50 Hip-Hop Albums That Shaped ME – #4 – UTFO – UTFO
#4 – UTFO – UTFO 1985 While album tracks like “Lisa Lips” and “Bite It” were well received, it was their accidentally iconic piece “Roxanne, Roxanne” that lit up the radio and the streets, but first – a little backstory: The UnTouchable Force Organization bka U.T.F.O. released a single in 1984 called “Hanging Out” with […]
50 Hip-Hop Albums That Shaped ME – #3 – Whodini – Escape
#3 – Whodini – Escape release date 10/17/84 Now, I keep talking about the stuff I was hearing in the streets, on other people’s systems, and in people’s boomboxes, and I’d be clowning if I didn’t mention Whodini in that mix! Seriously, everywhere you turned, somebody was blasting “Five Minutes of Funk”, “Freaks Come Out […]
50 Hip-Hop Albums That Shaped ME – #2 Fat Boys – Fat Boys
#2 – Fat Boys – Fat Boys released 5/29/84 If you lived in ANY hood on the East Coast in 1984, one of the things you heard on EVERY block all Summer was this Kurtis Blow produced album! Going to the store – boom – “Can You Feel It”, coming home from school – boom […]
50 Hip-Hop Albums That Shaped ME – #1 – Run D.M.C. – Run D.M.C.
#1 – Run D.M.C. – Run D.M.C. *original publish date July 8, 2023 The self-titled album from this iconic rap group was released in March of 1984, but I remember hearing it LATE in 1984 (possibly ’85). I’ll explain why (LOL): I was basically born and raised in Syracuse, NY, so that’s where I experienced […]