Flabby heads, can y’all school us on what type of music this song was considered

[Kool]

Uptempo R&B.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Op in his late 30s early 40s talking about old heads lol

 

[old pig]

I was like 5 or 6 when it dropped. But I remember block parties and birthday parties that year, constant spins…

I was way older but ya you have a good memory bcuz you really did hear this song damn near everywhere…radio, TV, cars, stores, elevators, parties lmao

 

[Calibrated]

Domino was underrated. Breh was ahead of his time. His hairline was not tho

He had that create a player hairline from them
old ps2 nba games


75% of mainstream rappers are singin on their albums today

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I played that song and album so much

 

[Roid Jones]

R&B/New Jack Swing

 

[HDiron]

Classic till this day

 

[Calibrated]

Flabby heads would technically consider it "That's My Jam!"

 

[Braman]

Is it really that hard to imagine?

Born in 81

Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, slick Rick, and Rob Base were my intro to rap. Granted it was the "big kids" who were blasting that music.

By the time we were of cognizant age that era was dead.

Now Rob base it takes 2 was one of the first rap songs I remember, as well as LL Cool J ‘I’m Bad’. But those are literally on some ‘my first memory’. Bc …I was EIGHT

Nggas really out here like they was in line at Waxie Maxie coppin It Takes a Nation of Millions

 

[Woodwerkz]

I miss the Death Row era. With all the gangsta shyt that happened over there, they still put out some dope ass party/club music.

I remember everything dope that came out from the West, ppl would ask me "is that Death Row?"

From Montell, Domino, Quik, etc

I still bump this ... people talk about vibes...this was one of them.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I still bump this ... people talk about vibes...this was one of them.

I kid you not, this is my personal favorite summertime hip hop jam

 

[General Mills]

He had that create a player hairline from them
old ps2 nba games


75% of mainstream rappers are singin on their albums today

Exactly. That mix of singing and rapping he was a master at that Now everyone is doing it. When he was doing it I don’t think nobody else was

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

By the time we were of cognizant age that era was dead.

Now Rob base it takes 2 was one of the first rap songs I remember, as well as LL Cool J ‘I’m Bad’. But those are literally on some ‘my first memory’. Bc …I was EIGHT

nikkas really out here like they was in line at Waxie Maxie coppin It Takes a Nation of Millions

Slick Rick children's story wasn't really just a song you heard in the 80s where it disappeared forever

There was still old school Wednesdays on Rap City that would still spin it.

And then of course you had rnb and rap radio stations that would dedicate an hour out of the week to play old school (aka 80s) rap. I'll admit that this point is definitely dependent on what region you grew up in (Baltimore and DC was an East Coast rap market and we 4 rap stations).

All I'm saying is that it's totally possible for an early to mid 80s baby to familiar with slick Rick and 80s rappers in general. I got the middle school mixtapes to prove it lol

 

[Braman]

Slick Rick children's story wasn't really just a song you heard in the 80s where it disappeared forever

There was still old school Wednesdays on Rap City that would still spin it.

And then of course you had rnb and rap radio stations that would dedicate an hour out of the week to play old school (aka 80s) rap. I'll admit that this point is definitely dependent on what region you grew up in (Baltimore and DC was an East Coast rap market and we 4 rap stations).

All I'm saying is that it's totally possible for an early to mid 80s baby to familiar with slick Rick and 80s rappers in general. I got the middle school mixtapes to prove it lol

Lol No doubt it’s really semantics, I just disagree w/ the that phrase ‘grew up on’, but i did fw Slick Rick when I was of age for the same reasons you mentioned. ‘Hey young world’ was my shyt but I must have caught onto it years later

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Lol No doubt it’s really semantics, I just disagree w/ the that phrase ‘grew up on’, but i did fw Slick Rick when I was of age for the same reasons you mentioned. ‘Hey young world’ was my shyt but I must have caught onto it years later

Ahh shyt we just had a back and forth and I just realized I actually agree with you on the "grew up on" part