For those in their 50s. We will always cherish this period of music.

@carlsagan495

3 ай бұрын

damn right!

@perrynnlynch1883

8 күн бұрын

Well said. Where have all those years gone?? Top comment.

@cjknox1973

8 күн бұрын

You damn Skippy!!!

He wrote it for Spike Lee's movie of the same name, but Spike apparently wasn't feeling it and went for Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power' instead. It's a lost classic that has stood the test of time.

@TheStandardBearer

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯

@Tee-kk6tj

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a dope fact! This song fits well

@musiclover-cn7tb

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tee-kk6tj it sure does I wish spike would have used it .

@loki2240

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to knock the decision to go with Fight the Power, though.

@Sonyb3ats

2 жыл бұрын

That's messed up

🔥🔥🔥 I'm 47. I feel blessed to have grew up listening to emcee's like this. We had African pride big time back then.

@lorenzbeaumacc1175

5 ай бұрын

I don't get it. What caused the switch ? Gangsta rap ?

That "New Jack Swing" has stood the test of time! Teddy Riley is a musical genius!

@legacyrsme

2 ай бұрын

Teddy Riley was the man alright back in my homie days

I'm still rocking to this in 2022, this should be airing all over the radio in today's time

@nellinelnmj

Жыл бұрын

Well said bro. Much love I agree. ❤

@Saveyourbs

Жыл бұрын

I dance like this when I go out to dinner and bingo.

@SpeciaListMK

Жыл бұрын

And you are not fucking alone dude ;-)

@SpeciaListMK

Жыл бұрын

CAuse... WE DON'T HAVE A PLAN "B"

@parrface1

Жыл бұрын

Teddy Riley at his finest! ❤️

I was 21 when this jam hit the airwaves. Red Head should've gotten waaaaayyyy more recognition. He was a damn good lyricist!!!!

@kentalks2818

9 ай бұрын

I’ve always thought that. He comes up in my mind a lot when it comes to early 90’s hip-hop but no one ever acknowledges him. He had lyrics, the look , and could dance. All the songs he dropped as singles that I knew were tight. His stage name was ill too. Kingpin? Come on man. I’m see if there’s an interview of him talking about all of this.

@tanyahall1640

4 ай бұрын

Come on Spike Lee… this would have been a great addition to your soundtrack for that movie 🤷🏽‍♂️

@otisboyd-wl3do

Ай бұрын

Born in the late 60s

I remember this like yesterday. I'm fucking 42 now still doing the right thing. Classic redhead respect

@ziziros1

10 жыл бұрын

True

@louiepr

7 жыл бұрын

speaktomybeadlehand I'm 49 and ever time I hear this joint it takes me back to that time. Funny how these new rappers only make me throw up jajajaja

@Militantreturns

6 жыл бұрын

speaktomybeadlehand I feel you I'm about to be 38 and I'm still trying to do the right thang

@AmazonMom22

5 жыл бұрын

Word to big bird

@Proletariat-1914

3 жыл бұрын

42 here here

The New Jack Swing era, I miss those days with a passion! And this is one of my all time favorites.

@keziahstockholm4869

2 жыл бұрын

Right.

@funkysexy69

Жыл бұрын

Ditto!! 😎👊🏽

@cosmicstargazer10

11 ай бұрын

Sure as eggs is eggs I miss NJS too. It's like I turned into a grandma "they just don't make it like this no more", indeed all-time favourite. I love the whole album, I have it on cassette but it's stretched a bit, the CD is great in the car - I can have it as loud as I want!

Haven’t heard this song in 30 years! I thought of it & the next minute I was listening to it. Thanks KZread! This song is a lost classic.

48 and still rock to Redhead puts me in SUCH a better mood!!💜

@cosmicstargazer10

11 ай бұрын

Truth!

That message has changed dramatically over the years....What a great song with a great message. Good then and still great.

Oh my goodness! I remember watching "the people under the stairs" movie when I was young and this song come on at the ending. I always loved it. It was the perfect song for the ending.

2021 still 🔥🔥🔥 Back then when music was inspiring & sent positive messages...

RedHead had serious flow. This was back when rap was fun! I love it!

Classic. They never do it like this anymore. ❤

Back when it wasn't uncool to have a positive message......

@michaelbull4344

4 жыл бұрын

I miss that

@brachelliejoshua1195

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely and unique

@nonenja7775

4 жыл бұрын

im the truest mofoker eva

@nonenja7775

4 жыл бұрын

and i say red headrocks hard

@Shon_Janel

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to that!

Yes Teddy Riley and possibly Gene Griffin on production. Lee Drakeford (Big Bub) from Today on Vocals!

