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  • you can't compare metal to regular rock music....so u cant compare rap to hiphop (2 diff types of music) metal=devil worship killer music / rap= money hunger killer music. Rock=conscience knowledgeable lyrics / hiphop = conscience knowledgeable lyrics so stfu!

  • Rap evolved...this in its day would be considered pop rap....like black eye peas ...so stfu because u dont know anything....lets see where dubstep takes techno house music in the next 10yrs then we'll talk...

  • Damn I wasn't even born yet but damn I RESPECT this hip hop.....that crap I unfortunately grew up in, other than Outkast,....SUCKS!!!!!

  • all the people in the audience are white lmao

  • Merry Christmas, peace from Poland, classic material here!

  • Hey! It's Al Green kicking a Hip-hop swag! Classic

  • I wish every christmas eve came with this tune.

  • i wish the audience would have been more quiet.

  • now thats proper rapping!

  • BIG x

    

  • I hope I get a new stereo-ew for Christmas.

  • awesome, even if the rhyme scheme's not as good as today the soul is there.

  • @skuffz False, Kanye West looks like Kurtis Blow.

  • he looks like kanye west

  • @skuffz Thank goodness he doesn't sound like Kanye West.

  • How did rap get from this to Wacka Flocka :O

  • @1dcube We'll never know!!!! I think it was a combination of bad extacy, P. Diddy influence, an increase in homosexuality, and stupidity becoming the "in thing" in hop hop.

  • this is real rap

  • who likes his suit?

  • @TheBomber15 Thanks for clarifying that, TheBomber!

  • This is probably the only ever good Christmas song ever made.

  • s^bbed,now sub me back

  • Curtis looks like Michael in "Good Times."

    Neither Curtis Blowjob or Michael Evans appear in... • Exsanguination the Movie ©2011 •

    Yeah...

  • When exactly was this video shot?

  • I luv the way he said the word rhyme

  • Check my channel for lots of funk hip hop soul. Merry Xmas!!

  • dendemann hat geschmack :D

  • GREAT BEST TRUE SCHOOL REAL HIP HOP

  • classic Real Rap

  • *does the two step in this post*

  • Blow me down! It's merry merry Kurtmas.

  • Why can't rappers be more like this instad of angry and money-obsessed.

  • @Sazaho Because they are brainwashed zombies that cannot rap. I wouldn't want any of the modern 'rappers' attempting to destroy this classic style of rap. It would be like a dreadful remake. Best to leave oldskool as we remember it, classic.

  • kurtis blow is awesome! he was killin it on the mic, excellent flow i must say

  • YEAH.... I remember Layaway...

  • Dam he do look like mr west!!!....lol

  • this my shit i wasnt even born yet but good music is good music

  • HOLY SHIT, Kanye West's father was a rapper to back in the days??? WTF

  • give my one nine

    and 11 bullets to remove this dislikes

    

  • King of Rap :D

    

  • DAMN KURT!! I "KNOW" THEY HAD CHAP-STICK IN THE 80'S!

  • man, this guy is da bomb

    

  • I read about the last 40 posts, people are reading a little too deep into this with some of the negetivity ive seen . This is some dope rap considering the era. It started here. And those people in the audiance if u listening they are having a great party with what they thought was some new shit. As far as complaints about steeling samples from other songs, well thats the whole point, taken samples, adding cuts, and as time goes on, thrown down some mutha fukin bass in there! Crazy beats with

  • this must be before he met jerry(curl)!lol,sweet!

  • carlton

  • The grown ups got some presents too

    A new TV and a ster-e-u!

  • This was the second rap record ever, I saw it on Top of the Pops in 1979, rap(yes rap) was still a novelty, still that strange talking thing people did over other people's music. Who would have thought years later youth culture would be overrun with the progeny of this interloper of the music biz.

  • @yallop9 Yet all White musicians from all genres steal from all Black musicians and given praise, money and attenion for their lack of originality...and mysteriously, not a word is said from those same people objecting to rap. Irony much????

  • @MyJunior1975 whites stole blacks music? I been down with rap before BLACKS could buy the shit in stores and all I ever heard was the WHITE MUSIC of the 60's and 70's being samples buy the no talent rappers.

    you MYJUNIOR75 are a racist homophob muslum.

