Dream Warriors - My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style

[va3svd]

Yes, they did - but both ripping it from an obscure Canadian game show. Awesome.

[JONminiminiME]

Can someone please tell me what type of music is this? It's not Latin, nor Jazz, nor Hip-Hop hmmm what do you think?

[afrolukas83]

respecta aj :)

[mictee01]

The original song is: Quincy Jones - Soul bossa Nova

[75andalive]

i love this,Have looked for it everywhere!!!and here it is !!

[CanadaBasketball18]

Canada represent!

[squeezethetube]

Why would anybody rate this less than 5 stars....wtf do you want in a song?

[mateous192]

Didn't anyone realize that this the music for Austin powers?!?!?!? without lyrics obvs.......

[frother]

it's a sample from another song ..

[jimmyjamescanada]

its a sample from the canadian game show "definition"

[JHOseven]

The sample is from Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova", which was the theme song to Definition.

[Autostade67]

Hard to believe someone thinks this "sucked" (and doesn't clarify why): this was an immensely popular song, and seeing this "art-haus" video only invokes the esteem this work can generate. The video style is not my definition of typical early 90s tropes: no Hammer pants, no ethnic prints, no Keith Haring, no clashing colours, but instead: Mods, shirtless teddy boys, gender ambiguity, homoreoticism...reverent, prescient, atavistic...pretty cool. Eccentricities need not be dimissed as "sucking."

[GasVein]

gawd this single sucked..... yes in 1990.

[rbclemen]

This is definitely not the video I remember for this song. This is all art-film-esque. The original one made fun of early game shows, mostly "Let's Make a Deal". I always loved these guys tho. They had other "hits" (by Canadian Rap standards). But it has been so long I will have to dig a bit to find them.

[rbclemen]

Ok, I have found Ludi and Wash Yoru Face in My Sink. I do recall hearing something by them from a later album as well. For that you will likely have to dig a little deeper

[jerman2003]

yeah, the original had them on a game show, I remember the grand prize was a trip to the projects.

Where most of there fans f'n lived!

[SneakHouse00]

Old Skool Canadian rap duo, i think this is the only "hit" they do ... but this is kool :)

[charleslittleba]

2:48 is the best

[frother]

no :39

[JONminiminiME]

@ charleslittleba

I agree!!! :D

[stabattack]

Its shot the same as the intro kids in the hall cuts and scene breaks. Around the same time too, so probably the same person making them.

Both are great.

[darrengauthier]

This vid looks like something "fashion people" would envision. It obscures the track, which itself is dope. King Lou and Q look like props in their own video.

[frother]

fits the style IMO

[nickystickycrud]

Still sounds pretty damn solid even now! Remember buying it on vinyl way back in the day... Aaah.. memories.

[dundee12]

a very gay video for an otherwise great song.

[stevenkeee]

this'd be dope if they just drove a car around and pointed at people or something. this video is too wack.

[diamonddog13]

The sample is from Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones, recorded in 1962. It was used as the theme song for the Canadian game show Definition which ran for about 15 years. (It was a great game but the cheapest prizes ever.) With this in mind, the Dream Warriors sampled the original for their own song, referencing Definition. And finally, Mike Myers used it in Austin Powers as an inside shout out to his fellow Canucks who mostly associate it with Definition.

[ZO6]

first time i heard the sample it took me a long time to figure out and find the original

[Sanyobenelux]

and what is the original to this song?

[parkdaletoronto]

The origan of this song is a old game show Definition (Canadian I think)

[ThrustProp]

Quincy Jones's "Soul Bossa Nova" from early 60's.

[wylinonwax]

Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones.

[ThaCholo]

415 Stand Up!

[lilcenzo]

i haven't seen the original video since it came out and i still haven't played 'LUDI" bwahahaha

[lilcenzo]

before the song blew them up, they had a much ghetto version then this, with them just walking around apartment garages and shit and had a grainy film feel.

[ZO6]

i was wondering that.

i don't remember this video...

[selfexplanitory]

Tight Jam, they brought a different style back in the days...

[dasfx]

No doubt this is the theme to Austin Powers. Where did it originate from?

[StrifeXo6]

"Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones

A very strange video indeed. I wonder what the fuck they were thinking when making this video.

[CyprusCorners]

It's alos a Canadian in-joke as "Soul Bossa Nova" was used as the theme for an old Canadian game show called "Definition".

[quincee33]

haha...i remember Definition...totally cheap cheesy canadian game show, but what a theme song!

