…’”įresh then added: “I turned around and said, ‘Teach me that, show me.’ And after that, it’s been me and hip-hop since that point.” DJ KID CAPRIĭJ Kid Capri, arguably one of hip-hop’s most famous DJs in the ‘90s, grew up on soul music. And the rap went, ‘Ding, ding, ding, ding, dong, dong, dong the dang, the dang, dang, dang, the ding dong dong. “She came home and told me about a rap he had. Hollywood, who we considered the first real M.C.,” he said. “I remember when my sister came home and told me about a guy named D.J. Hearing “Rapper’s Delight” for the first time changed the trajectory of Doug E. “I was the guy with the radio who was hitting play going ‘You ain’t never heard that before.’ … I had the whole room, the whole bus jumping.” DOUG E.
That led him to hit up the local record store where he would buy the latest hip-hop album then blasted it on his radio for anyone to hear in Oakland. “I’d be at my pop’s house just bumping the loud stereo.”Īs “Rapper’s Delight” gained momentum in 1980, Too Short gravitated more toward beatboxing. “I was on my funk stuff, then this ‘Rapper’s Delight’ record came out and it was like 15 minutes long,” he recalled. He normally listened to a variety of funk songs ranging from the Ohio Players’ “Love Rollercoaster” and Funkadelic’s “Knee Deep.” Then one day at his father’s house, he heard “Rapper’s Delight” blaring through a stereo system. … He was able to freestyle all day, every day. “This way of having a certain cadence, this way of being able to do these certain rhymes was just incredible to me. “That would be my first encounter with loving what would become hip-hop,” she continued. Shante said “Rapper’s Delight” was the record most parents brought into their home as the “party song.” But in her mind, Russell had just as much of an impact.
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She also took part in Roxanne Wars, which was a series of hip-hop rivalries in the mid-1980s. At age 14, she became one of the first female rappers to become popular after her song “Roxanne’s Revenge” and gained more notoriety as a member of the Juice Crew. “He had the ability to rhyme at any time,” said Shante, a host for SiriusXM’s Rock the Bells Radio.
She was introduced to hip-hop through the late comedian-poet Nipsey Russell. Roxanne Shante’s first rap experience didn’t come in song form. We were going crazy over listening to lyrics and beats.” ROXANNE SHANTE I had to go through some woods to his house with the album,” he said.
“I remembered my homeboy that lived in the neighborhood. The first hip-hop record Lil-Jon bought was Run D.M.C.’s “Sucker M.C.’s (Krush-Groove 1).” I’ve never seen rappers in person,” he said. “I might have been a fan of rap before, but I had never been to a rap concert.
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It was his first time seeing professional rappers onstage. But he became a “super fan” of the genre as a middle schooler in Atlanta after seeing rap groups the Fat Boys and Whodini. “Rapper’s Delight” was probably the first hip-hop song Lil Jon heard. Next thing you know, you’re hearing Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kurtis Blow and Roxannne, Roxanne.” LIL JON “But that changed everything after we heard Sugarhill Gang.
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