EPMD - Crossover

[Scoobecouture]

epmd kill  it

[erika2012vsu]

I think these rappers definitely need to take note to this song in particular so many of my fav indie artists have sold out.

[GMONEYFASHIONS]

made love for the old school these new cats dont know about real samps,word is bond

[AddictionToGaming]

This is why I've made a playlist with all the old school songs

I don't ever bother watching a music channel nowadays, because 90% of the music is pure CRAP.

[gothamjediknight]

I bought this CD and $horty the Pimp on the same day... summer of 92, word is bond, props to all old school hip hop fans

[Dactuck]

Funky lies!!.  Ha.

[gbrad48]

bassline=nasty

[dubvpringles]

Can you make this for mobile , can't find this mix anywhere

[momilani808]

@porn1978: LOL :)

Yep I still bust the movez to this classic jam. And the youngsters look at my husband & I the same way! lol. Gotta tell them "Nanu Nanu" from the show Mork and Mindy and say .. "E.T phone home" hehe.

[lilstewie126]

2 ppl have been told that they gonna be large and THEY BELIEVED that shit!!

[RazziNDarkside]

I love old school hip hop

[drumma4lyfe06]

I'm 23 and I bump this!!!!

[Elite2dal]

1.31

Check the Redman's hair!

Ha-ha)

[howthewestwaswon2]

Saw them live 2 years before they released this and they ripped the stage!

If you don't believe me just ask Public Enemy, Intelligent Hoodlum, the Afro's or th Young Black Teenagers because they were all there too.

With this track they were collecting mad props.

[DrOCkABlEs]

the two that disliked this song must of crossed over..... EPMD IS THE BEST DUO TO EVER DO IT

[TheDarkfolks]

another classic fa yo ass

[headymoe]

BRENTWOOD, LONG ISLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blayzinchronic]

straight up tho..that second verse should be dedicated to weeezy...fuckin bird

[Blayzinchronic]

this song is fuckin doppeee. PMD killed the second verse

[YalkOne]

when rappers stood behind their graff

[fireman75ification]

Damn I feel ya. I bump all that OG shit when I ride. Got young cats talkin bout, "who is that?" I gotta laugh. They don't know what real hip hop is anymore.

[NWSaint]

:35 to 1:02 .. there it is!

[Drezyful]

this song is realer now than it was in '92 in my opinion.....

[decevioj]

GO C DECEVIO AND NEW WEST ORDERS MUSIC ON YOUTUBE 2012

[bloodklotbilla]

forget that im still blastin motown in my car new jack swing all the way to wiz khalifa forget wat those radio station kesha adam lambert dooshes think

[vikingluv7]

my 89 Taurus was putting this in atmosphere suhh.

[gigimc]

prophetic.... and genius

[pitbull64]

which two clowns gave this a thumbs down?

[thirdshift47]

@pitbull64

The two clowns that gave this a thumbs down were the execs at MTV & BET.

[popsfaded2007]

we need to teach the kidz where we came from....the real meaning of hip-hop.....shout out to the nintendo generation....beat streat.....what up son....

[djslimm74]

@popsfaded2007 WHAT UP!!!!!!

[Foxdeye]

stricktly hip hop

[DjShini]

I'm just glad we can enjoy what was and be glad it's still around nowadays to still share, educate, entertain, etc.. with the next generation. Only if it's all eradicated is when we can lament about it all in my opinion

[JurgenMacho]

I was at the white cliffs of Dover last week - made me think of this track that I hadnt heard for 15 years.

[eltoritodeorito]

this is what we want, this is what we need, fck the illuminati,the devil and hes fake rappers

[anonomousalcoholic]

"I speak for the hardcore, rough rugged and raw" I love this shit, wtf happened to hip hop?!

[adskithirtythree]

DAMN i miss those days sick lyrics sick beats.....Hip Hop today is dead.......

[bbuck1988]

shit sad man......i can only hear throw back hip hop music on you tube cuz the radio only play throw backs doing a mix jam or if they have a spacial throw back mix going on and that's every blue moon.....so i'mma get me a ipod and put only 80-90's music on there cuz i want to feel like i'm in da 90's again.

