De La Soul - Breakadawn

[jasonesapp]

My god, I miss the early 90's. College days of yesterday...

[smokesta66]

we all do homie

[masoojz]

De La was all that back then,Leaders of a New School,Tribe Quest,Black Sheep,So many more back then.That's when rap changed from hardcore to smooth cuts.Ya mean?

[gottago]

Hip hop is pretty much garbage now. Who's buying the albums and going to the shows that keep these wack rappers employed and how in the hell can we fire them?

[MidlandKruiskade]

@gottago Hiphop is not garbage, mainstream hiphop is garbage and back in the days mainstream hiphop was amazing. There is still very good hiphop, search for it on YouTube. A lot of underground-cats that are mad skilled. Lyrically the underground-scene is better than in the good old days.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MidlandKruiskade ur right this beat is amazing

[MidlandKruiskade]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang the sample is amazing from Smokey Robinson. It sounds like a woman, but that's because he has such a beautiful voice, cause Smokey's a man. I didn't knew this when I listened to it first and after I discovered it I was amazed.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MidlandKruiskade thats pretty strange how its a man. btw i downloaded all of de la souls lps. ill listen 2 all of them at some point.

[MidlandKruiskade]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Their first 4 are certified classics. Don't expect a very lyrical group, it's a happy hiphop group with happy lyrics. If you expect very strong lyrical performances from them you can be disappointed. Posdnuos gets better and better since Buhloone Mindstate. The Grind Date is underrated and AOI is good too, but after Stakes is High it's not the as before. Kinda like Wu after Forever.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MidlandKruiskade yeah i know theyre not the most lyrical but their lyrics r kinda witty and theyve got a unique style. plus they basicly inspired the whole alternative hip hop scene.

[MidlandKruiskade]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang yes they did inspire the whole alternative hiphop scene, along with Jungle Brothers (De La did it better than them). After De La Soul you had A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Lords of the Underground, People without Shoes, Souls of Mischief, Hieroglyphics and a lot more.

[HollywoodJD]

@MidlandKruiskade After stakes is high, they didn't really do anything though, grind date was actually kind of like just to put something out, same with their nike tape.... they are good but not really de la soul albums.... hopefully they have somethign real in the making for soon

[MidlandKruiskade]

@HollywoodJD Yeah that's why I said after Stakes is High it's not the same as before. People think they fell off after Buhloone Mindstate, but I disagree; Stakes is High is classic hiphop album. The song Stakes is High has one of the most amazing beats I ever heard blessed by Dilla.

[smokesta66]

i agree



[HollywoodJD]

@MidlandKruiskade stakes is high is just a beautiful album man, it's classic indeed.... i love almost every song really, listen to the album full way actually, sunshine is an amazing beat, and yes the title track is also great, j dilla was a beast

[HollywoodJD]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang They are all pretty much great especially stakes is high

[marlygee1]

Real hip hop for real!

[jay201170]

I graduated the year that came out. And I still Love it.

[BronxSnc]

Dope !

[loonytune324]

Nice jam,bounin' the rhythm, the rhyme, the beat... mellow.

[dagowills]

Man where can I download this song?! This kind of music seems to be extinct.

[DaOldSchoolRapLova96]

@dagowills no its not. type in de la soul breakadawn mediafire. just like that on google. i got mines for free like dat. i got alot of my songs from there. its realiable. no viruses

[AyeeDawgg56]

throwbaaaaaaaaack

[Ayrutd1972]

Giddy

[OSixx]

wow! who remember's this throwback

[sansdeity420]

babydolllll, lick a buttholeee

[mattstone12]

Doesn't get much better than this really.

[emlopezz1]

....when the last time u was just straight left smiling /feelin good from a song??

[aangarita1]

90's hip hop n r&b was the best...its all gay hop now...

[lucho646]

I remember I recorded this song on one of Kid Capri's blends on a 60 minute Maxwell when Kid Capri used to spin on 98.7 man I missed those days.

[quis82788]

@lucho646 So true sir i was on that as well

[buckslim4]

When music was real!!

