First time I ever heard a Go Go beat had to have been '85 or '86. I lived in the back woods of West Virginia. My elementary school class went to DC for a school trip, got off the bus, made our way to the Smithsonian museum and right there on the street were two or three black cats banging out that Go Go beat on empty five gallon paint buckets, old metal coffee cans; pretty much anything that could be used as a percussion instrument. Most all the other school kids were laughing at these dudes. But, even at that age, my white bread, country fried ass was completely hooked! I actually got separated from the rest of the group because that sh*t put me in a trance! Long story short, I went hungry that day cuz I gave all my lunch money to those amazing street musicians. In return, I gained mad respect for those with that kind of raw talent, a deeper appreciation of people; no matter their sex, color or upbringing. Fast forward through the nineties when things really got poppin' Go Go was being played on all the DC radio stations and those same kids who were laughing at those cats were now blasting Sardines and DJ Kool (Aahaaa Aahaaa Aahaa - G.Dmn!) That five minutes in DC with a Go Go beat that drowned out the noise of rush hour traffic and everything else in the world for that moment changed my life in such a positive way. So much so that thirty plus years later, I'm boring you all with my story. But, seems I'm not the only one here with flashbacks and memories brought on by these songs. And, that's what it's all about!
Tony Custer - Great knowledge and instinct to music. A lot of people probably don't recognize DJ Kool as go go but classify him as rap. Nope, go go, just like Trouble Funk mixed in with hip hop with their pump me up and drop the bomb. Good ear.
cool cat For real? I was a freshman in college when I first heard this. At first I was like,"Huh?" But after awhile, it became one of my favorite songs that year.
Growing up in Alexandria VA right across the bridge from DC go go was a part of life as much as hip hop and this jam will be a classic as long as music is around
D.C. for life. its all where GoGo started. i grew up on M.L. King JR Ave. 1979 until i moved after i turned 25 in 1995 those were the times. i wish i could go back to the old days. i was one of two of the white people let in d.c. lol but it was different then. i dont care how old i get gogo is in my soul and so is d.c. Bugs i still love ya man.
I Kno you have seen and heard alot in DC round this era of time... besides all the killings, I Kno there was a lot of good times too in DC ya heard me.
Are you related to Joseph?? If so, he was my friend.. I had one friend growing up when I was on MLK. I don't mean to put his name out like dat but he was my best friend
Hey people!! Remember Chuck Brown! Chuck started the Washington, DC sound. So every time you hear groups like Junk Yard, Rare Essence (R E), Hucubucks, Northeast Groovers (NEG) and more bands. You hear DC hip-hip (rap) and fushion African beats. You definitely hear Chuck! RIP Chuck Brown! May Chuck love on through that DC sound he started many years ago!
Can’t tell you how many times the radio would play this song back in my childhood! Definitely was our anthem..I remember the radio would crank this joint early in the morning lol
They see us coming cause we dress our own way. At least we did. These youngins look like they from Atlanta today 🤦♂️. No dis to Atlanta, but we always had our own swag here before.
First time hearing this was on a movie by Run-DMC Tougher Than Leather. Before this It was 1981 I was introduced to Trouble Funk and Arcade Funk In 1983. Go Go music still lives.
You aren't kidding! If only we could go back for a quick visit.... wonder if there's a "build your own time machine" video on here somewhere lol. If not, I suppose we'll just have to ride that Go Go beat and let the music transport us. Stay blessed and thanks for the memories of the memories
For.real it was so special...we all got along and partied together. our parties we'd play rock and roll for a.while then we'd pump the go-go and the Whodini and Grandmaster Flash. WE WERE UNITED!!!
+Anita I love both genres and wish more of today's artists would produce each. I am 46 now though, so maybe just an old guy with wishful thinking. SIlento and Justin Bieber are what sells nowadays.
