Rakim, Kane, and g rap were always considered the cream of the crop lyrically

@adogbewise6561

2 жыл бұрын

and KRSONE

@adogbewise6561

2 жыл бұрын

KRS1 and Slick Rick

@jimmycunningham4475

2 жыл бұрын

@@adogbewise6561 Krs1 along with Kool Moe dee we’re definitely part of the lyrical group but slick Rick was not considered a lyrical giant. He was well respected as an elite storyteller though, many consider him the best at that.

@kingdawg5830

2 жыл бұрын

I agree and throw KRS 1 in there too

@jonnyfevertv3170

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Full 🛑

Nas, Biggie, Pun, AZ, Pac, Wu, Beans, Jigga, X, Em, Treach. Everybody that ever did a multi-syllable first person street narrative verse took a page out of the book G Rap wrote. One of the original "favorite rapper's favorite rapper" title holders.....

@jowhit226

2 жыл бұрын

When you say x do you mean X-Clan?

@Vinnyhiphop732

2 жыл бұрын

@@jowhit226 dmx

@dawb86

2 жыл бұрын

@@jowhit226 DMX

@Man_eee

2 жыл бұрын

This is FAX

@jimmycunningham4475

2 жыл бұрын

When Pun first met G Rap he literally got on his knees and kissed his hand. Kane and. G Rap where his favorites.

When i hear this i get a little teary eyed- this is part of that golden era i miss so much🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@maren5174

5 ай бұрын

This era is endless bro. No reason to cry my man.

@reefb4364

5 ай бұрын

@@maren5174 yeah being a cat 3 years older than hip- hop, seeing it go through so many phases i tend to get emotional about the songs that to me are timeless. 🤷🏾‍♂️

You need to see “The Symphony” if you haven’t already. Him, Big Daddy Kane and others. Classic fo sho!

@micheluzzo5019

2 жыл бұрын

This x 1000 … Kool G Rap, Craig G, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace - stone cold classic posse cut without question.

@demondbrown206

2 жыл бұрын

@@micheluzzo5019 you’re right. I was just too lazy to write all the names. Lol

@nessdagoat

2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@edwardthayer9386

2 жыл бұрын

FACTS!👑

@monolithic87

2 жыл бұрын

Only if it's the original 6-minute audio version from Marley Marl's 'In Control Volume 1' album. The music video/remix version got too many edited lines, in my opinion.

THIS WAS HIS FIRST SINGLE WE USE TO CALL HIS FLOW "THE SEMI AUTO FLOW" SHIT WAS LIKE A GUN SPITTIN.... IN NYC WE HAD THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO SHOW CALLED "VIDEO MUSIC BOX" HOSTED BY VJ RALPH MCDANIELS, THAT SHOW PAVED THE WAY FOR ALL THE OTHER RAP VIDEO SHOWS THAT CAME AFTER

@demondbrown206

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that show well. A lot of well known came through that show.

@Knick_Fury

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely his first video but, I remember hearing IT’S A DEMO and RIKERS ISLAND on Mr. Magic’s radio show on WBLS before the video dropped.

@arroyo5born749

2 жыл бұрын

His first video on the Box maybe Wasn't his first single "Cause I'm Fly" With all respect... That was probably earlier but I remember hearing "Its a Demo" all over the radio early. Not sure

@verbone

2 жыл бұрын

It was his 4th single. G Rap been down since 1986. Might have been his 1st video, though.

@fidel2xl

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVED that show as a kid in Brooklyn back in the day.

No other emcee wanted it with G Rap!!! You can listen to Black Thought’s incredible freestyle with Funk Flex and you can hear G Rap’s influence heavily. G Rap birthed some of Hip Hop’s absolute greats like Nas, Pun, Em, and so many others! Juice Crew was and is still my favorite crew ever in Hip Hop

@redeyedredi

2 жыл бұрын

what about when black thought rapped like Kool g rap in a song

@undeaddutch

2 жыл бұрын

Tarik even named Kool G in the funk flex freestyle

In NY we watched this on Video music box with Ralph McDaniels. You can check the documentary on Showtime. Produced by Nas!

“A Thugs Luv Story”… it’s mind blowing that people don’t mention this song.🤯 1 of his best stories with a different beat for each verse..

Do MEN AT WORK by him. Video music box was a show that came on a public access station on tv in NYC. You had to know the time it was coming on because sometimes there would be nothing on the channel. This reminds me of how there was a lane for back up dancers. Dudes really wanted to dance in the videos.

