EPMD Crossover

[Isaac200821324]

THE RAP ERA IS OUT OF CONTROL..BROTHERS SELLING THEIR SOUL TO GO GOLD, GOING, GOING, GONE (jayz, lil wayne, & the rest of these wac azz clowns) ANOTHER RAPPER SOLD...TO WHO? TO POP & R&B..WELL FUCK ALL YALL IM STRICTLY HIP HOP, ILL STICT TO UNDERGROUND BEATS....IM OUT OF HERE, SEE YA, NICE TO KNOW YA, AND IF U DONT KNOW U BETTA ASK AROUND

[Isaac200821324]

DOWN SOUTH NEED TO STICK TO COUNTRY MUSIK...WEST COAST NEED TO STICK TO WATEVA IT WAZ THEY WERE INTO...

[Isaac200821324]

HIP HOP WAZ BORN IN THA EAST COAST, SOUTH BX BABY...WHEN IT MOVED ALL OVA IT ALL GOT FUCKED UP...WE STARTED IT WE WILL END IT

[kimmetje1976]

awesome classic

[TejanoDream]

DAMN I FEEL LIKE HITTING SOMEBODY..lol

[TejanoDream]

DAMN I FEEL LIKE HITTING SOMEBODY..lol

[gdub454]

Daaam...forgot how slammin this is...

[TheDopestEthiopian1]

I bumped into Parish over the weekend in Atlanta. I told him that EPMD warned niggas what was coming with the CrossOver joint.

[popregimeoriginal]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....tellm....­look out 4 SABIST....toronto rappa aint no sell out real underground

[121Nego1]

It's 2012 now, but this song haven't lost its meaning... rappers are still selling their souls to go gold

[Mrussell1980]

man he said still I haven't seen one rapper living comfortably...times sure have changed...music sure has changed. I remember when my brother in law used to pick me up from 5th grade playing the latest EPMD tape in the cutlass

[YoungHoratio]

funny how this classic relates to the state of hip hop today, peace EPMD, hip hop!!!

[gregisfreestyle]

First song that ever made me like rap. Thanks Sirius sattellite.

[studebakerlvr]

Bought this on cassette tape back in '92 and wore it out. Wonderful East Coast rap which still sounds fresh 20 years later.

[tremone21]

This is so true almost like they knew rap was gonna go pop.

[kiimora]

wow..... the girls in this video actually have clothes on... image that ... an unheard concept now a days

[selinajones100]

OK

[zabilos12]

autotune before i t whas cool, or actualyu before it whas fucking wack

[dmdpro5]

i bet no one spots rick ross in this video

[BeenaBee]

dedicated to the new rappers of today :)

[MicIsMe235]

@BeenaBee Lol so tru

[HenryTroy715LXIX]

waaahhhhhhtahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[HelloEquipment]

damn they ripped it...n how many kids these days know what a Zoot Suit is...Zoot Suit = Skinny Jeans today.

[Tampinu]

I am spinning to this...classic!

[PrincessDrRe]

"the Green-eyed bandit..."

[DetailsCount2]

Classic

[angelraresome]

this ish still rock!

[srekazinskas]

This song is adressed to todays corporate rap whores

[SightseerLounge]

@srekazinskas & @oneluv72 Yes, this song was way ahead of its time!

[ricenbeenz97]

UNDER-RATED DUO #FACT!!

[oneluv72]

This joint is more prevalent now!!!

[JAY1BLAZE]

They were so ahead of they time with the message portrayed in this song. They basically predicted the future of Hip Hop music.

[BuckT0WNUSA]

When I watch these classic video's, I wish I had footage of myself when these video's were recorded. EPMD definately ushered in a different under-ground sound and ERA of Hip Hop. This is a like a time machine for the kid.

[SightseerLounge]

@BuckT0WNUSA Yes, I can feel the early 90s when I look and listen to this!

[supergenius112624120]

Awesome classic! Why is Eric Sermon so angry?

[meetbollz]

Classic!!!!! The words 'crossover' and 'no sell out' were used all the time in those days, until hip hop started to shift shit loads of units, then everyone started to jump on the bandwagon. EPMD will always be a big part of real hip hop culture imo.

[stachucebzun]

eryk



[gimmeloot442]

Real Hiphop....Damn!

[ravin4550]

Its all about dreds, gold grills and autotune these days

[TheDuttyByrd]

this shit was prophetic

[jcruces1]

East Coast hiphop was and is the best! F*ck the mainstream southern bullshi*!!!

