Jump Horse & Do It


Mo-Jo – “Jump Stomp & Twist“
from Jump Stomp & Twist 12″ (Jam-The-Box, 1984)
Kilo – “White Horse“
from Get This Party Started LP (Ichiban/Wrap, 1995)
D4L – “Do It Like Me Baby“
from Down 4 Life (Asylum / D4L, 2006)

Reset your watches, my down south brethren. Today we’re going look at three decades of A Town party rap.

Mo-Jo was one of the earliest MCs out of Atlanta and, like many of his successors, he committed the unforgivable and all destructive sin of making a record that the youth can dance to. If you listen carefully, you can hear the IQ of these poor kids dropping.

We’ve talked about Kilo before, but “White Horse” takes the crown for conscious ignorant party music.

And D4L needs no introduction. The greatest harmonizing rap group since the Crash Crew and the Freestyle Fellowship.

Recommended further listening: DJ Jelly – Bass Game Series

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10 Responses to “Jump Horse & Do It”

  1. it was a hot summer's night i was kickin it with gangsta fred Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    noz listens to daft punk

  2. noz Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

    only their first album.

  3. David Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    So wait, the new Aesop Rock > Discovery???

  4. noz Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

    lil deejo – i’ve never heard daft punk except for the video where they march around in a circle and the time kanye sampled them.

    New Aesop Rock is ok, could do without the indie rock shit.

  5. Dread Says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks for them caring enough about music history and respecting southern culture..big ups

  6. dodger Says:
    July 27th, 2007 at 7:54 am

    D4L>Bone Thugs???

  7. Mike G Says:
    July 27th, 2007 at 11:56 am

    D4L=Garbage.

  8. noz Says:
    July 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

    D4L > The Temptations

  9. tommy Says:
    July 27th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    I’m going to be corny and state the obvious that Noz is killin’. Very, very much appreciated.

    If my daughter ever dates a bro, I will play “White Horse” for him. I would stare into his eyes the entire time, “understand mister?” No racist.

    Down 4 Life is the only album I have ever heard played on Atl radio start to finish like a mixtape (not the whole song, just parts of them). That is how great it is.

  10. Tray Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 8:45 am

    I liked the screwed mix of the DFB album but that’s about as ignorant as I’ll go….

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