Strafe's SET IT OFF

The "original" Set It Off, composed, arranged, produced and performed by Strafe. This video montage by Marcel Lamar, with photos by Preston Phillips, graphics by Gibran K. Brown and animation by Paul Bloom, commemorates the 30 year anniversary since the 1984 release of this club classic.
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[@crystalbrame7886]

2024 Still Here Doing It!! 🔥🔥😘💋💃🏾🔥

[@charspeaks2419]

Heck yea ❤❤❤❤

[@jodinarrowpath9998]

💃💃💃

[@Taniyah20]

2024 Still Here Doing it

[@TheJamesearljr]

Long live the 80s!!!

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

This track is eternal & was an INSTANT classic from the first bar. Pure Genius

[@isaiahbeckford8975]

I Love Strafe - Set It Off On WBLS 107.5 New York City Forever!

[@rodneydye6788]

What’s so crazy about this guy is his style is legendary this song has been in my head since 1986 bro

[@PaulPaid]

Facts

[@Mavis20245]

Song is timeless

[@rgbking488]

Still rips todayyy

[@jasonputz1028]

Okay Set it off may be the one rap song that is truly the one. 1984, 10 years old white kid. At a youth center learning about culture and break dancing. Made my mom get me Shell Toe Adidas, and went and bought fat laces. All the kids taught me moves. I am 49 now and this is the one that will always bring me back. No matter what. Only others were Jam on it, White line Highway, and planet rock. I will forever be grateful for the mark these songs have made on my soul.

[@paigerichardson9224]

Planet Rock is a whole mood 😂😂I love that jam born in 83 so this is my kinda music

[@kristalee2503]

Me too. 46 here

[@RasJabal]

Rastafari Family and Soul Family vibrations

[@justbeingveetv3423]

Shout out to all the Oldheads👌 Now Set it Off!😘

[@p2a0p2e0r1]

I can't lie I like it that all these youngstas are from 2k15 are in here feeling this shit. The ones who come are the ones who got good taste in music.

[@rondo3655]

Yes im 14 and love this song lol

[@matthewstaffordsburner1040]

I'm 12

[@frederickandrews435]

Ace Of Clubs I been feeling this from 2k15

[@rulatbryant908]

this makes me want to go skating

[@timotheustp]

Rula T Bryant YES YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT!!!! 😅😅.. BRING THOSE DAYS BACK!!

[@sagewhunder642]

Rula T Bryant SERIOUSLY.... YOU JUST READ MY MIND!

[@cno6453]

Barkays

[@normarodriguez1914]

Big facts

[@1045310453]

bout to workout🏋️🏡gYm !! got mY Cafe Bustello💖✨🙏

[@Kre8iviT27]

This song never gets old.

[@anthonybeyond]

Watching the 1987 film, The Principal, brought me here! :)

[@JonathanRodriguez-pi5mf]

I was looking for this song for almost 12yrs I used to breakdance I battled a guy at the Puerto Rican parade and this track gave me power😁

[@RasJabal]

Soul Family Rising

[@uraniajackson2352]

This song right here is making me want to go to the club and skating

[@robny]

Set it off then

[@pHAMBURGLARq]

First time I heard this song was in 95 when i first saw the movie - The Principal (1987)- and ive loved it ever since. Strafe FTW.

[@goddy9716]

This song will always be the party starter!!!!!

[@marlonc.taylorjr.7402]

Another timeless classic released way before it’s time. This song will live on forever.

[@sand216]

Never ever gets old

[@malikagrant6157]

Jax. Florida memories... Cool Runnings club mixed tapes❤❤❤❤

[@dirtmcgirt8240]

Whoop

[@johnhobbsjr4248]

This song was blessed and sent down from the Gods above. Definitely came “from another place” other than Earth, that I’m convinced

[@diarradunlap9337]

I was in 7th Grade when this song first came out, and three decades later, it's STILL great music!

[@tlmst20]

It will never get old.............will set off any dance club yesterday, today and tommorrow!

[@josephfrye7342]

Never get old? Hmm

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

This track is eternal & was an INSTANT classic from the first bar. Pure Genius

[@LilacCalandra]

The whistle in the beginning of the song gets me hype every time!!!

[@markgolden6265]

Set it off

[@RasJabal]

I get you fam

[@joeygonzalez3705]

This song almost always guaranteed a packed dance floor with everyone...and I mean EVERYONE...grooving hard to this jam. People would stop in the middle of a conversation just to run out on the dance floor. Block parties all over NYC, boom boxes blaring at basketball courts, and cars rolling to the local clubs would play this classic. Little did we know that we would have by far the best music to mingle with. Miss those days so much.

