The Fatback Band - King Tim III (Personality Jock) (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Official audio for King Tim III (Personality Jock) by The Fatback Band, released on Ace Records. Subscribe to the official Ace channel for more classics, lost gems, playlists, and more: / acerecordsbroadcast acerecords.co.u...
THIS HISTORY MAKING JAM DESERVES A BETTER PLACE IN MUSIC HISTORY.
Never too late!
Kurtis Blow said that this was the 1st Rap Record
Coz it's true
IT WAS. LINDEN BLVD QUEENS NEW YORK WHERE IT WAS MADE
1968 Pigmeat Markham - Who Got The Number
and Kurtis Blow is 1000% CORRECT!!! It just didn't get the Air time that the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rappers Delight" received!!
way gill great info... I didn't know these guys were from Queens...
I guess nobody going to remember 11 years before this a song titled "Here Comes The Judge" by PIGMEAT MARKHAM in 1968!?? That was the FIRST rap/hip hop song!!!
I was watching Jimmy Fallon and Quest Love said that people thought rappers delight was the first rap song but it was actually this one so I came over here to check it out.
I came here for the same reason
Rappers delight is the first hip hop song
Quest Love is wrong as he usually is about most things. The first modern rap record is Here Comes the Judge by Pigmeat Markham 1968. I think rappers know this but Pigmeat Markham is a fat middle aged man so is not the image rappers want to show.
@@Raider577 exactly they confused rap with hip hop rap is a element used in hip hop
I've tried to tell people this!!
I'm extremely happy 2 say that" I was there!" booker t Washington high school dance in early 1979 THIS WAS THE FIRST HIP HOP RECORD!!!! sugarhill's rapper's delight came out later that year again I WAS THERE!!!!!
Listen to Spiderap by Ron Hunt.
1st song no doubt..sugar gang was the first to go mainstream ,Then Flash and the furious 5 and the 1st female rap song was by a white girl yeah blondie Debra harry from East orange, nj I am so old school
Shout out to Grandmaster Casonova!
NOQUESTION
I HAD A CREW IN THE SUMMER OF 79 CALLED THE CHILL BREAKERS CREW
@@teemoluciano2426 I think you mean Big Bank Hank *wink wink*
this guy not only a GREAT RAPPER , BUT ALSO A VERY GOOD BASKETBALL PLAYER WE PLAYED ON THE SAME TEAM -GREAT FRIEND WILL ALWAYS BE MISS HIM
You should be proud you knew the pioneer of what every kid hears nowadays and don’t know from where it came from
Hi where was that? Ny city?
@@albertopedrelli9210 Harlem, NYC. He's my older cousin.
Les, wow I came here to listen to the song as I'm writing something about music and i see your words and have tears because Tim is my older cousin and my earliest memories of him are being on the basketball court with him in or by Delanore Village. your words just triggered those memories. second memories are being around him and fam and seeing the album plaque that he got for this song. thank you sir. thank you.
Who inspired him...As rapper?
This is regarded by many as the first hip hop record. FACTS.
Yup
THATS FACT BRO,
100%
@def creator Thats YOUR opinion ,and ANYWAY ,who said ANYTHING about HIP HOP ????? This IS RAP giving BIRTH to HIP HOP down the road,Wouldnt YOU agree ???
@@ash27slick74 a
Whoever transferred this from analog to digital did a fantastic job.
The legacy that this one song brought holy shit
Rocket 88 is the first Rock & Roll song as well. Helter Skelter is the first Heavy Metal song. There's always a first, it's so cool.
always gotta be that one nerd to mess the joke up
Word!!!
@@althealligator1467Actually RUMBLE was the fist heavy metal song. Came out 1958 by Link Wray. First rock song was Sister Rosetta Tharpe Rock Me 1941.
@@shepleonard8695 I'll check those out
Chuck D brought me here. What a historic song that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.
We used to jam this song at the skating rink when I was a teenager and I knew when I looked back on it I looked up this song for a reason before sugar Hill gang before Kurtis blow before the female rap group sequence before run DMC it was this guy King Tim the 3rd
Fatback Band never got enough credit for making funky, rap songs and mellow cuts too.
I agree,Fatback Band underrated 🎼💗
Not! I go back with them!
Have you heard "Is This The Future"...ua-cam.com/video/WCG926aQJcc/v-deo.htmlsi=_ugFuUTADaSyZr8U
You learn something new about Hip Hop everyday!!!
This is not Hip Hop, this is a Funk Band from the 70's making a Mixer of Funk and Rap.
