>34 years >still no-one's made a better rap song

Fuck GM Flash

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/liquid-liquid-havent-lost-their-edge-6435287

>Almost unfathomable in our era of corporate-controlled radio playlists and Balkanized nightlife scenes, the track, underpinned by McGuire's minimalist-funk bassline, made Liquid Liquid favorites on black radio stations like WBLS, and got them regular gigs at discos like Paradise Garage and Danceteria. But within months of Optimo's release, WBLS and other stations began playing a new, almost identical track called "White Lines (Don't Do It)," released by Bronx-based Sugar Hill Records. Credited to Melle Mel + Grandmaster (allegedly a ploy to trick record buyers into thinking it was a new Grandmaster Flash release), the record didn't technically sample "Cavern," instead featuring the Sugar Hill house band replaying it note-for-note, adding only Mel's verses and the "Get higher, baby" bridge (while also turning Principato's original "slip in and out of phenomena" vocal hook into the now-iconic hip-hop phrase "something like a phenomenon").

>Bahlman sued Sugar Hill as "White Lines," whose writing credit listed only Melle Mel and Sugar Hill co-owner Sylvia Robinson, became a huge hit. Though he eventually won a lengthy court case and set an early precedent in the still poorly defined realm of sampling law, the results were disastrous for all involved. Sugar Hill declared bankruptcy rather than pay the ordered $600,000 settlement; faced with enormous legal costs and disillusioned with the music business, Bahlman folded 99 Records. McGuire left Liquid Liquid to pursue an art career, and the rest of the group disbanded after recording another 12-inch, Dig We Must, as a trio.

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>>69655024
AMEN

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>>69655312
this is so confusing what is your point?

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>>69655312
Flash wasn't even on White Lines, it's Melle Mel

Flash had left by that point

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test

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>>69655312
White Lines > Cavern tbhwymate

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