I was talking to a HS buddy of mine who was on the swim team with me, and we were talking about how much fun we used to have on the bus and how we basically listened to Run DMC-Raising Hell on the way to and back from practice (my High School didn’t have a pool).
Quick sidebar- one of my multiple suspensions from High School happened because we got hammered on the back of the bus on the way home from an away meet, and we dropped trou and mooned a bunch of people in the cars behind us. Turned out they were parents who had gone to the meet. We all got called to the office together, and no one would confess because no one wanted to rat anyone out, andafter like twenty minutes of watching a couple girls on the team cry I just admitted it and said I was the one who thought it up and that while people may have thought they saw multiple moons I was the lone ass and well, whatever. They didn’t believe me and suspended two other guys with me (both of whom were guilty as sin, btw) for three days, but at that point in my HS career that was a joke and gave me a lot of time to catch up on Bob Barker. They had a lot of fun with it at the pep rally for the football team on Friday, though, because there was a banner that said “SWIM TEAM TAKES A DIVE- EXPERTS BLAME IT ON A BAD MOON.” Fuckers.
At any rate, let’s have a thread dedicated to old school rap. I’m not going to be a pedant but now Peter Piper picked peppers and Run rocked rhymes, Humpty Dumpty fell down, that’s his hard time. Jack be nimble but he was quick, but Jam Master cut faster…
Bring it bitches. And I don’t give a shit if your roof is on fire.
Alison
Gonna jump right in and get all feministy on ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLB5bUNAesc
Redshirt
Fuck da man, man.
Omnes Omnibus
Schooly D
Or even more old school.
Jane2
911 is a joke in YO town, John.
Omnes Omnibus
It’s tricky.
Kiko
EPMD – You Gots to Chill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKhRzanOfQ4
Slick Rick – Children’s Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q05DGnEio3w
Audio Two – Top Billin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbWPyhW7fE
Beat that, busta
fuckwit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOMxm0o12c
MoeLarryAndJesus
Most rap sounds soft to me these days. I’m not sure why that is, because I liked a lot of it way back when.
And it’s not that I don’t like a lot of “soft” music – but the whole point of rap was heavy impact, and I just don’t hear it in much rap anymore.
RareSanity
Basically anything by Eric B. and Rakim, but specifically
I Ain’t No Joke
Jimmi the Grey
Young MC
Omnes Omnibus
Another obvious one.
trollhattan
I’m just going to mention my lawn and how you punks need to vacate it, pronto.
Omnes Omnibus
Kurtis Blow
RareSanity
@MoeLarryAndJesus:
Once hip-hop started getting popular in the suburbs, it was never the same.
Omnes Omnibus
Bring the Noise
srv
@MoeLarryAndJesus: Well, now rappers are even doing acoustic versions.
Jimmi the Grey
@Jimmi the Grey: no link? Is it FYWP or that i post very infrequently or that im on the kindle? Second try.
Young mc
master c
@Alison: check.
lamh36
Hmmm, have I entered bizarro world or is Doug J posting as John Cole as a trick?
Anyone who love RUN-DMC ain’t half-bad.
JordanRules
Wooooo! Gettin dizzy from all the flashin back.
I heartily endorse this thread with all the gusto of a teabaggers rage. I’m in this bitch, turned up like McWalnuts at war!
RareSanity
@srv:
Much better example of an acoustic rap song…
2Pac – Thugz Mansion ft. Nas
…not that pseudo-artsy crap Everlast did.
burnspbesq
I own exactly one rap record, a 12 inch single of “The Message.”
What I’m listening to now couldn’t be farther from rap: Robbie Fulks’ brilliant new record, “Gone Away Backward.” Americana? Hell, call it what it is. It’s a bluegrass record, and it’s the best new bluegrass record in years.
Felonius Monk
Russian Rap (old school)
Ronnie Pudding
Digital Underground still holds up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeFlGTWhsE
JordanRules
@burnspbesq: Great one to have. Classic. Still holds up.
