from whudat: This morning Bo Diddley, pa**ed away of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida. He was 79-years-old. Bo Diddley is in the Rock and Roll of Hall of Fame, has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, and received a Lifetime Achievement award from The Grammys.
In an Uncut interview he talked about who belongs in that pioneering rock and roll category..
“The Rolling Stones is definitely rock ‘n’ roll. They’re right up there with myself, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Little Richard, all these people. This is sumthin’ we built, and a lot of the cats came along who didn’t know what they were playin’, they tried to sneak in and say ‘we’re rock ‘n’ rollers’. No way, José!”
He made the first rap record?!
Bo Diddley “Say Man” - 1959
Asked about inspiring rappers too, Bo Diddley responded..
“Uhuh. But it wasn’t called rap, it was called signifyin’. But the new kids today on the block call it rap and I guess you could say rap is a good name for it since you can’t understand a damn thing they’re sayin’.
I think Eminem is the only one you can understand what he’s saying. Will Smith was really good. Sir Mix-A-Lot, you can understand him. But the rest of ‘em, you can’t understand except that it’s dirty, and I don’t like the dirty lyrics.
That’s no good for our youngsters. Let a child be a child until he’s no more a child and then he can listen to what he wants to.”
I know for sure that not a single rapper, all the way back to Funky 4+1, grabbed a mic to mimic that record. But it’s all love. Bo Diddley made some great albums and was truly a master.
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