Backyard Band

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Skillet 00:00 Tools
I Heard It's the Bomb 00:00 Tools
4 my smokers 00:00 Tools
Rock Creek 00:00 Tools
Tear the Club Up 00:00 Tools
Life, Money, Struggle, Crime 00:00 Tools
Rollin' Sugar 00:00 Tools
You Make the Call 00:00 Tools
Hello (GoGo Version) 00:00 Tools
Stop Talking 00:00 Tools
Keepin' It Real 00:00 Tools
I Hurd It's The Bomb 00:00 Tools
Byb Hello (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
keep it gangsta 00:00 Tools
Thong Song 00:00 Tools
Uh Oh! 00:00 Tools
Everyone Falls In Love 00:00 Tools
Thug Passion 00:00 Tools
Unibomber 00:00 Tools
Dat Weed 00:00 Tools
I Can Change 00:00 Tools
Fakin Like 00:00 Tools
Life,Money,Struggle,Crime 00:00 Tools
Isn't she Lovely 00:00 Tools
Drag Me Down 00:00 Tools
Tired of being lonely 00:00 Tools
96 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
Keepin It Gangsta 00:00 Tools
Ruff It Off 00:00 Tools
Diamonds and pearls 00:00 Tools
Addicted to Rock'n'Roll 00:00 Tools
Team 00:00 Tools
Sick Of Being Lonely 00:00 Tools
Baby Phat 00:00 Tools
98 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
The BackYard Party 00:00 Tools
Wind Me Up G 00:00 Tools
Pretty Girls 00:00 Tools
California 00:00 Tools
Oui 00:00 Tools
Pretty Mamas 00:00 Tools
Thug Passion II 00:00 Tools
... About Me 00:00 Tools
Hook Me Up 00:00 Tools
Dipper Medley 00:00 Tools
91 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
Brass Monkey 00:00 Tools
Socket Beat, Pt.1 00:00 Tools
Rise 00:00 Tools
Get Money 00:00 Tools
New Joint 00:00 Tools
GOGO - Backyard Band - Everyone Falls in Love 00:00 Tools
Get Your Eagle On 00:00 Tools
Socket Beat, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Mary Jane 00:00 Tools
Last call for alcohol 00:00 Tools
Wowzers 00:00 Tools
Stan 00:00 Tools
Pushing Myself 00:00 Tools
First Light Of The Day f/ Scarface 5/29/99 00:00 Tools
Five on it 00:00 Tools
Californication (RHCP cover) 00:00 Tools
Shook One 00:00 Tools
Alright 00:00 Tools
Hanging on a Tree 00:00 Tools
DC Nigga 00:00 Tools
The Dippa 00:00 Tools
Keep it Real 00:00 Tools
They All Get Rockin ' 00:00 Tools
Spotlight ft TCB 00:00 Tools
No One 00:00 Tools
2011 00:00 Tools
Tap Tap 00:00 Tools
99 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
Gangsta 4 Life 00:00 Tools
Rock The Boat 00:00 Tools
Lets Get Away 00:00 Tools
Moola 00:00 Tools
Tiddy Balls 00:00 Tools
I Got Your Man 00:00 Tools
Diamonds & Pearls 00:00 Tools
Back up (feat. Killa Cal) 00:00 Tools
Street Antidote 00:00 Tools
4-12-01- Everywhere We Go 00:00 Tools
Bad Vibe Blues 00:00 Tools
Girls wanna have fun 00:00 Tools
Hot Sauce Solo 00:00 Tools
97 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
BackYard Party 00:00 Tools
Sex You... 00:00 Tools
Struggle of Classes 00:00 Tools
Still Ray 00:00 Tools
Never Come Back 00:00 Tools
Dead Love 00:00 Tools
Make 'Um Pay 00:00 Tools
Prettygirls 00:00 Tools
Everything Remains Raw f/ Busta Rhymes 10/5/96 00:00 Tools
Smoking Dat Weed 00:00 Tools
93 Dope Jam 00:00 Tools
My Phatty (feat. Ms. Ke Ke) 00:00 Tools
Skillet (feat. Shooters) 00:00 Tools
Revolution 00:00 Tools
She Twerk 00:00 Tools
GOGO Backyard Band- Thug Passion 00:00 Tools
Hail Hail Rock'n'Roll 00:00 Tools
Hello from Hell 00:00 Tools
System Machine 00:00 Tools
Fakin' Like 00:00 Tools
Come into My House (feat. Ms. Kim) 00:00 Tools
Trouble Woman 00:00 Tools
O-Cup 00:00 Tools
Acid Minds 00:00 Tools
It's Alright 00:00 Tools
Reggae in the Yard 00:00 Tools
Lean Back 00:00 Tools
Pretty Mommy 00:00 Tools
Drop It Low 00:00 Tools
Spolight (feat. Bo) 00:00 Tools
Poor Boys Boogie 00:00 Tools
Simply Different 00:00 Tools
I Like Dem Girls 00:00 Tools
Hold Up Your Tears 00:00 Tools
Gold Digger 00:00 Tools
Socket 00:00 Tools
Clothes Off 00:00 Tools
Pretty Girl Rock 00:00 Tools
Presidential 00:00 Tools
Drivin'Down the Highway 00:00 Tools
Get Lifted 00:00 Tools
Red Light Green Light GO 00:00 Tools
Do Dat 00:00 Tools
Sexy Girl 00:00 Tools
Everywhere We Go 00:00 Tools
Brown Sugar 00:00 Tools
Back In The Day 00:00 Tools
Funky Drummer 00:00 Tools
Baby Phatt 00:00 Tools
Go DJ 00:00 Tools
Unibomber 97 00:00 Tools
OOCHIE WALLY 00:00 Tools
Tap, Tap 00:00 Tools
Sweet D 00:00 Tools
Socket Beat, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Prisoner 00:00 Tools
Love 'em... 00:00 Tools
Woo Hah f/ Busta Rhymes 10/5/96 00:00 Tools
Backyard Band - Fuckin with BYB 00:00 Tools
Tear the Club 00:00 Tools
