What the F is "go go" and who the hell is Chuck Brown?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a middle aged white lady who isnt from DC and lives in the burbs.

But I freaking love Go Go music. I play it on WKYS or WPGC on Friday afternoons and it makes me so happy...like a street party. Starts the weekend off amazing. And that version of "Hello" ...https://youtu.be/KN1DJTQZwX0

Good for you.

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

Good. No one from DC cares.

And no one cares about mumbo sauce and go go music either.

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Everything ain’t for everybody. If you don’t like this move on and keep snapping on the one and three to Buble and Celine Dion.

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

+ a million

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

+ a million

How about Walt Whitman, Duke Ellington, and Langston Hughes? Also, no one cares that you don’t like DC.

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

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Where are you from and what do they claim as touchstones? Mayonnaise?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a middle aged white lady who isnt from DC and lives in the burbs.

But I freaking love Go Go music. I play it on WKYS or WPGC on Friday afternoons and it makes me so happy...like a street party. Starts the weekend off amazing. And that version of "Hello" ...https://youtu.be/KN1DJTQZwX0

Good for you.

Get out of your close minded bubble of bland boring sanitized whiteness and have some freaking fun

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Anonymous wrote:Everything ain’t for everybody. If you don’t like this move on and keep snapping on the one and three to Buble and Celine Dion.

I'm not sure these people even have enough rhythm for the one and three

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

+ a million

Where are you from and what do they claim as touchstones? Mayonnaise?

Who are you? A white lefty hypocrite living in a white neighborhood who is trying to score politically correct points by pretending to like go go music and Mumbo sauce?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, so I can Google. And it isn't too kind to the genre. But the local news is all over it so maybe I'm missing something, so I thought I'd ask here. Wiki says that Go Go is a genre that wasn't popular enough to expand beyond the DMV, and only remains popular in the area essentially because it's the only musical genre to start here so therefore it is revered here. So I am back to my original question. What is the draw to Go Go beyond the fact that it originated here? The Op Ed that someone linked to earlier basically made reference that Go Go is a lasting remnant of the Chocolate City - which doesn't seem like something to revere if we're looking for a post-racial kind of harmony. So again...my question stands.

Ohh because white folks don’t know what it is , it must be nothing.

WTF IS POST-RACIAL?

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

+ a million

Where are you from and what do they claim as touchstones? Mayonnaise?

Who are you? A white lefty hypocrite living in a white neighborhood who is trying to score politically correct points by pretending to like go go music and Mumbo sauce?

I'm a white lefty living in a fully integrated neighborhood in the exurbs- PWilli Co baby. My neighbors are AA, Dominican, Mexican, and white folks like me. My kid is one of the few blondes in his whole school. Maybe STFU and accept not everyone is an uptight douche like you

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I'm a mainly white, rural Oregonian & only just now learned about go-go, & I love it! I'd like to ride a dressage freestyle to go-go!

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I was totally into Rare Essence in high school!

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Anonymous wrote:You gotta hear it live to really appreciate it.

Loved the quote in the Post yesterday. "There are Washingtoians. And there are people who have never heard of go-go." it's not a knock. But if you grew up here, you'd understand.

I didn’t grow up here and I understand. Hoochie Man is always in my rotation. I went to an HBCU and was introduced to it there.

Except that no one on earth can name a single go-go artist except Chuck Brown.

Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited are two legendary go-go bands. You aren’t from DC so you should just shut it.

I’m glad to not be from a place that claims go-go music and mambo sauce as its cultural touchstones.

+ a million

Where are you from and what do they claim as touchstones? Mayonnaise?

Who are you? A white lefty hypocrite living in a white neighborhood who is trying to score politically correct points by pretending to like go go music and Mumbo sauce?

I'm a white lefty living in a fully integrated neighborhood in the exurbs- PWilli Co baby. My neighbors are AA, Dominican, Mexican, and white folks like me. My kid is one of the few blondes in his whole school. Maybe STFU and accept not everyone is an uptight douche like you

Yeah, because you sound great.

[Anonymous]

I'm not from DC, but first got acquainted with go go from the Doin the Butt song from the early 90s.

Then I went to an HBCU (not in DC), where all the DC kids would get hype when go go came on--that's when I first heard that pork and beans song, lol. I loved dancing to it in clubs in college.

Then I moved pretty far away, and went for over 10 years without hearing it. Happy to be back in DC now.