Ultramagnetic MC's - Poppa Large
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The Ultramagnetic MCs is a hip hop group made up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, TR Love, and Moe Love. Tim Dog became an unofficial member in 1989. In 1990, DJ Jaycee was added as Roadmanager and backup DJ. A former member, Rooney Roon, was fired following an assault arrest. Beat-boxing legend Rahzel was also involved with the group early in its career. The group's work was associated with unorthodox sampling, polysyllabic rhymes, and bizarre lyrical imagery.
The Ultramagnetic MCs formed in 1984. Their first single was 1985's "To Give You Love" on the Diamond International label. The group's worldwide buzz started with "Ego Trippin'," its first 12-inch single on Next Plateau Records in 1986 that was the first hip hop song to feature the infamous "Synthetic Substitution" drum break sample. The song is still considered a hip hop classic. The group's next single was "Traveling At The Speed of Thought (Original)"/"M.C.'s Ultra (Part Two)" followed by "Funky/Mentally Mad," one of the most sought-after 12-inch singles of its career. Funky was based on a Joe Cocker piano sample later used as the basis for Dr. Dre and Tupac's California Love. It was released in 1987. This led to the release of the group's first album.
The Ultramagnetic MCs released a new school classic in 1988, Critical Beatdown, introducing many new sampling techniques. Many believe that without the group's primary producer, Ced Gee, the golden era of sampling may have looked very different. Ced, while uncredited, also produced the majority of Boogie Down Productions' seminal Criminal Minded. These albums are among the first to use "chopped" samples, rearranged and edited to change context. Both albums also feature many James Brown samples, which became very prominent in Hip Hop in ensuing years. KRS-One has been quoted as saying that he was very close to joining Ultramagnetic MCs early on. Paul C. was also a major contributor to Critical Beatdown, producing "Give The Drummer Some," and engineering most of the album. Paul C. also produced the Hip-House mix of "Traveling At The Speed Of Thought", which was used as the group's first music video, and was their sole release in 1989. The single's b-side, "A Chorus Line", became one of Ultramagnetic's most popular songs and introduced new group affiliate Tim Dog. A variation of the "A Chorus Line" instrumental was used as the basis of Tim Dog's debut single, the Ced Gee-produced "Fuck Compton", which became a modest hit and is credited with helping to spark the East coast/West coast feud of the mid '90s.
The group then disappeared for several years, breaking up temporarily in 1990. They returned on Mercury Records in 1992, with the album Funk Your Head Up. The album received a muted response, in part because many tracks had been given a commercial sheen, having been remixed by outside producers at the label's insistence. Alternate mixes of this album's songs along with unreleased tracks from the sessions have appeared on later compilations. The song Poppa Large, remixed by Da Beatminerz became a hit and remains a staple of Kool Keith's live show. The song's video featured Keith in a straightjacket, his bald head encased in a birdcage.
1993's The Four Horsemen was considered extremely strange though still brilliant, offering a darker, jazzier sound. It featured guest production and vocals by Godfather Don, who produced solo Kool Keith sessions in 1992 during another brief Ultramagnetic breakup. Some of those tracks appear on The Four Horsemen, and also on The Cenobites LP. The former was the last official album the Ultramagnetic MCs released until their 2007 reunion.
There were many semi-legitimate and compilation albums to follow, the most official of which was Next Plateau's The B-Sides Companion, which featured a new song, some unreleased 1989 songs recorded for a second Next Plateau LP and most of the group's classic singles, albeit in newly remixed form. Ced Gee and Moe Love both provided demos and unreleased songs spanning the group's entire career to Tuff City for a series of four albums which were released without Kool Keith's consent. A live album, Brooklyn To Brixton, was announced but abandoned.
As a reaction to Ced and Moe's involvement in the Tuff City releases, Kool Keith and Tim Dog reunited on the album Big Time, released under the name Ultra in 1997. Kool Keith went on to record many solo CDs, including several under aliases such as Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom. His abstract rhymes and syncopated, off-beat delivery influenced many rappers, including Pharoahe Monch from Organized Konfusion.
