It was in the street. Selling your cassette tape on the corner, get it played at a club, go to the radio station and try to get the DJ to play it. Back then DJs on the radio had autonomy over their playlist. Different DJs had different shows that they programmed. Radio DJs wanted to find the freshest artists to break their career, help the artist, and grow the DJ's fanbase and street cred.
Love your old school journey, I'm 50, grew up in da hood....Your reactions are so great....I used to breakdance, so I have a recommendation......JAM ON IT, that was one of the first in Hip Hop
yes def! another one was Tour de france. I forget the name of the band but I saw friends breakin to in in 84. That was my first time really seeing breakdancing
6:50 This album was recorded in a Studio since Rap was becoming more Main Stream by the time this album was released. However, his first album was recorded in the Rick Rubin's (Producer) closet of his College Dorm Room at NYU.
HA!!! We would record in my friends basement with his DMX equipment, reel to reel recorder and a set of cheap a$$ flimsy mics....lol.... those were the days. WOW, life was so much more simple back then.
I loved your reaction. This song is when I first fell in love with hip hop. Because where I grew up we only had MTV not BET. No music from black people was played on the radio. But my dad’s side of the family lived in a more diverse area with culture. I visited them one summer and sitting on my grandma’s floor watching a big box tv, I saw LL Cool J’s I’m Bad for the first time. It was like magic to me, I was 12 years old. I’m so glad you can feel how great that song was and still is. Real Hip hop to me!
I remember when this song came out. I grabbed my pencil and paper and boom box and did the "PLAY, PAUSE, write down lyrics, REWIND and PLAY" technique. I memorized this whole song and still know it until this day. #memories
80s marketing of music took longer. You would read about it in magazines at book stores, you would go to club concerts, then MTV came out and the music videos became mainstream. But the most effective advertisement was word of mouth, and being able to trust someone's musical tastes. Most bands would have to open for famous groups before they would get recognition that they existed. Midnight radio shows was another way to market music.
Yeah lots of smaller venues survived via a thriving music scene with live bands playing various circuits. It happens now but it was really big in the 80s and 90s. I think internet has really damaged lots of the old live socializing stuff. It was how you used to find girls etc as well. Also the time frame was weeks to months rather than days to weeks like now. I.e a band could release a record or tape and they'd have a much longer window of opportunity for advertising than these days. Magazines were weekly/monthly etc so that cycle ment that people would be thinking/talking about that new band or that new album for at least that long.
Yo MTV raps with Fab 5 Freddy was the only time this got played on MTV. And shout out to all the college radio stations that played this because it was rare for rap to get airplay on comercial radio.
@@masai711 Yes, the He's the DJ I'm the Rapper album was great. Played it a lot in high school. Rakim, KRS-One, BDK and Kool Moe Dee were just on another level lyrically for me. Even Slick Rick, Public Enemy, those are the 80s artist I keep going back too over and over.
Actually Boxer Mohammad ALI is the original G.O.A.T. Coining the phrase Greatest.of.all.Time. He never said G.O.A.T, NO one said Goat until they began referring to Michael Jordan as 'The G.o.a.t" LL Referred to himself as both Goat and Greatest of all time, taking the phrase and meaning from Muhammad Ali.
That car was an XJ6… one of the baddest!! There was also an XJS. One time, back in ‘90s I believe, I was in a cab on 129th and Amsterdam, and LL pulled up next to us in a black Camaro with a nice looking young lady with him. Back in the day, we used to record on 1/4”, 1/2”, 1” or 2” reels. We’d go to one of the studios here in the city before it became easy, and less expensive, to record at home. I can be in one state, record something, send to friend in another country thru the internet, have him or her record something on it, and have it back when they finished. Back then, you couldn’t do that… Great post!!
Many either used basic cassette recorders, or DIY studios in their basements. They recorded their tracks on cassette tapes (Mix Tapes), gave them out to anyone who would take one, and submitted them to any radio stations that would except them. Back then they truly had to hustle, if they wanted to be heard.
