Always thought this came from Africa or Caribbean ...actually it was New Orleans

[truth2you]

CULTURAL EXCHANGE

the Greatest Entertainer in the history of the World...MJ.....borrowed from other culture's music also
If you're familiar with Wanna Be Starting Something, you already know


this song goes HARD

Notice the song still has that funk, and jazz, that alone tells you why it was being played

Yes, it's a different culture, but its not that different from a lot of the songs at the time. It was just someone speaking a different language. I wouldn't necessarily call that a Cultural exchange. Technically it is, but not really

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Notice the song still has that funk, and jazz, that alone tells you why it was being played

Yes, it's a different culture, but its not that different from a lot of the songs at the time. It was just someone speaking a different language. I wouldn't necessarily call that a Cultural exchange. Technically it is, but not really

Much of modern African music is influenced by New World sounds from America, Cuba and Jamaica.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

The more I think of Iko Iko, African people all over love the song (and its iterations) because of its polyrhythms

 

[truth2you]

Much of modern African music is influenced by New World sounds from America, Cuba and Jamaica.

No doubt, but I didn't get his post as to how that song brought African culture to the states if the song sounds like a funk record which was popping at the time

I'm confused as to how its a "cultural exchange" that helped create hip hop?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Watched the movie "skeleton key" the other day...

(Sold "Southern Gothic" voodoo/hoodoo movie also)​

...and heard a song called "IKO IKO" played throughout. I then recalled hearing this song on TV commercials or something(Caribbean cruse line?) when I was little and looked it up.

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I always though it was a song from the Continent or Caribbean(especially given that the percussion sounds like)

...not to mention the non English words. Eventually found it's actually from New Orleans(though in a sense, that's not saying much). Iko Iko - Wikipedia

Roots did an interesting rendition 2 years ago also...


Apparently the original song in the 50s was more of a blues rock n roll type song...

(SIDENOTE: now I see where that Jamaican "ska" sound came from)​

The instrument you posted looks like this instrument (the ogene) the guy on the right is playing:

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

No doubt, but I didn't get his post as to how that song brought African culture to the states if the song sounds like a funk record which was popping at the time

I'm confused as to how its a "cultural exchange" that helped create hip hop?

That song didn't help create hip hop. It was more influential for disco.

 

[truth2you]

That song didn't help create hip hop. It was more influential for disco.

Technically it did, the break was used a lot

But, that break was based on the funk which was popping. Dj's understand how you can play certain songs for certain reasons, but that doesn't mean the culture of that music is adding to the music that you play mostly. Hopefully I'm explaining it right

I can say that I do love when i hear a producer incorporate different type of music into one song. Like you said, that is probably why the iko iko song is so loved by people all over the world, it is fukking with your head, but in a good way. This is why I loved the early-mid 90's rap, it mixed music together that didn't belong with each other. Even a lot of the timing was off, Rza was known for it, but somehow it still sounded good. Right now, music to me is just regular because its too organized right now due to people having computers correct everything.

 

[get these nets]

Need somebody from N'awlins to explain the "gitchie gitchie yaya dada" part to me.
Heard several different answers in the past and want to from somebody who is from that area.


Patti always performs well but she went in on this performance.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

My hot girl and yo hot girl
Was sitting by the bayou
My hot girl tole yo hot girl
"I gotta hot boy that is fiyah"

 

[TNOT]

Need somebody from N'awlins to explain the "gitchie gitchie yaya dada" part to me.
Heard several different answers in the past and want to from somebody who is from that area.


Patti always performs well but she went in on this performance.

She selling/offering up them guts breh

Ya ya is p*ssy

Sweet mocha latte ya ya ( probably a light skin chick)

 

[get these nets]

She selling/offering up them guts breh

Ya ya is p*ssy

Sweet mocha latte ya ya ( probably a light skin chick)

I know the song is about a creole prostitute, but gitchie is louisina slang for "come and get"?
is this slang still used?
Along the lines of the thread, I just wanted to know origin of the slanguage.

When I was a kid, besides being surprised that they were allowing the hook of the song on tv/radio..I thought they were saying "geechie" as in....the hooker was Creole and the John was Gullah

 

[TNOT]

I know the song is about a creole prostitute, but gitchie is louisina slang for "come and get"?
is this slang still used?
Along the lines of the thread, I just wanted to know origin of the slanguage.

When I was a kid, besides being surprised that they were allowing the hook of the song on tv/radio..I thought they were saying "geechie" as in....the hooker was Creole and the John was Gullah

I doubt it’s that deep breh


Getcho
Is
Get your

getchea
Is
Get here

I don’t think it’s a slang a much as it’s the pronunciation of the words.

I’ve never heard anyone say getchie, or however you choose to spell it.


Spend enough time down here and you’ll hear all kinds of shyt.

Lady Marmalade - Wikipedia


The song was written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, and was inspired by Crewe's experiences in New Orleans and the sex workers in the area. A sex worker named Lady Marmalade shows up to a man named Joe, flirts with him and takes him home. Joe drinks wine and he screams French words while she is in the Boudoir. A demo of the song was first recorded by The Eleventh Hour, a disco group made up of studio musicians fronted by Nolan on vocals.[4] It was released in 1974 as a track on the Eleventh Hour's Greatest Hits LP which did not chart.[5][6] Crewe showed the song to Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, and Toussaint then decided to
record the song with Labelle.

It’s probably a bad translation of what the writers heard

 

[The Mad Titan]

My hot girl and yo hot girl
Was sitting by the bayou
My hot girl tole yo hot girl
"I gotta hot boy that is fiyah"

 

[TNOT]

On a side note three of this years biggest records were bounce songs.

in my feelings
Nice for what
Living my best life

 

[get these nets]

hook has to be taken from some song from Louisiana artist or a local chant, right?