Wonderful. Now I am probably going to do the same, but i'll be groovin' while sitting there too. Shaking my shoulders and nodding my head. Heck, I might even try a vogue or two.
, it has to do with my lament at how Funk is no longer a genre. That many think it was clown-y at times. It wasn't. It required musicianship and a certain state of mind a way of life. Why do you think Prince was the way he was? He lived that look all the time! Hard to describe, Im sure its going over many of your heads.
...then...sometime in the mid 90's as soon as gansta-thug-rap came on the scene, which by the way is NOT Funk, radio station programmers and music marketing teams started referring to Funk as "Old School", a sort of re-marketing it as such.
Especially urban radio and then unfortunately it stuck and spread. Now kids refer it to Old School. My opposition to the label has nothing to do with age-ism, or fear of being old or anything like that...(see again above...)
sandralawson18 - seems you're sincere in wanting to know. Well, at the time music like this and say Prince and Rick James, Cool & The Gang, Zapp and MTume an so on were setting the charts and streets on fire with Funk, it was simply that Funk. A progression of what James Brown started and George Clinton ran with.
It was a valid, hot, incredible genre. ... (continued above)
GAP band is from tulsa, they were from the north side, and the name comes from the streets they lived around, GREENWOOD, ARCHER and PINE. I worked with their bass players daughter for a couple years, gap band rocks!!!!
I remember cruising down the road with my Boom box and skates jamming to this song, ah the squat and spin duck and thrust I know I was a skating cheeseball
My first record at 6 years old. My Granny bought it for me because I asked for it. It's still over my Granny's house in the closet with the other LP records in the album cover. "Lonely like me" is on the other side of the single.
I didn't say white music sucked before them, though it mostly did except for heavy "borrowing". I'm saying that at the time TGB and K&tG "hit", American white pop's top [non-borrowing] were John Denver, Captain & Tenille, and Elton John in his slow ballad [worst] years. Punk was fighting for its life even then, and crossovers were all that kept it from dying in the U.S. [see also Blondie], and the remainder had all swung to slow ballads like E. John. [cont.]
"you were my pills...you were my thrills...you were my hope...you were my smoke...you dropped a bomb on me ..baby!".....this has got to be the most memorable song of mine growing up. It never gets old and you cant help but get up and move when you hear it!
Best 50 cents you ever spent my friend, they don't make jams like this no more, i'm over 40 & when i go out and hear tunes from this age ( late 70's early to mid 80's, i go bannanas ) peace out
[PART2] New Wave only managed to originally earn its niche because Devo was seen as that era's Weird Al. When New Wave began to borrow, too, we ended up with the [mostly British] fusion years. [see The English Beat, etc.] As for rock, a teen guitar-rock magazine [circa 1986] asked guitarists ranging from Keith Richards to Slash who their great influences were. ALL, without exception, either named a) a black blues great or b) someone else on the list who had already done so.
I didn't say white music sucked before them, though it mostly did except for heavy "borrowing". I'm saying that at the time TGB and K&tG "hit", American white pop's top [non-borrowing] were John Denver, Captain & Tenille, and Elton John in his slow ballad [worst] years. Punk was fighting for its life even then, and crossovers were all that kept it from dying in the U.S. [see also Blondie], and the remainder had all swung to slow ballads like E. John. [more...]
Someone tell me what happened I was a kid in the 70s grew up in a diverse neighborhood played sports with each other overnights drinking from the neighbors hose eating dinners at each others house respected our parents grandparents elders played sports everyone seemed to get along fine white, black, Asian and Hispanic now everyone hates each other I remember those days being great even got and ass swatted by friends Mom in those days if you talked back I will take those days
Great early hip hop videos before they condescended to rants that glorifed racism, violence against police, sexual perversion, stupidity and sleaziness beginning in late 1990's. Today rap and most hip hop music is so sub-human trash that most minorities are slave to their condescending language.
i was born in 81 but back in like 94 i usto play this song and cutie pie every morning befor i had to go to jr high... still my number one old school jam.
dude, you have to think with 1982 mindset and not a 2009 mindset, this was the best technology and cutting edge ,material available to a mediocre pop band at that point in time
"dude", i dont care what year it was, and yes im fully aware what year this video was made..i still dont like it. as i said before the song is the shit
You dropped a bomb on me is one of the best of all time. Better than M.J.,Elvis,madonna and all those fonnies that suppose they are better than the legendary GAP BAND!!!!!!
i've heard this song ong.t.a san an dreas
swentguy 2 years ago
old school dont make music like this now a days! even though this song is kinda stupid lol
sarissa22 2 years ago
no you're kinda stupid
jackknifejones 2 years ago
This song plays in my head every time I take a dump.
