Re: Tribute to Afro-American singers
revived :>
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In this post, ill concentrate on Funk music.
From Wiki
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony, and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground. Unlike R&B and soul songs, which had many chord changes, funk songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord.
Like much of African inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms. Funk bands also usually have a horn section of several saxophones, trumpets, and in some cases, a trombone, which plays rhythmic “shots”.
First up is “Flashlight” by Parliament-Funkadelic lead by George Clinton. Most people raised in US in 80s or 90s must have heard this song or heard samples of this in some other songs.
Flashlight - Parliament-Funkadelic
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(Not Just) Knee Deep - Parliament-Funkadelic
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One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament-Funkadelic
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**Bonus:
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Here is a rap band from from 90s, Digital Underground, who were heavily influenced by the Funk sounds and sampled a lot of Funk music into their rap.
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
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Dowutchyalike - Digital Underground
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more funky brothers 
Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind and Fire
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Lets Groove - Earth, Wind and Fire
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Misled - Kool And the gang
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Fresh - Kool And the Gang
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Brick House - The Commodores
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one of my favorite funk bands from 80s.
Single Life
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Word Up
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Candy
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Re: Tribute to Afro-American singers
5abi post Sir Duke. I love that song man. 
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here ya go
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
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Re: Tribute to Afro-American singers
Music is a world within itself
With a language we all understand
With an equal opportunity
For all to sing, dance and clap their hands
I love the lyrics
Its black history month again and this thread is revived.
This year i plan to focus on history of rap/hip hop genre.
But before we do that, more Funk music. It happens to be my favorite genre from black music.
More of my favorite songs:
Midnight Star - Operator
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Bar-kays - No parking on the dancefloor
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Bar-kays - hit and run
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Dazz Band - Let it whip
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Dazz Band - Joystick
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The Gap Band - Early in the morning
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The Gap Band - You dropped the bomb on me
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Shalamar - a night to remember
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Rick James - Super Freak
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Rick James - Give it to me baby
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Chaka Khan - Aint nobody
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and 100s more..
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oh WOW!
Wicked thread although Black History Month is in October for UK’ers. :halo:
I love your music taste fabi!
Chaka Khan, James Brown, Quincy Jones! Stevie Wonder!!
Bob Marley’s great too =]
How about Tupac? =]
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sweefey you are the last person i would think that listened to the likes of james brown and chaka khan :D
Tupac will be covered in the hip-hop/rap genre in my next post(s).
Listen to Shirley Murdock.
Truth or Dare
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hahaha fabi…i listen to anything and everything 
shirley murdock…hmm not bad 
Rap/Hip Hop originated in New Jack City in late 1970s. The first rap song to hit mainstream was Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” in 1979. Initially it was influenced by the funk and disco sounds of the day.
Rapper’s Delight - Sugar Hill Gang
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(notice any similarity between this and Queen’s “Another one bites the dust” which released in 1980)
**Rap / Hip-Hop
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Rapping (also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting, or just rhyming) is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry, one of the elements of the hip hop music genre. Rapping can be delivered over a beat or without accompaniment. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry, and song.
Rapping developed both inside and outside of hip hop culture, and began with the street parties thrown in the Bronx neighborhood of New York in the 70s by Jamaican expatriate Kool Herc and others.
The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form,[1] meaning originally “to hit”. The word had been used in British English since the 16th century, and specifically meaning “to say” since the 18th. It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning “to converse”, and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style.
Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with backing beats. Source hereand here
Now we know the difference between the two terms.
1970:
* The Last Poets release their eponymous debut album. It's combination of spare funk and aggressive, socially-conscious spoken word will be an early brick in the foundation of what would come to be hip-hop.
* James Brown releases 'The Big Payback', an early funk gem that emphasizes the groove rather than melody over his aggressively spoken vocals.
(Another oppurtunity to add JB’s music. His music has influenced rap/hip-hop and breakdancing in a big way.)
