OP-1; Token hip-house track on a late 80s or maybe early 90s rap album

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I don't even know if ANY of these were very good, by house music standards. It's just not a genre I ever got very interested in. But of the relatively few examples I can remember off the top of my head, I'd probably go with Jungle Brothers' "Girl I'll House You."

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Also: are there any of this tiny sub-subgenre that didn't actually use the word "house" in the title?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought the Jungle Brothers tried to push that they were house first, hip hop second, at least until the 90's. I don't know if you can call 'What U Waiting For' 'house' but it's ace.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno man, one of the JBs called himself "Afrika Baby Beat Bambaataa." So I remember it kinda different.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and 'Straight Out the Jungle' cast a rap 'pall' over their house self-image but I always thought that was their conceit for a while.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

but bump all that nonsense IT'S TIME 2 PARTY

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

'Kicked Out the House' is De La's take.

"in no way are we trying to disparage house music . . ."

― Luke Stacks (lukeasaurus), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, I think JB were straight up hip-hop...they had one big hit with them rapping over a Todd Terry track, but other then that, hip-hop...danceable hip-hop, but hip-hop. I think later on they came back with that dance angle, working with the propellerheads and whatnot.

What's funny about hip-house though is you do get it from both sides, you get rappers doing their house cuts...Special Ed's Club Scene, anyone? But you also had some proper house producers with some questionable rapping...I have a few records on DJ International, like Tyree's Hard Core-Hip House with Julian Jumpin Perez and Joe Smooth mixes.

I don't know if the Wee-Papa Girls had much cred in the hip-hop world, but their LP had the one Kevin Saunderson produced track, then they did a 12" with Saunderson and Adonis I think?

So anyway...Special Ed-Club Scene, is awesome.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Latifah's "Step Into My House" is pretty good, too.

De La is definitely taking a more parodic approach:
'Put it on vibrate, put it on vibrate p-p-p-p-p-p-put it on vibrate!'

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

'Come Into My House' and yeah it's great!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 30 September 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

JB's 'Done By The Forces Of Nature' is straight up and wonderfully intelligent hip hop.

I don't know for album tracks, but 'Turn Up The Bass' by Tyree was pretty great.

― boney (b0n3y), Saturday, 30 September 2006 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

Heavy D & the Boys "Now that We've Found Love"

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Saturday, 30 September 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

In another thread, debating the merits of "All for One" vs. "In God We Trust," a poster named Macho brought up 'Dance to My Ministry' as a low point of the former. I think he's right, but it deserves to be mentioned on this thread.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is the thread where you list good hip-house songs

What is/was hip-house?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 September 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I saw you eatin' pig knuckles with Frankie Knuckles in a club called Chuckles wearing nameplate belt buckles.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 30 September 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

But you also had some proper house producers with some questionable rapping

the king is fast eddie

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely "Kicked Out the House"

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Token Hip-House: Simon Harris - Monster Jam (since Latifah's been covered)

Proper Hip-House: Fast Eddie & Sundance - Git On Up

I'll House You is a perfect blend of both.

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 30 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

no love for "Something 2 Dance 2"?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

TWIN
HYPE

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Something 2 Dance 2 is not Hip-House

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 30 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh does "Good Vibrations" count? My favorite part about that song is how Marky Mark talks like he's some kind of hip-hop purist: "Pure Hip Hop, no sell out/If you ain't in it to win it/Then get the hell out"
Cause it's real hard to distinguish him from, say, Organized Konfusion.

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Sunday, 1 October 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

KC Flightt. Still love the track he rhymed on the Playgroup album a few years back, too.

Flipping things on their head slightly, can I put forward Shut Up & Dance as sorta the equivalent for Britain. House music here in the 80s / early 90s didn't have the black / hispanic roots that the original US version seemed to. And I suppose SUAD's speedy, breakbeat-led take on that kind of thing was the natural evolution in that direction for urban London.

Or something.

― Clumsy Colin in ACTION BIKER (coach_mcguirk), Sunday, 1 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard SUAD but someone recommended them to me when I was looking for more stuff like Renegade Soundwave...who's dance 12" fit in well w/ hip-house as they're mostly dubby uk rave records filled with Todd Terry and Public Enemy samples.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 1 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

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