Back in the day before commercialized fake ass thug niggas. GODDAMNIT SOMEBODY PLEASE BRING BACK TRUE HIP-HOP MUSIC TO THESE DUMBASS KIDS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We grew up in Philly and this came out when we were in 6/7th grade. Would ALWAYS get the dancefloor going, no mattert what the year- all the way up to the present. My friend tried to play it in North Carolina to get things moving, and everyone just stood there. It's sad that they didn't get the good stuff down there back then
I thought this song had a beat with whistling in it? Whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo
Don't he have a song like that? Was this remixed? I thought I saw him rapping with a added beat in it. Maybe he got another song with whistling, if so, tell me which one!
20 years ago this video made perfect sense...lol. Maybe because I had a crush on Ed. Looking at it now? He's got it made but walking around in a junk yard. Hilarious. Definitely a breath of fresh air to NOT have to see naked women dancing, money being thrown all over the place and big fancy cars. Just kids having a good time. Thanks for posting.
Why is it every old as song I like has commentary on pop artist of today? Can we not just enjoy the great music of the past without making such unjust comparisons. Is music not meant to be "listened to"?
I love that comparison to soulja boy. Too Tru. This generation is just different, what can i say. DAMN now i sound old like my folks. Oh well IT IS, WHAT IT IS!
Wow, I used to love Special Ed. Speaking proper English and rising to the top of his grade...being proud not to be a criminal...now that's something you don't hear anymore.
@bentheweirdo - LMAO... Licensing your music for commercial use is different from making shit pop music devoid of an artistic statement or value for the expressed purposes of selling ringtones/sneakers or simple minded call-and-response club hits.
Even Rakim's "Don't Sweat The Technique" was licensed for Reebok a few years back. Doesn't make the song nor the artist a sellout piece of commercial shit.
this is lil waynes worst nightmare. real hip hop. and...as long as i am alive real hip hop will never die, beccause i still play it LOUD wherever i go. no bass, alllllll treble....letting the world know how good late 80's to mid 90's hip hop was....priceless. doesnt get ANY better. not even close.
@LASVEGASGHETTO GODDAMN RIGHT. I grew up in Chicago in high school in the late 80's and early 90's...this was our voice and our life back then and always will be. Today's new school commerical bullshit rap isnt even in the same category on its BEST FUCKIN DAY.
the simple fact is, whitey as a record company can get blamed for the fall of hiphop BUT really its the dumb people listening to the bubble gum rap on the radio and on tv that keeps real hip hop from stayin alive. A record exsecutive will put out crap becuase thats what sells. Underground is where the hip and the hop is at, and if WE support it hip hop will not die!
Why is it that all things end up racist. Im white as they come and have been a hip hop head for years. I used pop and break, DJ. I dont care about who makes the sh!t just make it dope. Take race discussions to another area this is music pure fun and dope.
@rawtrucks Because when the police show up U R no longer a hip-hop head...U become a white supremist....U talk like U really dig us and our music yet when U C police harrassing the brothas U SAY NOTHING...When U C the great injustices done 2 our people U SAY NOTHING...When U get mad at your so-called black friend...he becomes a NIGGER...So the racists is U...U just hide it...And remember this...Black people R NIGGERS from Blaine.WA 2 Key West Fl....If U FINALLY speak up this could change
whaat your 25 and barely discovering REAL CLASSIC HIP HOP?? thats absurd to the outtermost. haha nah im fckn around. todays music is soooooooooooooo gotdamn stupid. i et embarrassed whenever im around the new music... i dont even wanna call it "music." its crap... and its for sure not hip hop.. just some bunk ass rap that has all the wrong things in it to sound appealing.. they all talk about the same thing. BULLSHTT! all the dumb people are makin them money though, which i dont understand .....
when it was about the music, not cars or disrespecting women......Today's rappers blaming ghetto life and whitey....why not Special Ed, Big Daddy Kane and so on......Why because they worked hard and made it!!!!!!
@morpheusxnyc there is plenty of blame for whitey but when it is about the music then your career lasts 30+ years.....just ask EW&F, O'Jays, The Whispers, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Whodini, Special Ed, Big Daddy Kane and so on..........Whodini sang about One Love and LL sang I need Love.......you can always find someone to blame for anything........hard work, luck and skill can go a long way my friend. Respect
@kevcas73 - Oh, agreed. And I'm not advocating for the promotion of victimhood and perpetual helplessness in rap.
I'm for accountability, higher standards and striving at all times to be the best in everything you do.
But let's not pretend like there aren't obstacles to achieving those goals related to their race and that those obstacles are White in origin and nature.
That's all I'm saying. It's not an excuse not to try your hardest, or to give up. Just an acknowledgement of history.
@kevcas73 - Who do you think makes all the money from destructive rap music? Whites.
Black people definitely don't get anything but crumbs off the table for their actual music.
Also, the conscious rap and intellectual rap movement got started as a reaction to the devastation of racism on the Black community.
