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  • Back in high school, I thought groups like these guys we SO cool.. ESPECIALLY x- clan when they 1st came out...

  • I love it!! <3

  • Everlast (HOP) and Divine Styler were friends, and I think label mates as well. (Not absolutely sure though.) But Everlast does do a shout out to DS on a track and I'm sure "Jump Around" was, in a way, a respectful nod to their friendship and influence.

  • @zimmerbahn

    and the same screaming Prince's sample is used in this track and in Jump Around

  • @BayanTheOne That ain't Prince... It's a JR Walker & The All-Stars horn sample.

  • @OURGANGITV "Shoot Your Shot"

  • @OURGANGITV

    true, thanks for schooling me, i was wrong

    the point is still that the sample appears on both records

  • @BayanTheOne No doubt. you were right and wrong at the same time..LOL.. I had the same reaction when I first heard Jump Around. I started digging for breaks around 91 and that sample was one of the first ones I found.

  • @zimmerbahn I think, Everlast gives a shout out to DS on every HOP album! DS is in the "Fed Up( remix )" video featuring Guru of Gang Starr! Off and on in the video DS is wearing a mask.

  • back in tha day man !

  • house of pain bit this hard 

  • d wuevotessssss

  • I miss you big cousin! RIP kaloni to y'all but to us he'll forever be sugarman

  • funky crs

    

  • awww look at my Cokni O Direeeeeeeee, get it man!

  • That was my peeps, in the early 90s in Carson they would pull me to the hip hop spots and tell me to leave they banging alone and it worked!

  • rest in power kaloni!!!! 

  • 9 dislikes? r u fuckkin kiddin me?!

  • i wore the fuck outta this tape back in tha day

  • Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • L.A. 89-94! NUKEL HEDZ! BROS. THATS FREAKY! DYNAMITE SOUL! SOUL BROS.! KINGS WITH STYLE! NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! FAKE RTD BUS PASS STICKERS! SWIPES! 1990'S! RACKIN'! GETTIN' UP! JOSHUA'S INGLEWOOD! WATER THE BUSH! WAREHOUSE! THE REAL KDAY AM! FOX HILLS MALL! HAWTHORNE MALL! IFK! LOD! CHAKA! SLEEZE! BALDWIN PLAZA! LEIMERT PARK!

  • 100% Rayon lolz

  • @repo136 You're wrong...a lot of joints were sampled; even B4 1983. Sugar Hill sampled "Good Times" by CHIC in '79. Flash and the Furious Five sampled "Seven Minutes of Funk" in "Superappin'" in '80. You must be young. Should I go on? I was there, Dude!

    OG Tic Toc

  • @skronnyrotten I hope that you didn't get your info from the History Channel...they haven't even touched the base of what we know. That was for show. Anyway, where did you get that in Divine Styler's jam? I heard him building, but there was nothing Masonic in it. Not getting on u, just get ur facts right! I am of both sciences!

    OG Tic Toc(NYC)

  • @skronnyrotten Freemasonry? LMFAO! No, my friend..not that! I have traveled to the east; and I was also a 5 Percenter..which is what Divine Styler is. Get your facts right!

  • 9 people are lil wayne lovin bitches

  • old school!!!

  • NEW WEST ORDER AND DECEVIO FO 2011 2012 0N YOUTUBE PHARROH

  • Yo we miss it now but but we couldn't  stand some of these nubian groups back then...

  • freemasonry

  • Divine Styler deserves more props, each song I've heard of his is a master piece.

  • D WUEVOSSSSSSSSSSSS

  • guy in the grey sweatshirt reminds me of Crab man

  • @austintoebosch haha.

  • INTEGRITY....GEMS....BEING YOURSELF......FCUK THE INDUSTRY....FADS....TRYNA FIT THE FCUK IN......HIPHOP RULES!!!!!

  • That more albums he made, the weirder that shit got.

  • Still the Bomb after all this time. Thanks ICE for hooking the world up with these cats!

