Does anybody remember this female rap duo, "Dis N Dat"?

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Thread subtitle: How did this get aired in 1994?

I will admit that I loved this song and video, “Freak Me” when I first saw it in 1994, when I was 28. It’s credited to “Dis N Dat”, but it’s actually a collaboration between DND, the 69 Boys, and 95 South. The video:

Ooo, looking back to when I was 28, all I can remember about the appeal was …

  1. Hot female rappers
  2. Pretty damn good rapping and a good groove
  3. Hot female rappers

Watching it again, 21 years later, at age 49 …

  1. Hot female rappers
  2. Pretty damn good rapping and a good groove (much better than what’s on the radio today, and I’ve always preferred “rapid-fire” rapping over today’s slow “grind” rapping)
  3. Hot female rappers, expressing aggressive female sexuality, and holy crap, how was this allowed to be broadcast by MTV in fucking 1994?

I mean, I still love the song, and the lyrics themselves are somewhat ambiguous and mostly “safe for radio”. But the video is downright explicit, making it blatantly obvious what the lyrics are referring to, which I kinda didn’t notice so much 21 years ago. Funny how the filters of time and experience can change how you look at something:

A woman demanding cunnilingus (“If you come back bring a lunch, cuz we’re gonna eat out tonight”)

“Whoop, there it is”, while the young woman speaking the line parts her legs and points almost directly at her girly bits.

One of the male rappers suggesting a threesome (“Well it’s two-for-one, y’all - I can do a little bit of Dis and a little bit of Dat”)

A woman declaring exactly how much she likes sex: “I’m a superfreak!”

Erm, “I’ve got some freaky stuff to do. Can I do my freaky stuff wit you?” (Well, at least he asks permission.)

“So I scoped out the dance floor
Caught a roughneck looking my way
He moved his wrist like, ‘Yo, what’s up?’
It was time to play
He walked up to me and said,
‘Yo, love, what’s the haps?’
We hit the floor, he whipped it out
I could tell this brother was stacked
He said, ‘let’s go’, I said, ‘oh no
Honey, it’s not that easy
But if you play your cards right
I might let you freak me’”

Oh yeah, indecent exposure!

“Yeah, I need a freak!”, again, while parting her legs and pointing significantly at her girly bits.

And then I also noticed something else in the video, something I didn’t spot 21 years ago, but which jumped out at me now that I’m older and wiser: one of the male rappers, in the club scenes, is macking on a pretty girl with stereotypical '90s hair. She has her arms folded across her chest, and looks really uncomfortable, and I’m thinking, “Wow, UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANCES”. Right there in a very sexual video.

So, again, how did this get aired in 1994?

Also, why was Dis N Dat not more successful? They were good. Almost Salt n Pepa good.

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In a similair vein why wasnt Boss more popular. Their music was better than NWA.

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Whoa, that was fucking awesome!

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I love this song. Also love Party from the same album. Miami rap is awesome!

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I had such a crush om her…the song is far better uncensored

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Of course, Miami also produced Vanilla Ice :stuck_out_tongue:

Then again, Ice was actually legit for a while:

(scroll down to #4)

I’m born-and-raised “West Coast”, but the first rap I ever heard, because I’m old enough, was Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”. And although I didn’t discover them until the late 1980s, I became a fan of UTFO (the originators of the original “beef”), also from New York. Beef? Yeah, UTFO put out “Roxanne Roxanne”:

And then, allegedly, this 14-year-old girl named Roxanne Shante walked into a NYC radio studio and proceeded to freestyle an answer to UTFO's song:
[And that's when all the trouble started](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_Wars). But, in the 1990s, I gravitated toward West Coast rap, because it had a certain groove to it that appealed to me. But I heard some of the stuff coming out of Miami, and damned if I didn't like it.
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Of course, these days, I think the best rap is coming out of Toronto:

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Nah, you can’t blame Miami for Vanilla Ice. He lived there for a few years as a young teen, is all. By the time he was really breakdancing and rapping, he lived in Texas.

I was never a big fan of most West coast rap. I liked the East coast style more in part because I liked the sampling of guitar, keyboard and horn parts, but also because to me it was much more political and social -centric, with West coast mostly being about bragging how badass the rapper is.

Miami rap, to be fair, is mostly about boasting (usually about sex), too, but it had way phatter beats than West coast rap because a lot of it was made for dancing, as opposed to being the soundtrack for a drive-by; that’s why it used to be called Miami bass.

Who can resist the booty-shaking beats of songs like 2 Live Crew - Me So Horny? (NSFW; duh)

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No one on the East Coast or Miami…or the universe had phatter beats than G Funk masters like Dre and Warren G.