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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Rapping is most commonly associated with folks as or with recordings. A lot of people nowadays hear rapping they think of it as a recorded form, something that started off on records and then hit the street. Actually one thing you learn real quickly in cities like Philadelphia or New York or DC or Baltimore is that it's just the other way around. The rapping started out on the street, started out at block parties, at clubs with DJs working, first started off doing emcing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
It started in New York

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Right. And developing from there into a recorded form and a commercial form, so that the records keep infusing new ideas and new things into the street but the same way, the people in the clubs and the block parties are coming up with new stuff all the time. Now, in terms of how popular rapping is in Philly, how many groups would ya'll say there were there working now?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
In Philly?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yea

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
500. It's a lot of 'em .

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I don't know about that one.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
5000. It's everywhere you look is a DJ. You know, everybody wanna be a DJ. That's what I say, I call em wannabes and suck emcees and stuff like that, you know to make em stop, cuz we pulled up on a lot of people and made them look bad, and that will make them stop. Cause its people right and they go out there and they'll rap like this. Well my name is Tom, I'm on a mic, I got it big, I'm doing it right, I ride a .. and people be like, what is he saying? What is he sayin'? There's no, there's no strong message to it like, you know like screaming and getting into it so people will know what you're talking about. And it's a lot of other people that be like [inaudible] .. what did he say? You can't understand their words.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

Okay. Unfortunately, we have run out of time in the workshop, but at 4:15 on the main stage, the Grand Masters of Funk are gonna be on for about a half hour doing nothing but rapping.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}

That's right

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}

And then joining them on the stage will be the Scanner Boys who are gonna do both popping and break dancing. So, let's have a big hand for the Grand Masters of Funk and Grand Wizard Sly.. we'll see ya'll at 4:30 over there, if you wanna see more of this or stay here for the next workshop