  • This was when rap music was fun. There was room for EVERY style. New styles were always welcomed...some caught on and some faded, but creativity was the norm. Today's hip hop is controlled and lacks creativity

  • Old skool.

  • Man i miss Kalonie .... Big up to the scheme team and Devine. where ever yall brothers are.

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  • @dmenacex The kat playing the drums is married to Mary J. Blige..KENDU ISSACS...

  • Timeless raps and beats . This the blueprint to some of Dj Muggs's production values THUMBS UP

  • this song is old its like 1983

  • @crashsonicmario 1989. No one was sampling breaks in 1983.

  • Someone please post "Tounge Of Labyrinth"

  • diS IS my dAD ALL YAL NIGAS HES DA SHIT SO DNT HATE APRISIATE

  • @Mnasir97 A shame that having such an eloquent father did absolutely nothing for your poor education.

  • @Mnasir97 noones hating on this in the first place u failed abortion

  • I forgot all about this song.Never knew the group's name 'til now.

  • I've been looking for this forever. Thanks for posting.

  • lick shot at all the graftin, place em on the staff then, unroll the scroll of a million facts,and touche la black defence, exploit the unknown, the vexed intense, subconcious trickery must dispense, before the Uprise, touch eyes, take a whiff of the scent....but Styler me,is planting trees,for the scheme of enlightning,properties undermined, underline for a request of surgery,you heard of me Divine M.D.,on the clergy of G.O.D.,would you believe we aint coloured, we originally......

  • @PATHH88 ..in the right category of mass species

  • his rhyme patterns are crazy, no one else ever rhymed like Divine, him and Brother J are 2 of my favourite MC's ever cos they so original....CLASSIC ALBUM

  • ice t made a BOLD move by helping this artist get signed but it paid off real well this is my favorite albulm out of the afrocentric area because of its realnessDivine Styler is a convert to Islam; he influenced the decision of Everlast to become a Muslim. Many of the songs on Spiral Walls Containing Autums of Light are songs of praise to Allah, and the 1999 song "Make it Plain" (recorded for the Funky Precedent compilation)

  • classic 80's Hip Hop. Word Power was a dope album, especially "Tongue Of The Labyrinth"

  • @coldrockdaspot Did Divine Styler get a lot of airplay and videoplay back in 89 when he dropped this album?? A couple of months ago I just found out about Divine, and I'm a hardcore hip hop head, but when he dropped this I was probably about 4 years old, so I don't remember him that much. But i check some stuff out from word power and he's definitely a dope mc. I wish he was a able to blow up more, but hey I guess that's how things work sometime in this industry.

  • @Thebeewise459 I live in Wellington,New Zealand and heard about Divine Styler because I was a big fan of Ice-T and Rhyme Syndicate and I remember buying this record (which I still have on vinyl) because of that association, down here we didn't get a great deal of rap videos, but I know that none of Divine's ever screened down here, Word Power is a great album, but his other material is dope too.

  • @coldrockdaspot Everlast shouts him out all the time, he was down with Rhyme Syndicate too, Ice had a posse cut on the Iceberg album called "what you wanna do(party)" i cant remember if Divine was on it though...but Ev was...

  • @Thebeewise459

    Pardon me butting in. If I recall correctly, in NYC, this was the only song and video that was really pushed from this album. It had a good buzz, but didn't take off. Sony seemed to want to push it as a Daisy Age/De La-type thing, but it was on a different vibe.

  • I love everything about this era, Divine Styler's lyrics are prophetic, the video unconventional and trippy, the clothes, hippy brothers with silky paisley shirts and baggy pants (not showing your ass like them clowns do now), cracking dreads, and cool as TM step dancing....these brothers had it going on....

  • r i p kaloni,big ups from dynamite soul.

  • classic track from a classic album.

    "subconcious trickery must dispense, before the Uprise, touch eyes..."

    where Divine at these days, Directrix: Word Power 2 was great but not enough....

  • I MISS THE 90's!!!!

  • check out my lyric fathom fathom and my harmony text!!!

