Loved that when it came out, but people give it too much credit on the “pioneering sampling” thing. Sampling was already a thing, see also here
If you read hip hop family tree, or a number of word based history books on rap, it kid of did start out as a “punk scene” music. Took years before there was any real commercial success in the “urban radio” or records side of the business.
The article is MTV centric and as far as I know, by the time Die Antwoord came around, MTV had long since stopped being about music videos.
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Just think about the reactions to a song like Body Count’s Cop Killer vs. say Johnny Cash singing about similar themes. [/quote]
Curious as to which Johnny Cash song you are thinking of here?
IIRC from at least one Cash biography, he had trouble with his labels on various occasions about his songs.
Considering the number of gold and platinum records from Green Day, I’m not so sure about that…
That ship sailed long ago.
@Wanderfound would have done fine in Dallas or Austin in the 80s as well.
BTW, is your username at all related to Sly & Robbie?
Hip Hop is basically one of many bastard children of Jamaican musical traditions anyway. DJ Kool Herc, credited for being the first to loop breaks across two turntables was really just carrying on the Jamaican soundsystem tradition which also featured people talking/rhyming over instrumental versions of popular records.