  • @oldschoolhunter There are a few things you need to know before you start running off at the mouth:

    One: I'm not a racist, nor a muslim

    Two:That music of those White artists you love and cherish so dearly had music that was largely influenced and stolen from Black performers

    Three: It's a well known fact that all forms of music originated with people of African descent

    Again, think before you speak- otherwise you're just making yourself look infantile

  • @MyJunior1975 You might not be a racist, but you write like an angry black man. True, there were situations where black artists weren't given credit by the corporate music industry, but all of that has come to light. You aren't telling anybody anything new. As a matter of fact in a lot of cases it was white artists and agents who got pissed and made sure that the original, black artists were given credit. Chess Records, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones are just a few who stood up.

  • @BluesElement Angry black man? Hardly. In fact, I am far from it. I just saw a couple of people who made innoucuous- and very false- statements, and all I did was correct them in their mistakes.

  • @MyJunior1975 Ok, maybe you aren't an angry black man. You are however, reaching a little bit with your vocabulary as if you are trying to come across as smart, too. Maybe you feel the need to prove yourself. Instead you misspelled the word, innocuous, by adding a "u" before the "c" and over stated the idea of false when you used the word, very, in front of it. Something can't be more false than false. Statements are either false or not. LOL!!! Just having fun.

  • @BluesElement Sorry about that, I was in a hurry to type because I was about to got to work. What does get my goat is the flagrant ignorance towards music and the complete lack of knowledge of the history of music. I am very disappointed over the revisionist history that takes place over the internet. This is very prevalent on YouTube, as I have gotten into numerous arguments over music- some of it with youngsters, and some of it with adults.

  • @MyJunior1975

    I didn't see your comment as your being an "angry black man" it seemed collected to me.

    You shouldn't have apologized to BluesElement (certainly you know his ilk by now.) b/c you definitely didn't owe him that. You should of told him in no uncertain terms to go fuck himself as soon as he started in on patronizing you with BS like "you are trying to come across as smart" & berating your typos.

    I suppose he'd rather you fit his stereotype of being anything but "smart"?

    1love

    X

  • @MyJunior1975 In all sincerity I understand the arguments that you are speaking of. I corrected my grandfather on the origins of Jazz once and he almost belted me in the mouth. He was pissed at me for suggesting that black folks or the Creole culture had anything to do with the creation of Jazz/Swing music. He's from Baton Rouge, LA and he was born in 1922. I thought that he knew, but he wasn't a musician or interested in history. He was, unfortunately, an angry white man.

  • @BluesElement

    Indeed "Eric Clapton,The Beatles,The Rolling Stones" were out spoken but that was later when it was PC to do so. Some even came out & said how they're music was solely influenced on the "black sound" (if U will).

    Can U direct me to a vid that shows any of those white artist taking a hard stance back when it would of counted the most?

    I'm convinced that what U seem to think is now in "the light" that the masses of whites (& many blacks) sadly don't know that history.

    1love

    X

  • @farronx It always counts the most. You don't know the ilk of which I am. I don't believe that black people are monolithic in their attitudes, ability or beliefs, nor are whites. Therefore, I don't subscribe to stereotypes. The Beatles, RS, Allman Bros and Clapton were all instrumental in the education of where The Blues and Rock music came from. That happened in the 60's when they were first on the scene, before PC. They never hid their views. They even toured with each other. Look it up.

  • @BluesElement

    It does my heart well to reserve hope w/ your Marley quote.

    I meant no absolute judgement/disrespect of your ilk;I simply took notice to your condescending tones which happens to be the 1 something that send me into a vendetta kinda mood.

    I don't dispute that they & all others full well knew the history of the music in which they & theirs fed off,I stand w/ the facts that the authors weren't given full due of their seeded oats instead they received a pat & table scraps.

    1love

    X

  • @farronx Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

    Bob Marley

  • @MyJunior1975 Not all music was stolen. Music is also a natural given for humans. Some was stolen, and some was inspired. And some originated from different ethnic groups. Although, one could also say a lot happened side by side.

    "It's a well known fact that all forms of music originated with people of African descent"

    Err, all ethnic groups ancestors were black in the beginning, so we all are the descendents of the originators;

    Yes, sorry, that means all colours.

  • yeeeahj!"!! can't believe my son highlighted this track for me!!1 a true b boy in the heart!!! p+l

  • @grandmasterkane def, kurtis Blow, def is the man, love this old skool.. big up

  • Merry Christmas To All 

  • ahhh Christmas is not Christmas without Kurtis Blow

  • That's Old School! Merry Christmas.

