Club banger. noun. from the Latin for clubbus bangerustosticus. 1) a song that will cause every one within earshot to go into momentary paralysis as they realize (and often times proclaim) “that’s my song (or sh*t)” and begin to gyrate in gyratious gyratastics. 2) songs that DJ keeps in arsenal for when the people aren’t seeming so into the mix he’s playing. 3) songs that inevitably require everybody to smile and like each other for at least 1 minute as people search out individuals to dance with.
Demographically speaking, we’re dealing with the 23 and up set, with at least a sizable amount of African-Americans as we all know that in clubs, when Black people start dancing, white people start watching and will begin to mimic what you’re doing.
1. BBD – “Poison“
Good googly moogly. I wonder if they knew the monster they had on their hands when they created this song. Going strong for at least 19 (!!!!!!!!) years now, this song is guaranteed to get any crowd off their asses. For one, the drumbreak introduction is one of the most famous you’ll ever hear. For two, its just damn good. Everybody knows it. In fact, if you know somebody who has never heard of this song and couldn’t identify it from it’s introduction…you should stop hanging with them. They might get you killed. Seriously.
2. Prince – “Kiss”
Another song with an instantly recognizable intro. You know what makes this song great? I’ll tell you what makes this song great. It allows folks to be really playful with any person of the opposite sex in their purview. It is also a great song to snag the guy/gal you’ve been eyeing and using this song as the icebreaker. In fact, there is no reason NOT to get up and dance with this song playing. If you are out with a bunch of chicks who sit when this song is on then they have issues beyond repair (or have no legs) or they have jealous boyfriends at home. And since we all know that most men suck and will stand and watch women dance anyway, I put the honus on women to put out some pheromones to let the men pick up the slack.
3. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly – “Before I Let Go“
Also known as the Black National Anthem. And you can take that “Lift Every Voice And Sing” mambo jambo elsewhere. Hell, how many of you actually KNOW the second and third verse of “Lift Every Voice”? Hell…how many of you didn’t even know, until just now, that there was more than one verse?? But who DOESN’T know the words to “Before I Let Go”?
Mmhmm.
And if you don’t? The Drop Squad is coming for you. Your Blackness is in question.
It’s also a guaranteed club banger because it can be doubled as the last song of the night indicator to all those in attendance. Frankie Beverly after 230am, well, its time for you to take your broke a** home.
4. Luke – “Scarred“
This song is guaranteed to send the party into DefCon 3. The party should officially turn into a sweatbox. Ya know, this is one song where I’ve actually seen people lose their damn minds over; one that causes folks to forget that they’re trying to keep up appearances. Only a few songs render people helpless to their club self-image, but anybody who cares so much about how they look when this song comes on that they refuse to really move either 1) can’t dance for sh*t, or 2) is a bad person.
Hands down.
Actually, throw your hands up!
And last but not least…one of the most famous songs that will ALWAYS get the party going…
5. E.U. – “Da Butt“
Lisa got a big ole butt…oh yeah!!
I really don’t even know what to say about this one aside from no party is complete unless this song has been played. It’s like a mall with no Gap…it’s incomplete like a Sisqo song written by Montell Jordan. It’s lacking like Paris Hilton’s clothing. It sucks like Jenna Jameson. It blows like pops.
And besides…what other song do you know specifically requests gratuitous a** wrangling. Fellas, if she doesn’t want you wrangling her a**, she wouldn’t dance with you.
That’s terrible advice by the way.
Anyway, good clubbers of VSB, what are other club bangers guaranteed to get the arses shaking in the club?
-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 3
Murder She Wrote, Chaka Demus & Pliers.
Even folk who don’t like reggae (they should all be shot, really) can’t help but get their wind on to this.
@iloVEGrits,
Co-sign
@iloVEGrits, Even folk who don’t like reggae (they should all be shot, really)
they really should.
@i’m overit, BOO, eh, shoot deez.
@iloVEGrits,
OMG. I was thinking about this one before I clicked to see the comments. The ‘riddim’ is unforgettable.
@iloVEGrits,
Indeed… love this song. And yes… people who aren’t moved by reggae must be checked for absence of a soul
@blackberry molasses, i concur….. how can someone not like reggae?
@JamaicanGirl, pretty easy, actually.
@Panama Jackson, in the words of BBMo “people who aren’t moved by reggae must be checked for absence of a soul”
Panama prepare for you surgery…..
@JamaicanGirl,
if you got a stich of black in you you cant deny the drum beats
@iloVEGrits, murder she wrote is a great one..also
the beanie man joint..the girls dem suga/who am I or whatever the name of the song is..thats a hot one
@shay_d_lady,
Who Am I is the name of the song.
@iloVEGrits,
thas tha name i was thyna figure it out brain doesnt work to good on monday
@iloVEGrits,
“Murder She Wrote, Chaka Demus & Pliers.
Even folk who don’t like reggae (they should all be shot, really)”
That’s not reggae – that’s dancehall. But I agree, folks that don’t like reggae definitely need to be shot, hanged, drug through the mud, and more.
@RedBeanzNRice w/Collard Greens,
“That’s not reggae – that’s dancehall. ”
Quite a few people classify roots, ragga, ska, dancehall all as reggae, they just it as different variants of it. He!!, some people who don’t know any better (including Borders!) puts soca in that category. And some hate it all. These people should die.
@iloVEGrits,
“Quite a few people classify roots, ragga, ska, dancehall all as reggae, they just it as different variants of it. ”
Real reggae heads don’t lump them all together as one. Just like lovers of old school rap don’t classify hip-hop as rap at all. Real reggae stands alone. *Marley lover ova here* But yeah, folks that don’t love reggae should definitely suffer a slow and painful demise, lol.
@RedBeanzNRice w/Collard Greens,
“Real reggae heads don’t lump them all together as one.”
I would be inclined to disagree with this one, cuz quite a few do and quite a few don’t. The argument is as old as soul vs. neo soul…some thinks its all soul, some don’t. But I would say real reggae heads, and I consider myself one, know the different sub-genres of the music.
At least we agree on the slow and painful demise for those who can’t feel it. lol.
@iloVEGrits,
You said it best with “SUB-genres”.
And yes, we’ll STAY agreeing on the slow and painful demises, lol. Have a great night, Miss VEG! See you next week!
@RedBeanzNRice w/Collard Greens,
“folks that don’t love reggae should definitely suffer a slow and painful demise, lol.”
As a genre, I don’t love reggae. I love a few (maybe several) songs, I’ll give it that. The best thing about reggae is the way it inspire chicks to dance. If it wasn’t for the freakiness that ensues, I could probably do without it.
@Monk,
A lot of men I know feel this same way about bass music and reggaeton.
@Monk, you and i must be brothas from another motha cuz that’s exactly how i feel.
That’s one of my pet peeves. Not all Hip-Hop is rap, but all rap (intended to compete for rap listeners) is Hip-Hop.
And I in recent years have come to realize that I’m not an “island music” person in the seeking it out sense like I am for Hip-Hop and soul. But I’ll roll with it if I’m sonically feeling it at a function.
I do love dub music, however.
@iloVEGrits, My ears are not trained enough to be able to tell the difference between the different subgenres of Island music….and I am not one who LOVES Reggae, or dancehall or, reggaeton, or soca or any of that other music that I put in the category “Music I can’t understand but about 20% of the words in”
but I do really LIKE several songs and some of the beats are crazy…. but when I’m in the club I’d prefer not to hear a whole 30 minute set of just dancehall etc…. maybe because I never learned how to wind my hips properly…maybe because I can’t sing along because I don’t know what the hell they’re saying… maybe because trying to dance to reggae tends be interpreted as an open invitation for random dudes to come over and start grinding on your backside….. regardless of the reasons I tend to take this set as an opportunity to refresh my drink or hit the ladies room
please don’t shoot me
Sup klysha…we’re >< here on the 30 minute dancehall sets…mostly because too many of the songs played don’t appeal to me (be a different story if said DH songs were hot to my ears). Unless I’m really tryna get quality dance time in with a female who’s with it, I’ll just sit it out.
And damn you for using “island music” right after I did!
Sadly taking klysha and SGPL off the Caribana Bus Trip Roster….
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, my bad….my use of the term island music was totally unconscious…. just seemed like a pretty good blanket term to lump all that stuff together with …. and much shorter than another term I considered ….”music made by people with similarly indiscernable accents that one wouldn’t be surprised to hear a kettle drum or a “booyaka” in”
@blackberry molasses,
Hey wait don’t scratch me off the list for the Caribana bus trip!
… that’s not the same as the 30 minute club set… Caribana seems like it would be a more cultural experience
@klysha,
mmmmm… cultural, yes. But, there will be nothing but reggae, dancehall, soca, calypso, zouk, roots, etc for the entire weekend. Can you handle that?
@klysha,
….”music made by people with similarly indiscernable accents that one wouldn’t be surprised to hear a kettle drum or a “booyaka” in”
*DEAD*
@RedBeanzNRice w/Collard Greens,
I agree. The others I can see, but I don’t see how ragga and dancehall gets lumped in with reggae either. It’s like any kinda yard music gets pushed together. It’s almost like calling David Banner country-western, lol.
