Okay Set it off may be the one rap song that is truly the one. 1984, 10 years old white kid. At a youth center learning about culture and break dancing. Made my mom get me Shell Toe Adidas, and went and bought fat laces. All the kids taught me moves. I am 49 now and this is the one that will always bring me back. No matter what. Only others were Jam on it, White line Highway, and planet rock. I will forever be grateful for the mark these songs have made on my soul.
I can't lie I like it that all these youngstas are from 2k15 are in here feeling this shit. The ones who come are the ones who got good taste in music.
I have to definitely agree and if anybody ever wanted me to dance sneak up in their set it off and you'll see what danceing is all about Best Song Ever
@@BlockBallerRecords If u have it? Post it. If true, or until I hear it, I'm a lean on he was inspired by. My reason- all his songs are some kind of similar: unique, proving his creative level way high
the best jam ever..walk into a club and this song goes on its like a sunami of people just scream oooooohhhhhhhh yea and dance there way to the dance floor
This song almost always guaranteed a packed dance floor with everyone...and I mean EVERYONE...grooving hard to this jam. People would stop in the middle of a conversation just to run out on the dance floor. Block parties all over NYC, boom boxes blaring at basketball courts, and cars rolling to the local clubs would play this classic. Little did we know that we would have by far the best music to mingle with. Miss those days so much.
Rick Rubin and Pharrell sent me here. You know what’s cool. Being a 40 year old man from New Zealand having no memory of this song but reading all your comments from around the world, namely America referencing your memories of growing up with this song in your lives, it’s so cool. Some of you talking about boomboxes in nyc, Florida, names of night clubs, parents stereos etc, parties. Song playing in the background as i read the comments, felt like I just jumped in a time machine sharing memories from around the world from another time. Thank you 🙏🏻
@Thrillcekr Strafes SET IT OFF is an underground phenomenon still flying below the radar of the GWB Committee. Being on a small, independent label is the difference. Many early uses were unauthorized; with litigation still pending. It is the most sampled tune of all time. Thanks 4 the comment!
I saw him at a club back in the day. It was him and his manager , and he was signing autographs. I think the club was called Bacchus. This is a timeless set, goes with anything everywhere.
Classic. This song was used by so many dj's in NY during the 84-85 era. I fricking loved it. I had it on most of my mixtapes and radio show mixes. WBLS, MR MAGIC. 97KISSFM RED ALERT ETC....... Salute to Strafe for this smash. I used to break to this #SETITOFF
Once this starts playing blacks folks stop what they are doing and start doing the electric slide. LoL At least that's how it was for us in the early 90's.
This is one of my all time favorites. They don't make them like this any more. I still want to dance drink and whatever I use to do back in the day when I hear this.
Oh, guys.... can we stop the bickering... pause for a moment and remember when this song came out. IT BROUGHT TOGETHER!!! GAWD, I miss the dancefloors of days gone by... now it's all a pissing contest. I DO hope that Strafe get every last penny that's owed them from all the illegal sampling. They are freaking classic! HardSoulRecordings, thanks so much for posting with the amazing photos. I'm soooooo heartsick for this time of utterly unique musical time...
Awesome. One of the best classic tunes of all time. I don't know why but though the song is from 1984, I first heard the song in 1989 because it was getting played a lot becoming popular. Hail Strafe.
went to school with him one of my close homeboys Stevie B as well. i used to dance for nice and Wild dude that used to sing you're my diamond girl John Menace this is back in the good old days God bless them all peace out to Brooklyn LL stay funky represent your Queens I was raised out of Brooklyn baby baby
I used to tear it up on the dance floor to this! Whenever it came on, I would stop what I was doing and run to the dance floor lol. This is my jam, good memories. 👍🏼😎
OMG! I was like 10 years old when this first came out....me n my boyz used to dance on subway platforms to this shit!!! oh man,cardboard mats,addidas with the FAT laces,Kangols,skateboards,big fake gold chainS! LOL old school NYC baby!
