I am 27 I have always been exposed to rap, so i was wondering what your favorite old school rap songs were?? I loved Ice-T "Midnight" I am sctually listening to it now also black sheep "the choice is yours" Fat Boys "crushin" naughty by nature "uptown anthem" I dont concider any of the Snoop and dre stuff old school. that was the begining of modern rap you thoughts / favorites?
i liked: Fat Boys - "All you can eat" New Edition - "Mr. Telephone Man" Ice-T - "copkilla" Doug E Fresh - "The Original Human Beat Box" Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - "The Message" Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight" Slick Rick - "lodi dodi"
wow, forgot lodi dodi!! loved that song also I guess Momma said knock you out is in the old school style some more Ghetto Boys "my minds playin tricks on me" run DMC "its tricky"
"Freaks Come Out at Night" - Whodini "Can You Feel It?" - Fat Boys "Basketball" - Kurtis Blow "King of Rock" - Run D.M.C. "Boyz in the Hood" - NWA featuring Eazy-E "Dopeman" - NWA "Dear Yvette" - LL Cool J "Go Cut Creator Go" - LL Cool J "Roxanne, Roxanne" - UTFO (?) "La-Di Da-Di" - Doug E. Fresh featuring Slick Rick
1982: "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang is recognized as the first hip-hop song. It consists of three MCs rhyming over a house band that is playing the break from "Good Times" by Chic. Because the technology of the day did not allow the Sugar Hill Gang to sample the song, they hired the band to play the same section over and over.
how could i forget NWA??? Straight Outta Compton Boyz In the hood F*** the police Run DMC... i forgot them too! ahhh! tricky walk this way
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day (does this count?) Biz Markie - Just A Friend LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J - Around The Way Girl drawing a blank...
Oh, "Make the Music with your Mouth, Biz" is Biz Markie's best song, IMO. Not "Just a Friend"...which although funny doesn't hold a candle to "Make the Music.."
I respectfully disagree. I would put forth that Rapture by Blondie released 1980 was the first hip hop song! Well now you see, What ya wanna be, Just have your party on TV, 'Cause the man from Mars, Won't eat up bars, Where the TV's on. And now he's gone back up to space, Where he won't have a hassle with the human race, And ya hip-hop, And ya don't stop, Just blast off, Sure shot. 'Cause the man from Mars, Stopped eatin' cars, And eatin' bars, And now he only eats guitars, Get up! DEBBIE HARRY!!!!
No doubt Debbie Harry was rapping in that song. Also The Clash (Sandanista) had rap/ska type songs in 1980 as well. By hip-hop, i think they mean rapping over someone else's music.
By "they", i was referring to the web site I pulled that little tid bit from. http://www.techtv.com/audiofile/print/0,23102,3346080,00.html
i also forgot to mention 2 Live Crew! banned in the usa get it girl hoochie mama me so horny pop that coochie
Does "Regulate" by Nate Dogg & Warren G count? I know that was kind of around the whole Dre/Snoop time, but it didnt really rely on the heavy, hard hitting beats like todays rap does.
Just about anything by RUN DMC Just about anything by LL Cool J (some of that stuff is still wicked to crank up) Just about anything by NWA Just about anything by Public Enemy Rapper's Delight by Sugar Hill Gang Loddy Doddy by Slick Rick (I can't believe I still know the lyrics to this and sing it when I get bored. ) Jam On It by Newcleus (wikki wikki wikki wikki... shut up!) The Show by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick (come on guys, this is a classic!) Paid in Full by Eric B. and Rakim (pump up the volume, pump up the volume) Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock Roxanne, Roxanne by UTFO Fly Girl by Boogie Boys Boogie Down Bronx by Man Parrish And how the hell can you guys not mention more by Whodini?! : Five Minutes of Funk Freaks Come Out at Night Friends I'm a Ho As for the first rap/hip-hop song, you guys are way the hell off. The Sugar Hill Gang and Blondie were at least 7 or 8 years after the first rap music began getting popular. Those 2 songs put rap and hip hop on the map by making it into mainstream airplay, but they definitely were not the first. You can go back to the early 70's when DJ Cool Herc, DJ Hollywood, Afrikaa Bambaataa and others were rapping. GrandMaster Flash (and the Furious Five) and Melle Mel soon followed. Then came people like Kurtis Blow. All this was happening in the early-to-late 70's.
