Blackalicious - Chemical Calisthenics

[SquareGameplay]

0:46 I wish the whole song was like that :P such a catchy beat.

[buzzpuppet]

DAMMIT, i dropped one....on the...GROUND

[soulrunswild]

This fuckery is magically savage.

[daraprapist]

word 2 your mother

[Qzzth4]

I don't usually like rap. but THIS I love! apparently I'm a nerd haha.

[darkestsyn]

@Qzzth4 You dont need to be a "nerd" to understand science that you learned in 8th grade.

[MrAlekz]

if i knew about this i would have shown it to my chem teacher last year

[Flynamix]

My favorite person is TairyHesticles, over the last 5 years all the best music has been posted by him, I don't know its like he is me. The music I love he also happens to love.

[miellicanor]

this proves rap ain't just about getting booty.

[AZDoeDieNasIllmatic]

What the fuck?? I remember listening to this. Only nerds could comprehend this shit...

[mr0slickrick]

@AZDoeDieNasIllmatic Only nerds? If you paid attention in school this is all shit you learn in middle school science class.

[DrSmokeTrees]

@AZDoeDieNasIllmatic

Ha, go kill yourself idiot.

[theworldismykoan]

Play this back to back with Karlheinz Stockhausen choral pieces.

[CuddleBunE]

2:55 till the end was the best! : )

[sodahawk]

Dr. Cowell sent me

[franchise11]

If Gab was my chemistry teacher, Id be pulling straight A's hah

[Scorphoenixify]

Hats off to Blackalicious! :)

[ChampionAnwar]

0:59 - *drop* SHIT

[KizaSoze25]

@ChampionAnwar I thought I was the only one to hear that...

[maxwellpassion]

I fucking love this song with everything in me.

[Thedarkheritage1]

Gift of Gab- from Blackalicious

helped put together.... HOW ..TO ..RAP,

thatz the name-of

this book made with input from the

greatest emcees to ever do it, and

written to help-document the real skills

of the art form... awesome-book...

[TheTonydelirio]

Fucking Amazing Talent!

[Sydephex]

@iSteamPunk1 Tairy knows realness

[oscarone1982]

@gaphary Thats exactly what I said!!!

[oscarone1982]

This song makes me want to break dance. To bad my family discouraged me from dancing. Now I dont know nothing. :(

[gaphary]

@oscarone1982 Why would they discourage you from BREAKDANCING. It's not like you're doing fucking ballet.

[TheMoFuckaa]

do you think lil Wayne would understand any of this?

[1966fastback289]

@TheMoFuckaa Okay. I'm sick of all the lil wayne bashing that goes down on these boards. I'm a huge blackalicious fan, but even if you love conscious rap and don't like wayne, you can't deny that the guy knows rap. To asseverate that he wouldn't understand this song is ridiculous; and if you don't trust me then listen to kweli, one of the most lyrically intelligent rappers ever, back weezy up. /watch?v=NbmTj-u1LMg

[TheMoFuckaa]

@1966fastback289 lol i don't really care if Kweli backs up lil Wayne, it really doesn't matter. I do give lil Wayne props because any one who can express them self through music and be successful at it is doing something right. It was just a little joke. I mean in my opinion he's complete trash but then again, who the fuck am I?

[1966fastback289]

@TheMoFuckaa Fair enough, and it can be fun to take cracks at him every now and then. Just had to get that off my chest. And you're entitled to that opinion.

[NUmightyhealthyJERU]

@1966fastback289 It's not at all ridiculous to suggest lil wayne wouldn't understand it based on the level of intelligence displayed in his lyrics as well as his interviews and overall demeanor/behavior

[TEAMxEPICxSPACE]

@TheMoFuckaa no

[DJM442]

@TheMoFuckaa haha the question is also the answer

[CuddleBunE]

@TheMoFuckaa I get your point with this comment but actually Lil wayne is pretty smart well without the drugs you shouldve said Nicki Minaj! lol

[Pattheog]

@TheMoFuckaa, Lil Wayne can't even spell Calisthenics. As a matter of fact, he can't even spell little.

