One of the best underground joints of all time. The flow. The beat. Everything.

@stefaunwatson4806

7 жыл бұрын

I agree you said it best

@zatiticherry3421

5 жыл бұрын

1000% Agreed!!!!

@karimboucetta3403

5 жыл бұрын

For sure!!!

@2slick35

4 жыл бұрын

It's just hands down dope! Hip Hop excellence!

@waligibson240

3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest hip hop underground joints of all time! I concur 💯 💯 Facts!

I remember hearing this back in 1997, this joint is still slamming to this day. This is true hip-hop right here.

@andredonald6372

4 ай бұрын

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

My God this is beautiful.

@andredonald6372

4 ай бұрын

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

@MongoSlade84

Ай бұрын

​@andredonald6372 Thanks a lot, bro. I've checked those songs out and they are awesome.

Man I hope this music never gets lost in time

I swear when I first heard this track back in 1997, I thought it was a DJ PREMIER beat. The drums, the scratching, the sampling style and the overall vibe. I was shocked when it wasn't him who produced it. Also, can we just give props to L the Head Toucha for rocking this beat lovely. His bars are just too ill. This is a PERFECT track.

@andredonald6372

4 ай бұрын

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

@assistant606

2 ай бұрын

@@andredonald6372R.I.P Double K from P.U.T.S

@MentalPistol

Ай бұрын

everyone thought exactly the same

90" Best Time Of My Life! Thx L.

2022. Wish I had friends that listened to joints like these.

24 years old and still hot like it was made today. Incredible!

@generalgen1542

Ай бұрын

💯

this dude L, dropping jewels all over this blazing track.

Real music! Golden Era. Culture, Love. ❤️🙏🏼

They don't make 'em like this anymore.

@dannywoodring7876

4 жыл бұрын

Check out clear soul force

"Greater than your Benz or your Lexus, the engine to my comprehension is just too complex" That uniquely lengthy sample is masterfully incorporated. Could bob my head all day to this lost gem. And i will.

Timeless one of the greatest beats ever! peace Don Blackman

@djmsup

2 жыл бұрын

Word Big Lex! This ones a banger. Hope you're doing well.

@biglex785

2 жыл бұрын

@@djmsup likewise brotha man!

@RatioBozo69

Жыл бұрын

@@biglex785 hope you doin well g

@biglex785

Жыл бұрын

@@RatioBozo69 likewise brotha man

Beat is addicting and L's flow is sick

Boston's finest, East Coast stay winning

Heard this for the first time on 89 tech nine, the best memories.

@Monty_McFly

6 жыл бұрын

Chuck Norris stretch n Bob baby....

@missayawk

6 жыл бұрын

Chuck Norris Me too....between 1am & 5am....before the Jazzman....Stretch & Bobby Bongos with the mad flows.

@GonguRoach

5 жыл бұрын

Wow me too 1 of my favorite underground stations.

One of the Most Lyrical Hip Hop songs with one of the Dopest Beats combined in this ill track.

@andredonald6372

4 ай бұрын

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

God dam!! How have I not stumbled on this!

I always thought L Da Headtoucha did this track more justice than Jay-Z did. Line for line this was amazing.

@frank-xp6pj

5 жыл бұрын

Yes sir, he went in on every bar on this joint....L cant be fucked with here ...he was on top of his game.👍👍👍

@jamesroberts1810

3 жыл бұрын

Jayz rapped on this beat for the i got the hook up" soundtrack

@jamiecaudle65

3 жыл бұрын

Also the original was sampled by People under the stairs on the track: Give love a chance 👌

@PRCRSTNTR

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamiecaudle65 word !

@assistant606

Жыл бұрын

so did people under the stairs give love a chance

Remember this being hyped in The Source for months and not being able to find anyone with a copy to check it...finally copped it on DJ Premier mixtape a year later - blew my mind.

Deep in the depths of the mind,pro is prime trapped like a mime.......those opening lines My God,its. too complex

@captinweestain526

8 жыл бұрын

+denstone khakali Takes me a while to hear the lyrics..the beat is soo Dope.

@frankmc3.537

8 жыл бұрын

+captin weestain YES LAWD,the beat is hypnotizing

"peoples, my mind remains haunted by bad things, I'm on it / most everything is real when you're blunted" beats & lyrics! - Den Gale Pose (formerly known as Madness 4 Real) flipped the sample in 1996 on a joint called 'Fler Hos'.

I remember i used to hear this on a dope hip hop radio station back in the day when i was in high school :)

Stretch Armstrong and Bobitto 89 Tech 9, Martin Moore and Mayhem NYU radio. The '90s New York City!

Classic underground joint.