[Electroskill]

I looked this song up after about 15 years of playing it in the back of my head. After seeing all the obvious homo-erotic bare chested male signals here, I think I'll forget about it. I mean, come on...this video makes "The Birdcage" look straight.

[BayviewFinch]

Shortly after moving to Toronto this song was all the rage. This is a weird video which was probably their downfall. Not weird good, but weird bad. Too much metrosexuality here.

[BooksMusic]

Yeah, can someone at Universal up the original video, not this? This looks more like Club MTV hoo-haa.

[MLKahnt1]

This is the second video in support of the song's US launch after a "lower budget" had backed the original Canadian video - the "Jane and Finch" version where the Dream Warriors are contestants on a mythical game show, where the big prize is a trip to social housing. The sampled song - the boombastic jazz sound - is Soul Bossa Nova by the great Quincy Jones, which at that time was the theme for a Canadian game show called Definition - hence "My Definition" and the original video's game show.

[freakionutbutter666]

That's the one I remember. Has anyone put it up?

[grumblywumpus]

"My name is Pingu"!?!?!

[BlackJays]

No, he says "my name is King Lou".

[mi777ke777]

The originator. Austin Powers had nothing on this track. This was my shit. I remember some track on the album called Face in the basin. That was a dope track as well.

[JONminiminiME]

Lol the video rocks!!

[witchman67]

Wasn't this the theme to a Canadian quiz show?

It also showed up in the Sidney Lumet movie, "The Pawnbroker."

[bluebettle]

It's also in Take the Money and Run.

[razorbladerocker]

dokken

[lmnopaul]

where's the original video???

[jessewaugh]

Rap could have gone in a *better* direction if the music industry wouldn't have filtered out good rap in favor of hate noise.

[DingoWrestler]

i agree

[BlackJays]

Someone needs to post the original video, shot in Jane and Finch.

[LinXninja]

yeah it is.

[Apple6Sauce]

still a great song

[unusualsuspect71]

That guy has no business clutching a didge, he has the object but I dare say not the wisdom of the culture it comes from. good tune though!

[didgerikev]

Yeah I know what you mean, although it looks like it is just a bamboo didge so I think it is OK. But that is just my opinion.

[bonzo9999]

A hip-hop video that didn't call for a faux art-house video given to it. Nevermind that the song is all Quincy Jones anyway. The barely shown members of Dream Warriors look like they have no business being there. On that note, i'd love to have seen a Tarsem directed Metallica video.

[konasquareheed]

Don`t be so bombastic bonzo

[fishhead06]

I like how it uses the music from the game show "Definition"

[riverseaoceanx]

I like ! Remember buying this

[Tony211169]

This video was directed by the same guy who directed the REM video "Losing My Religion" and "Sweet Lullaby" by Deep Forest!

[greeneyedjim2007]

Sorry bout that folks!

[Ragahits]

My jane and finch Buddies for life!

[inch169]

poncy video, but class tune.

[80akimi]

I rememeber watching that music show with Monika Deol on CityTv and Dream Warriors were performing live from a rooftop in Jane & Finch and they yelled to the corwd: "When I say Jane, You say Finch"! It was a proud Canadian moment cause at that time the world didn't really see 'us' as a hip-hop force yet and I give these guys props for being proud and help us to get on the map. All'dem: Maestro, Dream Warriors - and even Kish:can anybody tell me what happened to him?

[konasquareheed]

they were the best thing to come out of canada at the time no doubt....class!!

[bixy72]

At the time of its release, I was convinced that this was a crude re-mix of some amazing 1960's TV detective series-type-theme tune, Even now, some 20+ years on is this not the case??!!! I am yet to be convinced otherwise!

[andrewharwood]

are you crazy? still a ton of underground hip-hop, even guys like Shad are starting to hit the mainstream.

[jflores949]

i remember they use to plat this on marrs fm in los angeles back in the early 90's

[sightlab]

That explains the early-90's tackiness. God, we all thought we were so sophisticated back then. Ugh. I did love the Cell, which was flawed but not Tarsem's fault.

[silentzedjozn]

dream warriors great canadian hip hop - what happened? i know they were in the studio about 5 years ago heard some demos but no album to bad.

[BlackJays]

Their last album came out in 2002 (in Canada only), but King Lou performed this last year at Manifesto, in downtown Toronto. The video is up on YouTube.

[silentzedjozn]

thanks for the info

[plimpie]

Tarsem, the director, heard the track on the radio and called the label, wanting to direct the video. He was told it was too late; they already had one. But he was passionate and convinced them to let him shoot another one anyway!