[mogglebutt]

i love that this song still has recent posts, it shows that this song is still groovy as hell, and better than all the "hip hop" that is on the radio

[fleshnbone187]

@mogglebutt There's something called "timeless music", this song belongs in that category and will probably continue to be liked by people at the year of 2075. I hate to mention the fucker, but can we say the same about Lil Wayne? No, that's why as soon as he makes a new song, the 2009 stuff becomes "old" and his fans will rather say "it's old, play his new song". His music is very current and will not be remembered as soon as he becomes irrelevant.

[HollywoodJD]

@fleshnbone187 Your right, it was not worth mentioning Lil Wayne, his name doesn't belong on these boards, Waybe wishes he could be mentioned in the same light as De La Soul

[dixielatino]

this tune is Timeless .:)

[songotenz02]

How can this have 16 haters oh well

[MFdoomJR]

@songotenz02 16 people are probly over Drakes nuts

[TheKElizabeth]

LUV it!!! Especially luv the MJ sample!!! :-) BRING BACK REAL HIP HOP!!!!

[carolinastunna919]

this song brings back good memories growing up in d.c. i miss those days. i was 13 years old when i was rocking to this song.

[paqmanjr08]

I CAN NOT FIND THIS SONG ON ITUNES! ITS MAKING ME MAD!

[blackandtanful]

９０年代､このDE･LA･SOULが当時のﾋｯﾌﾟ･ﾎｯﾌﾟ­に風穴開けてくれたんだが･･････､飛躍の"ﾌﾞﾚｲｸﾀﾞ­ｳﾝ"

[brad5191]

I love this whole album for homework, thinking and just having me time. I need so much more of that and this whole album reminds me of that. I have serious love for this type of music.

[fleshnbone187]

@YoungOldSchoolRapper You have a point. It is a nice feeling if it's sunny and you head for a restaurant or something to eat and bump classics like this in your iPod/MP3/whatever. Always have songs like this one in rotation in my iPod whenever I'm at school or going to/coming home from school. It's a damn nice feeling too.

[bahamiantube]

my wife will walk to this song at our wedding

[TheIllmaticGangsta]

i used to listen to this song from night till breakadawn. never got old for me. never will

[dirtydollaztxent]

MJ "I Can't Help It"....this f*ckin ROCKS!!!! #G.O.O.D. Music long before Ye and Common came along...

[OumouDee]

De la fucking Soul, just..... words can't describe

[Billstiller23]

Aw shit dope shit right here

[xPrynce]

play this song with a snap back on and a puffy new york jacket like they did in the 90's lol.

i seen it off Juice.. im 17

[ayoopdog]

amazing song, what happened to the end?

[babymoe98]

15 people don't know what is real hip hop

[felixicon]

and smokey robinson's quiet storm

[SnowWhiteDove7]

i love this song when music was good 93!

[luispadilla60]

I Love This Song Takes Me Back To The 90's

[kbw1970]

This was popular around the same time as 2 Pac's "I get around" and Lords of the Underground's "Chief Rocka" to name quite a few in the summer of 1993, one of the greatest years in hip hop history!

[Sassygal1014]

The beat is  off Michael Jackson 's song I can't help it from his OFF THE WALL ALBUM

[ladicassh01]

Smokey loop...michael sample...i cant help it...

[AaliyahandMichael540]

MICHAEL JACKSON! :D

[Dephtech]

@AaliyahandMichael540 more like smokey robinson- quiet storm

[shannon0720able]

this is pure hip-hop, you youngin's take notes!

[MrKevin619ism]

This was the jam in the summer of 1993.

[tooserious4u79]

@MrKevin619ism The summer of 1993 was the height of hip hop. So many artists with hits that had substance

[kbw1970]

@tooserious4u79 Can't argue with you about that,1993 was arguably the best year for us true hip hop heads. I was only 23 back then and it sickens me today what they play on the radio.

[MrTaeman21]

De La soul even knew about The SIndustry '' 2:38

[andersoncorey523]

they used michael jackson i cant help it as a sample

[MrTaeman21]

beautiful beat kid

[mosfrostiest]

days of the breaks be just about over..

[captainCNB]

song always cheers me up

[rightouspath]

THIS TRACK IS EXTRA TIGHT... I PLAYED THIS EVERYDAY BACK WHEN I WAS GOING THOUGH A LOT!!! GOOD HIP HOP EASE THA MIND!!!

