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  • totally agreed with top comment except for the gangsta rap... they had some cool music too but dude remember this is hip hop and theyre rap... dont mix em up. Not saying all rappers were good but a few were really good too. Still prefer this hip hop though.

  • 7 people haven't been to any places or spaces..

  • the new generation of hip hop sucks ..

    I want the real music ... A Tribe Called Quest, kriss kross, ice cube,

    rakim, method man, redman, krs one, nas .. bastards

  • The instrumental is so ILL!!

  • sad it's dead hiphop

  • @autostoppeur its only dead cause ppl like u say its dead...hiphop lives forever through us!

  • Pete Rock & CL Smooth, in my opinion, are the greatest artists hip-hop has ever seen. The Main Ingredient, in my opinion, is the greatest hip-hop album of all time. There's not one bad track on that album, they're all dope! The fact that I've had to dig in the crates to find music from when I was a young child makes the album even better. Real hip-hop forever! No immitations. Peace.

  • that outro beat is nice

  • foo where you been 

  • Damn I wish I was born in the 80's so I could have truly appreciated the 90's music in its time. I was only 2 when this jam came out -___-

  • shame how so many people at my high school prefer these modern radio sellouts over some true classics.

  • Whats that thing at the end

  • this record is so timeless. dont even remeber this record off the album but it almost immediately takes my thoughts away to the essence of the record. the record is dope

  • This shit here puts me in a certain mood. A good mood. Very good HIP-HOP right here.

  • C.L. Smooth...on of the most underrated rapper ever fucin miss these days

  • FUCK THOSE CORPORATE DEVIL MOTHERFUCKERS WHO STOLE OUR ART FORM. THE REASON WHY THERE MAKING MUSIC SO DUMB IS TO SO THEY CAN DUMB US DOWN AND NOT THINK! WE NEED TO PROTEST TO THESE CORPORATE FAGGOTS JUST LIKE EVERYONES OCCUPYING WALL STREET! RE POST IF YOU AGREE WE NEED TO START SOMETHING HERE... THEY TRYIN TO TAKE OUR SOUL!

  • @CapTainBuckAHOE they can try, but it doesn't work that way. only you can give it up.

  • @CapTainBuckAHOE HOW CAN SOMEONE MAKE YOU NOT THINK?

  • @eslubin i didnt mean it like that lol silly comment really. but what i mean is that there making music that only keeps your mind on one thing and thats the club. or dancing money bitches. and all that bullshit. idk...

  • This' Clasic 

  • they have a new album coming out its in production

  • i like how it has that oldies kinda sample in it . nice

  • @acid1adbkrew

    Blue note samples ;)

  • @TheDemonicSkull Yup !!! slick with the 808 and scratch tech......

  • @acid1adbkrew i know the intro is james brown but what are the other samples?

  • @applefrltter Places and Spaces by Donald Byrd

  • @mabuie thank you!

  • how could someone dislike this? its just so beautiful

  • CL goes hard on this joint!

  • Its amazing how many lyrics CL had and never rapped about how much drugs he sold or how many people he killed

  • I like how P Rock lets the beat ride throughout the song

    and CL's lyrics just flow with it

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  • One of there best tracks hands down

    Rip Lyrics

  • This is still one of the most nostalgic songs, that immediately remind me of childhood and all the happy, care-free days. I have to admit, Pete Rock, Madlib, and Dilla have beats that have so much soul, that it's brought some tears to my eyes. It's pure escapism, like all I can think about, is everything that ever mattered, and made me smile.

    Anyone who says Hip Hop is shit, are people who don't even realize what it really is.

  • @mhaze210 so true

    

  • IF IT AINT RUFF IT AINT RIGHT!!

  • best song to brid to.

  • check fumin - sidetracked....i wanna kno what pete rock instrumental is he spittin' on

  • @RBJbizzle He samples Places and Spaces by Donald Byrd, if that's what you're asking.

  • "My physique is still solid chiseled down to the very last compound I'm tryin that chin fool where ya been."

  • the 90's...... Golden Age of Hip Hop

  • @dmundizzle the 90's were a golden age period my brotha, but yea i agree with what you said too:)

  • @dmundizzle

    I agree the '90s had many golden moments, & it was a good time in Hip-hop, but it was second to the true golden era which was the late 80's to '90. This was the only time when you had an abundance of music where artists were free to be original & creative, & made great music. Why? Because no one controlled hip-hop then, when the 90s came in, the big business started taking control & making gangsta rap clones, or MC Hammer pop clones. Pete & CL was golden!

  • It's hard to think of many hip hop songs that are smoother than this; no wonder you can't have the C.L. without the smooth!

