Keeps Your Hands High - Tracey Lee f/Notorious B.I.G.

[RLECONTE44]

1 of the best biggie verses ever they need to play this more n y isn't this on I tunes. Tray lee been hot.

[RalphFee]

Where the rest of B.I.G verse?! Epic fail. Upload sucks.

[JPoppie]

@Royal18713 Peep my response video!

[JPoppie]

My verse was hot enogh to be on this track. CHEK OUT CAPTAIN!

[DewDamaff]

I remember watching The Rap City episode where Joe Cleezy was interviewing Lee after Biggie had died. He said he thanked God every day that he was able to do a collab with Biggie. Lee ripped that shit. Niggaz aint even know Philly been had spitters.

The last verse is one of Biggie's best underrated verses ever. Like how Pun's verse on Terror Squad's Hidden Hand is one of his best thats underrated. I was 14 when this dropped. I was awed then and I'm awed now. Biggie was incredible.

[jen2troy]

Whatever happened to tracey lee? He ripped this shit.

[OuterSpace90]

Real nice track

[84benfiquista]

them rings and things you sing about bring em out,its hard to yell when the barrel is in ya mouth.lol,that right there is enough to make this a hot song

[simon10177]

R.I.P BIGGIE.

[rocstarskinnyjeans]

This Dj Hurie East Coast Throw Back And I Love It!!!!

[dummyGWAPyee]

wuz up every body

[yyGODyy]

two people found it difficult to yell with a barrel in their mouths.

[DAROCKNESSMONSTAH]

jay-z even jacks biggie beats.

[JPoppie]

Please check out capitain... shit goes hard no BS!

[BEAN2408]

"Make his chest rest where his back should be" 1993.

[Fee76Lawlus]

Little known B.I.G collaboration. please check this out.

[neoabyss]

DOPEST SLEPT ON ALBUM EVER!!!!!!!!! TRACEY LEE HAD A DOPE ASS CONCEPT FOR "MANY FACES"

[rippy40]

i can't even turn this off

[moneyaveharlem]

starting at 2:43 shows y big is the goat

[SouthCadiLLac]

BIG was dead and gone by the time this song came out. CAniBUs just did the LL cool J thing.....

[DA7odKAI]

Tracy lee held his own but dammit man Big went off on on this track mad hard. Tracy last vs missing though. I hear people saying 2 albums can't make u the G.O.A.T. When u kill every track you've ever been on from rap to r&b features to killing a freestyle about pepsi. Biggie is the greatest to me far as being lyrical, his wordplay, wittiness, the vivid storytelling, and just overall deliver. I am a Jay fan as well got all his albums but Big is the epitome of what it means to be a great emcee.

[minhasc]

@DA7odKAI I couldn't agree more with your sentiments of why Big's the illest MC, hands down. With him, it wasn't what he said, it was HOW he delivered it...

[Mhachi8]

Jay Z's "What more can I say" and Canibus's "How We Roll" both use the beat well and are dope songs but nothing is messing with version. Big murdered it and Tracy Lee dropped some dope verses also. The Premo Remix with Meth and Red was dope too but again nothing beats the original. Amazing Classic Track. R.I.P. B.I.G. G.O.A.T.

[il3musicinc]

To speak of the session, BIG came in cracked jokes, talked, smoked,drank, all while THINKING of what he was gonna spit. Then out of no where he spit this FIRE.. No Paper allowed all from the dome... Jay was in the next studio @ D&D when we recorded this, and Clark had flipped the beat but i got mine on the desk at Bystorm first. So he then gave his version to Canibus.

[il3musicinc]

I would like to thank all of you wholove this underground hip hop classic. But i MUST dispel the rumors. First Clark Kent who is my dude nor D-Dot produced it. i did... check the credits Ike Lee III, same cat that gave y'all Poppa Large the remix by Ultramagnetic MCs plus a gang of other shit. BIG is and will always be the GREATEST!! All others are the great ones still alive to claim it.

[MR469]

Aw man he aint rip nothing off.

[mumsdawerd]

who had this first.......canibus or tracey lee? cuz i know canibus rapped over this beat also. i discovered cani's version on eightball's 3 disc album titled "lost". great album by the way. anyway, i'd appreciate an answer. peace.

[Habib24202]

Obvisouly Tracy Lee. Biggie was dead by the time Canibus came out with his first album

[mumsdawerd]

much appreciated. thanks man. my homie owns cani's first album and i owned this one. To me, it seemed very close to the same year when i heard both versions. i don't think tracy came out with his album until 1997. eightball's album was 1998 so its difficult for me to remember back that far. anyway, thanks bro.

