![]() Not 100% sure this is an actual beeper, but until proven otherwise I’m saying that Ice-T‘s chums from Bristol Brixton qualify. Ja Rule’s weed carrier raps over a loop from a 2-way pager tone and talks about how “we can SkyTel tag until I get you in the back of the Jag.” īeeper reference: “Coke’ll open her crazy, now all day she two way me” ![]() īeeper reference: “No it wasn’t my beeper. Kay Gee is presumably asking some chick to come and meet him when his beeper goes off at the start of this video, so he acts like it wasn’t his so that she doesn’t get jealous? Then everyone catches a charter bus up a mountain so that they can cool off from the heatwave in the snow, because apparently that’s easier than finding a swimming pool in Jersey. īeeper/2 way reference: “I’m bout to throw this Motorola out the window” A device which could not only send and receive messages, but could be used to write raps on. ![]() La Chat – 2-Way FreakĪhh, the good old 2-way. īeeper reference: “Who the fuck is this, with this stupid 911 shit?” The into skit for this track includes both a beeper sound and the return phone call. īeeper reference: “Every time I’m at a show, my beeper goes off!” He may have dropped the “MC” from his name by 1993, but Father took Beeper Rap to the next level by sampling the actual Skypager voice recording and getting a chick to mime it in the video. I’m assuming J-Ro is getting paged by Billy Dee Williams to check if he wants to order another case of Colt 45.īeeper reference: “Oh there goes my beeper, what the hell do Billy want?” Remember when the term “it’s all good” was Oakland slang and not something that every jag-off who serves you coffee says every five seconds?īeeper reference: “You beeped me 20 million times, made my beeper blow up” ![]() These next three additions are courtesy of Scribe from the comments:īig Daddy Kane – Here Comes Kane, Scoob And Scrapīeeper reference: “I get more beeps than a Roadrunner”Īnother entry into the triumphant genre known as Rap Dancers Who Rap, word to Stezo. īeeper reference: No, but the video is pretty bugged. īeeper reference: “Then her beeper went off – I didn’t pay it no mind but it beeped five more times”Į-Swift from Tha Alkaholiks throws a beeper sound into the beat at various points to keep us on our toes. Outstanding! ĭiamond finds his “late night stint” rudely interrupted by a stunt’s pager constantly blowing up. The video features both a shot of a pager and the sound. Say what you might about the guy, but Biggie flaunted the kind of vocabulary that would have impressed T La Rock back in the day.īeeper reference: “Who the fuck is this? Pagin me at 5:46 in the mornin'” Mildly amusing b-side which may have netted the 5 Footer a free box of batteries as a result of the name-check.īeeper reference: “Beeper’s goin off like Don Trump gets checks” One of the hardest rap tracks in existence.īeeper reference: “My phone bill was so much, I bought a red beeper!” Kings of Pressure – You know How to Reach Usīless the funk that Chuck D decided to use his beeper for percussion. Then he had to go and spoil everything with that damn ‘Square Dance Rap.’īeeper reference: “Just another page, just another freak” Update: Twelve new entries thanks to Rap Twitter and the comments section. Feel free to let us know if any other examples have been overlooked… While there are dozens of songs that name check these trusty telecommunications devices, only a handful were savvy enough to actually utilize the distinctive sounds of the pager itself. Beeper’s seemed pretty great – although I never had cause to own one – what with the whole not having to speak to people until you can be bothered finding a phone booth thing.
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