YO MTV Raps
TECUMSEH
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Whould you watch this show if it came back on?I dug out some old vhs tapes of mine and was watchin some old videos. I'll have to say that I hella miss watchin Dre, Ed Lover, T-Money and of course Fab 5. The tape I was watchin yesterday had Fab 5 in Japan checkin out Japanese hip-hop. I forgot how ill that shit was.My answer to the top question would be fo sho.
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I need to bust out some of my old videos as well I know I have them. I think my brother has the 1st Yo! Mtv Raps on vhs.....
Video Music Box put Yo MTV raps to shame.
I didnt watch it then, and I would watch anything now w/ Yo or Raps in the title.
Back up off me!
Back up off me!
You gotta B-A-C-K U-P off me!
That show was great back in the day, and I still have some of it on tape (including one episode where Shabba Ranks was the special correspondant covering Reggae Sunsplash, and he called Ed Lover Special Ed). I loved that they would play what was big at the time, but also some much less well-known stuff in a pretty equal mix. That, to me, was one of the hallmarks of the show, and seeing as how they could never do that today, I can't imagine I'd watch it if it came back.
mtv has brought yo! mtv raps back, they just call it direct effect now.
mtv jams is awesome
off topic: Was it Shabba that gave that interview to a British radio station that called for all gay people to be killed? whoever that was I heard it really hurt his sales in the UK.
If memory serves that was on the legendary Channel 4 show The Word.
The show was also responsible for the image of Doggystyle era Snoop getting attacked by a 50 year old man with a hand puppet (RIP Rod Hull)
Ed Lover Dance
From Yo MTV Raps. With both arms out to the sides, step with your right and pop your right hip forward, then to the left with the left hip, then back to the right twice, left, right, left, left.
Yo! Dream Chimney Raps