Impact
The song is also known have some of Mix Master Ice's best scratching, cuts, and samplings; most notably, Doctor Ice's recording of the word "the," rapped in an homage to Cameo's Single Life within the actual song, is looped humorously at the very beginning of the track.
This song, with its focus on the mental disorders at the root of random violence, ultimately inspired the gangsta rap movement later in the 1980s.
Read more about this topic: Split Personality (song)
Famous quotes containing the word impact:
“Too many existing classrooms for young children have this overriding goal: To get the children ready for first grade. This goal is unworthy. It is hurtful. This goal has had the most distorting impact on five-year-olds. It causes kindergartens to be merely the handmaidens of first grade.... Kindergarten teachers cannot look at their own children and plan for their present needs as five-year-olds.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“Conquest is the missionary of valour, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice—there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.”
—Thomas S. Kuhn (b. 1922)