He was supposed to be the future of hip hop... 

I can't believe Fantano didn't recognise who it was, "internet's busiest music nerd" my eye! 🤣

Should've changed eating nigga ass like could've Saif rip a nigga in half like other than eat a nigga ass smfh his career went downhill listen Wyclef jean could've of changed it

Why?

@@from_fresno2443 back where I belong he was laughing

Nah I hate that dude NGL

Buckingham palace

54321

Damn that's fire

Bruuuuh! By far 😎✊🏾

That whole track had crazy bars. I feel like that was like his last good album. Or at least that just the album where I stopped keeping up with bro

The baddest, M-other - F-ucker, let me break the style down so you don't have to wonder. 😂

26:43 No... this is.😅

It's probably the best line in hip hop period. We'll...maybe not MF DOOM, says few can see the point like a line through the Hubble...another genius line in my opinion. Whilst you didn't say this and I am in no way attributing this to you, I think labeling Canibus as lyrical miracle is very reductive and stems from his conceptual impenetrability...Canibus is such a hard listen it's frustrating. The reductionism I am talking about is reducing I honor you to a song that personifies sperm...really! Is it not about a consciousness that wills itself into existence but has to do it through trite human means like human reproduction...also conveniently ignoring the fact that this is a song a son wrote detailing his relationship with his mother, talks about a dead beat father and basically that he was raised by single mother and sperm is the thing that sticks out. And this is by far his simplest song!!!

@@Quasardoom Cannibus is absolutely deeper than that, I agree. I think of him like Lupe or Danny Brown. He's just too unapproachable for people to realize the depth and intelligence of his lyrics.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sorry to say but the government doesn't want smart Black Folk or Latino Folk so barz like that usually never get their credit . Rappers like Canibus never get their credit . They literally sounded like philosophers without any college degrees straight from urban areas such intelligence came from the hood. ... its more than sad it angers me

Stop it

Dude, you should go back in time, maybe then you could understand what you're talking about?

My style is masterful multilateral I could battle a fool and be naturally cruel

@@nirfd149from a existentialist view i’m a better rapper than you

LL won the war....not the battle. Black Thought is my favorite, but he never had the charisma of a Big or Pac. Thought is at a point in his career where he is JUST NOW letting the public know who he is as a person. Because before now, he was just a single layered technical rapper backed by a band and allied/aligned with "conscious rappers". And then you add the marketing corporate backing that Big and Pac had. Thought's acumen just wouldn't translate commercially well over the beats and imagery that Big and Pac were guided by. But VERY FEW are seeing Thought technically live on stage or off the top of the head.

They sell their soul, another reason there's ghost writers like cyhi the prince

I was a huge Canibus fan back in the day, but LL cooked him with that Ripper strikes back

While LL obviously won out in his career and longevity, Canibus knocked LL on his a$$ and shocked the hip hop world with 2nd Round K.O. No one else ever hit LL as hard as that in any of his other battles. Canibus will always be part of Hip Hop history for 2nd Round K.O. no matter how underwhelming the rest of his career was.

@@rystew2040 Yes indeed 💯

And it weirdly took me out , maybe its understanding the cultural significance of Burna as a Nigerian and then it just being a weakly made point in the vid got me side eyeing

I love Burna It was mostly jokes on how dominant he is on the afro beat sound in the states

And the worse Drake of all: Drake Drake.

@@Fedora_JPThat so called Drake style has actually been around. Drake honed his skills in Houston with Rap A Lot. That’s why he had several tributes to DJ Screw and the Screwed Up Click (Fat Pat, Lil Keke, Big Moe, Big Pokey, Z-Ro, etc) and UGK in his early years. Devin The Dude falls in that category as well. Even his song November 18th was a remake of a 1990’s DJ Screw and Lil Keke song. Despite what FD says…the South was blowing up in the 1990’s. The underground always ran Hip Hop and not the mainstream.

Bad bunny is bigger than drake outside the United States and Latin music tends to get sidelined often in America

DOOM had legit officially sanctioned impersonators to perform shows he didn’t feel like/couldn’t personally be there for. MF DOOM definitely deserves his own spotlight video.

