Let it never be said that I hate hip hop....again, I remember what it was before the Minstrel Age. Take a look at the seminal rap group, The Funky Four (Plus One More) as they perform "It's the Joint," on Saturday Night Live. This 1981 appearance has been widely considered the first TV performance made by a rap group. Enjoy your eggnog as I shed a tear for a bygone era. Cheers!
P.S. Damn....this is an update. In the immortal words of James Brown, "hit me... two times." Here is another video that is yet another walk through memory lane. Although Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," is heavily lauded as being one of the first hip hop songs to use social commentary as its main text, The Fearless Four's, "Problems of the World Today," should be worthy of the number two position. What happened to rap's innocence? Mind you, this song was made during the height of the crack wars in New York City, and yet no minstrelsy....Things that make you go Hmmm.
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