[804fishscale]

im just noticing they used Smokey Robinson Quiet Storm for a sample.

[Serial520]

Yeeeeeah this beat is dope. Sneaker pimps - 6 underground also uses this beat, If you're into trip-hop i'd check that out too!

[penisface66]

whats with the abrupt early finish?

[Suitsnappy]

14 people didn't listen to the song correctly. {{-_-}}

[feebeethefeeb]

I think this is one of if not THE greatest song De La ever did.

[danw1374]

using samples taken from 'i cant help it' by michael jackson

[rellom777]

Dope song.!



[slop123456789]

breakadawn..... breakadawn.

[dontezfromdetroit]

What happen to rap! This is smooth stuff here

[Galidorquest]

I wish rap were THIS good nowadays :\

[Darcsav3r]

@Galidorquest Art Official Intelligence

[jgatlin77]

watts good my fellow hip hop heads!! i love de la soul and especially this song!! i made my own version and i'd appreciate if some of you checked it out.... HIP HOP LIVES!!

[applecrumping33]

i will play this song at my own funeral.

[hatethetube46]

@applecrumping33 or maybe someone else will ;)

[mjweed420]

@applecrumping33 my worst fear of dieing is i might not have music anymore

[xoxmariposa94]

@applecrumping33 you won't be able to play it 

[MrSILVERFOX125]

this has a few songs in it Mike Jacksons "I cant help it" Smokey Robinsons "Quiet storm" every new yorker know's the Quiet Storm VIA WBLS

[SkyMoon650]

song will start in.... hahaha your tight

dope song

[FuriousPumpkin]

this song is awesome

[bluespooooon]

just realized the sneaker pimps totally sampled this song in "six underground"....remember that song? lol

[blackandtanful]

現代ﾋｯﾌﾟﾎｯﾌﾟの多大な貢献!～ﾃﾞ･ﾗ･ｿｳﾙのファン­キー"BREAKDOWN"～＼(~o~)／ファァァ

#jazzm

[littleyirkie]

HIGH IQ SOUL

[Jtweet0811]

That's the beauty of music. It is disappointing to see where hip hop has gone but at least you got to see where it came from, and how it used to be.. Some of us didnt get that chance.. :/

[Jtweet0811]

You're never too young to appreciate good music..

I was only 3 when this came out and it's been one of my favorite hip hop songs TO DATE. Even if hip hop has been watered down and become "high maintenance and arrogant" (LOVE THE METAPHOR BTW.@geriko) just be happy that we have at least SOMETHING to call hip hop. Nowadays we have this great power to listen to WHATEVER we want and ONLY THAT. If we don't like it, we simply CHANGE IT.

[noirtriptyline]

Micheal Jackson "I Can't Help It" from Off the Wall

[strawberry5889]

@noirtriptyline My favorite Michael Jackson song, amazing

[misermania]

Might be my fav. De La track.

[whisper129]

You used to love her, but I still love her..

[rkindle]

this song reminds me of waking up in the morning and seeing the sunrise above the hills in front of my house didnt no what the future held and didnt give a f--k i loved my youth . now its all about bills and trying to make it in this world yep kids iam living the american dream!!!

[jeffmangumisgood]

@rkindle could be worse, could be living in china with limited freedoms or living in a third world country with limited access to food, water and shelter. could also be dead. try and make the best of things man, work hard and be nice (even to douchebags) and you'll get somewhere. also get a lover, that will help.

[shannon0720able]

@jeffmangumisgood - so true. well said,

[mrpropo]

13 dislikes? you mawfuckas trippin man

[grizzzlyspawn]

why do all these awesome old school songs become forums for whining music snobs?

[DJNativeSun]

@grizzzlyspawn good point,

[jthesnake77]

Fashawn would be in that group as well as he's young...J Cole is decent, but overrated by the young generation who has overrated him simply bc he stands out as quasi mainstream compared to all the other garbage

[daoriginalsupastar]

@jthesnake77 i agree about Fashawn dude is nice his album Boy Meets World is fire. the mixtape he did doing pretty much a west coast version of illmatic was hot

[jthesnake77]

I don't LOVE all those emcees by the way, only LIKE some of some. Although I do LOVE Cunnin lynguists (Kno's Production is FABULOUS), TONEDEFF, DIABOLIC, BLU, LOUIS LOGIC. ALL SUPER ILL

[jthesnake77]

There is virtually no one ILL that started spitting post 2000. Everyone I love deep in the underground also for the most part was spitting in @ least the 90s. Maybe Diabolic who started in 99-2000, Blu (whose def young), Shad, Rhyme Asylum/Lowkey (UK & 25 or so so def 2000 or later), Lupe, Louis Logic (could of started late 90s) Skyzoo, Joell Ortiz to name a few started spitting post 2000, but for the most part EVERYONE started mid 80's to late 90s. 