G Rap was 18 when this released crazy how the 80's to late 90's rappers at 18 looked like grown men meanwhile 2000's+ not the case... Btw you got a really good ear you should get into some type of music production,mixing,mastering,etc. Anything, the world is yours go get it

Classic selection. Quick notes…to clarify what a lot of the comments are saying…if you lived in the NY/NJ/CT area, you watched VIDEO MUSIC BOX (or before that a show called HOT TRACKS and a short lived channel called U68). Later YO! MTV RAPS, RAP CITY (on BET) and a channel called THE BOX ran nationally and many cities had similar local programs like VMB. Some of the other nationally televised video shows steered clear of Hip-Hop videos early on…it wasn’t until MTV finally started showing Hip-Hop (or Black music in general) that the other mainstream national outlets followed suit.

@gregorydancy6087

2 жыл бұрын

Hot Tracks with Jesus Colon yes sir👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Now your listening to the birth of modern rap.... A Masterpiece Back in this time even if you used the same words someone else used we called it biting All about originality And this song is pure innovation

One of the greatest that beat he actually got from Billy Joel stilletos but he crushed it 👍

In the early 90's as kids we watched YO! MTV Raps on cable television on the west coast. Hosted by Fab 5 Freddy on Saturday. During the summer you could catch it on the weekdays. Some cities had radio stations with hip hop shows. So those were our two best options. TV and radio. If I liked someone's music enough I would walk to the record store and by the tape or order it by mail. I would also record videos using good ol' VHS!! Haha! Yes my age is showing and I truly don't give a fuck. I remember having two or three 6 hour long vhs tapes of nothing but rap videos. I believe my very first rap cassette tape might have been Kool Moe Dee's "How Ya Like Me Now" and a couple of Whodini cassette tapes. Remember Whodini's "One Love?" This was the type of rap you could play at a barbecue because it was clean and family friendly for the most part. As I grew up to be a pre-teen I started getting into riskier stuff like Public Enemy, NWA, Too Short, Geto Boys and Ice T. This was the good stuff that I had to hide from my parents lol. My dad loved Public Enemy though. Most black people did. Ahhh the good ol' days of real hip hop with music like Gangstarr, De La Soul, MC Lyte, and Eric B. and Rakim bumpin in the background.

Kool G Rap “ILL Street Blues”.,., recap that track

G Rap said “The cash was coming fast Money grew like grass Ppl hungry for the blast That dont even last…” 🙏🏾 🤯 Mind blowing!!! He said “… getting richer n richer, then police took my picture, but i still supplied Some ppl i knew died Murders n homicides FOR BOTTLES OF SUICIDE” ☠️ … yo 🤦🏾‍♂️ the lyricism is just epic and undefeated Salute to u young King for getting this education Peep how in the beginning G Rap told the kid(that would have to be my same age) “You dont want to be a gangster” This was the accepted message that rappers from that era would give us even if the song content was kinda rough rappers back then tried to incorporate some consciousness into the music 💡

@arroyo5born749

2 жыл бұрын

Correct brother There's a message in this

@jowhit226

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I love about g rap, every syllable is tight

@Synchronite

2 жыл бұрын

@@jowhit226 That’s right Pen ✍🏿 is still sharp 🔪

He’s a legend. Nas had a lyric on Wave Gods off his new album Magic mentioned looking up to “Kool G”. Big Pun idolized him too. “fast life” us a G rap song featuring Nas its a classic. On the run, Ill street blues , streets of ny and it’s a shame are some other classic tracks he has

@DicnballzBitch

2 жыл бұрын

Ill street blues

Part of the greatest years of hip hop 1988-1989. Look it up.

This is one of my fav tracks of all time, the way he skips over the beat.. it's incredible, I love Rakim but Kool G Rap takes it's somewhere else here... you can see how Biggie found his style from this.

Yo! MTV Raps only came on every so often, so we’d catch these on Rap City (BET) and there was another channel called The Box (originally called the Video Jukebox Network) that had a waaay more raw catalog than MTV - the catch was you had to dial a 900 number and pay a few dollars to watch a video; but they had more and better selection than MTV, and across all genres too; but especially hip hop, punk and metal. MTV ended up buying the Box basically to put it out of business.

This song is Poetry in Motion!!

