AZ - Hey AZ feat. SWV

[mybroboo]

Go AZ!! Get it bou!!

[laceup92]

classic song underrated  mc

[AkitoJr]

could it be the song was meant to be nothing more than a B-side perhaps?

if that was the case, which single was the A side???

[BeenaBee]

One of the flyest songs ever made...AZ deserves a million plaques

[stillmaticstarlet]

I love AZ's flow over the Honey beat...why was this song never released officially?

[reel1840]

turn me up

[yaboytreyy]

If u from the NYC thumbs up. Fort Greene every day. No Wayne and drake, just az ghost and Rae

[jyuarch20]

懐かしい。。

[LeComteDeVersaille]

SMOOTH IT OUT!

[sslims740]

this is tha shiiiit

[850don]

hot shit

[VickDaVillain]

THIS THT SHIT REAL MELLO TRACK!!!

[sqall1112]

I just finished listening to Sugar Hill, then I heard the very start, and tripped out.

[jules4502]

that was my shit!!! Still is REAL HIP-HOP!

[jules4502]

that was my shit!!! Still is REAL HIP-HOP!

[BirthofAPrince]

classic track jems in there with professional wordplay can't fault it

[ibma14]

PERFECT FOR THIS WEATHER SUNSET IN NYC

[BL3ST1NE]

that hook is HORRENDOUS but the verses are top notch and that beat too.. lol i can't believe AZ was in the studio and didn't say WTF at this terrible sung chorus

[Activist88]

@BL3ST1NE its the 90s bro.. we was all haven a good time haha

[BL3ST1NE]

@Activist88 not with that hook lol 

[GoodMusic2008]

@1:44 sing Coko!!! she never got her just doo

[TheEditor80]

@GoodMusic2008 hell no she didnt her voice is so versatile

[kingvesta]

< Be back @ halftime !!

[Anterok88]

summer beat

[sukcmdyick]

@irepbmore dr.dres chronic was the last hoorah

[GreatkingAlexander]

@KonstantElevation you are wrong it after 2004 when eminem did.t come out for 5 years

[datboypi]

This nigga the truth,who fucking with'em?Nobody!!!G.O.A.T.

[madfreeman501]

BIg Tune

((d-_-b))

[zippo718]

Anyone know where I can find this version of the song? When I look for Hey AZ all I get is one with a diff beat.

[therealtoreal]

@zippo718 Go on amazon.com you can find some promo/import singles of this from back in 97. The only prob with this track is Mariah had the same sample a month before this joint dropped,it was a smash and AZ's album didn't drop for another 6 months or so,so they left it off the album. Still a hot track.

[acalhoun628]

I agree AZ is a legend... too bad he don't get the respect he deserves. I miss that real NY hip hop.

[Blakmajik78]

OMG where did this music GO MAYNE!!!!!

[TheRebelabyss]

puff daddy ended hip hop in 95 i was ther in the bronx at 15. i bear witness. biggie tried to keep it lyrical, puff said fuck that money is over hip hop. guess he was right, welcome to hip hop tecno 2011. stupid asses

[canibusnj]

@TheRebelabyss I KNOW WHAY YOU SAYIN, AND IT;S THE TRUTH!!!!

[xbigeL13]

G.O.A.T

[datboypi]

I agree 100%.No Questions asked...

[stickywickedy]

Mainstream hip hop did, not all hip hop.

[erika2012vsu]

AZ is a legend!

[videosensei]

az's flow is crazy on this track

[TheOutbreakers]

THUMPS UP FOR REAL HIP-HOP.

[omhat]

@TheOutbreakers az, nas, common, total, swv, foxy brown, 90s jay-z, the lox, cant get no better.

[JCostilCapo1]

youtube IOTOS if u fucks wit real HIP HOP...

[clintmack28]

you know who killed hip hop besides the whack ass mcs? the so called fans! if they demanded a higher standard of hip hop and didnt support bullshit rappers the game would be better off!