@Me fail english?, well, David Banner is country, and he does live west of the Alabama state line.
country-western it is.
@RedBeanzNRice w/Collard Greens,
That’s not reggae – that’s dancehall. But I agree, folks that don’t like reggae definitely need to be shot, hanged, drug through the mud, and more.
Isn’t dancehall a sub-genre of reggae? I think so. Just like neo-soul, blue-eyed soul are sub-genres of soul. Other sub-genres of reggae are like roots, ska, dubs (toast?), ragga, lovers rock, etc.
@Blue Skyez,
This could probably go on forever but I’d disagree with that one too. Dancehall and reggae aren’t really as sonically similar as neo-soul and traditional soul. A better comparison would be R&B and the blues. Undoubtedly without the blues we wouldn’t have R&B and you can hear some common linkage, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call R&B a subgenre of the Blues. They’re separate IMO.
@Me fail english?,
I stopped having this convo, along with the soul/neo-soul one. Folks will get belligerent on ya.
So I accepted that ALOT of folks see dancehall as reggae and will give ya reasons as to why it IS reggae.
Too much strain on my brain. lol.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
“Folks will get belligerent on ya.”
Very true. Religion, politics and music are just things you should not discuss with people openly!
They start spitting while they talk
@Me fail english?,
“Dancehall and reggae aren’t really as sonically similar as neo-soul and traditional soul”
I totally agree.
@iloVEGrits, I am not a huge fan of raggae but this song gets me up everytime. LMAO.
***puts on bullet proof vest***
@iloVEGrits,
Agreed! Also “Flex” Mad Cobra is an honorable mention. Definitely have to find a cute guy to grind the h*** out of when this comes on. MaN! this song is so much my jam that even a not so cute guy will be a good grinding post
for the about 4 minutes!
@Blue Skyez,
dayuuuuuuum thas my shiiiiiiiiiiiiii
@BLUNTBLAZER,
LOL that’s my EXACT same reaction when it come on in the club. I have ot put this joint on my ipod for the fear I will def play it out and it will dull the effect it has on me when I here it once in a while.
@Blue Skyez,
yea i havent heard it in years so i deff would be grindin like it was the first time
@iloVEGrits,
Oh YES! I must get low on this song. It’s such a sensual song, I loves it.
@iloVEGrits,
Definitely!
@iloVEGrits, i really don’t care for reggae myself, but that song is great. in fact, i bought the whole terrible chaka demus & pliers album for that song, and for the “remix” version at the end where the one that sings basically sang for the whole time.
and by singing, i mean, made strange moaning sounds for like 4 minutes.
@Panama Jackson,
“and by singing, i mean, made strange moaning sounds for like 4 minutes.”
Die. Just die.
@iloVEGrits, True true true!!!!!
Vanity 6, Nasty Girls, is guaranteed to get the ladies out of their seats. The original sexy bish song.
@iloVEGrits, Co-sign again and add Glamorous Life (Sheila E) to the list.
@pgh muse,
Glamorous Life…co-sign.
@pgh muse, YES! Sheila E was so, so glam!!!
@pgh muse,
*sigh* why was i washing dishes shaking my shimmy to the glamorous life just the other day? lol. and you do not want to see the fool i become when nasty girl comes on. no shame. at all.
@pgh muse, as much as i love that song, i don’t think that most people even remember Glamorous life until you mention it.
FAIL. lol
I appreciate “Single Ladies” for the same reason. The un-taken freaks go buck to that, it’s so adorable, LOL.
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, word boogie. for all the beyonce hate that exists in the world, women do tend to go apesh*t for her singles. she knows how to get the arses shaking.
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
Exactly why I sits my booty down when single ladies come on. How is a married woman singing single ladies and tell him to put a ring on it?. As if it is that easy to make men put a ring on it by just telling them to do it.she knows she had to do more for Jay z Pffft!
@Blue Skyez,
I was wondering why the song came out after she was married. Things that make you go hmm for 2.9 seconds!
Shoot, half these rapper cats pumpin’ out tracks about smuttin’ out girls are married. It’s like Elton John and Tevin Campbell making love songs about women, even though they’re regulars in Boys Town.
Nothing wrong with a song being a story or about communicating a vibe/message…shouldn’t have to be reflecting the actual artist’s life.
Songs 1-4 I nodded my head too, but when I read #5, it just took me on a ride of DC summer memories, love it!
Ya’ll know “Candy” by Cameo be getting black folk on the floor.
@i’m overit, BOO,
Also known as “The more popular electric slide song?”
@Beez,
Known as the BETTER electric slide song
@blackberry molasses, yeah, that’s very true. for whatever reason, hearing “candy” makes people want to move in line in tandem. amazing how that happens, isn’t it?
it’s like aural crack.
@i’m overit, BOO,
As soon as I read the intro I thought of this and Frankie Beverly & Maze
Also, that song that goes “You called and told me that…” I don’t know the name of it or how it goes tho
@i’m overit, BOO,
And you can’t forget “Eyes Don’t Cry No More” by Stevie Wonder.
I go to the club to dance so just about anything can get me on the floor. But my No. 1 pick:
Flava In Ya Ear, Craig Mack
P. Diddy can be whack but Puffy could churn out a hot beat.
@Ms. Hall,
Speaking of Puffy, I’d include “All About The Benjamins”. That beat is still crack.
@Monk,
Agreed. That beat still goes hard.
@Monk,
One of the best songs Puffy ever did. Love it! Even the remake with the rock group was pretty good.
@pinksghetti,
quick little bit of trivia for musicheads…the line “what y’all wanna do? wanna be ballers…shot callers, brawlers….” was jadakiss’ line, but puffy in all his “humility” said he wanted that line…
i hate to admit it but that puffy’s a smart summamabich.
@Carver The Great!,
Puffy or Diddy or P.Diddy, or whatever tha f*ck he is calling himself these days…is a bytchazz, mark-azz trick AND trick-azz mark.
@pinksghetti,
Fuzzbubble? lol
Dayum…I forgot about them kats also.
@Ms. Hall,
Do it do it do it do it! Ah eh ah eh ah eh!
@Dom,
Lovely Diddy-isms.
Ms. Hall, the Hip-Hop nerd in me has to come forward and say do NOT give Puffy, Diddy, Comby, whatever that fool wants to be called next week, credit for that beat…that was all Easy Mo Bee.
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, yeah, i often get mad when puffy gets so much credit. i mean, he is Bad Boy and all, but the Hitmen (or in pre-Hitmen era, Eazy Mo Bee, Mister Cee, etc) definitely didn’t get nearly enough credit for making Bad Boy pop off in the first place. Cuz without Ready To Die…there is no Bad Boy.
Juvenile-back that thang up.
Ummm what’s the song (I likeee big butts and I can not lie lol)
All us women love to think we have the “fatty” when clearly some don’t but pretending is kool right? Right!
Aye I got a grape…not an apple but a grape ok lol. Nahhhh I got me a fatty lol.
@Luckyred, back that thang up is a party starter…
@Luckyred,
“Ummm what’s the song (I likeee big butts and I can not lie lol)”
Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” for some reason ALWAYS gets it poppin’ at a 2520 party/club.
@Monk,
Haha. I was about to say, I have NEVER heard this song in the club and I’m a clubgoer…but not to 2520 spots!
@Me fail english?, you know, that is interesting. It’s like us ninjas got over that song real quick, or just relegated it to gimmick status, whereas at most 2520 spots, that song still bangs like its a brand new hit.
same with stuff like Ice Ice Baby. or basically any other one hit wonder song of the 80s and 90s.
@Panama Jackson,
I was at a work Halloween Party and you know what else they wild for? Wait for it…
“Jump” by Kriss mothaeffing Kross. I was D-Y-I-N-G.
@Me fail english?,
I just choked on my water… BWAAIHSCOIJFB0oiu[piugbebfov;’sv
@Panama Jackson,
Oh heylll–don’t let “Informer” come on.
@miss t-lee,
*DEAD*
@miss t-lee,
Informer, *insert mumbly mumbly gibberish here* A licky boom boom dere… ?
What in the world do he be saying?
@Luckyred, yes Baby got Back is a classic, everyone knows that intro…Oh my God, Becky look at her butt….jealous white women…
@Luckyred,
yes juvie gets it crackin same with “Slow Motion”
@BLUNTBLAZER, Ohhhh yeah Slow Motion!
@ChiChi,
rip soulja slim
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Oh yeah, speaking of Solja Slim what about I’ll pay for it! Everybody used to jump up when it came on in BR!
@Luckyred,
good call!
For my folks who get down Caribbean style…
“Dust Dem’”- Kurt Allen: The last party I went to where this song was played (my mother’s 60th Birthday) had 50 yrs+ extra-grown professional folk sweating out expensive dresses/suits, taking off their heels… and us not getting our deposit back because we put a crack in the dance floor. Dass how African/Caribbean folk do it.