Ima tell you what baby: back in the day, BOTH black radio stations played house sets before the go-go sets. They were off the chain--all them old jonx--and a lot them tracks were Chicago records, yeah! Shout out to Sam "The Man" Burns & Pucci!
I'm from Toledo, OH. I grew up listening to house and ghetto tech music out of Chicago and Detroit. I enrolled into Norfolk State University in VA for college and the rest is history.... The Spartan Legion playing this song during football games got me hooked....
@@thinblacknoodles I know right.... That’s the first time I heard “Youngin” & “Shorty”... The pay was terrible but I loved the clothing allowance... Great times for real tho lol
GoGo will go international it’s just a matter of time. Good music doesn’t go unheard for too long. With the right amount of promotion and touring, then GoGo music will be a respected genre across the world.
North Kackalack (NC) up in here! I remember going to DC/MD to visit fam and I went to Landover Mall(mid 80's when it was open,lol) and bought this record and RE's "Live at the Breeze Metro Club" album! Always got the parties and down south back yard BBQs jumpin! Along with Chuck (Brown) of course! Good Times!
I remember being packed in like a sardine at Go-Gos back in the 90s when I was a teenager, and got to see Junkyard Band... I remember being so lost in the beat and the crowd, like we all were moving as one... Thank you for exposing my young brain to Go-Go !!!!!
I'm from Newport News VA some may know it as Bad Newz VA and I heard of this GO GO song we used to listen to a little bit of GO GO Music on 103 JAMZ out in Norfork VA the Hampton Roads Area Of Virginia
Whew!! Still fire and gasoline. Reminds me of my younger days sneaking out to hit a GO GO show!!! Back, Junk, N.E.G, Rare Essence, Pure Elegance etc etc and of course the late great legend Mr Chuck Brown!!
I will never forget Barry Farm Dwellings ( DCHA). District of Columbia Housing Authority ( Projects) next the Ana (AKA) the Anacostia ( Green line) Metrorail station WMATA DC Metro transit.
I'm not from the DC area i'm the other Washington Washington state but I can remember hearing go-go music when I was a Youngin at house parties in the 1970s the dudes in the military that were from the DC area brought it with them when they were stationed here at Fort Lewis and McCord Air Force Base in Washington state good times!😀✌🏿
Tougher than leather 1988 ..God DAMN I miss my days,old school hip hop will never die, I was a bboy them and I'm a bboy now ,50 years old...SO WHAT IS MY STYLE,MY MEMORIES,MY LIFE... THANK U RUSSELL AND RICK for making the best record company DEF JAM..fo sho
Sardines!!! No doubt this is a old -Washington, DC hip hop rap over DC go- go music beat. Back when DC - Go Go was the night club or place where go-go bands played.
I'm totally going back to my middle school years-shouting this in the bleachers during PE class, screaming along with the song at the school dances-good times and great memories! BUCK LODGE, BABY!
I was in the 7th grade when this song came out . We had a boom box, and I had a book bag full of tapes for our school dance! Petersburg Virginia is in the house.
First time I ever heard a Go Go beat had to have been '85 or '86. I lived in the back woods of West Virginia. My elementary school class went to DC for a school trip, got off the bus, made our way to the Smithsonian museum and right there on the street were two or three black cats banging out that Go Go beat on empty five gallon paint buckets, old metal coffee cans; pretty much anything that could be used as a percussion instrument.
Most all the other school kids were laughing at these dudes. But, even at that age, my white bread, country fried ass was completely hooked! I actually got separated from the rest of the group because that sh*t put me in a trance! Long story short, I went hungry that day cuz I gave all my lunch money to those amazing street musicians. In return, I gained mad respect for those with that kind of raw talent, a deeper appreciation of people; no matter their sex, color or upbringing. Fast forward through the nineties when things really got poppin' Go Go was being played on all the DC radio stations and those same kids who were laughing at those cats were now blasting Sardines and DJ Kool (Aahaaa Aahaaa Aahaa - G.Dmn!)
