I have read many comments on this post and all of them have praised The Demon Boyz for the style and flow etc. And rightly so because these guys were on top of their game. when it comes to the US accent's in most early UK rap artists I put it like this. when we did toasting or chatting on the sound systems, we tried to sound as Jamaican we could. so naturally when we did rap we tried to sound as US as possible. it just seemed logical to most. If you turn off because of that you will miss the beautiful flow and lyrical content that the old school UK have to offer. Things have changed over the decades, UK artists have established themselves and new musical styles have come from the whole musical fusion of Reggae and Hip Hop. But this is the root of it and an example of that early fusion that gave rise to UK Garage, and Grime. I personaly cringe when I here myself on old tapes from the 88s sounding so US but if you listen to the content it was all UK subject matter. That's the best way I can explain it as one who was active in the 80s as a sound Mc who became a rap Mc.
Back then I guess we just didn't know any better in terms of the accent, American sounded cool and I don't think we really appreciated that our British accent was acceptable, Jamaican, yes, American, yes, British no, then Smiley culture came out followed by London Posse........
Rodney P and Bio put paid to using fake Yankee accents...Mell'o' had quite a strong Cockney accent too... you got me thinking now... you could hear the English twang in Slick Rick too, mad enough Dana Dane (who was American!) when they rapped together...
@@penrythajanitor1977 I get it when you look back and say 'fake accent " but remember the UK rap thing was in its infantsy and raping in local accents wasn't a thing. Reggae artists tried to sound Jamaican, and rapper tried to sound US. I think we were only trying to sound authentic. Also we don't say fake to British singers like Tom Jones, Lisa Stansfield, Beverly Night, Loose Ends, Jamariqi etc. All of them sing like Americans but no one has said fake to uk soul/R&B singers. If we are going to say fake accent to old school uk rap we should be fair and use that criterion for all other music genre. Also Rodney P was known as Roddy Rock in the early rap days and he will tell you himself that he sounded as Yankee as most of us. These days, to hear a uk rap voice on a piece of music isn't a strange thing at all, but in the 80s it was and it was still quite novel to hear it because the president for that hadn't been established yet. Yes uk rap has established itself to the point where US reaction videos to UK rappers has gone viral and its great to see and about time too. But to me it's no surprise that the early pioneering uk rappers sounded somewhat like the guys it came from. That early accent stuff was only part of the evolution.
I stayed up real late night to watch and record this back in the day. Big up these Tottenham man for hailing out all man from North, East, South and West. Nobody could touch Demon Boyz.
Back in the day you'd make sure your VCR was set on timer to catch N-Sign radio as those video's were rare back then. Certain times you'd listen to Westwood on Capital Radio on Friday night from 10 - 1 a.m. with a blank cassette to record all the hot bangers! Miss those days still. Big up all the Tottenham Man dem!!! You know how we do!
those old video players - never recorded the right channel or time i wanted! so I'd stay up and watch N-Sign while watching it at like 3am or something. Remember the old MC Hammer tracks before his 90's foray into the mainstream?
All these people bitching about accents “SHUT UP” When a Jamaican artist sings, do they sing in Jamaican patois (broken English) NO!! When American ragga artist Shaggy does his ting, doesn’t he sound Jamaican! When a New Yorker sings Country music, they’ll sing with a southern accent!! Its called a GENRE, a style, a flow, a sound. Homage to groundbreakers! All Music in one way or another influences the other. It was a Jamaican that introduced what formed into Hip Hop to the US. And by the way Yanks... you all speak flipping English mate!!! It might be you’re accent but its OUR language!! Respect to all British Hip Hop artists, we kept it real, hardcore n underground.
No Jamaican introduced hip hop to the US. All Kool Herc did was play a jam. He wasn’t a rapper. He wasn’t the first dj. He didn’t create break beats. He assimilated into the culture already being done in NYC.
StylistecS Uv obviously got some kinda issue, I never mentioned Kool Herc bro. Shaggy is a Yank but has made millions doing his thing in a Jamaican accent. A Genre is a Genre my Brethren, stuff evolves and adapts. Thats it. Main stream Hip Hop now is absolute BS
"Its called GENRE" Best reply to the question of "Fake American accent " yet. It's really no surprise that the early uk rappers sounded somewhat like the guys they borrowed the genre from anyway. We can't afford to write off a whole pioneering era with the Fake Accent tag. That was the era that set the foundation for what we stand on today. And GENRE is the key word because today you can find white men doing dancehall reggae with jamaican accent. They are from German, Italian and other European sound systems and all of them do the Microphone thing like Jamaicans. I myself would mc on sound system Jamaica style and on a hip hop set, US style. We were just trying to be authentic to the genre's.