[Digadog81]

@jcruces1 Think before you say that because this song is 19 years old majority of the rappers for the South in the 90's and early 21st was not crossovers they were real. BTW it's crossovers from the east too

[cofieldmac7]

@jcruces1 BULLSHIT!!! Not all of the south is mainstream, DAMMIT!! You think that I'm cool with alot of bs the south is pushin??? CORRECT yourself, homie!! Besides, there's some buffoonery goin on in the east-coast as well! Hip hop started in New York based on raggae. Busta Ryhmes said the same dumb-ass bullshit you sayin and now look....... Signed to YMCMB. Check yourself like Das-n-effects said......

[Bangura187]

@cofieldmac7 south made the mainstream rap worse imo. 

[cofieldmac7]

@Bangura187 I can sorta agree with that. It's sad to say. But don't put it completely on the south. There were ALOT of pop-heads floatin around the east and west coast. But, Thank GOD that true hip-hop is coming back from all coasts.....

[Bangura187]

@cofieldmac7 true true

[raze1974]

@jcruces1 i think there is good hip hop from all over the world, as much as I love this song, its not 92 anymore.

[kiimora]

@raze1974 it sure aint and hence me longer listening to hip hop

[mannylarenas0003]

wish it was though!

[1bigswell]

@jcruces1 i'm from castle hill bronx, big daddy kane and all that is the shit.

but i do got to give it up to 3 six mafia and project pat- tight ass beats and straight hood shit

[escort7420]

@1bigswell ha ha I use to play this joint in castle hill back in 92

[volatilemolotov]

@jcruces1 silly, not to mention the main hook of the track is from Dayton, Ohio!!!

[edww23]

@jcruces1 Hey dont judge the whole southern rap scene..Outkast...BOB....GOODIE MOB.....I ADMIT SOME OF THE CRAP SOUNDS FREAK'N SAME AND TALK ABOUT THE SAME BULL...AND HOG'N THE AIRWAVES..I MIS DAS EFX AND N.I.N.E AND LOST BOYS AND I MISS THAT SOUND THAT SOUNDED LIKE A AP SONG NOW YOU GO COMMERCIAL U ON DON'T GET ME WRONG MAKE YOUR PAPER BUT KEEP IT REAL.

[Yobachi2007]

@jcruces1

There was virtually no mainstream southern rap at the time of this song (just 2 Live Crew and Ghetto Boyz) so clearly this is addressing wack ass East Coast rappers who were doing all kinds of suck ass music at time. That's why the East fell off, and the West took over just a year later in 93, and East Coast haters like you have been crying and blaming everybody else ever since.

[rodney1b]

man I all most wanna shed a tear, I miss the hell outa this hip hop''

[braceroda]

FUNNY HOW OLD SCHOOL RAPPESR LIKE epmd KRS ONE talked about crossing over almost 20 yrs ago but its stil relevant to day

[lrhodes936]

Damn so good!

[willowchikn1]

kaos0515 said it

[highdiary]

Mannn rappers these days need to learn. This is why EPMD is still respected to this day while rappers like 50 Cent and Jim Jones are so quick to die out.

[TheLadyRankin]

1:40- 2:18....wow

[7Waknk7]

they are the truth hip-hop era true prophets

[TheBlackrebels]

EPMD HAD A VISION SAW THE YEAR 2011 THEN MADE THIS SONG

[TheLadyRankin]

@TheBlackrebels yes!

[dasefxrob]

Wow, this song is actually prophetic. This is a diss on today's "rappers".

[bboyabdul]

thumbs up if u're listening to this in 2011.

[nutlil2]

i used to listen to this all the time when i was like 13 or 14 years old..!

[TheEsquire212]

@nutlil2 I was 13 when this dropped, I listened to hip hop from the time i woke up until I went to sleep with my walkman playing in my ears.

[docterbeat]

premium



[jpmjpmjpm1]

damn i was 18 teen theses are my rappers

[cobraclan21]

aok



[johnathonbeach1]

Love live Roger Troutman...and real hip hop!

[CY414]

classic i remember hearing this as a youngin!

[RMena64]

that fat white dude is a good actor.. cause i felt like punching him in the face.

[madkappa1]

Man i use to bump the shit out of this back in the days.

[yesimnative77]

Back when everybody was original and didnt sound alike. Call me old or whatever but at first I couldnt tell the difference between Drake and Lil Wayne.

