Theres something so magical about early 80s rap/hip hop, its all just so happy. No singing about crime or drugs or women, no its just a bunch of guys spinning around on their backs seeing who can do it better then the other
That synthline literally defines the '80s for me. I wasn't there but.. thankyou to Vice City for ensuring I grew up to be an '80s kid, even if I was a little too late to the party.
@@charlesn898 - I mean, yeah, Dolby was made a Professor of the Arts in 2014 but he's not known as Professor Dolby. You're not thinking that he's the mad professor in the video for She Blinded Me With Science are you? As that is British scientist Magnus Pike.
When people start yapping about "the golden era" of hip hop being from 1988 onwards, i roll my eyes the WHOLE of the 1980's was the golden era! - the music was changing so fast and ALWAYS exciting - 1979 Sugarhill Gang era begins, then Electro Funk era, then Run DMC, LL, Def Jam, Mantronix,Marley Marl Juice Crew, BDP and on and on. When the music went on to the majors was when things started to get sketchy. I dont care how much money, how many grammys, how many cars these modern corporate artists have now - NOTHING can touch 1979 till about 1991 for pure culture.
If you drop into jam on revenge when they get to the chanting at the end, and cosmo will come on right talking as they fade out. Wikki wikki wikki wikki
i still get the vinyl of this hit my brother bought it in 1982 !! And i remember when we were little we made a little band with my brother and my sister trying to play this song with invisible instrument, so mythic !! We were listening to this everyday in the morning on a vinyl player !! i feel sad of grewing and being so far from the 80's... But... Good old days never die...:)
Back in the day when rap was fun, there was variation in the rapper's voice and the music is so funky and great to breakdance to, this song defines the kind of rap/hip-hop I like, great song!!! :) This kind of rap needs to come back bring the fun back in to rap as well as the great synth funk music with it and breakdancers along the lines of The Rocksteady Crew!
When I get my wand I'm off to re-live the 80's < simply the best... if you know, you know!! Whilst listening, I just mixed this gem (in my head) with 'The Crown' 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
When I was 18 and had already graduated from high-school pre-summer 1983,there was a video music show called Night Flight that aired on USA Network Saturday nights from 8-10pm. During Xmas Weekend that same year,they had a segment on the rise of the hip-hop scene that showed all the videos such as Malcolm McClaren's "Buffalo Gals," Rock Steady Crew's "Hey You!"Grand Master Flash & The Furious 5's"The Message" and this video included. Also what was included was scenes of the very first hip-hop documentary movie,"Wild Style". Great memories of not even being 20 years old yet.
BDP literally sat with an array of guns and weapons on the front cover of Criminal Minded in 86. Public Enemy rapped about "My Uzi Weighs A Ton" and KRS-One held an Uzi on the cover of By All Means Necessary both in '87. All three of these were Incredibly important, conscious, politically charged hip hop albums from the 80's. Guns don't automatically make it worse or....I don't even know what you're suggesting.
This song takes me back to my very first club I attended at 18 years old (well more like a tavern/hole in the wall type of place) but it was the most fun place ever! My older cousins and aunt introduced me to this place. Friday nights were the nights to be there...this type of rap music was so clean and so much fun to dance to....sadly, this kind of rap music it isn't around anymore. I miss the 80's!
My Uncle had all of their albums back in the day, I saw them at the Flashback fest 14 YEARS AGO, and met Ecstasy at Ross's 4 or 5 YEARS AGO before he passed away. I told him that he looked like the guy from Whodini and then asked me my name and gave me pound. Such a cool dude. Rest in Heaven, 🙏🕊
Awesome, I've had this tune in my head since I was a kid, couldn't remember who sang it, then remembered some obscure compilation tape my father used to play in the car all the time called Raiders of the Pop Charts, checked out Part 1 not there, second check of part 2, damn here it is!!!!!!! Thanks to the uploaded, happy I can finally revisit this classic 😊
I did know this until the other day but Thomas Dolby had produced this classic track back in the early 80's and was also the keyboard player on Belinda Carlisle's first hit, 'Heaven is a place on earth'.
😁👉 I don't remember hearing the attached joint until this date that I write 📝 about so amongst these comments sections.👉✌Peace & respect to the male rapper's listed as Whodini that has some 🎶 🎶 musical 🎶 joint's that play importance in my young lady teenage body form; and also✌peace & respect to Whodini sharing their natures spirits talents by the attached joint 🎨 arting the made-up communications as many people would sign language as white magic or clean magic drawn by lines and curves also sign languaged as talk, tell, words, rapp, English, speak and or say for.😊
What about Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Message?” Though gritty, that video was a large size budget and it came out in the summer of 82”. “Magics Wand” video came out at the end of 1982 (in 82”, only BET and USA’s Niteflite played this video since NY Hot Tracks came out the following year, and MTV didn’t play black American musicians at this time, especially rap and funk).
