Hstory of Rp Msic
Course Section: The History of Rap MusicSpecific purpose: To inform my audience on the history of rap music.Thesis: Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling.Central idea: I want my audience to know and understand the roots of rap musicI. Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling. There are few artists who can hold an audience's attention for more than one hit record. There are even fewer who have the ability in this day and age to release an album that can be listened to and enjoyed in it's entirety. It's a small miracle in the year 2002 that an artist has a catalogue of music that can be looked upon as a complete body of work.II. Rap music wasn't even considered a category at the Grammy's until the late 80's. It is surprising to me because rap is a form of music and it took so long to be recognized in mainstream. A. Its not a mystery, its history, and here's how it goes. 1. Two years ago, a friend of mine, asked me to say some MC rhymes" and since then Run DMC has never looked back. The rap superstars have done it all and then some ever since they took the U.S. music scene by storm with Its Like That and Sucker MC's in the early 80's.
As DMC puts it ``Run-DMC is like a marriage. You're not supposed to break up what God brings together. Biggie was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Run DMC were responsible for pretty much every first in rap music: Some of the Run DMC's history-making achievements which changed the face of rap and popular music: · The first rap group to win a Grammy Award · The first rappers to grace the cover of Rolling Stone · The first rap act to earn a gold album (RUN-DMC/1984) · The first rap act to earn a platinum album (King Of Rock/1985) · The first rap act to earn a multi-platinum album (Raising Hell/1986) · The first rap group to have their videos played on MTV · The first rappers to appear on "American Bandstand" and "Saturday Night Live" · The first rap act to reach the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 ("Walk This Way"/1986) 2.
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