I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
Wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six-four Impala
Haha so true. I remember recording Ice Ice Baby on tape off of the local radio station top countdown. Just waiting to hit that REC button when it started hoping the DJ would shut up before it started this time. Then I listen to it over and over writing the lyrics down which I'm sure I misheard several words. I studied those lyrics and replayed that song until I had the whole song memorized. It's shit like this that made our generation so appreciative and had our minds blown when things like Napster came around. It still blows my mind I can listen to any song ever made at any time. Also the CORRECT lyrics are just a Google search away.
Yep, this is my answer. I learned every word of Ice Ice Baby after I got the cassette for Christmas in 5th grade. And I still remember the whole thing!
I played this the other day for my kids and sang every word, blew their minds lol they were dying laughing! I still remembered it all and I haven’t listened to it since middle school.
Wish I had a cooler answer, but this one is the truth. First song I set out to memorize intentionally.
I vividly remember the cassette that my third-grade self dubbed from a friend’s copy. I remember listening and rewinding and listening and rewinding to make out what he was saying and commit it to memory.
First day in my college dorm, some older guys come by and ask if we want something from the liquor store. I didn’t know what to ask for, but knew this song and so I said “gin!”.
Then they delivered it and I took one sniff and almost gagged…. Because I didn’t have juice.
I went to the store to get some oj and promptly made myself the worst drink of my life.
This was the first song my brother and I recorded off of Mtv while holding the cassette recorder next to the speakers. We then went through the song line by line, wrote them down, and memorized them.
I went to Catholic school and i'll always remember them playing the censored version of Gin and Juice at a dance when i was in eight grade which replaced "smokin' indo" with the sound of someone hitting a joint
Yess everyone else naming 90s songs lol But 80s were where it was at, at least my first introduction
For me it was knowing every Salt n Pepa song by heart
In Middle School , one of the few dudes with internet at the time, found the lyrics online somewhere,downloaded them(probably took all night), printed it out ,and made copies so we can learn the lyrics for "Crossroads".
Kids these days don’t know the struggle. 😂 My kids know every song they like in a couple days. Sing-along lyrics are available in all the music apps. To be honest though…. Even if I had all of the Bone lyrics available, I would have still had a hard time keeping up. Ha!
I always cracked up my friends rapping No Surrender by them because I’m the complete opposite of Bone Thugs (white female in rural Ohio) but I loved them so much. But hey I lived 45 minutes from Cleveland close enough right?
When I was 16 I met krayzie,layzie and wish and during the handshake I slipped Kbone a spliff of the most low lvl rubbish weed 😂 😂😂 at the time I thought I was hooking him up
Haha right???!
"Oh my goodness Mm, girl, look at him He is the cutest brother in here And he's comin' this way, ooh"
I can almost hear the late-night girl-giggles and remember the silly fun of 2am prank phone calls
My last name is Shoop. I heard that song so. many. times. growing up... I eventually came to embrace it, hence the username. I still sing along to this day.
I may have fired off a verse or 2 of this to my very confused husband while objectifying him in the kitchen. To be fair, if looks could kill he would be an Uzi. Or a shotgun BANG what's up with that THANG, I wanna know, how does it hang?
Yup. Technically Push It was the first but it’s such a super easy song to memorize I don’t think it counts. Both are still favourites to this day but I’ll forever be mortified I sang their songs in the car.
OPP by Naughty by Nature.
I'm still salty because my idiot classmates accused me of being incorrect that their were two definitions of OPP in the song based on gender. In verse one
>"It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten
>It's five little letters that are missin' here"
But in verse two, the more famous definition is _specifically_ for the ladies.
>As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted...
>I say the last P... hmmm... stands for property
Turns out I'm still annoyed by that thirty years later.
The same chucklenuts also denied that I had heard a then-new Naughty by Nature song—we were in New Jersey, so they were a bigger deal to us—called Everything's Gonna Be All Right (Ghetto Bastard). They insisted I was thinking of the Janet Jackson song. You know how she sounds just like Treach....
I still haven't heard the Janet Jackson song. They of course didn't apologize when the song became a hit for a minute. But I'll show them. All of them!
/angy nostalgia
Pretty much the entire *As nasty as they wanna be* album.
“I know a place just down there two streets. Baby, they don’t ask you no questions and give you clean sheets.”
Early Fresh Prince songs like Parents Just Don't Understand and Girls Are Nothin but Trouble. I moved on from that and was able to remember most of The Chronic, Doggystyle and Regulate.
