Kurtis Blow - Back By Popular Demand

[SaintLopeezy]

Curren$y the hot spitta .

[gyulaladi]

man know something

[SmizMetro]

Spectacular to look at it...but still requiring another CHuRn...We are The Generation of Freedom thank you

[joebstarsurfer]

these arent the brakes lol

[7106798]

legend

[MrSiincer3ly]

2012 and still listening to this!!!!!!! todays music is bad.

[assmuncher1984]

A lot of people know and comment how Kurtis Blow was the first rapper with a Gold record but fewer know that the Sugar Hill Gang sold 2-million records of "Rappers Delight" before he did The Breaks/Chrismas Rappin' - but they didn't want to pay the 2% profit fee for someone to check their account of records sold, thus, never earning them a Gold/Platinum or Multi-Platinum RIAA plaque. - I read in the book: "The Big Payback - The History Of The Business Of Hip Hop" by Dan Charnas

[BusbysSanchez]

i love snow- informer, but kurtis kills it when it comes to oldschool. daamn u guys heard about heavy d..he died.. my heart goes to his family.

[jackdaman80]

Kids today, like Wiz kalifa and kreashawn and many others are dressing like kurtis blow and making music like this back in da day! Nothings really change the 80's style and music is back today!

[jackdaman80]

The Clipse ft. cam'ron remade this song! Go youtube it!

[MrChoko693]

this is Real Hip-Hop!!

[HaloThreetard]

Vevo's advertising Jay-Z, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, and Lil' Wayne. I'm done. This is why I gave up on hip hop.

[tomnelson81]

I gonna have to learn tht dance lol

[travis92x]

KB's style was better in 79-85.....he should have just kept his style like moe dee did and just make minor changes to it, his delivery in "got to dance"(1983) is stronger and hotter than what he did here, its funny cuz KB could have done so much better, the breaks,tough,aj scratch,basketball,to...THIS?! he tried to hard to change his style and he didnt really need to, you can tell he sold out big time here, oh well, i love kb's music with or without this track, still a cool mc

[oldschoolbx1970]

I think I'm better off listening to this track instead of most of the bullshit that's out now.

[grandcreator11]

"...Cause the beat is dope & i'll show you how its done, boooooys..." *lol* Dammit, i'll never get done with this fuckin video 'cause i keep replaying at 2:01-2:03.

[mrivera279]

Now I see where NWA got their beat for 100 Mlies And Runnin.

[grandcreator11]

@mrivera279 Yeah, this for the drum & bass mixed along with their loops & sounds.

[ginfanti]

This was unbelievably wack when it dropped in '89.

[edrusharry]

Funny how during the 80's new styles came out regular as hell and we sat there going "hell never heard that style before. Now we just get recycled stuff over and over again. Maybe im just getting old lol.

[211bill]

MC Hammer can't fuck with Kurtis Blow.

[Guacotechti213]

LOL



[packersinhd]

He just said dancing is futile, then 5 seconds later he is dancing....smh

[eraq07]

@packersinhd he said trying NOT to dance that's futile. You can pretend not to care about the music but beat is gonna make you move your feet.

[grandcreator11]

@packersinhd *lol*

[rapw72]

RESPECT TO OLD SCHOOL IS A FOUNDATION, APRECCIATE THE ORIGINS...HONOR THE PIONEERS, HIP HOP LIVES BECAUSE OF THEM!!!...I DON'T SPEAK SPANISH, I SPEAK HIP-HOP...

[antisumiala]

schit crap music these days they make quik on the computer like the movies these days....i love the 70s 80s 90s,.after the 90s it gets shit..lol..

[OldSkoolBBoyEd]

ANYBODY CAN COPY AND PASTE THE COMMENT BELOW TO ANY VIDEO TO KEEP THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE GOOD MUSIC---80s

[OldSkoolBBoyEd]

I dont care if I grow up with the new music because I will Always Like 80s Rap THE ORIGINAL new music is only about drugs sex and violence man now i know why this generation is fucked up also 80s they had real DJ's no computers also 80s MC's could actually freestyle and had real voices now your voice has to be fake by autotuning it and Back Then People could breakdance to it now you jerk-off or whatever they call it

[demoremda]

can someone upload just the track so i dont have to hear the vevo thing

tho the video is too funny, watch how Kurtis dances and tries to keep the gold from swinging too far away

[zinakan]

Fuck vevo jsut for that i aint watching thsi video fuck vevo

[Parserojl]

VEVO FUCK U!!!!!! 

[infamouzni99a]

The Clipse definitely got the "popular demand" song idea from this song lol

[Firstserger]

this is fucking horrible. I heard he was a legend so came back to listen, boy this sound does not translate today. More Like Kurtis Hoe

[SPAZZOID100]

@Firstserger

today's music is soulless krap.  I will take anything from the 80's over anything produced currently.

[SPAZZOID100]

@Firstserger

You are correct...it doesn't translate to "today" because today's music isn't even music. I'd rather listen to KB than any shit out there now.