No. Everyone talks about DOOM. We need more videos like this, about rappers who have not been given their flowers in the current zeitgeist.

Doom was definitely an enigma in the rap game. He needs his story told and after hearing the amazing spot on breakdown on Canibus this is the best platform to do it. That's why I just subscribed. I'm a fan of this show.

Bro, just remember all caps when spell the man's name.

​@@YjaffacakeKKOOL KEITH deserves his flowers. His first 4 albums are classics that were way ahead of their time and his collabs with Kutmasta Kurt and others are equally timeless. I can admit nowadays his releases have been meh, but KK definitely pushed the genre forward

3030 is a masterpiece

I thought it was gonna be Kool Keith. Sounds like Doc Oc lyrics.

Canibus...Greydon Square...Kool Keith...K-Rino Guilty Smiles Necromancer ft Canibus and Low Technology Progeny of the Ancients Greydon Square Just sharing a few of my favorites

Del definitely an icon bro.

No DJ Vadim or Dälek ?

Gawdam, that goes hard

Jfk to 2pac n Biggie

Please understand what he’s been up against. When you go up against Eminem, you’re NEVER walking away with the popular vote… no matter how dope you are. I saw it firsthand in real time. I’m 40 years old today… Class of 2001. I watched Sisqo change the world in real time too. Very literally overnight, the granny panties, bloomers, and period panties all straight up vanished. Like, I saw the shift. Same thing with Eminem. Folks moved us to the suburbs in the early 90’s… My new classmates put me onto Nirvana and Green Day… I put them onto the Wu, Public Enemy, Eric B. and Rakim, etc. A few liked it. Nothing mesmerizing, tho. But let me tell you… Sway and Tech dropped a track with Eminem on it… then My Name Is dropped… and overnight, my classmates who shrugged at Eric B For President and Paid In Full suddenly came into school as lifelong hip hop historians overnight knowing every single word that Shady ever spit. So please understand, Eminem himself absolutely IS hip hop. And he’s definitely dope! But his supporters weren’t into hip hop until he came around. So they very literally don’t even know of a rap world outside of the guy who put em onto it. They’re the male version of Beyoncé’s BeyHive. The facts and truth are easily accessible… Em’s “style” that he’s credited for ain’t his. He got it from a New Jersey rapper. And he’s been credited as the pioneer of the multi syllabic rhyme pattern but he’s neither the first nor the best. Canibus was on that for sure … and definitely can’t forget this next guy… Big Pun! Pun was different, yo.

@@blacksuburban2410 yes…but explain the granny panties - period panties reference.

There’s no such thing as nuerodivergence

​@@blacksuburban2410 personally, I think winning a battle vs Eminem you would have to have two things, the fame and the skill set. When em went against Canibus, you can tell that he was definitely the only one that could have murked em. Everyone else didn't have the skillset and popularity.

Canibus can't make a song to save his life nevermind what happened in his career his songs are ass you can lyrical miracle all day you better make some damn records

I appreciate his perspective. I have some disagreements with him but I respect his point of view

the video was full of misinformation and lack of information..

​@@thisisanewusername4662 I'm curious for some examples, if you have them, as I don't know anything about this topic

​@Content well, describing eminem as respecting canibus is funny when you consider he put out a diss track called Can-I-Bitch making fun of him and said canibus "not even on my radar" on Square Dance

@@thisisanewusername4662 like what?

Hey! I LOVE [actual] pineapple on pizza AND I’m from Chicago too! LoL Everyone: pepperoni, pineapple, and onion ain’t no joke. Don’t knock it till you try it.

I agree great video. But I'm 44 and ADHD definitely existed when I was a kid. It was usually called ADD but essentially the same thing, same treatment, which was mostly Ritalin back then. My cousin was diagnosed in the 80s and his brother in the early 90s.

It's interesting seeing so many people be diagnosed or questioned with adhd right now. I was diagnosed when I was like 8 in the early 90s. I took meds for it, was constantly given tests and put into special rooms. It hit me the hardest in college and work life. But it was still never considered a big deal for a long time. In fact, once social media exploded, people were saying EVERYONE has adhd because the internet. Which is of course highly offensive. But the amount of care people have for adhd now is quite surprising to me.

