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  • LMAO!!,CLASSIC!!

  • good stuff here

  • This is super funny. I remember my brother, sister and older cousin on my father's side of the family singing that song; then I started singing with them. That made me think that rumors were bugs until I asked my father, and he said that it is gossip whether it is true or false. Enough said!

  • Theme From the Orkin Man.

  • Liinnnaaaaaaa!!!

  • I remember this song from dances in high school. all my life I thought this was eddie murphy

  • A young Russ Parr! lol

  • Lmfao....my dad played this. I would always laugh when the roach rapped xD

  • Did everyone's dad play this lmao...?

  • My dad played this song all the time when I was younger

  • My God, I haven't heard this since I was riding the bus to school and they'd play this during the drive-time show. It's been stuck in my head for all this time. Glad to know it's here.

  • @rudie328 same wit me except my dad played it in his car

  • Bermuda shorts....hahahahahahaha

  • This is Russ Parr

  • I totally forgot that there was a video. Har.

  • Haha I remember

  • ah yes a part of me is finally complete after finding this

  • I grew up singing this no lie

    Omg

  • hahahahaha

  • Man i knew this was a real song, my uncle told me i was dreaming this song up lol....

  • @tritri0079 SAME HERE!!!! I KNEW this was real..... and to think, for a while I thuoght I had lost my mind too! ha!

  • but they just stay that way, lol

  • 8 ppl gots roaches in dey houses...

  • The first time I heard this was in Washington , D. C., in the summer. It was about 100F and 95% humidity. I recall hearing thes big ass roaches seemingly marching in formation into the kitchen late at night. Narry a crumb was to be found in that vacant ass kitchen.

  • I ike this song and their music... always respecr!

  • LOL.. Why does the roach sound like Eddie Murphy doing his impression of a female?

  • now that song is a classic. dang, I haven't heard that one in almost 25 years. love it.

  • anyone know what the roach is saying?

  • @blazekdb1 Russ Parr is based out of DC on WKYS 93.9 along with Alfredas

    she took over after Olivia Foxx left.

  • ah, the 80's. to some it was a brurh

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  • this song is the shhhhhhiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzz nitz

  • OMG! there was actually a video for this song? damn lol.

    

  • Omg, I haven't heard for at least a decade. Lol..

  • yall don't know nothing bout this!

  • lol, one of the best non weird al parodies ever

  • I like this!!!

  • Russ Parr..my man..I saw him do this live at the Euclid skate rink in Cleveland.Later, when I met Russ, I asked him if he remembered doing that gig..He said yes!.

  • this song is weird, this one and Somebody Farted

    NO LIE!!! Somebody Farted is a REAL song look it up for a laugh

  • haha I love these guys

  • That was Great--

  • In the 80´s the lyrics of the rappers was actually not about Motherfukker and Ghetto. Times are Changing

  • This is a RAID!!!!

  • Russ Parr back in the day as Bobby Jimmy

  • THIS SONG IS JUST TOOO FUNNY. My mom had it on casette,WOW!!

    I just laughed myself silly

  • No matter how many times you spray, these roaches don't seem to die.

  • This brings back some memories.

  • I have been looking for this shit for 15 years. It seems like nobody remembers a damn thing from the 1980s. Thank you for the post.

  • that is NOT raid! its holy water!!

  • that in NOT raid! its holy water!!

  • what the roach?

  • Bobby Jimmy was fresh

  • Sloppy as a moose lol

  • The black Weird Al, I was hoping someone had this!

  • If you lived at the Parkside projects in Detroit back in the day, you lived this song.

  • Yo, do you know how many arguments I got into cause I refused to believe they did a video to this song? OMG, wow, you really just did more than just take me back, thanx my dude!

  • I remember this from YEARS ago- great song!!!!

  • damn, its awesome

  • This Song is the Story Of My F**ing Life!

  • O  M F GGGG!!!! THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS!!!!!!

  • this guy remninds me of the main character from the movie im gonna get you sucka

  • lmaoo

  • Man the Roach KILLED IT tho!

  • f'n Russ Parr . . . .

  • i wonder if this fool talking about weed roaches

  • i fuk

  • i fucking love this song!!!! this shit is stupid funny!!!!