@brachelliejoshua1195

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@YamashitaTsubasa

4 жыл бұрын

And sampling "UFO" by all female punk band ESG, like so many others

@demontemorton6381

2 жыл бұрын

No no Gene Griffin. All Teddy.

@RuffmixxMusic

Жыл бұрын

Lol Gene never produced a thing. Just took credit for Ted's genius and ripped him off

any else remembers this playing at the end of People under the stairs?

@adambriceland3466

9 жыл бұрын

of course one of my all time fav movies...fool did the right thing for sure in that movie....

@gemini28

9 жыл бұрын

Love the movie and the song!!!!

@harrunsonk8271

6 жыл бұрын

That's what brought me here lls

@missprincegirl

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! Great movie

@ruffnek2072

6 жыл бұрын

Reesey Clemons Hahahahahaha yeah,I was into Breakdancin and Hip Hop (still am) and had this on 12", watched"People under the stairs"and next thing credits are rollin,cash is flying everywhere, people under the stairs are runnin around and This iz blastin out,I was like WTF Hahahahahaha

The People Under The Stairs

@TonyDelgaro

3 жыл бұрын

WES CRAVEN ~~

Still the jam! Some music never gets old or goes out of style!!! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Don't think you'll ever hear songs again talking about "do the right thing" in today's world...sad.

@davidgentile4652

8 жыл бұрын

this could be killer mikes Bernie selected theme song

@jaseallenson316

4 жыл бұрын

Plenty of songs about it. Problem is they arent usually backed by the industry and pushed like the songs promoting the streets, drugs and division. But you can find plenty of artists pushing positivity if ya do just a little digging, and dont care about your circle ribbing you for listening to shit that isnt "cool". And to be honest there are even some very popular artists that promote positivity through their music.

@dennisveneman9469

4 ай бұрын

True😢

People Under the Stairs brought me here. Classic film

Man,you forget how brilliant these tracks were...Heavy..!!

Who’s still listening 2020?

@callumbrowns

4 жыл бұрын

Me lol might be a little random but would you know of his height & weight it's not on Wiki ?

@Horford73

3 жыл бұрын

The message is still relevant for today.

@jujigatame7820

3 жыл бұрын

Me for sure , this track gave me the love for the dance and I'm still dancing at 46, Paris 1990 Reprezent Malakoff 92240 !!!

@charlesspencer5261

3 жыл бұрын

🙋🏿‍♂️🙋🏿‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️😁😁✊🏿💞

@ZOKI.SAVIC.0711

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite Songs 😉 😎 ✌🏼

This is still the JAM!!!!!!! My Kids are amazed no cussing and this song is older than them. This makes me wanna watch HOUSE PARTY.

@liarasomers405

2 ай бұрын

I love house party

that new jack swing !

that hook still goes hard

@shanedpain7734

2 жыл бұрын

I get lifted. KC and the Sunshine Band

@musiclover-cn7tb

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanedpain7734 yep is that big bub singing the hook ?.

@musiclover-cn7tb

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanedpain7734 oh yeah a popular sampler record 112, Snoop , Biggie , Keith Murray and so many more .

@khameronsmith108

Жыл бұрын

@@musiclover-cn7tb indeed it is 🔥🔥

Still relevant still rockin' the spot. Every time I hear this I'm a kid again in my Kickers boots & pin-rolled dungarees. So glad to have been a kid back then because being a kid now is way harder. Everybody everybody in the world you got to do the right thing...

back in 89 was the bomb

This was and still is my jam...lyrics like this no longer exist in Hip Hop what a damm shame

Bro this was the ishh back in the 90'z .... totally support this guy !

AMEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS LISTEN,,, MUCH LOVE PREACH ON WORD X

Why can't rap be like this in today's times? Back when rappers kicked knowledge and rap was fun and uplifting. This trash today can go somewhere. Smh.

@abeware8783

Ай бұрын

Because it wasn't fully supported back then and now 20 years later the masses all of a sudden has a moral compass but where was they back when this project needed our support? I visibly remember black radio out here (Lake Charles LA) was told to not play this song. Luckily I bought the soundtrack so screw radio.

Heard this at end of the late great Wes Craven's film The People Under the Stairs

When Emcee had the background dancers but still dance along with them. Golden Era.

I wasn’t even born when this song was made, yet it makes me kinda sentimental. Late 80’s/early 90’s was so innocent.

@BRUTHAWAR

2 жыл бұрын

It actually wasn't. Gang bangin & violence was crazy in the 90s, BUT the cool thing was there were more positive alternatives to just Gangsta rap. So more variety, including positive & pro Black Hip hop.