Cunnin Lynguists/Tonedeff BOTH ILL

[sexyfatbastid]

ps: These guys sampled both Michael Jackson's- Can't Help It,....

and Smokey Robinson's - Quiet Storm as well as other songs,...

[ShookOnesTO]

@sexyfatbastid ps.: nothing is original anymore.

[ShookOnesTO]

@sexyfatbastid its been done

[sexyfatbastid]

I love this song!

This was just, such a phat album.

I was 23 when it came out.

Ahhh, the College years.

[CreativiDe992]

Classic song, classic sample, classic legends :)

[honeyrumball]

Fuckin Classic... Love the De La...

[ProPoe1]

the pharcyde, de la soul, and a tribe called quest... where did you go?

[rickylascaze001]

@ProPoe1 They formed a tribe called "Hip-Hop is dead'

[UNVRSLTV]

who are the 13 idiots?

[humgum44]

TIMELESS.

[PATHH88]

WHY DOES YOUTUBE NOT ALLOW THE VIDEO FOR THIS TRACK TO BE POSTED ??

ANYWAY, CLASSIC TRACK, FUCKIN DAMN NEAR PERFECTION...........i seen them around a year ago in Glasgow (Scotland)and the place was packed to the rafters and the whole show was just THE BIZNESS, LEGENDS IN THE TRUEST MEANING OF THE WORD IN HIP HOP.....

[bibzzzz]

@PATHH88 man i'm glad people from all across the world can appreciate greatness

[ChihuahuasLuvZac255]

they sampled MJ's "i cant help it" from the Off the Wall album rite?

[TomatoMayhem]

@ChihuahuasLuvZac255

That's right! And made it their own.

[BrokenTHGurl08]

@ChihuahuasLuvZac255 No. It was Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm.

[DMarlowe21]

@BrokenTHGurl08 Naw man, that's MJ's "I Can't Help It ".

[ChihuahuasLuvZac255]

@BrokenTHGurl08 im talking about the bass line at the beginning, i looked it up and it is from michael jackson's song "i cant help it" but thx anyway :0

[dylankush]

by far my favorite song in this genre...wish rap/hip hop was still real..i think i want to do this for my highschool battle of the bands

[kinstube]

THIS + I BE BLOWIN = MASSIVE CLASSICS !!!

[kinstube]

@kinstube I MEANT "I AM"

[kinstube]

@kinstube EXCUSE ME, " I AM I BE"

[bigty6]

Hey Tazda117, there was this guy named Michael Jackson who both Fabolous and De La got this beat from. Maybe you've heard of him?? The song is called I Can't Help It.

[Wutwut1n1]

fuck being 7 by the time 2000 came around

[dudesonman4200]

When I listen to this song one word comes to mind. Timeless

[tazda117]

im just noticing Fabolous used the beat when making the song Baby.....anywayz I love bein born in the 90's!!!!!!

[rickylascaze001]

@tazda117 You were born when Hip-Hop was dieing, the songs you heard when you were like 1 - 5, you most likely do not remember them.

[jthesnake77]

@tazda117 You mean a teenager @ some point in the 90's? Lets not act like you were born in 93 and bumping De La haha....I was born in 82 and as a true hop hop head I thank god for that as 86-02/03, especially the 90's as basically ANYONE who knows anything about ILL LYRICISTS has ALL or nearly ALL emcees that began in the 80's/90s in their top 10-25 emcees. Elzhi technically started in mid to late 90s, as did One Be Lo, as did Em, as did Bis, etc to mention the obvious 80's early 90s guys

[SholaMind21]

@tazda117 It's originally sampled by Michael Jackson's "I Can't Help It"

[rigidlynumb]

Is this version different from the one on The Best of De La Soul? Sounds slightly different to me

[jgatlin77]

WATTS GOOD WORLD I HATE TO SOUND LIKE A SPAMMER BUT I RE MADE THIS SONG.. BEAT AND ALL OUT OF RESPECT AND HOMAGE FOR REAL HIP HOP... CHECK ME OUT IF YALL HAVE FREE TIME :)

[tolldoll100]

I was born in 1986.