  • THE ROACH THE ROACH THE ROACH IS ONA WALL...WE DONT NEED NO RAID LETHAT MUTHAAA..FUCKAA KRAWL.....THIS FA ALLL YOU HARDKORE GANGSTER RAPPERS....YOU NIGGAS SUCK

  • THE ROACH THE ROACH THE ROACH IS ONA WALL...WE DONT NEED NO RAID LETHAT MUTHAAA..FUCKAA KRAWL

  • THIS WAS THE SHIT WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT........

  • This is the first thing i thought when i enterd a freinds home

  • LOL.....I forgot all about Bobby Jimmy...even the corny songs were good back then!!

  • Damn. I've got the old cassette tape of this album, but I've never even seen this music video until now. Now that's some funny shit.

  • man, I hate roaches. we oughta have a contest on how many roaches we kill and who ever kills the most roaches wins.

  • @garageman1989 I Killed all of mine I win.

  • @DzNutz2009 LOL congratulations.

  • Man, I ain't heard this since the 80s, man! Sweet childhood memories!

  • AM Stereo KDAY!!!

  • where my girls at melissa vickie and dee all from J town..............

  • crazy

  • OMG! I forgot all about this song. To Funny. Thanks for posting.

  • this is a spoof of the song rumours

  • Russ Parr? WOW!

  • fuck yeah

    

  • Hahahahah... This guy was hella funny when I was a kid!!! He was like the hip hop version of Weird Al!

  • the video goes with the song Funny

  • Russ Parr back in da day he made alot of money off this. this song was getting alot of air play back in the 80's they was playing this as much as they was playing Rumors whick this song is a knock off of they was bumping both in club Damn !!!!! this bring back alot memories i miss those days

  • I like Bobby Jimmy. His facials make me laugh, on the floor. 

  • haha that song was ....awesome lol been searching for awhile for this lol

  • I was in high School when this song came out. i still think it's halarious

  • OMG, LMAO....where would we be if we ain't have funny people. U know somebody right now that cracks u up all the time. Laughter IS medicine.

  • HAHAHAHAH I love this jam.. BOBBY JIMMYS A FOOL HAHAHA

  • This song is still hilarious, hahahahha...

  • Weird Al and Bobby Jimmy should've done an album together! Peace.

  • i miss being young

  • Lmao @ Russ Parr

  • this is one of the funniest songs ever.

  • I remember my brother recorded a session of MTV's music videos onto a VHS tape back in the 80s and this happened to be one of the videos we got. I'm glad to see other people remember it too. :D

  • LOL Rumors...

  • Yep, it is Russ Parr.I saw him do this live in 1987 and later met him when I worked for Radio One..

  • como bajo un un video de you tube

  • Damn I miss the 80's!

  • @fatbuddhaboo the 80's were the best years. wish i could go back

  • @fatbuddhaboo I know that's right, man! GOOD TIMES!

  • @fatbuddhaboo me too...this is Russ Parr, DJ for our local radio station here in louisville, kentucky B96.5....got me laughing so hard my cheeks hurt!!

  • @blazekdb1

    Yeah I never knew that was him. - He had a show on Bet or One (one of those blk networks) like the dating game.

  • @blazekdb1

    My fav. was "The Show: parody

  • That's a classic.

  • @dedricthere Im that dirty ROACH thats RAPPIN !!! ...

  • LOL this song has been playin in my head for 20 plus years. Thanks for posting it! Never new there was a video for it!

  • Man I miss good quality music like this. This was a real diss track!

  • LOL, I remember my local radio station playing this...

  • mine just played it 2day

  • I didn't even know they did a video for this song. My dad used to have the 12 inch of this song, now I own it.

  • i just found out this is russ parr

  • I tried to fumigate to make them straight! lmao!

  • How about an HD version?

  • finally  1000thanx

  • I remember hearing this song when I was little, I heard this song before I heard the real version. My older bro had a tape full of parody songs, and he had this one on there. We used to sing this all the time as kids while we were cleaning up the house, our parents thought we were crazy, but it helped us get our work done faster. This song is hilarious and brings back so many memories. Ah the good old days!

  • lmao

  • I caught this video on tape when it came out. Just wished I could have gotten the single or album...

  • ROFLMAO, this brings back MEMORIES!

  • Go Roach! Go Roach! Go Roach!

    ''^.^''

  • these roaches are nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!! go people! kill them kill! kill!

  • i cant stop laughin.. this shit is still hilarious... love my old school

  • Damn, it's been 23 years and STILL funny as hell!!!

  • @ 2:40 the gayest dance ever!!

