Honestly one of the best songs taking me back to the 80’s. No stabbings, no shooting in the dance clubs. Just good fun!!

@SOMeDoOD1992

10 ай бұрын

only coke

@deeohen8344

10 ай бұрын

Well, I'm in my 50s and I don't know where you grew up but apparently you weren't in any major American city. Violent crime in the 80's (and early 90s) was WAY higher than today. Not to mention once crack hit the scene, the gangs and murders got 50x worse. Fun fact: Back then, NYC + Chicago + LA = 5000+ murders a year. In 2022, those three totaled less than 1500.

@conradwilliams8651

9 ай бұрын

5,000 murders 😂 that’s the coke you’re snorting

@hardassteel

6 ай бұрын

80s was the peak of crips and bloods

@orangewarm1

3 ай бұрын

Not if you lived in the South Bronx.

Thanks for a trip back to the 80's!

🔥 still one of the greatest songs EVER... still jammin in 2023

The spirit of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s live on forever

Incredible base line. Intense talent of the young people dancing! Spot on enjoyable!

I can't believe that this song is not in the billions view.

The dancing is still unbelievable. Such invention and athleticism

@nobrainsnoheadache2434

Жыл бұрын

Michael who?

The message, the voice, the music, the groove, the composition...chills.

@user-dz2cf5mv8i

5 ай бұрын

Q​@@arujkhan1459

To think my generation came out with break dancing. Some in their 60s now and can still do this. Talk about muscle memory.

@GG-vy1oy

2 жыл бұрын

Gen X

@fergusreid5053

2 жыл бұрын

Breakdancing actually was started in new orleann

@RKID

Жыл бұрын

I am 51 now and still can do some movements😉

@nobrainsnoheadache2434

Жыл бұрын

@@RKID so can I, I just can't get up off the ground lol

ahh to be that young again. awesome song

I was of the age when this style of music and breakdancing came through and I was always gutted I couldn't grasp breakdancing at all, no matter how hard I tried and was a little jealous of my mates who could. Enjoyed watching the challenges though between rival schools etc. I always remember the teachers hated anyone caught practicing during break times. Fantastic memories.

They played at a Festival in our local park some years ago. This song went down an absolute storm, with most of the crowd off their faces on something!

“It’s hard as hell to fight…don’t buy it.” This song makes me wish I could do all these dance moves 😄

A masterpiece at the time and still a masterpiece class never fades loved sugarhill and everyone involved

@trixiedelight9874

9 ай бұрын

Still to this day...absolutely perfect. As a dancer...this was and always will be 💫💫

A masterpiece

When hip hop was new fresh and exciting. 51 now, been into hip hop/rap since 1981. Wish i wasn't born in the UK so i could witness the birth of hip hop in the Bronx block parties in the 70's.

Still a classic, cocaine bear bringing it back to the masses is 😊🎉

Love this song and the break dancing! 🎶💙✊

Still a modern great tune after all these years !

The more I see the more I do! He was bloody right of course.... Class!

@KiritPankhania

3 жыл бұрын

Boom 💥

I first heard this about 1983 on the radio but it was edited i was only 11 I went out and bought it on vinyl with my pocket money! I've still got the 12inch vinyl single it was one of the best rap songs of 1983 in the USA and UK music charts A timeless song as in this day and age the most of the UK has got a bad sniff/beak/cocaine problem as the UK uses more cocaine than any other country in the world 🌎 sadly!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

love this record ,takes me back

As a Rock and roll lover,who loves alllllllllllllllll music,this was first heard in my Montreal school daze,FRENCH, and it was hilarious then because we knew nothing at dances and hilarious now because GEN X just HADITALL. GOOD AND BAD ALIVE AND NOW GONE BLESS US ALL.

This brings me back to my teen years

Best anti drugs song ever... 😁

@TongueOut

Жыл бұрын

Against the crack!

@danh6948

Жыл бұрын

😳 This is the proper white lines emoji....

@rochwind1448

11 ай бұрын

yup. put that in yer pipe n smoke it. losers.

@rickyrudd28texacohavolinef2

9 ай бұрын

@@danh6948😤I nominate this emoji as my the Unofficial Tony Montoya one. 🌬️💨 Lol🤣

@SOMeDoOD1992

9 ай бұрын

Ironically when this was played in clubs in the 90's everyone did a line when this song came into the playlist

Love this song and the video and dancing! 💙🎶✊

i miss it sometimes...but its very destructive

@trixiedelight9874

9 ай бұрын

Moderation is key 🔑

Oh , this is amazing! Can’t keep still with this playing. Awesome video. Important message in it though….😮Those dancers must have been so fit . Recommend for all break dancers then and now! 😊

Who's here in 2023 from the break dance era, 💯😀

Best bass line ever!