[sean301975]

Damn I miss those days of music so bad

[ebjornnelson]

Born in 74 was witness to the 88 hip hop revolution ....shit was really going on in hip hop then and through the 90's.

De la,Slick Rick,Tribe,EPMD....

Redman's part on "Hardcore" is still one of the greatest verses of all time in my opinion....later in the 90's when

Stakes is High came out it proved that De La is eternal

[jasonito23]

@ebjornnelson I feel you. I was born in 76. When I was a kid my cousins used to bump that old school rap in the car with the treble so high that you blinked with each snare drum hit! I remember when Eric B and Rakim were dropping new cuts. I remember when De La came out with Potholes rocking the gumbies. Steady B and all them were hitting!

[Mcheetah]

Sample: Michael Jackson - "I Can't Help It"

[crimecitydb]

sonds like the sampled quiet storm by smokey robinson.

[lilze96]

@crimecitydb Na man its a sample from Michael Jackson's I Can't Help It

[Nikelea]

@lilze96 It actually samples both Quiet Storm and I Can't Help It.

[Nikelea]

@crimecitydb That's definitely Smokey's voice and the music is I Can't Help It. Those are the two biggies. Pointer Sisters in the drum beat and Bar Kays (Na Na Na) as well.

[carlmarxx]

Who gives a fuck when you were born! That dosen't make the music belong to you more than sombody else. Music is for everybody its timeless. Stay Chill

[geriko1]

Born in 67. Witnessed the birth of hip hip, meteoric rise to the top, slow descent. and eventual and imminent spiral to a certain death. I don't her anymore today. She has become high maintenance and arrogant. She has really changed. I used to love H.E.R........

[locust]

@geriko1

wow thats a really sad way of putting

I used to love her,

Nowadays I have to look past her image then I can still find good parts in her personality

[robertbutler714]

@geriko1 hip hop**** not hip hip lmao, btw, theres still good hip hop out there today, like odd future, and some kid named c plus with a song called "stay up", or at least its good in my opinion (but the c plus song is dope as fuck i cant lie, i think it would be good in anyones opinion lol) , its not de la soul, but it is good in its own way, if you dont like any hip hop these days, then fuck it, just enjoy listening to this shit, just like me, cuz i fuckin love de la soul too

[draxyus]

@robertbutler714 De la soul are active, apparently they're working on an album now.

anyways, with are you in? and there numerous other albums I'm set for life :D

[dancur0209]

@geriko1 what does HER mean

[skinnyJEANking2]

@dancur0209 Common Sense (aka Common)- "I Used To Love H.E.R."

[MoolahDough]

@dancur0209 H.E.R. = Hearing every rhyme

[djfakt]

@geriko1 Just like jazz...White folks have gobbled that shit up.

[gogoGreen420]

@geriko1 Hip Hop hasn't died. Its just gone underground. Check out Shad or People Under the Stairs or Blue Scholars :)

[cherryblossum99]

even though i was born in today's rap. i have too say that this music right hereis the shit. just my opinion

[thedL]

do people just go around you tube hitting dislike on all the good music because they have nothing better to do?

[thewirah]

I am just going to give this one a thumb up but in my heart it gets 5.

[spyda7591]

In today's messed up world where everything is about money, materials, sex, looks, and fashion, I thank God for allowing me to listen to music like this during the 90's when most music was down to earth and contained some type of decent meaning to it.

[hav2000us]

BORN IN 71

[oscardihno12]

@TheLadyK13 you barely heard this, dont front, miss this music? no...

[TheLadyK13]

@oscardihno12 how am i frontin.???...

[TheWavy87]

So happy I am an 80's baby. I got to grow up on this music!

[cbh3571]

this reminds me of my high school days... good times. skipping class for the keg bbq's. ah 1,2 ah 1,2......