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Dj Sixth Sense was playing "Egyptian Lover" today on the Friday morning 8 am US eastern time Wrong Song segment of the syndicated Russ Parr morning show (heard on American R'n'b/rap radio stations)

SS: Then the guy from Cybotron, Rick Davis, thought you were dead?

EL: He saw the headline: “Lady Diana Dies With Egyptian Lover.”

-- haitch, Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

hahahahaha

hahaha i was about to quote that and lol too

omg driving back from the studio last night my bass player was playing some Macola Records comp tape that had Egypt Egypt and a bunch of other early LA electro stuff - Bobby Jimmy & The Critters' "Big Butt" was just cracking my ass up, never heard that one before.

BREAKDOWN

hilarious slim longhaired wite kid w/silver space jacket & magma t-shirt on stage at the EL gig, what's on yr ipod? I mean, what are you doing there stood behind some keyboard just clapping your hands.

I had no use for http://www.chocosho.com/admin/images/285x380/79625_vertical_1_egyptian_lover__mens_vertic.jpg but RIP

(Breathing)
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
Egyptian Lover
Egyptian Lover Baby
Egyptian Lover
Egyptian Lover Baby

Give me a freaky kinky nation
with a total female population
I can deal with that situation
I don't care about my reputation
Give me a freaky kinky nation
with a total female population
I can deal with that situation
I don't care about my reputation

I'm The Egyptian Lover
Sexy Senior
It's not just a name
but an adventure
I mix so fast
I scratch so sweet
there's not another D.J.
on earth who can compete

U know it
Egyptian Lover

Pyramids are Oh so shiny
The women here are Oh so cute
The freaks are on the floor now
Dancing to beats that I compute

(Breathing)

Egyptian Lover
Egyptian Lover Baby
Egyptian Lover
Egyptian Lover Baby

Egyptian Lover

I want you

Sexy Senior

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2734122172_af6fd7eeb4.jpg
"25 years in the game!"

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/Macola-ThePosseChapter2.jpg

BREAKDOWN

D.J. Battlecat

http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/he-man/battle-cat.jpg

I was going to the game to see the L.A. Raiders
Couldn't get out of those little elevators.
I was trying to get out, I was doing my part...
All of a sudden I think I had to... go eat a hot dog!
Huh-huh, heh heh-heh.

I got the real big bootie in my neighborhood,
All the girls like to slap me cause it feels real good.
I like my big butt because it's so unique,
Not everyone has a custom-made toilet seat.
Huh. huh-huh, huh, huh, huh-huh

I got a Big Butt, a Big Butt
Big Butt, a Big Butt
(Bobby Jimmy)
Big Butt, a Big Butt
Big Butt, a Big Butt

Saw him open for M.I.A. a couple months ago. Crowd seemed to enjoy him, i guess but he kept going on and on about "The way we did it... BACK IN THE DAAAAAAY" and it got pretty, erm, old.

sex bass

ALL OF MY LIFE
IVE BEEN A FREAK
DO WHAT I WANT
7 DAYS A WEEK

the first wire album i owned was called *In The Pink*. i bought it in the mid 80's. it was kind of a perfect album really. when i first bought the actual albums all i wanted to hear were the songs on that comp.

― scott seward, Monday, September 24, 2007 3:47 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what

― am0n, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i said the first wire album i owned was called *In The Pink*. i bought it in the mid 80's. it was kind of a perfect album really. when i first bought the actual albums all i wanted to hear were the songs on that comp.

― scott seward, Monday, September 24, 2007 5:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

: D

I think this may be my favorite thread I've ever started.

pyramids had polished limestone outer layers back in the day, could well have reflected enough light to be considered 'shiny'.

my camels will bring you home / if that whats on your mind

and was the Arabian Prince his protoge?

― jaxon, Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:33 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

They both were in Uncle Jamm's Army, as were DJ Pooh and Bobcat. I believe E Lover was the main man of that DJ team though.

Bob went on to form the LA Posse, producing LL's Bigger and Deffer (to Rick Rubin's dismay), and Pooh, aside from being King Tee's ace in the hole, I think produced some Snoop eventually (as did DJ Battlecat).

World Class Wrecking Crew and LA Dream Team were the upstarts that were trying to take over Uncle Jamm, and of course, Dre far outshined Egyptian.

The following is part 6 of 9 from the 1983 German documentary Breakin' and Enterein' that kinda downplayed the park jams and focused on the Radiotron youth center, giving way to the fame of Ice T and paving the way for the big(ger) budgeted Breakin'

Egyptian Lover on the wheels:

The footage of Ice dancing earlier in the film is priceless.

pooh's most known for his shit with ice cube but he did a bunch of stuff around that time - i think he was also behind del's first album

np:

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/051b4456b75044c457bca2e7f5b9e439.jpg

d^_^b

BREAKDOWN

DJ Pooh did killer shit for all of Ice Cube's prime era projects - Del, Da Lench Mob, Yo-Yo, etc

RIP Rodger Clayton of Uncle Jamm's Army.

http://s1.directupload.net/images/110202/scw2lwx3.jpg

BREAKDOWN

I played "Egypt, Egypt" out DJing last Thursday. I wish I'd done it all current-events-ironic-y, but no.

am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it

yes, i am a party rockist, i prefer to go to a place where people are, you know, having fun to fun music

― deej, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:34 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

party rockist in the houuuuse tonight

hahahaha

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/egyptian-lover-rftf

ooh! look forward to reading this

awesome

great story: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/kraftwerk-changed-my-life-20-artists-pick-their-favourite-kraftwerk-records-of-all-time/2/

haha sweet

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/12/egyptian-lover-egypt-egypt.html

classic exchange with j0hn d itt

the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)

just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt

When the pyramids were built they were coated in polished limestone and often capped w a golden piece at the top, and supposedly actually _were_ shiny especially in contrast to the surrounding desert. They look rocky and Earthy to us now only because they have been sitting in the desert, periodically raided and dismantled, for thousands and thousands of years.

The old temples and stuff were similarly super colorful; a lot of the original paint remains even to this day.

lol I didn't see that before
xp

SS: Then the guy from Cybotron, Rick Davis, thought you were dead?

EL: He saw the headline: “Lady Diana Dies With Egyptian Lover.”

-- haitch, Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lmfaoooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0

did y'all know that Egyptian Lover released an album this year and every single track has the Numbers/Tour De France beat and it sounds fucking amazing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x8oFp_-E8

!

http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/egyptianlover/1983-1988

And building on that new collection: I talked with the man himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/30/the-egyptian-lover-interview-electro-stones-throw-anthology

http://www.hexapolis.com/2014/10/31/historians-concur-great-pyramid-glass-like-shiny-4000-years-ago/

nice piece, ned!

Thanks!