Hip Hop, The Golden Years (Part 1)

[gamelifeboss]

TO ALL YOU HETEROPHOBICS RECORD HATIN CUNT SANDWITCHES COMMENTING ON ME IT PROVES TO ME YALL KNOW JACK SHIT ABOUT THIS CULTURE, THE MUSIC, OR THE REAL IMPACT IT HAS ON MY PEOPLE,@JIZZ MERFING YOU ARE A SEX AFFENDER WHO LOVES WATCHING PRISON RAPE SCENES IN MOVIES AND MASTERBATE TO THEM. AND SOUTH AFRICA...PLEASE U WAS PROLLY PART OF THE MUTHAFUCKA SELLING PEOPLE OUT TO SLAUGHTER. @ THE REST OF ANYBODY SPEAKIN ON ME THIS VID IS FUGAZI IF YOU GONE TALK ABOUT HIP HOP TALK ABOUT ALL SIDES. BITCHES!

[gamelifeboss]

FIRST OFF THE FIRST SONG I EVER HAD WAS THE SHOW IN 85 THEN LADIDADI. SO KILLED YA ON DAT BUULLSHIT. AND SECOND ALL YOU RECORD HATIN EASTCOAST MAD CAUSE YALL CANT STICK TOGETHER ASS CRAB IN A BUCKET STARCASE CLIMBING MONKIES NEED TO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT AND REALISE THAT IF IT WAS NOT FOR NWA RAP WOULD STILL NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. AND QUIT HATIN THE SOUTH SMOKE SUM'N BYICH(PIMP C VOICE) #BLOWN OUT

[xxyhhgg]

@gamelifeboss God, defend yourself and your not biased to west coast? You didn't say you were, which is fine if you are, but you definitely need to realize where hip hop originated. BRONX. Secondly, it was taken seriously, you just think that hardcore gangster rap was the firecracker that set hip hop as a definitive and respectable genre. It already was... Rakim, Big Daddy Kane... Countless DJ's n B-boys, but you still think West coast was the ultimatum to this ish.. You must LEARN -KRS

[72mrchainsaw]

For me hip hop used to be fun. Making do with what we got. A beat box, a mix tape a piece of lino or cardboard to practise ur back spin on. A sketchbook, a few tins of paint, and a canvess whether it be a concrete wall or rolling steel. It was about geting your name up, respecting your crew and it gave you a feeling words cant describe.

[edwardjamesbutler]

@72mrchainsaw Amen

[gamelifeboss]

WHERE THE WESTCOAST AT WAT EASTCOAST FAGGOT BYEST FUCK BOY MADE THIS BUUUUUUULLSHIT 1988 NWA RAN 88 WHAT THE FUCK IS U STUPID

[emceemaka]

@gamelifeboss Before you have the audacity to call another human stupid, please learn the proper way to write in the English language. You should definitely be better prepared prior to calling anyone out on things. Not to mention, that I have videos that are directly dedicated to the "west coast," but you would not know that because you are the type of person who jumps to conclusion.

[mattydal1]

@gamelifeboss YOU NIGGAS HADNT EVEN HEARD OF HIP HOP UNTIL NWA HIT THE SCENE BBOYS BEEN DOING THIS SINCE THE EARLY 70'S WE'RE TALKIN ABOUT THE ROOTS NOT THE BOOTS HOMEBOY. MUCH LOVE TO DRE AND THE CREW, SNOOP, ALL THAT FINESSE BUT...............

[Jenzmeiring]

@gamelifeboss

Quick question, does writing in capitals make you feel better about yourself? You are sitting behind a computer and I think 98% of people who read your comment will think you need to go back to Primary School. "IS U STUPID", no one says that anymore unless you really have a speech impairment and why do you have to talk like that about yourself. Oh and go to South Africa and try living there for a week, you'll get your ass fucked by a pack of real "black" men.

MC Maka. Good Vid

[johnjnukemsheridan]

@gamelifeboss Er, I think you'll find THAT PUBLIC ENEMY "RAN 88' ". Get some Hip Hop schoolin'....sounds like you need to!

[61n9ner]

what's KDAY???

[Gavrane1]

@61n9ner radio station 

[RealRealTalk100]

This is what Hip-Hop is all about. SO glad to have found this.

[JM1993951]

Golden age hip hop is typically thought of as late 80s - early 90s. I definitely wouldn't call anything pre-1987 "golden age" hip hop. Maybe Cat in the Hat age, not golden age.

[UnitedPacci]

Big Daddy Kane feat Kool G Rap - Raw = RAW

And look now where we at...

[myaccountsdisabled]

LOL! i remember as a kid telling everyone at every opportunity , awesome, i have the first name & initials as scott la rock, S.L.R. :-) R.I.P!!

[citizencain01]

Damn, no Public Enemy and N.W.A.? How could you forget them?

