The Linndrum and DMX certainly had samples and so did the 909 hats and crashes, ride and hats.

No it doesn’t. Look up Toddy T and MixMaster Spade~ The Batterram -1985. First gangster rap song via LA

This guy keeps saying the old school analog drum machines have samples in them... i don't think he really knows what he's talking about to be honest.

@@mossadon- I suspect you may right… 🤔

Hashim

W O R D !!!!! One of the strongest Underground scenes in independent music. It never went away...it jus went deeper and deeper underground. We Are Visionary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWjMdGmKn7-sZqcsi=xGEaCXbwokqTRbiB

Kurtus with a "K" We just celebrated his 65th birthday this past weekend. Kurtis & Sugar Hill Gang aren't technically a sub genre since they were some of the first. In hindsight the dilettantes might refer to it as Disco Rap but that's not what it was back then because there were no different styles yet. It was just Rap. So called Gansta Rap is not firmly planted in West Coast. By the time it picked up momentum in California It was just more lucrative and therefore prominent there because it serendipitously coincided with the crossing over of Rap into the mainstream in the late 80's, where as East Coast Gangsta Rap was before and had already moved on. Hip Hop is from New York City therefore Gangsta Rap cannot be "firmly planted in West Coast". It's okay... it doesn't delegitimize anyone's talent or importance on The West Coast at all. California has always had its own take regardless of who did what first, but they did look to The East Coast for some time for their cues and inspiration before carrying itself. No shame in that :)

@@noshejustdidnot1923 I didn't say Curtis Blow was a sub genre of rap. That was original rap. Gangsta rap was born out of that. Got grittier. Gangsta rap had nothing to do with electro music or funk. It just took "rap" went rough and tough. Periodtttttt. Who are YOU to tell the history of well known Black genre of music.

@@chocolatecaramel4447 I told you it's Kurtus with a "K" ACT LIKE YOU KNOW!. Who are YOU??? I brought music to The West Coast during that time. I've been doing this for over 50 years and I was there. WHO ARE YOU??? You're definitely NOT one of us. or you'd know. You don't even have to be me to know; just use common sense. The LA Electro scene was the FIRST HIP HOP scene in LA so obviously the Gangsta Rappers grew up in that scene. You claimed Gangsta Rap was "FIRMLY PLANTED in West Coast", then turned around and admitted Hip Hop comes from New York. Get your stunt together before you come for me. If all you got to offer is ego don't bother. lol

@@noshejustdidnot1923since you were traveling between the two cities than you know the difference in gang culture between ny and southern California. This is why Los Angeles is credited with the origins of gangsta rap, you need gangs for gangsta rap and back then the East was 20 years out from taking cues from the West on learning how to bang. It was a way bigger movement than Skooly and Ice T. And that’s not to take anything away from NY’s role in rap music

@@garciaizm *yawn* - don't you have some hairs to split somewhere else? Take your penis envy to analysis. I'm bored with all you Wikipedia experts LOL

U serious bro?

you're 100% correct, nice catch. I actually have in the script "3-note pattern" instead of "triplet pattern" for this exact reason but must've messed up the recording

Kraftwerk, Eno, Cluster, Stockhausen.. so many legends

80s Electro was and still is exciting and energetic, not really heard anything as interesting since and it was very short lived, the only thing since was early Drum and Bass, Chicago House and early UK garage, since then underground electronic music has become stale and far too generic. Maybe AI can break that? EL has still got it.