haste Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 (edited) Destiny's roads are...cos love set you free forever (played backwards) Lickwood means rewind, gunshot means forwardYou requested it so we rewind Are you ready? Edited September 17, 2006 by haste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 The backwards lyrics say some stuff like "love sets you free forever," but I can't remember the whole thing or where it's from The other bit is "Liquid means rewind, the gunshot means forward" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornette Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 "liquid" may (probably) actually be "lickwood" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haste Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Yeah it does sounds like Lickwood, but what the fook does that mean :?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 It's liquid (lickwood just being a "hip" way of spelling it) AFAIK it was common practice to ask to see "liquid" -- i.e. holding up your Red Stripe or whatever -- in the dancehall for the nice tunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haste Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Now you're just making shit up :wink: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/_XOOM/ronnibeermatshunter/photogallery/photo13519/Jamaica%20Red%20Striper%20irregular.JPG Nah, sounds cool to me...liquid it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mikeeee Posted February 13, 2005 Report Share Posted February 13, 2005 The backwards lyrics say some stuff like "love sets you free forever," but I can't remember the whole thing or where it's from The backwards sample is from an Inner City tune, can't remember which one off hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theorie Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Anyone know where the 'gunshot means forward' sample is from? Some soundclash or something? It's also in this: http://www.rolldabeats.com/release/kniteforce/kf015r Wicked sample Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blah Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 I doubt that it is but it might have come from windows in the sky by acen on production house as it is very clean in that if not sped up a bit I always thought lickwood meant dead & buried i.e lick the coffin wood (heh heh) but who the fuck knows??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kola Nut Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I'm pretty sure it is lickwood, which basically means bang the wall really hard with your hands or whatever. Lick wood. From an old soundclash, can't remember which though. "Lickwood means rewind the gunshot means forward, you requested it so weee rewind" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theorie Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I prefer Logic's explanation: holding up your Red Stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Droid Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 I prefer Logic's explanation: holding up your Red Stripe Nah - 'Lickwood' means to shoot your gun into the ceiling... 'lick' (shoot) - 'wood' (ceiling) Had me going for a few years though... still no news on where the sample comes from though. Not exculsively a soundclash tune anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sch_pr Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Nah - 'Lickwood' means to shoot your gun into the ceiling... 'lick' (shoot) - 'wood' (ceiling) Had me going for a few years though... still no news on where the sample comes from though. Not exculsively a soundclash tune anyway. Yeah i think it's that - kindda bang salute -But where's the difference between the lickwood & the gunshot?(first you shoot the ceilling, second you shoot the dj :smile: ? (means forward for sure) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 Yeah i think it's that - kindda bang salute -But where's the difference between the lickwood & the gunshot?(first you shoot the ceilling, second you shoot the dj :smile: ? (means forward for sure) ) :laugh: Good question! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Nuttah Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Nah - 'Lickwood' means to shoot your gun into the ceiling... 'lick' (shoot) - 'wood' (ceiling) Had me going for a few years though... still no news on where the sample comes from though. Not exculsively a soundclash tune anyway. Yeah thats not the meaning. Liquid is the sound records make when you wheel forward, as in fast forwarding. Sounds like liquid pouring kinda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theorie Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 Yeah thats not the meaning. Liquid is the sound records make when you wheel forward, as in fast forwarding. Sounds like liquid pouring kinda. it makes the same sound whether you spin forward or backward? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 it's definitely lickwood meaning bang the wall and lickwwod means rewind gunshot means forward - refers to the practice employed at old reggae soundclashes to progress 'forward' in the clash and basically stay in the competition - you need to get approval from the crowd for the tunes you're playing gunshots in the air meant the crowd want a rewind so "lickwood means rewind - gunshot means forward" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornette Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Nah - 'Lickwood' means to shoot your gun into the ceiling... 'lick' (shoot) - 'wood' (ceiling) Had me going for a few years though... still no news on where the sample comes from though. Not exculsively a soundclash tune anyway. Tim Westwood used to play the sample as part of a jingle for his Capital Rap Show programs... it would go: "... Sound boy, I would like to see Your sound catch a fireSelector drinking ice waterThat will a cool off his temper... Lickwood mean rewind gunshot means forwardYou requested it so we rewindOn the Capital Rap Show,ninety-five point eight" It is the possible source for the sample, although I would be inclined to think Tim Westwood got the originator of the phase to re-do it, dubplate style, as a special jingle for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 the original source for the sample is from a reggae clash I do have a recording of it somewhere but not easy to hand (in a pile of blank unmarked cd's) If I remember rightly it's got ninjaman as one of the mc's for the soundsystem - think it could maybe be arrows . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Ok, Ive done some research on this. the most likely sample source is from an intro on a 1990 Fashion 12" - version of Cutty Ranks' The stopper (Main attraction remix). The general consensus amongst reggae nerds seems to be that this is the voice of longtime deejay Jah Walton alias Joseph Cotton, and he did this as an intro/jingle for fashion in the late 80s/early 90s... which fits in with the westwood theory - this was also heard on Rodigans show AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Ok, Ive done some research on this. the most likely sample source is from an intro on a 1990 Fashion 12" - version of Cutty Ranks' The stopper (Main attraction remix). The general consensus amongst reggae nerds seems to be that this is the voice of longtime deejay Jah Walton alias Joseph Cotton, and he did this as an intro/jingle for fashion in the late 80s/early 90s... which fits in with the westwood theory - this was also heard on Rodigans show AFAIK. Can/should this be cross posted to sample sources? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haste Posted October 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 For all sample sources please post in the sample sources forum :biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 OK, Stimpy and Kola Nut were right. Lickwood means to bang the walls in appreciation: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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