Dip It Low 00:00 Tools
Come Back In One Piece -2002 00:00 Tools
Funky Drummer Drummin 00:00 Tools
Get Your Freak On 00:00 Tools
Breathe 00:00 Tools
Window Seat 00:00 Tools
Big G Freestyle 00:00 Tools
Gingus Live 00:00 Tools
Friday Nite Fish 00:00 Tools
Bout It Bout It 00:00 Tools
Pocket 00:00 Tools
Junk in the Trunk 00:00 Tools
Ill Na Na 00:00 Tools
Pocket Beat 00:00 Tools
4-12-01- OochieWally Skillet 00:00 Tools
Hello 00:00 Tools
Craziest 00:00 Tools
Cheat On U 00:00 Tools
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 00:00 Tools
Hit em With the Flex 00:00 Tools
All White Bricks 00:00 Tools
Tokyo ft. 32 00:00 Tools
Wipe Me Down 00:00 Tools
Pocket 1 00:00 Tools
Tokyo Spinach 00:00 Tools
For My Block 00:00 Tools
09 Track 9 00:00 Tools
Cease Fire 00:00 Tools
That Weed 00:00 Tools
www.thatgogo.com 00:00 Tools
Rich Man's War 00:00 Tools
Roses 00:00 Tools
The Backrow Remix 00:00 Tools
Let Me See It 00:00 Tools
Still Howlin ' 00:00 Tools
See Im just a man 00:00 Tools
Sippin On Some Syrup 00:00 Tools
D.C. Nigga 00:00 Tools
Hit Em With The Flexx 00:00 Tools
The Dipper 00:00 Tools
Sauce Workout 00:00 Tools
Good Morning 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
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Come Into My House 00:00 Tools
My Block 00:00 Tools
somebody help 00:00 Tools
Say Something Baby 00:00 Tools
Different Languages 00:00 Tools
05 Track 5 00:00 Tools
Body Snatchers ft. D.Floyd 00:00 Tools
A Piece of Mind 00:00 Tools
Shake it 00:00 Tools
Girls,Girls,Girls 00:00 Tools
Coming Home 2 you 00:00 Tools
All My Heart 00:00 Tools
GOGO - Backyard Band - DC NIGGA 00:00 Tools
What These Bitches Want From a Nigga 00:00 Tools
Girls just want to have fun2 00:00 Tools
Chicken Head 00:00 Tools
Rock & Roll 00:00 Tools
A Piece of Mind 00:00 Tools
4-12-01- The Dippa 00:00 Tools
Gimmie My Keys Back 00:00 Tools
I Am What I Am 00:00 Tools
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Also known as BYB Big G (Gingus) (Antwon Glover) - Lead Vocals (rap) Los (Carlos) - Backup Vocals (rap) Wincee - Backup Vocals (sings & plays the Cow Bell) Bruce - Backup Vocals (sings) Sauce - Plays the Congo Drums E.B. - Plays the Keyboard Mike - Plays the Keyboard Buggie - Plays the Drums Bubba - Plays Lead Guitar Leroy - Plays Guitar Backyard has had a tremendous impact on the go-go world ever since they came on the scene in 1991. Like the bands before them they started out with amateur equipment and little money. In their early years they hit us with songs like the famous '91 Dope Jam and I Got Five On It. Backyard began a new style of go-go where they would take popular rap songs and hook them up with a phat go-go beat. This new style is what most young bands use today The Dope Jam became an annual thing of the '90s. Every year from 1993 until the present Backyard fans anxiously await the new Dope Jam every year. In '93 it was Killas in Da Park, '96 -- It's 1996! (Kill em All), '97 -- Drop Da Unibomba, '98 -- Tear Da Club Up! Back has played in North Carolina, Virginia, Atlanta (Freaknic) and all over the D.C. area. You can see them live five days a week at various clubs in D.C. They are also known to rock any high school who can afford them. Back introduced us to a more hardcore style of go-go that continues to keep young go-go fans partying til the break of dawn at every show. Ignore the bad publicity they get because not only is it false but its just another attempt at destroying go-go as a whole. With the help of their lead rapper & superstar go-go figure, Big G (graduate of Wilson HS), Backyard will be "tearing da club up" til 2000 and beyond. P. Diddy (or Puffy as he is still called) came to DC on Thursday, October 25 to record a live go-go remix of and to shoot a video for his latest single "Diddy." This, coupled with the recent article on go-go in Vibe, inevitably has everyone wondering if go-go’s time to go national has finally come. Can this P. Diddy collaboration do what "Da Butt," failed to do? What will it take for go-go music to achieve national prominence? Hip-Hop/Go-Go collaborations are nothing new. Kurtis Blow, Salt N Pepa, Doug E. Fresh, and Redman have all worked with go-go acts. But, this was going to be different because Puffy wanted most of the go-go "All Stars" involved. When I first heard of the collaboration—one week before it took place—word was that Chuck Brown, Sugar Bear, Jas