Trouble Funk - Let's Get Small (1982)

[faine6publishing]

LOVE THIS OLE SKOOL ISH... IT MAKES ME HAPPY AND REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES I HAD GROWING UP IN MARYLAND AND WASHINGTON DC... ;-)

[shelly20able]

HOT ! THE BEAT IZ SICK.....

[Foamy126]

KRS1!



[weezy11972]

East Rink 87/88 ,,,,,317..lrts get small

[speedybrock]

bitches aint shit intro :)

[cuteynroc]

oh god yal bringin back memories wouldn't we hold our thumb and finger together like we were holdin a j when lets get small was out lollll

[mjhoward96]

BDP-"Criminal Minded" & State Property-"Criminal Background"

[hilltop202dc]

Probably one first go-go songs I ever heard. The older cats used to blast it in their boom box around the way.

[Soultrain27]

I played running back for John Marshall High in Richmond, VA and our band use to play this and all of their hits during football season. These songs were a major part of our victorious seasons. Especially whoop'n Thomas Jefferson High 60-0...LOL!! I Nothing but love, though. Richmond, VA stand up!!!

[2007unclebuck]

@Soultrain27 Trouble Funk were first and last marching band based musicians

[omleaninto]

NAPTOWN in THIS THANG!!

[MzSherice]

I remember the DC Coliseum GoGo's featuring the Mighty Peacemakers,Trouble Funk, Chuck Brown, Ayre Rayde, Rare Essence (with Little Benny), and Junkyard!

[Dday7738]

never understood why go-go did not get bigger. That was funky shit..

[sekhmetbastet]

DC HOLLAAAAAA! Trouble Funk, EU, Petworth. Yall don't know nutin bout that!!!!

[Kflygrand]

DC!!!!!!

[roundman933]

classic go-go martinsville, va  loves go-go

[gahan101]

Bitches ain't shit but hoes'n tricks !

[chrisrap4ever]

BDP!i always used to wonder from which song was that sample from criminal minded

[vyrgo84]

this da bomb!!!!

[hmattill]

back to my youth, thats the real GO GO.... awesome....

[mannish72]

"HELLO! HELLO!"

MAAAAAAAAAAAN, this is the Naptown party anthem right here!!!

[swluvsyou88]

Trouble Funk made the best break records that hiphop has taken to a whole new level... Every time I think of Pump Me Up I think of Style Wars and Joe Budden lol

[Drewm7326]

True Dat!

This was sampled by Boogie Down Productions on 'Criminally Minded'

Go-Go Music was a source of the classic hip-hop samples and breaks

Peace :-)

[Moros503]

The beginning is the opening to Bitches Aint Shit

[SPERANZA65]

aNYONE else see this fantastic band in Manchester back in October 86?, they played the Hacienda ( b4 the madchester shit ruined it )

[DCGOGO2]

Old school!

[DarkHalo08]

Ok can somebody explain to me what does he mean by "lets get small".

[Centaur1202]

@DarkHalo08

"get small" = get high

[DarkHalo08]

@Centaur1202 WOW I did NOT know that, thanks for the info.

[Centaur1202]

@DarkHalo08

"get small" = get high

like your eyeballs when you're puffed out (not "loveboat small")

[Dywanne73]

A-Team, Gangsta Chronicals, Young Young Crew, O street, Crystal Skate, Sahfari Club, Triples, Evans Grille, Cherri's, Eastside, Chapter ,and of course Wilma's Park. I LOVE MY CITY ,AREA ,AND MUSIC CULTURE!

[palmares77]

@Dywanne73 Too bad that era is LONG GONE. DC Black subculture is dead. Crack-Cocaine epidemic killed all that out. DC now means skinny jeans and pants hanging all off your ass with goofing ass colors on. The old days of DC are gone...Sad though. Native DC girls don't even look good like they used to.

[Dywanne73]

@palmares77 I will agree, although I hate too. My kids are teens now, and the very same subculture that we embraced they can care less.

[469mack]

@palmares77 Amen to that! Used to come to DC from NYC cause the girls were slammin! Good ole days indeed.

[aprilbunny808]

a true classic! lets get small.

