Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew - The Show - A Reaction

[@davystate]

Great memories when this came out, an innocent time in hip hop ❤️

[@DutchWeazel]

Yeah, I just mentioned it in another post (this probably got me into Hip Hop as a kid) Together with: Fat Boys, Stetsasonic, PE, LL, De La And oh yeah, The Jungle Brothers 😊

[@jasonhall3906]

My first vinyl!!!

[@iamangee]

Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick are both legends! Always loved this song for the Inspector Gadget sample. I watched that cartoon in the early 80s when Nickelodeon was just starting out. Get Smart was a great show too & ran in syndication when I was a kid. This song is also sampled in so many other rap songs by pretty much every big name in the industry. Rap God by Eminem, 6 minutes of Pleasure by LL Cool J, Root Down by the Beastie Boys, and Party & Bullshit by Biggie come to mind. I wish beat boxing would make a come back!

[@ABoomerReacts]

Wow, the Inspector Gadget theme song is popular. I'm sure that I would not recognize it. I'm glad you got to see Get Smart!

[@thereallyst]

The ultimate party track! Between this and La Di Da Di, they put the Get Fresh Crew on the map....

[@trocktp]

This song is a hip hop treasure.

[@jonathantyler9502]

It's probably the greatest hip hop song of all time. Mind you, I said hip hop, not rap

[@ABoomerReacts]

It certainly sounded ahead of it's time to me.

[@trocktp]

@@jonathantyler9502 agreed!!

[@SUPREMEgoldchain_REAKTZ]

Doug E. Fresh "All the Way to Heaven"

[@kaironarnold]

'Keep Rising To The Top'

[@SUPREMEgoldchain_REAKTZ]

@@kaironarnold yea I was trying to think of that song title too

[@kaironarnold]

@@SUPREMEgoldchain_REAKTZ I can even get down with 'Cut That Zero'. Remember when he signed w/ Hammer. Lol

[@ABoomerReacts]

I only have 4 Doug E Fresh songs on my list: the 2 that I've done and this song and.....

[@ABoomerReacts]

...this song.

[@kaironarnold]

My childhood in a nutshell. Another classic cut that was released a few years later...Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - 'Brand New Funk'

[@ABoomerReacts]

Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince were actually considered seriously by the rap community. I always though of them as rap for white people. And this song will be my first request for them on my list.

[@JEStheUniversual]

CLASSIC!!!

[@pickenchews]

YES! Fantastic choice!

[@damonjones1291]

1st record(Vinyl) I ever bought in my Life🥳 1985 A Classic! Groundbreaking for that Time🏆

[@hoos3014]

The first concert I ever attended was Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh performing this song at our local roller rink. Talk about an indelible memory!

[@ABoomerReacts]

I'll say!

[@curtisowens3736]

This song takes me back to my first junior high school dance. The good ole days.

[@curtisowens3736]

Can you check out the clip from the movie brown sugar? The clip is called “ when did you fall in love with hiphop. Thank you

[@ABoomerReacts]

Sure. I'll look right now. OK, I watched it. So that gives me some ideas of what to select from my request list. Coincidentally, I am reacting to Sucker MCs in October.

[@aya9af]

Me too!!! 😂 Memories man

[@Phuriusstilez]

When most rappershad their own original styles!

[@tris87don16]

This was a banger Slick Rick is a legend & Doug E Fresh with the beat box

[@DutchWeazel]

I always credit this song as one of the main reasons I got into Hip Hop as a little kid (the beat, beatboxing, scratching) And of course the Inspector Gadget sample, very recognisable because I used to watch that cartoon all the time 😄

[@DutchWeazel]

The raps were nice and fun too, going a bit back and forth But I have to say, besides their biggest hits, never got really into their musical journey They were my start in Hip Hop, but Public Enemy, LL Cool J, De La Soul made me a fan for life ✌

[@ABoomerReacts]

Did you ever like Slick Rick's solo stuff?

