audio two - "top billin'"

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this is even more hypnotizingly monotonous than the typical old-school track and i love it

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

T/S: "Top Billin'" Vs. Any Other Song From 1987.

Um. It wins.

The Ego trip book sez the Auds were cooking up an "Impeach The President" loop, which got fucked up and looped wrong... and they kept it!

And actually it's LESS monotonous than any other old-school track because there's three totally seprerated phrases that make up the drum loop, and they all land under Milk's verses (divisible by four, natch) in different ways because he's rapping 4-bar phrases over a repeating 3-bar phrase.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

i knew that this looked familiar!

Audio-2: "Top Billin'"

great tune, though.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, search function wasn't working

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

even with that rhythmic variation at a micro-level, it seems like those three phrases are repeated without variation throughout the song, and unless you except the longer acapella part around 2 mins in, there really isn't a break in that basic arrangement. also the actual raps aren't particularly varied in their tone/attack. so while it has a certain basic rhythmic variety that some other old school cuts don't, it doesn't develop much. i still really like it.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

overrated!

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

please.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 4 June 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

There is an absolutely jaw-droppingly awesome remix of this song by DJ Twyst (me neither). THAT is the best song of 1987.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 4 June 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

anthonyiswrong@GEEmail.com

― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 4 June 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

"So, step up if you wanna get hurt!"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this is a classic

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

stop frontin and actin hard
i got a great big bodyguard

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

greatest ever! i had this on a K-Tel tape that also had "Goin' Way Back" by Just Ice on it and "On Fire" by Stetsasonic! I loved the hell out of that tape....Audio 2 produced MC Lyte right?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamnit ILM, talk about Eamon! Eamon: C or D?

And who the hell is Rap Legend Milk Dee?

-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), March 12th, 2004 1:51 PM.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

lmao

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

here's the tracklisting for fresh rap! man, what an awesome cassette...i'd forgotten about Mr. X and Mr. Z's "Mr. X and Mr. Z Drink Old Gold"...so great! Never heard of 'em before or since...

A1 Eric B & Rakim Move The Crowd (3:46)
Producer - Eric B & Rakim
A2 UTFO Mo' Bass (4:50)
Producer - Full Force
A3 Spoonie Gee The Godfather (4:47)
Producer - Aaron Fuchs , Marley Marl
A4 Kid 'N' Play Last Night (4:23)
Producer - Hurby Luv Bug
A5 Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded (5:19)
Producer - Ced Gee , DJ Scott La Rock , KRS-One
B1 Audio Two Top Billin' (2:52)
Producer - Audio Two , Daddy-O
B2 Just-Ice Going Way Back (5:02)
Co-producer - Just-Ice
Producer - KRS-One
B3 EPMD It's My Thing (5:37)
Producer - EPMD
B4 Mr. X & Mr. Z Mr. X & Mr. Z Drink Old Gold (5:18)
Producer - Untouchables, The
B5 Stetsasonic On Fire (4:20)
Producer - Stetsasonic

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

on amateurist rap threads i like to imagine him bumpin mantronix or whatever while ghostriding on the
http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/images/harpenden-road/hr-32a-penny-farthing.jpg

― and what (ooo), Monday, 5 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had that tape too!

Find the cover art!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 June 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-315841-1093571553.jpg

wierd stone roses background!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

poop

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 June 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

as mike daddino said on the earlier "top billin'" thread, what really stands out is how milk doesn't vary his (very whiny) pitch at all (until the very LAST verse). almost 20 years later, it almost sounds like a parody of the alleged monotone delivery of NYC old school -- yet i am sure that parody was furthest from their minds, that they just liked how it sounded.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

suckas that's down with MEEEEEEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbWPyhW7fE

― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 November 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago)

what more can i say?

― Str8 Drapin It (chrisv2010), Friday, 12 November 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

this song is one of the few perfect things in the world

― i got two wax cylinders and a speaking trumpet (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 November 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

^truth. love how it's the result of a fuckup.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 12 November 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

MC Lytes bro's. Godamn i loved them back in the day.

― Str8 Drapin It (chrisv2010), Friday, 12 November 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

this had an official video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAys0NnXCk

― 뉴 메탈은 나머지 모든 보지 똥, 거기입니다 최고의 음악이다 (Eisbaer), Sunday, 31 May 2015 02:27 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

is it just me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4uL9fAeoXc

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:30 (eight years ago)

Much of that Top Billin video seems like it's poached/repurposed from footage for the "I Don't Care" video, which I remember seeing ca. 1988

I wonder if they thought "I Don't Care" was gonna be the hit and had to backtrack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-HRfwKzAE

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:45 (eight years ago)

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