[@jeremyvega3231]

the best jam ever..walk into a club and this song goes on its like a sunami of people just scream oooooohhhhhhhh yea and dance there way to the dance floor

[@mannyvelez292]

Could this possibly be the best dance song ever created?

[@eddymesa6839]

I have to definitely agree and if anybody ever wanted me to dance sneak up in their set it off and you'll see what danceing is all about Best Song Ever

[@Angelina-bi1ld]

yep!

[@BlockBallerRecords]

Only if he created it but he stole it from a Band leader from Boston FROM THE E WATER BAND

[@kendeoshow]

Possibly

[@BadBalenax]

@@BlockBallerRecords If u have it? Post it. If true, or until I hear it, I'm a lean on he was inspired by. My reason- all his songs are some kind of similar: unique, proving his creative level way high

[@gkcru]

The Principal ... very good movie !

[@MrCreeper13714gg]

right

[@jmarcum72]

gk cru No more!

[@stephendouglas4343]

j marcum Coors Original Beer and powder mix.

[@Socimer]

Oh yeah! I remember this in the early 80's - in Manhattan. Uptown 80's-90's Amsterdam Ave. Miss that time.

[@monicaramos6274]

This song always puts me in a good mood :)

[@Taniyah20]

This song always puts me in a good mood

[@cyberone2763]

I used to tear it up on the dance floor to this! Whenever it came on, I would stop what I was doing and run to the dance floor lol. This is my jam, good memories. 👍🏼😎

[@soon9595]

I remember there was a snippet of this song in "The Principal" w/ Jim Belushi.

[@stddgv11]

Soon Togiola Yep, that's where I heard it for the first time on cable when I was a kid and loved it but never heard it again till 20 years later.

[@bxfinest42788]

damn this brings me back to riding around in the car with my pops in through the bronx in the late 80s early 90s

[@raytona2411]

Classic. This song was used by so many dj's in NY during the 84-85 era. I fricking loved it. I had it on most of my mixtapes and radio show mixes. WBLS, MR MAGIC. 97KISSFM RED ALERT ETC....... Salute to Strafe for this smash. I used to break to this #SETITOFF

[@sagewhunder642]

This 🎵song🎶 has me soooo crunk! Good memories!!😢🤔😁❤

[@Joeysodi]

Cool jam. Also the track for the "clean-up" montage in "The Principal", which is a cool movie. Long live the 80's!!!

[@danielrosenfeld6789]

Ah how I miss that beat! This was one of the premier jams in the clubs of the 80's.

[@ReneeAlfieri]

blasted this in my very first black mercedes - what a feeling !

[@sounder11]

blast this in my 55 bel air

[@DavidBoura]

+Renee Alfieri blasting it in bed yo

[@louistorres]

Renee Alfieri blasting this in my 2018 E300 Sport

[@KTHREE31]

Chrysler PT Cruiser GT!!!! 🚘🎶🎵📻

[@angelamontgomery9007]

@@DavidBoura😂😊😊

[@rodhill3171]

When you hear this and you from Florida you know what time it is

[@Chuloloc]

Awesome. One of the best classic tunes of all time. I don't know why but though the song is from 1984, I first heard the song in 1989 because it was getting played a lot becoming popular. Hail Strafe.

[@maceyheger8599]

This song is so awesome.

[@Taniyah20]

This song is so awesome

[@Quietmelody76]

"Y'all want this party started right? Y'all want this party started QUICKLY, right?!"

[@metalheart16]

Boy George said in an interview this was the very first house track he ever heard, and it basically started him as a DJ for electronic music!

[@patrimonioalianzaoldschool7873]

interesting point but not necesarily true

[@selassiesuntstv7040]

If put thumbs down YOU WASNT THERE PERIOD! SET IT OFF

[@gazm135]

Big city vibes. Back when clubs had live performances. Venue's were dope. Music was prolific!

[@murderdoggg]

Yo down in the So Fla that was the shiz. "Set it off" was always in the mix on Power 96

[@sounder11]

I used to be in south GA in the skating rink

[@godsson33]

Im from little havana... Miami 305 in tha house!

[@billienewville]

OMG!!! I love this song!!! this is so 80's house music at it's best...

[@justriteful]

THE ROXY NYC ! it was CRAZY heard this song months b4 it was played on the radio, and even after it was played on the radio it still was HOT.