[RealRealTalk100]

@citizencain01 I don't anyone forgot them but a lot of people have no idea who any of these rappers are or what it was about before politics and gangster shit was discussed in hip-hop raps.

[anjac702]

Ummmmm where's x-clan

[magnum172]

4:19 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SONG ???

[emceemaka]

@magnum172 "Cha Cha Cha" by MC Lyte. One, Maka

[SammyRudzinski]

Really like this music, thank you

[magnum172]

so good ! unfortunately songs are short.

[fukwaynecampaign2]

Wonderful list of emcees but what about GangStarr, Tribe, Wu, Main Source... I guess you can only think of so many when trying to compose a list of greats of such caliber, have a nice day sir, well done XD

[breezwonder]

Im tired of Latinos going down to Wikipedia trying to add themselves to the creation of Hip Hop! Hip Hop is a solely African American musical genre created in 1972 out of the South Bronx. No one is denying the LATER "Contributions" of Latinos and others but Blacks are the CREATORS!!!

[phychopat1]

I think that it is so fucked up that they did not say a word about the fat boys. They did a lot for hip hop as well. They had a money hungry grimy manager, and got ripped off for their money, but besides all that, that is foul that they were not talked about on this. The fat boys were black and the beastie boys were white, but the beastie boys get more recognition than the fat boys. Unfair.

[iamsukafree]

if the 80s is the golden years of hip hop then the 90;s is the platinum years of hip hop because hip hop was at it best in the early 2 mid 90;s

[IVIonkey123]

@iamsukafree You can kind of think of the 80's as the grounding for 90's hip hop bc it influenced ALOT of 90's hip hop.

[aaronamccoy]

rakim was raw

[dankkush74]

lil wayne and soulja boy dislike this

[whitetailhunta]

if if wasnt for rakim, rappers will still be saying ''yes,yes yall and you dont stop''...

[LESBIANDINOSAURSWAG]

Can someone explain why these songs are any better than ones of today?

[BobbyCarillo]

@LESBIANDINOSAURSWAG Back then hip hop was from the heart and for fun,today it's just for money and the industry found out that they can get away with anything as long as it's overpromoted and overplayed on mainstream radio.

[LESBIANDINOSAURSWAG]

@BobbyCarillo Believe it or not there's always been nonsense and greatness in music period. We have great MC Rappers, Vocalist, Musicians now just how there were back then, and we still have the funny nonsense scattered all around as well lol. Just listen to what you like.

[johnjnukemsheridan]

@LESBIANDINOSAURSWAG Are you joking!? Lol if we're talking the example of RAP or Hip Hop most people think of it as/that is heard round and about these days from music vids/cars/charts....er, it can't possibly be classified as either. That's why. It's not Rhythmically Applied Poetry and it's not a part of Hip Hop or its culture...it's a curruption, a mute mutation (as Anthony Demore put it). There was a time RAP charted & was still RAP; still part of Hip Hop. Not now tho ;D

[johnjnukemsheridan]

@LESBIANDINOSAURSWAG ...and I misstyped 'corruption' lol

[04DoubleR]

IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

[hulkhogantupaclover]

well the more new "school" came in 98- so golden age could maybe have been a little longer till 94 or 95, because when people think about rap in 1994 they think old school

[TheHitman4ever]

Whats BDKs song on 3:20?)Plz Help)

[ELMiguelitos]

also noticed there was no LL how come?

[ELMiguelitos]

Rakim is still my fav rapper to touch the mic, but yo i remember when i 1st heard i got it made from special ed, still one of my fav songs ever made idk why

[DESiB00107]

What song is 2:09?

[emceemaka]

@DESiB00107 "The Bridge is Over," by Boogie Down Productions (KRS ONE's original group).

[Maradonarules10]

Eric B And Rakim = The best thing to ever happen to hip hop.

[pusumaster]

@Maradonarules10 Agreed , Rakim is a legend

[bdscavenger]

this is the range i think is the golden age of hip hop: 1987 to 1992.

why i say that? because after 1992 most rappers were gangsta rappers. not only that, there were the most different, original styles of rappers.

i mean look at the east coast rappers after 92. groups like wu tang, black moon, notorious big, nas, mobb deep are all gangsta rappers. not much diversity anymore.

[AABIDtheSPOON]

@bdscavenger

I would not class Wu-Tang as gangsta rap, it is diversity itself, when I listen to Wu-Tang I hear philosophy and raw MC talent. They don't go on like NWA and say stupid things like how they are G's or gangsta

[theallfan]

Back in the dayzzzz......when HH gave smart stuff. At least more then today.

[Henneseysmooth]

No homo...but damn, hearing all these classics (real hip-hop) is going to break my ass down! Damn!! Do I miss it.