[736wilsonlm]

@TheMoFuckaa :) Lil Wayne thinks a menstrual bleed is a venereal disease. Thanks for the laugh, though :)

[MoonDance131962]

Now THIS is some rap! The way he keeps pace with the drumbeats just blows me away! I have this CD and the whole thing is EXCELLENT! Much better than any of the crap they play on the airwaves now.

[Common211]

Tairy Hesticles im pretty sure your famous to underground hiphop listners now lol

[96Irap]

Real lyrics are nowhere to be found. Most of them screw up on the chemical names and such.

"C-A-O-H-2 wine water solution of calcium hydroxide"

Seriously, "wine"?

If yeh google "calcium hydroxide", it clearly says "Calcium hydroxide is a white powder produced by mixing calcium oxide ('lime') with water". Anyone know the real lyrics. I've fixed most of em but there's not enough audio quality to figure it all out (chemical names are confusing things).

[Copidat]

This is basically rap over a prog beat.

[SnakeDoctorSilver]

@BarryUkester and your an idiot who cant play acoustic, so just stop tryn

[underagedpickle]

@SnakeDoctorSilver you're

[SnakeDoctorSilver]

@underagedpickle And your a retarded gamer

[2justice4no1]

@SnakeDoctorSilver *You're*

[SnakeDoctorSilver]

@2justice4no1 I will rape you....

[SnakeDoctorSilver]

@SnakeDoctorSilver YOUR A #

[SnakeDoctorSilver]

Your actually...... good

[mrmartyo]

If you enjoy this song, go check out the explanation of all of the lyrics at Rap Genius. I explained all of it myself, and it's really interesting. Check it out! (this isn't spam)

rapgenius . com / lyrics / blackalicious / chemical-calisthenics

[domestic57]

man this man knows his stuff

[agmotocross161]

1:15 engage laughing gas ... f'n dope

[ChampionAnwar]

I've been looking for this song for fucking AGES! Finally! :D

[MosJakeWillis]

lol @ Questlove's tweet about the comments of this video. 

[matrixphijr]

I heard this song and thought, 'Wow, that reminds me of Cut Chemist an awful lot,' then I found out it was. (Ha!)

The rap itself reminds me of Busdriver (especially Imaginary Places).

[bigddagenius]

tairyhesticles always has the good shit.

[Ktownzbest]

best rapper ever

[yandtguy]

Just heard this in a DJ Shadow mix...crazy...

[Enigasm90]

Heard he actually has some type of chemistry degree

[flightoftheprince]

its genious bra



[FuccThatShitNigga]

weird ass nigga

[unkowndeath]

at 59 seconds if you turn it up loud enough you hear SHIT in the backround

[KizaSoze25]

@unkowndeath hahaha yep

[TbTReviews]

I looked up the lyrics and tried reading along with it and it was really hard. His flow is ridiculous. It's practically a 3 minute long tongue twister and he just gets faster and faster. I don't know how he put rhymes to such an odd rhythm, but god damnit the man did it.

[030flo]

/watch?v=aBC5UV-t9K8

[sigatus]

He actually said that NO2 makes you laugh. Hearing that certainly made me laugh.

[JayBiggz]

@sigatus I know right. He mixed the compounds up. If dentists used NO2 they would probably be killing all their patients

[KizaSoze25]

@sigatus Why? He's right NO2 is laughing gas.

[KizaSoze25]

@KizaSoze25 Scratch that...N2O. forgive me for my temporary ignorance. I failed chemistry in 11th grade sorry about that...

[frazier618]

@KizaSoze25 i cant see it sseeee it

[pishposh86]

@sigatus When you rap, I think...about how you just opened up a chem textbook and read off shit, trying to sound smart. Other mistakes ya made:

Geranium? Don't you mean Germanium?

Ha, C-O squared? That 2's a subscript, Gab, come on.

Your laughing gas formula...is just sad.