anorexictest 2 years ago 3
Can't help but laugh at you comment....but that just seems so wrong! LOLOL
redpaladin64 2 years ago
lmfaoo!!!!! omg!!
sarissa22 2 years ago
Wonderful. Now I am probably going to do the same, but i'll be groovin' while sitting there too. Shaking my shoulders and nodding my head. Heck, I might even try a vogue or two.
gollygee35 2 years ago
Gap band has some nice moves:)
Baby22293 2 years ago 3
Im really feelin this song, some asshole droped a bomb on my heart...this makes me feel not as bad.
nikkijluvbob 2 years ago
this is song i think of when i fail, or get rick roll'd
previti2395 2 years ago
LOL me too DAMN bulletinman and that2007 we think alike!!!!!!
berlinjns09 2 years ago
Kurt Warner to Larry Fitzgerald dropped on the vikings. This was the outro song on nbc.
bulletinman 2 years ago 2
thats why i'm listening to it haha
that2007 2 years ago
hell yea, Elcambumb0! love this song!!
arbiter03 2 years ago
dig those moves
grichebk 2 years ago
this song is dedicated to iraq hahah but this is cool
SANTANA82909 2 years ago
I love this song...reminds me of a guy....lol
melody2085 2 years ago
GTA SAN ANDREAS
BOUNCE FM BABY
Elcambumb0 2 years ago 4
Heck yeah! Classic song!
amandawonderboy 2 years ago
they look like a bunch of homos, but that still doesn't change the fact, that this song is awesome
badgerbuddy 2 years ago
ok? but i guarantee that they have fucked more girls then you have ever talked to. watch your mouth, talking about legends like that kid.
xTheBl00dx 2 years ago
Man, u'r a real G!
xAstonVilla4everx 2 years ago
fa sho.
xTheBl00dx 2 years ago
Dear Evelyn "Champagne" King! I need
your opinion.
Sandra Dee Lawson.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
, it has to do with my lament at how Funk is no longer a genre. That many think it was clown-y at times. It wasn't. It required musicianship and a certain state of mind a way of life. Why do you think Prince was the way he was? He lived that look all the time! Hard to describe, Im sure its going over many of your heads.
wendileona 2 years ago
wendileona! I think you better write some
more down here, because all my words
is all over the You Tube's website.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
Hey! wendileona! You know, you've just
gave me some Idea? Since all my words
is all over the You Tube's, I'am going to
write Evelyn "Champagne" King a letter.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
Do you see my words on You Tube? It's
already on another You Tube's websites.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
...then...sometime in the mid 90's as soon as gansta-thug-rap came on the scene, which by the way is NOT Funk, radio station programmers and music marketing teams started referring to Funk as "Old School", a sort of re-marketing it as such.
Especially urban radio and then unfortunately it stuck and spread. Now kids refer it to Old School. My opposition to the label has nothing to do with age-ism, or fear of being old or anything like that...(see again above...)
wendileona 2 years ago
Which ones is not?
sandralawson18 2 years ago
yeeeeeeeesss!!!
djmorrisoundof70 2 years ago
Tulsa boys nice
charlesricky 2 years ago
Its not Old School its actually FUNK. I know you didnt know... thats okay, its understandable, Funk is no longer being done.
wendileona 2 years ago
What part of the planet are you from?
That is the old school funk music.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
Funk was never "Old School" it was simply FUNK before the knuckleheads who came up with the term branded it that.
wendileona 2 years ago
What are you talking about? Give me
example.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
May I ask, what difference does that make,
whether it is the old school funk or not?
You either like the music, or you don't.
What's your point?
sandralawson18 2 years ago
I could say, I agree with you. But, what are
going to do about it. It's alittle too late for
you to start complaining, now. You've
should've said something during eightie's. Now, this is 2009, going on 2010, now. Now, move on. Please!
sandralawson18 2 years ago
sandralawson18 - seems you're sincere in wanting to know. Well, at the time music like this and say Prince and Rick James, Cool & The Gang, Zapp and MTume an so on were setting the charts and streets on fire with Funk, it was simply that Funk. A progression of what James Brown started and George Clinton ran with.
It was a valid, hot, incredible genre. ... (continued above)
wendileona 2 years ago
To tell you the truth, I don't know what funk
is either. I don't even remember anybody
ever mention the word disco until late
seventhtie's.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
You know, everysince they took KGFJ,
formerly known as THE KAT, 1580 K-DAY.
and K-ACE stations off the air from us,
music is not the same anymore.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
So wendileana! I do agree with you on
that one. 100%
sandralawson18 2 years ago
You know, music is not what it uset be,
anymore. Shoot! At time during the sixtie's,
seventhtie's, and eightie's, when music
was very cool back then.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
Don't forget Evelyn "Champagne" King.
