Old School Mondays

You may not believe this but there was a time when new music was good. Great even. Lets go back there...

Old School Mondays: Songs from Hip Hop Movies circa My Childhood!

Peace Family, for this edition of O.S.M, I present you with a couple of my favorite songs and scenes from some of my childhood hip hop movies. Classic Hip Hop including graffiti and break-dancing. Enjoy...

Grandmaster Melle Mel performing "Beat Street Breakdown", the first track of the original soundtrack album of the 1984 mainstream Hip-Hop dramatic feature film "Beat Street"



Cindy Mizelle's first (and only) solo artist 12" single from the soundtrack to the 1984 movie "Beat Street



Beatstreet - Breakers Revenge (Roxy's Breakdance)



From the movie Breakin', Turbo dancing with the broom.



Turbo, Ozone and Kelly dancing to Chaka Khan's "Aint Nobody" from the movie "Breakin"



Krush Groove All stars-Fat Boys, Run DMC, Sheila E & Kurtis Blow.


Krush Groove (1985) - LL Cool J's not tryin to hear that auditions are over! See this young, fledgling superstar bust into Krush Groove's HQ with his entourage of two to win over Rick Rubin, DMC and Jam Master Jay with "Can't Live Without My Radio."



Hope you enjoyed this post, PEACE!!

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This is the Hip Hop Karaoke Championship Edition. I hope you all enjoy these videos from either the judges or song performed during the competition.

I used to do the running man all day to this joint.


The original Backpack Karate Champs (peep the moves LOL)


The Ruler himself.


The God Emcee


Oh La La Ah We We

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You know how we do...

Kid N Play


X-Clan


PRT


De La

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I feel like paying respect to some of the best to ever do it. The hip hop group, the legends RUN DMC.

Classic


My Favorite Run DMC song.


My second favorite Run DMC song. Wish it was synced better.

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These are songs that take me to a time when still ate pickles out the bag. What yall know about that?

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We didn't forget about yall. Lets walk through old hip hop for a sec.




To the cops of Suffolk county...


Classic Finesse (oh it's like that now!?)


DJ Premier laced Joe on this one. Peep the Sheepskins!

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Let's take it to the land of soulful funk today yall! I want to make your face scrunch up after these videos.

Respect the God Father


DJ Spinna put me up on the jam right here.


One of my favorite EWF jams.


When this man sings something stirs in my heart and I get a lump in my throat.

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Lets take a trip to the west coast and peep how it used to be.

I still listen to this song every other week.


One of the illest to ever do it right here.


MC Eiht....Geah


Ice T The official tissue cat right here.

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This installment of Old School Monday's has a bit of New York titled songs. I figured since Jay-Z's Empire State song is getting so much love why not show just a few videos that help show the long list of NY anthems. Unfortunately there are some many other songs that don't have videos for them.

Old Blues Eyes himself


Kool G Rap, i mean what more needs to be said


Rakim just knew how to take your mind on a journey
through the NYC Streets


This video captured such a great feel for NYC. I mean
just the thought of riding around the deuce (Times Square)
at night with all the lights made it unreal.


When this song dropped on the soundtrack to
the movie Juice it was still a classic.
Major Tri-State appeal!!


Although this isn't a New York song I still decided
to add it just to introduce the song to follow.


Yeppers, This was all during the "East vs West" beef
but it was still a banger. So many NYC Pride songs
were dropped around this time. We've come a long
way people.

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In case you didn't know Shallah Raekwon aka Raekwon The Chef dropped a new album last week titled Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2. Now Rae dropped two albums since the first Cuban Linx record and they were forgettable at best. However this one is supposed to be a banger and is the substitute record to cop in light of Jay-Z's latest misstep of an album.

Lets go through some old Wu-Tang videos to see what made the Gods so special to begin with.

Live performance of one of my favorite Wu joints. Peep the lyrics about AIDS.


This is my favorite song from the Enter the Wu Tang album.

Seeing this video let me know I was copping OB4CL the first day. Peep the Helly Hansons!

And just so you know the brothers haven't lost it here a new joint from the OB4CL2.

