we know you so called started rap...but

[brombonze]

the world is not mostly white

 

[StillDreaming]

Its some serious cooning goin on in here........

 

[wellingdowd]

I was went to mexico with the fam back in the day and they were playing I'm that type of guy over and over so LL was the only rapper that I heard being played when I was down there. I'd say Run-Dmc , Tone Loc, and the Fat Boys too, man if you even mentioned rap up until like early 90's non-listeners would start to mock beatbox. Beastie Boy's can still go plat and sell out shows all these years later, and even through they stretch the lines they are still hip-hop. By the time Pac, Puffy and all them came along the public was well aware of rap and and already even partied to it. After Hammer no other act has needed to breakdown barriers you can't get more universal then he was. It's easier to get in after someone has already opened the doors. I was in the store buying Niggaz4life and this elderly woman came in to buy Hammer Please don't hurt them. This was the first time I saw some 60+ white woman copping a rap cd. Slim Shady should not even be mentioned anywhere in this thread period. You have to be on some young shit or either extremely bias to even say Em's name. Rap was already dominating the charts when Em came along, enough of some of you guy's revisionist history, before long you'll be telling the next generation that Em created hip-hop. SMH.

 

[Fazeem_Blackall]

I was went to mexico with the fam back in the day and they were playing I'm that type of guy over and over so LL was the only rapper that I heard being played when I was down there. I'd say Run-Dmc , Tone Loc, and the Fat Boys too, man if you even mentioned rap up until like early 90's non-listeners would start to mock beatbox. Beastie Boy's can still go plat and sell out shows all these years later, and even through they stretch the lines they are still hip-hop. By the time Pac, Puffy and all them came along the public was well aware of rap and and already even partied to it. After Hammer no other act has needed to breakdown barriers you can't get more universal then he was. It's easier to get in after someone has already opened the doors. I was in the store buying Niggaz4life and this elderly woman came in to buy Hammer Please don't hurt them. This was the first time I saw some 60+ white woman copping a rap cd. Slim Shady should not even be mentioned anywhere in this thread period. You have to be on some young shit or either extremely bias to even say Em's name. Rap was already dominating the charts when Em came along, enough of some of you guy's revisionist history, before long you'll be telling the next generation that Em created hip-hop. SMH.

This thread shows how Ignorant and Young a lot of posters are, they are projecting on the rest of the world who got them into hIphop and not what got the world into HipHop...

 

[Smo-King Locs]

Walk this way was cool, but white people never had their own dope single rapper before eminem(on the mainstream, That was good,don't say wackass vanilla ice) Beastie boys were a good group but they couldn't stand toe to toe with the best black rappers. Alot of people say walk this way brought whites to hip hop. BUT ALOtthe white people I know(I'm 18 so the be mindful of the demographic) were brought o hip hop through eminem. And alot of them are your typical "well I don't rap, but I like eminem" types. But most have evolved to listen to other rappers. IMO

Eminem gave them their own, there "hero"

IMO

well worldwide don't equal pale folks....if we speaking world wide white folks are a minority ...... world wide i gotta say mc hammer or east coast vs. west coast n the death of pac n big....made hip hop big...

 

[Smo-King Locs]

I was went to mexico with the fam back in the day and they were playing I'm that type of guy over and over so LL was the only rapper that I heard being played when I was down there. I'd say Run-Dmc , Tone Loc, and the Fat Boys too, man if you even mentioned rap up until like early 90's non-listeners would start to mock beatbox. Beastie Boy's can still go plat and sell out shows all these years later, and even through they stretch the lines they are still hip-hop. By the time Pac, Puffy and all them came along the public was well aware of rap and and already even partied to it. After Hammer no other act has needed to breakdown barriers you can't get more universal then he was. It's easier to get in after someone has already opened the doors. I was in the store buying Niggaz4life and this elderly woman came in to buy Hammer Please don't hurt them. This was the first time I saw some 60+ white woman copping a rap cd. Slim Shady should not even be mentioned anywhere in this thread period. You have to be on some young shit or either extremely bias to even say Em's name. Rap was already dominating the charts when Em came along, enough of some of you guy's revisionist history, before long you'll be telling the next generation that Em created hip-hop. SMH.

the same way neatherdal elvis created rock n roll

 

[Smo-King Locs]

..........that what I'm sayin.

I don't know of a rapper who made Hip Hop as big as it got besides Eminem, 50 Cent and The South collectively.

They are the ones who made every single person worldwide who is part of some sort of society, even if they didn't listen to hip hop, know about rap, from the dancin to the clothes to the cars to the slang to everythin.....

Who did it before them?

