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is frank the original rapper?

old question. and it's as stupid as it ever was. what's the point of asking it?

You can be a real grumpy bastard sometimes can't you. This guy has only just joined the forum this month, why are you being such a prick?

Thanks for the support. In hindsight, I felt that my question was a bit naive-sounding so I didn't mind re-stating it when he posted that response.

And what about Nanook Rubs It?

Good job Lumpy

Bob Marshall: I remember in an interview around the late Seventies, you brought up the concept of "sprechstimme", a German term.
Frank Zappa: A speech-song. That means, instead of singing all the pitches of the song, you half speak it, you half sing it. It's a technique that was attributed to Schoenberg who used it in a piece called "Pierrot Lunaire". And the way it was written was: all the pitches for the soprano to sing, the ones that she was supposed to half speak, had X's on the stems. But I don't think he invented it because this is a type of vocal styling that has been used in Blues. It's also been used in other types of ethnic music. You can find it in Bulgarian music where, instead of exactly singing the note, you imply the pitch of the note, but you're really talking it. It's in between.
Bob Marshall: You started doing your talking stuff around that time when you were talking about that concept?
Frank Zappa: The first album had "sprechstimme" on it.


Well there it is...

i dont think frank raped at all . rapping has its origins in reggae music , with the djs , and selectors 'toasting' each other over there dub plates .............

i dont think frank raped at all . rapping has its origins in reggae music , with the djs , and selectors 'toasting' each other over there dub plates .............

old question. and it's as stupid as it ever was.

what's the point of asking it?

Go further back to the original "Trouble Every Day"....but he's hardly the original rapper nonetheless.

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Hmmm

I think the vandals stole the handle

Same shit Diffident day This link (The Black Zappa) is the same same I remember both,that link and this thread where being talk about at the same time the Black Zappa thread had a lot more response.and too tell you the true it looks like this thread is Just Say what had already been said Whoe yeah here is the link viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18756

This stupid thread is actually older than the other stupid thread - SPITBALL SCALPED UH BABY!

Don,t mean there can't be talk on at the same time,like they was.
so what was your point.

What a stupid Cunt.

What a stupid Cunt.

I like this tread!! who are you or anyone else to say what is to be talked about.

may be similar subject but coming from a different angle.

and by the way - whoever said on that other thread that Prince was the black Zappa, is out of their tiny mind!!