20/20 Report Hip-Hop Special (1981) - Part 2

Part 2 - An Interesting report about the rise of rap music in the early 80's

Shouts to http://www.rapradar.com

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Entertainment

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• Hip-Hop
• 20/20
• Rap
• Furious 5
• Kurtis Blow

[odinsprogeny]

Thank You for posting this. It was very funny, and It's cool to see that it had such a positive spin on it. I wish people were still nice like in this video.

[DJDAMIAN72]

Dope special but it's funny how they keep mentioning that anybody can do it!!!

I've been a Hip-Hop head since 1983 and I still can't rap, lol ........

but I can DJ and make beats!

[mraims2plez]

Although Debra Harry had a rap song, she couldn't rap. Anyone can make a rap song but not anyone can rap. Those who sustain are those who can rap. When a rapper leaves the biz instead of the biz leaving him, then that's somebody that can rap ie Rev. Run.

[concreterose96]

Loved it!

[demikede1]

@tkodahawk Well, rap did became big alright. Liberalization of American culture in the later half of the 1960s & '70s led to the rise & peak of rap/hip-hop. The conservative backlash of the 1980s & somewhat the '90s couldn't end rap, because to be conservative is to protect freedoms of speech & expression without government regulating music or content. Rap turned more political sometime in the 80s & the gangsta rap phase in the '90s was rancid than what was sang then or made in the 2000s/now. +

[demikede1]

Hip-hop/rap in 1981! When disco was dying, a new music form took its' place. It's replacing rock as the #1 genre of music in most of the world. Back then, it was controversial due to still evident forms of racism, classism & generational gaps. But its part of the African-American tradition of their own music: like rock before, evolved among them, then crosses every cultural barrier to become the mainstream form of American pop music. Rap/hip-hop described the urban black or Latino experience. +

[ganzitoism]

How far we've come

[cagool2fray]

cool !! respect !!

[gotflava1]

Sorry buddy, rap is not going to be here for years to come but 3 DECADES STRONG !! Change all of pop culture. And still going!!! LONG LIVE HIP HOP!

[irie1tes]

Great Story!

Hugh Downs is so down.

[FooNado]

Nevermind i should of known it's Kurtis Blow, i just hated how all search results lead to DMC only leaving Kurtis Blow out.

[FooNado]

Who else besides Run DMC made a song called "hard times" ? It doesn't sound like them.