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“Music is like food. … You gotta let it marinate.”
For G. Love & Special Sauce, condiments are the key to making good music. Taking a solid foundation and tossing in some flavorful additions produces a delicious and harmonious result for this hip-hop blues band.
Frontman of the group, Garrett Dutton — better known by his nickname “G. Love” — has been making music and picking guitar strings for as long as he can remember. On G. Love & Special Sauce’s most recent release, Fixin’ to Die , this musician returns to his Philadelphia roots, concocting an album that encourages kicking your feet up on a porch with a cold beverage.
“Honestly, this is like a second chance at a first record,” said G. Love in a recent interview with The Badger Herald . “Almost 20 years later, I can finally come back and make this. … Now I’m seasoned enough as a performer, and I can do it well, and do it authentically.”
Authenticity has never been a point of debate for this genuine talent. Given his origins as a Delta blues player, the idea of combining those tunes with hip-hop music was a pleasant surprise, even to G. Love himself. But for this musician, the familiar strains of the oldest blues tunes created a baseline beat, begging to be scattered with hip-hop lyrics.
“The hip-hop was always a part of growing up in Philadelphia,” G. Love said. “[It] wasn’t something that I thought I could do, because for one thing, I was white. And you didn’t think you could do it on a guitar, because no one was really doing that. But then I put two and two together. … I was doing it because that was where my heart was at.”
Most likely the first musician to layer an Eric B. & Rakim rap over the blues, G. Love had produced an undeniably original sound. Despite initial skepticism about how successful this undertaking might be, he gave it a shot and never looked back. With an exploding fan base and several international tours under his belt, this musician lives for the road, and writes for his audience.
“The songs people react to are the songs that everyone might not agree on,” G. Love said. “You might really put a lot of work into a song that you feel might save the world. But then you might spit out some funny shit about the everyday kind of quirky stuff. You need both kinds of songs to make it happen.”
Inspired by his fans — as well as the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles and Lou Reed — G. Love has discovered his musical recipe involves mixing equal parts humor and earnestness, in addition to a hearty serving of originality.
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Although G. Love remains just shy of achieving this goal, he has carved out his own place in history as a genre-blending musical pioneer. He's blazed a trail through rap music, and has encouraged a revival of the blues in contemporary music that's been
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It may seem to be a daunting task to trace back the history of rap music and history of bossa nova, though you can see one similarity—informal music associated with highly informal dance style. As far as origin of rap music is concerned most people agree that it is Afro-American and Latino Street culture of New York City. Not only this city but the surrounding areas as well that have influence of African people and their culture.
If we see it carefully, then we will definitely notice that rap music rhyming poetry combined with heavy drum beats and music usually sung at higher pitches. Most of the time rap music is associated with chorus sung by another performer in their original traditional pop, rhythm and blues. Though, rap music was primarily an American music style with African influence over music and lyrics, but recently it has been spread evenly to almost entire world.
There is hardly any country or nation, where rap music can not be seen in some form or other. Perhaps this is one of the most sought after music styles amongst the youngsters. However, when it comes to trace back the history then it is believed that hip hop and rap music started in the early 70s and during the late 70s and early 80s it gained much popularity not in America but throughout the world.
The history of rap music and hip hop music is full of controversies and bans, as the lyrics revolve around sex, drugs and crime; even the most famous pop stars and hip hop musicians and singers were found to be associated with several controversies in their life. For that reason, no matter how popular this music style was or still is, but it has always had a bad reputation in the eyes of mainstream society and its people around the world. Sometimes it gang culture is also criticized along withy it dirty lyrics.
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