Fakin Jax--INI ft Pete Rock

[MrFrsh2010]

Im 23 and I bet I could have listened to no music at all in the 90s then listen to this song now in 2011 and be like that was the good old days. Im glad I was a 90s kid.

[Jibrataa]

Sick Guy :) tru respect

[Ryuuzaki1770]

Real classic shit

[AraBlak]

This is an underground ANTHEM.

[RJota15]

Pete Rock ft INI

[theRapoet]

You'll never succeed or progress/ searchin for Peace through material objects - Stop Fakin Jax!

[mjoseph1]

Pause at :10 to see Gilbert Arenas

[oOViperrrr6Oo]

@mjoseph1 It's Pete Rock....

[mjoseph1]

@oOViperrrr6Oo

haha i was joking

[DirtyLite]

fakin jax doesnt mean talkin shit. when it comes to gang bangin fakin jax means fakin moves, youre fake you dont act you dont do your work. the 9th wonder version of this song is tight too

[RapturousVerbatim]

i like this version better as compared to the remastered version with a "talkin" intro.

[imsothemanXD]

lol i still have all my northfaces..

[damiononupsal]

REAL HIP HOP FOR LIFE BABY!!!

[Tmathh]

HIP HOP!

[fahgod]

Pete Rock ingeniously chopped the sh*t out of the drums from "Impeach the President" by the Honey Drippers. Though the flows and raps from PR, Rob-O, Ras and Grap Luva were cool, what got me to buy the single back in '96 were those infectious, stoopid, crazy drums! PR is top 10 all-time best hip-hop producers of all-time!

[kustong]

fuck the censure, i wanna hear all da bitches n fucks

[mckilah]

buen tema y el disco tambien

ojala pete rock

venga a chile

[obama1000000000000]

58751. It I

[MaSeoLeBron]

One guy of INI is Petes Brother, right?

[MarsHolst20]

@MaSeoLeBron Yup.

[illest22]

@MaSeoLeBron grap

[k27552]

百聽不膩, 我超愛這首歌

[tekmatic38]

@k27552 do u really like this song? i didnt kno nigas in china liked this shit , bee

[k27552]

@tekmatic38 i truly like dat. i've been liked hip hop since junior high. btw, i live in Taiwan, not China. "Microphonist Wonderlust" & "Grown man sport" are also beautiful in dis album.

[mylifeandrhymes]

real real shit

[MrParralax]

SICK TUNE!

CHECK MY BEATS!

PEACE

[fagaret]

Real Old School Shit

[bcphillyva]

My favorite song of all time!

[lewandoj]

hells yes.

[tekmatic38]

@bcphillyva shuttttt da fuck up nigga

lmao this aint ya fave song nigga !

[bcphillyva]

@tekmatic38 Pussy, you don't know me! Why do you care if it's my favorite song or not. Bitch ass!

[fingflava]

classik

[chc9012]

Classic love it !!!

[obilinx1]

0:10 Pete Rock

1:17 Rob-O

2:22 I Love H.I.M.

2:45 Grap Luva

[jimbanzo]

wow......fukin wow...man this track is so fukin dope,i hope ini n peterock make atleast 1 more album

[CozmikMonkey]

I saw PR live last night, he was mixing some new stuff off of his new album.

[jimbanzo]

no waaay! did he mention when it was coming out?

[CozmikMonkey]

No. He started off his mix and then near the beginning he started spinning some new stuff and then he was just like, "this is my new shit from my new upcoming album" or something along those lines.

[bgary]

classic

[DomincanXpanther]

heard this song to many times

[Animaniacs11]

i heard that pete rock's part is a diss

to cl smooth

[olebefree]

2:45 does that dude remind you of Proof from D 12 or is it just me

[grish76]

I was working for the phone company when this song was out. When I was installing phone jacks, this song stayed in my head and the Mobb Deep too.

