Early To Mid 90's Pop-Rap- C/D, S&D

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Sooooo in need of a revival*. A gigantic category, I know, and I probably should have left the "To Mid" out of that thread title, but that would've prevented me from including COOLIO. So hellz yeah, House Of Pain, Salt N Pepa, Sir Mix A Lot!!!

One band that I think history's given a rough deal to is Naughty By Nature. I still think that their biggest trick- using lyrical themes to contrast their always-so-damn-obvious samples, not as a gesture of subversion per se, but to give the songs some *conflict*- is pure genius. It's there on "O.P.P." of course, the exuberant innocence of The Jackson Five vs. the sly evil of the subject matter, but I think it's done even more powerfully on the sadly neglected "Ghetto Bastard"- Kingston positivity clashing with Treach's disillusioned anger..."how will I make it? I won't, that's how" vs "everything's gonna be alright".

* By "revival" I don't mean ten thousand new Jurassic 5s, just, you know, a comp or two, a few retrospective articles, maybe a triumphant comeback for Naughty By Nature (how was last year's album, anyway?)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we get some props for the Humpty Dance?

Naughty by Nature did have a comeback, not necessarily triumphant per se, but they did have another hit.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 29 March 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Was Bell Biv Devoe still around in the early 90's?

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Skee-Lo sucks

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

you are out of your fucking mind

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

you are out of your fucking mind

stevem, or everybody on ILM?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just me i think

i never liked 'I Wish' - and 'Top Of The Stairs' is even worse

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

stevem...skee-lo is a national treasure

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Kriss Kross 'Jump'
K7 'Come Baby Come'
Ini Kamoze 'Here Comes The Hotstepper'
Snow 'Informer'
Salt n Pepa 'Shoop'
Tag Team 'Whoomp There It Is (Tour De France, Tour De France*)'

all good

*i'm thinking about the Frenchbloke bootleg, sorry

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

alright maybe not K7

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

BET was playing early 90s rap, and I've forgotten how good we had it. They played Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Bone Thugs (first of the month is such a good single), and it was all insanely good.

― David Allen, Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

the one thing I really like about 8 Mile is how it's a total mid-nineties nostalgia binge.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 30 March 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

and ditto to any 'Naughty By Nature is underrated' sentiments

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 30 March 2003 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: Luniz.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 30 March 2003 08:50 (twenty-three years ago)

yeh that was shit

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry, n. b. n. sucks. i got a free ticket to see them a year or so ago so i went, thinking 'how bad can it be? it'll at least be funny' it was a total abortion. really. they played 'hip hop hooray' twice, if i recall, and 'opp' twice as well maybe, 'updating' the lyrics by making them extra corny. they dedicated every other song in their set to the memory of tupac, it's like they're permanently stuck in a mid-90s time warp or something

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 30 March 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

that ini kamoze track is quality

― robin (robin), Sunday, 30 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Skee Lo is like the fucking greatest thing that ever happened in the history of mankind, how can anyone be against that song? Who doesn't wish they were a little bit taller, or a baller, or have a rabbit in a hat? I know I do.

There's this great Tommy Boy comp that has like a whole pile of monumentous tracks on it, it's like my favorite thing. Humpty Dance and 1,2,3,4 and Jump Around all on the same CD, that's genius.

No one is giving propers to Marky Mark, so I will.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 30 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

There's this great Tommy Boy comp that has like a whole pile of monumentous tracks on it, it's like my favorite thing. Humpty Dance and 1,2,3,4 and Jump Around all on the same CD, that's genius.

Tommy Boy's Greatest Beats? Cos that's what inspired this thread in the first place.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 30 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIp1I5Atr3Q

Don't remember much of the rest of this movie, cos i think it was just really really horrible, but the intro was a childhood favorite. The music is pretty damn cool too, maybe someone could throw this on at DJ night for some 90's obscurity points.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:11 (thirteen years ago)

Discovered this a while ago. It has to be the most 1990 rap song I've ever heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9glVDra-4

― MarkoP, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (thirteen years ago)

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