L is a dope MC

love the comments Vinyl Reanimators I believe on the beat from Boston....Song still gives me chills....Real Hip Hop

@MsLady9991

9 ай бұрын

Yup- DJ Shame!!!

[Verse One] Deep in the depths of the mind The pro is prime, trapped like a mime In the same space and time, lifeless Vocals excel when trifers Centerfold of your ciphers My aura shines divine, priceless Much to complex to yap Maybe perhaps when I think of rap My thinkin' cap (what?) Reveals the skills unlimited Rappers be half as great Mentally they can't elaborate So they exaggerate and fabricate My words collaborate, formulatin' a sentence It's all ill when the blunted mind defense this Intense mechanism Respect next to wisdom Makes the god's mental Inflammable grammable feel gentile Reignin' dominate We be the essential I sense y'all don't know the art Comprehensively, energy enters me when I depart It's like sweet sorrow Bottles I follow catch wreck Engine's to my comprehension be just too complex To get vex and just step I'd rather snatch a rapper's rep Ruin it to a degree Breakin' them into debris Vocally, y'all label me as the illest mic killa Top biller Still in the grind, the mind driller Sublime thriller Poetically is how I'm depicted The rhythm's got me addicted so my ill skill inflicts it On any device Nice Similar, the verbal Christ Enormous, my performance equally will be precise We puttin' rappers on ice The ultimate heist Most of 'em should have thought twice now they're payin' the price I knock 'em out like Mic Tys when the tracks connect The engine's to my comprehension is just too complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" [Verse Two] To M.C. the art of rhymin' should be pure and natural When I think of all these ill skills, international You see my words in actual will attract the steel like a magnet Niggas is stagnant and incomplete like the fragments Actually, my words are a jagged edge, criminal Borderline, subliminal One of the earth's finest minerals I'm past the pinnacle And still I hold my fort like a general Intervals, all excerpt the maximum Release the minimal energy Cock me back Hennesy's sure to blur the memory Remember me, that ill nigga? I still trigger Thoughts sporadic set to peel niggas Standards Mics are metaphors of what the man is, might merge I recite slurs with the right words What occurs when I conjure Illest spirits from beyond ya You was warned like Alaja The drama ganja drains away Plain as day When my mind's A.K. spray in the A.K.A Nine trey, double rays, bubble thin Fry Mass murderous The illest niggas we devour from out the dark So kill the talk Either that or walk the walk You claim you had your shit together now it's fallin' apart Lyin' lion, no heart Who woulda thought you'd be wack? We gave you dap in the beginning now we takin' it back I only boogie from a track when mad niggas react We specify the artifacts and represent 'em on wax It' complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex" [Verse Three] Let's take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those who prison in the minds and those that been bailed Fuck the fan shit, it's about to hit the windmills What I reveal, not omni still it's strictly been real Y'all know the deal, skills Steelos, alter egos Poetry hits my peoples like food for thought Vocals distort, shorts the sequels Mics forever like the paradox of pure evil The crowds will come Like throwin' crumbs to the seagulls Too predictable Old folks pray in cathedrals Tryin' to live that better life legal Feeble, my mind remains haunted by mad things I'm wanted Plus everything is real when you're blunted These days the trees blaze F doin' the shade We backspin 'em like the DJs Playa be swaze I'm the live one Mic's like a knife Cuttin' you down to size in The fantasy land you and your mans was devisin' We wise men Puzzle your thoughts It ain't surprisin' I set it off like horizons No mistakes allowed Strategically, it's like I'm movin' the crowd I'm lickin' shots, bustin' up at the clouds We be audacious, treadin' on glaciers Slang got sprayed down in Tanqueray without the chasers On the earth there ain't a place you can run to hide When my sets collide with your planet Rock bottom solid my frame be like granite Very few can understand it The dialect I wreck Perfects my mic's sex when the thoughts connect The engine to my comprehension is just too complex The engine to my comprehension is just too [echo] [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex

@trinitylegacygroup2481

Жыл бұрын

Damn‼️🔥🔥☄️☄️☄️

@AK-pr9cz

7 ай бұрын

There are more words within the track than in admission's essay

I discovered this gem two years ago but stopped listening to it after a while. I'm glad I'm listening to it right now; the nostalgic livens my soul up again.

Never gets old! Worcester greatest all time Hip Hop classic

Mental tune, well regret not getting this on wax.

Damn he is str8 killing his lyricism here. I can't even keep up it's so good, I was just listening to the original song by don black's-holding me I found here on youtube studying my oldies then I found a comment saying this song was sampled and now I'm here and I'm happy I clicked on this vid :), nothing can defeat that original 90's sound of rap. This is real hip hop

Smh going into 2018 and this is still dope now from the time it was created🔥🔥🔥

This cat can rhyme, period!