Heads High- Mr. Vegas- no explanation needed
Dollar Wine- a gratuitous booty pop song that gives directions on how to pop properly. “Forget this small change, give me BIG MONEY WINE!” Tha bess!!!!
Freaks- Vicious- Not explanation needed. But seriously when you realize its a 12 year old on that song, its extra nasty. But no one thinks about that when their wining extra hard
Faluma Ding Ding Ding- starts deceptively slow and every one singing along. People straight stop talking and start singing… ends with you sweaty azz h3ll
Dammit… can’t WAIT for Caribana in August!!
@blackberry molasses,
Almost FOROGT…
Ting-a-Ling- Shabba Ranks,- Booyuka, booyuka!!
@blackberry molasses,
I was wondering why Ting-a-Ling wasn’t on your list. lol.
And I’m headed to Caribana, too!
@iloVEGrits,
I’ll see you there!!!!
@blackberry molasses, I will also be at Carabana! And dollar wine is my ish, i can never get tired of that song.
Oh and Ting a ling – chile i use to get in trouble as a child when that song came on. My sister and i had a dance routine to it. (lets just say it involved going on your head top and landing in a split)
@blackberry molasses, Ting-a-Ling- Shabba Ranks,- Booyuka, booyuka!!
Yess! and Freaks!
@blackberry molasses,
Oh my gosh! you like need to be deejay. This list is so good! You can run like one of those parties when everytime you think you can rest ANOTHER jam comes on and you have to dance until you pass out. I could count on one hands the number of nights a deejays set have made me feel like that@!
@Blue Skyez,
well, i guess its a good thing that the hubby and bro-in-law are djays… and I’ve been dabbling.
Is it wrong that I’m looking all these up on youtube (broken iPod… iWeep) and JAMMING in my office like a fool? I think not.
@blackberry molasses,
Lighter in di air! Somebody seh “Puuuuulll Uuuuuppp!”
I aint been to a real fete in a min.
@blackberry molasses,
Mr lover man Shabbbbbbba lol cant be stopped
@blackberry molasses,
“Faluma Ding Ding Ding”
Haha. That jumpstarts me on the walk to work in the morning
“Lemme see dem hands!!”
Faluma Ding Ding Ding- starts deceptively slow and every one singing along.
Folks loose their mind when this song comes on. I seent it!
@blackberry molasses,
Great list. I’d add:
Movado — So Special and also Gangsta for Life
“No Gyal Can Make You Worry” — ok, I suck at song titles, but that’s how it goes — and that whole riddim
Romie
Get Something and Wave (or something like that)
Raga Raga
@An Island,
And Tempted to Touch
I must mention that I had to do an EPIC WALL SLIDE for Chi-Chi Mon by TOK. Much as it cranks, I can’t co-sign a song that talks about burning my ghey boyfriends and girlfriends. Nope. Can’t do it.
Boooooooooooooooooooooo on rampant homophobia in dancehall.
@blackberry molasses,
Yes major fail for making me uncomfortable playing stuff in front of possibly gay ppl. It also makes me feel guilty to dance to it.
Also, major fail for lying about the “evils” of bowcattin’ but then going on to “Tek Buddy”. Quid pro quo u lyin azz ninjas. You’re too old to be frontin like that *side-eye*
@blackberry molasses,
no Tony Matterhorn, Dutty Wine? How rude!
@Carver The Great!,
well excuse the eff outta me!!! it was early in the mawnin during a break from a *aherm* long night. I forgot a few. Dang son!!
@blackberry molasses,
understood, but how you forget THAT one!???
btw, did i ever tell how i saw a chick lose her weave while dutty whining at barber’s hall on temple’s campus earlier this year?
if only the iphone had video capability i’d have been a youtube mogul.
@Carver The Great!,
I woulda paid GOOD MONEY to see that!!! Bwaahahahahahahahahahahha!!
Jeebs be some industrial skrenf weave glue for dutty wine time!
@blackberry molasses,
LOL! I DON’T KNOW NOT 1 OF DEM DAYUM SONGS! LOL, N SH*T!
@Laneianna,
**adds Laneianna to the Caribana Bus Trip Roster**
here are a few cheats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CsXPUIT_l8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPOXSRX-z3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYd8QbBDDAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0qluaxpOo
Hypnotize by Biggie
Hot in Herre by Nelly
Get me Bodied by Beyonce
Groove Me by Guy
The Luke Song where he calls out the zodiac signs
@Nola Darling, Get me Bodied by Beyonce
I love this song… weave pats and all
@Nola Darling, this song is so cool (Get me Bodied) and the video was JUST GREAT!!
after watching it, i wanted to find beyonce and shake her hand for that work of genius…
@superwoman,
That is definitely a really fun song.
@Nola Darling,
Yeah, I knew “Hypnotize” would pop up rather early in the list-o-comments. Soon as the intro comes in…it’s on. It has one of the best intros in song history, IMO.
beat. UH!. beat. UH! beat. beat. beat. beat.
LOL…that’s my tired rendition.
@Cheekie,
But it makes perfect sense. By the time they get to the seconf Uh everybodys all hype!
@Nola Darling,
Hypnotize is not one of my fav songs of Biggie. I would probably go rest or order a drink during this song. The best is just not danceble enough to me. My absolute Biggie jams include “One More Chance” and abso-effing-lutely “JUICY” notice how all those beats were borrowed from old school Isley Brothers and Mtume ( i know that cause I’m an old school head even though I was born in the late 80′s). LOL they don’t make them like they used to.
@Nola Darling, hmm…does Nelly Hot in Herre really get the party started?
just asking cuz most parties i go to…that song doesnt even get played…mostly cuz it sucks. but ya know, perhaps i only party in hot spots so there’s no need to state the obvious. lol.
@Panama Jackson,
LOL. This used to be poppin at the 2002 Senior Prom. Act like you know!
@Me fail english?,
4 reall lettum know a song that encorages females to strip is a-ok in my book
@Nola Darling,
“Get Me Bodied” was like the woman club anthem for a hot minute. If you didn’t dance during that song you got dirty looks the rest of the night.
watch out for the big girlz is a nice lil banger in a pinch
Ima say Juicy and One More Chance Biggie Smalls
Michael Jackson off the wall/dont stop til you get enuff/ wanna be startin something if you at a wedding and “botee whine” is inappropriate
Sim Simma Beanie Man and Maya
That Frankie Beverly is just crazy how universal that song is
cosign Champ
@Blacklaw, cosign on MJ don’t stop til you get enough!
@Blacklaw,
Yeah, I love me some One More Chance. And Fatman Scoop took that song to a whole ‘nother level as far as club bangin.
@Blacklaw, yeah, there’s a whole slew of micheal jackson songs that you can run. in fact, you can pretty much run the entire Off The Wall album at the club and nobody would complain.
btw, i think Off The Wall is a better album than Thriller. Thriller just benefited from having the song Thriller and the video to go with it directed by Spielberg to send it into the stratosphere.
@Panama Jackson,
“Off The Wall is a better album than Thriller”
I would agree with you.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
naw BAD is the best record
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Dirty Diana is my ish.
@Cheekie,
thas my fav mj song of all time.
lol
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Yessir!
@Panama Jackson,
“btw, i think Off The Wall is a better album than Thriller. Thriller just benefited from having the song Thriller and the video to go with it directed by Spielberg to send it into the stratosphere.”
Hmm, interesting and probably valid theory.
But naw…
Two of my fave MJ songs was on Thriller: “Billie Jean” and “Human Nature”.
And “The Girl is Mine” is awesome in its campiness.
Actually, besides the video, “Thriller” don’t even stand out that much for me. I like it, but… the video really took it to a whole ‘nother level.
let me clear my throat if you above a certain age but still affiliate with the hip hop generation
@Blacklaw, yess!
@Blacklaw,
Yeah, most definitely one of the hypest hype songs.
And it probably introduced the coolest way to clear your throat.
VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 3
liked it better when it was “GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL he a 3″.
@i’m overit, BOO,
me too! lolol.
@i’m overit, BOO, I agree, it alwaysw made me laugh as I hear it in my head.
@Alynrochelle, lmao, me too, i always heard it and said it the way it was meant to be said.
@i’m overit, BOO, fret not dearest Overit, it shall be resurrected.
@Panama Jackson, yay! lol.
Mad Cobra- Flex
This song is guaranteed to have everyone in the club grinding on each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP8h3OaHM3c
@JamaicanGirl, flex is the joint…LOL
@JamaicanGirl,
forget griding… people will be trying to make babies… or at least practicing.
@blackberry molasses,
lol hell yea *searchin for some thickchick to grind on*
@JamaicanGirl, OMG! Forgot about this song.
@JamaicanGirl,
major co-signage.
@iloVEGrits,
Major co-signage is correct.
Action by Terror Fabolous too that list too!
