> Huh? Hip hop includes Hendrix and Marley?
My argument would run like this: Hendrix pioneered many of the basic features of studio production, reverb, multitrack recording, etc. Bob Marley's classic mid-1970s reggae invented the hip hop dub/bass, sort of hip hop's musical endoskeleton. Two other pieces of the puzzle: the Velvet Underground/Sex Pistols, who extended the studio innovations of Hendrix and added some lyric inventions of their own, and of course the magnificent heritage of 1960s jazz modernism. Coltrane's last recordings hover on the very boundaries of hip hop.
-- DRR