+Mr Fix Amen! Folks can say I'm "stuck in the 90's" but IDGAF! The "Golden Age of Hip Hop" was something truly special and I'm so so glad I was there to witness it.
Jake Hodgkins Aren't they? I know! Music was about craft. Nowadays you could have no craft and go big. Back then it was about the vision/dream to build off your success. Now its chains, hoes, sex and flashy shit. U know?
These lyrics are insane and get the final blow with the 'headbouncing' productions. This is thereby one of my favourite tracks, along with T.R.O.Y. Passing me by, 93 till infinity and some others! Peace to all and enjoy the magical sounds of music
Favorite Jeru verse.. and those ending lines.. "Fire burns the unjust like arson larceny melt mcs with mental telepathy "With precision we slicing and dicing" ....Peace to the east New York, Perverted monks and Mike Tyson.
Internet killed the Hip hop star...we used to wait with anticipation for these maxi singles & albums to drop or catch them on BET or radio & tape them..its instant gratification now for these kids so they dont value anything
internet is making it able to find though at least and bringing back real hip hop... radio killed the hip hop star in my opinion. they stopped rap city and yo mtv raps before the internet blew up
+flatbeginner yea one of the best ever hes so fucking inderrated listen to any of his albums or collabos hes amazing why no one ever mentions him is beyond me
"Subliminal hypnotism and colonialism, Leave most niggas dead or in prison" Besides that whole 1st verse this is one of the realest lines in the whole song . Why cant we go back to these days, real music with real messages with killer beats. Today we have absolute shit all beat and no lyrics. No wonder Hip Hop plummeted after 99 everyone that who spoke the real unscripted truth either conformed or pretty much was forced into obscurity.
+OfficeHanchoBoxing I remember reading something that music today has lyrics which are pretty much catered to the brain capacity of a 5 year old. Because of that, kids now won't even understand what real hip hop preaches through ingenious wordplay so they think it's trash and listen to simple lyrics on a hard beat.
+OfficeHanchoBoxing I think there's no denying that some of the best Hip-Hop music came out in the 1990's. I do think, however, that there is a lot of music out there nowadays in the scene that still has some strong messages in it. Most of the examples that come to mind - 3rdiiiUth (iiMz, or however he spells his name, has some great mixtures of religious messages along with a critique of racism and modern society), the Kool Klux Klan (specifically crashPREZ and Sir E.U), Mick Jenkins, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Aesop Rock, and Kendrick Lamar - are fairly obscure, with the exception of Kendrick, who I believe manages to mix some catchy sounds with rather great messages. The more theological and philosophical side of hip-hop is out there, but you have to dig for it. Maybe some of those recommendations can help lead you to the kind of music you're looking for.
Pure hip-hop, there's nothing like it. It's sad it's becoming like Jazz...unappreciated. People don't know what they're missing or can't comprehend. The golden era will never come thru again. Those of us that was there will cherish it for all times ✌
Today's music is trash worst mumble rap ever aired common sense said it best I hear niggaz slamming her and taking her threw the sewer smh talking about scrub the ground whatt?
@@lifestraight maybe, but I definitely always took it to also be aimed at wu (cream ). Not necessarily a shot at them I guess, but a reference to the concept of cream and how money can control people's fates
@@lifestraight yea that's basically what I meant... don't think it was really a dis though , because part of creams concept was the fact it's fucked up that cash rules. It definitely could've been aimed at bad boy too I didn't realize these comments were from 4 years ago lol
I understand that it sounds cheap and cliche to say that hip hop sucks today and it was much better in the 90s but there is nothing that can dispute that fact. Music was just THAT much better back then.
JacoBluezz I have never herd the shaq album,but u might have a good point....sad but true. there r only 6 people who can sell 1 million copies within a 12 month period...the second half of the 1990's...were fire...ice cream by raekwon,missy elliott etc....
" Fire burns the unjust like arsen, larceny, melt emcees with telepathy" I said it before I'll say it again Jeru is so wrongfully underrated that its sickening. 2 superior albums back to back, the first one a classic
2 of the most underrated Mcs ever Chubb and jeru killed this song with dope ass beats from premier NY is so hip hop its the Mecca to hip hop like the garden is Mecca to bball oh yea both in NY
boiiii! listening to this era of music makes me forget about this era ATM. These were the times. don't get it twisted there's Some hot MCs still around. this era just takes you back. Good times
I've been listening to Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, Pete Rock CL Smooth, Pharcyde, Gang Starr and all the Native Tongues for years so how the fuck haven't I ever heard about this group until now? This is amazing!
This was not a group-theyre were all solo artists who joined together for this track for Clockers soundtrack. Same for a year earlier for Crooklyn movie
"Enterprising businessmen shoot dice on the corner", that one line holds so much meaning....I've always loved this track from when I was a teenager up until now into adulthood....
Stephen Blakely - Great breakdown,all these so-called thugs,gangsta wannabes on their way to the grave or to one of these white owned, and operated updated plantations to be a 3/5th of a slave for many years to come. 21st century genocide,eugenics and population control.
+Sarah Hendz anyway we can't argue with these fools, they get brainwashed by some fool ass niggas haha we just bright because we still stuck in the old school haha
I went to New York about 2 years ago and stayed in Brooklyn and pulled out these 90s hip hop joints and some rarities like Smif, Jeru, Mister Voodoo, The K-Otic Family, Real Live, Wu-Tang, Nine, just any artist no matter where they were from, and the nostalgia was real! I'm not even from there!!
When Chubb is called on to spit, he holds back NOTHING. Chubb had one of the best deliveries in the game. He could always lay down them poignant ass stern lines and they would still sound so dope.
I wouldn't know since I don't listen to modern rap. The New York scene seemed to fade away in the early-mid 00s though once the southern scene got hot. That's around the time I stopped listening.
It's not a racist song at all it chronicles the different stories and things that happened growing up in Brooklyn new york.... And the people relate not just cause the beat nice or the raw lyrics all three Mcs display, but if you was raised in similar circumstances it hits home..
According to Rapgenius the Whitey's/White T's that are being talked about refer to the color shirts the drug running kids were wearing. Also, it's a referral to the government putting crack on the streets.
