90's f*ckery, In 91 there was a group named Young Black Teenagers. But all the members where white.
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Rican B*stard
This comes up on here every so often.
I've heard/read Bomb Squad or PE made YBT and Leaders of the New School battle for who got the names. And that PE was looking for a non-black political hip-hop act to get behind that could speak to whites or Latinos. Maybe I'm misremembering lol
I've heard/read Bomb Squad or PE made YBT and Leaders of the New School battle for who got the names. And that PE was looking for a non-black political hip-hop act to get behind that could speak to whites or Latinos. Maybe I'm misremembering lol
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Newark88
Superstar
Yup over here we had shows like NY Hot Tracks and Video Music Box when you had to switch the nob on the TV to UHF. We had cable kinda early in my house (around 85ish). But we had it illegally in the beginning so that don't count lol
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Veteran
You're lying, right?
Apparently Chuck D was getting 2 groups together. One would be named Young Black Teenagers, the other Leaders of the New School. Both groups wanted to be called LONS. so they had to battle, or make a song or something, and whoever won got the name.
Remember these cats ?@ the first dude rapping, looking like Ron Swanson
LMAO!! Im crying
Hip hop
When you can listen to something and say "This reminds me of that parody skit on Married With Children" maybe it's time to reevaluate
Right... in Bmore, we didn't get VMB, but we did get New York Hot Tracks, it was syndicated. Then it just turned into 'The New Hot Tracks'... then it was just 'Hot Tracks... then it was gone
Also, there was 'Friday Night Videos' on NBC which was a popular show.
Our local radio stations had video shows too. The rock/pop station B104 had 'BTV'... and the R&B/hip-hop station V103 had 'V-TV'
We also got DC stations here, and there was a show called 'Music Video Connection' which was mostly black videos. It ran for like 10 years.
and others as well but I can't remember what they were called.
Amor fati
Superstar
Anyone seen this back in the days?
I could have sworn this was on Video Music Box.
Amor fati
Superstar
I'm also under that assumption.
Jimmy Two-Times™
Coli Mods Catch Me If U Can Forgive Me Imma Ridah™
that's my era and I NEVER heard/saw thatOn the low, and people have tried to bury this under the rug.....there was a more blatant violation that occurred around the same time. Only dudes over a certain age will remember, but for the younger guys.....a lot of golden era artists took the check and turned the other way when ANOTHER white act came down the pike.
Founder of Nike, Phil Knight, had a wannabe son who tried to be a rapper. A straight clown, but they opened that checkbook and some respected artists worked on the project/cosigned him. (others ghostwrote)
Hate to do it, but since YBT thread opened the pandora's box...i gotta do it.
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Bomb Squad? Really? Hey, I like Nike , but wait a minute!!!
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Veteran
He was terrible,but they had a complete press rollout for his project. When I saw Hank Shockley co-signing this garbage, it fukked me up.
Despite being Phil Knight's son and the money spent, fans didn't respond to the project so he faded away quickly.