The album version is a classic, the original version is a masterpiece.

This shit was the golden era of hip hop. Shit aint never gonna be the same b, damn.

@matibeatone

7 жыл бұрын

now we got so much technology, computers and powerfull softwares but hip hop sounded better back then

@TheHumanBallsack

6 жыл бұрын

93-96 was incredible.

@TheHumanBallsack

6 жыл бұрын

MCRBeats Interesting interview I read of DJ Premier's a few years back. When he met up with Dr Dre to work together on that wack Welcome To Compton album, Premier was surprised to see that Dre, like himself, also preferred to stick to old fashioned production style and not the computer generated bullshit the likes of Kayne West and everybody else is on

Heard this back in 96’ when I was in the Marine Corps. I was in Cali off base and they played it on LA’s station 92.3 of all places. Been looking for this shit ever since then... Flaming ass version 🔥

Havoc's production, he and P's rhymes dripping with soul, a gem of the underground. The Sound of an Era. Rest in Beatz P, the Infamous shall reign forever in this shit

We still bumping this in 2022.

@tredinyamoore3716

2 жыл бұрын

2/21/22 🤜🏾🤛🏾 (585)

@Bgl-fz3cs

2 жыл бұрын

YESSIR!!

@diablo75taurus4

2 жыл бұрын

Mobb

@ceezo3494

Жыл бұрын

2023

@PaulRudd1941

Жыл бұрын

Good hip-hop doesn't die. That's the beauty of music. We lose these artists from time to time. But we always have their music.

Found this 12" in the shop yesterday... gasped like something out of a movie.

@francoisleroux3310

4 ай бұрын

Crazy, been looking for it..

@psychokitty444

4 ай бұрын

@francoisleroux3310 Hope you find one in great condition. Gotta do a little cleanup/EQing on the rip but it was money happily spent.

So damn good. This version is more grimey and soulful while the album version is more jazzy and polished, but they are both just ridiculous!

Heard this on Hot 97 around the time this album came out. Fire!

This was like a breath of fresh air

like this better than the album version

I've been listening to a lot of funk and jazz lately, but had a mood to listen to Mobb Deep. Rest in Power P, your music is timeless.

I have this 12" promo Vinyl. I always liked this version better. That Quincy Jones sample is dope. Then they added a filter on it. That was the sound of the 90s. The album version is dope too, but I always play this one.

I’m still bumpin this in 2039!

I like back then they would make different versions for a song, same lyrics different vibez and they’re all 🔥

@ezekwu

Жыл бұрын

facts...

I love this version more than the album one

Why does hearing this joint nowadays make me miss Prodigy so much more?!

@HazeusThaDamaja

5 жыл бұрын

Facts G

@Rajhi7

4 жыл бұрын

Me too fam... Me too.

This version was too good for the album...and the album is a masterpiece. Apparently they couldn't clear the sample back then though....correct me if I'm wrong...

@TheHumanBallsack

2 жыл бұрын

Quincy Jones probably wasn't allowing it

yeah, this is the even fresher version...so funk and bluesy- perfect tone set for the point of the song

Thousands of songs , this is by far the hardest and raw product

This is Legendary.

@brandonhernandez7793

7 жыл бұрын

RememberVietnam

Anyone in 2024?? 🗣

@rajwon

Ай бұрын

Til infinity

@qna95B

27 күн бұрын

Not surprisin

2022🔥

hav went all out on this verse

This version is fire!

@mini0mikey

4 жыл бұрын

By far the better version! This is straight raw son.

@tradinwarstoriez5641

3 жыл бұрын

Best version

Better than the album version imo.

If you can rap, you can rap to this beat. It's that simple, this beat is fucking beautiful.

@20yearsfromthepast

4 жыл бұрын

@@viszualz7631 Q-Tip made that beat, not Havoc

They played this version on the radio one time, Hot 97. Love it!

Quincy fronted on the clearance...

Toujours d’actualité en juillet 2022!💪🏾👌🏾👍🏾 une pensée à P!🕊

This shits so good I ain’t sharing this with tha homies. I keep my play list in a safe! ✌️

@royalmarine1011

10 ай бұрын

This is not the way..

@Ronnie.Raymond

4 ай бұрын

That's not keeping it real, that's keeping it wrong

Mobb Deep forever

Such a vibe, real rap

All 3 versions are great but this is my favourite.

