Can't Stop Won't Stop Pt3

Eddie Palmieri - Justicia (1969/1970)

It's latino music of some kind, so we're not at hiphop yet.

I like how this sounds.

Sultry ain't the right word, but it's... passionate. Emotional. Especially Amor Ciego, I really liked that song.

Everything Is Everything has the best message.

Later in the album it got more jazz-y. In example Verdict On Judge Street is so chaotic... It's straight up jazz.

Ghetto Brothers - Power Fuerza (1972)

Didn't the author, Jeff Chang, compare them to The Beach Boys? I hear it.

I had a 60s phase in my teen years, I like The Beach Boys.

It's The Beach Boys-esque, but gets more melancholic near the end. I love this, I can see myself returning to this album in the future. Especially Viva Puerto Rico Libre.

Ghetto Brother Power reminds me of KISS.

Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home (1970)

Very prog rock, I love this!!

The singer's very talented!

I Don't Have To Sing The Blues reminds me of early Black Sabbath! Maybe because they were a blues/jazz band before inventing heavy metal, and this is a blues song. It has that same melancholic atmosphere.

I'm a bit confused listening to these albums - how are these supposed to evolve into hiphop? I thought that was where we were supposed to be headed to?

Joe Bataan - Best Of Joe Bataan! (2009)

Let Me Love You hits quite deep rn... It's about romantic love, but I relate to it in the sense of platonic love... I am the kind of person who knows very fast if I like someone (platonically), and then I get frustrated when I like them, they like me, but building a friendship takes too long. If we already know we like each other, why wait? Why not skip all the awkward small talk and guessing game and skip straight into being friends? Sure, I don't need to know your deepest darkest secrets straight away - a little distance is healthy, building trust takes time, no one wants to be taken advantage of. But otherwise, why not just skip the awkward phase and talk to each other like we're already friends? I do not get it.

Most of the time when I try, the other person thinks I'm desperate to make friends or have a crush on them or something. No. If you're not feeling the same but still treat me normally, we can be just acquintances, or if you start to talk to me all condescending, I will leave. I know my own worth. I just like you, very much. Take it or leave it.

Joe Bataan is surprisingly versatile - he sounds like himself on each song, but there's jazz, rock, latino, disco... He mixes genres very successfully.

Joe Cuba - The Best Of Joe Cuba (1970)

It's pretty standard latino music. Alright, but nothing too exciting...

Hey Joe, Hey Joe is annoying AF, so is El Pito.

Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024)

Same as Joe Cuba, pretty standard latino music. And I do not understand, what has this got to do with hiphop...

Ray Barretto - Hard Hands (1968)

Mi Ritmo Te Llama was catchy.

Santana - Abraxas (1970)

The first time I heard Santana was in 1999 when Maria Maria was released, I was 7.

I still don't understand what do these people have to do with hiphop, except maybe that they lived in the area at the time? -- Not even that, Santana lived in San Francisco, California. The gang members were black and latino people living in Bronx, New York. I remember Ghetto Brothers from the book, but tbh, it's been a while since I read the third chapter of the book.

I like Black Magic Woman. It's a rock classic and I was listening to rock, punk and metal classics a lot in my preteen years when I got into metal. People have since been saying it's a harmful stereotype, that "all" black women are voodoo priestesses or whatever the song is supposedly saying. I'm not one to speak on that, as a Caucasian person, but personally, I don't think the song is saying ALL black women do black magic. This one particular one does, though.

Side note: I started using ChatGPT and it said that Santana for example is a prominent figure in hiphop history because of sampling. Hiphop artists really liked his music and sampled it a lot. I do remember there being a lot of talk about sampling etc on the book. 

Héctor Lavoe x Willie Colón x Yomo Toro - Asalto Navideño: Vol. 1 & 2

I like Popurrí Navideño / Estrella De Oriente.

Apparently this is also an important album because it's been sampled so much. I sense a theme here.

Willie Colón - El Malo

Pretty standard latino music - sorry to call everything that, I just literally can't hear a difference between these styles.

At times the instruments, especially the synth sounds, remind me of The Doors. This album was recorded 1966 and released 1967, the same year as The Doors released their first album. So I think neither was inspired by the other (because of the timeline), but both were inspired by the same artists, whoever those might be.