White man doing a Black thing?
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your friends know nothing.
UB40 along with The Specials and The Beat were one of the few 'integrated 'groups.They were always having trouble at their early gigs due to the National Front and the BNP turning up to object to what they were doing.
Vanilla Ice was just a pop star reflecting the populist mood, didn't it turn out that it was not even him singing on his records?
Back in the 50's there was a lot of controversy about 'white ' radio stations playing music by black artists, as it was radio they did not know the colour of the artist.They even had doubts about playing Elvis when he started out
If you really want to hear white,middle class folk doing 'black' music you should give Tom Tom Club a listen to, it does not always work.
UB40 along with The Specials and The Beat were one of the few 'integrated 'groups.They were always having trouble at their early gigs due to the National Front and the BNP turning up to object to what they were doing.
Vanilla Ice was just a pop star reflecting the populist mood, didn't it turn out that it was not even him singing on his records?
Back in the 50's there was a lot of controversy about 'white ' radio stations playing music by black artists, as it was radio they did not know the colour of the artist.They even had doubts about playing Elvis when he started out
If you really want to hear white,middle class folk doing 'black' music you should give Tom Tom Club a listen to, it does not always work.
What would happen if it was a white guy slagging off a black guys efforts to do something like Rock. There would an almighty who-ha and the term racist would be flying around like it was going out of fashion.
What would your friends say if a white guy were to laugh at their efforts to do something because they didn't sound white Elrazur, would they be screaming ZOMG RACIALIST!!!!!!? I supsect they would.
Funny how they wanted to be treated the same but but discriminate because of peoples skin colour at the same time eh?
What would your friends say if a white guy were to laugh at their efforts to do something because they didn't sound white Elrazur, would they be screaming ZOMG RACIALIST!!!!!!? I supsect they would.
Funny how they wanted to be treated the same but but discriminate because of peoples skin colour at the same time eh?
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Gilly said:
Okay, you got me on that, it was technically the second rap record ever released, the fatback band had a record out a few weeks before. It was the first crossover track to the mainstream.
It would have been first though, the original was 15 minutes long, by the time they had whittled it down to 4 minutes odd, the fatback had theirs out, so its a bit of a blurred line as to which was technically first.
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I sit corrected. It was the first new-wave song to contain rap.Tru said:
She had way better legs than Vanilla Ice or Snow, though.
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I understood that Kurtis Blow was the first rap act to be signed to a major label and the first to have a rap single go gold (The Breaks).
But the Sugar Hill Gang were the first to have commercial success with Rappers Delight but were not signed to a major label at the time(can't hear that song without thinking of Turk from Scrubs with his alarm clock
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But the Sugar Hill Gang were the first to have commercial success with Rappers Delight but were not signed to a major label at the time(can't hear that song without thinking of Turk from Scrubs with his alarm clock
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ElRazur said:
er... i can only for some reason think of Lenny Kravitz right now and certainly no-one I can think of would **** him off for doing a 'white thing'. I mean Hendrix was a rock star too and he certainly wasn't white, so I don't know how you'd categorise it as such.
I don't think there are such things as 'white things' - none we'd want to lay claim to anyway
kitten_caboodle said:
Hendirix looks cool to me and Kravitz is good (love the tune - all i wanna do is get away....)
I wasnt trying to categorize as such, i was only using the same term my friend used - Black thing ... So as to put things into perspective.
ElRazur said:
I wasn't aiming my 1st comment at you, I was passing comment on what I'm sure would happen. As others have stated there are black guys in rock and no mention of their enthicity is made
My 2nd comment was a direct question for you
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ElRazur I wasnt trying to categorize as such said:
yeah i didn't mean you specifically, I meant that I'm unsure how anyone could categorise it because there's no hard and fast 'originals' if that makes sense.
Interesting point though.
