The Fatback Band - Backstrokin'

[Getrealpeeps]

OHHHHHH YEAH I REMEMBER THIS SONG!!!! YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[TheWww420]

smoke a doobi to dis song



[TheWww420]

imma grow my afro back man

[kwomack10]

"i just took some ecstasy / ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be"

[joebeatsbrown1]

ALWAYS LOVE ALL OF FATBACKS SONGS COME TO DC

[sablekee]

Awesome Bass! Tightenin' up right now!

[hotfunkcooljazz]

Go head - Go head !

[KMYA4ME]

CHICAGO STYLE!!!!!!!!

[xBIGSHEPx]

welcome to the land of funk

[MommaRaver]

I was a senior in high school tightening up on my backstroke :)



[JOSE77753]

how can anybody dont like this GREAT JAM??? yeah, they can't dance for SURE.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ



[JOSE77753]

wow; so many good memories at the club with this great JAM!!

[welitonvital]

Really enjoyed this song in 1982, Osasco, sao paulo - Brazil.

[GoodSydeBill]

Lets Get High - Dr.Dre

[pespinoza61]

TIGHTEN UP ON YOURE ######@@@@!!!!

[DaaddyAnt1971]

When I use to DJ LOL!!!!..this cutt made everyone dance!!

[dallas2cali]

BADD ASS FUNK JAM ME AND MY HOMIES CRUISE THIS SONG BUMPIN LOUD CRUSING THROUGH DOWNTOWN IN OUR LOWRIDERS JUST HITTIN SWITCHES AND HAVEIN A GOOD TIME. OLDIES AND FUNK MUSIC FOREVER.

[000379530]

the only thing my x-wife did well was tighten up on the back stoke

[Mssassysabrina]

@000379530 that's probably why she's your ex-wife now.  OUCH!!!!!

[blazn1981]

The nine haters never have bothered 'looking for that good stuff 'nor tighten up on thier "Back Stroke'

[channellmixer]

I hoked a good loog while listening to this song.I thinkk I was back stroking it.

[sp4csh]

they just don't make songs like this anymore,early 80's in the army ,from FT Dix,NJ FT Lee,virginia,  FT Bliiss TX what a great time and some great music

[TheHawkster2012]

Rock that shit homie!!!!!

[NatosREekeiEinai]

come on and lets get high!

[JaredGill]

More cowbell....gotdammit!

[2010serious1]

straight rink music and much more!!!! columbus,ohio

[phil14true]

The nine haters that don't like this song can't dance!!

[TheBboyradio]

@phil14true i feel you!! i'm a bboy and poper and i rock the living shit out of this song!!

[royalcoils100]

This was my uncles jamm back in the day mine too,RIP UNCLE Cleo i will never 4get you

[moeyrod]

thats the shit i was looking for,fatback gets down

[tarmacsoul]

my headphones will not go loud enough.

[royalcoils100]

@tarmacsoul lmao

[poppa8169]

Great party jam. Used to go to the clubs in L.A. and paaarrrrrtaaayyy!!!

[MrAustin165]

real good ole music which it would come back into play again

[plutoyung]

This was one of the best skate jams of all times!!!!

Steppers only

[princenelson22]

@plutoyung I remember roller rockin' to this tune, along with "Overnight Sensation" by Jerry Knight. Those were some of the best of times.

[celticlarry]

just listen

[TheMaquilleuse]

escuze me you can do a video karaoké with lyrics please of backstrokin

think

[MrLinolinares]

Needs more cow bell!!

[wsriva]

this is the jam!

[ThePetey2]

GANGSTA ALL THE WAY

[workhard87]

man I feel Im the best of both worlds I grew with and can still dunk a bball and Im white and black. things are great

[Shortyb218]

18 and i know good music hahaha

[REalNEw3]

hell yea this shit g bro im 18 n and my dad an og he got me on this funk tip

[majuarez213]

This is some GANGSTA shit..............1SUR3

[MrHBG707]

nice real nice..

[SuperSlimm]

I see a lot of people remember Dr. Dre and Quik sampling this song, but the first one I heard that was pretty good was UGK "Good Stuff" from the Ridin Dirty LP. Way better than Dr. Dre's sample if I say so myself.

