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Al Jackson (@aljacksoncomedy) is a great comic that I met in New York City. We talk old school Hip Hop, UFC, and he interviews me a lot. A LOT… so that was fun. I need to have him back and interview HIM. What a great guy. You should definitely go to see his awesome standup comedy. Because it’s so great. Enjoy.

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Hannibal Burress

Erin Jackson

Nat King Cole

Brenda Lee

Ruth Brown

KRS ONE – Jimmy Hat

Biggie Smalls – Ready to Die

Biggie Smalls – Juicy

Alabama Shakes

Sugar Hill Gang

Hip Hop Documentary: Beats Rhymes & Life

Christopher “Kid” Reid

New Edition

Jermaine Dupri

UFC

Tougaloo College, Jackson, MS

James Earl Ray

Civil Rights Museum

Big Daddy Kane

Closed Captioning Services

Northern Sun Merchandising

Nate Bargatze

K9 Bite Suit

Vargus Mason

April Macie

Alycia Cooper

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COB = Combat Operating? Base

JSS = Joint Services Support

The Serpent Prince

Wu Tang Clan

What to Watch/Listen:

The Fat Boys

Digital Underground

Straight Out of Compton

Tribe Called Quest

Public Enemy

Classic 80’s Hip Hop

Breakin’ Two

Doomsday Preppers

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7 Comments

over eleven months ago

jackie

you have to figure people ask her all the time about the spider. BUT... maybe not. New York city and all that :)
over eleven months ago

Todd Mason

(I don't think I could resist asking the bartender about her spider.)(Hence not having a Home Bar.)
over eleven months ago

TM

Or, for an example of the early dancehall toasters who also were rapping in the earlier '70s, U-Roy:
http://youtu.be/KpukQ41av00
over eleven months ago

TM

I'm looking forward to those stories, where there's no obvious punchline as yet, and I suspect you're being excessively self-critical (and all that concentrated travel is indeed wearying, as I've known even without having to do performance multiple nights while coping with it).
over eleven months ago

TM

Oh, do listen to the Poets (such albums as THIS IS MADNESS) and particularly Scott-Heron, who was better, I'd say...SMALL TALK AT 125TH AND LENNOX, his first album (1970), has "Televised" and a number of shorter raps, such as "Whitey on the Moon", and it's not only the same sort of thing as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were doing in '79, but it's more fully-realized. Certainly the Poets were Not Funsters, but Scott-Heron has a lot wit along with his anger. I'll admit I prefer the full-band version of "Revolution" from '71 and PIECES OF A MAN:
http://youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg --try it again...

--The rappers in the park were inspired by these folks and the dancehall toasters, along with the jazz poets, talking blues folks, and other antecedents...
over eleven months ago

JackieKashian

I think rap and hip hop as a genre started, traditionally, with the sugar hill gang. (what we meant.) there's been spoken word music for long before. Toally get that
over eleven months ago

Todd Mason

Well...the notion that the Sugar Hill Gang were the first rappers is already a big huge lie, as the Last Poets were rapping in the latter '60s, Gil Scott-Heron was informing us that The Revolution Would Not Be Televised by the earliest '70s, and the Jamaican version toasters were very much in place at about the same time. There is no reasonable definition of rap that can exclude these folks, even if one wants to leave out the jazz poetry and talking blues that preceded them.

Ruth Brown got going in the '50s, "Late Date" being an early record for her, and, happily, not All of her songs were about putting up with being a heavy bag, but, yeah, probably too many were (any being too many...at least Aretha Franklin's best early song Sort Of like that is "Take It Like You Give It")...Nat "King" Cole likewise doing his brilliant piano work on record in the late 40s, though the singing certainly made him more money.

Jackie Kashian