Excuse Me Doug. E. Fresh You're On (Ah-Ah On) (Oh, My God - Doug E. Fresh & Get Fresh Crew)

Member Name: XICripZ

Product:	Oh, My God - Doug E. Fresh & Get Fresh Crew
Date:	21/06/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Bangers throughout

Disadvantages: Small role from MC Ricky D

"Oh, My God!" came out in 1986 and was the debut album from Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew. It came at a time when there was clear advancement in the Hip Hop world as the Barbados-born New Yorker dropped the album once the second wave of Hip Hop came up, following the Old School (which featured the likes of The Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five) and so with the progressive nature of the likes of LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. leading the way for acts such as this, it made for a newer and more refined sound. The Get Fresh Crew consists of Doug E. Fresh, who does the lead raps and beatboxing, in addition to DJ Barry B, DJ Chill Will and MC Rick D (who would later be known as Slick Rick).

1. "Nuthin'"

The album gets going in an exciting way as you find that Doug E. jumps right in with a a funky jam where here gets the party jumping from the start with a typically fresh joint from him where he acts as the hype man and get you going with his Old School lines and heavy beatboxing which gets you ready for what you are about to experience for the rest of it.

**Five Stars**

2. The Show"

Suddenly, you that things move on to somewhere which is far above the quality of pretty much any other track that the group ever produced as you see that on it the 'Inspector Gadget' theme is sampled as Doug E. gets down to the beatboxing and gives over the rhymes o Ricky D. The rhymes are of the highest possible standard you could have got from a 1985 Hip Hop track and so it get you going as they start the show in a dramatic way.

**Five Stars**

3. "Leave It Up To The Cut Professor"

Sampling Trouble Funk's "Pump It Up", this one has them doing things in a bit of a different format as this one gets the DJ's cutting up the classic jam, and hyping up the listeners to an even higher degree with the fresh scratches and beats which are chosen to work with. Following a reasonably-lengthy instrumental it fades out, and then is seen to reprise as it kicks back into action and Doug E gets to the rapping over the live DJing.

**Five Stars**

4. "Lovin' E'vry Minute Of It"

With this one you get the same sort o hyped-up vibe which you get from "The Show" in that the production seems to be done in a very similar way, with the only real difference in the use of a suitable sample in the hook, and with this you find some more of the fly flows which get you grooving along to the lead MCs lines.

**Five Stars**

5. "She Was The Type Of Girl"

Funkadelic's "You'll Like It Too" is used as the main drum loop here, and with such a funky percussion looping through it, you know that you won't be able to complain about any aspect of what you get in it. For This one you get a bit of a change as the attention turns towards the girls and it finds them using much more sampling as they do it and take on a style which seems to reflect what you would have got in the rhymes and beats of Run-D.M.C.

**Five Stars**

6. "Abortion"

Showing just how far detached the current Hip hop world is form its early days, this message rap fins the album taking a significant shift as you see that you get one of few early tunes in which big social issues are addressed. In this case, the focus is given in the title as Doug E. shows great distaste for those who agree with it too any degree, and somehow manage to maintain the funkiness in the material.

**Four Stars**

7. "Chill Will Cuttin' It Up" (Lude)

8. "Play This Only At Night"

In a similar way to what you got from the themed raps of very early (1979-1982) Hip Hoppers (and later acts such as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince), this one gets them performing one which has a very specific theme to it as it gets them doing a dark one which seems to work well off the one which came prior to it and has rather haunting instrumentals and minimal vocals to just extend this other side to the music. It is pointless when you look at it today, but fits in with the time.

**Four Stars**

9. "All The Way To Heaven"

Moving on well from the one before it, you see that on this one the pace is brought back as you get one which has the pounding beats coming back and giving Doug E. Fresh a chance to work well with his DJs to come up with the best results when he turns back towards the party jams again to bring another lift.

**Five Stars**

10. "Play This Only At Night" (Truth Mix, The Whole Story)

As the first bonus to the album, this one has them doing a revisit which was really needed in order to give the listeners some idea of what the original was about and so this one has Doug. E laying down some of his beats and a few rhymes on this on in order to make much more out of it and make sure it as much more of a purpose here.

**Four Stars**

11. "The Show" (Oh, My God Remix)

If any track on the album need to be reloaded, it would be "the Show" and so here you find that you get a remixed version of the killer debut single form Doug. E Fresh with MC Ricky D. Here you get it improved upon with added DJ presence with more scratches an extended outro which brings another extra couple of minutes onto what was already a track of more than six minutes in length.

**Five Stars**

12. "La-Di-Da-Di"

This is a straight-up classic track, and no more needs to be said really. It is one without any backing beats and finds Doug E. Fresh making the beats with his mouth as ever and giving MC Ricky D a chance o flow for the full duration of a track and do the first of many storytelling rhymes. It is amongst the most sampled Hip Hop tunes, and without it, Hip Hop wouldn't be how it is today.

**Five Stars**

Although I can see why it is rather out-of-touch with what is going on today, for the most part the album is funky to the degree that you simply don't care what they rhyme about. It is clear that although Doug E.'s flows are nice, Ricky D is the clear stand-out artist and it is a shame that he only appears on the most popular tracks on the album. It is a classic one, and has tracks on it which the Hip Hop world couldn't have possibly functioned without.

Summary: Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew's debut album