[henrysour]

@SuperSlimm First to sample this song was dolla holla-beautiful day in the neighborhood

[Pistolk007]

Real music, by real musicans, lets see todays punk actually PLAY AN INSTRUMENT........they cant, all they know is how to sample some of the best music ever made, this was a monster in the UK

[TheScoobie1313]

this tha shit. pop it n rock it

[spongah]

no copyright involved in it? what about the song? lol

[rushnerd]

Let's get high.

[dancerdonald1]

Remember dancing on rollerskates to this music at a U.S.A.(United Skates of America) rink in Buffalo...awesome times & I'm Canadian/Asian..54 yrs young & still rollerskate..Funk music lives forever thanks to You Tube !

[hiswifey4life18]

this brings back memories of living in the BEACH & CHAPMAN AREA....I LIKE THIS JAM

[mrdawsonllc]

i agree with lp32862. most of the music of today is not creative, it's all just put out there to make fast money. it's not creative, any kid with common sense can rap over a good dance song from the 70s and make a hit record if they have the connection. and i"m not a grumpy old man. I like some hip hop music but most of it doesn't make sense. most rappers can't make a good rap song with using profanity.

[MeascEntertainment]

@mrdawsonllc

Any kid with "common sense" can rap over a good dance song from the 70's and make a hit record?

Absolutely not true. And just because someone can rap or sing over an instrumental does not mean that they are good at it. And hit records have not defined a person having talent for the last 20-25 years at least.

What does profanity or lack thereof have to do with talent. Now your really reaching. First of all, most singers can't make a good song period and most rappers can't either

[MeascEntertainment]

@mrdawsonllc

Most musicians are not very talented. But you must know a lot of rappers to know that "most" of them can't make a good song without using profanity. I don't see how so called, "profanity" has anything to do with the discussion in the first place.

Who defines whether one word is profane and the other is not anyway? Who makes these decisions?

Please do not start picking apart rap lyrics, if we did that with other genres the conversation would be finished in 5 minutes flat.

[christopheergin]

Dr Dre Let's Get High

[peewee1968able]

to old for you hommie

[Chocolaht]

THIS is gonna help me lose 80lbs this year...imma tighten up on my backstroke! cause im looking for the good stuff too!

[10251991JRH]

Like this comment if this song needs to be in the next GTA video game!

[helltopay1]

Stuff like this I find hard to listen to,such great memories

[dancerdonald1]

Remember rollerskating in the 80's to this funk song....Backwards with rhythmn + legs in the air!...These funk songs allowed freedom of expression in skating/dancing !Thanks for posting...makes me want to put skates on again(Still have them)!

[FunkDoppler]

More Cowbell!

[MrTrackfreek]

I;M NOT SO BAD,I JUST LIKE TO DO WHAT THE BAD FOLKS DO.

[crazysexycool101]

i love this song

[EatinCactus]

Hey I miss those psychodelic shirts!

[Moorkaan]

Must have missed Dr Dre's thanks to B.T. Express, Fatback Band, George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic and all the great classic launchers of this kinda jam, when music was music. So much is re-touched and we didn't know all those decades..

[MilesMyles]

dude second from right on the album cover at :56 looks like Jesse Jackson. Go Jesse!

[MilesMyles]

dude second from left onteh album cover looks like Jesse Jackson. Go Jesse!

[jamalrauf]

Badass

[bigcuttie32873]

i love these guys with that hot ass beat

[tberjay1]

@bigcuttie32873 To get more updated jams from the FATBACK Band go to the offical website of fatbackband(dot)com to get reunited withthe funk man himself

[murtvchannel]

sick

[airdale001]

WJIZ(Albany GA)played this cut w. Mellow Mike as the DJ!!

[MrDskizzle]

I've always been a fan of Auburn from afar, Plaetoe. Did you enjoy your time there and how was the party scene down there during them days? It is strange that they would play this funky jam at the football games even though there were a few brothers on the team.

[plaetoe]

@MrDskizzle Aurburn was a great place to actually go to college. When i was there it was, by most standards, boring. We had 2 movie theatres in Aurburn and 2 more in Opelika. Other than fast food places and bars EVERYTHING closed by 6 PM. It's a big school in a little town. i very much enjoyed my experience there. Beautiful women, but I think every college campus is like that.

