Tell em you been hit by a Mack Truck

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Truck Turner was released in 1974 The "Blaxploitation" movie starred music icon Issac Hayes in the starring role, Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols. Not as widely know as some of the more famous "Blaxplo-Movies" (Shaft, Superfly,The Mack etc) the movie is still considered a cult classic.

    Truck Turner Trailer 


The movie's plot consists of bounty hunter Truck Turner (Hayes) a former athlete tracking down bail jumpers and bringing them in. One assignment leads a bail skipping pimp named Gator. Truck and his partner need to track him down. After of course getting his man Truck runs afoul of Gator's main chick "Dorinda" (played viciously by Nichols in a against type Star Trek performance) It seems Dorinda wants Truck dead and she runs to some of Gators pimp brethren to handle that for her. She offers a great incentive the one who does it will get Gators stable (including one nick-named KFC as she is "finger licking good")  Harvard Blue (Yaphet Kotto) steps up to collect on that deal.  So with the two gunning for each other the neighborhoods are going to become war zones.

    Dorinda running the Show!

    The 'family" 

Truck Turner is not going to win a NAACP image award but it still very funny.Its not a very hard movie to find so find it, watch it and enjoy. If not for the clothes but to see "Uhura" from Star Trek show you why Captain Kirk was down with "the swirl"  So many of these movies were made because movie studios wanted to cash in on African Americans coming out in droves to see movies about them,starring them and of course kicking ass. These movies are not always politically correct and the language is sometimes very bad but it does shows how some people had to survive in the 70s.

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" IM OUT FOR DEAD PRESIDENTS..

KEEP IT OLDSKOOL LYRICS OF THE DAY 



NAS "THE WORLD IS YOURS 1994

 I sip the Dom P, watching Gandhi til I'm charged

Then writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

To hold the mic I'm throbbin', mechanical movement

Understandable smooth shit that murderers move with

The thief's theme - play me at night, they won't act right

The fiend of hip-hop has got me stuck like a crack pipe

The mind activation, react like I'm facing time like

Pappy Mason, with pens I'm embracing

Wipe the sweat off my dome, spit the phlegm on the streets

Suede Timbs on my feet makes my cipher complete

Whether cruising in a Sikh's cab or Montero Jeep

I can't call it; the beats make me falling asleep

I keep falling, but never falling six feet deep

I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what)

I'm out for presidents to represent me (say what)

I'm out for dead presidents to represent me

VAN DAM

Keep It Oldskool video of the day

HEY BUD LETS PARTY

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Oldskool Movie of the week


Fast Times at Ridemont High was released 1982 and was derived from a book written by Cameron Crowe in 1981. Crowe was a Rolling Stone reporter who went undercover at a high school in California. In this authors mind this movie is the second greatest high school movie ever made (behind only The Breakfast Club released 4 years later in 1986)  The movie showed the trials and tribulations of a year in high school. The movie is also now famous as it showed many stars in their first or early rolls such as Nicholas Cage,Forrest Whitaker,Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards as well in stars who had larger rolls Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold and Jennifer Jason Leigh
 

The movie centers around brother and sister Brad and Stacy Hamilton (Reinhold and Leigh respectively) Brad is a senior and Stacy a sophomore  and Mike Damone and Marc Ratner (Brian Backer and Robery Romanus). There are also many little subplots such as the stoner Jeff Spicoli(Sean Penn) who is just "partying" his way through the school year. and Stacy being advised on the love by her older friend and senior at school Linda (Phoebe Cates).

We see all the premarital sex, abortion,drug use in all its glory and recklessness. Most of us who were barely in to high school or preteen years wondered if this was what high school would really be like. Most boys remember this movie for no other reason the Phoebe Cates pool scene.We watch as all of the lives of these characters intertwine for sometimes hilarious and sometimes serious scenes. In the end it is a another snap shot of high school life as some lived it in the very early 80s.

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High did have a weak TV spin off that came and went but that doesn't take away from the fact that it was a great movie.

