Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Monday, August 26, 2013
WHAT WE SAW KEEP IT OLDSKOOL REMEMBERS
From 1972 until 1997 ABC ran a program that educated, enlightened and informed the school age children. The topics were serious and there was not always a happy ending. The series in its 25 year run featured many known or soon to be known stars (Scott Baio, Jodie Foster , Rob Lowe Kristy McNichol and Will Smith) The show had episodes dealing with underage drinking, drug use, and teen pregnancy. As a kid and teenager I remember the 76-87 time frame. As a child of divorce I marveled at how at the end of the “Divorce” episode everything was great and there were smiles and hugs. That was not to say that there wasn’t endings that showed that in real life there are not always happy ending and there are/were consequences for any actions.
The Afterschool Special went away in 1997 but I must admit I thought It had gone away back in the 80s. I have no clue what comes on now around the 3:30-5 time but in those days there wasn’t 1000 tv channels to choose from. To all those that remember the episodes like
It Isn't Easy Being a Teenage Millionaire
Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me
The Terrible Secret
Which Mother Is Mine
She Drinks a Little
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Keep it Oldskool Movie of the week
Tron was released in 1982. The movie was pure fantasy and at that time cost a whopping 17 million to make. The movie relied heavily on computer graphics and was marketed directly to the very people that were in the video game market. This was a period when the arcade was king and there was no such thing as PS3 or XBOX 360. Sure the was Atari etc but you could not get the graphics that were on the arcade game. (Example Pac Man at the arcade and Pac Man on Atari)
The movie starred Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan
The movie is about Kevin Flynn (Bridges) a software engineer who work created games for the company he works for ENCOM was stolen by another engineer. He passes his days at an arcade and trying to get into the mainframe computer to get the proof he needs of his authorship of the games. He is assisted in his quest by Alan and Lora (Boxleitner and Morgan respectively) It seems that Alan has come up with a program called “Tron” that is searching for the evidence of Flynn’s work.
Flynn is unaware that the Mainframe is Artificially intelligent and has decided to take over the world (don’t they always) Flynn after challenging the Mainframe is sent physically into the computer world and has to survive the challenges and games that are in the system. He meets the Tron program who looks a lot like Alan in spandex. The movie was full of great visuals like the Light Cycle matches and the Discus Throwing.
This Disney produced movie went on to make $74,000,000to date and spawned a sequel in 2008 called Tron Legacy. As a teenager this author had the toy light cycles and much of the merchandise that was used to market the movie. Tron was a movie that a kid would enjoy and the “Kid in you” remembers
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
SCHOOLLY D
Everyone anywhere of a certain age when you say the line “PSK making that green” the reply will be “People always say what the hell do that mean” West Philadelphia raised Schoolly D is widely known as the creator of Gangsta Rap. A misguided few may say it was Ice T on the west coast. Ice T has previously set the record straight regarding the originator of Gangsta Rap by saying in an interview
“The first record that came out along those lines was Schoolly D's "P.S.K." Then the syncopation of that rap was used by me when I made "6 in the mornin." All he did was represent a gang on his record. I took that and wrote a record about guns, beating people down, and all that with "6 in the Mornin'."
Schoolly D had a style that was over the top. He had no qualms about letting the world know what was going on in his hood. From the self-titled 1986 Schoolly D album which featured the groundbreaking song PSK. Schoolly has always pushed the envelope although never really a critical or major success Schoolly’ s name is etched in the book (if there ever is a good one done) The History of Hip Hop. Schoolly to date has made 8 albums but will be mostly remembered for the first 3. They are listed below with the track listings
Schoolly D 1986
1."I Don't Like Rock & Roll"
2."Put Your Filas On"
3."Free Style Rapping"
4."P.S.K. What Does It Mean??"
5."Gucci Time"
6."Free Style Cutting"
Saturday Night The Album 1986
1."We Get Ill"
2."Do It Do It"
3."Dedication to All B-Boys"
4."Get 'n' paid"
5."B-Boy Rhyme and Riddle"
6."Saturday Night"
7."It's Crack"
Smoke Some Kill 1988
1."Smoke Some Kill" – 3:28
2."Here We Go Again" – 2:43
3."Mr.Big D**k" – 4:36
4."Gangster Boogie II" – 3:43
5."This Is It (Ain't Gonna Rain)" – 3:56
6."Another Poem" – 4:20
7."We Don't Rock, We Rap" – 3:17
8."Signifying Rapper" – 4:51
9."No More Rock N' Roll" – 3:52
10."Same White B***h (Got You Strung Out On Cane)" – 4:19
11."Treacherous" – 4:27
12."Black Man" – 4:19
13."Coqui 900" – 3:30
14."Fat Gold Chain" – 3:01
Schoolly D still performs and until recently could be heard doing the music for the Cartoon Network show Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
Thursday, August 22, 2013
OLDSKOOL INTERVIEWS
The greatest MC who has ever done it gave an interview about his groundbreaking classic album Follow The Leader. The classic album was released 25 years ago Rakim gave an interview with Complex Music and spoke about where he was mentally when it was made. He also speaks on little know episode of beef with fellow Long Islanders EPMD
What was the importance of Follow The Leader to your career?
