20/20 Report Hip-Hop Special (1981) – Part 2

1. LISA ROBINSON!!!!!!!! RADIO 1990!

2. The portable beatbox…funny how we believed that.

3. Fast Lane Street Credentials-Rap and Street Education

   Thanks for sharing this video! I hope that this is shown in schools
   throughout the world. Here’s one important correction of the statement that
   was made at 5:18 of this video that “there’s nothin but White folks in
   Poland, and South America, and in Europe”. Besides the fact that Poland is
   part of Europe, it should be noted that back then & now there’ were & are
   Black people & other People of Color in South America, Poland & in other
   European nations. -an African American sista

4. Hip-hop/rap in 1981! When disco was dying, a new music form took its’
   place. It’s replacing rock as the #1 genre of music in most of the world.
   Back then, it was controversial due to still evident forms of racism,
   classism & generational gaps. But its part of the African-American
   tradition of their own music: like rock before, evolved among them, then
   crosses every cultural barrier to become the mainstream form of American
   pop music. Rap/hip-hop described the urban black or Latino experience. +

5. thats why hip hop is cool, DJs are just as important as MCs in the culture.

6. 4:52 – This guy is responsible for half the stuff you see on Youtube today.

7. Great Story! Hugh Downs is so down.

8. “not everyone can sing but anyone can rap” not sure about that, well rap
   but not be much good at it maybe, as the many ‘rappers’ around today will
   attest

9. I had a sigh of relief seeing this after 28 years. i was 11 when this came
   on and watched it with my mother, and she hated it, and said unfortunately
   its goin to become big.

10. History lesson

11. Leo O’Brien…yep! Good eye.

12. 5:37 is what i watch when im sad.

13. Rap does let people that can’t sing have a voice but not anyone can rap,
    that’s a lie. You have to be a good writer, have a story to tell, have a
    good flow, and be clever.

14. The biz leaving him then thats somebody that can rap ie rev run.
    The biz instead of the biz leaving him then thats somebody that can make rap anyone can make rap anyone can rap song she couldnt rap those who sustain are.
    The biz instead of the biz leaving him then thats somebody that can rap ie rev run.

15. WOW…the good old days…before rap became ignorant and coonish!

16. “Rap is likely to influence popular music for years to come.” Yeah no
    kidding lol

17. cool !! respect !!

18. For years to be here for years to be here for years to come but decades.

19. Rap and Street Education

    i didnt think rap music would take over everything and destroy r&b,funk,
    and soul music completely!

20. Check out 1:31 and find Kid Rocks Bawitda intro
    … But ABC reported on rap 8yrs b4 MTV made yo! MTV raps… Hmmm..
    20/20 Report Hip-Hop Special (1981) – Part 2:

21. and now black people don’t play instruments like they used to anymore…

22. Notice how he refers to the ‘satirists’ at 4:58 ?
    And then, you may also notice that the subject matter and what the “Preppy
    Rapper” is saying, is pretty much synonymous with the Rap shit you hear on
    the radio these days.
    To me, this is a hilarious demonstration of the fact that Pop Rap has
    become a joke. Real Hip-Hop lives underground. All the nice cars and fancy
    homes shit is a complete joke, just people got caught up in the BS culture
    and started buying into this nonsense.

23. This was really well done. Much more objective compared to what you see on
    Fox News. 

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