TheMeaningOfDope

Back in the early 90’s Mtv was still deciding whether or not they were going to go along with the fad that wouldn’t go away, called rap music. After all, this was the home of Yo! Mtv Raps, the most well known show for rap videos. On the other hand, the station also had it’s rap detractors, lead by Kurt Loader. That’s why it was a shocker to see this special documentary on the station. I don’t have the actual date of the special featured here in part one of a two part post. It was called Rapumentary. Hosted by the likes of LL Cool J, Ice-T and Queen Latifah to name a few. They host this thing, shedding some light on complex angles of our culture and music.

We’re back at it! It only took a year to get this new post together, but the cab driver who stole Kaewonder’s laptop and external could have put this post up in the summer if he wanted to.  Let’s not dwell on the bs though. Here’s our third installment of what we consider to be the best remixes of the golden age of hip-hop.  As always there are sure to be songs missing or songs that you might not feel deserve to be mentioned. If so, put us on blast. Let us know in the comments what songs you’d like to see in the next version(which hopefully won’t take a year) and why.  Posts like this are all about personal opinion and the Air Max Thuns have been known to hold some strong opinions when it comes to rap music.  Without any further delays, allow us to present v1.2 of We Re-Invented The Remix.

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Uncle L drops 2 songs in the lil clip here. This is from his famous Mtv Unplugged episode. You remember the one where L looked like a walking Old spice commercial “Residue is Evil”. He starts this one out with his clothes on kicking a slowed down version of “Jingling Baby” followed up with a hyped crowd aided rendition of “Mama Said Knock You Out”.

Spike Lee is probably best known by the current generation of hip hop fans as the little dude that sits courtside at the Knicks games. But, at the time of Do The Right Thing’s release, there wasn’t a bigger director in the world. The message the movie conveyed along with the film’s main song Fight the Power hitting the world like a ton of bricks AND his Mars Blackman commercials, helped catapult Spike into another stratosphere. This video clip here is actually 3 different segments merged together. Fab 5 takes the lead again here, breaking a little PE news as well as getting Spike’s feelings on the 2 Live Crew’s Free Speech court battle.

Fab 5 is hangin with the N.W.A boys “EFIL4ZAGGIN” style. They give a comical response to Freddy bringing up Ice Cube’s name. Later in the clip F cubed is cold lampin in the pick up with the group as they film the “100 Miles and Runnin” video. Take notice of Dre and how much he has “matured” in front of the camera since these days. What’s that word Fab is droppin that Mtv doesn’t allow today?

Haha Fab 5 Freddy was always droppin the street lingo, “Forward ever, backward never”. My man is always layin down the catch phrases. Some slammin guest appearances in the clip especially when Fred shows you the new school, up and coming artists who all turned out to be the early 90’s biggest hip hop stars.

Humpty tries his best to convince T-Money that Who’s the Man is a movie based on his life. T tries to get Hump back on track by asking about upcoming events for Digital Underground, but the conversation quickly deteriorates back tomfoolery.

Ice-T talks about the roles he tries to choose when acting. Guess Law & Order had to pay the bills? Looks to be from the time of Trespass .

Run DMC circa “Down with the King” time period. How many times do you think the group appeared on Yo!?

Fab 5 Freddy meets up with D-Nice to help promote his 2nd album “To tha Rescue”. I think it gets lost that he was a big time producer for Boogie Down Productions and even produced the Stop the Violence anthem “Self Destruction” . D now is a photographer and DJ.

This vid is from a period right after “Kill At Will” came out. I was a little bit surprised to hear Ice Cube talking about his life while growing up. Turns out that he was pretty much a suburban kid. Cube and a few other members of the Lench Mob smack the crowd in the face on the stage show section of this segment. If you can over look the quality and the little bit of french narration, this is a nice little clip. I think the quality suffered due to a PAL to NTSC conversion.