I said Rap, motherfucker's don't you dare get it twisted! VainAndy started me on this shit tonight. So blame him if you ain't down!! After reading his threads, I had to go through my stash.

My conversative neighbors are pissed the fuck off right about now, oh well, my house is paid for and I've got the deed, so fuck 'em!!

My set list so far has included at full blast on a full Bose surround sound system:

Divine Sounds-What people do for money
Kurtis Blow-If I ruled the world
Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five-Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
Run DMC-You be illin'
Run DMC-It's Tricky
Run DMC-My Adidas
Run DMC-Runs House
Run DMC-It's Like That
LL Cool J-I'm that type of guy
LL Cool J-I'm going back Cali
Soul Sonic Force-Looking for the perfect beat
Slick Rick:Children's Story


80's RAP Lovers get the fuck up and represent!!!

Oh Shit! I found the Geto Boys!! My mind's playing tricks on me!!!

Friends! How many of us have them? Whodini's in the house!!

Thank you sexy. You ain't really jammin' unless the neighbors are complainin' and the only time I use headphones is for cueing the music so it flows nonstop and the neighbors never get a break of silence.

Anyway, here goes:

The Breaks - Curtis Blow
Funk You Up - The Sequence
Apache - Sugarhill Gang
Jam On It - Newcleus
Planet Rock - Soul Sonic Force
Flamethrower Rap - Felix and Jarvis
The Challenge - Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
Ya Mama - Wuff Ticket
It's Nasty - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Genius Rap - Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
The Party Has Begun - Freestyle
Electric Kingdom - Twilight 22
Egypt, Egypt - The Egyptian Lover
Reckless - David Storrs and Chris "The Glove" Taylor featuring Ice T
Dynamic - Dynamic Breakers
When Doves Cry Rapp - Captain Rapp
Computer Age (Push The Button) - Newcleus
We Are Whodini - Whodini
It's Like That - Run DMC
The Pee Wee Herman - Joeski Love
Give It All You Got - Afro Rican
Square Dance Rap - Sir Mix-A-Lot
Smurf Rock - Gigolo Tony
Throw The Dick - 2 Live Crew
Throw The P - Anquette
Push It - Salt and Pepa
Dream Team Is In The House - LA Dream Team
You're So Fine - The Egyptian Lover
Let's Jam - Newcleus
Siberian Nights - Twilight 22
Let's G - Sir Mix-A-Lot
What People Do For Money - Divine Sounds
New York, New York - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Survival - Melle Mel and Duke Boutee
Hard Times - Run DMC
Rappin' Duke - Shawn Brown
Request Line - Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic Three
Roxanne, Roxanne - UTFO
Roxanne's Revenge - Roxanne Shante
The Real Roxanne - The Real Roxanne
Queen of Rox - Roxanne Shante
She's Sparky D (Roxanne You're Through) - Sparky D
Jam The Box - Pretty Tony
Looking For The Perfect Beat - Soul Sonic Force
Dog Talk - K9 Corp
Wikki Wikki - Newcleus
You Talk Too Much - Run DMC
Big Mouth - Whodini
Big Butt - Bobby Jimmy and the Critters
The Roof Is On Fire - Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic Three
Five Minutes Of Funk - Whodini
Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Freak-A-Holic - The Egyptian Lover

Whew.....that's when rap was good.
.
.
[Edited 4/20/06 19:51pm]

Great list, alot of my favorites, and your so right, that was when rap was good

Friends Whodini

Beats and Rhymes UTFO

Under Fire Kurtis Blow

Looking For The Perfect Beat Afrika Bambaataa & The SoulSonicForce

Planet Rock "" "" ""


