Ok I’m gonna keep it real here I’m a huge Kurtis Blow fan I grew up listening to all of his albums from the years of 1978-1986 by the time 1988 rolled around It was pretty much done with Kurtis Blow because you had a different style of rap that bursting onto the scene which was golden age era hip hop in which you had rappers such as Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Eric B & Rakim, KRS-ONE, and many others who were rapping to a different sound I mean Kurtis Blow tried to keep up with this style of rap but his generation era of hip hop was way more simpler in his early days when he came out with the Breaks,Tough,AJ Scratch,Basketball, and If I Ruled The World we’re all classic hits but Kurtis was from a way different era of rap but in my book he’s still one of the greatest mc’s of all time Kurtis Blow 4Ever NYC stand up.
I know right same thing I was thinking the track was okay and I see that still try to blend with the trend of rap 1988 but his flow is still in the disco rap era which I also cool with.
I love Kurtis Blow so much but this joint people kinda laughed at at the time . He was the only person in NYC in 1988 that had a Jeri Curl besides Full Force LOL 😂
Facts, thank you for the explanation. I’m a white kid from the Midwest born in 76 and it was inspirational for me and a Cpl of my friends and playing basketball on a small hoop on the wall in our garage/play room.. got me to live basketball. Even made a cardboard n Backboard and glued Jordan, Bird, Magic Johnson to the backboard I made and had lots of fun. Not knowing at the time that them 86/87 basketball cards would be worth so much. But sure made our hoops times fine while having the boombox listening to Curtis blow “basketball” while playing.. such great times and memories for Me as a kid
Rest in peace my brother Silkski. He is the first getting out of the limousine in this video. You are forever in my heart and thoughts. I still remember us chilling and laughing together at Mook's house in Shaolin. Peace! Wu fam for life.
Kurtis blow was a guest on Questlove supreme and said a young Salaam Remi was the one who produced this track and Marley Marl was the one doing the scratches.
Decent track. It was obvious he was trying to change his flow & style to fit that era in Hip Hop. Around this time tongue twisting & metaphors were getting big & fitting as many words as you can in a bar. Hip Hop was evolving from it's beginnings. Kurtis Blow was from a time when lyrics was much simpler. He was from the alphabet style of rhyming but this was around the time where you had to be a lyricist like KRS ONE, Kane, Rakim, etc & he wanted to step his game up to that level.
Yeah, I just wrote a separate comment saying the rhymes are a bit lame before I read yours and you're pretty much making the same point. KB's old style didn't really fit with the newer, more dynamic style of the Juice Crew rappers, Public Enemy and KRS1. This was pretty much the end of the road for him as a mainstream rapper.
Definitely a pioneer in the game and really help start hip hop! But it’s true, you can tell that he really didn’t keep up with the way hip hop was going… for whatever reason! Definitely a legend though!
"If I Ruled The World". That was probably his greatest release. Because he crossed over two music genres and was one of the 1st rappers to introduce the rest of the world outside of Washington DC,to GO GO music which had already been out for decades,and most people even in New York did not know about. All we knew was the song was a hit,and that Kurtis was DOPE! Even in 2020 that song still slams.
I remember diggin' this at the time, but KB was clearly caught up somewhere between Public Enemy (lyrically), and Kool Moe Dee (stylistically). It wasn't apparent to me as a teen when this came out, but it's pretty obvious to me now as I revisit this video. It was a hard watch throughout, but that part at the end where Kurtis almost goes full Flavor Fav in the limo was a gut punch. LOL
This was the very first casette tape with something else than songs for little children that I've had. The damn player practically ate it after a few years, though. It wouldn't fit in the same scene 10 years later, but I liked it quite a bit then.
@surfer53 I'd hate to know how people will perceive TODAY'S music 20 years from now....If it sucks now, I can only imagine in years to come. the 80's had the most talented musicians and producers, hands down.
