Listening List for June 16, 2026

First, here are the notes for Roots of Rap!

Here's the listening list for this week.

Rap from the early 1980s to the early 1990s

The songs or more or less in chronological order from 1980 -1992

Rapture
Blondie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g

Wordy Rappinghood
Tom Tom Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vl1m5FYlAo

Double Dutch Bus
Frankie Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM

The Message
Grandmaster Flash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4

To be or not to be (Hitler rap)
Mel Brooks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzPnpn63nA

Roxanne Roxanne
UTTO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KpngczmD7Q

Roxanne's Revenge
Roxanne Shanté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eckRNcHCKA

The Real Roxanne
The Real Roxanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1eNO4bLrT0

Human Beat Box
Fat Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJewbFZHI34

World Destruction
Time Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5S-q1gRxvw

Walk This Way
Run D.M.C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

Cookie Puss
Beastie Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOMxm0o12c

(Cookie Puss commercial)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7wj9UmcjYk

You gotta fight (for your right)
Beastie Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk

Push it
Salt 'n Peppa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU

Supersonic
J.J. Fad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nPLoODtGU

Straight outa Compton
N.W.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

Me so horny
Two Live Crew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6VTj7LhCtE

Fight the Power
Public Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

Fight the Power
Public Enemy (danced by Rosie Perez)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkfJ-HsPfA

Poor Georgie
M.C. Lyte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5MzLsaVWc

Sometimes I rhyme slow
Nice and Smooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXQ3hEIDMA

Millie pulled a pistol on Santa
De la Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwKGN6MjpQ

My definition of boombastic jazz style
Dream Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoE5yHMrP0A

Set adrift on memory bliss
P.M. Dawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AOVf9p9ht4

Tennessee
Arrested Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCdJyOAQYM