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MEDIA TAKE OUT the name of your thread proves you really don't be knowing SH!T about the artist you talk about, cause every last artist you showed a picture of came out in the 1980's although they recorded up through the 90's.....
and for all these 12 and 13 year olds or anyone who's been living under a freaking rock, these are the ones who made it possible for the T.I's, 50's, Kanye's etc. Those ***@s you see in the pics represented real hip hop when it meant something. Today's hip hop is pure ***!t that raps about absolutely nothing !
But then like my signature says ............
for the recrd: SPECIAL ED - "I've Got it Made","Crooklyn Dodgers" from "Crooklyn" soundtrack CHUBB ROCK - "Treat Em' Right" "Crooklyn Dodgers 2" from "Clockers" Soundtrack SADAT X of BRAND NUBIAN - "Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down","Slow Down" "1999" w/ Common DJ PREMIER - Produced for his own group Gangstar Nas and Jay-Z's early records and recently Christina Agulierra's "Ain't No Other Man" ALI SHAHEED - A Tribe Called Quest and Lucy Pearl group member.Produced D'Angelo and Jon B. FUSHNICKENS-"Whats Up Doc" feat. Shaquille O'Neal(Shaq's 1st song) JERU THE DAMAJA- "Come Clean" MASTA ACE- "Born to Roll",Crooklyn Dodgers, and the original Posse cut "The Symphony" D-NICE- Member of Boogie Down Productions, Self Destruction movement and songs were "Call Me D-Nice" and
I MISS THE OLD SCHOOL....BACK THEN IT WAS ABOUT MAKING GOOD MUSIC, NOT ABOUT ***, CARS, CLOTHES AND WHO SELLS THE MOST ALBUMS. THAT'S WHY BACK THEN IT WAS SO MANY ARTISTS OUT AND EVERYONE GOT A CHANCE TO SHINE....NOT NOW, IF YOU DON'T DUMB YOURSELF DOWN LYRICALLY OR HAVE A DANCE SONG, YOU GETS NO PLAY....THAT'S WHY HIP HOP WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
ALI SHABAZZ STILL LOOKS *** GOOD. I ALWAYS LOVED HIM AND Q-TIP. THOUGH Q-TIP WAS MY BABY. I HAD A MAD CRUSH ON THAT NI&&A Q-TIP. D-NICE STILL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME. SPECIAL ED PUT ON SOME WEIGHT CUS EVEN THOUGH THAT NI&&A WAS CUTE BACK IN DA DAY HE WAS LIL ANOREXIC. BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO RUN MY FINGERS THROUGH THAT SILKY CURLY HAIR OF HIS, LOL. OH CHUBB ROCK GOT SOME TITTIES LMAO!LOOK LIKE HE BEEN BREASTFEEDING FOR YEARS, LMAO. HEY CHUBB "GOT MILK", LMAO34
everybody looks the same except a little bigger and older. Back then was real hip hop music. Women weren't being direspected and nobody cared about how many cars and women you slept with. We had Queen Latifah, Monie Love, and Salt and Pepa. Not them silly *** hoes like lil kim, remy etc... That's why I dont care for hip hop anymore cause most of it's garbage and about NOTHING! But I'm glad to see them dudes still doing a little something. Remember BDP, A Tribe Called Quest, vinyl records, steel toe adidas, Kango's, House ***. House Dance, everybody had a D.J. system with the diamond needles?
LOL @ daddy_hoodrich 16 and under must really be the case because anyone who does not know these pioneers obviously were not born at the time when HIP HOP was REAL. HIP HOP was a TRUE form or ART. Not just how many chics you get with, rims, cars, shoes, and albums sold. People please do your research on OUR musical culture.
Most of these artists wasn't big outside of NYC except for Tribe Called Quest. Chubb Rock & Special Ed are probably known as well but the rest are rare to many. There are artists from other regions that NYC probably dunno much about either if their success didn't spread across the country. Anyway I would've loved to be there. I love Ol' Skool Hip-Hop!!!
And I bet most of the 90's babies dunno much about the rappers from the late 70's early 80's either. Age & region is a huge factor and because someone dunno one or two artists from this list doesn't mean their not Hip-Hop or have love for it. Many people outsite of NYC have neva heard of Hip-Hop when it 1st came out.
WISH I WAS THERE!!THIS WAS MY TIME!!!THIS WAS WHEN HIP HOP WAS AT IT FINEST!98.7 KISS,CHUCK CHILLOUT,AND REDALERT!!PRESS RECORD EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ***!!MISTER MAGIC AND MARLEY MARL PUT,S ON THE GLOVES!!CLASSIC ***!!!TO ALL MY OLDER HEADS OUT THERE,SORRY,BUT THE WAY THINGS ARE SOUNDING,WE WON,T SEE DAYS LIKE THOSE DAYS EVER AGAIN!!!ONE LOVE TO REAL HIP HOP!!
I was there. And let me tell you. This concert was off the hook. I don't have a voice. Sang every song. This concert was crazy. I would have paid top dollar for this concert. And this isn't the only free show this summer. In NYC every year we have free concerts like this. Here are more shows. But please come in peace.
BROOKLYN-Free Concerts
JUNGLE BROTHERS Tuesday, August 5, 7:30 pm, Red Hook Park ( Bay St btwn Henry & Clinton)
WHODINI Thursday, July 10, 7:30 pm, Von King Park ( Tompkins Ave btwn Lafayette Ave & Green Ave)
BRAND NUBIAN Wednesday, July 9, 7:30 pm, Brower Park ( Brooklyn Ave & Prospect Park Place )
JERU THE DAMAJA, CHUBB ROCK, EMC feat MASTER ACE, DJ PREMIER ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD- HOSTED BY BUCKSHOT(BLACK MOON) & SPECIAL ED Saturday, June 28, 7pm, Prospect Park Bandshell
ISAAC HAYES Thursday, June 12, 8pm, Prospect Park Bandshell
MANHATTAN- (Free concerts)
BIG DADDY KANE Thursday, August 14, 7:30 pm, Marcus Garvey Park (124th Street & Mt. Morris Park)
KRS-ONE Thursday, July 24, 7:30 pm, East River Park (Bandshell along the East River betw Grand & Jackson St)
SLICK RICK Wednesday, August 13, 7:30 pm, Jackie Robinson Park (147th & Bradhurst)
CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTIVAL Saturday, August 23, 3pm, Marcus Garvey Park (124th Street & Mt. Morris Park) Sunday, August 24, 3pm, Thompkins Square Park (East 8th bet Ave A & B)
VIDEO MUSIC BOX 25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Friday, July 18, 7pm-10pm, Central Park Summerstage
With all due respect if you were born in 1980 you're on your way to your 30's and people in high school are calling you ma'am or sir. The world existed before 1980 and as far as entertainment goes there was something called TALENT and TASTE with no electronic pitch enhancement. You young twentysomethings (I'm talking 1986 and later)would do well to learn something relevant. As for the concert needing to be free you should let that go because most of ya'll ain't got no *** money anyhow and you sure as hell ain't running anything.
It should matter to you the history and the struggle of black people..it gives you more appreciation for what you have today. It was a time when they weren't rapping about a$$ and *** and how many women they can conquest.
