When RAP was great

[mysaladdays]

Came out in 1996, then Won the Grammy for Best R&B back in 1998.



Dr. Dre and Queen Pen



Just a nice groove to dance to.  Really smooth.   Old rap, has a nice beat, great piano..... right at :47 singer's voice kicks in, soothing.......and no autotune, and no disrespect to women. 

I love dancing around the kitchen to this: 

[1hooper]

Edited version, 40+ years ago.

It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
My brother's doin' bad, stole my mother's TV
Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy
All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors, they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane
I swear I might hijack a plane!

[PonyGirlJCM]

Per Rolling Stone Magazine   This was number 2 of their top 100. June 2017
My 46 year old son still likes it ….. used to dance with him in the living room back in the day…
Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”
100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
Non-album single, 1979
It took three guys from New Jersey to put hip-hop, a still-underground New York-born phenomenon, on Top 40 radio for the first time. Bronx DJ Grandmaster Flash recalled hearing “Rapper’s Delight” on the air and asking, “The Sugarhill who? Who are these people?” Sugar Hill Records founder Sylvia Robinson got the idea for the song while watching a DJ talk over a record in a Harlem club, and she formed the Sugarhill Gang shortly thereafter. On the original 12-inch single, “Rapper’s Delight” was 15 minutes of urban-playboy bragging over a disco-rhythm track that blatantly quoted the bass line in Chic’s 1979 hit “Good Times.” Chip Shearin, who played bass guitar at the “Rapper’s Delight” session, recalled “sweating bullets” as he played the song’s body-moving lick, without changes or mistakes, for a quarter-hour. Shearin, then 17, was paid $70. Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards did much better, eventually getting writer credits and royalties after threatening legal action.

[tenfurlongs]

Hip-hop masters...






TW

[spankyupinclass]

I had a tee shirt that read "Death Before Rap"

To each their own of course but I never liked or understood rap or hip hop. What's the difference?As I type this Meet the Press is on with Margeret Brenner interviewing that human douch bag Lindsey Wagner. They are discussing the immigration problem at the southern boarder, I know, no politics but sometimes it's just too much. The next 18 months should be quite interesting. Howard Stern for President. Stormy Daniels for VP. How much worse could it get? Really.

[mysaladdays]

Oh yeah, I remember Grandmaster Flash, true old good rap. And Rapper's Delight is another true classic, both songs/groups often listed as top 10 of all time on people's personal lists.  Eric B. & Rakim, nice find, I dont listen to them much and wouldn't have come across it, so thanks. 


This one, nobody ever talks about them, a good song -- I can't stay still listening to it, rockin it out.  (notice the rotary phone in the video and cameo with Queen Latifah in there too........and writing phone numbers on the inside of matchbooks, before cell phones!).  Beat from early Jackson Five "ABC".  Sort of like how the first song I posted used part of a Bill Wither's song, which was more R&B than Rap. 

Naughty By Nature: O.P.P.





I enjoyed Super Bowl 1/2 time in 2022, this was well done, I think we all laughed when we saw 50-cents , hanging upside down, classic!    This was really a well produced show, Mary K Blige at 50 years old in sparkly body suit still pulling it off,  Dre and Snoop both iconic: 

NFL blocked it from posting on forums, you can watch on You Tube "Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar & 50 Cent FULL Pepsi SB LVI Halftime Show"

[1hooper]

Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) is 66 today.

[spankyupinclass]

Death before RAP.

[spankyupinclass]

anyone else listen to Micheal Smiconish out of Philly? I enjoy his show and has good guests.