One of the greatest most underrated emcees of all time. Him and Phonte

@JustinDeep-op1ix

7 ай бұрын

Yes! Not enough people give phonte props

@TooMuch76ErLordKeep

5 ай бұрын

AGREED 💯 those who Know

@Burst644

3 ай бұрын

"I got your head bobbing and my verse didn't rhyme" 🐐

@willi960

3 ай бұрын

100% Agree

@graylonarnwine3261

2 ай бұрын

I agree phonte that dude. Drake got his style from tay

First of all this is Elzhi my friends, he's a legendary cat himself coming from the legendary group Slum Village (90s cats) Who was produced by the one and only J Dilla, so he has every right to make a tribute album to Nas and pulled it off pretty amazingly you gotta admit , Peace to the Gods and Knowledge seekers out there!

@ryanreedtv3242

5 жыл бұрын

🔥

@blakkmask4444

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put sir. School them please.

@doncatalog

2 жыл бұрын

Word!!!!!

@midwestnative32

Жыл бұрын

I heard Elzhi used to battle rap I would’ve love to see that

@bazglsgw1208

Жыл бұрын

Elzhi is Detroits finiest n im sure Em would agree he deffo listens 2 Elzhi 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

Mother gave birth to this divine mind Born with this [A]rm, [L]eg, [L]eg, [A]rm [H]ead like a Quran line Dope.

@BoxingLegendsTV

8 жыл бұрын

+NewSchool nice

@hebrew26commandmentspower55

8 жыл бұрын

ras kass - interview with a vampire

@lifestraight

8 жыл бұрын

+NewSchool Other rappers have used the Arm Leg Leg Arm Head most notably Rza on "Reunited"

@boomshakalaka7203

8 жыл бұрын

Common acronym in the streets. Not as special as you make it out to be

@usteznaaj4975

8 жыл бұрын

That's not dope, thats not in the Qur'an. Thats some 5percenter stuff has NOTHING to do with Islam, nor the Holy Qur'an. I love this track but I wish rappers would start doing research on their metaphors and similies sometimes.

Genius You made Nas proud

@menthosonthegoghst

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say that much. He chose Fashawn. Elzhi would have been the reflection in the mirror. Elzhi is too dope! Top 10 rappers D.O.A.

I was a little worried when i heard that Elzhi would to an illmatic remake but he really did a fantastic job. He didnt just rap over the same beats He made it refreshing with the live band and he took every song and added his own story to it. 10/10

@dumbasschasehickson

7 жыл бұрын

Facts

@ello7034

4 жыл бұрын

Facts!! Easily the best tribute cover by anyone.

This album is pure perfection. Production, lyrics, everything. Still bump this shit consistently. A true poet

Born with this arm, leg, leg, arm, head (A.L.L.A.H.) like a Quran line. If anyone should pay tribute to this album, it's Elzhi.

Been following Elzhi since his Slum Village days! Very underrated MC! Elmatic is a true masterpiece! I will never get tired of this album.

@Death2cornbread

4 жыл бұрын

All factz

@davadreviewer5509

3 жыл бұрын

@LostItt why?

just saw him live in Boston! this dude shook my hand like 5 times, signed my Elmatic CD, took a picture with me and finally thanked me for supporting him....SUCH a nice guy man !

Classic to a classic damn...

Damn, I didn't realize this dropped nearly 9 years ago. Time flies. Still shits on a lot of today's MCs.

His flow is old school! I could listen to this all day, Respect bro!

This kid is nice...one of the BEST TRIBUTES I've ever seen/heard.

I wish people would stop bringing up Kendrick Lamar on Elzhi videos.

@cesarsalmeron8425

8 жыл бұрын

+Jordan Rios I know man, Kendrick is on another level as a complete music artist

@DukeofHell

8 жыл бұрын

+Jordan Rios Who???

@varunmehta8869

8 жыл бұрын

+Cesar Alcanzar I agree but straight MCing this guy is better

@jarvasedundy1

8 жыл бұрын

He shits on Kendrick lol

@cesarsalmeron8425

8 жыл бұрын

you can keep telling yourself that... it's all good

it ain't hard to tell He's a nas fan

@joetheplumber51

8 жыл бұрын

word you took it right out my thoughts i was like is he suppose to be the detroit nas. nice lyrics tho

@MaesterPeemore

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@Scpcghost

6 жыл бұрын

andrew martinez you think? What's the original track?😐

@QGTM868

5 жыл бұрын

Glad he did this cause its Illmatic. We all know he couldn't touch it was written.

