The old skool Hip Hop thread.

[Warp75]

Herbie Hancock became a famous jazz artist when he played in Miles Davis' band in the 1960s.
He later scored a surprise instrumental hit, with some rap effects quite common in the disco-influenced hip-hop of the time - scratching, and synthesiser effects...
Herbie Hancock - Rockit (1983)



The title song of Buckshot Lefonque's second album. Because jazz artist Branford Marsalis founded this group, this was called jazz, but this was a rap song...
Buckshot Lefonque – Music evolution (1997)

Herbie was great so versatile

[Firestarter]

In the first half of the 1990s, so-called "eurodance" - in a format with a male black rapper, and a female singer - dominated the pop charts in mainland Europe.
In general the act names were owned/controlled by its producers, instead of the rapper and singer.

The first (?) big hit in this genre was by Snap that for a couple of years released a string of hit singles. I never quite been able to figure out who were the singers on their first singles. I didn't even know that the "I've got the power" from the chorus was a sample from Jocelyn Brown's "Love's Gonna Get You", while the rest is sung by another woman.
Snap – The power (1990)



This was the debut single by one of the few American groups in this genre. The singer is actually Martha Wash (from Weather Girls fame), who doesn't appear in the video.
C+C Music factory - Gonna make you sweat, Everybody Dance Now (1990)



Because the group was fronted by a rapper and singer from the Netherlands, we considered this a Dutch act (its producers were Belgian). They were hugely popular all over Europe.
This was their debut single.
2 Unlimited - Get ready for this (1991)



This was one of the biggest selling singles in Europe in 1993.
Culture Beat – Mr. Vain (1993)

[Warp75]

In the first half of the 1990s, so-called "eurodance" - in a format with a male black rapper, and a female singer - dominated the pop charts in mainland Europe.
In general the act names were owned/controlled by its producers, instead of the rapper and singer.

The first (?) big hit in this genre was by Snap that for a couple of years released a string of hit singles. I never quite been able to figure out who were the singers on their first singles. I didn't even know that the "I've got the power" from the chorus was a sample from Jocelyn Brown's "Love's Gonna Get You", while the rest is sung by another woman.
Snap – The power (1990)



This was the debut single by one of the few American groups in this genre. The singer is actually Martha Wash (from Weather Girls fame), who doesn't appear in the video.
C+C Music factory - Gonna make you sweat, Everybody Dance Now (1990)



Because the group was fronted by a rapper and singer from the Netherlands, we considered this a Dutch act (its producers were Belgian). They were hugely popular all over Europe.
This was their debut single.
2 Unlimited - Get ready for this (1991)



This was one of the biggest selling singles in Europe in 1993.
Culture Beat – Mr. Vain (1993)

This was massive

[Firestarter]

I needed some time to figure out which song this reminds me of.
The following song was featured on the "Boyz n the Hood" soundtrack (the only good movie that starred Ice Cube), with a repeated sample of "Dr. Funkenstein" by Parliament.

Too $hort - It's Your Life (1990)

[Warp75]

I needed some time to figure out which song this reminds me of.
The following song was featured on the "Boyz n the Hood" soundtrack (the only good movie that starred Ice Cube), with a repeated sample of "Dr. Funkenstein" by Parliament.

Too $hort - It's Your Life (1990)

Parliament/Funkadelic have been sampled so often it’s unreal.
Absolute goldmine

I wonder how much music is good enough nowadays to sample…..not much

[Warp75]

[Boadicea]

In the first half of the 1990s, so-called "eurodance" - in a format with a male black rapper, and a female singer - dominated the pop charts in mainland Europe.
In general the act names were owned/controlled by its producers, instead of the rapper and singer.

This was the debut single by one of the few American groups in this genre.
The singer is actually Martha Wash (from Weather Girls fame), who doesn't appear in the video.
C+C Music factory - Gonna make you sweat, Everybody Dance Now (1990)

Yeah FS!

Things that Make Ya Go Hmmnnn...

