Probably unknown to most is that she also was the lead singer and rapper of the first female hip hop group called The Sequence signed to Sugar Hill Records in 1979.
1981 in Hip Hop music (remake of a song by Parliament): https://open.spotify.com/track/7jMyX1E3AXdZyTqgkDkIVs?si=Z70b-4k9RxWvXlx384cYvQ
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Funky Sound (Tear the Roof Off)
The Sequence · Song · 2000
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We have two candidates to represent 1982 in rap history.
1. Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five who brought the conscious (nowadays you would say woke) element to a party culture that Hip Hip mainly was in the 70s.
1. Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five who brought the conscious (nowadays you would say woke) element to a party culture that Hip Hip mainly was in the 70s.
2. There is Afrika Bambaataa. A figure, who founded the Zulu Nation and thereby helped spread the culture around the globe. Kraftwerk fans will probably like this:
If you haven't been young in the 70s and lived in South Bronx you still get the chance to feel the vibe of the first Block partys. Watch the show The Get Down (Netflix). Narrated by Nas. Lots of dancing, music and graffiti. That I enjoyed it, is an understatement. It gave me a Hip Hop boner.
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TIL that David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, is also a DJ. His Spotify profile has 550,000 monthly listeners. He's performed in nightclubs and music festivals in New York, Miami, and the Bahamas. [Source]