@Officer Ricky,
I knew there was one I missed on my list
Your list is good!
im from Memphis so
lookin for da chewin/slob on my knob……its vulgar, sexist all of that… but ur ah it is bumpin!!!!
there is a mix out there that mixes let me bang/bang bang bang skeet skeet skeet…
drag rap/trigga man….LOL
but more widely known party starters might be
luke-birthday song
scrub the ground
busta-put ya hands where my eyes can see
the man right chea and Here i go by mystikal
queen pen’s a party aint a party
set it off
and of course let me clear my throat
and any song that you can do the chinese checkers, four corners, bus stop or any old school line dance…..
@shay_d_lady,
Props for mentioning Splack Pack’s “Scrub Da Ground”. “Shake Dat A**, B*tch” is another one I’d put in that category.
@Monk,
Ohhhh College, how I miss thee
@Monk,
dang! I didn’t know there really is a song called “Shake Dat A**, B***h!” I would feel really, really ashamed dancing to that. LOL
@shay_d_lady,
“Slob on my knob like corn on the cob. Check in with me and do your job”.
Sad to say but me and my friends had a whole skit that we acted out to this song.
smh @ ME
@V Renee,
i wanna see the skit now
@shay_d_lady, you know what i find most interesting about the drag rap/triggaman joint? its that its like one of the south’s (specifically Tennessee down to NO) most common break beats and its a NYC creation. i think the cats who did the drag rap joint were from the Bronx or something.
now you throw in some Brown’s beat, and its a wrap.
@shay_d_lady,
Mystical dayum when he gettin out
oh and that joint…. where they at girl, where they at girl…I dont know what the real name of the song is.. but yall know what im talkin about…
its jimmmmy…LOL
and another memphis joint….Gangsta Boo.. where dem dollas at
sippin on that sizzurp-3-6
space age pimpin/comin out hard-8 ball and mjg
@shay_d_lady, .Gangsta Boo.. where dem dollas at
He!!z yeah… love it
@shay_d_lady,
“where they at girl, where they at girl…I dont know what the real name of the song is.. but yall know what im talkin about…
its jimmmmy…LOL”
It’s called “Where Dey At?” by DJ Jimi…
still one of my favorites…I think I’ma pull that up now.
@miss t-lee,
lol. I thought she was talking bout “It’s the J the I the M….it’s jimmyyyyyy/ Hooool’ up”
@Me fail english?,
I think that’s a different song you’re referencing…
here’s the one I’m talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl5qS93H2zA
(worksafe except for language)
@miss t-lee,
That makes more sense! The other one isn’t what I’d call a club banger
@shay_d_lady,
Great list!!!
Who’s the man with the master plan the J-I-M-I !!!! I think every club in the south where that song out. Everyone jumps on the floor!
@shay_d_lady,
It’s this the same song that goes “You need dyck in ya life”??????
@V Renee,
nah…that’s a whole nother song….lol
@V Renee,
LMAO! That’s KANS and smh@ my girlfriends pointing at me when this song came on in a club in Phila. Sooo embarassing.
@Me fail english?,
My BFF and I always point at each other when this song comes on….that and the “there’s some hoez in this house” song…
LMAO!!!
@miss t-lee,
LOL. Yes, that song too!
@Me fail english?, i can top that. one year at the Bayou Classic in New Orleans, me and my homegirl got into an argument so I started singing “dyck in your life” really loudly to her.
lots of attention.
@V Renee, That’s a song by the 69 Boys right? I just know it d**k in ya life got all the girls on the floor in college…. wow… the things about my youth I could never tell my future children about
@shay_d_lady,
yep pretty all of 36′s stuff are club bangers. like that song “fly i i ii iii” I’m too lazy to look up the real name.
@Blue Skyez,
yeaaa the rest of tha cd sucked but tha single was crack
Good Post, P=3
Oochie Wally – Nas
Temperature – Sean Paul
Give it to me – JayZ
Cher Chez La Ghost – Ghostface
Grinding – The Clipse
Like a Pimp – David Banner
Bombs Over Bagdad – Outkast
Back dat Azz up – CMB
Luchini – Camp Lo
Shake dat a$$ – Mystical
@pgh muse, Luchini – Camp Lo
thats my joint!!!
@shay_d_lady,
I love this too, but this is another one I’ve never heard in the club!
@Me fail english?, lol… i request it.
@Me fail english?, really? in DC for whatever reason, Luchini gets burn…still.
interesting the fan base they have here. we had a camp lo concert at my club once…that joint was packed out. i’m almost sure they haven’t gotten love like that in at least 10 years. them cats were Jay-Z that night.
@Panama Jackson,
i went to a few of their shows in philly, always had good turnouts, and they put on a helluva show too.
i’ve said it on here often, camp lo is my favorite group of all time
how can you not like a group that raps all day about how fresh they are and how many women they slay but do it an unorthodox manner?
“i scraped her well, that’ll have her on the schlong for years…”
“my wand is the magic, my tongue makes me the wizard”
“michaelangelo tongue i paint orgasms”
“she likes my jawbreaker / she juggles it on her jawbone / juggles it on her jugs / kama sutra thug”
ok, i’ll stop
@pgh muse,
omg “Like a Pimp” Love that song. My butt will grind the floor for that one. smh. lol
@Blue Skyez,
Girls get down on the flo’!!!!
@miss t-lee,
lol. I always reference that lyric. Real guhllls get down on the flo, on the flo. Like a pimp.
@pgh muse, yes how could I forget about those songs, def get the party jumpin! I now hear all the songs in my head!
@pgh muse, I co-sign this whole list
@pgh muse,
co-sign whole list i wanna go to ya parties
@pgh muse,
Co sign on Camp Lo and The Clipse
@pgh muse, My inner DJ coming out. I swear b4 I leave the earth I’m going to get on the 1′s and 2′s one day. It’s one of my dreams to DJ a party lol.
The Whisper Song!
@pgh muse,
Yeah, them troll roach faces hit the jackpot with that song. I loathe them with their undeserved sexual songs, but Lord knows that’s a sick beat.
@Cheekie,
“them troll roach faces ”
I totally swallowed my gum and almost died.
@Cheekie,
OMG@ troll roach. You, my dear, have a gift.
@pgh muse,
Major co-signage on this song.
It’s my (inner) stripper song.
gin and juice/aint nothin but a g thang-snoop and dre
bring the pain-2pac
Culo! – Pitbull
@pgh muse,
Yes I love this song. I like that I can actually understand some the nastiness he is rapping about. Thank you Puerto Rican and Dominican friends!
@pgh muse,
and “aye chica”
Ahh Poison…
That song haunted me when it was released..
My blog name – A Big Butt and a Smile- was inspired by Poison – That damn song..
smh
Damn..and you have E.U Da Butt on the list…
Another song that haunted me in my youth…and today..every time that song comes on at Da Club, everyone turns and looks at me…
That and Juvenile’s “Back That Ass Up.”
smh
Damn…Shake That Ass..
SMH
Are you noticing a theme here…
Damn butt songs…
Sigh.
@The Single Black Woman,
welcome!! **Diva Dust Classic Edition ™**
and…
Jeebs be a single comment thread for you.
@blackberry molasses,
i cackled at this –> Jeebs be a single comment thread for you
@The Single Black Woman,
the welcome wagon has been a bit tardy. sorry. we busted an axle awhile back and it takes a whole lot of sparkly goodness to that joint back on track.
anywho…welcome!!!
*shooting gold stars*
@SouthernGirl,
Hello to u too SouthernGitl ‘preciate the gold stars…
@blackberry molasses,
LOL.
Hi:-)
My club bangers:
1. “Ice Cream” – Raekwon
2. “Get Me Bodied- extended” – Beyonce
3. “The Choice is Yours” – Black Sheep
4. “Change Clothes” – Jay Z
@Nicki Sunshine,
You already know how I feel about “Get Me Bodied”.
My feet could be on fire, with me sitting on the side discretely put ice on them, and if this song comes on, Im doing the Naomi Campbell walk to the dancefloor.
@Nicki Sunshine,
“2. “Get Me Bodied- extended” – Beyonce”
I’m not even a Yawnce fan like that, but you can’t help but get crazy to this one.
@miss t-lee and V,
That is one that she hit pay dirt with. I can’t get with “Check Up On it,” and I think that was meant for the clubs.
@Nicki Sunshine,
Yeah…I wasn’t feeling “Check Up on It”…but “Get Me Bodied” and “Upgrade You” will always get me up.
@Nicki Sunshine,
“The Choice is Yours” – Black Sheep
YES.
@Nicki Sunshine,
“The Choice is Yours” -Black Sheep, love this song and especially when it goes, “engine, engine number 9 on the New York transit line, if my train goes off the track pick it up, pick it up, back on the scene…
@pinksghetti, That is my favorite part!
@pinksghetti,
neva understood wha that had to do with the track lol but it sounds coo
@BLUNTBLAZER,
I’m always singing that part to myself (and out loud).
@Nicki Sunshine, gonna have to go ahead and throw a flag on “change clothes”.
i aint never seen anybody go bananas when “change clothes” came on. lol. where do you party? fashion shows?
