rapper's delight Re: (idm) the early 80's in new york

From solenoid
Sent Sun, Jul 4th 1999, 00:51

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.
>