Deffo 1 of

Facts to this day!

Facts forever

On level with BDP's Love's Gonna Getcha

Definitely up there .

What's boom bap?

@@geezgee1553 old school hip hop especially from east coast

Agreed

Agreed

@@geezgee1553 real flows talking real shit

100% agree. His wordplay and flow are flawless. Definitely not recognised enough.

"Times up" is unbelievable

man breaks down the entirety of the crack epidemic in a minute

and among all 3 of them, their best work each respectively. Hip Hop forever.

Naw....his verse was mid jeru killed it

@@The808MixmasterNah it wasn’t mid, Jeru just had a better verse

@oladeebi azazi I mean it wasn't mid but it definitely ain't the best shit I ever heard

My nigga you ain’t tell any folklores on that 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

I certainly agree homie

1st verse for me

That's no bs!! Ru is soooooo good. I listen to some of his albums every month or so

#WORDLIFE4REALZ!

Hip Hop was dope from 87-97. It was a lifestyle then.

And got many many fan or listener who love or appreciate real sound of real musicians MC's, DJ like DJ Premier... I am a "metalhead" (Hardcore HxC especially... who is coming / rising from the street too...) but I'm a big big fan of all this era of real hiphop like mobb deep, rakim, gangstarr, a tribe called quest, NAS, wu tang clan, run dmc, public enemy, comon, and many many more... and btw i love the band like Run The Jewels, action bronson or Ill Bill / Necro, Jedi Mind Tricks and all this great stuff ... this guys really change and open my Mind about all the world and people around me... I love the 70/80/90 funk vibes too... all this man and woman in advance of their time... now with Internet we all have the chance to discover many many song, band, all the time, no matter where or what we come from, who we are / with absolutly no distinction of skin colors, religions, social class, To have money fame or not on this world... the one thing that can bring us all together without judgement or hatred is music... and To go at some show... worldwide music unites and strenghtens some relationships , help a lot of lost kids I was without money and landmark in the 90's . Cheers and shotout To all of you, who continue to keep alive the most richest heritage that the earth homes... in my french opinion... sure. .. =)

That is a true Statement facts I miss the 90 hip hop music era it was part of my childhood growing up whiching rap city and video music box 💯💯💯👍👍👍👊👊👊

no doubt! Big up from Poland!

No doubt..... Golden era, never to be repeated

I do everyday

There’s a string of classic east coast hip hop like Tried by 12, I Gotcha Opin, Wrong Side of Da Tracks, Karma, this one’s right up there with them

Bumping this now 8/23/23!!

At least every few days 13/11/23

💯💯💯💯

Facts!!

Yes, this and D&D All-Stars - 1,2 Pass It

@@pungisotu Forgot about that D&D track! 🔥🔥 Now I gotta go find it. Lol

💯

@@nightArbitrage Both original and DJ Premier remix. 🔥🔥

All 3 are underrated!

His verse here is epic. It's deep.

@@teakmastertim very true . But when people talk about rap in general I never ever hear anybody mention rock. I have no idea why.

@@henryhill6637 bcuz mf's b sleepin on shit. Real MC's r diamonds in the rough. I'm Hip-Hop till I die!

Mr Hill I totally agree....he had the best line much respect to O.C and The Damaja....add Wise Intelligent, Last Emperor and Black Thought to those list of underrated M.C.'s!!

Definitely

Jeru had that bouncy flow, which if you listen closely sounds similar to Jay Z. I got a theory that Jay got influenced by this nigga but that's for another day lol

All of their verses were cold, but Jeru's verse was remarkable one of the best ever 💯%

@@caspiankanai9721 Jeru and OC made 2 of my favorite albums of all-time in 'Wrath of the math', and 'JEWELZ'. Some of Primo's hottest beats are on those albums and they aren't talked about enough amongst all the great albums of that time.

@@goldenstate2192 You can throw in Grand Puba's Reel to Reel album as well as Brand Nubian's One for All album. Puba is so underappreciated. Special Ed's Youngest in Charge album, as well as Az's Doe or Die album.

Agree

@@AnthonyWilliams1984 I'm still listening to the o.c album lol 😆😂.

Well said 👏👌each guy delivered .

@@AnthonyWilliams1984 I love the homage to the track before this one from crooklyn with each mc's voice included.

​@musiclover-cn7tb OC is the most slept on MC of all time. The guy can't miss and people don't really know him. Word life is a solid gold classic if that's what you were listening to!

Ditto 👊🏽

OffTheHizzle ...100%we all do..you ain't alone..public enemy, x-clan still to this day..70s born 80s raised and 90s defined us.

I'm 48 now but 95 was prolly my best year on this planet...music was so dope then...none of that ish that passes for music now. Had to have skills back then not just a soundcloud and too much codeine. Miss those days but DAMN GLAD I was there to enjoy them.