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This will never get old it was made tommorow
@JuniorPolancoLaCoalicion
4 жыл бұрын
Word. It's actually still being written as we breathe.
@robertbailey2570
4 жыл бұрын
True
@marguritemcdonaldmusic9922
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you 100%
@yankees29
3 жыл бұрын
“I’m coming like beers...” Futuristic flowwww.
@cdjxman
Жыл бұрын
Great quote, my friend!😎👍
May 2024, still bumpin. Better than most music made these days🤘🏾✊🏾
Kool Keith is one of most lyrically abstract emcees to ever command over a microphone. A Hip-Hop legend and a true emcee straight up
@MrTony-sb6nq
Жыл бұрын
Kool Keith 4 President
@AMMAZZARE
Жыл бұрын
Dr Octagon 4 Secretary of Health
@copywrite9120
Жыл бұрын
Shut your corny ass up
@Al_Gore_Rhythmn
9 ай бұрын
Nope Aesop Rock has him beat
@yen4407
9 ай бұрын
@@Al_Gore_Rhythmn😂 music is subjective theyre all so insanely talented and influential aesop rock is insanely good
Everytime I hear this song it gives me chills,this is a masterpiece
@paulbryant8403
3 жыл бұрын
Yea man ive been bumping thus for like almost 20 years it still gives goosebumps. Guys a genius
@yxyxs
2 жыл бұрын
Goosebumps rn bros, he really do communicate with the world
@bushwacka5187
Жыл бұрын
A fcking classic
@minzdogg6180
Жыл бұрын
Absolute timeless Lyric freak love it Till i die and mr funkyman from lord of the underground says i Hope they Makin Records up in Heaven 😂🙈
@bushwacka5187
Жыл бұрын
Hell yes
This is the greatest classic and masterpiece at the same time. It's golden era collection was dope!
One of the most underrated HipHop groups. Legends.
@zodiacmartnio7256
Жыл бұрын
That’s how they became 💯
That flow is INSANE!
I keep in shape and do my physical fitness Your head's numb, so your brains a miss this Pick 'em up, eat 'em up, pick 'em up, heat 'em up Pick 'em up picklehead, pick 'em up picky I roll wit globs and I come real sticky Grippin' the mic, I plug it up in your ears Crazed and brewer. I'm coming out like beers Like Rheingold, Miller, Coors, and Buds I'm a eat 'em wit popcorn and treat 'em like suds you duds Coming out the wick wack, wicky, wickable wack Black jack, that's a fact, writing exact behind your back The funk rhyme'n master, blaster Kicking up in a brainstorm, rainstorm Rap storm, rap form Rap time, rap rhyme Rap class, I'm here to fail and to pass To continue, furthermore on the hype tip I roll and rock, rock and roll Jazz and pop, rhythm and Blues Dance and fusion, brain confusion Look at the lights, what a night on the town [Hook] I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East coast (4x) Now I'm back to funk, freak the funk Hype the funk, swipe the funk and all that junk I get busy on 'em, communicate wit the world Man, woman, a baby boy and a girl Poppa large looking out, the bombs drop Taking stroud while your face and arms drop Stop, look, learn to read, learn to write Learn to talk, learn to walk And watch your step though, I'm hype and ripe though Kleptomaniac, a rhyme'n psycho A Ricky Ricardo, a Guy Lombardo Sporting a ragtop, an El Dorado Step into Hollywood, I'm screening the boulevards The rhymes is gain type, I'm ready to pull a card Jack'a Ace, King'a Queen Call me the deuce, I'm pouring out like juice Hitting the top, feeling the rim Getting a trim, I never rhyme like them On and on, on and on, on and on Until the break of dawn I go overtime, rock the mic in nighttime Daytime, switching off to Primetime Pacific east, strolling back in the west time Ride the funk wit the mic in the east rhyme Hype and dope, hype the frame The mic is smoking, yo I ain't joking Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp Rhyme to ill, rhyme to rock Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll