feelosofer
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Gogo music is one of the most unique hodgepodge of Black music out there. It slaps.
I Need Some DC Brehs to Explain to me this GoGo Thing
- Thread starter FLYINHAWAIIAN
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You gotta immortalize that for us breh fukaround and have u a whole museum exhibit soon
You gotta wonder why hasn’t Smithsonian or Howard done a Gogo or damn...even a DC music museum. DC’s sons and daughters include Marvin Gaye, Duke Ellington, Roberta Flack, Johnny Gill, Tank, Ginuwine, Toni Braxton, Stacey Lattisaw...DC’s influence on music needs to be documented and preserved
You Win Perfect
bow down
basically
My take on that why is;
As it is in this thread, Gogo is understood by those for those who are meant to understand it. Those that arent claim it cant crank, but for those of us who are intimate with the crankage, we then make a mistake in trying to intimate the crankage. We should instead cultivate the crankage as we are doing here.When the moment is appropriate please up it to youtube and bump this thread or what keeps you crankin.
Also, for those who dont understand it, they only see what those here who dont have said and then, verily, see the violence that bad apples brought to the whole bunch. When these two factors combine its bad at face value. They are definitely trying to celebrate Chuck Brown and all those aforementioned people, but all the rest of the bands/beats
What Gogo did, initially is worthy of an exhibit, but what gogo does and can do is for us to explore.
This has always been a fubu thing. The museum would then fubu thing too.
Sankofa Alwayz
#FBADOS #B1 #D(M)V #KnowThyself #WaveGod
Facts. Not even just GoGo breh....DC and the whole DMV have made major contributions to other music genres as have been mentioned. We had one of the HARDEST scenes for Hardcore Punk on the not only the East Coast but the country in general...Underrated contributions to Trip Hop, Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Funk, R&B, and Bluegrass...As well being the birthplace of Quiet Storm and Moombahton and last but most certainly not least....the legendary ‘Amen Break’, which is the main quintessential ingredient to Breakbeat and one of the biggest ingredients to Old Skool Jungle, UK Garage, old school Bmore Club, Miami Bass, Old School Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, etc.
The DMV is truly a legendary treasure trove of Black music excellence with a unique portfolio
Grizzly
Home Run Hitter
Bmore Club is the shyt
A couple of brehs from philly, jersey, and new york came to maryland and took the bmore club sound back home with them :Jbaby:
These same guys heard gogo and told them dmv cats to hold that
pip77
Pro
I'm from Dayton Ohio but got hipped to GoGo music back in the day with this track:
This song was played at all the family functions.
This song was played at all the family functions.
Laidbackman
All Star
"DA Butt" by Experience Unlimited (EU) got go-go the most exposer. It went up the East cost and across to the West cost, thanks to Spike Lee and "School Daze". They still play this song til this day.
Although this long cut only went up the East cost, nobody rocked DC in the early 80's the way Big Tony and Trouble Funk did with "Drop the Bomb", which came out a few years before "Da Butt". The full version could last half the party. Although they called Chuck Brown the Godfather of go-go, it was really Trouble Funk that started the go-go beat that gave birth to all those local bands. They were putting out cut after cut. Before it was called go go, we called it The DC groove, then The DC beat, all the way to it's present name go go, which seems to have stuck, although they call it backyard music too sometimes.
I remember me and our little crew we formed on campus while going to U of MD, introduced "Drop the Bomb" at one of our campus parties. This one brother in our group use to look at me, and the first thing he would say was, "Fee Fii Foo Fum"...one of the turning points of the song. He was from West Virginia. He had moved off campus to stay with his sister in SE, and really got hooked on the DC groove. We use to call him "South East". The small version was 7 minutes, and the long version was 25 minutes. Since I haven't heard the long version in probably more than 20 years, I'm going to post it below. This song had a about seven points where it took the party to a higher and higher level. I'll name them:
7:40, 9:12, 10:42, 12:05 -Fee Fii Foo Fum..lol, 14:04, 15:40- this is where the short version actually begun, and 21:38.
They didn't accept go go over night on campus however. As a matter of fact, to this day the only girls that get down on go go in the DMV are hood girls, or very young girls. But most girls get down when they're at home alone, or away from the public, and nobody is watching. or they pretend they don't feel the grove...they way mostly everybody else pretends they don't feel it. But "Drop the Bomb" was one of the few that got through, being only their second cut that played on the radio. But when you're only singing about your own backyard, or the hood, than what do you expect.
