@dj4562010 yes, 'My Melody' was the B-side to this, came out in '86. I still got this on vinyl, label was 4th & Broadway. Who can make tracks like this anymore???
This is the edited version,still dope as shit but you gotta put on the"You out there,well clap your hands to what hes doin.Thats the full version,where he has like two minutes of instrumintal at the end,just vibin like a mother fukka,this beat is so sik you can just play the instru.
i was wondering, in the album version of "eric b is president" why'd they cut out the line "i must have got you too hot and burnt of your wings" line and replace it with a "make em clap to this" sample? i always thought it seemed strange.
So DOPE you could freebase this off your speakers, no additives required! I was bumping this dope shit on my dome as a kid, and chumps were like "Eric B and Rakim who?" Then I met some brothers who dug it, and we cut school just to sit around and get schooled by the "R": he taught us well, and to this day, having seen him live, Rakim is as sharp and ill as ever. Many may follow, but the leader always leads. Flow forever my brother!
@negr64 Hip Hop isn't dead to begin with so how can it come back from a place it's never been yet? It's alive and well........start diggin' & you shall find it.
"I took Fonda Rea’s “Over Like A Fat Rat” and said 'This is the bass line I’m going to use for this record.' Rakim spit the beer all over the wall and thought it was the funniest shit in the world.
Back n 86' when we used 2 bump this joint, no one could ever imagine that 25 years later we would be saying " Barack Obama is president!" God Bless da U.S.A. :-)
Please watch "The Obama Deception" here on YouTube and reconsider, if that dream of having a black president also nessacerely means that it's a good, competent one and "freedom and equality.".
@Thetan1974 I saw dat years ago. Regardless 2 anything else, 4 black people & oppressed people all over da world, Obama becoming President was a AWESOME event. Now of course, Mr. White Man did allow this 2 happen so we as black folks, should be grateful & thankful dat God touched his heart 2 let this historic event happen. As 4 everything else n dat movie, well hey, there's still always going 2 be good & evil, truth & lies etc. Shit like dat aint gonna change in dat aspect. Dats how i see it!
Yup, that's the real trick. Also a lot of white zombies in Europe who think they're all about "peace and equality" falled for the same BS. "Black man, pres? WOW?? The world must have become a better place!"
Well, I agree with what else you say, but you admit that you love the SYMBOLISM of him becoming pres so much, that you actually feel good about it - even though it's basically "sugar and sauteries" for the mind.
@Thetan1974 Well, maybe it was an awesome event because he was a democrat who cut the military budget for the first time in decades, who has begun to close Guantanamo bay detention camp and who has ended the occupation in Iraq! Or maybe I'm wrong and the only reason it was an awesome event was his skin colour.
@Thetan1974 Ok I watched a bit of your 2 hour video and none of it rebuts the things I mentioned, so really you've just sent me a video that has nothing to do with what I said.
Obama is a puppet selected by the Rothschilds, who fund and control Britain and basically also the US economy and congress along with their US "version," the Rockefellers along with a bunch of zionist/Israeli (AIPAC) gangsters and Saudi oil sheiks. He has NO power what so ever. He didn't do anything of what he promised through his election campaign. He has only made it look like there's no more war in Iraq, which is basically just a lie.
Obama was, the minute he was elected, ired to take a trip to Israel to make it look like he cared for the oppressed Palestinians like a real democrat. He won't say NOTHING to critizise Israel. Look how "the US" just voted down on a suggestion to condemn the ongoing Israeli settlements - of course, because the US is (neo-)controlled by Israeli/zionist gangsters a.k.a. criminal and fake jews.
And I'm NOT "anti semitic." Check out these truthful jews:
So, that's what it's basically about: Keeping the US population (and a good lump of the European as well) in the dark about who is truly in charge, while they/we think we're free because we have alcohol, football and TV shows - oh, and don't forget free speech.
But are we free to tel it like it is? Not really - listen how the plant in the audeince tries to make this clever man look "anti semitic/nazi," just because he speaks the truth about 9/11: watch?v=S760Srn8F6c
If you get me so far while getting that 9/11 couldn't have been anything but a "Rockechilds" black operation (go to AE911Truth. org) you're waking up.