So please, take your lame ass, Tea Bagger flavored, "White people are innocent - you Blacks did it all to yourselves" bullshit somewhere else. History and facts are not on your side.
@morpheusxnyc You are very right.Listening to all this gun rap and murder talk is sickening and depressing.Half these faggots out here running around with guns(rappers too)are fucking pussy!If they had to fight with their fists..they would surely get their asses whooped and worst.I saw this dude waiting for the S.I ferry and he started talking so much shit to this guy about how the people he be with keep burners and when it came down to fighting he told him to wait..fuckin sucker!
@morpheusxnyc thousands of blacks maybe millions since the 1800's have come out of the ghetto and made it........they didn't waste time looking for an excuse, they worked hard, got some breaks and luck and made it.
It isn't fair so stop trying to make it seem like somehow it should be and blacks are getting screwed....everyone is.........get up, get out and get some!!!!!!!
@kevcas73 - You lack a knowledge of U.S. racial/political history.
Blacks in the U.S. constitute 12.6% of the population and are 38.9 million people in 2010. Even if thousands make it out of the ghetto. That's mere thousands out of 38.9 MILLION. A drop in the bucket.
And it's not statistically possible that without racism such a small number U.S. blacks make it out when in predominantly Black countries, the numbers of educated Black professionals is larger by factors and multiples.
@morpheusxnyc it isn't perfect, fair or right......An argument about racism and it's history is valuable when it is done in a context to oppourtunity and it's future............
@kevcas73 - You have the benefit of not having to live the reality of millions of other Americans who's collective life struggle you dismiss with a cognitively dissonant platitude.
Blithely dispensing pithy fortune cookie wisdom like that does little to mitigate the harsh truth of existence in a country where the descendant of slaves that built the country and it's wealth are denied the fruits of their labor or a seat at the table after having been held back for centuries.
@morpheusxnyc "the harsh truth of existence in a country where the descendant of slaves that built the country and it's wealth are denied the fruits of their labor or a seat at the table after having been held back for centuries."
That statement is completely and utterly false. If you are trying to be an intellectual, judging by your choice of words you are, then you must stay in the lane of truth and not veer off into a 1980's version of Al Sharpton........That has no value.
@kevcas73 - Ding ding ding! And there it, ladies and gentlemen! The racist, holocaust denier lurking beneath the surface rears his ugly, misshapen head.
The statement is utterly factual. Slave labor built the vast majority of the fortunes and wealth used by Whites to create and finance all the institutions and industries that Whites handed down to their progeny.
In Europe, the U.S. and throughout much of the world, African slavery was the key to establishing empires.
@morpheusxnyc Slaves built this country......Really, thanks Socrates!!!!!!! Come on Al Sharpton...I think the track suit is too tight.......You must see the irony in your insistence that blacks are shut out as Special Ed sings "I got it made" in the background........You are not interested in a serious discussion on race, power and money.........
@kevcas73 - You cite the fictitous bragging rhymes of a 16 year old Jamaican kid from Brooklyn from 1989 as some kind of proof that Blacks have equal opportunity in this society and you accuse ME of not wanting to have a serious discussion on race, power and money?
I can't sit here all day and educate you about slavery and how it paid for everything, Reconstruction, separate but equal, Brown vs Board of Ed, Jim Crow, FHA loan denial, housing & employment discrimination.
@morpheusxnyc I said it was ironic not gospel..........You can't educate me on a subject you've only scratched the surface on.......Your assertion that blacks today don't have a fair shake at the American dream is simply false......Propaganda for a small slice of people who still want to carry around a chip on their shoulder that is only keeping them from standing up...........
@kevcas73 - Your ignorance and racism are so glaringly obvious that you don't even hear how you sound. It's easy to think the way you do when you've never lived it, see it, studied it.
You watch Fox News and BET and think that both are reality.
You may be unintentionally racist or ignorantly racist, but you ARE racist - don't get it twisted.
If you think Black have a "fair shake", you're just ignorant of the ACTUAL statistics and data collected.
@morpheusxnyc if you repeat it enough times it must be true.........forget it Rev Al......racism is real and ugly but your ignorance to the reality of opportunity in America is just as fugly.........
@morpheusxnyc propaganda you spit to satisfy the small population of blacks who are making a conscious wager that it is in thier best financial future to pound away at the history of black suffering at the hands of white people then to move on and sieze the ripe oppourtunity that is there for the taking.........good luck with that bet!!!!!!! BTW, you know who the bookies are????
@CartersBxtch Tell me why as soon as I read your post...that part came up lol! now a days everyone wants to speak about hurting each other.....its crazy lol!
O.K.,this was the $#!t back in the day.Notice the simple beat,smooth yet elegant.To the "New School",check out how he put words together to make a rhyme.These are called LYRICS.Stop trying to make a fuckin' hook and start writing some goddamn lyrics.
@morpheusxnyc ok just stop comparing all the time, it is not even worth that , it is just IMPOSSIBLE to compare oldschool hip-hop with those rap shmaps nowadays! just pointless to mention even the difference.
