Answers For The 100 Old Skool Questions

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First the questions again:

1. What are the four original components of hip-hop expression?

2. What was the name of Kool DJ Herc's crew?

3. Who was the original "Chief Rocker"?

4. What was Kurtis Blow's first record?

5. Name the Furious Five.

6. During what famous BBoy (break dancing) battle did the stage collapse?

7. Which DJ is widely credited with inventing "transforming"?

8. How was Run (of Run-DMC) originally billed?

9. Who was the first rapper signed to a major label?

10. What was the first record to bear the Def Jam logo?

11. What James Brown record is considered by many to be the B-boy anthem?

12. Name the first hip-hop artist to collaborate with James Brown and the

record they created.

13. What was the first film to show the world B-boying (break dancing)?

14. Who directed the film "Wild Style"?

15. Who spells out his name in dollars in "Wild Style"?

16. Who compiled the seminal graffiti book "Subway Art"?

17. What was the name of the graf writer filmed in the kitchen with his mom in "Style Wars"?

18. Who were the two stars of "Breakin'"?

19. What cut did Ice-T perform on the "Breakin'" soundtrack?

20. Who produced the film "Beat Street"? Who directed it?

21. Who performed the fat cut "Santa's Rap" in the film "Beat Street"?

22. Who played Russell Simmons in "Krush Groove"?

23. What Prince protégée rapped on the "Krush Groove" theme song, along with Run-DMC, the Fat Boys and Kurtis Blow?

24. What rappers battled on the single episode of the 1984 television show

"Graffiti Rock"?

25. Who was the first rap group to make a national TV appearence and on what show?

26. What was the first major network news program to document hip-hop?

27. What label released "Rockin' it" by the Fearless Four?

28. Who wrote lyrics for "Rapper's Delight" but was not credited?

29. Where was the original "writer's bench" in New York, a central gathering

point for graffiti artists?

30. Who went on to success after winning a record deal in the Tin Pan Apple

rap contest?

31. At what club did these famous battles take place: Cold Crush vs. Fantastic Five, Busy Bee vs. Kool Moe Dee?

32. What was the Force MD's original name?

33. Who was the first hip-hop artist to collaborate with a jazz artist on wax?

34. Who was the first real rapper to collaborate with an R&B artist?

35. What rapper opened up for the Commodores and Bob Marley at a seminal show at New York's Madison Square Garden?

36. Who was the host of the first rap radio show in New York? On what station and in what year?

37. The same station carried at least four other rap shows in the early '80s.

Name one of them.

38. What was the first radio station in Los Angeles to play rap?

39. What was Ice Cube's first group, and what current producer was also in

this group?

40. What was the title and label of the first Kid Frost record?

41. Name at least two of the influential DJs of the early LA crew Uncle Jam's

Army.

42. Both members of the rap duo Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde went on to later success in the rap industry. What are their real names and current titles?

43. What was the first rap hit to use Billy Squier's ubiquitous "Big Beat"?

44. What was the first rap hit to use the slamming "Substitution" beat?

45. What was Oakland rapper Too Short's first label?

46. Who was the artist on the early Tommy Boy mix single known as "The

Lessons" - featuring a cut-and-paste mix of G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That

Beat Mr. DJ"?

47. Name the Beastie Boys' first and second DJs.

48. Name the first hip-hop record to use rock guitars, and the crew who

recorded it. Hint: It wasn't Run-DMC.

49. Who were widely rumored to be the owners of the TROOP Gear clothing line, and what were the letters TROOP rumored to stand for - rumors which eventually caused the brand's death?

50. Who was TROOP Gear's most prominent celebrity endorser?

51. Name the original members of the Cold Cruch Brothers. Hint: Don't go to

their records. It's not the line-up that recorded under that name.

52. Now go to their records, and name all of the Cold Crush singles in order

of release.

53. Which independant rap label was the first signed subsidiary of a major

label, in what year did the deal begin, and with which major label?

54. Sure, the Sugar Hill Gang rapped over the bass, drums and violins of "Good Times". However, what record was used for the intro of "Rapper's Delight" - the one that plays before "Good Times" starts?

55. Much is presently being made of Cypress Hill's endorsement of marijuana. Name the seminal rapper who actually named himself after the plant.

56. Which member of the rock band Living Colour besides Vernon Reid is

important to the history of recorded hip-hop, and why?

57. Name the L Brothers. Tell what the "L" stood for.

58. N.W.A. was not the first hip-hop crew to use the epithet "nigger" as part

of its name. Although this first crew never recorded, their name is well known to true members of the original school. Who were they, and what did they do?

