Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Terrance]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> Rich schrieb:
> 
> > Oh, for the days when folks were noted for being "bad" because they were
> > awesome musicians or played in awesome bands.  You know people who play
> > instruments live and together.
> 
>     well, that hiphop - around this magic second september 1977, when
>     grandmaster flash rocked harlem's audobon ballroom with 3000 people -
>     emerged the way it did, had also to do with the fact that the participators
>     did not have the money to buy instruments ... what they actually had were
>     two turntables and a microphone ...
> 
> kfl

I don't want to get technical about it, but two turn tables
and microphone, the human voice, the hand to turn the sound,
these are instruments, right? The story about Grandmaster
Flash is not quite true, but is Legend, the legend, as so
often happens, is accurate in its implications, if not in
its facts. The two turntables and the microphone were in use
as interments before this legendary Harlem night and money
was not really the reason why turntables were used instead
of paint buckets or penny whistles. 

Improvised oral composition....hmmm, people's republic of
RR, "They killing us in the streets while we cry for the
conscience of King....Everybody knows about Mississippi
Goddam...."

What does Pynchon say in that SL intro about the failure of
two political groups to get together?