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White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) Reaction Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash (JUST SAY NO) Empress Reacts
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
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First Time Hearing White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) Reaction Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash (JUST SAY NO) Empress Reacts
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"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" is a song by Melle Mel, released as a 12" in 1983 on Sugar Hill Records. The song, which warns against the dangers of cocaine, addiction, and drug smuggling, is one of Melle Mel's signature tracks. The bassline is taken from a performance of the Sugar Hill house band (featuring bassist Doug Wimbish) covering "Cavern", a single by New York City band Liquid Liquid.
Takes me back to high school. Free base was the precursor to crack. Richard Pryor set himself on fire free basing in 1980. The bass line is sampled from "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid. I don't know about the background vocals. Check out Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five "The Message" from 1982 when you can. "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge!"
This is not an old school rap song, this is hip hop with rock! and real instruments, no auto-tune and real singing and also telling a story, this masterpiece song has all that, plus a... grove... that is killer
its a bit annoying...takes too long to get to the point..it fcks your head up like white lines
" Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby, it's nobody else's fault, so don't do it "!!
Freeze
This song was def a CLUB CLASSIC...when you were on practically any dance floor in the 80's, White Lines was getting played!
High School and backyard party memories for sure!!!
This is the jam back in the day!!! You make me what to dance🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺
Yeah Empress! He’s saying “freebase” which is what we called smoking rock back then.
Great song , great reaction,from Plymouth England ❤
This was my ring tone for a long time.
One of your best reactions I was there when it came out and it was hard hitting. Another time from these good brothers giving the message to keep young people off the streets ❤
Thanks
This song is dope (no pun intended). The line Something like a phenomenon was "borrowed" by LL Cool J for his song Phenomenon. Duran Duran did a cover version of White Lines in 1995. The original song is used prominently in the movie Shaun of the Dead. So yeah, lots of pop culture with White Lines. Thanks for the awesome reaction.
Man, when those horns kick in...
Now your talking SpaceGirl 🔥 Probably the best minutes of music you’ve covered all year ✨✨✨
A very early HIP HOP CLASSIC ‼️A warning ⚠️ against coke, that you can dance to. This is the cousin to White Horse.
Brings me back to high school dances!
This was such a "party" track in more ways than one.... So popular to groove to at dance clubs back in the "bad ol' days" where, yes, pretty much everybody was on "something!" This song was also a testament to the harsh realities of the crack epidemic that afflicted too many of our black and brown brothers and sisters, and saw a disproportionate number of poor blacks given 20, 30 year prison sentences for Crack cocaine drug offenses, while white middle and upperclass people were given a comparative slap on the wrist for similar cocaine (drug) offenses! Definately a feel good cautionary tale fire bop! Thanks for the Awesome reaction!
There was a lot more murder and violence involved with the crack trade than white middle and upperclass cocaine users. Drug laws were made much more harsh for everyone after the 80s.
@@TubeScavenger Thats a good point, but it also has to be realized that there were social, political & cultural factors that weighed highly against impoverished people of the Inner City who fell victim of a more potent form of the drug that was more addictive and a much cheaper form of the drug that plagued poor people who didnt have the financial and educational opportunities that rich white kids and young adults from the subburbs had! A casual drug user in the inner city was given a devistatingly harsher sentence for minor drug offenses, versus much lesser sentenses that the casual white user who was arrested for a different form of the same drug received. The playing field and the scales of justice were not equal!
Sampled from the song Cavern by Liquid Liquid.
I just heard it for the first time last week! 😂 It does have a good sound though. However, The Message is the song to which all other Grandmaster Flash & FF songs are measured. 😉
There's a message in the music 💯
This song is a Masterpiece.. They didn't have anything to Sample back then or the technology.. They were the Originals!! I love this song and go into Flash Back mode involuntarily!! I grew up in Hollywood and this song definately encouraged us to party more!!
😂dang
The baseline is SAMPLED! From the song Cavern by Liquid Liquid!
Nice reaction this beat and the message was pure as the driven snow hahahahaha
😂😂
ICONS💯
This was before you were born baby
This song is liquid fire!
I was about to write that’s this song came out before samples were thing so it couldn’t be … but then I stopped and actually looked it up. Turns out that the baseline in this song (which is famous as hell!) is actually a sample from another song that came out a few months earlier in 1983 before they recorded this.