I'm just gonna leave these here... Camp Lo- "Luchini" and "Swing" Nine- Whatchu Want Naughty by Nature - Uptown Anthem EPMD- Chill Eric Sermon - React Pharaoh Monch- Simon Says MF Doom- Sofa King Pete Rock and CL Smooth- Reminisce Mos Def- Mathematics Just off the top of my head, I could keep going but I'll just leave those recommendations. Some 90's and early 2k in there, but each one worth hearing if ya don't know em 😎
LL is a legend in the game. As a teenager, it was special to see him in concert in the 1980s. He would come out on the roof of the arena in a big radio, which was a prop. He is still making music today and just dropped a new album. Made his debut in Krush Groove as a teenager.
Back in the day, One would start out recording in a home studio with no computers, Usually just the basics, A beat machine/Sampler, a keyboard, a Muti-track recorder (usually just a four-track). and many times if they didn't have a beat machine, one of their friends would beat box (imitating the drum machine with their mouth). they would normally perform every chance they got,, on street corners, parks, talent shows, school dances, etc.... Eventually they would get a record deal, and that's when they would end up in a "professional" studio. The record company always had Promo/street teams that would go out and "Physically" promote the artist, their albums and upcoming shows, They would also distribute promo copies (usually vinyl) to all of the local club/party DJ's for the record company. The artist would also tour radio stations and record stores to promote themselves and their material. We also had magazines (Black Beat, Right On, Jet, Ebony) that were a good source for promoting artist, as well as BET (Video Should, Rap City), MTV (Yo MTV Raps) were also a good source for promotion. That's pretty much how things were done before the internet. The 80's and 90's The ABSOLUTE GREATEST time to be alive!!! "They" used to say............ That "It" wouldn't last.................. And "it" literally............Took Over The World.
love this...one of my favorite lines "when i retire i'll be worshiped like an old battleship"...keep doing the old school ones (like the Beastie Boys)...subbed!
Ur fun dude. You will def hit 50k!! This was one of my favs from LL back in the day (profile pic is 13 years outdated lol I was born in 70. In mid 80s it was all about LL, Beasties and DMC. At least in my world
Rick Rubin, co-founder of Def Jam records did a lot of the beats for LL, Beasties, Run DMC and many others before transition to more Rock style bands. They used a Roland 808 drum machine and AKAI MPC sampler, or probably SP-1200 sampler as the main instruments
This gentleman has so many good songs this is one of my favorites some other good songs are Mama Said knock you out I'm going back to Cali deepest bluest I need love and I need a beat and I need my radio and around the way girl and if you're like LL it may also suggest iced tea song called reckless I'm your pusher I can't remember some of his other good ones
Yo MTV raps was the main thing that brought hip hop to the masses, but in the streets, it was mixtapes and word of mouth. radio stations werent playing alot of hip hop still in the late 80's. very few hip hop songs got played on the radio, only the "lighter, happier" tracks like Push It, Turn This Mutha Out, got airplay, and hip hop heads deemed those songs on radio as "soft" at the time. hip hop didnt really start to get played on radio more often til the early 90's (The Chronic by Dre had alot to do w it also).
You are killing it family!! Being an old school DJ I'm loving you learning the culture of my time. I congratulated you on your 1000th and I definitely congratulate you on 10k!! Well deserved..
Welcome to our world the world of the best music. Glad you are enjoying it. Keep it up! Kurtis Blow - the brakes Newcleus - jam on it The sugarhill gang - rappers delight Kool Moe Dee - the wild wild West J.J. Fad - supersonic Fat boys - fat boys Whodini - freaks come out at night UTFO - Roxanne Roxanne Boogie boys- a fly girl More to come, a lot more
This was the first rap album I had my mom buy me when I was in 3rd or 4th grade 35 years ago. I thought it was the dopest shit I ever heard. I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up!✌You gotta hear some old Hieroglyphics or Living Legends from the 90's, that shit is fire.