[queenbeethatsme9]

LOOKIN for that good stuff--why doncha tighten up on yo'  backstroke...."uh huh--

I think this was 1980--summer...or maybe 1979 summer. I was in Lincoln Heights, staying the summer at my grandma's and only getting into a little trouble. LOL

[plaetoe]

When i was at Auburn University one year they played this over the loudspeakers at every home football game. I can't remember which year, would have been 78,79, or 80. Kinda weird for a college that at the time was about 90% white. But this sure briings back memories.

[thewrightlilbro]

@plaetoe white people know good music when they hear it .they wanted to dip off with that jungle fever.

[pantoskop]

funk at its finest, can't do it with out the real horns man.

[BEATBOYZ13]

I feel like boogin' to this popping track right now! Thank for posting!

By the way, do you pop atomicdog9funk?

[DaDarkPoet]

This was the jam

[therealraybaby]

GOODSTUFF!

[funkfreak1503]

this jam is bad

[gahan101]

All these niggaz and all these hoes in here

Somebody here gon' fuck!

[shadenj80]

@gahan101 LMAO! you are hilarious

[srchiefmc]

The first rappers to put it out there. PIONEERS

[whtcollarbrutha]

I remember this song. Fatback put their foot in this one.

[boballison93]

Strokin

[PICABEAJAVIER]

picabeajavier. esto que estoy escuchando es una locura se me pone la piel de gallina que buen grupo musical muy bueno

[HaightStreetGroovy]

BACKSTROKIN'!!!!!

[Dahnje]

The music was alive. Real instruments. With a funk rhythm that has been somewhat lost.

Electronic music is good for rap, but R&B should go back live.

[dlls22sport]

FANTASTIC THANKS

[m1northern]

HELL 2 DA YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

[MNMsAPPRINTICE38]

This is what's up!! I can't help but shake my booty right! Thjanks for the memories!!

[MsAnnamg]

EW.M.FLORES in the house need i say more.

[dnjp4life]

Too much funk on this one.  Dr. Dre and DJ Quik were obviously influenced by this track.

[fritshits77]

oooh ...those thursday nights ,..in front of my tape-deck and tuner ....humongous headphones ( they had their own volume/bass/treble slides on each speaker) and finger on the pausebutton ...listening to ferry maat`s SOULSHOW ( this is dutch radio guys ..) and for 2 hours I was IN studio 54.... taping all this great tunes ,BACKSTROKIN` is just one of MANY supersongs Ipicked up there & than ..FABULOUS to hear again .. THNX A MILL !!!

[peady64]

Summertime, 1980. Jammin like we lost our minds. A great year for the funk. Thanks for the blast from a good past.

[1313bruno1313]

instru damm

[deadquas]

this was where i did a do @ the time when 1 danced....ty for the reminder bro

[BigBlueBeast]

Why don't we hear great music with a steady beat like this anymore?

[arealmotherforya]

great tune and great slide show! thanks for the post. keep the fire burnin'

[hardcorehouse]

Fatback, the last word in uncut funk.

[gamerholic323]

THE BEST JAMZ FOR A NEW YEAR!!!!!!

[11charri]

I Love This Song!!

[secondchapter]

Love this jam. Heard it the first time on a local Detroit dance talent show back in the day.

[ratm15]

damn ugk sampled this beat and it went off and this song is dope

[nosebone69]

dre got in some trouble for sampling this on lets get high....both great tunes

[TheSunnyStar]

This song reminds me of traveling across the country almost every summer with my family. Crank up this jam!

[mdobbs1970]

The 1st time I heard this was in 1979 or 80 at a talent show in Youngstown,Ohio. A dance group by the name of Ice performed to it. I was amazed by the dancing and the song! Thanks for this slept on groove!!!

[beaagent29p]

R U sure it wasn't the ICE BAND. My mom's cousin is in it. They're outta Toledo where my Mom is from and the first time I heard was in Ohio too..lol.

Small world, huh..lol

[RGLEON11]

heardthisjaminhighschoolin1977­

[EZFrankT]

Real Gangsta Jam!

One of the great one's!

Search Stone City Band!

It's - Rick James old band.