This was prob the 1st G Rap cut I ever heard, iconic 1 at that! 👌

Everyone has their preference of a top 5. He's often overlooked but he's in my top 5. He's my #3. His use of words does it for me

@hookswu6251

2 жыл бұрын

Facts he created gangsta rap ask snoop an dre they will tell u were they got it from Kool g rap

@russelladams7134

2 жыл бұрын

@@hookswu6251 Schoolly D from Philadelphia is credited with the creation of Gangsta Rap. Ice T also was doing Gangsta Rap before Kool G Rap or at least about the same time.

This song here was amazing. The beat, the multilayered rhyme scheme, the subject matter, all was fire. As for how we were able to see the latest rap videos, there were a couple of ways. One was Video Music Box, starring Ralph McDaniels and the Vid Kid, and that was on a UHF channel, channel 31 (which would come on between 3:30 - 4:30pm) in NYC. Another was a show called Rap City, a show on BET that used to start at 4:30pm, and I believe that it went to either 5:30 or 6pm. Then there was Yo MTV Raps, hosted by Doctor Dre and Ed Lover. MTV Raps also had a weekend show where Fab Five Freddy hosted it. On one of the shows, a funny thing occurred when NWA guest-appeared because both Dr Dre and Doctor Dre were saying "I'm Dr Dre from MTV Raps and you're Dr Dre from NWA). Those were some times.

KRS said it best, " you can be a mac, a pimp , hustler or player, but make sure live you is a dope rhyme sayer. Kool G gave you three hard verses with no curses, amazing. In New York there was a show called video music box. On the old school tv's they had two knobs. One gave you standard 2- through like 13 and the other one gave you these crazy u channels. video music box was on the u channels because hip hop wasn't popular to the masses yet. As soon as you came home from school your tv was on that channel, then came rap city, the originals with Prince Dejour, Joe Clair, and Big Lez, too dope. side note, can we give some props to the background dancers in the video. Real Hip Hop!!!💯💯💯 Also Nas did a documentary about video music box with Ralph Mcdanials, the original host you should check out

@jaspervetti5012

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, and that crazy channel happened to be channel 31, I remember this like it was yesterday.

@blackdog4553

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about the rap city host Chris. Damn I can't remember my boy last name but he was a funny ass skinny nigga

@jaspervetti5012

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackdog4553 I believe that his last name was Thomas. Two of the hosts of Rap City were Chris Thomas and Joe Claire (I hope I'm spelling his name right).

@blackdog4553

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaspervetti5012 u absolutely right. Look at u showin our age 🤣🤣

@jaspervetti5012

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackdog4553 yep, old school and proud of it!!!

Off the hook track …classic legendary ish ✊🏽✌🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏽King dope reaction check out it’s a shame from 456 album K G Rap a legend hip hop icon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

One of my 1st cassette single purchases was “ill street blues”. G Rap a certified General. Notice, how most of the hardest dudes from this era actively told our youth to NOT to get involved in the fast life?

Check "Men at work" , "Streets of New York", "Ill street blues"... G Rap is the blueprint for so much

KRS coined the term “edutainment” where even if they talked about the streets it was in the context of steering the youth clear of those kind of obstacles Very influential on my young mind personally Unfortunately That was the bygone era where rappers would try and teach lessons in their music In the 90s it was too much pop that 🐱 And shoot that 🧔🏾‍♂️ One thing about the south and that Atlanta sound i was happy to see was that ppl were dancing having fun again I got tired of everybody walking around looking hard(pause) and trying to be thugs smh

@seansimms8503

Жыл бұрын

Same here bro.

@jhirmalwinfield3871

2 ай бұрын

Edutainment on my top 5 all -time albums

Great reaction! Can u react to "MEN AT WORK'? Probably the best lyrical verses ever!

"Ill Street Blues" and "Street of NY" are a must to react to!

@Smoothgrooves32

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

I live in Japan now and in the downtown area of my city, they play hip hop over the speakers on the main street. I pretty sure they have no idea what is being said because it's not the radio friendly versions hahaha. I'm certain they like the beats. Probably because it reminds them of taiko. I heard this being blasted and I'm like, who at the plaza knows about G Rap? Crazy that in this little city, the locals are sitting in the ramen shops and stores nodding to Road To The Riches. Like everyone else said, cable TV man. BET, MTV, the Box or someone you knew had a VHS tape with videos they copped from elsewhere. Thinking about it, unless you had a local radio station that played some rap, you were hard pressed to get news about new stuff being dropped. Unless you came across it in a magazine.

G Rap is still cold blooded to this day bro.

Kool G Rap definitely the blueprint for NY 'street rap'.