[@uraniajackson7771]

Club night music gets you in the groove

[@lizmerlo4]

I LOVE THIS SONG THIS WAS THE JAM BACK IN THE DAYZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

[@bundyboop357]

My favorite childhood song,still makes me wanna dance!

[@PlayaFly2k]

Thank 2k15 for bring me here. Never heard the whole song till I played the game. Damn this is a great ass beat. 80's baby grew up in the 90's.

[@Victorc0]

This is one of my all time favorites. They don't make them like this any more. I still want to dance drink and whatever I use to do back in the day when I hear this.

[@johngillians1027]

Hip hop music. They rocked this in all the hip hop clubs back in the day. If you don’t know your supposed to.

[@MsTameka81]

This is my jam........Damn, never gets old!

[@josephfrye7342]

It’s actually classic and retro

[@eddymesa6839]

went to school with him one of my close homeboys Stevie B as well. i used to dance for nice and Wild dude that used to sing you're my diamond girl John Menace this is back in the good old days God bless them all peace out to Brooklyn LL stay funky represent your Queens I was raised out of Brooklyn baby baby

[@ocee4896]

Listened to this song as l faced challenges at work as a new colleague. I was so convinced God had brought me to this particular job "for such a time as this".2 years down, my immediate supervisor would resign and l was the favourite to takeover.This God who has been my Shelter and has seen me through it all is definitely going before me.Shelter through the storms indeed

[@tombrado1]

This was the song back in the day, loved this song to death!

[@mrlittlestar12]

Oct/1984 for me, just outside of Fort Lee VA, at a club just inside Petersburg, VA.... rocked this song til I couldn't dance anymore :-D

[@graciebara8280]

Grossly underrated dude is on 🔥 period and always has been.

[@billyjones7230]

Back in the late 90s after my father's pass I discovered this song through the Box, Music is my life

[@masterofmashup1737]

This song made me want to be a dj. I first heard it at a Rock Steady party in the early 80's in the Bronx.

[@Quest4Apath]

Classic, , can u imagine living off of one hit. This would be the one.

[@Maniakial]

This song is just fking bomb, brings back a lot of memories, thanx for sharing! Cheers

[@dorothyannsmith2337]

This sing had everybody on the dance floor

[@mrstep2me]

One of the greatest club bangers ever!

[@HardSoulRecordings]

@Thrillcekr Strafes SET IT OFF is an underground phenomenon still flying below the radar of the GWB Committee. Being on a small, independent label is the difference. Many early uses were unauthorized; with litigation still pending. It is the most sampled tune of all time. Thanks 4 the comment!

[@Demfcane]

I rocked this song in my very first space shuttle.

[@charlesmcmahon1655]

And I've been to a half of those historical night clubs born and raised lower East side... 👑☘️👑💪😁✌️

[@SmashinAdams]

Folk can cry all they wish...I first heard this song in 1979.

[@arleatriceburroughs1455]

My favorite song of all time!!

[@heartbreak2286]

Love this song from back in the day when I was a kid now I’m in my 50s wow!!

[@UniQueLyEviL]

My all-time favorite version of this song

[@andraecusdavis964]

Once this starts playing blacks folks stop what they are doing and start doing the electric slide. LoL At least that's how it was for us in the early 90's.

[@850lbp4]

Hell yeah but we called it the bus stop

[@andraecusdavis964]

850 LBP That's what we called it down in Ga. too but every time I say the bus stop people look at me like what the hell is he talking about. LoL

[@Jeff_Thomas]

man I remember those days....it was either this or Mike Jackson....

[@denzell521]

Yeah your right

[@brianoconnell6459]

I'm just a dumbass white boy who knows wirebending and tech, but that's also immensely offensive. And I ran roadie for One Drop. Bitch.

[@anthonybeyond]

And lets not forget that during the makings of Here We Go [Lets Rock & Roll] in 1991, C+C Music Factory copied a few lyrics from Strafe's Set It Off.

[@uraniajackson2352]

Ain't nothing better like the 90s

[@uraniajackson2352]

This song gets you in the groove making me want to get on the dance Floor

[@TheOldskool2009]

When I throw my cookout this year y’all all invited this jam will get anyone moving who has life in there body !!!!!

[@joebenavides5398]

As a kid growing up in the 80's watching da movie the principal with my dad just hooked me to dis jam n haven't stopped popping n getting down to dis iconic jam!!! Joe "El Poche"Benavides from Laredo, Texas 🤙💥🔥

[@LoveHaleyBug]

I love this song so much.