Listening to that exact music is the reason why you feel you have to have your chest showing instead of your face because music has told you along with the rest of society that that's all you are worth and so that's what you put out there to the world. As street as they were I could understand every word they were saying when they rapped instead of just going into the studio moaning and talking jibberish over a good beat and then selling 1 million records in one week. Music is a joke these days! Maybe you need to understand that concept and then maybe you won't feel the need to objectify yourself on a freaking internet site. How desperate is that? But Weezy and all the other boys sing about women being objects and just like clockwork women start acting like them.
Lucy Pearl...They had that one song that was the JAM!!!!
I don't even listen to the radio either it's total nonsense..any one can get a record deal these days all you have to have is a gimmic and a verse that rhymes and all of a sudden you'll have a contract in front of you to sign. Chicken noodle soup..how the heck did that even get out in the mainstream!
"Back in the day on the Boulevard of Lyndon ..." MissDST8 thank you for appreciating the evolution of hip-hop. Hip-hop kinda lost it;s direction. Diversity was prevalent back in the day, but now we only have one type of hip-hop out there. It was nice having Ice Cube, Pete Rock/CL Smooth and Wu-Tang clan playing back to back on the radio. Does anyone remember the Predator album from Cube? Keep shaking your *** and humping the floor then.
Ain't nothing like the old school. Hell true school hip hop if you ask me! For all that don't know who these MC's are do a little research, and you might have a better appreciation for hip hop and the culture. Look up their videos on youtube as well. They came from a era where you had hip hop quoatables.
They all look the same, aged a little maybe put on a few pounds but that comes with age... I can't wait for THE ROCK THE BELLS CONCERT OUT HERE IN AUGUST: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, NAS, THE PHARCYDE, MOS DEF, RAKIM, METHOD MAN & REDMAN, RAEKWON & GHOSTFACE, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, DEAD PREZ, MURS, SPANK ROCK, WALE, JAY ELECTRONICA, B.O.B., KIDZ IN THE HALL, SUPERNATURAL AND SCRATCH, DJ GREEN LANTERN...it wasn't free though but it gonna be good!
i DONT KNOW NON OF THESE OLD HEADS EiTHER. AND iF U DO KNOW EM U PROBABLY AT LEAST 30 EDYSKING ANS SOUNSSEVEN *** YALL @$$ UP! HIP HOP MIGHT NOT HAVE STARTED WIT JAY-Z BUT HE SHOLE MADE iT A HELL OF A LOT BEETER ALONG WITH, BiGGiE, PAC, AND NOW OF COURSE... WAYNE!! THEY GIVIN A FRE CONCERT SO OBVIOUSLY THEY WERENT THAT MUCH OF AN INFLUENCE, PEOPLE WONT EVEN PAY TO SEE EM!! HAHAHAHA. AND I DO KNOW "OF" PPL FROM BACK IN THE DAY. THE BIG DADDY KANE's, LL COOL J's, DOUGIE FRESH's AND SUCH. THESE PPL ARE NOBODiES AND YEAH I SAiD iT! STiCK 2 YA DAY JOBS FOLKZ.
Seriously, these are some of the veterans of hiphop. The music you kids listen to today is more like "hip POP!! There is a difference. These guys had lyrics and beats that your kiddiehop music could never compete with! Back then, it wasn't about how many spins you got on the radio. A lot of their songs never even made it to radio! Man, those were the days....
@TexasGlamourChic
I'm from Texas maybe you I don't hang in the same circles. My point is that a 27 year old woman is a WOMAN. A 17-year old female is a GIRL. A normal and successful MAN does not want a GIRL. He wants a WOMAN (unless he's R. Kelly). You talked about looking like you were 17 as if that's supposed to be a standard of beauty. I am sure you are beautiful and nobody over here said you wasn't phyne. Just be proud to be a phyne woman not a little girl.
As for my comments on folks being under 25 and still in your momma's house that stands but it wasn't personal to you. Black folks have been through much worse than this economy and that brings me back to fact that so many young twenty-somethings and teenagers have lost the ability to get their hustle on and make legit money to handle their own business.
@P3RF3CTiON
FYI-Before we get back to our day jobs. Jay-Z and Diddy is *** near 40 years old and Biggie and PAC would be too if they were still alive. They are NOT from your generation. They are from my over-30 generation. Just like *** near everyone else you can mention who is on their game in hip-hop or rap. You need to find somebody in your generation with some TALENT.
***, the good ol days of hip hop..these lyricists were the best of both worlds..they could have fun with their music but could also spit something socially conscious that will have you say-***..we dont have people like that these days..I dont think Special Ed gets enough credit..if you listen to his songs, hes nice with his flow and his lyrics, it was fun too..the dudes back in that time could rap about your grandmas roast beef and still have some dope lyrics and flow to go along with it..they had enough talent to have fun with their material and at the same time, show you how good they are as an MC..they also rapped about what was going on in the hood and in the world..these days, the so-called "fun" songs have nothing but over-produced beats, the chorus plays over and over, theres no lyrical content..we only have a handful of people these days who rap about anything besides money hoes and stupid *** dances..can you imagine Soula Boy doing a serious song about the trouble our people face? please..Special Ed, De La Soul, Leaders of the New School, Kwame, Fu-Shnickens and acts like that were a breath of fresh air because they were a contrast to rappers like Rakim and KRS-One..they showed the lighter side of hip hop, yet they ALL had skills..they showed that didnt have to talk about *** someones cousin or robbing a bank just to show how nice they were..the 80's and 90's were the best that hip hop was and will ever be
well...i was born in 82 and im from GA and to be honest half of those folks I have no club of who they are and a few of them I did reconize by name and one or two by face.....but HA just because I dont know these dudes that does not make me less of a hip hop fan. DOWN HERE we was on Kilo Ali , Rikeem da dream, Lost boys etc and a lot of that booty base shaking music...and even though the 808 was always bangin...a lot of the songs made since...and if u from ATL ya cant say KILO wasnt the *** and his lyrics always said something. SO again if you grew up somewhere up north of course this would be your type of music because thats what you guys had ...and down here and we got a different style and taste for music...so people are quick to say we dont know "REAL HIP HOP"........I SAY *** "REAL HIP HOP"...JUST MAKE GOOD MUSIC...when i was young you would never catch me listening to too many of them cats....and I know plenty of folks who feel the same way...real hip hop is music that i can connect with *** what anybody gotta say....people are quick to say folks from the south dont understand hiphop well we might not understand what "YOUR" hip hop is but as i stated before as long as i can connect with the music or I can ride or dance too...it works for me...HELL PEOPLE ACT LIKE BIGGIE, PAC, NWA, ICE T, LL COOL J, JAY Z AND MANY OTHER RAPPERS WAS HOLLY RAPPERS... MAN THEM DUDES ALL RAPPED ABOUT SELLIN DOPE, *** SOMEBODY OR SOMETHING CLOSE IN AT LEAST A FEW OF THEIR SONGS....I DONT CARE HOW MANY POSTIVE RECORDS A PERSON PUTS OUT...HELL BIGGIE TO ME TI IS BETTER THAN BIGGIE...I DONT SEE WHY FOLKS ALWAYS CLAIMIN THIS FELLOW WAS THE GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME...WTF HE WAS GOOD BUT NOT ENUFF TO GET THAT TITLE...HELL BACK IN THE DAY I WOULD LISTEN TO A KILO RECORD WAY BEFORE I EVER THOUGHT OF GETTIN A BIGGIE ALBUM......SO IT MAINLY BOILS DOWN TO WHAT U LIKE....AND WHERE U FROM...AND THIS IS MY OPINON SO PLEASE DONT TRY TO CHANGE IT WITH ANY TITLES TO SONGS OR OLD COURSES TO SOMEBODYS SONG...