[PIOSystems]

Dope Song, too bad Tracey Lee never took it to the next level with this and 'The Theme'.

[XCisor]

never see bank like Frank White

[LiAmToH15]

me n my nigga lance took kim and cease advance, bought ten bricks, and four punds of weed plants, from branson now we lampin

[TheLaffmaster]

BIGGIE WE MISS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU...the game is WACK RITE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i mean im loving em,jay z, jadakiss and da lox... but THERES NO ONE LIKE YOU AND NEVER WILL BE.. rest in peace PLAYBOY .. you was the REALEST who to ever spit it..

[phesterjr]

Fuck Jay Z

[supastarnyc]

Tray Lee held it down, but BIG was/is on another level. This track is from 1996, and BIGs verse is killing 99.99% of whats out now, they used his verse again on born again to make another sick track (with meth, red and primo), Jay used lines and the beat for what more can I say (but Canibus used it in 97). BIG=G.O.A.T.

[jerzy862]

@supastarnyc i tried looking for canibus's freestyle but i cant find it. whats the title called?

[Habib24202]

@jerzy862 Its not a freestyle its a song....... How We Roll

[jomrapstar]

@supastarnyc Actually, This track was made in early 97. Probablly January.

[malibu631]

@jomrapstar MID '96

[jomrapstar]

@malibu631 The were going to record it mid 96 but Biggie wasn't available until Jan 97 to record this track with Tracey Lee.

[djglock99]

biggie only got 2 studio albums to his credit while he was alive, & over a decade later them verses still transcend 99% of the rappers out now. this nigga was a real student of his trade. BEST EVER!!!!

[romeowhiskey1976]

i never hear this before. i guess thats why j z is so hot. fuck the bullshit. ITS HARD TO YELL WHEN THE BARRELS IN YOUR MOUTH. AND OTHER FOLLOWED HIM.

[superfunnyTV]

was this song ever released

[ALLEYCATZ1986]

yes it was it's off tracy lee album

[shakur322]

yo biggie really ripped diz shit

[245LV]

For all of yall that don't know this. Puff screwed the shit out of Tracey Lee. This was the last man to make a song with BIG. This is the original version of the song. This is one of the reasons that Dickhead Diddy is a snake and is not to be trusted for nothing.

[kirby2137]

ok.....so how did he screw him out?he got him in a song with the greatest of all time

[SatomiCanineWarrior]

Biggie is just sooooo fucken amazing

[malchipops]

big didn't write this all freestyle tray lee said so

[baidey420]

thats because big never wrote his shit down. everynow and then when he got somethin new in his head he would write it wherever. but when he did a whole song or freestyle he didnt write it down. haven't yall heard jay-z claimin he don't write either. i think he's just copyin biggie but he might b that good

[murk4skillz]

yo I uploaded the instrumental peep the video response

[ChrioniBlack]

kdaprince718 is right.

Tray matches B.I.G line for line on this joint and his flow even EXCELS sometimes. Check Tray's first verse. Also, he does do MUCH better than Jay did with B.I.G on Brooklyn's Finest.

How wasn't he bigger?

[JohnnyRigman]

''its hard to yell when the ba-wrells in your mouth''

[kirby2137]

yea son used to listen this shit hard on the stoops.Niggas always told me to change the song but i always told them to fucc off Rip B.I.G King of New York

[zalami128]

Tracy lee is now 38 years old. He earned a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1994 and graduated from Southern University Law School in 2004.

[Habib24202]

This is true

[JohnnyRigman]

after biggie destroyed him in this freestyle there is no wonder why tracey lee gave up with the rapping and decided to persue a new career

[FUCKULUKEFITZGERALD]

This isnt a case of one upmanship, this is just two guys working together to make a great song.

[realtv1982]

@zalami128 Yea I just read on twitter he a Lawer now that's money

[critnit]

didnt T.I get that "its hard to yell when the barrel is in your mouth" line from this track?

[MyNameIsNeutron]

Actually, Jay-Z used it in What More Can I Say. The vocal sample on Bring Em Out is Jay-Z.