YellowJournalism
Hey, nowadays it’s important to know if that can of Chicken of the Sea cost ten cents more, and not just because it earned you a Plinko Chip.
At my school, you sacrificing yourself even though others were punished would have given you a free pass until graduation with basically everyone, even some teachers.
I wanted to link to some old Salt n Pepa (“Tramp,” “My Mic Sounds Nice”), but I can’t find anything on YouTube that works for me. Just their later stuff and the old standby.
Not necessarily what I would consider true old school, but…
This always puts me in a calm mood.
I was the nerdiest of nerds, but thanks to my older cousins and my sister, I learned to enjoy a lot of different music as I grew up. My sister’s taste led to this blaring in my car as I drove her and her little friends around. Hubby thought it was hilarious that I know all the lyrics by heart.
Joel
Fake thug, no love…
Best use of a Sting hook, that’s for sure.
Omnes Omnibus
@JordanRules: I dropped that at comment 3.
JordanRules
@Joel: Love that whole album. It gets outshined by Illmatic but it’s still in rotation for me.
srv
@JordanRules: My fave McWalnuts Old Skool rap.
nastybrutishntall
@RareSanity: AWWWW YEAH
Origuy
Since this is a open thread, and I know shit about rap, here’s a new GOP outrage (h/t Romantic Heretic at LGF):
Orr was appointed by GOP Governor Rick Snyder; under Michigan law he is answerable only to the governor.
Omnes Omnibus
Nearly 15 minutes of Rapper’s Delight.
JordanRules
@Omnes Omnibus: I knew you would rise to the occassion and not disappoint!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKVwfNg1VoA&sns=em
nastybrutishntall
Now I guess this counts as old school. I guess I coulda put down a Malcolm McLaren link, but I’m feeling like you all deserve this. JUST REMEMBER ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME.
Omnes Omnibus
@JordanRules: More obscure -> Brother D.
JordanRules
@srv: Ha! Tweety sample was money! I do remember seeing that some time during the campaign.
RareSanity
@nastybrutishntall:
I always have a hard time as to which one is my favorite between I Ain’t No Joke and…
Eric B. is President
they don’t make ’em like that anymore.
nastybrutishntall
@RareSanity: I Ain’t No Joke is so good it gives me chills. Smoothest rhymeflow of all time. GOAT, hands down. Though Chuck D’s raps are the ones that play in my head, probably because I can actually wrap my mind around the structure, as opposed to Rakim, who is basically the MC Escher of rap.
RareSanity
@nastybrutishntall:
Yeah, back in my DJ’ing days, I Ain’t No Joke always set the party on fire.
Still does to this day…
Omnes Omnibus
No Sleep ’til Brooklyn.
Felonius Monk
For those of you who are not thrilled with the topic of “Old School Rap” please consider THIS.
Omnes Omnibus
The real Roxanne.
JordanRules
@Omnes Omnibus: That obscureness was dope! Never heard it. Many Cheryl Lynne samples in hip-hop but that was probably the first. A righteous party!
BruceFromOhio
Such creativity is frowned upon at the local HS episodes of Friday Night Lights. Alas.
Fight The Power.
@RareSanity: This.
JordanRules
@RareSanity: Absolutely, as does “I Know You Got Soul”.
Omnes Omnibus
@RareSanity: @BruceFromOhio: I really liked their first album but then they sold out.
Omnes Omnibus
Maybe too pop and too new to be old school, but I always liked it., but I always liked it. Plus, Neneh is hot.
max
@RareSanity: I always have a hard time as to which one is my favorite between I Ain’t No Joke and…
Of that record (which I used to have on vinyl) I liked Paid in Full best.
I was doing radio at that time, so I was getting big earfuls of stuff, which means there’s something that would grab me. I already linked this once a while back, but it fits the same period and it is one of my favorite songs: Stetasonic – A.F.R.I.C.A..
max
[‘Music about politics always grabs me.’]