[egyptian420]

so many deaf and blind got caught up or left behind

i guess bacardi lime gave me my strength to go the extra nine

next in line, slow G-ing, low key-ing

me and the crew in the gold B.M, O.D-ing

Daaaaaamn....name just ONE nigga that can flow like this who isnt from the 90's....here's a hint, there are none!!! Real rap died in the year 2000

[briskhockey]

@egyptian420 well there is shad

[egyptian420]

@briskhockey looove Shad....was at the Opera house in toronto watching him perform live, he killed it

[jenntariq]

Whatever happen to AZ...SMH

[richbumz]

@jenntariq HE JUST DROPED A ALBUM

[cohoba77]

@jenntariq He's still here, makin music

[RKG5A5]

Even his laid back party tracks have substance...hes a genius

[baddestassassin13]

AZ influenced Eminem so much its crazy

that whole Infinite album Em sounds like him!!!

[Activist88]

@baddestassassin13

if AZ Influenced EM... Then why is EM lettin 50 go at AZ sayin AZ make bs Tracks.. lol... we all know 50 aint even close

[baddestassassin13]

@Activist88

everybody knows Em was influenced by AZ... he also said that people underrate his mastermind lyricism... "or maybe they'll mistakenly put me all the way to the bottom of the list right next to A-Z"...

he says it numerously... and Em let 50 go at Ross too... shit Ross called Em a honkey... so whats ur point?

[twist2g22]

tru indeed

people just wrote my first book on lyrical artist

errolmwright,com  check my site. peace

[pasqu25]

this is some shit to have fun and chill with your homies...

and it still better than the one they play today

[wmc3504]

i couldnt imagine hot 97 bumping this while im driving to nyc...i guessed i missed a epic era

[cripbuddz]

hey dj was better

[GurlCaa]

LOL, HOW CRAETIVE THIS SONG CAME OUT IN 1997-1998...THE SAME YEAR MARIAH USED THE SAMPLE FOR "HONEY"......lol.

and 3 yrs before, A Lighter Shade Of Brown, had a song called 'Hey DJ", excat sample!!

[ThaSubzstance]

AS IF THIS AINT ON AN ALBUM! mos def one of his best. timeless flow

[hiramironman]

AZ has always been hot!! Remember this track from Norfolk state in college!! Rocked rather unique and gimme yours remix in 11th grade!! Real hip hop will never die!!

[CoreyPain]

I love west coast shit dont get me wrong, I was bumpin all of Death Row's shit IN THE PEAK OF THE BIGGIE AND TUPAC BEEF, IN THE MIDDLE OF BROOKLYN NYC shit blastin in my car, windows down and all that! Its all about Hip Hop to me, fuck "Rap", but when it comes to bars, lyrical structure, wordplay (meaning how closely your shit rhymes, and how much sense it makes) East coast got it locked, no disrespect to west coast. Korrupt, Crooked I, etc they sick, but not on Nas, Jay, Big, and Banks level.

[ib722]

east coast spit da conscience flow, west coast spit da hard core thuggish ruggish flow, no matter what doe we need both 2 balance out da equlity.. i miss da 90's !!!!!

[ETJLMET]

Dude Lighter Shade of Brown re-did this Killa Cali style years before AZ, this wasnt nothing major, they went platinum off this remix AZ didnt do shit on this and on top of that they were NEVER mainstream. East Coast wake up man we been remixing these, Diddy try to say we invented the Remix, bitch we invented GANGSTA RAP nigga!

[CoreyPain]

@ETJLMET Yet but lyrically... you guys are light years behind us. Sorry, but facts are facts.

[ETJLMET]

@CoreyPain Lyrically??? It's all personal preference at that point! Just like when it comes to production, sound, beats, and musical arrangement. The east coast has slowly started to sound like the West Coast when it comes to beats! Rap is all about who can talk the most shit and be the best at it. East Coast rappers such as Jay Z and Big L and even down to Biggie, Dmx havent lived that life but then Nas, Cormega, Mos Def, and rappers like that come and redeem you all! EMINEM put your asses out

[ETJLMET]

@CoreyPain 2pac set the standard and mastered it and no one has come close, E-40 and Too Short and Snoop, Cube too many to list done mastered that game from a 'REAL" perspective! I'll give you all Hip Hop because that's where it came from but Gangsta RAP and hard core ass beats and hip hop and R&B comes from this GOLDEN STATE playboy! Don't get it twisted and when it comes to underground..............shit any hood has got that on lock. By the way Immortal Technique is about a pussy punk liar

[ETJLMET]

@CoreyPain FAKE ASS THUG! I know some MEXICANS that put that peruvian PUSSY in his place, he does one year in the pen and acts like he's knowin lol dude makes me laugh, if I come up on him ohhhhhh boy its over! You still wanna talk lyrically???? hahahahaha don't forget to remember all those whack ass pussies! Sucker sellout hood rats!

