Listener comments!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:01pm From: zedprophfer

aha!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:02pm From: Ismael

whattup, Villy Yams!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:02pm From: filmchickie

I was too slow, LOL

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: Sean Daily

Fourth comment! Woo hoo!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: zedprophfer

B)

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: dc pat

1969 is alright

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: dlroth

i got to babylon in 1988

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: Bad Ronald

I ate acid in '88

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: Filmchickie

what's going on Billy!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:03pm From: 1988

absolutely nothing happened

Fri. 5/9/08 3:04pm From: ted

1988, I love that book.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:05pm From: pan am

103 in 88

Fri. 5/9/08 3:05pm From: Ismael

I prefer 1967, myself. (Aretha Franklin finally breaks through.)

Fri. 5/9/08 3:05pm From: zedprophfer

8891

Fri. 5/9/08 3:06pm From: dan quale

some meat head told me : "you're no Jack Kennedy."

Fri. 5/9/08 3:07pm From: ted

no elvis, beatels or the rolling stones in...

Fri. 5/9/08 3:07pm From: Bad Ronald

Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:08pm From: Ohhhhhhhh

ohhhhhh play some schooly D, play it plaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy it

Fri. 5/9/08 3:08pm From: sonny bono

i was made a mayor

Fri. 5/9/08 3:09pm From: Johnny Doobs

Its Gucci time....

Fri. 5/9/08 3:09pm From: Kenzo

Billy Jam, you win the playlist-as-chat-room contest. I'm closing the polls early.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:10pm From: Gorbachev

perestroika!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:10pm From: woj

are you there, god? it's me, sweden.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:10pm From: Ronald Reagan

I granted permission to execute drug dealers.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:11pm From: fishmonkeystew

Did he actually say "you have a big butt, just like a pit bull?

Fri. 5/9/08 3:11pm From: stuck in surbanwasteland

i watched yo mtv raps

Fri. 5/9/08 3:12pm From: lsmonkey

you rock Mr Jam making art with my friend Eric and listening!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:12pm From: g

Kool G Rap!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:12pm From: de la de la

sooooooooooooouuulllllll - i know u got it

Fri. 5/9/08 3:13pm From: Billly Jam

1988 is the theme....Music - especially hip-hop, politics, sports, and life.......Any memories or comments or links to pics or videos - please post em - along with your fave songs from 1988

Fri. 5/9/08 3:13pm From: Elton John

I sold out Madison Square Gardens for the 26th time. But it didn't matter, I was still an idiot.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:13pm From: ken's fan

i know you got some FLIPPER ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho he he he he

Fri. 5/9/08 3:15pm From: flipper for the win

lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

rider

Fri. 5/9/08 3:15pm From: zedprophfer

Straight Outta Compton!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:15pm From: Stetsasonic

Talkin' All That Jazz


and elton john is an idiot

Fri. 5/9/08 3:15pm From: ted

wow, 20 years ago. I was 35 in 88

Fri. 5/9/08 3:17pm From: ted

thats what you call a conversation stopper...

Fri. 5/9/08 3:18pm From: Michael A. Gonzales

1988, time to get it straight: seems like yesterday I was chillin' on the stoop listening to the classic rap tracks by EPMD, Public Enemy and the wonderful productions of Marley Marl...this is the soundtrack to my young life and I love it.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:18pm From: ?

eric and parish were making dollars and biz was goin' off

Fri. 5/9/08 3:19pm From: Johnny Doobs

Girls, I got em locked.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:20pm From: Michael A. Gonzales

...i wrote the first epmd bio--interviewed them in a record storage room.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:20pm From: Ismael

"Tougher than Leather" came out in '88. But keep the EB & R flowing, Jilly Bams!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:21pm From: spaniel

yeah, i was 8. for some reason i remember in probably like 88 or 89 3/4th grade walking around with my friend on the playground and him showing me this NWA tape that he got from his brother.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:21pm From: Michael A. Gonzales

