Finess said:

Nope

100MPH said:

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my fault brotha...


DLB
Tito
Mike c
Peso

and Dj's Krazy Eddie and OC

Finess said:

There were released so many independent tracks in the early rap scene .
I've seen a site with a zillion of label-scans .

100MPH said:

OMG yeah... i can rattle off a few of those early labels too


Missa Crissa ( south bronx label)
BC Records
One Way records
Tuff City
Dazz Records


man, thats when Rap was rap... i cant deal with this shit now been around since 75 in the game and man, i aint proud of hip hop right now im sure as some of us who Loved Hip hop and adored her.

Finess said:

100MPH said:

BASSSS !!!!!

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Finess said:

yeah i just saw that and was like damn fucked up the name, shit its been over 20 years since i seen that record LOL..

vainandy said:

Gotcha

Finess said:

Mayyyn , i tripped hearing that in a club , loud through the speakers .
THat poppin' bass is tha bomb .

100MPH said:

well shit remember the crash crew's 1st joint called "Hi power rap?" it was Disco Dave cuttin up Freedom's "Get up and dance" and then Flash and the furious came out with "Freedom" with a replayed track.

Finess said:

What about these from the Funky 4 + 1 More :
- Do You Wanna Rock ( featuring Before I Let Go , from Maze & Frankie Beverly )
- That's The Joint ( feat. Rescue Me , Taste Of Honey )
- Whip It ( f. Let It Whip , Dazz Band )


Another that pops up .

Featuring Joey Robinson , Jr ( on the right )
.... son of Sugarhill Records-owner Sylvia Robinson .

100MPH said:

the west street mob were sylvia's kids 96 west street Englewood NJ home of Stang/Turbo/All Platinum/Sugarhill/Sweet Mountain all from the mind of Sylvia.

100MPH said:

Actually ... they were a singing group

But a great thing that Sugarhill released both rap ,funk , jazz & soul-artists .
And their household band was on fire :
- Doug Wimbish - bass
- Keith LeBlanc - drums
- Skip McDonald - guitar
- Chops - horn section

Doug was formely in the band Wood Brass & Steel which released their first album on Sylvia Robinson's Turbo Records in the 70's , and one hard2find 2nd album on Sugarhill Records .
Doug , Keith & Skip formed later as an industrial funk-outfit called Tackhead .
After Doug had performed with Living Colour for a few years , he reunited with his former jam-buddy's under the name of Junge Funk.

Finess said:

Fa real ? ... i always thought that Joey was the only son of her .

100MPH said:

nah uh..

Well, damn, some of ya'll are mentioning rap groups I've never even heard of. But it's cool to see people reminiscing.

I'm currently listening to "Dope Man" by NWA.

psychodelicide said:

This dirty south shit that's out there now, and I do mean shit, reminds me so much of 2 Live Crew. It seems that rap music is moving backwards instead of evolving into the beautiful artform it was in the early and mid 90's.

I am a fan of 80's rap music though, I remembered when the radio only played it on weekends for three hours a night on two radio stations in New York as a teenager, Kiss F.M.(Red Alert) and WBLS(Mr. Magic). I remember that Run D.M.C. was the first to intergrate rap music with Rock & Roll, not with "Walk This Way" as MTV, VH-1 and other white oriented music stations so erroreously report, but with "Rock Box", then did it again on the King of Rock album with "King of Rock", I remember the comming and going of the Fat Boys, Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions, and sadly the passing of D.J. Scot LaRock of the same group. Sweet T., Supernature(Salt-N-Peppa), Antoinette, M.C. Lite, Roxanne Shante, The Real Roxanne who came before Queen Latifa, the summer of 86' when the rap game changed with "Eric B. for President" and his copycay the Big Daddy Kane.

Remember when Rakim and Heavy D. had the same beat for their songs "I Ain't No Joke" and "The Overweight Lover's In The House" on the air at the same time?
Do you remember the battles between LL and Kool Moe D.? Do you remember Kool Moe D before he went solo with the group The Trecherious Three with their song "Gotta Rock"?

Remember when Slick Rick entered the game with Dougie Fresh, and the cover to their song"The Show" "Inspector Gadget"?

Remember Public enemies "Terminator X", LL's "Rock the Bells(Remix)" EPMD's "It's My Thing".

Those days are gone forever.....

What do you remember?

i didnt see my ALL TIME FAVORITE RAPPER the d.o.c.

i STILL listen to his entire 1st album (no one can do it better) and it pleases me immensely

and i finally got a chance to meet him this summer on a cruise...and im still sad about his voice...or errr his lack of one

he was thee shit!!! and if he still had some working vocal chords man i think he would be at the top of the rap game

imo

did anyone else like him?

It's really the only rap music I can tolorate. I remember I was so enamored with the LLCoolJ song "I can't live without my radio" or somehting like that I made it my mission to track down that album. Yeah rap was cool when it was fresh and exciting! It was even...dare I say...cute!

sweet said:

The formula is still one of my all time favorite rap songs....
I still think he should write for some of these talentless fuckers out there. it would help the art form so much.