Why do people in D.C pretend go go is good?
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Laidbackman
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They cut out that version I was talking about. It showed at the very beginning of the song. They were doing one scene...I forgot where they where. Then outta nowhere, this song came on, and the first thing you saw was this fine a** shaking in a bikini. It only lasted a few seconds. I think every brother in the theater got hard from that.
So I'm actually hearing go go for the first time. I kinda dig it. The first time I ever heard it mentioned was in The Wire. But I never bothered to look it up. But hearing it for the first time, I'm like aight....not bad. And that song Da Butt by EU, that is my sister's favorite song. But I had no idea until hearing other songs that that is definitely some go go shyt. LOL.
It kinda reminds me of Zydeco. Not that they sound alike. But that it's so regional and has it's own unique sound. Zydeco has that prominent accordion sound, and go go has hi hats and cowbells. And the people who grew up with it will be ready to fight you over it. All in all I'm feeling it.
It kinda reminds me of Zydeco. Not that they sound alike. But that it's so regional and has it's own unique sound. Zydeco has that prominent accordion sound, and go go has hi hats and cowbells. And the people who grew up with it will be ready to fight you over it. All in all I'm feeling it.
Laidbackman
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I remember those fights well. You had to show up at least three deep. If you showed up by yourself, you needed to know when it was time to make your exit, if you felt the heat. And if it was a house party, and you wasn't from that neighborhood, then you better not be dancing with somebody's girl...but how would you know. I almost got jumped for that myself one night partying on Montana Ave, with a buddy of mine, who pulled me off that dance floor just in time. We had to make an exit. What made it so bad was, my buddy knew the people throwing the party. Then again, that's probably what helped saved me. I guess I still had a little Funk Mob in me.
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Laidbackman
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You was right about Africans and their views on GoGo. They didn't like it. I remember in the early 80's, when I use to work the graveyard shift sorting mail every Friday night, and these young brothers use to bring in their boomboxes. There was this sorta heavy-set African dude who worked in the mail room with us. These young brothers started playing GoGo kind of close to him one night, trying to make him feel at home, because like you said, it sounded like African music to us. But this African dude got offended. You would have expected that from a White person first, but not an African...especially. Those young brothers turned on him, and called him a black fat African...lol.
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I lived near the DC border as a kid when my mother got married and moved in with my bytch ass stepfather. I hated that shyt with a passion. DC is a whole different world. Hate Baltimore Club too. It's gotta be a pride thing.
Yeah before i joined the military the first time I went to the Zulu Cave it was down a one way dead end street and way before I joined the military I thought some one could set up and shoot anyone comming out of the club easy.No I definitely did not. My sister and brother went to those spots.
There’s no way they would have taken me there
All those converted warehouse clubs was like that. The kinda opened up the area and lit it but it's still a club now for white people.
I think where the Eastside was in SW there's those bridges but they threw up a Condo where it was. Back then it was a desolate warehouse like club.
Wow Japanese people like everything. Theres US military there but Ican't see some random sailors having the pull to get a Go Go band out there.
Again I'm a PanAfricanist to the core but damn this Black American culture is amazing I mean this is a super obscure subculture in one city and somehow without any music industry push it spread. I didn't link it but the story of Slave to the Rhythm was it was produced by white english people but I think Chris Blackwell suggested they use Go Go music in 1985 so they flew to New York and hired Musicians from DC.
They said it was musicians but maybe it was E,U. I remember in the early 2000's I was in the NOI Mosque in London and when I said | was from the Ghanian Secretary said Chuck Brown? And I said Chuck? There's people on Georgia Avenue who never heard of him and y'all know who that is? I was amazed at how far our culture travels.
I heard that Essence who was the biggest band in the 90's got like 2800 per show for the whole band. I'm sure they got more when they played big shows when the headlined one of the big rap shows but still nikkas was grossly underpaid based on the reach of the culture.
Especially back then some one from the urea would blast a PA tape whereever they happened to be and they low brought the culture to that place.
