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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: But the question was, what group popularized it in gangster rap. It was indeed N.W.A. Before this time it was conscious rap dominating the scene. This doesn't mean that it didn't exist. lol [/QUOTE]No, except for Public Enemy in the late 80s conscious rap was not dominating the scene. Straight Outta Compton was released August 8, 1988 _____________________________ Top 40 Hip Hop Songs 1987 1. Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause 2. Eric B & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke 3. Audio Two - Top Billin' 5. Just Ice - Going Way Back 6. LL Cool J - I'm Bad 7. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded 8. Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full 9. Public Enemy - Public Enemy No. 1 10. Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge Is Over 11. N.W.A - Dopeman 12. Eric B & Rakim - Move The Crowd 13. Ice T - Squeeze The Trigger 14. J.V.C. Force - Strong Island 15. Ultramagnetic MCs - Funky 16. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise 17. Juice Crew - Juice Crew Allstars 18. Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul 19. Big Daddy Kane - Raw 20. T La Rock - Lyrical King 21. Boogie Down Productions - Poetry 22. Salt N Pepa - Push It 23. Eric B & Rakim - As The Rhyme Goes On 24. Too Short - Freaky Tales 25. Big Daddy Kane - Somethin' Funky 26. Public Enemy - You're Gonna Get Yours 27. LL Cool J - I Need Love 28. Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz 29. EPMD - It's My Thing 30. Boogie Down Productions - Dope Beat 31. Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now? 32. MC Shan - Kill That Noise 33. Just Ice - The Original Gangster Of Hip Hop 34. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Just One Of Those Days 35. Rodney O & Joe Cooley - Everlasting Bass 36. T La Rock - Bust These Lyrics 37. Steady B - What's My Name? 38. Spoonie Gee - The Godfather Of Rap 39. Heavy D - The Overweight Lover's In The House 40. Dana Dane - Cinderfella Dana Dane ________________________________ ^ As we can see only a couple of the songs are "conscious". KRS One was not even a conscious rapper at that time. it's a myth that conscious rap was dominating the chart in terms of the number of conscious songs that were popular.. It's basically Public enemy with a few big hits, they come in around 1987 and were popular for a few years If you look at the charts Public Enemy had hits in these years at the same time as N.W.A and Ice T and Geto Boys. So conscious rap and gangster rap happen at the same time What about way back in 1982 when the Message came out? The hits was that and Kurtis Blow, Africa Bambaataa, club songs How about 1983, no except if you want to count "white lines" by Grandmaster Flash 1984, it's Run DMC, Roxanne Shante, Whoodini dominating 1985, Doug E Fresh, LL Cool J, Salt & Pepper - and the first gangster rap song: P.S.K.-What Does It Mean? (Park Side Killers) - Schoolly D (from Philly) The beginning of rap was basically party songs, conscious rap groups don't even come in until, 87,88, 89. Except for Public Enemy they never dominated the charts So was all this early rap pure and beautiful? No, most was commercial pop party music but some very creative and entertaining Gangster rap got bigger in the 90s coinciding with the Crack game. And a lot of gangster rappers were and are funded by drug dealers before they got signed to labels Who were the biggest conscious rap groups besides public enemy? X Clan, came out in 1990, they didn't have big hits one or tow small ones, Poor Righteous Teachers, Dead Prez, thats mid 90s, The Coup And ironically the audiences for Public Enemy and Dead Prez shows was mainly white, Except for Public Enemy and Grandmaster Flash "The Message" conscious rap was not dominating the charts, nor does rap music start that way in the early 80s, Conscious is mostly a short trend in the late 80s. How do I know this? I was one of the original B-Girls Don't take my word for it, start looking at the rap songs popular in the early years. look at the top 40 of each year [/QB][/QUOTE]
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