Just have to keep educating them, at least they are listening. You could share with them that it started in the mid 70's with DJ Kool Herc and the Heculoids but radio DJ's were "rapping" as far back as the 60's...rapping meaning slick talking on the microphone. The better you could rap to the listener in between spins the bigger your audience. Kids in the streets wanted to talk that same way so once they got a bit older and started throwing parties and MC'n they began that same talk over breaks by the DJ and it took off from there.
We've now sent 6 copies to Norway which is in 2nd place to California, not bad at all!!! Thanks for helping spread the word!!!
The wu-tang/Eminem thing was a joke, but I think it has some truth in it. In fact I think the majority of heads over here are aware of the pioneers, at least manyhave picked up a thing or two. The main thing or problem over here is that hip hop was nothing but weird underground thing until the start-mid 2000s here in Norway. then it blew up and became something that everybody relate to. Now it's impossible to watch TV-shows without a "rapper" participating (funny thing is that they never perform their tracks, they only come to do something else, like being part of reality shows etc). that means that the majority of heads in Norway lack a huge part of the history, even hip hop's history here in Norway. 70-80s are considered old school and dated. the first touch of hip hop here in Norway was when Beat Street hit the screens in 84-85. Lucky for me I am old enough to remember that. A lot of Norwegians was hooked on hip hop then, but most fell off. I'm just happy that I never lost the love and I honestly believe that "being there", approx 25 years for me now, (not that Norway or Europe was in the middle of things, haha) gives you some kind of higher understanding of what hip hop is all about, something extra that gives you more than what can be read in books. I guess I'm considered old and grumpy on a few boards over here because I think Lil Wayne and the new Kanye West album are wack LOL. But still, there are people over here that's been into hip hop culture since it hit Europe in the mid 80s. Might not be that many in total but it's more than you'd think. The grumpy old men have to educate the kids on mobb beats haha.
thank you L-wood, R8R and everybody else on this board who keep this culture alive and teach the kids by creating mixes, mixtapes, host radio shows and play classic tracks. It's damn important to know the history.
Norway 2nd to California! That's funny. 6 copies wasn't all that considering how many who actually were interested. I have to give'em a reminder or two...