I grew up in the 90s and I’m mostly a rock fan. To me, Biggie is a legend. This is one of my favorite songs and I still listen to it in awe of his talent. I think the beat is a copy of Herb Albert “Rise” - another great song worth reacting too.
He sampled this from Herb Alberts song called “Rise.” Please react to it as well- I believe you will be very happily surprised- And Talk about memories!! Listening to this, especially bumping in my brothers low rider back in the day- Yessss! Ahhh-☺️💙🧡👍✨✌️
I'm not into HipHop/Rap Music... but in 1997 as this song cames out, i was thrilled. This is one of the greatest HipHop Songs of all times. And btw the Original Video of Hypnotize is funny
Man... he was gone far too soon! Can't even imagine how big he would be today. A true talent! If you haven't, check out "Big poppa" and "one more chance"
I took my then fiancee (now husband) to see Mary J. Blige for his birthday & during intermission guess who came out & started rapping......Notorious B.I.G. 🎯
Props to everyone giving a shout out to Herb Alpert's number hit from 1979: Rise, looking forward to Jay's reaction to Mo Money Mo Problems and Sky's the Limit.
Check out a guy named Bobby McFerrin singing a song called "dont worry be happy." There are no instruments in this song, he makes all the sounds on his own.
I loved your reaction to this, Jay! Old school Hip Hop just hits different for me. I could never sing the rap part but you best believe I kicked in on that chorus. 🤣 "Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see? Sometimes your words just hypnotize me."
Biggie and Puff opened up the genre for side-step and snap dancers. Pleasantville urbanites could now side-step snap AND feel cool. Love his sound and lyrics.
The thing that blows my mind about Biggie is that he was killed at age 24. 24! One can only imagine what else he could’ve done had he lived many more years, very tragic.
For me it is f****** crazy that people don’t know this song! This is one of the greatest rappers of all time and if you’re a fan of rap you know these songs. WTF
Puff daddy produced this song. You might find it awesome that biggie is the son of Jamaican immigrants. In fact many of the NYC hip hop artists are of Jamaican descent. Slick Rick, heavy D plus more
Ìconic! I can see the cars bouncing to the beat when I hear the intro😃 It's very risquè lyrics but I don't really hear it for some reason, I get so obsessed with the music.
I was still a teenager And discovered my love for Hip Hop B.I.G was one of those artists I gravitaed towrds bcus Of how poetic his lyrics were. I'm now 40 and miss him.
I just have to say that I’ve been watching your reactions for awhile and just subscribed and you are adorable! Haha! I’m a 62 yr old married Momaw and I love your ear for music,your ear for guitars, horn sections, etc...You really seem to know and enjoy music..🕺🕺🕺ha! Keep on keeping on and listen to Miracles by Jefferson Starship if you have a chance... That was our “love song” in the 70’s! God bless you !!!! 🙏🙏🙏💕
This is why Biggie was the King Of N.Y. !!!!! And since this took a sample of, SLICK RICK’s LADI DADI .. .. .. “Ricky Ricky Ricky Can’t you see , somehow your words just hypnotize me” You should do that soon!
The ' Biggy Biggy Biggy can't you see.. ' lyric is a riff on tha Dogg Pound's Snoop lyric, ' Doggy Doggy Doggy can't you see..' ..I don't think it was a diss but this being the era of that supposed East coast/West coast beef who knows?!
This was the first single off of his new album (at that time), and it had been a while since he had released some new shit. This sounded so different from his other shit that I was confused listening to it the first few times. This was when Bad Boy started gettin' real flossy...larger than life...
The hook is lifted from La-Di-Da-Di by Doug E Fresh & MC Ricky D (aka Slick Rick). Arguably the most sampled/referenced hip-hop track of all time. React to that one next :D
So the other day YT recommended I check out a mashup of Buffalo Springfield and Young MC. Usually YT recommendations are ass but that actually sounded pretty interesting so I checked it out and long story short I loved it, right away it became one of my all time top favorite mashups. I showed it to my wife tonight, she dug it but she said she'd never heard of Young MC or Bust A Move before - she's British, don't judge her - so I thought, hey I bet my boy Jayvee's done a reaction video for it, and yeah I was 100% correct there. So we're watching your reaction and in it you'd mentioned it's exactly what you needed to hear that day and when you said that I felt a sudden craving to hear Drinking in LA by Bran Band. I did a quick search and it turns out that no one has done a reaction video yet. WHAT?! How has not a single person made a reaction video to one of the best songs of the 90s. That's absolutely stunning to me. That song is too good to not have a new generation of folks hear it for the first time, and I need to see all of yall just enjoying the chill brilliance of it. So can you please do Drinking in LA next? Thanks dude.
