![]() ![]() It’s not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. : Verbally breakdown how you do what you do when you beatbox? FRESH: It’s like having a conversation, doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Since he’s all about freedom of expression, I got on stage and did exactly what he told me to do - I did my thing! Last one is spending six hours with MJ in Harlem, vibing, and doing what we love to do: create music. He told me when I got on, he wanted me to do my thing. Another time, Prince wanted me to come to Atlanta. : At the height of your success, what were some of you fondest memories? DOUGIE FRESH: One is when Stevie wanted me to come over to his daughter’s house for her birthday to do this intimate performance that ended up the being the beginning of our friendship. Fresh - right after he taught Wolf Blitzer how to Dougie at this year’s Soul Train Awards in Atlanta - about his past, the present, and his future. Even those of us who never rapped a day in our lives, will toy around and start a rhyme with “gimme a beat” - just like Doug E did. Almost everyone at one time or another has twisted their lips, sucked their teeth, and clicked their tongue to attempt to achieve a Doug E. In 1985 the label released the smash hits, “La Di Da Di” and “The Show” - two of the most iconic hip-hop tracks of all time. The “Human Beat Box” and his team of DJs, known as The Get Fresh Crew (Barry Bee and Chill Will) along with a newcomer named MC Ricky D - aka Slick Rick - created the New Jersey-based hip-hop label Reality/Danya Records in the mid ’80s. instead of Collins and nobody seems to mind.“La-Di-Da-Di … La-Di-Da-Di … La-Di …La-Di…” It seems like everyone today wants to do the “Doug E” - one of the biggest dance crazes, which incorporates the signature move of hip-hop pioneer, Doug E. Speaking of which, the Wikipedia page for Mardy Collins- the human equivalent of that song- has a photo of Walker Russell Jr. And then it just disappeared one day, so suddenly and profoundly that if that if I didn't have that video for support, I might believe it was all a dream. Before tip-off at the Garden, repeatedly throughout games, during commercials (as seen above), and so forth. That played constantly for most of the Knicks' worst decade. Fresh song about the Knicks) or "it's New York now." Or it could be "eats New York now." New York City eats New York now. The chorus, meanwhile, is the part that borrows from "Take Me Home, Country Roads," only- get this- "New York City" stands in for "West Virginia" and "mountain mama" gets replaced by something that alternately sounds like "East New York now" (a neighborhood in Brooklyn that has no place in a Doug E. I know you only heard a minute of the song, but I've heard the whole thing and I promise you it doesn't go beyond that and shouting of generic slogans like "PUT ONE FINGER UP!" and "MADISON SQUARE!" He just names fictional crews from different cardinal directions and/or loosely defined regions and reminds them that true New Yorkers wear Knicks colors. To my Wall Street crew, courtside crew/True New Yorkers wear orange and blue To my downtown crew, uptown crew/True New Yorkers wear orange and blue To my Brooklyn crew, Harlem crew/True New Yorkers wear orange and blue To my East Side crew, West side crew/True New Yorkers wear orange and blue Fresh- a person who has actually mattered in rap history- is listed as the artist on the song, note that these are his sole contributions to the track: ![]() Fresh do this to John Denver's classic "Take Me Home, Country Roads": They've since come out with some deafeningly awful remixes, but in the interim, they let Doug E. Case in point: The Knicks wrongly distanced themselves from " Go New York Go," the era-defining jam of the successful '90s teams. It's hard to stay mad when your team's just so SILLY. The Knicks of the early 2000s were every bit as bad as the 2013 version, but they had a certain charm. ![]()
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