But the sadness is that there is tons of new rap music that's actually good, but those acts NEVER get signed by any majors and the smaller labels they're on don't have the budget to promote them properly, shoot videos or get them any play on radio/TV so all we get is Soulja Boy, Little Wayne, T.I., Drake, Plies, Mike Jones, David Banner, Yung Joc, etc.
@bentheweirdo - See the thing is that I'm not even bitching about the fact that the elder Gods of hip hop aren't getting as much love any more (Method Man, Nas, Jay-Z, etc). As a former music critic for Hip Hop & R&B magazines back in the 90s, I'm painfully aware that hip hop is a young man's game.But there are plenty of new, young talented Hip Hop artists that are talented and trying to keep the art alive and get NO RADIO play. Lupe Fiasco, Phonte, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, etc.
@morpheusxnyc I guess what some are saying is true regarding the Devolution of society, because music is getting worse every day, and the good songs you do find are from artist that draw heavy influence from past musical talents. I mean Look at Lady Gaga, Justin B ( okay bad example everyone loves Justin Bieber) lol.
Great Video and Song, This is what Rap is all about not all Fuck This , Shoot That, Hooo or Bitch, Dis is what Rap should be, Forget most of these new Jive rappers
My old school Tilden high. Thats back when the handball court was like a hall of fame colors for days, prospect park was run down, when people danced in hiphop videos..ni mean really dance, Definitely one of the most underrated Mc. and another great Flatbush Mc
Whats wrong with bragging about how he didn't commit a crime? I was thinking about making a rap about my superior knowledge of radio frequencies and proper polarization, would I also be corny?
Real rappers can rap about positive things too and still be cool, there isn't a law against it, most of the original rap music had a lot of great haiku, hyperbole, and synonymous punch lines which is what made it so great. Now its just 'bragging' about 'corny' stuff almost at an elementary level
@PolarBearCrusades ur a fuckin idiot little kid probably. . hes corny because he didnt shoplift? you should just get slapped for being such an idiot bruh daym! this is classic shit respect it or shut y
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ya i heard the next few lines. he goes on to bullshit more about how much money he has. its cheap ass video and he looks like he's homeless. he chills in a junkyard. no im not an "ex shoplifter". I just think if you're gonna go on for three minutes about how great you are, you should say something that matters. youre probably special ed's boyfriend and i hurt youre feelings. special ed bones you and your family in the junkyard.
Actually I was never even a big Special Ed fan back then, I just don't like haters that criticize people that put down more than they ever did.
Homeless? He was wearing what cats wore then and plenty of girls were on him, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten the attention he did, and the video looked like most videos did then? You don't even make sense man.
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all i said was that hes corny. and he is, obviously. look at him. anyone who disagrees must be stupid. nobody bought this fool's record. i dont remember him at all. fuck special ed
is that why he did a cameo on the biggest show on television at the time, The Cosby Show, with the Cosby kids going crazy over a chance to see him perform at a club (in the show plot)?
He's far from one of the greats of Hip Hop but he deserves his props for putting it down in the Golden age, with a bit of lyrical skill I might add.
@PolarBearCrusades You sound like a damn fool you need to shut the fuck up ! Rick Ross even wanted him for a song called Magnificent he did. So he was and still is relevant Stop hatin man !
Theres no explination to how good this is...14 and bumpin this!!! xD
sfkamakaze 1 day ago
Tripple FatGoose, E-Hall, Tilden High...good times good memories
odemata87 1 week ago
so so good
whatchootalkingbout1 1 month ago
classic shit
pistolsnpussy 1 month ago in playlist More videos from VintageHipHopSeattle
Back in the day before commercialized fake ass thug niggas. GODDAMNIT SOMEBODY PLEASE BRING BACK TRUE HIP-HOP MUSIC TO THESE DUMBASS KIDS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DTA550 2 months ago
My favorite song of all time, hands down
airkb11 2 months ago
Talk about filling up the dance floe !!!! LAWD it was on BACK THEN !!! whew
moonrack 4 months ago
4 ppl dont Got it Made
The2ndDonMafianChild 4 months ago
"when my dishes got dirty, i got cascade.."
MrHoopsFanatic 5 months ago
Is that Kris Kross at 3:11?
soulicous1 5 months ago
We grew up in Philly and this came out when we were in 6/7th grade. Would ALWAYS get the dancefloor going, no mattert what the year- all the way up to the present. My friend tried to play it in North Carolina to get things moving, and everyone just stood there. It's sad that they didn't get the good stuff down there back then
ceekone 5 months ago
#TRIPLEFATGOOSE
RonOsteel 5 months ago 2
BK!!!!!!!!
melrhyne 5 months ago
The schools are Erasmus and Tilden. Btw, that's Grand Army Plaza as well.