[@DutchWeazel]

I did like it, but there were so many other rappers/groups to discover as a young kid Like PUBLIC ENEMY I was walking around in PE shirts around the age of 10 😊, the 1st time I became a fan of something music related hehe Anyways, about Slick: - La Di Da Di ^^ you can hear who inspired Snoop Dogg big time 😄

[@ABoomerReacts]

My reaction to Black Steel... posts on Oct 2

[@ABoomerReacts]

@@DutchWeazel That's why I like both of them

[@chuck430]

i love hearing the evolution of hip hop. in the early 80s the DJ was more prominent, then in the late 80s the MC started to get top-billing.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Weird how that worked out. I guess it's easier to be an MC without a DJ than it is to be a DJ without an MC.

[@brianhansen6189]

The is the first rap record I ever owned on vinyl. I was 8 or 9 years old when my grandpa took me to Warehouse Records to buy it. “La Di Da Di” was the first rap I ever memorized, playing it on my Fisher Price record player.

[@ABoomerReacts]

That's a great memory. Did you love The Show as much as La Di Da Di?

[@brianhansen6189]

@@ABoomerReacts yes I loved The Show for how wild it sounded & the Inspector Gadget music & loved La Di Da Di for it’s simplicity & ease of memorizing & story telling

[@demoremda]

a classic from when i started listening hiphop:)

[@youtubedeletesmychannels2329]

They riffed off each other good. 80s rap is good but my heart will always be late 1989 to 90s. It’s still crazy to me that slick did a song with outkast. I never would’ve thought. Shame he was locked up. I’m gonna listen to some more of his songs. So far I like behind bars and street talkin

[@jonathantyler9502]

I think if he never got locked up, the course of rap, the direction it was going in, would have been different

[@ABoomerReacts]

Thanks!I have Street Talkin' and The Art of Storytelling Pt ! on my list; and I'll add Behind Bars.

[@ABoomerReacts]

In what way?

[@youtubedeletesmychannels2329]

@@ABoomerReacts sometimes I get confused who’s rapping.

[@teeblack06]

check out Doug E. Fresh - "Keep Rising To The Top"

[@ABoomerReacts]

Thanks! That song is def on my list.

[@SUPREMEgoldchain_REAKTZ]

Classic 🔥🔥🔥

[@jamesoblivion]

This is one of the stone cold certified hip-hop classics of all-time. I remember when I first got my stereo system assembled, The Show/La-di-da-di was one of the records I absolutely needed to have. The definition of early party rap.

[@castle07dw]

Great reaction. Rick's wordplay and singing is still so cool. Mona Lisa is another Slick Rick classic have you done that one? Rotten Em is a more contemporary classic by him imo came out in 2000s I think. Hope you get to Sucker MC's by Run DMC.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Just yesterday, I scheduled Sucker MCs for October. I have not done Mona Lisa yet but it's def on my list.

[@ArtisanWindchimes]

Real talent

[@strictlycasuals2260]

Probably been mentioned but Doug dissed Buffy from the Disco 3 (who changed their name to the Fat Boys) with the "known for" line.

[@ABoomerReacts]

No one has mentioned it.

[@strictlycasuals2260]

@@ABoomerReacts Doug invented the human beatbox. He retold the story on Questlove's pod, elaborating on his impromptu Harlem Days performance with Kurtis Blow, whom promoters had not provided a backline/turntables/band. The only way Kurtis could rock was with Doug doing the beatbox on another mic, which was like the world's introduction to beatboxing. Long story short, Doug deemed Buffy from the Fat Boys/Disco 3 a biter, which was a cardinal sin back then, and threw this line into this joint. When he says, "known for the" he busts his trademark drum-roll-click sound, and then says "not for the" and mocks the heavy-breathing thing Buffy did that sounded like a güiro being stroked. RIP Buff though. Also a legend. My homeboy Kyle used to mow his lawn on Long Island and said he was a good dude. Serch tells a great story about this song too, 'cos he went to high school with Rick and Dana Dane and used to say Rick's rhymes as his own...until he got busted when the records actually came out?!

[@ABoomerReacts]

@@strictlycasuals2260 Thanks for the backstory! I appreciate it.

[@jeffreyharvey9919]

As you can probably imagine they have too much fun performing this live. One of all time party starters

[@sonofabeach71]

This is the perfect old school hip hop song. It has everything that was great in hip hop back then. A great beat, scratching, human beat boxing and 2 mcs going back and forth. So fun.

[@ABoomerReacts]

All of the elements that I appreciate in a song.