No DJ worth his salt would dare work a party without having this song somewhere in his crates. If he left it at home, he'd get back in his car and GET IT. If all else fails at the party, break this out and you have eight minutes to get your shit together. There's no probably; this is the greatest, most sampled, most emulated dance track in history. Every 'artist' who sampled this and didn't pay up should still be breaking out checks to Strafe for this....
Going to the club's on Sat night's to dance to this and then the following night seeing Alice in Chains play. I miss the 90s. It was a plethora of delights.
Such an awesome song and brings me right back to late 80s or early 90s I forget exactly when it came out cept for I know I was still in high school. Awesome memories forever attached to this nostalgic evergreen song! Long version rocks also! Bravo infinity x's infinity!
Man this song is so timeless I remember hearing this at every family event growing up .. This song was in my top 10 most played last year and I'm not even 30 years old haha .. my kids will know this song ! Love
WOOO!!!!!! The memories. the first club vinyl i bought was SET IT OFF!!!! INSTANT CLUB HEAD FOR LIFE!! Jersey, baby!!! The Zanzibar, Club 88, Barrister's, Club Cosmos, The Mirage, Club America, Sensations!!! Thanks for the BEST TIMES OF MY YOUNG(BACK IN DA DAY) LIFE!!!
As a kid growing up in the 80's watching da movie the principal with my dad just hooked me to dis jam n haven't stopped popping n getting down to dis iconic jam!!! Joe "El Poche"Benavides from Laredo, Texas 🤙💥🔥
My aunt used to tell me a story about how she used to tear up the clubs when she was younger and she refused to go out on the dance floor until the DJ played this song.
2024 Still Here Doing It!! 🔥🔥😘💋💃🏾🔥
Heck yea ❤❤❤❤
💃💃💃
2024 Still Here Doing it
Long live the 80s!!!
This track is eternal & was an INSTANT classic from the first bar. Pure Genius
Shout out to all the Oldheads👌
Now Set it Off!😘
this makes me want to go skating
Rula T Bryant YES YOU ARE SOOOOO RIGHT!!!! 😅😅.. BRING THOSE DAYS BACK!!
Rula T Bryant SERIOUSLY.... YOU JUST READ MY MIND!
Barkays
Big facts
bout to workout🏋️🏡gYm !! got mY Cafe Bustello💖✨🙏
What’s so crazy about this guy is his style is legendary this song has been in my head since 1986 bro
Facts
Song is timeless
Still rips todayyy
Okay Set it off may be the one rap song that is truly the one. 1984, 10 years old white kid. At a youth center learning about culture and break dancing. Made my mom get me Shell Toe Adidas, and went and bought fat laces. All the kids taught me moves. I am 49 now and this is the one that will always bring me back. No matter what. Only others were Jam on it, White line Highway, and planet rock. I will forever be grateful for the mark these songs have made on my soul.
Planet Rock is a whole mood 😂😂I love that jam born in 83 so this is my kinda music
Me too. 46 here
Rastafari Family and Soul Family vibrations
NYC the mecca for hip hop
Another timeless classic released way before it’s time. This song will live on forever.
Never ever gets old
I can't lie I like it that all these youngstas are from 2k15 are in here feeling this shit. The ones who come are the ones who got good taste in music.
Yes im 14 and love this song lol
I'm 12
Ace Of Clubs I been feeling this from 2k15
first time hearing this song was in NBA 2k15 lmao I'm 22 years old now
I Love Strafe - Set It Off On WBLS 107.5 New York City Forever!
Could this possibly be the best dance song ever created?
I have to definitely agree and if anybody ever wanted me to dance sneak up in their set it off and you'll see what danceing is all about Best Song Ever
yep!
Only if he created it but he stole it from a Band leader from Boston FROM THE E WATER BAND
Possibly
@@BlockBallerRecords If u have it? Post it. If true, or until I hear it, I'm a lean on he was inspired by. My reason- all his songs are some kind of similar: unique, proving his creative level way high
This song right here is making me want to go to the club and skating
Set it off then
I was looking for this song for almost 12yrs I used to breakdance I battled a guy at the Puerto Rican parade and this track gave me power😁
Soul Family Rising
This song will always be the party starter!!!!!