Squeeze The Trigger Ice-T

DogN The Wax Ice-T

6 N Tha Mornin Ice-T

Susi Emanon

Needle to the Groove Mantronix


Poetry BDP/KRS ONE

9mm Goes Bang BDP/KRS ONE

South Bronx BDP/KRS ONE

Pussy Is Free BDP /KRS ONE


The King Melle Mel


Step Off Melle Mel and the Furious Five


Rakim/ Eric B Paid in Full

Rakim/ Eric B Follow The Leader


Public Enemy ....almost anything


Pain Ice-T



Ya Don´t Quit Ice-T


Reckless Ice-T


The Bridge Is Over BDP/KRS ONE

The Bridge MC Shan

Left Me Lonely MC Shan


My Radio LL Cool J


Rock The Bells LL Cool J


Rock The House Fresh Prince / DJ Jazzy Jeff

Summertime Fresh Prince / DJ Jazzy Jeff

You Gots To Chill EPMD

Boyz In Tha Hood NWA


Dopeman NWA


Lots of stuff by Icecube back when he was sporting them Jheri curls


King Of Rock Run DMC

Proud to Be Black Run DMC

My Adidas Run DMC

Raising Hell Run DMC


It´s Like That Run DMC


Five Minutes Of Funk Whodini


Lots of Egyptian Lover stuff


Fast Lane Dr.Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde



Cars Ice-T. Melle Mel and the Zulu Kings


New York New York GM Flash + the Furious Five


Boogie Down Bronx Man Parrish


On Your Own (?) Planet Patrol



.....I could go on for days.

vainandy said:

No Eric B. & Rakim? BLASPHEMY!

That's like listing the top 50 greatest NBA Players ever and leaving off Michael Jordan!

vainandy said:

That's a CRAZY ass list.....

vainandy said:

THIS kind of list can be use to cover rap/hip-hop AND electro.

Synths STILL Rules!

BTW, you can't have a 80's Rap Party without Salt-N-Pepa, JJ Fad, & 2 Live Crew!

And also:

Special Ed
Kwane
Big Daddy Kane
World Class Wreckin Kru
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Blondie (Remember: Rapture)
Full Force (Remember: Ain't My Type Of Hype)


And finally:

DJ Magic Mike

Ownlee you - Kwame
Push It - Salt and Pepa
Treat Em Right - Chubb Rock
The Booming System - LL Cool J
Ladies First - Queen Latifah
You Can't Touch This - MC Hammer

NewPowerSoulSista said:

Some of y'all are steppin' into the 90s wit' yo shit.

I just want to say how much I love to go over to yahoo and pick the 80s hip station and dance around my house on a sat morning....

http://www.youtube.com/wa...elle%20mel



_____


http://www.youtube.com/wa...ill%20gang



This is where Busta Rhymes got his WHOOHA ! in check


_____


http://www.youtube.com/wa...ch=whodini

http://www.youtube.com/wa...tis%20blow




_____


http://www.youtube.com/wa...0bambaataa





http://www.youtube.com/wa...0bambaataa



Including a keyboard-loop from Kraftwerk
_____


http://www.youtube.com/wa...0t%20glove



ICE T & Egyptian Lover in 1983 !!!

Rhondab said:

Yeah, you do have some great moves...at least from what I can tell from my binoculars while I'm parked in my car.

By the way, I have some of your mail.

100MPH said:

Hey, cool videolinks....do you happen to know whether and where an old LA Hip Hop documentary called "Breakdance Gangs " is available ???

I think that that Ice-T clip is from that documentary .Been looking for that for ages.

vainandy said:

Ain't that a lil bit MID-TEMPO for your tastes???

StoneCrib said:

See...this is why gangsta rap was created....sometimes you need to pop a cap in a negro's ass.

KoolEaze said:

You're welcome Kool .

So far , i found this info :

_____

In 1983 the documentary film "Breakin and Entering" showed the Breakdance/Music Scene in LA. Starring artists like Egyptian Lover, Ice T and Chris "the Glove" Taylor and with an outstanding soundtrack this dokumentary became legendary. Here is the story how we found the vinyl.

One upon a time back in 1985/86 we get our first tapes recorded from Bomatic, at this time he also gave us a copy of the Breakdance Gang (Breaking & Entering) documentary on VHS. "Look at this movie, you see Egypt & Glove scratchin and there is Ice T rappin Body Rock Lyrics in it. This are the craziest electro sounds I´ll ever heard."