[aprilbunny808]

a true classic ! lets get small !

[brightwood257]

OUR BRIGHTWOOD SONG FROM BACK IN THE DAY,, RINK DAYS

[BIGROYTHEDON]

@brightwood257 wut up tho eastside nap represent! TWO FIVE!!!

[brightwood257]

@BIGROYTHEDON WHATS UP WITH U,, 25 REPPING,, LFMAO

[MultiGlasshouse]

Trouble Funk should be paid in full! Cause i dont know how many BAMAS then sampled their shit!

[1GirlieGirl]

Oh my GAWD....this reminds me of Jimmy's Lounge in Culpeper, Virginia back in the late 80s. "I came to GO GO!"

[jgk381]

the last part of the drum roll intro was used by dr. dre as the intro to last song on the original chronic album. just noticed.

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

♪ Now ya' feelin' tha highs, ya' feelin' tha lows, the beat start freakin' all thru your toes.. get small y'all (let's get small) aww let's get small (aww let's get small) ♪

[indydragon317]

Indianapolis, West Skating Rink, Sunday Nights We ROCK to this. No rollers in the world like Indianapolis Skaters!!!

[MyTeelee]

@indydragon317

Aww brings back old memories.

[missyutwo]

@indydragon317 East side Rink was the best USA Skate. Come on????? Truth be told it didn't matter eastside or westside Indianapolis alway got with Trouble Funk

[indydragon317]

Indianapolis, Sunday Nights West Skating Rink. We roll to this song. No rollers like Indy Rollers!!!

[dkf10425]

Awesome, this used to be the shit!

[SunShine1732]

@dkf10425 It still is!!

[drmorena25]

DCVAMD I SEEEEEEEEEE U!

[manicog2]

mochsfilly, I feel you on that dale city..skate ring was da bomb...Seen some classics in dale city...Thomas Edison Grad....Wish I could find some Shady Groove on here..Gogo live forever

[barry8844]

Dale City skating rink - now that was the good ol' days!

[lafara2002]

hooked ever since i first heard go-go music

[lxolxo7]

@lafara2002 Bet!!!

[stamfordd]

I see TF at Glastonbury years ago..... They were just awsome!

[mochafilly]

Dale City Arena Friday & Saturday nights!

[barry8844]

I was there for a few of them at the Dale City skating rink.

[LatinPercussion]

" We're not promoting violence

we're just having some fun

he's Scott La-Rock, I'm KRS-ONE ! "

[NEKHAIRS]

@LatinPercussion... Criminal Minded You've Been Blinded Lookin' 4 a style like mine ya can't find it!

[NEKHAIRS]

@LatinPercussion

[ronald624]

THIS THAT SHIT, indianapolis loves some trouble funk

[montriee]

Chuck Brown and Trouble Funk were my first encounters with GO-GO way back in 1978 and I've been a fan ever since! Long live DC GO-GO!

[grandblueprint]

Yessir! I used to listen to this ALBUM (lol!) playing Pitfall and Donkey Kong on Atari in my basement! This and "back up against the wall". Uptown's kickin' it!!!

[Rooticaliyut]

KRS 1 !!!!

[tulsa4life]

my roomie brought this song from dc to Oklahoma in the early 80's and changed the music scene! 5 stars easy!

[hehatemepartdeux]

OMG! Jes OMG!

[duvaughan]

Big Tony is still the voice of DC music!!! This was the joint driving through the Capital City and rollin' slow, those was the good ol' days

[stillathrilla]

get small yall-get small yall-this was the stanking ass shit. these guys are the absolute best of go go

[raystro71]

Saw these cats at Temple U. Spring Fling in '86 and I'll never forget it. Nobody does percussion like D.C. GO GO- CRIMINAL MINDED YOU BEEN BLINDED.

[cjjaxxon]

Yep! That's where I heard this sample. "Criminal Minded"! This song is jam. First time I heard this.

[theohthickone]

I'm a non-DC person in SE VA but I still know good music. This brings back so many memories for junior high and seeing them in concert. I love it!!

