‘What Does It Mean?'” is on it), Saturday Night! The Album arguably is Schoolly D’s best work, no doubt one of the best albums to emerge from the Philadelphia Hip Hop scene in the mid-80s – with classic cuts on it such as “Saturday Night”, “Do It, Do It”, “We Get Ill”, “Parkside 5-2”, and “Dis Groove Is Bad” (one of the dopest instrumental Hip Hop tracks ever). While his first album Schoolly-D may be better known (mainly because “P.S.K.
The West Philadelphia native’s confrontational nature and willingness to shock – using terms and themes that became common in Hip Hop years after he made a name for himself – might be most frequently associated with his mid-’80s breakthrough, but he has cultivated a formidable discography crossing four decades, far beyond foundational LPs such as Schoolly-D (1985), Saturday Night! The Album (1987), and Smoke Some Kill (1988).
Schoolly D - Saturday Night!: The Album (1987)Ĭredited by none other than original gangster Ice-T as “the forefather of gangsta rap,” Schoolly D is a Hip Hop pioneer also for having produced, released, and distributed his early recordings, such as the classic single “P.S.K.