@shawnhendersonjr74

5 жыл бұрын

No shit

the most slept on emcee

@zacheryfourhman4737

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like canibus is the most overlooked rapper

Still listening in 2020 🔥🔥🔥

This is off the chain!!! human nature wished their track sounded this good when they put their vocals to it

Happy Birthday ElZhi!!salute from Mozambique

This is the song that introduced me to Elzhi's *lyrical greatness.* I've been a fan ever since. It helps that he remade one of my favorite hip hop songs. I had to steal this beat for myself and make my own version💪🎤

Elzhi is one of the few people that can recreate illmatic and get away with it

One of the absolute greatest "cover" albums ever

How is this guy not on everybody's top 10?! Spits pure fire!

The second I heard the first line I laughed...I knew I was in the presence of the best rapper of our time.

Elzhi, you're sic on the mic. SIC!!!

Timeless classic!!

All the way from #SouthAfrica 🙌 I first heard of Elzhi when I was bumping Royce's bar exam 2(Royal flush) and since then I've been a fan of dude 🙌

Damn its crazy how he got nas beat and switched it up. Dope

One of my favorite songs of all times

elmatic was a great project, my favorite was his tribute to the world is yours doh

@jarvasedundy1

8 жыл бұрын

Yes

Finally, getting out there Elzhi. I've been a fan for like 3 years. Detroit saving hip-hop nuff said.

DAMN YOUNG SOLDIER YOU ARE HOPE MADE A OG CRY.

Damn how I never heard this! Dope!

TBH I wasnt expecting much especially considering the title. Its actually pretty damn good.

Sad how this barely has 305 views... Elzhi is so much better than anybody else.

Crazy that this is 11 years old now, danm!

😳🔥🔥🔥🔥☕ where have I been? Very very nice... Thank you.

HE KILLED IT.

Wow, it's actually pretty good to see Elzhi with a VEVO. A lot of people gonna get turned on to one of the greatest of all time.

You can never write better than this! 😷

He did this justice .. much respek Nas

maaaan, this ish is soooo dope man, nice tribute to nas, good flip to the beat...classic

This is nice as hell. He did an outstanding job on this song. nas is proud for sure.

How can anyone not like this gem, amazing pure hip-hop....the flow, the beat, everything wow...

Killed it!!! So dope.

Whats with all the Kendrick comparisons? They're both great but Elzhi is 10x better lyrically. Just bars, no beats, no instrumentals. Just bars. Elzhi would rip him apart.

@juliusc.3465

9 жыл бұрын

Dick Dansom I didn't make the fucking comparison, OTHER people have.

@Sonataman974

9 жыл бұрын

JuliusC. Yeah I don't know why people compare the two. Kendrick obviously has the better hooks, bridges, beat selection, overall song structure. Elzhi just has more complex bars.

@andredavis8824

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly and plus elzhi been rapping longer then Kendrick and elzhi just finally getting his shine fuck Kendrick over rated ass

@sab3rm4st3r99

9 жыл бұрын

Dick Dansom You do understand music is supposed to be a medium of art?

@Armando316

9 жыл бұрын

JuliusC. Yeah I respect Kendrick. He's got lyrics and good songs. But I definitely think Elzhi slaughters Kendrick. Better lyrics, better story telling, and I prefer his flow.

I love Elzhi, I was filled with excitement when I noticed they made a music video to this track, i love it. everyone download his mixtape off datpiff!

Instant classic! True to the old skool, voice over beat, the message and flow is the definition of Hip hop!

You can only trust an MC like Elzhi to pay homage to a classic from Illmatic.

1:39 this line touched me on a personal level

I’m here because I JUST sat down and ate Hennessy chicken wings in Brooklyn with Elzhi as he introduced me to the cat who directed this video over a decade ago…

Absolutely amazingly dope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This Kid is so Nice real Hip-Hop Wow

Damn this guy's sick.

Back again in 2021....Yeap its still Hard ASF

ELZHI IS THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE!!!! FUCKING INCREDIBLE WORDPLAY, MULTI SYLLABLE RHYMING PATTERN, SCHEME, SMILIES AND METAPHORS

Just realized this samples Michael Jackson's Human Nature. Love how he flipped that beat.

@ThumbsUpMike

10 жыл бұрын

.....He didn't flip the beat, he sampled Nas' It ain't hard to tell beat which sampled Human Nature

@La_chusma

10 жыл бұрын

Mike DeSimone the props should really go to Large Professor. As he's the one who didn't the beat and sampled MJ

@La_chusma

10 жыл бұрын

Dude. Thriller is top 3 albums of all-time. You're missing out if you just learned this was MJ sampled

@La_chusma

10 жыл бұрын

LordVolddy *did

@psychodelicje

9 жыл бұрын

miles davis - human nature actually

hard! but I can’t unsee the “where’s Waldo” fit he got on though . 😂

@jrag1000

3 жыл бұрын

iz u color blind? lol Waldo red and white

Most underrated rapper ever

Can’t think about finding the meaning of life when tryna define mine 🔥 keep moving king

Elzhi been the underground king of the world for yeeeaaaaarrrrssss now. its time to go mainstream!!!!!