[davethedoobie]

Coldcut

"say kids"

[Khultan]

And a remember, gentle people, Dr. Dre once wore purple sequins in a group that I cannot bear to mention the name and so I won't in the start of his career. Nobody has a lock down on this music and so.....it's yours!!! : )

[emanon704]

Well if you like Trouble Funk that much, the 30th Anniversary Reunion is going down July 25th at the 9:30 Club in DC

[youngprofessor]

All I have to say is WHEW!! That's PHONKY!!

[lafara2002]

DC GO GO Band All Time Classic PG County Landover Palmer Park GlenArden Suitland Temple Hills Crystal Skating Ring The Black Hole woo wee

[MzSherice]

Hell yeah!!! ...and the Panorama Room, Masonic Temple, Capital Centre, Carter Baron, and Archbishop Carroll. Long Live GO-GO baby!!!

[nsuspartanlegion]

Don't forget about Celebrity Hall a.k.a. "The Black Hole", Crystal Skate (R.I.P. Fat Rodney), Chapter 3, The Safari Club, The Coliseum, Cherry's, W.U.S.T.....all damn we're getting old but it's STILL crank!!

[FreshDeus]

haha the first tunes of the chorus reminds me of the "mute city" song of the snes game FZERO...

[2TheDeath]

i thought the same thing! crazy SNES flashbacks

[MelvinFett]

@FreshDeus

DUDE I heard this song on the radio today and thought the same exact thing! I kept waiting for the rest of it to kick in.

[yosoytacoseasoning]

@FreshDeus

holy shit good call.

[soulrocka1]

this is the shit!!!Criminally sampled by the bronx bombers boogie down productions!!Too sick!!!

[soulrocka1]

Criminally sampled by the bronx bombers boogie down production!!!Sick as hell!!!Soulrocka

[psyne000]

Yeaaahh...the tune

[billleeocean]

dr dre was wearing pull ups and sequins when this came out....bow down fool and show some respect

[Khultan]

Before their first album was even around, beastie boys early in the 1980s have gone on the record as saying TroubleFunk and this song 'Let's get small' as the best live band.

[brightseatbully]

my man said he saw the beasties in DC at lolapalooza. they played this song and the non-DC folk had no idea what they were hearing.

[Khultan]

Key words: 'non-DC folk'. There was a time when in the very early 80s, nobody knew except for NYC ghetto youth that were in the know who beasties boys were. I'm from San Francisco and caught the new sound wave in the early 80s and those 3 youths had every San Franciscan kid, including blacks, not knowing their ass from their elbows, as well as the rest of the world.

[brightseatbully]

i must be misunderstanding you. you're not comparing people in new york knowing about rappers two years before i do to a fifteen year difference between this recording and a beastie boys show in '97 right?

[Khultan]

I'm not quite understanding your question. I was just making an observation that the non-DC folk had no idea what they're hearing to when beastie boys made their first earliest appearances in the rest of the country and in my case, San Francisco, even radio stations like LIVE 105 had no idea who they were.

[ttlgunn]

I honestly dont understand what you are trying to say but I live in Philly and we definitely knew about Troublefunk and the go go scene.

[Khultan]

Ttlgunn, I was responding to another poster.

[obilinx]

krs-1 and scott la rock - criminal minded

[htownsyrupsipper]

the beginning drumroll.... "bitches aint shit" by Dr.Dre on The Chronic

[obilinx]

that's true but he didn't sample it.

[23inglebert]

Sorry, but Dr Dre was released ten years after this was first played (not released) by Trouble Funk

[mmmegameat]

This jam defines the term- stinky dink.

[ltinsley2]

It's shame go-go couldn't go international back in these days. This is dat real stuff. Reminds me of around da way on Good Hope Road back in da day.

[use2ref]

the funkiest go go song ever

[MzSherice]

One of the dopest go-go cuts ever!! Let's Get Small.... sampled by many in the music business. We don't hate on hip hop. Go-Go and hip hop are cousins.....Whacha gon' do? Let's Get Small!!!!

[Bloodsport1]

KRS-One Crinimal Minded

[DreadedDatNicca]

Big Tony came through and turned the GoGo awards into the Panarama Room u hear me!!!

