Lou The Rapper

Bring that dynamite and a crane,
blow it up, start all over again.
-- Lou Rawls

If you're lucky, in these days after the death of Lou Rawls, you'll get to hear some of his raps.

One of the coolest tapes I had in college was one in which Lou Rawls does this monologuing between songs. I'm never going to find that tape but what I remember about it was that he was a very smooth fast-talker. It's safe to say that he was a kind of rapper of his day... Well it turns out that I just found the cut. It's called Hustler's Blues / World of Trouble.

Also, you'll probably hear Tobacco Road, which is, I imagine, the first 'bomb the ghetto' song I've heard from an Old School perspective. Hmm. You learn something new every day.

BTW, Here's a nicely done writeup.