That five minutes in DC with a Go Go beat that drowned out the noise of rush hour traffic and everything else in the world for that moment changed my life in such a positive way. So much so that thirty plus years later, I'm boring you all with my story. But, seems I'm not the only one here with flashbacks and memories brought on by these songs. And, that's what it's all about!
Good music is universal brother!!! Go-go is straight up soul cranking vibes. Just bangin' beats on anything that kicks back!!!
I actually live on the eastern panhandle in WV, in Jefferson County
Tony Custer uh
Tony Custer - Great knowledge and instinct to music. A lot of people probably don't recognize DJ Kool as go go but classify him as rap. Nope, go go, just like Trouble Funk mixed in with hip hop with their pump me up and drop the bomb. Good ear.
911 band
DC in the house…Those were the good ole days 👍🏿
2024, who's here? Roll call😊
Here!
ME ME ME 🤭
🥳
Tred
The white Steve Harvey is here.
2024 and still loving this
Rawest Go Go Ever. Not played it for years then one day played it. That bass vibrating my window. Watching youth walk past with that WTF is that?
Go Go will never die💯
NEVAAAA!!
You sure about that!?
Indeed not
Maryland in the house! DMV gotta love it!
My dad play the electric keyboard in this song
cool cat Way kewl! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
really does he really
cool cat electric keyboard? you mean Moog synthesizer?
cool cat your father Jason?
cool cat For real? I was a freshman in college when I first heard this. At first I was like,"Huh?" But after awhile, it became one of my favorite songs that year.
Gotta be from DC to know' Southeast standup!
Actually we've been spreading it. Only the real can dig it though. I never go out of DC without proper crankage to expose the people to.
Sarrrrdiiines!
Soufeeeeesssee
I'm from Brooklyn and I know
I'm from Toronto...but I went to Howard LOL
Growing up in Alexandria VA right across the bridge from DC go go was a part of life as much as hip hop and this jam will be a classic as long as music is around
Yep! Grew up in Alexandria too! Da-Highway! Old Town, Booker-T, Route 1 for life!
D.C. for life. its all where GoGo started. i grew up on M.L. King JR Ave. 1979 until i moved after i turned 25 in 1995 those were the times. i wish i could go back to the old days. i was one of two of the white people let in d.c. lol but it was different then. i dont care how old i get gogo is in my soul and so is d.c. Bugs i still love ya man.
I Kno you have seen and heard alot in DC round this era of time... besides all the killings, I Kno there was a lot of good times too in DC ya heard me.
Where did y'all stay at? I lived on MLK too
Are you related to Joseph?? If so, he was my friend.. I had one friend growing up when I was on MLK.
I don't mean to put his name out like dat but he was my best friend
You know how it go baby once in the Yard always in the Yard. Stamped 💯
I was born and raised in dc too. ❤❤
This never gets old. I seriously dig the beat and it makes me wanna get up to get down. LMAO
Hey people!! Remember Chuck Brown! Chuck started the Washington, DC sound. So every time you hear groups like Junk Yard, Rare Essence (R E), Hucubucks, Northeast Groovers (NEG) and more bands. You hear DC hip-hip (rap) and fushion African beats. You definitely hear Chuck! RIP Chuck Brown! May Chuck love on through that DC sound he started many years ago!
Any more recommendations for a young cat?
Backyard Band
@@RBlair69 shit you late on that one, skillet is in my top 10
Well said!!!!True GO GO DMV for life!!!!
Let's not forget Trouble Funk and EU
My mother introduced this song to me when I was a little boy. I thank her for doing so.
Can’t tell you how many times the radio would play this song back in my childhood! Definitely was our anthem..I remember the radio would crank this joint early in the morning lol
WPGC
Lol they def did. I remember that also!
@@carltonhamilton316Where were you raised! The radio NEVER played this song here in H-TOWN!!! The DJ'S in Houston did play some Trouble Funk though.