  • OLD BEAT FOREVER¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • the dancing is pretty funny rofll. it looks like a movie you'd watch when you're high

  • r.i.p kaloni scheme team forever

  • Gnarls Barkley "Crazy", I hear the same tiempo in the background beat.

  • Gnarles Barkley ......Get a grip.... and wtf is a tiempo??

  • @nuffaction

    Tiempo is the word time in spanish. Haha, he meant tempo

  • First off, love to every head on this post

    "Situation that I kick cognito (incognito)

    Won't stop till I drop science to the black people"

    Classic. The Scheme Team and Geronimo (the dance cannibal) of LONS is the reason I got into dancing. Styler, Zev Luv X, Q-Tip lyrically were taking it back then on the abstract. Ofcoarse Pos & Tru also.

    -peace

  • The dancing, the clothes, the music was a heavy movement in L.A. / San Diego. They labled us "House Dancers" (not dat Maddona Vogue crap). Think more like "The Soul Brothers" (Dej Jef's dancers). Great time in hip hop.

  • Gewoon lekker ouwuhhh,like hiphop suppost 2 be!!

  • I remember thinking "what the hell is he rhyming about" it had me beat, but I still drop this and the crowd still dig it, wicked.

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  • I was looking for this song for SUCH A LONG TIME. Something just told me to check You Tube and here it is. LOL. My friend and I use that phrase a lot, "Do The Flambookie". LMAO. Wow. Wait till I tell him I found this joint. MAAAAAAN, OLD SCHOOL! I remember me and my boys when we were kids, dancing to this song. These guys and Poor Righteous Teachers.

  • I remember my friend swapping tapes with me, I got this one and he got a PE tape.

    Love this track.

  • i had this tape too. but i remember this being the only banger on it. i might feel differently nowadays though.

  • @jabuan i liked the entire album except one i use FF. Bought this album 3 times.

  • This reminds me of all the brothers (not speaking about race) that got their ass's down to the local halls and were reppin with the stone wash genes and paisley shirts not caring what the gangbangers thought back in the day. We would put in work on the dance floor and watch all the suckers hate and walk out with all the fly girllies. Peace to the Scheme team, Nerds in Effect , Devotion to Motion, and Reality... (Samerika Hall 87)

  • @slanguage1 Yo man...I remember those days...we used to rep it in Carson...One on One dancers/Southside Troopers....I remember Charles when he used to dance with the Unpredicatables...

  • @slanguage1 I used to be from 1 on 1 dancers from Carson. Southside Troopers.....we used to battle all of those cats...haha..I used to groove with Charles before he got in with the soul brothers and divine stylers camp...he used to rock with the Unpredictables...

  • We ain't really call it nothing, this was a time when hip hop and house crossed paths constantly, so a lot of what applied to hip hop also applied to house.

    You could easily find these types of cats battling in the house clubs. that was our whole style...ragamuffin, if you absolutely HAVE to call it somethin...baggy raggedy jeans, paisley rayon shirts, scarfs, dreds, John Fluevogs or Doc Martins...rayon suits with hoodies built in....lol

  • I remember this shit when hip hop artists still danced a little the good ol' days

  • I dunno about you all but in cali we called it "Ghetto Style" and this is early 90's ..Good Shit homie"!!

  • on the straight tho why always the light skin brothers (lord jamar,afrika babaybam,farrakhan) the most pro-black, like they ashamed and shit? got sumpthin to prove?

  • Just hearing this brings all the feelings of the truth of rap!!!!, raised on this . divine

  • i was 11 years old when this came out tha shizzzzzzzzzzzzzz im 33 now still rockin

  • divine styler was the illest mc of the that time.... that scheme team shit raised a lot young brothers such as myself...... to put it plainly simple divine styler and the "good life" family tree started real west coast hip hop. period! Peace and Blessings Kalani... c-arson stand up!