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FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

stole the show

Keep It Oldskool Presents:
THE BURGLARS PART 1 

Artists who appeared in another artist song and basically stole the song: meaning the verse they dropped is either better or blows all others away including the artist whose song that it is A lot of times the person who stole the song was unknown 

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Grand Puba steals the song the others never had a chance 

 

Nasty Nas does the thing that track 

    Ladies Love Cool James shines the brightest on the track

  Whether a "Casper" (ghostwriter) wrote it or not gotta give Foxy Brown this track (yea LL did his thing BUT those bars BLEW Fox Boogie up)

   OC killed it

KEEP IT OLDSKOOL PRESENTS: 

"WE DON'T GET IT"


In our day if you were a man and your pants were too tight and high waters you had to be prepared to get "bussed on" NOW  You have to be prepared to be asked "where you get them pants at I like those" we don't get it !

In our day If a young lady had a weave the other girls would say "That ain't her hair that's just a weave" NOW what you hear is "excuse me where do you buy your hair I need to go buy some"  we don't get it !

In our day when it was 30 degrees outside and you and your homies where standing around and someone only had on a hoodie they would said "Man its cold and all you have on is a hoodie?" NOW its "Man why you out here with a coat on?" (and ALL of them have on JUST HOODIES)  we don't get it !

In our day you could tell the difference between a Rap Song and a R&B song. NOW you have no clue whose song it is and if its Rap or R&B we don't get it !

In our day a rapper who faked his street cred was laughed out of the game. NOW a rapper can pretend his was a big time drug dealer, grow a beard and nobody cares he was lying through his teeth as he was a correction officer  we don't get it !

In our day to get a TV show you had to have some sort of skill (even MIMES had they're own show) NOW any professional noodle or chicken head can get cameras to follow them around we don't get it !

Aw Honey you just a wanna be

Keep It Oldskool Lyric of the Day 

 Antoinette "Whose the Boss"  1989

Now here we go hug your stereo

It might pump or jump around

Bum rush the sound beat it down run it in the ground

The bigger they are the harder they fall oh well they fell

Their records couldn't sell even if you gave 'em away free

Ah,honey you're just a wanna be

Rap star

And now you're trying o front on me

But kids who play will suffer when the beat is on

And the going gets tougher when the heat is on

I go off and i be keeping it kept on/make like a rash break out or get stepped on

Step child you're just a son in this

And antoinette is like running this

Yeah dance go ahead do that

Instead pick up your head 'cause i flew that

Antoinette taking no loss wearing no shorts but telling you who's the boss...

Keep it Oldskool Movie of the Week



48 HRS. was released in 1982 and was directed by Walter Hill. The movie starred Nick Nolte and the at that point ascending to super stardom Eddie Murphy. The file was written to star Clint Eastwood and Richard Pryor. The movie which was made for $12 million went on to gross over $78 million.

The premise of this "buddy cop" movie was that hard nosed,hard living cop Jack Cates (Nolte) is on the trail of escape prisoner and cop killer Albert Ganz. Running out of options in tracking Ganz down Cates has to resort to getting a member of the Ganz gang who is still in prison to help him. The one  caveat is that they only have 48 hours to track him down. The gang member Reggie Hammond (Murphy) is less then forthcoming with the information Cates needs to track Ganz down.

Reggie is on a mission also as he knows exactly what Ganz is after and he wants it just as much as Ganz does. He needs to figure how to get his hands on the object while keeping Cates out of the loop. The initial friction between these two is hilarious. Cates and Reggie traverse the city looking for Ganz and his cohort Billy Bear as time is running out. Reggie even tries his hand at "rousting a bar" leading to comical results

48 HRS took a already famous from Saturday Night Live Eddie Murphy and turned him into a movie star. Eddie Murphy became a bankable star that brought everyone to the movies. This movie did have a sequel in 1990 called Another 48 HRS though not the critical success the original the movie did gross over $153 million worldwide. Also the dynamics had changed where as Eddie Murphy recieved $450,000 for the first movie and Nick Nolte got $1 million in the sequel Murphy got $9 million to Nolte's $3 million. This movie lives on in the numerous quotes from the film such as:

