Juice Crew - The Symphony

[AreciboCinema]

BDK!Will always be the man. BROOOKLYN!

[Eziokilla9595]

MASTA!!!!!

[WhiteRainbowFlick]

your metaphor sucks more then a whore

[ruudogg1]

THIS THE BEST CALABORATION EVER!!!!!!!!!

[klassov88]

posse cut 101

[classy1973]

KOOL G RAP IS NASTY ON THE MIC!!

[ManUFan4Ever]

The DOPEST posse cut ever!!!

[classy1973]

Respond to this video... KOOL G RAP SAID, "RUN FOR WATER WHILE I BREAK YOUR TAPE RECORDER".........SICKENING!!!

[NYCNorthNJ777]

3 wiz kalifa or whatever his name is fans dislike this CLASSIC!!!! 10/25/2011

[CrissTrainz]

Masta Ace people, the most underrated in the crew

[NYCNorthNJ777]

@CrissTrainz freaking eminem rhyme style is a combo of Masta Ace and Craig G!

[MRFARRAR1]

juice crew was the shit .this when hip-hop was great

[thatstheguy07]

Kool G Rap fo sho. He was on a rampage!

[TF2ZuLu]

0:20

[Soundtraxtv]

I USED TO SAY G RAP TOOK IT BUT KANE WAS SO ILL ....

WAS IT A TIE?

[YoItsHype]

@Soundtraxtv

personally ama big Kool G Rap fan!

i always go with him no matter what..

his lyrics are poison, but in this it is

indeed more like a tie but personally

i think Kane did a little bit better..

[Black1roses]

I got this single in 1988 and then marley marl in control vol 1 this changed everything, mc shan didnt want to be on it cause he considered them new jacks....lol....and he missed out on history

[TRIPLESIXSICCNESS]

G, Rap is still in his prime, still dropping great verses to date, too bad we cant say the same for Kane

[jmaal2345]

damn Big Daddy Kane killed the track. this song is the shit

[88ritchie]

damn a 6 min song with only one curse word,damn thats real hip hop

[newnegro1]

tight!!!

[LEZTHEGOON]

i can't believe how they flip Otis Redding - Hard To Handle that shit is sick

[pro404]

This track is the shit.... no bitin' allowed

[ZAKAR777]

HELL YEAH THIS IS REAL RAP!!!SHOUT OUT TO FORT GREENE,BIG DADDY KANE,BIZ MARKIE,ERIC B & RAKIM,DANA DANE,JUST ICE AND KRS-ONE!!!!R.I.P LODDY DODDY AND THE REAL THE REAL 50 CENT AND KILLA BEN FROM THE FAR SIDE OF FORT GREENE!!!!

[kianajennings67]

South Bronx!!

[champino003]

THIS IS HIPHOP FOLKS!!

[PRESTOPIERRE]

Kane....all the way!!! so stick a quarter in your ass cause you played yourself!!!! woooooooooo..... best line ever!!

[1pothead]

(police officer)= hey kid u only got one call make it good... i suggest somebody with experience

(me) = >collect calling kool g rap from central bookings<

[jasonito23]

I thought Kool G's verse was the best back when this came out. I almost got in a fight with my older cousins because they like Kane better. LOL!! Now listen to it. G is the beast.

[caperdon96]

it will give you goose bumps. ny 1

[malmn]

Hip Hop 101 right here. 

[keltonkng]

I THINK G WAS THE ILLEST N THA CREW!

[1pothead]

@keltonkng no doubt about that. (talking with a lisp)

[jigsaw388]

You enjoy its culture, do yourself a favor and learn hip-hop's history...

[barlog20]

That line "put a quarter in your ass cause you played yaself"is probably the best line i ever heard.

[barlog20]

"there`s a sign at the door no biting aloud"

[MoxicoMC]

KANE!!! Daddys home...Since 1987!!!

[arcadianmaximus]

They didn't lose to BDP.. MC Shan lost.. Shan was suppose to be on this track but he went Diva because he was the star at the time and didn't show. That's how Master Ace got on the record. I think the rest of the crew just let him go it alone when the battle started because of that.. KRS didn't call out anyone else especially not Kane and G. Rap..

