Can you identify this rap(?) song?
Can you identify this rap(?) song?
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Tony2or4

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1,283 posts

194 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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There's this song which I'm trying to remember the name/singer of. Was in the charts somewhere between 1984 and 1986 (confident about that span, because I recall discussing this song with the sixth-formers I was teaching at that time) and I have it in mind that it was a rap number - possibly notable for being the first, or one of the first, rap songs to hit the British charts.

The only thing I can remember of the song itself is that the story involved the guy being stopped by the police, and the phrase "don't you give me no producer" was repeated a number of times. The singer was a slim-looking black guy with a big grin (and me knowing that would suggest it was on TOTP a time or three).

Does that phrase ring any bells with anybody??

Thanks for any response...

Tony.

Karl911

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181 months

Tony2or4

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194 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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Karl911 said:
Top man, Karl! Yep, that's the one. PH to the rescue once again.thumbup

ETA: Karl, you must be one of only a few PHers 100% of whose postings have been totally useful!smile






Edited by Tony2or4 on Thursday 11th October 20:57

CrabDan

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172 months

Thursday 11th October 2012
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All you have to do is google it, y'know...

Tony2or4

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Thursday 11th October 2012
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CrabDan said:
All you have to do is google it, y'know...
Google is always the second line of attack. First is always: ask PH.
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Tony2or4

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Thursday 11th October 2012
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CrabDan said:
All you have to do is google it, y'know...
Ha ha - purely out of curiosity I just Googled '"don't you give me no producer"' - and the only result it could find was ... this thread.biggrin

MadMullah

5,299 posts

222 months

Friday 12th October 2012
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this is rap?!?!

man if PH could be more white *LOOOOOL*

Tony2or4

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Friday 12th October 2012
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MadMullah said:
this is rap?!?!

man if PH could be more white *LOOOOOL*
The title of the thread has got a question mark after the word 'rap'.

KM666

1,757 posts

212 months

Friday 2nd November 2012
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Tony2or4 said:
MadMullah said:
this is rap?!?!

man if PH could be more white *LOOOOOL*
The title of the thread has got a question mark after the word 'rap'.

Whats all this noise? ... I was upstairs listening to my Will Smith records