[imagee2000]

@bbuck1988 Dam so true what you just said thats what I mstly put on my mp3 player

[mag3601]

so some info on roger and zap: they didnt use that auto-tune bullshit they used a talk box. so you had to play a guitar with a tube in your mouth that goes to some amp to make a good sound. it takes no real talent to do what t-pain and the others do! makin good music is actually an art form.

[blizzyrock]

i think skinny jeans are faggey as fuck!!! and whoever wear them is homo. but the worse thing is they try to sag them shitz . FAGGEY AZZ NIGGUZ!!!

[MasterUnholyWar]

@blizzyrock If thats your logic on skinny jeans then one can have the following logic on baggy jeans: Whoever wears baggy jeans is just trying to hide all the hemorrhoids they got from getting pounded in the ass by another dude.

[TheJmann34]

@MasterUnholyWar LOL. Wow, that's one way of looking at it. Funny as hell none the less.

[kijijikubwa]

"..forget the black crowd,you whack now in a ... suit fronting black looking mad foul

I speak for the hardcore(rough,rugged and raw.."

Damn these lines were spat almost two decades ago!!

[detatlj]

EPMD were prophets on this song cause that most artist are now crossed over. We need the hardcore back

[3rdbass618]

Much love to EPMD. Fuck all these crossover, soul sellin', tight jean wearin', wanna be gangsters but gettin' fucked behind closed doors ass niggas that's in the game today. I'd rather stay underground forever than to sell my soul for the fame and fortune. At least if you're underground you won't be forgotten by the underground community. But once you crossed over and fell off, you're instantly forgot about. Peace to brothas Erick and Parrish. And all the brothas who kept it real in the game.

[RapPwnage]

This is fucking banging. Im 21, and this is stuff is off the RAILS. seriously, I don't even care about these fake ass rappers today.

[jaydog7575]

@RapPwnage this is what i GREW up on baby!!!! check out some Cube,Naughty , Tag Team, Eazy E, Bone Thugz, Pac, Ice T etc.... also Ghetto Boyz and Cypress Hill

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[mag3601]

@RapPwnage good fo you man! this is the real hiphop!

[MrKevin619ism]

FIRE !

[tragsicc21]

"The rap era's outta control, brother's sellin their soul/

To go gold. going, going...GONE, another rapper sold!"

WORD? do i gotta say it?

[louloucorina]

I had this on vinyl.......loved it. To the white cliffs of dover!!!!

[az718843illa]

Definetly not for you skinny jean wearing muthafuckas!! You need some tim boots and a hoodie for this shit!! HIT SQUAD!!!!!!!!!!!

[keibriel]

Hip Hop has crossed all the way over.

[ARKUPP]

HITSQUADD!!!!

[michaeldobruskin123]

damn...wat the fuck happened..this is so sick, i mean there are basicaly no more real mcees left on mtc

[porn1978]

i still bump this shit in my car in 2010 and the youngsters stare at me like im from another planet.

[murdaman2]

@porn1978 im 18 and i think this shit is way better then lil wayne and all that shit. ill be bangin my head as you pass by.

[porn1978]

@murdaman2 ...hell yeah!....lol cool, much respect to you!

[ItachiZaku]

@porn1978 Makes me feel old when I'm listening to Time for sum Aksion and Red starts off by saying 1992... and yeah, people listen and think it's some new hot shit and i'm like, from 20 years ago, bro.

[porn1978]

@ItachiZaku .....LMAO yeah i hated when they say the year to. You're right, some people actually think some of these are new becuz all they know is lil wayne and soulja boy etc.

[tt7d8]

@porn1978 YESSSS!!!! lol

[porn1978]

@tt7d8 lol

[mawgaboy]

@porn1978 been there b4 them youths

[porn1978]

@mawgaboy lol when they grow up, they'll understand

[TheFlyboyumar]

@porn1978 Im gonna be bumpin this in my whip when im old enough to drive in 2014

[porn1978]

@TheFlyboyumar hell yeah!!

[Evile9669]

@porn1978 hell ya man bump that shit... the hip hop of today cant come close to these classics so turn it up

[MK78SON]

Hey yo' son... Crossover brings back Memories of real Hip Hop in 92'. Kick the cross over

[shortysnp92614]

dis rite here is what its all about they cant make em like they used 2

[StratfordTownStudios]

This is the group EPMD, record labels use to prepare upcoming groups by featuring them silently with in the video teaching how a video should be done, notice who is in this video (Red Man, Das EFX, and other who never made it in the industry) I'm so sorry to say record labels are a pure front today there is no money in music today, it's all a front...!