Kurtis Blow will always be the King of Rap and Hip Hop, he was the first mc and rapper to have an full on attack Hardcore Funk Band, also took Rap and Hip Hop along with The Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel , to go beyond what society tried to cancel Rap and Hip Hop , they should be respected these days but now that Rap and Hip Hop has been taken ( just like Funk music genre is now taken ) things have changed for the worse, Kurtis Blow respected the Funk and Salsa music genre, once that was taken than next is Rap and Hip Hop
Man y'all can say what you want to say. But this was a hit for Kurtis Blow. Definitely underrated. Yes Kurtis 15 minutes of fame has expired. But who cares. A hit is a hit. And nowadays a lot of old schoolers are still making tracks so are a lot of y'all saying the same thing about them too? SHIT, some of the old schoolers are sounding way better than the new era of music anyway.
I remember when I was like 12 and Kurtis Blow came out with this after being gone. I was like, no one asked for this. It seemed like a parody by a Full Fledged Legend. Made me sick to my stomach.
The music evolved in the 90´s for sure, however, you still had bad ass lyricists in the 80´s. Kool Keith, Rakim, The DOC, Big Daddy Kane are some examples. I have an affinity for the 90´s because I grew up at the turn of the last decade. But there´s 1 thing that sets the two apart. 90´s was the era of SELLOUTS. Especially the late 90´s. NO weak shit came out in the 80´s.
I loved how he attempted to come back at a time when Ultramagnetic Mcs were dominant with the offbeat/onbeat flow Kool Keith demanded. Between Ultra and De La breaking the rules of rap patterns/subject matter and remaining untouched in an era of the LLs , Empds, Kanes and Rakims, you can see what King Kurtis Blow was attempting to do. You have to understand, after "I'm Chillin" and"If I ruled the world", Kurtis was not heard from. This was the era of Shan, BDP P.E., X Clan, Kool G, Grand Puba Maxwell and the Biz! So you have to respect this solid attempt at this momentary comeback! I remembered hearing this and was flipping like Yo! KB is back! Especially being a fan of Just Ice and hearing him get dissed here and there by Sir Vicious. One more thing Kool Moe Dee had the best reinvention of flow into the New School Era. Hell! He and Special K helped give the new School emcees their updated patterns. So he faired better with reinvention than Kurtis Blow attempted to do here. Nonetheless this song was certified DOPE! Bravo KB.
wow this man is the king of rap and he only has 2,522 subscribers lol now the king of rock and the king of hip hop are real singers and if you don't now who they are they are Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley
He's not really remembered anymore, but listen to "The Breaks" or "If I Ruled the World." This song is just a desperate attempt at trying to stay relevant.
+Ismail: Kurtis Blow did a good enough job for that decade. I don't think he was looking through a crystal ball, and worrying about who was going to criticize, and accuse him of staying relevant. He had thousands of fans that made him relavant enough. Those same fans have maintained their position today.
+Sharon Easley Kurtis Blow was doing good in the early-mid 80s. The problem is that he was clearly trying to keep up with changing tastes in popular music and resorted to copying what was popular during the late 80s. A lot of other good artists fell into this trap, not just him.
@surfer53 And 20 years from now, when people look back on TODAY'S music, they'll be like "I'd much rather listen to 80's music". Let's face it...today's music isn't even half as good as what kurtis did.
"...Cause the beat is dope & i'll show you how its done, boooooys..." *lol* Dammit, i'll never get done with this fuckin video 'cause i keep replaying at 2:01-2:03.
@MrKoolBreeze22 Music production & overall musicianship (and sound quality) took a serious nosedive when the 80's ended. The warm & lush production evolved into what we have now--DEMO quality productions churned out on laptops by non-musicians. The music of previous era's, especially the soul music of the 70's & 80's is always referenced, revisited, sampled, played, and collected. I do not predict this happening 20 years from now regarding today's sound, sorry.
