My dad used to blast this tape like nobody's business. A time when hip hop was in full variety. Nobody sounded the same.

Overlooked and underrated. King Sun was speaking truth.

Will never get tired of this song

youll never hear realness like those days again!! too bad....

1988 High School.. Talk About Black Consciousness..I Stop Riding In the Back Of the School Bus After I Heard this Song.. 👍🏿👍🏿

This Cali Chicano grew up listening to the best. King Sun ! one of the best to do it! much Respect! when Hip Hop was still pure! Yo Cypress Hill Soul Assassins still number one! peace to East Coast and all the great early artist that started Hip Hop ! thank you. peace to my black brothers and sisters. stay strong.

See why they had to take over the music industry...this is what it was when we had creative freedom...being conscious was like part of hip hop culture...big ups to King Sun, made underrated, his stuff still sound dope today....Paterson!!!

In those days music gave us self worth, strength love n most importantly unatie.. ❤️

Very dope underrated emcee.. King 👑Sun & Ice T are first cousins... Ice T revealed that on an episode of YO MTV Raps in 89💯

king Sun can flow much respect

Haven't heard this in years. Need to play it on radio today.

I miss early Hio Hop. It taught lessons and was conscious awakening. I respect King Sun. Nothing wrong with being pro black. Be proud of your roots and heritage!🙌✊❤

I MISS REAL HIP HOP LIKE THIS WITH AN EMPOWERING MESSAGE!

I always thought that was Rakim back then. The voice is amazingly similar.

"Each place around you was meant to down you/Kings and queens and yet they still won't crown you/" Profound to say the least. One of my favorite artists back then.

Been looking for this for a min... I bumped this joint as a teen! Sun Born was spitting madd knowledge...💯✊🏿

King Sun had Love for Latinos like me as a Latino have Love for Black people myself, especially me who grew up in a Black neighborhood since I can first remember ❤❤❤❤

The lyrics are on point!

This is my brother king Sun...my names Andre Auram im from norwalk california and the day i met this brother was the day i realized what an honor it is to be a part of the hip hop culture...the truest form of conscious expression that we need to bring back!!!! one love yall,,, King Sun one of hip hop's greatest! Peace to da Gods

"Jamaica!"

peace to all the brothers and sisters out here

true indeed!!!!! omg i cant believe they had this joint on here!! long gone are the "so called" one hit wonders of rap that REALLY made a difference in rhyme,,,trends of culture,,poor righteous teachers,, l-o-n-s ,,x clan,,joe-ski love,,shinehead,,rdhead kingpin,,kwame',,finesse and synquis,,mc smooth,,tribe,,de la soul,, they all made thier mark on the map. I guess rap is still evolving and as long as there is a market for what is out there now,.....there will be a supply

Hell yeah. He spit the hardcore, hard to swallow, passionate truth. Dropping names would have been the cherry on top.

King sun dissed a lot of rappers and rap group's he was no joke serious dude

This is what is SORELY missing in hip hop.

"I may hurt your feelings, but at least I'm real." ✊

Another hip hop classic that I would have never heard of had it not been for Sista Dee & Pump it Up.

This is the best era of hip hop

Great song. The video was funny. Thanx for the blast from the past.

Still a powerful song🔥🔥what real Hip Hop did was uplift us..✊🏽 Not the trap music of today👎

Criminally underrated MC! Lyrically his name should be mentioned with Kane and Ra!! Man, IMHO, as far as Hip Hop goes, that was the BEST time to be alive! I can't describe it but I can try. I'm 48 now, back then I was in my teens, I was there and remember the changing culture. I was there when people stopped wearing jheri curls (never had one, lol) and started sporting "cameos" and "high top fades". I was there when heads stopped wearing fat gold chains and four-finger rings and started wearing Afrikan medallions. That's like someone saying they remember the 60's when counter-culture changed from "greaser" to "hippies". The mid 80's to mid 90's I miss so much! Hip hop stopped being "innocent" and "fun" after Pac and Big were murdered...

This video used to trip me out as a kid back in the day... Sun: 'Name One City In Africa...' Guy: 'Jamaica?'

Throwback still 🎧in 2019.

Peace to the God King Sun we need that real hip hop also with the Knowledge of Self to know what it is and means

A black Dominican with knowledge of self. I respect Sun so much

I'm new yorker but he repped my East coast, NJ is part of this culture too, PRT Latifah, Naughty etc. Ya betta kno!