[Emile420]

0:15 sound like obama lollllllllll

[mrrandom1968]

I had this on ' 12 ' inch.

[Dahnje]

Where is "If I Ruled The World" ?

[Hiuf425ff3425]

If it werent for Kurtis and the pioneers of rap most of yall would have NEVER even have heard of HIP HOP except for a few in NYC... Todays Autone BS and MTV owe these men so much (and women - MC LYTE :)

[intheekeyofcrime]

take wack drugs and make wack music. shtt caught up with him.

[bigboimize]

Kurtis blows

[lilmalik123456789]

@bigboimize roflmao hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Dahnje]

@bigboimize

Why don't you fight Prop 8 in CA?

[run666]

this is so whack and so is his crew... lol

[mrknight411]

If this wasn't a serious attempt by Kurtis Blow to get back in the rap game, then I would have took this song as a satire of 80s rap. What the hell was he thinking in the making of this song and video? If it was popular demand that wanted him back, then he should have stuck to his style of hip hop. A remake of The Breaks would have faired better than this junk. Either way, once a legend, always a legend, so much respect to one of the forefathers of rap.

[SPAZZOID100]

@mrknight411

Maybe so, but i'd rather listen to THIS than any of today's "music" hands down.

[AtheneFan01]

lol that so funny

[yohann9769]

i t s great omg that s saturday night live

[RaceIsOpen]

yeah, this did'nt do to well....he still rapped liked he did in '79...of course that style of rap was done! but Cool Moe Dee, had a similiar rap style (with the pauses, between sentences)...but his fared better. Much props to Kurtis still!

[KewazingaBabinga]

I ran into Blow in Vienna in the early 90s. He was a complete asshole.

[megatron0357]

kurtis blow tried to comeback with this. u know how music goes. when your time is gone...its gone. but the track is funky.

[chiladin]

The 80's might have bene conry and chessy but the 80's were mad ghetto.lol.

[SPAZZOID100]

@chiladin

You can't even spell corny or cheezey, so who's corny?

the 80's had fantastic music. Do your homework.

today's producers can't touch anything that was done back then

[licoricefun]

5 STARS *****,AWESOME STYLE. :)

[themeth100]

i mean kbs god but america is just wrong and sos this

[megacartoonhero3]

dis dude is a joke

[blakboogie]

ask kurtis blow about something that went down in pompano back in 1980 with a brother name jimmy mack a.k.a macaroni. blow ain't bin back here since

[jac5562]

lol! if i didnt see the vid i wouldnt think its funny

[surfer53]

There's something about the 80s that becomes instantly cheesy. If you weren't there, it's a nightmare. If you were it's a guilty pleasure.

[SPAZZOID100]

@surfer53

And 20 years from now, when people look back on TODAY'S music, they'll be like "I'd much rather listen to 80's music".

Let's face it...today's music isn't even half as good as what kurtis did.

[MusicFromRobE]

@SPAZZOID100 - I am in that boat now and I am paddling out to the pacific! I love old school music, please do not group all idiots in to this new generation of Lil Wayne, New Boyz, Soulja Boy, Ludacris, Sean Kingston, Ray J, Chamillionaire, Usher, Drake, Young Money, Jay Z, and others that are on top right now, but I found their music to be painful on my ears so I resort to the best known music. late 70s and 80s rap. I love Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. & Rakim, LL Cool J, Stezo, Raheem, Kurtis Blow..

[Lyingaboutmyage]

@SPAZZOID100

Wait, today's music is not lyrical or deep it's just designed for people to dance to in the club.

Sounds like Kurtis Blow to me.

I respect Kurtis Blow and all, but let's not even pretend he is the personification of lyricism and depth in hip hop.

[SPAZZOID100]

@Lyingaboutmyage

Who said anything about lyrical or "deep"? not me...

NAS is deep, but Kurtis' music is more enjoyable to me, for example.

The production is more what I'm talking about. Even back then, the dudes were using synths and drum machines, but they used them much more creatively and musically.

today's generation doesn't even know what a keyboard solo is.

Rihanna? please...

[Blackson187]

@SPAZZOID100 Kurtis's stuff past 1982 is garbage. This shit was embarrassing when it came out. His style was archaic at this point.

[SPAZZOID100]

@Blackson187

Right..lol I don't think you know much about Kurtis.

His "Ego Trip" LP was released in 1984, and had 3 of his biggest hits on it--"AJ SCRATCH", "8 MILLION STORIES", & "BASKETBALL"

..Not to mention the fact that he was producing amazing records for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and The Fat Boys in 1984 also.

I will take any of these productions over TODAY'S RAP any day of the week.

You wanna talk embarassing? Turn on the radio now, and you'll see how bad things are.

[Blackson187]

@SPAZZOID100 Modern rap is garbage, I never said it wasn't. The Breaks and If I Ruled the World were his only singles of real relevance and If I Ruled the World was only popular in the UK. My point remains, his style was archaic by 1984 when RUN DMC hit the scene. As for your claims about his biggest hits, "Ego Trip is rapper Kurtis Blow's fifth album, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). The only charting single was "8 Million Stories," which peaked at 45 on the Hot Black Singles chart.".