[tlarock]

I have to give respect to, Fearless Four, Treacherous Three, Furious Five, Spoonie Gee, Just Ice,

Coming from the real T La Rock - " Its Yours "

[theOGslagster127]

yeah i know what you mean, i live in a small town in oxfordshire england and always have. remember this? loungin in the danger zone.. &what was that? hu--rru--rummp? play like a split-second from the end? gonna get busy in that burger-king bathroom! remember kool kieth say: money is green plus the truth is the funky sound? hope you wrong brooklyn-born and hope you right undergroundHH or what am i gonna listen to here? me? - like Foxx said: country jerry-curl-farmer still wearing '85 garments!

[lilanksl]

I wish I grew up on this instead I got Lady Gaga :(

[MyNameIsArran]

@lilanksl SAME, fucking sickens me.

[micknamer]

They were all from the south or atleast the Bronx epcept the beastie boys and I know violence isn't good but damn they want us in complete order and is boring back then the streets were fun like I miss tagging up trains to me that looked beutiful

[818ERIKTHEKING]

wish i grew up on this shit

[Nellyoll]

Oh shit! Brought some memories back! Thanks man!

[frankdevodude]

Fuck Yeah! I grew up on this shit, Living in L.A. in the early 80's was the Shit! Thanks for posting this!!!! I feel like gangbanging now! lol

[matthew66789]

@frankdevodude i feel u son i grew up on this shit in NYC (brooklyn) and it was the shit deadass but now hip hop is kinda dead yo the songs have no message i think after the 90s up to 2006 rap just wasnt the same anymore

[baggies37]

oh man there's some quality tunes on here...took me right back....special ed...it really was the golden age...shame most popular rap is tosh now..

[mizundrstod]

NOW THIS IS HIP HOP!!

[filipinobboy510]

I'm only 14 years old and I have crates full of these records. I miss the golden era of hip hop...

[breezwonder]

Hip Hop is Black Music. Non Blacks call it "Universal Music" cause they wanna be down.

[TheCoffeeandafag]

@breezwonder bullshit man, hip hop is by the poor for the poor. i hate it when there is someone who thinks we're all "crackers". when we are in a struggle we are all brothers, no matter what u say, im against the upper class cunts who have control over the poor, i wouldnt blame a race. Peace x

[breezwonder]

@TheCoffeeandafag (Sarcastic) Yeah Suuuuuuure

[TheCoffeeandafag]

@breezwonder yea sure what? you referring to the "peace" bit or the "i wouldnt blame a race"

[hiphopsupremedotcom]

@breezwonder rock was "black" music too...it advanced thru technology and became mainstream american culture. Hip Hop is not "music" only, so ur comment is at best badly worded and overgeneralized. Disco was black, Jazz, Funk-don't hate it that "others" love black music

[wijobijazz07]

Hip-Hop wasn't about being just a hook over a beat. These people told stories and held true to the topic. Hip-Hop is still wonderful! The stuff they make today just isn't hip-hop! Hip Hop made you want to dance, helped you understand heartbreaks, understood our hard times, lifted our spirits, etc. Not, kill, demoralize, put you (as a person) down, only rap about money. Back then, rappers dressed like the common man, that's because he was and still is to all that loves them!

[str8outtatexas1]

@wijobijazz07 -hey boss i totally agree with every word you said.i'm 44 and grew up on all this music back in the 80's and early 90's. music for us as kids was all about dancing,break dancing, & chasing girls and vice versa.music had so much more substance and creativity back then. today it's all about bitches,ho's,cars,money,bling,­materialistic shit,beef,revenge, ect.. there is no comparison at all, the 80's,early 90's will never be duplicated, or ever heard again. damn i miss those days.

[Cappadonna72]

I wonder who will be the first tool to give a thumbs down.

[UptownChamps]

That was HOT! Thanks 

[DisappearingMortgage]

love it! from a white boy in suburbs of hbg PA, this is what I grew up with, was 16 in 1986!

[95jayb]

wish i was born when all this was out

[hannaheesaa]

3:15 to 3:19 jayz the fake ripped it of

i get moni moni i gt

jayz i get moni moni get cock :)

jay \ carry pn rocking FELLAS ;)

[gadsiegadsie]

can you imagine? a music style just completely disappear? that's not gonna happen. and if so, why doesn't rock just disappear as well? and classical music? then why doesn't everybody just stop listening music?

[alrockson]

Classic jams. I miss those years, also check out "Band of Soul Dancers Vol. 1" which has classic hip-hop dancing from the golden years of hip-hop. Available as an app for the Iphone/Ipad, also peep the trailer on youtube! Support good hip-hop and pass it on! One love!