We used to have Video shows and record stores.... Radio was the promotion until Stretch and Bobbito and a few others had late night radio shows.. Thats how it was promoted... Plus bills posted on boards
Ad-Rock of the Beasties discovered LL by going through demo tapes that were sent to Rick Rubins dorm room otherwise known as the Def Jam office. He than made the beat for the first single LL put out called I need a Beat. It was most likely programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. A lot of the Def Jam era rap was recorded in a studio called Chung King House of Metal. They would rap over a beat programmed into a drum machine, and record scratches. Around the time of the Beasties first record they started using tape loops (a sampled drum beat recorded to tape and looped.) Shortly after that the Emu SP1200 sampler was released and it was used on tons of records also the Akai MPC 60 was another popular sampler at the time. Everything was recorded to tape no laptops. I left out alot and might have some of this wrong but it will give you an idea.
My young sir Back in the 80's we had to stay up late to hear hip hop WBMX in Chicago for one All the rap shows on the radio were on late on the weekends
Big shout from the UK. Love the return to the classics. Rakim and LL are my goats. Agree with the song/artist choices in the comments. I would love to see you add some of these to your list - especially to see you dancing along to The Creator: Boogie Down Productions (BDP) - You must learn. My philosophy. Public Enemy (Flav) 911 is a joke. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The creator. They Reminisce Over You (TROY). Special Ed - I got it made. Heavy D & The Boyz - Don’t Curse
Some thoughts: Run DMC "Run's House", 3rd Bass "Steppin' To The A.M.", Naughty by Nature "Hip Hop Hooray", and MC Serch & Nas, Chubb Rock & Red Hot Lover Tone "Back To The Grill".
Oh and to speak to your question, its a Jaguar car, and they recorded it all in studios, on multi-track tape recording to really big reel to reel taps, using massive mixing boards to mix the tracks down to a final tape, theres youtube channels that will show you. The videos were all lip sync, of course. Making a track, would take hours. By this period, we had basic synthesizers and the drum machine, the Roland TR 808 specifically, is why you will start to notice all the non-live rock drums, on any kind of hip hop or electronic 80s music all sounds the same, because they all used TR 808s to program drums in the studio. By the mid to late 80s, sampling synths were in the hands of the richer kids in town as well, but weren't super common yet, there would be that one band nerd in school who had taken piano since he was 5 that might have a sampling synth or a studio quality electronic piano or synth at home. You could also begin to get home recording tape cassette based "four track recorders" but they produced pretty rough mix recordings mostly for demos or scratching out ideas or pretending to be a rock star in your basement.
LEE Jeans was the ISH at this time. Back then there was no radio play for Hip Hop except on curtain small shows that aired late at night (Friday/Saturday). Also, the UNDERGROUND was the Big move mainly by mix tape that would circulate around town, and we would make copies of them. Def Jam was the first major record label they put out LL, RUN DMC and the Beasty Boys.
I was a hip hop scratch dj for 15 years I started out on a rigged up sound design record player in the 8th grade. Back in the day it was about the 808s and Techniques turntables. Back in the day we would literally mail cassette tapes to record labels
In the 80's, getting your video on MTV was the gold standard. In the late 80's there was a show called Yo MTV Raps, that's where all the main stream music was discovered. The radio was also big in promoting music, there were (and still are) stations that played various kinds of music, pop, rock, hip hop and rap, and r&b. My ideal station would have mixed all of that together, which is why I'm glad I'm alive now.
We used to go to house parties or hops (parties at a hall or club) and the dj's would always have the latest records. There was also some homeboy that would turn up with records we never heard before or sometimes we would just go to the record store and buy a new record we never heard before.
L.L.’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ is an absolute MUST!!! This was a diss track in response to Kool Moe Dee. The two had a beef in the mid 80’s. ‘Jack the Ripper’ is a beast of a track.
Getting a DJ to play the tape in the club or getting the radio station to play it. I had Eminem‘s cassette someone passed around. Well, I didn’t have it, but one of the guys I hung with did. 😎
That bassline is from a cartoon in the 1950s called Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse. Also react to Big Daddy Kane, Three times Dope - Funky Dividends RUN DMC
Congratulations on the rapid growth. It's fun to relive these songs from my younger days and watch you genuinely enjoying them is a blast too. I was in a pretty pissy mood today and found your stuff tonight and the combo of fun music with the well thought out and enthusiastic reaction has been a great remedy. Good luck on your channels journey and I hope you check out the run dmc/aerosmith video I mentioned in another comment on a different video. And surely youve heard of or done The Sugar Hill Gang "rappers delight" but if not, holy shit dude. get on that.
