I wish this had been posted in its entirety so as to stimulate the discussion it was meant to stimulate.
I agree completely to the reasoning that it was made. Rap used to be a bold cultural statement that was uniquely that of it's creators.

The music industry had bastardized it into marginalized pop music at best. It became the trend to use the music to rise up out of the poverty. Once this trend started, The industry started to engineer it's own studio created blase crap and as long as money was involved, every one went along with it.

I miss the days of Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, Grand Master Flash, Shinehead, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Roxanne Shante and rest of the artists who pioneered the movement. I can't stand the stuff they call Rap now, the mainstream crap that flaunts a big bass, naked girls and MTV style.

It's like if U2 sold out and started making Pop albums and sat back and waited to get paid!
The Empowerment these artists garnered for themselves is all but gone. Sucked into the void of MTV and money sucking "soulless" big business, just like every other fresh music style to come along.

But that's just my opinion....
For some interesting reading - look here:
Kurtis Blow Presents: The History Of Rap
http://www.rhino.com/features/liners/72851lin.html

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This is everyday at high school for me. I was the only one who could pull off jumping jacks in the routine.

There is something different about this Run DMC video that I can't quite figure out.

sometimes:
It's kinda the same thing. What if I walked down the street or got up on stage always singing about how great white people are and how proud I am to be white? How do you think people would react? What would people of other races think about me?

An example of how this is just as silly:
"The world's full of hate discrimination and sin
People judgin other people by the color of skin
I'll attack this matter, in my own way"
-Run-DMC

...and then he goes on to single out a few great people simply because they have black skin. What about Abe Lincoln? Didn't he do something great for the black race? What if Martin Luther King Jr. was white? Asking not to be judged by something (i.e. Skin Color, sexual orientation) and then "Flaunting" it by talking about it all the time and being proud of the fact that it makes you different, is just childish to me. I want to be judged by my accomplishments and my deeds, not any other way. So, that's what I draw to other peoples attn by the things I say and by the way I act.

I don't go around screaming about how proud I am to be tall. It's obvious to everyone that I'm better than you when you stand next to me and you look all shrimpy.

to those who keep talking about not liking it when gays "flaunt it", or are overly proud, or are "flamers", or on "some kind of a mission:


do you have similar objections when Run-DMC says they are proud to be black? or what about when James brown would flaunt his blackness. Do you see a difference? if so, why?

Lol, my first understanding of the title of this post made me think that this would be a video about how the Run DMC song "Tricky" wants to make the author die.

Awesome band and video though.

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/1963-1st-Ad-With-Ronald-McDonald-wow-hes-changed
http://www.videosift.com/video/Run-DMC-with-Penn-Teller-Its-Tricky
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tom-Jones-Shes-a-Lady
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Brady-Bunch-kids-sing-Proud-Mary-the-70s-were-scary

Run DMC was truly musical. I am busting in my seat right now.

Sorry Farhad - Only just caught up to the queue now!

This definately gets my vote! The only Run DMC remix I have any respect for.