My boys alongside Mell-O, London Posse, and MC Duke. NSign radio was my shit. 1st time I saw videos for many of my favourite hip hop songs like Audio2, Rakim, etc. Westwood BEEN doin this shit 4 years, solidified in hip hop culture. Respect.
I'm South London forever but I did some killer partying in Northsides and Demon Boyz are only second to London Posse!!! Bring on the North /South bickering!!
Demon Boyz -with a "Z"! (and Million Dan) - enjoying your music since the 80s - massive respect - No crack... I am on the stack - Mike J - Listen to my record on wax every day!
DIS WAS MY CRIB SESSIONS BACK IN DA DAY. UK HIP HOP HAS COME ALONG WAY AN GONE TRU SOME DIFFERENT STAGES AN LOOK WHERE WE R 2DAY WIV ALL DIS HISTORY ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING PEOPLE.........I SAID HIP HOP DONT STOP AN A BANG BANG BOOGIE 2 DA BOOGA DE DEE....
Late 30's me! I'm getting on a bit, but I look young lol. I grew up in this era too - Remeber Hijack? They had a slight American twang too. Back then though, cos it was American hip hop we was trying to imitate it was sort of accepted..
i dont how old you are im not disrespecting as i grew up in that era if you look back at uk rap hip hop history you will see the london posse . demon boyz . and mc mello was the ones that made it cool to rap with a english accent
Do you Demonz remember smoking session in CologneGermany, Me and Homie brings Hash, big smoke wit Asher D & Daddy Freddy, behind stage 💚💚💚💚👍🏽❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️
can we please please have some more *old school* video's & concert footage up from the *golden era*.....thanks & respect to WESTWOOD!!!! (still very fondly remembered & very much missed part of my teen years.....the N-SIGN,KISS FM & CAPITAL 'live to London' days.....late 80's/early 90's)
boii... wernt they bad. 1988? ahead a dem time. yo "mike g" if ya seein dis... im da 1 u askd 4 directions back 2 tottenham afta "tudor rose". classic show.. bloop bloop!!!!
yeah hijack definitely rocked the american accent agree on that they was still fucking great tho had some bad fucking tunes some of the best scratching ive ever heard PEACE BRO
Tim friggin Westwood....Grrr. :) Come at me from 86-91. No honest a god go ed x Well in. Sex Packets at 13 y/old made me. Tuff Crew opened mixing. P.E at 87 (12 y/old scouse white guy). Mate, I'd have anyone off. Music hit me at 8 y/old. Beat Street was boss at 10 I knew it. Break dance was garbage. Subway Art not Spray can art. HHC etc. Stu Allen Twin Hype/K9 Posse.
I still dress like this in the hope I'll end up in a time machine so when I appear in the late 80's I'll be dressed for action doing a running man.
Wow, I still got this on VHS somewhere,
Big up all Tottenham man !
This is how it was b4 Adele.
Northumberland Park secondary school in effect !
I have read many comments on this post and all of them have praised The Demon Boyz for the style and flow etc. And rightly so because these guys were on top of their game. when it comes to the US accent's in most early UK rap artists I put it like this. when we did toasting or chatting on the sound systems, we tried to sound as Jamaican we could. so naturally when we did rap we tried to sound as US as possible. it just seemed logical to most. If you turn off because of that you will miss the beautiful flow and lyrical content that the old school UK have to offer. Things have changed over the decades, UK artists have established themselves and new musical styles have come from the whole musical fusion of Reggae and Hip Hop. But this is the root of it and an example of that early fusion that gave rise to UK Garage, and Grime. I personaly cringe when I here myself on old tapes from the 88s sounding so US but if you listen to the content it was all UK subject matter. That's the best way I can explain it as one who was active in the 80s as a sound Mc who became a rap Mc.
Back then I guess we just didn't know any better in terms of the accent, American sounded cool and I don't think we really appreciated that our British accent was acceptable, Jamaican, yes, American, yes, British no, then Smiley culture came out followed by London Posse........
Rodney P and Bio put paid to using fake Yankee accents...Mell'o' had quite a strong Cockney accent too... you got me thinking now... you could hear the English twang in Slick Rick too, mad enough Dana Dane (who was American!) when they rapped together...
@@penrythajanitor1977 I get it when you look back and say 'fake accent " but remember the UK rap thing was in its infantsy and raping in local accents wasn't a thing. Reggae artists tried to sound Jamaican, and rapper tried to sound US.
