It's not nelly, I heard it way before that song, I think it dates back to the 60's. Does anyone know who really started it?
2006-07-28 01:45:11 · 6 answers · asked by Mike Laz 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I heard it was from the song
1984/85 The Roof is on Fire by Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three. It was an old school rap song....According to some light googling, it's the way Rockmaster Scott and the Dynamic Three did the chorus in concert for the song "The Roof is On fire". It's not in the official lyrics. There is some mention that Parliament and others have used it, that it was a funk/R&B catchphrase, especially as an audience response thing. BTW, according to google, Slick Rick was one of the Dynamic Three.
2006-07-28 01:52:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three
2006-07-28 08:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by kpcoco0870 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'the roof. the roof, the roof is in fire' can be traced back to a chant called at funk gigs and early discos in the 70's. It is probaly most associated with Parliament and Funkadelic but fans of the Gap Band also used to chant it.
It was just generally associated with gigs and club nights when the atmosphere was so hot that the crowd would chant "the roof etc..."
Anyway after all this Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic 3 did the classic party jam called "The Roof is on fire" in 1984.
"(THE ROOF IS) ON FIRE"
BIZZY BONE
Bizzy:
For the Menensky tribe worldwide will you please sing along with the old ***** spiritual?
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
We don't need nothin' but the weed and a lighter, and a lighter.
It ain't a thug those that's livin that it realer than the villain witha million still killin dealin and all for the children came out of Cleveland with Steven and even my peoples was creepin but now they reapin, seepin, retreatin, deletin did ya feel em give my ****** the fist and keep the pistol gripped now whistle if you need me and quick I'm there for murder and mayhem look out for lay man his trigger finger itchin' to lay them his trigger finger itchin' to lay them don't run to lose your live enjoy I ain't ****** around and makin the noise but better believe I'll get up and leave and keep my poise. (O yellow boy you holdin??? Hell, yeh!!!!) Thuggin on Brackland when I sold crack and I got a mini-mack for the action the murder and mashin ***** milennium fashion blastin' over trash 50 thousand dollars cash as fast as you can smash stabbed in the back and anxiety attacks flash through the childhood relax and react it be like that ***** you know that prescribin me prozac forgive but never forget sin yeh even within the thin begin again with that pretty little ***** in your click uh spittin' demonish **** hey baby you need a friend and act a little bit feminine take the fatigues off **** the club even the 6 it's hellish I be the one to tell it lust for the thugs who be ****** w/ seven....seven....seven....seven....seven....seven....seven....seven....
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
We don't need nothin' but the weed and a lighter, and a lighter.
Gather up gas masks for biological war we know a whiff of the **** will make you wither fo sho' ****** in the C.O. we livin' in this AB World 144 thousand full of tribes with the last word SHUT Up! the book of old it got em thinkin that they crackin code Oh no pin it computers ain't pinnin the Millenium your future youth be the truth in the music you better your soul triple stage darkness in the unsolved encore little E, B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, murdered in California need I say more killa forget it's in Heaven'z Movie was it? Lose the Lord's covanent I'm huggin it and Imma duck and trust I'm all thuggish as **** uh what ***** bust and up by creepin on a come up eternally stressed my faces of death for the world war yes quiet on the set the shoots expired the Roof is on fire...we don't need nothin' but the weed and a lighter and a lighter we don't need nothin' but the weed and a lighter and a lighter
Now what I want ch'all to do is I want y'all put y'all muthafuckin lighters in the air keep their bitchez up there **** wit cho - lil' *****......
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
We don't need nothin' but the weed and a lighter, and a lighter.
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2006-07-28 08:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
band called Parliment
2006-07-28 08:48:56 · answer #4 · answered by DesignR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its like hiphop itself no one knows who started it dj scratch can be traced back , Dj kool herc is responsible for hiphop but not the creator
2006-07-28 09:06:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First time I heard it was on Kid & Play's "House Party".
2006-07-28 08:47:47 · answer #6 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