This isn't even their best. More Eric B. and Rakim!!

@vickierivers5815

28 күн бұрын

Paid in full and Mahogany please

@HeatScorcher

3 күн бұрын

​@@vickierivers5815 in the ghetto 😮

Man... I Feel So Old...😂😂😂... Class of 1988

@chopperdeath

16 күн бұрын

I'm with you there!

@rhondaatkins1776

8 күн бұрын

Class of 88, too! This song is from 1992

@christopherking8526

2 күн бұрын

Me too! You know, we did a hip hop on planet in the era!!!

Rakim grew up listening to Jazz ...he's the god MC and Eric B is a master.

@iandaniel1601

26 күн бұрын

Didn’t notice the jazz connection before, but now I do. Thanks.

Classic Old School Rap

The best era 🤘🤘

Rakim said in an interview that he listened to alot of jazz to expand his vocal structure with singing his lyrics.

Just one of my favourite all time jams. It’s cool that BJ is rocking the Jays hat to this. This song was used in Raptors commercials a few years back. BJ clearly reppin the T Dot.

Woohoo awesome! Follow the Leader my favorite of theirs, thanks y’all!

Rakim was dead serious too. He would fight you over his music, no smiles , no laughing.

Rakim comes from musical family his mom was classical jazz singer. His brother was a musician his aunt his Ruth Brown R&b jazz soul singer

I Ain't No Joke, My Melody, Paid In Full, and Follow The Leader are other bangers. They were out in the mid 80's to the mid 90's. Great time in rap.

@seangardner9884

26 күн бұрын

Absolutely... Classic jams!

@jaymiller6864

24 күн бұрын

Microphone fiend...song

@greganderson1445

24 күн бұрын

@@jaymiller6864 ooh! How could I forget that one?! Good lookin out!

Roxanne's Revenge ❤❤ Go old school ✌️🍻❤️

@scapito

28 күн бұрын

Roxanne Roxanne 🙌

They still doin it like legends. Saw em in Boston House of Blues a few years ago. Amazing. YoYo opening act....One of the tightest hip hop shows I've ever seen.

Now I gotta go diggin for the album , i have it around here some place lol Thank you for this, great way to start the weekend off !!

The baseline is so nuts!

Saxes were sampled from Kool and the Gang's Ronald Bell, off the "Give it up" track recorded around ''75

i like eric and rakim thanks old school classics but there is also another group from the 80s old school rap it's EPMD it would be good to react to one of their sounds like "you got to chill"👍

Hahaha I already knew this song, so I was just bopping along with my eyes closed at first and when I opened them BJ and I had the exact same body language! ❤❤❤😂😂😂

All right player I’m here. Finest hip-hop ever.❤

In late of 1989 a lot of east coast Rappers a bit in the west from 89-92ish many used jazz samples in their beats it was very popular before that James Brown was sample very heavy and of course other genre were sample or remade as well.

They were fire back in the day!

@Ooofaa-Maa

23 күн бұрын

Still fire! 🔥👍

Love this~!

Love that song!

Classic! This was a great era in hip hop. If you like those jazzy samples maybe check out these tracks Us3 - Cantaloop Lucas - Lucas with the Lid Off

'Follow the Leader'.

lots of current rappers use a nonstop sample. This instrumentation style was what was going on, for example Gangstarr.

Hot summers, youth clubs, parks, turn of the 90s aaahh

💃🕺💃🕺🍻 Let's goo ooh ✌️❤️

@scapito

28 күн бұрын

🤗💜

@johnboydTx

25 күн бұрын

@@scapito 🌹🥰. Hope your doing well 😊 Take Care and Stay Safe 🙏🤗

Rakim is the God Emcee! Lyrically untouchable

Know the Ledge!

Have to do let the rythem hit em by them!!

All the "new" music could never follow this. Best music point blank .

Oh man, takes me back.

Rakim is the 🐐. Nas and MF DOOM to round out the top 3. 🖖🏼

@Pcytripper

28 күн бұрын

Bro, do you even KRS-1? 😆

@OnlyOriginalSongs

26 күн бұрын

@@Pcytripperand big daddy kane :) i think he doesn't know

It's not just bass that drives the song, it's ACOUSTIC bass! Not too many rap songs have that!

Hip Hop music incorporated all sounds from the beginning. Funk and Soul were first then the rest right after. Also Tribe Called Quest were the first to really infuse Jazz. Please go back to their first album in 86. Paid In full, in my opinion is the blueprint in making a real Hip Hop album. Rakim’s family were performers in Jazz and his mother sang both Jazz & Opera and I believe she performed at the Apollo.

"Pencils and pens are swords..."

It’s funny Asia mentioned Rakim sounded like Will Smith on this song. There’s a rumor that he wrote “Summertime” for him.

Hello, please, PLEASE make a reaction to Dimash's songs written in Los Angeles by Dimash Qudaiberg during the war - "When I've got you" OFFICIAL MV, and the dance performance "Smoky", they are of a very high level, and I continue to watch your reactions to Dimash ,they are professional and kind, and help me live

Hell yeah

Excellent...

Rakim - "The Mystery- Who's God"

This is my theme music

It's funny she said Rakim sounds like Will Smith. It's the other way around. Will Smith said he borrowed Rakim's flow for his song "Summertime".

Yall should do more 1988-1994 NYC rap.

@rhondaatkins1776

8 күн бұрын

The Golden Era! But I'll say 86

Loved that this song was in Watch Dogs 2, great game.

