Eminem (was: Influenced by GR?)

[Muchasmasgracias at cs.com]

 >     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 ...

(Turntables, microphones, and a ballroom.)

As DJ Guru tells it:  "When rap started... what they did was.... to create a 
whole form of urban style music from just two turntables and two records and 
a mircrophone..."

That's part of an amazing blurb at the end of the second track (Loungin') on 
_Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume: 1_, which is one of the coolest CDs I've ever 
heard.  (If you ask me nicely I'll type out the whole blurb when I have more 
time.)