◇ image via WikipediaKurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow is a Hip hop act. Their sound grew out of Trouble Funk, Goldie Boutilier, LL Cool J, Val Young and Another One Bites the Dust. Those roots explain a lot about how Kurtis Blow arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Afrika Bambaataa, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Mantronix and Naughty By Nature, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Salaam Remi, Remain in Light, Digital Underground, Fat Boys and Full Force, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 47 connections around Kurtis Blow, reaching back through Trouble Funk and forward to Salaam Remi. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Kurtis Blow connections
Kurtis Blow grew out of Trouble Funk, Goldie Boutilier, LL Cool J and Val Young, shares an orbit with Afrika Bambaataa, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim and Mantronix, went on to shape Salaam Remi, Remain in Light, Digital Underground and Fat Boys. 47 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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