Oldheads what was it like when "Mama Said Knock You Out" dropped?

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nikkas throw that larry holmes shyt around like dudes didnt have a peak they fell off from
 

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It was one of those songs that just made Your skin crawl. It wasn't about overt gangsterism and gun violence. Which was becoming huge at the time. It was just a complete display of confidence. And while many of us were disappointed by His previous effort "Walking With A Panther" He hit a Home Run with this one.

He told us You didn't have to shoot someone to be Hard, All You had to do was knock they ass out.
 

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This shyt was a smash. This when you were still getting MTV daytime videos and only had a handful of tv channels. This was just as much a hit for Marley as LL. He killed that shyt at a time when he needed this as well.

Young kids still think that rap back then was some underground thing but it wasn't at all. Everyone and their momma knew this. Your white headbangers were bumping this, preppy kids, everybody.
 
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I Remember this as dropping unexpectedly

If I remember correctly this battle started in like 86-87 so by 1990 they said LL was finished

But It was as I recall the ultimate Superman Lives moment .. just when you thought it was over BOOM!!

Even though back then most albums didn't drop every year it was more like

Drop an album, go on tour for a year or two then drop another

Well around that time hip hop was changing rapidly so you come back from tour and
Nobody remembers you

LL was getting tossed in the has-been pile by many after that Panther album

People said he was finished.

"How you like me now" was so big of a catch phrase I think some old heads still say this now

And if you ask some they'll say Moe Dee really won that but in my opinion Murdergram was his nail in the coffin

The whole album seemed to rip Moe Dee and it was like a transition from the old school '76-86

To the Golden era '88-'98 for him personally but also the fans as we moved away from dancing & partying

Kid n play to NWA hardcore

Its a shame LL never had a great follow up to this album it's very similar to when JayZ dropped Blueprint

Change in era, the artist and their fans as well as how people obtained the music going from vinyl & tapes to CDs

And in JayZ case going from CDs to iPods & hard drives
 

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Wasn't really feeling it, but the song had mass appeal because it was hard without being vulgar. In all honesty "U can't touch this" was the biggest song back then and really had all of the hype that the previous posters are talking about, but since the whole Hammer movement fell off so bad, everyone just kind of skims over how he had 1990 on lock.
 

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This song was crazy...Walking with a Panther (the album before this and his 3rd album overall) was pretty weak.

??? walking with a panther only had 3 weak songs on it out of 18

on topic...i wish i could make you guys understand how big of a deal it was for marley marl to team up with LL. i cant even think of a good enough analogy...

lets just say my brother and i had to breathe into paper bags for a few minutes when we found out...

the single was pure adrenaline
 

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I always said that the impact made by Jay Z's Blueprint was similiar to when LL dropped the MSKYO album.
 

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The single was decent and pretty much classic these days. I was more into The Boomin' System because of the video model w/ LL...

:leostare:
 

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??? walking with a panther only had 3 weak songs on it out of 18


Nah man...check out what ppl have said.


"Walking With a Panther does end up slightly less than the sum of its parts. For one thing, it's simply too long; moreover, the force of his early recordings is missing, and there's occasionally a sense that his once-peerless technique on the mic is falling behind the times."

and another critic said.

"For most of this album, L.L. leaves his voice hanging lonely, like a balloon in the wind."

Keep in mind...he said "don't call it a comeback" for a reason.

 

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I loved it when I heard it on the album, but when I saw the video, it made me not like it as much. I had a different vision for it in my head.

That song didn't bring LL back though, it was "Booming System", and the remix to "Jingling baby". When "Booming system" came out, it was warm, and cars was bumping that shyt big time. "Booming System" is what brought LL back to the streets, and prepared everyone for the "mama said Knock you out" album which was a classic to me, and it had NO curses on ANY SONG, which was big for the time considering how banging it was.
 
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