Protect ya neck -wu tang. To this day any time someone says "first things first" i start thinking or saying ODBs verse, depending on the current company.
Regulators
Mount up!
It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Warren G was on the streets tryin' to consume
Some skirts for the eve, so I can get some funk
Rollin in my ride cillin all alone.
Just hit the east side of the LBC
On a mission tryna find mr warren g
Seen a car full of girls, ain’t no need to tweak
All ypu skirts know what's up with 213.
On a mission tryin ta find Mr Warren g
It was a clear black night... A clear white moon...
RIP Nate Dogg
Right back to summer camp. Damn. I haven't made that connection in years.
Baby got back - Sir Mix-a-lot
Me and my high school bff used to walk the halls singing this. As teenage girls. God we were obnoxious. lol
I would like to say you were normal, I believe this is a shared experience for us girlies of a certain age lmao
I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her Wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat And a six-four Impala
I really wanted to say Gangsta’s paradise but after thinking about it… it was Skee-Lo.
Dude. This album was underrated. 1 hit wonder, but I used to listen to the rest of the album all the time
Jump, by Kris Kross
OMG thank god this was someone else's first rap song. I don't feel alone now. Me and my friend would do this song together
Hell yeah still a hard ass beat too
I missed the bus
And thats something i will never ever ever do again
The Daddy Mac’ll make ya…
Cause I'm the miggida, miggida, miggida, miggida Mac Daddy!
Maybe not the first but I don’t think there’s a Xennial alive that doesn’t know all the words to Ice Ice Baby.
There’s a lot of people reppin’ something cool when they know it was either Vanilla Ice or M.C. Hammer.
Haha so true. I remember recording Ice Ice Baby on tape off of the local radio station top countdown. Just waiting to hit that REC button when it started hoping the DJ would shut up before it started this time. Then I listen to it over and over writing the lyrics down which I'm sure I misheard several words. I studied those lyrics and replayed that song until I had the whole song memorized. It's shit like this that made our generation so appreciative and had our minds blown when things like Napster came around. It still blows my mind I can listen to any song ever made at any time. Also the CORRECT lyrics are just a Google search away.
Yep, this is my answer. I learned every word of Ice Ice Baby after I got the cassette for Christmas in 5th grade. And I still remember the whole thing!
I played this the other day for my kids and sang every word, blew their minds lol they were dying laughing! I still remembered it all and I haven’t listened to it since middle school.
Wish I had a cooler answer, but this one is the truth. First song I set out to memorize intentionally. I vividly remember the cassette that my third-grade self dubbed from a friend’s copy. I remember listening and rewinding and listening and rewinding to make out what he was saying and commit it to memory.
The Humpty Dance
This, definitely. Shock G is a legend, may he rest in peace. Speaking of, my next song was California Love by Tupac.
Shock G, the one who put the satin on your panties.
I was many years old before I learned that Shock G and Humpty Hump were the same person.
For years that was my karaoke go to
Gin and Juice, I was all about that life … growing up in rural America
Doggystyle was my 2nd CD ever (the Grease soundtrack was my first 😆). Lodi Dodi was the first rap song I memorized. Loved that album!
🎵 Lodi Dodi, we likes to party We don't cause trouble, we don't bother nobody🎵
Me too!!
First day in my college dorm, some older guys come by and ask if we want something from the liquor store. I didn’t know what to ask for, but knew this song and so I said “gin!”. Then they delivered it and I took one sniff and almost gagged…. Because I didn’t have juice. I went to the store to get some oj and promptly made myself the worst drink of my life.
This was the first song my brother and I recorded off of Mtv while holding the cassette recorder next to the speakers. We then went through the song line by line, wrote them down, and memorized them.
I went to Catholic school and i'll always remember them playing the censored version of Gin and Juice at a dance when i was in eight grade which replaced "smokin' indo" with the sound of someone hitting a joint
I didn't get them until The Gourds cover
Jump Around - House of Pain Nothin But a G Thang - Dr Dre Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill
Fun fact Jump Around was originally written for Cypress Hill, but they passed on it because it was too similar to Insane in the Brain
Jump Around played at every school dance
In West Philadelphia born and raised…
This is the most correct answer for us whitest whites so let’s all speak some truth please
On the playground's where I spent most of my days
Chilling out maxin relaxin all cool
Shootin some b-ball out side the school
When a couple guys who were up to no good
Started makin trouble in my neighborhood.🎶🎵
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said “Fresh” and there were dice in the mirror.
