{"id":467,"date":"2009-02-27T00:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T08:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-02-27T00:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T08:47:54","slug":"top-billin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/top-billin\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Billin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go Stetsa was one of my favorite songs of late 86 and Top Billin&#8217; was without any question the biggest beat in the summer of &#8217;87 in NYC. <\/p>\n<p>I had a great time selling ice cream from a Good Humor truck with my sidekick David (my girlfriend Leslie&#8217;s brother). We had a boom box and drove all over Brooklyn but primarily hung around the projects of Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York. We were known as the &#8220;Hip Hop Ice Cream Truck&#8221; cuz we were always blasting this tune instead of the typical ding-dong melody that I hated.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I drove the truck for more than a month, but it gave me a chance to see the area. Good times&#8230; Good times indeed.<\/p>\n<p>[display_podcast]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ulan\/wp-content\/uploads\/top-billin.jpg\" alt=\"Top Billin' by The Audio Two\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ulan\/wp-content\/uploads\/go-stetsa.jpg\" alt=\"Go Stetsa by Stetsasonic'\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=igAS5-276wU\" target=\"_blank\">fun YouTube video<\/a> of the song (audio is very poor).<\/p>\n<p>Check it out<br \/>\nMC am I, people call me Milk<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m bustin up a party I feel no guilt<br \/>\nGizmo&#8217;s cuttin, up for the<br \/>\nSuckers that&#8217;s, down with meeee!!<br \/>\nThe One of us, that&#8217;s how I feel<br \/>\nTo be down you must appeal<br \/>\nTo the Two, we&#8217;re rated R<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re gifted, and we&#8217;re going far<br \/>\nDown the road, to the bank<br \/>\nWhile I&#8217;m here I&#8217;d like to thank<br \/>\nMom and dad, they knew the time<br \/>\nGizmo&#8217;s scratching, Milk Dee&#8217;s rhyming<br \/>\nMilk is chillin, Giz is chillin<br \/>\nWhat more can I say? Top billin<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what we get, got it good<br \/>\nSince you understood, would you<br \/>\nStop scheming, and looking hard<br \/>\nI got a great big bodyguard<br \/>\nSo step up if you wanna get hurt<br \/>\nMilk Dee&#8217;s gonna pull the skirt<br \/>\nI get money, money I got<br \/>\nStunts call me honey if they feel real hot<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how it is, you can ask Giz<br \/>\nI stole your girl while you were inprisoned<br \/>\nJail, for MC assault<br \/>\nYou was jealous it&#8217;s all your fault<br \/>\nMilk is chillin, Giz is chillin<br \/>\nWhat more can I say? Top billin<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what we get, got it good<br \/>\nAnd since you understood, would you<br \/>\nClap your hands, your hands you clap<br \/>\nIf your girl&#8217;s out of place it&#8217;s your girl I slap<br \/>\nAnd if you&#8217;re dumb, you&#8217;ll ask why<br \/>\nI am from Bed Do-or-Die<br \/>\nThe Audio Two, the Two&#8217;s Audio<br \/>\nI got a brother and his name&#8217;s Gizmo<br \/>\nMilk is chillin, Gizmo&#8217;s chillin<br \/>\nWhat more can I say? Top billin<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what we get, got it good<br \/>\nAnd since you understood, would you<br \/>\nBite a rhyme, if you dare<br \/>\nI get the paper so I don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nMy contributions to this jam<br \/>\nIs confusing, because I am<br \/>\nMilk Dee stated all the way<br \/>\nThe super easy mightiest MC okay<br \/>\nYes I&#8217;m down, down by law<br \/>\nI get the girlies out on the floor<br \/>\nG is D, down is G<br \/>\nTwo the &#8220;At The Top&#8221; is where he&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nThat is us, call us Aud<br \/>\nGirls come in you won&#8217;t be bored<br \/>\nMilk is chillin, Giz is chillin<br \/>\nWhat more can I say? Top billin<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what we get, got it good<br \/>\nAnd since you understood, would you<br \/>\nDo a dance, dance the Two<br \/>\nIf, you can dance it&#8217;s easy to do<br \/>\nThis dance is on and on and on<br \/>\nDance until your breath is gone!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Stetsa was one of my favorite songs of late 86 and Top Billin&#8217; was without any question the biggest beat in the summer of &#8217;87 in NYC. I had a great time selling ice cream from a Good Humor truck with my sidekick David (my girlfriend Leslie&#8217;s brother). We had a boom box and &#8230; <a title=\"Top Billin&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/top-billin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top Billin&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-or-so-it-is-called","category-music","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}