[121Nego1]

16 people are crossovers

[genestarwindjf80]

THIS IS THE SHIT. damn miss the 90's forgot bout EPMD. known them from watching RED MAN

[gothamjediknight]

E Double and the Mic Doc snappin necks, get off the bandwagon sucka crab chumps

[jeremyshockey234]

I don't do hip hop like I used to. It's a young thing. but when I miss my native New York, I come here.

[CaVvyOne]

Pay Ya Dues by Low Profile is another joint these new "rappers" need to listen to

[gojetsandpackers]

@CaVvyOne WC is the man

[stevepogie]

when rap didn't need F this F that to be good.

[blacksultan85]

RAPPERS TAKE THE OATH AND SELL THEIR SOULS FOR A QUICK BUCK!!!!!!!

[oneluv72]

16 dislikes??? Lil Wayne, Floka Waka, Fake...Opps I mean Drake. In other words....CROSSOVER FANS!!!

[babah77088]

YOWOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[SpazDillinger]

4 letters have never sounded so good together then E P M D

[dcat8221]

REAL hip hop. Keep the crossover. 10/10

[bradcypress]

EPMD 1 of the best duo's ever, along with gang starr & pete rock & cl smooth!

[thehiphopdepot]

@bradcypress you should check out the website thehiphopdepot

[oldschoolbx1970]

This is a music video an anti-sellout like me can truly identify with. Thanks for posting it.

[YouLoseAndGetSpam]

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[psychodad905]

HOW CAN ANYONE DISLIKE SUCH A CLASSIC JAM??? crawl back under your rock, and roll!

[kalipassion04]

Ironic that year ago they prophesized that hip hop would sell out to be mainstream pop. It’s errie.

[StrikkklyROCKERS]

15 people crossed over and have their tombstones on that bald guy's wall...

[Theodorsha2]

PLEASE CAN AN ARTIST COME OUT WITH SOME DECENT MUSIC!! I WISH I COULD BLAST TO THE PAST AND HEAR ALL THE OLD SKOOL HIP HOP, RAP, AND R & B AGAIN... MUSIC IS SO COMMERCIAL AND IT IS NOT REALISTIC WHO IN THE HELL HAVE MILLIONS AND ALOT OF EXPENSIVE CARS TO BURN..

[japayne006]

This Is real Rap Music If i did grow up in the 80s udont know shit abpout hip hop

[goldy2licks]

410.000 views. fuckin really is sad!! you know what? fuck all you young fucks who think they know hip hop. you dont know a fuckin thing!!!

[TheBlackrebels]

this should have millions of views

[allbiznessboxing]

hip hop has crossedover, its a damn shame too.

[jwr223]

@allbiznessboxing

Amen to that...

[IRON5]

When females were looking sexy and can dance. Now they just stand there holding a bottle. With shades on in a nightclub???? Nineteen years later this song still on point....

[KpVal]

Help Me Rhonda

[rocktown612011]

High power cameos in this video. Kid Capri, K-Solo, Redman, Das Efx ....

[TeeFAP]

Yo for 95% of the so called rappers out need to check this video cause you crossed over a long time ago better figure out how to get back before its to late. So i say in the words of Das Efx to the hiphop you dont stopcome back real hip hop.

[mastervoz]

Kid Capri!!

[GangstaMojo]

JUST TO BE CLEAR THE 15 MOTHERFUCKAS THAT DON'T LIKE THIS SHIT ARE ALL WHITE BOYS THAT RIDE EMINEM'S JOKE

[tazdabadboibaker]

@GangstaMojo not all white boys are into eminem

[MrJaybugg311]

Consider this the early warning of how things in Hip hop ended up.

[vikingluv7]

if anybody has vintage EMPD hoodie let me know

[roscoegino]

@vikingluv7 shit u prbaby raised the value 500% just with that comment

[Galidorquest]

lol yeah bring back the Hi-top fade!

[HCadrenaline]

@Galidorquest

My favourite hair cut, if I was black I would so totally be sporting that shit

[Galidorquest]

@HCadrenaline Actually you DON'T have to be black to have a Hi-top fade. I saw whites do it too. :) First you have to grow your hair out then perm it then go to the barber and ask for a fade.

[imaplayjason]

@Galidorquest Yeah Vanilla Ice fade was so fly.....sike!!