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* A young immigrant from Kingston, Jamaica named Clive Campbell begins deejaying at local parties. As **DJ Kool Herc**, he invents a new technique of deejaying that would cut two of the same records and extend the middle instrumental, or 'break,' of the popular funk and disco songs of the day.
**1972 **
* DJ Hollywood, a club DJ from Manhattan; begins rhyming over popular disco hits at his trendy night spots. **It is alleged that Hollywood coins the term 'hip-hop' though some say his partner, Lovebug Starski, came up with the term.
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**1974 **
* A former gang member-turned-DJ named **Afrika Bambaataa** meets a young grafitti artist named **Fab 5 Freddy**; a regular on the burgeoning hip-hop scene. Soon after, Bambaataa forms the Zulu Nation and catagorizes what he calls the '**Four Elements' of hip-hop: DJing, Breaking, Graf Artists and MCing
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**1975 **
* DJ Kool Herc coins the term break-boy to describe dancers that would dance during his extended breaks in the music. Soon, the term is shortened to **b-boy **and the style is called **'breakdancing**.' Herc also takes an up-and-coming DJ named Grandmaster Flash under his wings.
*** Grandmaster Flash** begins working on a new, revolutionary technique of DJing: In addition to extending the break of a song, he begins mixing bits of two different songs together. Using headphones, he's able to get the songs to overlap and connect. **His new 'mixing' technique would be adopted by every hip-hop DJ to follow.
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* Flash’s partner, Mean Gene, has a thirteen-year-old-brother named Theodore that is also beginning to DJ at local parties. After accidently sliding the record under the needle; a young Grand Wizard Theodore takes DJing a step forward by pushing the record back and forth lightly under the needle during breaks. **He calls his new technique ‘scratching.’
**(continued)
1976
* A group of party promoters called the Force stumble across a young DJ named Kool DJ Kurt. One particularly bold and aggressive member of the Force is a young man named **Russell Simmons.**
*1977 *
* **The legendary Rock Steady Crew of breakdancers is founded in the Bronx.**
* The Crash Crew, one of the first recorded MC crews, forms in Harlem.
* Russell "Rush" Simmons moves the Force to Queens and convinces Kool DJ Kurt to begin rapping. Simmons decides to change Kurt's name to **Kurtis Blow **and enlists his kid brother, Joey, to be Kurt's DJ. Joey changes his name to **'DJ Run.'**
*1978 *
* DJing, up to this point the primary force in hip-hop, begins to take a backseat to MCing.
*1979
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* The Cold Crush Brothers form after Almight KG meets DJ Charlie Chase.
* Wendy Clark aka 'Lady B' begins spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia;furthering hip-hop's expansion outside of New York. Later that year, she also becomes one of hip-hop's first female artists when she releases "To the Beat Y'all."
* The Funky Four+One is forms with one of hip-hop's first female MCs, Sha Rock.
* The funk band Fatback releases 'King Tim III (Personality Jock).' Though it doesn't gain much attention, it is the first mainstream rap single.
* **Under manager Russell Simmons, Kurtis Blow becomes the first rapper to sign a record deal with a major label.**
** * Sylvia Robinson founds Sugarhill Records and, after hearing a bootleg of The Cold Crush Brothers, decides to put together a rap group called 'The Sugarhill Gang.'
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*** The Sugarhill Gang releases 'Rapper's Delight.' Built on a sample of Chic's disco hit 'Good Times' and written by Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers, it goes on to become hip-hop's first hit and mainstream America's first exposure to rap music.**
* In order to capitalize on the growth of MCing in hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash recruits three of his friends, Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, Melvin "Melle Mel" and Nathaniel "Kid Creole" Glover, who perform as The 3 MCs. Soon, they add Guy "Raheim" Williams and Eddie "Scorpio" Morris and change their name to **Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.**
*1980 *
* The new wave band **Blondie releases the single 'Rapture'. It features a rapping vocal by lead singer Debbie Harry and mentions Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash, furthering hip-hop's push into the mainstream.**
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* With "Rapper's Delight" still riding the charts, **Kurtis Blow **releases his first single, "Christmas Rappin'". Blow's second single, **"The Breaks," is a hit; and becomes hip-hop's first gold single.** In his shows, Blow now sometimes allows DJ Run to rhyme with him.