@@marquewallace King Tim III was the first commercially released Hip Hop song before Rapper's Delight.
Quest love on Jimmy Kimmel talked about this song tonight.
@@marquewallaceI don’t understand why yall do this. This is clearly the earliest of hip hop.
I used to have this on 8 track bumping it hard in my 1969 vw in high school, 1979!
I can hear those 6 × 9s now ✊
Me too back in day
@@theronlumzy4925 Jensen coaxial's!
VOLKSWAGEN !! 😎
🔥💯 Don't forget the Pioneer 6× 9s too ! Remember people used to mount them on the rear decks of the car , behind the back seats so the sound would hit the back window and echo throughout the car ! 🎵🎶
Tim Washington aka King Tim III not only was the first to be recorded, he set the bar very high. All the hail the king.
Doesn't get the respect he deserves, but the true hip hop ballers know the truth, so be it.
@@aarondigby9859 grove street better
There’s tapes of the treacherous three in 1978, and some earlier raps from 1977. He was not the first to be recorded, but this is the first official song.
Only he did it nationwide..
This is not Reggae or Salsa you listening to . This is FBA funk and soul that is the foundation of Hip Hop.
Give props and respect of Hip Hop genesis to FBA culture , this means you Busta Rhymes and Fat Joe .
The first commercially released rap song on March 25, 1979. Rapper's Delight was commercially released in September, 1979.
it is disputed that the "rhymes" by melle mel were maybe written/used in clubs ,etc as far back as 77 as poetry, but I wasn't there, so I really don't know either
Difference is this wasn’t successful, rappers delight was, that’s why rappers delight is said to have spawned the genre
They threw down rhymes in caves back in the stone age. It's written in stone. God knows what came first.
This wasn't the first rap record it was officially the first Hip Hop record it came out two weeks before Rappers Delight
Actually, It was the first commercially released Hip Hop song, but a couple of months later Sugar Hill Gangs Rappers Delight, was way more successful( also outside the USA) and that launched the Hip Hop culture... Rappers Delight was also the first released song with only rapping and no singing....
And to make the history lesson complete It's all thanks to Sylvia Robinson the "mother"of Hip Hop, who had her own recording studio( and she was a talented singer/songwriter herself) and saw the potential in the new upcoming sound of Hip Hop and rap and gave the first pioneers a chance. "the Message" from Grand Mater Flash and the furious Five is also released by her studio and she a co-writer of the song....
This is where it all started! Even though it's drenched in funk, this is Hip Hop at it's best!
Funk birth Hip-Hop.
It got better :p
NOT WHERE IT STARTED JUST THE 1ST ON WAX
The song called Catch The Beat and they put a rap on it nobody was prepared for this
@@jamesfrench6149 where did hiphop start?? I actually want to know
The bass line is outrageous! If this song doesn't make you want to shake your ass, check your pulse!
YOU DEFINATELY HIT THE DANCE FLOOR
for the first rap song it sounds funkalicious
it is fuckin' cool LOL
not actually the first rap song but first mainstream
coke la rock i think his name is spelled spit one of the first bars with dj herc the first dj and creator of rap around 1973 sum
Actually, Hey Miss Broadway had the 1st rap lyrics on it
2 4 6 8 fatback don't you hesitate!
My godfather was the horn player in Fatback Band
Word?? That's really cool 😎
Yet people want to erase Foundational Black Americans from being the creators of rap/hip hop
This track drips funk and can't be found anywhere else but black (FBA) culture
YES!! I was 14 years old when this song came out.. same year as Off The Wall, Switch,, One Nation Under a Groove....
Switch & One nation were '78 Switch ll was '79
This was the very first rap song I ever heard on the radio. Rapper's Delight was the second.
+Ben “Get Ready” Dover "This was the very first rap song i ever heard on the radio"
"No, its the second"
????????
And "spoonin' rap" by Spoonie G was the Third?
@@michaelmontano4280 No, the 3rd was Blondie's Rapture (which was also the first song with a rap to go number one). Listen to her lyrics - she throws a nod to Grand Master Flash. 😁😎🤓
@@WillSing4TP FLASH IS FAST, FLASH IS COOL! haha I remember my mum told me this ages ago and I stupidly argued....she was right!!!!!
@@Victimless.Crime.Recordings Yaass!😃
Dang! It's like drinking from the Holy Grail. This is the first time I'm hearing this.
Me too,always been a Fatback Fan🎼💗
Wow!