The song they sampled is called Cavern by the “punk-dance” band Liquid Liquid.
One. Never heard of them or their song.
Two. What the hell is “dance punk“?
Oh, the things we are learning together. Thanks!
: since you’re getting into Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5/Melle Mel, have you listened to The Message before? Consider giving that song a listen.
The video is so old it’s hard not to be distracted by how different the city looks and the fashions are, the song is something everyone should hear.
PLUS: Ice Cube sampled the entire musical score from The Message in his 1993 hit song Check Yo Self.
By the time the 90s came around they weren’t sampling just little pieces or parts of songs they were sampling the whole damn thing. (Think Michael McDonald and Warren G)
Three. Love your channel, subscribed, keep up the good work and sharing with us the good stuff!
(Oh I’ve got another original and sample recommendation!)
I Can’t Go For That by Hall and Oats.
Sampled heavily in
Sunrise by Simply Red.
I’m done now.
I like that they were talking about the realities of drugs and weren't glamorizing it!!!
Real Hip hop
back when rap had a message other than sex, violence and drugs
You have to watch the video. Incredible break dancing! 💙
Did so many lines to this jam. Dont be like me, kids
It's funny and ironic that you reacted to this song shortly after your reaction to the Madonna and Sandra Bernhard on Late Night With David Letterman show. Coincidence I think not.
When this song was playing on the radio when I was growing up as a late adolescent/pre teenager I didn't know what this song meant. I learned what it meant much later as I got older.
React to more Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Salt N' Pepa, Public Enemy NWA, Soul 2 Soul, Tone Loc, Digital Underground Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Arrested Development, P.M. Dawn, Naughty By Nature, Kriss Kross, TLC and Diggable Planets please.
Oh my God, YES!
I have been watching you on CZcams, love all songs that you picked. Love your vibes! I think you are very naturally beautiful 🤩
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Devil go away!!! If you need to be educated on this song.... don't ask me!!! Still this me in my car with extra mirror's. Jamm on it!!!
Woooow, this brings back memories. It wasn't in the movie but it reminds me of the break dancing movie Beat Street! Tfs!
Interesting...never heard of it before
It's a cult classic. Very early somewhat raw Hip Hop! It's a must! Beat Street and then Krush Groove! Maybe even to reactions to the 🎬.
Baby
Please check out some of LL Cool J’s older stuff or Public Enemy while you’re reacting to classic hip hop.
imagine you are in a bar and a cop walks in after you and friends are snorting on the bar, and yells FREEZE!!!!!
and then everyone busts up lauging and he snorts and joins the ruckus...it happens
😂now that's a story
@@EmpressReacts fun baby
Rang dang digity dang da dang. Lol!
Damn funky song from class of '83, and it still "rocks" today. For that beat sample, check out "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid from 1982!
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Lol you don't want to do white lines. This song straight about cocaine lol
😂yeah i figured that out later
@@EmpressReacts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
black gangsters be actin like them old irish gangsters and the appalachien and the arkansas white gangsters. that lingo
gatt Dalton was my cuz
where you at now
white lines copied the rhythm track and melodies of Liquid Liquid Cavern which a post punk underground song from nyc in the late 70's early 80's..liquid liquids label known as 99 records sued sugar hill the label who released white lines..., Sugar hill label boss ,sylvia robinson responded by sending some thugs round to threaten the 99 label boss ,but eventually ended up with a court settlement with 99 records for the sum of 600,000 dollars..which sugar hill did not pay because they filed for bankruptcy..this one episode forced the closure of 99 records, and was the catalyst for the demise of sylvia robinsons sugar hill records. .2 epic records with a dark history....
Oh wow! This is shady
@@EmpressReactsSugar Hill Records went to MCA, but in the end couldn't compete with emerging labels like Tommy Boy and Def Jam and so shut down. The word is that Ed Bahlman of 99 Records ended up mentoring Rick Rubin; Rick Rubin, along with Russell Simmons, founded Def Jam.
WHY WERE WE JAMMIN OFF A SONG ABOUT COCAINE?!?😂🤣😭😭
Right!!! But was such a bop back in the day!
I guess you had to be there. 😂
Stolen from Liquid liquid - Cavern
Learn something from the song