@Panama Jackson, LMAO. And I ain’t never heard it in the club. I just wanted to give it a shout bc it gets me hyped in my car.
@Panama Jackson,
*executed @ “where do you party? Fashion shows”* Yeah, that’s more of a catwalk song.
Like when you’re getting ready and dressed for the club…it’ll work.
@Cheekie, “Like when you’re getting ready and dressed for the club…it’ll work.”
Exactly. I have to listen to music to hype me up while getting ready or else i will end up naked, on the bed, sleep. lol
@Nicki Sunshine,
LOL…I hear ya.
*Oh yeah…I do know the words to lift every voice and sing…thank you and good night.
A few I can think of off top…
“Toma” and “Bojangles”~Pitbull
“June 27th”~ Big Moe
“Crazy In Love”~Beyonce
“P.Y.T”~M. Jackson
@miss t-lee,
And 3in the mornin’ “Pop in the gray cassette turn up the effin* deck lend me your ear cuz the southside fixin’ to wreck”
I think P.Y.T is my favorite M.J. song.
Now I don’t know about everybody jammin’ Crazy in Love in the club.
@Ms. T,
P.Y.T is my FAVORITE MJ song too.
@Ms. T,
And 3in the mornin’ “Pop in the gray cassette turn up the effin* deck lend me your ear cuz the southside fixin’ to wreck”
*head nod*
Yes ma’am!!!
Thought I’d throw up the June 27th for ya’ll who aren’t familiar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s2C76pdon8
(work safe except for language)
@miss t-lee,
PYT another great song!
@miss t-lee, PYT is my fave MJ song and it is played at least once a day in my life!
Toma and Bojangles are really good too. It’s something about that segzy Pitbull’s voice that get’s my booty shakin’ automatically. lol It’s involuntary!
@Chi_Chi_Baby,
I’ve just come to realize, I’m in love with Pitbull with his freaky azz…some of his lyrics in espanol are downright flithy…lol
@miss t-lee, I love his new song “I know you want me”. It’s so fun. Hopefully (which I doubt because too many people have bad taste in music, lol) it will be a hit.
@pinksghetti,
It’s already hot down here…I love it too.
@miss t-lee,
Yup. It’s been hot for a minute too.
@pinksghetti,
Oooh, gotta check that out.
@miss t-lee,
I hope you are never in a club full of Kappas when P.Y.T. comes on. If so, clear out or move out the way cuz them ninjas stroll like crazy when that joint comes on!
@Ashley Neicole,
*note taken*
@Ashley Neicole,
Lol. That’s soo effin gay!
“When the Last Time”~The Clipse
“No, No, No”~Dawn Penn
“Get Busy”~Sean Paul
I get around- 2pac
California Love- 2pac and Dre
@Babs,
add toss it up
and whats ya phone number
Imma just say the Energy God has a whole catalog of “You can’t sit down for this” joints so I’ll just list some of my favs:
-Willie Bounce (look who had the last laugh Matterhorn!)
-Lift Up your Nine
-Badman Anthem
Other stuff that’ll make me break a sweat:
-Badman Pull Up
-Carnival (Destra got a few joints tho)
-Jump (whatever happened to Rupee??)
-I Need a Woman
-Stookie
-Tip Toe
-Bonnie & Clyde (can you tell I *heart* Destra?)
-Trinidad (Naya George)
-Go Up
-Tek Weh Yuhself
-Sucky Ducky
Slow wine, Red Stripe in the air music (Mostly of the Kalonji variety and invariably depressing!):
-Gimme a Try
-Dry Cry
-Solid as a Rock
@Me fail english?,
Loving your list.
Destra does get the party started.
And Sizzla???? To see him in concert is to wear yo self out.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
Sizzla in concert is another thing on my Bucket List!!! I have wack friends
@Me fail english?,
Assigning myself as your Sizzla loving friend.
@Me fail english?,
yea i cant imagine a sizzla concert
@Me fail english?, girl I dont know any of these joints…LOL
@shay_d_lady,
U gotta party with me, VEG or BBMo! It’ll change ya life! *crackhead squint*
Here’s several:
*Crime Mob – “Knuck If You Buck”
*Master P and No Limit Camp – “Where You From”
*C-Murder – “Down With My N*ggas”
*Pastor Troy – “No Play In GA”
(These songs will instantly incite riots or a massive throwing of ‘bows)
*The Gap Band – “Outstanding”
*A cool mix of songs from Zapp&Roger (we all know it’s the same damn song)
*”In Da Club” – 50 Cent
*”Headsprung” – LL Cool J
*”How You Do Dat” – Young Bleed
*”No Limit Soildiers” – Master P and crew
*”Gin and Juice” – Snoop
*”Hypnotize” – Notorious BIG
@Monk, “*C-Murder – “Down With My N*ggas””
Now this is true.. people kinda start getting ig’nant when this song comes on.
@Nicki Sunshine,
Yes!!! How did I forget that one?
@Monk,
*C-Murder – “Down With My N*ggas”
I think I wait for this to come on so I can cut up, then when they switch it up to the female version, I can jam those two songs and then go home cause I had my fun for the night.
*”In Da Club” – 50 Cent
My momma would even cut up to this song.
@Monk,
*Pastor Troy – “No Play In GA” .
I forgot all about this song!!
You right about the other songs. It’s my theory that the DJ puts the fight songs on because he sees someone in the place that he wants to see get stomped out. There’s no other reason he should play those songs.
@V Renee,
I concur with the theory 100%, especially if some of these songs are played sequentially.
*Crime Mob – “Knuck If You Buck”
This song is still my isht! I be knucking and bucking and ready to fight, and forgetting Im tiny!
@Dom,
It really makes anyone THINK that they CAN actually fight.
@Monk,
I agree I was at Central Station in Atlanta on one extremely packed $2 dollar drink Friday night when “Knuck if you buck” and “Real n***a role call” “tear da club up” came on back to back to back. Drinks spilled/thrown in the air, elbows in the air, feet flying people going absolute batsh*t, my girls and I were bowed all over the club and we were so scared. It was completely Miracle that no fights broke out in that period! several did later that night though. LOL
@Blue Skyez,
The song laid those seeds…lol!!
@Monk,
“how ya doo that” awwww dayum thats tha jammmmm 4 sho
You know what’s an un-Club Banger despite the artists’s best intentions…
that Fat Man Scoop bullshet that goes “If ya got long hair on ya head…” Fcuk outta here! Nobody gets hype for that garbage! EVER!
@Me fail english?,
word. I tinks me an’ u need to party togedda!
@blackberry molasses,
BASHMENT TIIIIIIIME!
@Me fail english?,
I’ve been all over youtube all morning!
Me party up at me desk!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJy7kC9mLk&feature=related
(ignore the whacazz pic)
@blackberry molasses,
Big chune! Me all inna di tight up cube space. Bossmon nuh like mi pon di Youtube
(But I gots me a G1
)
and lol@ the pic. They totally weren’t posing
@Me fail english?,
wow no youtube which plantation do you work on? lol
@Blue Skyez,
Lol
*in Cartman voice*
“Day’s never finished/Massa got me workin’/One day Massa set me free…”
@Me fail english?, i think in general i hate fatman scoop.
especially his long ass mix that puts all the popular songs from the late 90s into one song…i HATE that joint SO much.
like, i hate with your hate for whatever it is you hate.
that much.
@Me fail english?,
i get hype…running for cover now
@treble,
Haha! It’s all your fault!!
As a D.J. and music enthusiast, I would be all day with this one, so I’ll let the band handle this one…
Slick Rick & Doug E fresh – The Show
Rob Base – It takes two
@cocomyst, co-sign on It takes Two this gets all the old heads on the floor doing that side slide dance….(including me)
@cocomyst, the show is like one of my all time favorite songs of all time!
If I were you I’d take precautionnnn…
Wow, Poison is my JAM. I remember my first forays into thee clubs, they just bust outta nowhere and played this and the entire club exploded. Like it was Global Warming up in there. Even the wallflowers had to do an electric boogaloo or two.
Those are definitely one of those songs that brings world peace. Complete strangers and even enemies smile at each other and mouth the lyrics in an attempt to bond.
One song that make me
jump up and dancedance harder because I’m already gettin’ it:Superstarr Pt Zero – K-Os
Okay, I can already tell a bulk of mine was already said so off to reply…
@Cheekie,
Oh, had to add “Shake” by Pitbull and Ying Yang Twins.
@Cheekie,
Yes! “Shake” Makes me break my back! “Mentirosa! Mentirosa!”
@Blue Skyez,
“this girls fine but that ones a KILLA”lol
@Blue Skyez,
I always crack up at the Ying Yang verses:
“So follow me down the yellow brick road, where [ninjas] go to see naked hos”. or “Heads, shoulders, knees, hos”. They are pure fools. And as I always say, too fug to sing some of the ish they do.