[@tinabrown1397]

I love this song. I listened to it all the time on Jock Jams tape. I'm gonna have to get another one.

[@Shverina]

Oh, guys.... can we stop the bickering... pause for a moment and remember when this song came out. IT BROUGHT TOGETHER!!! GAWD, I miss the dancefloors of days gone by... now it's all a pissing contest. I DO hope that Strafe get every last penny that's owed them from all the illegal sampling. They are freaking classic! HardSoulRecordings, thanks so much for posting with the amazing photos. I'm soooooo heartsick for this time of utterly unique musical time...

[@ratesforless]

No DJ worth his salt would dare work a party without having this song somewhere in his crates. If he left it at home, he'd get back in his car and GET IT. If all else fails at the party, break this out and you have eight minutes to get your shit together. There's no probably; this is the greatest, most sampled, most emulated dance track in history. Every 'artist' who sampled this and didn't pay up should still be breaking out checks to Strafe for this....

[@jaystewart4830]

Facts

[@uraniajackson2352]

This song right here get you in the groove so start getting on the dance floor

[@yobabybubba]

This song reminds me of The Fun House in the mid eighties even though I only been there once. This was considered a Fun House song.

[@odin3417]

Gotta love those 1 hit wonders. Because that's what they is *WONDERS*. So The WONDERS Need Be Set Off. SO SET IT OFF My PEOPLES..

[@bestFootF0rward]

Man this song is so timeless I remember hearing this at every family event growing up .. This song was in my top 10 most played last year and I'm not even 30 years old haha .. my kids will know this song ! Love

[@IFLY4102]

S/o to all my AKA's that stop what their doing when this song comes on

[@sounder11]

u mean the cerority Alpha kapa Alpha

[@IFLY4102]

+D Brinson *sorority and yes Alpha Kappa Alpha. The first black sorority

[@sounder11]

my moms one

[@jaznchic]

💕💚

[@user-lq5dc1yw3u]

That's right Sister! 06& 80!

[@lunejersey]

parents rocked out to this in 83 i still do

[@tropicalpimp]

OMG! I was like 10 years old when this first came out....me n my boyz used to dance on subway platforms to this shit!!! oh man,cardboard mats,addidas with the FAT laces,Kangols,skateboards,big fake gold chainS! LOL old school NYC baby!

[@lucamaserati2158]

I blasted this song in my very first helicopter

[@elizabethwedge9136]

I danced to this at The Limelight.

[@FutureMixTV]

We first heard this @Hollywood Live Club , California !!! Circa 1986-1987

[@hossenalihossenali4037]

Nyokhg

[@ChristopherCribbs]

I don't think people will understand how this song only ever snuck in on live mixes on the radio at night. This is as smooth as silk.

[@kat1york]

Going to the club's on Sat night's to dance to this and then the following night seeing Alice in Chains play. I miss the 90s. It was a plethora of delights.

[@ukrainiansniper5916]

Major favorite in a lot of "gentlemen's clubs" in the late 80s and early 90s

[@kat1york]

@@ukrainiansniper5916 I don't know so much about the gentlemen clubs but it sure was at the house clubs.

[@simonealdrich5162]

So much diverse music we could mix in x yes NYC 90S x Brit grl

[@kat1york]

@Kevin McGinn That's exactly right Kevin. That's why I called this a "plethora of delights"...So many genres with brilliant sound.

[@johnnewman2804]

Good skates middle Island NY 1984. Every Saturday morning. Breaking grafitti. This song life was good

[@asheyblacq]

I can't believe all these years I thought this was recorded by RJ's Lastest Arrival!! Set It Off was appropriately titled--genuis track!!

[@stephaniemeals4983]

Thank you C&C Music Factory and Queen Latifahl

[@BadBalenax]

STRAFE! This NEW YORKER, Brooklyn kid! HE tore shit up! STYLE, ORIGINALITY!!! Performance!! AND great MUSIC throughout the years! A big inspiration!!

[@waterairfire1]

We here 2023

[@mathquintogrado4554]

I looooove this song, when I tell ppl about this song, they're like "Strafe who?" 😔😂😂

[@tahj677]

They used to play this at the club back home and the crowd would go crazy. Time to do the bus stop! Oh the memories.

[@MammothZ06]

This reminds me of 2k15 and all the trash talkers my park games and rec center games. Good old times.

[@uraniajackson2352]

This song brings back a lot of memories I miss those days of being a teenager only if I could go back in time to be in that teenager I was I miss those days