Hip-Hop and Kids -- Recommendations --?

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I like rap/hip-hop.
I have kids (under 10).

Anything appropriate out there for them?
I mean good quality interesting (probably 'hook-y' stuff)
that they will like and that isn't too gun/violence/sex -- focussed or have Too Many cursewords...

Ideas?

Did a quick search here and did not see this discussed before.

― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Schooly D!f

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Biz Markie stuff.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

jazzy jeff and the fresh prince
the fat boys
run dmc "raising hell" / "tougher than leather"
jurassic 5's first album I'm pretty sure was 100% safe

as probably were most of the
ugly duckling
mountain brothers albums

and you could probably put together a family fun compilation of De La Soul / Native Toungues tunes with little effort

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

kris kross

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

lil' bow wow has to be kid friendly surely? (do not mistake for his more mature "bow wow" material)

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Obv. Tribe, De La etc. although the themes in that stuff might go over their heads...you may be best off getting radio edits of current pop stuff.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Avoid the new Barbie Hit Mix at all costs. It will shrink yr kids' brane!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Snoop say he was making a children's album?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

'Where Is The Love?', surely.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I think BEP takes most kid-friendly rap group award.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit, Outkast "The Whole World" and "Land of a Million Drums"! Those are good ones.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

L'Trimm!!!!!!! But yeah, when my kids were little they always loved "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Jump" - plus "Ice Ice Baby," "Rappers Delight," "That's the Joint," "Planet Rock," "Jam On It," tons of old school (as in pre-1986) stuff. (Even slightly raunchier stuff like "Bust a Move" and "My Baby Daddy" and "Baby Got Back" is okay too if it's catchy enough, since they're not old enough to get the dirty jokes about anacondas anyway.) All of which goes to prove that kids generally have better taste in raps than grown-ups!

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah "Ice Ice Baby" is way better than say Mobb Deep's 2nd album.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

;-)

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Forget Tribe Called Qwest and De La Soul, though -- That's music for OLD people, who like JAZZ and slow songs and Steely Dan and stuff like that, yuck!!!! Kids like FAST songs with FUN vocals. Not college-student music with monotones babbling convoluted poetry that makes no sense!!

(You should also look around for Daphne and Celeste and Midi Maxi & Efti, who are close to rap if not actually of it. Those two groups made the best kiddie music of the past decade.) (And if you play the first Gillette album, be sure to skip over the song about short dick men.)

And whatever you do, don't forget Radio Disney. It is STILL the bomb!

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine kids would LOVE Busta's vocals on "Scenario"

Never mind that Tip and co. always seem quite nimble tongued throughout "Low End Theory"

And several of the songs on Tribe's first album would do well w/ kids - El Segundo, Bonita Applebaum, Can I Kick It.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

And oh yeah, you should include lots of women like Roxanne Shante and Real Roxanne and Dimples D and Salt N Pepa, too, so they don't get the bizarre stupid idea that rap is mainly music made my men (most of whom obviously usually can't rap worth beans).

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

how can "Me, Myself and I" and "Three, The Magic Number" NOT be kid friendly?

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

De La's full of crazy sounds that the kiddizzies love

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck is dead-on w/ his recommendations but his dismissals are pretty off.

Also, Chuck OTM re: women.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Oodles of Os," "Eye Know" would be great.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, maybe I slightly exagerrated about those Native Tounge snore-os. I admit it. Still, I think the only people who would think "Three is a Magic Number" is a kids song is grownups who grew up on *Multiplication Rock,* which I should point out does not exist for TODAY's kiddie set.

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

how about, Another Bad Creation:

from "Iesha":

"We played Nintendo / This was her very first date / I didn't wanna make it seem too fly / We ate cereal / She couldn't stay out late"

or the non-frontin' izzy-hizzy of "Playground"

"Into the Mizzark / chillin' in the pizzark / I gotta break 'cuz my mother said / be home by dizzark".

via here:Kid Rock Confidential

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f720/f72082tpcmi.jpg

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

grr.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen a couple kids get a big-ass kick out of Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

basically any hiphop video with kids and crazy shenanigans going on all up in there should do. the radio version, mind.

a lot of work it-era missy elliot,

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I think BEP takes most kid-friendly rap group award.
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), April 12th, 2004.

"Where is the Love," sure, but not the rest of that album.

Then again, he said "not too many" cuss words and "not too much" sex. So maybe.

Use Google to get the song titles from Elephunk, then plug the titles into Google to look up the lyrics, and you can be the judge.

Rick

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron Carter, too, is much better than anybody gives him credit for. (His *Oh Aaron* CD is an excellent place to start, but you might want to seek out the Fresh-Prince-like "Aaron's Party" single as well.)

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Please no Black Eyed Peas. Just cause they can listen to it, doesn't mean they should. First song coming to mind is Nas "I Can" ... though it does talk a bit about drugs and HIV. But it's got a huge hook, sounds like a Sesame Street jam. Basically it's a song for the kids.

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

My statement on BEP is based mostly on the only album of theirs that I own, which would be their debut ft stuff like "Que Dices?" and "Fallin' Up".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 April 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck goes too far w/ the popism. These songs are not actually good. Same w/ BEPs.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ACtually, I gave up being a papist when I quit Catholic School, in Ninth Grade. But either way, if DJdee has any taste at all, he will agree with my recommending the excellent "Get Up (And Go To School)" by 12-year-old rapper Pookey Blow, on *The Third Unheard: Connecticut HipHop 1979-1983.* Willie Brown's rap duet with the ventrioliquist dummy is fun, too!

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And oh my god!!! "DOUBLE DUTCH BUS," duh!!!!! And "Attack of the Name Game" by Stacy Lattisaw! And "Step Daddy" by Hitman Sammy Sam!!!!! And maybe a couple Ying Yang Twins songs, but you should probably monitor the lyrics of those first. ("Hangh!"," maybe?? That one mostly consists of them making goofy honking cartoon noises...)

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually "Salt Shaker" might be just fine! Kids love salt shakers, yes?

Seconding Double Dutch Bus as well.
I am not familiar w/ Pookey Blow unfortunately. Chalk it up to me being 20.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

izzer gizzer; thirded Double Dutch Bus.

― Nik (Nik), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, Chuck, not to mention a buncha "motherfuckers" and "niggas", "Hanh" also features "Ho, drop that to the floor like "hanh"/pop it til you can't no more more like "hanh"" Best song on the album, though.

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Monday, 12 April 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops! (Upside my head)

"I am not familiar w/ Pookey Blow unfortunately. Chalk it up to me being 20."

Chalk DJdee's overrating of Tribe Called Quest and underrating of Aaron Carter up to him being 20 as well. (Hell, at THAT age, those kind of transgressions are almost *forgiveable*!)

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

DJ Assault - "Ass 'N Titties"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, clearly Aaron Carter is the domain of people older than I.

I don't like Aaron Carter because the music sucks. I'm all for populism in music but that doesn't mean I blindly accept popular music as good either.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Who DOES, Djdee???? (Me, I *hate* most popular music!) (Also, Aaron Carter is hardly as popular as lots of more acclaimed hip-hop acts. Like Metal Mike Saunders says, Radio Disney is the UNDERGROUND, dude!)

― chuck, Monday, 12 April 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

just buy your hip-hop at wal-mart and you'll be ok!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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