TheMeaningOfDope

Long before iTunes, MySpace music pages and Napster, there were about 3 ways to get your filthy little paws on dope music before the other kids in your class without having to cop the rest of the bullshit album:

1) Stay home on Saturday afternoon and sit by the radio, hand on the dial, soon as you hear it pump up the volume… and don’t forget to press play and record on your tape player to get your advanced copy of shit that won’t hit stores for another 2 or 3 months. Shout out to Maxell cassettes.

2) Go to Play De Record, Traxx, or to see Apple (Toronto heads know what the bizness is) for the newest S&S, Clue, Ron G, Tony Touch, etc, etc, mixtapes for the “Exclusive - sclusive - lusive - sive” shit that you would later dub for half your homies. Shout out to Maxell cassettes.

or

3) Find a shop that sells “Cassingles”. Yeah, I said it. “Cassingles”, the fine inventive product of merging the words “cassette” and “single.”
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A young Skateboard P has some production credits on this track, which explains why the beat was so damn catchy.

Wreckx N Effect aka the reason why Q-Tip has hearing loss in one ear performing 1 verse of Wreckx Shop and Rumpshaker at the end of In Living Color.

If I ever get the chance to interview Jim Carrey, all I’m asking him about is every performance at the end of I.L.C. that he was there wildin’ out for.

It’s still awesome that mainstream America didn’t know what Pum Pum was and this song was a commerical monster.