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

[@justbeingveetv3423]

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

[@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💖✨🙏

[@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

[@isaiahbeckford8975]

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

[@uraniajackson2352]

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

[@robny]

Set it off then

[@anthonybeyond]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@Kre8iviT27]

This song never gets old.

[@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

[@tlmst20]

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

[@josephfrye7342]

Never get old? Hmm

[@LilacCalandra]

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

[@markgolden6265]

Set it off

[@RasJabal]

I get you fam

[@malikagrant6157]

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

[@dirtmcgirt8240]

Whoop

[@diarradunlap9337]

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

[@johnhobbsjr4248]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@gkcru]

The Principal ... very good movie !

[@MrCreeper13714gg]

right

[@jmarcum72]

gk cru No more!

[@stephendouglas4343]

j marcum Coors Original Beer and powder mix.

[@rodhill3171]

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

[@Quietmelody76]

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

[@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😂😊😊

[@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!!!

[@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

[@bundyboop357]

My favorite childhood song,still makes me wanna dance!

[@maceyheger8599]

This song is so awesome.

[@Taniyah20]

This song is so awesome

[@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.

[@billienewville]

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

[@lizmerlo4]

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

[@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!

[@waterairfire1]

We here 2023

[@danielrosenfeld6789]

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

[@MsTameka81]

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

[@josephfrye7342]

It’s actually classic and retro

[@uraniajackson7771]

Club night music gets you in the groove

[@tombrado1]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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. 👍🏼😎

[@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.

[@mrstep2me]

One of the greatest club bangers ever!

[@Quest4Apath]

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

[@selassiesuntstv7040]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

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

[@Maniakial]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@LoveHaleyBug]

I love this song so much.

[@dorothyannsmith2337]

This sing had everybody on the dance floor

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@elizabethwedge9136]

I danced to this at The Limelight.

[@lucamaserati2158]

I blasted this song in my very first helicopter

[@graciebara8280]

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

[@gazm135]

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

[@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

[@arleatriceburroughs1455]

My favorite song of all time!!

[@edithwilliams6778]

Still sounds good 2023.

[@UniQueLyEviL]

My all-time favorite version of this song

[@billyjones7230]

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

[@lunejersey]

parents rocked out to this in 83 i still do

[@Demfcane]

I rocked this song in my very first space shuttle.

[@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...

[@p3rfct10n]

My aunt used to tell me a story about how she used to tear up the clubs when she was younger and she refused to go out on the dance floor until the DJ played this song.

[@uraniajackson2352]

Ain't nothing better like the 90s

[@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!

[@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.

[@brettmosley1]

they always play this song at the skating ring and the old folks be jammin

[@shalamarsmallwood5254]

2024 and still jamming to this

[@uraniajackson2352]

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

[@ubiquitousbliss]

brings me waaaayyyyyyyy back.... club marcellas, drag shows

[@heartbreak2286]

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

[@uraniajackson2352]

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

[@michaelhux2272]

When you want to get the whole crowd on the dance floor, set it off

[@titaniumpecker]

Brings back some memories from my clubbing days. Going to discos in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island.

[@SmashinAdams]

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

[@charlesmcmahon1655]

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

[@klereese4715]

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members tear the floor up when this come on.

[@slseym07]

I see lol. Their video sent me here. Now I gotta see them line dancing every time I hear this song...

[@daypena9730]

one of coolest most rememiscent tracks for those born in 1971 who can truly appreciate great physcodelic funk an sole.

[@AFRENTAO]

Day Pena no fair to just say 1971 lol. I came five years later 1976 and love psychedelic funk and disco.

[@princesst30]

Yes we do! #AKA1908

[@rakialewis-banks3411]

Li Reese we sure do! SKEEEEEWEEEEE 💖💚

[@g-rocthadealerlwle4218]

2023 they gne bus stop right now ….. song will never die🎉😂

[@DJShocker]

Thumbs up if NBA 2k15 brought you here!

[@LACraig621]

exactly, lol.

[@avisnwosu4800]

Lol

[@co9665]

Lmao it brought me here to. Forgot all about the song until now

[@PeteMeredith]

You know mate :)

[@hossenalihossenali4037]

Charmaine O ewhf

[@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.

[@uraniajackson2352]

Ain't nothing better like a club dancing

This song was on "The Principal" soundtrack (1987) Just one of many great songs on that album.

[@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.

[@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!!

[@iluvit365]

I was born in 1984, I remembered hearing this when I was younger but it all make since now. Now I'm here in 2023, thx ya.

[@synaProductions]

The Principal brought me here...

[@p2a0p2e0r1]

First time I heard this was on The Principal when it came out, after that it was in the deck!

[@ericjones444]

Watching that right now

[@charliewilliamssucks890]

eric jones same here. On the "This" movie channel

[@dustinf49]

Henri Suominen Same. When they are checking the lockers and cracking down. Good movie.

[@EightiesJames]

Same here!

[@msgloop]

Love this song - brings back good memories.

[@robny]

Like what ? In 2023

[@FutureMixTV]

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

[@hossenalihossenali4037]

Nyokhg

[@TheOldskool2009]

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