The prophet Nostradumbass
Kool Moe Dee: Wild Wild West and How Ya Like Me Now.
Omnes Omnibus
Slick Rick.
Omnes Omnibus
Let’s go international.
Suzanne
I never understood the point of suspension. The only people who wouldn’t love a mandatory break from school were those that would never do anything to warrant a suspension. It’s like punishing a kid by giving them an ice cream cone.
My husband and I just spent a couple OF (there you go, eemom, that’s a peace offering) hours playing pirated songs on Rock Band. If you ever need someone to sing Stairway to Heaven and Ann Wilson is not available, I’m your girl.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Fuck You, Ice Cube. Now he’s doing Coors Light ads.
MattR
You, you got what I need, but you say he’s just a friend.
Keith P
Great sports weekend for me! Bama beat A&M, Auburn beat Miss State (and the odious Dan Mullen), and now Mayweather beat Alvarez easily. Boring fight, and not Money’s best, but he still outclassed Alvarez. Terrible draw card by a judge who also gave Bradley the win over Pacquiao.
Cacti
No love for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
Can’t go wrong with Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh either.
Omnes Omnibus
How about this? Appropriation or respect?
@Cacti: Click on the motherfucking links.
ranger3
Gotta get drunk before the day begins, before my mother starts bitching about my friends
JordanRules
Detective Fin Tutuola as Curtis Mayfield…
http://youtu.be/67r5tZc-jlc
Suzanne
I just sang the full version of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”.
Yes, I am white, grew up in the suburbs, and was born in 1980. Why do you ask?
The prophet Nostradumbass
Ice-T: The Girl Tried to Kill Me
MattR
@Cacti: Third time The Message has been posted. So how about some White Lines? It definitely has the best
karaokinglip syncing by a Scottish talkshow host to a British pop band’s cover of it.Omnes Omnibus
@JordanRules: One forgets how smooth he was.
Bubblegum Tate
Not really old school, but old enough, I guess:
X-Clan–“Verbal Milk”
Masta Ace–“Saturday Night Live (remix)”
Cacti
@MattR:
That was the song that actually introduced me to Grandmaster Flash…and cocaine.
JordanRules
@Suzanne: Even the Brits still love it…
http://youtu.be/ZwS14TiO7Pk
Bubblegum Tate
One more: EPMD–“Rampage” DJ Scratch MURDERS the cuts on this one.
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: Jamie Oliver used that as the theme for his new cooking show. I’m not kidding. It made me nostalgic.
Cacti
Not really “old school” since it’s from the early 90’s, but I loved some Das EFX.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: OMFG
Suzanne
I will also note that there is one radio station here that likes to play “Funky Cold Medina” a bit more than is really necessary.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Define a bit more.
Keith P
@Cacti: Speaking of early 90s, “Doggystyle” is probably my favorite rap album of all time. Snoop’s off doing God-knows-what these days (starring with Ice Cube in a family comedy maybe?), but he’s one of the smoothest rappers there is, and I can still listen to that album from start to finish without skipping a track.
JordanRules
@Suzanne: I don’t think Phoenix has ever been known for good radio.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I hear it at least once a week, and it’s a variety station, not hip-hop, and I’m a station-flipper. So I’m not listening all that much, and I still hear it that often. Like, really? Of all of the songs under the hip-hop umbrella to play into the ground, THAT’S the one they choose?!
I will say this: it’s better than anything by Cypress Hill. I don’t know if there’s a grave deep enough for Cypress Hill.
Bubblegum Tate
Wu-Tang fans, please enjoy RZA’s first single from back before there was a Wu-Tang Clan.
jenn
@Origuy: Holy crap.
Mike E
@Bubblegum Tate: You’re a butter knife, I’m a machete.
Bubblegum Tate
@Suzanne:
Crazy talk. Cypress Hill’s first album is fucking incredible. Inspirational to this day…Muggs was amazing on the beats.
