In 1986, Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew released their debut full-length album, Oh, My God!. It included such notable tracks as "Play This Only at Night" and this catchy number "All the Way to Heaven", and was critically hailed by Billboard and other similar media for incorporating elements of reggae and gospel music.
However, criticism was drawn amongst the rap community when this Doug E. Fresh video depicted his red Bally's shooting down a pair of black Adidas sneakers. If one recalls, Adidas was an iconic image of Run-DMC as Fresh labeled them in song (@ 0:28 sec.) "...a new corporation around the block, that didn't want the Get Fresh Crew to rock". Thankfully ...no casualties.
Rap in it's infancy stages, the video has plenty of entertaining elements, the beat-box master himself, scratching lp's, a pounding bass track, dancing girls (the one in white reminds me of my wife's business attire when she first started her job @ 2:28 sec) . But I can't understand why feature talk-show host Joe Franklin, one does wonder.
It's the authors opinion that rap music has started on the right track, with a bright future but somewhere along the line ...that train has derailed.
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ditto, c'mon spin
You are kidding, right? You are ending this great blog with this vomit song...Deech, you can do better than that!
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