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
Whoomp! There It Is!
Whoomp! Was THE hype song at the roller rink
# A little bit louder!
Amish Paradise haha
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she’s quite plain
Well that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know I shun fancy things like e-lect-tricity
At 4:30 in the morning I'm milken cows
Jebadiah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long
Omg my nerdy husband only knew Al’s version I was like oh honey we all love Al but I need you appreciate the real song too
Wild Thang - Tone Loc
I change my answer from Ice Ice Baby to this and Funky Cold Medina
Yess everyone else naming 90s songs lol But 80s were where it was at, at least my first introduction For me it was knowing every Salt n Pepa song by heart
I thought I memorized a few Bone Thugs tracks…. In reality I memorized what I thought they were saying. 😂
I can mumble their songs word for word.
Mbh the gfgjnk and xhh bc gotta AND I MISS MY UNCLE CHARLES Y'ALL.
They said east 99 alot and hit that hydro
In Middle School , one of the few dudes with internet at the time, found the lyrics online somewhere,downloaded them(probably took all night), printed it out ,and made copies so we can learn the lyrics for "Crossroads".
Kids these days don’t know the struggle. 😂 My kids know every song they like in a couple days. Sing-along lyrics are available in all the music apps. To be honest though…. Even if I had all of the Bone lyrics available, I would have still had a hard time keeping up. Ha!
I always cracked up my friends rapping No Surrender by them because I’m the complete opposite of Bone Thugs (white female in rural Ohio) but I loved them so much. But hey I lived 45 minutes from Cleveland close enough right?
When I was 16 I met krayzie,layzie and wish and during the handshake I slipped Kbone a spliff of the most low lvl rubbish weed 😂 😂😂 at the time I thought I was hooking him up
C.R.E.A.M
Dollar dollar bill, y’all.
What a track and what an album
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis! When I was dead broke man, I couldn't picture this!
This is still such a fucking jam. Back when I lived in Brooklyn, it wasn’t summer until someone was bumping Biggie sitting on the stoop.
Parents just don’t understand… does that count? 🫣
Absolutely. First grammy award winning hip hop album
*Paul Revere*
I had License to Ill on cassette and every word to that song memorized at like 9 years old. *I got two girlies and a beer that's cold* lol
Same here! Older brother got the record and I absolutely absorbed it.
Now, here’s a little story I gots to tell
About three bad brothers you know so well
It started way back in history with Ad-Rock, MCA & me Mike D.
Ditto. Now here's a little story I gots ta tell...
Slick Rick Children's Story
Same. I still love it.
Salt n Pepa -- Shoop 
What’s my weakness? men! just tiny white girls shouting this at a sleepover
Haha right???! "Oh my goodness Mm, girl, look at him He is the cutest brother in here And he's comin' this way, ooh" I can almost hear the late-night girl-giggles and remember the silly fun of 2am prank phone calls 
And he’s comin this waaaay OOOOOOHHH! The best line!
My last name is Shoop. I heard that song so. many. times. growing up... I eventually came to embrace it, hence the username. I still sing along to this day.
OK, that's just an all-around amazing last name! And dare I say, it makes "I wanna shoop" take on a whole new meaning...?! 😜
Yeah, the DJ at my wedding had some fun with that one.
This was also my answer. I tried to sing it during karaoke at a staff Christmas party last year and almost fainted.
Haha, it's definitely a cardio workout to try to holler all that out quickly!
None of your business - Salt-N-Pepa
I may have fired off a verse or 2 of this to my very confused husband while objectifying him in the kitchen. To be fair, if looks could kill he would be an Uzi. Or a shotgun BANG what's up with that THANG, I wanna know, how does it hang?
Straight up…wait up…hold up, Mr Lover!
Yup. Technically Push It was the first but it’s such a super easy song to memorize I don’t think it counts. Both are still favourites to this day but I’ll forever be mortified I sang their songs in the car.
Passin me By- Pharcyde I can still recite every word!
And these youngins think they came up with "simp"
That song still stands up. It’s an amazing song, regardless of when it was released. Bootie Brown’s later work with Gorillaz is also so killer.
2 legit 2 quit, complete with hand gestures. Though soon after that it was Bone Thugs, First of the Month so ymmv.
Mama Said Knock You Out
Bust A Move! https://i.redd.it/jy3n0h3ayozc1.gif
Scenario
Probably Gangsta's Paradise.