JordanRules
@Keith P: Serial Killa is my favorite track. Great album; for my moneys worth, Kurupt and Daz stole the show.
Suzanne
@JordanRules: Phoenix’s radio is not awful. Once the recession happened and the media conglomerates realized that the mythical untapped market of rich 18-29-year-old men didn’t really exist, we lost a couple of the “modern rock” stations. But we have an awesome independent, a great comedy radio station, and of all things, an Indian radio station on AM.
JordanRules
@Mike E: Beat me to the punch on that one!
Suzanne
@Bubblegum Tate: Cypress Hill better be sent to the third circle of Hell at the VERY least for inflicting “Insane in the Brain” and “So You Wanna Be A Rock Superstar” on us all.
Omnes Omnibus
Missy?
Cacti
@Keith P:
Of the seminal G-funk albums, I actually preferred Doggystyle to The Chronic, because Snoop is a much better MC than Dr. Dre, and he was the headliner rather than a featured performer. Both were indispensable albums from my high school years.
I feel old now.
JordanRules
@Suzanne: Point taken. I think the pop, jazz and R&B stations are garbage but I’ve lived in Houston, Detroit and Atlanta. Great comedy can be found on satellite because you can get away with so much more, never thought to check it out on terrestrial TBH.
Suzanne
@Keith P:
If history is any guide, right now, at this very moment, he is doing either A) drugs, B) hookers, or C) both.
Mike E
@Suzanne: He’s a lion in his community, yo.
Cacti
@Suzanne:
Mr. Dogg seems like he’d be a fun guy to rip some bong hits with.
Suzanne
@Cacti: As Mike E noted, he’s Mr. Lion now.
I assume, however, that the fun-ness quotient of the bong hits remains unchanged.
JordanRules
@Mike E: Doing the raggae thing and just did a song with Eddie Murphy. Yes, Mr. Party All the Time.
fuckwit
@Suzanne: Insane in the Membrane. YOUR MEMBRANE CANNOT BE INSANE.
MattR
@Suzanne: @Cacti: Snoop is not a bad guy. Since 2005 he has been involved in youth/high school football in LA. He started a league for inner city youth and has been coaching at a local high school.
Omnes Omnibus
This isn’t old school at all, but in the course of YouTube surfing I saw it and it is simply gorgeous.
JordanRules
@Omnes Omnibus: Got me thinking about The Fugees now.
max
@Felonius Monk: For those of you who are not thrilled with the topic of “Old School Rap” please consider THIS.
Jesus Christ. (And you left your tag unclosed too.)
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Fuck You, Ice Cube. Now he’s doing Coors Light ads.
Heh. Time to kill two birds with one stone: LL Cool J – Go Cut Creator Go
(Obligatory addition of Sonic Youth – Kool Thing.)
@Suzanne: Once the recession happened and the media conglomerates realized that the mythical untapped market of rich 18-29-year-old men didn’t really exist, we lost a couple of the “modern rock” stations.
I am blessed with one sorta ‘Modern Rock’ station and one station that seems to be mostly hair metal, otherwise it’s country (as in ‘soft rock’) and Christian stations wall to wall. And no station comes in clearly. KILL ME.
max
[‘After a five minute delay: OK, either my inner is acting up or I’m going to have a stroke.’]
max
@max:
So four or more links land you in moderation? OK.
max
[‘Makes a music thread a bit difficult, but whatever.’]
Omnes Omnibus
@JordanRules: Since this really isn’t my milieu, I went to this. I like the rap I have been linking, but I love alterno/punk stuff. Still, the Fugees are cool as fuck.
TG Chicago
So yeah — we need some clarity about what it means to be old school hip-hop. For instance, the song “King of Rock” by Run-DMC came out before Raising Hell and it proclaims to be “all brand new / never ever old school”.
Public Enemy is awesome, but “old school” they ain’t.
