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# Get Smitty
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4089/
- Published: 2006-02-28T13:01:06.000Z
- Updated: 2006-02-28T13:01:06.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

> For nearly three decades, hip-hop relics such as vinyl records, turntables, microphones and boom boxes have collected dust in boxes and attics.

> On Tuesday, owners of such items--including pioneering hip-hop artists such as [Afrika Bambaataa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika%5FBambaataa?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), [DJ Kool Herc](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ%5FKool%5FHerc?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), [Grandmaster Flash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster%5FFlash?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) and [Fab 5 Freddy](http://rap.about.com/od/graffitiart/p/fab5freddy.htm?terms=andy+warhol+car+crash&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)\--will blow that dust off and carry them to a Manhattan hotel to turn them over to National Museum of American History officials.

> The museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is announcing its plans to embark on a collecting initiative, "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: the Beat, the Rhymes, the Life."

[Link](http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/27/D8G1P21G0.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Wow, quite the coup for hip-hop, except I didn't even know it existed back in 1976\. Surely, they didn't call it "hip hop" back then, if it even existed. It was called "rock-n-roll" by 1956 (less than two years after Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock"), but wasn't hip-hop called "rap" in the 1980s and early 1990s? If it was called "rap" or something else, did it really exist as "hip-hop"? Am I sounding like William of Occam?

I don't claim to be a hip-hop expert (and if I was, I'd deny it), but a quick search reveals that none of the four "artists" listed above are singers. The first three were DJs, who pioneered "scratching" and junk like that. Freddy was a music video director.

They refer to some these "artists" (like Eminem) as "geniuses." I don't know. They're clearly clever, but genius? I'll always have a hard time with that.

"Get down on dat Smitty/  
 Gonna stab in you da drawers/  
 Gonna bitch slap yo sista/  
 Gonna also slap dem whores.

Cuz I got a gig in white town/  
 And dey want to see my stuff/  
 All dem sophisticated rabbits/  
 Want me to give it to 'em rough."