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Naughty by Nature is raunchy as hell but I love that they’re not explicit. They play OPP at basketball games.
Every time I hear "O.P.P." I marvel at how incredibly vulgar and incendiary it manages to be, even without explicit lyrics
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as a little kid i didn't know what p*ssy was of course, I thought it legit meant 'PROPERTY' and the song was about stealing stuff 
like naughty by nature was a bunch of stick up kids or thieves 
like naughty by nature was a bunch of stick up kids or thieves 
THISAs a kid I shortly thought it was other people's property until I realized what the property was
Pegasus Jackson
Trump's Amerikkka
Man whore anthem. 
DontEemTry
Superstar
We thought the P stood for "Property" 
The beat and track was dope - but I hated the content when it dropped and years later the content does not make it a classic - it makes it a fukboi anthem.
If fukkbois tried to get with my girl - they're jaws and bones will be met with my aluminum Easton baseball bat.
It's actually a destructive song to a catchy beat. But back then, now and forever - dudes committing adultery are risking death or being crippled. The proof is out there and on worldstar all the time.
Hip Hop Hooray is a classic. But I think alot of over the top sex lyrics, rhymes about cheating and group infighting is why the first two Naughty by Nature albums aren't considered classics like Nas' Illmatic - where the content is about facts of New York living, crime, Hip Hop, jail, anger, inspiration, the youth amongst other things.
Plankton
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1991 had a lot of classic Hip Hop singles but OPP was the undeniable Hip Hop song of the year. And I will destroy you in a debate if you try to put it up against another Hip Hop song that dropped that year.
I understand what you mean, and that's why I wrote in the thread title that the song is incredibly incendiary. It is kind of crazy that it became an anthem with little kids going around chanting the chorus. The fact that it had so much crossover appeal despite its thinly-veiled ugly message made it far more vulgar and offensive, in my opinion, than your standard "hardcore" track which needs to have half of its lyrics edited out on the radio version.
Anyway, morality aside, it is still a classic track.
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Captsmackabeat
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Young Capt thought this song was on pro hip hop wu tang type as a jit because of fight the power and hip hop hooray
Tribal Outkast
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I thought about what you said, yes musically it is a classic.
When it dropped and I was a kid it took time to understand. I didn't even learn the word p*ssy by then.
Also the "Ya you know me!" Is a complete psychological brain wash.
Ppl chanting that back cause it sounded fly, wether it was their values or not.
New York, Chicago and New Jersey were much more dangerous back then.
At least that what it seems. That 91 era of rap was crazy.
I saw Naughty by Nature in 1994 live when I was 11. At a club that was all ages and adults.
As much as I love Naughty - that song is a joint I love, but hate, but love anyway because of what it is. It's a mess tho!
ArchStanton
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I remember being in a grocery store with my friend and his mom, and out of nowhere she turned to us and said "I don't want you listening to that OPP, my friend at work told me what it means." My friend asked his mom what it meant. "It's about their gang and OPP is their initials."
It was all we could do to keep a straight face.
It was all we could do to keep a straight face.
Tommy Gibbs
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and Kay Gee stole that beat. PRT producer Tony D did that beat first. The funny thing is that he never let us forget he did it for years on the forums. I used to talk to him a lot of AIM back in the early 2000s as well. Plus, Wise is my cousin. Basically, like Mark 45 King, a lot of producers used to put their beats on white label breakbeat vinyl back then. It's how Jay Z heard the "hard knock life" beat that Kid Capri was playing one night. Kay Gee heard the shyt, reworked it, and sold millions. The same thing Just Blaze has been doing for years. Stealing people shyt.. I think a year ago Kay Gee finally gave an interview about it still denying it, but he knows he stole that shyt. ABC and Synthetic substitution... This shyt has been known for over 30 years and buried..