  • i love russ parr wkys 93.9  M.V.DC.

  • I loved these parady songs from back in the day.

  • Russ Parr.

  • Man i remember when this song came out when i was little. I love this song. I finally saw the video. that tight. let's stop these roaches from running around. HAHA

  • Me too. It's funny because I haven't heard this song in years, and I still know the words.

  • I been looking for this song forever, can't just type in the roach song, can't find it, also, never knew there was a video to it, lol, love it!

  • jajajajajajja crazy shit jajajja, oh man, c'mmon RAPPERS of today do REAL music like in the 80s

  • Yo, I NEVER knew there was a video to this song. I been quotin' parts of this song since 1985-6 when it came out. Thank you for the flashback. LOL

  • I was screaming laughing more than twenty years ago when I first saw it, and I'm happy to report, I still am.

    Ahh...the days when rap was fun.

  • Well I be chillin' in the bathtub

    Swimmin' in the pool

    Eatin' leftovers

    Is the golden rule

    Well i'm the hip hop roach

    And i'm raisin' hell

    When i'm in NY

    I'm down with LL

    Hahahahaha this part and the part where you can see the Arabian Prince dancing is what completes this song hahahhahaha

  • i LOVEDD this songg first tiem i heardd it:D

  • Thats a classic right thurrr!

  • Yo... Russ Parr

  • HAHAHA....yeah I remember this one!

  • is this song about weed?

  • Dumb withouth a cause LMAO

  • triton88keyz: the rappin' Roach as 2:25 is funny as hell

  • also a dre production? if so, that's some funny ass shit man. that i already heard dre beats back in 86 on the radio.

  • 23 years later and I am still ROFL @ this song.

  • Look at Russ Parr in the curl !!!

  • The Black Wierd Al. I loved this song when I was in HS. I heard it on KSPC Claremont( SoCal, bitches) along with a lot of good and bad (underground ) hip/hop-rap.

  • For those of you who don't know the guy who is in this group is named Russ Parr, he was a DJ here in L.A., the radio station was called AM KDAY now KDAY is on FM radio now and Steve Harvey has a morning radio show on KDAY.

  • He has a syndicated morning show out of DC

  • Oh I know. He's been in radio in a long time.

  • Michael Baisden also has radio show on KDAY but it comes in @ 4pm Pacific Time. I don't know where you live but you can check out both Steve Harvey and Michael Baisden on 93.5 KDAY.

  • I remember seeing this as a little kid, I loved it.

  • funny

  • CLASSIC!!!!! Thanxs so much 4 the upload. My kids thought I was loosing my mind. This bring back so many memories. Gosh! How fast time go by.

  • great cut as is orginal rumors by timex social club

  • PRICELESS!!! BOBBY JIMMY on VIDEO!!!

    i've seen it once in a club, maybe '86 or something...noone ever wanted to believe me, that there is a video...thx a thousand times for bustin' THIS!

  • Was this was a real hit song? Wow never knew and I am into 80's music. This is where Master P got this sample!!! Look at all these haters!!!

  • I am so glad that you put this on here I was looking under his name I remembered the song but for got who made it by any chance does anyone have the hair or weave video I found the song

  • LOL

  • i had no idea russ made this song, i was a kid when that came out... man dude must be old as shit, late 40;s maybe even 50 yuck

  • old skool song, to the fullest. lol

    isn`t is the world class wrecking crew? :S

  • the rappin roach Rules!

  • This song brings back so many memories...it was funny back then and still funny now. However, that rappin roach sounds like Martin Payne's Mama...Martin! I said Martin! -Mrs. Payne.

  • I remember recording this song off of KDAY 1580AM in los angeles, on tape. Old School!

  • HAHAH look at the Arabian price at 2:41

    Priceless.

  • look at all these roaches

  • This guy was like the Weird Al Yankovic of rap. Whatever happened to him?

  • Russ Parr has a nation wide radio show and hosts a dating show on radio one Get The Hook up

  • Russ "Bobby Jimmy" Parr kind of reminds me of David Alan Grier.

  • The world famous Russ Parr??? LOL

  • I haven't heard this song in like 15 years. Anybody know the name of the song that's makin' fun of Eazy E "Radio"?

  • NY/LA Rappers

  • bobby jimmy- la meet ny rappers

  • N.Y-L.A rappers is also a good song. from ruthless records 88'

  • thks..