musical influences-(NON-RAP)!!!!!!

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I just wanted to know who were everybodies musical influences -non rap/hiphop......like from another genre(blues,rock etc.)I personally have MADD influences that ain't black music......tell me yours and I'll tell you mines!!





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pgm - where in boston r u from...and do you have anything up that i can listen to?
 
gec,
I'm from Roxbury........nah I don't have nothin' up for ya....yet.
 
Roxybury.............the boys in the ghetto of boston...hahahhaha................

lemme know when ya got somethin up
 
aight...

black/funk rock:
living colour, bad brains, 24/7 spyz, fishbone, chili peppers

reggae:
cutty ranks, buju banton, aswad, cappleton, marley

old 80's new wave:
the smiths, the cure, the church

jazz:
buckshot lefonque (brandford marsalis), miles davis

???:
brand new heavies, jamiroqui

blues:
buddy guy, muddy waters, bobby blue bland, albert collins, mississippi john hurt
 
I just listened to a lot of everything. Nothing really sticks out in my mind. Just a whole bunch of different music. All i know is when they starting playing underground hiphop and rap cats on the local public FM station. It was just over. I can remember hearing some songs by unknowns i've only heard once. Heard some of the first songs by some big cats now. I had to start record shows cuz it was on so late. If i was luck my tape would run into the reggae show that came on after that. I'd play those tapes til they popped. It's been down hill since.
 
LAZI said:
I can remember hearing some songs by unknowns i've only heard once. Heard some of the first songs by some big cats now. I had to start record shows cuz it was on so late. If i was luck my tape would run into the reggae show that came on after that. I'd play those tapes til they popped. It's been down hill since.

Daamn! That is the exact same thing that happened to me! It was one show and I used to either stay up to tape it, or try to wake up every 45 minutes to change the tape. And there was a reggae show that came on after that too! I got like two boxes of those tapes somewhere in the house.

INFLUENCES

I grew up on African music
My pops is a jazz fiend:D
My sister used to play percussions for Latin bands
My older siblings had me listening to rock and heavy metal. I wouldn't say it influenced me though.
My older sister: mostly british groups like Duran Duran and Scritipoliti
My Older brother: Def Leppard, Van Halen, Living Color, Motley crew, some Crow group, and a bunch of others... except metalica.
I don't listen to that stuff anymore, shit, he don't even listen to it anymore.

They also had me listening to Prince, Janet, all the other black artists.

When I got old enough to make and spend my own little money, all i bought was rap. Cause where we lived at the time,(Sarasota, Florida) there was nothin but Bass music, I couldn't stand it. The radio stations was all SHIT. Until that fateful night, just like LAZI said.

Now it's mostly African music and Hip hop I listen to.
 
Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Chris Mihn Doky...

Joeski... James Holden...
 
yo......
I got MADD influences of ALL types of styles and colors........


Duran Duran....Hall and Oates......Culture Club.......VanHalen.....
Phil Collins......


Lionel Ritchie......The Temptations.....4 Tops.........Teddy Pendergrass....Luther(no latname needed!).......James Ingram.....
Marvin Gaye......Al Green......Parliament .....Funkadelic.......Gap Band.......Cameo.......Michael Jackson(fa' sho).......

even some country shit I can't even remember!

Yeah,I'm black...but I feel that MUSIC IS MUSIC.......PERIOD!!!!

Ican listen to VanHalen one minute and then go straight to Biggie in the same hour........actually I lift some of the illest samples of of non rap music......I actually prefer NOT to sample off of hiphop joints.....a week ago I was in Tower records and for some reason I picked up Def Leppard (it was 3.00) and DAMN ..........I got some
ILL samples off of it........if you don't appreciate music in general
no matter who makes it,you might call me a sell out or something
but I think that by me lovin' ALL types of music I understand and appreciate the talent and hardwork it takes to make it!By me prefferin' NOT to lift samples or something off of rap joints I get the fresh sound goin'.....you'd be AMAZED at how phat a homemade drumloop,a guitar loop from Metallica and a string sample from Mozart can sound so fresh and so clean!Sorry about babblin' I just gotta letcha know that I LOVE MUSIC.....ALL OF IT!!!

.......................ONE...........

p.s. any body out there hear what I'm sayin'?
 
Its kool to listen to more thatn hip-hop....--Common
1.Papa Roach
2.Son House (legendary blues singer)
3.reggae
4.Me *wink*
 
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....got alot but just to name 3 in no order

- Billy Idol

- The Doors

- Nirvana
 
I listen to everything...................


I'll cop almost anything that was recorded before 1975, sample it, and formulate one of the illest hip hop bangas any of you have ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Anyone with doubts hit me up and I'll prove it!!!!!!!!!!!
 
PGM - I love your attitude towards music. It is because some of us are open-minded that different genres of music have been allowed to grow. Rock grew out of jazz, blues, country, etc. Hip-hop came from R+B, funk, soul, etc. The biggest thing in "pop" music these days is still the marriage of rap and rock - Kid Rock; Linkin Park; bands like those. It's not that new an idea... back in the mid '80's, you had Aerosmith teaming up with Run DMC, and Public Enemy teaming up with Anthrax. It was a great enough combination to generate a whole genre years later!!

Chris

I wonder what would happen with more classical influences as you quoted, mixed in with country and rap....

If you take something bizarre and run with it, you're bound to be original.
 
Attilah,
That's what I'm sayin' son.....I get the illest samples off of old shit that most of the time ain't even black music.Keepin' it fresh dawg!
When I go into a record store I'll get the latest rap joint of course,but I ALWAYS cop something that I never even heard of before......literally.......just because it's in front of me......I have this talent (If you can call it that) of ALWAYS finding SOMETHING I like in any kind of music...yesterday I bought this Swedish album for the hell of it!

Chris-thanks for the reply!I see you understand me.GOOD MUSIC IS GOOD MUSIC..........PERIOD!
 
something to check out...

I'm an old man compared to most of the hip-hoppers out there (32...oooohhhh), but I remember hearing WAY back an interesting story about sampling in the early days of rap.

People would get a vinyl copy of a 1980'ish album called "The Tale of the Tape" by Billy Squier (a "classic rocker" now, most known for his hit in 1982 called "The Stroke."). The first song (I believe it's the first anyways...) is a song called "The Big Beat." The first four bars is just a drum beat with NOTHING underneath, and early rappers (indie people at that time....) would tape loop that section and put their rhymes over top of it.

Anyone know this story/tune? It's a super simple drum beat, but one of those "funky in it's simplicity" kinda things....

Chris
 
one day i'll put my sampler to use

Great Thread

musical interest

anything with more than 2 musical notes that's listenable (played in some kind of scale) basically almost anything

Musical influence

Jazz ...Jazz more Jazz
not too much on big band the solos are too constructed,
but still love compositions by Duke Ellington , Count Bassie and the rest
Did i mention JAZZ..OK
Classicals , African Music , Rock (only on the radio)

Black Music (60's 70's) before we could sell the same instrumentals for Rap to R&B singers

Blues "the Roots"
John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim , Big Bill Broozy, Jimmy Reed...man listen

Carribean Music

I can be found riding with a cd from these musical greatnest
Bob Marley
Johann Bach
Miles Davis
Coltrane (not with more than 3 cars on the road cuz you need to get lost in the Horn)
Charlie Bird
Mulgrew Miller
Eric Reed
a Blues compilation
along with my Hip Hop selection of the week

i started buying some old Hip hop albums and it's a greatly refreshing considering i'm not on the radio or they won't have me on the radio

Long live Hip Hop
 
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