On the late night funk and soul show on WKCR they used to play this one cut all the time that sounded almost like a teacher singing along with a really funky junior high school music class banging on trash cans and recording it on a cassette recorder. The lyrics were something like "In the ghetto/got a new dance/Ghetto Boogie/Ghetto Boogie/everybody/take a chance/ghetto boogie/ghetto boogie"
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)
Ghetto Brothers Power, by the Ghetto Brothers (I got it on the Can't Stop Won't Stop soundtrack).
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)
I hope this is the song you're talking about. It aint hip-hop, but a funky precursor to that neighborhood-party-vibe. The "music class / cassette recording" quality you described is definately true here...
LYRICS:
We are glad to be here today
to make you dance the ghetto way
We are gonna sing a little song
and we're gonna dance all night long
we are gonna take you higher with ghetto brothers power...
higher, higher, higher...
If you want to get your thing together brothers and sisters let's do it ghetto brother style.
Right on brothers? RIGHT ON!
The Ghetto Brothers were a gang from the Bronx in the 70's who negotiated the first gang truces, and later formed the band. Interviews here: http://www.cantstopwontstop.com/wfiles.cfm
Here's the Compilation CD (45 cutz/only $10!)
http://lyricsborn.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=83&osCsid=5aac43c35335ec8eab67e16226f92a93
The companion piece to a masterpiece. This disc is the official mixtape soundtrack to what many experts would argue is the most important, detailed, and comprehensive book ever to delineate a history of Hip-Hop, "Can't Stop Won't Stop.” Author and former SoleSides founding partner, Jeff Chang, hand-picked the music in this mix from a deeply eclectic array of sources, and then enlisted the vocal talents of Lyrics Born, Joyo Velarde, Chief Xcel, Gift of Gab, and Lateef the Truth Speaker, as well as many of Hip-Hop's Pioneers, to read passages and excerpts from the book over these diverse musical backdrops. The piece was then masterfully tied together by DJ Icewater and DJ D-Sharp. The copies sold here at the Lyrics Born Variety Store are the 100% genuine article, in the authentic Brent Rollins (Ego Trip) designed paper-sleeves, bearing the Quannum logo. These copies were procured by Lyrics Born personally, from Jeff Chang himself, so purchase with confidence, knowing you are supporting the author and his great endeavor.
And here's the book, by my man Jeff Chang:
http://www.cantstopwontstop.com/
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)
That's not the song.
I have the book, BTW. Fantastic.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)
It goes
"In the Ghetto/Got a new da-ance/ghetto boogie/ghetto boogie/everybody/take a cha-ance/ghetto boogie/ghetto boogie" and there's a little bridge that goes "It's a funky funky dance come on take a cha-ance/a funky funky dance come on join in/let's get funky/down in the ghetto/ghetto boogie/it's the ghetto boogie ... down down down down down down down"
I'm pretty sure it's a woman singing.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)
Ugh, the CD features people reading over the songs?
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)
No. It's like an ongoing mix, with many complete songs, some snipits, and a bunch of narrative breaks with background music.
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)
four years pass...
1) Someone needs to figure out who the fuck did this song and tell me.
2) I have another rare funk rfid, though I might just make a separate thread: it's a sort of sultry but raw mid-tempo song with a male and female singer saying something like "Put you on a red hot stove, there's gonna be fire" 4x, and then "Groove me baby! Groove me baby!" and then there's this nasty bass break.
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)
Also holy crap, five years ago.
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)
i have one. a friend of a friend put this on a cdr mix. she asked him what it was and he couldn't remember. but said something like "funk lady" by vari-funk ladies. nothing like that exists on the internet and i dunno where he got it from. i love the off key lazy singing by the main chick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW8oLtokhKk
― jaxon, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 05:32 (fifteen years ago)