>I don't have to pull the "BX Card".
>
>I am a true fan of Hip Hop and since I was around long
>enough to see it's evolution I stated my opinion.

Uh huh. Look all respect due, but mad heads on here can pull an industry card, a ny card, a LA card, an ATX card, a Miami Card, a Houston card, a gangsta card, what have you.

>I don't believe in labels. Neither did many of HipHop's
>founding fathers. That's why some of the illest samples
>(especially drums) came from Rock records.

What does this have to do with the topic?

>Either way, being from the Bronx doesn't validate what I'm
>saying. It only gives you a reference point to my proximity
>to it's inception.

My proximity to it's inception = pulling the bx card.

It's cool, we ain't hating you for it.

But unless you're saying you were going to those first jams, and the whole point of them was for the dj to rock some breaks, and have different cats sing a tune, that's one thing.

But that's not what happened now is it?

>I never said "singing = HipHop" but what I am saying is
>"Rapping does not always = HipHop".

The boy is singing. Is it hip hop?
I didn't ask about the converse case.

>If that's the case then
>any "Backstreet Boys" type of group could be considered
>HipHop if it had someone rhyming on it.

That makes no sense. If 5 white dudes were rhyming on a hip hop track, they'd be hip hop.

You playing the race card now?
You playing the teenage hearthrob card now?

>Oh, the Force MC's (later known as the Force M.D.'s) were
>"HipHop" and they sang. They also beat the Cold Crush
>Brothers in an MC battle so where does that leave us?

It takes us back to Herc, and we can all the Force Mc's an anomaly.

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