Such a dope version…reminds me of my cousin who I used to look up to…now he’s in Mex fuckin around lost but till forever I’ll remember him with this jam…

Classic Hip Hop. Some of the best in the 90$ era

This song about Killa Black, Havoc older brother.

@mrgreen346

4 жыл бұрын

Younger brother

I had this version on one of these promo DJ 12 inches that I used to get sent to me down in Charlotte through a subscription service outta NYC back in the day, you'd pay a fee and every month you'd get a grip of the newest 12"s some hot some shit but they'd always throw in these weird little like bootleg double 12" compilation 12"s. Itd be a double 12" set that came in two plain white paper sleeves stuffed into a single plain white cardboard 12" cover with the label sized holes cut out in the middle front and back and no info on the cover at all. The records themselves weren't dub plates or white labels, they had professionally printed labels that listed the track names and artists but there was never a record label name or logo and they'd always saY "NOT FOR SALE FOR PROMOTIONAL DJ USE ONLY" or something to that effect. Theses sets would typically have three tracks per side six per twelve inch, of whatever was hot at the moment in the clubs in NYC or on Hot 97 or the latest Funk Flex, DJ Clue, or Tony Touch tapes or whatever. They weren't quite bootlegs but not exactly legit either, sort of quasi-legit semi-boots but I think the labels and artists looked the other way as these discs we're widely distributed to DJs worldwide and thus got the included tracks a lot of free exposure. Anyway this version was on one of those 12" sets I got circa 94-96.

@kurtbrowning9765

3 жыл бұрын

look at that, vivid memories just from hearing a record. classic in every sense of the word

@GumboRice

3 жыл бұрын

Thats dope man. Crazy how far shits come. Im only 17 but these old tunes stay in rotation always. Just hearing this track brings me chills. Thanks for the story man, real shit right there. Back in the days💪

@bagofclothes7360

3 жыл бұрын

Fwiw, I'm here because Stretch and Bobbito played it on November 9th 1995 on 98 tech 9 in NY lol and fuck, I had never heard this version and had to search it out. That organ is sick asf.

2021 still rocking.

RIP PRODIGY SEE U IN HIP HOP HEAVEN SOME DAY

Best version ...

Anyone found this version on Spotify? I prefer this one, legendary

@saimirsulce1992

7 жыл бұрын

GoesWithTheNameOfGTJ no luck man. I prefer this version, plus it's the version I first heard.

Im Feeling the original in 2021 Rest in Peace Prodigy

Much prefer this over the album version

@kamilmorsy7965

5 жыл бұрын

Yea true its a dope ass beat here

@jrock28

5 жыл бұрын

Stop it. Shit heat tho.

@wrdz3748

4 жыл бұрын

This and the remix are the only versions I ever listen to.

this one is just 20x better

@sens-meyebenjamin8131

Жыл бұрын

same for me too i feel that maad smooth vibe 🔥🔥🔥

@richardgurr8897

Жыл бұрын

@@sens-meyebenjamin8131 yea it’s just a lot more RAW

@PaulRudd1941

Жыл бұрын

​@@richardgurr8897 the low-fi 90s sound just reverberates so hard in this song. "Lose lips sink ships" that ww2 British intelligence saying gives me shivers. 50 years after the saying was said, this lyricist introduced the line into a hip-hop song flawlessly. Mad love for Mobb Deep.

@kurtbrowning9765

Жыл бұрын

Possibly even 60x

@jimmyog

3 ай бұрын

🧢

The original cats are here least once a month )

@mutwirimutuota6895

2 жыл бұрын

I'm here every week

@geoffreygakaara2234

Жыл бұрын

v3ry tru

goodbye prodigy rest in peace

We up baby

this is raw hip hop

This the best version !

Ps verse is so good, it makes the song. It would sound good with any 90s beat.

BEST VERSION

Remember songs use to be so good they required remixes or alternate versions lol.