If you resort to just lable me "conspiracy theorist" and crazy, do it and go about your fantasy land business, where Obama is your saviour. But don't say you weren't warned when the shit will hit the fan in a near future,
@Thetan1974 Get off youtube! You're filling this video with unrelated nonsense. There are websites made so you can pour out tonnes of conspiracies, use one of them! I don't think that Obama has done only good things, in fact mostly bad ones, but to get into office in America; you can't be all good. He is certainly better than McCain or Clinton. Your 9/11 and Rothschild conspiracies are ridiculous and as usual; out of context.
It was not out of context as it began as a response to someone beieving that a black man in office also meant "better times for America and the world."
Like I said: Don't say you weren't warned. Good day.
He was just set up to make it look like he was the Savior Of the World after Bush - but he only adopted Bush's policies like a robot while having some "communist/socialist" touchstones prepared for him, by the Rothscilds/Rockefellers/drug/weapon/oil industry and the Bankers who - guided and funded by the Rockefeller and the Rothschilds - are still driving the US and the EU towards poverty.
Look at him front like a total idiot, as he tries to welcome the Mid East revelutions while he know that those region and their dictatoric leaders are funded and controlled by the same gangsters that hired him (Rockechilds.) The Mid East revelutions only occured because of the internet - and one of the main zionist supporters of congress, Lieberman, is doing everything he can to effectuate the "internet kill switch," because the internet reveals the truth about their hoaxing.
i got this record handed to me from the god while sitting on my steps in 1986.. i was in the 8th grade... i ran in side hooked up my shit ..and i still play this son today... classic
@foreverblunted718 Says who...i'm 39 and grew up in NYC and never heard that slang...maybe after the god said it in this song a couple of heads copied his lingo but i think there's another meaning to it.....thanks for the response my dude....
@Oldschool4evr bull shit. if good to knopw old school. but ppl tht were born after all this sometimes never hear of it theres way too much stuff to hear all of it. does tht mean they aint hip hop. i aint never listened to liquid swords or anything by redman. theres a whole bunch of old school shit i aint herd doesnt mean i aint hip hop.
@JiMMyJaM08061991 If you truly love hip-hop, You go back to the beginning and learn where it came from and where it is going, And you don't buy into that commercial B******T, You will never hear that crap in my crib, None of that Gucci Mane or Waka Waka B******T, Straight OLDSCHOOL & Underground, But it's all good...
The first GOD to enter the rap game, he opened the door for Just Ice, Grand Puba, and Poor Riteouse teachers....intelligent, and precise, his style of rap pushed the method of pausing in between lines and takin it easy without pushing so hard on the punchline but letting it flow out like water. This man perfected the art and brought it to a new level.
bbq at my house.....nathan but 40s of 8ball, bricks of mad dog and cisco and boones for the ladies.......and on the tables, rakim, shan, bdp, kane, nwa, stetsasonic, ice t, epmd, biz markie, special ed, ultramagentic, de la soul, jungle brothers and mc lyte. word up.
One of the greatest bands from the 90s and today, P.O.D., paid this song tribute numerous times, from sampling it on their album BROWN to referencing lyrics in songs such as "School of Hard Knocks."
Wyndanch, where people have wayyyyy too much time.
Anyway, if people want to find out what the picture on the label means, look for Credo Mutwa, he's one of the last Zulu Nation sangoma's (witch doctor for lack of a better word), and he describes in detail that hand and other mind blowing shit.
early-mid 90s was good too, don't forget big L and pac! kane did good stuff in the 90s too same as rakim with the 18th letter. this song was a bunch of rhymes ra collected over the years at parks rhyming and stuff like that.
True dat. When i first copped this they were both untouched, then when 4th & bway got a hold of it it changed. U didnt get an alternative no more unless u went to a house party
i wouldnt say 96/97 was the end of the great hip hop era...it was more like 92...id say wu-tang era was the true end ...after all the innovation the previous 15 years before 92, things just kind of stalled...but they kind of had to...
"Zakia" - I always wondered what the hell he said "Zakia 4th and Broadway" for, LOL. Been listening to this since I bought the tape at Walmart when it came out, and never knew what the hell he was saying!
this shit will always take me back, as so much good music does. i grew up listening to this in southeast georgia of all places, watching my brother break dance in an addias jump suit. it was like he was from another planet, which is how he got treated, now billy bob and opee ride around in thier daddies ford F-150 and bump radio friendly.... stuff. its LOL if you see my point, i guess i was blessed with culture, this is in my soul now and i thank god i got it honest, before it was the in thing.
