Saturday, July 2, 2011

Nothing New Under The Sun: Hip Hop

Growing up as children every new experience you learned was both new and exciting. Little did we know that our fresh experience and discovery regardless of how enlightened the experience had been was "experienced" before. So when we swear we just heard the most original song, saw the coolest movie, athlete, actor, or argue a topic yet to be addressed, most likely it came from some origin before your time, or, may be a carbon copy of someone or something before your time (see Lady Gaga/Madonna). 
Been there done that. Nothing new under the sun. The premise of history repeats itself. Those words were imparted to me by my pop growing up and it would drive me NUTS! This is what I thought of when I heard the Ticket host Donnie on BAD radio do a segment on where some popular rap songs origins came from. Pretty amazing stuff. Credit is definitely due to the producers of the world who can turn the "whack" into an epic beat track, which leads me to an obvious ironic epiphany, ...There's Nothing New Under The Sun.  Enjoy.
http://www.whosampled.com/

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