My (white, suburban) roommate was into this, big time. I didn't get it, although funk just reached down inside me and grabbed something, when I heard it.
Years, decades later, the story is finally getting to me without the contemporary cultural reprobation. (I've come to find the reprobation and its sources perhaps more false and damaging, than the [choose your own pejorative adjectives] genre and culture, itself.)
Maybe some people will find it off-topic. But, talk about hacking the music scene...
Somewhat OT and different genre, but a couple of years ago, archive.org put effort into onlining especially early Hip Hop recordings.
https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes
My (white, suburban) roommate was into this, big time. I didn't get it, although funk just reached down inside me and grabbed something, when I heard it.
Years, decades later, the story is finally getting to me without the contemporary cultural reprobation. (I've come to find the reprobation and its sources perhaps more false and damaging, than the [choose your own pejorative adjectives] genre and culture, itself.)