[adabeseofoz]

man....i was going to shaw junior high....sneakin in to the Coliseum....

[taylor4660]

the chant/chorus is from Kool and the Gang....Get Down on it

[23inglebert]

Wrong. This was played by trouble funk back in 1978. So either they both adapted from another band or Kool and the gang copied.

[slice39]

Chapter III, RSVP and the Room is where I got wet on this joint and don't forget about the Ibex on GA ave. Me and my boys used to get SMAAAaaallll!!! Yeah Bay-boy!!

[mrstep2me]

Chapter III was my spot. Every Thursday and Sunday night. They had the male strippers on Thursdays, and the place would be filled with nothing but fine honeys!!!

[ScoobyDoo1231]

Tuesday night Essence at the Chapter III as well (1988). The good ole' days!!!

[mfoley425]

My boyfriend just got small and it wasn't all I thought it would be. This song is misleading.

[hiphopkid2]

criminal Minded

[tacticalbattledroid]

Viewer: 12,915  so koooooooooooooool its ice;-)

[bowwow73]

Their greatest hits is over a hundred dollars on Amazon!!!

[ace12067]

one of the baddest songs ever recorded. i was 15 when this came out,and it sounds just as good now as it did back then. big up to TROUBLE FUNK. LETS----GET-----SMALL!!!!.

[pgcountyy]

Lookin 4 Trouble Live in concert. Grip it and hold it and the rest of them joints.

[pgcountyy]

Capital Heights crew in this joint!

[Sonofdarighthand]

LETS GET SMALL

[ThaGrooveallegiance]

..Cause when that boogie gets into your soul it makes your body HAWT!!!

[djustthink]

say what yall..eastern high 1975

[cb4077]

Being from DC, this was the joint back in the day. Me and my brother used to listen to this on the record player.

[TheGreatMozeek]

COOLNESS

[tigeress1]

now i'd call this sticky funk d:)

[denardo]

Damn, I forgot BDP sampled this song for "Criminal Minded"

[gageakashuckthegreat]

DAMN DIS SHIT OLD!!!!!!!! NIGGERS

[myfunklast]

we have move on from cowords [so stay in hiding my friend]

[ryanismym]

FUCK U!!!

[gageakashuckthegreat]

wtf r u talkin bout

[StKittsDave]

Deitch say's you da shit

[donhellag]

Dre and Snoop also sampled this for the Bitches Ain't Shit-Remix (the intro drumroll).

[gunsie70]

Trouble Funk put such a hurt on my 6x9 speakers. :) This had to be turned ALL the way up.

[bowwow73]

Criminal Minded sampled this......

[nupe4lifetp]

Aggies down A&T love this music

[lewis27909]

Aggie born, Aggie bred, I will be an aggie till I'm DEAD. Cosmos I and II. Do you remember?

[womanplezer]

This is one of my favorite all time go-go songs. The other is Body move by Rare Essence!Damn,So many memories good and bad...LOL! Mostly good though...

[purplesk8ts]

Great song brings back memories of the GO-GO's around VA MD DC. Fairfax crew in the house. Thanks veewee... you got that "Happy Feet"?

[wyzard214]

Kickin for that Palmer Park crew! Where's that Rockville crew?! Do it for That Central Ave. Crew!

[kas122963]

Awsomme.....I am a Go-Go baby from the 70's. Washington D.C. Homegrown girl. LUV IT!!

[taylor4660]

did they borow the chant from Get Down On it by Kool and the Gang? I see he cop that NYC hip hop rhyme from Sugar Hill....

[calicliff]

thank you thank you i remember so many basment partys got any scott and raven?

[daflyjd]

Dre sampled the drum riff at the beginning of this for the Original Chronic track "b&&**chs aint sh&*((t". Never knew it until I played this today. Nice.

[lJohnnyTheFoxl]

Yeah it's been sampled a few times. I should have known it was Trouble Funk, damn.

[dizzythorsten]

*alright!! this is like 25 years since I heard this --!! Thanxxxx :-)

[shanijohn]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This is definitely one of my all time favorites. You just made my day.

[veewee]

you're welcome!