As for your thermo reference, G is "free energy", not heat.

Sodium Silicate formula? You thought that "i" in "Si" was a 1, didn't ya?

Nice try though, Gift o' Gab, but stick to the alphabet...

[sigatus]

@pishposh86 What are you talking about?

[pishposh86]

@sigatus I was just agreeing with you and building on what you said about how Gift of Gab got the nitrous oxide formula wrong. I was pointing out just how much shit he messed up, and how obvious it is that he just spat out a bunch of words he had no clue about. And that last part of my comment was just a reference to Alphabet Aerobics.

[sigatus]

@pishposh86 Ahh ok.

[pishposh86]

@sigatus Yeah, but don't me wrong, Blazing Arrow's one of my favorite hop-hop albums, period. I think Gab's witty as hell, too; he's just trying entirely too hard here, and it shows.

[DjSublimeslacker]

3 people failed Science as well as life....

[xela167]

3 people clearly failed chemistry!!

[IAMTHEREALBIGRED]

He's talking about making C4? Because he says "To teach you Chemical Calisthenics.. *RANDOM MAN* C4(ECHO). IDK Whatever man. Great song, It was real hard to learn it.

[mamamiag122]

So did anyone hear about those 3 people who got caught in a huge car accident in the south a few weeks ago?

[chessdawgz]

This is the nerdiest/epic thing I ever fucking heard...

Check out the lyrics guys!

[MisterDuderino]

As if you even need drugs when you can listen to Blackalicious.

[SilverTemplar]

@MisterDuderino Try both.

[MrDerfinator]

What a flow and all the whilst being clean with the lyrics throughout-course i do like me some profanity too-Throw in a little N.W.A, Wu, Ghetto Boyz with a little T.C.Q and some Public Enemy-Oh hell yeah and a lot of other stuff to-too many to name Ol Skool and underground-The only way to go-

[thelemadrumz93418]

i listen to this when i'm cooking crystal meth LMAO...j/k i dont actually cook meth...i'm more of an LSD guy

[joms654]

@thelemadrumz93418 cool story

[JayBiggz]

sick song. Lovin it

[mynameisjonas45]

Nowadays it seems that a hip hop artist would be frowned upon if they mentioned things even related to knowledge.

[masterking1121]

This song helped me memorize most of my chemistry book and pass my test last week he's not lying

[Ginga]

It's official: Gift of Gab is on another level.

[DL345]

i just have to show my chemistry teacher this on Tuesday

[chulazzo]

GIFT OF GAB is Blackalicious

[AstronaughtTurtle]

My Chem teacher will love this song

[aidinharper]

one of the best songs...period

[mariagdnm]

OMG I heard you guys for the first time last week my husband showed me your videos and I am so In love with yalls music !!! I play it all the time its beautiful

[ojosdeangle92]

this shit was dope (:

[wonCrash]

I mean, offense to DJ Chief Xcel, but Blackalicious basically is equivalent to Gift of Gab verbally wanking.  Gab is always ripping like this no matter who he works with.

[NateTheGreatPilot]

How does one not like this song?

[Randy21021]

Damn in the END It WAS INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Randy21021]

Damn I just Discovered this new Artist Blackalicious and DAMN he is Good He got Nice Flow Nice Ryhmes Nice Everything!! he need to rap with MF Doom or others

[MissAwwdree]

All Hail The Underground!

[playaandthepimp]

FUCKIN......FUCK holy dam FUCK that was bananas

[lumnoodles]

@playaandthepimp hahahah fuckin bananas!

[Dyamanti22]

This is great.

[IscreamforICP]

lol wow fuck little Einstein or whatever it is give the kids this

[kcroyals2009]

buck

[Molasses125]

Wow. Just wow. Best song I've ever heard.

[pijbox]

this guy is the fucking einstein of the music world

[Metaltigercprlt]

Aaah this song is sick, never heard something in this style yet. The way he spits directly on the baseline on some parts is amazing. Gotta lotta respect for this man!!