@JfrmVA Definitely among the best raps ever. This song, and the album, drove rap right into the mainstream. It's when the genre "grew up." That's why they called the album "paid in full."
This song also established the signature characteristics of rap songs. THis is a prelude to the sound that would be further developed by acts like Digable Planets years later.
I THINK ABOUT TERRACE AVE ON STRONG ISLAND WHEN I HEAR THIS!! BAC-N-THE-DAY SON!!
edgore82 2 weeks ago
@edgore82 I was on Terrace Ave back then too.. 100 jackson end
ondaballent 8 hours ago
THIS WILL ALWAYS BE HYPE TILL THE END OF TIME!!! B]
edgore82 2 weeks ago
love this song, this was back when hip hop music was a lot more fun and intelligent unlike the hip hop we've been having during the past 15 years
Doobie1975 3 weeks ago
Ohhhhh daaaaamn this nigga is killiiin it
rickitan89 1 month ago
Rakim,Krs-One,Chuck D,N.W.A.,Big Daddy Kane,Slick Rick,Run D.M.C.,
REAL RAP!
hiphop4life24678 1 month ago
REAL MUSIC!!!!
Raythizzel 2 months ago
REAL HIP HOP!!
omnigifted 3 months ago
funky..
samowivdaamo 3 months ago
I gets high and start taking out wack selections
First by electin' EricB for president
Zulu Nation for protection
Tribe Called Quest, KRS One secret Hip Hop Intelligence
vitek2 3 months ago
Anyone know the drum sample @ 0:10, that's been killing me since forever
Marceles45 4 months ago
@Marceles45 I think it's Funky President by James Brown.
epsons25 3 months ago
Saints row yer boi
oSight 4 months ago
5 people dont know HIP HOP!!
KAVIARDREAMZ 4 months ago
I came in the door, i said it before, i never let the mic magnetize me no more
INSANE rhyme schemes, no school like the old school
tehsilentsmoker 4 months ago
way before his time, rakim one of the greats
MrsRoman4eva 6 months ago
RAKIKM AT HIS PEAK
MarshallMahtersIII 6 months ago
make clap to this!!!
wefunc 6 months ago
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this is one of the best
seafood360 7 months ago
3 niggas got glazed.
beans4breakfast 7 months ago
KING OF HIPHOP!
MASTERBEATS619 7 months ago in playlist Fav 5
no one changed hip hop lyrically like rakim....
roscoegino 7 months ago
this single came out two years before the album i think my melody is on the b- side
maybe i'am wrong but i'am sure i heard this like in early 85 on a newyork radio mix tape...
dj4562010 7 months ago
@dj4562010 yes, 'My Melody' was the B-side to this, came out in '86. I still got this on vinyl, label was 4th & Broadway. Who can make tracks like this anymore???
StrikkklyROCKERS 7 months ago
@StrikkklyROCKERS ok cool 86 yeah this single got a long run...
dj4562010 7 months ago
@StrikkklyROCKERS
4th and broadway was the 2nd version Zakia was the original label
theaznlvr 4 months ago
3 people caught the clap to this
oldskool1978fam 7 months ago
God
ThaNsaneOne 7 months ago
3 faggots dislike this...death is imminent
chef197 7 months ago
WHo ever dislike this is very gay
CISCO768 7 months ago
great song, one of my all time favorite hip hop songs, 80s/early 90s hip hop rules!
Doobie1975 7 months ago
This is the edited version,still dope as shit but you gotta put on the"You out there,well clap your hands to what hes doin.Thats the full version,where he has like two minutes of instrumintal at the end,just vibin like a mother fukka,this beat is so sik you can just play the instru.
flaflaflohiii 7 months ago
This is Pure Hip Hop!