For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-school_hip_hop
Omnes Omnibus
@TG Chicago: Fucking purists, man….
TG Chicago
@Keith P:
Am I the only one who watched Arsenio’s re-debut on Monday?
Snoop is making music with Eddie Murphy. Yes, I’m serious.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Next up, a bunch of bands that aren’t really Punk Rock, because.
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I will fight to back the idea that the Talking Heads were punk. It is an ethos not a style.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: I won’t argue with that. The played at CBGB a number of times, I believe.
JordanRules
@TG Chicago: I think it was just meant to signify older rap in this context and about 95% of the time I’ve encountered people using it. That it’s cementing recognition as a definitive period and it’s associated style is cool. This is a baby genre and not many people will understand what it means for a while and it will always be murky like say ‘classic rock’ but more people are likely to know what a ‘classic rock’ radio station would sound like.
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: They were just an example. Punk is really my milieu, but, as you can see, I define it more broadly than the Sex Pistols and Ramones.
@JordanRules: You were nicer about it than I was.
JordanRules
@Omnes Omnibus: The idea that it’s an ethos with a style is how many, including me feel about hip-hop. I think it makes your appreciation of punk more real and less a springboard for throwing around crutches like technical supremecy, mass media minded critiquing and less suseptible to times whims.
Suzanne
@MattR: I’m not saying Snoop is a bad guy. The pimping and some of the lyrics suggest misogyny (understatement), which is of course problematic, but that doesn’t make him a horrible person or anything. I was merely noting that he enjoys the street pharmacology and the carnal pleasures. There are worse things.
Besides, my iPhone would be a lot emptier if I only listened to music by good people.
A couple of weeks ago, I proposed the idea to my friends of establishing a specific genre of music called DOUCHECORE: excellent music by bad people. Guns ‘n Roses was exhibit #1.
Jewish Steel
I’m sure others have pointed out that great rap is still being made.
Danny Brown – Grown up
The kid is this video is kind of the best.
TG Chicago
@Omnes Omnibus: Words mean things.
Suzanne
@JordanRules: I noted to Mr. suzanne today how prog is the genre that I find the most disappointing because it has the most STUFF and IMO turns it into the least actual music. Like….there’s so much skill, and so much passion, and so much sheer effort put into it…….and yet I find 90% of it unlistenable. In direct contrast to punk, which takes often un- or marginally skilled musicians with a lot less training….and yet the passion and intelligence make it work tremendously.
Of course there are exceptions and this is just my opinion, so no flame wars.
Omnes Omnibus
@JordanRules: I could have turned toward ska (with its ranking – the preface to rap) but I went proto-punk with the Modern Lovers and the Velvet Underground. Or how about Mink Deville?
JordanRules
@Jewish Steel: While I’d certainly agree, I’d imagine a few thing the its all gone downhill and are suffering from the ‘geeez, now I’m the olds’ syndrome.
Danny from the D had a different style when he started, interestingly enough. Talented cat either way.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: Music in New York in the 1970’s is pretty interesting. There are connections among the Dictators, Blue Öyster Cult, Patti Smith, Twisted Sister, the Talking Heads, the Ramones, and a bunch of other bands.
Jewish Steel
@JordanRules: I picked that song in particular b/c it could easily have been a track on 3 Feet High And Rising. And that is an album very dear to the olds (like me!)
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Well, that’s the fun ain’t it? Purists can’t win. The point of interesting music is finding and pushing limits. Sometimes the result is sublime; sometimes it ain’t. It’s worth the try if one has an idea.
JordanRules
@Suzanne: Oh the irony, prog being unprog. I think it needs a hard left turn myself.
No flame wars till I’m sleep and the east coasters crawl out of their slumber.
JordanRules
@Jewish Steel: What an omission! No De La in the thread.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: Indeed. To me it’s fascinating that both Twisted Sister and Manowar (!) had their roots in a 70’s New York proto-punk band.
