I went and visited my mom at my childhood home earlier this evening to have some dinner and I looked in her garage where she packs all the old stuff from my youth and I went exploring. I found an old shoebox full of mix cassette tapes. I hadn't seen these tapes in years and I just got excited. I still have an old school tapedeck connected to my stereo system just for stuff like this. I just finished listening to one of the mix tapes. It started with 911 is a joke by public enemy, then it had Mentirosa by Mellow Man Ace, then it had OPP by naughty by nature, followed by Back In THe Day and I wish I was a little Bit taller, and then It had Only You by Kwame, and Lucas With The Lid Off and ended with Father MC I'll Do For you. This shit took me straight back to Jr. High! Man I can't wait to get back to the rest of these Mix tapes. So any old school hip hop take you back to your youth?

Rock box by RunDMC brings back some fond memories that song got me to love rap music. And Close to the Edit by Art of Noise, one of my favs to "pop n loc" to.

that just made me feel old....

Not sure if these were "Hip hop"

I liked

Jam on It
Rock it
Roxanne (the real)

wreckx n effects - rumpshaker
a tribe called quest - check the rhyme

too many too name...

Crash Crew - We Are Known As Emcees
Fresh 3 MC's - Fresh
Divine Sounds - What People Do For Money
The Rock Steady Crew - Uprock

It's Tricky-Run DMC
Wipe Out-The Fat Boys
Brass Monkey-The Beastie Boys
I Need Love-LL Cool J
Supersonic-JJ Fad

paintedlady said:

WORD!!! ROCK BOX is my all time favorite rap/Hip-Hop song! 1984 was the best year ever!!! I was in the 6th grade...The Wonder Years...

Great thread.

My old school favorites that really take me back:

Roxanne Roxanne - UTFO
Yo That's Fresh - Fresh 3 MCs
The Bridge - MC Shan
The Bridge Is Over - KRS One
It's Yours - Forgot the name of the rapper
It's Like That - Run DMC

rappers delight...sugarhill gang
grandmaster flash and the furious five
the breaks...kurtis blow
cold crush

wonder505 said:

T La Rock & Jazzy Jay

"It Ain't Hard To Tell" by NaS

Funk U Up by Sequence.

Mainly becoz my big sis used to play the HELL out of it in the house.

Richardlove said:

That's some flow-type-isht right there !!!

JuliePurplehead said:

Same ones I was thining.
Also used to cruise in San Jose with this one,... oh wait, is this hip hop?

LL COOL J: HEY LOVER WITH BOYZ 2 MEN

i am not yelling, promise

Probably not old school to most of you guys but Holiday by Naughty by Nature brings back the memories for me.

Jam on it - Newcleus
Stickem - Fat Boys
La di da di - Doug E. Fresh
Roxanne Roxanne - UTFO
Needle to the Groove - Mantronix
Peter Piper - Run DMC
Five minutes of Funk - Whodini

Rappers' Delight. Chic's "Good Times" sample reminded me of when dancing was a thing you did when you felt the music, not something you rehearsed for three weeks to do. I miss the disco era for that.

AzhnConnectzhn said:

I was in the sixth grade too when this jam was out.. fun times.

paintedlady said:

The funny thing is that I was watching a documentary on Hip Hop a few months ago and "Walk This Way" by Run-DMC was credited with being the first time Rap was mixed with Rock & Roll. I laughed my ass off because I remembered Rock Box and then The King Of Rock on the follow up album. Run-DMC always had a Rap/Rock & Roll jam on their albums back in the day. Rock Box was the shit though.

Pretty much any rap tune between 83 and 87. I do have a special affinity for...

DirtyChris said:

...those two.

RipHer2Shreds said:

I love those songs but I do not remember hearing them in the 80s.

:latebloomer:

Cinnie said:

I recorded the Joeski tune on tape from Foxy 99 in Fayetteville. I found the other on a mixtape cassette in the middle of the street! I couldn't believe my luck, cuz I loved La Di Da Di and had no money to buy it on my own.

JuliePurplehead said:

I'm light-skinned, dimples
And I know you think I'm empty-headed
That's all cus right doll face
I'll take ya man and you made 'em
I'm always rappin', always clappin'
Everybody say I'm happy
If you try and hang with me
You should find it's true you see...

I'm always rockin', never stoppin'
Devastatin' rapper lady
When I'm on the microphone
You see that all these sista's hate it
Freaky is her, deffer is her
Everybody say I'm different
There's no other angle lover
Everybody know I'm covered...

Clientele is a pearl
Everybody know in jail
To the beat so you can tell
Everybody know ya cell

I saw my llama llama llama
Do my nama see me?
Now my llama nama do
My llama llama nama see me
Now my llama nama do
My llama llama nama see me
Now my llama nama see me,
I'm a do my llama hum uh

Yeah (Yeah)
That's it (That's it)

*B-Boy stance*

RipHer2Shreds said:

This song was also on the mixtape I stole from the skreet.


The Glamour Girls feat. MC Craig C - Oh! Veronica

RipHer2Shreds said:

lol!

so which was the answer song to which?

The rap songs that bring back childhood memories are actually THE biggest crossover hits from the genre that a person could name.



Fat Boys featuring Beach Boys "Wipeout"

Run DMC featuring Aerosmith "Walk This Way"

Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right"

Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two"

Kool Moe Dee "Wild Wild West"

Young MC "Principal's Office", "Bust A Move"

Tone Loc "Funky Cold Medina", "Wild Thing"





i know, boring
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Cinnie said:

The Bad Boys tune was first. I need to find that song somewheres. I forgot about that damn Sesame Street tune they keep humming.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Last time I heard this song in a mix, Evil D (from Black Moon) was going back and forth between the start of "O.P.P." and the doot-doooo-do-do-do from "Veronica"

I have Bad Boys on vinyl somewhere. Are you ever on AIM anymore?