# ID This Song/Video

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 26, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925 "2017-10-26T22:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925/1 "2017-10-26T22:24:00Z")

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please.

Saw this on VH-1 /MTV Classic (whatever the hell it’s called), the video consists of a short-haired African-American female rapper. The video cuts to different shots of her doing the song. Every now and then you can hear a female voice clearly saying “True” then the end has the rapper saying “…needs to rock on, …needs to rock on, …needs to rock on” with the ellipses representing a number of artists who I imagine were all the rage at the time. It’s a pretty bare-bones video. I just remember there were a lot of nifty jazz chords throughout the song.

I saw the video a few weeks back but I imagine it dates back to the late 80s, early to mid 90s.

I trust this should be no problem as people have id’ed songs with much less to go by.

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**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925/2 "2017-10-27T13:18:14Z")

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Wow. Looks like we’re stumped.

No takers?

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**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925/4 "2017-10-27T15:11:43Z")

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A little birdie tells me it might be Bahamadia’s “Uknowhowwedu”. I have made no effort to verify this myself.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925/5 "2017-10-27T15:13:25Z")

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[Bahamadia - Uknowhowwedu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyGUesyG7bU). (Courtesy of someone else–I did not know this answer.)

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**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-song-video/799925/6 "2017-10-27T16:50:25Z")

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> [@Mr\_Shine](#):
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> A little birdie tells me it might be Bahamadia’s “Uknowhowwedu”. I have made no effort to verify this myself.

That’s the one.  
I knew you guys wouldn’t let me down.