  • @booyaaka And the song isn't rocking without Pete

  • @BendikBS what?! man this is a mizell and byrd classic. This is a nice rendition though the original and its whole album is uncomparable! Places and Spaces-Donald Byrd

  • Naw....naw naw naw naw....naw naw....nothing can save ya!

  • FUCKING AMAZING, ONE OF THE BEST HIP HOP ALBUMS EASILY!

  • real hip hop

  • Sample : Donald Byrd - places and spaces

  • i listeb to this song when i wake up in the morning and walk to school it just gives an amazing feeling i miss old school

  • I'm only 3 and I listen to "real" hip hop! Please give me thumbs up so I can be the #1 comment.

  • @SmokeyCSULB ahahahahahah

  • For me this is best album ever

  • anyone know what the sample is from 5:15 to 5:41 ?

  • @wearestellar "Far Out" by Crown Heights Affair

  • @tonystark5151 Thanks!!!!

  • someone needs to make a mixtape with these two niggas AZ and cormega

  • im a suppa sweet graffix artist

  • if you don't like this then you don't like hip-hop.

  • @HipHopJunky623 truth

  • This is a good song.

  • I just realized this 7 year old YELLOW korean is probably fucking around HAHA!

  • dope. that is all

  • absolute neck snap

  • this is one of the dopest songs that most cats don' t know anything about. C.L. Smooth comes hard on this joint.. well played gentlemen!

  • I was talking to my friend and he says wiz kalifah is the shiz and that he makes bank

    I said its not about the money man

    He says dude why do you think they rap

    I just wanted to smack the shiz out of him......

  • @ginaballs That's funny and sad at the same time...

  • this song is a little known classic...not only because of the stellar production by Pete Rock but the strong lyrical assist by my man CL!! he and PR made a great team in the 90's!!...I miss those days

  • Thank you!

  • Quick question, what songs are sampled? or song? Im just curious what the singing is from during the chorus, it sounds so familiar. The beat mixes so smoothly with it.

  • @mhaze210 Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces is the chorus sample... amazing original song off a sweet album with heavily sampled material throughout

  • How is it possible that 6 people dislike this? This should be bigger than Charlie Sheen's story right now.

  • ....cause if it ain't rough it ain't right!

  •  I miss that feeling you would get from listening to a great hip hop song. I don't feel the same about the music coming out right now. It seems like everyone today is dumbing down their music so every lazy unintelligent person can understand it. Dumbing it down so they can make more money and that is so sad. I feel like people are forgetting what real artists are. Art is not about money, it is about making a statement and that statement should say something that makes people think.

  • @theRevolutionaryMind People forget that Hip Hop's origins weren't lyrical. All this wordplay came about when the MC started getting more popular then the DJ in the mid to late 80s. Before that Hip Hop was block party music, where most of the lyrics consisted of "All the ladies say HEEEEEY, and all the fellas say HOOOOO."

  • it also introduced me to "the spook who sat by the door"

  • My favorite track by my favorite duo in hip hop...

  • Did a song over this beat, check it out

  • Yo Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth are dropping 5 albums in 2011

  • @RyanLikeDrums Pete Rock, himself is dropping 5 albums in 2011. He is only making one with CL Smooth. Even so, that is awesome news for any Hip-Hop fan!

  • donald byrd baby

  • I BE GROOVING TO THIS MY ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL SPECIALLY WATCHING NBA ON YOUTUBE

  • If you're a Hip Hop head and you dislike this... I just don't know what to say. You can't be a true Hip Hop head and hate on this. You just can't. C.L. drops the lyrics and Pete Rock... Words can't describe the greatness.

    Early summer of '95. Two weeks before high school graduation, two weeks before heading to Parris Island, SC rolling to Warriors Path Park in Kingsport TN to cruise and check out the females. This joint takes me back man.

  • why isnt this song on tv radio or whatever?? nowadays its only those fake artists that are famous! fuck that

  • Top 25 album of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • who are the 6 who don't like this? you can't be serious:D

  • @Danrik7: 6 Souljah Boy fans!!

  • One of the smoothest Pete Rock tracks

  • PURE.

  • Ultimate summer feeling......

  • pete rock mastered this sample!

  • WAKA FLOCKA FLAME!

  • so real. kick back with the homies chilling with dat blunt

    i can feel it fasho thank you pete and cL

  • ....beats surreal, jus wrote premiere's best producer of all time, but yo ... such an erroneous statement when i listen to pete rock.... their all wonderful and magnificently beautiful in they own styles, yall dig? 9th wonder, juicy j & dj paul, organized noise, man all these dudes... sleepin on soo many... jus appreciate all the love and time put into making these master mirrors of the times... sativah and indicah all day ayday!

