Yeah I love both of these, heard both of them before.
This is my favourite sort of hip hop, yes.
I do tend to get into things I don't love love several years too late.
It's just innocent fun at this point but I like the precision and syncopation on the beats. There's a crispness and clarity I'm into.
Also the crew vibe and the passing of the mic, the posse effect, echoing one another etc. Keeps things moving. There's no story particularly, it's all just a laugh, they are having fun, you go with it.
My favs of this era are young MC, most afrika bambaataa but especially planet rock, spoony gee, almost all run DMC, almost all early ll, a lot of pe, stetasonic, epmd, almost all eric b and rakim.
It's fun as well with these, you get all the clips that get rerun in later tunes. Like from this one, it's got the "girls gitls girls" bit that Jay z lifted/reworked?
Jimmy spicer, I got hold of that dollar bill yall one from the wu sample and had it in a load of mixes. This one's good as well.
Of the 2, dunno which i prefer, neither are the best of that time for me, but I could get into both with enough listens. This era is timeless and untouchable, if I was asked to define hip hop for someone who knew less about it than me, someone who had never heard it, I would point to these 2 songs. American, and in fact NYC, groups of lads talking about how good they are their music are, nice mellow sample based beats that become earworms, 1980s.