Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!

May 9, 2008: 1988 (feat. Michael A Gonzales + DEMER repping Concrete Alchemy

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Billy Jam + Bryce intro	→ "Billy Jam + Bryce intro"								0:00:00 (Pop-up)
MC EZ & Troup	get retarded   → "get retarded" by "MC EZ & Troup"			1988	12"				0:01:30 (Pop-up)
Wacky Wrapper	rub n dub   → "rub n dub" by "Wacky Wrapper"			1988	12"				0:04:27 (Pop-up)
Marley Marl	the symphony   → "the symphony" by "Marley Marl"			1988					0:08:17 (Pop-up)
EPMD	Strictly Business   → "Strictly Business" by "EPMD"			1988	12"				0:14:37 (Pop-up)
Eric B & Rakim	follow the leader   → "follow the leader" by "Eric B & Rakim"			1988	12"				0:16:17 (Pop-up)
Public Enemy	Rebel Without a Pause   → "Rebel Without a Pause" by "Public Enemy"			1988					0:22:42 (Pop-up)
PE	→ "PE"
call-in from author Marcus Reeves (author of Somebody Scream	→ "call-in from author Marcus Reeves (author of Some...								0:34:13 (Pop-up)
interview with Michal + DEMER	→ "interview with Michal + DEMER"								0:48:20 (Pop-up)
call in from Bill Adler	→ "call in from Bill Adler"								0:51:47 (Pop-up)
Chris Chambers (author ) call in	on phone from DC   → "on phone from DC" by "Chris Chambers (author ) ca...								1:06:46 (Pop-up)
Too $hort	I aint trippin   → "I aint trippin" by "Too $hort"			1988	12"				1:30:26 (Pop-up)
Biz Markie	Nobody Beats the Biz   → "Nobody Beats the Biz" by "Biz Markie"								1:31:35 (Pop-up)
Positive K	→ "Positive K"								1:33:30 (Pop-up)
LL Cool J	going back to cali   → "going back to cali" by "LL Cool J"								1:35:16 (Pop-up)
JJ Fad	supersonic   → "supersonic" by "JJ Fad"								1:37:34 (Pop-up)
JVC Force	strong island   → "strong island" by "JVC Force"			1988	12"				1:41:17 (Pop-up)
CERN freestyle	→ "CERN freestyle"								2:02:09 (Pop-up)
Jungle Brothers	jimbrowski   → "jimbrowski" by "Jungle Brothers"			1988					2:05:02 (Pop-up)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince	girls aint nothin but trouble   → "girls aint nothin but trouble" by "DJ Jazzy Jeff ...			1988					2:07:13 (Pop-up)
Big Daddy Kane	aint no half steppin   → "aint no half steppin" by "Big Daddy Kane"								2:09:50 (Pop-up)
Stetsasonic	talkin all that jazz   → "talkin all that jazz" by "Stetsasonic"			1988					2:12:02 (Pop-up)
Cash Money	the music maker   → "the music maker" by "Cash Money"			1988		Cash Money who also won the DMC title in 1988			2:13:36 (Pop-up)
Chris & Ray	U Dont Walk U Run   → "U Dont Walk U Run" by "Chris & Ray"			1988		from Milpitas CA - lived near Peanut Butter Wolf - this was their indie release 12"			2:15:18 (Pop-up)
Ice T	→ "Ice T"								2:19:48 (Pop-up)
Too $hort	the ghetto   → "the ghetto" by "Too $hort"			1990					2:19:54 (Pop-up)
MC Lyte & Sinead O Connor	→ "MC Lyte & Sinead O Connor"			1988					2:33:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lisa Cortes call in	→ "Lisa Cortes call in"								2:44:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:01pm → zedprophfer: aha!
	3:02pm → Ismael: whattup, Villy Yams!
	3:02pm → filmchickie: I was too slow, LOL
	3:03pm → Sean Daily: Fourth comment! Woo hoo!
	3:03pm → zedprophfer: B)
	3:03pm → dc pat: 1969 is alright
	3:03pm → dlroth: i got to babylon in 1988
	3:03pm → Bad Ronald: I ate acid in '88
	3:03pm → Filmchickie: what's going on Billy!
	3:03pm → 1988: absolutely nothing happened
	3:04pm → ted: 1988, I love that book.
	3:05pm → pan am: 103 in 88
	3:05pm → Ismael: I prefer 1967, myself. (Aretha Franklin finally breaks through.)
	3:05pm → zedprophfer: 8891
	3:06pm → dan quale: some meat head told me : "you're no Jack Kennedy."