I was in 7th Grade when this song first came out, and three decades later, it's STILL great music!
The whistle in the beginning of the song gets me hype every time!!!
Set it off
I get you fam
This song never gets old.
It will never get old.............will set off any dance club yesterday, today and tommorrow!
Never get old? Hmm
@@josephfrye7342but you're here tho right..?
First time I heard this song was in 95 when i first saw the movie - The Principal (1987)- and ive loved it ever since. Strafe FTW.
the best jam ever..walk into a club and this song goes on its like a sunami of people just scream oooooohhhhhhhh yea and dance there way to the dance floor
This song was blessed and sent down from the Gods above. Definitely came “from another place” other than Earth, that I’m convinced
The Principal ... very good movie !
right
gk cru No more!
j marcum Coors Original Beer and powder mix.
blasted this in my very first black mercedes - what a feeling
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blast this in my 55 bel air
+Renee Alfieri blasting it in bed yo
Renee Alfieri blasting this in my 2018 E300 Sport
Chrysler PT Cruiser GT!!!! 🚘🎶🎵📻
@@DavidBoura😂😊😊
This song always puts me in a good mood :)
This song always puts me in a good mood
This song almost always guaranteed a packed dance floor with everyone...and I mean EVERYONE...grooving hard to this jam. People would stop in the middle of a conversation just to run out on the dance floor. Block parties all over NYC, boom boxes blaring at basketball courts, and cars rolling to the local clubs would play this classic. Little did we know that we would have by far the best music to mingle with. Miss those days so much.
Jax. Florida memories... Cool Runnings club mixed tapes❤❤❤❤
Whoop
Oh yeah! I remember this in the early 80's - in Manhattan. Uptown 80's-90's Amsterdam Ave. Miss that time.
Watching the 1987 film, The Principal, brought me here! :)
Rick Rubin and Pharrell sent me here. You know what’s cool. Being a 40 year old man from New Zealand having no memory of this song but reading all your comments from around the world, namely America referencing your memories of growing up with this song in your lives, it’s so cool. Some of you talking about boomboxes in nyc, Florida, names of night clubs, parents stereos etc, parties. Song playing in the background as i read the comments, felt like I just jumped in a time machine sharing memories from around the world from another time. Thank you 🙏🏻
This track is eternal & was an INSTANT classic from the first bar. Pure Genius
This song never gets old ❤❤❤❤
When you hear this and you from Florida you know what time it is
This 🎵song🎶 has me soooo crunk! Good memories!!😢🤔😁❤
This song made me want to be a dj. I first heard it at a Rock Steady party in the early 80's in the Bronx.
I remember there was a snippet of this song in "The Principal" w/ Jim Belushi.
Soon Togiola Yep, that's where I heard it for the first time on cable when I was a kid and loved it but never heard it again till 20 years later.
Yo down in the So Fla that was the shiz. "Set it off" was always in the mix on Power 96
I used to be in south GA in the skating rink
Im from little havana... Miami 305 in tha house!
damn this brings me back to riding around in the car with my pops in through the bronx in the late 80s early 90s
Cool jam. Also the track for the "clean-up" montage in "The Principal", which is a cool movie. Long live the 80's!!!
My favorite childhood song,still makes me wanna dance!
"Y'all want this party started right? Y'all want this party started QUICKLY, right?!"
Amen
This song is so awesome.
This song is so awesome
THE ROXY NYC ! it was CRAZY heard this song months b4 it was played on the radio, and even after it was played on the radio it still was HOT.
This is my jam........Damn, never gets old!
It’s actually classic and retro
Boy George said in an interview this was the very first house track he ever heard, and it basically started him as a DJ for electronic music!
interesting point but not necesarily true
If put thumbs down YOU WASNT THERE PERIOD! SET IT OFF
Ah how I miss that beat! This was one of the premier jams in the clubs of the 80's.