59. Speaking of expletives, upon which hip-hop recording do the words "bitch" and "pussy" both appear for the very first time?

60. What was the first case of hip-hop radio censorship, where rap lyrics had

to be deleted for radio airplay? Name the censored record, and tell what was

taken out.

61. Name Whitney Houston and the Human Beat Box's sole musical collaboration.

62. With which famously rotund athlete did the Fat Boys collaborate on a

12-inch single?

63. Which member of Whodini had a twin brother, and what was the brother's name?

64. The Whodini song "Magic's Wand" was a tribute to whom?

65. What record was the source of the "Oh My God!" on Doug E. Fresh's classic release "The Show"?

66. Name the record that Def Jam CEO Russell Simmons recorded as the sole

vocalist.

67. Name Simmons's second recording effort.

What was the title and label of the first Kid Frost record?

67. Name Simmons's second recording effort.

68. Name the record upon the cover of which Tommy Boy president Monica Lynch posed dressed as the Statue of Liberty. Name the artists who recorded the record, and tell what significant ethnic first they established by recording

together.

69. Name the title and artist of the only rap record to ever feature three MCs

rhyming simultaneously.

70. Who did MC Shan accuse of stealing his beat on his "Beat Biter" single?

71. What is the name of hip-hop's first female solo recording artist and what

was the name of her record?

72. Which well-known hip-hop artist sampled this record's intro on the intro

of a popular single from his 1992 album?

73. In what year, and in a rap on what record, by whom, does what is perhaps the first reference in popular music to AIDS appear?

74. What was Bushwick Bill's original name and original role in the Geto Boys?

75. With which female rapper did MC Lyte exchange a "10% Dis"?

76. Name the MCs that rhyme on the Marley Marl posse cut "The Symphony".

77. On which record did Biz Markie make his first appearence?

78. What was Naughty by Nature's original name and label?

79. What hit from Dr. Dre's old group, the World Class Wreckin' Cru, featured

Michel'le belting fat vocals?

80. Which group did Grand Puba belong to before Brand Nubian?

81. Which pioneering DJ from Philly was called "the green-eyed brother -

brother with the green eyes"?

82. Before he teamed up with Hammer under the name Joey B. Ellis, what was

this Philly MC known as?

83. On which independant label was Schooly D's first single released?

84. From which record, by which artist, did the Flavor Unit get its name?

85. Who was Mantronik's MC on the hits "Fresh Is The Word" and "Simple Simon"?

86. What group did DJ Muggs belong to before Cypress Hill?

87. Name the members of Stetsasonic, the "hip-hop band".

88. Who rhymes last on "Self Destruction"?

89. What former gang member was the key force behind "We're All In The Same Gang"?

90. Which member of the Ultramagnetic MC's did his start doing the "electric

boogie"?

91. What NBA team jacket was Moe Love of Ultra wearing on the cover of

"Critical Beatdown"?

92. How was EPMD's name spelled on their first 12-inch single?

93. To which Texas-based group did the D.O.C. belong before he hooked up with Dr. Dre?

94. For which group did Funkmaster Flex originally DJ?

95. What artist was Pete Rock's first production on wax?

96. What talented producer/rapper first appeared on a cut called "Breaking

Atoms"?

97. What was Brand Nubian's first video?

98. Who play the reporters in the classic PE video "Night of the Living

Bassheads"?

99. Identify the main dancer in the EPMD "You Gots to Chill" video, and name

his first single.

100. Who was the first rapper pictured on the cover of "The Source"?

And here tha answers:

1. mcing (rap), djing (turntablism), writing (graffiti), b-boying (breakdance)

2. herculoids

3. busy bee

4. christmas rappin'

5. melle mel, scorpio, cowboy, raheem, kidd creole

6. rock steady crew vs. dynamite rockers (1981, lincoln center)

7. jazzy jeff

8. son of kurtis blow

9. kurtis blow

10. t la rock "it's yours"

11. "give it up or turn it loose"

12. afrika bambaataa, "unity"

13. "flashdance" (Rock steady crew)

14. charlie ahearn

15. busy bee

16. martha cooper & henry chalfant

17. skeme-tnt

18. boogaloo shrimp & shabba doo

19. "reckless" mit chris "the glove" taylor

20. harry belafonte, stan lathan

21. treacherous three

22. blair underwood

23. sheila e

24. run dmc vs. kool moe dee & special k

25. funky 4 + 1 in "saturday night live"

26. 20-20

27. enjoy records

28. grandmaster caz (cold crush brothers)

29. 149th und grand concourse, in der bronx, versteht sich

30. fat boys (back then they where "disco 3")

31. harlem world und lenox

32. force mcs. before that: lds

33. grandmixer d.st & herbie hancock, "rockit"

34. chaka khan & melle mel, "i feel for you"

35. kurtis blow.