	3:07pm → ted: no elvis, beatels or the rolling stones in...
	3:07pm → Bad Ronald: Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday.
	3:08pm → Ohhhhhhhh: ohhhhhh play some schooly D, play it plaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy it
	3:08pm → sonny bono: i was made a mayor
	3:09pm → Johnny Doobs: Its Gucci time....
	3:09pm → Kenzo: Billy Jam, you win the playlist-as-chat-room contest. I'm closing the polls early.
	3:10pm → Gorbachev: perestroika!
	3:10pm → woj: are you there, god? it's me, sweden.
	3:10pm → Ronald Reagan: I granted permission to execute drug dealers.
	3:11pm → fishmonkeystew: Did he actually say "you have a big butt, just like a pit bull?
	3:11pm → stuck in surbanwasteland: i watched yo mtv raps
	3:12pm → lsmonkey: you rock Mr Jam making art with my friend Eric and listening!
	3:12pm → g: Kool G Rap!
	3:12pm → de la de la: sooooooooooooouuulllllll - i know u got it
	3:13pm → Billly Jam: 1988 is the theme....Music - especially hip-hop, politics, sports, and life.......Any memories or comments or links to pics or videos - please post em - along with your fave songs from 1988
	3:13pm → Elton John: I sold out Madison Square Gardens for the 26th time. But it didn't matter, I was still an idiot.
	3:13pm → ken's fan: i know you got some FLIPPER ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho he he he he
	3:15pm → flipper for the win: lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww rider
	3:15pm → zedprophfer: Straight Outta Compton!
	3:15pm → Stetsasonic: Talkin' All That Jazz and elton john is an idiot
	3:15pm → ted: wow, 20 years ago. I was 35 in 88
	3:17pm → ted: thats what you call a conversation stopper...
	3:18pm → Michael A. Gonzales: 1988, time to get it straight: seems like yesterday I was chillin' on the stoop listening to the classic rap tracks by EPMD, Public Enemy and the wonderful productions of Marley Marl...this is the soundtrack to my young life and I love it.
	3:18pm → ?: eric and parish were making dollars and biz was goin' off
	3:19pm → Johnny Doobs: Girls, I got em locked.
	3:20pm → Michael A. Gonzales: ...i wrote the first epmd bio--interviewed them in a record storage room.
	3:20pm → Ismael: "Tougher than Leather" came out in '88. But keep the EB & R flowing, Jilly Bams!
	3:21pm → spaniel: yeah, i was 8. for some reason i remember in probably like 88 or 89 3/4th grade walking around with my friend on the playground and him showing me this NWA tape that he got from his brother.
	3:21pm → Michael A. Gonzales: ...follow the sound of the future.
	3:25pm → woj: 1988 - still at university and not quite hip-hop-friendly ... though not hip-hop unfriendly either. i'm better now.
	3:26pm → Kenzo: The long coat I've been wearing lately...I got it in 1988.
	3:26pm → zedprophfer: lol
	3:27pm → steve c: a strong year for music especially because it was partly the Chinese year of the dragon
	3:28pm → Sean Daily: TGIPE
	3:29pm → Joshua K: More beets than a pot of borscht
	3:30pm → dlroth: TGIBJams
	3:32pm → sprite: "The pop success of both singles was unheard of for the time. Kurtis Blow's appearance in a Sprite commercial made him the first hip hop musician to be considered mainstream enough to represent a major product, but also the first to be accused by the hip hop audience of selling out. Another popular performer among mainstream audiences included DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, who won rap's first Grammy"
	3:33pm → Ismael: "blog, blog, blog": the "blah, blah, blah" of the Oughts. (present company excepted.)
	3:35pm → weed: i was adime
	3:37pm → weed: October 4 - Following in Cher's footsteps, actress Shirley MacLaine calls David Letterman an "@$$hole", on the air during a taping of Late Night.
	3:38pm → roy orbison: i died
	3:40pm → Johnny Doobs: Sorry to hear that.
	3:41pm → Haley Joel Osment: i was born
	3:42pm → the jersey shore: "The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record."
	3:42pm → Johnny Doobs: Sorry to hear that.
	3:46pm → tompkins sq: i had a riot
	3:48pm → Lloyd Bentsen: I've seen the Mole People and they are no Jack Kennedy!
	3:48pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill, 1988 what a year The first year PE came to Dublin. First gig they played Trinity College acapella in the afternoon. I remember it well. Got them to sign my copy book for school That night they played McGonagles support by Scary Eire Later they played Trinity Debs Ball
	3:49pm → jonathan: did you see the chuds down there?