Because, she's apart of the music, too.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
Hey! wendileona! Do you know I slept
with Tiger Woods?
sandralawson18 2 years ago
tha bomb old school music
westside159 2 years ago
satan 666 we we meet 2012 hahah
josesoccer101794 2 years ago
stop
BitterBarbara 2 years ago
yea he was.. most the shows was pretty good glad i watched it
ornelaskev1988 2 years ago
Charlie Wilson was the bomb on the Soul Train Music Awards 2nite!!!
staystay3 2 years ago 5
wat was the second song performed by him called
09reddread 2 years ago
I'm not really sure. Sorry.
staystay3 2 years ago
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a i love this song
hustler7949 2 years ago
Mr. C. Wilson dropped a Bomb on Detroit @ the Fox last night !
ajphurry 2 years ago
Fantastic song!
bobinhobr 2 years ago
Story of my freakin "love life" before my wife
hectube1 2 years ago
whats he mean by that, ''you droped a bomb on me''
blackcats70 2 years ago 2
Maybe Charlie was trying to say, she or
he broke his heart. Maybe that could be
it, if that's what he said.
sandralawson18 2 years ago
i used to steal a plane, park it in the street in front of my mamas house and smoke wit the boys listening to this tune. gta sa!
gswarner 2 years ago 7
GTA SanAndreas !
hhehehe
ninadois2 2 years ago 5
I love The Gap Band. Gimme some funk!!!!
SixToTenSpeaks 2 years ago
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Looove this song!
Stina64 2 years ago
PURE EPIC AWESOMNESS
roswell40 2 years ago 3
awesome!
spicerak40 2 years ago 2
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blackcats70 2 years ago
LOOOOOOVE THIS SONG!!!!!
marchellabella 2 years ago 3
this video is sooo awesome!
Emilyyboo19 2 years ago
This is the first LP I ever bought as a kid! Followed by Cameo's Word Up album ;) and I still love it!
giveuptheprops 2 years ago
Iraqis national anthem
wooop101 2 years ago
GAP band is from tulsa, they were from the north side, and the name comes from the streets they lived around, GREENWOOD, ARCHER and PINE. I worked with their bass players daughter for a couple years, gap band rocks!!!!
eugeneqmil 2 years ago
sorry, not the bass player, one of the horn players..
eugeneqmil 2 years ago 2
the gap band is awesome you dropped a bomb on me is their best
moviefanatic000 2 years ago
Shitty cool FUCKING CoooooooL
4763843 2 years ago
best song ever. OMG
Cherrykizz 2 years ago 4
exelente cancion ,que esta en el gta san andreas
bandicoot151 2 years ago 2
wow this song made it to gta
hiikillsocom 2 years ago
80s had so many good bands and songs
MrSpiderman14 2 years ago 9
Swear?
CerebralHipHop 2 years ago
Dronp this bomb in my ASS !!!!
haha just kidding ok?
this music ROCKS dude !
ninadois2 2 years ago 3
I remember cruising down the road with my Boom box and skates jamming to this song, ah the squat and spin duck and thrust I know I was a skating cheeseball
40Rtruss 2 years ago 4
drop the bomb on ME !!!!!!!
flarebuster 2 years ago 3
I need a toilet that plays this after I've ate 13 lbs of mexican food !!
F4cPhantomII 2 years ago
ooooo-augh! 13 POUNDS!!
pimpyourhideontube 2 years ago
è bellissima
xbodo 2 years ago
Dude, I think this is the first cut of the soulja boy.
Goltzbaby 2 years ago 2
i freakin love this song
vixvix801 2 years ago 3
My first record at 6 years old. My Granny bought it for me because I asked for it. It's still over my Granny's house in the closet with the other LP records in the album cover. "Lonely like me" is on the other side of the single.
Boogers4dinner 2 years ago 4
This is the song that will be playing during the Apocalypse...It kicks ass...I love it! Part yTrain too
jetboy1985 2 years ago 3
thank you
CLOWNGRINN 2 years ago
OKLAHOMA
oujb1 2 years ago
this song is good. it makes me laugh a little too hahahaha
MrSpiderman14 2 years ago
No one would attack America if they watched this
bad a** music video. Awesome song too.
kolbecop 2 years ago 2
I've had this shit stuck in my head for days. That there's a bass line that just CANNOT be denied. So rad.
oceanic86 2 years ago 2
Always listened to this song in the 80's still an awsome song
ValkiryeMax 2 years ago
I didn't say white music sucked before them, though it mostly did except for heavy "borrowing". I'm saying that at the time TGB and K&tG "hit", American white pop's top [non-borrowing] were John Denver, Captain & Tenille, and Elton John in his slow ballad [worst] years. Punk was fighting for its life even then, and crossovers were all that kept it from dying in the U.S. [see also Blondie], and the remainder had all swung to slow ballads like E. John. [cont.]
portagee66 2 years ago
Alright, I'm not a fan of any pre 70s music but that's just my personal taste I'm not going to claim music sucked before then.
ipbalkenende 2 years ago
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v Me to man! Me to!
