Originally posted by DaveMoral
Alright, here's the way I see it.
Hip hop is the natural result of urban kids raised on R&B and Soul and street corner poetry ala The Last Poets.
Hardcore punk and Oi is the natural result of urban youth raised on rock n roll.
It all emerged at about the same time, and particularly in the case of the US, there was bound to be some cross pollunation because of the proximity
of urban black kids to the same urban kids who started and got into hardcore punk.
I think the differences are glaring, but the main point is that there's an underlying similarity.
If there's any one reason why hardcore punk didn't take off like hip hop and rap it's because the market was already flooded with white music... and
no one gives a damn about poor mostly white kids making some noise, while rap was pretty much the only major noise being made by black youth in it's
time. Shit the Beastie Boys are an example of hardcore punk turned hip hop.
Aside from all of that, it all goes back to rock n roll having originated with black youth in the first place.
This is mostly rambling, but see what you can figure out from it.
One last thing, the various methods of mosh/slam dance are basically the hardcore punk equivalent to break dancing. |
