Mid 80s Hip Hop With Monster Beats
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In the early 80s Rap music was composed like R&B records. They had a drummer, bass player, keyboards and maybe some guitars and/or horns. But technology changed and drum machines and synthesizers became more common. This was right before sampling took off.
So after Sucker MCs was released in 1983 Hip Hop producers started using drum machines and synthesizers (which is why Sugarhill folded, they were still using musicians). After Sucker MCs rappers started rapping over really loud, BIG beats, which sounded acoustically different than R&B. This is when Rap/Hip Hop developed its own sound. Subsequently older people and radio stations didn't like it and Rap was forced underground.
Anyway, here's a few songs with Monster beats. (BTW, the term "Monster Beats" was coined at Olschoolhiphop.com. Thats what the cats from the U.K. call it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kahssZM5Dj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqw2uby0dzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYNZRecEl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMlZxHLM8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObP8QPbnEic
So anyway, Hip Hop producers were making these really loud, big beats. Then when sampling became common Hip Hop producers started sampling breaks and loops from 70s records, which weren't as loud, or big.
So after Sucker MCs was released in 1983 Hip Hop producers started using drum machines and synthesizers (which is why Sugarhill folded, they were still using musicians). After Sucker MCs rappers started rapping over really loud, BIG beats, which sounded acoustically different than R&B. This is when Rap/Hip Hop developed its own sound. Subsequently older people and radio stations didn't like it and Rap was forced underground.
Anyway, here's a few songs with Monster beats. (BTW, the term "Monster Beats" was coined at Olschoolhiphop.com. Thats what the cats from the U.K. call it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kahssZM5Dj0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqw2uby0dzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYNZRecEl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMlZxHLM8w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObP8QPbnEic
So anyway, Hip Hop producers were making these really loud, big beats. Then when sampling became common Hip Hop producers started sampling breaks and loops from 70s records, which weren't as loud, or big.
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Roxanne Shante: Big Payback! Man Marley had THEE dopest most quintessential kicks and snares in hip hop! This is what mad NWA's Dope Man BOOM so much that Shante kick and snares!
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Roxanne Shante: Big Payback! Man Marley had THEE dopest most quintessential kicks and snares in hip hop! This is what mad NWA's Dope Man BOOM so much that Shante kick and snares!
Here it is; Payback - Roxanne Shante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYlD2i-SB5E
However, some cats from England took the same beat and annihilated it. This might be the most extreme case of taking somebody else's beat and ripping it iller than the original artist.
Ragamuffin Hip Hop - Asher D and Daddy Freddy
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I've tried to explain this before. Hopefully you guys can understand what I'm trying to say. I was like 11/12 years old when this stuff came out. It was the greatest thing in the world to me but older people hated it because it was anti-music.
Here's some more;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRpqB18GBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RaOSuPIkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghsOtF41t8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1mAqvXP3yI
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Here's one that's anti-music. Picture being around adults that listened to The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and James Brown and putting a song like this on the record player. Between the loud monster beat and the scratching its understandable why the adults didn't consider this music.
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Here's a few more. I'm having fun.
I heard there was a club in the mid 80s called The Latin Quarters. This was the song that you had to tuck your chain in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eo7524b1vk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9_uur0_HU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m8Y4Xoo0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWuiAeZLkw
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