Who was the first person to say "tick tock ya don't stop"

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and how many tracks can we name with said phrase?

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

a) i don't know b)I've got dibs on "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd

Tracer hand, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That was in "Rapper's Delight", wasn't it?

David Raposa, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ye, I think it was. That does not mean, however, that the Sugar Hill Gang was the first to use it. If we do decide this, though, I'd still like to know WHICH Gang member said it. Bartlett's wants to know!

(I'm remembering others:

* "La Di Da Di Who Likes to Party" by Slick Rick

tho this may be useless. I think every hip hop song ever written contains this line.)

Tracer hand, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Popshots droppin hip-hop knowledge!!! I just listened again, it's Big Bank Hank, just past the seven-minute mark.

Ian, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not exactly the same phrase, but it's pretty similar to "you can't, you won't, and you don't stop" from the Beastie's Sure Shot.

static, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

and who was the first person to say "throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care"??

dave k, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I heard the original "Sure Shot" in the subway yesterday. It was awesome. There were dudes breaking and popping and a big crowd on hand. Three beefy moustachioed cops rolled past and one of them goes "SHOW time..." I flinched.

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kenny Garrett, jazz alto player par excellence, says uses it as the hook in his godawful rap song.

Jordan, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ian almost sounds like he's surprised that I got a hip-hop question right or something. I mean, c'mon, I own a De La Soul CD.

David Raposa, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I become a famous singer, I'm going to create a song made entirely out of stereotypical rap sayings like "Tick tock and ya don't stop" and "Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care".

Can I ask why Tracer wants to know?

Ally, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I just wonder about that dude. I think Ian's got it so far - Big Bank Hank - I wonder - he's you know, looking forward to that roast beef sandwich right now or something. They guy who invented "tick tock ya don't STOPPPP..." It's like inventing "I woke up this mornin and I etc etc etc" or "hit me with your best shot"

Tracer hand, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Who was it recently that had "Throw ya hands in the air, I wanna see your armpit hair"?

I thought that was grate. (sic)

jacob, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...
"Tick tock, ya don't stop...." is from the end of "La De Dah De" by Slick Rick, featuring Doug E. Fresh.

The Lyrics

Hit it! Aww yea! Yea... La di da di... la di da di, La di, la di!

You know what, you peep this, La di da di, we like to party. We don't cause trouble, we dont bother nobody. We're... just some men that's on the mic, And when we rock upon the mic, We rock the mic (Right!). For all a y'all, keepin' y'all in health. Just to see ya smile and enjoy ya'self. Cause it's cool when you cause a cozy conditionin', That we create, so that's our mission, so listen, To what we say because this type of shit happens everyday. I... woke up around ten o'clock in the mornin', Gave myself a (strech up), a mornin' yawn and... Went to the bathroom to wash up, Had some soap on my face and my hand upon the cup, I said a (Mirror mirror!) on the wall... Who is the top choice of them all? There was a rumble dumble, Five minutes it lasted.... the mirror said, (You are you concieted bastard!). Yo that's true, that's why we never have no beef, So then I washed off the soap and brushed the gold teeth. Used "Oil of Olay" cause my skin gets pale. Then I got the files, for my fingernails. True to the style on my behalf I put the bubbles in the tub so I could have a bubble bath. Clean, dry, was my body and hair, I threw on my brand new Gucci underwear. For all the girls I might take home, I got the Johnson's Baby Powder and the (Polo Colonge). Fresh dressed like a millions bucks, threw on the Valley shoes And the fly green socks. Stepped out the house, stopped short, oh no! I went back in I forgot the... Then I dilly (dally) ran through a (alley), Bumped into my old girl (Sally) from the (Valley). This was a girl playing hard to get So I said "What's wrong?" cause she looked upset She said uh, (It's all because of you) Say what? (I'm feeling sad and blue) She said what? (You went away) And now, my life is filled with rainy days. And I love you so, how much you'll never know. Cause you took your love away from me. Now what was I to do She was crying over me and she was feeling blue I said, "Don't cry, (dry, your eye) Here comes your mother with those two little guys" Her mean mother steps and says to me ("Hi!") Hit Sally in the face and decked her in the (eye!) Punched her in the belly, and stepped on her (feet) Slammed the child on the hard concrete The bitch was strong, the kids was gone. Something was wrong I said what was going on? I tried to break it up I said, stop it, leave her She said, "If I can't have you (she can't either") She grabbed me closely by my socks So I broke the hell out like I had the chicken pox But uh, she gave chase, she caught up quick She put a finger in the face of MC Rick, and said So we can go cruising in my OJ, and what? I'll give you all my love today. What? Ricky Ricky Ricky what? Somehow your words just hypnotize me And I just love your jazzy ways Yo MC Rick my love is here to stay" And on and on and on she kept on The bitch been around before my mother's born I said, "Cheer up!" I gave her a kiss I said, "You can't have me I'm too young for you miss" She said, "No you're not," then she starts crying I says, "I'm thirty-four", she says, ("Stop lying!") I said, "I am -- go ask my mother And with your wrinkled pussy, I can't be your lover!" To the tick tock and you don't stop To the tick tick ya don't... hit it!

Doug E. Fresh y'all, give him a round of applause y'all, Doug E. Fresh! Yea, what up?

Doug E., Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care"

Big Daddy Kane?

Doug E., Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oops, guess I should have dug a little deeper the first time.

"throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care"

Grand Master Flash was the first to say it.

Doug E., Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i have a feeling that these phrases would probably pre-date recorded hip hop. attribute them to the block parties, yeah?

minna, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...
and who was the first person to say "throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care"??

Just heard this on "Funkbox Party" by Masterdon Committee, on the new Big Apple Rappin' compilation. (not sure whether it was from 1979 or 1980 originally). New winner?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

The Roof is on Fire is a very short tune that in which every line went on to become a cliche!!!

It starts with the line "Hey Girl, Hey Boy, Superstar DJ, Here we go!"
goes on a long throw your hands up in the air tip

and ends with The roof, the roof the roof is on fire, we don't need no water let the motherfucker burn, burn mother fucker burn.....

XWing, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
This old-school rap song is famous for the chant, "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't need no water, let the motherf--ker burn." While the chant has been used movies, dance competitions and live shows by various Funk or Rap artists (It's a staple of P-funk shows), the song remains fairly obscure.
The famous chant does not appear on the record - it was something Rockmaster Scott had the people shout back only at live shows. Back in the day of true old school rap, you didn't record curse words on your track for fear radio stations wouldn't play your songs. If you were a B-boy, you pretty much would only swear live to get a pop from the fly girls.
One of Rockmaster Scott's "Dynamic Three" was none other than Slick Rick. Rockmaster gave him his start, before he made the jump to become Doug E Fresh's hype-man and later a solo artist of his own. He is most known today for climbing the rap charts with "La-di-Dah-di We Like To Party" a song that was covered many years latter by Snoop Dogg. (thanks, Kenny Casanova for above 2)
The Bloodhound Gang used the chant as the basis for their 1996 song "Fire Water Burn." This song was used in the Michael Moore movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
Some of the song that have sampled this: "Hey Boy Hey Girl" by The Chemical Brothers, "Cool Breeze On The Rocks" by De La Soul, "More Than U Know" by Prince Paul.

Lex Luther, Thursday, 27 April 2006 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I should make a thread to track down the earliest instances of all of the lines from De La Soul's Ego Trippin'. I think it has every rap cliche in there.

js (honestengine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I always thought it was "hip hop ya don't stop".

musically (musically), Thursday, 27 April 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link


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