Why do people in D.C pretend go go is good?

[#1 pick]

Where are you from? Obviously I'm not on that diaspora war shyt I'm from Brokklyn but I grew up in DC and played taht shyt for every Black person not from DC and they hated it.

Again I went to school down south where the DC mob ran the yard so Essence played and the crowd dug it.

I remember someone showed a video of Junkyard in Japan that's kinda hard to believe, I wonder howw many fans would you need to bring them somewhere because if you put a Go Go band on with any Black act they would have to close the show and the people would be feeling it.

Atlanta. GoGo is not a thing in the city. My first exposure to GoGo was in DC. The locals put me on to it. The girls in particular

 

[BmoreGorilla]

exactly I had a mentor who was into Zydeco I heard it and hated it. Same thing totally regional thing and highly improved.

I don't remember it in the Wire but in The Corner where the DC boys shot up the Block blasting Go Go that was real. Except I never heard of DC nikkas really going to Baltimore like that, shyt was literally up the street but another world, They talked different and the music was radically different. That Baltimore club shyt got zero play in DC and vice versa.

Whole city looked weak when they had a fakkit represent their city.

Granted Ms. puffy (pause) got a pass in DC someway but no way would them gay nikkas make a song,

That being said I did start fukking with some Baltimore chicks and got into the Baltimore club scene I couldn't be the only one but there was no mixing. Jay-Z would do a song with Backyard before Young leek would.

And yes Snoop would've shot me because I hadn't a clue who that nikka was I ramdomly looked that shyt up one day.

Again this is wild because depending on where you are in Maryland you could get 92 Q or 93 KYS.

I will say that some go go did get love here particularly the Water and Over Nite Scenario. But like you said we got all the DC stations. 93.9, 95.5, and 96.3. So we heard go go a lot.

We would just usually change the station when it came on


I do remember 95.5 playing go go every Sunday evening for hours. Then they had a hip hop show come on at 10pm called Sunday Flavor where they played a lot of underground shyt. We were lucky back then. We got those three DC stations plus we had 92.3 and the old head station 95.9 here. At one point we had 103.7 too so that was six stations playing nothing but black music

 

[Laidbackman]

To young boomers around my age, who were coming outta high school or in their early years of college, when go go took off, it slowed down for us when Trouble Funk faded out. They was the most popular go go band out their when this thing first took off, even though we weren't calling it go go at first. It had several names. The DC groove was the first. Then the DC Beat. All though the name go go may have been used in between, I think Chuck sealed it with "Go Go Swing". As far as Trouble Funk, I think they had more James Brown, and Funk, in their music.

We talk about all those fights that use to break out at these go go shows. But they didn't have nothing on those rock concerts. Take it from me, who use to partoll them. Those rock bands paid them fights no mind. It was normal life for them. At least Big Tony of Trouble Funk, and the rest of those go go bands, including Chuck, use to express disappointment at those fights, while they performed. The funny part was, these rock bands we patrolled, were no names. I can't but imagine what was going on at those Rolling Stone Concerts, and the likes. People were probably dying from some of those shows, and you never heard about it. I just found out a woman was killed outside of Elvis Presley's funeral. I think she got ran over. And this was a funeral.

 

[Laidbackman]

I will say that some go go did get love here particularly the Water and Over Nite Scenario. But like you said we got all the DC stations. 93.9, 95.5, and 96.3. So we heard go go a lot.

We would just usually change the station when it came on


I do remember 95.5 playing go go every Sunday evening for hours. Then they had a hip hop show come on at 10pm called Sunday Flavor where they played a lot of underground shyt. We were lucky back then. We got those three DC stations plus we had 92.3 and the old head station 95.9 here. At one point we had 103.7 too so that was six stations playing nothing but black music

I remember around 78, I had this General Electric digital alarm clock with an AM/FM radio. For some reason, that radio was the only radio in the house, and in my college dormitory, that could pick up this Baltimore station. That station was playing cuts better that all three of the biggest Black DC Stations at the time (WOOK FM, KYSS FM, which turned into WKYS FM, and WOL AM). Why WOL, the oldest of them, never went to FM, I don't know. Probably because it became more of a Black Talk radio station. Anyway, that Baltimore station even played the best oldies. I think the name of that station was V103, and it may have been on AM at the time, or maybe it was on FM, which was probably the only reason my little FM clock radio was lucky enough to be able to pull it in. But I don't think I was allowed to get that station after a certain hour. I can't remember if that station became 102.3 FM in DC or not. I'm not sure what ever happened to that station, but it reminds me of these two brothers who shared a dorm room right across from me one summer, and they could never get that station. They had to groove through my radio. Btw, did V103 become 103.7, the station you're referring two?