  • ice t took a bold step with signing this artist but it paid off i am 40 years old and i have the tape cd and ALBULM this was my favorite of the aficiacentric movement this was ahead of its time too divine is still making music as well Word POWER will take out ALOT of these niggas thats ot now,, you can feel the realist of this brother i also credit him for the first spoken word on rap as well says uzipolo-king of decatur

  • thank you for your words

  • love this song XD lots of funny dancing guys in it though kinda loled myself

  • yo b the dancers in this video are the shit, them boys are getting down

  • Lyrics, Beats, and Dancing!!!!!! hip-hop needs to get back to this!

  • COOL

  • this track was abstract house dancin type hip hop at it's finest, even funkier and jazzier than q-tip or a tribe called quest and more abstract than anything the great house dancin tracks def jeff put out although they were all great.

  • the question is..

    wheres the mp3 for divine styler - make it plain?!

    possibly the best song of their era.

  • wtf is the mp3 for this?

  • i like the fact that he spits to pure drums!!!

  • RIP K. Clergy Allah Creme is in the House.

  • Anyone trying to diss This, Knows Nothing About Dropping Real Scientic 5% knowledge!

  • lmao @ the guy at 1:38

  • Awesome! I didn't know htye made a video for this one. Brilliant and perfect and what else can I say???

  • Divine Styler IS SELF LORD AND MASTER!!

  • if anyone has the gall to dis this, they don't know what the FUCK they're talking about. if u don't remember this, just chill & learn & appreciate...  pure golden era flave... timeless classic !!!

  • Trend setter, flow go getter. This was some futuristic, conscious shit. I met him once and he was cool as well.

  • WOW!!! Its so hard to believe I was actually there for this!!! Time just stood still for me for a second!

    Water the Bush!

  • sound of l.a.

  • Ahead of his time...he shows you how to own a beat and drop something at the same time.

  • that was before q-tip

  • Not really, remember Q-Tip was around in 1988 on The Jungle Brother's Straight Out the Jungle. This came out in 1989. But he wasn't a Q-Tip wannabe like dude said.

  • fucking idiot. hahaha.

  • is this guy still rapping is it cause hes too old

    or that he turnes into a muslim

  • won't stop till i drop science to the black people

  • BBOY MUSIC!!!!

  • Haaaaa, I first saw this on Video Music Box!! Still sounds good!!!!!

  • woooooooooooooooooooo!!!! yessir!!!!! see me in the club still getting down like these brothas....word! HIP HOP LIVES!!!!! THRUS US ALL! HIP HOP LIVES!!!

  • i remember we just got our dayton's , drivin to a party back then. Damn i miss those day's.

  • Yo, this was the shit right here.. And you know what's so dope about this cut? It goes to show how lyrics can hold a track DOWN.. There wasn't shit but the drums rocking during the verses.. Somebody tell these fools out here about SKILLS son!

  • damn this is the shit do anyboby have the scheme team vs soul bros on video? and what happen to kalani

  • SCHEME TEAM..Authentic LA stand up! Good times..good times..

  • Divine reminds me of someone from back in the day like....me!

  • old school breakers kooL!!!

  • This was a great album, and Divinde styler definitely had his own unique persona and flow. My favorite track was "koexistinuforia".

  • I was looking for this video for some time, not too many remember him, thaks

  • "Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light" is a forgotten masterwork. Peace.

  • Yeah...I'm listening to Grey Matter right now. People slept on Rhyme Syndicate

  • Props!!! Thanks for posting!!!

  • I used to hurry and get up and see this video on Saturday's MTV Raps, plus it was an hour LOL. Spring '90 classic!!!!

  • true classic vic :)) love this video

  • does anyone know the lyrics of this song?

  • wow.. i forgot about this. nice to see all this stuff on youtube.

  • great song,

    perfect video

    wish when i turn on the TV i see this and not that gangster crap

  • Wow, never thought I'd see this video again!

    Divine Styler was way ahead of his time, one thing that hasn't changed is he is still beautiful. Yes!!!

  • No Disrepect..but I lost my virginity while this video was playing on Video Music Box....Memories!!

