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UPDATED: 05/01/06 11:32 - Terraforming * The Desert |
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For Gus Gables. 
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As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
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Rap History Learn More, Be More © 2006 The now legendary Jamaican born DJ Kool Herc, left home and moved to New York. It was the late 1960's and he brought with him the Jamaican tradition of Toasting, which involved reciting improvised rhymes, over instrumental sections of reggae records. It was like a Black Poetry that told it how it was; it reflected an old tradition from Medieval England, where a minstrel would visit villages singing out the news of the times to those who had not heard yet. DJ Kool Herc used twin turntables and cut back and forth between two separate records to create a new sound. He would chant things like Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like ya just don't care! This type of interaction with the crowd, was known as rapping. At that time Rap, improvised rhymes, was not yet known as Rap but called MC-ing. Kool later turned his attention to DJ-ing and let his two main friends, Coke La Rock, and the super Clark Kent, handle the microphone. This was Rap music's first MC team. They became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids. Grand Wizard Theodore, which he discovered accidentally, was the first DJ to Scratch; this is stopping the record on the turntable and moving it back and forth. Apparently he was playing his music very loud, as you do, and his mother, as they do, was shouting at him from another room. In the confusion of it all, he stopped both turntables with his fingers, this stopped the sound but as he moved the table back and forth he heard a new sound in his earphones. Turntables were driven by thin round belts and this did not damage anything. He went on to experiment with different recordings and created a new sound that people could understand. He has since been awarded by the International Turntable Foundation for creating the Scratch. "Rappers Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang, was one of the first rap recordings. It became a huge international hit and went on to become the best selling 12 inch record ever, selling millions of copies world wide. From this the term Hip-Hop, was coined. They used beats and base lines from the disco track, Good Times. Utilizing beats from a wide variety of sources such as old gospel, Jazz, James Brown and Mo-Town, Soul, Funk, Disco and remixing them became known as sampling, the now musical core of hip hop. Boyz In Da Hood, Beastie Boys, shout out, real, Shaolin, Chi Town, chopper, slugger, shit, bird, triple O.G., Sosa, D.O.C., Kanye West, bumboklaat, wicked, Y.G., TNA, drop it like it's hot, O.T., billie, thick, Nep-town, Whammies, codie, creased up, bust grapes, phat, QB piece, Extince, Brainpower, T.I., rider, hecka, dust dirt off your shoulders, percussion break, BOV, rap, NYC, scraper
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MUSIC Gangsta's Paradise Coolio
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I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left
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Coolio was born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. on August 1, 1963, in the South Central L.A. area of Compton. As a young boy, he was small, asthmatic, but highly intelligent, and could have read for California. This made life outside the home difficult. His parents divorced when he was 11, and searching for a way to fit in at school, he started running with the Baby Crips and getting into trouble. Even so, he still wasn't really accepted and was never formally inducted into the gang; he tried to make up for it by creating a menacing, unstable persona and carrying weapons to school, and his once-promising scholastic career wound up falling victim to his violent, poverty-stricken environment. At 17, he spent several months in jail for larceny (apparently after trying to cash a money order that had actually been stolen by one of his friends). After high school, he studied at Compton Community College; he also began taking his high school interest in rap to the stage and took his performing name from a dozen contests in which someone called him "Coolio Iglesias." He became a regular on Los Angeles rap radio station KDAY and cut one of the earlier SoCal rap singles, "Watcha Gonna Do." Unfortunately, he also fell prey to crack cocaine addiction, which derailed his music career. Coolio entered rehab and straightened himself out by taking a job as a firefighter in the forests of northern California. Upon returning to L.A. a year later, he worked various odd jobs -- including security at Los Angeles International Airport -- while getting his rap career back on track. |
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. . . . . living in the Gangsta's Paradise
The Lord Is My Shepherd Psalm 23The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures He leadeth me beside the still waters He restoreth my soul He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. Amen |
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That's why I know my life is outta luck, fool |
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The Great Coolio with Gangsta's Paradise
As
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Chorus:
They
got the situation
Chorus:
Power
and the money, money and the power
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