and you idiots who say that theyre old, played out or nobody cares about them..your the same fools who buy that Soulja Boy *** and who think Lil Wayne is a f*ckin god..no one can take yall comments seriously because youre not grown yet.. so please dont speak on hip hop..you werent around long enough to know what its really about..dont forget that artists back in the 80's and 90's werent paid ridiculous amounts of money like these fools get paid today..they didnt get mult million dollar contracts, endorsements, air play, video play and invitations to big time awards shows like these artists do today..I learned about these artists mentioned above from watching Video Music Box when I was growing up-if you dont know what Video Music Box is, I suggest you look it up..it has to be the most influential video show that introduced a lot of us to these hip hop acts because we didnt have cable..and Cable shows werent showing these videos..MTV and BET and VH1 never played their videos..even Yo MTV Raps didnt play all of the greats because they only played what was popular at the time or what wasnt too offensive..you had to watch Video Music Box to see most of these acts and to learn about different artists that were hitting the streets..much props to Ralph McDaniels for bringing that show to tv and for introducing me and a lot of other people to rappers and MCs that got no love from the mainstream networks..so before you try to insult them for doing a free concert, remember that they dont have to do this, they do this for the LOVE OF HIP HOP! and Jill Scott just did a free concert in Brooklyn, does that mean shes a nobody too? no..when you love what you do, all you want is a microphone and an audience
DragonLeo Flag post I used to the biggest crushes on special ed and q-tip back in the days..omg ------------------------------- ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
*** I WISH I WAS THERE.
THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY DONT KNOW THESE KATS ARE THE ONES WHO WERE DEFENDING SOULJA BOY ON THAT OTHER THREAD-LOL
AND IT WASNT JUST THE NYC REGION BECUASE THESE KATS WENT ON TO BE BEHIND THE SCENES MONEY MAKERS. ALOT OF THESE KATS IN THESE PICS ARE THE ONES PRODUCING THE NEWER HITS, LENDING THEIR CREATIVE TALENTS ON THE RECORDS OF THE NEW KATS ON THE SCENE NOW!TOO BAD THE AUDIENCE OF TODAY CANT APPRECIATE THE OLD SCHOOL LYRICS AND JUST WANT TO DANCE AROUND.
any one can get a record deal these days all you have to have is a gimmic and a verse that rhymes and all of a sudden you'll have a contract in front of you to sign. Chicken noodle soup..how the heck did that even get out in the mainstream! -------------------------------------------- AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HIP HOP WAS AGAISNT BACK THEN.. SOMEHOW THE OPPOSITE BECAME ACCEPTABLE!
I agree that its all a matter of taste..people who grew up in different regions are exposed to different things..but if you dont know who these dudes are in this post,dont disrespect them, just keep it movin..and maybe if you look them up and listen to some of their music, you might like them..I wouldnt speak on rappers that I never heard of because that wouldnt be fair. some of yall schooled me because Im from NYC and yall are naming some southern acts that Im gonna look up
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FYI-Before we get back to our day jobs. Jay-Z and Diddy is *** near 40 years old and Biggie and PAC would be too if they were still alive. They are NOT from your generation. They are from my over-30 generation. Just like *** near everyone else you can mention who is on their game in hip-hop or rap. You need to find somebody in your generation with some TALENT -------------------------------------
YES! LMAO WASNT JAY-Z SPORTING SOME KID AND PLAY FLAT TOP IN AN OLD SCHOOL VID WITH ONE OF THESE OLD SCHOOL ACTS?
MOST YOUNG BUCKS DONT KNOW THAT JAY WAS AROUND BACK THEN AS WELL, HE JUST HADNT BLOWN UP! GEEZ SOME PEOPLE ARE SO IGNORANT. SMDH
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hahaha! good one there buddy! i am not even from here and i know these mofos!
and ofcourse you know that us west indians had to be a part of it like everything else,haha!
SPECIAL ED = JAMAICAN
CHUBB ROCK = JAMAICAN
FUSHNICKENS = TRINIDADIAN
ohh and another thing,just remember that the FOUNDER OF HIP HOP ITS SELF,THE LEDGENDARY KOOL HERK IS ALSO JAMAICAN!! he came here in the 70's with what we jamaicans CALL DANCE HALL AND SESSION MUSIC,which was talking over the beat of a popular songs instrumental(yeah,we started that ***)AND DID THE SAME WITH WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS HIP HOP! if yu nuh believe mi go look it up pan google!
SPEAKING OF DANCEHALL, IS IT JUST ME OR WHAT HAPPENED TO DANCEHALL? *** I WAS JUST PUMPING SOME OLD SCHOOL BARRINGTON LEVY, BUJU AND MAD COBRA THE OTHER DAY WONDERING WHY THE STATIONS/ARTISTS AINT PRODUCING *** LIKE THAT ANYMORE.
I WAS WATCHING SOME *** ON BCAT(LOL) AND ALL THE NEWER ACTS SEEM TO BE GOING THE ROUTE OF HIP HOP TOO. MORE POP THAN REGGAE/DANCEHALL. ITS NOT BLOWING UP THE WAY IT USED TO MAN!
WOW if yar dont know them yar are a bunch of youngings or yall just discovered hip hop seriously do your homework...I LOVE D-NICE & Special Ed Chubb Rock Got Man Boobs...yuck..they need to do an Old School VS. New School combined Concert...I Guarantee the crowd would walk away knowing these new heads are NOT as Talented as The REAL G's...OMG Doug E. Fresh should have been there...
Correction: The people who know these folks aren't over 30 because I *** sure am not...
Pete Rock and CL Smooth? De la Soul? What ever happened to them? And I love that Diamond D Sally Got a One Track Mind...lol reminds me of alot of these females today. mannnnnn those were the days...
I hated Special Ed's stage name though...lol
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I hated Special Ed's stage name though...lol >>>>>>>> hahaha!
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LOl of course Im from Brooklyn! lol. I mean I have been all around NYC, my music taste is very versatile, but I grew up in the golden age of Hip Hop/R&B and Dancehall, and thats was my ***! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> yeah,well if you are from bk then you gotz to know about the yardie music! 90's,flatbush,church ave. tilden,troy,albany,newkirk all them places be poppin!
Whoa I read some of these comments and I am very surprised that people think these brothers is giving free concerts because they can't get paid you newbies...COULDN'T BE ANY FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!!!! I for one know first hand that they are still getting paid thousands of dollars to performances because I myself have booked a few on sold out shows...
The pioneers of the techonoligical watered down so called hip hop most listen to today is a slap in the face of those who came before them...
