vote = make a nostalgia sub-forum in the album review part and move mine and born to kills threads in there. so people who been into hip hop for a while could educate newjacks on old school hip hop
biz markie - vapors

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Artist: BizMarkie
Album: Goin Off
Song: Vapors

Can you feel it
Nothin' can save ya
For this is the season of catchin' the vapors
And since I got time, what I'm gonna do
Is tell ya how to spread it throughout my crew
Well you all know TJ Swan who sang on my records
Made the music, "Nobody Beats the Biz"
Well, check it
Back in the days before this began
He usually tried to talk to this girl name Fran
The type of female with fly Gucci wear
With big trunk jewelry and extensions in her hair
When Swan tried to kick it, she always fessed
Talkin' about "Nigger, please, you work for UPS"
Since he wasn't no type of big drug dealer
My man TJ Swan didn't appeal to her
But now he trucks gold and wears fly Valley boots
Rough leather fashions and tough silk suits
Now she stop frontin' an' wants to speak
And be comin' to all the shows
Every single weekend
To get his beeper number, she'd be beggin' please
Dyin' for the day to get skeezed

She caught the vapors (4X)

I got another partner that's calm and plain
He goes by the name of the Big Daddy Kane
A mellow type of fellow that's laid back
Back in the days, he was nothin' like that
I remember when he used to fight every day
What grown-ups would tell him he would never obey
He wore his pants hangin' down and his sneakers untied
And a rasta-type Kango tilted to the side
Around his neighborhood, people treated him bad
And said he was the worst thing his mom's ever had
They said that he will grow up to be nothin' but a hoodlum
Or either injail or someone would shoot him
But now he's grown up, to their surprise
Big Daddy got a hit record sellin' worldwide
Now the same people that didn't like him as a child be sayin'
Can I borrow a dollar, ooh, you're a star now

They caught the vapors (4X)

Now I got a cousin by the name of Von Lee
Better known to y'all as Cutmaster Cool V
He cuts scratch, transform with finesse
...(cuts and scratches)...and all that mess
Well I remember when he first started to rock
And tried to get his job in a record shop
He was in it to win it but the boss fronted
Said, "Sorry Mr. Lee, but there's no help wanted"
Now my cousin Von still tried on and on and on
'Til the like break of dawn
To put this j-o-b in effect
But they'd look right past him and be like "next"
Now for the year of '88
Cool V is makin' dollars so my cousin's like straight
He walks into the same record shop as before
And the boss'll be like, "Von, welcome to my store"
Offerin' him a job but naw, he don't want it
Damn it feels goo to see people up on it
'Cause I remember when at first they wasn't
Now guess what they caught from my cousin
The vapors

They caught the vapors (4X)

Last subject of the story is about Biz Mark
I had to work for mine to put your body in park
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be down
With a lot of M.C.-deejayin' crews in town
So in school on Nobel Street, I say "Can I be down, champ"
They said no and treated me like a wet food stamp
After gettin' rejected, I was very depressed
Sat and wrote some def doo-doo rhymes at my rest
When I used to come to parties they'd make me pay
I'd have to beg to get on the mike and rap that day
I was never into girls, I was just into my music
They acted like I wanted to keep it
Instead of tryin' to use it
But now things switched without belief
"Yo, Biz, do you remember me from Nober Street, chief?
We used to be down back in the days"
It happens all the time and never ceases to amaze

They caught the vapors (4X)


thats how its done born to kill. classic shit, not a song that was average when it came out.

I remember Vapors...wow thats old

Vapors was tight but Run DMC's "Tricky" was hotter. And i can't remember who did it but Roxanne was hot.

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what roxanne are you talking about? roxanne shante has a song called roxanne's revenge. and UTFO has a song called the real roxanne. and that song by sting "roooooooooxxane turn on the redlight"

^^^All three of em Are Dope

Yeah but... the concept of a nostalgia thread is stupid.

Simply put, he rapped for the Ninja Turtles, that was cool. But nobody wants a forum of five hundred threads dedicated to how To the Extreme ol' Vanilla Ice can go. Know what I mean?

I highly doubt any one here is even old enough to remember old school. And if you are, you got serious problems chilling with a bunch of little kids you closet pedophile... wait... I'm not in the closet.

By that I mean, I'll stick with my Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc (The originators of Hip-Hop). And if anyone wants to learn, I'll be more than happy to send them to some rescources to edumucate them. In fact... here's a great STARTING POINT...

http://www.daveyd.com/daveyhistorylinks2002.html

'Nuff said.

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Originally posted by Bruklor Nec is just dumb

I'm taking that as a compliment.

^Nec is Mr. Intelligence

im 18, and my older brother was listening to rap before i was born, i grew up on rap, so yes there is people old enough to remember old school rap cause some of us actually grew up on rap and know about rappers that were around ebfore we were born.

and good job pointing out the obvious necro, every one should already know those 3 were were considered the originators of hip hop. for some reason i think you got that off daveyd's site and your fronting like you grew up on hip hop know. sorry but it just seems like that after you come here pointing out those, then you drop a link, from a guys site that talk about them all over it.

and nosetlgia sub-forum is a good cause your hero daveyd cant show people everything about hip hop.

Damn, nigga...

Ya gotta diss my likes from the fuckin 80's?

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I'm also eighteen years of age.

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I am more hip-hop than thou.

'Nuff said.

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Originally posted by Bruklor Nec is just dumb

I'm taking that as a compliment.

to tell u the truth, old school simply doesnt interest me

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seriously same here.. 1990 is as oldschool as I care to go..

thanks for that one myk i miss bizmarkie actually believe it or not this song for real the most cos this was the one i was listenin to when my mama came in and said my pops had just walked out..hah not tryin to suck sympathy or anythin but just sayin this song is real special for me

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yea....go read your davey d and front like you would know most the rapper on their before reading his site.