RMAREIDOOM 5 months ago 2
This use to ROCKKKKKKKKKKK
dawnnc9 6 months ago
Anyone know which high school he is in front of in this video?
sterg2551 6 months ago
I thought this song had a beat with whistling in it? Whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo
Don't he have a song like that? Was this remixed? I thought I saw him rapping with a added beat in it. Maybe he got another song with whistling, if so, tell me which one!
absgawd 6 months ago
he is my cuz no lie!
lovelyrayaallday 6 months ago
Ed - Hey man I bet I can keep a straight face this whole video.
Manager - I bet you 5$ you can't!
*later*
Ed - When my dishes got dirty, I got Cascade... POKER FACE :|
Manager - DAMN IT... YOU RAP TOO WELL.
Ed - I got it made... pay up.
LavenderPants99 6 months ago in playlist Rap
Damn Ed, you got it made in the junkyard?
305whistleblower 6 months ago
@305whistleblower LOL you just dont get it!
MrFriggoff 5 months ago
man i used to bump this on my boom box walkin down the street......lol....back in da day forreal
MultiHondaa 6 months ago
20 years ago this video made perfect sense...lol. Maybe because I had a crush on Ed. Looking at it now? He's got it made but walking around in a junk yard. Hilarious. Definitely a breath of fresh air to NOT have to see naked women dancing, money being thrown all over the place and big fancy cars. Just kids having a good time. Thanks for posting.
UnleashedGraffixx 7 months ago
I make fresh rhymes daily, you burn me, really?
love this track love the beat too
b33ma4n 7 months ago
One of my all time favorites!!!
djbchill 7 months ago
Why is it every old as song I like has commentary on pop artist of today? Can we not just enjoy the great music of the past without making such unjust comparisons. Is music not meant to be "listened to"?
peteardable 7 months ago
I love that comparison to soulja boy. Too Tru. This generation is just different, what can i say. DAMN now i sound old like my folks. Oh well IT IS, WHAT IT IS!
suave14life 8 months ago
Wow, I used to love Special Ed. Speaking proper English and rising to the top of his grade...being proud not to be a criminal...now that's something you don't hear anymore.
rhoyal22 8 months ago 2
rip hip hop
czwirner 9 months ago
Yes....when things were simple ....
maxfeen 9 months ago
yeah these days were the best.
wordizbon 9 months ago
JAMMIN THIS IN 9TH GRADE WAS MY USUAL ROUTINE . MUTHA SUCKAS DIDN'T HAVE A CLUE AS TO HOW GENIUS THAT ISH WAS HITTIN......
BLAZINBEATS123 9 months ago
i miss these days!
EmeraldStar79 9 months ago
3 words Triple Phat Goose
DaFunkyAquarian 9 months ago
that flow was impeccable
impress3 9 months ago
ill Verse
impress3 9 months ago
eye-que the symphony freestyle
eyeque17 9 months ago
Numero uno, just like Arnold.
OctopusMimesis 9 months ago
best song ever.
SatisFly6 9 months ago
You know you're listening to old school when there's a fourth verse.
DGot14U 10 months ago 10
@DGot14U and he never said his own name until he actually spit.
bockybalboa 2 months ago
Was never a Special Ed fan, but I'll take this over anything today.
LloydChristmas777 10 months ago
My era, one of my fave rap songs back in the day, real hip hop artist.
klove0202 10 months ago
@bentheweirdo - LMAO... Licensing your music for commercial use is different from making shit pop music devoid of an artistic statement or value for the expressed purposes of selling ringtones/sneakers or simple minded call-and-response club hits.
Even Rakim's "Don't Sweat The Technique" was licensed for Reebok a few years back. Doesn't make the song nor the artist a sellout piece of commercial shit.
morpheusxnyc 10 months ago
C L A S S I C!!!
Dmaccabees 10 months ago
this is lil waynes worst nightmare. real hip hop. and...as long as i am alive real hip hop will never die, beccause i still play it LOUD wherever i go. no bass, alllllll treble....letting the world know how good late 80's to mid 90's hip hop was....priceless. doesnt get ANY better. not even close.
LASVEGASGHETTO 10 months ago 43
@LASVEGASGHETTO Word up. I do the same thing in my car.
phooneyt 7 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO Glad to know Im not alone man...SLUMPLORDZ 4 LIFE!!!
rahkriga 6 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO Yeah this right here is true hiphop priceless!
mashedy1 6 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO Turn the BASS up homie.
davidjorr 5 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO GODDAMN RIGHT. I grew up in Chicago in high school in the late 80's and early 90's...this was our voice and our life back then and always will be. Today's new school commerical bullshit rap isnt even in the same category on its BEST FUCKIN DAY.
Torchjob 5 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO fuck ya im the same way bro
efizzle323 5 months ago
@LASVEGASGHETTO Hell yea man !!!!
Evile9669 4 months ago
ALLLLLLL YEAH THATS MY CUT!!!!!
kay77764 11 months ago
"I got the cash but money ain't nothing" When Hip-Hop was true.
flavjuniorgrill 11 months ago
Never gets old.
slack1978 11 months ago
He pulled a frog out of his pocket lol
laykni 11 months ago
so miss 80's rap. it was the best.
janineben35 1 year ago
YO!!! This is one of the hottest videos. I still love it!!
schayglover 1 year ago
CHIEF 1 wont lose until i CHOOSE
7REDRUM 1 year ago
special ed is fire stylll!
downtevin 1 year ago
Pure butta!!