They busted thier *** back in the day just so you all could even hear rap on the radio today. Yeah times change but in the case of hip hop it is for the worse IMO....Black American culture is already in the red don't let them erase hip hop.
Who do you think Jay looks up to? Who do you think Amy Waynehouse looks back on and salutes...
My hat will always be taken off for those like of Cool Herc, DJ Red Alert, Whodini, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kwame, MC Lyte, Roxanne ***, BDP, Tribe Called Quest, Diggable Planets, The Jungle Brothers, The Ghetto Boys, Kool Moe Dee, Daz FX (abbreviated), Slick Rick, Dana Dane, Dougie Fresh, Nice & Smooth, Sweet T, Sparky D, X-Clan, MC Shan, Scott LaRock, etc...I could keep naming for days but you get my point and I forgot some of the favorites blame it on my head not my heart because I love the hell outta hip hop....AND it doesn't matter how old you are if you are into music the era that it came from makes your musical experience that much nicer..Hell I wasn't born when Motown was hot but I can appreciate it because
I am MUSIC and MUSIC is me...I dig every genre....don't get caught up thinking Wayne and soldier boy are the hip hop eutopia...because you are setting yourself up for failure just look around hip hop now many define album sales with talent...LOL...
Before yall write them off at least do some research.
Oh yeah and *** I wish I was at that!!!!!!!!
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YO PRETTYNPINK, what you said was on the money ! S[SPAM] TRUE !!!!!!!!
Those youngstas so caught up in Lil Wayne, 50, T.I. and them and they think that going platinum makes you more talented. Those cats in those pics laid the rules down and these new ungrateful *** got with these white executives and made everything hip hop about money ! That's why i respected Alisha Keys performance at the BET AWARDS cause she sent a message to let everyone know that ***, Danity Kane, & Destiny's Child did'nt start nothing new, it was lady's like TLC, SWV, EnVogue, Xscape, Brownstone, Jade, Vanity 6, Mary Jane Girls, Klymaxx, that's the really real of the music game and brought something new and fresh to the game just like those hip hop headz in the pics !
My advice to anyone, young and old, especially me being a DJ, don't be fooled by Radio, MTV, BET and think that's the limit when it comes to music. There's so much great music out there waiting to be discovered. Everything we hear on the radio has been bought. Those artists and thier record company's pay to be played on the radio, pay to be played on MTV, & BET !
Don't let the music industry decide what you should and *** listen to. Dig a lil deeper, and I'm finally happy to see a few people with some sense in this thread step up and skool the ones who don't know ! Cause I was beginning to think this site was full of 12 and 13 year olds ! Cause some of the responses be soooo childish , I be like yo, I'm on the wrong entertainment site !
@ chace.... STOP! Just cut it out. Please stop making up excuses for people outside of the NY metro area. Hip Hop started in NY so I don't care what part of this country (or any other country you are from for that matter)if you know anything about Hip Hop you know where it originated and who the pioneers are. Oh and it's after 10p.m youngin go to bed. SMDH (now I got a headache)
DJ_Mann
HIP HOP SOLD OUT, POINT BLANK! BACK THEN IT WAS UNDERGROUND ARTISTS WHO WERE SO NICE, THEY SPIT SO HARD THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT TO THE LIGHT AND TO RADIO PLAY. NOW ARTISTS ARE MARKETED AND PACKAGED TO BE THE NEXT "IT" RAPPER AND SOLD INTO RADIO PLAY AND PAYOLAS.
NOBODY GAVE A *** ABOUT THE SIZE OF YOUR RIMS OR WHAT LABLES YOU HAD ON YOUR BACK. ALOT OF THAT *** STARTED W/ DIDDY'S FAKE AZZ! HE HELPED SELL OUT HIP HOP TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IMO.
I'LL TAKE BRAND NUBIAN, WU TANG, ERIK B & RAKIM, GANGSTARR BIG DADDY KANE, LL COOL J, KOOL MOE D, D NICE, MAIN SOURCE, NAS, ONYX, MOBB DEEP, PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH, KRS 1, THE PHARCYDE ETC ANY DAY OVER TODAYS ***.
SOME SONGS OF TODAY ARE COOL, BUT THEY ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. LOOK HOW MANY NAMES I JUST LISTED AND I STILL WASNT DONE. HOW MANYY OF TODAYS ARTISTS CAN YOU NAME THAT CAN TOUCH THOSE I LISTED ABOVE? AND DONT SAY JAY Z CUZ JAY Z HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE EARLY 90'S HIMSELF!
It's a shame these uneducated youngsters think saying "I never heard of them" is hot! They think because they haven't heard of them, they couldn't have put out scorching *** songs.
I really feel sorry for them, because they missed out royally, and think because these new artist exist now they must be hotter. LOL!!! I'm glad I was there to see a this art form at it's highest peak!
@DjMann...Exactly don't confuse them thier heads would spin on the business aspect of this and I didn't even get on the DJs and how important thier role was and IS in hip hop outside of Herc and DJ Red Alert you had DJ Premier, DJ Grandwizzard T (***), Eric B, JMJay, Jazzy Jeff, Flex's old *** ain't new to this either Capri and a host of hot DJ from the south and the west.....The DJs are extremely influential so keep thinking these political radio personalities have true hip hop's back some do but a whole hell of a lot of them don't....
I back up my claims because I am all up and through the music industry from the grit to the glam..
MTO should have said from the 80's to early 90's because Ed and the rest of them ruled during the late 80's 85-89 and some before of after that....I don't know how I forgot the Sugarhill Gang....anyway
afroWOmania Flag post I'm 16, and I don't know who these people are. Time waits for no one.
"Keep making RELEVANT music or the next generation won't know you." That's an advisory all artists would do well to heed. ----------------------------------------------- WHERE DO YOU THINK THESE ARTISTS OF TODAY ARE GETTING THEIR INSPIRATION FROM? MOST OF THE LINES THEY SPIT THEY TAKE FRO OLD SCHOOL JOINTS.
HOW RELEVANT IS A SONG LIKE LOLLIPOP AS OPPOSED TO "SELF DESTRUCTION" OR A SONG LIKE "U MUST LEARN"
MATTER OF FACT MAYBE YOU SHOUDL LISTEN TO THAT SONG CUZ YOU, MUST LEARNNNN..
Afromania
I always tell people in your age category to listen to Rock the Bells Original on youtube by LL when he was your age, and compare it to a 16 yr old now, AND YOU TELL ME!
As a matter of fact one of my lil young 17 yr old cats just fell in love with Slow And Low by the Beastie Boys on Youtube. These are some white boys that would smash most of these acts today! These cuts will still thump the hell out of a party!!!