Rhyme to destroy any decoy boy On the microphone [Hook] You're dripping sweaty, coming hard on your neck As I flow and grow from head to toe Seeking a style like John McEnroe Dissing 'em all, serving them wit the mic stand Like Prince and Michael coming out wit a big band The crowd is live, you can play as the manager Run wit the money, I pull the trigger and damage ya Boom, taking life more serious I may sound lyrical and very mysterious Rhymes are grip tight, program to kill more A son of Sam, how could I be Gilmore? Grabbing the mic, you see the dark and shadows You're in living hell, without time to battle The funk ignited, hands are writing, brains dividing I'm coming out in sighting Like I'm Blackula, a better man that Dracula Spectacular and not irregular In fact you are speaking impopular Rhymes are moved and you can't be stop wit the Beat as it goes to the rhyme that flows Like a coke in a straw burning up in your nose That's a bad habit, stepping out on stage one Drop the mic, come and turn to page one Look at the master, my rank is higher My lyrical burns, your brain's on fire [Hook]
@proudafricanamerican7586
4 жыл бұрын
Lukas Hledik Thank you!!!!!!
@CyanBlackflower
4 жыл бұрын
Thank You, for transcribing that, hopefully bringing more clarity, thus greater appreciation to K.Keith's "Octagon0logical" Abstract Prose - which is what Keith creates rather than "Bustin'" Rhyme. The common object of it is to appeal to the imaginative, sensual "left hand" (Right Brain Hemisphere) in order to express ideas and concepts which are "Lateral" thinking, intuitively abstract, and eccentric to those thought structures which we are used to using everyday, to describe the world at large. To invoke an Emotional response via surreal verse. Relevant, to genius, to those who can get it. Crazy to ridiculous to those who cannot. Same as anything anyone says. Prose WAS popular in Shakespeare's day, but is not so well used today. It is Pure Art. Good Job on the Transcript.
@proudafricanamerican7586
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you., wow
@Chessbox09
3 жыл бұрын
@@CyanBlackflower Thank you, great breakdown on Keiths' style
@FRD-HDD
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Ridiculous beat and Kool Keith's lyrics were beyond amazing, next level!!!
@kevinscott59
4 жыл бұрын
Big Stacks "I'm here to fail and pass to continue."
@MOBROOKS
4 жыл бұрын
That beat is insane!! Damn this track hard.
@davidlopez1820
3 жыл бұрын
Critical Beatdown or The Four Horsemen....Which one you got?
@bigstacks1463
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidlopez1820 Critical Beatdown all day!!!
@davidlopez1820
3 жыл бұрын
@@bigstacks1463 I got The Four Horseman...Can't go wrong with either one...Peace
It’s 2023 and Poppa Large still goes hard!!!
Old Prodigy fans should love this tune
@TonyVuolo
3 ай бұрын
was thinking the same thing
@IlIlllIIIllIIlIIlII
3 ай бұрын
lol I just heard the sample in a poppy house track
@dustrontron3145
Ай бұрын
Are you referring to slap my bitch up? That's from a different song and not his solo stuff
@user-jk9ex1ps9t
17 күн бұрын
Diesel power
@davidmockler2160
5 күн бұрын
This song gets sampled in so many electronic tracks now
This dude is going off.. I miss old school hip-hop. Nothing like it.
@williamallen2565
3 жыл бұрын
He kinda reminds me of Flavor Flav
@gordongordon98
3 жыл бұрын
He is going off!
@SUCHROXWELL
3 жыл бұрын
Kool Keith. One the most influential emcees ever.
@espaciofantazma901
3 жыл бұрын
Ofcourse there's others like it. Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Treach from Naughty By Nature have done the exact same flow, and before Kool Keith did it.
@gordongordon98
3 жыл бұрын
@@espaciofantazma901 yoke the joker- sick!
