The production was often influenced by DJs, sampling decidedly uncool artists like Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and Johnny Cash among others, utilizing them more for fills than samples or hooks. The music combined influences from folk, funk, jazz, reggae, and even post-punk. They were part of a loose genre dubbed "alternative hip-hop." This was back when anything that contained socially redeeming qualities and didn't appeal to the lowest common denomniator was dubbed "alternative." Alternative hip-hop was a fresh take on the already tired use of heavy drum and bass typically used in hardcore and gangsta rap. The Atlanta, GA based group came along in 1992-a time when socially conscious hip-hop stars dressed in traditional African clothing-instead of baseball caps and hoodies-could still be featured prominently on MTV. White people could listen to this group and actually enjoy the music and only feel guilty when the lyrics told them to.
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The hip-hop group that was socially and racially conscious while still being catchy and entertaining, they were the musical equivalent to an early Spike Lee or John Singleton "message" movie that were popular around the same time. Not that Arrested Development (look forward to the movie coming 2035!). Student: Arrested Development ? I love that show! The future of hip-hop was up for grabs, and for a minute there, it could have gone several ways, one of the ways being a slightly groovier, less violent and more socially conscious (albeit less cartoonishly entertaining) type of hip-hop. But, in the end, white people still weren't quite sure what to make of these tight rhythms and well-spun rhymes. We had party rappers like Naughty By Nature who just wanted to have a good time. We were out of the age of Run DMC and Grandmaster Flash had pop-rappers like MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice and co.-guys who had no street cred whatsoever and were basically trading in on a cartoon version of hip-hop. Dre, Tupac, etc., but it hadn't yet reached the masses on the levels it soon would.
Gangsta rap was coming in from the coasts in the form of Dr. Let us go back to the early 1990s.Īround 1992, hip-hop was still finding its place fitting into the mainstream. The days when hip-hop was seen as a way to speak to all races about social issues. Let us go back to the days when hip-hop was still a means of educating the youth. Although he did have a brief career in hip-hop, so I suppose the confusion isn't completely insane, just mildly so.ĭid you just correct me? Do you have brain damage? Get out.
That's Deion Sanders aka Neon Deion aka Prime Time. Today's topic of discussion is one Dionne Farris.įunny you should ask, Dudley. This is an easy (read: lazy) way to try to teach readers about something potentially boring without boring them to death. Now, we're preparing to do one of these hackneyed blog posts where I pretend to be a teacher in a classroom and you are my students. Settle down class! Welcome to Hip-Hop 101 for White People.
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* (Even though it didn't really matter in the end since MTV hired Dave anyway and he had his job a good two years longer than Jesse, who I assume now makes his home with roommate Teck Holmes in a Port-a-John behind a Baja Fresh frequented by John Sencio, but still)ġ. ALSO, for those of you who have figured out time travel technology, your first duty should be to go back to 1998 and vote for Dave on MTV's Wanna Be A VJ contest so he doesn't have to do that very gracious "oh, great, the guy who can't think won!" reaction when Jesse Camp is announced as winner.* That contest was so rigged. He's a hilarious guy, a fantastic tweeter and everyone should follow him and watch/buy everything he does. Quick word! I'd like to thank the great Dave Holmes ( on Twitter) for bringing a lot of people to the site for these mixes.