This is also the origin of that “ring ding dong” bit from “Keep Their Heads Ringin’” by Dr. Dre, which is fun. Dre’s first line is a direct quote too. But my favorite thing by far about this song, better than the hook even, comes right before the fadeout when they sing, “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up—sit back down.” Ha.
25 July 2016, No. 173, The Sequence, ‘Funk You Up’
The Sugar Hill template is to take a disco song, have the house band replay it, and get some dude from a pizza joint to rap over it, right? No. 173 from The Sequence shows it needn’t have shaken out that way. “Funk You Up” features women rapping over a probably original backing track; no one else gets writing credits, anyway, as Edwards and Rodgers did (eventually) for “Rapper’s Delight.” The Sequence also take that “do it, do it, do it” line from “Rapper’s Delight” and say it better than did Big Bank Hank or whomever’s on the mic for the “super sperm” brag.
This is also the origin of that “ring ding dong” bit from “Keep Their Heads Ringin’” by Dr. Dre, which is fun. Dre’s first line is a direct quote too. But my favorite thing by far about this song, better than the hook even, comes right before the fadeout when they sing, “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up—sit back down.” Ha.
This is also the origin of that “ring ding dong” bit from “Keep Their Heads Ringin’” by Dr. Dre, which is fun. Dre’s first line is a direct quote too. But my favorite thing by far about this song, better than the hook even, comes right before the fadeout when they sing, “Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up—sit back down.” Ha.