When I think "world-wide" and "globally", I think "the majority of people across the world"......am I wrong in doing that and if I'm not? Am I wrong by sayin Eminem was the first?

sorry 2 dissapoint u, but the majority of the people across the world is'nt white..... y'all a small portion n y'all only gettin smaller.... the majority of the ppl across the world are colored:
red (indans/asian) yellow (oriental,indians,latino/hispanics/africans) Brown (latino/africans/asians/indians) black (african/indians/latino)

 

[Fazeem_Blackall]

This thread proves how Little History is known by the modern Hip Pop Culture...

 

[tyger hood]

This thread proves how Little History is known by the modern Hip Pop Culture...

Co-sign. Run DMC. 1 million dollar sneaker endorsement for a non athlete which back then was unheard of.

 

[checkyourhead]

calm down with the N-word kracka



Much respect & Love to Run Dmc for having the first International rap hit.

Much respect to M.C. Hammer for having the first rap album to go diamond.

M.C. Hammer did especially well in Australia...anybody from there??

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^^^ any Aussies in the house wanna explain this???

U Can't Touch This (1990)

"U Can't Touch This" is MC Hammer's 1990 hit signature song, from his album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em. The album sold more than 10 million copies,[1] due primarily to this single, and gaining multi-platinum certifications from the RIAA, and other Recording Industries. The song samples Rick James' "Super Freak" heavily; James is accordingly credited as a co-author. The lyrics were written entirely by Hammer.

The song received its debut live performance on a late 1989 episode of The Arsenio Hall Show.[2] The lyrics describe the rapper as having "toured around the world, from London to the Bay" and as being "magic on the mic", which Hammer says combines with Rick James' "beat that you can't touch". It secured the Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Rap Solo Performance in 1991, a brand new category at the time. The song was a huge success chart wise: it reached #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100[3]. The single was also a big success in other parts of the world, peaking at #1 in Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden, and #3 on the UK singles chart[4].

End of year chart (1990) Position Australia[17] 2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[18]

Australian Singles Chart[7] 1 Austrian Singles Chart[8] 5 Canadian RPM Top Singles[9] 8 Dutch GfK chart[10] 1 Dutch Top 40[11] 1 French Singles Chart[12] 17 Irish Singles Chart[13] 3 Norwegian Singles Chart[14] 6 Swedish Singles Chart[15] 1 Swiss Singles Chart[16] 2 UK Singles Chart[4]

i from down under, cant touch this was a big song here. but as i said before - beastie boys own this thread. theres no need to get upset.

 

[hrap-120]

I have no fuckin idea what he's trippin on.....it's like he can't see H-rap is directing his post's towards me or somethin??????????????????

I was also thinkin Dre/Death Row Records......but in the end I settled for Eminem as my answer.

Not for the rest of the industry no, but for the other person I named as makin hip hop "global" and most accepted its ever been he did. (50 Cent).
Besides, I am one of the "insane" people who do see Eminem gettin the attention of the white race around the world for hip hop, as a major contribution towards it......maybe coz I'm white, maybe not.

I understand YOU would still love it to be a "black thing".....but it ain't and I don't really get why you wouldn't want it to be as big as it has since Eminem came onto the scene, you can't say it hasn't been bigger than ever since he came out neither by pointin out record sales coz records sales are down throughout the entire industry, not just this rap music we all love.

It's not like white people have destroyed the hip hop culture, so I just dont get why you like to make out as if Eminem and white peoples support of hip hop is a bad thing to hip hop?

White peoples supporting HipHop is a good thing, white people who only support Emenim isnt cool.

 

[KplusK]

everyone have there own preference so as long as its hip hop i dont care shit niggaz got they own opinions i know niggaz that only listen to mos def and nuttin else from hip hop or listen to shit just from 95 to 2000 thats it

 

[Chillin&Postin]

Afrika bambaata traveled the globe and when he was asked by reporters what is his music called he said hip hop. Whatever he said in each of those countries is what we have today

 

[KplusK]

when was this? give dates cause i know he put on but i wasnt into bambaata that much so i need dates. from that one.

 

[Chillin&Postin]

when was this? give dates cause i know he put on but i wasnt into bambaata that much so i need dates. from that one.

I was watchin a documentary that featured alot of cats from the start like busy bee, dj aj, spoonie g etc and they all agreed that when bambaata went on tour with soul sonicr force he coined the term. Eveeyone was concerned with ruling the bronx or queens etc but AB was the first to go on tour round the world

 

[BootyButterPi]

Pac said he wont change the world but he knows that he will spark the mind of the person that changes the world.

Obama FTW?

 

[razorramon4life]

the chicago bears and saved by the bell chico

 

[reef hustle_ahh]

run dmc, nwa and dr dre/death row