[SYDSTL80]

..alright, maybe I'm gonna sound like that dude who keeps saying that "shit was better back in the old days", or even borderline pretentious, but when I listen to the hip-hop that formed me in my teen years in the 90's and I listen to what's out right now....I could go as far as to say that I feel sorry for some of the kids now...but only some, because I know that there's a few out there that dig for the realness.

[ShortcircuitzTV]

1:17 is "Rob - O". Hot lyricist is now a firefighter in Mount Vernon, NY.

2:22 Is Rashaan Russeaux. School Teacher in Mount Vernon, NY

2:45 Is Pete's lil Brother Greg "Graph Luv" Phillips. He's a school teacher down in the DC area.

Everybody is STILL Doing well and all grown up.

[obilinx1]

where are Marco Polo & Budakahn. Do Ya Know?

[ShortcircuitzTV]

my bad...

Marco owns a SLAMMIN vegetarian restaurant North Ave in New Rochelle, NY.

Sean Logan AKA Boodah Khan is still DJ'ing. We gonna have Game Night next saturday and a few of those guys will be present.

Gonna post video of them in the present day.

[HIMisILove]

ras is known as I Love His Imperial Maesty!!!ras is a street aka!!!

[myspacedjraghkstar]

yep. grap is my dude. very cool kat. ~raghkstar

[CWroyal88]

somebody needs to shut the fuck up. Realhiphopsucks93

[millerlite911]

youre such a bad ass man. idk how you do it.

[HairyEry]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... i freak out... didnt hear it for 2 years. damn thats hot. and to the other 39.480. keep it real. where are the times good rap music came out???

[thedesiresymposium]

Best Pete joints

1. TROY - classic

2. Fakin Jax - sleek

3. This Is What They Meant - low

4. The PJs - deep

[daehtnulb]

add

5. Take your time

[impatientp]

6. The Boss

[INSTRUMENTALISTICO]

everybody got his own favourite pete rock track so theres no real best track...its the same with dj premier & dilla.

they made just tooo many classics

[fromheller]

True :)

[khaliamoon]

I like this version but both are hot

[yeahhh1979]

i see these dudes everyday in the hood ... mt vernon..ny

[UNDRGRNDRAP]

That's wassup fam. I am in Manhattan nyc alot of ol skool heads live in brooklyn. I have only seen jeru da damaja. My peeps seen like buckshot, m.o.p, kane and some of wu-tang.

[khaliamoon]

Just moved from NY 2 months ago (for now). The Bronx, Gun Hill Road. I saw a lot of them passing through Wakefield (233rd Street).

[stylez2outt]

i like 9ths version a bit better but both are great

[jeycoop]

look at them ollllllllld ass reeboks @ 1:21 ... i remember those from like sixth grade

[jboyjboy]

such a TUNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[khaliamoon]

This is hot. I've always like the beat (and the one rapping after Grap Lover. I cant remember his name!).

Whatever happened to InI?

[ranawarrior]

hey gente colombia el pais, papa de pablito one love real rap

[deviousMonk]

Today many rappers are fake'n jacks!!!

[stylez2outt]

i like the 9th wonder version a bit better

[coley4330]

cl was gettin extorted, fuckin wit trife hoes and shit

[TERIQUE86]

Your a lie. Dont ever talk about CL Smooth like that!!!!!!!!!!!

[djcalib]

there chatin bout cl smooth, pete fell out wiv him or sumat i think!

[chunkydeece]

yeah,this was the first track pete released after his fallout with cl smooth thats why he spits the first flow on it too

[afrojack8]

why did they fall out dude??

[illmaticQB]

yeah i found out a long time ago fuckin what i was going for was wat does jax mean why is it fakin jax.

[illmaticQB]

wat doees fakin jax mean?

[ouuyy]

fakin jax means "talkin shit"

[l33tmad]

@ouuyy

it means to pretend gettin respect

[LexyAAA]

and lil wayne

[amb032]

soulja boy didnt exist when this dropped...

[stylez2outt]

it means frontin

acting different from what you really are

[ls1killa]

oh shit! is that Steve Harvey

[EIGGER85]

nut'n but real hip hop..i don't know wut they call that shit u hear 2day...Pete Rock knows how to touch cha soul...