@eee32mmm

7 жыл бұрын

MoodMuzikFilez No please....nowadays you can stay underground and make the same cash flow. Without the fake pop hop kid fans.

@MoodMuzikFilez

7 жыл бұрын

WaxTapeCdEatter stop being close minded. the world needs to know about Elzhi.

@eee32mmm

7 жыл бұрын

MoodMuzikFilez True...but the world dont care ABOUT HIP HOP LIKE THIS... THIS IS ONLY FOR THE CHOSEN FEW.

@MoodMuzikFilez

7 жыл бұрын

WaxTapeCdEatter only for now... but he needs to be shoved into poeples faces like how wack rappers are.shoved in everyone faces... u think people really fucked with most these rappers that are mad popular today before they had the mainstream back up?

@eee32mmm

7 жыл бұрын

MoodMuzikFilez Good point... But the mainstream wouldnt let him spit like this bro.. they will make him dump it down. they cant have the youth rise up and conquer. thats why they sign who they sign... im with YOU all the way...BUT fuck the mainstream.. its up to us and real Djs that play this type of HIP HOP to promote. EVEN IF ITS US HANDING OUT MIXTAPES(cds) to the youth.....AT Schools. PEACE BROTHER!!!!

nas flow

About time my boy got a vevo! Thumbs up for El !!

2024 we still rockin 💪🏾

@nuggetz9380

2 ай бұрын

frfr

love this shit and the human nature made me feel like this was a classic and it is. fuckin perfect

@jarvasedundy1

8 жыл бұрын

He freaking murder this shit lol

STILL UNDERRATED

This is epic. Maaaaaaaaan

oh my goodness i love stumbling across some good ass music like this, i cant believe ive never heard of this guy!!

Its hard for me to listen anybody who remakes any of Nas'a classics.

Detroit has produced 3 of the greatest lyricists of all time, Elzhi, Royce and Eminem.

@ashimrat

5 жыл бұрын

And arguably a top 5 hip hop producer as well

@MrPranker247

4 жыл бұрын

Alexander Shimrat top 3**

🔥🔥🔥 shout to the d from md to NJ to NY salute

Ain't hard to tell I should have found this year's ago. Man that sound is DOPE! HipHop!!! This is The music that soothes my soul

Still 2018

Third verse almost sounds like a young Nas, tight shit Elzhi

Dope song! 🎶 🎶 🔥 🔥

Brave Man. And did a great job.

Huge Nas fan n this shit is dope ! keep up the good work !

nice cover of nas ✊

This is uncut dope from Bolivia 🇧🇴

TRue, it ain't hard to tell! He is sick!

Bet you made Nas proud - awesome track.

you take elzhi and put him in the same spotlight with kendrick doing some of the same songs that made him hot and I bet money elzhi would shine bright and even more so cause he's a better all around lyricist a lot of u cats dickride these commercial marketed emcees and few of them like kendrick have an underground influenced flow so it makes him elite on the commercial circuit it's nothing more than that quite a few of the underground emcees u put them on the same tracks u put mainstream rappers on and they will shine bright too so popularity in mainstream music and album sales don't measure how great your skill is with the art that's fools gold thinking like that!!!

@jarvasedundy1

8 жыл бұрын

Preach

@Noah-jt3xy

7 жыл бұрын

mf doom is still times ahead on both lyrically

@soulreaver7100

7 жыл бұрын

yeah i agree with that for sure doom is a special type of lyricist

I came here after I watched. R. A.s Interview on vlad and..... Man Did he have a point. This dude is a great lyricist and this song is amazing.

Those bells are lovely, damn

Kanye should've done an album with el and let Nas stay retired.

@Trumpeter2345

5 жыл бұрын

Awwww c’mon, you can’t just say that.

@ClaytonJones03

3 жыл бұрын

Nas still makes dope shit tho

this man fire but he need to find his own page in the book of history get his own shit poppin not the shadow if nas and other amazing artists u feel; aint no disrespect

@BlackMusicGenre

8 жыл бұрын

He's not riding Nas coattail. This was a song from a tribute album , no more no less .

@shygol9194

5 жыл бұрын

Gianmarco Imperioli He already had his page before. You must not know of slum village.

This video better be at a million views the next time I look at it

Big up from Switzerland🇨🇭👍 Europe

Elzhi > Kendrick

@WildfireWiffler44

9 жыл бұрын

Elzhi shouldn't even be compared to Kendrick. Elzhi is one of the GOATS while Kendrick sucks

@WildfireWiffler44

9 жыл бұрын

robert sweet LMAO yeahhh I take that back now. To Pimp a Butterfly was a masterpiece.

