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

What do an old Phonograph, Minstrel, and Hip Hop have in Common.

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Music

Tags:

• Hip
• Hop
• Bling
• Rap
• Minstrel
• phonograph
• edison
• daniel
• giuditta

[sixstringedstress]

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

[DanielGiuditta]

Shit, thanks, for gettin' my back guys!

[npoc]

i personally do

[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.

[STAXONDECK1]

@DanielGiuditta GOOD VID BRO



[missyouhoo]

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

[hiddengen]

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

[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"

[docdoom187]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[astroturd2003]

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