Rakim the greatest of all time and G Rap we’re always down with each other. Look at the back of Eric B and Rakim’s first album called paid in full and you will see Kool G Rap and DJ Polo in the crew picture, most people didn’t even notice that back in the day. We use to watch videos on rap city and yo mtv raps and in nyc they had the pay channel called Ralph McDaniel’s video music box. Other areas of the country like the Midwest also later had pay channels where you could dial a number and watch videos on tv and it was charged to your monthly landline phone bill but as far as free channels it was rap city, video soul, yo mtv raps and Friday night videos.

@hruff7787

2 жыл бұрын

Rakim always took G Rap on tour with him even before he had his record deal to keep him out of the streets

@aligaines8476

2 жыл бұрын

Video Jukebox/The Box was the pay channel, Video Music Box wasn't pay.

@jimmycunningham4475

2 жыл бұрын

@@aligaines8476 you’re absolutely right, I got them mixed up. Thanks for the correction because I definitely do not want to give out or spread the wrong information. Thanks for that, real talk. Utmost respect to you.

"For tha brothaz" and "Blowin' up in the world" are two songs you have to check out by G Rap. Truly your favorite rappers favorite rapper.

Kool g rap represent. The legendary queens new york like i am.kool g rap the icon the legend.word up son

G Rap is the godfather of East Coast street rap . They all give him his respect . You have never heard him get disrespected . Do Erase the Racism n Heavy D -Don't Curse . Kool G came off on both .

One of his dopest songs, next to Poison, it's a Demo, talk like sex, streets of NY, on the run, etc... in NY we had Video Music Box, in the late 80' s Yo MTV raps came on, and many other local video shows on public access channels.

@triplep6062

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot Rap City on BET

Here in NYC, we credit Uncle Ralph Mcdaniels and his public access show VIDEO MUSIC BOX!!!! He been doin it since MTV was really playin only music videos. He played street music and cultured videos relevant to NYC. He covered parties and hosted his own show. UNCLE RALPH GIFTED US MUSIC WE WOULDNT HAVE HAD ACCESS TO WITHOUT HIM

I'm going to keep saying this... love the Sox hat, and since you're reppin the Chi, you gotta react to DO or DIE po pimp... dirty version, but it's not that dirty just need the few words to appreciate it lol keep doin you kid!!

@Synchronite

2 жыл бұрын

Twista verse on that is godly

@bigernmacrackin6176

2 жыл бұрын

@@Synchronite probably the greatest hook ever recorded too... RIP JOHNNY P

@Synchronite

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigernmacrackin6176 Definitely one of those hooks from that era that everybody know n love #RapCity 💯

Mobb Deep’s track “The Realest” from 1999 features G Rap on the first verse and it’s one of my all time favorites. So much flow and internal rhymes and he paints a picture the whole time.

Great reaction! In Manchester, UK, we had a radio show called Bus’ Diss, with Stu Allan, playing all the US imports - late 1980s, UK kids listening to Kool G Rap, BDP, Schoolly D, LL, PE, King Tee, Chubb Rock, Cool C, Shante, Ice T, Sparky D, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Stetsasonic, The 7A3, MC Shan, Twin Hype, Jungle Brothers, Kings of Pressure, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Craig G, Mantronix, Skinny Boys, EPMD, King Sun, T La Rock, Steady B, Spoonie Gee, Cash Money, JVC Force, Super Lover Cee, Tuff Crew, Eric B & Rakim, Latifah, Rob Base, Davy D, Heavy D, Def Jef, Dana Dane, Rodney O & Joe Cooley and more. Respect to the music you gave!

We(in NY) watched videos on a show called, "Video Music Box", Ralph McDaniels show Also, BET's "Rap City" & "Yo MTV Raps"

i was a kid watching this....yo MTV raps & video music box in NY was the only way to watch rap back then. Not sure how it went down in other places.

Video Music Box! Uncle Ralph McDaniels and Crazy Sam!! 🎯💯💪

You have one of my favorite channels in all of KZread. Great seeing a new generation give honest takes about old school jams.

Video Music Box right after school hours. One Love Ralph McDaniels. Hip Hop pioneer.

@supremesun4580

2 жыл бұрын

Check out the Video Music Box Documentary on Prime

@Synchronite

2 жыл бұрын

The original place to get ur shoutouts Video Music Box

One of my fav artist… Made me step my pen game up… Salute…

Kool G Rap is on the Mount Rushmore of Hip Hop along with Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and KRS One - his verse from The Symphony is unbelievably awesome!!!!!! Side Note: to answer your question about accessing videos back then - you either had to record them on VHS and re-watch them or wait until they replayed on on of the video shows (Yo! MTV Raps, Rap City, Video Music Box, etc.).....

