This Album Was A Complete Game Changer When It Dropped

[Busta Carmichael]

They need a Run DMC or Russel simmons biopic asap

Krush groove doesn't count

 

[Kwan Dai]

Sucker MC's is in my top 3 Hip Hop beats of all time. That shit is still hardcore in 2017..

 

[tompetrez3]

How did it feel to hear new rap songs like this in 1984/85? Did alot of people in your town know about hip hop? What year did you first start hearing rap played normally on the radio in your region?

 

[5 Grand]

How did it feel to hear new rap songs like this in 1984/85?

You've probably heard me say that Rap/Hip Hop was better in the 80s while most people on the board maintain that the 90s were better. The reason I say Rap was better in the 80s is because it was DEVASTATING TO THE EAR Imagine growing up hearing R&B and Rock all your life and then every once in a while you hear a rap song.

Rap wasn't common at the time. You couldn't just turn on the radio, or flip to BET or MTV and watch some Rap videos. Rap was harder to come by. There were no magazines or websites that featured Hip Hop. So when you did hear a Rap song it was like not getting pussy for a month and finally getting laid.

Did alot of people in your town know about hip hop?

Not really. I grew up in the suburbs so most of my classmates at the time were white. But I had a lot of cousins in the area and when we would get together and throw parties we'd listen to Rap. In the early 80s Rap was more of an inside thing but it gained popularity throughout the decade. By the late 80s Yo! MTV Raps was the #1 rated show.

What year did you first start hearing rap played normally on the radio in your region?

Thats my point. It didn't get played normally on the radio. Thats why it was so special. You had to physically go out and seek Hip Hop, you couldn't just sit on your couch and let Hip Hop come to you.

I grew up in a suburb of Boston. In Boston there are a lot of colleges and the college radio stations typically had a radio show once a week that played Rap. But there were a handful of stations like that. So I'd figure out which stations had a Hip Hop show and stay up late at night and make pause tapes (What do you know about pause tapes?). It would take about a week or so to fill up a 90 minute tape and then you had something to listen to for the rest of the week.

On a side note, my pops is from New Jersey. A couple of times per year (Thanksgiving or July 4th) we'd drive down to New Jersey to visit family. They lived in the Tri-State so they got the New York radio stations. New York was miles ahead of Boston. New York had two stations that played R&B and Hip Hop 24/7; WBLS 107.5 and WRKS 98.7. They's get songs, literally, 6 months before they got to Boston. I started noticing that New York stations were better around 1984 when Whodini, Run DMC and The Fat Boys were out. By 1987 I'd bring a Boom Box with me and tape the New York radio stations. Then I'd bring the tape back to Boston and I'd have the illest tape.

Anyway, the radio stations in Boston didn't really play Hip Hop during the day until the mid 90s.

 

[nawledge_god]

Wrong Thread

 

[DarthRozay]

If 5 grand had a theme song it would be TROY

specifically the part near the beginning where they go "reminisce reminisce"