SadLeRMasLeR 7 months ago 9
I like this kind of classic hip hop - roots
SadLeRMasLeR 7 months ago
i was wondering, in the album version of "eric b is president" why'd they cut out the line "i must have got you too hot and burnt of your wings" line and replace it with a "make em clap to this" sample? i always thought it seemed strange.
danthedonHBB 8 months ago
make crack like this
Scurry254624 8 months ago
@Scurry254624 It sure is
TheBowlingAddict 8 months ago
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So DOPE you could freebase this off your speakers, no additives required! I was bumping this dope shit on my dome as a kid, and chumps were like "Eric B and Rakim who?" Then I met some brothers who dug it, and we cut school just to sit around and get schooled by the "R": he taught us well, and to this day, having seen him live, Rakim is as sharp and ill as ever. Many may follow, but the leader always leads. Flow forever my brother!
Sirgreaseflick 8 months ago
She thought I was a dough-nut. She tried to glaze me.........I have hope that HIP-HOP will resurrect. peace
negr64 8 months ago
@negr64 Hip Hop isn't dead to begin with so how can it come back from a place it's never been yet? It's alive and well........start diggin' & you shall find it.
Illtone9 8 months ago
@Illtone9 its all underground/pandora
JMVEntertainment 8 months ago
Anybody else notice on the label, ERIC B. featuring rakim .. lol
eb3033 8 months ago
One of THE Best OLD SKOOL RAP cuts of ALL TIME - NICE!
;-)
mikegotteri 9 months ago
best fckin song eva!! betta dan fight tha power n cream n all d otha awesome shit.
ps u cant call soulja boy or whateva tha fucc his name is a rapper. my whiteboy friends grandmother raps betta
timborulz 9 months ago
@timborulz +1, soulja boy sucks cock XD
JMVEntertainment 9 months ago
2 people are voting for waka flaka........ he still loses
jhonezcronic 9 months ago
lengendary shitttttt always hard to follow the leader.......
dasunofsam 9 months ago
this is the realness! FUCK hip-pop *cough* soulja boy and waka flocka *cough*
boffan1988 9 months ago
@boffan1988 i agree i hate those two and gucci mane, they can suck it
JMVEntertainment 9 months ago
"I took Fonda Rea’s “Over Like A Fat Rat” and said 'This is the bass line I’m going to use for this record.' Rakim spit the beer all over the wall and thought it was the funniest shit in the world.
it does sound pretty funny now i listen !
capcussa 10 months ago
Love this! When Hip-Hop had class!
CDLver 10 months ago 2
@CDLver you daaaaaamn right
JMVEntertainment 9 months ago
old school goldie
cool70200 10 months ago
This is when you had to have skillz to even think about pickin' up the mic.
Thought I was a doughnut ya tried to glaze me...
Thanks for posting! :)
Getreal2011 10 months ago
Laaaw there's more of me but I still clap & BOUNCE to this...LLLaaawwwddddd!
intjurban 10 months ago
this was a crowd mover back in the day! yes, I grew up on old school and those were the days! today is a whole different story!
lanafrench 10 months ago 2
@lanafrench, I agree. Today's Hip-Hop is a tremendous disappointment. Rappers today cannot hold a candle to
Eric B. & Rakim, Public Enemy, and The Sugarhill Gang.
CDLver 10 months ago
I hurry up because the cut will make them bleed to death !!!!!
I loved this era , No swearing just pure poets rocking the mic
jub2003 10 months ago
RAKIM IS A POETIC GENIUS AND A TRUE LYRICIST. CHECK OUT KRS- ONE, ALSO. HIP HOP IN TRUE FORM. GO HARLEM!!!!!!!!
boogotswagg 11 months ago
Linden Boulevard represent, represent
Tribe Called Quest represent, represent
When the mic is in my hand, I'm never hesitant
My favourite jam back in the day was Eric B. for President
afrohorse13 11 months ago 37
@afrohorse13 That's Lincoln Boulevard, son, and that's in Queens.
1glib1 5 months ago
@afrohorse13 Midnight Marauders :) awesome album
sublimenese 2 months ago
"Eric be easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed,
Cuz to me, MC means Move the Crowd"
Replicate that, Mike Jones.
ThisIsGreatIsntItHuh 11 months ago
damn I wish i can go back to 86', I had sooo much fun back then. Too old to do the shit I did back then. The 80's was the best time to live.