I'm glad GO-GO neve went mainstream cause everywhere I go when they hear me rocking my Back or Essence they Know where I;m from.
They see us coming cause we dress our own way. At least we did. These youngins look like they from Atlanta today 🤦♂️. No dis to Atlanta, but we always had our own swag here before.
That Percussion Bangin 🥁🔥💯
First time hearing this was on a movie by Run-DMC Tougher Than Leather. Before this It was 1981 I was introduced to Trouble Funk and Arcade Funk In 1983. Go Go music still lives.
I also heard this song for the first time on the RUN-DMC movie as well. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿✌🏿🤓
Old school DC for life! My favorite joint was The WORD! Joint cranked hard!!!
Omg I wish I had a time machine! I want to go back just for a little while #classic
You aren't kidding! If only we could go back for a quick visit.... wonder if there's a "build your own time machine" video on here somewhere lol. If not, I suppose we'll just have to ride that Go Go beat and let the music transport us. Stay blessed and thanks for the memories of the memories
+Tony Custer 😋👍 Classical tunes!!
Tabitha Waters doing the butt remember that song
For.real it was so special...we all got along and partied together. our parties we'd play rock and roll for a.while then we'd pump the go-go and the Whodini and Grandmaster Flash. WE WERE UNITED!!!
Tabitha Waters Me too. And if I catch you freakin in the freak a deak zone, you already know 😉
As a house head from Chi-town I can say I love me some Go Go music.
+Anita I love both genres and wish more of today's artists would produce each. I am 46 now though, so maybe just an old guy with wishful thinking. SIlento and Justin Bieber are what sells nowadays.
Ima tell you what baby: back in the day, BOTH black radio stations played house sets before the go-go sets. They were off the chain--all them old jonx--and a lot them tracks were Chicago records, yeah! Shout out to Sam "The Man" Burns & Pucci!
Anita me too
Ditto
Hey Anita,
I’m From Chi Town As Well. And Just Like You I Love Go Go Music.
Man this stuff is classic...best time of my life going to the go go's in VA, DC and MD..
Agreed. Not to mention how often George Clinton et al performed in the area!!
Thank you, Rick Beato and Rick Rubin
I'm so glad ppl still here in 2024
I used to live in DC in 94-95 and fell in love with going out for go go.
This is one of my favorite Old School Go-Go Joint.
This will always make you feel better if you’re in a bad mood.
This is my jam.. Southern Va South boston here.. i remember listening. To dis wen my older sister was jamming it on a Kenwood stereo set. Love it
YES!!! VA in the house. I'm from Danville...
Alex Wilson don't do the ... thing u got a racetrack right down the street from you
Alex Wilson
My grandma was from Danville!
Alex Wilson me too... I'm from danville too.
I'm from Toledo, OH. I grew up listening to house and ghetto tech music out of Chicago and Detroit. I enrolled into Norfolk State University in VA for college and the rest is history.... The Spartan Legion playing this song during football games got me hooked....
Shout out to NSU 1987!
You went to the old NSU, back then, NSU was wild 😜 DC boys run 🏃♂️ NSU
J
Shout to You!!!
I'm right across the water from Norfolk in Hampton!!
Behold, the Green & Gold!!!
Leesburg VA!!! Yes I'm a big go~go fan💯💯
Good God this brings back some memories, growing up in N VA in the 80s.
Rick beato and rick rubin brought me here
Same - phenomenal
Tred❤@@jdamicoofficial
I was in my early 20's. I worked hard and partied harder at an HBCU! They played this constantly in NC. I will never forget those times.
DMV all day!!!!
Love the DMV Gogo to the mumbo sauce
Daphane Bowman. DMV LETS DO IT
Daphane Bowman my sister’s boyfriend’s grandfather is the guitarist for E U...they’re known for “doing tha butt” I couldn’t be anymore DMV proud
A little tired but better
Everyday!!!!
