Anyone know who the 'brothers with the 808' are as referred to on Public Enemy's Power to the people???
'to the brothers with the 808 P.E. got a brand new funk...'
'Brothers with the 808'
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Digging back to my hip-hop roots:
Sir Mix-A-Lot - My Posse's On Broadway...
"the Alpine's bumpin' but I need the volume higher--
cause the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb--
we're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some--"
Here's a whole track named after it:
D Nice (feat KRS-1) - The TR 808 Is Coming
Sir Mix-A-Lot - My Posse's On Broadway...
"the Alpine's bumpin' but I need the volume higher--
cause the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb--
we're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some--"
Here's a whole track named after it:
D Nice (feat KRS-1) - The TR 808 Is Coming
Rich The Donkey Doctor wrote:I suspect that's a reference to the hip hop producers of the time who use to favour the Roland TR808 as their choice source of drums...the 808 has always been a hip hop/electro sounding machine (check Afrika Bambata for a good example), whereas the 909 is the house-head's beatbox!

so im pleased me mchines got sum old stuff goin on in ther