(photo credit: Jamel Shabazz...check out "a time before crack" and "back in the days" on Powerhouse press)
so, i'm walking through brooklyn and i spot a YOUNG cat wit a gumby. this cat happened to be walking wit a next brother with a flat top and dark fade. i must be dreaming. but I AM NOT. the 80s is back in full swing...just ax j*davey...uh huh uh huh.
ANYWAYS
i decided to go and tag some quintessesntial 80s joints...at least how i remember on radio. The Force MD's are frequently overlooked in my opinion. they mixed street corner doo wop with 80s R&B/hip hop. "Let Me Love You" was a smash on NY radio in 1984 (i just found out it wasnt a national hit) and they followed with TEARS, TENDER LOVE, LOVE IS A HOUSE. These brothers were bad...Tragedy struck the group twice as TCD and Mercury both passed away in the mid-late 90s. dope group.
4 by Four is another NY group (at least 2 of em was from the BX). They were one of the many new Edition knockoffs to come along during the 80s. This 1 song though (written and produced by READY FOR THE WORLD's Melvin Riley) burned into the consciousness of horny teenagers everywhere. I rarely see this.
MC EZ (aka Craig Mack) & TROUP blew my mind when i heard red alert playing this 1. i remember waiting for him to play it again for like 4 weeks. it'd be ill if i coulda burnt the MP3 straight from cassette live from radio...but dem tapes BEEN GONE. This song also certifies Craig Mack a special place in hip hop history...not many cats (see Puba post) made quality joints in 3 different decades.
Nice and Smooth ripped "We Are #1". Ok...its not a quintessential NY song but it is a quintessential H lloyd song. The rhymes, the crispy drums, the harmonies and word samples!!!
No need to say much about "i Got It Made". this is the businesslike mix though. i remember they use to play this one on KISS all the time and i'd be like "why they playing this 1???"
Force MD's: Let Me Love You (http://www.zshare.net/audio/3344754b19072e/)
4 by Four: Come Over(http://www.zshare.net/audio/3344653df93611/)
Special Ed: I Got It Made (http://www.zshare.net/audio/33448032fec49a/)
MC EZ & TROUP: Get Retarded (http://www.zshare.net/audio/3345003c74e9ea/)
Nice & Smooth: We are #1 (http://www.zshare.net/audio/3345173404bfe3/)
3 comments:
hey you think that is some shit... i saw this guy with his chick and he had on the gazzeles with the kangol and think dope rope. his girl had on aqua blue spandx with purple leggins with the MUSHROOM hair doo.
this 80's thing is a movement
Like Levi 167 once said...
"Dope, D-Dope Dope Dope!"
Sputnik Brown is the future! Can't wait to get my hands on a "Quickie" EP.
kid dyno - DAILY DIGGERS
an older post I know, but once I saw your mention of the Force MD's....
I moved to Staten Island as kid in the early 80's. the Force MD's were the shit, local heroes! lol - Mercury once serenaded my sister! crazy
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