[jody808]

this was the golden age for hip hop, listen to those lyric skliis

[shortysnp92614]

@jody808 sho u rite

[shortysnp92614]

@jody808

[calltyshon]

whatever you want uh huh whatever you need uh huh huh I will provide you

[hectophonic]

I'm so glad there are still people out there who haven't forgotten what good hip hop is!! I've lost faith with all the hip "pop" BS that pollutes the airwaves. Don't drink from the mainstream kids.

[Ikewut1]

thats whats up this is music get at me what tha %#@%% take notes

somebody needs to open a club that just spinsrecords with just hip hop records

[4evermichael1]

classic

[darocksbarber]

@janingrigory true

[Nfluentz333]

Sittin here schoolin my girl on REAL HIP HOP so I'm pitstopping here...CLASSIC!

[mrhoffame]

@janingrigory Some? ...most my friend!

[TheBeemyself]

listen to the lyrics hammerin the newbies before the time .... LEGENDARY

[TheBeemyself]

all these new bucks should listen to this!!!!! represent

[makave12]

@ janingrigory and BlackPhenom i agree with yall 100%

[superlokoful]

motherfucker, I remember this bullshit

[NewYork2009]

@superlokoful this is when rap was the shit i grew up to this :) Parish is from my hometown Brentwood Strong Island baby 

[superlokoful]

@NewYork2009

You`re right Bro. They used to represent

the real Hip Hop

[1mrcorona3]

BAD ASS  ROLA F13 805

[burnzism]

the song is talking about rappers crossin over to rnb and pop. this was made back in the day but it applies to what rappers are doin nowadays. back then you was considered a sellout if you made songs like your favorite mainstream rapper does nowadays. this era is for fake and wack rappers

[hyper418]

IM 15 but i love the old skool and hate thiss new music haha

[audiman337]

@hyper418 You're 15 and hip to music like this?

That's rare bro. That's awesome...

[NewYork2009]

@hyper418 this is what I grew up on MISS THIS like u said the new muz sux except eminem :)

[drumma4lyfe06]

They went hard on this!

[buddacafe]

Dear EPMD, Please pass the magic to your kids and help them bring back what dirty south rap destroyed. Thumbs up! 

[boofdfast]

TRUE hip hop, Nuff Said. EPMD, true lyricists, with KICKASS beats. Straight outta Jersey. Rap nowadays is CACA, compared to this shit. Erik Sermon and Parish Smith killing em.

[drumma4lyfe06]

EPMD is true hip hop....Hell yeah!

[wu718tang]

going going GONE another rapper sold.. that second verse is so true for todays pathetic radio play

[bertrandshoberg]

@janingrigory Dont worry the real ones are attacking the industry and taking it back, check my page for our web sight

[tonyzackery]

I can only reminisce on hip hop this great!  Music this good is gone!

[blacksultan85]

LOLi'd love to sellout if they paid me 80,000,000 a record deal i wanna be cool like SOuljah Boy,Gucci mane and Marky Mark.I wanna be a corporate white uncle negro kiss ass to my boss they also could work me like a puppet slave,forget about creativity look at the money and the girls WOW that would be real cool LMAO

[TheCockdiesel32]

@blacksultan85 You do know those guys always end up broke in the end don't you? Once you sell out out on your true fans you have nothing to fall back on once your gimmic burns out.

[blacksultan85]

@TheCockdiesel32LOL yeah of course i know that's why i gotta kiss butt so hard to make it in life shine yo shoe gov'na if my boss laugh i laugh,if he mad i do urthing to cheer him up,if hes close to the door i will open it up for him cuh i luh my boss LMAO!!!!!!!!

[Blazemess]

EPMD came hard on this one in the summer of 92.

[psyhchoman]

CLASSSICSSSS ¡¡¡¡

[THUNDEROUS122]

No commercial for me ever. Pure hip hop only. EPMD legendary artists who never sold their soul for commercial radio.