[VULGARIS1901]

lets get high

[fuman520]

......and cun funkshun, parliment, capt. sky, the s.o.s. band, earth, wind, and fire.

[sxrichardson]

Roger & Zap

Gap Band

Frankie Smith

Lakeside

Mtume

Bar-Kays

Cameo

add on to the list...

[djcountry1985]

ive been searching this sonf for like 10 years and finally found it

[CrunkKing232]

dr dre sampled this

[YoItsNFL]

to what song???

[Zaquille]

'Lets Get High' on 2001

[iwastherethen]

those were the day when the whole floor danced in sequence - rock city in nottingham - yeah

[DancingSpiderman]

Needs mo cowbell...

I member back in the day, strokin'it to this funky toon

watchin Ruby Jewel doin her thang on vids from xvideos

Hell Yayeah...

[rvonnette18]

like good soup mmmmmmmmmmmmmm good!

[NallePu83]

0:21 it`s BORAT :-D

[lp32862]

This innovative and creative "black music" unlike today's hip hop shit where supposed artists rip off artists of years ago. This is great music. But alas, today's youth have bought into 21st century mistrel shit.

[BboyDeusEx]

Dont believe what you hear is hip hop because real hip hop is good music is conscious and real. you judge it on garbage liek lil wayne etc. its not your fault its these clowns giving black people a bad name

[jmuie]

Co-signin

Thanks 4 settin it straight

[PAYBACKiszaB2]

In some ways I agree but in others I don't. I love the fresh real instruments, but we can't say that Hip Hop is not innovative at all, comeon now, but this stuff today does not touch that from the past.........the taking of songs from the past is sort of a compliment to keep them Living on in the new inspiration of music, they need something to help them survive music now days so they depend on the greats of the past....otherwise they all would FAIL.

[daryl2280]

i like this music and hip hop music. if it werent for hip hop music samplin this, i would have never looked this up. is that bad or good?

[enriyy]

According to me who I'm ignorant of the great Hip Hop era and I'm becoming fond of it, is it good ^^

[koreanheart]

boohoo..?

[FunkDoppler]

@lp32862 Here here! Fucken ripoff rap artist niggas!

[BassBeatsProductions]

@FunkDoppler It's not ripping off

[FunkDoppler]

@BassBeatsProductions sorry i dont know why I said that and im to lazy try to look back on the comments. I just know I like this song

[BassBeatsProductions]

@lp32862 It's not ripping off. It's the literal appreciation of the music at the time.

[TMundo]

@lp32862 I blame the labels for only pandering to the mainstream demographic. Sure, it's fast money, but the percentage of people who listen to 'other music' is larger then the mainstream percentage, it's just easier for the labels to cater to one genre of mainstream, rather than cater to 25 other genres. Too bad, fast money ruins everything.

[MeascEntertainment]

@lp32862

The "ripping off" of artists music leads to more checks for those being sampled and or remixed and also opens up a whole new fan base to a new generation of listeners who would have never heard of them. Sonically, Dr. Dre's "Let's get high" sounds better than "Backstrokin". He upgraded this production. While it is a rarity that I sample another artist work, as a producer it is my dream that other producers will sample me in the future.

-Portis Roe (The Chosen One)

[mrdawsonllc]

@MeascEntertainment In case you didn't know, fatback were the first group to make a rap song with their song kim tim III back in 1979. backstrokin is just one of over 20 great dance songs they recorded over 2 decades. just google them for verification. fatback made more songs in their over 20 years of music while most rappers won't last 5 years in the music business.

[MeascEntertainment]

@lp32862

And while you may think that you are "paying homage" to these older bands by degrading, judging and bashing the newer generation of producers, you are only making things worse with your negativity. You'd get more out of your energy by discussing what you like instead of continuing the minstrel showing by pitting black against black.

[peachone]

@lp32862

Hip hop introduced me to the awesome world of funk, and before it soul, blues etc. Hip hop is keeping this music alive. I'm sure there were some jazz purists that hated funk when it was young. So GTFO with that ignorant bullshit, you sound like a grumpy old man on some 'It's too loud, turn it down' type shit.