I remember a year after "Drop the Bomb" was out, and it was okay for all girls to like it, we played it at one of our parties off campus. Me and this sister who was in her senior year danced all 25 minutes of this song. Then the DJ, who looked out for me this time, followed it with Teena Maries's "Dear Lover". And that's exactly what we two became, lovers. That was one good party.
Although this long cut only went up the East cost, nobody rocked DC in the early 80's the way Big Tony and Trouble Funk did with "Drop the Bomb", which came out a few years before "Da Butt". The full version could last half the party. Although they called Chuck Brown the Godfather of go-go, it was really Trouble Funk that started the go-go beat that gave birth to all those local bands. They were putting out cut after cut. Before it was called go go, we called it The DC groove, then The DC beat, all the way to it's present name go go, which seems to have stuck, although they call it backyard music too sometimes.
I remember me and our little crew we formed on campus while going to U of MD, introduced "Drop the Bomb" at one of our campus parties. This one brother in our group use to look at me, and the first thing he would say was, "Fee Fii Foo Fum"...one of the turning points of the song. He was from West Virginia. He had moved off campus to stay with his sister in SE, and really got hooked on the DC groove. We use to call him "South East". The small version was 7 minutes, and the long version was 25 minutes. Since I haven't heard the long version in probably more than 20 years, I'm going to post it below. This song had a about seven points where it took the party to a higher and higher level. I'll name them:
7:40, 9:12, 10:42, 12:05 -Fee Fii Foo Fum..lol, 14:04, 15:40- this is where the short version actually begun, and 21:38.
They didn't accept go go over night on campus however. As a matter of fact, to this day the only girls that get down on go go in the DMV are hood girls, or very young girls. But most girls get down when they're at home alone, or away from the public, and nobody is watching. or they pretend they don't feel the grove...they way mostly everybody else pretends they don't feel it. But "Drop the Bomb" was one of the few that got through, being only their second cut that played on the radio. But when you're only singing about your own backyard, or the hood, than what do you expect.
I remember a year after "Drop the Bomb" was out, and it was okay for all girls to like it, we played it at one of our parties off campus. Me and this sister who was in her senior year danced all 25 minutes of this song. Then the DJ, who looked out for me this time, followed it with Teena Maries's "Dear Lover". And that's exactly what we two became, lovers. That was one good party.
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Laidbackman
All Star
Another one Trouble Funk put out that made it kinda big was "Pump me up". I think this traveled a little further because they included more rap in this song, and it wasn't about their own back yard.
Laidbackman
All Star
I guess I gotta recant a little of what I said. Go Go actually did start with Chuck Brown after remembering when "Busting Lose" came out. They still play this song on the radio til this day as well. But this song wasn't called go go back then. Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, and Experience Unlimited took this beat and gave birth to that backyard go go they call it. Chuck kept doing what he was doing, and mixed it up with a little back yard go go, and that was history. But he didn't really like the go go music he played. He really liked playing jazz.
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Sankofa Alwayz
#FBADOS #B1 #D(M)V #KnowThyself #WaveGod
On the topic of mumbo sauce, THE best carryout to get that shyt in PG County is Eddie Leonard’s on 7603 Marlboro Pike in District Heights. It’s in the hood like most carryouts out here and that particular carryout stays having car break-ins and shyt outside its doors while nikkas order they shyt but trust, it’s worth it 
The best carryout mumbo sauce I’ve had in the City so far, is Howard China (they’re calling it something else now) on Georgia Ave. shyt was
I wanna try out the mumbo sauce at Jerry’s across the street from Howard Hospital since a lot of Uptown folks swear by it but I ain’t taking no chances with finding rat shyt in my sauce from that dirty ass place
The best carryout mumbo sauce I’ve had in the City so far, is Howard China (they’re calling it something else now) on Georgia Ave. shyt was
I wanna try out the mumbo sauce at Jerry’s across the street from Howard Hospital since a lot of Uptown folks swear by it but I ain’t taking no chances with finding rat shyt in my sauce from that dirty ass place
FLYINHAWAIIAN
Vegan For a Reason
People on here know im clearly black .stop it. Im in my avi
FeloniousMonk
Dont mind me..Im a azzhole
Its 2018 and nicca is JUST now hearing about go go..
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
FLYINHAWAIIAN
Vegan For a Reason
And with some Rock Creek peach or grape as a drank to go with that half-n-half
#DMVshyt
Ain’t no place like home
Whats half and half?
Half wings and half fries