  • Yessir, raw hip-hop at its finest, just throw on a track like this and let it be the montage to your day

  • 5 people dislike this??? Must be Weezy fans

  • great track

  • The beat at 5:15 is that an actual song if it is can someone tell me the name?

  • @lilkj20 Crown Heights Affair - "Far Out"

  • talent 4 life

  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH True hip-hop is soooo gooooooooooooooood

  • love this jam!

  • "can you feel it?"

  • thumbs up for real hip hop !

  • very good song.

    this is what needs to be on the radio now

  • Listen to that last verse. C.L. just rips it down. This is one of the best interpolations of a classic Donald Byrd song that you'll ever hear. Does it complete justice. Props to Pete Rock for producing this gem.

  • donald byrd - places and spaces

  • all the places should love Pete & CL

  • I had the original Donald Byrd album as a kid, but this remake made my day when I picked it up! Did this cut justice...

  • Lovin' this big boy rap, no skinny jeans or unwarranted self importance needed.

    Kick back and relax.

  • best morning song ever

  • @LilRedRasta

    hahhaa amen to that. For some reason, its like 10 times better when I listen to it in the morning.

  • damn 90s all day the 90s was the BEST!

  • i nearly snap my neck listening this! wow this was the shiz back in the days!

  • Rap is crap, Hip hop never flop.

  • @TreeManTM hahaha theyre the same thing lol but HipHop is the culture Rap is what they do...

  • @freshoreste Then technically, it's not the same thing. Hip-hop involves more usage of the brain and soul, rap is just garbage. That's like comparing Gucci-mane to Krs-one.

  • @TreeManTM what are you talkin about? r u serious? your one of those fools people in the hiphop scene laughs about... cause "hiphop music" and rap are one of the same thing... theres nothin different between Gucci Mane to KRS the only difference are choices of topic and rap skills... but they both rap... hiphop music was a term concocted by the media cause HIPHOP is a culture... bboys/bgirls, emcees, djs, and graffwriters thats hiphop foo...

  • @freshoreste What are you talking about lol. Do you really see what you just said?

    What I was trying to say is that Hip-hop is a culture compared to Gucci-mane that just smokes crack and rambles about girls and cars while krs-one actually raises awareness about issues that should be noticed. Yes Hip-hop is a genre and rapping is what they do, but people that actually understand what hip-hop is about don't rap about dumb shit.

  • @TreeManTM yea like i said the difference are choices of topic and rap skills... my gosh are you in 1998 this debate was done and over wid... hiphop is hiphop chill out... Many emcees rap about Girls Cars and crack even in a demeaning way... i mean have you heard of Big Daddy Kane, Common Sense, ODB, Blacksheep, Mobb Deep.. even Jeru had a song called The Bitches... PhifeDawg of tribe always always talks about girls in a demeaning way... MFDoom's MMFood album was about Crack or drug dealing...

  • @TreeManTM Yeahhh! Packin three cuties in the Hemi//I be runnin hoes like Luke in Miami//So I hit her gotta get the half of my jimmy//I don't mean to pimp that hard, it's just in me//Got a sick flow and a couple of pistols//Got this thick chick Coco in 'Cisco //The same day I met her, we backstage in the bathroom//She got a mouth like a vacuum, uh!//We them boys with the chains on our neck ...and thats not Gucci thats JDILLA my niggah you gonna tell me he aint hiphop?!!?

    .........

  • I want to become a DJ like this man...

  • dope.

  • I remember the golden years... thanks!

  • Now this is real Hip-Hop, & not that fucking Shit soulja boy be calling hip-hop. I am so glad that I grew up in the 90's because most of the music today sucks.

  • CL is so underrated as an mc I think. His style and rhymes are so... Well, Smooth. I gotta admit! I'm fucking 32 and I never heard this one before. I heard it last nite and I was blown away by its soul and positivity. T.R.O.Y!

  • @machokingwwf Damn...you had never heard this joint, huh? lotta soul, aint it?

  • Anybody know the song that starts @ 5:18?

  • @LexyAAA I think it samples far out by crown heights affair

  • after listening to this track i gotta say,  WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE SOUND OF HIP-HOP????? god damn lil wayne and stupid punk ass drake.

  • Ohhh memories of the good ol days with good music.

  • Luv Deese Dudes!!!!!!!!!

  • I miss New York rap.!!!! :(

  • Street crusin music i can dig it

  • ANYONE KNOW THE ORIGINAL SAMPLE??

