Bling Bling, Hip Hop, Minstrel and a Family Heirloom.

[hiddengen]

this is really interesting. i never knew what a minstrel was until i saw this

[docdoom187]

true hip hop is from someone like MF Doom. he's underground though.

[bastry01]

MF Doom isn't really that great IMO......A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Diamond D, Kool Keith, and  most members of Wu-Tang to name a few all shit on him lyrically and delivery-wise

Doom was tight on the Gorillaz Song "November has come though"

[missyouhoo]

good list u forgor talib kweli, mos def, & lupe fiasco a little commercial i know but still great

[sexity5]

Rap is just what it is. If you'll think it's trash then leave it be. Stop trying to make evting peachy bc life is not like that. I can relate more to "bitches and hoes", "hoes shaking they ass" "dope being sold" then maybe america"because that IS what i see on a day to day basis. If " America" dsnt apprve on what these rappers rap about, then move our ass in with you'll and maybe hiphop can start rapn about ice hokey and keylime piepie.. Get real.. We are a product of our environment. Trust!

[mangriff]

Rap has really lead the devolution of black culture through popularization and misappropriation. These topics are lightly covered by Dan, but a specific example is rappers' need to generate cool new 'ebonic' words/terms. Because, as young whites (their target audiences) start using those words, suddenly they aren't cool anymore. It's the donkey chasing the carrot on a string. I grew up loving rap as an art, because of it's drum beats and poetry, but it's nothing short of bastardized now.

[astroturd2003]

Neck Beard must shave it in order to be make ladies touch.

[Virtual1926Credenza]

Some people would say it's racist... and it was back then and still is. It was just accepted. By the way, the people on that record were white! Good video

[313urbanlegend]

Damn! Rappers were making recordings back then? Who was that? 50 cent?

[hollymaria]

Edison was also very good at hiring inventors to work for his company, and then put their inventions under his name. Yes, it's a fact! There was an Edison invention factory. Haha. He did do electricity all on his own. Beyond that, he was a marketing genius.

[victornewman06]

Irony...

[steamboy42]

Very nice phonograph, its an edison opera, looks to be a later one, but very nice, keep it in good condition because they are worth ALOT! However i recommend staying away from the coon songs for youtube posts.

[invalidumozak]

First of all i rly like your videos i give them all 5s. But i cant agree to this video when you say that today's hip hop (rap) is junk. I think of techno music as junk but thats my opinion. We all like different things. Some rappers rly sing about their hoods, life in the ghetto and they speak about it without lies. And it isnt black culture problem that white kids dig into this songs but i would say its a white culture problem cause we rly dont understand them.

[mangriff]

speaking of misappropriation, their 'ghettos?' . . please. If you want to write a song about how hard your life has been, by all means, but there are ways to do it with style and musicality; and then there are the cookie-cut, publisher generated, bitches and hoes, one beat, 2 words bullshit pop money scams that really showcase how ugly a sandwich capitalism and unchecked media make. Rap is not the only place this is found, but it is certainly a VERY obvious one.

[tigerflymonsoon]

oh yeah and that shit is racist so your grandparents were racists..sorry but true..that's amos and andy..two white men!!! i still like you anyway..you'se a cool and quite well informed white boy..here's a ghetto pass...one love !!!

[docdoom187]

almost everyone back then was very racist compared to today. i'm a black guy, and i'll say this...I think junk like BET needs to get the hell off of the air with it's lame recycled cliched stereotype music. it's not much different from a minstrel tv program.

[tigerflymonsoon]

you're pretty smart for a white guy..lol..i was impressed the way you brought that through.. bravo.. you are officially a black power revolutionary now.. welcome n thanks !!

[bastry01]

I willing to bet that the only rap you've heard was on mtv or a top 40 radio station.

[WiPTornado]

Ehh... nope, don't even watch MTV or listen to top 40 radio stations.