Puddycat11385 11 months ago
Ice Cube / Das EFX
"Check Yo Self (Remix)"
Ice Cube's Greatest Hits
1993
gunneddown213 1 year ago
its still very sick how he changed the game by putting a lot of intern rhymes in one line. and how he made multisyllables. its just so creative
YoungWolve1 1 year ago
You scream I'm lazy, you must be crazy
Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me
SMOOTH LOVE THAT LINE
sevensallday 1 year ago
Back n 86' when we used 2 bump this joint, no one could ever imagine that 25 years later we would be saying " Barack Obama is president!" God Bless da U.S.A. :-)
therealraybaby 1 year ago
@therealraybaby
Please watch "The Obama Deception" here on YouTube and reconsider, if that dream of having a black president also nessacerely means that it's a good, competent one and "freedom and equality.".
Thetan1974 1 year ago
@Thetan1974 I saw dat years ago. Regardless 2 anything else, 4 black people & oppressed people all over da world, Obama becoming President was a AWESOME event. Now of course, Mr. White Man did allow this 2 happen so we as black folks, should be grateful & thankful dat God touched his heart 2 let this historic event happen. As 4 everything else n dat movie, well hey, there's still always going 2 be good & evil, truth & lies etc. Shit like dat aint gonna change in dat aspect. Dats how i see it!
therealraybaby 11 months ago
@therealraybaby
"Obama becoming President was a AWESOME event. "
Yup, that's the real trick. Also a lot of white zombies in Europe who think they're all about "peace and equality" falled for the same BS. "Black man, pres? WOW?? The world must have become a better place!"
Well, I agree with what else you say, but you admit that you love the SYMBOLISM of him becoming pres so much, that you actually feel good about it - even though it's basically "sugar and sauteries" for the mind.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 " I don't bug out or chill or be actin ill no tricks in 2011 it's time 2 build!
therealraybaby 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 Well, maybe it was an awesome event because he was a democrat who cut the military budget for the first time in decades, who has begun to close Guantanamo bay detention camp and who has ended the occupation in Iraq! Or maybe I'm wrong and the only reason it was an awesome event was his skin colour.
mrfrankincense 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
Yep, your absolutely wrong. Think about form where you get your "news":
watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 Ok I watched a bit of your 2 hour video and none of it rebuts the things I mentioned, so really you've just sent me a video that has nothing to do with what I said.
mrfrankincense 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
Then come back when you have watched the hole video.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 Can you just sum it up?
mrfrankincense 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
Sigh... ok:
Obama is a puppet selected by the Rothschilds, who fund and control Britain and basically also the US economy and congress along with their US "version," the Rockefellers along with a bunch of zionist/Israeli (AIPAC) gangsters and Saudi oil sheiks. He has NO power what so ever. He didn't do anything of what he promised through his election campaign. He has only made it look like there's no more war in Iraq, which is basically just a lie.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
Obama was, the minute he was elected, ired to take a trip to Israel to make it look like he cared for the oppressed Palestinians like a real democrat. He won't say NOTHING to critizise Israel. Look how "the US" just voted down on a suggestion to condemn the ongoing Israeli settlements - of course, because the US is (neo-)controlled by Israeli/zionist gangsters a.k.a. criminal and fake jews.
And I'm NOT "anti semitic." Check out these truthful jews:
watch?v=wXjP1xdqbmE
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
So, that's what it's basically about: Keeping the US population (and a good lump of the European as well) in the dark about who is truly in charge, while they/we think we're free because we have alcohol, football and TV shows - oh, and don't forget free speech.
But are we free to tel it like it is? Not really - listen how the plant in the audeince tries to make this clever man look "anti semitic/nazi," just because he speaks the truth about 9/11: watch?v=S760Srn8F6c
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
If you get me so far while getting that 9/11 couldn't have been anything but a "Rockechilds" black operation (go to AE911Truth. org) you're waking up.
If you resort to just lable me "conspiracy theorist" and crazy, do it and go about your fantasy land business, where Obama is your saviour. But don't say you weren't warned when the shit will hit the fan in a near future,
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 Get off youtube! You're filling this video with unrelated nonsense. There are websites made so you can pour out tonnes of conspiracies, use one of them! I don't think that Obama has done only good things, in fact mostly bad ones, but to get into office in America; you can't be all good. He is certainly better than McCain or Clinton. Your 9/11 and Rothschild conspiracies are ridiculous and as usual; out of context.
mrfrankincense 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
It was not out of context as it began as a response to someone beieving that a black man in office also meant "better times for America and the world."