48, no diagnose, working on understanding human relationships for ages (e.g. 15 years of marriage). I don't think many people understand human interpersonal dynamics and the more I learn about them the more sobering it is, because it definitively isn't as promised in the ads...

​@@GattlingCombo Most likely there's not more ADHD than "back then". There's just more focus on it, more people getting diagnosed and there's an openness to talk about it

It was the end for me. You saw his soul leave his body!

Yo your description is exactly how I felt.

Seeing Ali boxed after his prime was his saddest thing to watch... But Ali was and still is getting his flowers Dizaster did the right thing giving Canibus his praise REGARDLESS

That's exactly how I described it. Like seeing Tyson sitting in the ring totally defeated spiritually.

@@shlondabell4719 Diz gets a lot flack for being corny but he's a fan and commonly gives props, even during battles.

🎯💯 Much love to you, lil' bill! Keep killin' it, man...

the fact that the fans said LL won that battle says all you need to know about cannibus...well, not everything....

😂😂😂😂

Nah, not even close, Bus was so deep that it just went 1,000 miles over your zoomer head 😂 😂

Redman and Busta also.

“I am the autistic king Ellipses who broke the ecliptic, but don’t nobody wanna listen”

He used to post on Canibus website. I was a moderator back when that site was around. Cole is a huge Canibus fan.

@@marianosantiniello2213 Cool. Back then people digested the music and had great discussions.

@@marianosantiniello2213 I use to go on CC all the damn time lol what was your name on there

yeah and funny enough he went by the name "therapist" on CanibusCentral which he obviously had to change haha.

@@marianosantiniello2213 which section did u mod, I modded the text forum for a while.

kool keith is a better rapper than you

Gotta listen to Faite Accompli, he is telling you the future.

Yo he really got dope around 2002-2003 especially when he got some dope beats . Rip the Jacker is def his best album , Stoupe was in his prime around then too. Great combination .

I like that era too, but my favorite era is probably the Melatonin Magik, Undergods, Fait Accompli, Phoenix Rise, and Full Spectrum Dominance era from like 09 to 18. I've lost touch over the years, but I think he only got better over time.

@@SotNist right, people don't know his best verse ever was on Fait Accompli aka Godless America, Kaiju is his 2nd best album imo

@@mesus3701 Fait Accompli is my favorite one. The most focused, poetic and cohesive work he ever put together. 100% third eye. All other rap has just been regular af to me since then tbh.

​@@SotNistPatriots was my favorite song.

I know right? Could you imagine Bis and Em in their prime just doing a straight out raw spitters EP together with each one working to top the next? How crazy would that have been?

Well this set me down a rabbit hole. the whole thing is really well laid out on genius. Eminem vs Canibus: “The most theatrical emcee battle of all time” More details then I needed but I read the whole damn thing anyway O_O

I’m surprised he didn’t delve into their beef in this video. It was quite entertaining.

@@SOBEKCrocodileGod your surprised a mainly black focused channel doesnt want to talk how a white rapper beat another black rapper lyrically so bad it ended his carrer?

@@sergf3624 Canibus 100% beat Em let’s not pretend otherwise. The impression I get is that it was really the LL thing that fucked up his career.

A lot of musical geniuses displayed common traits of neurodivergeny...crazy what we know now

Really though? Like, Artists being weird has always been a thing, we just didn't have the word Neurodivergent until recently.

Neurodivergent is a term based on eugenics

I'm someone they would put on that now and nah, think different isn't anything off. It's growing pains from a more connected world, what you know changes how you think. Combine that with disconnected parents, being raised by screens. So of course kids that went all in and explored farther came off "odd" to everyone else. I know why I'm not easy to relate to and yeah to get that you gotta try and meet people in the middle and understand them too. I mean kind of what JC taught right? Tread a block in another set of kicks, probably something we could all try to do more.

