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true story

James Smith And Kool Moe Dee

he is like Pac though, anyone that knows rhyme in detail know that they are heavy on skill and knowledge but low in variation with rhyme scheme. and of course both rap in a preachers elongated words

Couldn't have said it better, but true Hip-Hop Historians know...

Yep no doubt

Facts....

Exactly...period! This album was powerful!

BASS!!!!

This is a good as it gets..........

They are in my top 10 of any genre. Fucking awesome.

Yess

The hardest intro ever in rap music. Dr. Khallid delivered again with an intro and outro for Ice Cube

I barely understood English at the time, I was a white boy from an ex-socialit country and I was amazed by this video, I was trying hard to figure out what was happening... but I liked it a lot! :)

Me too. Haven't they aged so well?? Great comment.

That makes you a well adjusted forward thinking adult now .. good stuff

​@@andrashajdu2425Great Take Away, You got enjoyment.

I wasn't a child when this came out but thank you so much

I do.

Me

When Chris Thomas went into Lucy's house and switched to Richard Pryor's voice I lost it 😂😂😂😂😂

Spliff Star gotta be #2

he was smoking crack during this

so. so where a lot of rappers and entertainers a majority of the rap game was preaching crack is wack and shit and was smoking it back then.Some of our favorite rappers smoked or sniffed cocaine from that era they didn't glorify it.It's a equivalent to the syrup pills molly and all that shit the rappers glorify today.AM i Right?

SuckaFree 2017 and high the whole time..he was probably coked up, during this video😏

SuckaFree 2017. the greatest hands down

Good to know !! I wouldn't doubt for a second, he KNOWS trump is racist, let alone a NUT JOB, pathelogical lying, failed businessman, conman...Peace and God bless :):)

Listen to more music

@@rithvikbonam8507 agreed. I was just being facetious bc all the old dusty farts always post whiney comments about how music sucks nowadays. 🤣🤣

@@thersten oh lol

@@rithvikbonam8507 😂

Facts

that's the bomb squad,PE production team,they produced ice cubes first solo album in 1990

Incredible surreal/cubist sampling

🔥 2022

Delusional asl

Thank you James Brown!

William...Yup!!!

Agree

Is dis me....Kanye....wake up

@@pittsburghpirate58 He is not going to do that! Lol😁

King was a COMMUNIST!!!

Me to,, Yoooooo

Me three!

Longevity! Back then, I could break down the message in the verses.Take in what they was putting out. It's sad,Some things still apply right now in 2020!

Rap sucks now. These were the dayz....

@@caldwelljackson933 ]]

planestrainsandautomobile totally agree with you

NEXT TO "RUN-DMC"!!!

*W O R D*

When Music was MUSIC ❤

@@THEBIGSHAHEEDSHOW Next to Wu Tang!!!

The Illuminati took over hip-hop to use it as a tool for brainwashing the masses. That's why you now hear so little rap that addresses real issues, and instead you hear folks glorifying drugs, guns, gangs and other secret societies, and demoralizing blacks and brown women. "Kanye for President"? Just shut up with that Trump puppetry. The Man rushed to brainwash Kanye right after he told the truth about George W. Bush not caring about black people during Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, the Freemasons seduced Jay-Z into being their hype man and spreading the Satanic slogan, "Do as thou wilt." His wife, Beyonce, doesn't actually deny their connection to the Illuminati in her song "Formation": Instead, she says folks are "haters" and "corny" for bringing it up. Wake up, folks!

Smart people are clever regardless

DLX Infinite 110% well said

Terry Fountain sad but true

Everything's sold out now. Excuse me while I shed tears for hip hop.

fux u dave 😭 sad but true

Kurt Adams everything now is so unoriginal.. I mean ok nothings original but wheres the unique stamp on today's music.. aren't today's artist suppose to be making me grab my heart in some shock or something lol I mean damn.

fux u dave I agree . Everybody sounds the same . Hip hop never was this way its horrible

Str8 classic boss!

It's 35 years actually but true

40?! More like 35 lol, I was like lord I wasn't 5 when this came out

1988!!! Greatest year in hip hop!!!

Judah Tribe1969 Brown people WERE black people back then

U, Flav was actually high on crack while being filmed in this video. It normalized it, mocked the problem.

Word

Mostly blacks. Latinos tagged along lol

Judah Tribe1969 facts x clan public enemy a tribe called quest

Flav was gacked out of his mind during this video lmao

Shid. Tyson

Don't forget "Fear of a Black Planet," another classic.

Your vision ain't blurry.

So many great cameos!

SaySol- Ben Yehoshua still awesomely cute

Was? 😂😂

SaySol- Ben Yehoshua Yup she is

She still fine ass hell.

@@KelzKelz absolutely!!

Name one better.