@SPAZZOID100 agreed man, we have tons of wack shit out there now, 1960(and 50's)-1999 had the best music, music took a nose dive in most genres around 1997(but i think rap and r&b peaked in 93(end of new jack era) cuz 94-96 was the same thing but with the whole east vs west going on, rock peaked with grunge, and pop peaked in the early 90's with power pop), but during the second half of the millenium culture around 2000/2001, thats when things really got bad
Ok I thought it was just me. I didn’t want to come off disrespectful because I’m a younger millennial but I love old school music, including hip-hop. I respect KB as one of the greats but it was evident his time was up. The beat is cold af tho. I think a feature with Rakim would’ve been dope. Like a passing the torch kind of thing since hip-hop was starting to transition.
@Blackson187 Correct, it was 100 times harder for a black artist to chart at all back then, because of the disco backlash a few years earlier by mainstream America. But regardess, from 1984's "Ego Trippin"--"AJ Scratch" is perhaps one of the most seminal records in the early years of hip hop. I should know, I'm a native ny'er, and this is where it all started. "Basketball" also got a lot of play on black radio and at clubs. 1984 was perhaps Kurtis' biggest year.
The 80´s had Public Enemy, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice T, Afrika Bambaataa, BDP, Eric B and Rakim, Marley Marl and the Juice Crew, Egyptian Lover, NWA, King T, Too Short, Slick Rick, 80´s was better. Can´t beat the forefathers of hip hop ever!!!
@SPAZZOID100 that is NEVER gonna happen......tha pple that grew up listening to this kinda music maybe will say that but not the ppl growing up to listen to todays music...and todays music has evolved and it is better....BUT there are some bad representers of todays music that make you think that way....
yeah, this did'nt do to well....he still rapped liked he did in '79...of course that style of rap was done! but Cool Moe Dee, had a similiar rap style (with the pauses, between sentences)...but his fared better. Much props to Kurtis still!
@Blackson187 Let's not forget also that every Kurtis Blow production from this time period was received very well--Fat Boys, LoveBug Starski, Fearless Four--the list goes on. "Ego Trip" is everyone's favorite album of his..and PLEASE let's not talk about charting and radio stats. It has nothing to do with what is good and what is not. I've heard the most amazing records ever dreamed of, that nobody has ever heard before, let alone "charting"
Ok I’m gonna keep it real here I’m a huge Kurtis Blow fan I grew up listening to all of his albums from the years of 1978-1986 by the time 1988 rolled around It was pretty much done with Kurtis Blow because you had a different style of rap that bursting onto the scene which was golden age era hip hop in which you had rappers such as Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T, Eric B & Rakim, KRS-ONE, and many others who were rapping to a different sound I mean Kurtis Blow tried to keep up with this style of rap but his generation era of hip hop was way more simpler in his early days when he came out with the Breaks,Tough,AJ Scratch,Basketball, and If I Ruled The World we’re all classic hits but Kurtis was from a way different era of rap but in my book he’s still one of the greatest mc’s of all time Kurtis Blow 4Ever NYC stand up.
I know right same thing I was thinking the track was okay and I see that still try to blend with the trend of rap 1988 but his flow is still in the disco rap era which I also cool with.
Co-signed
I love Kurtis Blow so much but this joint people kinda laughed at at the time . He was the only person in NYC in 1988 that had a Jeri Curl besides Full Force LOL 😂
Facts, thank you for the explanation. I’m a white kid from the Midwest born in 76 and it was inspirational for me and a Cpl of my friends and playing basketball on a small hoop on the wall in our garage/play room.. got me to live basketball. Even made a cardboard n
Backboard and glued Jordan, Bird, Magic Johnson to the backboard I made and had lots of fun. Not knowing at the time that them 86/87 basketball cards would be worth so much. But sure made our hoops times fine while having the boombox listening to Curtis blow “basketball” while playing.. such great times and memories for
Me as a kid
Rest in peace my brother Silkski. He is the first getting out of the limousine in this video. You are forever in my heart and thoughts. I still remember us chilling and laughing together at Mook's house in Shaolin. Peace! Wu fam for life.