[skyymx]

sir, your opinion is invalid. Please report to bathroom and have a wank n' cry

[militantarms]

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuutaaaa­aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! fire !!!

[dsheffiel82]

Damn, I miss this kind of rap music. The BS that put out today is sad.

[SweetTealoveable]

You are so right. This crap today make me want to give up on hip hop for good. Thank God for old school. This song is a classic.

[MellythaMYLF]

This is my dayum song!!!!

[thebittermonk]

damn kid capri looks mad young in this video forgot about him in this

[bloktv]

this was the 90s epmdtold yall about the crossover back then they told yall about illumiatti "rappers sellig their souls to go gold" im strictly hiphop ill stick  tokid capri fuckin right hip hop till the casket dip yall youngins cvan have all that gucci mayne,jeezy shit

[TheMarinhosjc]

its real hiphop MCs

[ShaolinPrince1]

holy shit.....this has never been more relevant!!! what a tune

[tha1974phatbasterd]

The rap era's outta control, brother's sellin their soul

To go gold, going, going, gone, another rapper sold

(To who) To pop and R&B, not the MD

[Dave0fcleveland]

I didnt appreciate this song until the 2000's. ITS classic to me now

[JoeSkateRock]

1:31 redman

[papit000]

they definitely help hiphop become wat it is 2day especially wen it comes to beat makin.

[papit000]

definitely a classic. ppl dont make trax like this no more.

[DEXSTERIZM718]

DA CLASSIC EPMD JOINT !!!

[cloverfield00]

this is real hip hop! i never get tired of this song,i use to see pretty eyes eric shopping at the colosiuem in ny,i use to attend the parties where dj kid capri was the dj in nyc,this was our theme song for mtv the grind,i'm a former mtv the grind dancer.

[newyorkowner]

EPMD SAID IT WAY BACK THEN THE CROSS OVER is here its here rap sucks dick..peace to real hip hop peace to turntables and niggas that still remember the essence of hip hop///fuck tha south i said it..fuck um

[mackie69]

haaa yeah fuck the south!! this track is the real check it.

The rap era's outta control, brother's sellin their soul

To go gold, going, going, gone, another rapper sold

[CaseyDCorbin]

this is the best.

[blkfrank]

DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LlLWayneSucks]

classic

[tardit]

This is real hip hop...none of that soulja boy steriod shit.

[TonyChase]

@tardit STEROID SHIT ......? U MEAN HEMAROID SHIT!!! SOLJAH BOY IS A "T-PAIN" IN THE AZZ!!!!!! LONG LIVE REAL HIP HOP!!!!

[tardit]

@TonyChase YEA I MEANT HEMAROID SHIT! FUCK SOUJLA BOY LIL WAYNE

[nemoism]

@tardit  hell yes!

[peterscoop]

@tardit for me sounds like an old ass beat and raps about nothing.

[YooToobGangsta]

freshman year for this old kat

[superman4284]

my fart

[8DwarfEater8]

fantastic!

[hardonyall]

what you know about real hip hop?

[mistaloks]

indeed The Green Eye Bandit!

[istillhaterealrap]

wack

[myniggafligga]

I love this song it make wanna be back in middle school lol its cool xoxo

[Homefrontage]

This song was tight....Too bad the EAST is DEAD...

[Stealth42o]

Same same.

[BlackPhenom7]

Back then, Dr. Dre sampled funk beats for that whole West coast G-Funk style. Erick was one of the few East coast producers doing the same thing, but with an East coast style.

Big up to the Hit/Def Squad.

[richarddemario]

this is still true in 2008 ...soulja boy off in dis hoe grab yo partner doe-c-doe...i hate dat shit

[darriuse2]

the green eyed bandit...dammit...hell yeah

[BlackPhenom7]

Sampling Roger Troutman and Zapp.  This was before that T-Pain bullshit!

[MrJeffrey1973]

@BlackPhenom7 Yeah, that or the Kanye-Diddy shit!  LOL

[DomincanXpanther]

@BlackPhenom7 u kno nigga

[softcakeorange]

This is Rap!!! Old sholl, but still the best you can hear!!! :)

[ArcticHellfire]

Yeah, old-school: NO SELLOUT!!!

[altgyc]

love this track one of my old school fav. !