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* At a DJ battle in Two-Fifths Park in Hollis, Queens; DJ Run and his friend, Darryl "Easy Dee" McDaniels, meet a young DJ named Jason "Jazzy Jase" Mizell.
* Treacherous Three release "The New Rap Language" as a single. It incorporates a new style of rapping, dubbed "speed-rapping."
*1981 *
** * Grandmaster Flash releases "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel", the first record to only showcase turntablism.
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* Russell Simmons helps his little brother, Run, record a song called "Street Kid." It goes nowhere, but Run still wants to record. After hearing Run's friend, Darryl (now calling himself "D"), **Russell begrudgingly makes Run and D a duo.
* **Whodini becomes the first rap group to shoot an official video for their song "Magic's Wand."
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(continued)
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We gonna take a lil break from from rap/hiphop timeline and post some potpourri of songs. These songs, again, are the ones i have grown up listening to and can still be found on my playlists. Im adding them as i remember the titles from the top of my head.
Bar-Kays - Freakshow on the dancefloor (this song was also featured in the 1984 breakdance movie "Breakin'
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Midnight Star - Midas Touch
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Cameo -She's strange
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The Gap Band - burn rubber on me
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Chic - Good times
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A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
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Anita Ward - Ring my bell
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Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
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Heatwave - Boogie Nights
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Heatwave - The groove line
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Jackson 5 - Dancing machine
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Johnny Gill - rub you the right way
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Herbie Hacncock - Cantaloupe island
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In 1983, musical genius, Herbie Hancock won a grammy award for the instrumental song "Rockit". It was the first mainstream song that featured scratching. With this song we return back to hip-hop genre.
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
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hahahah jackson 5 and johnny gill!! 
wooooooooooh! 
nice tunes faaabz :k:
*1982 *
* The film "Wild Style" is released. Showcasing DJs, graf artists, breakdancing and MC battles, it is Hollywood's first foray into hip-hop culture and begins a small "rapsploitation" period on film.
* After Run and D graduate from high school, they enlist Jazzy Jase, their DJ friend from Hollis; who now calls himself 'Jam Master Jay'. **Russell Simmons decides to change the group's name to Run DMC** and begins work on a single. Simmons also lands the group a deal with Profile Records.
*1983 *
*** Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five release 'The Message.' Moving away from hip-hop's party-oriented singles and focusing on the realities of inner-city poverty; it is a landmark moment for h**ip-hop.
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* Run DMC release their first single, "Sucker MCs/It's Like That." With it's spare beats and hard, aggressive rhymes, it signals the beginning of the end for "Old School" hip-hop artists.
My Adidas
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* A New York post-punk band called the Beastie Boys decides to switch their sound from punk to rap after attending a party thrown by Fab 5 Freddy.
* Run DMC release their eponymous debut on Profile Records. It becomes a hit and introduces the 'new school' approach to hip-hop music: Hardcore, aggressive street rhymes over spare, funky beats with a heavy metal twist. Run DMC also become the first rap group to get consistent airplay on MTV and Top 40 rock radio.
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1984 **
*** The film "Breakin" is released; with "Beat Street" coming soon after; continuing the hip-hop push into Hollywood." Beat Street" also showcases a young performer named Doug E. Fresh, who has the uncanny ability to 'beatbox' - mimic musical effects using only his mouth.
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Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force
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* Russell Simmons meets a young college kid named Rick Rubin, an avid fan of rap music. Together, Simmons and Rubin found a small record label and run it out of Rubin's college dormroom at NYU. They name their new label Def Jam.
* U.T.F.O.; (formerly the backup dancers for Whodini), release "Roxanne, Roxanne." It goes on to become one of the most popular rap songs of all-time and spawns more than two dozen 'response' songs, including "Roxanne, You're Through," "The Real Roxanne," "Roxanne's Mother," and most notably, "Roxanne's Revenge" by 13-year-old Roxanne Shante.