Tape recorder in a microphone in the basement that was our recording studio you had to take a tape to a radio station to get airtime go to a club and ask them to play your music you have to have good Street credit I should know I was a DJ
Levi's was basic back in the day. Designer jeans were in, ie, Jordache, Calvin Klein, Sergio Valente... Appreciate the channel young fella. I just subscribed. 🙂
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Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two 🔥 🔥🔥
lol, grew up in Miami, and that was the shit, know every word!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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It was in the street. Selling your cassette tape on the corner, get it played at a club, go to the radio station and try to get the DJ to play it. Back then DJs on the radio had autonomy over their playlist. Different DJs had different shows that they programmed. Radio DJs wanted to find the freshest artists to break their career, help the artist, and grow the DJ's fanbase and street cred.
Right !!!! It wasn’t no just put it on the internet and get hella likes .
Maybe we need a reaction to De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) to get this one over to bro
Yeah that’s how I got Wu Tang’s first tape! Just a copy of a copy!
Label A&R's, Street Teams, and local DJ's mix tapes.
Love your old school journey, I'm 50, grew up in da hood....Your reactions are so great....I used to breakdance, so I have a recommendation......JAM ON IT, that was one of the first in Hip Hop
yes def! another one was Tour de france. I forget the name of the band but I saw friends breakin to in in 84. That was my first time really seeing breakdancing
6:50 This album was recorded in a Studio since Rap was becoming more Main Stream by the time this album was released. However, his first album was recorded in the Rick Rubin's (Producer) closet of his College Dorm Room at NYU.
HA!!! We would record in my friends basement with his DMX equipment, reel to reel recorder and a set of cheap a$$ flimsy mics....lol.... those were the days. WOW, life was so much more simple back then.
Keep these old school classics coming
"goin back to cali" next!!!!!!!! LL was my MAN!
I’d like to see him do Mama Said Knock You Out!
Big ole butt
The car (Whip) in the video is a Jaguar XJS V12.
yup knew it was a jag, poor company just fkd themselves
I couldn’t get a good look at it, but I did think it was a jag. Thank you.
Same car hes standing on on the bigger and deffer album right?
Ur fade is 🔥🔥🔥
I loved your reaction. This song is when I first fell in love with hip hop. Because where I grew up we only had MTV not BET. No music from black people was played on the radio. But my dad’s side of the family lived in a more diverse area with culture. I visited them one summer and sitting on my grandma’s floor watching a big box tv, I saw LL Cool J’s I’m
Bad for the first time. It was like magic to me, I was 12 years old. I’m so glad you can feel how great that song was and still is. Real
Hip hop to me!
You need to peep "It's Funky Enough" by The D.O.C... He was in the NWA camp.
I remember when this song came out. I grabbed my pencil and paper and boom box and did the "PLAY, PAUSE, write down lyrics, REWIND and PLAY" technique. I memorized this whole song and still know it until this day. #memories
That was a whole task we all did back then 😅
right? The good ole cassette tape, the newer gen will never know.....
@@Jayizzo007 if you were hardcore, you would call the radio station and wait for your request, lol
@@feverish6708 lol would call with a fake birthday request just so they would for sure get the song and shout out!!
80s marketing of music took longer. You would read about it in magazines at book stores, you would go to club concerts, then MTV came out and the music videos became mainstream. But the most effective advertisement was word of mouth, and being able to trust someone's musical tastes. Most bands would have to open for famous groups before they would get recognition that they existed. Midnight radio shows was another way to market music.
Yeah lots of smaller venues survived via a thriving music scene with live bands playing various circuits. It happens now but it was really big in the 80s and 90s. I think internet has really damaged lots of the old live socializing stuff. It was how you used to find girls etc as well.
