R.I.P. to Kanye West, Lex Friedman, and the origin story of rock and roll, and why it s a racist genre. Plus, a look at the history of rock 'n' roll and the origins of rock n' roll.
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00:01:08.000It's that form of electronic music that emerged in the late 2000s, born from an electric pool of influences, including drum programming and rhythms derived from southern hip-hop, Memphis rap, the sludge of hypnotic and serial sound mixing techniques of chopped and screwed the minimal, gothic, and sorrowful, dark wave, and ethereal wave.
00:01:25.000I'd like to hear Lex Friedman do that.
00:03:25.000It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, and gospel, as well as country music.
00:03:34.000While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records in the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954.
00:03:49.000According to journalist Greg Cott, I remembered it being way funnier.
00:03:53.000I remembered it saying things like, it's made up of A chords and C chords and a rhythmic beat that is usually faster than, it's really clinical.
00:04:17.000It's the rage of the Irish, freed slaves, and their guitars, and the beat and rage and excitement of the blacks and their drums and their beat.