[kannon29]

this beat is badass

[ck558985]

love this shit

<3

[suciobeats]

Dope record and very relevant today.... Here's the problem, these artists today are looking for a way out of the hood, they want to stop selling drugs. So they do these lame tracks to get paid. Unfortunately with album sales going to shit due to the file sharing, these acts find it more difficult to say NO to a deal because labels are reluctant to invest in another artist, because the risk for no return is as high as it's ever been.

[kaoss0515]

@suciobeats whattup sucio b! i disagree with you about why todays artists sellout so often. most of them come in the game with little or no knowledge of hip hop, and just want that fast dollar. from the jump, they don't care about the message they put out or contributing to the culture of hip hop, to them its all about that money. they aint tryin to hear schoolin or hard work thats why they may b sellin drugs in the 1st place!

[darrenritt27]

A Classic! I still have this album on Cassette Tape!

[charlieelperro]

A cautionary tale to all of these so called "artists" that are polluting the airwaves. How many of these sell-outs are still being listened to, or for that matter, still famous? Seems like Hip Hop in this day and age is nothing but a marketing tool pushing expensive cars, champagne and clothing labels. No substance and no real message like the joints we used to listen to back in the day; when Hip-Hop meant something.

[deniseaustinlover]

@charlieelperro

Hip-hop didn't even come into it's own until around 1990. And at that time (the beginning) it was mostly about "expensive cars, champagne, and clothing labels." Nothing has really changed through these all years in that respect except for the notion I subscribe to that the artists and their products keep getting worse and worse. There are no new ground-breakers these days - only cookie-cutter acts dishing out the same old slop that's been around for 20 years now.Just my 2cents

[deniseaustinlover]

@charlieelperro Since we're talking about all sell-outs and their cars, champagne, and clothing, I can't help but think back to LL COOL J's "Around the Way Girl" which came out a few years before Crossover - "I asked for an around-the-way filet and you bring me stuck-up tuna, you know what I mean? I don't want 'I-vanna' I want "Ta-WANNA!" Classic line! And so true!!

[mrhoffame]

EPMD had the formula....Roger and Zapp beats + lyrics = tightest cuts ever!

[greatesttickets]

Erick and Parrish makin' fuckin' DOLLAZ!!

[Eastheim]

A good old school song . What else?

[thirdshift47]

This was back when Def Jam defined hardcore hip hop.

[GialloHorror]

EPMD is real shit! Eric Sermon is the fucking man!

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. Long live true uncompromising hip hop. Fuck the crossover. Hail EPMD.

[smcg36]

#nikkiminaj obviously didn't listnen to this song before she signed to "youngdummies"!!!

[143rdqueenz]

REAL HIP HOP

[175blitz]

Hip hop artist should have this classic on their IPODs to remind them where hip hop came from. Stop producing this BS and do the damn thing right!

[kaoss0515]

basically the industry looked at how money & business broke up NWA and used that same example to break down hip hop! introduce large money & business opportunities and convince the majority of future artists that mainstream appeal gets them paid. artists like epmd realized that would only lead to the watering down of a great culture like hip hop. many of today's artists could care less about the art that puts food on their table!

[kaoss0515]

when you listen to this classic, you're listening to a time when hip hop had a backbone & a very strong voice. almost every other artist at the time fought tooth & nail to keep the greedy record companies from destroying the culture by waterin down the music for mainstream success. somewhere along the way the torch was dropped for financial gain..."industry rule # 4080, record company people are shady!"

[UniversalSFX]

@kaoss0515 OH NO YOU DIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD­DDN'T!!! :D

[spideymayne]

@kaoss0515 About the time when Puffy came in. He changed the game in a very negative way.

[kaoss0515]

@spideymayne thats the truth!

[mtownbaseball15]

@kaoss0515 so kids watch your back cuz i think they smoke crack, i don't doubt it, look at how they act...well put man.

[bee1994]

@kaoss0515 So true. Rap will never be the same.

[SuperMcFly78]

@kaoss0515 KRS-1 Let Us Know Tht Rule !

[decevioj]

GO C DECEVIO AND NEW WEST ORDER MUSIC ON YOUTUBE 2012

[OTOWN2STOCKTOWN]

Aoommmm now this tha flava!

[ElmaWillief]

Hey raze1974, if you really want to develop in basketball, you have got to start following a serious workout system. I used the famous nba training prog at (50-inch-vertical[dot]com). I haven t even told this to my high school teammates yet lol

[smcg36]

#hiphopisdead ..this song is dedicated to @bet..@mtv and all artist that are out today they fit the "crossover" mold..#smh..