36. mr. magic, whbi, 1980

37. world famous supreme theme. sweet g. the awesome two. afrika islam's "zulu beats" - al on whbi,(later wnwk."

38. kgfj

39. cia, sir jinx

40. "the terminator" auf electro beat records

41. bobcat, egyptian lover, mr. prince, dj pooh

42. andre "dr. jeckyl" harrell: ceo of uptown entertainment. alonzo "mr. hyde" brown: vp of film and television at uptown entertainment.

43. utfo, "roxanne, roxanne"

44. ultramagnetic mcs, "ego trippin'"

45. 75 girls records

46. double d & steinski

47. rick dj double r rubin. dann dr. dre.

48. treacherous three, "body rock" (1981)

49. der ku klux klan. total rule (reign) over oppressed people.

50. ll cool j

51. tony-tone, easy a.d., charlie chase, whipper-whip, mr. t & dotarock

52. "the weekend", "punk rock rap", "fresh, wild, fly and bold", "heartbreakers"

53. tuff city. 1983. epa.

54. sun, "here comes that sound"

55. eddie cheba.

56. bassist doug wimbush. play in the suggarhill hoseuband and helped with the malcolm-x-single "no sell out" 1982 on tommy boy.

57. mean gene & grand wizard theodore. l wie livingston, der nachname der brüder.

58. nigger twins, b-boys, die auf kool dj hercs parties tanzten.

59. doug e. fresh & slick rick, "la-di-da-di"

60. "rapper's delight". zensiert wurde: "he can't satisfy you with his little worm / but i can bust you out with my super sperm."

61. "king holiday"

62. william "refrigerator" perry von den chicago bears.

63. exstasy hat einen bruder, dynasty.

64. radio-dj mr. magic

65. "punk rock rap"

66. jazzy jay, "chillin' at the spot"

67. "that's a lie" mit ll cool j auf "radio"

68. hiko & peso, "she's wild". fisrt colabo betwen a japna and american artits

69. rockmaster scott & dynamic three, "request line"

70. ll cool j

71. paula "sweet tee" winley, "vicious rap"

72. diamond d auf "best kept secret"

73. 1983, "bad times (i can't stand it)", captain rapp

74. little billy, der war tänzer.

75. antionette

76. masta ace, craig g, big daddy kane, kool g rap

77. roxanne shante, "get retarded"

78. the new style. bon ami/mca records.

79. "turn out the lights"

80. masters of ceremony

81. dj cash money

82. the singing mc breeze

83. schoolly d records

84. latee, "this cut's got flavor"

85. mc tee

86. 7a3

87. daddy-o, delite, fruitkwon, prince paul, the dbc, wise, drummer bobby simmons

88. chuck d

89. michael conception

90. kool keith

91. boston celtics

92. epee md

93. fila fresh crew

94. deuces wild

95. groove b chill

96. large professor

97. "feels so good"

98. chris thomas & mc lyte

99. stezo. "it's my turn" / "to the max"

100. krs-one

[sonic1988]

thank you, sir

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Please don`t call me Sir..I allready hate it when someone calls me "young man"..I feel so old then :lolsign:

[PeaceAngel]

Please don`t call me Sir..I allready hate it when someone calls me "young man"..I feel so old then :lolsign:

How about Mister Turntable? :lolsign:

[Turntable]

Please don`t call me Sir..I allready hate it when someone calls me "young man"..I feel so old then :lolsign:

How about Mister Turntable? :lolsign:

Mrs.Funky Fresh Chick :rofl:

[PeaceAngel]

Please don`t call me Sir..I allready hate it when someone calls me "young man"..I feel so old then :lolsign:

How about Mister Turntable? :lolsign:

Mrs.Funky Fresh Chick :rofl:

Actually it would be MISS cuz I'm not married.... :stickpoke: But I'll let it slide this time :rofl:

[Turntable]

You gotta let it slide..Caus I`m just some dutch kid that doesn`t know better, remember? :lolsign:

[PeaceAngel]

You gotta let it slide..Caus I`m just some dutch kid that doesn`t know better, remember? :lolsign:

Oh yeah, I remember! And you also have to remember that my name is Timmy :lolsign:

Back to topic, thanx for the answers to the questions.