This song saved my life twice. Thank you, UMs.
@defaultentry9247
9 ай бұрын
If you ever need or want help feel free to reach out homie. I mean it.
That beat is insane!! Damn this track hard.
Keith had that voice...and he was way ahead of his time..
Kool Keith is an underrated Goat should be in every true heads top 10
now that im 44 and showing this to my brethren who are all MCs.......im super convinced that this being on the Box back in the day is partly what made us all rhyme so original and strange. I remember so much of this vid and the rhymes and cant even know how it got stuck in my head. way over my head when I was a kid but it still sounds so perfect now that I understand every measure
Genius level wordplay and flow.
(1:14) my favourite bit, used in SO MANY samples... "Now I'm back to funk, freak the funk Hype the funk, swipe the funk and all that junk I get busy on 'em, communicate wit the world Man, woman, a baby boy and a girl"
Favorite version hands down 🙌
@1974cfjl
2 жыл бұрын
Yes by far
the extra long winter coats or keith wearing a straight jacket with ball shorts & tims I cant decide which is more classic
one of the best lyricial rap songs ever kool keiths rhyme patterns was crazy here.
@JORGEesCOOLIO
2 ай бұрын
And at 1992.. dude was always ahead
The sound is old school but lirycally keith is way ahead of 2020s
@saeedafyouni619
3 жыл бұрын
word...........and also RIP to another Keith...Keith Flint I rock n roll
@MrCrazyoldschool
3 жыл бұрын
Old school is the best
@MrCrazyoldschool
3 жыл бұрын
Old school is way ahead of New school
@robertboody6433
3 жыл бұрын
Remix now
@park7854
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrCrazyoldschool no shit old becomes before new
Interessante o final da série do Mine, muito realista essa textura aí🤘
@HENRIQUESILVA-sv8um
5 ай бұрын
Absolute cinema
One of the illest second verses in history
This was the only Ultramagnetic MC’s video I remember seeing on Yo! MTV Raps and/or Rap City back in ‘92. It really made an impression on me, as it was probably the most unique MCing I’d seen up to that point. Then when Wu came through, this provided some context and precedence.
@FB-ch5yz
4 жыл бұрын
Raise it up also got a lot of airplay... outside of that I think u may be right
@byronspears9395
3 жыл бұрын
🤔FACTS💯
@altaariq
3 жыл бұрын
I used to see Traveling At The Speed of Thought on the box all the time back in the late 80's
@blaquemann9398
3 жыл бұрын
Two brothers with checks was the other one I remember, video was bananas.
@abovedeathpresents
8 ай бұрын
@@altaariq but the box was only in New York
Finally a good copy of this on the internet. Cheers!
Kool Keith indeed was "The greatest MC in the world."- Kool Keith in Critical Beatdown. He was Ultra Mag MC's.
DEFINITELY one of the most SLEPT ON CREWS in rap!!
A Ricky Ricardo, a Guy Lombardo, sportn a ragtop and El Dorodo, Gettn d trim, I Never rhyme like dem 🔥, Seekin a Style 😂, people weren't ready for this Silence Of The Lambs type ish in 92
Super Underrated!!! What fools of 2021 are spittin fire like this from 30 years ago? Help me out....
@DETmichigan-yy6lf
2 жыл бұрын
Nobody!!
@arekhautaluoma4276
4 ай бұрын
Kool Keith
The original crazy rapper
@kevinscott59
4 жыл бұрын
Diego Chaves Nah. That would be the late,great Rammellzee. Keith,Funkmaster Wizard Wiz,MF Doom,Biz,Volume 10,ODB,Circus,Dose One etc.,are all his sons.
@inker1972
4 жыл бұрын
@@kevinscott59 wrongggg
@kevinscott59
4 жыл бұрын
Johnny Favorite How so?
@krymzonkaravancometrebels3922
4 жыл бұрын
No, it might've been eazy e who was the first to bring the straight jacket in 89 or 91 to hip hop even though it was already a trend in rock music.