Funk, Ju-Ju, Go-Go Mickey, Lil’ Benny, Genghis, plus Whiteboy and other members of Rare Essence were going to be involved. By the time it actually happened, there was only Sugar Bear, Lil’ Benny, Genghis, and Suttle Thoughts featuring Gene Pratt. Still not a shabby line-up. When asked if he thought that this project would help boost go-go to a national level Pratt said, "Only if he [Puffy] can acknowledge the fact the fact that we remixed and rearranged the music." Genghis feels that this, like the Vibe article, will open doors. Coop, Backyard’s manager, on the other hand, is taking a wait-and-see approach, "We already know that DC is gonna love it. We have to wait and see if the hip-hop side likes it." Both Pratt and Genghis feel that Puffy showed a lot of respect for all of the go-go musicians involved and clearly has a love for the music. "That nigga is like that," Pratt said. "He works hard and has a lot of ideas and he blended in like a true go-go head." Pratt said that Puffy told them to do their thing and that he would just blend in with them. "He knew when to say stuff, when the pocket drops. He was a natural. He felt it." "He’s a real showman," Genghis adds. "He showed a lot of poise and real showmanship." Suttle Thoughts opened the show with their signature song "Gangsta Lean." Legions of ST fans who flock to see them on Thursday and Friday nights know that the band always cranks, but on this night they were at the top of their game. Pratt, along with band mates Shorty, and Michelle shared lead vocals on the R&B classic "Let’s Stay Together," singing the chorus in exquisite harmony, and clearly enjoying themselves in the process. "We put our all into this," Pratt said. Later Genghis, Sugar Bear, and Lil Benny joined ST on stage for some free-style rapping and chanting, followed by Puffy and Black Rob and an impromptu free-style by DJ Kool, who was in the audience. But, the crowd was losing interest until Genghis hit his band Backyard’s song, "The Dippa." "I had to step up to the bat and represent for my whole band, as well as for my city," Genghis states. "They may not have been there on stage with me, but they were with me in spirit." Of all of the performances, it was Genghis’ that impressed Puffy most. This collaboration was different, too, because not only is Puffy a successful hip-hop artist, but he’s also a producer who owns his own record label. He has the power and the ability to expose go-go to a much wider fan base. Many feel that is going to take a younger band like Backyard—the Bad Boys of Go-Go—to take go-go to a national level. DJ Kool, whose song "Let me Clear my Throat" was a major hit, feels that go-go can go national if handled properly from a business aspect. Kool, who still DJ’s, says that he will do anything he can to open doors for go-go acts. While Kool has taken go-go records with him wherever he has worked as a DJ, he says that bands need to put out more songs on vinyl so that DJ’s can break them in the clubs. Finally, Kool says that bands need to record formatted, original songs with an intro., verses and a hook. "People need something they can sing along with." One example of this is the 911 song "Brown and White," a go-go song that got frequent airplay outside of the go-go formatted radio shows. Even non go-go fans know and sing along to words "…All the brown and all the white, Sunday night at Tradewinds…" How many times have you found yourself singing a song that you didn’t really like, just because the hook was so catchy and stayed in your head? Marguerite Rice, who used to manage the all-female go-go band Precise, and who now works with Backyard feels that go-go doesn’t get any respect in DC. "They pay all this money for rappers to come in using tracks, but go-go uses real, live musicians. They can play their instruments. They’re musicians and performers. They’ll take a rapper saying ‘F the Police,’ and calling women bitches, but in our own city, it’s almost like they are scared of our music. With any act that comes into the city, a local group should always be on the show." One well-known go-go performer, who didn’t wish to be identified, agrees with Rice that shows that feature national acts should also showcase local talent. This, however, is often a problem because the local acts, particularly go-go bands, often overshadow the well-known acts. Some of the country’s