  • @Dubulous111 Donald Byrd's Places and Spaces

  • @ellfisher07 the intro is The Payback by James Brown

  • Soooooooo fucking smooth!

  • i only listen to real hiphop... im 16 and i hate mainstream probably more than anybody lol

  • @mrpostman609 your not alone in that statement.

  • real hip hop..and also the best morning song ever.

    good ol pete gets me ready for the day

    funny im 18 and i dont listen to bullsh*t

    thats because i woke up from the wack music matrix, and my eyes and ears are open to real hiip hop

    and you dont stop

  • timeless.

  • who's the idiot who doesn't like that? :D

  • the pinnacle

  • I'm 23 years old and I feel like i'm the only person my age listening to early 90's hip hop. The REALEST hip hop was produced then. All jazz influenced. Beautiful, smooth beats coupled with the best rhymes ever. All the newer artists like Talib Kweli always referenced Pete Rock and all the other pioneers of the genre so I had to take a listen and I am absolutely obsessed with early 90's hip hop. I'm also a suburban white boy too :)

  • @Brehization trust me, no you're not. I'm 22 years old and I have the same mentality. I can honestly say that I was raised off 90's hip hop. I was so fortunate to have two older brothers that grew up with this sound in the heart of Brooklyn, NY and I was able to appreciate its value. Doesn't matter if you're white, black, spanish, etc either, this music is golden and still refreshing even after 16 years. Appeals to any real hip hop head, and you my friend are one of them :-)

  • @cavallincream Good to hear gentlemen/ladies....can't really tell haha

  • @Brehization your not the only one there are still people in this world who have taste

  • @Brehization I'm a 13 year old suburban white boy, and I'm the only person that I know that listens to real hip hop like this. Everyone one else listens to Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, and Flo Rida, where as I listen to Nas, Biggie, Big L, 2Pac, Rakim, C.L. Smooth, Black Moon, Az, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Common, Mos Def, Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, Big Pun, Gang Starr, and many others...I don't even understand why people don't listen to real hip hop. R.I.P. Hip Hop - Early 1980s - 1996

  • @xBallTVx Sorry kid. Nas called it and killed it all in one stroke.

  • @xBallTVx Wow....thoroughly impressed my man. Keep up the good work young skywalker.

  • @xBallTVx There is hope for humanity. Good job! You should also check out P.O.S. He's from Rhymesayers. Great emcee's with that label too like Slug and Brother Ali.

  • @xBallTVx nobody cares. you might notice that their is at least 1 of these kind of comments per every 10 real hip hop videos... youre not as unique as you think

  • @xBallTVx I'm a 7 year old suburban yellow korean , and I'm the only person that I know that listens to real hip hop like this. Everyone one else listens to Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, and Flo Rida, where as I listen to Nas, Biggie, Big L, 2Pac, Rakim, C.L. Smooth, Black Moon, Az, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Common, Mos Def, Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, Big Pun, Gang Starr, and many others...I don't even understand why people don't listen to real hip hop. R.I.P. Hip Hop - Early 1980s - 1996

  • @downsyndrome10 It's coz they follow the masses young brotha. no brain, can't think for themselves, unlike you. Stay up, keep the old skool alive. It's the only real music in my opinion.

  • @downsyndrome10 Get your fam to take you to either Rock the Bells '11 or Paid Dues '11. festival with groups like you've named. I'm headed to Paid Dues (in San Bernardino, CA) tomorrow. If your fam is nervous or whatever-reassure them.. this concert is for all ages, ethnic groups and there are kids there with their families as well as old heads. I've gone to 7 of them and there has NEVER been an incident. This year Mos Def and Talib Qweli (BlackStarr) are the headliners

    Peace little homie.

  • @downsyndrome10 7? seriously? hahah yeah ok

  • @downsyndrome10 youre so cool man

  • @downsyndrome10 chronic 2001...

  • @downsyndrome10 keep it real man things will get better.

  • @xBallTVx Shhhhhhh

  • @Brehization my dude it dont matter if your a subarban white boy, just matters that u enjoy this masterpiece lol. im tha same to am addicted to early 90s hip hop, rap

  • YEAH! Seattle to the PI. South LA to the Chi! Feel the love boiiii!

  • FLOW!

  • Trumpeter Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II A.K.A Donald Byrd Black Byrd (Blue Note, 1972 )"Flight Time samples a Boeing 707

  • Such a dope ass song!!! only 7k views what is this nonsense?

  • i miss those neck-snapping beats.

  • miss those days!! real hip hop!!

  • Lifted off this jawn...this is Hip-Hop family!

  • fainally real music

  • ♥ --I LOVE PETE ROCK !!! --♥