@Naxireal politely disagree, lot of what society deems "weird" or "off" are more often than not just ND traits. Highly recommend doing in depth research into 2023 medical understandings and diagnoses of autism/adhd/bipolar disorder, they present themselves in so many ways that just traditionally get viewed as "weird" by societal standards. Something as simple as being able to fully immerse yourself into a hobby until you're content with your ability to perform in it is a ND trait. That's not to say every "weird" person is on the spectrum, but the odds of a weird kid being on the spectrum are way higher than someone we'd call "not weird" being ND

anyone who uses the phrase "lyrical miracle" is automatically disqualified

ctrl + alt + del doesn't even delete anything, it just opens a thing to turn off the computer and things like that

​@@nidd0xwhich leads to an option to put to sleep or shut down. So...

You long winded mofo just say you liked the video

@@nidd0xanswered your own question

Lost Boyz - Beasts from the East w/ Canibus

Thats from one of the best verses in hip hop history imo

going through this comment section it seems this guy had a saying for everything 😂

@@DDoubleEDouble he really does

​@@DDoubleEDouble Indeed he does

"We were in total awe 'cause it blew our minds So many rhymes that were intricately designed He was Poet Laureate of his time And if you don't mind, I'd like to share some of his rhymes Alone in my room looking through the 32X telescope zoom Adjusting the focus of the moon One should not assume the philosophy of David Hume Is nothing more then a subjective conclusion What is the maximum field rate application? The runaway glaciation surrounding the ocean basin Affects the population fluctuation On a continuous basis but that's just the basics The juxtaposition of Canibus' position The precision of something no other has written"

@@Byronic19134 this is one of his best songs…most slept on too

Neurodivergent is a made up term that has no definition in science and can mean whatever you want it to mean, but ok. He's neurodivergent =)

@@faligeTruth!

K Rino

You never heard of EYEDEA then smh.... He will always be remembered at the TRUE GOAT OF ALL RAP AND HIP HOP BATTLES

Canibal OX? Company Flow? Deltron 3030? ect..ect..

cannabis*

​@@albertogonzalez2203All good, but they came after.

🔥🤣

Cus I spit hot fiyah!

Extremely similar

I think about the punk and rap comparison so so often. Rap has historically been very very punk. Even now with the deconstruction of rap (like a lil b,for instance),it isnt my thing but I think it's all very punk.

The existential political dread was in the Canibus lyrics

ROFL@@vampyweekies

@vampyweekies4412 Fucking hilarious!

i neeeeeeeeeeeeeed my GYATDAYiM thesaurus Ladies & gentlemen but fully agree MOS'DEF . . .

Same, also old guy. Worked at a radio station back in college and the conversation around Canibus was always "mad skills, can't make a song (album) to save his life."

Checking into the old guy club. Agree with you both.

🫡here to say word.

Is it? Because so many popular songs are trash. I think Canibus has a great overall body of work. To me, Canibus is like bebop compared to mainstream rappers who I equate with Kenny G.

@@ambientvibes4301 You can tell they've never even listened to Canibus. Canibus work is absolutely amazing, I'm glad he decided to truly find himself and not care what the masses like these morons think. They don't know hip hop at all.

Canibus was also in the army. He was in Iraq as well.

On the infamous taped conversation between canibus and ll cool j, I remember being shocked that he brought up chatter on message boards. Why? Because it was 1997 and only hardcore nerds used the internet like that back then.

I coined him the first ever STEM rapper

@@jerryhicks9025 Before Souljah Boy's ascent, mainstream rappers used to diss "internet rappers" all the time in their bars. The irony.....

@@dawb86 Some of them still do that

Naw nas was

​@@mike_ojones3055No, Canibus was. He used to be in the canibus-central forums dropping keystyles under the screenname "Therapist" and we used to clown him calling him "The r@pist" 🤣

@@mike_ojones3055 nope it was 100% canibus, I knew jcole online before he was ever famous, he was on Canibus central message boards under the name "therapist", dont believe me look it up.

yes and if you do timeline mixes, you can still make incredible things to this day, timeline mixes are mixing the bars from the different layers, non timeline is just people who literally cut words out to make stuff rhyme, which u can do with anything so it doesnt make it special. but his layered rhymes are incredibly ahead of there time.

I started rapping the whole verse after the first 2 words it's one of the greatest verses ever spit, "I was born with a mic, lord of the mic, before all plant and animal life, I existed, in the Garden of Eden getting lifted..."

those really aren't crazy words my dude lmfao

Maybe you should be smart enough to realize this video is about a rapper from the 90’s and people who say they learned words from his lyrics were probably kids at that time. Since you’re such a fucking genius and you know everything.

