It was. Spoonie Gee: Nah, not really. That part really wasnt my idea, but it sounded so good, I said, Leave it like that. As far as people today, guys trying to get that sound, it was different back then. I think my record was the biggest record that he ever had. AllHipHop.com: You are one of a select few of artists who can say they released rap records in the 1970s. Spoonie Gee: Yeah.
Spoonie Gee: I think he was going with the flow. Dalvin of Jodeci talks about his recent remix to JoJo Hailey’s “Special,” what he’s up to nowadays, tells epic Jodeci stories, and much more!AllHipHop caught up with Smoove at the Kandypens house in Los Angeles, who was rocking a blue LA Dodgers jersey paired with Gucci socks.
I wasnt trying to be commercial or nothin, I was just rappin. He has been credited with originating the term hip hop and some of the themes in his music were precursors of gangsta rap. the login failed. The bulk of early rap records reproduced an MC's party routine with a loose sequence of narrative, boasting, and call and response. Spoonie Gee Top Spoonie Gee Lyrics You's An Old Fool I'm All Shook Up Spoonie Gee The Godfather Hit Man Take It Off This Is The Place To Be Mighty Mike Tyson Spoonin' Rap Did You Come To Party Related Spoonie Gee Links Spoonie Gee wiki Yum Yum video He is ranked #15 in list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time by The Source.Rick is also a VH-1 Hip Hop Honors honoree.
Related Artists. See all 3 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Start your 30-day free trial of Unlimited to listen to this album plus tens of millions more songs. and moved to Sugarhill Records, where he enjoyed further hits with "Spoonie's Back" and the collaboration with The Sequence on "Monster Jam". AllHipHop.com: Grandmaster Caz and Busy Bee still make music, but theyve made careers out of lecturing and educating on Hip-Hop too. Tuff City is just Tuff City, a good company. Biography from Wikipedia. I went downstairs and Peter Brown introduced himself, and so then he said, Can you rap? So I gave him a lil taste of what I could do, and then he said, You want to go into the studio? I said Yeah. The next day, we went into the studio and I made Spoonin Rap. The rest is history. Im glad I got mine. Spoonie Gee has been credited with inventing the term "hip hop", as well as originating the phrase "yes, yes, y'all" which has become a rap trope. Spoonie Gee has been described as "the original gangster rapper". You were the first nationally recognized MC from Harlem. Youre still with them today. In 1980, Spoonie collaborated with Sequence on a classic single, "Monster Jam", probably the last word on the series of "Good Times" / "Another One Bites the Dust" variations, and a classic in the Sugar Hill vein, complete with a bone-crushing bass line and ecstatic crowd noises.
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Records, his first release for the label being the similarly minimalistic "Love Rap" (on which he was accompanied on Congas by his brother Pooche Costello), issued on the B-side of the Treacherous Three's "New Rap Language" (on which he also featured), leading to his early nickname of 'The Love Rapper'. Spoonin Rap was recorded in one take.
Spoonie Gee: Yeah. He has been credited with originating the term hip hop and some of the themes in his music were precursors of gangsta rap. Really, a lot of people got the Peter Browns mixed up. His mother died when he was twelve years old, and he went to live with his uncle, the record producer Bobby Robinson, in whose apartment he began to practice rapping. Bass! It turned out very well. The sounds is different too, but its still the same as far as the culture is concerned. Spoonie Gee (born Gabriel Jackson) is one of the earliest rap artists, and one of the few rap artists to release records in the 1970s. $1.4 Million Gabriel Jackson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Gabriel Jackson (born. Spoonie Gee (born Gabriel Jackson) is one of the earliest rap artists, and one of the few rap artists to release records in the 1970s. Marleys very creative, and we got along very well. How did it feel when you saw that new class come in and really switch things up in the mid 80s? Like I said, we went in, did one take, and the record became big. So to have a lawyer thats on top of that is very important, cause hes gonna make sure you get paid.
AllHipHop.com: Peter Brown had a large name in Disco in those days.
Do you still own many copies? Rap was hot [because of] Sugar Hill Gang. As a pre teen in the early 80’s, I stayed glued to the component set listening to someone playing incredible bass on joints like Freedom by The Furious 5 and Grandmaster Flash, 8th Wonder by The Sugar Hill Gang, Monster Jam By Spoonie Gee with Sequence and especially Flash To The Beat by Grandmaster Flash.