In my opinion Fatback created the greatest house party jam ever called "I like the girls"💯
@@MacT991
They had quite a few floor burners.
Take It Any Way You Want 🔥
@@raygu1818 FACTS💯
Respect to the original.
Who's the girl in ur profile picture
| It looks like *Margot Robbie*
southlondon86
Margot Robbie 😍😍😍😍
southlondon86 "Happy fapping."
Never heard that one before!
Andrew Del Pilar lol you must live under a rock then
This was the very first hip hop single played on the radio commercially. On WDAS fm in Philly back in the late 70's. Before Grandmaster Flash, Funky Four plus one more and the Sugarhill Gang.
This started the revolution!
I remember hearing it and running to the record shop(Fith Street Jazz in Chester,Pa) and spending my whole clip just to by it....been true hip hop (break dancing, Graffiti, Mc's and Dj's) ever since....
76 this had been out a while. But, grandmaster flash and them were friggin huge on the block party scene.
Sorry this is the first rap song yes but Sugar Hill Gang had the first commercially released rap song which brought rap and hip hop alive in the 80's.
+Sam Go'figure King Tim the III-Released on March 25, 1979
Rappers Delight-Released September 16, 1979
Nah this didn’t start hip hop at all, rappers delight did, unfortunately this wasn’t at all successful
WITH OUT THEM IT WILL BE NO SUGAR HILL GANG
“To the beat everybody , you keep the the tep in your step the hip in your hop”you don’t stop til you get on the mountain top “ classic line who knew it would come this far 43 years later
Here to say Happy 48th Birthday to Hip Hop, love from 🇵🇪
Yo what up, causa!
Peace from TrujiYork
Still the youngest genre of music in this artform although it's been around for a hot minute!
Peru!!
Rappers Delight
1979 - Best year ever!
First official rap song... goodness this really is a classic
xklnbx14 yep....this came out in the spring of 1979.before the sugar hill gang's "rappers delight".i was ten years old back then
FACT
Who knew the first ever rap record would also have such a high BPM? You could throw this in a techno mix really easily.
Your the only person who commented effectively, who actually understands the true secrets of DJ-ing a classic hit, that also, happens to be, the very 1st of the defining genre of the century!
3:16 as soon as you said thet i heard this part lol
It was in the disco era, which had a high BPM, but it still stayed funky.....
@@rondmc44yup. Complexity of lyrics is a big reason why hip hop music slowed up the tempo as time went on. As the lyrics dumbed down, i would attribute the slower tempo of today's hip hop (if you wanna call it that) to the audience
Techno ruins everything
I been listening to HipHop since 1979. thats 40 years... Im almost 54 so I was 13 nearly 14 when it caught my attention
Me too..i was 11..been hooked ever since
Damn
lucky u! I wish I could have lived all those pure years!
wow, what do u think of todays hip hop?
@@sathwikvengala6723 Garbage
This should have huge millions of views.
Greeley Colo 1979 My Frat from NY
Brought this back and had to throw party just for this cut and been a Hip Hop Head ever since!!!
Sadly but no one never remember or mentions the fact that this is the FIRST RAP RECORD PUT ON WAX.. and that the Sugar Hill Gangs Rappers Delight is the first which is LIE.. Frankie Crocker R. I. P would rock this joint on WBLS in NYC..
bunjicarlin1 everyone knows it, just this wasn’t popular that’s why, rappers delight was
Yet just about everyone in the comments seem to already know that and have mentioned it a ton of times
Is common knowledge here in New York that this was the first commercially released rap record.
literally every comment mentions it. relax
The first commercially released rap single. “King Tim III” was released March 25, 1979, months before “Rapper's Delight” hit the streets on Sept. 16, 1979.
Nope!! 11 years before this was PigMeat Markham with the hit "Here Comes The Judge" dropped in 1968.
@@tonysunshine5727 PigMeat Markham and his song " Here Comes The Judge " was a comedy routine he use to perform in his stage act in the 60s. It was not a culturally identified creation under the toolage of Hip-Hop.
This came out even before Good times
@@tonysunshine5727 That's considered comedy, not rap music.
Context:
While this is the first recorded hip hop song, it did not start rapping. Though, it has an interesting backstory attatched to how it was created. the modern style of rapping was inspired by radio jocks like frankie crocker who did short rhymes (which is why it's called personality jock) and people have already started spitting rap in this sort of way, people like DJ Hollywood and Lovebug Starski were already rapping on disco beats in clubs. Hip Hop itself was already big in New York, the culture officially starting 6 years before this record. Bill Curtis of the fatback band hired Tim Washington (an up and coming rapper) to rap on this song BECAUSE he saw how popular hip-hop trend was getting, even naming the song after him. I hope this helps.
