James Brown is the father of hip hop, so who is the mother ?

[get these nets]

In your opinion, who would be elevated to the status of being considered the Mother of hip hop? and why?

had this discussion years ago and want to see who people name.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Probably Millie Jackson

Music Sermon: Millie Jackson - The Original Bad Girl
March 17, 2019 - 12:16 pm
by Naima Cochrane

You know that auntie who you were nervous to bring your young male friends around back in the day because she might proposition them in the kitchen when nobody was looking? Or the auntie liable to cuss out a family member or two after dinner for something that happened 12 years ago? The one that women in your family whispered about, warning not to leave men around alone? Who your mama didn’t want you to spend too much time with, but you were always excited to see because she was entertaining and was gonna slip you a little pocket change?

That auntie listens to Millie Jackson.

Millie Jackson is not just an R&B singer. She’s a Rhythm & Blues singer. She’s card party music. Your parents having people over and you’re not allowed to come downstairs music. Working class black folks hanging out down at the VFW after a long week with some well liquor music.

She’s been called “the queen of raunchy soul” and “the Godmother of rap,” because of her signature, no-holds-barred lyrical content and her long “raps” – profanity-laced, sexually explicit stories and jokes – interwoven through her songs and live sets. Auntie Millie is part singer and part outrageous comedienne – but don’t take her as a joke. She’s a deceptively serious artist, with career highlights that went largely unnoticed because of the raunch.

In our continued celebration of bad-ass women in music for the month of March, we present 11 essential Auntie Millie facts.

Music Sermon: Millie Jackson - The Original Bad Girl

 

[Bolzmark]

James Brown the Father of hip hop? Ehhhh...I don't know about that one fam. For one, he had some pretty negative things to say about hip hop back in the day. "All you rappers get off my tip!" was one of the things he said. If he was the Father he was an unintentional father and was mad at the chick for forcing him to be a Dad and pay child support. Secondly, yes there was a time when EVERYBODY was sampling Brown. But that started around the mid 80's. Hip hop had been around a good 13 years or so before that.

 

[get these nets]

Probably Millie Jackson

Her name came up. People probably associate her influence in Little Kim, but HWA and BWP from late 80s are her daughters too.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Her name came up. People probably associate her influence in Little Kim, but HWA and BWP from late 80s are her daughters too.

I also heard people say Teena Marie for her rap part in Square Biz. I think it was on her Unsung episode.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

James Brown the Father of hip hop? Ehhhh...I don't know about that one fam. For one, he had some pretty negative things to say about hip hop back in the day. "All you rappers get off my tip!" was one of the things he said. If he was the Father he was an unintentional father and was mad at the chick for forcing him to be a Dad and pay child support. Secondly, yes there was a time when EVERYBODY was sampling Brown. But that started around the mid 80's. Hip hop had been around a good 13 years or so before that.

So it's probably a toss up between James Brown and George Clinton. They need to go on Maury and have a paternity test for Hip Hop? Lmao

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Ain’t no mother. Hip Hop is motherless. That’s why it’s so rough

 

[get these nets]

James Brown the Father of hip hop? Ehhhh...I don't know about that one fam. For one, he had some pretty negative things to say about hip hop back in the day. "All you rappers get off my tip!" was one of the things he said. If he was the Father he was an unintentional father and was mad at the chick for forcing him to be a Dad and pay child support. Secondly, yes there was a time when EVERYBODY was sampling Brown. But that started around the mid 80's. Hip hop had been around a good 13 years or so before that.

that's your opinion

but JB released this in 1984

JB is, to me the father of 90% of the music that came after him. period.

Before rappers started sampling him in later years......djs used to loop the breaks of his songs at parties to get the dancing into overdrive.

 

[Shade]

It's not just sampling but also his funk style that created the 808s

 

[get these nets]

I also heard people say Teena Marie for her rap part in Square Biz. I think it was on her Unsung episode.

thanks, TM's flow wasn't bad.


always wanted to know who wrote those bars. gonna look that up

my intro to Millie Jackson was when she did a record with Whodini.

 

[Bolzmark]

that's your opinion

but JB released this in 1984

JB is, to me the father of 90% of the music that came after him. period....hip hop or otherwise.

Before rappers started sampling him in later years......djs used to loop the breaks of his songs at parties to get the dancing into overdrive.

Uhhh, yeah I said mid 80's. But you understand the year hip hop is considered to have started is 1973. And maybe you haven't heard of Kool Herc. Actually its ridiculous to call Brown the Father of Hip Hop over Kool Herc. And his knocks on rap music are not my opinion, they are facts.

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

thanks, TM's flow wasn't bad.


always wanted to know who wrote those bars. gonna look that up

my intro to Millie Jackson was when she did a record with Whodini.

Mine was the "pass the peas like we used to do" episode of Martin lol

 

[Yapdatfool]

Lyn Collins?

Nina Simone?

Billie Holliday?

 

[get these nets]

Uhhh, yeah I said mid 80's. But you understand the year hip hop is considered to have started is 1973. And maybe you haven't heard of Kool Herc. Actually its ridiculous to call Brown the Father of Hip Hop over Kool Herc. And his knocks on rap music are not my opinion, they are facts.

If JB had a problem, it was probably over rap artists and their record companies STEALING his music without compensating him.

Hip hop has many elements but James Brown's music and influence was as important as ANY of them , was my point.
herc,bam,flash and any other pioneering dj would agree.

 

[get these nets]

Lyn Collins?

Nina Simone?

Billie Holliday?

LC was my answer