The shoot was on a shoestring budget, a labor of love, with everyone working for little, or free. Many of the cast and crew are successful and well-known today.

[kwartey87]

bomb, bomb i been looking for this song for years mehn...oh mehn. Thats one down, few more to look for. Uhhh "My definition" DREAM WARRIORS!

[julesgreaves]

cool or what heard it on the radio today.had to you tube it.i liked it when it first came out,i may have got it on a vcr tape for what good that is ha ha.

[einsvonkeinfickrecor]

booww what a great video :))))

[SirBasildeBrush]

Well well, I never realised this song I liked so much in my younger years - because of what I thought was some 60s TV theme in the background - was SHAGADELIC YEAH BABY, YEAH!!! Shows I was ignorant, but with good taste.

[acanadian4obama]

I want to see Dream Warriors live!

[MixedChick416]

I think we all do

[nunfu]

I did in Australia.

Ive seen some big names in hip hop, but these guys were one of the BEST live hip hop bands.

[ballerina714]

I love Quincy Jones...

[ritzytapper12]

I just love this track still after all this time!

its stood the test of time well!

I just love the fashions and how its looks kind of dee-lite ish! hahaha love the fact that they have included all creds and race in this film clip. love that its not serious and everyone is having a groovey time!

This is boombastic!!!

Oh I miss the dream warriors, where did they go? hahahah

[meheuck]

This is also one of the first videos directed by Tarsem Singh, who also directed R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion," THE CELL with Jennifer Lopez, and the upcoming THE FALL.

[jeison69]

buenisima la cancion la llebava buskando ase un tiempo

[meesh933699]

is it true he's born in sri lanka or is he originally from sri lankan?????? anywyas great song still booming

[miss2tone]

Its still sounds Grade A!!! Love this song.

[november2remeber619]

this song is sooooooo old but i still love it. my mum plays it all the time lol.

[vingatondooda]

Hey "bags of mostly water" my mom was on Definition... and Headline Hunters too!

[kavabekofeino]

very good song good mix

[rosenkopf]

Heard this on the radio this morning and got to know that this one was produced by Quincy Jones. Cool song.

[RainPoetry]

what a cool innovative song. still sounds great after all these years

[witchman67]

Once again, WLIR was the first station to play this song.

Eat yer heart out, Austin Powers.

[november2remeber619]

oh yh the tune was in austin powers wasnt it. but the dream warriors are definateley betta.

[Finchgoon]

JANE AND FINCH BOM BOM

[ferbobian]

Damn classic shit right here!

[LocBorg]

very good song :)

[lolbloodyhelhaha]

this is good, I like it

[waveman73]

I like the other vid for this song. You know, without all the circus du solie crap

[cwir]

My girlfriend bought me me a vinyl with this song in Camden Town last week :) LOVE IT!!

[rubin007]

que cabron !!

[pmtiny]

Always loved this tune!!!!!

[hijodechago]

i had one of those hats with the metal plates on them back in the day. heh heh heh.

[kevinshamrock]

you try to wash your face in my sink! my sink! it was filmed on the same set as let my back bone slide

[MagnusDeLawd]

I played this EP so much I burned a hole in the tape when I was in the 10 grade. A little known classic.

[DClean]

T DOT BIG UP!!

[elec8latric]

Soul Bossanova is not even jazz lol but really cool video

[191919jas]

also any Michee Mee, B-cool, and any other Canadian Rapper's,,,mainly from Toronto...I've seen Mr. Metro on here!!! Classic shit!!!

[191919jas]

hey, post some HDV...man I lost that cd like 10 years ago...cant find anything anywhere!!!

[danthemule]

yeah man big up willtree...Live and dyrect...Only the real rap groups are from..H.D.V,Dream Warriors,Snow Ninjah kid,House od david...

[pasy2006]

The Dream Warriors are the true Canadians!!!

[thomasc3uk]

The song in the background is the Soul Bossanova by Quincy Jones.

[dominoize]

And they got the idea for the song from the 70's game show called "Definition" which used Soul Bossanova as the theme song.

LOVE THIS SHIT!

DW got this new song, it's dope man! Ha Haaa

[dominoize]

yea

[1moreastronaut]

HUGE beats. This album still gets play in my library.

[4109dahl]

i just love the vid XD

[stereoDrug]

phat stuff! :D

to dance for!

[MuzikJunkyAES]

Man, this is what they SHOULD'VE used in the "Austin Powers" movies! Peace.

[BlackJays]

i just saw the other video for this song...i think it was shot in Jane and Finch.