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Lets spread a little love as we go into September yall. This is the month to restart and refresh. The babies are heading back to school and the parents are taking a long breath. Take some time today to love someone close to you and make your love known.

Whodini - One Love
One of the all time great groups that don't get enough love in my opinion.



LL Cool J - I Need Love (Live on Apollo)
Another legend showing and proving that he ladies always loved Cool James.



Freddie Jackson - Nice and Slow
On the low I'm kind of a big Freddie Jackson fan. I love dude's work.

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Here goes a couple of old school joints for your listening pleasure.
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Thanks for watching PEACE

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Peace All, bringing you another OSM and as always we like to mix things up a bit. I figured I might as well add some tunes that only have 1 thing in common and that is party people ..... a good time!! Sit back relax and enjoy. Peace

Heavy D & The Boyz "Mr. Big STuff"


KMD "Who Me?"


Diamond D "Best Kept Secret"


Grand Puba "I Like It"


To smooth it out a bit Toto "Africa"


Now to flip it to some other isht Vanh Halen "Hots for Teacher"


Last but not least poses the question "what do you wanna do with your life?"
Twisted Sister "I Wanna Rock"

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The word for today is FUN! Lets go back to when it was ok to have FUN and still have lyrics. This is what I'm talking about.

This is one of my favorite hip hop songs man. I even tried miserably to do this at hip hop karaoke.


Philly Philly....


This was the jam, once again Philly Philly.


Brooklyn's own Special Ed w/ another banger.

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We are going R&B style for this week yall. Lets take a sec to think back...

Caron Wheeler - Living In The Light


Loose Ends - Hanging On A String


The Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven

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I feel so out of the loop recently. It's almost as if once you take a step back and unplug yourself from the matrix you can feel the disconnect. Well anyways I decided to dive in a bit deeper with some tunes I know we all know the lyrics to. I just remember hearing some of these on the radio and just being a kid and singing along not really knowing what was being said but keeping the melody alive in my head.

To get this going I decided to start with the Buggles - Video Kills the Radio Star.


This always had that tune that would stick out in your mind. Joe Jackson


Gotta give it up to Blondie.


This I remember always singing along, The Romantics.


Men at Work


Rick Springfield


Hall and Oats, too many classics to choose from so here we go.


To end this why not a closer such as Musical Youth!!

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What's up supporters. It's time for another Old School Mondays so lets go back, way back...

BACK INTO TIME! (to the year of 1993)

Nobody Move....it's a 93 thing.

One of the dopest single's ever! KRS One with a serious story of how he grew as a man in hip hop.


The lost Gin and Juice Remix, yall remember this??!?!


Trendz of Culture....I love this song!


I remember staying up on Thursday nights for 91.5 w/ Mr. Magic and Mr. Cee to tape this song.

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Yall already know what the occasion is so lets get to it. The best to ever do it people.

May he finally have rest after a hectic life. We miss you.

J5 on Soul Train - I Want You Back


Ben..(damn he's got me tearing up)


Another Part Of Me (from the Bad Tour)
This is actually my favorite Michael Jackson record.


Beat It

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Peace Party People, I decided to take it to the west coast to show some love for my Brothers out there holding it down from San Diego to Los Angeles and then to the Bay Area. I got nothing but love when I first started making my way out there in the mid 90's. I got to see what the west was really about before it became polished, packaged and distributed to the masses. Anyways I know we like to keep it NYC all day long but had to show love for the left coast since there were so many groups with their own distinct sounds like Souls of Mischief, The Pharcyde, Hobo Junction, Liquid Crew and Cypress Hill just to name a few. So on that note i leave you the way I greeted you, Peace.

King Tee is a name that isn't mentioned enough when it
comes to greats from the West.


Man, when this came out I remember us runnin around with
our Columbia Bugaboo's and Villanova Starter caps.

This right here is a classic just cause of how all of those
beats were hot to death and used back to back.

DJ Quik has always been holding it down.

Ahead of his time, Del the funkee!! This whole crew
was putting it down for LA in such a way that fools
couldn't tell what city they repped.

Peace to one of my brothers out in Love Allah, ERule
I met back in the mid 90's when he was a part of
Pallas Records through Bilal. Peace to BornAllah,
Jakim, Brown Seed Gamar, Amaar, AKim and My King. Peace Gods.