IceManLikeGervin 1 year ago
I'm 40 yrs old and white. my friends and I listened to this in college.....great stuff.
weinerdvm 1 year ago
DIS IS FIRE!!!! miss the late 80s even tho im 16
downtevin 1 year ago
Im white and i know that this is TWIN HYPE!! Oldschool when shit was fun and about B boy-in, Girly's and gear!
Crackerton0006 1 year ago
3 ppl still hollin "YUUUUAH!" from soulja boy weak ass lol
Gokudaboss 1 year ago
There is a remix version of this song that they used to play on the radio alot. It was better than this.. The beat was insane. Anyone remember that?
BUILDINGWITHBULLION 1 year ago
A million running man dances also. BTW what High School is that in BK? Prospect Hts?
MrBiloxiSean 1 year ago
@MrBiloxiSean im prettty sure its Erasmus Hall and from what i remember (i dont live in bklyn anymore) its in Flatbush area
jayceebxtch 1 year ago
Thats not prospect heights?
Boomaleo 1 year ago
@MrBiloxiSean
prospect heights baby
Boomaleo 1 year ago
Cant compare this to soulja kid,..... Souljah kid did not pass the exam to the next school ,..
DZMPLZ 1 year ago
it's time to bring this shit back, ya'll!......
flat top fades, the wop, the running man.cabbage patch...WHO WIT ME? :-D
RightWhereUStand 1 year ago 20
@RightWhereUStand I'm with ya!
bloohart 1 year ago
@bloohart
*gives bloohart a high 5!*.thanks! :-D
RightWhereUStand 1 year ago
the simple fact is, whitey as a record company can get blamed for the fall of hiphop BUT really its the dumb people listening to the bubble gum rap on the radio and on tv that keeps real hip hop from stayin alive. A record exsecutive will put out crap becuase thats what sells. Underground is where the hip and the hop is at, and if WE support it hip hop will not die!
mag3601 1 year ago
Why is it that all things end up racist. Im white as they come and have been a hip hop head for years. I used pop and break, DJ. I dont care about who makes the sh!t just make it dope. Take race discussions to another area this is music pure fun and dope.
rawtrucks 1 year ago
@rawtrucks Because when the police show up U R no longer a hip-hop head...U become a white supremist....U talk like U really dig us and our music yet when U C police harrassing the brothas U SAY NOTHING...When U C the great injustices done 2 our people U SAY NOTHING...When U get mad at your so-called black friend...he becomes a NIGGER...So the racists is U...U just hide it...And remember this...Black people R NIGGERS from Blaine.WA 2 Key West Fl....If U FINALLY speak up this could change
zyruemusic 1 year ago
Classic
jackasses9092 1 year ago
what a cool beat, so simple, but perfect...
bobsboobies 1 year ago
whaat your 25 and barely discovering REAL CLASSIC HIP HOP?? thats absurd to the outtermost. haha nah im fckn around. todays music is soooooooooooooo gotdamn stupid. i et embarrassed whenever im around the new music... i dont even wanna call it "music." its crap... and its for sure not hip hop.. just some bunk ass rap that has all the wrong things in it to sound appealing.. they all talk about the same thing. BULLSHTT! all the dumb people are makin them money though, which i dont understand .....
JazzyBlues420 1 year ago
This guy is dope!!!!!!! I'm 25 and my older brother put me onto this guy....this is the first song I've heard by him, but its dope!!!!!!!
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kingecua11 1 year ago
when it was about the music, not cars or disrespecting women......Today's rappers blaming ghetto life and whitey....why not Special Ed, Big Daddy Kane and so on......Why because they worked hard and made it!!!!!!
kevcas73 1 year ago
@kevcas73 LOL@ blaming Whitey.
Wait - are you saying White America isn't responsible for the horrific conditions that gave rise to the protest/ghetto CNN music that is rap?
Because that's what rap music was when it blossomed.
morpheusxnyc 1 year ago
@morpheusxnyc there is plenty of blame for whitey but when it is about the music then your career lasts 30+ years.....just ask EW&F, O'Jays, The Whispers, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Whodini, Special Ed, Big Daddy Kane and so on..........Whodini sang about One Love and LL sang I need Love.......you can always find someone to blame for anything........hard work, luck and skill can go a long way my friend. Respect
kevcas73 1 year ago
@kevcas73 - Oh, agreed. And I'm not advocating for the promotion of victimhood and perpetual helplessness in rap.
I'm for accountability, higher standards and striving at all times to be the best in everything you do.
But let's not pretend like there aren't obstacles to achieving those goals related to their race and that those obstacles are White in origin and nature.