	3:52pm → freehold: although this happen in 89 - they wouldn't show "Do The Right Thing"
	3:52pm → freehold: at our movie theaters
	3:57pm → Dave in Chicago: Back in those days I was Dave in NYC and I was in the Tompkins sq. riot. Those cops beat our ass! But let's not forget the weird stuff from 88 and little before and after like the Fat Boys and Dougie Fresh and the Beastie Boys, hell even Bobby Jimmy and the Critters!
	4:00pm → MTV: I'm no Jack Kennedy
	4:01pm → dan quale: Bill Adler is more Jack Kennedy than I am
	4:06pm → memories: ralph in now on "The Bridge"
	4:07pm → Stan: I was in a terrible band recording at Vital Studios when the engineer (Jim, later of Rats of Unusual Size) and I went outside to take a break. We ended up in Tompkins Square Park and there was this crazy scene of people and noise, even though it was around midnight. We went back to the studio and missed being in that riot by about a half an hour. We seriously lucked out that night.
	4:07pm → north guinea hills: wait wait wait wait wait,..... 1988 was 20, 20 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! god, how old am i........!!!??????
	4:08pm → dlroth: "The Bridge is on metro TV" channel 25 on comcraptistic
	4:11pm → k.k. downing: Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown
	4:14pm → filmchickie: Damn Billy, I am inundated with work ! But I see you playing the fonky ish
	4:15pm → A D D: Billy Jamtastic---------the coffee just kicked in this is just really ______ ______ ___ ______ ______ , but watch for FALCON! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgyaNLmzoHU
	4:18pm → C: 1988 was the year gogo almost crossed over to mainstream
	4:20pm → Ken: It's 4:19!
	4:23pm → zedprophfer: here' its' 22:22
	4:46pm → Scott M.: Were there any bad hip hop records in 1988? great show Billy Jam!
	4:49pm → Doug: This is great, everyone in my office is shocking out
	4:50pm → Patrick: willy yams, parents just dont understand came out in 88 right?
	4:52pm → Pete: '88 was illest.. a lot of young people today think '94 was the end all be all year. but 1988 was hands down the greatest year in hip-hop.. this is making my rainy day..
	4:54pm → Ken: Anybody remember The Hound's shows in 88 about the Tompkins Square riot?
	4:58pm → ethan: whats up props to CERN and the whole ymi crew http://www.midnightmetalworks.com
	4:58pm → C: 3rd annual Hip-Hop Chess Tournament, Bum Rush the Board http://www.wblinc.org/bumrushreg.html There was a logical connection between Chess and Hip-Hop considering the fact that hip-hop as a culture is highly competitive. It is replete with opportunities to battle and compete to win over crowds, crews and sponsors. By connecting hip-hop to chess, we have created a chess tournament that exposes youth to a culture (hip-hop) and a science (chess) that requires them to think ahead, manage talent and size up their adversary. These skills are useful in hip-hop, chess, business and in life.
	5:00pm → zedprophfer's comment delivery: here's another one for the collection.
	5:11pm → Kenzo: I totally expected the Fresh Prince to start singing about eating cars.
	5:27pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill for me one of the worst tracks and albums of1988 was Cash Money and Mc Maravelous Where's the Party At? especially the track Find an Ugly Woman
	5:28pm → fred: I don't really miss being 17, but 1988 sure was a big year for me. Falling in love with Boston of all places, my first encounter with PE, and that record has been my favorite ever since, dethroning London Calling in my personal rankings
	5:30pm → Donnell: We want Eazy!
	5:35pm → Tall Paul: Yo Bill, If you have it can you play Twin Hype "Do it to the Crowd" Speaking of HipHop Peace
	5:36pm → anne: i remember this video with Sinead and MC Lyte, it was kinda cool, played on 120 Minutes on MTV sometime in the late 80s? early 90s?
	5:36pm → Push It: Push it real good. Enormous song.
	5:48pm → zedprophfer: the drum 'n bass background music should be added into the playlist. sweet stuff. :D
	5:48pm → porkchop: ooohhh 1988!!! just plugged in to all ya alls! werk schedule has taken my precious 12-3 on fridays--ICK!! feels good to be in 1988 cant wait to ppump this shiznit on my big ass speakers l8r. Peace In Willy Marmalade!!!
	5:54pm → porkchop: GAWD i remember rapping Slick Ricks A childrens story, smoking cigarettes with my girls with our aqua net hairdos in the bathroom at our city park. we were thinking wee was baddassss.

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