Favorite Hip-hop track

[beaconbouy]

Xzibit-Multiply.

>>> Edited by beaconbouy on Saturday 19th February 05:32

[lazyitus]

It takes two - Rob Base & DJ E.Z Rock

[Corin Denton]

Arthur Baker - Breaker's Revenge
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
Grandmaster & Melle Mel "White Lines (Don't Do It)"
Xena - On the upside
Overlord X - 14 days in May
Kurtis Blow - The breaks
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

[lazyitus]

Corin Denton said:

Kurtis Blow - The breaks

"these rrrrrrr the breaks, break it up, break it up, break it up"



>> Edited by lazyitus on Saturday 19th February 09:52

[neil.b]

Corin Denton said:

Arthur Baker - Breaker's Revenge Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) Grandmaster & Melle Mel "White Lines (Don't Do It)" Xena - On the upside Overlord X - 14 days in May Kurtis Blow - The breaks Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

Impeccable taste, chief.

I'd add to that "Wildstyle" by Time Zone (Arthur Baker again), "Breakdance Electric Boogie" West Street Mob, "One For The Treble" Davy DMX, "You Know You Got Soul" Eric B & Rakim, "Bassline" Mantronix, "Rock The Bells" LL Cool J

There's so many more.

[v8thunder]

Only the original stuff's worth listening to IMO - when it was more like Black American punk, rather than some blinged-up w@nker sitting on a badly-customised Bentley waving his sovereign rings at a camera and singing lyrics that amount to "Look at me, I'm so hard, I'm so rich, I'm a pimp"

So you've got to go back to Public Enemy, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, NWA, old Cypress Hill and so on.

My favourite 'old skool' hip-hop tracks?

Ice Cube - U Ain't Gonna Take My Life
Run DMC - just about anything of theirs, really
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
2Pac - All Eyez On Me
Warren G - Recognize
Bounty Killer - Down In The Ghetto (OK, so strictly it's jungle but it's got strong hip-hop overtones)
Cypress Hill - Scooby Doo


And let's not forget the risible efforts that tried to commercialise the hip-hop bandwagon in the late '80s and '90s and are sheer comedy value now, like The Rebel MC & Double Trouble (bunch of Sarf Landan wannabes), D-Mob, Redhead Kingpin & the FBI (did the theme tune to Do The Right Thing IIRC).

[Corin Denton]

Whoa some classic tracks there!

Have to agree the 'bling hop' does nothing for me, it's not the hip hop I grew up to.

Add a few more...

Shannon - Let the music play
Public Enemy - 98 Oldsmobile
Young M.C. - Know How
New Order - Confusion

[v8thunder]

Corin Denton said:

New Order - Confusion

Madchester Indie dance, surely?

[v8thunder]

Corin Denton said:

Shannon - Let the music play

And was that the one sampled by the Prodigy on 1/2/3/4?

[Corin Denton]

v8thunder said:

Corin Denton said: New Order - Confusion Madchester Indie dance, surely?

Check the track and the video out, they spent a lot of their early pre-fame days in the New York breakdance clubs.

[ErnestM]

Corin Denton said:

Shannon - Let the music play

Strictly speaking, Shannon was not Hip-Hop, it was part of a wave of music emanating mostly from Miami in the late 80's/early 90's called Freestyle. Included such other artists as Sweet Sensation(Hooked On You), Debbie Deb(When I hear Music), Company B(Fascinated) and Linear (Sending All My Love)


ErnestM

[Corin Denton]

ErnestM said:

Corin Denton said: Shannon - Let the music play Strictly speaking, Shannon was not Hip-Hop, it was part of a wave of music emanating mostly from Miami in the late 80's/early 90's called Freestyle. Included such other artists as Sweet Sensation(Hooked On You), Debbie Deb(When I hear Music), Company B(Fascinated) and Linear (Sending All My Love) ErnestM

IIRC 1984 and part of the Electro series.

[ErnestM]

Probably just called different things on different sides of the world - no internet to speak of back then

ErnestM

[GregE240]

Sugarhill Gang - Rappers Delight
De La Soul - Say No Go
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Disposable Heroes of Hip Hoprisy - Television (The Drug of the Nation)
Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
Bomb the Bass - Megablast
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

Greg

[Corin Denton]

GregE240 said:

Bomb the Bass - Megablast Greg

Choon!

[GregE240]

Indeed. That sample of the "Assault on Precinct 13" music is so catchy.

[ErnestM]

For me...

Young MC - Bust A Move
Ton Loc - The Wild Thing
Will Smith - a lot of his later stuff

anything off the TLC Crazy, Sexy, Cool CD

...

That being said, some of the new crop out of Atlanta have potential as long as they don't fall into the pattern of bling typified by the west coast, east coast rappers.


ErnestM

>> Edited by ErnestM on Saturday 19th February 11:47

[EmmaP]

Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys (One of my all time favourite tracks. In fact, one of my all time fave bands.)

White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash, The Furious Five and Grandmaster Melle Mel ('Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' has just about all the tracks you could ever want.)

It's Like That - Run DMC (Just played it for the first time in ages.)

Walk This Way - Run DMC and Aerosmith

[Corin Denton]

EmmaP said:

Furious Five and Grandmaster Melle Mel ('Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' has just about all the tracks you could ever want.)

Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly
DJ spinning, said my my my
Flash is fast

Flash is fast!



Genious!

[wolves_wanderer]

EmmaP said:

White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash, The Furious Five and Grandmaster Melle Mel ('Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' has just about all the tracks you could ever want.)

Great tune. For me, pretty much anything off Doggystyle will do...OK then, Gin & Juice if I have to pick one