That's all I'm saying. It's not an excuse not to try your hardest, or to give up. Just an acknowledgement of history.
morpheusxnyc 1 year ago
@morpheusxnyc agreed. best wishes
the kid hartford
I rep the southside hartford, ct
kevcas73 1 year ago
@kevcas73 - Who do you think makes all the money from destructive rap music? Whites.
Black people definitely don't get anything but crumbs off the table for their actual music.
Also, the conscious rap and intellectual rap movement got started as a reaction to the devastation of racism on the Black community.
So please, take your lame ass, Tea Bagger flavored, "White people are innocent - you Blacks did it all to yourselves" bullshit somewhere else. History and facts are not on your side.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc You are very right.Listening to all this gun rap and murder talk is sickening and depressing.Half these faggots out here running around with guns(rappers too)are fucking pussy!If they had to fight with their fists..they would surely get their asses whooped and worst.I saw this dude waiting for the S.I ferry and he started talking so much shit to this guy about how the people he be with keep burners and when it came down to fighting he told him to wait..fuckin sucker!
pimpdaddyhustla 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc thousands of blacks maybe millions since the 1800's have come out of the ghetto and made it........they didn't waste time looking for an excuse, they worked hard, got some breaks and luck and made it.
It isn't fair so stop trying to make it seem like somehow it should be and blacks are getting screwed....everyone is.........get up, get out and get some!!!!!!!
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - You lack a knowledge of U.S. racial/political history.
Blacks in the U.S. constitute 12.6% of the population and are 38.9 million people in 2010. Even if thousands make it out of the ghetto. That's mere thousands out of 38.9 MILLION. A drop in the bucket.
And it's not statistically possible that without racism such a small number U.S. blacks make it out when in predominantly Black countries, the numbers of educated Black professionals is larger by factors and multiples.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc it isn't perfect, fair or right......An argument about racism and it's history is valuable when it is done in a context to oppourtunity and it's future............
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - You have the benefit of not having to live the reality of millions of other Americans who's collective life struggle you dismiss with a cognitively dissonant platitude.
Blithely dispensing pithy fortune cookie wisdom like that does little to mitigate the harsh truth of existence in a country where the descendant of slaves that built the country and it's wealth are denied the fruits of their labor or a seat at the table after having been held back for centuries.
No, it's not fair.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc "the harsh truth of existence in a country where the descendant of slaves that built the country and it's wealth are denied the fruits of their labor or a seat at the table after having been held back for centuries."
That statement is completely and utterly false. If you are trying to be an intellectual, judging by your choice of words you are, then you must stay in the lane of truth and not veer off into a 1980's version of Al Sharpton........That has no value.
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - Ding ding ding! And there it, ladies and gentlemen! The racist, holocaust denier lurking beneath the surface rears his ugly, misshapen head.
The statement is utterly factual. Slave labor built the vast majority of the fortunes and wealth used by Whites to create and finance all the institutions and industries that Whites handed down to their progeny.
In Europe, the U.S. and throughout much of the world, African slavery was the key to establishing empires.
Read up on it.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc Slaves built this country......Really, thanks Socrates!!!!!!! Come on Al Sharpton...I think the track suit is too tight.......You must see the irony in your insistence that blacks are shut out as Special Ed sings "I got it made" in the background........You are not interested in a serious discussion on race, power and money.........
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - You cite the fictitous bragging rhymes of a 16 year old Jamaican kid from Brooklyn from 1989 as some kind of proof that Blacks have equal opportunity in this society and you accuse ME of not wanting to have a serious discussion on race, power and money?
I can't sit here all day and educate you about slavery and how it paid for everything, Reconstruction, separate but equal, Brown vs Board of Ed, Jim Crow, FHA loan denial, housing & employment discrimination.
Go read some books.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc I said it was ironic not gospel..........You can't educate me on a subject you've only scratched the surface on.......Your assertion that blacks today don't have a fair shake at the American dream is simply false......Propaganda for a small slice of people who still want to carry around a chip on their shoulder that is only keeping them from standing up...........
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - Your ignorance and racism are so glaringly obvious that you don't even hear how you sound. It's easy to think the way you do when you've never lived it, see it, studied it.
You watch Fox News and BET and think that both are reality.
You may be unintentionally racist or ignorantly racist, but you ARE racist - don't get it twisted.
If you think Black have a "fair shake", you're just ignorant of the ACTUAL statistics and data collected.
Visit the Southern Poverty Law Center's site.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc if you repeat it enough times it must be true.........forget it Rev Al......racism is real and ugly but your ignorance to the reality of opportunity in America is just as fugly.........
kevcas73 7 months ago
@morpheusxnyc propaganda you spit to satisfy the small population of blacks who are making a conscious wager that it is in thier best financial future to pound away at the history of black suffering at the hands of white people then to move on and sieze the ripe oppourtunity that is there for the taking.........good luck with that bet!!!!!!! BTW, you know who the bookies are????
kevcas73 7 months ago
@kevcas73 - I stated right at the beginning that I advocate personal accountability and to keep striving IN SPITE of racism and the obstacles.