@Thrillcekr Strafes SET IT OFF is an underground phenomenon still flying below the radar of the GWB Committee. Being on a small, independent label is the difference. Many early uses were unauthorized; with litigation still pending. It is the most sampled tune of all time. Thanks 4 the comment!
OMG!!! I love this song!!! this is so 80's house music at it's best...
I saw him at a club back in the day. It was him and his manager , and he was signing autographs. I think the club was called Bacchus. This is a timeless set, goes with anything everywhere.
This was the song back in the day, loved this song to death!
Classic. This song was used by so many dj's in NY during the 84-85 era. I fricking loved it. I had it on most of my mixtapes and radio show mixes. WBLS, MR MAGIC. 97KISSFM RED ALERT ETC....... Salute to Strafe for this smash. I used to break to this #SETITOFF
I LOVE THIS SONG THIS WAS THE JAM BACK IN THE DAYZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
Classic, , can u imagine living off of one hit. This would be the one.
This song is just fking bomb, brings back a lot of memories, thanx for sharing! Cheers
One of the greatest club bangers ever!
Once this starts playing blacks folks stop what they are doing and start doing the electric slide. LoL At least that's how it was for us in the early 90's.
Hell yeah but we called it the bus stop
850 LBP That's what we called it down in Ga. too but every time I say the bus stop people look at me like what the hell is he talking about. LoL
man I remember those days....it was either this or Mike Jackson....
Yeah your right
I'm just a dumbass white boy who knows wirebending and tech, but that's also immensely offensive. And I ran roadie for One Drop. Bitch.
"The Principal" sent me here!
This song tore the place down in the early 80's! Forgot about it until I watched "The Principal"
This is one of my all time favorites. They don't make them like this any more. I still want to dance drink and whatever I use to do back in the day when I hear this.
Oh, guys.... can we stop the bickering... pause for a moment and remember when this song came out. IT BROUGHT TOGETHER!!! GAWD, I miss the dancefloors of days gone by... now it's all a pissing contest. I DO hope that Strafe get every last penny that's owed them from all the illegal sampling. They are freaking classic! HardSoulRecordings, thanks so much for posting with the amazing photos. I'm soooooo heartsick for this time of utterly unique musical time...
I don't think people will understand how this song only ever snuck in on live mixes on the radio at night. This is as smooth as silk.
Awesome. One of the best classic tunes of all time. I don't know why but though the song is from 1984, I first heard the song in 1989 because it was getting played a lot becoming popular. Hail Strafe.
went to school with him one of my close homeboys Stevie B as well. i used to dance for nice and Wild dude that used to sing you're my diamond girl John Menace this is back in the good old days God bless them all peace out to Brooklyn LL stay funky represent your Queens I was raised out of Brooklyn baby baby
S/o to all my AKA's that stop what their doing when this song comes on
u mean the cerority Alpha kapa Alpha
+D Brinson *sorority and yes Alpha Kappa Alpha. The first black sorority
my moms one
💕💚
That's right Sister! 06& 80!
Club night music gets you in the groove
Thank 2k15 for bring me here. Never heard the whole song till I played the game. Damn this is a great ass beat. 80's baby grew up in the 90's.
My favorite song of all time!!
Grossly underrated dude is on 🔥 period and always has been.
I used to tear it up on the dance floor to this! Whenever it came on, I would stop what I was doing and run to the dance floor lol. This is my jam, good memories. 👍🏼😎
OMG! I was like 10 years old when this first came out....me n my boyz used to dance on subway platforms to this shit!!! oh man,cardboard mats,addidas with the FAT laces,Kangols,skateboards,big fake gold chainS! LOL old school NYC baby!
Oct/1984 for me, just outside of Fort Lee VA, at a club just inside Petersburg, VA.... rocked this song til I couldn't dance anymore :-D
This song gets you in the groove making me want to get on the dance Floor
Back in the late 90s after my father's pass I discovered this song through the Box, Music is my life
This sing had everybody on the dance floor
No DJ worth his salt would dare work a party without having this song somewhere in his crates. If he left it at home, he'd get back in his car and GET IT. If all else fails at the party, break this out and you have eight minutes to get your shit together.
