I said it before and I'll say it again. Sway, Tech & Rev are the only reason why I still own a radio. Word to LL.
All that aside, tonight's episode was EPIC.
MC Shan!!!! Doug E. Fresh!!!!
Unreal, right? Lucky for you, I caught it all. As usual, the show was two hours long, so I trimmed out the music (except for the special, exclusive freestyle moments, of course). I also blended the various splits, as opposed to having a handful of 5-10 minute clips. Instead, we've got 40+ minutes of straight-up Hip-Hop knowledge.
Doug E. Fresh & MC Shan on The Wake Up Show
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Quotables (in chronological order):
"[Grandmaster Caz & Melle Mel]...two of the greatest emcees of all time...hands down...most styles [in Hip-Hop] come out of Caz, Melle Mel or Moe Dee...the roots..."
- Doug E. Fresh
"...I'm telling you. Juice Crew was my crew, alright? And they was scared of [KRS-One]. I'ma tell it right now. Why you think it was Shan against BDP? And I had the Juice Crew. Aight? Y'understand? (Wowww!!!) It was one man, me, against a whole borough..."
- MC Shan
[On battling]: "Battle was so personal... It wasn't really about skills... It was about 'personally, I'm gonna disrespect you. I'ma look in your history. I'ma try to find who you really are and go in'...That was the birth of the new style of battle, and people don't know that."
- Doug E. Fresh
"Tech asked 'Where did the term 'Hip-Hop' come from?' The term, to me, from the way that I remember, it's a spin-off of what bebop was. Jazz was the bepop. Based on Herc and everybody up in the Bronx...The kind of Hip-Hop, going back and forth...That started in the Bronx. The whole crowd participation and interaction, that started in Harlem. But alot of people don't understand that Hip-Hop started through the Hispanics and the Blacks. Together. Y'know what I mean? You can't separate the two. They started it together. They grew up together. They was in the projects playing together. It was the battles, it was the dance, it was the graffitti and the whole interaction... Hip-Hop became a term that cats jumped on... From the way we always spoke about it, it was a spin-off of what bebop was about. And then we created Hip-Hop... That's how we came up with it... Hip-Hop is a lifestyle. It was what we do. Who we are."
- Doug E. Fresh
"Here's what happened: Eric B. found Rakim... That [style] was new... Marley, you didn't know everything brotha, 'cuz Eric B. & Rakim came off... Marley didn't wanna do it... Marley's like 'I'm not doing that'..."
- MC Shan on producing 'Check Out My Melody' and 'Eric B. Is President'
Question posed: "What if G Rap and Kane got into it?"
"G Rap was really the first original gangsta rapper until L.A. tried to call it...I'll bet even if you ask N.W.A...." (ouch!)
- MC Shan
....okay, I'll stop spoiling it for you. Just go ahead and listen to the interview!
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Bonus sh*t:
Own these albums:
Doug E. Fresh (1988) The World's Greatest Entertainer
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MC Shan (1987) Down By Law
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P.S. "That's the key: A LOT OF FUN! That's what people forgot about in Hip-Hop..."