[iamsukafree]

@CoreyPain if u wonna talk lyrics.put any eastcoast artist up against crooked i.i bet crooked i is more lyrical then any artist on the eastcoast.eastcoast got good rappers that i fuck with but saying yall better then the westcoast lyrically is bullshit

[EM0TI0NLE55]

One of the best hip hop songs of all time easily

[roboshuffle]

Damn. I love SWV.

[JaliscoGringa]

love AZ miss music like this..

[freeflowskating]

17 people shoulda got hit with that tornado.

[mshock05]

@irepbmore what about da state property with jay z

[RhinoGorilla]

I find myself coming back to this song over and over to reminisce when hip hop was off the hook.

[skillvill]

1:37 that me!!!!!

[anylee34]

@skillvill Thats cool howd you get to be in the video?

[skillvill]

@anylee34 i used do extra in videos and movies through an acting agency.

[prvpaula68]

@skillvill Damn beautiful lady

[skillvill]

@prvpaula68 correction playa im the guy in the orange shirt but the girl in the shot is my cousin Paige...lol

[charlyblues]

This is the difference between just rhymin about the riches, these dudes mix it up with realness , especially the different topics in their albums.

and when they flow over dough....? they do it fucking thight yo!

[MobiusX]

this song is good from beggining to end, he raps the same from beggining to end, damn

[MrTonyx187]

nas is my favourite m.c of all time,but azs swagger n flow is untouchable.

[TheSbranch3]

one of the illiest dudes to ever bless the mic ....Ray the barber

[Robertg409]

some dymes in this vid, az flows uncontrolably too

[bsuchocolatebarbie]

love dis ya'll

[dereck7981]

this joint is still sick, i really love this beat

[69L1]

FUCK YOU ALBOY MOTHER FUCKER !!!!!!!!

[zerizzie]

Im tryna make it to the top now, so watch out never guna cop out, I cant stop now I been climbin high n scrambling over obstacles succeedings what im needing so proceedings more than probable stuff from all angles, cuffed at the ankles just doin a tango cos its tough to untangle training meditate in the rain n never sedating yo thrive since my creation im great in this game at making doe just a few bars from my song 'climbing to the top' to this beat show friends if you like it

[Skurai477]

az is ill, awesome stuff

[shrimpboy944]

agreed. gotta educate the people on what real hip hop is. Play this shit everywhere and people will learn.

[MissRobyn86]

Keep playing these songs over and over and over! Stop commenting that hip hop is dead! Bring it back by playing it! =D

[hungryandrew]

AZ is good, but come on, looking back Pieces of a Man isnt the highlight of his career.

[MrFireforreal]

@hungryandrew I have to disagree with you. Pieces of man had plenty of bangers and a few mis haps such as betcha don't know but it had good joints like sosa,I'm know,pieces of a black man,the payback and whatever happened. Yes it wasn't like his first because he had did half amill on that and just released the firm album and hip hop was at an akward stage at the time but he always comes correct with the lyrics not always with the beats but give it another listen and it's really dope !

[YoungFootz94]

AZ has one of the best flows ever! his lines all sound like one word/phrase

[TheBorngod07]

@irepbmore whice dont make good music at all drake is aight... but wayne...dead...my opinion or maybe cuz im a old head and this music takes me back to my adolesence years when we had oock outs and fun and shoot outs was tha thang like it would be talked about for a summer or two not that im embracing it but shit was real back then..and now cotton candy bubble gum shit...holla at me

[TheBorngod07]

@irepbmore i would say after g-unit came and poisned tha industry thats when hip hop fuked up cuase all tha real cats just left or took that hiatus and they came and fuked tha game up...to me lloydbanks and game was tha best young buck was good for tha south but all that music they put out and then they had short lived careers along wit 50.. now when u do get music since nigga sis chillin now tha music is gonna sound like drake or lil wayne...

[Calzeta930]

AZ just knows how to make ill tracks.

[ivan1045]

i didnt know who az was a year ago. i gotta say hes nice, no doubt

[Micaroni715]

My favorites AZ, Jadakiss and the Clipse.