Loleatta Holloway's Voice being Used by Italian Construct Trio, Black Box. Ride on Time.

That had French fashion model Katrin Quinol, Lip Synching and Posing as the 'Vocalist.'

Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash who had to Fight for Recompense in the Milli Vanilli Lie.

The 'Creations' of the Octopus Tentacle Called the 'Muzak Industry' is yet Another Sneaky Construct of Delusion using Omission and Obfuscation if not Outright Lies.

This May Seem Inconsequential on the Surface but it is all part of How they Hijack Perception and Truth.

The Sampling of Other's Gifts.
The Lip-Synch.
The Milli Vanilli Lie, that saw Morvan and Pilatus 'Win' a Grammy, with Full Knowledge of the BS.
Only Returning it in Shame after the Masses Discovered the Reality.
And then Pilatus' Sad OD Death.
Just Shows how the 'Reward' Grammy, Oscar etc System is all Complicit BS.

Selling a LIE Also Provides the MIC(Military Industrial Complex) with a Gauge that Checks and Reveals the Ignorance Level of the Masses.
In Order to Increase the Kool-Aid Doses.

My Little Experience of 'The Biz' Opened my Awareness Exponentially.
What a Dirty, Controlled Bizniss it is...

Taking Natural Creativity and Soul Expression and Hijacking it in Order to Steer Whole Generations into THEIR Desired Compartmentalised Corrals.

At Least Most of us Here have Living Memory of Jamming in Real Time with Physical Instruments and Voices, Around a Fire, Under the Stars.

No Fake Sampling Or Auto-Tune!

Nothing Like it when Your In the Flow!

[Warp75]

In the first half of the 1990s, so-called "eurodance" - in a format with a male black rapper, and a female singer - dominated the pop charts in mainland Europe.
In general the act names were owned/controlled by its producers, instead of the rapper and singer.

This was the debut single by one of the few American groups in this genre.
The singer is actually Martha Wash (from Weather Girls fame), who doesn't appear in the video.
C+C Music factory - Gonna make you sweat, Everybody Dance Now (1990)

Yeah FS!

Things that Make Ya Go Hmmnnn...

Loleatta Holloway's Voice being Used by Italian Construct Trio, Black Box. Ride on Time.

That had French fashion model Katrin Quinol, Lip Synching and Posing as the 'Vocalist.'

Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash who had to Fight for Recompense in the Milli Vanilli Lie.

The 'Creations' of the Octopus Tentacle Called the 'Muzak Industry' is yet Another Sneaky Construct of Delusion using Omission and Obfuscation if not Outright Lies.

This May Seem Inconsequential on the Surface but it is all part of How they Hijack Perception and Truth.

The Sampling of Other's Gifts.
The Lip-Synch.
The Milli Vanilli Lie, that saw Morvan and Pilatus 'Win' a Grammy, with Full Knowledge of the BS.
Only Returning it in Shame after the Masses Discovered the Reality.
And then Pilatus' Sad OD Death.
Just Shows how the 'Reward' Grammy, Oscar etc System is all Complicit BS.

Selling a LIE Also Provides the MIC(Military Industrial Complex) with a Gauge that Checks and Reveals the Ignorance Level of the Masses.
In Order to Increase the Kool-Aid Doses.

My Little Experience of 'The Biz' Opened my Awareness Exponentially.
What a Dirty, Controlled Bizniss it is...

Taking Natural Creativity and Soul Expression and Hijacking it in Order to Steer Whole Generations into THEIR Desired Compartmentalised Corrals.

At Least Most of us Here have Living Memory of Jamming in Real Time with Physical Instruments and Voices, Around a Fire, Under the Stars.

No Fake Sampling Or Auto-Tune!

Nothing Like it when Your In the Flow!

I remember all that shit & tried to avoid it like the plague.

[Warp75]

Maybe a bit new to be old skool but probably my favourite hip hop album of the 21st century

[Warp75]

Nice one from ‘91


Classic from ‘93


‘95