Welcome back, King of rap. Your sounds and that of the Sugarhill gang initiated me into rap music in the mid eighties.
The hardcore gangster Entourage, doing those
syncopated dances that's, hilarious.
🤣😂
This is Moe Dee’s style. The flow, the diction, the dancing style
Hell No, It’s not !! Moe was always a better emcee than KURTIS BLOW
I hear that Chuck D cadence as well too
@@sheldontaylor2002 Big daddy kane wrote on this album.He said he had to dumb it down for him.
This is an example of a legendary MC who doesn't know when to quit.
Yeah, this was wack, lol
You're right. But I love it, though! 🤷🏾♂️
LMAO!!!
@@marvingonzalez6891 this shit is corny but good.
@@vincentharris9702 I get it, I recorded it on a VHS off of Video Vibrations back when we did that sort of thing,lol
Everything about this track is phat.
Yes😁👊💯❗
This track is still dope as hell classic!!!
Classic. This stuff was so def back in ‘88 when I was a 6th grader mowing lawns and camping. Still sounds tight in 2019.
Kurtis blow was a guest on Questlove supreme and said a young Salaam Remi was the one who produced this track and Marley Marl was the one doing the scratches.
I miss this hip hop era. Long live 80s
He may not have been “in demand” but damn a hits a hit and this song will always slap
i am 19 old but i listen this great man OLD SCHOOL forever!!!
29 now wow time flys 💓bless you
50 YEARS HIP HOP LETS GO YALL 8/23
The dancers in the background is funny af lol
KURTIS BLOW KILLED THIS JOINT!!!!!!!
I think he killed a joint before writing those lyrics.
👊💯❗
This reminds me of when MC Hammer did Pumps n Bumps, when a rapper tries to stay relevant vs adapting well with time.
Nah, pumps beat and style worked with Hammer. His video just wasn't it. This shit right here was like Bob hope rapping 😂😂😂😂😂 yell
KB is always in POPULAR DEMAND in my book!
Robert Cummings ..........WORD my brotha ✌🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
I agree, fam 👊💯❗
kurtis blow tried to comeback with this. u know how music goes. when your time is gone...its gone. but the track is funky.
Rap was changing from the party scene to a harder edge
Decent track. It was obvious he was trying to change his flow & style to fit that era in Hip Hop. Around this time tongue twisting & metaphors were getting big & fitting as many words as you can in a bar. Hip Hop was evolving from it's beginnings. Kurtis Blow was from a time when lyrics was much simpler. He was from the alphabet style of rhyming but this was around the time where you had to be a lyricist like KRS ONE, Kane, Rakim, etc & he wanted to step his game up to that level.
Yeah, I just wrote a separate comment saying the rhymes are a bit lame before I read yours and you're pretty much making the same point. KB's old style didn't really fit with the newer, more dynamic style of the Juice Crew rappers, Public Enemy and KRS1. This was pretty much the end of the road for him as a mainstream rapper.
Actually y'all Big Daddy Kane wrote on this Album
Even in the early 80s though, Melle Mel could rap
kurtis blow was the man,grew up on this
Definitely a pioneer in the game and really help start hip hop! But it’s true, you can tell that he really didn’t keep up with the way hip hop was going… for whatever reason! Definitely a legend though!
"If I Ruled The World". That was probably his greatest release. Because he crossed over two music genres and was one of the 1st rappers to introduce the rest of the world outside of Washington DC,to GO GO music which had already been out for decades,and most people even in New York did not know about. All we knew was the song was a hit,and that Kurtis was DOPE! Even in 2020 that song still slams.