"What are you are smiling at watermelon.."
"There is a new sheriff in town and his name is Reggie Hammond"
" You said bu*** and experience is all it takes right? well come experience some of my bu***"

Keep It Oldskool Remembers when Eddie Murphy was still funny

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Original to a Sample

Faze-O  "Ridin High"

aint nuffin changed

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KEEP IT OLDSKOOL MOVIE OF THE WEEK



Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released in 1986 and was written and directed by the "King of teenage movies" the late John Hughes. This movie is unquestionably the greatest "hookey" movie of all time. The movie starred Mathew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara and Jennifer Grey. The movie screenplay was completed in less then a week and grossed over $70 million on a budget of $5.8 million.

The movie takes place in suburbs of Chicago where we meet the reigning king of local high school Ferris Bueller (Broderick) who wakes up on a beautiful day and decides that he is not up for school that day. He carefully teaches us how to fake our parents into letting us stay home. Not content with sitting home and watching TV Ferris decides that this will be the mother of all hookey days. There is just a few slight problems 1.His girlfriend Sloan (Sara) is at school and he will need to spring her. 2. He doesn't have a car so he will need to get his perpetually sick friend Cameron (Ruck) and lastly the school principal is out to make an example of Ferris whom his secretary says school kids  thinks Ferris is a "righteous dude".

Ferris take us on a journey around the city Chicago joyriding in Cameron's dad vintage car a 1961 Ferrari GT. All while his principal is hot on his trail (only he is going to NONE of the places that Ferris is going to) From a baseball game to lunch at 5 star restaurant Ferris is out to have one "for the books" The performance at parade would get the average person "pinched" but not Ferris.His sister Jeanie (Grey) who like most sisters knows exactly what Ferris is up to but cannot get anyone to listen. His clueless parents have no idea that thier son has missed 9 days of school and they never will as Ferris has hacked the school system and changed the days 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a time capsule movie as it gives a snap shot of the late 80s suburbia high school atmosphere. The movie never spawned a sequel thankfully. It would have been hard to top that day. Some of the hidden facts about the movie 

*Ferris  had younger siblings that were edited out of movie

*Matthew Broderick messed his knee up badly running through the neighbors yard 

*The same school was used for the outside shot of  high school in another John Hughes           movie  Breakfast Club

* Original cut of film is two hours and 45 mins.

This a movie that whenever it is on you have to stop to see what part it is on. A TV show of the same name debuted on NBC in 1990 and disappeared after 13 episodes Keep It Oldskool remembers Ferris Buellers Day Off


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2nd time around

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Shalamar


Shalamar was the brainchild of Soul Train pioneer Don Cornelius and booking agent Dick Griffey. They were made up of initially Gary Mumford and Soul Train dancers Jody Whatley and Jeffery Daniel in 1977. The group was signed to SOLAR records also a product for Dick Griffey and Don Cornelius. By 1979 the most popular lineup would be Howard Hewitt, Watley and Daniel. Their first real hit was "2nd Time Around" which was produced by Leon Sylvers III.

The group was fragile from the beginning due to internal friction and members not being happy with the label and specifically Dick Griffey. Through all of this the group continued to have hits with songs like "A night to Remember" 

At some point both Watley and Daniel were fed up with the lack of payment of royalties that they felt were owed to them decided to leave the group. In 1984 a new lineup of Hewitt, Micki Free and Delissa Davis scored a hit from the Footloose movie soundtrack called "Dancin in the Sheets"  The group soldiered on for just another year  before Howard Hewitt himself left to go solo in 1985. Though never really a household name and the lineup changes hindered longevity who reading this column doesn't say when "The Lover in You" comes on "Oh snap this is my jawn"  Keep It Oldskool remembers Shalamar

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