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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, The First Day of MTV

Ed Piskor at 8:00 am Tue, Nov 20, 2012

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SoItBegins

Because if I don’t say it, someone else will:
“Hey, remember when MTV still played music videos?”

OK, seriously, this is really interesting so far. Good stuff!
- http://hame.ca/one/ Hamish Grant
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysyZF-DZFY check this out.
http://hame.ca/one/ Hamish Grant

for reference…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
- http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley
  
  Rather bonkers video. I love when the lady walks by with her goat at 3:20.
http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

Busy Bee was, of course, a feature player in Charlie Ahearn’s Wildstyle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOzd5THVKk4&feature=related
ROSSINDETROIT

Been a music lover for 45 years and I had never seen that video.