@dogsandyoga1743
3 жыл бұрын
@@inker1972 Nope. The late great Ramellzee was definitely the forefather of avant-garde rap. Check the stats...
What did he just say? That mic is still smokin 🔥🔥 🔥
one of the single nicest beats of this era, without a doubt. Funk Your Head Up could have been an excellent album without interference from their label. this dark, gritty style of production is exactly what that album was lacking .
@leachjason111
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah def. Interesting how poppa large on the funk your head up cassette was a diff. Beat..this one for video way more raw
@squeegeemcgee
3 жыл бұрын
@@leachjason111 yea the FYHU version of this track is really underwhelming. tbf the Beatminerz remix instrumental is one of the most insane hip hop instrumentals ive ever heard, but the original Poppa Large sounds weak even if you compare it to other tracks off the album.
@danwilliams1372
3 жыл бұрын
I've been listening to a lot of The Four Horsemen lately. I have known about Kool Keith for a minute but for some reason was sleeping on Ultra. "Bring It Down To Earth" is my favorite song right now. I gotta check out Funk Your Head Up.
@leachjason111
3 жыл бұрын
@@danwilliams1372 thaz a good one..i love their scientific sci-fi flows...espec. K.K.'s.. Four Horseman-dope c.d. indeed
Saw this video on TV exactly one time back in the early 90s; immediately sold me on the Ultras and Keith.
now back the funk, freak the funk, hype the funk, swipe the funk, and all that junk, i get busy on em, communicate with the world, man, woman, a baby boy and a girl
Kool Keith is my all-time favorite rapper period. Lyrics & the sound, created , education, Ahead of his generation...
1 illest hip hop songs of all time by one the illest MCS of all time!!!!. . . Period end of discussion...
My niggas from Bx, I remember them in the early days ( mid 80’s) b4 the dope records started droppin
@danscott3880
2 жыл бұрын
Ultramagnectic M.C's. Critical beat down. Next to criminal minded and PE ...greatest old skool record
Legendary. Ced Gee @Vladtv bought me back here.......
0:08 Blind the wind?
This is still a good hidden gem word memories
these cats were some of the DOPEST out!
@GangStarr4life96
10 жыл бұрын
yee, that they were.
Pffff this man is in my list of the best top 5 rapper/m.c. Of ALL TIME!!
Kool Keith is a freakin Cyborg.
ULTRAMAGNETIC MC'S poppa large ↗↖↗↖↗↖↗↖ ♨ rap hip hop classic ⚫ jam amp 🔊 ♠
Before this track I remember hearing kool kieth in tracks and in dj mix shows. His rhyming always stood different amongst many rappers like I mean he was in a different level rapping but after seeing this video in 89 I became a huge fan of his.
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!
In the '90s it was these guys Kool Keith and Lords of the underground as my all-time favorites. Rap after that wasn't the same it was like they left out the creativity
How does this only have 300k views ? this song is legendary
This never gets old!
June 2024 Listening. Nothing compares to this golden era!!!
This was made in the year 3000! I’m not even born yet
ONE OF THE BEST RAP VIDEOS & SONGS EVER. Point & DONE!!
Stone Cold Classic
Been listening to to ultramagnetic mc’s and kool Keith since early 90s. Some reason I don’t remember this video of this classic. Thank you for sharing.I’m poppa large big shot on the east coast!
Underrated song ever made
Cant believe this song is from the 90’s
Always will be one of my favorites, everytime I hear this it gets me going dancing all over the place.
This Production 🎧 is Outta Here 🛫 Another World Solo System (Still Hittn Hard 🥁 in 2022) Dayummmmm!!
1992 what a year. Great memories of rap.
Pq isso ta na playlist da continuação de mine?
@rayy_9
10 ай бұрын
Virou tradição agr colocar um vídeo aleatório por último ksksksksk
Classic Hip Hop. So dope 👊
A lot of rappers owe their careers to Kool Keith
One of the best remixes in hip hop history!
