Remember for a brief moment in the early 90's people started combining hip hop and house and called it hip house? Why was it so short lived? "i'll house you" by the Jungle Brother was the shit. I think Queen Latifah and Monie Love dabbled in it as well.

My favorites off the top of my head were:

Dangerous On The Dance Floor - Musto and Bones
Wiggle It - 2 In A Room
Pump That Body - Mr. Lee

Because people with boring tastes were more interested in shit hop than hip house.

I wanna know what happened to!

SNAP! "I've Got The Power." Jungle Brothers' "I'll House You!" Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam." Twin Hype "Do It To The Crowd." Mr. Lee's "Get Busy"

All that was HYPE.

...and the sound was just my type. lol

vainandy said:

Alright, now! You namedropped some MR. LEE.

And "Wiggle It" is an iPod favorite of mine.

dancerella said:

The way I see it, Hip House was a sound of a particular time. It came up and thrived around the same time of New Jack Swing.

I remember the "club/House" sound was very dominant in mainstream music for quite a while. Especially during 1989-1992. House/club music was in vogue and hip house came out of that b/c it had roots in dance music. Dance shows like "Club MTV" were big @ that time and you even had weekly video shows on MTV called "House Party" [which I miss like crazy], Soul Train used to spin it next to new jack, etc. that's how big it was.

Salt-N-Pepa's "Expression" was hip house! And you're right Queen Latifah was doing the damm thing with "Come Into My House" off of All Hail The Queen. Heavy D had a hip house track with "Now That We Found Love." It was even so prevalent at the time, everybody was getting in on it, you had Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch with "Good Vibrations" as late as '92, around that time I noticed a a backlash was surfacing for instance De La Soul made a comedic response track called "Kicked Out The House" on the De La Soul Is Dead album. I guess hip house went out of fashion because of changing tastes. But you can still spot it here and there.

I consider a lot of UK Garage to be an extension of hip house. Stuff like Roll Deep, Lady Sovereign, etc.

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You are exactly right about the time period. After all the parent friendly adult contemporary R&B of the late 1980s or the watered down R&B for a crossover pop audience, house music came above ground in 1989 and I just knew we were musically back on track again. That was a great era. It was around 1992 that the tempo started slowing way down and I started cursing music for everything it was worth.

1989-1992 was truly the last great era of music.
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Precious Definition of a track (Put it in motion) and Let's get it started

Mara said:

i should have known you'd be into hip house, lol! very cool. yeah i miss that sound it was hot but quickly burned out.

is it Father Mc's Treat You Right? it sampled a disco song...but i could never remember the name of the song...

I can't remember the name of it but it sampled Cheryl Lynn's "Got To Be Real" I remember Father MC more for his Playgirl layout.

do you guys remeber "good life" and "big fun" by inna city. though that was more straight house than hip house. great track either ways!

Hmmm... are you two maybe thinking of Father MC's "I'll Do 4 U (feat. Mary J Blige)" ?

I rememeber those also. Great jams.

I'll tell you a group that was big also during that era but I hated their music....Soul II Soul. Everyone loved them but I couldn't stand their music. I thought it was too mellow sounding to be played in the middle of some house music.

Mara said:

I dont know...It might not even be Father MC...the song went "treat you right...da da do do...da do...treat you right." Now that I think of it it wasn't Father MC..It was a heavy set rapper. But not Heavy D. hmm

That's Chubb Rock. It also went "yo yo yo yo.....treat 'em right".

vainandy said:

thats who it was...


thanks. my. sexy. brotha.

vainandy said:

you know what? i like soul II soul and when "back to life" came out way back when it was the jam of the summer however there's something that puts me off from buying there cd. i can't put my finger on it.

sosgemini said:

The chorus was from "Love Thang" by First Choice.

The main beat was "There Was A Time" by Dee Felice Trio.

Mara said:

..."Get On The Dance Floor" by Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock...

I never thought I would see it, but thesexofit's favorite era has come back hard in 2007.

The Jungle Brothers -- I'll House You
Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch -- Good Vibrations
2 Unlimited -- Get Ready For This, Twlight Zone, Tribal Dance
Snap -- I Got The Power

dancerella said:

BTW, 2 words that answer your question: Gangsta Rap

Sondra Prill did a great version of Pump up the jam...now that was gangsta!

I don't know if "This Poem" by Bobby Konders will qualify but I think that was more a mix of house with some clever lyrics, plus its one of my favs from that era.

TonyVanDam said:

sadly you're probably right.

MikeMatronik said:

Sondra's version was shameful!

TonyVanDam said:

TonyVanDam said:

I think I need to get away from this thread as quickly as possible. Bye.