I think we were only trying to sound authentic.
Also we don't say fake to British singers like Tom Jones, Lisa Stansfield, Beverly Night, Loose Ends, Jamariqi etc. All of them sing like Americans but no one has said fake to uk soul/R&B singers.
If we are going to say fake accent to old school uk rap we should be fair and use that criterion for all other music genre. Also Rodney P was known as Roddy Rock in the early rap days and he will tell you himself that he sounded as Yankee as most of us.
These days, to hear a uk rap voice on a piece of music isn't a strange thing at all, but in the 80s it was and it was still quite novel to hear it because the president for that hadn't been established yet.
Yes uk rap has established itself to the point where US reaction videos to UK rappers has gone viral and its great to see and about time too. But to me it's no surprise that the early pioneering uk rappers sounded somewhat like the guys it came from. That early accent stuff was only part of the evolution.
R I P Dereck B
Starsbless 2 tha Bad Young Brotha!
I stayed up real late night to watch and record this back in the day.
Big up these Tottenham man for hailing out all man from North, East, South and West.
Nobody could touch Demon Boyz.
Million Dan lifetime achievement award due
Back in the day you'd make sure your VCR was set on timer to catch N-Sign radio as those video's were rare back then. Certain times you'd listen to Westwood on Capital Radio on Friday night from 10 - 1 a.m. with a blank cassette to record all the hot bangers! Miss those days still. Big up all the Tottenham Man dem!!! You know how we do!
those old video players - never recorded the right channel or time i wanted! so I'd stay up and watch N-Sign while watching it at like 3am or something. Remember the old MC Hammer tracks before his 90's foray into the mainstream?
much respect and thanks to Westwood for his true loyalty and support for so many years!
All these people bitching about accents “SHUT UP”
When a Jamaican artist sings, do they sing in Jamaican patois (broken English) NO!!
When American ragga artist Shaggy does his ting, doesn’t he sound Jamaican!
When a New Yorker sings Country music, they’ll sing with a southern accent!!
Its called a GENRE, a style, a flow, a sound. Homage to groundbreakers!
All Music in one way or another influences the other.
It was a Jamaican that introduced what formed into Hip Hop to the US.
And by the way Yanks... you all speak flipping English mate!!!
It might be you’re accent but its OUR language!!
Respect to all British Hip Hop artists, we kept it real, hardcore n underground.
No Jamaican introduced hip hop to the US. All Kool Herc did was play a jam. He wasn’t a rapper. He wasn’t the first dj. He didn’t create break beats. He assimilated into the culture already being done in NYC.
StylistecS Uv obviously got some kinda issue, I never mentioned Kool Herc bro.
Shaggy is a Yank but has made millions doing his thing in a Jamaican accent. A Genre is a Genre my Brethren, stuff evolves and adapts. Thats it. Main stream Hip Hop now is absolute BS
"Its called GENRE"
Best reply to the question of "Fake American accent " yet.
It's really no surprise that the early uk rappers sounded somewhat like the guys they borrowed the genre from anyway.
We can't afford to write off a whole pioneering era with the Fake Accent tag. That was the era that set the foundation for what we stand on today.
And GENRE is the key word because today you can find white men doing dancehall reggae with jamaican accent. They are from German, Italian and other European sound systems and all of them do the Microphone thing like Jamaicans.
I myself would mc on sound system Jamaica style and on a hip hop set, US style. We were just trying to be authentic to the genre's.
I use to stay up very late to watch Nsign way back in the day. These guys still hit hard
I was about 9’when this come out but still manage to get the album who remember rebel mc
My boys alongside Mell-O, London Posse, and MC Duke.
NSign radio was my shit. 1st time I saw videos for many of my favourite hip hop songs like Audio2, Rakim, etc. Westwood BEEN doin this shit 4 years, solidified in hip hop culture. Respect.
demon boyz should be superstars
could've been...got the swag though
DAMN CLASSIC!!!!! Big up Tottenham Mans them!!!!
I watched this when it was 1st broadcast..showing my age. Love it... Bow Bow..wicked Demon Boys big up
Old skool is the real skool
So old skool it's nu skool
Remember coming home from the pub watching this when I was 17. (yes you could get served in the pub at 17 back then lol)
I'm South London forever but I did some killer partying in Northsides and Demon Boyz are only second to London Posse!!! Bring on the North /South bickering!!
South London! ❤️
Hardnoise topped them both!
YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS WESTWOOD YOUR A BADMAN........DA DEMON BOYS CARRY VIBES AN DA VIBES JUS REACH.....
