B-13 Peer Review: Is Hip Hop Due For an Inferno!!!!!????

1979 Disco Inferno Night, Local News Coverage

 
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Hip- Hop was introduce in 1979 to the world buy Sylvia Robinson, Joe Robinson, and Milton Malden. It was brought to us on the heels of the Disco Inferno. (Video Above) Hip- Hop in it's insertion was designed to give a glimpse into the black experience. It peered into common fortuitous experiences that we (at the time) all had and not until Rapper's Delight did we hear our experiences beyond discussions among family and friends. We did not realize how common these experiences were in the black community until the spotlight was shone on it by SugarHill Gang in Rapper's Delight. Consequently, Rapper's Delight is the first Hip- Hop single to reach the top 40. 

Hip- Hop had a very successful run with great artists like, Sequence, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Funky Four Plus One, Crash Crew, Treacherous Three, and the West Street Mob. 
Kurtis Blow, LLCool J, Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff, Public Enemy, Miss Melody, Run DMC, Eric B and Rakim, Doug E Fresh and the get fresh crew, Big Daddy Kane, Boogie Down Productions, Audio Two, N.W.A, Ice T, Slick Rick, Just Ice, Funky 4 plus 1, Schoolly D, Beastie Boys, Ultramagnetic MC's, MC Lite, KRS One, Stop The Violence Movement, The Treacherous Three, De La Soul, EPMD, Stetsasonic, MC Shan, Biz Markie, Eazy E, The D.O.C., Roxanne Shante, Marley Marl, Afrika Bambaattaa, Fearless Four, Just Ice, Gang Starr, UTFO, J.V.C. Force, Monie Love, Queen Latifah, Slick Rick, Mantronix, Kool G Rap, DJ Polo, Tuff Crew, Rob Bass, Fat Boys, just to name a few. 

These artist expressed love, enjoyment, pleasure, light heartedness, community, politics, knowledge, information, and outrage at the racist political climate of the time and beyond. It was a time that blacks were middle class overwhelmingly and that the poor were upwardly mobile. Industry was strong and jobs were plentiful. You didn't have to even have a high school diploma to have a good paying job. 

The Introduction of Keynesian Economics

Then Reganomics was introduced! Designed to kill off the Black American middle class and poor upwardly mobile. Regan gave us Trickle Down Economics. Regan restructured the Corporate structure robbing the workers of there investments, pensions, healthcare, and job security. He emptied the mental institutions putting the mentally challenged on the streets. De-funded education, recreation, and parks. Privatized the Post Office and Prisons. Moreover, he put the drug trade on the stock market, and distributed American munitions to foreign governments. 

How Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class


Then we were subjected to the Bush Administration's influence on Hip- Hop in the backlash of mainstream America's affront to Ice T's Cop Killer , and N.W.A's F**k The police.President Bush had a secret meeting with a majority of the hip hop artists, above mentioned. What would betided this meeting changed everything, all or some of the artists left hip hop others conformed. Hip Hop would never be the same. 



The Secret Meeting That Destroyed Hip Hop


This new movement was intended to create slavery all over again. A constitutional flaw or the misinterpretation thereof has created free and cheap labor for the elites.  

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