Pun was also greatly influenced by Kool G Rap. When Pun finally met G Rap in person, he got down on one knee and kissed his ring to pay respect to who he saw as the GOAT. If you're interested in Pun and Kool G collab listen to "Dramacide" and "Wishful Thinking". Also, while you're at it Big Pun and Big L's song "Where You At?" - Pun bugs out on that

That beat was so dope! Koolgrap was that dude! You took me back with this one young homey

@BThaSmoovUno

2 жыл бұрын

Was? He still relevant today, peep him and 38 Spesh #Trust

@REAL6

2 жыл бұрын

Still is.

@demondbrown206

2 жыл бұрын

@@BThaSmoovUno I didn’t say wasn’t relevant. Trust and believe homey I’m stuck in the 90. I’m a 2022 Jerome. Lol

@demondbrown206

2 жыл бұрын

@@REAL6 I listen to some new stuff here and there, and I agree the beat is still dope. I was only speaking past tense because it made sense to in this context. Trust and believe all I listen to is my era of music. 80s, 90s, and early 2000s rap. I would never disrespect my own era.

@BThaSmoovUno

2 жыл бұрын

@@demondbrown206 Word up!

Kool G Rap is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Grap is n.y. hip hop forever.Thank you for playing this.💯

I'm glad alot of the youngyins are starting to recognizing his greatness and what bars are supposed to be

I’ve often thought that G Rap was on the same level as Big Daddy Kane & Rakim & he doesn’t get the credit he rightfully deserves cuz every MC in NYC that came out after him was influenced by him whether they know it or not....nothing but love & respect from the DMV/Baltimore area 🖤

Kool g rap is legend.road to the riches is a legendary song and video. Scarface 1983 masterpiece.word up son

Well back in the days we were watching "Video Music Box" with Ralph McDaniels in the early 80's. What funny is Biggie was in Video Music Box giving a shout out " What's up Video Music Box Ralph McDaniels. Fat Joe was freestyles all the times.

Please do streets of New York by him. Real music. I'm 45 and grew up on this music. Don't have a great relationship with my sons and haven't been able to show them what I used to listen to when I was running around. Thanks for the memories and more inspiration to get my relationship with my sons in order. Keep growing youngn. Thanks again.

It was channel 31 in Brooklyn, Video Music Box was the show. I used to record it on video tape, from like 1987.

Big Pun kneeled down on one knee and kissed G Raps pinky ring. Gangsta

@supremesun4580

2 жыл бұрын

True indeed

We used to watch the Music Videos on regular cable on BET & MTV both channels used to have several great Music Video Shows 2 great classics were YO MTV Raps & Rap City The Basement

Kool G Rap Feat. Joell Ortiz - It's Nothing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Loved your reaction to this one. Kool G Rap is definitely one of the greats. Also like that slogan on your shirt - “HARDER THAN MY DEMONS”, that’s kinda inspiring, we all need to try and be harder than our demons.

VIDEO MUSIC BOX . That’s where NYC /NJ area would watch HipHop videos

Had to go to the record store and listen or record the song on a tape until the weekend

This was one of Black Thought’s favorite raps of all time. He played it everyday he was walking home from work. There’s an interview on this one.

In my we had video music box . This before cable tv.

I remember coming home from junior high school and seeing this music video on Yo!-MTV Raps. I was like damn this dude is taking hip-hop to another level

Basically, we saw all these videos through shows on TV. There were shows that would come on our local channels, there was also Rap City on BET, YO MTV Raps on MTV, "Pump It Up" on FOX, etc... there was also a cable channel called 'The Box' or the Jukebox Network where you could call and punch in a 3-digit code for the video you wanted to see for like $2.50 a video.

Video music box is what we was watching back then.and yo mtv raps and rap city.etc a lot of classic rap song i copy back then .i had my 📼 vhs and vcr.and eat .drink .relax and watch and listen to those rap videos masterpieces.word up son

One of the Best Emcees of All Time!!!

This song is one of my favs all time. He’s top 5. RAW remix with Big Daddy Kane 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Kool G.....4,5,6 in the mix

easily one of my favorite rap songs of all time

I remember bumping this in My Sony Cassette player whe. I was like 12.

