'85 was one of the greatest years of true hip hop music. Big up to Mixmaster Gee for bringing out this cut! I remember this well from Red Alert playing this shit on 98.7 KISS-FM and from buying this record from Beat Street Records out in Flatbush back in them days.People need to realize and respect the culture and stop being ignorant to where this all came from.
Just out strolling in look what I found some heat from "85", haven't heard this in long time ,the rea when D.J.mixing and rapper's was getting recognition on the radio air wave's across the state's right and left...
I first heard this in '85 on Power 99FM in Philly. Lady B & Street Beat Sunday afternoons. This sound just blew me away. Never heard anything like it before. I bought the 12" at Colony Records in NYC. Funky Fresh.
I used to travel to Philadelphia from Reading to the Ritz nightclub where power 99 used to do their Saturday night live street beat with DC todd. Great times otherwise, power 99 played the same ole shit all the time. The quiet storm was great too. 50 years plus worth of music and they always played the same ole, same ole. I haven't listened to power 99 in many years. Im all smooth jazz now, on watercolors, 66 XM satellite radio.
Good song...I remember seeing the record when I was younger, but never heard until now! I love "DJ" songs from back then...I think I did not have any currency on me that day; or NOT "enough" to wanna cop THAT record...LMYAO! Had to be VERY selective...
first heard this on vacation in East St. Louis on KMJM Majic 108 Master Mix in 1986! i STILL have the mix recorded on a TDK SA90 cassette tape!i found a copy of the wax 6 yrs ago. "The Manipulator" is dope too!
Kickin it LIVE for 85...was far from wack. It was more classic 12's than albums but it was always like that until 87. From Doug E Fresh & MC Ricky D to Run DMC, LL, UTFO, Fat Boys, Mantronix, Toddy Tee, Schoolly D, Marley Marl/MC Shan/Roxanne Shante, Stetsasonic, Kurtis Blow, and Grandmixer DST.
i remember this jam mixed with excerpts from other jams sayin "like this"! and mix master g had his mix show on KACE 103.9 FM From Inlglewood. Ca. in the early 80s.
Bassnectar also sampled the lyric "like this" (1:10) in the song 'Heads Up [2011 Version]'. It's the exact same sample that The Prodigy used in 'Smack My Bitch Up'.
I really, really doubt it. No offence but I don't think you would have had the creativity to pioneer new territory. I doubt you would have been that good within a yr or two of Dj'ing as this was all Fresh at the time. Also you had no internet and the mixers were crap. Just because you are hearing a sample of what these guys could do on vinyl, don't let that fool you into thinking that's all they knew. You had to get those scratches tight and usually in one take.Even today a lot of 'advanced' djs do not have the same level of flow and creativity as these early Dj's. It takes skill to hold the listeners interest and not overdo the scratching on a record, most new Djs fail in that area imo.
maccagrabme So on point. To do something so fresh & creative with low tech was always groundbreaking. Back then, there was no other sound like it. It was raw, it was street, the big beat sound was mesmerising, it was original and cultural. Feel the history of the hip hop at it's infancy.
i remember this jam mixed with excerpts from other jams sayin "like this"! and mix master g had his mix show on KACE 103.9 FM From Inlglewood. Ca. in the early 80s.
