Tribute to the (early pioneers) of Hip Hop and Rap music.

Boogie Boys - A Fly Girl

(1985)

Roxanne, Roxanne - U.T.F.O. (1984)

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom

(1984)

Fresh 3 M.C.'s - Fresh

(1983)

The Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam

(1983)

Funny Eminem Prank call to LL Cool J

Michael Rapaport lists his top 5 MC's,
excluding Biggie, 2Pac, Jay-Z and Nas

Legendary iconic rapper, Rakim dishes about his dinner with Wendy, reminisces about the time “Source Magazine” named him the #1 Greatest MC, and the real reason why he had a falling out with Eric B.

Plus, Rakim tells us about his revealing new memoir “Rakim: Sweat The Technique.”

DMX meets Rakim for the first time and recites lyrics from (microphone fiend)
and (follow the leader) for Rakim

KRS-One BET Liftetime Achievement Award clip

Whoodini is honored at the 3rd Annual Black Music Honors!

I think Trift Shop was a very poor imitation of this song. It became a great hit because today youths didn't know the song Brass Monkey.

One of the greatest songs of the very beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxaaM6wkZw

Oh no, please read the title of the topic.

Hi! Could you tell me whose song is this one and how it can be found, besides this thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5_wOXXFlY

Eric B & Rakim — Paid in Full (1987)



Great in the original version as well as the then-super innovative Coldcut 1988 remix:



I was always mouthing along to the lyrics —

Thinking of a master plan
Cause ain't nothin but sweat inside my hands
So I dig into my pocket, all my money's spent
So I dig deeper, still comin up with lint..

But then came this bit:

A pen and a paper
a stereo, a tape of
me and Eric B and
a nice big
plate of fish
which is my favorite dish

Man, it took me years to figure out that's what he said, that last bit (cause there was no Google yet). "Fish, which is my favourite dish," seriously?

Underrated — Schoolly D

Gucci Time (1987)

I got my first real taste of hip-hop when I heard Public Enemy's Bring The Noise. Like, I'd heard Sugarhill Gang on the radio and stuff .. but that PE track brought it home.

You know, through your whole teenage years there are like four or five songs that completely change the way you listen to music and what you like? Bring The Noise was one of those for me. Just this massive... sound!

Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (1987)



So then I went out and I got the Rebel Without a Pause 12" and later their It Takes a Nation of Millions album too, and played them countless times..

Public Enemy — Rebel Without a Pause (1988)



Meanwhile, I was doing shifts in the school canteen and playing tapes there, and this black kid from another class got me a couple tapes. I remember one had Lakim Shabazz on them, whom I'd never heard of, but it still sounds pretty dope

Lakim Shabazz - Black Is Back (1988)

The second hip-hop track that fell into that category of four or five songs that change everything, for me, was...

N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton (1988)



I'd gotten used to the political preaching and agitating of PE and KRS-One and so on, but NWA was just something different altogether. The sound more stripped down and raw, the lyrics more aggressive, the experience real.

So I got into gangsta rap for a good while, until it was all just rappers getting rich and boasting of the bitches by their kidney-shaped pools, and I kinda lost interest.

On a more playful note, did nobody post this oldie classic yet?

Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew — The Show (1985)