Awwwwww shidd.! Dc alley cookouts.! 😫 this makes me wanna cry.! I wanna go back to being a kid.! Where there was no bills and gogo was everything.
Stevie Girl You're from DC?
GOGO was life
Stevie Girl 😂😂😂
Who’s listening in 2020!
2024 lol❣
Beatz❣ and what a banger
Fill like I'm listening to LWR 92.5 and jasper the vinyl junkie on the airwaves !!!
God bless the 80's vibe !
Rick Rubin Rick Beato interview brought me here.
Just found this one today in Richmond, VA. Used to have it twenty years ago, been looking for it
if I can go back to the yr 1987 and 1988 I do it all over again
Sho nuff
Classic ❤
Classic GO GO right here
Dc all day baby! I swear this reminds me of my childhood ❤️❤️❤️
This is my jam 1986 I use go and see junkyard play all the time go-go head 4life yasssssss
This is a GoGo classic back in my Job Corp days in Maryland.... don’t forget about those DC pool parties
Lol I learned about this music Job Corp 1993 VA
@@thinblacknoodles yeah I was in Port Deposit, Maryland in 1984-1986, Job Corp was crazy as hell back then lol
@@tyehodge4075 especially when we would have the dances, I have to admit DC would take over the floor always lol
@@thinblacknoodles I know right.... That’s the first time I heard “Youngin” & “Shorty”... The pay was terrible but I loved the clothing allowance... Great times for real tho lol
@@tyehodge4075 🤣🤣🤣
took me right back to middle and high school......... True talent here this was on buckets and cans..Repen DC..
...
I heard this soooomuch in DC All the Gogo acts
Nothing like the classic D.C.
😢 and it will never be the same again now. RIP Chocolate City and all the best of our energy 😭
Yes the best old school
GoGo will go international it’s just a matter of time. Good music doesn’t go unheard for too long. With the right amount of promotion and touring, then GoGo music will be a respected genre across the world.
Without being gentrified and commodified, of course....🎶🤔
Even it the God Father gone ?
No it won't lol, not enough original music
Closes we got to goin somewhere with this was def jam signing JYB and wale working with UCB n we still didn’t pop off like that
dubstep used to be my shit, until it went mainstream. pray that gogo wont, shit can go south quick
Love Go Go
The cookout theme right here DMV STYLE!
It’s been ages since I’ve heard this when I grew up in the DMV. I now live in TX....brings back good memories.
DC all Day.....this is Go-Go...Now what my kids listen to has no beat...
North Kackalack (NC) up in here! I remember going to DC/MD to visit fam and I went to Landover Mall(mid 80's when it was open,lol) and bought this record and RE's "Live at the Breeze Metro Club" album! Always got the parties and down south back yard BBQs jumpin! Along with Chuck (Brown) of course! Good Times!
Virginia, Maryland & D.C stand up👂🏾👊🏾✊🏾👌🏾💯
kendra X That picture is sickening!!
kendra X 🙌🏾💕
VA baby for life. I miss go-go music but it's still in my veins and I pass the tradition down to my kids to keep it alive.
And Maryland, ya heard?!
@@shevellewhips4322 test tube baby...bitch you ain't even got a picture on your profile...stfu talkin to me
When I moved to NOVA I didn't know nothing bout go go. By the time I moved I was all about it.
This bass line was so ahead of its time
Tha first go go beat I ever heard Quonset club on branch ave, Living in the southeast DC projects Barryfarms. Suitland MD Anacostia projects.
I remember being packed in like a sardine at Go-Gos back in the 90s when I was a teenager, and got to see Junkyard Band... I remember being so lost in the beat and the crowd, like we all were moving as one... Thank you for exposing my young brain to Go-Go !!!!!
I'm from Newport News VA some may know it as Bad Newz VA and I heard of this GO GO song we used to listen to a little bit of GO GO Music on 103 JAMZ out in Norfork VA the Hampton Roads Area Of Virginia
every time I hit dc in the '80s....this was on the radio...
