Saturday, 17 January 2026
Saturday Night's alright
Schoolly D's Saturday Night single turns 40 years old sometime this year. Don't expect me to know the exact date tho because I'm not a nutcase like Dart Adams. Saturday Night isn't as important a song as P.S.K. "What Does It Mean?", but I reckon it's Schoolly's ultimate choon. That's not to say it isn't important too, mind - it's a key song in Rap's breakbeat revolution of 1986, but it rarely gets the credit for that because Schoolly wasn't from New York and the track wasn't produced by Marley Marl or Ced Gee. Saturday Night is one of those classic 1980s singles which never had a video, so the closest we've got is the menu screen from the King Of New York DVD which sets Saturday Night to the scene of Frank White dancing in the hotel room with his homeboys & homebirds. Cheeba cheeba y'all.
Was discussing this with the SDTW boys recently. There was a hip hop club in Edinburgh mid 90's called SEEN that got a spot at Wilkie House which had a notoriously loud and high quality sound system for its regular Techno nights. Dj Pogo guested one night and cut up doubles of the 12" intro and then let the whole thing play through. Proper trancendent experience for an underager who wasnt about when it was released. It's cut so loud I thought the building was going to collapse with the 808 bass and cowbells. Love the chapter on Schooly School in the Brian Coleman book.
ReplyDeleteHah. I love stories like that. Was that the first time you ever heard the song then?
DeleteThink I had heard it before but never out on a sound system.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever heard a DJ play it out 😢
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ReplyDeleteThe 4K release of King of New York doesn't have it playing on the menu screen.
Yo, that's like jewels without ice, China without rice etc etc.
Delete…….but the reason I even know this song is cos of the actual scene in the film of Frank n his crew of supermodels n impeccably dressed d boys dancing n doing rails aka one of the goat uses of music in any film ever ?!? Baffled here lol
ReplyDeleteThat being said dvd menu loops should be celebrated as much as possible, thats baby making music.
Schoollys music has aged better than almost anyones, prob cos his style never got bit n played out bar 6 in the morning. Idk how anyone could bite “drunk freestyling while tapping on an mp as code money scratches” though
That's Am I Black Enough For You? in that scene innit?
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ReplyDeleteAm I black Enough For Yas definitely in another scene though.
Top 2 streaming era copyright/licensing tragedies:
Girl 6 cos of the prince songs
GTA san andreas/vice city
No Signifying Rapper in the og Bad Lieutenant cos Jimmy Plant was a hater
Fuk Led Zeppelin n everyone who love em.
DeleteI completely forgot about that scene 🤦 Menu screen goes harder tho.
Fuck outta here that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It's only competition is every other scene in king of new York incl the shootout over Am I Black enough For Ya which I just watched lol
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Drive by at the funeral
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The ending of The Funeral
Better dance moves on the menu screen plus classic Jim Jump facial expressions.
DeleteI really need to rewatch The Funeral tbh. I can barely remember it.
I do too, all I remember is that and the bit where Vincent Gallo has a casual conversation W chris Penn while he has sex w someone. I wanna see other Chris Penn films
ReplyDeleteJimmy Jump is easily Larry's best, he steals scenes Walken is in n it's the best thing he's ever done too.
Paul Calderon, baby Michael imperioli, Giancarlo Esposito, David Caruso, what's fucking w king of new York baby
I need to read Ferrara's memoir which dropped recently.
DeleteCo-signing Jimmy Jump as Fishburne’s best role.
ReplyDeleteI didn’t realise he was in the White Lines music video until only a couple of years ago.
Keep meaning to watch Ferrara’s New Rose Hotel on Tubi, but I always forget. Equally, Fear City, which I copped ages ago. Never seen it uncut.
I watched Walken and the Penn brothers (skinny Chris Penn 😮) in the true crime drama At Close Range last night week. First hour was incredibly slow, but it picked up in the remainder. Madonna’s Live to Tell being teased throughout the film was annoying as hell.
SMH, probably the one outright dud Madonna single from that era.
DeleteJim Jump's walk into the fast food restaurant might be the greatest walk in movie history.
You play ball Tito?
ReplyDeleteHe should have been nominated for best supporting actor - everything Jim Jump does is the best part of the movie. Hearing Am I Black Enough over topless girls dancing and everyone doing rails of coke was life changing...
It's true. Oh, it's true.
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