DaveybotI’ve been catching up on Sjoerd’s excellent Hip Hop advent calendar, this morning, and with a warning of sincerity: it’s a flippin’ DELIGHT, folks.
Honestly, this chronological exploration of a musical sub-genre is turning up so many gems I’d completely forgotten or (more often) never heard before at all. For any possible frank nonsense or meh, there’s some real gold in there, too. And we’re only one week in!
Follow that #HipHopAdvent hashtag. And follow @slevelt!
Sjoerd (@[email protected])
#HipHopAdvent 7: 1985 Busy Boys – Funky Fresh Xmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxx83EOCe4 By the mid-80s the DJ finally was incorporated into recorded rap music, and this is the first year that Christmas hiphop tracks feature scratches (there’s also Audio Two’s A Christmas Rhyme of the same year). Hiphop was starting to expand outside New York, too; the Busy Boys’ DJ, for example, was from Hartford, Connecticut. This track has some Spanish lyrics, too, highlighting the Latinx element of early hiphop culture. (The date, taken from discogs, is not entirely certain, as the release is undated - it may have been 1986. It was picked up by a different label from the original release for a collection album in 1987.) #hiphop #AdventCalendar
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