[Spillberg]

When I heard this shit on a Clue mixtape back in the day, I was like WTF! I slept on Tra Lee's album back in the day! And all I have to say is DJ Clark Kent is the illest for producin this joint....and THEN using the SAME sample to create Canibus's "How We Roll" joint! COMPLETE GENIUS! Any producer that does that and get away with using the same sample is a genius in my book! I thought that was him who did "What More Can I Say" on Jay's album but it was those cats The Birminghams. Big up to them

[beastydon]

goddam biggie iz a beast! he caught up 2 nas pretty quick and got ahead of his time wit his flow,lyrics,and style!

[MarocGTO]

Ohh.

He did mention, Bitches get naked off "Get Money", "Player's Anthem" Don't forget "One More Chance" and, my other hits, other shit, niggas spit be counterfeit, robbery come actually in and out like fuckin rapidly...

BIG for everr!!1

[MarocGTO]

Them rings and things you sing about, bring 'em out, i'ts hard to yell...

Teeheehee, busteddddddddd!

[dondaddan]

how the fuck did tracy lee get biggie on a track?

check the other tray lee video, bystorm ent was owned by the mad rapper dude, he produced hypnotize, all about the Benjamins,money power respect, Derrick D dot

[OneManDynasty81]

this was the shit back in the day. Of course Biggie killed on this track as usual.

[BrnNGrn]

"i got a new mouth to feed

i'm due south with keys/

y'all pick seeds out y'all weed

i watch cowards bleed/

motherfucker please,

this my block wit my rocks/

fuck that hip hop

them 1-2's, and ya don't stop"

[porky289]

Damn Jay really does steal biggies lyrics. Its not even necessary to big up B.I.G he is the king of new york aint nobody 4get who Biggie is. And I'm upset cause my lil cousin thought Tracey Lee stole this shit from Jay-Z (don't worry he's young). But damn all of Jay-Z's quotes are biggie lines he only says shit that impresses until I figure out that Biggie said it. I thought that bring em out line was Jay's line until I find out biggie made it, and ppl sample Jay sayin it like he made the line

[bobbystokesisfat]

its not really stealing... hov used the same sample as big did in this song not like he was tryna go on the low wit it. just biggin up big...

[porky289]

I used to say the same thing. But he uses every line BIG said. I mean how can you big up BIG he's the king of NY!!! So I just say Jay is just taking rhymes that these kids say is hot but not knowing BIG said it.

[minhasc]

Difference is, pop rap lovers hail Jay Z. TRUE HIP HOP VETS REP BIGGIE SMALLS.

When the dust settles, all that matters is that "Biggie smalls is the illest..."

[DA7odKAI]

I cosign that...Jay was like a kid in school... around Big he was always studying.

[jerzy862]

@minhasc you cant like both?

[minhasc]

@jerzy862 Nah, that's not what I mean, because I like both too, but I don't like kids tellin me Jay was and is iller than Big, purely cos he's still alive...

[jerzy862]

@minhasc yea, jay-z's the best LIVING but best ever is BIG no doubt

[JRSK818]

@jerzy862 i dont know about jay z

[MikeCityTv]

@minhasc Jay-z is a rap legend, even BIG would acknowledge that

[phsycomikeo]

fuck that i preach it! it got me hooked the second he started spittin.

[kdaprince718]

tray's flo matches big's on this he did a better job on this than jay did with big on brooklyn's finest

[kirby2137]

Man fucC tht almost every one of jay-z's memorable quotes comes straight out of the B.I.G's ryhmes

[whoweb21]

this song is underrated and big,s lyrics is impeccable and tracey lee is line for line like big

[BklynzPhinezt1]

Jay is a faggot..im not buyin that he biggin up his brother shit no more..he just a thief..re used the same sample big went ballistic on AND used one of his sickest lines..smh...and what happened to tracy lee?? son was nice..

[Infamous256]

Nah man you got it wrong. I look at it as if Jay is just keeping Biggie's legacy alive.I mean yo almost every mc in the history of hiphop has borrowed lines from other rappers.

[megadeus]

naw yo ppl borrow lines all the time. everyone knows Big used it first, jay was just payin homage by using it in a rhyme since its such a sick line

and what did happen to tracy lee??

[kirby2137]

i feel that son

[channelle27]

this song is still a banger!!!

[tombo125]

how the fuck did tracy lee get biggie on a track?

[Jdub37348431]

this is the song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[twatta5]

yo check the otha keep ya hands high type it in their pik is in green.......they sum yung gudd niggas

[BillieStingJean]

1:17... someone used that liune... im sure it was Jigger..."Bring em out, bring em out"

[inlas]

Jigga incorporated Biggie's line on 'What More Can I Say" and T.I. sampled Jigga saying Biggie's line on 'Bring Em Out'.