[olori35]

This record is older than 1992. Trust me i watched this shit evolve! or maybe it was, after all it is going on 2012 WOW!

[stoicman31]

This is the real sheeout!

[mddarch2]

hahahi remember these days i was like 13 or 14 when this came out..the streets was no joke..and everyone expected you to kick it to girls all the time...the older girls was sexy to me back then..ahhhh new york city..

[trackstarz2011]

12 brothas like todays hip hop and its sellout artists

[skyarme]

how they do tht at the begging like tht cool voice liike at 0.23

[chanilla1]

redmans crossedover but still keeps it real in a way like hes "international" with his craft..not just boom bap n all that

[MrXzibit1995]

12 dislikes? How can u dislike epmd

[DrunKENkiller420]

Long live the Oldskool!! Im turning 39 in Aug and Im glad Ive had the privlage to hear real hip hop in its beginnings, scotty beam me back to at least 88 and let me do it all over again

[blackeaglemj]

@DrunKENkiller420 ...I feel you!!!! word up!!! I'm turning 40 in July and I will never forget the glory days of the Boogie Down Bronx..long live Sedgwick Ave, River Park Towers, Fordham Road, Marble Hill, Tracey Towers, Van Cortland Park and the rest is history!!!! YYEEEAAAHHHH BBBBOOOOYYYYYEEEEEEE

[nemoism]

@blackeaglemj Hell yeah Grew up in Wagner, those were the fucking days!!

[blackeaglemj]

@DrunKENkiller420 ...I feel you!!!! word up!!! I'm turning 40 in July and I will never forget the glory days of the Boogie Down Bronx..long live Sedgwick Ave, River Park Towers, Fordham Road, Marble Hill, Tracey Towers, Van Cortland Park and the rest is history!!!! YYEEEAAAHHHH BBBBOOOOYYYYYEEEEEEE

[DrunKENkiller420]

Long live the Oldskool!!

[dbakerone]

i used to bump the shit outta this in my lac with my twin 15" kicker comps cant remember how many damn noise violation tickets i got lmao classic

[slop123456789]

both erick n parish really kill this track

[Drezyful]

EPMD had 5 gold albums, the 1st 3 went to #1 on the charts, & they didn't have to crossover...that goes to show what being real can get you

[MyJunior1975]

@Drezyful The irony is that "Crossover" was their biggest radio hit...strangely enough.

[starysamochod]

ten przekaz co zapodali parę dobrych lat temu teraz jest aktualny stuprocentowo

[ninostar74]

classic hip hop shit fuck these new rap crossovers!!!!!!!

[thehiphopdepot]

@ninostar74 you have good taste in music. You should check out the website thehiphopdepot

[hennylo68]

This is dope!!!!!!

[InTheMoodForMuzik91]

the fact that they had three number 1 albums prior to this one and they were still going against the industry is dope to me they were still all about the music

[danthedonHBB]

wait, whats the chorus saying? :S

[anthillmob]

@danthedonHBB I think it says.........whatever you want, whatever you need, I do for you what I do.... roger troutman-you should be mine

[danthedonHBB]

@anthillmob thanks i reckon you're right ;)

[Kimmica20]

Classic!!!

[lilbeaveymac]

dr dre's clean production and smooth melodies killed the industrial dirty rap sound.

this is classic but it is very dated,not timeless.

[InTheMoodForMuzik91]

@lilbeaveymac I disagree with you stating that this track is not timeless the subject is relevant today and production wise i still bump it and epmd wasn't even my era I backtracked and researched and this is one of my favourites from epmd

[mic1112244]

@lilbeaveymac spoken like a true long time listener of Emmis Communications.

[MADDOG6400]

Who cares if this is East Coast. I'm a West Coast and I love this jam!

[vikingluv7]

raze1974 -put the volume higher on the track., my 89 taurus needs to pump

[starysamochod]

hahaha Sonia send me a next rapper please

[KiNGLiVi8o8]

hahha let's bring back tha 'VoCoder' & Dismiss The 'T-Pain Vocal Effect' a.k.a. as autotune...bwahahah

[frugstar]

You say Justin Bieber-I say Tupac

You say Lil Wayne-I say Biggie Smalls

You say Drake-I say Ice Cube

You say Soulja Boy-I say Big Pun

You say New school-i say shut the fuck up

You say Pop-I scream Hip Hop!

You say Hannah Montana-i fucking punch you in the face

92% of teenagers have turned to New school and Pop.If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music,copy and paste this message to another 5 videos. Don't let the real hip hop die