EricsTube100 2 years ago
"you were my pills...you were my thrills...you were my hope...you were my smoke...you dropped a bomb on me ..baby!".....this has got to be the most memorable song of mine growing up. It never gets old and you cant help but get up and move when you hear it!
MultiSha2009 2 years ago 3
Black People Do Actually Have Better Songs [Coming From A White Perspective.
LuciferSpirit 2 years ago
@LuciferSpirit & from a black perspective, you're generalizing
lekesha00 2 years ago 4
At least im not Supremisizing White people. :>
LuciferSpirit 2 years ago
bout 25years ago,bought this single album for about 50cents at a second hand store. first album i ever bought
oxypimp1 2 years ago 6
Best 50 cents you ever spent my friend, they don't make jams like this no more, i'm over 40 & when i go out and hear tunes from this age ( late 70's early to mid 80's, i go bannanas ) peace out
nickgiougias 2 years ago
yyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
ALoftis11 2 years ago 5
great song!!! great beat!!!
lucy1fans 2 years ago 4
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lucy1fans 2 years ago
ah good old GTA:SA memories xD
gundammaster0079 2 years ago 4
[PART2] New Wave only managed to originally earn its niche because Devo was seen as that era's Weird Al. When New Wave began to borrow, too, we ended up with the [mostly British] fusion years. [see The English Beat, etc.] As for rock, a teen guitar-rock magazine [circa 1986] asked guitarists ranging from Keith Richards to Slash who their great influences were. ALL, without exception, either named a) a black blues great or b) someone else on the list who had already done so.
Defense rests. :D
portagee66 2 years ago
I didn't say white music sucked before them, though it mostly did except for heavy "borrowing". I'm saying that at the time TGB and K&tG "hit", American white pop's top [non-borrowing] were John Denver, Captain & Tenille, and Elton John in his slow ballad [worst] years. Punk was fighting for its life even then, and crossovers were all that kept it from dying in the U.S. [see also Blondie], and the remainder had all swung to slow ballads like E. John. [more...]
portagee66 2 years ago
music has NO color black white who gives a fuck that is just stereo type government shit
1gudspliff 2 years ago 5
F'in commercials
Chebbyfrog 2 years ago
I jammed to these in the day...still GOOD
eileenovaclosa 2 years ago 3
this song is the lick, and uncle charlies moves are serious. PLEASE BELIEVE IT
neckle86 2 years ago
he good at beat dancing
wooop101 2 years ago 2
i did a presentation about hiroshima with this song. lol
crazycamodude 2 years ago 8
iraqs national anthem
wooop101 2 years ago 6
this song rules, i got it from GTA SA
alibuu 2 years ago 7
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metellica is better
5dddddaviddddd5 2 years ago
@5dddddaviddddd5
lolno
gungriffon220 2 years ago
i maybe stoned but that is a fucking awesome song yo it came in my ear pussy lolz
MrSmoxtablunt 2 years ago
haha i know right?? same here :))))
AlchemyNme 2 years ago
Someone tell me what happened I was a kid in the 70s grew up in a diverse neighborhood played sports with each other overnights drinking from the neighbors hose eating dinners at each others house respected our parents grandparents elders played sports everyone seemed to get along fine white, black, Asian and Hispanic now everyone hates each other I remember those days being great even got and ass swatted by friends Mom in those days if you talked back I will take those days
40Rtruss 2 years ago 4
hahahhahhaha
pertus200 2 years ago 2
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meaningless pointless dumb song...i give it a 1.5
danalope67 2 years ago
Great early hip hop videos before they condescended to rants that glorifed racism, violence against police, sexual perversion, stupidity and sleaziness beginning in late 1990's. Today rap and most hip hop music is so sub-human trash that most minorities are slave to their condescending language.
pgs5719 2 years ago
The Gap Band is the bomb. I loved their music. Thanks for the post and the memories.
laarbe 2 years ago 2
love these guys...
nudracr 2 years ago
oh a down thong....god that guys a horrid acter and should be put on uh pike
deathsquad89capo 2 years ago
So what is the bomb she dropped????
