How old were you and what was going on in your life when this song came out...

what's o.p.p?

If I remember correctly I was a little punk kid spray painting trains in NYC.

Other people's property > for women

Other people's pussy > for men


Download the song by Naughty By Nature, its a rap classic if ever there was one.

I grew up in NYC too, Queens to be specific. So I was around that area when the song came out.

I was kidding.

Hey, how was I to know? If you're 20 years old or less you probably never even heard the song. I talk to some kis these days about the hits that came out when I was young and sometimes they just look at me funny, like what the fuck are you talking about

Yeah you know me!

i dont understand

ive talked to young kids that atually THOUGHT britney spears wrote my progragative (sp) and didn't know who bobby brown was ( teens) thats horrible

i dont remember where I wqas i prolly was either drunk or on acid or both lol

i know dumbasses that thought alien ant farm made "smooth criminal"
i, of course, restrained myself from kneecap breaking action.

Britney couldn't write her own name lol

Anyone who is, or heard, of Naughty by Nature knows...

OPP, how can I explain it
I'll take you frame by frame it
To have y'all jumpin' shall we singin' it
O is for Other, P is for People scratchin' temple
The last P...well...that's not that simple
It's sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten
It's five little letters that are missin' here
You get on occassion at the other party
As a game 'n it seems I gotta start to explainin'
Bust it
You ever had a girl and met her on a nice hello
You get her name and number and then you feelin' real mellow
You get home, wait a day, she's what you wanna know about
Then you call up and it's her girlfriend or her cousin's house
It's not a front, F to the R to the O to the N to the T
It's just her boyfriend's at her house (Boy, that's what is scary)
It's OPP, time other people's what you get it
There's no room for relationship there's just room to hit it
How many brothers out there know just what I'm gettin' at
Who thinks it's wrong 'cos I'm splittin' and co-hittin' at
Well if you do, that's OPP and you're not down with it
But if you don't, here's your membership

Chorus:
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (Every last homie)
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (All the homies)

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted
The first two letters are the same but the last is something
different
It's the longest, loveliest, lean-- I call it the leanest
It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest
I won't get into that, I'll do it...ah...sorta properly
I say the last P...hmmm...stands for property
Now lady here comes a kiss, blow a kiss back to me, now tell me
exactly
Have you ever known a brother who have another like ah girl or wife
And you just had to stop and just 'cos he look just as nice
You looked at him, he looked at you and you knew right away
That he had someone but he was gonna be yours anyway
You couldn't be seen with him and honestly you didn't care
'Cos in a room behind a door no one but y'all are there
When y'all are finish, y'all can leave and only y'all would know
And then y'all could throw the skeleton bones right in the closet do'
Now don't be shocked 'cos if you're down I want your hands up high
Say OPP (OPP) I like to say with pride
Now when you do it, do it well and make sure that it counts
You're now down with a discount

Chorus:
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (Every last lady)
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (All the ladies)

This girl ah tried to OPP me
I had a girl and she knew that matter-of-fact my girl was partner's
that
Had a fall out, disagreement, yeah an argument
She tried to do me so we did it in my apartment, bust it
That wasn't the thing it must have been the way she hit the ceiling
'Cos after that she kept on coming back and catchin' feelings
I said, "Let's go my girl is coming so you gotta leave"
She said, "Oh no, I love you Treach" I said, "Now child please"
You gots to leave, come grab your coat, right now you gotta go
I said now look you to the stairs and to the stairwindow
This was a thing, a little thing, you shouldn't have put your heart
'Cos you know I was OPP, hell from the very start
Come on, come on, now let me tell you what it's all about
When you get down, you can't go 'round runnin' off at the mouth
That's rule number one in this OPP establishment
You keep your mouth shut and it won't get back to her or him
Exciting isn't it, a special kinda business
Many of you will catch the same sorta OPP is you with
Him or her for sure is going to admit it
When OPP comes, damn-- skippy I'm with it

Chorus:
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (This whole party)
You down with OPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
Who's down with OPP (This whole party)

Break it down!

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ADG Webmaster

Great song

Release date: September 24, 1991.

I was 6 and have no fucking idea what I was doing.

I'm not sure exactly....but I have a feeling that Dan Cortez, Bill Bellamy, and Eric Nies were a much larger part of my MTV viewing life.

Back in the days when they played *some* music

Senior in high school. I was 18.

I was 9 but I dont remember the song and definately no idea what I was doing at the time!

I was running a multi-million dollar mainstream business and having a ball

Holy fuck, that song was amazing. I think I was 12 when it came out. I need to download that now. Thanks for posting this!

is this Joe Black in your sig? which movie?

Whenever anybody plays even one line of that song I am instantly transported to sitting on the school bus in my junior year of high school waiting for people to get on so we can get home. For a month or so it was all the kids in the back sang.

High Fidelity.

You mean they didn't ??

I was 8 years old when this song released, I have heard it though

thank you

I was 10 and I started to listen hiphop music about the same time...doing it since then
this song is/was one of my fav then

OPP

I was 8 years old, so I was probably running around a park somewhere kicking a ball about. Thats all I did when I was younger. Played soccer in school and all night after school.

Come to think of it thats all I do now... Play soccer after I work

i was 16 and probably getting laid...

middle school.

LOL! I remember riding my BMX around with a big "Ghetto Blaster" Strapped to my back. Playing that song........LOL......... I think I was 13 or 14

I had this Wave setup on the beach in Daytona during the big heyday of MTV being there for spring break. It was right next to the big stage and I let people stand on the surfboard with my girls and charged them $5 for a polaroid. MTV used us for several intros to their shows like "Yo MTV Raps" with Ed lover. Made money all day long and then partied all night. It was a pretty wild time.

We had all the big artists of the day playing on stage behind us and one of them was Naughty by Nature singing O.P.P.

Damn that brings back some memories.

Well I was 23 when that came out and frankly I didn't care for that crap type music anyways.

I had just moved to Miami, and was beginning 3 year, world wind tour of clubbing, women, cocaine, money, and sex.

Now I live in Vegas and I'm drug free...go figure.

I was in junior high i think...

i was a grade 9 punk. didn't care much for the song but never took the time to listen to the lyrics either. i was busy listening to the dead kennedys and dayglo abortions.

10 years old and everybody in school wanted to be Dj Kay Gee or Treach...lol... good memories

MC Treach is one of the most underrated rappers ever.

Lets not forget MC Hawkings cover of this song called "Entropy".

Entropy
Trash Talk
Harm me with harmony.
Doomsday, drop a load on 'em.
Verse 1
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Verse 2
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Chorus
Trash Talk
Hit it!
Doomsday, kick it in!

14 years old. What I do remember, was getting a blowjob by my then, best friends older sister.

oohhh.. guessing running around point grey as a kid

R

6 years old caring more about power rangers then music

There is no such thing as original Hip Hop anymore - seems like a dying art

i resent that, i mean im 21 and my girl is 18 and we both know and love that song

and you my friend obviously dont listen to enough hip hop, their is loads of original stuff out their you just gotta look for it

There's still hope then

Please post some suggestions, I'd love to hear some original shit, but the crap I hear on the radio isn't doing it for me.

I agree with Verbal Kint (lol, their playing Usual Suspects right now). Rap is pretty much dead, most of the shit out there sucks now. I think rap hit its peak from 92-96. After that it pretty much went downhill.