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...computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores of less familiar names: Nakamichi, Denon and Oki. At one store can be found 205 varieties of stereo headphones, 100 different color television sets and 75 kinds of record turntables. While some stores are relatively sedate, others flash lights, blast out rock music and station salesmen on the sidewalk to pitch for patrons like French Quarter strip-club touts in New Orleans...
Although--as rap godfather Grandmaster Flash pointed out in a recent adulatory Phoenix feature, the genre may have already passed its peak--the unwashed masses getting funkmatized. It seems inevitable that rap music will be sucked into the mainstream, just as have fringe musical elements in the past...
About "Space Cowboy" It is the catchiest and most exciting dance music on the air and in the discos--forget about the Flash and Safety Dances--because it is an unabashedly silly song that just feels right, sort of like the Jacksons...
...ridiculously baaaaad Fearless 4 rap comes off as nothing more than stupid and mindless, and should have been made obsolete in the wake of Grandmaster Flash's shock classics. "The Message" and "New York New York" In any case, this sort of rap has been handled much more effectively and with much less hoopla by the Sugarhill Gang and Trouble Funk a couple of years back...
...staple of F. M. Programming, the execrable A.O.R., or to M. T. V., a veritable case-study in segregation. And there's no question that funk, which Black performers like James Brown invented and nourished, is--crudely speaking--the forte of these artists--from Rick James to Grandmaster Flash, to name the big ones. Last heard Rick James couldn't even get on MTV. It will be fascinating to see if the predominately white Talking Heads can break into the popular mainstream and all its institutions with the Black sound of Speaking in Tongues. If they do, the implications...