*** After hearing an underground single called "Public Enemy #1" by a college radio DJ named Chuck D.; Rick Rubin tries to recruit the reluctant rapper for his new label.**
* Def Jam issues it's first single, "It's Yours," by T La Rock and Jazzy Jay.
*1985
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* A young former delinquint-turned-rap-hopeful named Kris Parker meets social worker-and-sometimes-DJ Scott Sterling (aka Scott La Rock) at a Bronx homeless shelter. The two decide to form a rap group called Boogie Down Productions.
*** Doug E. Fresh records his classic single, "The Show," with the Get Fresh Crew and his new partner, MC Ricky D (aka Slick Rick.)
**
All the way to heaven - Doug E Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew
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Doug E Fresh and Get Fresh Crew
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La Di Da Di - Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick
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* Run DMC release their second album, 'King of Rock.' Like their debut, it is a hit; and furthers the combination of rap and hard rock.
* **A 16-year-old LL Cool J releases his debut album, "Radio."** It is the first album to be released by up-and-coming rap label, Def Jam.
I cant live without my radio - LL Cool J
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* Def Jam finances and releases it's own rap movie, "Krush Groove". Based on Russell Simmons life and starring Blair Underwood (as Russell), Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, the Fat Boys and the newly-signed Beastie Boys; the film becomes a hit.
*1986 *
* Queens native MC Shan and his superproducer cousin, Marley Marl, release the single 'The Bridge.' Though virtually unnoticed by the mainstream press, the song is an instant classic in hip-hop circles. Featuring steller 'new-school' production from Marl and clever lyrics in which Shan arrogantly announts his home, the Queensbridge Projects, hip-hop's new homebase; the song raised the ire of the newly-formed, South Bronx-based **Boogie Down Productions**. BDP's KRS-One disses Shan, Marl and Queens equally in the hard-hitting single, 'The Bridge Is Over;' igniting hip-hop's first major rivalry and leaving fans eagerly awaiting Boogie Down Production's first full-length album.
*** Run DMC release their third album, "Raising Hell." Sparked by the Aerosmith collaboration, "Walk This Way," it is an instant hit. It is a cultural milestone for hip-hop, spawning four hit singles and becoming the first multi-platinum rap album. "Raising Hell" cements Run DMC's place as the kings of the rap world, and kick-starts hip-hop's 'Golden Age,' bringing the final curtain down on the 'Old School.'**
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* Hip-hop's first White rap group, the Beastie Boys, release their debut album, "Licensed to Ill," on Def Jam Records. It goes on to become the best-selling rap album of the decade**.** (a lot of white folks bought this album, trust me :P)
*** LL Cool J's debut, "Radio," becomes certified platinum as Def Jam Records becomes the premiere label in hip-hop.**
*** A new hip-hop duo named Eric B. & Rakim release their first single, "Eric B. Is President." It is another benchmark moment in hip-hop; as Rakim's clever wordplay and complex rhyme schemes usher in a new era of MCing as an artform.
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Eric B and Rakim - Move the crowd
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Eric B And Rakim - I know you got soul
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Eric B and Rakim - Eric B is president
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Eric B and Rakim - Follow the leader
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Eric b and Rakim - Paid in full
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** * Run DMC becomes the first rap group nominated for a Grammy; for best "R&B Vocal Performance."**
* Salt-N-Pepa; a new female rap group; release their debut album, "Hot, Cool & Vicious." It becomes a moderate hit.
*** Rick Rubin signs Chuck D. and his newly-formed group, Public Enemy, to Def Jam.**
Re: Tribute to Black Music
I will have to split the thread because all the songs embedded from imeem are slowing the PC performance and page is loading slowly. Will have to find a better solution.
Rap/Hip timeline will continue in the part two of this thread titled "Tribute to Black Music II"
Coming up next, electro hip-hop and rise of West Coast rap a.k.a Gansta rap / G-funk.