@Cheekie, you know, by default you have to like K-Os joint b/c of what he uses…but i prefer the original version by Soho Earth People, “Hot Music” b/c it just lets you get down with the get down.
every hiphop head LOVES that joint cuz those drums go so hard…especially when its gets followed up by “follow me”…pure poetry.
@Panama Jackson,
“Cheekie, you know, by default you have to like K-Os joint b/c of what he uses…but i prefer the original version by Soho Earth People, “Hot Music” b/c it just lets you get down with the get down.”
‘Tis True.
Oh, “follow me”! That reminds me of my stick-shift driving half sister. She used to bump that while speeding down the street and shifting gears. And as a kid, I always wondered why her car drived the way it did. Nostalgic times.
Mr Cheeks – Lights camera action
Jay Z & R. Kelly – Take you home with me
Several Busta Rhymes songs – Touch it; Hand where my eyes can see; Make it clap; Pass the courvoisier
@cocomyst,
Oh snap, I used to love Lights Camera Action. My AIM name used to be Miss Cheeks (not because I wanted to marry that fug homosapien, but because I dug the song). And then my name involved into Cheekie.
@Cheekie,
Man, Iuno about you but I was MAD when FT died.
Renee was my jam too, even though its not a club banger.
@blackberry molasses,
“Cats be frontin like they ill.”
“LIKE THEY ILL?!”
I miss Tah too.
I mean, damn couldn’t they have gotten Spigg or Lou? (Sorry Jeebs, I didn’t mean that)
@Me fail english?,
ooooohhh.. yes you did mean it!! you HEATHEN!
@cocomyst, welcome (i think)
but…you know, i love Lost Boyz…but did anybody else realize how bad Cheeks is as a rapper? most on songs like Renee…it sucked, even though i do love it.
LB4Lyfe.
@Panama Jackson,
NOOOOOO!
Mr. Cheeks has several cheek-sucking verses but you’ve gotta give “Love Peace & Nappiness” for “Beasts from the East”, “Tight Situations”, “Games”. He can be alright when he’s not on his simple ninja isht.
@Me fail english?,
school um
@cocomyst, Busta Rhymes had to going with a whole song decided to a liquor…don’t this sh** make my people wanna jump jump!
Had to watch on youtube again cause I love that song!
She is dizrespectin’ me??
@Alynrochelle,
make it clap was a hella fun song takes me back to va beach in the summer lol they was makin it clapp
@cocomyst, the jay z r kelly song that rocks the party down here is Fiesta!!!! fiesta fiesta…
@shay_d_lady,
Up here, it’s “Where’d ya get that lil body-ody-ody…”
I don’t know why all those other girls wanna dance to it tho, since they’re totally singing that to me
Heres my 3:
3. As much as I don’t like 50, “In the Club” is definitely one of the joints that will get your Auntie on the floor right quick!
2. Marshall Jefferson’s “House Music Anthem” will get the hardest hard rock on the dancefloor
And…
1. ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya’” will always and forever put any party, reception, Bar Mitvah, on full and total tilt! it’s something about the piano riff in the beginning and the utterly ridiculous “ooh baby I like it raaaawww!”, that makes this song a masterpiece. This song makes absolutely NO sense…but it does. really.
Shimmy Shimmy Ya’
Thats def a great addition to the list!
@DirtyJerz, yes. i have this mix that i used to throw on in the club when the DJ’s would show up late.
i started it off with Shimmy Shimmy Ya. it automaticaly puts folks in a certain mood like, “oh this is gonna be THAT kind of party??? great”
Blackstreet – No Diggity
People go nuts for that song still.
Definitely cosign Black Sheep too.
@Tyler,
Oooh, No Diggity. My long lost love. I like the way that song worked it.
I don’t really do the club thing but some songs make me get my booty shake on even in the car or at home.
1. Get Low by Lil Jon and the East Side Boys (I even do the window to the wall dance, it just involves my arms poiniting to window and a wall)
2. Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot another oldie but goodie (like your excellent Poision a fav. song of mine & love Kiss). It’s not PC but it’s the gets the party jumping.
3. Whoomp, There it is
4. It Takes Two by Rob Base-no one can’t dance to this song and every party or Friday night isn’t complete without it.
5. Got to Give it Up by Marvin Gaye-an even older oldie but goodie, although I finally figured out the lyrics after listening to it 5 times in a row.
@pinksghetti,
A few more to add
1. Shake Your Tell Feather by Diddy f/ Nelly and the so fine Murphy Lee
2.This is How We Do It by Montell Jordan
3.Freak a Leek by Petey Pablo
@pinksghetti,
freek a leeek 4shooo
montel jordan had ery cali party crackin back then
@pinksghetti,
YES to 2 and 3. Petey Pablo’s voice sounds like a pedophile at times, but I dug freak a leek.
@Cheekie,
I did NOT like Freek-A-Leek because my gubment name is in there. People used to shout me out at parties when that song came on…. Boooooooooooooooo
@blackberry molasses,
Oh snap, I woulda hated that too. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that my name won’t be rolled-called in any songs. It’s not that common. It’s like a variant of a more common name. If I do hear my name in a song, Imma think it’s personal. lol
@Cheekie, lol about Petey’s voice (the name Petey is kind of weird for a grown man).
@pinksghetti,
YESSS!!!!! “this is how we do it.”
i was always the one who was still doing the bounce even after the song went off.
@pinksghetti, hmm…”whoomp there it is”
really?!?! i don’t think i’ver met anybody who admitted to even liking that song. i guess it’s one of those guilty pleasures folks refuse to talk about…like Ray J’s catalog.
@Panama Jackson,
I don’t like it either (crossing-fingers). Ray J’s mom and Brandy don’t even like his songs though I did like ” Sexy Can I”.
Apparently, Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” is too much of a club banger for DJ Jazzy Jeff to play. smh. If you want to understand better:
http://thismayconcernyou.com/2009/06/07/dj-jazzy-jeff-the-power-light-district/
It’s not a joke. It’s actually embarrassing.
@thismayconcernyou, i read about that earlier today. KC ought to be ashamed of themselves.
-The Unit has quite a nice repetoire (or maybe that’s cuz I’m in NYC). But “I Get Money” and “So Seductive” always gets folks off the wall
-”I Really Mean It” The Dips really justfied their existence on Earth here
-”Ballin” and the more Kings County friendly version “Brooklyyyyyyn!!”. Haven’t heard these in a while but last I did, ppl got to movin
-”Big Pimpin”
-”Who Dat” (Jeezy not JT Money, lol) I gotta wait to see the shelf life on this one, but so far, so hype
I Get Money
I think this is a NY thing. I was in NY when this song first came out, and NY was going HARD. Everywhere else? Not so much.
@Dom,
true.
@Dom,
Lol. Ok. I guess I’ll just keep my Ron Browz to myself.
“No wifin’ in the club!/ Gimme 20 dollars/ Gimme 20 dollars /Gimme 20 dollars…”
@Dom, I don’t know it kinda get some good reactions in Houston.
@Ms. T,
I concur.
Timberlad & Fatman scoop – Now drop
Usher – Yeah
Snoop & Dre – Nutin but a G thang
Snoop – What’s my name
I am not sure but, anybody from DC tell me if this still get ppl up. ( I still love it)
Back yard Band – Thug Passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGZNlgVzCs
@cocomyst, um…yes. that joint still goes SO hard.
“i heaaaaaaard it’s the bomb, and you got it goin’ on…give me some of that thuuuuuuuuug passssion…baby…”
the unabomber beat never gets old.
@Panama Jackson,
ahhh thanks I was getting nervous that no one knew that song was the joint
@cocomyst, hard to come by real gogo heads on this joint but i feel the same way about
Off da Muscle -North East Groovers
T.I. – Bring ‘Em Out
David Banner – Play (“C*m/Run, Girl”)
@deesha,
I love that David Banner song.
T.I. – Bring ‘Em Out
David Banner – Play (”C*m/Run, Girl”)
1. Oochie Wally – At least you know where all the ho** are at when this one drops.
2. Get Money – Come on now.
3. My President Is Black – Newer entry, but if you were in DC during Inauguration, you already know.
4. Its Goin Down (Yung Joc) – the motorbike never truly died? Should it have? Another argument entirely.
West Coast entries
1. Ain’t No Fun – I’d question somebody’s Blackness or at least their California origin if they didn’t at least know Snoop’s verse on this.
2. Five On It – Anyone who is a smoker will damn near blow up when this joint comes on and scream”Beyyyaatch” after the “I got fiiive on it…” in the chorus. Maybe that’s a Bay Area thing…?
And yes “Da Butt” is a classic, particularly in DC. I taught an entire ballroom of white folks the dance at a swanky mixer once. They were super amped. Yes blame me.
@Shaka Shaw, yeah…Ain’t No Fun definitely needs to make it to any list. cuz for whatever reason, women love it too…
@Shaka Shaw,
“Five On It”
Nah Da Luniz (sp?) get east coast love on that one too. Maybe it’s a smoker thing
@Me fail english?,
Oh it’s definitely a smoke thang…cause that ish is so not the business.