biggest hip-hop acts have been booed in DC including rappers Trina and the late Notorious B.I.G., and female singing group Total. This leads the above mentioned performer to believe that many artists who come to DC perform have clauses put in their contracts that prohibit go-go bands from sharing the same bill. He also went on to point out that he believes many radio personalities and music directors accept bribes from record companies to put a particular song in heavy rotation. Bribes that go-go acts can’t afford to pay, and bribes that limit the space available for go-go records to be played on the radio. David Honig, an attorney, who is Executive Director of the Minority Multimedia Telecommunications Council, defines "payola," and it’s "related cousin plugola" as receiving payment (or something of value) to play a certain song without stating over the air that payment was received. Illegal, this was really prevalent some 30 years ago. The song being plugged may not have necessarily been something terrible, but something that may not have otherwise received airplay. "Then the most popular forms of payment were cash, drugs or access to women. Today payment is likely to be in the form of ‘soft payola.’ " An example of soft payola would be if a record company executive came to town and arranged for a DJ or station manager to receive front-row tickets to a basketball game, without the executive revealing that he had an upcoming project. A month or so later, when the project is released, the DJ or station manager might remember the executive’s generosity and put the song in heavy rotation. Honig went on to state that the station’s desire to reach a particular demographic, in order to attract particular advertisers, usually determines what goes on their play list. Go-go he says, doesn’t always fit easily into the station’s song list. It seems ironic that go-go music does not hold a prominent place on most stations’ play list here in DC where go-go was born, except on shows that are dedicated to go-go. While Honig agrees that it could help if go-go bands encouraged their fans to call the stations to request their songs, he said that the top ten request usually result from hundreds of calls and that when a listener does not hear his go-go request played on the radio, it’s easier for him to just get a tape and "pop it into his tape deck." Singer Jill Scott told WPGC’s Donnie Simpson that DC blew up her go-go tinged song, "its Love," before she even released it as a single. DJ Kool feels that local stations could have just as easily pumped the Rare Essence remake of Sade’s "No Ordinary Love." But, many go-go fans feel that if bands record a song with the goal of receiving heavy radio play, then the result will be a "watered down" go-go song; that the live energy of go-go won’t be captured in a studio song. Kool feels that the answer to this is to make the song formatted, but to record it live in the studio, thus delivering a song that has a hook that you can sing along to, and one that keeps the live feel that go-go audiences love so much. Because they were highlighted in the Vibe article, many feel that The Back Yard Band—in the studio working on their next album, Hood Related, II—will be the next band given the chance to take go-go national. Coop promises that this album is going to be full of original music and formatted songs. He said that Back Yard hopes to shoot a video for "The Dippa," so that people all over the country can see how people party and dance in DC. As front man for the band, Genghis is often the target of critics. Asked to respond to those who say he has no flow and can’t rap as well as band mate Los, Genghis says that while Los may be a better rapper lyrically, that he has learned from Los over the years. "To all you haters who said that I can’t rap, yes, Los is a better rapper as far as flow ability, but I can free-style. Anybody can sit down and write a rap, but I can make one up of the top of my head. I can rap about what a person has on, what the ladies are doing, what’s going on at the bar. I got some other things coming up that will make the city proud of me and make the haters hate me even more." Genghis went on to proclaim that Back Yard has has "more in store. Something that will blow the city out of the water." Read more on Last.fm. 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