They really tightened up their backstroke with this first hip hop record in history.
Ayoooo 😮
Lookin' for that good stuff!
@@BassByTheBay Why don't you tighten up on your backstroke.
Ahh I see what you did there.
No its not Rappers Delight is and it’s documented by the recording industry
Definitely the 1st rap joint I ever heard. They need more credit
The first hip hop rap record I heard introduced to the pop sound.
Ong💀
I remember buying this album just for this song. My youth was never the same again. Once Rapper's Delight dropped I was hooked.
Learn something new everyday 🎵🎵
This is not the first hip hop song
Awwmann!!! I have that on vinyl in storage. Great party 🥳 dance jam. I play this since 1980-81 AWESOME 👌 👏🏿 👍🏾 super rare classic album!!! WORD!!!
This was the first rap song I ever heard.
Ditto!!!!
One of the first Hip Hop songs was blended with Disco and RnB.
Dope!
Disco ???
Disco????! This is funk and soul. Which is early Hip Hop.
My first rap record that my mother brought me. Had to be in the 70’s. Before Flash and Run DMC. Being in Brooklyn, NY at the beginning of rap was awesome. 👏🏽👏🏽💯👏🏽👏🏽
Ed Lover brought me here
This was a bad ass jam back in the day, Heck it's still a bad jam
A recent Facebook poll: "What song makes you turn up immediately?" This is straight up street funk. A groovy beat with a roving, popping bassline. Vocalist Tim Washington brings plenty personality and the calypso drums are a nice touch. Funk-rap at its finest.
I’d much rather listen to this than current Rap. Old school stuff was fun.
It actually was the first rap song 1978 to be exact meaning the first one to get any real playtime Sugarhill Gang came out in 1979
...we’ve evolved so far from this funky track.
Long live Hip-Hop.
today's music is just samples and dubs from old school music
@@jefftotheleftt damn thats crazy, so anyways
So grateful to find this classic. When rap lyrics were coherent 🙏🏽
The very first rap song on wax and first to have a band not a DJ.
Was just listening to Filipino rap, googled who the first rapper was and here I am. The legacy of this track is absolutely world changing
I've been telling everyone that this came out before rappers delight
Learning each genre’s origins and roots led me here. Now to explore rap in earnest. And this song just…makes you move! Yes! I could work to this!
wait until you get to Slick Rick. Then wait until you get to Rakim. Then wait until you get to Nas's "Illmatic"
Fatback is Phat with this first ever hip hop/rap record. And Funky all at the same time. What a mix !
Don’t no bout y’all but this was the first record I heard wit rappin in it. There was a couple of local dj’s on the radio spitting rap lines ie., Doug Henderson (WDAS) was one, but this is the first record I heard.
Oh for sure!
Fatback had a cold freestyle and the funk was bumping all as one
A true milestone in the culture that changed my life forever. Much respect. He really flexes hard on the break too. True to Hip Hop.
This like a funk disco mix..rapper delight was the first truee rap song.. that beat and bass is what rap is about
This heavily influenced Rapper's Delight damn lol both are hard as fuck in their own right
RAPPERS DELIGHT WAS TRASH 🗑
@@jamesfrench6149 It sounds very similar to Fatback though?
I don’t think rappers delight is trash but this one definitely wins just because none of it is plagiarized
painfully similar :/
Sugar Hill copied...( Mainly Big Bank Hank )
It still blows my mind now new genre of music is created.
1st rap song i EVER heard. 1979.
me too! well actually the 1st single. I was in like 3rd grade.
Yeah apparently this was the first song with rap in it ever
the chances of that are slim.
This is my good friend Bill Curtis founder of The Fatback band an absolute LEGEND and he needs to be honoured .. still touring ! Living legend!
I know every word to this album. Tell him he was apart of my child hood. #loveinperfectharmony
Here from Rakim's interview on Crook's Corner!
Much Love to Hip Hop!!
It's always been a Love & Passion of mine, Trust that I will make a living & grow my name from pursuing Hip Hop!
I still have this song on the 45's record. This is old school Rap music is.🎤🎶🎶🎶❤❤
The one that started it all !!!!!!!!!!!
This was the first rap . I had this album or 45 . I was 11 when this came out .
True genius . Godfather pioneers of rap music. Much love and respect .