  • this is hiphop at its realest...... boom

  • I gotta hear K-Blows Christmas rappin each year or it just ain't Christmas!!! That's Old Skool! Nice beat, basslines, makes you dance without cursing, talking about Fing, drug selling, or calling another Brotha N!gga in every other sentence.... Dig? Anyway,Merry Christmas Yall !!!

  • im glad hip hop evolved this that abc 123 shit thx rakim nas jayz and now lil wayne and graet producer/artist kanye etc.

  • @peoplesbobby you is a house nigga, you have no taste fool - get yo ass off kurtis blow music - this is 100 times better than gay-z,nas,rakim,lil dick wayne etc etc - break yoself bitch

  • @GRANDMASTERKANE No need to dis all of those rappers. There all really talented.I doubt you even listen to any of those rappers enough to make that statement. Kurtis blow's rap is a completely different genre you shouldn't even compare them. Srry but your being very narrow minded.

  • @peoplesbobby Yo, those are good rappers you named (except for wayne) but they wouldn't agree with you, you have to have respect for all eras so get off of Blow's diggy-diggy-diggy-dick.

  • happy holidaze...imma light one up to this later....

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS !

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

    italllies  XD

  • merryxmas bitchez

  • 100 more views = D !

  • Sweet! Check out "its most" Christmas music video on my channel!

  • He actually sounds good live, unlike modern rappers

  • coooool flow ...

  • Haha old school. People should not on hate on this. Rap music evolved a lot but it had to start somewhere..heres a more "contemporary" christmas rap though: /watch?v=4xJA-IaYlO8

  • @AvidusVinco faggot. You are just one of many reasons that real HipHop is dead. I bet you just love to listen to Lil Wayne or Soulja Boy. Rap music did not evolve it's pretty much dead nowadays in the US.Fag. From Germany with hate, where Hiphop still lives.

  • @HipHop1981

    Out of curiosity I checked his videolink! :D

    Damn, it was long time since I laughed out so loud! He calls that RnBullshit evolved rap!

  • @HipHop1981 U mad? Live, love, laugh. x

  • oh man, look at Curtis Blow! Tight fro before he got that curl he rocked in Krush Groove. This is a classic! Five mics y'all. Does anyone have the long version? If not, you gots to get it! Man, I have been playing the mess outta this all week!

  • 8 people are the Grinch.

  • Good times.

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  • He has class and talent now thats music!

  • 2pac was dancing for Digital Underground in the late 80s. Time periods don't alone make music good.

  • Yesssssssss.

  • 387 more view FROM THIS GUY ! = D

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

  • 280, 516 views 516 of which are mine !

    HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

  • In 1984, I listened to this song religiously during holiday time !

  • i miss 80s black guys

  • @TheSnoozeFox

    80's black guys had JERRY CURLS : (

  • my first favorite christmas rap

  • One word... Fresh!

  • i think i just got drunk from watching this.

  • 8 people didnt know that "these are the breaks"

  • LOVE IT! There's obviously 8 maniacs running around somewhere.

  • El mejor del mundo, VIVA KURTIS BLOW !!!!

  • he inpired me:)

  • ok that beat in the back ground.. black street ?

  • @OOOLDSKOOOOOL Yes. Obviously Kurtis Blow was sampling Black Street in 1980.

  • @kndoubleu / I was asking is that the beat that Black Street used as well , you obviously missed the question mark " ? " ... I didnt not say Kurtis used their beat.

  • @OOOLDSKOOOOOL try using english when you type, people might understand you.

  • @0lyella / i'm not english !!

  • @OOOLDSKOOOOOL Seriously though.... it's a good question. Back in those VERY early days of Sugar Hill Records they actually used a house band to lay the music track.

  • @manatole1981 / thanks i dont know these idiots issues are.. hearing that track caught me off guard.. so i guess i should have typed in .. that back street used too.. but, putting in the ... wasnt good enough..

    guess they've never read a newspaper ..

  • @OOOLDSKOOOOOL Nevermind that! You do you.

  • @127miles This wasn't the first Hip Hop song ever... What the Hell are you talking about???

  • this was the first hip hop song ever.... literally, now type in t-pain and tell me if that is hip hop

  • where do I start to thank you.? except to say... thank you... Wonderful... Paully xxx

  • kanye west could be kurtis blow's son for real dude!

  • This is true-blue, smooth, partyin' hip-hop. I envy everyone in that room. I would've been funkin' so hard they would've had to call security on me.

