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give Japan is just due for all the shyt they've done to advance music, from a technological aspect as a whole...
The TR 808 and Walkman alone put Japan up in the top 3 for music.
As a nation, Jamaica is the most influential music nation outside of the USA
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give Japan is just due for all the shyt they've done to advance music, from a technological aspect as a whole...
The TR 808 and Walkman alone put Japan up in the top 3 for music.
JuvenileHell
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I miss the Jamaican swag in rap, when rappers would start rapping in Jamaican dialect.
KRS, Snoop and a whole lot of rappers usedot do this.
K.O.N.Y
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Who can forget DJ Kool Herc for creating MCing as we know it?
that actually goes to melly mel
JuvenileHell
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Who can forget DJ Kool Herc for creating MCing as we know it?
I don't know about the MC-ing side, but on the production side dude pretty much laid the blue print for hip hop production, chaining break loops together to form a new rhythm.
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we gon at like Jamaica don't only have one relevant genre though?
MegaTronBomb!
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we gon at like Jamaica don't only have one relevant genre though?
we gon act like that one relevant genre, isn't one of the most beloved and revered genres ever?
name a place on earth that doesn't love reggae
i don't even fukk with reggae like that, but
UK music is almost entirely regurgitated American music or heavily influenced by imported West Indian sounds (including Jamaican of course).
It's really sad that they've fooled the masses into believing all that shyt is homemade. The Police, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Adele, Winehouse all of that shyt is highly derivative of American or Jamaican music. There's nothing original about Zeppelin or the Stones.
Germany has contributed more to popular music than the UK. They pioneered electronic music and a few of the major styles like Trance (not that I'm into that shyt).
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we gon act like that one relevant genre, isn't one of the most beloved and revered genres ever?
name a place on earth that doesn't love reggae
i don't even fukk with reggae like that, but
Reggae has more than enough major sub genres and cousin genres like dub, ska, dancehall etc.
Dude you quoted doesn't understand the magnitude.
From a purely commercial standpoint you could argue that the UK is number one when you consider the number of huge selling artists they have produced relative to the size of the country. These are the type of artist's that appeal to the masses and leave a long lasting legacy. The list of artist's that achieved this from UK over the last half century is endless and just doesn't happen by chance.
No art form is ever 100% original different styles of music from the world over are having influence on each other.
It's not a matter of which nation is the most successful and produces the most famous people, it was a question of who's more influential. Clearly America and then Jamaica fathered most of these popular music styles. Eric Clapton is a lot more successful than all of the American bluesmen he ripped off but it would be ridiculous and foolish to call him more influential than them. The Insane Clown Posse have a way bigger fanbase than and appeal to the masses on a way larger scale than the Last Poets and Afrika Bambaataa but who's more influential to music?
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ThaRealness
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US, UK.... then Jamaica
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Track for track I got Pink Floyd and The Beatles on top of rock, worldwide. And obviously they did some original things.
But over here its almost like an inside joke that British acts sold Americas product back to them. I watched an extensive documentary interviewing a grip of the industry of the past and the gist of it was "silly white America, cant see the talent under their own nose (black America) so lets get this money".
And yeah Jamacian culture/music has its fingerprints all over Britsh urban music, moreso than US hiphop. Calling the British scene the most influential would be a stretch.
But over here its almost like an inside joke that British acts sold Americas product back to them. I watched an extensive documentary interviewing a grip of the industry of the past and the gist of it was "silly white America, cant see the talent under their own nose (black America) so lets get this money".
And yeah Jamacian culture/music has its fingerprints all over Britsh urban music, moreso than US hiphop. Calling the British scene the most influential would be a stretch.
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