I remember diggin' this at the time, but KB was clearly caught up somewhere between Public Enemy (lyrically), and Kool Moe Dee (stylistically). It wasn't apparent to me as a teen when this came out, but it's pretty obvious to me now as I revisit this video. It was a hard watch throughout, but that part at the end where Kurtis almost goes full Flavor Fav in the limo was a gut punch. LOL
I feel free and happy when I see this for some reason lol
Kurtis Blow a legend through & through, but damn this will forever be funny
Old school for life!!
Here in 2021 😊💯❗
This was the very first casette tape with something else than songs for little children that I've had. The damn player practically ate it after a few years, though. It wouldn't fit in the same scene 10 years later, but I liked it quite a bit then.
@surfer53
I would take ANYTHING from the 80's over anything passing for "music" today
Marley Marl on the cuts!
Yes one of my favorite s by him much respect now this rap you love now 2016 turn up jam now
@surfer53
I'd hate to know how people will perceive TODAY'S music 20 years from now....If it sucks now, I can only imagine in years to come.
the 80's had the most talented musicians and producers, hands down.
Real Hip Hop✊🏾!!!!!!!
Kurtis Blow will always be the King of Rap and Hip Hop, he was the first mc and rapper to have an full on attack Hardcore Funk Band, also took Rap and Hip Hop along with The Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel , to go beyond what society tried to cancel Rap and Hip Hop , they should be respected these days but now that Rap and Hip Hop has been taken ( just like Funk music genre is now taken ) things have changed for the worse, Kurtis Blow respected the Funk and Salsa music genre, once that was taken than next is Rap and Hip Hop
I always liked this song from DAY ONE!
Kurtis Blow - Back By Popular Demand "The Classic BOOM 2016"
Yo I feel you on that word to my father that made God bless his soul that he Rest In Peace. September 18_2016. From M.C. Julio Leo J.R. Word up doc.
Man y'all can say what you want to say. But this was a hit for Kurtis Blow. Definitely underrated. Yes Kurtis 15 minutes of fame has expired. But who cares. A hit is a hit. And nowadays a lot of old schoolers are still making tracks so are a lot of y'all saying the same thing about them too? SHIT, some of the old schoolers are sounding way better than the new era of music anyway.
🔥
this is Real Hip-Hop!!
@Firstserger
today's music is soulless krap. I will take anything from the 80's over anything produced currently.
I don't even know what to say.Mind Blown.
I was a bad ass when this was out😂🤣
Big Daddy Kane or another emcee from 1988 would've spazzed out on this track
Simply the king of hip hop
I remember when I was like 12 and Kurtis Blow came out with this after being gone. I was like, no one asked for this. It seemed like a parody by a Full Fledged Legend. Made me sick to my stomach.
Back by popular demand
ME!
Valeu Kurtis Blow 💥👊🏽
I remember this joint. He was trying to change his style it didn't work out by a long shot lol. Late 80s he was done
You can say that my brother, but Kurtis jammed on this song.
I was in about 4th 5th grade when this came out and this shit was hard as fuck.
Get well soon Kurtis Blow
THIS JAM IS STILL THE JOINT, DESPITE THE COMMENTS MADE ABOUT HIM BACK THEN BEING PLAYED OUT...I BOUGHT THE CASSETTE BACK THEN AND WAX.
The music evolved in the 90´s for sure, however, you still had bad ass lyricists in the 80´s. Kool Keith, Rakim, The DOC, Big Daddy Kane are some examples. I have an affinity for the 90´s because I grew up at the turn of the last decade. But there´s 1 thing that sets the two apart. 90´s was the era of SELLOUTS. Especially the late 90´s. NO weak shit came out in the 80´s.
Nice Air Jordan 3 he's wearing
I remember when i buy this tape maybe in 88, i was 14 at the time, time is fast xD
Better than the "Bitches and Ho" era!
Legend K.Blow Love You Raps First Superstar
Well dope and fly WORD 😎
@mrknight411
Maybe so, but i'd rather listen to THIS than any of today's "music" hands down.
