‘The hood was on its own,abandoned at every level. Fight the Power was
the anthem of the streets’During the disco boom, the money was flowing so crazy that even the messengers were riding in limos – and then the trade crashed. Bands couldn’t afford a drummer or a bass player and that’s how rap was born: we’d build tracks from samples of records. But even when we were bigger than R&B and rock groups, or we could barely get our videos shown – just once a week,on Yo! MTV Raps. Rap was a dirty word. Radio stations didn’t want to play it, the Grammys didn’t even acknowledge it.
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Source: theguardian.com