Like I said: Don't say you weren't warned. Good day.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
He was just set up to make it look like he was the Savior Of the World after Bush - but he only adopted Bush's policies like a robot while having some "communist/socialist" touchstones prepared for him, by the Rothscilds/Rockefellers/drug/weapon/oil industry and the Bankers who - guided and funded by the Rockefeller and the Rothschilds - are still driving the US and the EU towards poverty.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@mrfrankincense
Look at him front like a total idiot, as he tries to welcome the Mid East revelutions while he know that those region and their dictatoric leaders are funded and controlled by the same gangsters that hired him (Rockechilds.) The Mid East revelutions only occured because of the internet - and one of the main zionist supporters of congress, Lieberman, is doing everything he can to effectuate the "internet kill switch," because the internet reveals the truth about their hoaxing.
Thetan1974 11 months ago
@Thetan1974 Also, the past tense of to fall is; fell, not falled.
mrfrankincense 11 months ago
Rap Origins!
fdmtech 1 year ago
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such a gay video..... jb for life post on my page if u agree
crapy song
JustinBieberRulezU 1 year ago
james brown s sample "funky president' thats why rakim take ack the title to make it in his own!!!!!! make a clap to this!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrSKYZOO 1 year ago
classic!
infoman9696 1 year ago
The remix is wack! U gotsta have the OG version like me
mixmaster317 1 year ago
The Official HipHop/Rap National Anthem!
UFOGEAR 1 year ago
1 person wouldn't clap to this
qwertythecucumber 1 year ago
serious good tune
Gunnercv 1 year ago
MY FAVORITE OF ALL TIME---Gosh lawd have mercy----
tboneslimluv 1 year ago
If you bought the original ZAKIA records pressing, YOU ARE THE EPITOME OF OLD SCHOOL, O.G.
frankiebones01 1 year ago
That break beat is historical as well. i forget the original, but u can hear it on KRS-ONE's "Step into a world"
gottalove2012 1 year ago
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gottalove2012 1 year ago
Can u detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist...
OMG... tight tight tight... memories
gottalove2012 1 year ago
HEY SOULJA BOY WHY DID U DIS LIKE?
mkilele 1 year ago 56
@mkilele Lil Wayne did it too
shahryarization 11 months ago
@mkilele hahahaha Yea right. Bet that sucka doesnt even know this song!
FrickenSick 10 months ago
@mkilele because soulja boy is a faggot that has no taste in music before him, hail 80's and 90's
JMVEntertainment 9 months ago
@mkilele WAIT...
WHO IS SOLDIER BOY?
SuperXecutioner 3 months ago
i got this record handed to me from the god while sitting on my steps in 1986.. i was in the 8th grade... i ran in side hooked up my shit ..and i still play this son today... classic
franklynthree 1 year ago
reminds me of rock the bells.
centerrightpunk 1 year ago
1986. way ahead of its time.
centerrightpunk 1 year ago 3
@centerrightpunk damn straight, this is the illest, truest and purest form of hip hop, rakim is one of the best mc's ever
travis92x 1 year ago 3
hmm, I don't remember this cover, pretty interesting artwork O.o
beastmode40205 1 year ago
I'M GONNA CONTINUE THE COMBO AND MAKE A COMMENT IN ALL CAPS
WOOOOOOO WHAT'S UP?
Rhino1115 1 year ago
I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE ONE WHO DISLIKES THE JAM----BY SHAKING HIS F@#KIN' THROAT!
tljones9 1 year ago
ALRIGHT WHO THE FUCK DISLIKED THIS
CannaConsumer 1 year ago
THAT IS CAROL WILLIAMS VOICE IN TH E BEGINING THANKYOU DJS
discokid76 1 year ago
@JfrmVA, you have no arguments here. This is timeless genius hip hop. No one will ever make a song like this EVER!