Spectacular to look at it...but still requiring another CHuRn...We are The Generation of Freedom thank you
80 GOLDEN RAPS
Show some Respect Youngns to the ones who laid the Foundation.....
I have huge respect for KB but this was one tune too far. His rhymes sound like he wrote them in about five minutes on a scrap of paper.
there are no youngins watching this, trust me
That part 👊💯❗
i love snow- informer, but kurtis kills it when it comes to oldschool. daamn u guys heard about heavy d..he died.. my heart goes to his family.
I loved how he attempted to come back at a time when Ultramagnetic Mcs were dominant with the offbeat/onbeat flow Kool Keith demanded. Between Ultra and De La breaking the rules of rap patterns/subject matter and remaining untouched in an era of the LLs , Empds, Kanes and Rakims, you can see what King Kurtis Blow was attempting to do. You have to understand, after "I'm Chillin" and"If I ruled the world", Kurtis was not heard from. This was the era of Shan, BDP P.E., X Clan, Kool G, Grand Puba Maxwell and the Biz! So you have to respect this solid attempt at this momentary comeback! I remembered hearing this and was flipping like Yo! KB is back! Especially being a fan of Just Ice and hearing him get dissed here and there by Sir Vicious. One more thing Kool Moe Dee had the best reinvention of flow into the New School Era. Hell! He and Special K helped give the new School emcees their updated patterns. So he faired better with reinvention than Kurtis Blow attempted to do here. Nonetheless this song was certified DOPE! Bravo KB.
Happy Birthday Kurtis.
The predecessor to MC Hammer
kurtis blow um dos primeiros rapers americanos...
Yeah baby!
Hey now 😁👊💯❗
👑
😎
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Yooo
All that's missing is Too Cold Scorpio pulling up in a limo.
this was my song back then
does he have on a leather jacket with no shirt on..in the rain??
Curren$y the hot spitta .
wow this man is the king of rap and he only has 2,522 subscribers lol now the king of rock and the king of hip hop are real singers and if you don't now who they are they are Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley
He's not really remembered anymore, but listen to "The Breaks" or "If I Ruled the World." This song is just a desperate attempt at trying to stay relevant.
+Ismail: Kurtis Blow did a good enough job for that decade. I don't think he was looking through a crystal ball, and worrying about who was going to criticize, and accuse him of staying relevant. He had thousands of fans that made him relavant enough. Those same fans have maintained their position today.
+Sharon Easley Kurtis Blow was doing good in the early-mid 80s. The problem is that he was clearly trying to keep up with changing tastes in popular music and resorted to copying what was popular during the late 80s. A lot of other good artists fell into this trap, not just him.
Funny how we almost dress like this today
Yeah. It returned after the baggy, militant, gangsta 90s and 00s clothing.
smh ! it was over that this point ! it hurts to watch
Real talk bro....Kurt is a legend but hell Naw!!!!
You right
S Watts it's okay I know it hurts but we can laugh at the mustache
Y'all trippin...this was the shit when it came out...
drkprtyboy .......damn show was the shit and I was 16 yrs old at the time so I remember ✌
drkprtyboy Amen im a hip hop fan ONLY in the 80S im a funk guy i still gotta hear this last album 1980-1988
Robert Fuller Jr i was 16 TOO his last album 80s best decade of hip hop 1980-1988 even though im a R&B PERSON of 70S 80S 1970-1988
A lot of people really slept on this song because it was rapped by Kurtis Blow. I liked it and still like it to this day.
@surfer53
And 20 years from now, when people look back on TODAY'S music, they'll be like "I'd much rather listen to 80's music".
Let's face it...today's music isn't even half as good as what kurtis did.
"...Cause the beat is dope & i'll show you how its done, boooooys..." *lol* Dammit, i'll never get done with this fuckin video 'cause i keep replaying at 2:01-2:03.
@MrKoolBreeze22
Music production & overall musicianship (and sound quality) took a serious nosedive when the 80's ended.