Also the time frame was weeks to months rather than days to weeks like now. I.e a band could release a record or tape and they'd have a much longer window of opportunity for advertising than these days. Magazines were weekly/monthly etc so that cycle ment that people would be thinking/talking about that new band or that new album for at least that long.
that and the streets a lot of artist, give and sold their tapes to local DJs, house parties and ppl just recording from the radio
Yo MTV raps with Fab 5 Freddy was the only time this got played on MTV. And shout out to all the college radio stations that played this because it was rare for rap to get airplay on comercial radio.
@@anthonycuervo4754 Night Flight is where I first saw Fab 5 Freddy.
Since you've made it here...
Big Daddy Kane
"Raw"
100% anything from Kane, add in some Kool Moe Dee - I go to work.
@treyschick264 there's also
Dj Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
"Brand New Funk"
....everybody knows "Summertime"...but..
@@masai711 Yes, the He's the DJ I'm the Rapper album was great. Played it a lot in high school. Rakim, KRS-One, BDK and Kool Moe Dee were just on another level lyrically for me. Even Slick Rick, Public Enemy, those are the 80s artist I keep going back too over and over.
@@masai711 Most definitely. Or some of 'em Marley Marl & The Juice Crew -joints. Great lyricists there; Kane, G. Rap, Shan, Craig G... 🤔
Mortal Combat and Ain't No Half Steppin
LL Cool J is hard as Hell but he can't live without his radio.
remember LLCOOLJ is the reason why people use the term G.O.A.T he coined the GOAT as the greatest of all time he is known as the GOAT
Actually Boxer Mohammad ALI is the original G.O.A.T. Coining the phrase Greatest.of.all.Time. He never said G.O.A.T, NO one said Goat until they began referring to Michael Jordan as 'The G.o.a.t" LL Referred to himself as both Goat and Greatest of all time, taking the phrase and meaning from Muhammad Ali.
ll cool j is the best of the best.."my radio" is where is where i first found him out, fuc*in epic
The music when I was coming up. Love these old beats!
Yes we all listened to the radio in our cars !! And at Home !! Or cassette tapes in cars and albums at home !
Don’t forget L.L. on the mobile phone was big baller stuff.
MTV was our window to the new and freshest hits!
We recorded our music off the radio plays and made our own playlist on tape!
The "Musclebound Man and put his face in the sand," is a reference to Charles Atlas comic book ads that ran from the 1920s to the 1980s
Ll cool j im bad is my favorite ll cool j rap songs/videos ever.ll cool j is from my borough in queens new york.word up son
Cool J Bad Bro....He has that up beat Rock in that shat !!!
React to one of our 1st movies Krush Groove💯 Its the start of Def Jam aka The House LL Built‼️ And -Beat Street came out b4 that
That car was an XJ6… one of the baddest!! There was also an XJS. One time, back in ‘90s I believe, I was in a cab on 129th and Amsterdam, and LL pulled up next to us in a black Camaro with a nice looking young lady with him. Back in the day, we used to record on 1/4”, 1/2”, 1” or 2” reels. We’d go to one of the studios here in the city before it became easy, and less expensive, to record at home. I can be in one state, record something, send to friend in another country thru the internet, have him or her record something on it, and have it back when they finished. Back then, you couldn’t do that… Great post!!
1987, an important year in rap. NYC, cassettes on corners.
i like the way you vive...eni love that beat,LL is the best rapper ever...DOPE!,DAPER DAN IS THE MAN BEHIND ALL RAPPERS IN THE GOLD ERA...
Special Ed
I'm liking your reactions thus far keep going...
This album was the soundtrack of my senior year of high school❤
Make hiphop great again 🫡
It's about time for a revival. Look at how many young men are discovering the classics and are totally amazed!
no one can beat ll cool j, he just flows..it doesn't get any better
Many either used basic cassette recorders, or DIY studios in their basements. They recorded their tracks on cassette tapes (Mix Tapes), gave them out to anyone who would take one, and submitted them to any radio stations that would except them. Back then they truly had to hustle, if they wanted to be heard.
Pullin up in a Jaguar
I'm just gonna leave these here...
