
This week our host Jim Adams has asked us to sample some Hip Hop Rap for Song Lyric Sunday.... Well I do have eclectic tastes but today is one of my least favourite genres. That is not to say I dislike it but I can live with it or without it. So what is Hip Hop Rap?
Hip hop music or hip-hop music, also known as rap music and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the Bronx borough of New York City in the early 1970s by African Americans, and it had been around for years prior before mainstream discovery. This genre of music originated as anti-drug and anti-violence, while consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. According to the professor Asante of African American studies at Temple University, “hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own “. It was developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti art. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, “hip hop” more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
So lets go back to the late eighties and Salt and Pepa….. They made great dance music and although lyrics are my first love dancing does come a close second . So first choice is Push it !
“Push It” is a song by American hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa, who originated in Queens. It was released as the B-side of the “Tramp” single in 1987. It peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1988 and, after initially peaking at number 41 in the UK, it re-entered the charts after the group performed the track at Nelson Mandela‘s 70th birthday concert, eventually peaking at number two in the UK in July 1988. The song has also been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song is ranked number 446 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was ranked number nine on VH1‘s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
The song quotes a line from “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks, with the word “girl” replaced with “boy”: “Boy, you really got me goin’/You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’.” (For this, Ray Davies received a songwriting credit for “Push It.”) It also quotes “Pick up on this” from “I’m a Greedy Man” and “There it is” from “There It Is“, both by James Brown. The whispered “Push it” is sampled from a 1977 recording called “Keep on Pushin'” by the band Coal Kitchen. This song is written in the key of A minor.
Salt-N-Pepa (sometimes stylized as Salt ‘N’ Pepa) is an American hip hop group formed in New York City in 1985, that comprised Salt (Cheryl James), Pepa (Sandra Denton), and DJ Spinderella (Deidra Roper).
Salt-N-Pepa have sold over 15 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling rap acts of all time. Their success in rap and hip hop culture has earned them the honorific title “The First Ladies of Rap”
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby, ba-baby, baby
Get up on this
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Get up on this
Ah, push it
Get up on this
Ow! Baby!
Salt-N-Pepa’s here
Salt, Salt-Salt, Salt-N-Pepa’s here
Salt-Salt-Salt-Salt, Salt-n-Pepa’s here
Salt-n-Pepa, Salt-n-Pepa, Salt-n-Pepa’s here
Salt-Salt-Salt, Salt-n-Pepa’s here
Now, now, now, wait a minute y’all
This dance ain’t for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mother’s, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said
Salt-n-Pepa’s here, and we’re in effect
Want you to push it back
Cooling by day, then at night, working up a sweat
C’mon girls, let’s go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
push it good
(Ah, push it) push it real good
(Ah, push it) push it good
(Ah, push it) p-push it real good
Ow!
Push it good
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby
Ooh, baby, baby, ba-baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you! Come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else I’m gonna get pissed
Can’t you hear the music pumping hard? Like I wish you would
Now push it
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it
Get up on this
(Uh) get up on this
(Uh, uh) get up on this
(Ha) get up on this
(Hit it)
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don’t know what I’m doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so
I don’t know what I’m doing
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Ah
Ah, push it
Push-push-push-push it, push it
Push it
Push, push, push, push it, push it
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, pushit
Push it, push it
Push it, push it, push it
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Herby Azor / Raymond Davies
Push It! (TMW Remix) lyrics © Wb Music Corp., Sons Of K-oss Music Inc., Edward Kassner Music Co. Ltd, Sons Of K-oss Music Inc
Now as a contrast a favourite of mine by Fat Boy Slim who is a favourite of my eldest son. Weapon of choice!
“Weapon of Choice” is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim from his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. It features American funk musician Bootsy Collins. It was released as a double A-side single with “Star 69” on 23 April 2001, as well as a standalone single release, and a 2010 re-release with remixes. The single peaked at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart
I love: The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features actor Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby. It won multiple awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Music Video.
The music video was filmed in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel (now the L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown) in Los Angeles in December 2000. Directed by Spike Jonze, it features actor Christopher Walken, who trained as a dancer in musical theatre before his acting career. Walken had asked Jonze to film his dancing, and Jonze suggested that he participate in the video. Fatboy Slim had originally been scheduled to have a cameo in the video, replacing Walken in the harness shots, but was unavailable that weekend because his wife was giving birth.
In the video, Walken is relaxing in a chair in a deserted hotel lobby, when he hears the song being played from a cleaning cart nearby. He begins to dance around the hotel, then gets in an elevator, leaps off the balcony, and flies around the mezzanine before returning to the chair and sitting back down.
The “Weapon of Choice” video won six awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Walken was awarded one of MTV’s “Moonmen” for Best Choreography. The clip was also ranked number one in a list of the top 100 videos of all time by VH1 in April 2002 compiled from a music industry survey. The Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt has also danced in a version of the video directed by Malik Bendjelloul. In 2012, British comedian and presenter Rowland Rivron also won charity TV show Let’s Dance for Sport Relief with his reenactment of the video’s choreography.
Walken has cited admiration for Jonze as one of his main reasons for appearing in the video, which he also welcomed as a chance to do “something different”. He also noted that as a trained tap dancer, dancing to electronic music suited him well. More information here.
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
(repeat twice more)
You could blow with this
That
This
That
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
You could blow with this
You could blow with that
(repeat five times more)
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Norman Cook / Andres Titus / Sylvester Stewart / Bootsy Collins / William Mclean / Ashley Slater
Weapon of Choice enhanced video lyrics © Polygram Music Publishing Ltd. Gb, Peep Bo Music, Mijac Music, Mashamug Music, Polygram Int. Publishing, Inc.
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