@@Nondescripthumanoid LMAO wow why are you so mad? 😆no need to cry little guy

Sounds like when i listen to K-Rino Immortal technique or Beast 1333

He wasn’t ahead of his time at all. Popular rap never went back to that style

Is it? I am South African and never heard of him. Though im a little too young probably. That's fascinating

@@tushaethewrong5602 yeah this was early 2000s

Noone in Africa knows Cannabis bro. Especially in South Africa, y'all don't even like speaking English smh

@@davidzimmerman5359 are you joking? Any hip-hop head from South Africa over 30 can quote you a Canibus verse word for word

True as a South African Canibus was the most feared Mcee ever only the newbies who dont know him.

Causal 😂 🤡

I highly recommend taking your adventure a step further and listening to his whole discography it will resonate with you if you like esoteric and metaphysical futuristic shit.

​@@jidowu6019seriously dude?

Fame for suckers,,

So his own face can cancel him again?

He is trash now.

The algorithm, my man. Skynet doesnt need cyborgs, and the matrix doesn’t need a simulation of life in the 80s. They just needed phones with a nice screen.

@brmbkl fantastic comment, bro!

Canibus 33,3s

Same here pal. From the rural towns of Cumbria we had that shit banging in the council estate bedrooms 😂😂

100% the same lol. White kid from London, 1978 born, here lol

The problem is it is not enough to have the most complex hyperbrain lyrics, you have to also make good music. And at that very important aspect of hip-hop he (and many others in the same boat) utterly failed.

@@GM53946His music is amazing

His verse on beast from the east is the greatest verse ever recorded by any artist ever in my opinion ……..Almost 30 years later and I’m still like wtf did I just hear!!!!!

You lyrical snobs are weirdos.

Same here

Yeah, my dad wasn't treated for it because the medications were considered too dangerous by his parents. His lack of treatment led to his mistreatment from his family and teachers.

I was born 81.. I was label "Hyperactive" they had me take Syerts (the pill before Ridelin) til 13.. so interesting this information

​@@feodiente9460 *Ritalin

Thank u. I weirdly feel seen for some reason now. I was diagnosed ADHD in 92 at 6 years old. I was also labeled as bad as well though.

@@ummmummm563 yeah..I ain't never won no spelling bees my friend. 🤣💯

Second round ko is better most heads will agree

canibus 99 perecent line is legendary. still need someone to diss drake using those bars as a sample

CAMBATTA IS THE TRUTH.....AND HES FROM WHERE I LIVE LOL 👍🏾

Cambatta is amazing. The tape with Lux 🔥 everything 🔥🔥🔥

How you feel about Deca?

Canibus hit in 1998. You make it like it was over three. 😂

Facts, I remember seeing it on ripthejacker or canibuscentral

Cheers Guv’nor!🍷

Hey you, got a light? Nah, bud light

I still can't believe Diz made the wonton song

that was my favorite thing about the battle, diz was so respectful to a legend !

yeah yo. It was heartbreaking, i been tellin’ everybody bout bis for decades!

I'm not sure why people put so much emphasis on that one battle yeah it wasn't good for cannabis but it's not that big of a deal it's not like a career-ender it just was a bad night and I don't get why people are born so much it means nothing

I low-key think that was chess move by Bis, like for publicity to see if he could garner attention. I mean really think about who bis is and was. He still dropping music to this day

RTJ is a masterpiece . Seriously

And hes the organic super computer who solved something crazy with 2 blue metric rulers i believe

@@frandavis1990 and he's gucci gang gucci gang gucci gang gucci gang

For real! I remember Kool Keith used to throw out baggies with chicken wings and Hi-C at his shows 😂

I still listen to that Dr. Dooom album.

Dr. Octagon is a top 10 record for sure.

@@nervousallday that is the most Kool Keith thing I ever heard of.

kool keith is the goat

Me too! I broke my 1st copy so I bought a 2nd CD.

word up

​@@krysisstorm2703 check out Dragon of Judah

Can-I-bus!!!

Can canibus rhyme? Does a porcupine have swine?? No time to make up your mind