Theres something so magical about early 80s rap/hip hop, its all just so happy. No singing about crime or drugs or women, no its just a bunch of guys spinning around on their backs seeing who can do it better then the other
Grand Master Flash's "The Message"?
Yes and black and white dancing in the same video without any external obligations.
They had better drugs back then 💯
Great times
That synthline literally defines the '80s for me. I wasn't there but.. thankyou to Vice City for ensuring I grew up to be an '80s kid, even if I was a little too late to the party.
It was played by Thomas Dolby, a new wave artist best known for his hit "She Blinded Me With Science".
@@terrra_2024 That's Professor Thomas Dolby.
@@charlesn898 - I mean, yeah, Dolby was made a Professor of the Arts in 2014 but he's not known as Professor Dolby.
You're not thinking that he's the mad professor in the video for She Blinded Me With Science are you? As that is British scientist Magnus Pike.
We all were a little late but never unwelcomed.
Haha it’s great isn’t it lol 😂
“ it was big fun while it lasted “ loved the early eighties- pre crack world
Word we could never get that time back but I'm glad I lived in it.
It's just a bunch of guys dancing at J.C Penny, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the best raps of all time💎
The "dancing at J.C. Penny" did it for me! 😂😂 Thank you...this comment made my day!
We always dance in front of K Mart
So 80s
And maybe one of the best RUclips comments :)
I agree with that
R.I.P Mr. Magic and Ecstasy 🙏🏾🎤
Yes. Missed
Mr. Magic died? I didn't know that
@@blueskyy43 that sucks I too didn't know but hey perks of being born in 03 is that I still have access to find grooves like this and many others.
Im 57 and back in the day this was IT
Still is, OG.
I'm 25 and it still is
Facts!!!
Yeah this was a HIT
I was with IT once, but then they changed what IT was
What a golden time for rap...so good.
And men and women looked fit and just pure swagger
@assiabenslimane2589 I agree. Not nearly as many over weight people back then.
Yup, the golden age of wireless, if you catch my drift.
R.I.P exstacy , you was a pioneer man. The foundation!!!
When people start yapping about "the golden era" of hip hop being from 1988 onwards, i roll my eyes the WHOLE of the 1980's was the golden era! - the music was changing so fast and ALWAYS exciting - 1979 Sugarhill Gang era begins, then Electro Funk era, then Run DMC, LL, Def Jam, Mantronix,Marley Marl Juice Crew, BDP and on and on. When the music went on to the majors was when things started to get sketchy. I dont care how much money, how many grammys, how many cars these modern corporate artists have now - NOTHING can touch 1979 till about 1991 for pure culture.
💯💯
This song takes me back to the good days when life was simple!
Thomas Dolby brought me here. Hard to believe I know, but it's true - amazing stuff!
Ha!, yes, me too. Page 45 of 'The Speed of Sound'. 😀
If ever there was a time machine, I'd go straight back to the 80s, what an unforgettable era that was.....
Crack, aids, gangbangin n Reagan administration..yea u can keep it
I'd like to go back to the eighties and stay there. I love this group so much. RIP Mr. Magic and Ecstacy. God bless you always ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
R.I.P. Mr. Magic.
😭
My God, how did the world become such a sadder place? Really miss this world 😭😭🇧🇷
Ditto!!!!! Tragic how things have become....
Stay safe 👊😎 big love from the UK 🇬🇧
You must have forgotten the constant threat of nuclear war, are you sure you were alive back then?
@@timmturner I guess coz we were kids we didn't think about nuclear war too much. Well... I did, but it didn't bother like it did the adults. 😁
@@stuartgoswell1193the bomb drills in school were fear mongering at it's best
The perfect 80s party song.
And what if I said I assassinated President Kimball.
@@angushoffs1380 i killed him on my last fallout new vegas game.
@@TheRippleFamily225Family Okay then. To each their own.
If you drop into jam on revenge when they get to the chanting at the end, and cosmo will come on right talking as they fade out. Wikki wikki wikki wikki
I remember watching this as a kid in New York! Proud to see how far Hip-Hop has come since then!
i still get the vinyl of this hit my brother bought it in 1982 !! And i remember when we were little we made a little band with my brother and my sister trying to play this song with invisible instrument, so mythic !! We were listening to this everyday in the morning on a vinyl player !! i feel sad of grewing and being so far from the 80's... But... Good old days never die...:)
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Ich habe die Vinyl auch noch 12" Maxi, das ist ein unvergängliches Vergnügen und immer wieder Top der Song ! :-)
@@djscratchin1345 - That is fucking terrible. The vocal is horribly out of sync with the backing. It sounds horrible
Hip Hop Classics plays this all the time . Super underrated classic . Didn'r even know a video was out
Played this on V-103 in Atlanta back in the day! Heavy rotation!