@BrooklyLatina not 2 B rude but u cant tell me it's not a region thang when i'm a country gal. I bet u alot of us only know special Ed and Rock, like i said we wasnt feeling that east coast music then, we had underground lyrical people we were listenin to and i bet none of yall eastcoasters would know them but don't mean u don't know hip hop cuz u dnt know our underground lyrical legends. Rap sucks now I got Ho's- I got clothes- I got Dro- I got dough- snap with it drop it low girl bytch ho bust it baby lick the lolipop, ***
@ WhitemanLover I banged my hip hop from all regions...but the core of it started from NYC and it diffused....about my scarface too *** NWA the DOC, DJ *** before he died worked hard at getting southern music out there..Luke was always about that booty music LOL...lets see that was North South and East and West... I could go on for days...it is a fact that hip hop as always been territorial but lets look at the core of it and where it came from
WhiteManLover
Well it wasnt just an East Coast thing, cuz I still listened to some like NWA and when the Chronic came out I was digging that *** to death!
Yes you are right there are alot of underground acts that got no play, but the fact is that NY is where the game began. This is only for the people who claim to know hip hop and be a fan. How can you be a fan if you dont know about what you are supporting or its origins?. And if you know hip hop then you should know all of the pioneers, including , Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5. I mean Sadat X and Brand Nubian? How could u be atru Hip Hop fan and not know Brand Nubian? How could you be a fan and not know Q-tip was steady mentioning Ali every few verses? If you knew Special Ed you had to know ATCQ or Leaders of the New SChool AND Brand Nubian.
But I can see if you really didnt grasp hip hop until later in the 90's and you were from another region, not knowing those peeps, but I know Kats born and raised in/from Miami who know exactly who those people are.
It's good to see special ed he looks good. But the other artist are still kinda new to me and that's because I from the real ole' school. What happened to Stetsasonic, Biz Markie, Kool Moe, Dee, Kurtis Blow, the Treacherous Three? Some of those cats are still new like Kwame rockin the polka dots, red head king pin, Father MC, Eric B and Rakim, Kool G Rap...I could go on and on my uncle and some cousins were djays so I remember a lot of old "joints"! Even Mc Lyte and Roxanne *** and The Real Roxanne......hole up I'm going down memory lane lol............
*** father MC is the one who basically put on Jodeci and Mary J!
Whoo I remeber "I'll Do For You" and "Everythings Gonna be Alright" W/ Jodeci!
Diddy was Andre Harrel's beyotch-lol when he worked for Uptown/MCA records, but I didnt know he was a back up dancer? lolo LMAO!!Please tell me who he danced for~~~!!!
FIRST LET ME GET THIS OUT THE WAY !
F*&@*** ALL YOU *** TALKING YOUNGSTER @SS WHIPERSNAPPERS !
YALL AIN'T BUSTIN A GRAPE !
EVERYTHING YALL LISTENED 2 IN THE LAST 5 YEARS AT LEAST IS CERTIFIED *** FOR THE MOST PART, CEPT FOR A FEW GEMS !
BUT TODAY, HIP HOP DON'T EVEN EXIST, JUST *** RAP !
SOULJAH BOY AND LIL WAYNE IS YOUR LEGACY ??
DOG *** WITH A LABEL ON IT !
OLD SCHOOL HAS 10,000 TIMES MORE VALUE THAT THE *** YOU LISTEN TO !
I GREW UP IN NYC, THEN MOVED TO CALI IN THE LATE 80'S !
I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER AFRIKA BAMBATTA'S FAT @SS RIDIN AROUND THE BRONX ON LIL @SS SCOOTER !
I ALSO REMEMBER LIVING NEXTDOOR TO COMPTON WHEN NWA CAME OUT, AND ACTUALLY LIVING THE LIFESTYLE THEY TALKED ABOUT !
"PAUSE" R.I.P. TO SCOTT LAROCK - BDP ! I REMEMBER WHERE I WAS WHEN HE DIED !
YES, THE SOUTH SCREWED UP HIPHOP FOR THE MOST PART REAL TALK !
BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO OUTKAST, GOODIE MOB, GETO BOYS, ETC !
THAT IS REAL HIP HOP !
PEACE TO ALL THE HEADS WHO FEEL ME ! U ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT IS !
I WAS ON LIMEWIRE LAST WEEK, ALL I DOWNLOAD/LISTEN TO IS OLD STUFF, I CAN STAND THE *** RADIO *** ANYMORE AND I SUGGEST YOU DO THE SAME.
EPMD - SO WATCH YOU SAYIN ? GANGSTARR - JUST TO GET A REP ! ICE CUBE - DEATH CERTIFICATE LL COOL J - BACK SEAT OF MY JEEP, PINK COOKIES IN A PLASTIC BAG ! ILLEGAL JAMAL PUDGEE THE PHAT *** KAUSION GUMBO (DOWN WIT ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) DIGABLE PLANETS - NICKEL BAG OF FUNK ! HEAVY D - GIRLS THEY LOVE ME BIG L
TOO MANY TO NAME
CHECK CDNOW.COM AND LOOK UP OLD ***, AND IT WILL GIVE YOU LISTS OF OTHER OLD *** YOU AIN'T HEARD IN FOREVER !!!
@ YOURBRAINMYTOY - U NEED TO GET IT RIGHT. THAT'S JERU THE DAMAJA.
WHAT THE HELL WITH THE PPL ABOVE ME, MOST OF YALL *** JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS SO CALL HIP HOP IN 2001. THIS IS REAL HIP HOP. *** JERU HAD THEM JOINTS, A SADAT X *** PUNKS JUMP UP AND GET BEAT DOWN LIKE THESE NEWBIES TO THIS HIP HOP GAME.
SPECIAL ED SPOKE TRU HIP HOP:
I’m your idol, the highest title, numero uno I’m not a puerto rican, but I’m speakin so that you know And understand I got the gift of speech And it’s a blessin, So listen to the lesson I preach I talk sense condensed into the form of a poem Full of knowledge from my toes to the top of my dome I’m kinda young--but my tongue speaks maturity I’m not a child, I don’t need nothin for security I get paid when my record is played--to put it *** I got it made
@BROOKLYN LATINA. I hear u That's fine but yall keep saying "i listened I listened. I'm talking bout the folks who didn't listen that just wasn't feeling some of that music and stayed in their range of music that they like. Not 2 say they aint the *** .I don't like The Game so y would i listen to his music. alot of folks in da south (NOT SOME OF U)just wasn't feeling that music. I do agree that eastcoast originated but is it my duty to get to know all of them cause they started. I'm in love with alicia keys and piano myself but I don't know who made it popular. I just play *** good. But big ups to those MC's but i had my own folks i listened 2.
Ali Shabazz??? MTO must not be comprised of Old heads. It is Ali Shaheed Muhammad! That other pic looks like one Fuschnick (probably Chip Fu) don't know who that other dude is. S'OK cuz Chip was the whole group anyway. Whoever doesn't know who DJ Premier is....they should stop claiming Real Hip Hop...Him, Pete Rock & Marley Marl are the holy trinity of beats. Sadat X & Jeru? True lyricists for any era. It was in Prospect Park..sorry I missed it. Should have never gone to Queens after my boy's wedding. Dozed off watching the Yank-Met game after it started raining.
WhiteManLover
T-Pain-lol. Who is Tpain anyway? I though he was a computer generated voice-lol. Oh god. And all these R&B male artist pretty much sound the same now too.
Girl yes now you know lets take it back to Isley Bro's Earth Wind and Fire, Otis Redding Marvin, Al Greene.