@glitchtulsa3429

3 ай бұрын

Doug Wimbish is the bass player. He currently plays for Living Colour.

And to think that many people knew this song covered by Duran Duran... Both versions sound very fresh! Applause from Argentina 👍

@JohnSmith-dm1wo

8 ай бұрын

No one with a brain thought this song was a Duran Duran original

@baronsaturday9560

4 ай бұрын

Duran Duran..? I never heard that one at the time, gonna check it out! -hifromholland 🧡💥

The best 80

Good old days

@susanmenegus3863

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it was

I heard this song once and only 20 years ago and never heard it ever since. Untill now, goosehumps...

Thiz will alwayz be A , and stay in our memories, for ever as part of our culture , not just A song , an Anthêm to us all whom listen to it!,🤔🙄Dance to it, Dj. And play it at the radio stations" so true to the lirycs and consenquences it delivers...🙈Grand Masterflash & rappers Delight forever 🤗🎵🎶🎙🎼Beat Street HOÖ- RÂÂH👍🎵🎶🎙🎼

@KiritPankhania

3 жыл бұрын

Timeless ✅

The only drawback to this Great song and video is it's in danger of being overlooked for its serious life-and-death message ! !

A masterpiece, great great song

Remember having a big Philips portable tape deck it was blue and silver it took 10 big fat batteries it weighted a ton and pumped this track out in Hackney Jack Dunning Estate next to Upton House School batteries would last 20 mins turned up lol 😆 if lucky xxgreat days 70s 80s

@jono.pom-downunder

2 жыл бұрын

Ditto JL knocking bass out in Dulwich and West Norwood. Gotta love hefting a dozen D cells and set of spares, we would've killed for lithium ion batteries

God thank you,GENX

The bass line and the 'something like a phenomenon' were appropriated from Liquid Liquid's Cavern. A long court case ensued and Sugar Hill chose bankruptcy rather than pay the $600,000 judgement. I'd never heard of Cavern until I heard it on the soundtrack to the John Favreau film, Chef.

This was the first rap music, showcasing break dancing to the masses through media. With a Lil PSA to boot.

@leonarddixon8017

2 жыл бұрын

Yes now do u know what movie the break dancing is from yes the most famous is the empty subway break dance battle dance off where they are jumping the train gates. ( oh please don't try that shit today in NYC ) OH ALSO MICHAEL JACKSON RECORDED HIS BAD ALBUM VIDEO AT THE SAME PLACE EXACTLY FROM THE ONE U SEE IN THIS VIDEO NOW THATS SOME REAL TRUE MUSIC LEGEND HISTORY OF 2 LEGENDS! GRAND MASTER FLASH N MICHAEL JACKSON! 💯🔥🎤

"A street kid gets arrested, Gonna do some time, He got out 3 years from now just to commit more crime. A business man is caught with 24 kilos, he's out on bail, and out of jail, And that's the way it goes" Truer words are harder to find than this statement.

Love this song

Wow. Amazing time capsule in this video. 💜💜💜

One of my only prized possessions is the 12 inch vinyl of this and one of my beautiful memories is as a child in the U.K learning to try and break dance in my mates back yard in the early 1980's on a piece of MDF wood in the summer holidays-good times 😊 xx

Still listening in 2020 !!! LOVE THIS SONG !! 😎😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

@valeriefoster267

3 жыл бұрын

Still listening to this song in2021

@libyanhouse7119

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@lindahenigin

2 жыл бұрын

And they'll still be watching in 3020. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@oliverhladky9938

2 жыл бұрын

👋

@oliverhladky9938

2 жыл бұрын

@@lindahenigin $ is Rob From meeting

The pinnacle of Rap.

Oh my god !!! I miss this time❤️👍

My (pasty white & conservative) uncle was about 60 when this came out, and he really admired breakdancing. Loved watching it. This may make little sense, or seem really odd today where everything thing is divisive, but those were happier times. You kind of had to be there.