[HempNastz]

What happen to Tracy Lee

[wgbarnes101]

This track is nice. The instrumental on this track is like combining the instrumentals on the "How We Roll" track by Canibus on the "Can-I-Bus" album (1998) and "What More Can I Say" on Jay-Z's "The Black Album" album (2003).

[Kidz24]

wow.... How the hell could Jay-Z jack this track for...

That's real fucked up

[jerm2120]

Jay Z did not jack this track watch fade to black HE S BIGIN UP HIS BROTHER

[Kidz24]

you have to understand though. This song really isn't that known. Underground pretty much. When he said that, it made people believe he actually said that line. He said WHen I say a biggie line. Well nobody actually knew it was until they actually heard this song.

And Biggie is a Legend, no one actually needs to use a biggie line. Because everyone associated with hip-hop, and actually listen to his songs knows how good he was.

[qufinest14]

this is CRACK!

[EyupTopcu88]

and by the way i must correct you..

, because it was on Tracey Lee's debut album and ain't unreleased..

[BLACKFONZIRELLI]

yeah it's on his first album

[jerm2120]

this was not on TRACY LEE first album the song came out in the summer of 97

[BLACKFONZIRELLI]

ok famo

[EyupTopcu88]

damn nice classic piece!!

[smitty230306]

It's Hard To Yell When The Bar-ell's in yo mouth....

[3geegorrila]

what yall talking bout this shit was one of the best sons coming out of newyork.

[boogotti31]

B.I.G Kill this track as well as trey lee

[DaYungin]

Fuckin love this song, this beat, all dis shit

my boy and i are gon spit to dis shit

[Rah229]

yea trey verse was good but bigs verse was FUKIN CRAZY!!!!!! trey shoulda done the song by himself

[Rah229]

This song woulda been betta if jay z was on it instead of tray lee. BIG overshadowd him crazy

[blowthesunaway]

trey verse were good aint his fault big went bananas on this

[BLACKFONZIRELLI]

pretty much

[smoothshop]

Many Facez is TRIPLE DOPE CLASSIC NASTY!!!

[bertmarx]

Philly All Day

[1309TZA]

the whole album by tray lee is killer....i love you all

[henoch11]

tracy lee first album classic shit

[youneekk]

biggie paused when he said Gorilla, because it was a play on words.

he was saying that he goes harder,

Go-"realla".

[bktone1]

cannibus used this sample to.He ripped it.Check it out.

[icebergslim3781]

tra lee held his own with a legend how many artist can say they did that One love to illadelph

[mrlyndell]

real hip hop suckas! LISTEN

[grod1328]

2pac who don't you ever compare this biggie with anybody me and lance took kim and cease advance oh my god

[NYCJoeBlack]

"What More Can I Say"? I think that's it. Maybe that was Jay-Z and not Redman. I don't kniw, it's been at least five years. Lol...

[NYCJoeBlack]

Maybe, but I thought Redman was on it as well...maybe Jay-Z and Redman. All I know is that my friend gave me a CD years ago (2003/4) and it had nothing but Redman's latest songs, but it was not the "official" album and it had a song with this beat and him ripping it.

[FLYERvideos]

That was Red's "Bricks Standup" off the "Ill at Will" mixtape(watch?v=XVL0gxHTyas). Yeah that was Red spitting on the Jay-Z "What More Can I Say" beat, which used the same sample as this song.

[ccjr26]

hot shit

[TiminSE]

i kept this on repeat one back in the day... my god that last verse is incredible.

[imperial313]

this was one of them joints puff and them should be puttin back out instead of remakes of shit niggas already got...classic shit...B.I.G was at his peak...word up.

[hzo530]

bought the cd twice and both are scratched on this song. banged it too hard

[beastydon]

whateva happen 2 tracey lee? nigga waz ill

[NYCJoeBlack]

Didn't Redman make a song called, WHAT MORE CAN I SAY using this beat??? I remember that, so can someone post it.

It may have just been an underground mix and not released on his official CD's.

[archdukezeb]

are you talking bout Jay Z's what more can I say with this sample?

[kinggerick]

What more can I say BiG is the best

[icebergslim3781]

tracey held his own with the grestest shout out to the illadelph

[sheilalee11]

Damn. I love me some Tra Lee.

[sheilalee11]

This is hot.

