From eric hill Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 17:17
From eric hill Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 17:17
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.