Top 10(ish) Old Skool Rap/Hip Hop/Electro

[Corabar Steve]

Following from this thread What are your top tracks of the genre? (please only list tracks that are proven to actually work in a mobile disco situation & not just because they are of a certain genre. Also must be suitable for all ages)

It doesn't matter if you post a track that somebody else has, the idea is to find good useable tracks of the genre that are proven to work for mobile DJs

Please Stick to the specific genre in the thread title

Make the lists as long as you like as long as they are useable

[PropellerHeadCase]

Not for the hip-hop purists: 'Can't Touch This' & 'Ice, Ice Baby'

Anyway...
Tone Loc 'Funky Cold Medina' & 'Wild Thing'
Salt 'n' Pepa 'Push it' & 'Lets Talk About Sex'
Run DMC 'Walk This Way, ft. Tyler & Perry' (great rock crossover, too)
Young MC 'Bust a Move'
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 'The Message'
Malcolm McLaren 'Buffalo Girls'
Herbie Hanco.ck 'Rockit'
Sugarhill Gang 'Rapper's Delight'
Afrika Bambaataa 'Planet Rock'
West Street Mob 'Breakdance Electric Boogie'
Kurtis Blow 'These are the Breaks'
Stetsasonic 'Talkin' All that Jazz'
Grandmaster Flash 'White Lines (Don't Do It), ft. Melle Mel'
A Tribe Called Quest 'Bonita Applebum'
Public Enemy '911 is a Joke'

For the right kind of crowd...
KRS-One 'Sound of da Police'

[kierz123]

Stetsasonic - Talkin all that Jazz
NWA - Express Yourself
Rebel MC - Street Tuff
Rob Base and EZ Rock - It Takes Two
Walk This Way - Run DMC
De La Soul - Say No Go/Magic Number/Eye Know
House of Pain - Jump Around
MC Hammer - Can't Touch This
Naughty by Nature - OPP
Young Black Teenagers - Tap the Bottle
Heavy D & The Boyz - Now That We Found Love

many of the above are on this album: The Best Hip Hop Anthemz Ever

http://www.discogs.com/release/825665

[Dazzler]

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
Push It - Salt n Pepa
Young MC - Bust A Move
Sugarhill Gang - Apache
De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"
Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
De La Soul (et al) - Buddy

[soundtracker]

Cypress Hill - Insane in the brain
Run DMC - Tricky

[Goodmix]

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
MC Shy D - Shake It
De La Soul - Me, Myself and I
2 Live Crew - Me So Horny (obviously NOT for every night, but will set the right crowd on fire)
Public Enemy - Burn, Hollywood, Burn; Fight The Power
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey; She's Crafty (almost all of License to Ill, actually)
3rd Bass - Pop Goes the Weasel
King Bee - Back by Dope Demand
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance
EU - Da Butt
A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
A.L.T. - Tequila
Redhead Kingpin - 3-2-1 Pump
Das EFX - They Want EFX
EPMD - You Gots to Chill; Crossover
Snow - Informer
Warren G. ft. Nate Dogg - Regulate
Snoop Dogg - Gin and Juice
Skee-Lo - I Wish
DMX - Party Up
Luniz - I Got Five On It
Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Onyx - Slam
K7 - Come Baby Come
N2Deep - Back to the Hotel
Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride

Electro/breakdance

Freestyle - Don't Stop The Rock
Dazz Band - Let it Whip
Midnight Star - Operator, Freakazoid
Rocksteady Crew - Hey You
M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up the Volume
Axel F.
The Pac-Man - I'm the Pac-Man
Jam On It - Newcleus (one of my all-time faves)
Grandmaster Flash - Beat Street
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
World Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ


Yes, not everything above technically qualifies as "Old Skool", but most of it is at least ~20 years old and still works great. Not sure how well-known some of the tracks are in the UK though!?

[funksoulbrother]

In no particular order:

Old School Rap/Hip hop
Kool Moe Dee - Go see the doctor
Spoonie Gee - Godfather
LL Cool J - Rock the Bells (a blinding track, just watch your bass speakers)!!!
Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype
JVC Force - Strong Island
Eric B & Rakim - I Know you got Soul
Original Concept - Can you feel it (watch your bass speaker again)
Dougie Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew - The Show
Beastie Boys - Hold it now, Hit It
Whistle - Just Buggin'

Also if you can get hold of them,

Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson 3
Younger Generation - We Rap More Mellow (Grandmaster Flash & Furious 5 before they became that with, IMO a better version of Rappers Delight)

Old School Electro

Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam
Arthur Baker - Breakers Revenge
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Man Parrish - Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop)
Whodini - Magic Wand
Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)
Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom
Warp 21 - Light Years away
C.O.D. - In the Bottle

[Mark Wild]

KRS One - Sound of Da Police
Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'
Naughty By Nature- O.P.P
Biz Markie - Just A Friend
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Whistle - Buggin'
Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh - La Di Da Di
Digital Underground - Humpty Hump
DMX - Party Up

(Top 100 would have been easier, I feel bad I've left sooo many of my favs out)

[SPDJ]

Bit of a toughy as for me the early 90's was old skool

never the less . .

N.W.A: Express Yourself
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock: It Takes Two
Sugar Hill Gang: Rappers Delight
Kurtis Blow: These Are The Breaks
Whodini: Magics Wand
The 45 King: 900 Number
Public Enemy: Rebel Without a Pause
Paul Hardcastle: 19
A Tribe Called Quest: Can I Kick It
Biz Markie: Nobody Beats The Biz