wild style

December 21, 2006 8:38 PM

Mr. Magic's Rap Attack.An important figure in the world of hip-hop radio, Mr. Magic debuted in 1983 on WBLS-FM in New York City with the first exclusive rap radio show to be aired on a major station. Billing itself as Rap Attack, Magic's show featured Marley Marl as the DJ and Tyrone "Fly Ty" Williams as the show's co-producer. You can get down on it via this classic episode (realmedia) from December 1986, courtesy of WFMU's Aircheck archives.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese (23 comments total)

He was also one GTA Vice City's "Wildstyle."
posted by j-urb at 8:49 PM on December 21, 2006

Even though I really don't care for rap and hip-hop, except when it is incidental to something else, like as movie soundtrack, I love the history of it. Go figure. Thanks!

And I want to take this opportunity to say that Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese is my favorite name on MeFi. I am so tired of static, non-adjustable cheese.
posted by The Deej at 8:50 PM on December 21, 2006

I love his voice, so up in your face but without being threatening.
posted by Null Pointer and the Exceptions at 9:07 PM on December 21, 2006

Mr. Magic was one of the finest djs evah! I loved him in the day, and I am loving FMU's replays even more. Early hip hop had a freshness that today's product lacks, and I learned about it all from Mr. Magic.
posted by caddis at 9:07 PM on December 21, 2006

(of course how long before some pathetic poser comes along to shout, "sucks"?)
posted by caddis at 9:10 PM on December 21, 2006

It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Hangin' pictures on my wall
Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:21 PM on December 21, 2006

Nice catch, Mr. McDermott. Unfortunately, "Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade" hasn't aged quite as well.
posted by dhammond at 9:28 PM on December 21, 2006

So... you're saying this is where the plague that is rap/hip-hop started?
posted by Doohickie at 9:33 PM on December 21, 2006

Talk to the hand, hick.
posted by rocketman at 9:46 PM on December 21, 2006

23 minutes.
posted by dhammond at 9:49 PM on December 21, 2006

All I can say is a) yeah and I was waiting for that kind of comment

and b) "Talk to the hand, hick." is the best name for a UPN show I have ever heard.
posted by drjimmy11 at 9:52 PM on December 21, 2006

I'm a big fan.
posted by Divine_Wino at 10:12 PM on December 21, 2006

"hasn't aged quite well?" what are you, a fucking schlep?
posted by phaedon at 11:21 PM on December 21, 2006

Nice the be able to hear this.
Was a bit young (5) and also a few thousand miles away at the time.
posted by ST!NG at 1:55 AM on December 22, 2006

gah. the=to
posted by ST!NG at 1:58 AM on December 22, 2006

Heh. So much for my music cred. I thought he was a character made-up for GTA:VC.

Great post.
posted by bardic at 2:55 AM on December 22, 2006

Great post - I love Mr. Magic's Rap Attack.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 6:33 AM on December 22, 2006

He also put out a bunch of singles as an MC, pick up this compilation for more of his story: The Third Unheard: Connecticut Hip Hop 1979-1983

Great album too, by the way.
posted by Jeff_Larson at 7:44 AM on December 22, 2006

*talks to Señor Wences' Pedro*

Hickie: I don't like rap, is that okay?
Pedro: s'alright
posted by Doohickie at 8:58 AM on December 22, 2006

To sorta continue on Peter's rhyme, and to show how some rap hasn't aged well, I present - RAPPIN' DUKE! (Shawn Brown 1984)
posted by ernie at 10:02 AM on December 22, 2006

phaedon: ""hasn't aged quite well?" what are you, a fucking schlep?"

Did you have a point in there somewhere, phaedon?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:48 PM on December 22, 2006

i just took dhammond's comment to consist of a really ignorant derail.
posted by phaedon at 6:12 PM on December 22, 2006

i just took dhammond's comment to consist of a really ignorant derail.

That wasn't my reading. I think he was trying to say that a line that once worked in its original context is problematic as a consequence of subsequent historical events.

Neither ignorant, nor a derail, IMO.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:04 AM on December 24, 2006