Middle Skool Rap

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what songs were popular when you were in middle school?

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(middle skool = "junior high" = awkward few years before high school set in = when you were age 11-13, i guess.)

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

vanilla ice. that was more elementary school though. i think he was uncool again by middle school.

ll cool j for sure.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Definitely Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. "Bust a Move", "Let Your Backbone Slide", Mama Said Knock You Out, "Poison", "O. P. P.", "I Rhyme the World In Eighty Days". Most of these were brilliant but I resented them all at the time.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to intermediate school with a bunch of white heterosexual rock fans with a bullshit condescending attitude towards rap. So Arrested Development.

― B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Sundar...where 'bouts are you from? I'd second the "I Rhyme the World in 80 Days," but also "Check the O.R.," "Wash Your Face in My Sink," and, of course, "Conductin' Things." A real watershed era for Canuck hip hop...

― cybele, Monday, 25 November 2002 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

my fave middle school rap related memory is seeing the kids who had memorized every word of "Ice Ice Baby" and the collected works of Another Bad Creation in elementary school were now yelling "WU-TANG, MUTHAFUCKA! WU-TANG!"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah those dumm eight-year-olds they sure didn't know what time it was

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

That age = 1984 or so = upstate New York = Newcleus's "Jam On It" and that was about it. Oh well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

From Ottawa, home of the O. R. (Why, I remember Tom Green when he was a community cable TV personality.) The Dream Warriors were good IIRC but no one liked them. Which meant that I did. I'd totally forgotten them. haha I and the only other non-white guy in Gr 7 were the only people who weren't 'into' rap.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, Mark S. If you had assholes screaming WU-TANG! on your bus and being obnoxious assholes, you'd be glad you'd seen them dance to "Iesha" too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i second the inclusion of "jam on it"... also... sir mix a lot "swass"... beastie boys "license to ill" (i have to mention it even though i was never a huge fan of it... everyone i knew was.) big daddy kane... slick rick... "La-Di-Da-Di"... and on...

― msp, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Puff Daddy.

― David Allen, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Nirvana.

This is why I hate rock music to this day. That and the fact it's shit, anyway.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty sure that the one and only hip-hop song I ever heard when I was in middle school was Rapper's Delight.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

middle school was 96-98 for me so i guess that includes Life After Death and In My Lifetime Volume 1. Thats just the stuff that I'm actually into right now. plus all that jiggy shit like mace and puffy and nas blah blah blah. i dunno. maybe i need some suggestions from those three years of music. i was way into D&D and sweatpants and NIN and TMBG. damn sweatpants killed my social life.

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Def Leppard's Pyromania.
My mom had just bought me my first stereo as a birthday present. She went to the local record store and asked which album was shoplifted the most. A few months later, I bought Styx's Kilroy Was Here to impress some girl in my class.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't hear any rap until I was in high school. When I was in Grade 10, Run DMC was just starting to chart.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Wu-Tang. "Wu-Tang is for the children." - ODB

― original bgm, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

anthony miccio, i am that guy!

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

The Chronic, Regulate... G-Funk Era, Black Sunday (IIRC)

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Wu-Tang for me, and my stoner buddies. We thought we were so cool.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

obviously i was at school at the same time as sterling and sundar

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Swass!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

You guys are young! "Roxanne, Roxanne" -- UTFO, "Roxanne's Revenge" -- Roxanne Shante, "La Di Da Di" -- Doug E. Fresh

Thanks Geeta; it's no longer about old skool vs. new skool; mid skool is where it's at!

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

2pac, Wu-tang, Redman, KRS-one, E-40, Bone Thugs n Harmony

― Honda (Honda), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Middle school (& early high school) (& late elementary school) WAS Too $hort (in theory), Slick Rick, Biz Markie, Digital Underground, Al B. Sure, Expose, Shannon, Shanice, SWV, En Vogue, Jon Secada, Sade, Mariah Carey, Miami Sound Machine, Bell Biv Devoe, Bobby Brown, Tone Loc, MC Hammer, Young MC, Boyz II Men, Another Bad Creation, Kriss (sic?) Kross, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Black Sheep, Busta Rhymes in "Scenario", and that damn "Life Is a Highway" song, among many, MANY other things. I think. (Something tells me it was also George Harrison's "Wreck of the Hesperus", which could explain a lot.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

when I was 11-13 (84-86): "Roxanne, Roxanne"; "Freaks Come Out at Night"; "Basketball"; "Jam on It"; Run-DMC; Fat Boys; Beastie Boys; LL Cool J; Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff; all that rappin' rodney duke ronnie reagan stuff.

I don't remember BDP or Stetsasonic or Eric B and Rakim being well-known yet by those around my age then, even though they may have already been around at the time.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Vanilla Ice (after noting Sterling's comment up there) is one of the things my mind decided to excise from my middle school-ish years. Not that I can specifically recall a damn thing (GOOD thing) from those wonder years - too busy reading comic books and hiding from Kick Me signs to boogie oogie oogie.

Oh, wait! New Kids on the Block! My first dance! "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)"! Oh, crap.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

in middle school, the only rap songs that i heard were jam on it, la-di-da-di, the show. for some reason, i didn't really register exactly what was going on with the music. i mean that i wasn't aware of it being a new, exciting form of music.

i didn't really start to get into rap until freshman year HS, with NWA, by all means necessary, follow the leader, B.A.D. being early stand-outs for me. that's bigger and deffer, not big audio dynamite i mean!

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:09 (twenty-three years ago)

(duh)

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

As I attended a vaguely elitist school in Australia, the only rap albums that anyone would own were Wu-Tang Clan's Forever and a random Cypress Hill album, both for the purposes of smoking dope to (it's amazing how much received wisdom dominates the practice of playing music to accompany dope-smoking!). The only songs anyone liked were old-skool hits ("Bust A Move" etc.) that would be played at parties.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Derek B, Public enemy, beastie boys, run dmc were all hot - mainly because of their accesability to young'uns. later came nwa just cos they swore and that is a big thing to youngsters

― james (james), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, come on, Tim! That's a bit of a generalisation. The stoners I hung out with listenened to the whole Wu-Tang catalogue (including all the solo side-project releases). It wasn't only for the purposes of smoking to, either, we all really liked (and still do like) all that stuff.

To this day there's nothing I enjoy more than kicking back with a "phat blunt" and listening to 36 Chambers. Ah, it almost makes me feel like I'm not supposed to be studying.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm middle school rap, im not sure. i remember my freshman yr in high school though, Three Times Dope, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, Biz Markie, Cool C, Marley Marl, Eric B and Rakim, De La Soul....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

"To this day there's nothing I enjoy more than kicking back with a "phat blunt" and listening to 36 Chambers. Ah, it almost makes me feel like I'm not supposed to be studying."

Ha ha you still like listening to 36 Chambers ==> you only listen to Wu-Tang stoned!

Anyway generalisations are the whole point of this thread surely. The fact that I listened to Missy and Biggie in year 12 more than I did to Wu-Tang doesn't disprove my argument. The only Melb. Grammar guy I remember who was really full-on into rap (eg. he luvved 2pac to the death, for real straight up and down) was a resident loony from Keilor/St. Albans whose attendance at MG seemed merely to fulfill the position of 'exception to the rule' in nearly every sense.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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