Its been in those moments in which I was watching a select few youtube videos before I excaped into a space I like to call the back button.

[bastry01]

Well you should make sure you've actually heard quality hip-hop before you decide that the entire genre sucks.

The vast majority of any type of music is shit. This goes for rap as well. However, this doesn't mean that some of it isn't good.

If you feel like it, you should listen to anything from the album "Liquid Swords" by GZA.

[WiPTornado]

Does that mean we can say, Music sucks!*

*most

[bastry01]

yes, you could

[LoukAdz]

The funny thing is mainstream hip hop isnt hip hop at all. Hip hop isnt just music, it's the name given to a movement/sub culture comprised of four elements born in the bronx in the late 70's. Bboying or "break dancing", Graffiti art/vandalism (type in style wars for more info),DJ'ing or mixing with LP'S! not mp3s, and finally MC'ing or "rapping" as refered to by the mainstream. Music by real Mc's devoted to REAL HIP HOP and its roots hold positive lyrical substance in high value. nice clip dan!

[djb12030]

and to think, Chris Crocker makes national TV, but a man as well spoken and educated like Dan is passed over. Dan you are the BEST THING ON YOUTUBE.

[thamuzicaddict]

"and to think, Chris Crocker makes national TV"

Yeah that is pretty sick. People just don't like to be challenged.

[artemisfair]

Everybody likes a freak show.

[deadprez55]

Hey Dan, you should check out Little Brother's second album The Minstrel Show. They make the allusion that you are my friend. Kudos to you and all your videos are extremely well-crafted. Also to the gentleman who said that he doesn't know anything because minstrels were produced by whites (predominately)--what's really the difference? The end result is the same as the minstrels. White kids in suburban areas enjoy rap while laughing at the absurdities of the lifestlyes portrayed just the same.

[hawkuser604]

Very neat to see an old Phonograph today.. nice collection of old things. Also, I agree with you o a previous video on how spiled us Americans are and how we coddle our children..

[juggalocamo]

i stick to the underground hip hop seen

[truth958]

Go to youtube and type in his name 'daniel giuditta' and u'll see all his videos. He is a very intellectual critic....i like his take on 'to catch a predator' i deefinitely want to see more of him.

[fromthispoint]

you could sample that in to a Korg Triton and get some record label to sale it to Zombie Americans they do what TV says to do.,,they dont have a mind of there own...if TV did not say simon says Americans would not know how to feed there self.

[sixstringedstress]

Does anyone really care about what this guy has to say?

[npoc]

i personally do

[TheContracter]

yes, and frankly, we cared about what you said to respond. Now show some respect to people with original ideas, unlike yourself.

[creamstatic]

yes. I do. he gets you thinking. I've subscribed to him.

[DanielGiuditta]

Shit, thanks, for gettin' my back guys!

[STAXONDECK1]

@DanielGiuditta GOOD VID BRO



[angryantiracist]

Mainstream hip hop is run by white executives. I don't want to hear anything about Diddy because he's a lapdog to the white media institution. F that. Daniel, you should learn the details of minstrelsy. While white people made and enjoyed minstrelsy, black Americans had always a rich history of music and art that weren't used by whites to make money.

[begreen92]

you r a legen and i think you shouled study law

Because you have inspierd me too iv seen all your vidios

[InfoJunkieHolland]

legalize

[janus131]

Woah... that was deep...

All I'm gonna say.

[StonerTheBigPapa]

Dan, You see what eating beans from other peoples shit has done to your thinking? No doubt that you are a FOOL. I hate you man

[backtodafuture]

Can someone please tell me the title of the song played on the cylinder?

[gramophoneshane]

Hi. This song is called "Characteristic Negro Melody", and was recorded by the Peerless Quartet on blue amberloa no.1876. It was also released on a 4 min wax amberol no.431.

[esroberto1]

This guy is so full of shit he should just stop talking forever. Minstrel recordings were done by WHITES who were doing characterizations of what they thought other whites (the vast majority of early phonograph owners) would humorously apply. It doesn't get more racist than that.

