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Wedding Hip Hop

SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
edited August 2006 in Strut Central
So I have a couple of wedding gigs coming up ... I usually get by with the typical soul/funk jams spiced with some raer hot sauce but eventually I get around to hip hop. Unfortunately, my wedding appropriate hip hop is a bit lacking. Thus, I get the crowd all excited with a few of the jams (Bust A Move, It Takes Two, etc) but, even though I haven't "run out" yet, I don't have enough family friendly crowd rockers to keep it going for hours on end. Most of my hip hop collection is in the Mobb Deep, Wu Tang, Boot Camp, Def Jux vein which doesn't fly at the family function.Any thoughts on "must have" wedding cuts? Old school, contemporary, whatever. Much appreciated.

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  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    like anything you play at a wedding, you should talk to the bride and groom about it. hip hop can be risky. it's often a bad look to ask them for a "list" so ask them how nasty you can get with hip hop. def stay away from mobb deep and backpacker type ship. party tracks all the way: humpty dance, beware of the boys, work it, hot in hurr, peter piper, passin me by, i like the way you move, shave my nuts, etc.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
  • CosmoCosmo 9,768 Posts
    talk to the bride and groom about it.
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    I never DJ a wedding without this:



    --1: White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
    --2: Walk This Way - Run-DMC
    --3: Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
    --4: Humpty Dance, The - Digital Underground
    --5: Bust A Move - Young M.C.
    --6: It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
    --7: U Can't Touch This - M.C. Hammer
    --8: Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
    --9: Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J
    --10: Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
    --11: Tennessee - Arrested Development
    --12: Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz
    --13: Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
    --14: Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
    --15: Jump Around - House Of Pain
    --16: Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
    --17: What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
    --18: Nuthin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre

    Though surprisingly I didn't have to bust it out for the DigDug's gf's sister's wedding this weekend... they were too busy enjoying my playing ODB.
  • TheeeCasualMaleTheeeCasualMale 2,564 Posts
    I DJed a fairly conservative wedding last weekend and Mac Dre "Dredio" lit the place up. Who'da thunk it?
  • crossingscrossings 946 Posts
    I never DJ a wedding without this:



    --1: White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
    --2: Walk This Way - Run-DMC
    --3: Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
    --4: Humpty Dance, The - Digital Underground
    --5: Bust A Move - Young M.C.
    --6: It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
    --7: U Can't Touch This - M.C. Hammer
    --8: Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
    --9: Around The Way Girl - LL Cool J
    --10: Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
    --11: Tennessee - Arrested Development
    --12: Now That We Found Love - Heavy D & The Boyz
    --13: Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch/Loleatta Holloway
    --14: Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
    --15: Jump Around - House Of Pain
    --16: Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature
    --17: What's My Name - Snoop Doggy Dogg
    --18: Nuthin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre

    Though surprisingly I didn't have to bust it out for the DigDug's gf's sister's wedding this weekend... they were too busy enjoying my playing ODB.


    wow... i think the ONLY cheezy hiphop song that somehow didn't make that CD is "Ice Ice Baby"... yet i'm surprised that the Snoop & Dre stuff made it on there.
  • piedpiperpiedpiper 1,279 Posts
    this list may help
  • BsidesBsides 4,244 Posts
    GIRL LETS JUST GET MARRIED!!!!!

    WIFEY

    ummmm.... I love my bitch?
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I never DJ a wedding without this:
    5: Bust A Move - Young M.C.



    Caucasoid Kryptonite.
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