WOOOOOW! A classic for sure. I remember when he dropped this we danced and life was good. 💯✌👏

Say this is before my time my dad used to play this when I was a kid and me and brother used to replay this song on people under the stairs…. Moral of the story I grew up as man to do the right thing…. Much love brothas and sistas

Old Skool, Lovin" it.

2023 this still bangs. Memories !!

@jmoney4708

5 ай бұрын

2024* 🔥🔥

The whole world is acting like a giant Howard Beach" I remember the tensions in NYC at the time and this song was released some years after that in 89 when Yusef Hawkins was murdered in Brooklyn

Classic.......takes me back to 88'-89'......don't we all miss it!!! 9real hip hop music that is...back when you could actually FEEL the music!!

Im a man of all music and loved this that I call a classic on trying to bring a positive message to people... bout time the world learned to be nice and be there for each other..

Omg!!! I asked god to help me find this song and now I found it after years and years and years!!! 😂🎉❤ been since 2009!!!

Positive message we all need to get back to- loved this song and still do🙏🏼

Fucking absolute classic riff. Remember it like it was yesterday.

What a lot of people don't realize is that Teddy Riley opened a whole genre of Hip-Hop back in the 80's/ early 90's and continues to work with todays artist just as low-key as he was back then. "New Jack Swing" was what they were calling his style of music when I lived in VA. Guy and Blackstreet Had the same Hip-Hop feel with an R&B twist...or he'd switch and make a R&B song with a Hip-Hop feel. I remember swinging to this watching this on MTV RAPS.

I remember having this on vinyl record

I saw redhead kingpin and the fbi in concert back in 1988 in brisbane,Australia. What a blast I couldn't get enuff of this red head dude talk about legit rapping without shit true to the word and never let his fans hang like some other imposters do. peace:---)))) I'm outta ahere

@khalilarashid

6 жыл бұрын

Money Forever I was in Brisbane, Australia in 1988 as well. Great Time!

Underrated and Underappreciate cat in hiphop, classic album right there!!!

This track featured on "People under the stairs" classic film.

Never knew the lyrics this dude rhymed til late appreciate this joint and redhead ..bless new Jack swing

Redhead Kingpin much respect! Gotta do the Right Thing ✊🏾

Thank you KZread for allowing the posting of songs from my childhood days. Nice to see and hear this during these unprecedented times and the message is fitting at this time. 💙

This song suddenly popped into my head and I looked up the lyrics and found it. Then I had to remember where I knew it from, the end of People Under the Stairs!

@htowngurl17

7 жыл бұрын

xXTrakkStarrXx just got though watching this movie and had to come look up this song

@jmbo72

7 жыл бұрын

Very same thing just happened to me! ;)

I can't stop saying AW YEAH!!!

@cassandrabeverly1170

7 жыл бұрын

Chuby Chuby The 0 Of Chubs I will be a good

@irismbabyy

4 жыл бұрын

cassandra beverly you probably aren’t young anymore but I have too.. R/YOUNGPEOPLEKZread

WOW!!! I can't believe I'm hearing and seeing this. Super classic tune. That just did my week. Respect to L.A.Y for posting this... Yizzur!

Really good song with a great message. I wish there more songs like this nowadays.

@PrAnG2000

8 жыл бұрын

This was a massive club hit, but I can understand why Spike Lee never used this for his movie of the same name...it just wouldn't have fit.

@FabThePenMan

Жыл бұрын

@PrAnG2000 You'd be surprised, it might have given the move more crossover appeal. I love FTP,but my gut tells me that Spike should have gone for a Double-Barrelled OST. I just know that somehow it would have worked!💪

Loved this song...that was playing "People under the Stairs Movie" in the closing credits...

Songs like this kept me on the right track..along with a few azz whippings from pops lol

Man I was so young when I used to listen to this guy at school socials and now I realise how dope he is!! Wow!! I feel so lucky to have had such good messages going in my ears, even if I didn't realise what they were at the time.. almost 23/24 years ago now when I was in intermediate school in Birkdale, NZ.

Loved 90's music. You got a message, a great beat, awesome lyrics, and a workout (if you danced) all in one song!

@bastionbooger

5 жыл бұрын

But this is 80s music. The best of all.

@marinamohidixon2879

2 жыл бұрын

So true! It’s actually the perfect fusion of of joy for mind, body and spirit 😁

Man this song is truly a masterpiece 🎭

I remember listening to this in 89

@AladeenofWadiya1

4 жыл бұрын

subatomic10 ok boomer

@irismbabyy

4 жыл бұрын

Admiral General Aladeen Of The Republic of Wadiya Nice bud, a casual 5 year old saying “ok boomer” to somebody sharing their memories.