[jigsaw388]

@arcadianmaximus - only partially correct. By the time of this song Kane was the undisputed star of the Juice Crew, and he went Diva, which is why the video is the way that it is. Shan's career was basically over allegedly over crack & the Blast Master. More importantly KRS1 went at all of the JC except Kane because at the time, he was irrelevant; even dissing their strongest G. Rap's famous chorus "Its a Demo" "...this is not a demo, in fact call it a lecture, a visual picture..." - Poetry

[dray3000]

how did these guys loses to bdp

[jackmovefool]

were these freestyles or written?

[rapsody]

@jackmovefool

a completely improvised freestyle was almost unheard of back then, especially on the east coast. it wasn't until freestyle fellowship became known that freestyle was redefined to mean an improvised rap.. and some rappers to this day still consider a freestyle just to be a random verse with little emphasis on a particular subject as that was it's original meaning in most hip hop circles

[jigsaw388]

@rapsody -Confucius once said "its better to remain quiet and have people think that you're stupid than to open your mouth and confirm it!" Most of the early songs in Hip-Hop were improvised freestyles in which the artist actually used them in a battle and the joint was so hot they then went into the studio & recorded it. Most famous KRS1's "Still Number !" recorded in studio almost 4yrs after he did it live battling...learn true hip-hop history, I lived it & got 2 interview those artists later

[rapsody]

@jigsaw388

I never said that improvisation didn't exist, I just said that it wasn't really called a freestyle until FF came along. If you really wanna go that far back, Lost Poets were doing improvised freestyles before hip hop even existed.. they just didn't call it a freestyle but poetry. You can try to be cool and drop knowledge on Youtube but I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone... especially not pretentious know-it-alls like you.

[rapsody]

@rapsody *last poets

[jigsaw388]

@rapsody...Freestyle as a technique & by that exact name, has been around since hip-hop’s beginning; in NY (and elsewhere) we started saying “going off the head” and many other phrases by the ‘90s. However, FF didn’t exist until the late ‘80s early ‘90s – you do the math…sorry for hurting your feelings w/my pretentious knowledge dropping but hip-hop history requires accuracy. More importanly, do your homework or at least know when your wrong the probability exists that you'll get checked.

[rapsody]

@jigsaw388

Did I once say freestyle didn't exist since hip hops beginning? No, I said that it didn't mean improvisation at that time. You are arguing a straw man once again. I'm pretty confident that if you went to NY in the last 80's and told a rapper to kick a freestyle.. in all likelihood they would not think you mean improvisation but just a random wildstyle verse. That was my only original point. You are far from hurting my feelings homie.. you're just another youtube warrior.

[CheBroadway]

@jackmovefool Written

[mostlynoble]

I'm not saying new music is trash, but they don't make 'em like this anymore. This is the standard for all posse cuts....

[Gabrielregalado2]

3 ppl commited suicide as they noticed they wasted their lifes listening to Soulja bitch

[barlog20]

@Gabrielregalado2 LMAO,you had me rolling with that one.

[Gabrielregalado2]

@barlog20

wow thanks for bringing me back to this dope song after 2 months , youre a legend

[osay00]

MUTHAFUCKIN KOOL G. RAP!!!

/thread

[duke73100]

CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!

[duke73100]

CLASS

[demonkai76]

only 2 niggaz said justin bieber, vanilla ice and young money should do a collabo smfh...

[braceroda]

DAMN brings back memories this when songs lasted longer then a couple of months b 4 acts get 4 gotten like now this came out in 88 n in 2011 it still bumps DAMN

[mellonsed]

kool g killd this shit!!!!!!woooooooooooooooo

[BillionGODSun]

Old School Rules

[MrNeilbrower]

"Makin' veterans run for medicine, 'cause I put out more lights in a fight than Con Edison..." Come on G Rap, why u hurtin' em like that? A posse cut at it's finest. Thank GOD for YouTube...