Gotta hot beat though…lol
@miss t-lee, 5 On It not the business? Somebody’s about to get cut lol. I just remember my little 3-man Cali crew going apesh*t in the club when the DJ would fiiinally play some west coast ish in a DC club and holding it down in there! C-walkin and everything…ridiculous I know.
@Shaka Shaw,
It’s all good. You gon’ cut me? Dayum!!! Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight…lol
*Nah but seriously, I can appreciate it, but it was never one of my faves.
@Shaka Shaw,
reminds me when i was in college in VA and in the lunch room the played e-40′s “earl thas yo life” on the tv’s dam i was poppin collarz thizz facin doin my turf dance singin the whole song feelin myself.
@BLUNTBLAZER, HELL YEAH HOMIE! I remember we went to Platinum (now closed) in DC on “white night” unknowingly but just decided to hang anyway. They put on a solid halfhour of Cali sh*t we showed our natural asses. C-walkin poppin collars doin the push all of that. Why do Cali n*ggas go so hard at all times?
@Shaka Shaw,
lol i dunno my excuse is I was home sick feeinin for some bay area culture and that shiii came on and I lost it had the holy ghost all up in that mutha mayne everytime I leave cali and come back i appreciate it even more. Bay Area is the best place in the USA. IMO
@miss t-lee, I don’t know about that! I jam 5 on it and am not a smoker. I get excited when that comes on.
@Ms. T,
Same here. I jam to that joint and I’m not a smoker… but then again, I hang in smoking circles so…
@Shaka Shaw,
I got 5 on it …………….BEAAAATCH
I got 5 on it ……………BEAAAATCH LOL
hell yea sorry i could resist
@Shaka Shaw,
“2. Five On It”
The beat alone makes this fiyah.
@Shaka Shaw,
“2. Get Money – Come on now.”
YESSSS!
“4. Its Goin Down (Yung Joc) – the motorbike never truly died? Should it have? Another argument entirely”
Tom Cruise kilt it during this “Trying to be Down” tour. Which only reminds me of the sheer hilariousness of him screaming at Kanye “See you in Harlem, brotha!”. What in the deuce…
@Cheekie,
LOL. I, mysefl was wondering what it was about Katie Holmes’ muffin stuff that turned Tom half black??? 106&Park, tho?
And wth would Kanye be doing in Harlem? He’s from the CHI. Is it cause he’s black??
@Me fail english?,
“And wth would Kanye be doing in Harlem? He’s from the CHI. Is it cause he’s black??”
That’s exactly what I say. I’m like, “Not every black folk is from Harlem or has been to Harlem or KNOWS Harlem” . Shut up Tom Cruise, shut up, shut up. Shut. IT.
@Shaka Shaw, oochie wally? that must be a east coast thing..that joint was not bangin down here..I hate that song LOL
“FLASHLIGHT”…Parliament-Funkadelic
Will make every person over the age of 40, jump up and automatically form a soul train line
DAM jus when I thought I was old you bring this list out and boom Im young again.
1) Tootsie Roll: come on ya know it was bumpin and still does
“to tha left to tha left to tha right………..NOW DIP BABY”
2) Nelly: Hot in here, Andale Andale, (on a hot day my four 15′s turned the bus stop into a strip club with that hot in here song)
3) Sacrface: Sex Faces (for all the OG’s)
4) Jayz-UGK: Big Pimpin (pimp C just makes me feel so old skoo pimpish)
5) 3-6 mafia: Sippin on sum sizzurp (maybe im just ghetto but my list is hella diff then yallls)
@BLUNTBLAZER,
3) Sacrface: Sex Faces (for all the OG’s)
Good one.
@miss t-lee,
Is this the one that goes “You must be used to all the finer thangs…”
And “I wanna make ya mine beeeitch/I wanna eff one time beeitch/I wanna hit from behind beeitch/Short Dog’s on ya mind beeeitch!”
lol. Lurve that ish
@Me fail english?,
Yep…you got it chick!
@Me fail english?,
lolol it seems to me you hoes will neva change so all thats left is for us to exchange.
“she fallowed me to the bathroom and i aint hav ta pee im in tha club tryna do this lil nasty freak…”
yup yup
Most of my favs have been mentioned but I’ll add…
NWA boyz in the hood(perhaps for singalongability, not so much danceability)
Beyonce freakum dress
Kelis I’m bossy
Too short cocktails
Ying yang twins wildows to the walls
Not sure of the artist or title but “you aing gotta say too much, from the look in your eyes I can tell you fcuk”
Jigga excuse me miss, I know, party life
@treble,
This reminds me
Too Short – Blow the Whistle It’s not so much that people start moving but the party aura definitely descends on the room. People really start feeling themselves when you throw this on
Oh, the DJ fades to the audience quick so they can yell out “Beeeeeeeeyutch!” every single time, it never fails.
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
YES!!
“What’s my favorite word?”
“BEEEEITCH”
“Why they try to say it like Short?”
“BEEEEITCH”
I love his lil sexy, ugly, rock-chewing self *blushing*
@treble, Cruisin’ down the street in my 6’4! LOL I love it!
Usher you don’t have to call
Faith evans me and my girls are goin out tonight
Pharrell and kanye number one
Swagga like us
TI whatever you like, what you know about that
@treble,
“Faith evans me and my girls are goin out tonight”
Haha. Girl, you just naming stuff you like cleaning the bathroom to now. If I never found a club full of people that went wild for this it’d be too soon!
@Me fail english?,
hahaha you are too silly! LOL But true cause I don’t know that one! HAHA
@Ms. T,
I’m not even sure I’ve ever heard this song.
@Me fail english?,
“Girl, you just naming stuff you like cleaning the bathroom to now.”
HAHAAAA
Us sistas know this type of music all too well. I know folks that can’t even lift a finger to clean without some music playing. It really gets you in the zone and makes it less of a chore.
@Cheekie,
Hell yeah. That’s why my musical taste is so eclectic. Saturday morning the whole damn building is blasting music and cleaning. I grew up on…well…everything!
I’m chair dancing my Arse off just from this list.
@Saule Wright,
LOL, I know. These folks got me writing down songs I forgot about to add to the iPod playlist.
Ooooh, not sure why I’ve never heard it in the club, but TI porn star! Makes me feel like I’m on the main stage at strokers in atl. Def breaks the whole good girl persona. My ish.
Did this thread go this far without mentioning?
“Rumpshaker” Wrecks-N-Effect
“Yeah” Usher and Ludacris
“Drop it like it’s Hot” Snoop
“Salt Shaker” Ying Yang
“Freek-a-leek” Petey Pablo
“Vibrate” Petey Pablo
“Hot in Here” Nelly
“Tipsy”: J-Kwon (one hit wonder anybody?)
” I like the way you move” Outkast
“Sexual Seduction” Snoop (I just like that Snoop tried to do somehting different for him)
“Beep Beep” Bobby Valentino (I just like it)
@Blue Skyez,
“Tipsy”: J-Kwon (one hit wonder anybody?)
I liked “Hood Hop” better…lmao
@Blue Skyez,
““Sexual Seduction” Snoop (I just like that Snoop tried to do somehting different for him)”
I want to kill this song only because my bro-in-always used to repeat that ONE line over and over:
“smoke us a cigarette and go back to sleep, sleep, sleeeeeeeep”.
UGH.
Biggie – Get Money
Ladies : ” Fcuk Ni**as, get money”
Fellas : ” Fcuk B**ches , get Money”
This past wknd Jay-Z’s “DOA” had the club rockin…altho I doubt it will get much play outside of the metro area since you really can’t dance to it as much as you just stand there looking tough.
And I don’t know whose song it is but at a BBQ I must admit I was one of several ladies feeling that “Mira, mira ven aqui..” isht
*Hands in hip hop head card* :\
Doing the Butt and Before I Let Go were played the last time I really went out…NYE. I really need to stop playing and go see them. It’s a shame as many times they’ve been in NOLA for Essence.
I had that Joe Budden song in my head when I read the title of this blog.
I went to MJQ’s in Atlanta, and they did a backtrack of songs by decade. In fact, the did it once at Insomnia, too. Going backwards from present day is tantamount to watching your closest loved one deteriorate into psychosis. But I digress…
The songs that I can think of off rip that always evoke a reaction all come from my humble ubringings in Detroit. Being that we’re basically The 80s Hurricanes or 90s Seminoles of inner City violence (30 straight top 5 finishes, baby!), it’s amazing some of the titles to these songs aren’t more misogynistic. Drumroll Please:
*ss N T*tties
Gel and Weave (although this is basically the same song as the previous one, just different words)
Let Me Bang
Soulful Moaning
And Soulful Moaning may seem strange to you, because it has no seemingly violent or improper connotation, right? Well… The song was made by a group called Shawn and Dale in like 94, and then Shawn went to jail for Double Homicide, so by the time the song came out in 95, it was just Dale. We’re nothing if not consistent.
BTW (and I think some of you can appreciate this), the club goes NUTS when the first line of “B*tch Betta have My Money”. NUTS.