You pretend that there IS NO racism and that the playing field is level. That's dangerously ignorant.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
This is my dude right here real hip hop in it's prime ! Special Ed thanks for the dope hip hop man for real !
dhwand 1 year ago
BROOK-LYN!!!!!
oldscool75 1 year ago 3
@oldscool75 F0ur Sure!!
ilikeyourpantstoo 1 year ago
Where are u Joey D
sheler412 1 year ago
Hip Hop aint dead folks, it just moved underground, theres still alot of artists keeping it real!
HipHopCypher 1 year ago 2
RIP. Hip Hop is dead. : (
josephehebert 1 year ago
THIS IS TRUE HIP HOP
CEOANTHONYB 1 year ago
Lol 'i got a frog'
frikie94 1 year ago
THIS WAS DONE AT ERASMUS HIGH SCHOOL THE SCHOOL WERE PEOPLE GOT ROBBED ALL THE TIME.
GABRIELJACMEL 1 year ago
@GABRIELJACMEL You got that right Crooklyn !!
dhwand 1 year ago
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sterg2551 6 months ago
Special Ed was dope and crazy talented as a lyricist at 16...set the stage for Nas to record Illmatic at 16
MayRettaKing 1 year ago
"Got a treaty with Tahiti cause I own a percent" - Tru hip hop.
polarbear3333333333 1 year ago
I didn't bang, I got laid.
CartersBxtch 1 year ago
@CartersBxtch Tell me why as soon as I read your post...that part came up lol! now a days everyone wants to speak about hurting each other.....its crazy lol!
shanenolan85 1 year ago
Man... the flattops, the triple fat goose, the dancing. Now I know how my elders feel.
WarrenPace 1 year ago
Some sick dancin' in this video!
blastmasterbiz 1 year ago 2
dope track....enough said
Rhyno932 1 year ago
My all time favorite Old School Jam.
djbchill 1 year ago
@djbchill my bad i ment to vote up same here my fav old skool song
coolmdt 1 year ago
O.K.,this was the $#!t back in the day.Notice the simple beat,smooth yet elegant.To the "New School",check out how he put words together to make a rhyme.These are called LYRICS.Stop trying to make a fuckin' hook and start writing some goddamn lyrics.
wildchildrm74 1 year ago 3
flow so smoooth
abelt09 1 year ago
... memory lane ... I love it ... 1 ...
PawwwPrintzzzBLVD 1 year ago
this is real hip hop not fake. people need to to hear this. peace.
maemae91210 1 year ago
1 MILLION FLAT TOPS. those were the days.
Q7d2 1 year ago 20
Does he really walk around with sand in his jacket pocket?
luns101 1 year ago
This guy came to my house todayy:)
Lilprincess919 1 year ago
Just compare this 16 year older to Soulja Boy.
Sigh.. Hip Hop is dead...
morpheusxnyc 1 year ago 52
@morpheusxnyc ok just stop comparing all the time, it is not even worth that , it is just IMPOSSIBLE to compare oldschool hip-hop with those rap shmaps nowadays! just pointless to mention even the difference.
steisij 1 year ago
@steisij - You ain't lying.
But the sadness is that there is tons of new rap music that's actually good, but those acts NEVER get signed by any majors and the smaller labels they're on don't have the budget to promote them properly, shoot videos or get them any play on radio/TV so all we get is Soulja Boy, Little Wayne, T.I., Drake, Plies, Mike Jones, David Banner, Yung Joc, etc.
FML...
morpheusxnyc 1 year ago
@morpheusxnyc very true
YMEDelaGhetto 1 year ago
@morpheusxnyc its dead but if you make a classic rap/hip hop song then it might have a chance to come back
bentheweirdo 10 months ago
@bentheweirdo - See the thing is that I'm not even bitching about the fact that the elder Gods of hip hop aren't getting as much love any more (Method Man, Nas, Jay-Z, etc). As a former music critic for Hip Hop & R&B magazines back in the 90s, I'm painfully aware that hip hop is a young man's game.But there are plenty of new, young talented Hip Hop artists that are talented and trying to keep the art alive and get NO RADIO play. Lupe Fiasco, Phonte, Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, etc.
morpheusxnyc 10 months ago
@morpheusxnyc idk about lupe fiasco man, they have 1 of their songs in Need For Speed Hot Pursuit so idk
bentheweirdo 10 months ago
@morpheusxnyc I guess what some are saying is true regarding the Devolution of society, because music is getting worse every day, and the good songs you do find are from artist that draw heavy influence from past musical talents. I mean Look at Lady Gaga, Justin B ( okay bad example everyone loves Justin Bieber) lol.
businessbmw 8 months ago
@businessbmw - lol.. Not me. I've got no love for the absolute bubblegum crap that the Kanuck Kid puts out.
morpheusxnyc 8 months ago
@morpheusxnyc I was joking dude, u didn't get it?
businessbmw 7 months ago
@businessbmw - Yes, hence the "lol" at the beginning. I just added some additional commentary.
morpheusxnyc 7 months ago
Fucker lookz like snoop back in da dayz
RDEEONE 1 year ago
@RDEEONE Snoops said that Special Ed was HIS greatest influence.