[ninjanolan11]

they dont make hip hop songs like this anymore........ new music is trash

[JhuntdaProdigy]

Put a quarter in your ass cause you played yourself!

[suciobeats]

This and the scenario are the best group tracks of all time.

[211bill]

Classic posse track

[beastzeus]

I'm like a giant ya nothing but a midget, a small digit, you with it, forget it, quit it.

[demonlink10]

best part of this song is throughout the whole thing:

current : "next up"

next : "I believe that's me"

current: "(name) get on the mic for the symphony!"

[RoyLT95]

G rap's verse is fucking insane.

[Silvershieldz]

I want my rap back! Boooo to these crappers today!

[FlopGaze]

masta ace and G rap 4 evaa

[XxCSIRxXxWINTxX]

ace 4 ever

[PrinceAndre25]

Kane..........

And battlin' me is hazardous to health,

so put a quarter in your ass, cuz ya played yourself

Like a game in the arcade. You need a far aid.

I'm walkin' the path that Allah made.

Kane a Muslim?

[JAY4005]

@PrinceAndre25 5 percenter i think 

[PrinceAndre25]

@JAY4005 whats a 5 percenter? lol

[who919]

@PrinceAndre25 most 5 percenters I know smoke weed and sell drugs until the go back to jail and find religion again lol

[JAY4005]

@PrinceAndre25 google the nations of the gods and earth

[kingdrapes]

take a deep breath because you dont have another left/ coming back like i'm avenging my brother's death = unfukwitable

[stewnta]

Reminds me of a time when I used to roll thu Howard Uni. back in da 90's

[FrankWagtmans]

Phenomenal !!! Big daddy....my hero !

[ty32alldai]

pure hip hop one the sickest beats nd songs ever maddee period

[jose94n]

The lyrics is crazy and love the beat

[hennylo68]

They all was dope!!!!!!!

[NY32986]

"I Don't Care who's first or who last, but I know that ya'll just better rock this at the drop of a dime baby!"

[ThatIncredibleJordan]

best verse?

[romainelettuce2]

@ThatIncredibleJordan kool g rap's in my opinion. Honestly, the worst was craig g's.

[jpjiry91]

@ThatIncredibleJordan kool g rap the best... masta aces is not bad

[lykopis]

If I'm gonna be touching them mofo's I'm gonan go listen to Redman. lol

[lykopis]

oooohh yeah hahah.

[kmne11528]

One of the best tracks of all time!!! Long live REAL Hip Hop!!!

[tomnoddy1]

Probably the greatest group hip-hop track ever! Headbanger from Hit Squad a close second.

[YnotBEvil]

ShnuckFuckle, if you have to ask what makes this song so great (sparse, simple, effective beat, perfect [I don't use the term often] lyrical flow, and [as Grandmaster Flash put it "to hold the mic in your hand... and CRUSH whoever's in front of you, that's hip hop"]), I'm afraid you can't appreciate genuine old school hip hop from the era's renaissance. Sorry, man.

[endgame8]

"Put a quarter in ya ass cuz ya played ya self" MUUURRRDDDEERRRDD

[MrTugzy]

this my ish...

[MIKE45688]

A TRUE CLASSIC

[bigavraham]

where is the URL!!!!!!!!!!!

[YnotBEvil]

I STILL can't get enough of this song. Over 20 years later, it's aged finer than wine. To say they merely tore it up is a vast understatement. These REAL MCs ripped it to fuckin shreds, period, end of STORY!

[ShnuckFuckle]

@YnotBEvil whys it so good ? i just dont understand ! i dont kno much bout rap tho

[wwesuperstar1234]

@ShnuckFuckle: Word play, hot beat, each rapper dropping an awesome verse, the real question is "What isn't good about it?"

[CJKnightThunder]

now i do like kool g rap, don't get it twisted, but i just find big daddy kane to be a better emcee overall

[CJKnightThunder]

now i do like kool g rap, don't get it twisted, but i just find big daddy kane to be a better emcee overall

[CJKnightThunder]

i love kool g rap, u could say kool g rap was better than big daddy kane in this song, but big daddy kane is a better emcee than kool g rap overall

[jmagnuslee]

and as for kane vs g on this one- they sound like jordan and pippen. all good in the hood baby.

