I just swagbucked “what be goin’ diggy down” and there are actually 3 different artists who use some form of that line in their songs. That would be LL Cool J, Black Eyed Peas and yes, tobyMac. In case you were wondering.
{tobyMac is the former lead singer of dcTalk which leads me to…}
me, tobyMac, Staci at a dcTalk concert. circa 1993.
This weekend Kat tweeted something about her iPod randomly playing an old dcTalk song. Well, I couldn’t let that one go by so I had to reply with “down with the one that is known as the Son to the G to the O to the D, never done.” Of course, Becky jumped in with a “Down with the dcTalk! D-d-d-down with the dcTalk!” A few other people jumped in and suddenly we were all watching a dcTalk video from 1993 on YouTube.
Are your eyes glazing over? Did you miss out on Christian-teen-culture in the early 90’s? Because dcTalk may have been my NKOTB. I didn’t have the sleeping bag, but I did have a dcTalk watch. (Don’t laugh, so did Staci!) The saddest part is that once you love someone enough to have a watch with their face on it, you just can’t let them go. Staci and I may have stalked tobyMac a few dozen times in the last 20 years. And no matter what happens, what horrible rumor I hear, or how many times some too-cool-for-school person makes fun of me, I’ll still like them.
So, who was your hang-up-the-poster-on-your-wall-and-stalk-them-at-their-concerts-and-get-their-autographs-after-you-stood-outside-by-their-bus-for-three-hours-and-watch-all-their-videos-fifty-times-in-a-row band when you were a teenager?
{Oh, and if you were a dcTalk groupie fan, show off a little and see what lines you can still remember!}
I still remember listening incessantly to my NuThang tape. I didn’t really like DcTalk once they stopped doing rap. 😉
What will people think when they hear that I’m a DCT freak? What will people do when they find out it’s true?
Oh. Oh. Ohhhhhhhh.
NSYNC!!
THAT PIC IS AWESOME! (Especially, the captions!)
Well, I was a pretty serious Amy Grant fan from the time I was born (the year her first album came out and my grandpa bought it) until I discovered 12 years later that other people, in fact, made music as well.
I met her a few years ago and of course the first thing I said was, “I’ve been listening to you since I was born.”
I like to start conversations with age related insults apparently.
As far as DCT goes, I think Jesus Freak was my fav album and one of the best Christian albums ever.
I mean, with lyrics like, “jiggled around like marmalade jelly” how can it not become a classic?
You’re so cute! What a fun picture you got with TobyMac. You really are a stalker, aren’t you? 😉
Don’t shoot me – I had never heard of DC Talk until I was in college!
It was all NKOTB and Boyz II Men for me! And yes, I had posters, t-shirts and even a NKOTB pillowcase. Wow.
“I was looking for a way to explaino cuz you know I was flowing like a bottle of Drain-o”
Is it sad that’s the line I recall on this lovely Monday afternoon?
Oh my, I puffy hearted dcTalk. I saw them in concert but never got my picture with them. I was pretty crazy over NKOTB though.
ehem. I became a Christian rather “late” in life (at all of 22 years) so I missed the teen-music-obsessed Christian music thing. I know I thought that Christian music in the 80’s and 90’s was rather… cheesy. That actually kept me from listening to Christian music way after I became I Christian – I couldn’t stomach it until I met my hubby and that was all he listened to. Then I realized it wasn’t so bad after all.
So after my NKOTB posters came down off my door, I was all about REM and U2. Those were my teenage musical choices!
-“Young people, God’s doing a nu thang. Isn’t He? Won’t you stand with me right now and sing…”
-“S-E-X is a test when I’m pressed, so back up off with less of that zest. Impress this brother with a life of virtue, the innocence that’s spent is gonna hurt you. Safe is the way they say to play, but safe isn’t safe at all today…”
-“Children can live without it…”
-“Heavenbound, heavenbound, huh huh heavenbound. Huh huh heaven, ha ha ha ho heaven huh…ha heaven bound. RAP”
-“We’re just 2 honks and a negro serving the Lord”
Need I go on?
Oh Amanda…you are probably the only other person who understands the affinity for TobyMac. Let’s be old ladies in the nursing home and still listen to and stalk Toby Mckeehan 🙂
“Round round, your spinnin’ round, your life goes round & round. Gui-gui-tar!”
