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Grab It

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This album was badd, In it's day. One of the girls were from Chicago and the other a New Yorker and that was when every rap group (female) was copping salt & pepas style. However they had one big hit, "The Cars That Go Boom" I remember begging my then boyfriend to buy me the tape formy birthday and I still have it. Admittdely it sounds mad dated now,, but it brings back good memories. Rap has come a looooooooong way!

Yiannis, lighten up. Rap has come a very long way since L'Trimm produced "Grab It", but even then they weren't really considered rap as much as they were considered just plain cute one-hit-wonders.

However, I was a teenager at the time, so I can tell you that NO ONE back then took "Grab It" very seriously.

It was during that time that car stereos were really coming into play---especially the bass aspect of it. Everyone was converting their back seats into speaker casings and everyone was trying to be the one with the best sounding bass.

"Grab It" was just a fun tape that everyone popped in & blared while cruising the strip. (Some people had CD players, but not as many as today.) No one even really listened to the words--we all just paid attention to the bass.

I give it 5 stars because back then it was one of the best tapes to put out the "boom".

Wow, I can't believe I ran across this classic album on Amazon. I still have the tape, and I have busted it out every couple of years to listen to it. In fact, I've sang the lyrics to Grab It (You've got ta grab that thing when it's up in your face, cuz if you don't he'll go another place...) & Cars With The Boom (We like the cars, the cars that go boom, we're Tigra & Bunny and we like the boom...) to people at work, who thought I was crazy and had lost my mind. I had no idea that they had put out two albums after this one. I only wish I had known so that I could have bought them too, whether or not they were as good as this one.

My only regret is that I didn't discover this album back in 1988----Lady Tigra and Bunny D are my new heroes

This abum is great, it is great old school rap. How can you resist "(We Like) The Cars With The Boom". This album is just so enjoyable I recommend it.

This is just to correct Yiannis. L'Trimm actually put out two more albums before they disappeared from the music world. They are out of print: 1. DROP THAT BOTTOM (1989) 2. GROOVY (1991)

I love cutie pie and the rest of this cd ain't badf you gotta be into old school hip hop to really feel this but grab it they had enuff booty to grab believe me.

late-80s rappers bunny d. and tigra offend both rap affecionados and the larger music community with their debut release, _grab it!_. before the title track is over, there is enough evidence to book these two valley-girls-turned-rappers on at least two counts of overt style-biting. though apparently older than young mc baby d, l'trimm's voices are not nearly as mature, making their more sexually-suggestive lyrics uncomfortable to listeners. the two win points for consistency, however, as their rhyming skills do not belie their immaturity. in short, l'trimm's most notable contribution is the nominal hit "cars with the boom", which managed to secure considerable airply the year of its release in spite of the fact that critical acclaim was not forthcoming. though the fresh beats of "push it" and "supersonic" acheived success among a large and diverse audience, many suburban youth were still cutting their teeth on the relatively new national rap/hip-hop phenomenom and, therefore, could not handle the likes of the more serious artists such as salt-n-pepa, j.j. fad and roxanne shanté. in that regard, it can be said that their relatively soft-core interpretation of hip-hop, which had cheerleaders from orange county to nashua considering themselves fans of rap, aided and abetted rap's insurgence into mainstream american culture. it is unclear whether tigra and bunny were intended as a pop anomaly or a serious rap duo, but the absence of a sophomore effort speaks for itself. bunny sums it up best in "grab it" when she raps "my name is bunny and this is not funny."