[@dareal05]

First vinyl I can remember going to the store with my mom and buying, 85. I was young and literally remember the first time I heard this, sitting in a dentist chair hearing this being played over a speaker for some reason, and being blown away with the "inspector gadget" sound lol.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Well, there's one nice memory of the dentist. 😂😂

[@themightyfp]

THE MOMENT I FEARED!!!!! Let’s go!!!

[@ABoomerReacts]

Fear not!

[@themightyfp]

@@ABoomerReacts 😳👂✌️

[@bobbyf1741]

You're never to old for cartoons. I'm 49 and watch Bluey and Mighty Mike with my daughter...and sometimes without her.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Young at heart!

[@nicolebailey4426]

The pioneers of rap music in the beginning is the from the Wiz and Doug E Fresh beatbox throughout the master. Slick Rick a British rappers. Memories 😊😊😊

[@ABoomerReacts]

I love Slick Rick.

[@DevastatorJr]

Everything took a dark turn in the nineties, unfortunately, we have yet to recover.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Fact.

[@bronxbomma75]

Doug threw a quick shot at the Fat Boys as well.

[@ABoomerReacts]

What was the beef about?

[@bronxbomma75]

@@ABoomerReacts just competitive beatbox beef.

[@curtisowens3736]

Have you seen the movie Brown Sugar with Taye Diggs?? There’s a two minute clip I think you should check out called when I fell in love with hip-hop from that movie

[@dwainwilder7337]

I am a listening to your channel for the first time. It’s a twist on the entire reaction scene. I like your premise and plan to subscribe. Very interesting and entertaining. Normally it’s kids in their teens to young adults in their 20s to 30s, never a baby boomer. Good luck moving forward! I am a fan! I am a boomer as well!

[@ABoomerReacts]

Thanks, Dwain! I appreciate the sub. It's always nice to have another boomer on board.

[@Karlos2121]

Time for Bobby Jimmy and the Critters parody of this. “Gotta Potty”.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Thanks for the tip! I just listened to it. It's so funny - and that's a really good impression of Slick Rick.

[@rodrigotapia-zapata7657]

One day, you should put your hip hop car playlist on your channel.

[@ABoomerReacts]

That would be fun. I'll have to google how to do it.

[@princesskelly1154]

Blue shirt!

[@Beatstockpile127]

This was the first song that he did the dance The Dougie on.

[@vincentwilliams71]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Battle_Faith-Ministries]

I could play this at my grandparents house

[@ABoomerReacts]

I've reacted to a few hip hop groups that don't cuss. Will Smith, Run-DMC, NF

[@ryanhorne2910]

It's a video, but you should react to KRS-One & DOug E. Fresh performing "2nd Quarter" on Def Poetry Jam

[@ABoomerReacts]

2nd Quarter is a song? From one of their albums?

[@ryanhorne2910]

@@ABoomerReacts It's a KRS-One poem from his 1997 album I Got Next, but Def Poetry Jam was a slam poetry show in the late 90's hosted by Mos Def, where poets and rappers performed (with no music). KRS and Doug E. Fresh did part of this song and it's a great version. The album one is cool, too ;)

[@SJQNYC]

So as u can imagine bn a 6 plus minute song. This was THE party song of the 80s. When or wherever u were if this comes on you are Dancing 💃🏻 🕺🏿...Happy u got to this classic 😁 OK Fun Fact Time; all those names u mentioned actually stops at the Great 15 YEAR OLD Teddy Riley😳(inspector gadget was his fav show hense the title THE SHOW). Those other guys mixed and mastered it bc Teddy wasn't allowed to bc he was on punishment 😅

[@ABoomerReacts]

He was 15 years old when he worked on this song?

[@SJQNYC]

@@ABoomerReacts yeah maybe younger but ion think so, he went on to invent a new genre of music called "New Jack Swing" huge n the late 80s early 90s. From The Show to Bobby Brown "My Prerogative" To "Heal The World" M.J. he's done it all. No Pharrell Williams if theres no Teddy "Jam" to name a few lol

[@soulgalacticlover7281]

Biz markie and the fat boys do alot of fun and humorous songs.

[@ABoomerReacts]

Thanks! I've got a few requests of each artist on my list.

[@soulgalacticlover7281]

@@ABoomerReacts There is also a hip-hop novelty song made in 1984 by Shawn Brown, where he is impersonating John Wayne.