  • Kurtis Blow is the King of Rap

  • wow* i luv it*

  • The crust of performing a seminal new artform gone mainstream quickly, is reflected in his performance... And I'm blessed enough to see across the Atlantic, a Hiphop off-shoot niche music called Grime share the same similarities. Cause UK's Grime will also inevitably go global!

  • thanx 4 all

  • had to be A CREATIVE genius to write something like that.....

  • They had 2 be blown away, OH THE AWESOME EXP. 2 B 1ST

  • what is the original sample/track??! everyone used this damn good bassline?!!

    I think it's a rock song like this "no one can fight the dust" or something like that, isn't it???!

  • @Whadzup100 You maybe mean the bassline from "Another One Bites The Dust", from Queen... Don't you ? Actually, the line is a bit different here, but I felt like it was the same the first time too.

  • @DarkWolfBass

    yeah, it's a bit different. Queen's song was only released in august 1980 (the same year as this song) so probably just coincidence.

  • I saw this guy back in 1980 when he opened for CHIC (Rebels are We Tour). He rocked the house, period.

  • Next "Too Close" stole this beat!

  • 30 years old video and it's still good

  • used to play this to death ..you have to respect the creativity behind some of the lyric back then .

  • steve wright said on totp 2 he aint no tupac eminem etc ..yeah he aint them just 100000x better...also rap got shit after 95 except the man mike ladd

  • kurtis blow was da man

    

  • curti muito esta musica que delicia de dançar adorooo

  • He came up with this rap on the spot during some Christmas party, or so I heard.

  • wow I was 5

  • I love his songs.

  • Der 1`te!!!!!!!!!Und der beste Rapper!!!!!!!!!!!

  • HEAR ME RAP

  • @SexyMeanThiing he will be performing friday 20th in the scity of Indio California the 8/20/2010

    for free how bout that!!

  • Kurtis was the boy lah!

  • ..damn..i was born in 85 and i'm 24 now. this is my first time hearing this! lol! all i know is wu tang clan lol

  • I remember hearing this Xmas 79 on the way to my grandmothers house, it changed my life! I memorized the lyrics by the time xmas vacation was over and everyone at school thought I was the shit.

  • real mc ..datheatre40 check out newyork..

  • kool

  • The king of rap!

  • nice

  • This was sampled for the song "Dancing Real Close" by Next

  • Dope ass.. and they played live..

  • Nice research @harlemkinght!

  • @RaceIsOpen i thought kurtis blow the best was the man and sexy voice BIG UPS

  • @RaceIsOpen BIG UPS

  • dam stumbled on this at 36 this is the first rap song i ever heard

  • lol whitey don't know what's goin on!

  • Its Kanye West

  • Yes this is truly the best RAP there was/is. It all went down when rappers started rap battling because thats when it got nasty and started talking about B's and H's and money. Back then rappers didnt care to mention money in their raps they kept it clean and smooth. This sh!t goes hard.

  • good song respect

  • yeeeee Kurtis blow, my boi

  • You gotta love Kurtis Blow!

  • Deacon Kurtis. Did I hear somebody say testify?

  • Man... there is Nothing like the classic OLD School rap to bring you back....Theirs so much feeling attached to this music...Makes me miss the 80's sooo much, who knew we would look back and think it was such a simpler time??? Blows my mind when kids now a days consider tupac and Bone as old school

  • @RainbowBrite80 no shit eh.. tupac is from the 90s

  • Hey look it's Kanye!

  • those who are just now hearing these tracks, you had to be around in the 80ssssssssssss' to really understand!

  • That was just TOO good. Watched from start to finish with a smile stretching from one ear to the other. Just so cool!!!!

  • Real rap!!!! Ohw, I miss those days.

  • l'essence du Hip hop, the best KURTIS

  • this is the shit!!

  • GUAPO, ERES EL MEJOR, KURTIS

  • Kanye West is under fire because of February's Rolling Stone cover.

    Wearing a crown of thorns with blood running down his face, the rapper posed as Jesus Christ for the cover shot.. Inside the publication, Ray West, a sociology professor and former Black Panther, takes his son to task. Evidently Kanye's father disapproves of the degrading lyrics in his son's songs...Newsmax, google it.

  • is it 4-real kanye west daddy?!

  • he is the father of Kanye West!

  • Now I know who Kayne looks like!!!

  • Still waiting on my steroo!