Finally, the classic version of this great rap song. Thanks for posting.

When music had a message. I miss this era!!!!!

They used it in People Under The Stairs at the end credits! Awesome song fo sho! I just got through watching the movie and thought that song at the end was seriously TUFF! We need to get back to funky feeling in music! It's so timeless and you never get tired of listening to it! Redhead Kingpin tore that one out the frame!!!

This treasure dropped when i was a 21 yr old flat top fade rocka baybee ! 6 feet tall and 175 lbs from all that dancin ! NUFF RESPECT 4 postin this GEM !

teddy riley production !

@mekelkhattabi

5 жыл бұрын

It's Teddy Riley his brother who produced this track.

@brachelliejoshua1195

4 жыл бұрын

New Jack Baby!

I’m a big fan of him. I wish he did more albums.

Brother i was/still listening to your two albums then now and forever Bro you were so talented, real talk Much luv for you buddy, nuff respect

I got hooked to this song when I was 5 years old in 1991 when I watched the movie (people under the stairs) And I've Loved this song ever since

I try to do the right thing....from today December 11th 2020...Try too✌

If there's one thing about horror movies that came out in the early 90s, is that they had some pretty good music to go with the movie, this song being one of them 👌

@Joey7Z7Horror

Жыл бұрын

I know exactly what movie you’re talking about :) truly Craven’s most underrated work I’ve ever seen

Haven't heard this one in aaaaaages! Thanks for uploading this!

One of the vinyls I bought in my teens ... still funky 😎

Droppin' wisdom on the mic. Love it.

THIS GUY WAS ONE THE BEST RAPPER EVER!! Cool video too.

I USE TO WACTH PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS ALMOST EVERY DAY WITH MY COUSIN'S. We Love It and this song, it's our jam too! "Do the right thing".

I was a High School freshman when this dropped...dope song from a dope album. Great memories.

This song takes me waaay back! Back to a time when hip hop was REAL!!

This song pumps me up every morning before I go to work.

This was one of my top five songs. Hip hop lives!

Teddy Riley producing, Redhead Kingpin’s lyrics, and Big Bub (Today) on the hook/ chorus = still a hit🥰🥰🥰

What a record! I still have my vinyl copy from wayyyy back when I were a nippa. Why cant anyone make hip hop like this any more? BigD is right, Never take this down dude.

OMG serious throw back for me OMG!!! this was one of my favorite songs lol

@andrejackson1199

5 жыл бұрын

Me too let me take you out so we can reminisce about it queen

@butalalnevermind6650

3 жыл бұрын

Let's dance🤪

One of the great hip-hop and new jack swing tunes!

Je me souviens que c'était à l'époque du Night fever! Ce fut la meilleure époque de ma génération. Pour tout ceux qui ont connu le Night, le Studio one, ils savent de quoi je parle.

The people from under the stairs brought me Here lol

"You're not the only one in the world that has problems. Keep your head straight and you can surely solve them." great lyrics.

Quelle performance, le son a été trop bien monté. pour le fond musical il me rappelle "Knowledge Is King de kool moe" dee. BRAVO LES ANCIENS et à un de ces jour à ABIDJAN...

First rap I learned all the lyrics to off by heart. 30 years later still remember this word for word....ckassic

The 90's... loved 'em

@unfinishedbusiness4964

8 жыл бұрын

This was 1989 ;)

@shawnward3160

7 жыл бұрын

YES IT WAS BEST SUMMER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

@sabrinaphillips916

7 жыл бұрын

latuit ward '89 was a great summer! Budweiser Superfest in L.A. and just about everything else in life!!!!!

@shawnward3160

7 жыл бұрын

Sabrina Phillips I was too young for bud fest!!!!! .....lol I could listen to it or watch it on TV... your lucky!!!!

@shawnward3160

7 жыл бұрын

Sabrina Phillips did you go to bud fest 89?

This shit is dope.

Classic Classic Classic,Man I love this,memories 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽

wegen diesem Lied habe ich mir 1989 extra die CD von Ronnys Pop Show gekauft :-). immer noch klasse!

Still relevant in 2019

sometimes when I'm bout to do something wrong I think about this song "doooo right thinggggg yeeeaaah yeaaAAAaah!!"...... then i do the right thing.

2023. Still listening. More relevant today than it ever was. Do the right thing folks, it's gonna be hard.

Instantly I'm back in high school, listening to his positive message. Enjoy life everybody! It slides by fast.