The Kraftwerk-N.W.A connection?

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On the sleeve notes of Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express album (partly recorded at The Record Plant in Hollywood) one of the people given "special thanks" is called Jerry Heller. This was also the name of N.W.A's infamous manager. Is it the same guy? What does it mean? We've missed out on Straight Outta Düsseldorf, I guess...

― JoB, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Straight outta Deutschland, crazy motherfucker named Florian/From the gang called Kraftwerk/When I'm called off, I got a bicycle/Run your ass over, and bodies are hauled off/You too, boy, if ya fuck with me/Die Polizei are gonna hafta come and get me/Off yo ass, that's how I'm goin out/For the punk motherfuckers that's showin out/Bavarians start to mumble, they wanna rumble/Mix em and cook em in a pot like sausage/Goin off on a motherfucker like that with a gat that's pointed at yo ass/So give it up smooth/Ain't no tellin when I'm down for a jack move/Here's a murder rap to keep yo dancin with a crime record like Baader Meinhof/The Uzi is the tool/Don't make me act the motherfuckin fool/Me you can go toe to toe, no maybe/I'm knockin 'varians out tha box, daily yo weekly, monthly and yearly/until them dumb motherfuckers see clearly/that I'm down with the capital DST/Boy you can't fuck with me/So when I'm in your neighborhood, you better duck/Coz Florian is crazy as fuck/As I leave, believe I'm stompin but when I come back, boy/I'm comin straight outta Deutschland/Peace.

― Todd Burns, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my flow is wack.

that is all.

― Todd Burns, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Genius.

― Omar, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uzi is an Israeli weapon...how about make that a Luger.

― Mark, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone see that Louis Theroux program last night which focused on Ann Widdecombe MP? Her secretary used to manage Blondie, the Ramones,... What the FUCK! :-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That was great, Todd. Now how about NWA doing "Showroom Dummies"?

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We are standing here
Exposing our lyrics
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas

We're being watched
and we feel the motherfucking feds
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas

We look around
and keep it real
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas

We start to move
And we break your face
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas

We step out
And drive around through Compton
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas

We go into a club
And there we start to rap
We are showroom gangstas
We are showroom gangstas.

― JoB, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is already thread of the year, surely.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Seconded.

― Snotty Moore, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/robot.jpg

― geeta, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

excellent

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

A long overdue revival.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

one less bartos

― joni, Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I started to write:

I program my home computer
Beam myself into tha muthafuckin' future

Then I realised that I was basically replicating the kind of thing Derrick May used to say in interviews in 1990.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Heller was about 20 years into the biz when he started Ruthless Records. Although NWA/Ruthless was probably his largest claim to fame, he had represented quite a few artists from a wide array of genres from the mid-60s on.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 15 September 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Heller is responsible for bringing Pink Floyd & Elton John to the country for their first US tours & has represented groups such as Rolling Stones, Credence Clearwater, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bob Scaggs, Grassroots, Guess Who, Marvin Gaye, Joan Armatrading, Van Morrison, War, Average White Band and Crosby-Nash.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 15 September 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I want to know why the hell Radiohead always says "Special thanks to Donut Bitch". Enough's enough.. fucking hell.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a different Donut Bitch. (She's the wife of the Soup Nazi.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

she is a crack ho and she's looking good
i'd like to be her pimp that's understood
she sucks the glass dick from time to time
it only takes a nickelbag to change her mind

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 15 September 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

According to some writer I can't remember (David Toop?), Kraftwerk really dug "Planet Rock" and other early hip hop tracks. Don't know how they feel about it now.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Boing boom tschak
Bling bling!
Boing boom tschak

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

or Bling Bling Tschak

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 18 September 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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