But I was really feeling Public Levert, Anouncement, Aaron Hall, UNV, Blackstreet and even R Kelly's old ***. Now R Kelly is making music for those 15 yr old girls he's checkin for.
@BrooklynLatina-girrrllll..omg, you named all the hot groups from back in the day!!!! ***, Im gonna start downloading like crazy ***! lol..for real, sometimes I forget about some of these groups because its been so long! keep the list going! lol..Im from Brooklyn too..what high school did you go to?
gigi I went Laguardi HS of Performing Arts-lol. But that school was so diverse it had me meeting heads from the BX, Wash Heights, Flatbush etc! I mean I aready had alot of background from my hood (I was from the South Side or Williamsburgh-before gentrification) and we were deep with tall that Hip Hop Dancehall ***.
*** I miss GOOD music!
Wow I'd think that a website like this would attract some true hiphop fans......how do you listen to hiphop and not know Ali from A Tribe Called Quest or DJ Premiere (from GangStar) or who Chubbrock is? Wow. Not for nothing, young white kids know the current stuff and also every thing Bruce Springstein, Bon Jovi and the Rolling Stones did or do. It's only us that when something is more than 4 years old it is considered to be old and not worthy of knowing......Wow. That's pretty sad.
Ready for the World, I use to see them when I went to Flint every summer they lived in my aunts neigborhood,
New Edition, Sade, Prince, Anita Baker, Luther, Marvin ***, Freddy Jackson, Atlantic Star, Shalamar, El Debarge, Blue Magic (what yall know about them), The Chi Lites, The Temptations, The Stylistic, Levert, Stevie Wonder, The Gap Band, woo lets take this back to the old school....I hope I am not the only one in here that has been to one of DJ Red Alerts parties back in the day...
REMEMBER THESE ARTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Abstrac' Entouch Kid '***' Play Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock A.C. Kelly The Force MDs Kool Moe Dee Salt '***' Pepa Al B. Sure! Foster/McElroy LeVert Soul II Soul Alton "Wokie" Stewart Full Force MC Hammer Timmy Gatling Alyson Williams The Good Girls MC J & Cool G Today Babyface Guy MC Lyte Tony Terry Big Daddy Kane The Gyrlz The Mac Band Tony Toni Tone The Black Flames Heavy D & The Boyz Maestro Fresh Wes Troop Bobby Brown Janet Jackson Michel'le Vanessa Williams The Boys Jody Watley New Edition Wrecks '***' Effect Chuckii Booker Johnny Kemp Paula Abdul Deja Karyn White Pebbles Don Newkirk Keith Sweat RedHead Kingpin Another Bad Creation Ex-Girlfriend Michael Jackson Special Generation After 7 Father MC Mint Condition Stacye & Kimiko B Angie B Hi-Five Mic Murphy TLC Basic Black The Honeys Nice & Smooth Tara Kemp Bell Biv Devoe Jasmine Guy Perfect Gentlemen Tevin Campbell Boyz II Men Jeff Redd Pretty In Pink Tracie Spencer Chris Bender Jodeci R. Kelly/Pub.Announcements Tyler Collins Christopher Williams Johnny Gill Ralph Tresvant The U-Krew Colin England Kwame Riff Wooten Brothers Color Me Badd Laquan The Rude Boys Z'Looke D' La Vance LL Cool J Samuelle Damian Dame Lisa Stansfield Shanice En Vogue MC Brains Small Change 1-900 Das Efx Lo-Key Shaquille O'Neal Aaron Hall D.R.S. London Jones Silk Arrested Development Funky Poets Lords Of The Underground Simple Pleasure BLACKstreet Four Sure Lorenzo Smooth Blackgirl Force One Network M&M Sounds of Blackness Big Bub Good 2 Go Mary J. Blige S.W.V. Black Sheep Highland Place Mobsters Me-2-U Tene Williams Bobby Ross Avila Grand Puba Men At Large Terri & Monica Brand Nubian G-Wiz Modest Fok Tim Owens Brian *** II D Extreme Nona *** Tisha Campbell Brotherhood Creed Immature Paperboy Trey Lorenz Bryan Powell Intro Portrait U-Mynd CeCe Peniston H-Town Remedy U.***.V. Chante Moore Jade P.O.V. Voices Classic Example Jamie Foxx Raab Tung Twista College Boyz Joe Public The Real Seduction Coming of Age Kris Kross Shai
112 Donell Jones Lisa Taylor Rome 3rd Avenue Drama LV Sam Salter 3T Destiny's Child Mark Morrison Simply Smooth 4.0 Dru Hill Men Of Vizion Somethin' For The People 7 Mile EOL Miss Jones Soul for Real A Few Good Men Eternal Missy Elliott Soultry Aaliyah Faith Evans Mista Subway Adina Howard The Fugees Mokenstef Sweet Sable Alfonzo Hunter For Real Mona Lisa Tamia Allure The Gabylz Monica Tami Davis All-4-One Gerald Levert Monifah Tony Rich Asante Ginuwine Montell Jordan Total Az Yet Goodfellaz MN8 Tyrese Billy Lawrence Horace Brown Mya Usher Brandy Jagged Edge Myron Uncle Sam Brik Citi Jesse Powell *** II U Voices Of Theory The Braids Joe Nadanuf Vybe Brownstone Jon B Next The Whitehead Bros. Case K7 Nuttin Nyce Xscape Changing Faces ***-Ci & Jojo Ol' Skool Yvette Michelle Da Brat Keith Martin Outkast Veronica Damage Kenneth Mangram Playa Zhane Damion Hall Kut Klose Pressha Deborah Cox Ladae Public Announcement Domino Link Pure Soul
WhiteManLover
Hell, everyone will disagree now and then. You may have a different opinion than me but I dont care for name calling. Its immature. I'm all about healthy debating. Some people dont realize that you can debate and have differences of opinion without getting all hot under the collar or being rude. I mean, thats how you separate the mature intellects from the childish idiots. Obvioulsy you and I know there are plenty of the latter on MTO!
No pretty in Pink didn't say sade. i gave u all the love i got i gave u all that i could give. gave u love. I gave u all that i have inside then u took my love u took my love. Didn't i tell u what i believe somebody said that a love like that wont last didn't i give u all that i got to give baby THIS IS NO ORDINARY LOVE
@BrooklynLatina..cool..I went to Midwood HS..my zoned school was Erasmus but that school was too f*cked up..lol..big ups to all my Flatbush heads though! and I remember Williamsburg back in the day..I used to ride the J or Z to Marcy Ave to visit my cousins..it was a lot different back then..and big ups to the class of 1995! those were the best years to be in high school man..we got the best years of hip hop and dancehall and we had the best house parties! someone would either play vinyl records, or have mix tapes or CDs..ahh the good ol days..lol
True @ Lil hip hop needs to let these pioneers have greatful dead type followers....The pioneers in hiphop need to sell out Arenas...they probably would if promoters could get it insured right but becasue of all the violence these knuckleheads have brought to the game many promoters won't touch it....ask yourself you have kids that cry at Bruce Springstien, U2, Kiss and other great rockers who by the way I also happen to like...I want my hip hop to have the same effect and following I know we could sell out Arenas but they refuse to come in peace and enjoy what pioneers brought to the game
***! you all crazy over here,its funny because just *** i was on you tube listening to almost all of them artist prettyinpink just named,i also found apache's gangsta *** and the flava unit mc's lmao! them was the ***!
whats that ***!ggas name from black sheep? dres or drez or some ***? he said,and if he got a 9,and she got a 9,then its a mother *** party yo cause i got mine! LMAO!