[angryantiracist]

True, but consider mainstream hip hop. Who are the media moguls in charge of making the decisions about who gets signed and who doesn't? Many mainstream hip hop artists have internalized images of what they're supposed to be. Conscious hip hop is where it's at.

[EXT100]

wow i'm fucking stupid

[EXT100]

I think i would feel silly pointing at a green screen.

[youreeka]

You need to grow up. If he had said the "african-americans" would you have been OK with it? Probably...the group has an identity problem, changing their "name" every decade or so. Since the 1960s it has changed 4 times.

[gerdan100]

Thanks for showing the phonograph, a very popular item of the Industrial Revolution. Edison wanted to further education, not music, with recorded sound. Your phonograph is a treasure. You should be happy that it still plays, not missing its head or wooden horn. Much time & money is spent to maintain or restore these to their original form! The record? That was the way things were at the turn of the century. Think Race riots, "the way it was" in the 1960's!

Related to Rap? You're stretching.

[shawnborri]

Like the Oprea Phonograph, It dates from 1912. And because it is later does not mean it is less valuable, in fact the Opera is one of the most coveted machines. I actually make the earlier cylinders the 2 minute wax records, from raw materials and mold them and then make new wax cylinder recordings.

[fuzzbear6240]

It's Blue Amberol, not amber! You've got a truly fantastic machine there an Opera If I'm not mistaken. Regards, J.

[piplol2468]

what the name of that song well not realy song more of a act but yeah what is it called

[SeekingKnowledge]

I cannot believe what I am hearing. This guy believes that minstrelsy is a solely Black trope. 19th-century Blacks were not allowed to perform unless they imitated white minstrels. Many of them had to darken their already dark skin and assume Irish names. Watch Marlon Riggs's "Ethnic Notions," then make a video. DANG!!!

[SeekingKnowledge]

AT TIMES Blacks were made to appear foolish? WTF? Blacks are in entertainment business because they are more gifted in that respect? Minstrelsy came from WHITES! Do your homework!!! Read Karen Brodkin's How Jews Became White Folks?

[elmadore]

I have been collecting cylinders and 78's for about 35 years now, and I think you hit the nail on the head. While it may be painful to listen to some of the early recordings championing the "N" word, I think you are correct in keeping a perspective regarding the timeframe from which it came. Collectors of early recordings will tell you that it is not only African-American culture that was singled out for mockery, but virtually every other ethnic group as well. These were less enlightened times.

[poohlu]

for the reocrd it was racist back then , only things is at that time white society totaly had their boot on the necks of black people to the point we werent a recognized factor ,but all in all i agree with your post

[greenidfreak34]

that was racist.."ima cut that nigger in two" this device was made for middle or high income families which were predominately white at the time therefore the things which were promoted on the device were that of negativity. that is a racist remark in any time period... to say if you look at rap as a whole..that is impossible to do. mass produced rap music merely represents 5% of hip hop and its culture. for example all of the spoken word, open

[Unkindunkin]

the reason rap is thought of in a bad way is because people ignore it until they have an excuse to vocalize negativity,then they popularize the negative and exclude the good.

[dogzilla]

The way you speak annoys me, shutup.

[88mustang88]

Then might I ask why you are watching his videos?

[mendi244]

good post Daniel, i like your unbiased reporting - that's so important today - and i trust your opinion, know why? cause you don't have Hostess or Sony paying your bills. Never sell out bro, keep your rock n' roll alive! peace.

[Vash3OO1]

I don't like rap

[RedDwarfRimmer]

That was a great post, Dan. Very informative and I definitely agree with you on the effects of "mainstream" rap on lower income black society. It promotes personal success through deviant methods.

Also, you've got a great voice and speaking manner, Dan. I can imagine you in a documentary on the History channel. Take care,

Ray