...I've finished all of my running around and am kickin' in the cut...hey, it's still Thursday, yo...so check this Hip Hop classic from LL Cool J's debut Radio LP...man, when this shit came out in '86, nobody was really slicing in guitar riffs like this outside of Run DMC (also from the borough of Queens) not bad for a 16 year old punk who wore leather emulating Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5-- check the way he's working the breath control at the end of his verses...this LP has some other great cuts like "You'll Rock", "Dear Yvette", "Radio" and "You're a Liar" (which features a then unknown producer named Russell Simmons telling lies in the background)...on this cut, James Todd's DJ, Cut Creator, helped change that "no guitar shite" forever with the tune below...they even sprinkled on some Go-Go drumming into the mix...this is classic Hip Hop at it's finest.you bring the woodpecker, I'll bring the wood...
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...and then this jam came out as an EP a bit later when LL souped up his flow to reply to Kool Moe Dee's "How Ya Like Me Now" which was written as a dis on Cool J ( it was later added to the Walking with a Panther LP, I think)...LL bested KMD with this joint, in my opinion, son...boomin' beats, check...funky guits, double-check..dig...
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Cool James. Still cool after all these years...
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Remember hearing this the first time on the car radio on a trip to LA. Sounded so raw and surreal back then....and still does now! Good choices.
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It was one of the first Hip Hop records on CD. I played it over and over and over. Thanks Crash
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@Mikey: well, the older stuff...I think he lost me on that G.O.A.T. LP (Greatest of All Time) but hey, the older shite's still proper listening...
@Ingham: Nice...on my first trip to NYC, I was handed a bootleg tape of DJ Redd Alert with a half-hour mix of this tune (not as boring as it sounds, it was super-layered and grooving...which begs the eternal question: man, what did I do with that cassette tape?
@Cody: oh yeah, that's right! that reconfiguration was a boon to a lot of music coming out then (got it into more ears than albums would've...kinda like digital is right now...)