...follow the sound of the future.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:25pm From: woj

1988 - still at university and not quite hip-hop-friendly ... though not hip-hop unfriendly either. i'm better now.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:26pm From: Kenzo

The long coat I've been wearing lately...I got it in 1988.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:26pm From: zedprophfer

lol

Fri. 5/9/08 3:27pm From: steve c

a strong year for music especially because it was partly the Chinese year of the dragon

Fri. 5/9/08 3:28pm From: Sean Daily

TGIPE

Fri. 5/9/08 3:29pm From: Joshua K

More beets than a pot of borscht

Fri. 5/9/08 3:30pm From: dlroth

TGIBJams

Fri. 5/9/08 3:32pm From: sprite

"The pop success of both singles was unheard of for the time. Kurtis Blow's appearance in a Sprite commercial made him the first hip hop musician to be considered mainstream enough to represent a major product, but also the first to be accused by the hip hop audience of selling out. Another popular performer among mainstream audiences included DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, who won rap's first Grammy"

Fri. 5/9/08 3:33pm From: Ismael

"blog, blog, blog": the "blah, blah, blah" of the Oughts. (present company excepted.)

Fri. 5/9/08 3:35pm From: weed

i was adime

Fri. 5/9/08 3:37pm From: weed

October 4 - Following in Cher's footsteps, actress Shirley MacLaine calls David Letterman an "@$$hole", on the air during a taping of Late Night.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:38pm From: roy orbison

i died

Fri. 5/9/08 3:40pm From: Johnny Doobs

Sorry to hear that.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:41pm From: Haley Joel Osment

i was born

Fri. 5/9/08 3:42pm From: the jersey shore

"The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record."

Fri. 5/9/08 3:42pm From: Johnny Doobs

Sorry to hear that.

Fri. 5/9/08 3:46pm From: tompkins sq

i had a riot

Fri. 5/9/08 3:48pm From: Lloyd Bentsen

I've seen the Mole People and they are no Jack Kennedy!

Fri. 5/9/08 3:48pm From: Tall Paul

Yo Bill,
1988 what a year The first year PE came to Dublin.
First gig they played Trinity College acapella in the afternoon. I remember it well. Got them to sign my copy book for school That night they played McGonagles support by Scary Eire Later they played Trinity Debs Ball

Fri. 5/9/08 3:49pm From: jonathan

did you see the chuds down there?

Fri. 5/9/08 3:52pm From: freehold

although this happen in 89 - they wouldn't show "Do The Right Thing"

Fri. 5/9/08 3:52pm From: freehold

at our movie theaters

Fri. 5/9/08 3:57pm From: Dave in Chicago

Back in those days I was Dave in NYC and I was in the Tompkins sq. riot. Those cops beat our ass! But let's not forget the weird stuff from 88 and little before and after like the Fat Boys and Dougie Fresh and the Beastie Boys, hell even Bobby Jimmy and the Critters!

Fri. 5/9/08 4:00pm From: MTV

I'm no Jack Kennedy

Fri. 5/9/08 4:01pm From: dan quale

Bill Adler is more Jack Kennedy than I am

Fri. 5/9/08 4:06pm From: memories

ralph in now on "The Bridge"

Fri. 5/9/08 4:07pm From: Stan

I was in a terrible band recording at Vital Studios when the engineer (Jim, later of Rats of Unusual Size) and I went outside to take a break. We ended up in Tompkins Square Park and there was this crazy scene of people and noise, even though it was around midnight. We went back to the studio and missed being in that riot by about a half an hour. We seriously lucked out that night.

Fri. 5/9/08 4:07pm From: north guinea hills

wait wait wait wait wait,..... 1988 was 20, 20 YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! god, how old am i........!!!??????