[troydawg47]

classic track,this is hip hop.

[grgson1]

who's the one rappin after pete rock??

ras, rob-o, marco polo or grap luva? must be someone :P

[CWroyal88]

Rob-O

[grgson1]

tnx!!

[CWroyal88]

np!

[CWroyal88]

center of attention!!!! i got the CD go get it!!

[Nkogneetoe]

this jam is so ill!! i still bump this to this day!

[thetruedamian]

prime time rap with no mistakes *

[Bloodsport1]

I miss that jazz sound brings back the old feeling.

[frkndopetastic]

yeahhhh madlib's version sounds revisited

[STREETHUSTLE718]

loved dis track. the remixs madlib did for this was so ill also

check it out its called Pike Strikes

[KenPatera78]

Marco Polo in the old time BMW!!!

[drumatic]

gotta love that dorothy ashby sample... with the -6 pitched honey dripper drums, off the SP1200. the INI is classic - Pete Rock - a genius.

[thenewrapstyle]

this was one of the first songs to take a completely overkilled hip hop beat like the HD's and chop it up. PR ushered in a new era of hip hop hop just as he did with the mecca and the soul brother album. haven't heard anything really sick by him in a while though, NYs finest didn't do it for me but i should listen again.

[drumatic]

NY's finest was one of the weakest and most disappointing albums of PR's discography. It has its moments, but lost me after a few rotations of the same redundant beats + samples, underlined by weak lyricists. That's why we make our own music to improve quality hiphop sustainability.

[psyensou]

"That's why we make our own music to improve quality hiphop sustainability." exactly,. altho i only care about good music period. the hip hop mentality's too stale for my liking, but i wont forget "the long gone golden days".

greatness! love this track

[brownrice1]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­ hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

fffffffuck

[ls1killa]

OH SHIT! i was looking for this song what album is this off of i need to go and buy this asap! what pete rock is this?

[ThugMentalityMusic]

CENTER OF ATTENTION!!!!!

[Rafik46]

Its off the INI album!!

[thedesiresymposium]

Just a perfect track, one of the best PR and INI was underrated.

[namkooc]

pete rock and ini is the best hip hop record ever created well almost top 10 at least

[lamac66]

the 90's! good days of hip hop/ rap

[07dunn]

real hip hop

the industry is killing hip hop

fake rappers are just selling out for the

money

[jbernie13]

@07dunn its unfortunate that the dollar takes precedence over music/art.

[staticchild]

banging track

[Igotcha05]

What happen to I.N.I.

[Questbx1]

in i was tight tracx over 6 years now

[amonem]

hmm didn't know there was a video for this shit...dope..pure cristyle..

[bigdog1128]

yeah kid! 95-96 when this dropped,bananas! i first saw this on video music box in the bx, but i first heard it when pete world premiered it on his old futureflavas show on hot 97 wit marley marl. but the real gem is when my man Eric P from elecktra records hit me whit the promo on wax with the rmx.

[Lonnie718]

Damn, this shit is classic.

[DaneCrook1]

I had No Idea there was a vid for this, hell yea

[ICSKLE]

Yeah man, this is somewhere hiden in all my otehr old taped old school music videos.

[dieterdamme]

Love the underground

[MonstaMob]

Yeah - Lovin the whole album. Peace to Grap Luva, Pete Rock, Rob-O !!! Smooth shit. Today this is basic ! One Luv for the graps, pete rock's guts and Rob-O's smooth raps !

[sirkgraffiti]

*nayareth!

bu q fome

[diefackel79]

sooo smooooooooooooooothhh ma man.

[Tobbelito78]

What year was this released?

[Noomega18]

1996

[DirtyRottenMaster]

Pete Rock in hip hops greatest. Respect to the InI Crew, and peace to Pete's brother Grap Luva, he made nice stuff

[kingklipse]

slammin lyk onyx pete rock is the grandaddy sun

[dmxbusta]

4 real mayne @ lafairweath3

mr kyne then

[lafairweath3]

Classic