Queen Latifah was a rapper before she was anything else: Actor, Entrepreneur, etc. She's a Hip Hop legend.

@mthai66

2 жыл бұрын

How does anyone not know this? #MemoryHole

@CandanceOnline

Жыл бұрын

It's Just like Many Young Fans Never knew Mary J. Blige Was A Singer Before She Acted , But Us Older people Knew Them As Rappers & Singers before They Ever Where Actors & To Us we find It Strange seen them as Actors because That's not where they Started from LOL .

@Ladylace97

Жыл бұрын

He's young

Queen Latifah was a pioneer in hip hop wayyy before she started taking acting seriously. 🤣😊

She was a rapper first but she also can sing. She got a whole jazz album!

@OLatreil

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yea! I forgot about that. I've been listening to jazz lately and I'm going to visit that album.

@darhyllacy2026

Жыл бұрын

Absolute classic!!

@josephmendoza9523

Жыл бұрын

And yet this song had a little bit of jazz to and that's what I love about it

FYI, The motorcycle keys in the beginning (she wears around her neck) belonged to her brother who died in an accident.

@BobbyAshleyProductions

2 жыл бұрын

And she wore that all throughout her seasons on Living Single

Oh the Queen’s freestyle was legendary. Queen and MC Lyte were 2 people you just didn’t want to battle with.

Ladies First is a must - I think Queen and Salt n Pepa were my (white, suburban, sheltered) intro to rap, because before that I didn't think anyone was talking to me.

She's Hip Hop Royalty bro! She also has an entire jazz album called The Dana Owens Album, that's her name. The motorcycles are a shout out to her older brother Lance (Lancelot) he died in a motorcycle crash riding the bike she gave him for his birthday. She wears his keys around neck ever since, 1992 I think.

She was a rapper before she became an actress. You should check out her song "Just Another Day".

she didn't only rap. she made classic albums and led women rappers into an era of positivity, pride, and strength

You should Google her and see how much she's accomplished. She's a GREAT actress too. My favorite movie with her is Set it off. She's called Queen for a reason. She's also the kind of example young girls should look up to. 💖💖💖

Rap has been around since the early 80s and Latifah was one the first female MCs.

Dude she is a pioneer of hip hop she was right there with salt&pepper, shontae,MC Lyte, Run DMC…she is rap royalty literally. And dont get her twisted, she about her show and music label right now, but she hasn’t fallen off…she is still street, and she can go off the dome…her and Roxanne Shontae are hip hop heads to the core and still have skillz

You need to check out " Latifah's Had It Up To Here".

A renaissance woman...love Queen Latifah ❤️

I love that line: you say I'm nothing without you, but I am nothing with you. Those are mind freeing words.

Brandy “I Wanna Be Down” Remix w/Queen Latifah, MC Lyte and Yo-Yo. Ladies First, Just Another Day, Princess of the Posse, Latifah’s Had It Up 2 Here and Wrath of My Madness are some other Queen songs to check out. Her crew was The Native Tongues which included The Jungle Brothers, Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. Latifah has been in the game since the late 80s.

Yeah, Queen La started out as a rapper. Honestly, I was shocked when I found out she could act. When she started doing the show Living Single, I was so happy with her as Khadijah. AND she's a great jazz singer!

Bruh, Queen came into the game as a rapper, after being high school Bball star in Newark. I think her 1st rap hit was Ladies First. She had a small part in Soike Lee’s School Days movie, & her acting career started takin off. Then she started also singin. Queen is unique in the industry, as far as areas of success. Lauryn Hill probably the only with that level of rap & singin skills who can also act. But who starts out spittin like Lateefah & ends up staring in her own t.v. series, host her own show, gets hit in movies, nominated for Academy Award & wind up recording duet with vocal legend Tony Bennett? Nobody!! Queen got her own unique spot, that most likely NO rapper will ever get to.

Queen Latifah is a hip hop pioneer! Definitely in my top list of MC's and one of the reasons I fell in love with hip hop in the late 80s as a kid.

Holy Shit Have u Stumbled Upon The Queen (NJ) 💜💜. She started as a rapper and is iconic. - Latifah's Had it Up to Here - Just Another Day -Ladies First -Come to My House Just to intro u Latifah's Talent 🤗🤗🤗

FYI: Queen won a Grammy for this song.

Doing ok and, as a “Much older woman”, you give me hope. Big fan, my son

She's Queen for a reason 😍🤘

The Queen is the greatest female mc ever, no questions asked

She was also a talk show host. Queens stand up 👑

Rapping royalty, hence...... "The Queen" Ya'll gotta get to know the originators and legends of rap.

She was a rapper first she from where I live in NJ Queen was big in her days of rapping and she can sing too

She has ALWAYS been a Queen !!

She also brought about Naughty By Nature, Yo-Yo, and numerous others.

Come Into My House is her house music joint, you gotta hear it.

she has a beautiful singing voice also!!!

Check out her song Latifah had it up 2 here.

Man. She said"who you callin a bitch". The queen had it down packed.

She was also part of Native Tongues, (jungle Brothers, tribe called quest, De la soul...etc..) which was closely tied to ZULU nation..

That was ole boy from naughty by nature that got punched dead in his eye🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ladies First is good too. And Latifahs had it up to here.