I use to watch it on MTV... the show was called Yo!MTV Raps

@jowhit226

2 жыл бұрын

Fab 5 Freddy!! Dr. Dre and Ed Lover

Kool G Rap & Nas “Fast Life”…….. check this great track out!! 1995 off that 456 classic album

This song used to get me so hype..his dancers were so ill too

I was 15 in 88. I saw videos on YoMtv Raps and BET at Grandmas lol. Video Music Box in 90 when I got to college. Appreciate your videos.

You wanna know how dope Kool G Rap is? Go listen to a thugs love story chapter 1-3. The way this man tell stories with his lyrics is insane. G Rap always been a top 3 lyricist for me.

2 hidden gem G Rap songs: "I Feel Bad For You Son" and "What's More Realer Than That" you might like

Back then we had to watch it on VH1, Yo! MTV Rap and some of the big groups like RUN DMC were played on MTV. BET started showing Rap videos in the late 80's also.

Yeah he killed that! 🎤🔥🔥 Also we had "Yo MTV Raps" that played music videos from artists non stop. It's where everyone learned the new dance!👍🏿

video musicbox with ralph macdaniels was mandatory daily viewing in 1989

Back then we had Yo MTV Raps and Rap City on BET. I would pop in my VHS tape and record all my favorite videos…good times!

In New Jersey, New York area we had a public channel that had a show called VIDEO MUSIC BOX. they even had R&B on Wednesdays, they would play lots of stuff you wouldn’t see on MTV or mainstream video shows. You can find it on KZread I’m sure.

In NY there was a local show called "Video music box".

I'm a old schooler 40s and I like your videos better than others bc you give em a Real chance I stead of all that bs others do when doing older vids

You gotta do Kool g rap and polo featuring Big daddy Kane and Biz Markie-Erase Racism,it sends a great message that people need to hear

At the end you asked how we saw rap videos back in the day. I was a teenager in the 80’s. We had the “YO, MTV RAPS” show on Saturdays. Where they would play all the latest videos by all the new rap artists as they were just starting to appear. Most of the great rappers of the mid-late 80’s, me & my friends discovered for the first time on that show. Then we’d run out to the record store at the mall to hopefully find the tapes by the new rappers we liked best that we just found out about on YO MTV RAPS. That was back when MTV was still cool & mainly played music videos 24/7.

to answer your question about where we watched old videos: up here in the great white north (canada) it was Much Music or in the USA it was MTV - and you had to wait and wait and wait.. but once in a while, in between Michael Jackson & Madonna videos we'd see something like Kool G Rap! ......... speaking of canada where's our love? haha - check out one of the biggest hits from 1989; Maestro Fresh Wes - "Let Your Backbone Slide" keep up the good work bud

I wound up popping this cassette because i played and rewound this so much

We watched these videos on Video Music Box in the NYC area. If you were fortunate to have cable in those days you’d watch these videos on “The Box” a 24/7 video request channel, or on BET and MYV.

In NY we watched on video music box . This was a specific channel on the tv. Then they came out with BET channel 1988

I think it’s time. You should react to Men at Work - Kool G Rap and Polo. That ones he’s rapping his ass off. Guarantee rap changed after that song came out

@anonymousapocalypse247

2 жыл бұрын

His best song

You'll enjoy Canibus and Kool G Rap "Allied Meta-Forces"

@anonymousapocalypse247

2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥

The Box, Yo, MTV Raps...We used to stay up late to watch for Hip-Hop videos & ciphers. Wasn't nothin like the 90s bro! Wish you was there!!

Back in them days in NY we used to watch Video Music Box, The DJ Chuck Chill Out Show, and Yo MTV Raps. There would be other underground stations that would pop up for a little bit and play vids too, but didn't last long. The ones I named were the ones that really hit for a while...but back then, we was on the mixtapes and the radio shows heavy. If there was a video that came out for a hot song, it was a bonus. G Rap was the first gangsta rapper to come out of NY with all that street hustler/ gangster talk. Other rappers touched on it a lil bit. but didn't hit like G Rap with it. That's why he's a godfather to the game and such a big influence. He's like the Don Corleone of NY gangsta rap and he's still better than a lot of these rappers today!!! I mean he still got it to this day. Much respect to you for your channel. Keep putting out these fire vids, my boy.

Peace brother! You asked how we used to watch videos back then. I remember watching MTV in 1984…I don’t remember watching BET before ‘87. MTV was straight ignoring hip hop for the most part during those days. BET would play popular hits but rap reached its golden era in the early nineties. You saw the formation Of TV shows geared towards “rap” on both networks. There was no On Demand besides “The Box” music network that you could call and pay 💰 to watch hip hop videos 😂. A VCR was your best friend back then.