Did you tape videos off of tv?

Digs Darklighter · Post by **Digs Darklighter** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:04 pm

someone mentioned CPO in another thread and i thought about all the vhs tapes i have filled with old videos...and for a few weeks maybe months CPO's Menace to Society was on almost every day on yo mtv raps/rap city...so what are some other obscure videos from back in the day that got alot of play for some reason...if you can find them on youtube post the videos as well if you like

heres some of my favorites

No face - half
cheeba cheeba - the pied piper ( i think )
boo ya tribe - psycho something?

madtapes · Post by **madtapes** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:05 pm

Before this shit gets deleted I feel the need to add my memory!

-back in 1993 my man's dad worked at a local branch of a national T.V. station (CBC!) and as such he had access to this room with all these t.v.s connected to crazy sattelites that recieved signals from all over the world (which was a bigger deal in 93 than it is now). So one day my buddy went to work with his dad for the day and spent the whole day in that room. He somehow managed to steal a Beta machine from some other department and configure it so that it would tape both the American and Canadian versions of Rap City every day. His dad would bring him the tapes every Friday so on Saturdays we would drink and watch rap vids on Beta. It was awesome.

Jaz · Post by **Jaz** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:38 am

Digs Darklighter wrote:someone mentioned CPO in another thread and i thought about all the vhs tapes i have filled with old videos...and for a few weeks maybe months CPO's Menace to Society was on almost every day on yo mtv raps/rap city...so what are some other obscure videos from back in the day that got alot of play for some reason...if you can find them on youtube post the videos as well if you like

heres some of my favorites

No face - half
cheeba cheeba - the pied piper ( i think )
boo ya tribe - psycho something?

It was Psycho Funk Digs

and this thread doesn't need to be deleted.

soopacee · Post by **soopacee** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:57 am

oh hell yeah, who didnt do this shit.......i still got some but over the years i lost so many tapes

Freshco & Miz "we dont play" was my shit back then

i used to record Pump It Up and Krush Rap all the time.......i cant find any of those tapes no more though.......Krush Rap was the shit because they were outta philly/jersey area and i had alllll them rare philly videos.....i still never forget LUX "boom box" video.....shit was hard

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:32 pm

i have 5 or 6 tapes full...not old school, like around 97-00, some good stuff on there, but i have no vcr at this point in my life

aresem · Post by **aresem** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:27 pm

ah man... all day. i got about 4-5 tapes from circa-'95 - '99. i also tried never to tape the same videos twice (like my brother used to. what a loser.)

but yeah i have them buried with the rest of my old vhs tapes in a box somewhere. im gonna have to dig that out one of these days.

MC Eiht · Post by **MC Eiht** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:16 am

i have 15 tapes from 92-93

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:12 am

i have a bunch from 89 to 94ish, when parents in Detroit petitioned to get rid of TheBox because they thought it was bad for the kids..

i liked 'em for the ladies..

better than cinemax..
sir mix-a-lot's put 'em on the glass
adina howard's freak like me
dis n dat's freak me
etc, etc..

Galvatron78 · Post by **Galvatron78** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:57 pm

6 tapes that are now 4 dvd's from 91' to 97'...would have been from 88' to 97' but moms felt the need to record Young N The Restless over the 88-90' in 94'....her reply was "it was just some rap videos"

UnknownDepth · Post by **UnknownDepth** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:29 pm

What's up? First post.

This was everyday after school for me. Rap City mostly. I used to have a couple of tapes worth. The first (of what, like, two?) Mad Skillz video, Southernplayalistic, etc etc. One of my favorite of this era is the Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide video.

Takes me back. I think the funniest thing about watching back is getting 2 seconds of a video then it cuts to the beginning of something else. You can see what you used to rewind back and tape over.

I do have a collection someone on the internet put together way back when i used trade mixtapes. It's a VHS of all of the Wu videos, interviews, MTV specials, etc, etc. Me and my old roomates watched the whole thing during a snow storm last winter.

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:42 pm

^ welcome

UnknownDepth · Post by **UnknownDepth** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:56 pm

Thanks man. Shoulda been here a long time ago.

Cool place.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:45 pm

i would actually pay some of you money to get copies of these videos. I teach current events in middle school and do a huge unit on mass media. I dedicate 2-3 wks to the impact and changes of music and music videos. i would love to be able to show my 13 yr old kids what rap videos were like in the late 80s to mid 90s before all of the bling bling, booty shaking, pimp, playa, cars with rims steez they know about.

pm me if you can make vhs or dvd copies and would be willing to send them to me. I would be willing to reimburse you for shipping costs plus add loot for your time and service.

Jaz · Post by **Jaz** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:30 am

Galvatron78 wrote:6 tapes that are now 4 dvd's from 91' to 97'...would have been from 88' to 97' but moms felt the need to record Young N The Restless over the 88-90' in 94'....her reply was "it was just some rap videos"

Mom

...not cool, My Dad did the same shit to me, rap vids in New Zealand were pretty scarce but I used to have a friend from Washington that would come back with tapes of dope shit and he used to do me dubs, dad recorded over all of my Kid N Play, Jaz, Eric B & Rakim, EPMD, Stezo, Stetsasonic, PE, BDP, 3rd Bass, De La Soul and many others...

I have only just got over the pain

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