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Out of the Pistols came: this and this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: And this from Glen Matlock.
Bill E Pilgrim
It’s always been a complete mystery to me how that’s supposed to be embarrassing or a sort of “gotcha” on the people seeing it, rather than for the ones doing it. I think I saw it happen once, walking with my father to a game in high school, and my thought was wait, you’re the ones with your naked butts hanging out in public, and we’re supposed to be embarrassed? Baffling.
By the way, “we dropped trou” is ur bro-speak, which I’m so glad you grew out of.
NobodySpecial
I consider ’88 ‘old school’.
De La Soul – Potholes In My Lawn
Amir Khalid
Mostly off-topic, but Language Log linked to this video full of
mondegreens. “Just let me staple the vicar” — hilarious.
R-Jud
I think you’ll get with this, for this is kinda phat: Black Sheep, The Choice is Yours.
raven
THE ORIGINAL RAP SONG
Trouble Every Day
Well I’ve seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
All the merchants and the shops
Who use to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watch the mob just turn and bite em
And they say it serve them right
Because a few of them are white
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yell and you can understand me
And all that other crap they hand me
In the papers and t.v.
And all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more everyday
These time of year some asshole say
He wants to go and do you in
Cause the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
No matter if it’s black or white
Because he’s out for blood tonight
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
Exactly. I’m an old punk and Talking Heads is definitely punk. Blondie, too, though the yoots probably think they were disco or something.
DirectTV has a film about CBGBs on pay-per-view right now. Having been there a few times back in the glory days, I may have to bust out and watch it.
cosima
I get to listen to this with my oldest when she’s home visiting. Not for the little one for certain. It makes me laugh every single time… Not old-school rap at all.
Take it from here, Mickey Avalon, tell us all about your d*ck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzYG0ZkrXg
Thlayli
Apparently yesterday was Nas’ birthday. Someone on Facebook brought it up, calling him “the best NYC MC”. Yeah, no.
OT: LG&M got a TBogg unit on a thread about … would you believe … ketchup.
Keith G
Blah!!
Bobby Thomson
You guys talk too much. So much drama.
Bobby Thomson
I can understand the confusion, but let’s get back on topic.
Bobby Thomson
Everyone go to bed? Rise and Shine.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I’m too lazy to read all the responses to see if this one has already been mentioned, but The Black Sheep’s “The Choice Is Yours” is fantastic, even if they did make a car commercial out of it. Do, Da, Dippity!
Kiko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztOfMln6Mo
Rap is still an art, and no one’s from the Old School
Cuz Rap is still a brand-new tool
I say no one’s from the Old School cuz Rap on a whole
Isn’t even twenty years old
Fifty years down the line, you can start this
Cuz we’ll be the Old School artists
And even in that time, I’ll say a rhyme
A brand-new style, ruthless and wild
Runnin’ around spendin’ money, havin’ fun
Cuz even then, I’m still number one
the Conster
According to the liberal MSNBC’s website, the chemical weapons deal is a way out for….Obama. Not Assad, Obama. Fucking clowns.
Joel
How about some overlooked old schoolers?
Sweet Tee has got the feelin’.
Stetsasonic, the first rap group with live instruments. Featuring a very young Prince Paul before he hooked up with De La Soul.
Speaking of De La Soul, this was one of two posse cuts from the Native Tongues.
And just for the hell of it: This his how we do from 93′ til…
GregB
Have you ever gone over to a friends house to eat and the food just aint no good? The macaroni’ soggy, the peas are mushed and the chicken tastes like wood?
Take it away Wonder Cole…
Joel
@Jewish Steel: That reminds me a lot of the pre-Score Fugees.
khead
Run-DMC > King of Rock > Raising Hell
me
@Origuy: I hope the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan is paying attention.
chrome agnomen
all of you, get offa my lawn!
Elizabelle
Cool event in DC area alert: SPX 2013.
Small press comics convention; second day at the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center. It’s literally steps from the White Flint Metro station exit.
