AnthonyA1971
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I posted this elsewhere and think it's important for everyone to read.
If the truth hurts, close your eyes.
Freestyle is a fusion of disco, house and hip hop and electro funk.
Disco gave birth to the first ever released 12" single "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure in 1976. So, we know where the 12" record has it's roots.
We know disco began what we now recognize as "dance" music. As the years went by, disco would evovle into what we know to be "Hi-NRG", sometime around 1980. It was with Hi-NRG that dance music had a steady theme of love in it's message. Artists such as Thelma Houston, The Weather Girls and Phillis Nelson emerged.
During this time period, hip hop began to give birth as well.
Argueably the first commercial hip hop song came from from the usage of the song "Good Times" by the disco group Chic. The song was called "Rapper's Delight".
As artists such as Melle mel, The Sugar Hill Gang and others began to rap at The Fever in the Bronx, hip hop DJ's began to experiment various sounds by using samples from disco and funk (and rock). This created music was used so they would have something to rap over. Founders of hip hop were essentially DJ's such as Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
It was Grandmaster Flash who perfected sampling and looping, giving way to "breakbeats", so we now know where the roots of breakbeats come from. It comes from the sampling and looping of disco, funk and even rock music.
In the late 70's another DJ emereged...Afrika Bambaataa. During his record hunts, he would stumble across the European group Kraftwerk. This favorite of his would eventually be used to form the backbone of his own record Planet Rock. He simply sped up the record and added in breakbeats, combined with a rap-overtone. Kraftwerk heard the song and filed a lawsuit, which was eventuallt resolved.
Arthur Baker, who helped produce "PLanet Rock", also helped to produce "Play At Your Own Risk". Both these songs are known today as electro funk. Some refer to it as techno pop as well. I don't think I need to mention the importance of Hashim's Al-Naafiysh.
Quick review....disco helped to form the basis for hip hop, as the hip hop DJ's played, and later sampled disco heavily. Out of hip hop came electro funk shortly after. Hi-NRG also has it's roots in disco. From hip hip came breakbeats as well.
Then we have house and garage music which also paved the way for freestyle, as did disco, hip hop and electro funk. I think I've said enough, so I won't bother going into these as well.
The entire point is freestyle's TRUE roots are that of disco and hip hop.
We have disco that branched out into Hi-NRG, which helped create freestyle.
We have hip hop which brancehd out into electro funk and breakbeats, which helped create freestyle.
The theme of love came from funk, disco and Hi-NRG. The electro and breakbeats came from hip hop, which used disco to form the backbone for it's vocals.
Can this be any more true??!! I tried to make it as short and simple as possible. Of course for some, it doesnt matter what's written. Blazin made a very true and simple point in another thread, but it fell on deaf ears.
If you honestly don't think the roots of freestyle lie in disco and hip hop, you're as desperate and predujice as can be.
It is NOT a Latino creation.
Freestyle forever
If the truth hurts, close your eyes.
Freestyle is a fusion of disco, house and hip hop and electro funk.
Disco gave birth to the first ever released 12" single "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure in 1976. So, we know where the 12" record has it's roots.
We know disco began what we now recognize as "dance" music. As the years went by, disco would evovle into what we know to be "Hi-NRG", sometime around 1980. It was with Hi-NRG that dance music had a steady theme of love in it's message. Artists such as Thelma Houston, The Weather Girls and Phillis Nelson emerged.
During this time period, hip hop began to give birth as well.
Argueably the first commercial hip hop song came from from the usage of the song "Good Times" by the disco group Chic. The song was called "Rapper's Delight".
As artists such as Melle mel, The Sugar Hill Gang and others began to rap at The Fever in the Bronx, hip hop DJ's began to experiment various sounds by using samples from disco and funk (and rock). This created music was used so they would have something to rap over. Founders of hip hop were essentially DJ's such as Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
It was Grandmaster Flash who perfected sampling and looping, giving way to "breakbeats", so we now know where the roots of breakbeats come from. It comes from the sampling and looping of disco, funk and even rock music.
In the late 70's another DJ emereged...Afrika Bambaataa. During his record hunts, he would stumble across the European group Kraftwerk. This favorite of his would eventually be used to form the backbone of his own record Planet Rock. He simply sped up the record and added in breakbeats, combined with a rap-overtone. Kraftwerk heard the song and filed a lawsuit, which was eventuallt resolved.
Arthur Baker, who helped produce "PLanet Rock", also helped to produce "Play At Your Own Risk". Both these songs are known today as electro funk. Some refer to it as techno pop as well. I don't think I need to mention the importance of Hashim's Al-Naafiysh.
Quick review....disco helped to form the basis for hip hop, as the hip hop DJ's played, and later sampled disco heavily. Out of hip hop came electro funk shortly after. Hi-NRG also has it's roots in disco. From hip hip came breakbeats as well.
Then we have house and garage music which also paved the way for freestyle, as did disco, hip hop and electro funk. I think I've said enough, so I won't bother going into these as well.
The entire point is freestyle's TRUE roots are that of disco and hip hop.
We have disco that branched out into Hi-NRG, which helped create freestyle.
We have hip hop which brancehd out into electro funk and breakbeats, which helped create freestyle.
The theme of love came from funk, disco and Hi-NRG. The electro and breakbeats came from hip hop, which used disco to form the backbone for it's vocals.
Can this be any more true??!! I tried to make it as short and simple as possible. Of course for some, it doesnt matter what's written. Blazin made a very true and simple point in another thread, but it fell on deaf ears.
If you honestly don't think the roots of freestyle lie in disco and hip hop, you're as desperate and predujice as can be.
It is NOT a Latino creation.
Freestyle forever
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