88HIPHOP PSA - DJ DEBATE

Is the DJ the backbone of Hip-Hop? Big Daddy Kane, Fab 5 Freddy, Kid Creole, and others tell it like it is...

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Music

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• BigDaddyKane
• BDK
• rap
• scratch
• Joost
• FabFiveFreddy
• KidCreole
• Skizz
• DStroy
• HipHop
• Hip-Hop
• fab5
• turntablism

[JovonTLC]

@bugstrut the rapper never needed the dj. The dj needed the rapper. Back in the day you NEVER heard a rapper say yo I need a dj. But you ALWAYS heard the dj say Yo I have to find me a rapper....Go figure. You guys been watching too much RUN DMC. Why do you think DJ's at some point turn into rappers? Also when the Furious 4/5 threaten to leave Flash he got the Casanova's to bring them back. Please guys learn your history and use your brain!! When Kidd Kreole speaks you should listen.

[JovonTLC]

Let me clear up my last post because some dummy out there may mis-understand me. The Funky 4 MC's was incredible and extremly talented. However, DJ Breakout was WACK!!! his wackness was coverd up by the fact that he had talented MC's and you only heard his name because him and his brother owned the equipment...Now go figure-------

[JovonTLC]

In-conclusion, the dj is NOT the back bone to hip hop, music is the back bone to hip hop the dj is just an piece/element of the ingredient to hip hop. If the dj was the back bone to hip hop then hip hop would have died when the dj was removed in the early recordings when the bands (Pumkin) we're laying the tracks for the records. Remember Breakout of the Funky 4 was WACK! but him and his brother Jazzy D owned the equipment...Go figure!!!

[JovonTLC]

@maverick2215 djs we're better than tapes etc. only because there was a human feel and the dj would scratch/cut a record according to what the rapper was saying. Lets take Kool Herc for instantce, he had the loudest system in the street in the 70ies and yes lots of people attended his parties. But it was only when he recruited rappers that he became a force. Let's not forget the rapper was the guy sitting on the stoop rapping without music and had the crowd of people listening to him as well.

[maverick2215]

@JovonTLC djs are better though did sets off the cd, not as smooth

[JovonTLC]

Yo a MC/Rapper DO NOT need a DJ. The DJ was the dude who gave a MC an outlet to showcase his talents and thus they became friends and partnered. Some rappers just played a cassette tape with music or just let a record play down and kicked it. Nowadays rappers use Dat tapes and/or CDs with music. The DJ was the dude with the equipment so rappers went and got down with him but they didnt need a DJ because if you were a real rapper/MC you kicked it all the time with or without that DJ dude.

[TheJabberwock]

i think some people take hip-hop too seriously an a lot of people are snobs about some shit that rose up out the ghetto.

[jaytechnical]

mc's don't excist without the dj.

to say that an mc don't need a dj is impossible.

you are talking about rappers,most of them  don't need dj's,they need dumbass kids buying their garbage.

you'ze a rap consumer,don't call yourself hiphop.

[TheJabberwock]

i've heard that language is probably the closest related language to english.

[jaytechnical]

a rapper is not necessarely an mc,i'm a dj and i play mc's records,those are the rappers that are true to the culture..

nowadays most rap records ain't even worth playing,the're just made for the $.

being from amsterdam i speak dutch,you know like ja..nee..dit is toch fokking niet normaal...lol