@frank-xp6pj

5 жыл бұрын

let them motherfuckers know 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

My brother is forcing me to listen to his type of music so I had to listen to this along with the rest of a playlist like this 😂😂😂😂

@puglife5880

5 жыл бұрын

LOL BIG UPS TO UR BRO DO YOU LIKE IT THO SO FAR? 😂

“Let’s take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those whose present in the mind and those who’ve been bailed” This nostalgia could make me cry,Beautiful!!

Shout out to L da Headtoucha!

L and the Great DJ Shame!!!!🙌

I still have this cut on a DJ Premier CD....with different cuts I bumped this cut in my brand new '98 Chevy S10....back in the day. I love the sample & De La from the "Stakes is High" LP.

@mathice

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Smith The sample is crazy, from Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You

good vibrations!

This is 1 of "THEE" most "PERFECT" songs ever!

L The Head Toucha is my sister's favorite rapper.

a joint like this redeems rap music. reminds me why i fell in love with hop hop in the beginning

Jesus the beat and the flow is sick!!! DJ Premier L the Head Toucha!!!💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥💥

classic joint right here.still sounds good in 2012 & beyond.

this is hot

One of the best tracks ever

Beautiful as a dime piece...

ITS TOO COMPLEX when before any new beginning you already know the ending. To that and everything. It’s like prep work😊

CLASSIC !

@paulgabbard6582

4 жыл бұрын

Im a rap music check me on 3rd bass and check me on KZread and you will like 3rd bass and im a rap music on 3rd bass and name is mc and check out 3rd bass im mc 3rd bass📀😃🎤⛽

Oldie AND goldie

THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽

‘97 SHIT! L DA HEAD TOUCHAAAA MURDERED THIS . My god! 🔥

Its all lovely. Mad Ill Track. Love it.

OMFG 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

CLASSIC!!!!!

The Don Blackmon (RIP) sample from Holding You, Loving You is extra chilly most...

Wow it take me to a better place in time...this joint real....

True classic! They re-issued this a few years ago but I have the orignal lol.. The underground was so dope these days..

People Under The Stairs - Give Love a Chance

AMAZIN TRACK

L THE HEAD TUCHA - TOO COMPLEX = BLU AND EXILE - AMAZIN

Stream of consciousness Samurai

The beat is magical

Need I remind you, L's right behind you.

It's hard to believe this is already 12 years old. Man. The new classics.

@dramatyst5661

Жыл бұрын

Damn 24 tears now

@toteknowledge

4 ай бұрын

26 now!

U can def feel the warmth of that good ole 90's vibe :))

Damn! yummy yummy yummy ! It can't get any better then this!

damn. puppets of chaos, large professor, kev brown, eyedea and shadez of brooklyn in the related videos and a dope track right here. finally, i'm in the good part of youtube :)

ooo L the Headtoucha sickest name sick track

Still a classic

2021 Whos HERE !!????

i remember this especially this beat this is real hiphop epic and too complex much too complex 93

Classiiiiiic

Cuz everything is real when you're blurted,,, real hip hop son

still goldie that Oldie

Classic!!!

i have been looking for dis for years who ever put dis on respec

Just heard it's almost like 2 minutes ago my brother put me up on this it's a dope beat Dope lyrics positivity things always a message in that's what it was about back in the day

I used to rely on this track in a pinch. It would always get the vibe up, and get people onto the dance floor. Thanks for posting!

Who’s here in 2021 ??? I miss when hip hop was like this.

Am here for the comments ❤️ This has it all..the perfect tone, the illest beat and the sickest flow. If someone ever asked me to define hip hop and what is means to me, I'd play them this. Then I'd play it again and again and again.... ✌🏻

20 years old wow! I used have this in my head phones when I skated around the city, still sick

Greater than your ben'z or your lexis.

just bought this LP yesterday fucken dope trak

Premier, Premier, puhpuhpuh PREMIER

@spliter227

6 жыл бұрын

lololol

@aaronverico1396

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, New York Reality Check, vol.1 #Classic. 💯

@alliancefrancaise4895

4 жыл бұрын

Well, that's cuz it's jus too Complex... ;)

@milicacetnik1587

4 жыл бұрын

@@aaronverico1396 101

greater than your benz or your lex. that sample was from tugoy dove from DE LA SOUL

Jay-z heard this sample and used it in 98' on 'what the game made me'

Hip-Hop from a bygone ERA.

Deep in the depths in 2020.

Beat is hypnotizing i dig

Classic

Another song has this melody. Can't think of it yet....

CLASS NEVER DIES...

MAD nice!

This is like finding buried treasure to me!!! Dope!!!

Love this beat!

LYRICAL.

dope!

Beautiful like art ...