I think I need to know. lol
jkelly2928 2 years ago
oh you know what it was.
LOLxoutxloud 2 years ago
she shit on him
capespi 2 years ago 4
haha
alinalin0 2 years ago
i want those cowboy costumes
burninator55 2 years ago
me and some friends were these guys for Halloween it was so fun we were going around singing this song
horrorfan35 2 years ago 2
youtube commercials are so fucking annoying
damnit123abc 2 years ago
a ricordare che quando ho rotto il culo a rider c'era questa canzoni sulla radio della barca
mattiabellik 2 years ago
the colors, dude. the colors!!!!
ChayDawg64 2 years ago
so true.. the video is shit.. but the song is DA SHIT!
Profeta187 2 years ago 2
YES!!!
:D
Aprilina4590 2 years ago
Clearly the budget for the video effects and choreography in this video was all blown on cocaine.
DimitriVoshivich 2 years ago
lol
ChayDawg64 2 years ago
@DimitriVoshivich LOL awesome.
bd2pins 2 years ago
i was born in 81 but back in like 94 i usto play this song and cutie pie every morning befor i had to go to jr high... still my number one old school jam.
GrassLok 2 years ago 2
My uncle sings this everytime he's drunk and goes to the kareokee bar, doesn't even know half the god damn words xD
xxxieatedurcookiexxx 2 years ago 5
nice lol
09ASHLEYNICHOLE 2 years ago
haha hes sooo hot!
spidergal777 2 years ago
Haha, this reminds me of GTA. thank you for the post i' ve been looking for this awhile now!!!!
IVDarkIV 2 years ago
Fantastic! Thanks
plotyui 2 years ago
ADDICTING BEAT! hahaha!
spidergal777 2 years ago 4
GTA!!!!!!!!!!
antzam614 2 years ago 4
One of the best Home Run songs to play at a ballgame!!!
mavricksd 2 years ago
rockstar games always had the best music for their games
mrminidick 2 years ago 4
Hella GTA..besides that this song is still bad ass
robbinsally 2 years ago
Haha :) I alvays renember san andreas, when hear this song. Old nice 90-x
RapYoRap 2 years ago
haha i like brians comment... this song is the shit. the video, however, pretty terrible
D1ballplaya13 2 years ago
dude, you have to think with 1982 mindset and not a 2009 mindset, this was the best technology and cutting edge ,material available to a mediocre pop band at that point in time
antzam614 2 years ago 4
"dude", i dont care what year it was, and yes im fully aware what year this video was made..i still dont like it. as i said before the song is the shit
D1ballplaya13 2 years ago
fu u dnt know wat da fuc u tlkn a bout
JennaLichaJazmin09 2 years ago
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D1ballplaya13 2 years ago
iraq's national anthem
brianthenameless 2 years ago 7
That's Charlie Wilson, the lead singer. He hasn't aged a bit.
GMANKOOL23 2 years ago
Real men. Real moves. Makes the new stuff look wimpy. These guy are sexy beasts!!! Oh my God!
cyan42 2 years ago
Lol grand theft auto san andreas O__O
Nikodios 2 years ago
vice city...
BigManUtdJuveFan 2 years ago
And san andreas......
Nikodios 2 years ago
yes you're right...i forgat
BigManUtdJuveFan 2 years ago
You dropped a bomb on me is one of the best of all time. Better than M.J.,Elvis,madonna and all those fonnies that suppose they are better than the legendary GAP BAND!!!!!!
iamfatfatfat 2 years ago
Blinded by the pure AWESOMENESS :))))
bigboz100 2 years ago 3
what a gorgeous svoice the lead has...sigh
quinine2009 2 years ago
ahahaha oh yeah, that's some funk right there... :)
iwasalwaysthere1 2 years ago
he does kinda look like will i am
MC4Lyfe87 2 years ago
I agree with you there :D
PsychoNekoSan 2 years ago
Man this shit is the Mad-note! Pimptastic.
LordBicen 2 years ago 3
some one must have dropped them cause' they're the BOMB!
SmokedEricH2008 2 years ago
I have figured out my Halloween costume finally!
schwankd 2 years ago 5
there frm tulsa oklahoma who would ever thought
rekorswe 2 years ago
lol he looks like WILL I Am out of the wolverine movie,, that guy who was a teleport..
trymehard 2 years ago
Very modern for ´82. Cool =)
rangoboy 2 years ago
The Gap Band is the bomb.
trojantjl 2 years ago
cool song
amdking103 2 years ago 3
this was our drill team tune last wk haha it was awesome
familyguychick 2 years ago 2