[jmagnuslee]

don't forget...kane wrote alotta shit for peeps. he is actually a better writer than a rapper though he is one of the og masters. and yes ynotbevil- this is hip hop and not that krunk kkk area rap.

[YnotBEvil]

C'mon, people. Can't we just appreciate this song without debating whether G Rap or Kane was better? I'm from Cali and traitorous as people think I am, I'm telling you, East Coast old school hip hop is incomparable. As for today's standards... I'm under the impression there aren't any. Don't even SUGGEST there's ever been a better posse cut!

But I'm proud to say at one time, hip hop ruled and I was there to experience it.

Makes me weep for the art that's dead now.

[EPiK21]

Art, that's just it, it used to be lyrical art....MOST "artists" these days have no idea how to make it. Nowadays this music that they call hip hop isnt really hip hop at all its just some pre-packaged shit with nothing important to say. Its sad really.

I am so sick and tired of people saying that lil wayne is the greatest rapper alive.

[mbproject21]

@YnotBEvil "I'm from Cali and traitorous as people think I am, I'm telling you, East Coast old school hip hop is incomparable."

FINALLY someone from the west coast admits it!!!

[MyAron5]

@mbproject21

I'm also from Cali but im a East Coast rap listener!!

[greenockaldo]

VERY close call but I think G Rap just takes this :)

[TasBoot]

yo im sorry big daddy kane is fucken dirty but kool g takes it

[barlog20]

Nothing but Lyrical destruction.If These new school rappers were rapping back then they would get laugh it.The standards was so much higher back then.

[SelfMadeMil]

G Rap all day!

[TasBoot]

the best super group of all time alls they needed is rakim and they would b flawless

[enjoyablepanda]

and guru but thats subjective haha

[YnotBEvil]

One of hip hop's all-time best. Every member of the Juice crew has incredible lyrics, and the timing and beat are absolutely perfect. Kool G Rap is the only rapper I know of who makes his lisp an asset. Kane as smooth and verbally as impressive as ever. And they did save the best for last.

[19Olsztyn81]

sry

but G RAP owned tis track

[juliustheman]

Nah, KANE son, all day!!!

[juliustheman]

big daddy kane always the best on track...

[cityratt]

I combined both versions of the Symphony into one song if anyone would like to hear it.

^(Video response) ^

[VistaMyHome4life]

G rap always kills it....

[lykopis]

@VistaMyHome4life yeah he was good on this one, no doubt

[leo10rap4ever]

@VistaMyHome4life Agreed

[Merciless914]

@VistaMyHome4life  I 2nd that!

[lykopis]

yeah k g rap was on. he also got more time and more beats, just sayin. but yeah he was fat.

So .. Id say Master Ace and Kool G Rap

[lykopis]

thats the shit

[MasterHaaa]

Still so fresh.. It's 21 years now!

[LakeRafiD]

Man, this one takes me back sho' nuff. Definitely an eternal hip hop/rap classic jam. These brothers killed it! Straight up! We use to bump this song all the time. I was a teenager when this first came out. Hard to believe it's 21 years old!. Damn. Thanks for posting.

[ColonelStinkmeaner]

Best posse cut ever

[icedem34]

ol skool all day

[mrcbab]

First call n.y.p.d. for Masta Ace, next call n.y.f.d. for Craig G., next call c.s.i. for Kool G. Rap and last but not least call the funeral home for Big Daddy Kane....... disturbing the peace, arsonic fire, murder, and burial!!!!!! Best Hip Hop group collboration ever!!!!

[Ghettogruver]

Classic!!!

[Tiredskilla]

Some of the greatest MC's in one collab. Historical

[saulberg]

THE BEST PRODUCER IN HIP HOP FACT

[tonywonderful]

kool-G ripped it.

[Halboogie44]

This is one of the best down the line joints EVER!