Truth never gets old

1980song l love it.pacas,shadow csl

True story. George Bush (Snr.) loved this song. Used to rock out to it with Col Oliver North.

terrible cette chanson 1983 ma belle annee 😎📻📻

Famously great track and equally great video mix .... huge kudos italoeurodisco!!!! p.s. Holy San Remo 😇

Break dancing ..miss the 80s and 90s

i remember buying this

I want this played at my funeral ...last song ..😅

I look this song up at least once a year 🎉

The great Doug Wimbush on bass on this.

real hip hop 💯

В молодости эта часть жизни на планете Земля прошла мимо меня, Ваши работы восполняют пробел. Спасибо!

@thecrowmann1

2 жыл бұрын

fuck teah friend

Beautiful break dancing

素敵なビデオありがとう

This what I'm talking about. This where it all started. Real Hip Hop. I spy Staci Lattisaw. The bass line though! Look at my fellow Gen X'ers pop lockin, and break dancin! I see King of Pop Michael Jackson took inspiration for his "Bad" video 2:20-2:34. All kinds of pure gold in these clips.

Ty for being in my movie film!! Joe DrT ! #rojo2022!

this song was in a series that was black and white. about gang life in a black area of a chicago like city. this was the series song opener.

Thank you cocaine bear for showing me this

One Of The Best Songs In Recorded History .

A great message song....don't do it! With a great beat and great vocals. Should be played at every party at least twice.

My first time seeing this version I like it

Yes white line I used to play the song constantly yes it has a funky beat but the best powerful message that is truth going down even to this day

Im off to see him end of Oct cant wait

Nice song

I don’t think any music can be as cool as 80’s music noticed there’s lots of songs today with 80’s beat.

From David A.Wood: "White Lines" has to be one of the most acurately topical, yet also musically scintillating "Hip-Hop" songs ever made! Also, I might modestly add, it is one of the most subtly compelling and emotionally sinister Pop Songs ever made! And to think it was an anti-Narcotics song from 1983 that was solely directed at the then tragically trendy activity of Powdered Cocaine abuse, the same year that the more insidiously dangerous version of the drug, that is the less monetarily expensive, Crystallized and Smokable Pebbles version (AKA: Crack or Rock Cocaine) of Cocaine was ominously introduced in large and teeming American cities like New York City and Los Angeles. As I previously said, "White Lines" came out in 1983, forty-one years ago, and the musically scintillating and emotionally aggressive song is still relevant to the people that reside in the Inner Cities portions of American Society. Nuff Said and Peace Out from Kettering, Ohio, everybody. ☮️🇺🇲😃✌️👍

Legendary

He tried to tell 'em.....but.......they did it anyhows.....'til they woke up.......

Narberth, Wales , tonite (2023-12-03), GMF performing.

Listening to this in the 2000s, sat in the car thinking my dad was drug free ! Haha

My getting ready to go out n party song

@thedyslexicwebdev1654

2 жыл бұрын

So true jajaja

Still sounds good now.the mark of a good song

awesome

Awesome song and video man

Good to see a very young Stacy Lattisaw

Id like to break dance again without breaking a hip

Grandmaster flash singing what was to happen in the future with drugs a warning

@TheDreamtheaterlover

Жыл бұрын

Flash is a DJ not a singer this is Melle Mel

Masterpiece ! These days people had skills, far from that Instagram shit

They had the time to go between LA and NY to film all of that? Holy shit... how'd they do it. If I were an indie act I don't how I could do that.

More songs like this

Yeah, this song will definitely make you want to quit... If anything this made me want to party....lmfao! Good job, GMF. Still a classic though.😆😆😆

80s BBOY4LIFE ✌🏽😎

Probably shouldn't love this at my age......but I DO 😂

@baronsaturday9560

4 ай бұрын

Timeless or great music never gets old and always sounds fresh. Sometimes a little bit dated maybe, or from a certain period, but it stays fresh! (+ my opinion is that you're only old when you feel 'old' or a bit dated, but we can reinvent ourselves many times if we want to, like 9 lives all rolled into 1!)

White lines turned to white rock's.

🔥🔥🔥2021🔥🔥🔥

dance année 80 France ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Michael Gove's favourite tune...

Nice💪

Thumbs Up if Cocaine Bear brought you here

something of a phenomenon...

this movie is BEAT STREET 1984... nice breakdance and grafiti movie... 1:30 - ...

@goodmeasure777

2 жыл бұрын

Some of the clips are Breakin and some Beat Street. I saw a go go clip from Rare Essence "Happy Feet"