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Lmao same a middle school white kid from Texas and just stumbled upon this album at a record store with a Christmas gift card. My life was changed. Black Thought still my favorite MC of all time
@stantoncagle8185 Haha! Look at all us white boys up on the real HipHop. I was like 14 in Brooklyn NY when this came out. This and Nas illmatic. 2 best albums
jordan Johnson why do you act like there has to be be rules which area sounds like what? ASAP rocky and mob brought the sound of the south to east coast
Damn. Think about it. When we were all jamming to this and other hip hop of yesterdays, we never thought this sound would cease to exist. I never thought hip hop would NOT be classic. I thank God that I grew up during the classic years. I wouldn't be the person I am today without this. Classic Hip Hop makes me so proud.
Alex Ndichu Black Thought is definitely slept on. He is talented as fuck lyrically. Around this time Nas,Gza, were his superiors but he is lyrically better than both today.
I knew Black Thought's lyrical ability was dam serious when I heard him on Super Lyrical with Big Pun, man's versatile, he can make smooth Hip Hop songs and then murderous Hip Hop songs.
Doc Tor Damn. You feel it like I feel it. Your statement is EXACTLY what I say each time I hear this track. It takes me somewhere. It paints a landscape and invokes memories, feelings, visions, colors I forgot about up until this track starts. Beauty.
@@billyjacc When someone says Tri-State, the term comes from NY-CT-NJ, thats the original tri state and actual meaning of the term. Since then people apply it to other places, but when tri state is said, that is usually what it means. Often people will lump Philly into it when they say it and i dont have issue with that. You can apply the term to other places, but its not really right terminology.
Black Thought is a GOAT but I always like the Roots albums better when Malik B was more involved. He's was crazy nice too and they had such great chemistry on the mic.
The Roots have to be in your top 10 list of the greatest Hip Hop artists. Nothing but classics. Quest Love is one of the best producers ever. Much love from Baltimore.
I’m a white kid from Texas so my dad’s big thing about rap was obviously “oh it’s not music they don’t play instruments.” You can imagine the look on my face when I discovered The Roots and showed him he was wrong. Black Thought my favorite MC to this day.
Black Thought used to have a nose piercing? Wow, I've been listening to The Roots for a long time and never noticed. Love this song, Do You Want More is a masterpiece
If someone told me in the mid 90's The Roots would be the house band on the tonight show i would have thought they were crazy!! Just Awesome!! These guys bring me waaayyyy back to when rap music was good. :-)
Absolutely. These guys, especially ?uestlove & Black Thought, were REAL Hip hop artists. They didn't talk guns and drugs and money and cars. Or even have all these fancy nice looking women to make them look good. They just enjoyed what they did. They didn't need money and glamour. They just had fun. And I respect it.
Malik means Master or Ruler. He was much more powerful than mere music. For those he touched I hope you heeded his true power and take up the banner. This genre in its purest form has the power to move mountains and this is what we need right now.
I love this kind of hip hop, I love New York jazzy sounds of hip hop. The music videos was so amazing I love how they showed streets of New York and made you feel like you was in New York watching the video.
I still have this song Proceed on the original cassette single tape released in 1994 from Geffen Records. The B side of this cassette single LP features Bahamadia on this same song Proceed as a collaborative duo. C-L-A-S-S-I-C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@Cameo718. No doubt. I still own Bahamadia's first album Kollage on the original clear cassette tape released in 1996 from Chrysalis Records having two copies to be exact both censored and uncensored versions. A bonafide debut C-L-A-S-S-I-C from a perennial femcee with outstanding production from DJ Premier and the Guru.
No disrespect, I think back then their record label did hold them back a little, They should of had better Representation from the record company , such an amazing group, their gold either way
It's arguable, but that title is like Baskin Robbins, it has MANY flavors like Guru, Mos Def, Common, CL Smooth and Pete Rock, De La Soul, man it's ENDLESS who can hold this title
The Roots was always Black Thought and Malik B for me thats how it started! The Roots was still good with Black Thought but every album I would still be looking for Malik B!
The Roots music has helped me through rough times in life. Would love to meet them. Plus have a conversation with them. Black Thought...keep pushing the envelope with those sharp lyrics that contains precision . the band keep making great quality music that inspires a nation. Together..you guys are one. Keep building. Peace
Everyone has their own opinion and I respect that, but I think Black Thought is one of the greatest Mcees!!! I like Big and Tupac but I don't think they are the greatest.Some of their songs are very trashy,dirty and misogynistic. It's the classic hip hop musicians and conscious rappers who don't get enough credit.Its always the mainstream artist who promote the wrong message who are coined the greatest.NWA I'm aiming at you too.
@politic1148 I said it 13 years ago, and I will it again, I said instrumentation in classic hip-hop culture by the legendary roots crew and others was and were SLEPT on!! The answer is all of the above and more as what you said!! To me, Hip hop embraces artistic elements, most definitely. But it also has blended and transcended them to become a means for seeing, celebrating, experiencing, understanding, confronting, and commenting on life and the world. Hip hop, in other words, is a way of living!! a culture in hip-hop!! And I feel, this classic album in 1994, "Do You Want More?!!!??!" WAS SLEPT ON!! 💯💯💯
Check out Blu & Exile's new album "Miles" (and their album Below The Heavens) and Lupe Fiasco's album "Drogas Wave" for some current jazz hip hop. Fashawns album "Boy Meets World" is great too
Why I’m just now getting put on this song? 🤦🏽♂️.. when I heard it, I had a moment of “wow, I was living under a rock as a baby”... I was born in 91🤷🏽♂️
If this was high school era u know how beautiful hip hop was at that time for every coast, I represent Long Beach California an I can't like Snoop was blastin but so was OutKast, too short, pac biggie even Luke Skywalker 🙌🏽 basically everyone first is a classic today 💯
Man! Hip hop Nostalgia right here! 10 years old, home alone every Thursday and Friday afternoon from 2:30-6 cranking BET Video Soul, Video Vibrations, And Rap City. 95. One of the greatest years in hip hop history.
I just came through to pay my respects to Malik B. This might not be their most technically perfect song, but it’s my favorite song by the roots to this day...
The next time someone asks me what I'm going to do, my reply will be:" I shall proceed and continue to the rock the mic!" Lol!! Man, I miss the cool vibes of 1995.