AmbassadorAusar 1 year ago
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therealbrooksie 1 year ago
THE G.O.A.T. PERIOD
joegoog23 1 year ago
notice the 0 dislikes, real recognize real
sikysik 1 year ago 2
that second verse is one of my favorites ever. old school flow.
wyansas 1 year ago
As Run DMC, Eric B & Rakim can sample themself!!!!!
helmusico 1 year ago
@helmusico Cypress Hill, N.W.A., and Beastie Boys too.
steviedashfoo 1 year ago
Make em fap to this?
pugdoggsolid 1 year ago
@pugdoggsolid ............. clap..
RedRobot2point0 1 year ago
1986! weeeeeee
XRRfan 1 year ago
cant fuck with that robotic rhyme style
jamesc8450 1 year ago
yess finally a good song 0 dislikes
LawZGaming 1 year ago
Question: I thought Eric B. & Rakim relased this and was signed to the 4th & Bway label. what is "Zakia" records?
dellculookin 1 year ago
@dellculookin Zakia is a sub-label of Profile Records. They started out here and then moved to 4th & B'Way the same year.
hart70 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me the meaning of "thought i was a donut/ya tried to glaze me"?
Majestic Allah
MAJESTIcag7 1 year ago
@MAJESTIcag7
to glaze someone is playin them for an idiot.
foreverblunted718 1 year ago
@foreverblunted718 Says who...i'm 39 and grew up in NYC and never heard that slang...maybe after the god said it in this song a couple of heads copied his lingo but i think there's another meaning to it.....thanks for the response my dude....
MAJESTIC
MAJESTIcag7 1 year ago
Ice Cube / Das EFX
"Check Yo Self (Remix)"
Ice Cube's Greatest Hits
1993
atlanta4950 1 year ago
Gots to Love the Oldschool, If you don't know Oldschool, You don't know Hip-Hop...
Oldschool4evr 1 year ago 29
@Oldschool4evr Word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nptrock 1 year ago 6
@Oldschool4evr bull shit. if good to knopw old school. but ppl tht were born after all this sometimes never hear of it theres way too much stuff to hear all of it. does tht mean they aint hip hop. i aint never listened to liquid swords or anything by redman. theres a whole bunch of old school shit i aint herd doesnt mean i aint hip hop.
JiMMyJaM08061991 11 months ago
@JiMMyJaM08061991 If you truly love hip-hop, You go back to the beginning and learn where it came from and where it is going, And you don't buy into that commercial B******T, You will never hear that crap in my crib, None of that Gucci Mane or Waka Waka B******T, Straight OLDSCHOOL & Underground, But it's all good...
Oldschool4evr 11 months ago
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X-Clan
"Raise The Flag"
To The East, Blackwards
1989
newjerseynj13 1 year ago
The first GOD to enter the rap game, he opened the door for Just Ice, Grand Puba, and Poor Riteouse teachers....intelligent, and precise, his style of rap pushed the method of pausing in between lines and takin it easy without pushing so hard on the punchline but letting it flow out like water. This man perfected the art and brought it to a new level.
bev3cc 1 year ago
bbq at my house.....nathan but 40s of 8ball, bricks of mad dog and cisco and boones for the ladies.......and on the tables, rakim, shan, bdp, kane, nwa, stetsasonic, ice t, epmd, biz markie, special ed, ultramagentic, de la soul, jungle brothers and mc lyte. word up.
germxv 1 year ago
this is the time when ny cats were real soldiers not these soft metrosexuals now
boricua4eva821 1 year ago
dang!! *woppin REAL hard*
RenewEDee 1 year ago
Eric B. and Rakim, the greatest DJ and MC tandem in hip hop history!
jarbon5 1 year ago 3
One of the greatest bands from the 90s and today, P.O.D., paid this song tribute numerous times, from sampling it on their album BROWN to referencing lyrics in songs such as "School of Hard Knocks."
jahchild1904 1 year ago
Wyndanch, where people have wayyyyy too much time.
