With hip-hop celebrating 25 years in the mainstream it’s time to replace those worn out pressings. Perhaps the first group (if you discount Run DMC) to pull off the neat trick of landing big, instantly catchy anthems on the pop charts while maintaining their street-cred among the hardcore rap faithful. Step up the East Orange rappers with the Jackson 5 sampling ‘O.P.P.’ that somehow managed the trick of being both audaciously catchy and subversively coy at the same time. Other People’s Property? Nah, the second P actually represented the male or female genitalia! Yet by 1993 for ‘Hip-Hop Hooray’ the double entendre had been swapped for head-nodding beats, and Treach’s bouncy wordology of street attitude.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Lewis Dene
