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Music 1003 Hip Hop Landmarks
Course: Popular Music and Diversity in American Society (MUSI 1003)
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April 13th 2022
Hip Hop Landmarks:
● South Bronx Early 1970’s
○ Live performances (DJ’s)
○ House parties
○ Community rooms
○ Dance Music
● *1979-”Rapper's Delight”
○ Sugar Hill Gang
○ First commercial Hip Hop Record
○ synthesizers/drums
○ Rapping
● 1980’s (1982’s)
○ “The Message” Grandmaster Flash
● Social Realism
○ Public Enemy
■ Members met as college students in 1982
■ Common interests in hip hop culture and political and social activism
■ Hip-hopassocial commentary
■ Inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2013)
■ “Night of the Living Baseheads”
●Lyrics address the crack cocaine epidemic in urban centers
○ Base, dope, and white knight = cocaine
● Many samples are used on recording
●MTV video includes a mock news report
○ Depicts widespread drug use as reported by the
mainstream media
● Commercial Success as Entertainment (1980s–90s)
○ Two multi platinum rap albums released by Def Jam (1986)
■Raising Hell by Run- D.M.C.
○ NumberThree(pop charts)
■Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys
○ Number One for seven weeks
○Larger hip-hop audience→ commercial success
● Run-D.M.C.
○ Three performers
■ 2 MCs (rapping)
● Run (Joseph Simmons, b. 1964)
● D.M.C.(Darryl McDaniels, b. 1964)
■ 1 DJ (turntable)
● JamMasterJay(JasonMizell, b. 1965)
○ $1.5 million promotional deal with Adidas
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