musicians who were down with rapp from the early days

[SIRUS]

were there any r&b/rock/etc artists who endorsed rap pre-rundmc? off the top of my head i can think of a few who disliked it, but can't think of any of the old guard who liked/understood it.

mtume thought it was musical necrophilia, george clinton said he didn't like it from the jump but thought it had a future as a genre, prince hated it; bassline or no baseline, etc.

who stood up for it?

 

[4YearGraduate]

Patrick Adams / Peter brown ?

 

[Sunfade]

I'm sure Gil was with it.





And The Last Poets.





As far as rockers I never hear about it. Blondie?

 

[TheKindCromang]

^^^^ yeah, I was gonna say???. Blondie? Tom Tom Club?

 

[asstro]

The Clash were onboard pretty early, by 1979 or 80.

 

[skel]

Teh Clash, muhfuggas

 

[DOR]

And The Clash

 

[Electrode]

Herbie Hancock?

 

[SIRUS]

yeah, the clash. had flash and them open when they played nyc. produced a record for futura. mixshow dj's were playing bootleg dubs of their records.





herbie yeah, but did he ever dabble with rap again after rockit?

 

[DocMcCoy]

With hindsight, this dollar-bin classic sounds like a well-intentioned, if clumsy, attempt at a rap record. This was 1981, so...











I definitely recall reading at least one interview with Lou Reed in the mid 80s where he spoke about how he was digging a lot of the electro-rap like Divine Sounds' "Do Or Die Bed Sty" and all that stuff. Obviously he changed his tune once sampling technology became advanced enough for rappers to actually jack his shit.

 

[Snapping]

Does Malcolm McLaren count as a musician?

actually Trevor Horn does count

 

[fishmongerfunk]

doug wimbish et al.





later on, ronnie jordan, etc..





btw- gil scott-heron was never a major proponent of hip-hop, or at least not in the way "music journalists" expected him to be. he derided the production as "tricknology" and even wrote an ominous song about what he percieved was wrong with the lyrical content called "message to the messengers". about 10-15 years before his death, every interview he did included a question about his status as the "godfather of hip-hop" to which he usually deflected with self-deprecating humour. if he was pressed he would name spearhead and common as acts he had respect for...

 

[youngEINSTEIN]

tony joe white is 'bout it.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCoIhjVJ7Fo





peace, stein. . .

 

[paul_funyun]

sylvia

 

[Guzzo]

paul_funyun said:sylvia




wasn't the Sugar Hill house band made up of Stang acts?

 

[stratasphere]

Thomas Dolby

 

[james]

Max Roach

 

[asstro]

Adam Ant? From 1981...





http://youtu.be/hgQYp1UDn1k

 

[CinisterCee]

 

[orips]

Millie Jackson was on board in 1980.