[SPAZZOID100]

@Blackson187

Let's not forget also that every Kurtis Blow production from this time period was received very well--Fat Boys, LoveBug Starski, Fearless Four--the list goes on.

"Ego Trip" is everyone's favorite album of his..and PLEASE let's not talk about charting and radio stats.

It has nothing to do with what is good and what is not.

I've heard the most amazing records ever dreamed of, that nobody has ever heard before, let alone "charting"

[Blackson187]

@SPAZZOID100 charting back then is far different than what it has become in the past 15 years in corporate America.

[SPAZZOID100]

@Blackson187

Correct, it was 100 times harder for a black artist to chart at all back then, because of the disco backlash a few years earlier by mainstream America.

But regardess, from 1984's "Ego Trippin"--"AJ Scratch" is perhaps one of the most seminal records in the early years of hip hop. I should know, I'm a native ny'er, and this is where it all started.

"Basketball" also got a lot of play on black radio and at clubs. 1984 was perhaps Kurtis' biggest year.

[ghelostar]

@SPAZZOID100 i agree but i have to say that eh 90's rap was the best of them all no doubt

[Nuhtin4u]

@SPAZZOID100 Damn right, love me some 80s rap and metal, sucks that i gotta be 14 though hehe, only 1 of 2 kids in my school that even dares listen to anything 80s besides MJ

[MrKoolBreeze22]

@SPAZZOID100 that is NEVER gonna happen......tha pple that grew up listening to this kinda music maybe will say that but not the ppl growing up to listen to todays music...and todays music has evolved and it is better....BUT there are some bad representers of todays music that make you think that way....

[SPAZZOID100]

@MrKoolBreeze22

Music production & overall musicianship (and sound quality) took a serious nosedive when the 80's ended.

The warm & lush production evolved into what we have now--DEMO quality productions churned out on laptops by non-musicians.

The music of previous era's, especially the soul music of the 70's & 80's is always referenced, revisited, sampled, played, and collected. I do not predict this happening 20 years from now regarding today's sound, sorry.

[SPAZZOID100]

@MrKoolBreeze22

Music has not evolved at all...it's more primitive and superficial than it ever was in any other decade.

I haven't even heard a chord progression in an r & b song on the radio in like 15 years.

[travis92x]

@SPAZZOID100 agreed man, we have tons of wack shit out there now, 1960(and 50's)-1999 had the best music, music took a nose dive in most genres around 1997(but i think rap and r&b peaked in 93(end of new jack era) cuz 94-96 was the same thing but with the whole east vs west going on, rock peaked with grunge, and pop peaked in the early 90's with power pop), but during the second half of the millenium culture around 2000/2001, thats when things really got bad

[oldschoolbx1970]

@SPAZZOID100 No lie about that.

[mydadcankillurs]

@SPAZZOID100 Actually they'll say 90's music was better....

[SPAZZOID100]

@mydadcankillurs

Maybe YOU will.

[mydadcankillurs]

@SPAZZOID100 The 90's had Wu-tang, Tupac, Biggie, Big L, Big Pun, EMPD, Nas, Prodigy of Mob Deep, Capone & Noreaga, Snoop, Dr.Dre (self), Jay-Z, DMX,and A.Z. The 90's was the pinnacle of rap, but the 80's will always be remembered...

[elektroindi]

The 80´s had Public Enemy, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice T, Afrika Bambaataa, BDP, Eric B and Rakim, Marley Marl and the Juice Crew, Egyptian Lover, NWA, King T, Too Short, Slick Rick, 80´s was better. Can´t beat the forefathers of hip hop ever!!!

[mydadcankillurs]

@elektroindi Well, rappers in the 90's had better lyriks... I agree they are klassiks, but if 90's artist had a battle with 80's artist. 90's would more than likely win. To be honest, almost all 80's artist had the same flow.

[elektroindi]

The music evolved in the 90´s for sure, however, you still had bad ass lyricists in the 80´s. Kool Keith, Rakim, The DOC, Big Daddy Kane are some examples. I have an affinity for the 90´s because I grew up at the turn of the last decade. But there´s 1 thing that sets the two apart. 90´s was the era of SELLOUTS. Especially the late 90´s. NO weak shit came out in the 80´s.

[rocklesson86]

@SPAZZOID100 I love 80s music and I'm 24.

[BrotherSkillz]

@SPAZZOID100 indeed 

[SPAZZOID100]

@surfer53

I'd hate to know how people will perceive TODAY'S music 20 years from now....If it sucks now, I can only imagine in years to come.

the 80's had the most talented musicians and producers, hands down.

[SPAZZOID100]

@surfer53

I would take ANYTHING from the 80's over anything passing for "music" today

[sdeschanel1]

@SPAZZOID100 for real, definitely.