After my first album, Follow the Leader, kind of solidified that I was who I said I was, you know what I mean? It was a good thing. I remember performing out at the Apollo before it came out. I’m pretty sure Jesse Jackson was there. It was like a big thing that they had. I just remember performing that—and usually we didn’t perform records that the people didn’t know—but I went on and performed that and I got a good response from it and it kind of let me know as well that I was taking off.
In the end of the song, you kind of get at “fake MCs” or whatever you wanna call them, “the pretenders” or “the followers” and you dissect somebody in the rhyme. You take them apart piece-by-piece. I thought that for somebody to go into the universe and then come back and commit metaphoric violence on somebody on that level, it was quite a quantum leap. But I always heard you were kind of addressing the EPMD controversy.
Yeah it was a lot of talk going back and forth, nah mean? A couple things happened.
This was a Long Island situation?
Nah, it was just me and them, you know what I mean? We had a little problem, you know what I mean? And I kind of had to address it because my thing was, and still is, I don’t like to address a lot of things on record. I don’t even pay them no mind when I’m doing what I do. I don’t even like giving people the thought of day. But that there, there was a lot brewing and I just had to let them know, you know what I mean? We cool today, we’re really cooler now more than ever, man. I just did a show with them maybe a month ago and we kick it heavy now. That’s just that young testosterone—letting cats know can’t nobody can see me! That’s how I felt. I felt, This is my style.
Tell me about “Lyrics of Fury.” What was in your mind when you came up with that? Did you hear the record first or did you come up with the concept before that?
Yeah I came up with the concept. That was a George Clinton record that my brother Stevie Blast played. He used to play the keyboards on a bunch of my albums. But when I was coming up young, we would share rooms and he would play a lot of George Clinton. I came up on that as well. There was this one song he used to play, which was “No Head, No Backstage Pass.” But the sounds of it, man. I remember after I started rapping, I heard it again one time, but I didn’t have access, and I was just like, “Wow, that would be a crazy sample.” It just sounded so mean, nah mean?
Who came up with the catching y’all from the back on the hood of the car? What kind of car was that?
That was a Rolls Royce. It was because the artwork Dapper Dan put on the back. The “Follow the Leader” joint, it was like, “Follow us.” So, everything kind of worked out.
For full interview
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/07/rakim-follow-the-leader-interview
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Bringing them back
Keep It Oldskool thinks that some sayings and words should be brought back. It’s not like we don’t like words like YOLO , Ratchet and U.E.N.O (we don’t) It’s just we like our words better. Some of the sayings or words are still used just not universally as they were. This author has a Homie named Reese that he has known over 25 years who has never stopped using a certain word/saying When going out or meeting up someplace the conversation goes like this.
Me “Yo we meeting at Cam house around 10oclock”
Reese “Word Up”
Some of our words like Fessin or Iggin are no longer used but this author thinks should make a comeback. Oh sure people will say “You have to change with the times and adapt” To those people I say “Bunk Dat you Buggin if you think that we are going to say such Wack words or sayings” We are in an era now where “whats hot” changes daily. Maybe we need to return to a simpler time when such words were the vocabulary of the youth. This author makes of point of speaking in those “old words” that his son says he uses.
So do not be surprised if you hear some people using words and sayings like Fresh and Say Word cause we are bringing them back.
KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
shirts vs blouses
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/charlie-murphy-speaks-on-prince-reaction-to-chappelle-skit-video.html
Charlie Murphy talks about Prince reaction to Chappelle sketch
From okayplayer.com
Charlie Murphy talks about Prince reaction to Chappelle sketch
From okayplayer.com
Monday, August 19, 2013
Keep It Oldskool Movie of the week
The Godfather is on a plateau by itself. There are gangster movies and there are “gangsta” movies. This movie can’t be classified as either. This movie is on par with fine art. The movie was derived from a novel of the same name by Mario Puzo. The Godfather was released in 1972 and contained a cast that was completely stellar. The movie screenplay was composed by author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola. The stars included Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duval and Diane Keaton.
The movie tells the story of a fictional crime family headed by “Don Vito Corleone”. The family one of the most powerful in New York runs peacefully as “the Don” holds court dispensing favors and making offers that “can’t be refused” The movies opens as the “Don’s” only daughter “Connie” is being married. Returning home for wedding is war hero “Michael” (Pacino) with his Anglo Saxon girlfriend “Kay” (Keaton) We watch as the reluctant warrior Michael is pulled into the “family business”. Michael’s brothers are Santino “Sonny” (Caan) who is underboss with his volcanic temper, adoptive brother “Tom” (Duval) who is consigliore and “Fredo” who is just there.
The Godfather spawned 2 sequels with the Godfather Part II being as some critics having stated better than part 1. There so many lines from this movie that are often quoted like the aforementioned “I will make him his offer he can’t refuse” or “Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family ever” and lastly “My father taught me many things … keep your friends close, but your enemies closer The movie won 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor -Bando and Best Screenplay -Puzo /Coppola) and was nominated for 8 others The are not many people that have not seen this movie. There have been countless other mob movies but none rise to the level that was attained by this cinematic masterpiece.
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli and KEEP IT OLDSKOOL
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