@robertsweet6387

9 жыл бұрын

WildfireWiffler44 glad to see you learned

@WildfireWiffler44

9 жыл бұрын

***** Nahhhh, he is actually very dope and easily one of the best MC's to debut in this decade. But Elzhi is on another level, Kendrick needs at least two more great albums to even be in the same category as El.

@WildfireWiffler44

9 жыл бұрын

***** Can you explain to me why you think Kendrick is garbage? Because I used to think the same thing but he really isn't.

I've listened to a few of this guy's songs to see why people say hes better than Kendrick. You guys are dumb if you think this dude is better. King Kendrick isn't just a name it's a title which is well deserved.

@VividEquation

9 жыл бұрын

I guess I'll continue being "dumb" then. Im a huge Kendrick Lamar fan but from an MCing stand point, Elzhi is levels above Kendrick..that's not to say that you can't be fans of both. Just quit the comparisons and enjoy the music.

@aobrien609

9 жыл бұрын

***** I agree he's mad overrated. To pimp a butterfly isn't all that, I tried to listen I just switched it off after 3 tracks. You know when you listening to a classic you don't wanna turn the shit off you just wanna keep listening and listening and listening coz that shit be old and dirtyyyyy not new and soft like cushion (kendrick sounds like a little girl)

@soniacraig9428

9 жыл бұрын

***** exactly

@soniacraig9428

9 жыл бұрын

Huh

@aobrien609

9 жыл бұрын

He's a kendrick fan, which is cool, I just don't see what the fuss is about, I guess that's what makes us all unique. He's not a bad rapper, he's not soldier boy at least lol

"Just thinkin back, what was the doubt about?..My fuse sunny, now it seems too funny cause even new money gets counted out" 😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀

Thank you for bringing hip hop back. Mad respect bro.

Born with an arm leg leg arm head like a Qur'an line. Dope ....btw the Qur'an is the strongest form of literature on the planet proven by nearly all linguists.

@aobrien609

9 жыл бұрын

Lol you're drunk most scholars laugh at the Quran it's basically a fake Bible lol

@andreaayuso9184

9 жыл бұрын

Ashley O'Brien LOOOL not agreeing with the other guys comment but what tf do u mean by a fake bible? like the bible isn´t fake in its self

@aobrien609

9 жыл бұрын

I'm saying it's a false Abrahamic religion. It's like they took the new and old testaments and changed all the important facts to oppose Christianity.

@andreaayuso9184

9 жыл бұрын

ah ok i stand corrected

@nerd885

9 жыл бұрын

*Bible gets altered multiple times in history* *Calls islam fake abrahamic religon* You make alot of sense in my book buddy.

This is better than the original. Whoops, I said that.

Wow discovered today this is fireee respect from Egypt

Straight BARS!!!

Ill pick himn over Kendrick Kendrick is overrated as fuck and sometimes aint be talking about shit its soo many rappers better then Kendrick in the underground

@kevinwhite2260

8 жыл бұрын

He talks about alot of "shit" idk what u mean bro

Being lyrical alone doesn't make you the best. The best rapper is the best overall. Thats like saying Kevin Durant is the best player because he scores the best. LeBron's the best because he can do it all. Same here. This guy has bars, no doubt. But Kendrick has a full package. Y'all are just being bias because you don't want your opinion to be wrong. There's a reason Kendrick is in the position he is.

@brianmcleod7821

8 жыл бұрын

The reason Kendrick is where he is because..... Interscope and mass marketing! It just happens that hes an actual lyricists in the main stream but Lyrically he would get sliced and diced from Elzhi, Locksmith, King Los, probably even diabolic could slice him up.

@brianmcleod7821

8 жыл бұрын

The reason ya'll call Kendrick the king is because that's what they push onto you. The fact your sheepish enough to believe it is insane. Anyone with a real ear knows hes not even a top 5 lyricists and thats fact.period

@lifestraight

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Mcleod Interscope and mass marketing. You are correct. Good points. There are other rappers who are equally if not more talented that don't get the recognition and as you said the marketing and the Dr. Dre co-sign are a HUGE reason.

@brianmcleod7821

8 жыл бұрын

+lifestraight exactly bro, If Elzhi or locksmith had the Interscope machine pushing them and radio playing their tracks 24/7 they'd bury Kendrick. I am sorry for all the kendrick dick riders but it's true, there's way more talent in the underground then Kendrick, they just go un-noticed, with relatively 0 air play.

@lifestraight

8 жыл бұрын

Shockheadd45 Blueprint 2 was a great rebuttal, I'll admit, but Nas has had more than one top tier album. He had Illmatic, It Was Written, and Stillmatic. Jay-Z has fallen off considerably since his Reasonable Doubt days.

Old School yet soooo Fresh!

This guy has vevo now? That means he's getting bigger!! About time America.