Get Crunk!, The Showboys and the Triggerman Beat

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I bought this comp called "Get Crunk!" and the last song is 'Drag Rap (Triggerman)" by The Showboys (it's not about crossdressing, but it does sample the Dragnet theme song and references it and Elliot Ness and even has a 'commercial break' w/beatboxing and whistling of another familiar tune).

I can't find any ilm reference to this or thebrakes. I did find this comment on discogs, "This old school hip-hop track has had a surprising revival as the basis of numerous New Orleans 'Bounce' records. It is often referred to there as the 'Triggerman Beat'".

Apparently there was one other 12'' released around the same time (86) on Profile (they were also on the christmas Rap LP) and a recent album called Buggs Can Can and Triggerman: Y2G's Showboys shows up on amg.

So does anyone know about this track or the 'triggerman beat' or The Showboys? Or has anyone else heard Get Crunk!?

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There is also a Eightball and MG track, "Armed Robbery" on the same comp that is clearly fashioned after "Drag Rap" and has it's own Dragnet sample.

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i don't know shit about this but i think it's the break behind the beat that every straight bounce song ever uses. check any hot boy ronald or dj jubilee, whatever, it's using that same break or the same drum pattern as that break.
on one jubilee song he shouts, "HOLD UP! STOP THAT BEAT AND PUT THAT TRIGGERMAN ON SO WE CAN GET DONE WITH THIS."

― 4444, Friday, 27 August 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to revive this once because a lot of people probably missed it (or maybe no one cares?).

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 30 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

A hip-hop DJ friend of mine here in Memphis cites "Drag Rap (Triggerman)" as the source of all Southern hip-hop. I was hanging out at his place last week and he was using it to work on a set he's hoping to spin out on Beale Street in the near future. ("Hip-hop started out in the parks . . .").

I've heard him talk about it for awhile, but I think last week may be the first time I've heard the actual record.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Monday, 30 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The Tear The Club Up Thugs (DJ PAUL n JUICY J) sample that song in "Push Em Off".

You can also find that track on Mr Magic's Rap attack VOL II (1986)

peace!

― Damian B., Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

unlv - drag em in the river (hilarious mystikal cheerleader dis)

― -+-+-++--++, Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

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