One of the best underground joints of all time. The flow. The beat. Everything.

Man I hope this music never gets lost in time

I remember hearing this back in 1997, this joint is still slamming to this day. This is true hip-hop right here.

Real music! Golden Era. Culture, Love. ❤️🙏🏼

My God this is beautiful.

I swear when I first heard this track back in 1997, I thought it was a DJ PREMIER beat. The drums, the scratching, the sampling style and the overall vibe. I was shocked when it wasn't him who produced it. Also, can we just give props to L the Head Toucha for rocking this beat lovely. His bars are just too ill. This is a PERFECT track.

"Greater than your Benz or your Lexus, the engine to my comprehension is just too complex" That uniquely lengthy sample is masterfully incorporated. Could bob my head all day to this lost gem. And i will.

90" Best Time Of My Life! Thx L.

Timeless one of the greatest beats ever! peace Don Blackman

2022. Wish I had friends that listened to joints like these.

God dam!! How have I not stumbled on this!

this dude L, dropping jewels all over this blazing track.

24 years old and still hot like it was made today. Incredible!

Beat is addicting and L's flow is sick

I always thought L Da Headtoucha did this track more justice than Jay-Z did. Line for line this was amazing.

Heard this for the first time on 89 tech nine, the best memories.

One of the Most Lyrical Hip Hop songs with one of the Dopest Beats combined in this ill track.

[Verse One] Deep in the depths of the mind The pro is prime, trapped like a mime In the same space and time, lifeless Vocals excel when trifers Centerfold of your ciphers My aura shines divine, priceless Much to complex to yap Maybe perhaps when I think of rap My thinkin' cap (what?) Reveals the skills unlimited Rappers be half as great Mentally they can't elaborate So they exaggerate and fabricate My words collaborate, formulatin' a sentence It's all ill when the blunted mind defense this Intense mechanism Respect next to wisdom Makes the god's mental Inflammable grammable feel gentile Reignin' dominate We be the essential I sense y'all don't know the art Comprehensively, energy enters me when I depart It's like sweet sorrow Bottles I follow catch wreck Engine's to my comprehension be just too complex To get vex and just step I'd rather snatch a rapper's rep Ruin it to a degree Breakin' them into debris Vocally, y'all label me as the illest mic killa Top biller Still in the grind, the mind driller Sublime thriller Poetically is how I'm depicted The rhythm's got me addicted so my ill skill inflicts it On any device Nice Similar, the verbal Christ Enormous, my performance equally will be precise We puttin' rappers on ice The ultimate heist Most of 'em should have thought twice now they're payin' the price I knock 'em out like Mic Tys when the tracks connect The engine's to my comprehension is just too complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" [Verse Two] To M.C. the art of rhymin' should be pure and natural When I think of all these ill skills, international You see my words in actual will attract the steel like a magnet Niggas is stagnant and incomplete like the fragments Actually, my words are a jagged edge, criminal Borderline, subliminal One of the earth's finest minerals I'm past the pinnacle And still I hold my fort like a general Intervals, all excerpt the maximum Release the minimal energy Cock me back Hennesy's sure to blur the memory Remember me, that ill nigga? I still trigger Thoughts sporadic set to peel niggas Standards Mics are metaphors of what the man is, might merge I recite slurs with the right words What occurs when I conjure Illest spirits from beyond ya You was warned like Alaja The drama ganja drains away Plain as day When my mind's A.K. spray in the A.K.A Nine trey, double rays, bubble thin Fry Mass murderous The illest niggas we devour from out the dark So kill the talk Either that or walk the walk You claim you had your shit together now it's fallin' apart Lyin' lion, no heart Who woulda thought you'd be wack? We gave you dap in the beginning now we takin' it back I only boogie from a track when mad niggas react We specify the artifacts and represent 'em on wax It' complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex" [Verse Three] Let's take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those who prison in the minds and those that been bailed Fuck the fan shit, it's about to hit the windmills What I reveal, not omni still it's strictly been real Y'all know the deal, skills Steelos, alter egos Poetry hits my peoples like food for thought Vocals distort, shorts the sequels Mics forever like the paradox of pure evil The crowds will come Like throwin' crumbs to the seagulls Too predictable Old folks pray in cathedrals Tryin' to live that better life legal Feeble, my mind remains haunted by mad things I'm wanted Plus everything is real when you're blunted These days the trees blaze F doin' the shade We backspin 'em like the DJs Playa be swaze I'm the live one Mic's like a knife Cuttin' you down to size in The fantasy land you and your mans was devisin' We wise men Puzzle your thoughts It ain't surprisin' I set it off like horizons No mistakes allowed Strategically, it's like I'm movin' the crowd I'm lickin' shots, bustin' up at the clouds We be audacious, treadin' on glaciers Slang got sprayed down in Tanqueray without the chasers On the earth there ain't a place you can run to hide When my sets collide with your planet Rock bottom solid my frame be like granite Very few can understand it The dialect I wreck Perfects my mic's sex when the thoughts connect The engine to my comprehension is just too complex The engine to my comprehension is just too [echo] [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex

Deep in the depths of the mind,pro is prime trapped like a mime.......those opening lines My God,its. too complex

They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Remember this being hyped in The Source for months and not being able to find anyone with a copy to check it...finally copped it on DJ Premier mixtape a year later - blew my mind.