@@AllhailtheUS great comment! 👌🏾

95 was a great time to be alive!! Young people really missed out! They can never comprehend why us "old heads" are so precious about 90's hip hop! ✊

SUPER BIG FACTS.. ... DROP THEM JEW-ELS BRO... Everything now has micro chips in them aka tracking device.... WAKE UP MY SHEEPLES

Only it's not really true

@@puppetmasterthc820 ITS MICRO-CHIPS in just about everything thats around is you dumb n stupid.

@@mannyjchtaylor9069 microchips aren't tracking devices you tinfoil hat wearing spaz

@Boss Galaga that's not true

SIR!!! I respectfully disagree, you cant tell me that 'Ru verse was not on point--the cadence, the flow, the word play...SIR!!! lol--all love tho!

@@DjNiX9011 'Ru's verse is my favorite too. All three go so hard though.

Me either I play it everyday.

@@brian_brennan42 yes .

@@brian_brennan42 I love the other crooklyn dodgers song too with buckshot, masta ace & special ed both are classics.

OMG your so right, I must say listening too cub rock lyrics I have a new found respect him

That's cuase New York had it now the south took over it

I’m a metal head who likes this

BIG FACTS

Man, listenin to this. And listenin to today's shit. Damn depressing as hell make u wanna cry and crawl up in a corner 🙄

Subliminal hypnotism and colonialism leave most niggas dead or in prison!

So bullets hit brains when bottles hit lips..

As much as I love Jeru's verse, and most of his work, General Manuel Noriega, to whom he refers when mentioning govt. issued weapons, died in 2017. The rest of the verse is dope. This I noticed when the track came out, but basically had no one to comment it to, that would actually care back then.

Perverted monks and mike Tyson 😂 jeru is a lyrical genius

@@rahsaanthomas7030 such a dope line

Dog !!!!!!!! WTF 😮 THIS one verse by Jeru tha Damaja put him in my top 10 of ALLTIME…. I really can fathom why hiphop fans & hiphop podcast joints don’t mention this verse when they are talking about dope verses in hiphop , when they mention Nas verse from Main Sources Live at the BBQ they should mention Jeru’s verse from Crooklyn 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

One of my favorite track s

You may have missed the Rich Get Rich track. Ft- Lil Dap, Chubb Rock, Edo G and Paw Duke. You're welcome.✌🏿

Word

Facts

No question....pure power in that verse

@@Pan-Afrika Chubb obliterated that too. I'd say it's about a tie.

Yeah it is. Mystical almost

C. Griff 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

@Crypto Mancer Classic flick 💪🏾

It's well placed, I think.

Those are actually zills(finger cymbals)

I do too

95 “Live”

Kay-Nin Facts

Masta Ace homage in the beginning & when that song came out it was a really HOT summer in Chicago & I’m NOT talking about the weather

Truth

Once a classic...always a classic!!!

The only thing good about this song is the beat..

I do...Still remember this. I was 16 when this came out

Jason Askins right here with y’all, I was 16 too, I agree it brings tears to my eyes. I listened to this in my Walkman every morning walking to high school all 11th grade year. I listened to it so much and so loud that the kids in my first period class would continue the lyrics after I turned it off and removed my headphones when I reached my desk 😂.

I was 20 💪

21

Yesterday,today & forever ! ✌💪👊

Yup

My god u neva lied.. 👊🏽

O. f*¥*n C. !!!

PRIMO & RZA 👍

Preme and Rza 1a and 1b to me.

My list is premier, RZA and havoc

Qtip and Dilla also in the conversation. Pete rock and madlib up there too

@@NobleVagabond2552 No doubt

Very true

do you know the original sample?

Best song

PRIMO on Product!

@@dr.ligmahnutts2993 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLKRqqV0qLuphYU.html. The original sample is that.

Me too I miss those days so fuckin bad

ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!💯💯💯

Every now and then "Die Nigga! Die Nigga! You're too Black!" will ring through my head, one of the best lines i've heard.

THIS SO DOPE!!!!!!! Type in ( Lunden Ivory - Hotline ) IF YOU LIKE Comment and subscribe! Thank you for helping me reach my dreams Thank you, God Bless.

no filter

His best verse ever!

@@gargenfluckgosphenspiels4849 Not better than “Beef” with Das!

Facts I still got Jeru on heavy rotation

James Miller same here

Facts!!!!

Facts both of them are classics

And that's an Actual Fact. Jeru always outstanding... That way he 'speaks' and makes the beat work at his rhythm, his pace... Outstanding.

NYC USED to be DOPE

@@hereisayana8207 No doubt ! It saddens me to know that it will never be the same

@@circa1993 yes even the Bronx and Harlem aren't the same either... I feel like an empire fell

@@hereisayana8207 gentrification sucked NYC soul thats whatsp

@@circa1993 it's not only gentrification.... instead of Blacks and Puerto Ricans that brought the flavor in the 70s -early 90s, there are a lot of brand new foreigners there now, that Sucked out this soul of NY. They weren't there in large numbers before, so it's not just gentrification

Wrath of the math??

Sun rises in the East???

My fav is his part on Gang Starr’s “Speak ya clout”

@@eminemisdogshit4626 You already know.