There's no probably; this is the greatest, most sampled, most emulated dance track in history. Every 'artist' who sampled this and didn't pay up should still be breaking out checks to Strafe for this....
Facts
Amen
Going to the club's on Sat night's to dance to this and then the following night seeing Alice in Chains play.
I miss the 90s. It was a plethora of delights.
Major favorite in a lot of "gentlemen's clubs" in the late 80s and early 90s
@@ukrainiansniper5916 I don't know so much about the gentlemen clubs but it sure was at the house clubs.
So much diverse music we could mix in x yes NYC 90S x Brit grl
@Kevin McGinn That's exactly right Kevin. That's why I called this a "plethora of delights"...So many genres with brilliant sound.
This song right here get you in the groove so start getting on the dance floor
On September 3rd 2024 at 10:45pm, Flavor Flav played this song to open his show on Sirius/XM channel 36 "Rock the Bells"!!!
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Such an awesome song and brings me right back to late 80s or early 90s I forget exactly when it came out cept for I know I was still in high school. Awesome memories forever attached to this nostalgic evergreen song! Long version rocks also! Bravo infinity x's infinity!
I love this song so much.
Growing up in Baltimore Maryland in the 1980s this song was IT!!!!
I love this song. I listened to it all the time on Jock Jams tape. I'm gonna have to get another one.
Love this song - brings back good memories.
Like what ? In 2023
This Shiit!! so BIG in da south!!! We do the Bus Stop off it!!!!! Its 2021 and it Still has the same effect!!!! Wow classic
Thanks STRafe Thanks 🙏
Finally found this song! I’ve been looking forever
Man this song is so timeless I remember hearing this at every family event growing up .. This song was in my top 10 most played last year and I'm not even 30 years old haha .. my kids will know this song ! Love
WOOO!!!!!! The memories. the first club vinyl i bought was SET IT OFF!!!! INSTANT CLUB HEAD FOR LIFE!! Jersey, baby!!! The Zanzibar, Club 88, Barrister's, Club Cosmos, The Mirage, Club America, Sensations!!! Thanks for the BEST TIMES OF MY YOUNG(BACK IN DA DAY) LIFE!!!
Brings back some memories from my clubbing days. Going to discos in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island.
They used to play this at the club back home and the crowd would go crazy. Time to do the bus stop! Oh the memories.
I’m 57 years old I’ve never heard this song until watching a little girl doing a slide yesterday
Omg this is My joint right here I love old school music this song still sounds good 31 years later in 2015
As a kid growing up in the 80's watching da movie the principal with my dad just hooked me to dis jam n haven't stopped popping n getting down to dis iconic jam!!! Joe "El Poche"Benavides from Laredo, Texas 🤙💥🔥
STRAFE! This NEW YORKER, Brooklyn kid! HE tore shit up! STYLE, ORIGINALITY!!! Performance!! AND great MUSIC throughout the years! A big inspiration!!
they always play this song at the skating ring and the old folks be jammin
parents rocked out to this in 83 i still do
i have been looking for this song for forever! im so glad i found it. i love it xD
OMG I haven't heard this song in years! Too cool, reminds me of my clubbin' days yo!
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members tear the floor up when this come on.
I see lol. Their video sent me here. Now I gotta see them line dancing every time I hear this song...
one of coolest most rememiscent tracks for those born in 1971 who can truly appreciate great physcodelic funk an sole.
Day Pena no fair to just say 1971 lol. I came five years later 1976 and love psychedelic funk and disco.
Yes we do! #AKA1908
Li Reese we sure do! SKEEEEEWEEEEE 💖💚
That's that 80's forsho💪🏾💯 🔥
I remember this when I was little in the 80s and I am 33 now. Moms' old jam!!!
Now you're 44.....
I was so young when I heard this. Never knew the name until now. So happy!
My aunt used to tell me a story about how she used to tear up the clubs when she was younger and she refused to go out on the dance floor until the DJ played this song.