Anyway, if people want to find out what the picture on the label means, look for Credo Mutwa, he's one of the last Zulu Nation sangoma's (witch doctor for lack of a better word), and he describes in detail that hand and other mind blowing shit.
songojin 1 year ago
My all-time favorite hip-hop song and artist
phytatron 1 year ago
greatest ever
romeocane 1 year ago
This is a true fucking MC (Emceeing)!!! no fucking rappin' garbage! just pure MC skills and techniques... Old School Hip Hop (R.I.P 1981-1988 )
LALOMAN18 1 year ago 2
early-mid 90s was good too, don't forget big L and pac! kane did good stuff in the 90s too same as rakim with the 18th letter. this song was a bunch of rhymes ra collected over the years at parks rhyming and stuff like that.
ackademikthought 1 year ago
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LALOMAN18 1 year ago
hip hop always been underground
jackfrost96 1 year ago
WYANDANCH!!!!!!!!
iamDamitaJo 2 years ago
You tried to glaze me!
Yes Rahh
Intellygentleman 2 years ago
Hip Hop didn't die...it just went underground.
Devin2200 2 years ago 3
I always come back to this track when I wanna know how.........
DrumAddict1974 2 years ago
Such a classic. All rapper should study the R.
cavaleer 2 years ago 2
I dunno why they fukked with this for the album, The original 12" cut was much better, One of my favourite joints, Rakim kills the mic!
gizcool 2 years ago 2
no doubt both my melody an this one shoulda been left alone
EliteG5 2 years ago
True dat. When i first copped this they were both untouched, then when 4th & bway got a hold of it it changed. U didnt get an alternative no more unless u went to a house party
mrslideinsideu2 1 year ago
i wouldnt say 96/97 was the end of the great hip hop era...it was more like 92...id say wu-tang era was the true end ...after all the innovation the previous 15 years before 92, things just kind of stalled...but they kind of had to...
BreakBoy45 2 years ago
Nope-more like...January 1996-the change started then......
westphillyamma 2 years ago
ok, maybe i was pushing a bit ...i feel january 1996. that was around when puff daddy and friends started doing there thing...
BreakBoy45 2 years ago
Ok that's what's up!!!
westphillyamma 2 years ago
man they dont make em like this anymore
305swaggerful 2 years ago 2
Your right mang for sure ...nothing bangs like this no more this is real deep thoughts greatness
MarlboroAcid 2 years ago
why would rakim need eric b? answer me that? eric b was an actor,..
teswon 2 years ago
No one can touch the God MC.... Rakim is on my list #1 and then KRS-1 is #1A
mr2damngood73 2 years ago 4
Grand Verbalizer #1 MC for cosmotivity
Keith Murray #1 off beat wickedest metaphors
Chuck D #1 punchline stylo
Eric Sermon #1 laidback green eye bandit
Schoolly D #1 OG free styler
my favourite rappers are all number one
ZionHillCalling 2 years ago
Rakim #1 For Everything.
AhmoseRakimReborn 2 years ago
Word to that!
nptrock 2 years ago
rakim needs eric b by his side again and take over hip hop once again
11arms 2 years ago
Rakim was simply the best ever. Listen to "Follow thr Leader" and try to deny it...
raspitin72 2 years ago 2
THat song is too cool.
SuperMafioBrother 2 years ago
"Zakia" - I always wondered what the hell he said "Zakia 4th and Broadway" for, LOL. Been listening to this since I bought the tape at Walmart when it came out, and never knew what the hell he was saying!
jonceramic 2 years ago
this shit will always take me back, as so much good music does. i grew up listening to this in southeast georgia of all places, watching my brother break dance in an addias jump suit. it was like he was from another planet, which is how he got treated, now billy bob and opee ride around in thier daddies ford F-150 and bump radio friendly.... stuff. its LOL if you see my point, i guess i was blessed with culture, this is in my soul now and i thank god i got it honest, before it was the in thing.
1deathlives 2 years ago
HARDEST NIGGA ON EARTH
vick1ner 2 years ago
Simply The Greatest of All Time........Period........
JfrmVA 2 years ago 23
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
vick1ner 2 years ago
@JfrmVA Definitely among the best raps ever. This song, and the album, drove rap right into the mainstream. It's when the genre "grew up." That's why they called the album "paid in full."
This song also established the signature characteristics of rap songs. THis is a prelude to the sound that would be further developed by acts like Digable Planets years later.
BettorOffSingle 1 year ago
eric b should be president, anyone wud be better than the hack we got now.
whitelacestrange 2 years ago
I got a question as serious as cancer
Does anyone got this song uncut
where Rakim says "got ya so hot burned off your wings"
radragonmc 2 years ago