[GurlCaa]

CAN SOMEBODY PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE POST "FLOAT ON"!!!!!! by the Dream Warriors f. Kuya, that is MY FAVOURITE FROM THEM,thaaaaaaaaaks.

[Medusaesque]

anyone have "Wash Your Face in My Sink" by the Dream Warriors? dying to hear it again!

[dylansharmonica]

I do dude.

[Lalo3001]

Good Song!! They used to play it 16 years ago on a local L.A. station called MARS FM 103.1 Not so crazy about the video.

[pattoalegria]

anybody got "california dreamin"...upload please.

[BlackJays]

It's up!! look through my favs and u will se it.

[Limman1]

Wonderfull, i fell really fun when hear this.

CUDOWNE !!!

[GAZZA251170]

Anybody got Ludi by the Dream Warriors?

[GAZZA251170]

Great little era when rap found it's party time again after years of hardcore (which I loved) & just before it all went wrong.

[alexisboogie]

this tune is wicked, and so is the video...what a load of crap 2 say its too arty or too "gay"...this is jazzy, funky hip hop from the days when people didnt take themselves so fucking seriously. its playful, and fun, and not all about ass shaking and "in the club" and boring bling bling....too bad hip hop`s gone so one-dimensional these days

[digitaldreammachine]

Definitely not the original video. The first version was easily more creative and indicitive of the hip hop videos of the 90's. This is a little too artsy.

Saw these guys in concert in Alberta. Great show.

[Erudecorp]

No, this video is relatively good for 1991. This is pretty much as good as music videos get, sadly. Unless it gets worse/better. I didn't watch the whole thing.

[waves7]

this video is totally gay

[drooidood]

You will find the tune sampled by DW's here is a classic by the great Quiuncy Jones, it called "Soul Bossa Nova" first recorded in 1962.... Go get it and enjoy

[GeoffWorldOrder]

They sampled the theme song from a old Canadian TV game show called "Definition" that aired in the 70's and 80's.

[Computerrorist]

Does anybody here knows where they sampled from, I mean what's the name of the original 70's record?

[KREVwon]

I LOVE YOU (WO)MAAAAN!

[entheogensunlimited]

I can't believe this is the only Dream Warriors song on youtube...

[simpsoy]

I think this is the only Dream Warriors song period...good song, but terrible video. I think this video ruined their career. I remember watching MTV back in the summer of 91 when they brought the hype about Dream Warriors and this song. It was too bad no one picked up on the hype. I really thought they were going somewhere.

[BryceTonner]

someone please post "wash your face in my sink"

[TWATTY1973]

where is that tune? i was just looking for it

[1moreastronaut]

I still bust this CD out every once in a while...sounds great in the car.

"In a hearse, you find caskets

In my rhyme, baskets of rhyme"

Classic album, classic track.

[LeeroySD]

Awesome music and video, still cool!

[star870]

classic

[pattoalegria]

someone please up load California Dreamin' and Float On... the best songs.

[studenttrip]

someone post ludi if you have it

[poposhka123]

they are mimes!!!

[BigSlickStar]

no one ever posted "day N day out" damn.

[jeffkahl]

I really don't get how the concept of this video relates to the song at all. It's someone decided that the post modern thing would work as a rap video...

[ilovecoolaid]

no one posted " wash your face in my sink" ='[

[mac100100]

Tight!

[eriksmoke]

uhhhh this is a real classic, maaaaaan i love this tune, golden age hip hop.

[mpanzera]

I hope Quincy Jones got some royalties from this...

[lilcenzo]

i remember in 98 seeing King at a canadian tire i worked at waiting in line to pay for some shit.

[DNotes06]

Whoever posted this video...do u have the other version?? i recall seeing a version, in which the group were performing in front of a crowd onstage.

[easeupkid]

classic Hip Hop...so ill to see this again.

[grazzt519]

wow, cant believe people think this one is better. The old one is a million times better.

[aaliya777]

wow, i definitely love this version better than the other one.

[Grzegoorz76]

Really great song!!! Love this since 1990 till today :)

Ktoś oprócz mnie zna to w Polsce???

[ballyhoo3]

King & Capital Q.. Where did you go, you Canadian boys, we miss & love you so....???

[ballyhoo3]

Who were you artcalif?? I was on that same set as well... My friends directed it...

[BillyPooPants]

There were at least two versions, This one was by far my favorite! These guys were SO creative. I miss 'em.

[grazzt519]

wow, this aint the video i remember from the old school days

[tgd777]

were you born wearing a helmet? Is'nt there enough spam on the internet without spamming other people's videos? Seriously though, go spam somebodies live journal.