Go ahead and check out Lyrics of Fury- 🔥

This is DeREAL hip hop ole school

This song came out around 1992. It sounds like it was recorded with some live instruments. That was common with some rap back then. With 80s and 90s rap there was more sampling. That's why you heard more instrument sounds in music back then. In today's rap you don't hear much sampling. So you don't hear many instruments in rap nowadays. You get more digital/computer type sounds now. Maybe sampling became too expensive?

I think he got in a beef with KRS-ONE. I don't know how it got started or ended. But I know that LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee got into a strong beef. I mean he had one of LL's hats under his jeep tire. LL wrote "Mama Said knock you out " and "I'm Bad" as disses to Kool Moe Dee. Just thought I'd drop that on you cuz to get into a riff with Rakim, you gotta be crazy and careful.

@Battle_Faith-Ministries

23 күн бұрын

His beef was with Big Daddy Kane

Ultra magnetics pls

Rakim was By far the best on Long Island..only ones close are from Bk and Queens and that's Biggie and Nas

Can you react to the band Lit one song is Miserable, the other Lit song is My own Worst Enemy. Both are better to watch actual video its an experience just a thought, Keep up the good work really like watching you all. If you want another song to think about Nitty gritty dirt band song bame fishin in the dark.

PLEASE REACT TO... EAGLES..(those shoes) great talkbox in this song

Rakim the G..O.A.T React to microphone fiend by them

Sounds like there were actual musicians on this song, not one guy sitting at a computer. Maybe they were sampled but humans made those musical sounds.

None of these current rappers can touch Rakim.

Do Juice (Know The Ledge) by them

@joesmith5247

28 күн бұрын

That’s the one

Uptown flow

You guys should react to Miranda by Fleetwood Mac next!! ❤

U should check out GNR - YOU COULD BE MINE METALLICA- TRAPPED UNDER ICE 👍

Could y’all react to David Phelps singing “Virtuoso” from Legacy of Love? Please react to the official video. To me it is a modern day take on the theme of How Great Thou Art. Thanks!

I would say early to mid 80s. Do you want to take me back? Do some.Brand Nubian.

Old school rap can't be beat,no way. LOL. Modern rap watch and learn school is in session.

Love it! Thank you so much. PLEASE consider the following. You won’t be disappointed…. Moonlight Mile-Rolling Stones My Oh My by Sad Cafe Them Changes by Buddy Miles Cissy Strut by The Meters All this is that by The Beach Boys I’m leaving by Shelby Lynne Catch the wind by Donovan A little piece of my heart, by Irma Franklin Stay with me baby by Lorraine, Ellison Spooky, by Dusty Springfield Spirits having flown by the Bee Gees Welcome aboard by the Love unlimited orchestra I’m still waiting by Diana Ross You are everything by Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye An Englishman in New York Godley and Creme Pinball by Brian Protheroe Curtains by Elton John 99 miles from LA by Art Garfunkel Mustang Sally by Wilson Picket Georgia by Elton John Teenage Rampage by The Sweet Outer space by Billy Preston Different drum by the Stone, Poneys/Linda Ronstadt Your time is going to come by Sandy Shore You’re Love is Forever by George Harrison Strict Machine-Goldfrapp One of these days by Paul McCartney Take Five by Dave Brubeck It’s all over now Baby Blue by Them A keeper of the fire by Buffy Sainte-Marie Let Forever Be by Chemical Brothers This Town ain’t big enough for the both of us by Sparks Trouble by Lindsey Buckingham Singapore by Tom Waits When I grow too old by Jimmy Smith Is that all there is by Peggy Lee Drop by Hope Sandoval All I need by Air Casino Royale by Herb Albert Got to get you into my life by Earth, Wind & Fire Walk on Guilded Splinters- Dr John Twist by Goldfrapp Virginia Plain by Roxy Music Asleep from Day by the Chemical Brothers Open Up by Leftfield

Loved the vibe of hip hop around this time, when they were sampling without any fear, the likes of Gang Starr, Stetsasonic etc and then the likes of NWA etc ruined the positive message.

I Ain't No Joke, Microphone Fiend, Paid in Full, Know the Ledge. If you react to "Paid in Full', react to the original song...not the remixed one.

He had been with big daddy kayne

Hello! So been on a Barbara Streisand binge and noticed Y'all did two videos of the same song (WOMAN IN LOVE 💓) and on both you acted like a FIRST TIME reaction and pretty much said the same stuff. No date in the Description as which one was made first. Ssssubidatt?? 🕊️☮️

Most rappers would be flattered to be compared to Rakim. Very few rappers would be flattered to be compared to Will Smith 🤣🤣🤣

the god mc

Where's drake and kendrick disses?

You guys definitely need to listen to more of these guys. They have songs that are definitely better than this.

@joesmith5247

28 күн бұрын

& this is a cold one in itself. It’s like your first ATCQ track being “relaxation”. Or 50 cent in da club. Way harder hits than their commercials.

This is 80s not 90s

@rhondaatkins1776

8 күн бұрын

It's 90s. 1992. Early 90's so it had a different sound from what comes to mind when you hear 90s hip hop.

Geezuusss... The deep levels of cringe I've gotten from them in this discussion. Somebody has deeply failed them. WOW. 😂😂😂

Whoever wrote the lyrics for this song should never write lyrics for another song again! So many incorrect words, missing up the God's rhymes.

I want to know is that Maceo Parker (of the James Brown band) wailing on the alto?