Camp Lo- "Luchini" and "Swing"
Nine- Whatchu Want
Naughty by Nature - Uptown Anthem
EPMD- Chill
Eric Sermon - React
Pharaoh Monch- Simon Says
MF Doom- Sofa King
Pete Rock and CL Smooth- Reminisce
Mos Def- Mathematics
Just off the top of my head, I could keep going but I'll just leave those recommendations. Some 90's and early 2k in there, but each one worth hearing if ya don't know em 😎
Forever my jam
LL is a legend in the game. As a teenager, it was special to see him in concert in the 1980s. He would come out on the roof of the arena in a big radio, which was a prop. He is still making music today and just dropped a new album. Made his debut in Krush Groove as a teenager.
You gotta to LL Cool J’s “Rock the Bells” and “I Can’t Live Without My Radio.”
You killin it boogie, well done and thanks for the Golden age of hip hop
congratulations king
D.o.c.- Funky Enough
Classic Banger
Levi's 501 with the button fly were extremely popular in the 80s. They came out with white, black and light blue denim around 87 and they were fire.
MC is the master of ceremonies my young g
Back in the day, One would start out recording in a home studio with no computers, Usually just the basics, A beat machine/Sampler, a keyboard, a Muti-track recorder (usually just a four-track). and many times if they didn't have a beat machine, one of their friends would beat box (imitating the drum machine with their mouth). they would normally perform every chance they got,, on street corners, parks, talent shows, school dances, etc.... Eventually they would get a record deal, and that's when they would end up in a "professional" studio. The record company always had Promo/street teams that would go out and "Physically" promote the artist, their albums and upcoming shows, They would also distribute promo copies (usually vinyl) to all of the local club/party DJ's for the record company. The artist would also tour radio stations and record stores to promote themselves and their material. We also had magazines (Black Beat, Right On, Jet, Ebony) that were a good source for promoting artist, as well as BET (Video Should, Rap City), MTV (Yo MTV Raps) were also a good source for promotion. That's pretty much how things were done before the internet. The 80's and 90's The ABSOLUTE GREATEST time to be alive!!!
"They" used to say............ That "It" wouldn't last.................. And "it" literally............Took Over The World.
love this...one of my favorite lines "when i retire i'll be worshiped like an old battleship"...keep doing the old school ones (like the Beastie Boys)...subbed!
That's a cold line, for real. 💯 LL w/ some maritime flexing. 😂
Ur fun dude. You will def hit 50k!! This was one of my favs from LL back in the day (profile pic is 13 years outdated lol I was born in 70. In mid 80s it was all about LL, Beasties and DMC. At least in my world
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce over You. A must hear. Love the channel bro, I will definitely be the one to send good ones
Rick Rubin, co-founder of Def Jam records did a lot of the beats for LL, Beasties, Run DMC and many others before transition to more Rock style bands. They used a Roland 808 drum machine and AKAI MPC sampler, or probably SP-1200 sampler as the main instruments
HE RECORDED LL FIRST IN HIS DORM ROOM YO
This gentleman has so many good songs this is one of my favorites some other good songs are Mama Said knock you out I'm going back to Cali deepest bluest I need love and I need a beat and I need my radio and around the way girl and if you're like LL it may also suggest iced tea song called reckless I'm your pusher I can't remember some of his other good ones
LL stand for Ladies Love🔥
Ladies Love
Legend in Leather
Long and lean and i don’t wear pleather
I like how you've been reacting to these Def Jam records artists recently .
Yo MTV raps was the main thing that brought hip hop to the masses, but in the streets, it was mixtapes and word of mouth. radio stations werent playing alot of hip hop still in the late 80's. very few hip hop songs got played on the radio, only the "lighter, happier" tracks like Push It, Turn This Mutha Out, got airplay, and hip hop heads deemed those songs on radio as "soft" at the time. hip hop didnt really start to get played on radio more often til the early 90's (The Chronic by Dre had alot to do w it also).
Ladies Love Cool James! Keep posting these great reactions! Try I Need Love for a slow jam.