John Lewis appeared yesterday in support of a graphic novel on civil rights he co-wrote. Got to shake his hand; line was way too long for getting an autographed copy, but I’m local …
Today runs noon to six; $10 gets you in to see some way cool art and people.
(And you could park for free at White Flint Mall, which is a ten-min max walk to the hotel. Lord & Taylor parking lot seems closest. I did this yesterday; did not get a ticket.)
SiubhanDuinne
@Origuy:
@me:
That is one of the most horrifying stories I’ve yet seen. Just unconscionable. Is there no legal recourse?
cathyx
Won’t John be surprised when he wakes up at 2:00pm to find his post from last night is still on top.
Felonius Monk
@max: You are welcome.
MomSense
It takes two to make a thing go right.
That song followed me around one spring break like a middle school boy with a crush.
SiubhanDuinne
@cathyx: Am I the only one worried about Anne Laurie? No garden threads to get Sunday morning going?
c u n d gulag
NO!
YOU go knock on their door!!!
Maybe they’re all dead in there.
cathyx
@SiubhanDuinne: She’s one of the most consistent posters here. She probably wanted to sleep in for once. How many front pagers are there here and not one could put something up? 15?
Bubblegum Tate
@JordanRules:
Kids in the club these days think “old school” means 50 Cent’s first album. Kinda makes it hard to DJ for them.
max
@Felonius Monk: @max: You are welcome.
‘Thank you for your gift of the plague.’
max
[‘Next up: Face-eating zombies – true conservatives or misunderstood outsiders?’]
Elizabelle
@cathyx:
Betty Cracker’s got a new open thread up.
At least Anne Laurie does not live in Colorado. I’d be majorly worried then. Maybe she’s on vacay this weekend; gardens are going uncommemorated, but ah well.
fuckwit
@Suzanne: Douchecore is a great idea. I remember back in the mid 80s someone wrote an article in the LA Weekly coining a term “Asshole Rock” to describe a new local genre, and used the Chili Peppers and Double D Nose and others as an example of it. It created the acronym “AHR” and described it as dudebro funk/metal with misogynist lyrics and a party-till-you-puke-then-party-some-more attitude. At the time the Chili Peps were just a local band doing the club scene; this was quite a while before they broke out nationally.
Linnaeus
I saw some folks mentioned Eric B. & Rakim, but I didn’t notice if anyone posted this one:
Paid In Full
Joel
Is there a bigger talent discrepancy than Biggy and Ma$e appearing on the same track?
dedc79
3rd bass – The Gas Face
Patricia Kayden
Anything by Queen Latifah
Ladies First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFh8pjtdQo
Come Into My House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6uyQ3a-MT8
Unity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cHxydDb7o
UnkyT
Rarely comment, but got to get in on this. I’ve got 3, and really the entire albums each are from are all amazing. Kinda low hanging fruit really, but still some of the best.
NAS – Life’s A Bitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBPieEWTuBA
Wu-Tang Clan – Shame On A Nigga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf3jzDb4H7o
NWA – Fuck Tha Police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YgZX9Thm0
SmallAxe
Didn’t see any No No Notorius B.I.G. and he must be represented I’ll go with the Ten Crack Commandments:
Rule #4: Never get high on your own supply
Also too, Ice Cube’s Today was a good day has to be in the mix:
Patricia Kayden
@the Conster: It’s a way out for America. We get to avoid a needless war, unlike the rush into Iraq. Yay for us!!
Tony Alva
Two words: Microphone Fiend
Tony Alva
Two words: Microphone Fiend
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@SiubhanDuinne: I wonder if Mr. Emergency Manager understands that a lot of those folks trapped in elevators are probably Republicans. I mean, who does he think still occupies lots of the office space in Detroit? Though I doubt his dickish move will influence their voting decisions.
EthylEster
You already told that story here….with fewer details.
Is this evidence of alcohol induced memory loss?