Crazy Knowledge

Peace to the Gods & Earths. Sun u did it with this one beloved.

This is for real my guy. Love his music. We grew up together in Paterson,NJ. East 33rd ST. Peace God

Power to the people do you know what the red black and green does anybody remember X-Clan said the same thing don’t forget where you come from the strong in black 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This takes me back. special ed, bis markie, d nice, kid n play, i could go on......

I met king sun last night ! He's cool af !

King Sun is an artist I liked and had a lot of respect for back in the days, it's too bad he wasn't more successful as an artist because he had some good records and lyrical skills.Russell Simmons used to manage him.

Thats my dads best friend i was talking to him 3 weeks ago

A one time lyrical genius. go King Sun.

What a fun time era to be an African American in America.

Dropping knowledge to a dope beat.. Maan i miss real hip hop..still bangin in 2020!

Awesome lyrics!

Remember this like it was yesterday. *Classic!*

Crazy how the message of this song is still relevent today

this is awesome!

Great video great rhyme great artist

we need this now!!

Remember Black is who you are. His family is Dominican but still back

Supa Dope, still bumpn n 2019.

PEACE 7!!!

We're all walking contradictions or complex individuals if look you deep enough within yourself. Stop judging!

Got the album yes

I remember meeting him really quick during a hip hop festival, he is a very huge guy... don't F with him... He is a down to Earth dude but no sucker...

lookin for this joint like crazy...remember coppin the 12 in joint back in the day. BXNY stand up.

We need some of the Head Strong Knowledge Today and Forever in Music...Respect KING SUN...

I remember this 😊

Thanks so much for posting this. I remembered this played constantly on Rap City and Yo and couldn't understand why it escaped the realm of YT.

Classic!

Straight fire 🔥

Real hip hop like this is still around. Its just not on tv anymore

My Word Is Bond!!!!

Been lookin for this joint.

Music with rhymes that are still true to this day.

King Sun kept it 💯

People forget how Hard rap music was in 1990, I was a young Army New Yorker stationed in Germany who blasted this like a mf out there lol, I didn't give af and repped my East coast back then yaherddd 💯💯💯

Hip Hop Junkie true wordz of wisdom Par, Real hip hop will come full circle again and return to its true essence! Word Up!

Classic conscious Hip Hop. Lyrics still relevant today

Even John Peel (RIP) played this once late on Radio 1 in about 1990

I remember this song back in the early 90’s

Rap music like this is very long gone. Its about materialism and nonsense.

deejay h2o you are a beast for uploading this one! you are taking me back to the days when I used to run home from school to catch yo mtv raps to see videos like this! great job!!

This is STILL 🔥

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Truth must keep flowing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Underrated. Met Sun before he dropped Heat Up and went big time. He was writing and hanging with PRT. My man could ball.

I still sing this song today because what he is saying is so real.

What I remember about King Sun was hearing he was like 6'8 or something....I was like dayum.

afrocenticity at its rawest form. king sun big ass bronx nigga!! raw ass lyrics.

He sounds so much like Rakim🔥💯

Bumping 2021

big up urself king sun! spitting truth and knowledge! anybody want a short black history lesson listen and digest all the words in this song! makes me want to dig up my krs one,tragedy :intelligent hoodlum and public enemy albums and buy x-clan, poor righteous teachers, etc. The black activist rappers of late 80s and early 90s were ahead of their times!

Nice!!!

PEACE KING SUN!!

Bronx Stand Up !

IM FROM AFRICA! What city? UUUUH Jamaica!. ROFL!

yeeeeeh ;D dis is sooo absolutly classic. like da beat most!

Deepest line in the whole joint @1:32 "An African look with an American name!" I lost this album in 2005. where can i get it?

@Logicalpsycho2323 Gentrification fam! That's how they strategically destroy movements. MTV got a hold of revolutionary music and it all goes downhill from there.

My joint!!

king sun murdering it beat is slammin!!!

Be Black is so much far more advanced than most know even me...its more than a cultural stance, style, life or even a whole race. Really its too much but you must first crawl to walk " "Universal omniscience - Color of Perfection"

Back when HIP HOP was REAL

King sun smooth

Shame the ladies didn't listen. Instead of strong independent African Queens we got a generation of twerkers.

true words for the so called "konscious community" these days