...I just today noticed that Keith is walking next to Ced Gee in the black and white group shots.
The first time I saw this all my hairs on my neck stood on end. Keith was leading field in originality, wordplay , style, fashion, kids don’t know how much he shook up the game. 🫡
I didn't understand what the fk he was talking about back then but compared to what is out now, he makes perfect sense. Waaaaay ahead of his time salute bruh
I NEVER SOUND LIKE THEM - on Gawd this video has lived rent free in my head since it dropped. There are lyricist and them there are PREMIUM lyricist…best believe its lonely at the top too. Salute Kool Keith 🫡 !!!!
I KEEP IN SHAPE AND DO MY PHYSICAL FITNESS
jesus christ that second verse Keith goes off
Top ten track of all time
That video fit his style!!!! It all go together. Kool Keith the man.
This video made me fall in love with hip hop.🤘🏻🎱🤘🏻
They're on my list of favorite hip-hop groups ever. Ultramagnetic MCs Brand Nubian Public Enemy EPMD Wu-Tang Mobb Deep Whodini Run DMC Nice & Smooth Main Source Heavy D and the Boyz MOP Poor Righteous Teachers BDP Jungle Brothers Poison Clan 2LiveKrew X-Clan U.T.F.O Stetsonic Salt N Pepa I could go on and on... I wish it were like this again.
@woozie___
Жыл бұрын
Some great slept on groups there. Main Source is as dope as anybody
I was a Sophomore in High School when I first heard this. REAL HipHop was Blowin Up and in Full Effect. The Industry will never come close to Producing such Talent like that again.
KOOL KEITH FUTUREISTIC FLOW ITS 3035
This the song that introduce me to kool keith...I used to battle rap like him ... that word play is legendary ...bug up ultra
90s hip hop was the sh*t, you had to be there!
"A better man than Dracula." This dude dropped more bars in this song than most rappers' entire careers.
My favorite Ultramagnetic song
Light years ahead of their time.
Atemporal geniality... Sound futuristic from other dimention...
keith was so original
One of the best to ever do it.
cool music video, hoping it isn't lost somewhere...
@egghamsil
3 ай бұрын
how does this shit even happen
@jennydeaf9O9
3 ай бұрын
ur funnyy
@girlwantsboy
3 ай бұрын
how did we let this happen, this video has 560K views at the time of writing :/
@TheNifitss
3 ай бұрын
@@girlwantsboy0.5 seconds seemed IMPOSSIBLE to solve
This is the greatest song I’ve ever heard.
This was my favorite rap group when I was younger. I use to dress like them to a tee !!! I had the 20-Below Tim's and the 40s, my Ced-G flat top and the whole 9 yards.
Ced gee is sitting on my couch with me right now in Jefferson Massachusetts recording my new album.
Long time ive not listen to ultramagnectic mcs miss them to rassclaaart
This was ahead of its time when it came out
I heard that part (you know the part) sampled so many times that I thought surely it was from something in the pre-paid-for-cleared-samples era, but no, here it is. Amazing work
This is still crazy . Classic masterpiece .
Another classic Beatminerz production. Another classic Kool Keith track. Classic
Before Chino XL and Eminem there was Kool Keith. King of all metaphors..
I’m poppa large!!!! 2023 January 1st happy new year let’s keep this song rocking!!!
Absolute masterpiece
amazing video
who remembers this song on *Def Jam Fight For NY* ???
Produced by the original Beatminerz (Aaron Freedom Lyles & Ike Lee). This is pre-Walt, Evil Dee and ect. Lyles and Lee were their beat teachers.
@fabioupc
5 жыл бұрын
no, this remix was made by Beatminerz, the first version of Aaron Freedom Lyles & Ike Lee is totally different
@fabioupc
5 жыл бұрын
The version this video is waltz and Dee , i also read an interview to Dee said they making other versión