Much respect due to Tim Washington aka King Tim 111 for laying the ground work for the revolution that was to come
"alright yall, here we go" and we've been going ever since he said that
I REMEMBER THIS THEY PLAYED IN SOME BLOCK PARTIES IN THE DAY THIS IS A BAD SONG MY BEST FAVORITES
I trace my funk back to Parliament & Funkadelic. Sweat Band is permanently in the rotation. Let us not forget the Bar-Kay's with "Soulfinger" making it to #17 on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 in 1967... just weeks before four of them died next to Otis Redding in a plane crash.
Exactly NOW THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT these cats dont know music they just FOLLOWING EACH OTHER the funk Genre had RAP written ALL OVER IT long before even Fatback Band! 🦾
Still bumpin this 40years later 2019
42 2021
Man, that takes me WAAAAAY back!
@ 00:18 The K I N G the T I am King Tim the III and I am him. My first lyrics and was caught forever.....
Long live Fatback band and whoever Thought of the collaboration ultra classic..it shooked the industry ..aggressive track and the Bassline arrangement damn..
Yes, it was first 'Rap Song' commercialized, actually, shipped a few weeks before Sugar Hill's Rappers Delight. I was in Navy in Pensacola and went with dudes to Mobile Auditorium - they had folding chairs to sit on, unbelievable, and Parliament Funkadelics, Brides of Funkenstein and these guys performed. Everybody but us was dressed in Army military fatigues ala Uncle Jam's Army. Got so lit - I don't even recall drive back or up there, for that matter. Didn't even know I was watching history.
Wow what an unreal lineup for the show. So cool you got to see those legends in their prime.
@@moongloomable Tell me about. It's something special looking back at events in our lives and YOU will, too!
It was great to be able to go a show without getting shot at on your way out.
I love this 🔥🔥🔥 I just learned that this is considered the 1st hip hop song
Another Black American marvel 🇺🇸 ✊🏾
all the elements of funk and hip Hop like it's spose to be so I believe this is the first rap track
The Very First Rap Record On Wax.
2021 and still bumpin!!
All right now that THE jawm 💘this song I remember this 👌OLD school classics 🎶
Alrighty then.i remember this old classic song. Way back 🔙 in the day block party 🐱🎉
We went from this to gucci gang real fast
Oakley McCallister wouldnt say 40 years is real fast lol
@@RMorgan7HD not in a general sence, but, it is the youngest established recognised genre.
Deechy Marko it is since the first song ever made was recorded over 3600 years ago
Deechy Marko 40 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things
@@RMorgan7HD 50 years. 70-80-90-00-10-20
For those of us old enough to remember how Rap started, it wasn't here.
Muhammad Ali inspired the Rocky films through his boxing in the ring but outside the ring he was funny! He started spitting rhymes on TV that were intelligent and made the audience laugh. As children we saw this and started doing the same in school. Making our own rhymes and trying to insult each other whilst still being funny...just like Ali !
These battles, like breakdancing, spilled out into the streets. People battling/rhyming against each other and that's TRUTHFULLY how Rap really started!
Music was added later by accident cause someone always had a "ghetto blaster" playing music so we started rhyming against each other in beat to whatever was playing which made it sound even funnier.
RIP the greatest!!! Mohammad Ali!.
This jointt takes me all the way back 💯
THE 🚌bus ✋stop we used to do I 👀 I still 💘this song
The first rap record ever!
Where it all begin. For years I thought Rapper’s Delight was the first rap song until I researched. This came out a few months prior
02Deezy rappers delight began it though, as this wasent at all popular in the masses, rappers delight started it basically
The watts prophets rappin in the Park was the first rap album ever. But for the illusion that it all started on the east coast they are not credited.
Me too.
my first rap was pigmeat martin hamm here comes the judge in 1976 i was 6 and 10 in 1980 curtis blow Christmas rap and the breaks but my influence was 1979 funky 4 plus 1 more at a funk concert.then gmflash furious 5 melle mel became my master here i am 41yrs 10 cds later still melle mel 1st and mc.s of all genre's having fun living
All praise Gods n Earth for this wonderful sound
Everything that began...
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It's time for something new!
@@jahjoeka
From the Grand Daddy IU....
I'm here because of VLADTV Ed Lover interview
WOW HAVEN'T HERD THIS A LONG TIME I REMEMBER THIS SONG WAY BACK IN THE DAY THANK YOU DJ
I LOVE me some Fatback band and this was the very first time I heard rap....and then Rappers Delight dropped.
KRS ONE was the first time I heard of this.