Blow the Whistle – Too Short
Baby I’m Scared of You – Womack and Womack
Hot Music – Soho
Heads High – Mr. Vegas
Freaks – Lil Vicious & Doug E. Fresh
Back that @$$ Up – Juvenile
Set it Off – Juvenile
“It’s not over between you and me, it’s not over don’t want to be free..” (I don’t know the name of this song or artist but ya’ll know what I’m talking about!)
@MissJ82,
Let No Man Put Asunder ( I think that’s the title). Don’t know the artist. But u be partying in gay clubs? What parties does this start? lol
@Me fail english?, LOL. I live in Chicago and we looooooove house music…this is something that would be played at a house set.
@MissJ82,
I looooove Chicago for their eclectic taste in music.
I dont know if anybody entered any real old school ish, but yo…
1. Candy – Cameo…white people electric slide their asses off at this point
2. Superfreak – Rick James…he’s Rick James, b*tch.
3. Oye Como Va – Santana…west coast Mexicans will play this 87 times in one Cinco de Mayo party (which usually goes til like 8am)
4. Cutie Pie – One Way
5. Let’s Groove – Earth Wind & Fire…ni**as are kicking over the tables trying to get to the floor.
@Shaka Shaw,
“4. Cutie Pie – One Way”
Yep!!!
*peeks in*
push it-salt n pepa
*exits*
@SouthernGirl,
Real good.
@SouthernGirl,
I love that song. Never heard it at a party that was not “old school”… but I think it’s a great dancing song.
@Ms. Sula,
Really?!?!? I don’t hear it all the time but every now and then. The last mixer me and my girl went to, in between all the recent stuff, the dj just started with this 80s mix that had the whole place jumpin’.
Did we forget “Bia Bia” by Lil Jon ‘n em or did somebody already say it? And “Tear Da Club Up”…two songs where you may literally get knocked the uff out in the club. I think these inspired some of the first black moshes…and nah House of Pain Jump Around doesnt count…but thats a banger….”Pack it up/pack it in/let me begin…”
@Shaka Shaw,
I was JUST about to put down “Bia Bia” but decided to search first. Mofos be knocking folks out gettin hype on that song. It’s like the ninja equivalent to a mosh pit.
@Cheekie,
Mayne I forgot about “Bia, Bia”…dayum…you’d almost get rant over when that came on.
@miss t-lee,
there is video somewhere of a rare and endangered “black folk mosh pit” to this song. Ahhhhh… Slope Day, how I miss thee.
**calls up college homies to see who has it**
@blackberry molasses,
OMG, you will make my life if you find this. lol
A Bia Bia mosh pit is so incredible in its intensity. Ninajs wilin’ out swingin’ fists. Lovely times.
“Buy U A Drink” by T-Pain and Yung Joc for all the thirsty broads in the club…the motorbike aint dead case in point.
I struggled to think of some that I see get the response every single time, but
I co-sign “Blow The Whistle” mentioned upthread.
“Poison” is part of a complete new jack swing late breakfast, because “Groove Me” will bat leadoff or clean-up…
“Pop Champagne” has done big numbers for a dumb minute now…even the non dancin’ est brothers gotta find a shimmy that works for that cut.
At boho functions, Tribe always gets people on it. “Electric Relaxation” most likely.
But people at any jam are on it when “I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)” is cued up (even I stay on the floor and I HATE that song!)
I’m on it when y’all do the Yang post about songs that kill dancefloors deader than Raid.
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
“Pop Champagne” is another one of my (not-so-inner) stripper song.
@Ms. Sula,
HAHA. Co-sign.
That song just makes ya wanna move your hips in directions you didn’t know they could go.
Just thought of some more that had the under 21 parties rockin (which may have been already mentioned but I’m only half-literate before 3pm):
-”Put your leg up/put your leg up…”
-”Percolator”
-Watch out for the Big Girls
Is this house music? I don’t know who loved this more the B-More folks or the Jersey heads.
@Me fail english?,
we (Alphas) have the craziest stroll to Watch Out For The Big Girls…if you’re at any party near the tri-state and that song comes on everyone looks at us and waits for it hahah.
i’m still not sure if it’s more fun to do or to watch
@Me fail english?,
-”Percolator”
Aw, snap. 8th grade flashbacks. It’s time for the percolator…
@Me fail english?,
Oh, forgot to comment on the house thing. We considered Percolator and its variants house in the Chi. Which reminds of another song that got house music-ed up and hit hard in the clubs: Din Daa Daa (which is why I picked Shake by Pitbull/Ying Yang Trolls upthread).
@Me fail english?,
I love house music. So when hip-hop went that way, I was rather enchanted.
Percolator is another that gets the club jumpin’
since moving to Atlanta the current club bangers are:
*warning n*ggery is imminent*
swag surfin by f.l.y.
stanky leg –
make the trap aye!…or whatever it’s called.
anything by jeezy
“ain’t i” – t.i.’s verse particularly…..ralph lauren purple label ain’t i fresh i could be?
@Carver The Great!,
Aye!!!!
@Carver The Great!,
iHate that iLove you.
and yes… Ain’t I is that junk.
@Carver The Great!,
“ain’t i” – t.i.’s verse particularly…..ralph lauren purple label ain’t i fresh i could be?
That’s my ignant song of the moment. It gets me pumped up.
Are we only mentioning songs of the last few years?
I only ask cuz all the songs I mentioned were both regional and old as Democracy.
I’m sure we could all think of the ones that are poppin in the club now, but what about the ones that are timeless?
Like, I heard someone mention the “Electric Slide” songs or whatever. Cameo is dope and all (who could ever resist saluting a dude saying “Oww” that can make the ladies all move in unison for no other reason that the “oww” itself?), but I seem to recal the Stevie Wonder song “My eyes don’t cry no more” as the hustle song… I’m pretty sure it’s the only hustle song played at EVERY black wedding in The D…
People still go crazy over Baltimore Club (Put Ya Leg, I Just Wanna F***, Feel Me, etc).
Mr. Cheeks can always get people on the dance floor with “Lights, Camera, Action,” especially the remix.
And the “Cupid Shuffle” gets the people moving (I prefer the Mississippi Slide…right foot, stomp..back it uPP and jump-uh).
When there’s a younger crowd (21-ish), the DJ can throw on some D-Mac or Wu-tang music and make the kids go AYE! oops, wild.
@Jae,
I prefer the Mississippi Slide…right foot, stomp..back it uPP and jump-uh).
THANK YOU!!!! for posting this…I love that foolishness.
Don’t know if anyone’s added these two to the list but I had to add on…
DJ Flexx-”The Waterdance.” The Junkyard Band-”Sardines”
Back in the younger days when I used to hang out in MD for Morgan State’s homecoming or DC in general, these songs would bring all the Go-Go heads to the floor.
I’ll always have nuff love for Go-Go.
Word.
Honorable mention:
“The Perculator.”
@ThePhiladelphiaNegro, I cosign
I was going to put ‘Sardines’
Ya’ll have posted some good songs. Just wanted to add:
Doin It – LL Cool J
Tour – Capleton
Mo Money, Mo Problems – Biggie
All About The Benjamins – Diddy
U & Dat Booty – E-40
Get Low – Lil John
Where Da Party At – Jagged Edge
Childrens Story – Slick Rick
Get Ur Freak On – Missy Elliot
We Be Clubbin – Ice Cube
Lean Back – Fat Joe
Come Baby Come – K7
Whats your Fantasy – Ludacris
Southern Hospitality – Ludacris
OPP – Naughty By Nature
Nothin – Noreaga
I Got It Made – Special Ed
Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
Treat Em Right – Chubb Rock
And for the “other” club:
Jump Around – House of Pain
Intergalactic – Beastie Boys
Ok I will admit I didn’t run through Everyone’s replies. . . I know I should have. . . but I hope someone put up “I wanna S&@ you Up” and furthermore, some white folk do have other functions at the club. . . like me pulling up this grown man’s pants up- it was just so sad. . . TO HIS CREW- ya should have helped a brotha out. Poor dear. . . . really I just feel like the 90′s will never be replaced. I had a youngin’ tell me that Coolio was some “old guy” . . . . hmmmmmm- I remember when Fantastic Voyage was overplayed on MTV. That statement alone says a lot. MTV actually played music video’s. I digress.
Ok..I am hella late but am loving the posts!! I am sitting here at work cracking up!!
I have to say, my all time favorite that will make me jam regardless of HOW the nite is going is..
Love Like This (Crooklyn Clan mix) by Faith Evans and Fat Man Scoop
I will jam to that joint even if a chick has on the EXACT same outfit as me AND looks better than me in it, the heel on my shoe broke, my feet hurt, my stockings ripped, someone spilled something red on my outfit and I could be the ONLIEST (lol) one on the dance floor..I WILL dance to that!! I have run out the bathroom before refreshing my hair/makeup (I did wash my hands though) to make it back to the floor in time to get a few two steps, dips and bops in
Keep up the good work!!
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