 

[frush11]

I will say that some go go did get love here particularly the Water and Over Nite Scenario. But like you said we got all the DC stations. 93.9, 95.5, and 96.3. So we heard go go a lot.

We would just usually change the station when it came on


I do remember 95.5 playing go go every Sunday evening for hours. Then they had a hip hop show come on at 10pm called Sunday Flavor where they played a lot of underground shyt. We were lucky back then. We got those three DC stations plus we had 92.3 and the old head station 95.9 here. At one point we had 103.7 too so that was six stations playing nothing but black music

I used to get all the Baltimore stations down here(pg/dc) including 88.9 Morgan State radio, they used to have a 5 hour Hip-hop show on Fridays, playing all the East Coast stuff, i remember going back forth from that to 88.1 UMD, cause they used to have a crazy 12 hour Hip-hop block on Fridays. Thats when i first heard Peter Rosenberg, his whole Hip-hop super Underground Nerd thing is a big act, Peter was more off Tribe, Mobb Deep, Mop, Lox, Dj Premier type of Hip-hop dude. This was like 96 to 2002

Radio was different

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I remember around 78, I had this General Electric digital alarm clock with an AM/FM radio. For some reason, that radio was the only radio in the house, and in my college dormitory, that could pick up this Baltimore Station. That station was playing cuts better that all three of the biggest Black DC Stations at the time (WOOK FM, KYSS FM, which turned into WKYS FM, and WOL AM). Why WOL, the oldest of them, never went to FM, I don't know. Probably because it became more of a Black Talk radio station. Anyway, that Baltimore station even played the best oldies. I think the name of that station was V103, and it may have been on AM at the time, or maybe it was on FM, which was probably the only reason my little FM clock radio was lucky enough to be able to pull it in. But I don't think I was allowed to get that station after a certain hour. I can't remember if that station became 102.3 FM in DC or not. I'm not sure what ever happened to that station, but it reminds me of these two brothers who shared a dorm room right across from me one summer, and they could never get that station. They had to groove through my radio. Btw, did V103 become 103.7, the station you're referring two?

Yea V103 was the 103.7 I was talking about

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I used to get all the Baltimore stations down here(pg/dc) including 88.9 Morgan State radio, they used to have a 5 hour Hip-hop show on Fridays, playing all the East Coast stuff, i remember going back forth from that to 88.1 UMD, cause they used to have a crazy 12 hour Hip-hop block on Fridays. Thats when i first heard Peter Rosenberg, his whole Hip-hop super Underground Nerd thing is a big act, Peter was more off Tribe, Mobb Deep, Mop, Lox, Dj Premier type of Hip-hop dude. This was like 96 to 2002

Radio was different

Yup WEAA. That hip hop show still exists every Friday nite. Radio sure was different. All those stations used to have mix shows every nite on weekends where they played all the dope shyt out at the time

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Yea V103 was the 103.7 I was talking about

I can't remember if that station became 102.3 FM in DC or not. I'm not sure what ever happened to that station, but it reminds me of these two brothers who shared a dorm room right across from me one summer, and they could never get that station. They had to groove through my radio. Btw, did V103 become 103.7, the station you're referring two?

I remember V103 being 102.7.

Internet seems to agree.

V-103 (1977–1997)​

By 1977, the station was sold to Plough Broadcasting, a division of the pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough. WCAO-FM became WXYV on April 24. It aired programming for the African American community as V103, the major FM rival to both WWIN (1400 AM) and WEBB (1360 AM, now WQLL at 1370 AM). Originally playing automated disco music, WXYV eventually evolved into an urban contemporary format by the early 1980s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was often Baltimore's top rated radio station.

By 1995, WXYV and then-sister station WCAO were sold to Granum Communications. The following year, the stations were sold again to Infinity Broadcasting, a division of CBS. That made it a sister station to Hot AC-formatted WWMX, Mix 106.5. (WCAO was later sold to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), and eventually become a sister station to WQSR).

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

NLU

 

[MaxPain]

If you cant jam to this…..

 

[Chelsea Bridge]

If you cant jam to this…..

They’re just hating in this thread.

 

[MaxPain]

 

[Wiseborn]

Yea V103 was the 103.7 I was talking about

I remember the TV show they had. Didn't they move the whole station to Atlanta?

 

[Wiseborn]

Yup WEAA. That hip hop show still exists every Friday nite. Radio sure was different. All those stations used to have mix shows every nite on weekends where they played all the dope shyt out at the time

I liked WPFW's hip hop show. They also had a soca show come on after the Hip Hop show even then regular radio was getting wack.