Sugar Hill Records Responds To KRS One

[KingsOfKings]

 

[get these nets]

Good post.

Robinson is copping pleas from the beginning, and the hosts keep interrupting him.

Sugarhill did what every record label does, they exploited young talent.
Have always said that, if it never got on wax, maybe hip hop fades out or remains a regional genre. So, not fair or accurate to say that its the worst thing to happen, but Krs is right about older Black executives ripping off young Black artists. No sidestepping it.

 

[King Sun]

This is the same guy that took the sugarhill gang name from the actual sugarhill gang and toured and made money off their names for years

 

[audemarzz]

This is the same guy that took the sugarhill gang name from the actual sugarhill gang and toured and made money off their names for years

The same group that blew up from bitten bars and nepotism

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Brehs speaking on Sugar Hill gang aint it strange how Hip Hop lyrically almost immediately went backwards in terms of lyricism?

Late 70’s to Early 80s blueprint:

Check it out, I'm the C-A-S-AN, the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y
You see, I go by the code of the doctor of the mix and these reasons I'll tell you why
You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a D
You see I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali and I dress so viciously
I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain't the whack
I got a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac
So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall
I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball
Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend
But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime 'til I made it again


Mid to Late 80’s Blueprint:

You might think that you have waited
Long enough 'till the rhyme was stated
But if it were a test, it would be graded
With a grade that's not debated
Nothing too deep and nothing dense
And all our rhymes make a lot of sense

 

[get these nets]

Brehs speaking on Sugar Hill gang aint it strange how Hip Hop lyrically almost immediately went backwards in terms of lyricism?

Late 70’s to Early 80s blueprint:

Check it out, I'm the C-A-S-AN, the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y
You see, I go by the code of the doctor of the mix and these reasons I'll tell you why
You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a D
You see I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali and I dress so viciously
I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain't the whack
I got a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac
So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall
I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball
Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend
But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime 'til I made it again


Mid to Late 80’s Blueprint:

You might think that you have waited
Long enough 'till the rhyme was stated
But if it were a test, it would be graded
With a grade that's not debated
Nothing too deep and nothing dense
And all our rhymes make a lot of sense

The Kool Moe Dee report card

The old school kings were surprised by RUN DMC's success.

We know them as the most important group in the history of the genre, but to the artists who preceded them, they were just another group.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Brehs speaking on Sugar Hill gang aint it strange how Hip Hop lyrically almost immediately went backwards in terms of lyricism?

Late 70’s to Early 80s blueprint:

Check it out, I'm the C-A-S-AN, the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y
You see, I go by the code of the doctor of the mix and these reasons I'll tell you why
You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a D
You see I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali and I dress so viciously
I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain't the whack
I got a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac
So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall
I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball
Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend
But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime 'til I made it again


Mid to Late 80’s Blueprint:

You might think that you have waited
Long enough 'till the rhyme was stated
But if it were a test, it would be graded
With a grade that's not debated
Nothing too deep and nothing dense
And all our rhymes make a lot of sense

 

[TripleAgent]

This nikka full of shyt.

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Artists should engage in contracts that return their rights to them at the point of recoupement

 

[TripleAgent]

Artists should engage in contracts that return their rights to them at the point of recoupement

Most have no idea you can, nor the leverage. They go in blind way too often.

 

[pawdalaw]

I blame Russell, something happened when he sold defjam. That was the biggest shift.

 

[CHICAGO]

Brehs speaking on Sugar Hill gang aint it strange how Hip Hop lyrically almost immediately went backwards in terms of lyricism?

Late 70’s to Early 80s blueprint:

Check it out, I'm the C-A-S-AN, the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y
You see, I go by the code of the doctor of the mix and these reasons I'll tell you why
You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a D
You see I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali and I dress so viciously
I got bodyguards, I got two big cars, that definitely ain't the whack
I got a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac
So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall
I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball
Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money than a sucker could ever spend
But I wouldn't give a sucker or a bum from the Rucker, not a dime 'til I made it again


Mid to Late 80’s Blueprint:

You might think that you have waited
Long enough 'till the rhyme was stated
But if it were a test, it would be graded
With a grade that's not debated
Nothing too deep and nothing dense
And all our rhymes make a lot of sense

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[get these nets]

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Good post.

Robinson is copping pleas from the beginning, and the hosts keep interrupting him.

Sugarhill did what every record label does, they exploited young talent.
Have always said that, if it never got on wax, maybe hip hop fades out or remains a regional genre. So, not fair or accurate to say that its the worst thing to happen, but Krs is right about older Black executives ripping off young Black artists. No sidestepping it.

One example out of many that shows this shyt was doomed from the start.