PrettynPink Flag post I am going to bed I will be up all *** talking about music...it is in my heart and soul....I remeber watching BET and loving everytime Donnie Simpson smiled with his fine ***....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
come on,what about that jamaican princess rachell? i used to jer.....never mind! ;) hahah!
@BrooklynLatina..lol..I know a lot of people that went to LaGuardia too who were in the class of 1995..lol..its a small world! I think we were lucky to live through that era in music because we got the best of everything..dancehall was huge back then too..if you were at a party, no matter if you were black or spanish, you had to have dancehall music at your party..thats when everyone got hype! and the *** lil boys would love it because then they get to wine up on the girls..lol..hip hop, dancehall and some freestyle-thats what made the party slammin..lol..yes I said "slammin"..lol..what do kids the say these days instead of slammin? lol
@jrlink..LMAOOO..for real..Erasmus was really f*cked up back then..they had one of the lowest graduation rates in the city and one of the highest school crime rates in the city..my moms was like-oh helllll naw! you are not getting your *** *** up in Erasmus..lol..thats a shame because I heard Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond went to Erasmus..that part of Flatbush was all Jewish when my parents first moved there and then it started to change..its hard to believe FLatbush was all white back in the day..my parents were one of the first minority people to move around there..you know they werent exactly welcomed..lol..anyway some members of the Boot Camp Click used to always hang around Caton Avenue by Prospect park..I would always see them around..I also used to see Big Daddy Kane and his red Maxima around there too..lol..I saw Little Vicious around Flatbush with his moms or something..that lil boy was OOOGLY UGLY..lol
jrlink I remember Rachel and Carribean Rythyms....But Donnie had me glued with those green eyes...
Oh don't make me go back to the old school Dancehall
Pirates Anthem, Shabba, Buju, Supercat, Admiral Bailey, Coco Tea, Marcia Griffith, Shelly Thunda, Beres Hammond, Mad Cobra, Mad Lion, Red Rat, Pinchers, Tanto Metro, Patra *** so many to name love my dancehall reggae too
Oh my goodness but for real Shabba ugly behind had it sewed up...I remember going to after hours and coming out when the sun was up
*didn't I say I was going to sleep*
Lexia Flag post And I know this isn't R&B but Irene Cara's "What a Feeling" off the FlashDance soundtrack just moves me. ------------------------------------------------ Girl her FAME song was my school's anthem, cuz Laguardia HS is the Fame school. lol. Everytime my alumni hear that song we start twirling and singing like we was Debbie Allen and ***!
jrlink Flag post ok,now either a jamaican man was doing some strong piping,or you all are jamaicans! how the hell could you all know about pirates anthem? lmao -------------------------------------------- Nah Im not Jamaican, but maybe its an Island thing-lol Puerto Rocks and Jamaicans were living shoulder to shoulder when I came up.
lmao! yes! travel fox! i had a 4 color one,i would never be caught dead in that *** right now!
Nah Im not Jamaican, but maybe its an Island thing-lol Puerto Rocks and Jamaicans were living shoulder to shoulder when I came up.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
yeah,who you tellin when you say your zone school was erasmus?? LMAO! trust me i know!
remember "I found my sonia, she has come home to me"""", aye awe *** sleep escaped me>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
ok,so you are the jamaican! lol
how about "Love and Hate can never be friends...oh no....show me goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our live....
~buck buck buck lightas lightas....~
having a reggae moment....
A Gyal man a run you down and it is not your fault (verbiage).....Take Him Take Him.....
who had a bomber or a sheep dog ( I had a pink sheep) ayye
***! This thread brought al the music lovers out! For you NY heads BIG UPS TO: Flatbush Brooklyn Tech HS SUNY@ Stony Brook (where I saw KRSONE, NOTORIOUS B.I.G., BEENIE MAN, LEADERS OF THE NEW SCHOOL, REDMAN, POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, X-CLAN, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, BRAND NUBIAN, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, CHUBB ROCK, ROBIN S., THE FUGEES, NICE & SMOOTH ALL PERFORM WHILE I WAS THERE) -
gigi2007 Flag post Im not Jamaican or west indian either but I grew up around all of them in Flatbush..lol >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
and you remember all them songs? wow! so did you used to go to biltmore ball room too? did you used to go to afrique dance witg claud jagga'b and twitch?
@jrlink..lol..nah I used to go clubbin hardcore in the city..and every club had a raggae room..lol..I used to be up in that b*tch all ***..forget the house music and the salsa and merengue..lol. I was whinin, and doin the bogle, peppa seed, world dance, lol..I used to go to Vertigo, Esso, Palladium, Tunnel, and some underground spots all over the lower east side..not to mention all of the house parties that my friends used to have..lol
JrLink I have no Jamaican ancestors my parents are as yankee as american pie LOL>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
ohh ok,well you spend alot of time around us,i hope you are not corrupted! hahaha! ;)
ok,i have a question, if these guys are the old school rappers that we all know,rap came about in the 70,s..so besides run dmc and afrika bambata,kool herc and ***,who the hell was inbetween that time?? these guys are late 80's early 90's..i am sure big daddy kane wasnt sharing the stage with kool herk!
gigi2007 Flag post @jrlink..lol..nah I used to go clubbin hardcore in the city..and every club had a raggae room..lol..I used to be up in that b*tch all ***..forget the house music and the salsa and merengue..lol. I was whinin, and doin the bogle, peppa seed, world dance, lol..I used to go to Vertigo, Esso, Palladium, Tunnel, and some underground spots all over the lower east side..not to mention all of the house parties that my friends used to have..lol >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ***! you went to the archives! lol..wow! those were the days..bently and demara's too...cant forget the act 3 in the bx!
jrlink how about the banging sounds from back in the day and the reggae djs
Metro Media and big belly sky juice, Libra Love, Black Chinny, Stone Love, *** homeboy out of England,his name escapes me and that chinese chick who kicks *** over in China spinning that reggae another one from England was DJ Kaas
PrettynPink Flag post jrlink how about the banging sounds from back in the day and the reggae djs
Metro Media and big belly sky juice, Libra Love, Black Chinny, Stone Love, *** homeboy out of England,his name escapes me and that chinese chick who kicks *** over in China spinning that reggae another one from England was DJ Kaas >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
hahah! you mean david rodigan? i never knew there was a japan chick doing reggae???
ok bklatina,good ***.
@ GIGI I went to the Brook in the early 90's undergrad and the mid 90's grad @ JR link Early 80's was Whodini, The Fat Boys, Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde (Andre Harell) The cold crush brothers (Kool Moe Dee was original CCB), Funky four , furious five w/ Grand Master Flash, the Supreme Team, Sugar Hill Gang and a whole lot of one-hit wonders. Rap Music in the early 80's had less rules...B-boyed to anything with a beat like Billy Squier, Malcolm McClaren...rock, anything. - Some of you may remember Hip Hop was on like 3-6 hours a week on radio back then, It was isolated. Mr Magic's Rap Attack, Marley Marl, Kool DJ Red Alert and a lot of college and underground radio supported the art form.
