playing on the songs. There's rap songs that had session musicans on them (Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Run DMC, etc). Other early rap songs that used the original records had a DJ scratching/mixing the breaks, which is a different thing from sampling. One of the Sugarhill guys was later in the rock band Living Colour. So technically it's a remake with different lyrics. It's not a sample, because samplers hadn't came out yet. It's the house band playing on Rapper's Delight. In several interviews, Phil has said he got the "Ha Ha Ha!" in Genesis' song Mama from Melle Mel in The Message and he appeared in a music video by Bone Thugs N Harmony.Īlthough they used music from other songs, Sugarhill Records had a house band that replayed the music. Here's Paul Simon & Phil Collins rapping. Bob Hope did a rap on one of his TV specials and Mel Brooks had Hitler Rap. King, Bob Dylan, Quincy Jones, and Paul McCartney worked with rappers. Older acts like the Beach Boys, Chubby Checker, B.B. ![]() ![]() Hip hop itself was influenced from Jamaican music. This track by Frankie Jaxon came out in 1929 and there's many older blues, country, and pop songs that have rap cadences. The country group The Bellamy Brothers released a song in 1976 called Country Rap Enterprise was released in 1978 and there's songs from the 1960s that are pretty much rap songs like The Name Game & Here Comes The Judge. Sugarhill Gang, Lady B, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, The Sequence, Paulette & Tanya Winley, Funky 4 + 1, and others all had records out in 1979. I am therefo too old to appreciate "Hiphop" and other disco acts in general - were the smash in Europe. ![]()
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