  • You really took that literally when he said: "Fella's can we still do it?". I wanna know how in the world could you concentrate with that piercing lick this song has? Man, that what I call determination and drive. And I do find your comment disrespectful...perv. (Ha,ha)

  • yawl givin it up for styler but NOT the SCHEME TEAM? HIS DANCERS? i remember speaking to charlie b from back in the day at the water the bush (later 'united nations)......dude was tight.

  • the I, Self, Lord, And Master...dope. Divine is still lyrical.

  • Man I used to dress this way in the early 90's!! lol

  • what was that style called?

  • the funny thing is we didnt call it anything, we just didnt want to dress like the "gang bangers". We felt it was Hip Hop. I think some may have called it "house" or "house-er" because of the Hip Hop house dancers back then

  • True you are right baggy jeans with paisley shirts and stomp shoes....

  • you can find this album on Soulseek...FYI

  • i got a room on slsk = OLD SKOOL GANGSTA SHIT

  • For all yall peeps who are looking for this song , here is a link missingtoof.c om/v2/2007/04/18/wednesdays-is­-for-old-rap-divine-styler/

  • so that's where that "check out my lyric fathom" line came from...

  • where do i start with divine styler ahead of his time very influencal when he moved to la early 87 and he had one of the freshest dance crews in la called THE SCHEME TEAM RIP KALANI SOME OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE DANCERS I HAVE EVER SEEN STILL TIL THIS DAY DIVINE ALSO HAD A HEAVY INFLUENCE ON DEF JEF WHO WAS ALSO FROM NEW YORK AND MOVED TO LA AND HE ALSO HAD THE WORLD FAMOUS SOUL BROTHERS CRAIG E,V-LUV AND LEGEND THESE 2 CREWS SINGLE HANDLED INFLUENCED THE WHOLE WEST COAST AND THE WORLD

  • I totally agree with you Pokkey, if it wasn't for great music like this and dance crews like the Scheme Team & Soul Brothers I probably wouldn't be doing the things I love today which is designing and still enjoying music and getting my soul boogie on! A great inspiration for many just listen to the lyrics son. Word power.

  • luv it

  • very fresh!

  • back then I thought he was trying to look like the dudes in De La Soul, but then that's when some were copying or emulating them and A Tribe Called Quest

  • cool video :0)

  • the new rakim at his x me and my man get highand we still talk about divine brooklyn ak lik u no

  • For the love of it!

  • Oh word! I remember this cut but never knew this was Divine Styler! Aint this the same guy who had a song where he says, "Beware the all-seeing retina....written out....gamma tech".

    I just might upload that!

  • Damn I remeber in 89' thinking Sun was ahead of his time. Pure Hip-Hop.

  • Great Breakdance Song.

  • its bboy.

  • OMG. Are you serious? I'm not even gonna say anything. Just know that was the dumbest thing I ever heard. Okay, I'm sorry. It's a "Bboy" song.

  • lmao? breakdance is a media term. ur smart. eboy.

  • You're an idiot. Don't keep trying cuz you'll just keep on sounded dumber and dumber. First of all. "eboy" wtf? Second of all. You can say it either way. Breakdance Song. Or Bboy Song. Flipping Dumbass.

  • LMAO? sounded? u are a eboy. first off ur vid sucks. wanna online battle? i'll take u any time.

  • Wow, this is coming from a little bitch that has no videos. You know what? Lets go. Put up a video of you breakdancing, and I'll put up a video of me breakdancing. Then we'll decide who's better. You have no idea who you're talking too. I'm trained by Pete Nasty and Chemisis themself. Why don't you back down and shut the hell up.

  • LMAO okay lets battle. btw im being trained by bboy weaponext aka darrvi. he was the best in nj when he was 19.

  • Whatever. Go ahead. Upload your video and I'll upload mine. Lets see if you can do what your mouth says.

  • u go first. let me find a camera first.

  • I got my video. Just put yours up so I know you're holding up the other end of the deal.

  • LMAO ur gonna use the vid? ur kidding right? where is ur vid?

  • No you flipping dumbass. I have my video already. Why should I upload it when clearly you don't have yours? Where's my vid? On my destop. Where's your vid?