Me & Astonish were not only watching this documentary, we eat it. But at the end of the cassette, there was nothing, no names, no titles, Bomatic and Schützeman deleated it all. So it was clear, something strange was going on there. This was another Battle of the Bayreuth Collectors.
The melody of the Breaking & Entering Main Theme did not get out of our head for years, we recorded it from VHS and we tried to play the theme on keyboard. I must admit we were addicted to these sounds.
Finally we got a new copy of the original movie and there it was - the whole tracklist, the producers and all infos we searched so long.
We saw the Glove & Egypt cuttin the vinyl live to the sounds. Ice T is rapping in effect.



We both thought there must be a vinyl from these Radio Crew sounds. But what is with Dupont? - you never see the wax in this movie with background sound of Dupont. We lost our minds in this mystery of the movie.
Awesome, Terrible, Unbeatable & Jamtastic Collectors Behaviour breaked out of us, we knew with this wax we were No. 1, equal if we have other records or not, for us this was the mom of all westcoast electro stuff.
If you got this on wax, you don´t need any other records. That´s what we thought.
So in 1994 we made a masterplan, we both finished school and began to work. We only got one target - L.A.!
In 1995 we did it. We arrived in L.A. at night, immediatly we checked out the yellow pages book in our hotel and there it was:
-Egyptian Empire Music-
Next Morning we gave speed to our rental car and followed the map till we arrived in Inglewood.
The Adress was direct at the corner in a real hood. The only Merchandise at the house said "Branda´s Hair & Nail Studio". Could we be right here? But then we saw a little Egyptian Empire Music sign in the window. We parked the car in the Back of the house and there it was - Egypt´s Pyramid.



( Egyptian Lover's studio ... LOL )


We were absolutly right here. We went out of the car to the streets of Inglewood, our heart runs 180 BPM as a real tall afroamerican man came to us asked what we want here. We told him what we want, for sure he thought we were totaly crazy, but we were right he was the man from Barber Shop and he cuts Egypts Hair.
So we ring the doorbell, it took a few moments and the Darryl opend the door:
”What you want ?”
”We are from Germany, we love Egpyt´s Music, we are looking for his first sounds!”
”No, really? You listen his music in Germany and this after almost 10 years?”
”Yes, he is the King of the Beats.”
”So come in.”
Darryl let us in and we went throught the hair & nail studio with all the females looking what we both want here. He take us upstairs and showed us John Brown (RIP) the General Manager of Egyptian Empire Music.
John was bout 60 years old and only said: "I can´t believe it, 2 white guys here in the hood, looking for Egypt"
They give us a lot promotional stuff T-Shirts, Cd´s, Wax. We asked for B&E but he never heard it and he said to us:"Ask Egypt Himself, I invite you to his Birthday Party in 2 Days, come at 7 PM o Clock"



6,15 PM we were there and HE was there. He said nothing, went back in his house and came out with a red label record.
"Hello, are you Egypt ?"
"Yes I am, you told John you are from germany and you are searching for this wax."



We were at his party, he got the wax, we were so happy, but the evening even will get better!
Helping Dennis the DJ to get the party started, we cared the Decks and Speakers from a little truck.
After 1 hour of playing Breaking & Entering 12", there was no Party Crowd arrive yet, Egypt went to us and did some mixing with Yes Yes Yes and we were pissing in our trousers.
Then the first guests arrived, the music was getting louder and Greg went to us and said
"Food and Beverages are over there, go and help yourself and this is Snake Puppy from L.A. Dream Team and at the Turntables is now Jammin Gemini"



Our trouser were just dried as we pissed again in it. We made pictures, drink Beer, eat Chicken Wings and Birthday Pyramid Cake. First Talking and Photo Session with Snake, then with Egypts Brother David and then with Gemini. As he signed several stuff to us and asked us how it is in Germany a small little man in blue shirt with Wreckin Crew necklace came over. We asked Jammin who he was and he said this is Grandmaster Lonz. Wet Pants again. The evening came to the end, Egypt and the posse was drunken and we went home
as lucky man. But we didn´t get the records, he only has a few copy´s and did not want to give this away until he find the others.
Back at home we shared this experience with Bomatic and Schützeman.
Now we put our force together, we got the adress, Bo was the mighty man on the phone. After monthes of phone calls and a lot of money tranferes a parcel arrived. Several Cd´s & Egyptian Empire Records in it and within also the Soundtrack of Breaking and Entering.