@@LegandHimHansom The depth and content of his rhymes are just mind blowing. Premiers production compliments it to perfection

God

He's deadly with that pen 💪🏽

Jeru is the illest

Jeru was always that intellectual lyricist...dope AF

@@AllhailtheUS ALWAYS...yesirr

It’s what makes the track fire.

and those cowbells tho!!

Brother you do not lie,iam surprise no one else had the vision to sample this

Matthew Hourihan : OC mad underrated 🔥🔥

Born 2 Live is a beautiful song among many others!

Indeed! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpt1ipli3LvTfIk.html

His album with apathy is straight fire. Total legend

1000%

True Indeed..

Second that . . . True indeed.

True indeed my friend

The Sun Toucher!,word!.

Facts!!

@Apostle9590 YUP!!!

Cuase New York had it

Me too!

Real shit.

So do I! Especially the ones that taught you the lessons that you needed to survive. They don't do it like that anymore. It's all gone straight to trash. They took the futuristic mindstate of things and ruined it. Horribly! Nothing makes sense! It's all useless and worthless garbage.

@@cen1276 New York had hip hop then it went to master p and them it wasnt never the same

He passed away. 😢

wish my journey to school was this cool

The bell in this song is so iconic, that even when I turn the song off the ding of the bell sound still lingers in my ear drums.

Lol I always had a Walkman in school I luv hip hop

My 1st job was in a car audio shop. I remember testing out some Nakamichi super tweeters in a competition sound system with this bell ringing into your soul it almost made my ears bleed!🤣🤣

Read my comment homie, I'm with you. Brings tears to my eye, didn't know why? You explained it, nostalgia, growing up in the slums, hoping for better. ..

Back when New York ran hip hop

Both so dope. Original was always my favorite but the more I listen to this it's a tie

Julio B Kay-Nin I agree it brings tears to my eyes. I listened to this in my Walkman every morning walking to high school all 11th grade year. I listened to it so much and so loud that the kids in my first period class would continue the lyrics after I turned it off and removed my headphones when I reached my desk 😂.

@@theonlyseparation464 this was back when New York ran hop hop

I agree with all 3 of your assessments 🔥🔥🔥 Jeru’s verse gives me goosebumps & chills the way his wicked lyrics penetrate that DJ Premier Masterpiece 🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

Real mfkn talk

New crooklyn Dodgers is beastcoast

Sucks that would never happen now. Rappers fronBrooklyn kill eachother now over meaningless fuckery.

It kind of was, seeing as how there were three different iterations of it, a super group brought together for one track, then a few years later, same thing but with different rappers

I know I love this beat have ever since I first heard it years ago

(was)

Yeah man...

Real hip hop

Time flies

25...

@charles williams that's cause New York was running it now the south took it

The south took bnb it

Agree

Word

@Raas Putin nah the south got a hold of it

Nah the south got a hold of it

@Raas Putin down south turn hip hop commercial is what I'm saying

@Raas Putin what does 9/11 have to do with hip hop and this video my comment made more sense everybody talking about hip hop and how they miss New York hop hop

@Raas Putin that was probably and accident but what 9/11 had to do with this video

Clockers

@@eminemisdogshit4626 that track is at beginning of Clockers but the first version is at the end of Crooklyn from a year earlier.

For real...

Wtf happened? NY was so cold and now they have art house rappers and niggas jocking trends. Sad

Disagree, Naughty by Nature are the king of Anthems and their Jersey. NY can get the second spot...

@@antoinelevine2143 Yeah I agree definitely I loved Queen latifahs can't forget New Jersey a lil bit more Tho''

Antoine Levine Jersey got made dope cats that spit.

Did He!!!

Word

That’s what I do

Beautiful story.

Was? Hope he is still into it.

Hello

Lol

When New York ran hip hop

Gunnel Gainey talk about it bro.

@@modalsoul6511 idk what happened smh now they in the south wave with shit smh miss this feel good era a d how New York was shown dedicated it mad you whi wasnt from New York go to new York even when I watch the old New York movies like home alone clockers new jack city juice strapped paid in full it give you that New York feeling smh the 90s rip

Agree

😂 🤝

@@johnwilliams221 Yeah you hit it in the dot. Seems like most people nowadays just rap about poisonous stuff like degrading women, selling drugs, being "tough," or even past crimes. This one had a message trying to get people to wake up and do something.

Jack M 🎯🎯🎯🎯 I agree it brings tears to my eyes. I listened to this in my Walkman every morning walking to Cleveland Heights (Midwest) high school all 11th grade year. I listened to it so much and so loud that the kids in my first period class would continue the lyrics after I turned it off and removed my headphones when I reached my desk 😂.

@@theonlyseparation464 in the 90s some Cleveland Hts kids had mad flow on the low

Back New York was new york

Everyone in top form.

PURE HIP HOP💯💯💯💯

My favorite part of jerus verse!!!!

My favorite part of jerus verse!!!

All time great comment!

Fits the movie very well. Have you seen Clockers?

@@viktorvondoom9119 nope

But this song is hard af and i love any artists that can express themselves so clearly you can tell from the first word he says

Yes

Damn bro