“What if I stumble and what if I fall? What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all? Will the love continue when my walk become a craaaawl?”
And only for the real fans…
RUA2J
and
Got 2 B U
Saw a man with a tat on his big fat belly, it wiggled around like marmalade jelly. It took me a while to catch what it said ’cause I had to match the rhythm of his belly with my head. Jesus Saves is what it raved in a typical tattoo green.
I wanted to get in on the fun. 🙂
Wow. I feel deprived. 🙂 I didn’t really know dc Talk until college. I really like them – and now, TobyMac – but, um, I guess I don’t LOVE them like you all do!
I wasn’t ever a huge NKOTB girl, either. I just don’t go over-the-top crazy for boy bands, I guess.
Well, I did have quite a crush on Harry Connick, Jr. at one point…
dc Talk came to my church several times when I was pretty young. My parents were friends with the music ministry leads and we were friends with their kids, so it got us plenty of access to…um, drool. I liked quiet, dark types, though. tobyMac was nice to look at, but Kevin Max was the one I followed around. My sister and I would sing in our basement together and act out how it would go the next time we got to meet them (again, benefits of the mega church my parents attended at the time).
p.s. I love your “happy sigh!”
Concert time in my part of the town
Ya know, I brought my mom cause I knew she was down
She was flat groovin’, but couldn’t understand
How they makin’ music when there ain’t no band
And then she cried, “James,” everybody stared
She heard a James Brown sample and thought he was there
She got home, shook her head and said,
“Kids these years”
But then again, we think the Beatles were weird
I luv rap music
I luv rap music
JUST SAYIN!!!!
LOVE it! I saw DC Talk in concert back in 94. I loved them! I was also a HUGE Newsboys and Audio Adrenaline fan. I saw them too in Colorado at the Red Rock Amphitheater. Awesomeness. 🙂
I missed the whole dcTalk stage…
As far as Christian music, I was all about Sandi Patty.
As for hanging up a poster, that single distinction belongs to Rick Springfield.
*sigh*
You can say it… I’m old! :0)
I was never a hang-a-poster-on-the-wall, or concert-going-groupie kind of girl. sad, but true. but you know what I think is awesome……how your eyes are closed in the picture. hee hee 🙂
I didn’t want to post a comment for the silly reason that it appears I will be the only ‘dude’ commenting, (nothing against you ladies, I just feeling a little out of place) but I have to call out the Addicted to Jesus / Carmen and the Got To be True/ Steven Curtis Chapman references. Those were the songs that actually launched my love of all things dc Talk. I still have a dct choker necklace around my house somewhere…
I even followed the solo careers for a while.
Paul- don’t worry- Les is a dude- he’s Amanda’s hubby!
NKOTB was my NKOTB. I was in to dc talk too. lol. I actually ran in to Michael Tate from dctalk at the theater in Hamilton Place mall in Chattanooga when I was in college. I was like “Is your name Michael? Are you…?” and he was like “yeah”. lol
Me and some of the girls from Lee U. went to see dc talk in the ATL at a Billy Graham thing (95′-ish). One of the most memorable weekends ever.
OMG that photo. I am laughing at memories of DC Talk. I think I saw them three times and totally had the poster on the wall in middle school. My musical tastes changed soon after, and I leaned toward girls with guitars. Jennifer Knapp, Sarah MacLachlan, Natalie Merchant. I still have a Sarah station on my Pandora and sing far too loudly when I listen to it. 🙂 The 90’s were so great!
You look so good as a teen
I just came to visit this post after your recent post about meeting TobyMac at the Dove Awards and I LOVE that picture & the captions – sooo funny! 🙂 I also saw DCTalk in concert in 1993 when I was just 12 years old – I was totally gaga over Toby while my bestfriend crushed on Kevin – haha. I had all the tapes and I remember when I was trying to tell my mom that they were Christians and they were okay to listen to, even though they had a song with the words “sex” and “virgin” in it – lol. I recognized all the lyrics quoted above, but I will recount to you “Time is ticking away…time is ticking, ticking on and on and on…” to which my cousins and I choreographed our own dance – yeah, it was pretty awesome. 🙂
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