I must admit I underestimated you Andrea. You're as sinister as Superhead and more calculating than Carmen. Soulja with the nose candy, Carmelo with the text, I really am afraid of what you're gonna do next. I thought givin' niggas phone numbers out was bad enough. Geesh! It's funny back then most thought that since this chick just outed herself as hip-hop's #1 groupie, she'd be cut off like a hang nail. But nope. Dudes are star fuckers too. And like it or not, Stacks has made herself someone. With a couple of smackdowns in the rear view, you can still find her in the club—for an appearance fee. And now the jockin' goes both ways. Who wanna rumble with the Bee with the seductive accent? Ha! Does she really have that sweet, that nasty, that gushy stuff? Seriously, I hope she cheats on the Hip-Hop nation with a football player, and gets her Kat-A-Tat-Tat ass out of our business. But sadly, I don't think this is the end. Word to Ricky Bell. It's far from over.
After four awful performances at Rock The Bells, Lauryn finally proved to us that—simply put—it's really over. Cue the scene in Bronx Tale about wasted talent and hold on to the good times. You was the best, L-Boogie. Take care of the fam.RR Exclusive: 20/20 Hip-Hop Special From 1981
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This is the illest shit I’ve ever seen. Instant classic! I almost cried at the end.
Pt. 2. So what you gonna do?
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Super shout out to my mello, my man EMZ and especially Dan Charnas. The story behind the making of this 20/20 episode will be a part of his upcoming book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, coming out on New American Library/Penguin in 2010. I’m gonna cop five of ‘em. Get it? Ha!
IM BORN IN 1982…THX FOR THE VIDEO…NEVER SEEN IT !!!
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Thank you
thats my born year.
Hip-Hop since birth.
NYC……
lmao @ hugh downs, “it is infectious”
I saw this episode when it aired on a Friday Night way back when on channel 7. Didn’t have a VCR, so I took my boom box, put it up to the TV speaker and recorded the audio on cassette tape. Glad to see this again.
this should be taught in middle school history lessons.
THANK YOU YN…We need more of this and people like you out there.
Our people need to understand their history to know where we’re going… somewhere along the line that was lost. but with post like this the progression only grows.
It’s videos like this that make me hope rap radar will be here for quite awhile.
I was born in 1976. This brings back so many memories. I don’t know how/where you found this, but THANK YOU. Young heads need to be educated.
Great post!!
This is by far one of the dopest video BLOG i’ve seen this year I think it is mandatory that all emcee’s and all so called emcees and rappers and the hiphop community as a whole watch this man this was dope i posted it on my BLOG.
http://blackmanwithblog.blogspot.com/
Pikahsso
I Can’t Live Without My RADIO
That was like looking into a parallel universe.
Thank you.
It’s bugged how many times I’ve seen this piece used in several documentaries over the years and cats most of been like, “where’s that footage from?” Well, I remember peepin’ this the first time ’round, (back in ’82 on Ch. 7).
This piece blew my mind and along with a few early televised pieces on the culture, I began my foray into Hip-Hop. I was 12 when I saw this and will be 39 this month. I married “this thing of ours” as a kid and have no plans on divorcing it. Hip-Hop ya don’t stop!!
Thanks for rewinding the hands of time!
-Koe Rodriguez
Crazy blast from the past watching this video. Everyone doubted the music and art form except the people involved and the people who appreciated it. Now, look where hip hop has excelled to and continues to rise.
OUTTA SIGHT!
This report caught me off guard bc the anchors were all so positive… Guess this was pre-ANGER so it wasn’t scary to the powers tht be yet – all to the GOOD…
WE need this 2 be broadcasted one every hiphopchannel around the world!!!!
thanks 4 educating a freshman!
it was a novelty idea then, but the open-minded are usually receptive to new things; it’s the ignorant, stubborn, and stupid ones that cause the problems within the culture that have helped damage it. I always do my best to preserve it and spread its essence. peep : bigbuttabeats.podomatic.com or, if you’re in orlando, fl on friday nights between 7-9pm, tune into 91.5 FM or online at wprkdj.org.
peace and props on this vid!!!
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Danny Schechter, News Dissector here. I produced the story for 20/20 with help from B ADLER back in the day when the old school was schooling all of us. I am thrilled that folks still value it. Check out Http://Globalvision.org for some of the work we have done since. I am also originally from the PRB–People’s Republic of the Bronx (DWC)
Thanks to Dan Chamas for taking an interest in the work and happy to hear from one and all: dissector@mediachannel.org…Respect!
Kurtis Blow was the first rapper I ever met…and he was the biggest hip-hop star in the world at the time and was the first with a record deal. This is great.
Rap sucks