Best ever Big L. R.I.P.

[omhat]

az, nas, talib kweli, mobb deep. fuk bow wow, soulja boy, lil wayne, lady gaga, justin bieber commercialized shit, rip gangstarr. why dey commercialized money over dignity, and deese new artists, have to be in publicitee, cuz dey lack talent.

[mizznisharenae]

real hip hop never dies.....brings back good memories!!!

[boicsunla05]

Wow. baka Boyz, the twin towers. Wow. Those were the days

[jahmez34]

damm dat` nigga b spittin that fyah! ! ! he mad underated.SMH

[blakceaz]

still one of the hottest summer jams of 1997...real music!

[OneBadAssButler]

AZ needs to be bigger than he is.

[lilHektor]

yes AZ was one of my favorite hiphop artist , hope he and nas come back wit some shit to get this shit back the way it was ,,, 'cause you got all these niggahz doing some ol' dum shit everybody let-in hollywood take their shit over , these niggahz be making these f!@#$up videos looking like movies and shit ,,,niggahz we street take back to tha streets and parks mf

[DefClick]

its wierd though cuz on pieces of a black man this song should have been on there but wasnt put on it and on pieces of a man i dont think theres one music video

[supastar8098]

@DefClick actually there was one and the song was What's The Deal

[supastar8098]

@DefClick actually there was one video off the album and that was What's The Deal

[illagen1]

party joint

[RoyleTheo]

this track is hot!!! love the beat

[BeenaBee]

LMAO @ 0:23, car flies all the way to sunshine like we outta here

[ah95545]

Funny to hear her cussin like that in the song because she went strickly gospel for a while...lol

[crazytrain1889]

Hey AZ won't you play that song, keep me fucked up (fucked up) all night long

[asianmancman]

cool song

[trontel999]

az stay on chill, luv is luv and son is offical the with blah blah that's word life!!!!

[HighandMighty609]

Sick video homie. AZ is as underrated as it gets. Anybody hear the new AZ joint? It's called Countdown and its ill as hell!! I just posted it on my channel. check me

[phrsh293]

Nas calls AZ his physical

[Andohhh]

where did you hear that?

[phrsh293]

Nas said it on an interview, and in a few of his songs.. idk what he means though bt i think i got an idea what he means

[Andohhh]

@phrsh293 ah sick, could I maybe hear some of these songs/interviews??

[phrsh293]

yeahh there's an interview on here

type in "nas rare interview" and its the first vid that shows up

go to 2:49 on tht vid & he says in there

[WboardX20]

I'm surprised this song doesn't have more views. This was one of the best songs by AZ, his flow is just unreal in this song. Keeps makin hit after hit

[ikanttakeit]

lol...forgot about this

[ah95545]

What year this song come out?

[serenity1dee]

Late 97-Early 98 / was released just prior to AZ's 2nd release Pieces of a Man, Although this song was never released on that album.

[WboardX20]

AZ is unreal. Dude just makes serious hits after hits. We need more of this today for real. All you hear today is that radio rap shit. This is the real deal. AZ will live on forever

[omhat]

@WboardX20 i love the honey remix sample goes hand in hand with the lyrics. fuck justin bieber, gaga, lil wayne, the benchmark is too high u cant beat the 90s. miss the firm biz.

[DameDaz]

@WboardX20 absolutely!

[omhat]

@WboardX20 this shit is as real as the gold in fort knox, u can take ur biebers, lil waynes, soulja boys and put them in a bag, and u can not get a fraction of AZ.

[mic7bender]

@ddot1979...i was 7 dude lol long time ago

[cyberjsc]

Hey AZ, what's your favorite colored t-Shirt?

All white... All white...

[mic7bender]

yoo dats deadass me...da lil boy in da beginning..i know ya'll and gone believe me but eff it i had mad fun at dat video shoot

[ddot1979]

@mic7bender thats cool man. How old were you?

[misssssslala]

SUXXX WHERES ALLTHE GOOD MUSIC ?!

[terrormuda82]

mad party jam

[Seany06]

Wish he would get back to his old style like this and stop dumbing his lyrics down to fit it in with the rest of the bullshit rappers these days.

Might be hope with Doe or Die 2!

