Comments on: Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The Race To Make The First Rap Records Begins http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: addalled http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1384435 addalled Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1384435 What year was this published? What year was this published?

]]> By: 666beast1 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1382091 666beast1 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1382091  I'm close to NYC.  Please let everyone in this area know when you are in the northeast. Great work!  I’m close to NYC.  Please let everyone in this area know when you are in the northeast. Great work!

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1382086 Ed Piskor Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1382086 Crowquills, Micron pens, brushes, and photoshop. Do you go to San Diego Comic Con? I'm going to have some of this stuff in an art show that weekend. Crowquills, Micron pens, brushes, and photoshop. Do you go to San Diego Comic Con? I’m going to have some of this stuff in an art show that weekend.

]]> By: 666beast1 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1382081 666beast1 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1382081  I think it looks great! The line work is strong, doesn't look lame to me at all, I'm assuming that's brush for the black and white.  Thanks.  I think it looks great! The line work is strong, doesn’t look lame to me at all, I’m assuming that’s brush for the black and white.  Thanks.

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1382070 Ed Piskor Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1382070 The pages were drawn with the idea that they'd be in color, so I feel like the original drawings look unfinished and lame. Especially, the Sasquatch panel, because I knew it had to be a simple drawing to be able to read with the off- register layers. That said, here's a B&W image from this weeks strip, if you're curious. The pages were drawn with the idea that they’d be in color, so I feel like the original drawings look unfinished and lame. Especially, the Sasquatch panel, because I knew it had to be a simple drawing to be able to read with the off- register layers. That said, here’s a B&W image from this weeks strip, if you’re curious.

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1382063 Ed Piskor Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1382063  We could take it all the way back to the 30's if I'm not careful. The comic is less a linear history of rap, than it is an examination of the direct relationships that built upon each other to create a global phenomenon in just a few years. Kool Herc was the most logical place for me to start with this idea in mind.  We could take it all the way back to the 30′s if I’m not careful. The comic is less a linear history of rap, than it is an examination of the direct relationships that built upon each other to create a global phenomenon in just a few years. Kool Herc was the most logical place for me to start with this idea in mind.

]]> By: chris jimson http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381871 chris jimson Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381871 And so begins the debate over WHO actually put out the first "rap" record, the Fatback Band or Sugarhill gang. Personally I tend to go even farther into the past, and say it's a toss-up between Pigmeat Markham's "Here Come De Judge" and Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John." And so begins the debate over WHO actually put out the first “rap” record, the Fatback Band or Sugarhill gang.

Personally I tend to go even farther into the past, and say it’s a toss-up between Pigmeat Markham’s “Here Come De Judge” and Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John.”

]]> By: 666beast1 http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381727 666beast1 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381727 Love this series! Ed may want to kill me but.... Is it possible we could see a sample page without the "old comic paper" tone on the borders and between panels? While I think it might lend a Leonardo-esque sfumato of depth to the panels themselves I would like to see the white for contrast. I'm thinking especially of the large mis-registered-for-effect panel of The Mighty Sasquatch. Love this series! Ed may want to kill me but…. Is it possible we could see a sample page without the “old comic paper” tone on the borders and between panels? While I think it might lend a Leonardo-esque sfumato of depth to the panels themselves I would like to see the white for contrast. I’m thinking especially of the large mis-registered-for-effect panel of The Mighty Sasquatch.

]]> By: Ed Piskor http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381558 Ed Piskor Wed, 28 Mar 2012 05:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381558  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTP4cvXSP0  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcTP4cvXSP0

]]> By: tinkafoo http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381324 tinkafoo Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381324 Just postin' some Books:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslBjrnmh68 Just postin’ some Books:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslBjrnmh68

]]> By: niktemadur http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381149 niktemadur Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381149 I'd love to see this taken one step further back, to the late sixties and the Black Power movement, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron should not be overlooked, they were most definitely rapping.  Bongos aside, the topics and delivery were the template for bands like Public Enemy. I’d love to see this taken one step further back, to the late sixties and the Black Power movement, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron should not be overlooked, they were most definitely rapping.  Bongos aside, the topics and delivery were the template for bands like Public Enemy.

]]> By: phlavor http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381131 phlavor Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381131 You should write fan fiction about it. You should write fan fiction about it.

]]> By: Chris Burch http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381081 Chris Burch Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381081 I hope we get a whole story on the guy missing the finger in the 2nd to last panel. I hope we get a whole story on the guy missing the finger in the 2nd to last panel.

]]> By: noah django http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1381050 noah django Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1381050 Nice.  We had "Personality Jock/King Tim III" at my store for a while.  it was cool, but not super-dope like we were hoping.  I've commented on this before when Ms. Robinson's obit was posted, but to this day it blows my mind that she was the one singing "Oh, loverboy!" etc on "Love is Strange" (most famous from Dirty Dancing, you know the one.) Nice.  We had “Personality Jock/King Tim III” at my store for a while.  it was cool, but not super-dope like we were hoping. 
I’ve commented on this before when Ms. Robinson’s obit was posted, but to this day it blows my mind that she was the one singing “Oh, loverboy!” etc on “Love is Strange” (most famous from Dirty Dancing, you know the one.)

]]> By: benher http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1380948 benher Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1380948 This counteracted the "Reagan-black-president" post perfectly. I look forward to these every week! This counteracted the “Reagan-black-president” post perfectly. I look forward to these every week!

]]> By: troutfishinginamerica http://boingboing.net/2012/03/27/brain-rot-hip-hop-family-tree-12.html#comment-1380887 troutfishinginamerica Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=151264#comment-1380887 Sigh. RIP, Sylvia.  Sigh. RIP, Sylvia. 

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