Wednesday, September 01, 2004  

Boogie Boys, "Runnin' From Your Love"
Boogie Boys, "Do or Die"
Boogie Boys, "Break Dancer"
Boogie Boys, "Fly Girl"
Boogie Boys, "City Life"
Boogie Boys, "Party Asteroid"
Boogie Boys, "You Ain't Fresh"
Boogie Boys, "Shake and Break"
from City Life (Capitol, 1985)


Dee Dee King, "Funkyman"
from Funkyman 12-inch (Rock Hotel/Profile, 1987)

Remember when hip-hop wasn't really all that funky? Here are nine examples of robotic rap. I think I'm in love.
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I remember me & my bro practicing breakdance moves on our kitchen's linoleum floor. I smashed the cupboards and crashed into the fridge like a NASCAR driver, and I booted my sweet & lovely mutt, Marmaduke, right in his pretty little head during a wayward butt spin.
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My bro & I never busted out the cardboard in public, but I remember attending an electric boogaloo event in our then-rural town of Howell. In 1983 the city elders hosted a breakdancing contest during Melon Fest, right in front of the courthouse. That's some b-boy sh*t, man.
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B. Coleman, O-Dubs, Noz, Can't Stop & Mos Def Won't, Catchdubs, Lindy, Stickball Frere-Jones, Urban Honker, and my main man Moisty von Obalay---this download of a full OOP record is for you. If I die in a gondola accident this weekend, please remember me by this gift of the Boogie Boys' debut. (That request just qualified as the saddest memorial ever.)
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"Fly Girl" and "You Ain't Fresh" were hits, and the Boogie Boys released three more albums, but they pretty much went straight into the dustbin of history after City Life. But here's a 2001 interview with Boogie Knight (aka Delight)---who died soon after the chat. The dustbin of life. C'est la vie.
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"1987, Dee Dee's in hospital. The guy in the next bed hears the doctor calling him 'Douglas Colvin' so he starts calling him Doug E fresh, after the rapper. Dee Dee gets into this and starts making up raps to pass the time. They're pretty funny and he makes a 12" single for Rock Hotel Records under the pseudonym Dee Dee King with this great artwork by James Rizzi."
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The Dee Dee King (nee Ramone) tune sucks---but it's awesomely sucky. Therefore it's great, no?
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BTW: The Craig Le Roq tracks I posted on May 18, 2004, are still up and ready to download. Just look in the Burbs' archives. (I'm trying to kill my bandwidth before the month even starts rollin'.)

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