[RichyJA]

he good

[mafindo]

@Seany06 I feel you, 90s hiphop is the best, i hate this nonsense we have today

[Luchini731]

"Hey AZ won't you play that song, keeps me DANCING all night" sounds so awkward when you've been bumping the dirty version for so many years, lol

[anylee34]

Yeah "keeps me fucked up all night!"

[thesouthrapsucks]

must be a hater from tha south makin commentsto me hey fuck you bitch and ya wack ass southern music keep that lame shit old nigga fuck u this goes out to that bitch ,........caralinablue21 aka dick ryder

[BreuckelensFinest]

FIRE!!!!!!

[gbudi101]

AZ's tight. you mofuckaz don't kno what time it iz

[thesouthrapsucks]

suck that south dick fuck that im mid west but i know who owns hip hop east coast dumb fuck they are tha best its there art we just followed after all the legends from up there...respect to all tha legends of hip hop im 14 and i will never forgat ya

[Luchini731]

You got a lot to learn about hip-hop, kid. I'm from Jersey but east coast ain't runnin shit and there's a very good reason for that. One that you'd figure out if you had the chance to talk to some rappers and fans from out here. Ungrateful fucks, all of them.

[realitycheck87]

@Luchini: so im suppossed to be grateful for the watered down shit that gets the most play? if thats the case im proud to be ungrateful

[trandenhawkins2000]

most underrated artist ever, used to be my favorite MC back in the 90's. Sugar Hill

[hiphopvinking20]

Nice!!

[thesouthrapsucks]

ya mom does

[shogunmetic]

expand your horizons,. Little wayne IS NOT, READ ME CLEARLY, IS NOT SOUTHERN MC CIPHER CONTROLLER. PEACE. i am from miami by the way. PEACE again i say

[fatpatlives1998]

z-ro is hahaha

[shogunmetic]

???

[thesouthrapsucks]

fuck tha south ..real hip hop here im 14 and i dont support gay movements niggas kissin men and tight gay pants fuck that!!!1

[YungSunny]

We dont care

[jerrod24]

Everybody in the south ain't wack. That's the new kids spittin that garbage.

---There are lyricists in the south.---

The problem is that people are buying these wack rappers' music, so they're the ones who get promoted.

[caralinablue21]

why post that on this video? mainstream rappers in the north are just as bad as the ones in the south. and your 14 which explains why you dont understand equality. its just this is gay thats gay etc. atleast your listening to AZ at 14 so i respect that

[Gmancrap]

pre 911 lol.

[kokonutttyyyzzz]

straight up we need a new radio station

strictly hip hop truth the content of lifes not fashion?? fake shit GAGA lil wayneY boi theres more that consists to life az maintain all day.lil wayne i angry with cause i aint buying his shit its

da peeps who put him on go 4 da source

on the real get yours and get a new fukin radio station straight up then just maybe

hip hop will fukin live on

[MariosLasagna]

LSOB's version is better sounding. This video is wack compared to theirs too.

[ALBOYBABY89]

hip hop is dead..... hip pop is killing the society FUCK LADY GAGA LIL WAYNE FUCK ALL THOSE DUMB FUCKEN ARTISTS

[YungSunny]

lady ga ga is a hip hop artist....yeah

[tnvols90]

@ALBOYBABY89 ......i agree with you alboybaby89

[martinbeen]

@ALBOYBABY89 lil wayne aint that bad and i have heard more rap than you so i know what i am talking about, the carter2 is a cool album stop hating on lil wayne

[respect2thaGs]

@ALBOYBABY89 how can u say that hip hop is dead? turn off ur radio and listen to the underground shit. hip hop never changed, the labels and radio stations did.

[ThaSubzstance]

@respect2thaGs True, but back then mainstream hip hop wus biggie n niggaz like this, and now mainstream is.... i aint even gotta telll u, hip hop aint dead, naa, but its to tha majority of the crowd that matters, and tha majority is feelin wayne, its tha generations, i just hope real mcs know that they got got listeners to keep on making REAL MUSIC.

[LWebb1000]

@ALBOYBABY89 Hip Hop isn't dead, you just have to look for the real shit now.

[honeygoerami]

Dit waren nog eens tijden...

[oopsnotu]

I'm sayin' tho': A flow like that AND he fine as h---!!! (Feel free to speak on it ladies)

[northmaindub]

yall i forgot all about this 1ne