The warm & lush production evolved into what we have now--DEMO quality productions churned out on laptops by non-musicians.
The music of previous era's, especially the soul music of the 70's & 80's is always referenced, revisited, sampled, played, and collected. I do not predict this happening 20 years from now regarding today's sound, sorry.
This is true now more than ever
@SPAZZOID100 agreed man, we have tons of wack shit out there now, 1960(and 50's)-1999 had the best music, music took a nose dive in most genres around 1997(but i think rap and r&b peaked in 93(end of new jack era) cuz 94-96 was the same thing but with the whole east vs west going on, rock peaked with grunge, and pop peaked in the early 90's with power pop), but during the second half of the millenium culture around 2000/2001, thats when things really got bad
I gonna have to learn tht dance lol
This is so cheesy but its cool this is when you could be an MC and dance and not get laughed at.
There's something about the 80s that becomes instantly cheesy. If you weren't there, it's a nightmare. If you were it's a guilty pleasure.
@SPAZZOID100 I love 80s music and I'm 24.
This wasn't the best era when it came to hip hop, but we gotta give the roots of roots the most credit.
88 is considered the greatest year in Hip Hop by many. This song was forgotten before it even came out.
Just think, this was when it was just Startin... #HardAsHell
This hardcore gangsta style doesn't suit him. It ended in 1986 for him.
I wonder if the male dancers show this video to their families? lol
@@ontarionagasaki1441
Probably
Ok I thought it was just me. I didn’t want to come off disrespectful because I’m a younger millennial but I love old school music, including hip-hop. I respect KB as one of the greats but it was evident his time was up. The beat is cold af tho. I think a feature with Rakim would’ve been dope. Like a passing the torch kind of thing since hip-hop was starting to transition.
iam back in Norfolk VA by popular demand merry Christmas to all Sheldon H chambliss Dec 24 2017
He couldn't keep up....it was almost 1990 by then. Hip hop had changed alot since he dropped
BLKWRLD yeah by 1988 Kurtis Blow was played out but this album isn't bad .
@Blackson187
Correct, it was 100 times harder for a black artist to chart at all back then, because of the disco backlash a few years earlier by mainstream America.
But regardess, from 1984's "Ego Trippin"--"AJ Scratch" is perhaps one of the most seminal records in the early years of hip hop. I should know, I'm a native ny'er, and this is where it all started.
"Basketball" also got a lot of play on black radio and at clubs. 1984 was perhaps Kurtis' biggest year.
@mrivera279 Yeah, this for the drum & bass mixed along with their loops & sounds.
@SPAZZOID100 for real, definitely.
The 80´s had Public Enemy, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice T, Afrika Bambaataa, BDP, Eric B and Rakim, Marley Marl and the Juice Crew, Egyptian Lover, NWA, King T, Too Short, Slick Rick, 80´s was better. Can´t beat the forefathers of hip hop ever!!!
@SPAZZOID100 that is NEVER gonna happen......tha pple that grew up listening to this kinda music maybe will say that but not the ppl growing up to listen to todays music...and todays music has evolved and it is better....BUT there are some bad representers of todays music that make you think that way....
yeah, this did'nt do to well....he still rapped liked he did in '79...of course that style of rap was done! but Cool Moe Dee, had a similiar rap style (with the pauses, between sentences)...but his fared better. Much props to Kurtis still!
Moe Dee was a much better spitter than Kurtis.
Attack of the Zombie Baseheads
@SPAZZOID100 i agree but i have to say that eh 90's rap was the best of them all no doubt
@Blackson187
Let's not forget also that every Kurtis Blow production from this time period was received very well--Fat Boys, LoveBug Starski, Fearless Four--the list goes on.
"Ego Trip" is everyone's favorite album of his..and PLEASE let's not talk about charting and radio stats.
It has nothing to do with what is good and what is not.
I've heard the most amazing records ever dreamed of, that nobody has ever heard before, let alone "charting"