YEEEESSSSSS WESTWOOD YOUR A BADMAN.........DA DEMON BOYS CARRY VIBES AN THE VIBES JUS REACH....
I still have these track on 12inch..Dope UK Hip Hop. Peace
Demon Boyz Don Gargan!!
and the vibes just reach
Demon Boyz -with a "Z"! (and Million Dan) - enjoying your music since the 80s - massive respect -
No crack... I am on the stack - Mike J -
Listen to my record on wax every day!
Nice one! Love this version of Rougher than an Animal too :) Very talented guys.
💯💯💯
Release these versions!
Real real Underground London U.K Hip Hop Culture . New school Style . Bless G Beats .
DIS WAS MY CRIB SESSIONS BACK IN DA DAY. UK HIP HOP HAS COME ALONG WAY AN GONE TRU SOME DIFFERENT STAGES AN LOOK WHERE WE R 2DAY WIV ALL DIS HISTORY ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING PEOPLE.........I SAID HIP HOP DONT STOP AN A BANG BANG BOOGIE 2 DA BOOGA DE DEE....
i remember staying up to watch this looooooooool
Idris Elba brought me here lol. Tim Westwood been repping forever. Proper legend
....Friday nite...remember to put your blank VHS tapes in ready to record........
TOTTENHAM MASSIVE BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely wanna see the N-Sign Rap Show with Cash Money and Marvelous. That session was hype! Anyone got that?
Those Avirex leathers were expensive even back in the 80s god knows what they would be in today's money lol
Late 30's me! I'm getting on a bit, but I look young lol. I grew up in this era too - Remeber Hijack? They had a slight American twang too. Back then though, cos it was American hip hop we was trying to imitate it was sort of accepted..
Rock With Style Wars!
This is fkn DOPE!!!!!
big up , vibez
i dont how old you are im not disrespecting as i grew up in that era if you look back at uk rap hip hop history you will see the london posse . demon boyz . and mc mello was the ones that made it cool to rap with a english accent
Do you Demonz remember smoking session in CologneGermany,
Me and Homie brings Hash, big smoke wit Asher D & Daddy Freddy,
behind stage 💚💚💚💚👍🏽❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️
At Rave Club 👑👑👑
"Northside" and "Rougher than an animal" on the flip side, I remember buying a copy of this from Ladbroke Grove in 88!
London weekend television
Respect! I remember having this on a VHS for years! Classic!
I remember staying up to record on VHS when I a young un! Classic!
Can’t really get much better than this.
UK HH Stand Tall !! Respect DD ...
Raw! Late night London Posse.. Sipho.. ya know..
That was their new original model Akai Linn MPC-60 that we got them
Well dope and fly WORD 😎
Little dance is cool...:) lol lol lol
CLASSIC!!!!!
Proper Hiphop my man! Dope
memories....childhood.....damn,i´m old
wicked
Classsssssssssic!!!!
Sweet.....
Bless G Beats .
My Era Sill Better Than Rap Now A Days
can we please please have some more *old school* video's & concert footage up from the *golden era*.....thanks & respect to WESTWOOD!!!! (still very fondly remembered & very much missed part of my teen years.....the N-SIGN,KISS FM & CAPITAL 'live to London' days.....late 80's/early 90's)
boii... wernt they bad. 1988? ahead a dem time. yo "mike g" if ya seein dis... im da 1 u askd 4 directions back 2 tottenham afta "tudor rose". classic show.. bloop bloop!!!!
dope as f##k
Snide, side steppn, dance moves!
yeah hijack definitely rocked the american accent agree on that they was still fucking great tho had some bad fucking tunes some of the best scratching ive ever heard PEACE BRO
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faen så fett !
reaching out from Btown mafakka :D
no fake accents demon boyz never sounded american they have a uk ragga flow
Nah - I'm detecting hints of American accents, but back then, we didn't really have our own style.
Aerobics lol
this is a tim westwood set? damn unc
What's he got there a 60 Mk2? cant quite see it
0:40 1:55
Tim friggin Westwood....Grrr. :) Come at me from 86-91. No honest a god go ed x Well in. Sex Packets at 13 y/old made me. Tuff Crew opened mixing. P.E at 87 (12 y/old scouse white guy). Mate, I'd have anyone off. Music hit me at 8 y/old. Beat Street was boss at 10 I knew it. Break dance was garbage. Subway Art not Spray can art. HHC etc. Stu Allen Twin Hype/K9 Posse.
american acc?
fake accent alert!
Get to know ur history