[OldSkoolGeneral]

A chemistry lesson in lyrical flo!

[WillsVargas]

i find it hard to not to like an artist who calls himself Blackalicious??

[frontinondebra]

@WillsVargas Blackalicious is the combination of DJ - Cheif Xcel and MC - Gift of Gab

[prosmurf]

@frontinondebra

The DJ on this song is Cut Chemist

[mutemax7]

this shouldn't have question marks.

[WillsVargas]

@mutemax7 yeah, i agree

i just typed too fast

[southernCal909]

@WillsVargas....Blackalicious is a group, with dj chief xcel as producer/Dj , gift of gab as the mc.

[lariosss777]

@WillsVargas thats a group fool not 1 person.

[bradleasays]

@WillsVargas *themselves

[slothcore]

@WillsVargas uh blackalicious is a group...

[Malumbrus]

@slothcore Blackalicious is blackalicious.

[bojoben]

@Malumbrus No shit.

[Malumbrus]

@bojoben Yes piss.

[bojoben]

@Malumbrus Maybe vomit?

[Malumbrus]

@bojoben Negative mucus.

[bojoben]

@Malumbrus Positive jizm.

[Malumbrus]

@bojoben Uncertain bile.

[bojoben]

@Malumbrus Neutral pus.

[Malumbrus]

@bojoben Fuck, I can't beat that, I'm goin' home.

[bojoben]

@Malumbrus I guess i win the state of bodily function match. Is it normal to feel ashamed?

[steezeystevie]

@slothcore LOL

[rahtool]

@slothcore actually a duo

[MrDopeDeVille]

@WillsVargas HIS name is Gift of Gab, THEY as a group are known as Blackalicious....

[ProductiveBeats]

@WillsVargas His name is Gift of Gab.

[moptop1316]

@WillsVargas Blackalicious is the name of the group the rapper in this would be The Gift of Gab who i will add is simply amazing.

[dudewhyfi]

@WillsVargas it's a duo, so it's themselves...the rapper's name is Gift of Gab

[KhoalityNguyener]

i got an A in chemistry listening to this song.

[anthonysmoshpadilla]

@KhoalityNguyener BULLshit, Chemistry gets far more in depth than this song does

[KhoalityNguyener]

@anthonysmoshpadilla I was joking bud...lol

[anthonysmoshpadilla]

@KhoalityNguyener Well next time dont joke about school, that really cuts me deep...

[KhoalityNguyener]

@anthonysmoshpadilla well you will have to deal with people like that in life..because let me tell you, not everyone is cut out for school, and everyone can live up to their own opinion however they choose. I simply typed up that comment as a way of figuratively expressing my likings towards this song.

[anthonysmoshpadilla]

@KhoalityNguyener You sir are predgudice and a racist

[KhoalityNguyener]

@anthonysmoshpadilla since when are my opinions deemed unfavorable? LOL and how am i a racist..you're just trolling.. :P

[SlimySimi]

@KhoalityNguyener SAME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rastaN1PPL3S]

@KhoalityNguyener haha

[dennisvic87]

@KhoalityNguyener gotta play in slow mo aint no cheattin gauranteed

[meforgodforall]

@KhoalityNguyener You live in California and are attending a liberal school I take it?

[xxmsp91]

@KhoalityNguyener I'm taking the same class and studying for the finals

[420madhatteracid420]

grandma, show me them titties

[TheDoodlibop]

"Careful, Careful with those ingredients! They could explode and blow up if you drop them and they hit the GROUND."

-Crash!-

"Sh--!"

LOL.

[JohnAlbert95]

love this song! took me forever to find it I heard quest dance to it on so you think you can dance

[jpfukng]

sdjhgjhg

[pin3appel]

careful careful lololol

[Stirrethcharybdis]

That album cover rules.

[mcpeepants2008]

Fine. I will listen to it somewhere else. I don't need you.

[devo193]

Fucking YouTube.

[blackrainuponus]

Fuckin' MCA.