Yo, It's Holly & Tabitha's Hip Hop Don't Stop Lockdown House Party Mixtape
In late 2019, I bought Bob Stanley's fantastic compilation on Ace Records, "The Daisy Age". I played it in the car, with the kids, and they really got into "Bonita Applebum", because it allowed them to say "bum" a lot. They also loved "Mistadobalina" for it's repetition. This was good news to me, as a fan of the genre. This year, they've been watching the Disney remake of "Aladdin" a lot, and really like the genie, played by Will Smith. I told them that he's also a rapper, played them "Boom! Shake The Room" and they loved it. I thought let's try Whistle's "(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin" and they LOVED it. So I put together a mixtape of hip hop tunes I've loved that I thought might appeal to kids as a introduction to the genre. Yes, some (a lot) of it's pretty cheesy, but we've all got to start somewhere, right...