Fri. 5/9/08 4:08pm From: dlroth

"The Bridge is on metro TV" channel 25 on comcraptistic

Fri. 5/9/08 4:11pm From: k.k. downing

Ultramagnetic MC's
Critical Beatdown

Fri. 5/9/08 4:14pm From: filmchickie

Damn Billy, I am inundated with work ! But I see you playing the fonky ish

Fri. 5/9/08 4:15pm From: A D D

Billy Jamtastic---------the coffee just kicked in

this is just really ______ ______ ___ ______ ______ , but watch for FALCON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgyaNLmzoHU

Fri. 5/9/08 4:18pm From: C

1988 was the year gogo almost crossed over to mainstream

Fri. 5/9/08 4:20pm From: Ken

It's 4:19!

Fri. 5/9/08 4:23pm From: zedprophfer

here' its' 22:22

Fri. 5/9/08 4:46pm From: Scott M.

Were there any bad hip hop records in 1988? great show Billy Jam!

Fri. 5/9/08 4:49pm From: Doug

This is great, everyone in my office is shocking out

Fri. 5/9/08 4:50pm From: Patrick

willy yams, parents just dont understand came out in 88 right?

Fri. 5/9/08 4:52pm From: Pete

'88 was illest.. a lot of young people today think '94 was the end all be all year. but 1988 was hands down the greatest year in hip-hop.. this is making my rainy day..

Fri. 5/9/08 4:54pm From: Ken

Anybody remember The Hound's shows in 88 about the Tompkins Square riot?

Fri. 5/9/08 4:58pm From: ethan

whats up props to CERN and the whole ymi crew http://www.midnightmetalworks.com

Fri. 5/9/08 4:58pm From: C

3rd annual Hip-Hop Chess Tournament, Bum Rush the Board

http://www.wblinc.org/bumrushreg.html

There was a logical connection between Chess and Hip-Hop considering the fact that hip-hop as a culture is highly competitive. It is replete with opportunities to battle and compete to win over crowds, crews and sponsors. By connecting hip-hop to chess, we have created a chess tournament that exposes youth to a culture (hip-hop) and a science (chess) that requires them to think ahead, manage talent and size up their adversary. These skills are useful in hip-hop, chess, business and in life.

Fri. 5/9/08 5:00pm From: zedprophfer's comment delivery

here's another one for the collection.

Fri. 5/9/08 5:11pm From: Kenzo

I totally expected the Fresh Prince to start singing about eating cars.

Fri. 5/9/08 5:27pm From: Tall Paul

Yo Bill for me one of the worst tracks and albums of1988 was Cash Money and Mc Maravelous Where's the Party At? especially the track Find an Ugly Woman

Fri. 5/9/08 5:28pm From: fred

I don't really miss being 17, but 1988 sure was a big year for me. Falling in love with Boston of all places, my first encounter with PE, and that record has been my favorite ever since, dethroning London Calling in my personal rankings

Fri. 5/9/08 5:30pm From: Donnell

We want Eazy!

Fri. 5/9/08 5:35pm From: Tall Paul

Yo Bill,
If you have it can you play Twin Hype "Do it to the Crowd" Speaking of HipHop Peace

Fri. 5/9/08 5:36pm From: anne

i remember this video with Sinead and MC Lyte, it was kinda cool, played on 120 Minutes on MTV sometime in the late 80s? early 90s?

Fri. 5/9/08 5:36pm From: Push It

Push it real good. Enormous song.

Fri. 5/9/08 5:48pm From: zedprophfer

the drum 'n bass background music should be added into the playlist. sweet stuff. :D

Fri. 5/9/08 5:48pm From: porkchop

ooohhh 1988!!! just plugged in to all ya alls! werk schedule has taken my precious 12-3 on fridays--ICK!! feels good to be in 1988 cant wait to ppump this shiznit on my big ass speakers l8r. Peace In Willy Marmalade!!!

Fri. 5/9/08 5:54pm From: porkchop

GAWD i remember rapping Slick Ricks A childrens story, smoking cigarettes with my girls with our aqua net hairdos in the bathroom at our city park. we were thinking wee was baddassss.

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