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[Clem Cole]

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Apologies in advance if this is found too far off list or offensive.  But
some how I think many on this list might find it amusing.   One of my
friends who stayed academic sent this me…. his comment was this surfaced
when students were asking for better music to code to:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rG74rG_ubs



Warning language is not PG but the it is ‘rapper cursing’ and might even be
allowed over the airwaves without ‘beeping’ by some stations.   That said,
I suggest/recommend head phones so not to offend someone by the language.
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[Dan Cross]

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Thanks for sending this; there's actually an entire genre of
"herdcore" hip-hop along similar lines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8VTmy5clHk

As someone who used to live very close to the Boogie Down[*], I think
it's an interesting subcultural thing, though it strays awfully close
to appropriation in some cases (yeah Monzy, odds are really good
you'll make it through the Stanford PhD program without getting shot.
There's not a lot of physical violence in the "Computer Science
Game").

        - Dan C.

[*] "The Boogie Down" is hip-hop slang for the New York City borough
of the Bronx and is generally credited as the place where rap/hip-hop
was born in the early-1970s. Google did a doodle for this earlier this
year: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop,
narrated by the one and only Fab 5 Freddy. I'm a Manhattanite, but
used to live a couple of blocks from the 155th St overpass that leads
down to the Macombs Dam Bridge that features in the beginning of the
seminal Eric B & Rakim video for "I Ain't No Joke": uptown represent.
They who think wrong are they who can't do that style that I'm doing.
(The video actually shows the section of 155th St under the overpass,
which gets confusing because the road on the overpass is also 155th
St. Explaining that to cab drivers used to be fun. It's amusing, I
used to park my car in the parking lot off-camera to the right of that
shot.)

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> Apologies in advance if this is found too far off list or offensive.  But
> some how I think many on this list might find it amusing.   One of my
> friends who stayed academic sent this me…. his comment was this surfaced
> when students were asking for better music to code to:
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rG74rG_ubs
>
>
>
> Warning language is not PG but the it is ‘rapper cursing’ and might even be
> allowed over the airwaves without ‘beeping’ by some stations.   That said,
> I suggest/recommend head phones so not to offend someone by the language.
>
>

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[Don Hopkins]

> On 7 Nov 2017, at 17:05, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for sending this; there's actually an entire genre of
> "herdcore" hip-hop along similar lines:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8VTmy5clHk
> 
> As someone who used to live very close to the Boogie Down[*], I think
> it's an interesting subcultural thing, though it strays awfully close
> to appropriation in some cases (yeah Monzy, odds are really good
> you'll make it through the Stanford PhD program without getting shot.
> There's not a lot of physical violence in the "Computer Science
> Game").
> 
>        - Dan C.

Except for a few notable exceptions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_file_systems&oldid=209063556#Features <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_file_systems&oldid=209063556#Features>

-Don

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[Steve Nickolas]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Dan Cross wrote:

> [*] "The Boogie Down" is hip-hop slang for the New York City borough
> of the Bronx and is generally credited as the place where rap/hip-hop
> was born in the early-1970s. Google did a doodle for this earlier this
> year: https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop,
> narrated by the one and only Fab 5 Freddy.

That would explain the name "Boogie Down Productions" that got sampled a 
lot around the turn of the millennium.

-uso.

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[Dan Cross]

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Dan Cross wrote:
>
>> [*] "The Boogie Down" is hip-hop slang for the New York City borough
>> of the Bronx and is generally credited as the place where rap/hip-hop
>> was born in the early-1970s. Google did a doodle for this earlier this
>> year:
>> https://www.google.com/doodles/44th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-hip-hop,
>> narrated by the one and only Fab 5 Freddy.
>
> That would explain the name "Boogie Down Productions" that got sampled a lot
> around the turn of the millennium.

Close. "Boogie Down Productions" is a specific group (actually a trio)
that formed in the South Bronx (I guess the term "Boogie Down" is kind
of specific to the South Bronx; I mean, it's kind of hard to image
much boogie-ing happening in Parkchester or Riverdale...). BDP's only
constant member, KRS One, was/is highly influence and considered
something of an elder in the rap community.

I'm afraid this is VERY far afield from the typical TUHS content,
though. In deference to other list members, I'm going to bow out of
the history of hip hop and NYC geography before I incur the wrath of
Warren et al. :-)

        - Dan C.