From Mxyzptlk Sent Sun, Jul 4th 1999, 03:26
How strongly do you feel the bassline for MOST of those songs are related to the Chic catalog? ("....these - are - the - good - times....") solenoid wrote: > So, like, does anyone really know if that rapper's delight bassline was > copied by Queen for "another one bites the dust" or was it somehow the > other way around?... seems like Sugarhill was one year previous to the > queen track. enquiring minds (mine) want to know (for a long time)... > > solenoid > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, eric hill wrote: > > > this subject can be fuzzed out pretty far afield, but sugarhill gang and > > treacherous three and cohorts were in full force (ar ar) well before > > planet rock came out. though these are widely considered to be rapping > > without hip-hop - they used disco grooves and leblanc/wimbish studio jams > > - flash's "on the wheels of steel" followed some time after, and "planet > > rock" generally signals the birth of both hip-hop and electro along the > > current of rap. they are coterminous. > > > > eric > > > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Joanisse, Robert wrote: > > > > >electro was the precursor of hip-hop, not a variant. dr dre made surgery > > >before he made straight outta compton. > > -- jeff "10,000 people all screaming the same thing at the same time are wrong, even if they're right." dancing/about/architecture "...with wandering steps and slow..." ICQ904008