I ain't no joke - Eric B & Rakim

@@djbhe no

Tony Bro sad but true

Ok that's a fact but were is the story time tho lol

WOOOOORD UP!!!!👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

Evil Mack everybody came here after that vlad interview 😂 shit crazy how they had real base heads in it

Flava was smoking crack the whole time.

You Damn Right!!!!

Lmfaooo

you completely wrong

💯

Old school Crack head rappers

k c I've watched this video every since it dropped. Today I notice it for the first time.

What am I looking for ?

I noticed that when I first saw this back in '88. I was rollin on the floor laughing at that. I had just got my DJ Red Alert cassette 2 weeks before.

@@need-to-know- Me too! I absolutely lost it. Such a great gag.

@@CancerLicker plus, he walks out making a face at the camera! 😁

I'm from nawlins aka new orleans the mighty 7th ward project called St Bernard project

Amexum Muur Indigenous Nawlin's EVERY DAY .. I CAME HOME FROM SCHOOL AND CONTINUED MY EDUCATION WATCHING BETS RAP CITY...

cassie runnels I know you right my friend and it has real hip hop and raps music back then but today my ears open to classical hip hop and smooth jazz music not the bullshit junk we hear on radio station today

Me to bruh.

Bro, I was 3 and this is one of my earliest memories. Watching this video on Rap City or Video Music Box (NYC area). Recognizing MC Lyte. I remember when Chris Thomas was the first host of Rap City.

1127char same here

In NY It Was Ralph McDaniels Video Music Box .. We Couldn't Get MTV In The Hood Yet lol

Suave I was thinking the same thing. VMB with Ralph McDaniels after school about 3:30 p.m.

1127char Mines too.....one of THE most creative rap videos ever. I really get hyped to this day viewing this video.

was that like jukebox network? where you pay for videos?

+Dennis Diderot and you would know all about "low standards" judging from your comments! :)

I am French and I completely agree🙂👍👍

What about 'Word' (aka The Main Event) by Freddie B and the Mighty Mike Masters - straight up old skool right there. Peace.

I put this together to ROCK the bells Aretha Franklin Rock Steady

"Just in this Red Alert".lol

I love "Yo Herb"

Fame - David Bowie...when Griff talks

Keep telling them

Higher Infinite Power Healing Our People

Gangsta Rap became the transitional trend circa 1990. Once NWA, came on the scene, nobody was tryna here all that peace and blessing messages from NYC rappers.

*****. That's the damn problem with WAY TOO MANY of our folks TODAY!!! Too much plastic, fake ass gangsta garbage music which has ruined a generation!

You know it!

Unfortunately, they would rather have clowns like Drake, Lil Wayne, and Meek Mill make money for them. Smh

oh come on. Kendrick is a start, at the very least.

+Steve Biko Word. This is my first time noticing that too. You know you're official when you're stamped by Bam AND Uncle Red.

So serious

You know they still make albums right? They are almost 20 albums deep.

Purpose. (Me too)- my friends only heard Smith's, Depeche Mode, etc. while I rocked .."Nation of Millions" in my GLC. Now I know why not many friends. Where are they now? STILL THERE. We gone!

MissClayOkay That's the reason why i don't listen to rap anymore

MissClayOkay tell that to Kendrick

I really believe the reason behind this garbage music on the radio these days is to put people in the prison system. I have a relative in the music business, he used to own a studio in Manhattan and has moved it to jersey. He told me that in order for a rapper to obtain a major recording contract these days he has to be willing to advertise expensive products in his music. Now when u think about it that this music is supposed to cater to the lowest financial class in the country what sense does it make to advertise products they can't possibly afford anyway? Well u also advertise that in order to get the wealth needed for such items u need to hustle or sell drugs. They also make it sound like going to prison or jail is some rite of passage. The end result is a lot of young people get locked up. There's even a rapper named Rick Ross who was a former correctional officer!! How ironic is that?? He acts like he rose to the top from being done type of cocaine kingpin when in fact he was the one tellin the drug dealers to get in their cage! The real Ricky Ross is even upset that this man uses his name to promote selling drugs when he knows most of these kids are not gonna make it. I really would not be at all surprised to find out companies that profit from prisons have a hand in the rap game. As a matter of fact I'm like 99% sure that they do. Sad

Mike Lomez Yes! There are definitely some shady reasons behind it. I talk to the youth, but most of time I feel like that Wu-Tang lyric, ", but shorty's runnin' wild, smokin' cess, drinkin' beer and ain't tryin' to hear what I'm kickin' in his ear."

Yeah it's almost like they've been brainwashed to some extent. When I was younger in ny it was rare to see a lot of guys in gangs now tho it's like askin what sports team u root for. Just another way to get locked up and honestly with the incarceration rates we are looking at, we're gonna have more of us losing our rights including the right to vote than we did with Jim Crowe. It breaks my heart