Lol I was lost at first but I see what you did there
How did African Americans become the "coolest" race in the world?
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Its not and that's just the end of discussion. You no nothing of the world and think because it shaped your country that it must have shaped everyone else. Knowing an artist and having a couple of japanese kids wear their hat backwards does not make it the most influential, it's not even close, that kid will wear his hat straight after a few years and a kid. But that kid even when he is 90 will brush his teeth and wear pants, that is what you call influential.You're trying to use hiphop as straw man but its not gonna work out in your favor
Aside from being one the most influential cultures in the world that generated BILLIONS of dollars in direct sales, there's an argument that can be made for it's responsibility, at the very least in creating the tools responsible, for modern day Cut & Paste culture. Hip hop music is the most shining, and most realized example of Cut & Paste culture presented as an art form. Taking a sitar sample from here, some drums from a white rock group here, and some synthesizers from a german new wave group and somehow blending that into a beautiful mix is POWERFUL.Add a nikka like Rakim on top of that spitting pro black lyrics with a dash of mysticism, metaphors, and a smooth, effortless flow and you got something damn near Nuclear.
The limitations of digital sampling equipment in the 80's forced black kids to find a way to push the equipment beyond it's limitations to get the most out of the machines. The adjustments to these limitations created some of the most powerful black music ever made. The companies responded in various ways as well, first by adding more sample time and increased sample quality. Later, as technology advanced and memory became more affordable, they started adding things like waveform editing so you can visually see what you were recording. Programs like Recycle! and Acid come to mind specifically for loops but companies like Digidesign, later renamed to it's parent company Avid, took this to it's height.
Avid ProTools is the most popular digital multimedia recording program on the market. Just about everything you see and hear is being ran thru that program. The beauty of that program, and EVERY OTHER DAW ON THE MARKET, is the ability to do what? Cut and paste things from one track to another. You know.. that shyt those black kids in the projects were doing
The whole approach to the way we present digital media GLOBALLY is directly influenced by African Americans, creating African American music known as RAP, spawned from the African American culture of Hip Hop.
Protools was used to primarily for mixing down movies oddly enough, it is used for all genres, not just hiphop, in fact it's mostly used for sound tracks more than hiphop. Are you seriously trying to take credit for DAWs
Evan Brook isn't even an AA. You literally wrote a huge paragraph saying nothing
The art of rapping over a beat aka an MC came from Jamaicans on top of that.
Then you should say musically the most influential. Culturally is talking about an array of different forms, and so far, you lot have only said music.
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
Rapping didn't have anything to do with Jamaicans other than Kool Herc's parents being from there.
He borrowed a speaker from his dad. That is the extent.
Toasting? Came from African American Soul Djs in the 1930s-50s...YOUR people heard their styles on the radio and imitated the shyt. Made a whole genre out of a piece of what we do...Just like the hispanics took dembow and made a genre out of one riddim. There are far less of you than us and our cultural influence is greater, due to it being responsible for your global music output. Without us, there would be no "reggae"...you dumb jake.
Free White & 21
AAGang
Its not and that's just the end of discussion. You no nothing of the world and think because it shaped your country that it must have shaped everyone else. Knowing an artist and having a couple of japanese kids wear their hat backwards does not make it the most influential, it's not even close, that kid will wear his hat straight after a few years and a kid. But that kid even when he is 90 will brush his teeth and wear pants, that is what you call influential.
Protools was used to primarily for mixing down movies oddly enough, it is used for all genres, not just hiphop, in fact it's mostly used for sound tracks more than hiphop. Are you seriously trying to take credit for DAWs
You literally wrote a huge paragraph saying nothing
The art of rapping over a beat aka an MC came from Jamaicans on top of that.
Pure idiocy.
I forgot we roasted your dumb ass in the Root for trying to claim Africa wasn't dominated by white supremacy.
This conversation is over.
Easily the biggest losers on this site. They literally ran in here like a moth to a flame on some insecure shyt.
The art of rapping over a beat aka an MC came from Jamaicans on top of that.
That would be like stating whites dominate your culture since they own your masters, is this true or false?
The instruments you used to even create said music came from where?
I mean, it would be like being a cac and stating we have influenced so much in order to feel as though you can make it out of poverty you need to live and breath the sport we created. In fact, sports like football (soccer) are real influences. Football is a religion to the entire world. Are you telling me hiphop is equal to football?
American football and basketball have shaped the lives of AAs more than hiphop has shaped the lives of american cacs.
You people need to see the world if you think you're one of the most influential, not even top 5.
And I actually like AA culture, but I'm not delusional. Music I would say easily number 1, but culture? no, make it stop. and so to answer the OPs question how did it go global? Jewish execs and large population with a massive infrastructure to support it and broadcast it, after all, it is the worlds only superpower.
American football and basketball have shaped the lives of AAs more than hiphop has shaped the lives of american cacs.
You people need to see the world if you think you're one of the most influential, not even top 5.
And I actually like AA culture, but I'm not delusional. Music I would say easily number 1, but culture? no, make it stop. and so to answer the OPs question how did it go global? Jewish execs and large population with a massive infrastructure to support it and broadcast it, after all, it is the worlds only superpower.
BrandonBanks
Arab Money
The world doesn't run on "swag"....when we realize this, we can really make some power moves and run some shyt.
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
Soccer is just a game. Hip hop is a soundtrack..hip hop can be played at a soccer game. When they get off the field, they're playing hip hop. When their phone rings, 99% of the music coming out is going to be influenced by african americans...from rock to everything else unless it's some ethnic folk music from a country we don't be at...and I bet even nikkas out there try to rap. Shut your salty island ass up and worry about serving crakkkas on their vacations w/ your foolish pride having ass. Got whole countries to yourselves, c00ning it up and asking white daddy for help.
a style that not everyone abides too on top of that. It is a subculture. Jeans are not a subculture, everyone wears it. Not everyone listens to hiphop, even if they know what it is. I know what salsa is, but not everyone dances it.
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
nikka shut your goofy pontificating ass up, this is a fukkery conversation.
You talk all this shyt and show no evidence of real life moves, so you're just as bad as the trolling nikkas and c00ns.
Really...just bow out and be verbose for no reason somewhere else. fukk your pseudo black nationalism. You may even be a cac troll, spouting out all that generic baby boomer era bullshyt. All those old nikkas got smashed. It's time for something else...so fukk you.
Sports and music are art forms you fukking idiot. That's about as stupid as saying. Hiphop is just music
Again, football and hiphop are not even on the same wavelength. Societies shaped from political and economic systems or every day hygienic products that have moved mankind forward, and your claiming you're on par with that?
and who the hell is from the islands?