[GMoneyOuthere]

DAM, EPMD In the house, this is comin from a WEST Coast fan In rapper Crossover was the shit back then Erik Sermon was just so good In his prime EPMD told, me how HIP-HOP was going die even today I wonder how did, they notice that HIP-HOP was going die... I'm still thinking even today, and 1 point man, I wish they made song's like this now a days.

[Norbert2]

0:18 woooohtaaa!

[zoooyorker]

Erick Sermon has the most unique voice I've heard. Straight monotone just piecing words together like it's nothing.

[powerbar118]

i have not heard someone put 2 words together that makes complete sense in years! that what puts the hop in hip hop/rap!

[powerbar118]

if you told lil wayne to listen to this song his career will stop drop and roll right off the radio stations.

[briankh2007]

This is real hip-hop from my high school years. Too bad the ones we have now is messy-nothing but absolute rubbish.

[A34Z]

oh my god it's T-pain (being facetious. Sick track, oddly reminds me of ball

[ClassicBeauty4real]

Real Hip Hop!!!!!

[Norbert2]

@ClassicBeauty4real:

Yeah, sellouts crossing over from hardcore/underground hip hop/funk to pop/R&B for money. This reminds me of Paparazzi by Xzibit. Remember 2pac singin' about that: "If you ain't in this rap game for the ma fuckin' cash, man, then what is your mother fuckin' purpose?" Sometimes it's hard to keep apart the real from the fake. Crossover is from when real hip hop was still alive (as was Eazy-E). But EPMD was right: some years later (Paparazzi came out), things started dying.

[idaltuguy]

Man, 4 years after "strictly business," & these dudes were still killing it!

[ballerific420]

Listen to 1:20 he speak the truth right there Hip Hop saw it coming but the real kept it real! I am proud to say this was my era and i rep it till i die REAL HIP HOP!

[LycanAedea]

Try most.

[cloudyshelf]

Exactly! The man that will lead the way for change is Shad K. His flow and beats are amazing, and the sweetest and most refreshing thing of all is he talks about a lot of social issues such as the Rwandan Genocide which his parents fled from and some members of his family were killed. ALL LOVERS OF HIP HOP NEED TO LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT THIS ARTIST!!!!

[cloudyshelf]

Exactly. All they are concerned about is making a few quick bucks, and they're 15 minutes of fame. It's also a shame that kids today actually listen to and, not only just that but support these artists. But I'll tell you what people are getting tired of hearing the same old crap songs over and over again. They're will be a major change in Hip Hop in the next 5 years.

[cloudyshelf]

Don't even call them MC's because all they really are is engineered garbarge put together by major labels. Hip hop has really gone down the toliet, but dont worry there is a new wave of ARTISTS coming and if you dont belive me listen to Shad K.

[scoobyonline2000]

i couldnt agree with you more!!... nothing today can compare to this.....and others during that era....

[hillbillycadillac]

YEEHAHHH! DIP ME IN HONEY AND CALL ME STICKY!This is when rap was cool.

[jann44217]

I just graduated high school.

[kasiny126]

this song is STILL the shit! EPMD forever!!

[mssharp3]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!

[smirkfitch]

Simple plan of action:..The idea is to get more people to understand the sorry state which HipHop finds itself in..I need the help of every true Rap afficionado! For the next 6 months let's ALL copy and paste a link to this song on every fake ass rapper's videos. I think it would be interesting to see if we can make ourselves heard and hopefully take HipHop back to when it was COOL to be intelligent and something to aspire to as opposed to aspiring to slinging crills and popping heaters...

[mrcapablanca]

I can't believe it! EPMD was tryin' to warn us THEN about the direction rap was going and it ain't good. Looking at rap today shows they were right. Luckily they gon bless us again with their new album "We mean business" droppin' the end of October 2008.

[lightofdamon]

EPMD is legendary

[blacxkcobra]

DAM good rap hell of beats in this song will rock it till the end of time

BLACXKCOBRA//PRINCE OF THA UNITED STATES

[ihaterealhiphop]

wack shit soulja 4 life!!!

[Massakers]

public enemy and EPMD are fucking god in rap , go suck ur fucking fagget soulja shit u fucking fag

[ihaterealhiphop]

fag