@hughjefner510

Жыл бұрын

Haha Vin-Rock

This was a smooth jam with that sax. This song was huge back in the day and with a great message

Queen Latifah is a hip hop pioneer. Her flows were revolutionary and she was one of the females that changed the face of hip hop. Glad your listening. Hip hop in our days (us oldies ;) is the seed and roots of what we hear on the radio today. Keep educating yourself young. It will fill your soul. Also…spot the cameo (the dude calling her out on the street) another legendary hip hop artist.

React to her...Just Another Day

This is why she is the queen!

Ladies First is an anthem.

Queen Latifa was singing for over 10 years before she started acting in 1991. Great at both things very talented!! Love her ❤ 💕

She has Queen as her first name for all the right reasons. A Queen in every form of the word. Plus, she & her brother (RIP) used to ride bikes all the time.

Lol, Queen Latifah was one of the first mass popular/internationally recognized female rappers.

Respect! Yeah Queen is the real deal!💯

Check out her song Just Another Day a vibe

She rode with the red liners and she bought her brother a bike and he died in a crash hence the toast and keys at the beginning of the video. It was dedicated to her brother Winky

Bless your heart! Yes sir! She can rap she is a hip hop legend. Gen X knows her well!❤

Queen LA!!!! 🔥🚀❤️

Yes Jersey Queen. Her song “Just Another Day” , “Latifah’s Had It Up To Here” , “Wrath of My Madness”, “Give Me Body” “I Wanna Be Down” (Remix) ❤️

Queen latifah princess of the posse and wrath of my madness 🔥

Queen was a Beast!

Queen was DOPE! you gotta check had it up to here

Hip hop legend she was a rapper way before acting she’s not called the queen for nothing 🔥💪🏽💯

Ladies First is another solid track.

"When you're good to Mama" from the movie Chicago.

Latifah "had up to here" you really want to here her spit

Queen Latifah started out as a rapper/singer and transitioned to acting. If you want to hear some of her best singing listed to her sing "Georgia Rose" and "Lush Life".

I enjoy seeing our young people feel the real Hip Hop... Great Channel my man...

One of her first acting jobs was on a 1991 episode of Fresh Prince where she played Hilary’s boss.

Classic Classic ...

Latifah and Missy Elliott are among the greats!

One of the best yet

Queen!!!

Oh yeah this is a classic! I also liked “Cha Cha Cha” by MC Lyte.

She started out as a rapper.

You betta check out Black Reign. Awesome CD.

react to Ladies First.

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Queen Latina the rapper was in a movie? Who knew?

Great reaction 🔥

I like this reaction.

QUEEN4LIFE OG Truth Teller. Ya'll youngens better know.

Thank you bro

Flava Unit all day

Listen to "Black butterfly" by: deniece Williams

Check out her song “Ladies First!”

She sing too, check out “Come into my house” !!

Can rap?? :DDDDDD yeah she is queen of rap

Queen latifa'first song released was "Ladies first she not only raped she had her own production company she discovered and produced the dudes in this videos he walked past was "Naughty by nature's Also sings

I agree with what DeeDee said.

Queen Latifah...rapper first before anything else.

a lot of rappers had messages to their songs back then. check out: Hay Young World by slick rick

Check out Guru/Chaka Khan "Watch what you say"...1996..

You need to check ✅ out Dabrat....Her rapping was 📴 the ⛓️ chain

Queen is one of the GOATS at rapping bro. Check out Ladies First also.

You gotta do ladies first by Queen Latifah and Money Love

Her first single was Ladies First. That's a damn good one. If you listen to ROUGH she has some featured 90's rappers on there and she gets kinda gritty. I was like, Yes ma'am. You better come at her hard or step aside. Brandy's I WANNA BE DOWN remix with Yo-Yo and MC Lyte. Definitely a big hit. Both original version and the remix. NO WORK, is another banger.

She can sing to.

For another - very different - Queen Latifah song, check out her cover of Phoebe Snow's "Poetry Man" (the live version if you can) on KZread. She is SO talented.

also check his group Naughty By nature :)

90s Classic, Glad You Enjoyed It!!

Shes a hip hop pioneer. Need to check out MC Lyte too.

Chek out "queen Latifah 's" "just another day&Latifa's had it up to here she has crazy flow. She was rapping before she started acting and she had her own production COMPANY FLAVOR UNIT you should also check out MC lyte

She one of the female OG’s!!!!

If you thought this was good check out Just Another day, Set it off Feat Organized noize And yes That's the song that appears at the end of Set it Off in which Latifah was also on. Name callin is another one that's good too. All hail the Queen is amazing. You should check those out. What I love about Queen Latifah rapping is that she can start off sweet and lovely and then Boom she goes hard Then that's hard to pull off dude

Definitely check out Monie Love, Mc Lyte and YoYo for some good old school female rappers! Great videos my dude 👍🏾

rap, sing, act and produce check out her music cd's OMG is all i can say

Latifah was/is an actress, rapper, singer , and legendary high school hooper from New Jersey. Anyone that knows hip hop knows that she’s a legend period. Many dudes won’t diss her.

Lol youngin, Queen Latifah was a rapper FIRST! Peep this, She can also sing too.

Ladies first check out