“Bass! How low can you go? Death row, what a brother knows / Once again, back is the incredible / The rhyme animal / The uncannable D, Public Enemy Number One” are lyrics that for me, do it every time! I still can vividly picture seeing a high schooler wearing a Public Enemy jersey, and as a young junior higher in my quest to hear more music of all types, it gives me some great nostalgic vibes to think back on this song and those days. Public Enemy takes me back to the roots of my hip hop discovery.
The explosion of Nelly’s southern flavored hip hop, and how DMX crossed so many lines between Jesus’ salvation and dark violence I couldn’t help but be fascinated. Dre just sat back and collected (world demanding a new album!). For me, this song was one gateway into discovering the lines Eminem would shock the world with while Dr. Straining to hear every lyric, becoming lost in the stories told through rap. It vocalized the attitude of the early 90’s teenager so perfectly, and transcended over in a way that every rocker and hippie was jamming to it! I had an ear for rock, but an obsession with hip hop. I caught onto that sometime in the early 90’s after hearing that Anthrax version, but I remember soon after hearing that more elusive original being blasted over the P.A. Flavor Flav punched in his interjections with conviction and style, and what drew people/me in was seeing how much fun this group was having!
LATE 80S HIP HOP FULL
You most likely know this song because Anthrax and Public Enemy decided to collaborate for the 1991 version/re-recording. However, the original song is much more minimal, but altogether just as powerful.Ĭhuck D blasted the lyrics in a full in-your-face delivery. Public Enemy – “Bring the Noise” Def Jam Recordings 1987
I look back on these days fondly and like Pavlov’s Dogs, when I hear “Jingling Baby” or any other 80’s LL, I immediately start salivating and wish I was that peach in the “Doin It” video! “Jingling Baby” is about as cheesy as you can get but every time it comes on, it immediately puts me in a good mood and brings me back to the days of pounding an endless amount of cheap beer without getting fat or a hangover having lawless dance parties to 80’s music in my living room, and waking up under the coffee table covered in what I hope is my own sweat. LL Cool J is just a rad mother fucker who’s 80’s, early 90’s career contained some of the sharpest hooks in hip-hop. No, it’s not because of his flawless body, handsome face, overtly sexual persona or the fact that I would eat vanilla ice cream off his abs. LL Cool J – “ Jingling Baby” Def Jam Recordings 1989 See also Dan Vesper’s recent list: The Best Rap and Soul Tracks of the 1980s (Part 1: 100-76) Dear readers/hip hop fans, this month is all about hip hop songs released between 19! Let’s start with a banger… We will divulge how it made us feel, and fondly revel in sweet nostalgia as we reminisce. Rap, as it is affectionately called, is a streamlined derivative of the many ways in which talented vocalists can deliver lyrics, and we here at Bearded Gentlemen Music are going to harken back to the days of the 80’s, in which we more organically enjoyed this intense delivery of words. Gives way to early R&B grooves from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and of course The Jackson 5. This wasn’t really a brand new genre, but more of an evolution of “black music” stylings spirituals morphing into Gospel songs. It all started with “I said a hip hop, / Hippie to the hippie, / The hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop,” as The Sugarhill Gang unveiled “Rappers Delight” to the world in 1980.
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