Because of the extreme rareness of this record, there popped up several reissues that are hard to detect. On the left you can see a nearly perfect example of it. So before you spend big money be sure it´s the original. Below there is a little difference we found after we compare the labels. As you can see the writing from the second title of the A Side label. is different. Also there is a stamp engraved in the runout groove which is not found on the reissue.


That is my story, this is the Cosmic Brother´s Story, this is Dr. of Jam´s, Tonic Tom´s & Jamtastic´s Story and this is the Bayreuth City Radio Crew Story!

Sandro De Gaetani

_____


Check out here some more video-footage from past & present :

http://www.radiocrew.com/videos.htm

Sources :

http://www.radiocrew.com/radiocrew.htm
( soundsamples are available when you click on some pictures in that link )

http://www.radiocrew.com/...gazine.htm

_____


You might wanna check these too :

arrow: http://www.cduniverse.com...=332409684

http://cgi.ebay.com/BREAK...dZViewItem
.
.
.
[Edited 4/22/06 5:25am]

100 MPH....thank you sooooo much, made my day ! That info is what I´d been looking for for almost twenty years ...

I was a HUGE westcoast hiphop fan back in the days...I even had the super rare first Ice-T record ever, produced by no other than Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis !

I had all the 12 ", everything, up until some burglars broke into my basement in 2003 while I was in England....you can´t imagine how shocked and devastated I was when I came back home...most of my cherished 80´s vinyl was gone.

Now this kind of info is so cool because it helps me to track down some stuff from that time, and it´s also just good memories.

( I´ll try to scan some Ice-T pics I shot in 1992 if I figure out how my scanner works and post them here later).


Thank you so so much for the links, you rock .


The Glove, pop locking, Radiotron, Ice-T, Egyptian Lover....man, I ´m getting all sentimental here.

KoolEaze said:

Hey Kool , you're welcome .
Glad i could help you .

Wow ! you surprised me with that Jam & Lewis info
I'm very curious how that sounds .... first thing i remember from him was his appearance in the " Breakin' " movie .
.
.
.
[Edited 4/22/06 5:26am]

100MPH said:

Yes, the 12" was called The Coldest Rap, I´m sure you know it...b-side was Cold Wind Madness.Produced by Jam and Lewis in 1982....fuckers stole all my 12"s...it hurts me to think back.....it´s like a part of ny identity was stolen...anyway.....you mentioned Bayreuth.I´m in Germany too, so if there´s anything I can do for you just let me know, I still have tons of interesting stuff, maybe we can trade.


I´ll log out in a few seconds but will get back to you..



By the way, "Rappin" with Mario Van Peebles also features some Ice-T scenes ("Killers")..

Rhondab said:

Can you spank me first though?

100MPH said:

Didn't know this existed! Thanks again, 100MPH!!

CinisterCee said:

Me neither , until i surfed on YouTube

CinisterCee said:

N-joy & later ,
100MPH

StoneCrib said:

and choke you!

Rhondab said:

And grab my hair?

Thanks for the info on The Egyptian Lover. As far as rappers go, he is probably my absolute favorite. He's kind of like the "Prince" of rap. He makes a lot of original jams with those funky ass synths...some of them are even "Prince" sounding such as "Freak-A-Holic", "Filthy", or "Alezby Inn". When he does sample, it's usually just small snips of a song done in a creative way instead of being the entire background for the song. And BEST of all, he knows how to get uptempo, hard, and funky for the dance floor....fuck all that boring midtempo shit.

It's OK. I wouldn't call it one of my absolute favorite jams but it's OK. I didn't really start noticing or developing a strong hatred for midtempo stuff until it became ALL that was played on the radio.