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# LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/2015723life-soundtrack-man-parrish-hip-hop-be-bop-dont-stop/
- Published: 2015-07-23T22:56:12.000Z
- Updated: 2015-07-23T22:56:12.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, #oliver-2, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

This song was on a mixtape (a real one on cassette), which had an enormous influence on my relationship with music (it also included [Run-D.M.C’s *It’s like that*](http://www.glamglare.com/music/2014/7/17/life-soundtrack-run-dmc-run-dmc?rq=Run)). I didn’t own or copied it, but somebody played it on a school summer camp and that is still a defining moment of summer bliss for me: hanging out in the sun with cool people, including a girl I had a crush on and listening to weird, new music.

*Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)* is an iconic Electro track, a sub-genre of early hip hop, which used drum machines, like the 808, and synthesizers to produce mostly instrumental tracks. I loved *Hip Hop’s* thundering drums and constantly changing beats, which was pretty unheard of in the early 80s. 

*Hip Hop* was the first track by the New York producer [Man Parrish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%5FParrish?ref=glamglare.com) and it was a challenge to find it in my hometown until his first album *Boogie Down* came out. I bought it immediately, but none of its other tracks had similar allure to me.