[ladyj2184]

if u listen closely jay-z spit a couple of biggie rhymes for this same sample. aint that a bitch lol! the same damn sample

[86pimp3]

Biggie outshined Tracey Lee but Lee came nice too.

[VDubShawnC]

classic!!!

[BWS2436]

biggie an pac are the greatest losses to music in history! 50 cent, even the game just aren't on this level.

[Habib24202]

i wouldnt got that far...lol

[TopShotta10904]

yeah man u got Bob Marley, John Lennon, etc. vast others.....

Definitely hip hop's greatest losses though...

[Habib24202]

ok i goy ya

[laburnum12]

HIP HOP

R.I.P

[maxxisscam]

wooooooooooooo its hard to yell when the barrell is in yo mouth- I can chill the heat doesnt -

[thehoodspecialist]

Damn Jigga, how many of Biggie's rhymes is gonna come out of your fat lips?

[goodfellamc70]

B.I.G IS THE ONLY KING!

[Znicest]

this is not an collabo...biggie killed him on his own track....kinda like Em did Jay-Z on "Renagade" and like Pac did Snoop on "America's Most Wanted" !!

[St0mpinground]

Damn This Shit Is Hard!!

again....i found another hidden biggie song.

Why Is There So Much Hate In This World.

n why they have to kill biggie.

RIP

[Blazeni420]

Frank White

[jsmoxedbeez]

this is one hell of a collabo. one of the best

[Manokmostamazin]

...play hard like Reggie Miller, rapper slash dope dealer slash gorilla slash illest turned illa. verses like that made Biggie the greatest. Ive bought this album like 5 times. tracey lee should have had another chance

[Ezlogic4life]

Man i miss hip-hop . I love it so much just dont like this new shit . First time i heard this song i rewinded it 20 times before it got to the end . this new shit dont make me want to hit the rewond button . ill play it again but its not going to make me be like what the fuck he say !!!

[Habib24202]

thats that shit...when you find that song that makes you rewind 20 times. I have a few songs that make me do that.

[7Rayo13]

B.I.G. has made me do it many times

[megaohboy]

thats real. i playeds this shit for them country niggas they ate this shit up! I'm like yo this shit from 96

[Manokmostamazin]

i am a country nigga. i'm from valdosta GA and i probably love hip hop more than anyone. i'm 28 and i came up on real hip hop but i don't descriminate on new hip hop. you got your good and your bad just like old school hip hop, because not all old school hip hop was good

[TiminSE]

These verses may be BIG's all time best verses in my opinion. He kills his last verse.

[BLACKFONZIRELLI]

a couple of his all time verses in 97 before he passed.

[treysam84]

This is big's best verse eva tracy actually held his own but how in the fuck did he get big to spit his best shit on his record!!!!!

Im so mad at that but reggie miller line was very nasty! lmao!!!! thank u habib

[Habib24202]

no prob

[DaveOfCleveland]

who had this beat first? Him or Canibus?

[treysam84]

Tracey lee had it first canibus second jay third

[DaveOfCleveland]

what more can i say?

[7Rayo13]

memories

"the rings and things you sing about, bring'em out it's hard to yell when the bar-rels in your mouth"

that's right he said it first

[blazen8888]

I used to bump this joint all the time....good post

[linopanama]

the 2nd part where Big raps is his best verse ever hands down. Say what you want you cant change my opinion

[IZITHIM]

tracie lee album track 14 classic!!!!!!!!!!!! real hip hop 91- 99 we trying to hold on

[mrmizzou2007]

man jay z is like camron said he's a class A rip off artist stealing B.I.G rhymes fuck gay zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[7456ant]

I had this back in 98 when it first came out. Im glade some one put it yhoutube so people can no where Jay-Z got his ides for his song from.

[youneekk]

no one can flow like big did in the first verse. GGGOOOOAAAATTTT!!!!

[D0MNapalm]

what the hell do you mean "Unreleased", this shit isn't unreleased you just don't know your fuckin hip-hop, this song is monumental and its on Tracey Lee's album, if yall was up on that shit then yall wouldn't have to worry about the song being cut off cause the whole song in better quality is available on Tray Lee's first album "Many Facez", do ya research and get familiar

[Habib24202]

thanx dad

[theinfamouscamXXII]

Them rings and things you sing about, bring 'em out / It's hard to yell when the barrel's in yo mouth

[DaManDL]

the shit cuts off right in the middle of Big's last verse. blasphemy!

[Habib24202]

yeah

the only version i have