KOOL G RAP
- road to the riches
Cool J was taking a shot at RUN DMC with the Levi's line!
Rakim….Follow The Leader….Lyrics Of Fury🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
what about a bit of Marley Marl - He Cuts So Fresh (Uptown Is Kickin' It Mix)
Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge) 🤔
You are killing it family!! Being an old school DJ I'm loving you learning the culture of my time. I congratulated you on your 1000th and I definitely congratulate you on 10k!! Well deserved..
Kanday!
Welcome to our world the world of the best music. Glad you are enjoying it. Keep it up!
Kurtis Blow - the brakes
Newcleus - jam on it
The sugarhill gang - rappers delight
Kool Moe Dee - the wild wild West
J.J. Fad - supersonic
Fat boys - fat boys
Whodini - freaks come out at night
UTFO - Roxanne Roxanne
Boogie boys- a fly girl
More to come, a lot more
This was the first rap album I had my mom buy me when I was in 3rd or 4th grade 35 years ago. I thought it was the dopest shit I ever heard. I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up!✌You gotta hear some old Hieroglyphics or Living Legends from the 90's, that shit is fire.
This song has so much energy, I can't listen to it without rapping along with it. It's one of those 80's raps that I have about 90% memorized.
We used to have Video shows and record stores.... Radio was the promotion until Stretch and Bobbito and a few others had late night radio shows.. Thats how it was promoted... Plus bills posted on boards
Ad-Rock of the Beasties discovered LL by going through demo tapes that were sent to Rick Rubins dorm room otherwise known as the Def Jam office. He than made the beat for the first single LL put out called I need a Beat. It was most likely programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. A lot of the Def Jam era rap was recorded in a studio called Chung King House of Metal. They would rap over a beat programmed into a drum machine, and record scratches. Around the time of the Beasties first record they started using tape loops (a sampled drum beat recorded to tape and looped.) Shortly after that the Emu SP1200 sampler was released and it was used on tons of records also the Akai MPC 60 was another popular sampler at the time. Everything was recorded to tape no laptops. I left out alot and might have some of this wrong but it will give you an idea.
My young sir
Back in the 80's we had to stay up late to hear hip hop
WBMX in Chicago for one
All the rap shows on the radio were on late on the weekends
Also try
I got it made by special ed
We just need you to stay genuine.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Big shout from the UK.
Love the return to the classics. Rakim and LL are my goats. Agree with the song/artist choices in the comments. I would love to see you add some of these to your list - especially to see you dancing along to The Creator:
Boogie Down Productions (BDP) - You must learn. My philosophy.
Public Enemy (Flav) 911 is a joke.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The creator. They Reminisce Over You (TROY).
Special Ed - I got it made.
Heavy D & The Boyz - Don’t Curse
Arsenio Hall show!! That's how they blew up!! Welcome to REAL RAP!!
Some thoughts: Run DMC "Run's House", 3rd Bass "Steppin' To The A.M.", Naughty by Nature "Hip Hop Hooray", and MC Serch & Nas, Chubb Rock & Red Hot Lover Tone "Back To The Grill".
Recorded in studio on reel to reel analog. Pre digital. Honestly nothing beats the warmth of analog recordings IMO.
You had promoters and Dj's. DJ's pretty much made what was played and what wasn't. We had record stores and music stores. Was fun times back then
Oh and to speak to your question, its a Jaguar car, and they recorded it all in studios, on multi-track tape recording to really big reel to reel taps, using massive mixing boards to mix the tracks down to a final tape, theres youtube channels that will show you. The videos were all lip sync, of course. Making a track, would take hours. By this period, we had basic synthesizers and the drum machine, the Roland TR 808 specifically, is why you will start to notice all the non-live rock drums, on any kind of hip hop or electronic 80s music all sounds the same, because they all used TR 808s to program drums in the studio. By the mid to late 80s, sampling synths were in the hands of the richer kids in town as well, but weren't super common yet, there would be that one band nerd in school who had taken piano since he was 5 that might have a sampling synth or a studio quality electronic piano or synth at home. You could also begin to get home recording tape cassette based "four track recorders" but they produced pretty rough mix recordings mostly for demos or scratching out ideas or pretending to be a rock star in your basement.
