Runaway imo is Roxanne Shante's most well constructed song. Lyrically just amazing. The way she rides the beat effortlessly, over the Marley Cold Cuts makes for the perfect formula.
but "Bite This" DEFINED her as battle rap champ taking on RUN DMC,, i mean HELLO,, omg,, they WERE WHO PUT HIP HOP ON THE MAP THEN and she took them on!!!
If they ever make a movie of the Marvel Comics characters Cloak & Dagger, this should be the theme song. Update 2017: and, apparently, a TV series is in the works! Peace.
There was another version to this song for sure and I think she was answering a certain person back and calling them runaway I was in junior high I remember a whole nother version
Great Old School!! This is when rap was rapping about treal life living in the ghetto or running away as She is doing here. Unlike todays bull$h!+ rapping about their guns and drugs completely different / opposite messages given. I cant believe some of the stuff I have to play when out DJing its all the same and is about what I just posted. To get away from it all I fire up the turntables and dig in the crates for this old school and sit and enjoy but also think about how the rap my kids listen is so different and how much its changed. Dont get me wrong some new stuff is catchy and ok but not like this Old School. I actually get my kids listening to this older stuff from time to time ;)
while reading your post as l kept hearing in my head is the shit music we have to endure at every bar or club in my city. I chill in room listening to this real music from our days too. Damn where did it go wrong?
I have to admit i travel down the same road as yall to. I remember rhyme from krs just ice schooly d that have stained my mind and brain for over 20 3o yrs will this generation remember a rhyme that ruthless and wild from there songs all that mumble mumble stuff. I try and stomach it and listen and support like its spinach. But what happened to the story telling. Im a bout to grab me some beat biter mc shan
Kevin Brown yes . And i have it on tape from wbls Ima gonna find out how to upload this shit and (lol) just like in '85 with my box i'll be the cool kid
@jakec360: actually, she claimed that cornell university didn't have any records of her attending school because she registered under an alias due to a domestic violence situation. she later came clean and admitted that was a lie and that she never attended cornell university.
alot of the it came off the of their heads at after he party's block party's in the parks b ball courts and the street if lucky to get a permit to have block party