[RiRiWillz1]

i wish da parties i go to in this era had good music... cusz good music makes me wanna dance... all dat hip hop n reggae gets annoyin at times.. sum parties are fun but not dat fun... it makes me wish i wusz alive at da time muh mom wusz..... she always tells me bout dem parties she used to go to n how she used to get down... muh mama still got it... too bad im too young to go to dem grown up parties!!!! lol

[DarkStar1238]

good music 5 starz

[padlockjr]

this is the jam it gives me goose bumps just hearing it

[hapz3000]

project blowed sampled this as well as dr dre

[espresso1967]

Oh dammm, taking me back way back in the day. Out of Los Angeles and was kicking in San Diego when this track came out cruising National City on a lowrider. This track got the looks of the babes. Thanks for the share!!!

[rmsolympic1]

This is subatomic funk: kneecap-cracking goodness and brutal bass-thump thunder.

[SibaritaPro]

UGK - Good Stuff sampled this incredible tune first

[drhooride]

Above the Law - V.S.O.P.

[tricianfred]

House Parties damn that was the good ol' days....

[spthedon]

dr dre - let's get high

[tapskizzle]

JVC M70

[espresso1967]

Dropped this track on my M70 back in the day. System everyone needed for a good house party!!

[dirtydanga]

tight little bassline!

[gahan101]

@dirtydanga Yeah, and DR. DRE knew it. That's why he replayed it !

[jgk381]

@gahan101 I'm not so sure he really replayed it, it sounds exactly the same. I know he claims to replay all his samples, but there is no way to get two recordings to sound exactly alike.

[gahan101]

@jgk381 Actually, Dre REALLY replayed it, as always. That' s why it sounds cleaner than if he would have just sampled it. You can listen to the two records back to back. It's obvious Dre replayed it. Peace

[jgk381]

@gahan101 idk, he could've applied a bunch processing, filters, and effects to clean up the sound, and idk if your comparing dre's to this youtube video because obviously this video has terriblr quality, the actual vinyl sounds much better. Plus the drums are identical too. One rule of thumb in music is that any one recording can never be exactly duplicated by another musician/band in terms of timing, note length, velocity, its just humanly impossible, and these sound identical by those terms.

[thewrightlilbro]

@jgk381 you cant tell that to profeesional studio musicians.thats what they are there

for to duplicate shit.

[jgk381]

@thewrightlilbro Its not possible duplicate music exactly by replaying it. Even if you COULD dup it exactly, what would be the point? You'd still have to clear it, so might as well just have sampled it. The reason to re-play a sample is to switch it up a little so that you don't have to clear it or get permission. There was obviously something wrong with how dre did it, bcuz the fatback band sued him for it.

[wyandotte3]

this song Reminds of back in the day at a dance place called "THE RAINForest" in Las Cruces 1980's

[silvertonguebrat]

I remember getting on the dance floor and doing the backstroke...it was a cool song to dance with. Still is....

[Classic63]

ahh....memories of the summer of 1980.

This reminds me of a girl name Brande.

Thanks for the post !

[phsyco348]

this is too funky! great memories...love it!

[phsyco348]

when black singers had talent..far cry from todays crappy so called music.. great times.

[LLola42]

We use to go to the Dance at my high school and they call it on Sat night The Jam Factory and there was a dance to this song we did to it tighten of your backstroke it was all goood

[rmbb10]

Kewl.

[almtyscuzzy]

I remember spinning this song. I use to loop the intro and people loved it....aaaah those were the days.

[kd1s]

I have a nice clean copy of this in my iTune library. Very funky tune.

[NottinghamHotspur]

Great track - shame about the audio compression - its like 60kbps or something :-/

[atomicdog93funk]

yeah sorry about that.Still sounds badass thought!!!!

[NottinghamHotspur]

yeah mate totally :)

[flyingshrapnel09]

Best funk band ever!

[miilimommo]

i love this song its the best!

[Centaur716]

tighten up N**a

[anthony2gibbs]

back that ass up girl,yo what i mean.

[tsicilian]

Central State U. 1970 somethin` I was a kid, but loved this Bass line is kickin. All who like this try Cameo, thanx dog!!!

[Gambinotubee]

Yeaaaaaaahhhh

[anthony2gibbs]

A real funky ass grove.THE Fat Back Band.ya heard.