STRESSONSMASH Flag post @ GIGI I went to the Brook in the early 90's undergrad and the mid 90's grad @ JR link Early 80's was Whodini, The Fat Boys, Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde (Andre Harell) The cold crush brothers (Kool Moe Dee was original CCB), Funky four , furious five w/ Grand Master Flash, the Supreme Team, Sugar Hill Gang and a whole lot of one-hit wonders. Rap Music in the early 80's had less rules...B-boyed to anything with a beat like Billy Squier, Malcolm McClaren...rock, anything.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
so i guess that was it then? because after them i would think there was the kanes and run dmc's? so why are they broke when they were right there with run and them? it seems like it was two totally different styles of music..them afrika bambata songs dont sound like rap to me..he was sounding like how t-pain sounds with that machine voice thing..rockin rockin rockin dont stop!
ok,well i have to go now guys! it felt a little strange being on here and not cussing out somebody! hahaha! that main page is cursed! lmao! weeepaa! ladywoods,to be honest,you dont have to go back and lsiten,because everything is coming back around,so i can assure you that these same old school artists,will one day be back on top! (what do you all think,i should stop holding my breath)? lol..
@ jrlink: Hip Hop had no rules back then, You could do almost anything and put Hip Hop on it. It was so new that no one could say what it was and what it wasn't....until like... Run DMC, Ultramagnetic MC-s and groups with strong DJ-s came in ...NY had a sound then Jazzy Jeff from Philly came in like 85-ish then everybody outside of the hip hop culture started paying attention. I still say the first video I remember seeing hip hop dancers in was "Mister Big Stuff" - Heavy D
** Runs up and gives Lexia, BrooklynLatina, PrettynPink, and gigi2007 a hug and a peck (I LOVE chicks that know REAL hip-hop)**
I don't buy into that bs about not knowing these cats because of regional ish because I grew up in New Orleans and all me and my people listened to back in the 80's was the stuff from the east. Back when we had WAIL 105 (back then Q93 was a rock station), we RARELY heard anything local(thank God). It was all about Run DMC, Beasties, LL, Special Ed and ESPECIALLY P.E. (and eff what anybody says, Chuck D is still the greatest rapper alive). I remember seeing LL at the Municpal Auditorium in '85 with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (that negro Andre Harrell was wack) and seeing the Together Forever tour in the Superdome. These dudes today can't see Full Force, Whistle, Whodini, UTFO, Mantronix, EPMD or Steezo for that matter.
I am not surprised people dont know these artists, because these days there are certain people who dont know true, authentic hip-hop. These people are too busy listening to the down-south ***. To them Ying-Yang Twins (can I throw up) is classic hip-hop.
But I wish I was there, it seems like a great time. Great people, great music.
special ed looks like sam jackson's brother DJ premiere looks really old but he still is one of the best hit makers period This concert seems like a throwback show all they need is some Nice and Smooth, KRSone, DasFX, Lord of the underground and Blacksheep Rappers back then had talent and were original all the time. Before Puffy raped hip hop.
umm girlforaction wtf you talking bout, u abviously got your head stuck in one area cuz we (south) put out great music and no im not talking bout ying-yang twins or rick ross dj khaled... u need to do ur homework more like Ludacris, UGK, Scarface!!
anywho, i was too young to remember these guys! I only sort of remember Ali
@ WhiteManLover... Please, please, please stop with that "It's a reigion thing". Country music is country music and that does not mean that people from Seattle don't know who Loretta Lynn is but people from Nashville do and because that's where country music originated. Spare me. It has nothing to do with the region. It is about the genre of music. Legends are well known and celebrated in their genre. So as for the legedary underground rappers from the south, they can't be to legedary if they are only known in the south.
** Runs up and gives Lexia, BrooklynLatina, PrettynPink, and gigi2007 a hug and a peck (I LOVE chicks that know REAL hip-hop)**
Back atcha Babe...And be easy with the other chicks...Don't make me get jealous...**singing hands off, he belongs to me...hands off, he's my private property...**lol j/*** That's that Maria Vidal old joint.
I'm glad you mentioned EPMD because I was thinking about them but everytime I got to typing, something else would come up...Nice to go down memory lane...
"I'm glad you mentioned EPMD because I was thinking about them but everytime I got to typing, something else would come up...Nice to go down memory lane..." - Eric & Parrish Making Dollars...wow! The original hardcore duo! Them, PE, De La Soul, Eric B & Rakim, Leaders of the New School made Long Island puff its chest out.
For those who don't know these people.....these rappers represent an era in rap music when the music was respectable, enjoyable, and folks were all about fun and knew how to have a good time. The music wasn't all about drugs, money, cars, and ***. Rappers actually had something to say. Today's era is pure garbage and the generation currently in the rap game has taken it to a place that have turned so many people away from the music. Of course record execs don't care, it's all about the money to them. Today's era represents exploitation in it's most blatant form.
Man.. I'm reading these comments and all I can say is ***...it's really a *** shame that young people dont give a *** about what came before them. See the reason why we are so adamant on "these were the best days" is simply just that..they were. I cant name one person in their 30's who can truly honestly say that today's music era is the best. Back then we went to clubs and actually partied and enjoyed our young lives til the sun came up. I can remember actually breaking day going from the club straight to work...(REAL TALK!!) Music was hot from every corner of the USA...I bumped just about everybody in my radio.. but of course the EAST where it all started was my home so of course I felt that the most. Today the music is entertaining at best(***without hurting some these young cats feelings***) it has no substance...some of you will try to argue with me and say such & such got deep on this song, but that is just it...I can name albums and years worth of deep entertaining music where you can name a so called song...sad..Then you turn on the news and young people are killing themselves, more young girls are having babies more than ever...drugs are on the rise and y'all are supposed to be the children of our future???? You can have your music but what we are saying is it will NEVER be the way it once was...I wouldnt trade it for nothing in the world...I like a few of Lil wayne joints..hate Jeezy...Kanye is cool etc... but we talk of the artist from our days like kings and queens..they upheld it right for us and represented to the fullest...you wouldnt have your so called hip hop (really what you young people do is rap ummm excuse me again...c-rap) if if wasnt for what we did and those that came before us...you people have no respect for history and then you wonder why we s.h.i.t on your idols...
prettyin pink. I was used get beatings for being in Union Square and at the Roxy. Come on no one mentioned the Juice Crew, that were Masta Ace is from, him Craig G, Big Daddy, Kool G. Rap, who was the first to wear three piece suits and rap about the mob life, come Road to the Riches is always going to be a banger. For those who dont know Sadat X, he is from Brand Nubian, with Grand Bubba and Lord Jamar. They are from my hood. Yes you young people do need to hear do your homework, all these dudes were MC's, which means if you took the beat away, they could still rock the crowd. Take the beat away from today's fake rappers and you would not even wanna recite the lyrics. We used to use these artists lyrics as quotes in year books and stuff. They actually had something to say.