That being said I wonder how a show in Japan worked Actually Trouble Funk was kinda old when I got to DC. I heard some tapes but it wasn't like they were doing shows when I got there they were eclipsed by Essence when I was there then they were kinda eclipsed by Junkyard then Northeast then Backyard/
I dont want to age myself but Pop was a killer by the time I came to DC I knew he used to be in Junkyard but by the time I was in the city you wouldn't want to ask him about that.
In all those DC documentaries on Youtube they threw the whole band under the bus and being in the game. I was at Ballou when Will was there and yeah holmes was bubbling work heavy (pardon the pun) but other than that the rest of them probably was doing the little copping 8 balls and selling to people who sold on the streets which damn near every band did to get the money to buy instruments. I don;t even count that as being in the game perse but yeah their manager claiming that he formed the band to keep them away from drugs was cap especially after he got busted.
I went off on a tangent but once reason that Go Go didn't really go is because How the fukk could you really play it over there? Again by listening to old ass tapes this was before the time when they had to spend 90% of the time shouting out the crews.
I remember I was grabbing lunch in Fayetteville North Carolina and they played Budweiser and I heard them shout me out
Again to any non Go Go head listening all they did was take the Budweier frogs from the commericial sampled that over a Go Go beat and the rest of the song was G shouting out nikkas in the crowd so I must of have been there when they recorded it and their bassist lived around my way back in the day.
desjardins
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I heard it was the bomb, got it going on, give me that thuuuuuug passion baby! ooooooooooooh 
gogo is mid to be honest. even the good songs usually have a mid ass solo in the song that sounds like them dudes on the corner beating on pots and pans
i respect DC heads for developing and maintaining their own local art tho, despite it having zero mainstream success or cultural impact on black america at large
At some point a discussion needs to be had about how mid black dc culture is overall. go-go, mumbo sauce, their slang, nike boots and corny ass local brand sweatsuits. it's a lot of unnecessarily hype with them brothers
gogo is mid to be honest. even the good songs usually have a mid ass solo in the song that sounds like them dudes on the corner beating on pots and pans
i respect DC heads for developing and maintaining their own local art tho, despite it having zero mainstream success or cultural impact on black america at large
At some point a discussion needs to be had about how mid black dc culture is overall. go-go, mumbo sauce, their slang, nike boots and corny ass local brand sweatsuits. it's a lot of unnecessarily hype with them brothers
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.
That's the thing DC delinated like hell. You out of town nikkas (me included) was never supposed to understand Yes nikkas wore super local Black owned branded clothing, wore old ass New Balances for 25 years *(New Balance probaly stayed in business from the army contract and DC alone)I heard it was the bomb, got it going on, give me that thuuuuuug passion baby! ooooooooooooh
gogo is mid to be honest. even the good songs usually have a mid ass solo in the song that sounds like them dudes on the corner beating on pots and pans
i respect DC heads for developing and maintaining their own local art tho, despite it having zero mainstream success or cultural impact on black america at large
At some point a discussion needs to be had about how mid black dc culture is overall. go-go, mumbo sauce, their slang, nike boots and corny ass local brand sweatsuits. it's a lot of unnecessarily hype with them brothers
Again Go Go sounds wack unless you hear it live. I never ate Mumbo sauce and Half smokes was out since I don't eat pig. But yeah DC nikkas was different And they wanted it that way Speaking on Go Go it became Less accessible to non DC ears as it developed anyone could rock to Bustin' Loose Budweiser was completely different and as you say not really a song in the western music sense.
True and these guys where seen as so corny no one tried to hit this song.
But to be honest generally speaking songs that weren't go go that had a Go Go sound where avoided but a song that wasn't Go Go at all would be made into a Go Go song.
back in the day I wouldn't go to DC Dragon without at least 5 nikkas with hands at the least.
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I don't want to get too deep into this but them nikkas was savages They made money ( The Montana Ave Crew) but they were known as killers not really on Wanye or Pop's level but ferocious nonetheless.