Early Def Jam electro classic from 1985 featuring Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys and a DMX drum machine. I'll be the first to admit, I just heard about this song today. I'm a huge hip hop and electro fan and I know about a lot of music, but it's nice to discover something from 32 years ago I knew nothing of until today. So the digging shall commence. There must be more out there for me to discover!
So I like Schoolly D, the Philadelphia Eagles, and Paddy's Pub. No I'm not from Philly, what a stupid question. But back to some Golden Era Philly hip hop from the Greatest Man Alive. No this isn't about Schoolly D again. I'm talking about EST, the acknickulous one. EST from Three Times Dope did something on this album, that has been done many times since throughout the history of Hip Hop. He made up a word out of thin air. Just made a new fucking word and just used it like we all already knew what it meant. Motherfucker is just putting words out into the ether, trying to make a thing and just let us guess what it meant. We were left to monitor it's usage in his songs as our only way of figuring out what the fuck it even meant. That word, was Acknickulous. What the fuck does that word even mean? Well, it means awesome, but like, really Awesome. But let's put awesone into relative old school hip hop terminology. Okay so if Awesome