LEE Jeans was the ISH at this time. Back then there was no radio play for Hip Hop except on curtain small shows that aired late at night (Friday/Saturday). Also, the UNDERGROUND was the Big move mainly by mix tape that would circulate around town, and we would make copies of them. Def Jam was the first major record label they put out LL, RUN DMC and the Beasty Boys.
YO, MTV RAPS. That’s where you found Rap , and all kinds of music on MTV back then .
I was a hip hop scratch dj for 15 years I started out on a rigged up sound design record player in the 8th grade. Back in the day it was about the 808s and Techniques turntables. Back in the day we would literally mail cassette tapes to record labels
OH, this is a good pick. Excellent Album. You really have to listen to GET DOWN! i still spit those bars today love it.
In the 80's, getting your video on MTV was the gold standard. In the late 80's there was a show called Yo MTV Raps, that's where all the main stream music was discovered. The radio was also big in promoting music, there were (and still are) stations that played various kinds of music, pop, rock, hip hop and rap, and r&b. My ideal station would have mixed all of that together, which is why I'm glad I'm alive now.
Another album I know front to back, word for word. At 14 I must not have had much more to do than learn lyrics.
Bro this is the first time I seen you and I just gotta say your energy is so positive! Everyone needs a friend like you
Hey man do nwa straight outta Compton video dirty version
Since you played LL you must do some Cool Moe Dee. They had the first big rap beef in hip hop.
You keep putting out bangers and your Gold Play button will be on a hanger
I met in around 2001 for just a minute. Super nice guy 👍. He's a big dude
We used to go to house parties or hops (parties at a hall or club) and the dj's would always have the latest records. There was also some homeboy that would turn up with records we never heard before or sometimes we would just go to the record store and buy a new record we never heard before.
Story teller Friday...Webby, Faded with a stranger
LL was one of my favorites growing up. I'm 33 lol
young man. I am from that era. LL and myself are the same age. let me tell you, LL was that dude. and that aint no joke.
I wore this tape out....and Radio............Originator......
In the 80's in NY, Lee Jeans was the urban fashion, especially with the sewn in crease.
id love to see reactions from many old school songs from Too Short, Ghetto Boys, Scarface, Eazy E all those classics
L.L.’s ‘Jack the Ripper’ is an absolute MUST!!! This was a diss track in response to Kool Moe Dee. The two had a beef in the mid 80’s. ‘Jack the Ripper’ is a beast of a track.
Blow Up = Radio, Video, and we bought ALBUMS on WAX!!!
Getting a DJ to play the tape in the club or getting the radio station to play it. I had Eminem‘s cassette someone passed around. Well, I didn’t have it, but one of the guys I hung with did. 😎
I found you because of the music I like. I subscribed because of your enthusiasm and charisma!
check out Kool Moe Dee - How You Like Me Know - LL and him were Rivals
That bassline is from a cartoon in the 1950s called Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.
Also react to Big Daddy Kane, Three times Dope - Funky Dividends
RUN DMC
Congratulations on the rapid growth. It's fun to relive these songs from my younger days and watch you genuinely enjoying them is a blast too. I was in a pretty pissy mood today and found your stuff tonight and the combo of fun music with the well thought out and enthusiastic reaction has been a great remedy. Good luck on your channels journey and I hope you check out the run dmc/aerosmith video I mentioned in another comment on a different video. And surely youve heard of or done The Sugar Hill Gang "rappers delight" but if not, holy shit dude. get on that.
This is a good lane. Old school hip hop. Keep'em comin'
This is one of the great albums of the 80s. Please check out Kanday, Go Cut Creator, and The Do Wop. You will see how amazing he is.
Tape recorder in a microphone in the basement that was our recording studio you had to take a tape to a radio station to get airtime go to a club and ask them to play your music you have to have good Street credit I should know I was a DJ
Levi's was basic back in the day. Designer jeans were in, ie, Jordache, Calvin Klein, Sergio Valente... Appreciate the channel young fella. I just subscribed.
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