Body Count seemed to have gotten shot
down for that Cop Killer song. They definitely had that
LA Punk sound locked! Ice T, one of the only dudes to
say he's rockin Slayer to PE outta his car system.

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In the name of Mahdi I bring you the latest addition to our Old School Mondays thread. PEACE to our peeps that come by check, comment and refer their associates to knowledge the INTEL gathered by MG Fam. All Praises Due to YOU my brothers and sisters!

In the last couple of years my brother Alyasha has inspired me to broaden my scope in classic American music (50's, 60's & 70's). So I'm dedicating this post to him and his Ol' Earth, Carolyn Owerka (read herstory @ http://www.stack-aly.com/index.php?id=131). She has always been there for me, guiding me in the RIGHT direction! All praises due to you, my MOTHER from another BROTHER.

I've always been a fan of the Queen Aretha Franklin, here are 3 of my favorite performances by Lady SOUL. Thanks for sharing your talent with the world baby GURLLLLL!!







In my youth, one of my favorite shows was BATMAN staring Adam West. I liked him becuase Batman is an Ordinary man that used intelligence, pure muscle and the tools made by using the 2, to accomplish his mission. Plus he showed and proved he's a 5%er, through his relationship with Robin! I always loved the cool music, dancing and the gurlz in this show. This one I got directly from Aly's Blog and it took me right back to Robins' afterscool hangout, where he rolled with a book stash. CRAAAAAAZZY BABY, CRAZY!



This one here I got when I asked Aleim Supreme (one of my elders and brown seed) by Screaming Jay Hawkins an artist who Aly had mentioned to me. Aleim said "that boy is crazy, check the side called Constipation Blues, talk about real pain". As I was watching it Allah B (another one of my elders and black seed) walked in and said "I saw him perform I put a spell on you at the APOLLO and people were passing out! That's one talented MO'FO'."





As my young brother Just C likes to put it HOT DAMN, and Peace Fam!

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Peace Party People, Droppin in once again to bring back the freshness on a Monday. Since there's been all this talk about chicken from KFC to Popeye's I've decided to set it off in a way to remind people (with some help) that there's nothing like home cooking. Peace!!!!

Organized Konfusion out of Southside Jamaica Queens

Kurious from Uptown



Grand Puba outta Now Rule and of course gotta show some love for my brothers Tahleim and ITruth doing some fancy footwork in the background.


The Bum diddly Heavy D showing you that u don't need to curse in verse to be funky with some help from Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth & Q-Tip


Now to slow things down a bit just wanted to put down one of my favorite songs by Bernard Wright.

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Peace, here are a few videos from the soundtrack of my life......
ENJOY!

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - 'Road To Riches'



Nice-N-Smooth - 'Hip Hop Junkies'



Chill Rob G - 'The Power'

Stevie B - 'Spring Love'

Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer

Thanks for watching.....PEACE !!

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Well this week comes a little flava from one of the elder's(LOL) of the MG crew. This weeks videos goes into the ART of being ORIGI-NAL... From the musicians, directors themselves. Peep it & check it out, as I hit you with another Old School Mondays...




This is a time when Hip Hop change was starting to spread to different coast's.... The only thing Divine is from Cambria Hts, Queens. I remember my boy John Paul (Book Worm) R.I.P. introduced me to these dudes.



....Well....1982....True Rasta's deliver a new sound to the masses in dowtown N.Y.C. CBGB's.. Tell'em HR.
Check out the crowd...



All of you must know this video from the Original intro for Video Music Box. 1st animated video to pop in the 80's, this is when New Wave was on the move.



Let me bring it back to the Hip Hop side. What's more Original than KOOL G RAP himself. Straight from Astoria Projects & Corona Queens. My man Kenny dancing in the background oldskool S.O.S. crew.



B.R.O.O.K.L.Y.N. Stand Up for your man JERU. This was one of those videos that every graff writer watched many many times.. Wondering how do that...well the artist that did the illustration is X-XXXXXX, oh I forgot we had beef(lol) no name shout out's...but good work.