Whose late 80ish rap song is this?

April 2, 2007 11:55 AM

What old school hip hop artist's song are these the lyrics to?

I've been trying to find out who rapped this song in the late 80's. The video aired on B.E.T. several times. It was about the perils of hustling & drug doing and violence in general. There was some good dancing in the video. I want to say it was out around the same time as the video for Ice-T's "Lethal Weapon", probably before.

Read a(my) pretty decent approximation of the lyrics here.

There was also a line about "You tell your girls 'I got him!' but you're just a beeper number," how "Scotty gotcha body" and at the tail end of the song, a little talk out about staying away from drugs and things that don't make sense[sic]: "Closer to closing the clubs, to stop the violence...and we're back the way it was." The song has a sinister whine or wail in it and a 70's kind of bounce baseline, but it's more of a loping beat, not really a dance track.

I've asked owners of popular rap blogs, searched google and snap (which now brings up my old searches, natch), and I can't figure out who this is. The guy danced in the video and I want to say he looked like MC hammer's younger brother might (99% sure it wasn't hammer).

Bonus points for the video since I really want to see it again, but I can't imagine that could be found if the song is this hard to locate. Please let somebody know who the heck I'm talking about.

posted by cashman to media & arts (6 comments total)

Not sure, but after I heard "Scotty" it made me think of Boogie Down Productions.
posted by dead_ at 12:19 PM on April 2, 2007

Have you checked out the world of well-meaning charity compilations? Off the top of my head, I can think of HEAL: Human Education Against Lies, Self Destruction and We're All in the Same Gang, all from that approximate era.

If I was guessing, the last seems most likely, and here's why: your description of a sinister whine and a '70s bounce bassline is pretty much textbook G-funk.

This is about the best I can do without leaving work and going through my records, but I hope it helps. Oh, and here's a Google search for the word 'scotty,' limited to the Online Hip-Hop Lyric Archive. Only 47 results, so maybe it's worth going through all of 'em.

One other thing: do you remember anything else at all about the song or the video? Any recognizable samples? Exact phrases from the lyrics?
posted by box at 12:32 PM on April 2, 2007

It's not H.E.A.L., it was before that. It's not G-funk, it was before that. And though KRS is still mourning Scott La Rock with a new song "Kill A Rapper", it wasn't BDP.

Box, from my 'here' link:

"This is hustler part 2,
Just a reminder,
Still rappin bout them big golden pathfinders,
still dressin fly-ridin (somethin)...Chains from ......outfits
Tell ya little brother can't beat 'em ...he joins 'em!"

Our last episode I seen a young boy die!
this time yall...I'm gonna try
to get yall to listen from state to state
and at the same time, i'm gonna keep you update
on a hustla!
because things do change
gets a little smooth about the same old game
(nowandissian?) coats, benneton sweaters, 4 runnin jeeps? forget those jettas!'

Part of the refrain:

Hustla!
had it made'
Hustla! Then came the raid'
Hustla! It's not what I told ya'
Hustla! Goin out like a ...Soldier!"



I've looked through OHHLA many a time, but I guess I can flip through the results you linked in case somebody just happened to have added it in the last year.
posted by cashman at 12:41 PM on April 2, 2007

No luck still.
posted by cashman at 2:20 PM on April 3, 2007

D.C. Scorpio. The song is called Stone Cold Hustler (Part II).

Here's a video of him performing part one, that someone put on youtube.

Here's some talk about him on Cocaine Blunts and Hip Hop Tapes (Ironically, Noz was among those I sent the lyrics to and asked).

Now I just need to find the Hustler Part II video by D.C. Scorpio (!), and I will be very very happy.

Anybody know where I can get the mp3 of the song? It looks like the label the song came out on has vanished.

Thanks to thirteenkiller for inadvertently helping me! I ended up trying what he-she suggested and that didn't work, but it did somehow lead me along a different searching path, which ulimately led me to the answer.
posted by cashman at 2:20 PM on April 10, 2007

And the video - holy crap it's been 15 years or something since I've seen the video or heard the song.
posted by cashman at 10:09 PM on March 29, 2008