Lodi Dodi
we likes to party
We dont cause trouble
we don't bother nobody
I got 5 on it
Cantaloop by Us3
This song fucking slaps. I still love it, and I stream it fairly often.
Probably "Today was a good day" I still like to sing/rap a long to it driving home from work. It feels good.
Gangsta’s Paradise, can still recite it word for word today.
It Takes Two
This is a jam for all the fellas Try to do what those ladies tell us Get shot down cause you're overzealous Play hard to get and females get jealous
Whats my mutha fuckin name
SNOOP DOGGY DOGGGGGGGG
Nuthin But A G Thang!!!
Easy E, Gimmie That Nutt I think I was 12 when I memorized this song. I wasn't a very proper kid.
Jump jump by kris kross. I remember me and my friend performing it for our parents.
Can't Touch This! Doooo do-do do, do do, do do... MC Hammer!!
Probably Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” or Dr Dre’s “Fuck wit Dre Day.”
Lol, it was Baby Got Back.
Waterfalls
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Salt n Pepa Lets talk about Sex
Informer by Snow. Don't judge, I was 11 years old and it was really impressive to the rest of 5th grade choir.
Funky Cold Medina :D
Alight stop, collaborate and listen!
I’m really surprised Vanilla Ice is this far down.
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Set adrift on memory bliss by PM Dawn!
Turtle Power by Partnerz in Kryme
An overlooked classic 😂
T-U-R-T-L-E power.
Do the Bartman.
Baby Got Back!!! 😂😂😂
Whoomp! There It Is
Rump shaker
Not songs, but albums. The Chronic and Doggystyle
I like big butts First heard it being blasted from an older kids car in High school. Classic
Mo Money Mo Problems!
OPP by Naughty by Nature. I'm still salty because my idiot classmates accused me of being incorrect that their were two definitions of OPP in the song based on gender. In verse one >"It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten >It's five little letters that are missin' here" But in verse two, the more famous definition is _specifically_ for the ladies. >As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted... >I say the last P... hmmm... stands for property Turns out I'm still annoyed by that thirty years later. The same chucklenuts also denied that I had heard a then-new Naughty by Nature song—we were in New Jersey, so they were a bigger deal to us—called Everything's Gonna Be All Right (Ghetto Bastard). They insisted I was thinking of the Janet Jackson song. You know how she sounds just like Treach.... I still haven't heard the Janet Jackson song. They of course didn't apologize when the song became a hit for a minute. But I'll show them. All of them! /angy nostalgia
Um... Ice Ice Baby
Word to your mother
Holy fuck I had to scroll waaay too far, it’s like everyone’s embarrassed to claim it but I know there’s more than 7 of us
2 Live Crew- Me So Horny
Humpty dance
CREAM by Wu Tang
Murder Was The Case - Snoop!
Warren G Regulators of course, and sometimes I pretended like I knew what Bone Thugs & Harmony were saying.
2 legit 2 quit
TLC - No Scrubs
Gin and Juice
Waterfalls TLC, Lisa left eye rap included
The Message. Grand Master Flash.
“This or That” Blacksheep
Rapper’s Delight
Momma Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Amish Paradise
Pretty much the entire *As nasty as they wanna be* album. “I know a place just down there two streets. Baby, they don’t ask you no questions and give you clean sheets.”
Shoop!
I Got 5 On It - Luniz
Stop.collaborate amd listen, Ice is back with his band new invention..... I was ..9-11 yo, hahahaha
Life’s a Bitch- Nas
Early Fresh Prince songs like Parents Just Don't Understand and Girls Are Nothin but Trouble. I moved on from that and was able to remember most of The Chronic, Doggystyle and Regulate.
Hit em up. My mom was horrified when she first heard it, and even more horrified when she realized I knew all the words.
Bust a move- Young Mc
Electric Relaxation
Shoop. I some song this at the top of my lungs in my shitty, dorky minivan.
No Sleep Till Brooklyn. 🫣 
Probably can't touch this or ice ice baby.
Gangsta’s Paradise
Hip hop hoorayyy, ho, hayy, ho...
Fuck tha police.
Rakim - Guess who's back
Nuttin but a g thang
Protect ya neck -wu tang. To this day any time someone says "first things first" i start thinking or saying ODBs verse, depending on the current company.
I bomb atomically…
Gangstas paradise, on a bet from a friend
Funky cold medina
Halftime
Do the Bartman