DC BABY!!!
So you kno when random songs pop in your head && it keeps replaying so you search it up && play it endless times😂? Yeahhhhh #DCMade ❤️
GREW UP LISTENING TO THEM LOVE DC GO-GO
Whew!! Still fire and gasoline. Reminds me of my younger days sneaking out to hit a GO GO show!!! Back, Junk, N.E.G, Rare Essence, Pure Elegance etc etc and of course the late great legend Mr Chuck Brown!!
God i miss these days! Only dc kids in the day know this music!
Wait now,I'm from Bmore and we was down with this.
Norfolk baby!
Just played it for my children. They loved it! Classic!
I will never forget Barry Farm Dwellings ( DCHA). District of Columbia Housing Authority ( Projects) next the Ana (AKA) the Anacostia ( Green line) Metrorail station WMATA DC Metro transit.
I'm not from the DC area i'm the other Washington Washington state but I can remember hearing go-go music when I was a Youngin at house parties in the 1970s the dudes in the military that were from the DC area brought it with them when they were stationed here at Fort Lewis and McCord Air Force Base in Washington state good times!😀✌🏿
I’m from Philly, I remember this knocking at block parties. Shout to DC
Saw them yesterday in DC at the Emancipation Day Fest. Sardines are still Fresh AF. JYB is a DC treasure.
Brings this NYer back to her freshman year of college. Loved this!!
Love this song and yes, I like sardines and pork and beans too.
1985-86 on the campus of SC State University....rockin' out with that da** DC crew!
Off the hook! Love you guys!!!!!
Especially DC's own. DJ Cool.
Drums and Congos. Go-Go music
Came here from a Rick Beato interview.
DMV ❤❤❤ ... I'm from the V (Virginia)
One of my all time favorite songs. I still blast this from my high school days!!!! 💯👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I been living in Houston Texas since I was 18 but shit I still miss the GoGo vibes since I grew up in the DMV 🙏🏽
Tougher than leather 1988 ..God DAMN I miss my days,old school hip hop will never die, I was a bboy them and I'm a bboy now ,50 years old...SO WHAT IS MY STYLE,MY MEMORIES,MY LIFE... THANK U RUSSELL AND RICK for making the best record company DEF JAM..fo sho
I remember hearing go go in my hood in Baltimore because my homie cousin was from D.C.
Love go go so damn much, im shocked how many people have never heard of it....crazy! I love it!
Rip Shorty Pop
I remember lmao when this 1st dropped back in the day
Love these songs please add more
Heyyyyyyy d.c in the house ❤️❤️
Sardines!!! No doubt this is a old -Washington, DC hip hop rap over DC go- go music beat. Back when
DC - Go Go was the night club or place where go-go bands played.
The lead singer Shorty Pop was one of the most feared killers in D.C.
Umph, at work closing my eyes, reminiscing lol, sweet memories, SEAT PLEASANT, MD in the HOUSE!!
Seatpleasant All Day
Deandre Sims All Day!
***** PRECISELY!!!
I'm totally going back to my middle school years-shouting this in the bleachers during PE class, screaming along with the song at the school dances-good times and great memories! BUCK LODGE, BABY!
Mr. Avery my grandparents lived on Birchleaf Ave 2 houses down from the Sugar Shack since the 60's.
Used to listen to this the summer I was . . . .hmmm 17? 18? LOVE IT
Yasss! I remember going to the go-go’s, until it became dangerous!
O-M-G!!! BRINGS Back Memories of VA in 1990...
Damn I miss home!! 124 ruffin it off!
2012 and stil listenin to this. #old music is the best music
I remember this from Tougher Than Leather. Pop-A-Lot brought me here.
I was in the 7th grade when this song came out . We had a boom box, and I had a book bag full of tapes for our school dance! Petersburg Virginia is in the house.