Back in the day when rap was fun, there was variation in the rapper's voice and the music is so funky and great to breakdance to, this song defines the kind of rap/hip-hop I like, great song!!! :) This kind of rap needs to come back bring the fun back in to rap as well as the great synth funk music with it and breakdancers along the lines of The Rocksteady Crew!
Happy Christmas day 🎉
I love these times I'll always remember this type of music forever
Me too man, I miss this 😢
I want to go back then and stay there. They are the best ever. RIP Ecstasy. God bless you always ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This gets me every time, that bass.
I think this, came out in 1982, if I'm correct. I love this song. My sophomore year of high-school. What memories.
Yes, late 1982.
Así es, 1982
Gta Vice City memories. Cruising through Little Haiti in a Voodoo at 11:30, jamming to this beat.
Damn... unbelievable that this joint is about to be 40...
One of the first hip hop songs and artist’s that paved the way for so many amazing artists.
Produced by Thomas Dolby with samples of his track "Puppet Theatre" . Great fun.
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It doesn't sample it.
It's such a wholesome music video.
High School Memories 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
No Guns, swimwear or swearing, just good fun rap like we had back then. I'm glad to be 50 (almost)
Paul Schlote so true man how rap has changed
I wish you another 50 bro
Do you curse?
Cause if you do, why would you want our art not to be able to embody our anger. Not sure Black anger needs to be pacified.
There's room for both kinds of rap.
There has been cursing, guns and girls in hip hop since the mid 80's.
Gotta love the 80's
I was born in 1982 thanks for this!!!! Thanks Rap!!!
When I get my wand I'm off to re-live the 80's < simply the best... if you know, you know!!
Whilst listening, I just mixed this gem (in my head) with 'The Crown' 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
Man now this is the real true rap not like the mumble rappers of today
yes!
When I was 18 and had already graduated from high-school pre-summer 1983,there was a video music show called Night Flight that aired on USA Network Saturday nights from 8-10pm. During Xmas Weekend that same year,they had a segment on the rise of the hip-hop scene that showed all the videos such as Malcolm McClaren's "Buffalo Gals," Rock Steady Crew's "Hey You!"Grand Master Flash & The Furious 5's"The Message" and this video included. Also what was included was scenes of the very first hip-hop documentary movie,"Wild Style". Great memories of not even being 20 years old yet.
And not a gun in sight
Hip Hop at its best
These are 80s black guys not 90s black guys 😂😂😂
BDP literally sat with an array of guns and weapons on the front cover of Criminal Minded in 86.
Public Enemy rapped about "My Uzi Weighs A Ton" and KRS-One held an Uzi on the cover of By All Means Necessary both in '87.
All three of these were Incredibly important, conscious, politically charged hip hop albums from the 80's.
Guns don't automatically make it worse or....I don't even know what you're suggesting.
the message came out same year and mentions guns , foo’
im 30 years old and i love this shit and my 90s and 00s and early 2010s fuck that bull shit that playing now
@@terrra_2024 please tell these goofy MF's!!
My dad used to be a DJ in the 80s and played this song. He is so cool! Hehe
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This song takes me back to my very first club I attended at 18 years old (well more like a tavern/hole in the wall type of place) but it was the most fun place ever! My older cousins and aunt introduced me to this place. Friday nights were the nights to be there...this type of rap music was so clean and so much fun to dance to....sadly, this kind of rap music it isn't around anymore. I miss the 80's!
Love the fashion in this clip
ahhh yeah, hip hop roots right here
Great song and greater rap history lesson
To me this is the best rap Trak ever
My Uncle had all of their albums back in the day, I saw them at the Flashback fest 14 YEARS AGO, and met Ecstasy at Ross's 4 or 5 YEARS AGO before he passed away. I told him that he looked like the guy from Whodini and then asked me my name and gave me pound. Such a cool dude. Rest in Heaven, 🙏🕊
One of the first Rap/Hip Hop videos from one of the Greatest Rap Groups of All Time.RIP Ecstasy.
Thomas Dolby on the beat!
What a time to be alive, if you missed it, you have my deepest sympathy, all these years later and I still can't describe how good it was
Pure party music. If this doesn't get you off the wall, nothing will.
This was the first song 🎵 I ever learnt to bodywork to. Great memories. Thanks 4 posting this classic 👌.
