Let’s go to war with everyone: Today in Tweets

“Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang came out a full year before Blondie’s “Rapture”. I’m pretty sure they weren’t time travelers, either. So there’s no way Debbie invented it.

The rap tweet is asinine. Even Deborah Harry would probably note that Sugar Hill got there first with “Rapper’s Delight”, and “Rapture” itself namedrops Fab 5 Freddy…

While the history of rap is undoubtedly black, I always considered Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ to be the first rap record.

Due to poor hearing, I’ve always struggled to understand song lyrics (I google everything), I swear, for years I thought the line in “Rapture” was “… and it’s finger fucking, twenty-four hour shuffling…”

A man and woman were boating in the oceanic inlet off the coast of Seattle, when a rogue wave swamped the boat. The woman was a poor swimmer, and the man looked frantically for her, hoping to rescue her. He spied her head above the brine and swam frantically in her direction, only to find himself rescuing a rocky outcrop. Yes, the woman drowned because her beau did not know his lass from a shoal in the sound….

I’ll show myself out….

JFC, Rapture was the first #1 hit to feature rap, but Blondie didn’t invent the genre.

Christ, how I hate it when people re-write history to reflect their bigoted biases.

I wish I knew how to put memes, cause this is a prime time to put up the old The Stupid It Burns pic…

Rap wasn’t invented by Debbie Harry. It was invented by ancient aliens. If you go inside the Egyptian pyramids, you can hear gangsta rap echoing through the passageways. Geez. Everyone knows that.

The “Pence hack” is fake- it was just a parody site that Funny or Die made for April Fools’. Still funny, though.

Define ‘rap’.

Ages ago, on one of NPR’s jazz programs, they did a whole hour on a certain form of jazz (forgot the name of this variation) that was essentially a spoken poem with musical accompaniment. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Herron is possibly one of the better-known songs in this format:

https://youtu.be/qGaoXAwl9kw

This is not technically a rap song, but it is a taproot for that genre, I think.

Ohhhhhh…..fuckin’ hell. Debra Harry literally name checks a black DJ/rapper in the song Rapture.

But it isn’t like “black people” exactly invented rap from whole cloth either…like most musical art forms it’s derived from earlier forms and traditions – but yes, yes – rap came from the black musical community.

Bread
OK – the bread thing really struck a chord. I’m a twist and tuck / just tuck kinda gal. New bf has introduced the clippies to my life. My dad however, when he visits – he opens the bread by tearing a hole in the plastic about a quarter of the way from the top and then just leaves it. ARGGGGGHHHH!!!!

What is the bottle hack?

I want a grey kitty sooooo bad.

I’m…just gonna say again that Black folks made rap.A lot of folks here weren’t exposed to VERY early rap, beyond crossover stuff. Radio was still incredibly segregated in the 1980s. I remember the stigma and mainstream suppression back when rap was just primitive gibberish with no artistic merit, made up by 2nd generation Jamaican and Puerto Rican kids in the South Bronx. Rap’s appeal may now be universal, but its painful, struggle-filled roots are not, and suggesting otherwise is REALLY insulting.

Oh, here’s a White guy saying Scottish people and Vikings invented rap. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3998862/Rap-music-originated-in-medieval-Scottish-pubs-claims-American-professor.html