re: What&#39;s your favorite Old Skool rap/hip hop song?

Posted by 225bred

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 11:28 am to MrCoachKlein

So whatcha want- the beastie boys

Posted by taylormade

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 12:22 pm to finchmeister08

[link=(www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYy8FOAVMsU)]Too $hort - Freakytales[/link]

Posted by bobbyray21

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 12:57 pm to dtrack22

Regulate -- Warren G
Express Yourself -- NWA
Rappers Delight -- Sugarhill Gang
Around the way girl -- LL Cool J
Bust a move -- Young MC

This list of five cannot be topped. Simply not possible.

Posted by bobbyray21

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 12:58 pm to JBM210

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Correct answers in this thread are Run DMC and Sugarhill. Nothing else is Old Skool. Yet.

LL Cool J and NWA strongly disagree.

Posted by bobbyray21

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 1:00 pm to Gnarls Broccoli

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It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
Real Mutha'phuckkin G's - Easy-E
Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta - Geto Boys
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Home feat. Phil Collins
Nothin' But A G Thang - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg
Hypnotize - Notorious B.I.G.

Hypnotize doesn't belong on this list. That was Biggie's second album. Came out in 1997.

Posted by bobbyray21

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 1:06 pm to jordan21210

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Damn, how has this not been mentioned yet?

Juicy - Notorious BIG

This is one of my top ten favorite songs ever.

If I had started this thread, I would have made Biggie's Ready to Die Album the official line of demarcation. So, if something came before it, it can be considered old school. But after it, no go.

Why? Because Biggie changed the game, bitches.

Posted by trillhog

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 1:09 pm to taylormade

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Too $hort - Freakytales

there's so much good too $hort out there, i had him going on pandora the other day and it's never ending.

This post was edited on 10/3/12 at 1:10 pm

Posted by chris44gwlsu

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 1:15 pm to trillhog

One of my favorites: PNC - Let the good times roll

lol at mystikal rolling one at the 1:54 mark

This post was edited on 10/3/12 at 1:17 pm

Posted by Biox

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:05 pm to chris44gwlsu

Big Daddy Kane - Warm It Up, Kane

I feel this had a nice flow and some good rhymes for being 89.

Posted by TDTGodfather

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:26 pm to Biox

since so many good songs from Rakim were already posted, i'll add "KNow the Ledge"

Grand Finale- THe DOC feat Ice Cube, MC Ren, Eazy E, Dr Dre (the DOC had one of my favorite rap albums ever)

Straight Outta Compton- NWA

Yoke the Joker- Naughty by Nature

Bad- LL Cool J (Jack the Ripper too)

Raising Hell- RUN DMC

Black Steel in the hour of chaos- Public Enemy

I go to work- Kool Moe Dee

Scenario- Tribe Called Quest (since award tour was posted also "Can I kick it")

So whatcha sayin- EPMD

Do it like a G.O. - Geto Boys

Same Song- Digital Underground

Big Daddy Kane- Mortal Combat

Jackin for Beats- Ice Cube

Posted by jordan21210

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 4:54 pm to bobbyray21

quote:
This is one of my top ten favorite songs ever.

If I had started this thread, I would have made Biggie's Ready to Die Album the official line of demarcation. So, if something came before it, it can be considered old school. But after it, no go.

Why? Because Biggie changed the game, bitches.

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 5:07 pm to jordan21210

Shinehead - Gimmie No Crack

LINK

Posted by rutiger

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 7:24 pm to CAD703X

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Posted by CAD703X Shinehead - Gimmie No Crack LINK

I was 11 when this came out and it was my jam, i had it on cassette. I bought the cd used a few years ago. Love that song.

Posted by DLauw

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Posted on 10/3/12 at 8:03 pm to finchmeister08

ok, CSB time...

way back... year- 1988 (maybe '89) San Antonio, Tx:

Say Nope To Dope Jam feat:
Ice T, Kool Moe Dee, Doug E Fresh, Eric B & Rakim and a bunch of others I can't remember...

kool moe dee came on stage through a giant bong
eric b came on stage through an electric chair
doug e fresh came on stage through a giant gift-wrapped box hanging from the ceiling fired from a canon (20 minute magic show)

anyway, it was a 5 hour show full of theatrics and showmanship and i enjoyed every minute of it from beginning to end.

side note: my "crew" and I were the only white kids in the dome filled with a thick haze of "smoke" and urban (black) people dressed in coveralls, flannel and gold chains...