"peoples, my mind remains haunted by bad things, I'm on it / most everything is real when you're blunted" beats & lyrics! - Den Gale Pose (formerly known as Madness 4 Real) flipped the sample in 1996 on a joint called 'Fler Hos'.

Boston's finest, East Coast stay winning

I discovered this gem two years ago but stopped listening to it after a while. I'm glad I'm listening to it right now; the nostalgic livens my soul up again.

love the comments Vinyl Reanimators I believe on the beat from Boston....Song still gives me chills....Real Hip Hop

I remember i used to hear this on a dope hip hop radio station back in the day when i was in high school :)

L is a dope MC

Never gets old! Worcester greatest all time Hip Hop classic

Classic underground joint.

Stretch Armstrong and Bobitto 89 Tech 9, Martin Moore and Mayhem NYU radio. The '90s New York City!

Damn he is str8 killing his lyricism here. I can't even keep up it's so good, I was just listening to the original song by don black's-holding me I found here on youtube studying my oldies then I found a comment saying this song was sampled and now I'm here and I'm happy I clicked on this vid :), nothing can defeat that original 90's sound of rap. This is real hip hop

I still have this cut on a DJ Premier CD....with different cuts I bumped this cut in my brand new '98 Chevy S10....back in the day. I love the sample & De La from the "Stakes is High" LP.

classic joint right here.still sounds good in 2012 & beyond.

Smh going into 2018 and this is still dope now from the time it was created🔥🔥🔥

Shout out to L da Headtoucha!

“Let’s take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those whose present in the mind and those who’ve been bailed” This nostalgia could make me cry,Beautiful!!

This is 1 of "THEE" most "PERFECT" songs ever!

Jesus the beat and the flow is sick!!! DJ Premier L the Head Toucha!!!💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥💥

CLASSIC !

a joint like this redeems rap music. reminds me why i fell in love with hop hop in the beginning

good vibrations!

L and the Great DJ Shame!!!!🙌

Beautiful as a dime piece...

Its all lovely. Mad Ill Track. Love it.

One of the best tracks ever

This cat can rhyme, period!

Oldie AND goldie

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

CLASSIC!!!!!

Wow it take me to a better place in time...this joint real....

My brother is forcing me to listen to his type of music so I had to listen to this along with the rest of a playlist like this 😂😂😂😂

L The Head Toucha is my sister's favorite rapper.

Mental tune, well regret not getting this on wax.

ITS TOO COMPLEX when before any new beginning you already know the ending. To that and everything. It’s like prep work😊

The Don Blackmon (RIP) sample from Holding You, Loving You is extra chilly most...

I used to rely on this track in a pinch. It would always get the vibe up, and get people onto the dance floor. Thanks for posting!

True classic! They re-issued this a few years ago but I have the orignal lol.. The underground was so dope these days..

OMFG 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's hard to believe this is already 12 years old. Man. The new classics.

AMAZIN TRACK

i remember this especially this beat this is real hiphop epic and too complex much too complex 93

‘97 SHIT! L DA HEAD TOUCHAAAA MURDERED THIS . My god! 🔥

Classiiiiiic

The beat is magical

U can def feel the warmth of that good ole 90's vibe :))

Still a classic

this is hot

Classic!!!

still goldie that Oldie

20 years old wow! I used have this in my head phones when I skated around the city, still sick

People Under The Stairs - Give Love a Chance

Just heard it's almost like 2 minutes ago my brother put me up on this it's a dope beat Dope lyrics positivity things always a message in that's what it was about back in the day

L THE HEAD TUCHA - TOO COMPLEX = BLU AND EXILE - AMAZIN

Damn! yummy yummy yummy ! It can't get any better then this!

The sample is john blackman - loving you, holding you Great song

Premier, Premier, puhpuhpuh PREMIER

Am here for the comments ❤️ This has it all..the perfect tone, the illest beat and the sickest flow. If someone ever asked me to define hip hop and what is means to me, I'd play them this. Then I'd play it again and again and again.... ✌🏻

Beautiful like art ...

Classic

Another song has this melody. Can't think of it yet....

Beat is hypnotizing i dig

Who’s here in 2021 ??? I miss when hip hop was like this.

Deep in the depths in 2020.

just bought this LP yesterday fucken dope trak

CLASS NEVER DIES...

Need I remind you, L's right behind you.

Love this beat!

dope!

damn. puppets of chaos, large professor, kev brown, eyedea and shadez of brooklyn in the related videos and a dope track right here. finally, i'm in the good part of youtube :)

Stream of consciousness Samurai

greater than your benz or your lex. that sample was from tugoy dove from DE LA SOUL

Greater than your ben'z or your lexis.

Cuz everything is real when you're blurted,,, real hip hop son

LYRICAL.

Been looking for this for years.

ooo L the Headtoucha sickest name sick track

This still sounds good in 2022, made when MC's displayed true mic skills!

2021 Whos HERE !!????

L the head toucha is good. he reminds me like trigga the gambla, or something else. maybe he was secretly on the nutty professor soundtrack. that would have been dope. it was a slept on record, but the movie did well, i think.

i have been looking for dis for years who ever put dis on respec