So who looks like who?
morpheusxnyc 1 year ago
This was my joint!!!
redeemd99 1 year ago
Great Video and Song, This is what Rap is all about not all Fuck This , Shoot That, Hooo or Bitch, Dis is what Rap should be, Forget most of these new Jive rappers
dleet101 1 year ago
DIS HIP HOP BITCH!
rahamagee 1 year ago
this rap was just so straightforward make ya really believe this nyga really RICH.
soundclik43030 1 year ago
My old school Tilden high. Thats back when the handball court was like a hall of fame colors for days, prospect park was run down, when people danced in hiphop videos..ni mean really dance, Definitely one of the most underrated Mc. and another great Flatbush Mc
odemata87 1 year ago
such a fucking classic, timeless shit, hip hop today hasnt got the spirit whatsoever
BeenaBee 1 year ago
The man!!!
vpchipz 1 year ago
"when my dishes were dirty, I got Cascade"......haha, nice
no40 1 year ago 5
@no40 ahahahaha yeahh!!
dknight416 1 year ago
I thought he was cool.
CeddyJam 1 year ago
Woooweee..... the Special One !!..... :)
flyguy494 1 year ago
who cares? this song is classic.
50CenT123smoke 1 year ago
@polarbearcrusades. You are a complete jackass. Stick to your N sync and leave the hip hop to us!
lastkingofgrenada 2 years ago 3
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fuck some faggot ass special ed fans. special ed knows hes a clown. you cant even see that
PolarBearCrusades 2 years ago
this was the shit . ED made these niggas start stuntin .
audiojoell 2 years ago 3
Special Ed was FINE♥!!! I love this song =D
domellcun 2 years ago
I got it madeeeeeeeeeee, I love this video and song.
foonicka 2 years ago
He got made! Yaaaaaaay! He got made!
Bikkoes 2 years ago
"i'm talented yes i'm gifted
never boosted never shoplifted"
this nigga special ed is corny
PolarBearCrusades 2 years ago
why is he corny?
beastzeus 2 years ago
because he brags about how he has never shopplifted in his songs
PolarBearCrusades 2 years ago
Whats wrong with bragging about how he didn't commit a crime? I was thinking about making a rap about my superior knowledge of radio frequencies and proper polarization, would I also be corny?
Real rappers can rap about positive things too and still be cool, there isn't a law against it, most of the original rap music had a lot of great haiku, hyperbole, and synonymous punch lines which is what made it so great. Now its just 'bragging' about 'corny' stuff almost at an elementary level
beastzeus 2 years ago
@PolarBearCrusades ur a fuckin idiot little kid probably. . hes corny because he didnt shoplift? you should just get slapped for being such an idiot bruh daym! this is classic shit respect it or shut y
KL209 1 year ago
@PolarBearCrusades yo mouth
KL209 1 year ago
Uhh did you hear the next lines?
He said he dosen't need to shoplift because he's paid. lol what are you an ex shoplifter and he hurt your feelings? lol
periechontology 2 years ago
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ya i heard the next few lines. he goes on to bullshit more about how much money he has. its cheap ass video and he looks like he's homeless. he chills in a junkyard. no im not an "ex shoplifter". I just think if you're gonna go on for three minutes about how great you are, you should say something that matters. youre probably special ed's boyfriend and i hurt youre feelings. special ed bones you and your family in the junkyard.
PolarBearCrusades 2 years ago
Actually I was never even a big Special Ed fan back then, I just don't like haters that criticize people that put down more than they ever did.
Homeless? He was wearing what cats wore then and plenty of girls were on him, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten the attention he did, and the video looked like most videos did then? You don't even make sense man.
periechontology 2 years ago
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all i said was that hes corny. and he is, obviously. look at him. anyone who disagrees must be stupid. nobody bought this fool's record. i dont remember him at all. fuck special ed
PolarBearCrusades 2 years ago
Nobody bought his records and liked him? really?
is that why he did a cameo on the biggest show on television at the time, The Cosby Show, with the Cosby kids going crazy over a chance to see him perform at a club (in the show plot)?
He's far from one of the greats of Hip Hop but he deserves his props for putting it down in the Golden age, with a bit of lyrical skill I might add.
periechontology 2 years ago 2
@PolarBearCrusades You sound like a damn fool you need to shut the fuck up ! Rick Ross even wanted him for a song called Magnificent he did. So he was and still is relevant Stop hatin man !
dhwand 1 year ago
@PolarBearCrusades shut up you fag
FIGHTFANNERD3 1 year ago
Everybody woppin it out!
bonghits4jeezus 2 years ago
mAD dOPe
Julia18100 2 years ago
Crazy that he was just a teenager when he made this.
shamroc50 2 years ago
its in a junkyard bcuz some unhip guy in a suit n tie said this was how its gonna be...creative control was very rare in those days
marvello44 2 years ago
I got a frog..a dog with a solid gold bone.
despo108 2 years ago