"they're just mad cause they aren't invited"
love the message of this song
Génial ce souvenir ! Fin 1982
My favorite group love it happy music good old days
rap attack man not a heart attack yeah love this old 1982 tune
pioneer of rap
Awesome, I've had this tune in my head since I was a kid, couldn't remember who sang it, then remembered some obscure compilation tape my father used to play in the car all the time called Raiders of the Pop Charts, checked out Part 1 not there, second check of part 2, damn here it is!!!!!!!
Thanks to the uploaded, happy I can finally revisit this classic 😊
3:35 After all these years I have only just noticed the dancing 'Mindy' in the 🌈 top and corduroy slacks!
Awesome... Nanoo Nanoo! 🏆👍🇬🇧
I'm So thankful for Video back then✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Whodini had The Rap Attack opening theme for Mr. Magic on 107.5 WBLS and the Opening music for Ralph McDaniel's Video Music Box! 1980s NYC stand up!!
Thomas Dolby has a magic wand for music composition and production.
Essa linha de baixo é contagiante!
the real hip-hop rap 🔥💣
Yes grew up with this sound love it Springfield ma
I did know this until the other day but Thomas Dolby had produced this classic track back in the early 80's and was also the keyboard player on Belinda Carlisle's first hit, 'Heaven is a place on earth'.
Didn't know that either but now I hear the _She Blinded Me With Science_ similarity!
@@NostalgiCrazy me too now .
Genius
Vice City's Wildstyle FM revealed this song to me😍😍😍
=))
Me too
REAL HIP-HOP!!!
Temazo de los años 80. Linda epoca.
Super souvenir funky waouh gigantesque indétrônable magnifique fantastique formidable incontournable planétaire inoubliable
Thank you Whodini! This is the song that introduced me to rap!!!
I just introduced my 10 month old grandson to Whoudini. This video stopped his crying, he really enjoyed it!! The kid has good taste!!
Timeless skating jam!
Now who can rock a video like this in a random office lobby?? The simplicity's giving me a rap attack lol
This was the music video that started it all!
Classic in the 80s classic now
John Fletcher "Ectasy" was just 18 in this music video!
Who's that
WoW
1:42 All 4 of them are gorgeous
SOUL!!!🥰🥰🥰👑
Excellent!!!! Been waiting a few years for someone to upload a good quality version of this. Thanks.
This was the early 80s, and they were rapping about the origins of Hip Hop. I use to hear Mr. Magic on the radio when i was 11 back then.
Thanks for entertaining us while driving in 🔥Gta Vice City 🔥
Meilleure époque en terme de musique 👌
😁👉 I don't remember hearing the attached joint until this date that I write 📝 about so amongst these comments sections.👉✌Peace & respect to the male rapper's listed as Whodini that has some 🎶 🎶 musical 🎶 joint's that play importance in my young lady teenage body form; and also✌peace & respect to Whodini sharing their natures spirits talents by the attached joint 🎨 arting the made-up communications as many people would sign language as white magic or clean magic drawn by lines and curves also sign languaged as talk, tell, words, rapp, English, speak and or say for.😊
NEVER goes out of style. Please come to CHICAGO!!!!!
WE NEEEEEEEED YOU!!!!! This BULLSHIT NOWADAYS BORES THE HELL OUT OF ME!
I've spent 3 days of my life in Chicago about 5 years ago. I'm from the UK. Love this sort of music.
When you thought it was a bad connection or MPEG glitch.. Nope! Early '80s video editing... So far ahead of its time.
BRILLIANT
Ahhh...Those were the days!
Nice music and video..@brianne in USA
"They would jam every weekend at the neighborhood centah!" Such amazing delivery, such funky music, extremely underrated group.
This was the first properly directed and produced rap video. I thought Magic's wand was before the message
What about Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Message?” Though gritty, that video was a large size budget and it came out in the summer of 82”. “Magics Wand” video came out at the end of 1982 (in 82”, only BET and USA’s Niteflite played this video since NY Hot Tracks came out the following year, and MTV didn’t play black American musicians at this time, especially rap and funk).
Favorite song of my teen years. Played it at least 500 times, easily.
great music, great times. rip to the guys of the whodini group
Tears of joy when I heard this song in 2023 ❤
My all time favourite music video. R.I.P Ecstasy
Clássic sound 😎✌️✌️🔥🔥🔥
Moja prva kazzeta rap u 1980 i pocetak repa sa robertom
this video is something. Something great
Amazing
Started my first record crate all that electro hip hop club stuff 🔥🔥😎
Vice City :')
Vice city my favorite :')
🤦🏻♂️
Yup Wildstyle pirate radio 📻
Yeah man
I just love this song