THIS BEAT IS THE BOMB

@Jay_Bee_Beats

2 жыл бұрын

💯💣

This version is really good but the one that ended up on The Infamous feels more refined and fit the album better imo

@heyyouoverthere100

2 жыл бұрын

yall are tripping this is one of the greatest havoc beats of all time, i’ve never even made it thru the album version once 🤮🤮🤮

@thechosen5805

2 жыл бұрын

@@heyyouoverthere100 Facts! they don't know

@edm1207

2 жыл бұрын

bstrongdonowrong....this version is too mellow for the mobb mentality in the album

@Jay_Bee_Beats

2 жыл бұрын

@@edm1207 "Up North Trip" had a mellow beat too. Fit the album just fine imo.

@naisiunnaheireann1752

2 жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏

this reminds me of home every time I hear it

big thanks 4 that post !! man that'S some incredible good-old shit of mobb deep, still one of my favorite rap songs ever made ! i wish they still would do such awesome music today

P rest in peace

damn, never heard this one, and i've heard mobb depp thousands of times :) always awesome to find an overlooked gem :)

@clarktownsend8991

6 ай бұрын

This was before Q-Tip got involved with The Infamous.

pure wax gold! 12"s DEEP

best version for me. gives a better feeling for the shit their in

The 90's is the best hip hop era! I prefer the album version because of the better sample and singing but this version takes me back to the pirate radio days of Stretch & Bobbito.

impeccable flow

R.I.P PRODIGY

@wasupman777

6 жыл бұрын

stfu white boi, fuck your racists ass race why dont yall tell em about your hip hop obsession! wanna be racists ass bitches yet ya all over black people music and shit!

@soren_prod

6 жыл бұрын

NWA362 fuck u mean I’m white and grew up to this shit, I have listened to rap since I was 4 years old I could probably school you at rap. You must’ve had a bad experience with whites lol cause you seem crazy as fuck. It’s actually racist for you to call us all racists and acting like your race is better. Also he isn’t even white he’s Hispanic you don’t see his name?

Shit's raw AF harder than the album version.

gives me goosebumps and nearly tear MOB 4 lyf

Sample is "The temperature's rising, and it's not surprising." from 'Body Heat' by Quincy Jones.

damn this is so gutter, Imma have to bump this in the whip at night!

This is absolutely 🔥…..that Patrice Rushen sample adds something special to this tho 🫡

flashback to riding around with my ipod earbuds in playing this on the beach cruiser catching tags.

@saimirsulce1992

7 жыл бұрын

Cool Story hahaha I feel you but he might be talking about like 2001. Still a good 15 plus years back

Wtf never heard this version. RIP Prodigy.

This has always gone way harder than the official version

ONLY REAL HIP HOP HEADS ARE HERE

Hip hop art...word!

Second verse is the best I’ve ever heard

Timeless hip hop this version is fire

I'm 17, White, Male and live in the UK... This is the REALEST shit I ever heard in my whole life... Mobb is the only shit that ever touch me inside...

@numberbloodysix2478

4 жыл бұрын

The criteria you just laid fits me exactly rn. 17, white male n i’m english. Still bumpin this g

@richardgurr8897

Жыл бұрын

Brothers 27 now

if night time was a song

@alexmason6191

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. City lights and all that

such a classic!

Agreed! This cut is so smooth

listening to an album version feels like travelling in time back in these days trying to truly get what they are rapping about by imagination. listening to this feels like being prodigy and hav, nervously smoking cigs in home studio at 3 am and trying to figure if your verses are finished while bugging about killa's wellbeing.

@XyGemini

Жыл бұрын

Great insight!

Catchy ass tune

excellent thanks for uploading this !

Hermoso beat💚

Great post fammo!!! Been lookin for this for years...

This version is sooooo much better than the others! Been listening to this one on repeat for an hour straight!

🔥 🔥🔥🔥

@Chillaxin202

22 күн бұрын

Yup

La mejor version sin duda

Classic alert

Yo!!! Every version I keep finding is 🔥

My jams

Easily the best version

2024

BEST SONG EVER

Damn I think I like this version too.

Love 4 P.ETERNAL.

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Original ain’t that bad but at least in my opinion it was a blessing in disguise the sample didn’t get cleared and they went with the version of this song we hear today🖤👌🏽

@dkscott331

4 жыл бұрын

Odd they couldn't get THIS sampled cleared tho. Beatnuts, and alot other producers during that time used it

@mate549

4 жыл бұрын

@@dkscott331 check the bottom of the video description, it says it's a rumour but at least it's an explanation

Amen 🙏

R.I.P Prodigy

So peace man.