[soielchuyithop]

buenas rolaas maan

[pzl120]

I always called the Golden Era of Hip Hop '86-'96. Imho, 1986 is the year that rap music took "the next step" in creativity. Raising Hell, Criminal Minded, License to Ill, Paid in Full, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Bigger and Deffer all hit between 1986-1987 (this was the music that got airplay). 1996 seemed to be about the last year before the "shiny suit rapper" era began, rap's airplay habits. A microcosm of this is The Black Eyed Peas. They are a looong way from "Behind the Front".

[SNIPERmachine77]

sooo true

[maskanio1]

im 17 and my role model is shock g!!!!!!!!

[townsend316]

NO FRESH PRINCE PRINCE AND JAZZY JEFF!!! Go to have "I'm the rapper he's the DJ"

[pzl120]

@townsend316 Brand New Funk has got to be one of the funkiest hip hop songs made. Definitely my favorite from them. And to the younger kids on here...Yes, I AM talking about Will Smith, believe it or not.

[thuglife85137]

I'm 17 and I'm ashamed by this generation we want 2PAC Eazy-E, B.I.G back. RESPECT BRO.

[TheEman67]

krs was dissin but all 80s to 1998 is real rap gangsta an just true rap

[blakefeeldz1]

SINCE EVERYBODIES ARGUING OVER WHEN THE GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP WAS ILL THROW MY 2 CENTS IN ........87'-94'.

[defcreator]

@blakefeeldz1

agree,before 87 it was the hiphop electro era

[hayitsme23]

I agree that mc lyte is the best female mc ever!!!!!!!

[animalsprotector]

the first rap was in west africa not african american

[35THIRTYFIVE]

great vid...... takes me waaay back, whats this shit they call Hip Hop today? well it sure aint Hip Hop- Respect, Manchester UK

[ttt187able]

This brings back sooo many memories! Thanks

[johnydobry]

what about Boogie Down Productions ?

[BlueIsLike]

Where NaS?

[isaias098]

3:15 opening of i get money of 50 cent

[iqgray]

I like this.

[blakricanwitlocs]

this is hot but he forgot LL COOL J

[emceemaka]

Set it Off

[novak1904]

wow thanks 4 posting this shit man its great

[ANDROID697]

Raising Hell and Licenced to ill was my 1st album(s) purchased. Now I have 450 HipHop albums.

[islandbee]

@ANDROID697 That's great! Having old school hip on vinyl is like having priceless art work.

[pannoni1]

Music forms go underground before dying (Disco in the early '80s, doo-wop in the mid-'60s, grunge in the mid-'90s). Also, soul music continued alongside hip hop very peacefully; I hated that mid-90s hip hop/soul merging trend!

[CLOUT12000]

nice job dude

[aFrikaHya]

Thank u for this =)

[rikvuurwerkonline]

fking good song

[Andru47corp]

song at 3:21 ?

[emceemaka]

"Raw," by Big Daddy Kane. All the songs and the artists are labeled in the info bar on the right. One, Maka

[Andru47corp]

thx...i didnt see it

[CLOUT12000]

eric b and rakim/ i aint no joke

[Jokerapache]

@Andru47corp noob

[kennboy1]

great!!!

[bjordan1996]

OMG!! this video compilation is rockin!!!! thanks for posted and creating this...... brings back memories :)

[dannyboy860]

3rd Base - pop goes the weasle

[jrad167]

rakim best rapper alive

[xreb2008]

nobody cant fuck with back in da days Hip Hop, unrepeatable era.... MCs & DJs were true artist, nuthin to do with today wack clowns

[aroochie2000]

Mc Lyte was amazing..lyrical queen

Audio Two? mmm overated? Wack lyrics

[Necelove]

You forgot L.L Cool J's first album. L.L. period. But you on point tho.

[dicksplatts007]

ah true tunes!

p.s.ive got all these

[sunshinesda1]

excellent job!

[BigLouieLittlePhilly]

HH aint dead it went underground

[zaantjedam123]

rest in peace hiphop will never forget you

[bluntd1]

MAAaaaannnn these are the real hip-hop jams, much love son!!!

[Tryste]

awesome video man

[012Hustler16]

omg classic and i just got done watch crush groove

[ALEXisDOPE88]

daanngg amazing thanks for this.... i 've always liked old school hip hop.

i don't like what's on the radio now a days...again thanks

[T82486]

Audio Two - Top Billin' still after all these years, bangin..........

[ricrobinFlash]

Compare you don't hear me tho with Brand Nubian because they smaple Flashlight.

[antisumiala]

girls love the way i spinn

[MrMorningside125]

Roxanne shante is only good for steady fuckin!!! hahaha classic

[YFLOInternational]

I love this video!

[1983youknowsit]

i miss it all, hip hop used to have so much flavour and substance. its lost alot since the mid 90s and also 50 cent sucks balls

[RealFan357]

Oh my god..these kids today just don't know the era they missed..

[bigDtheshiz177]

@RealFan357 sure we do man i love golden age hip hop. But to be honest this isnt the golden age. Its more 92 to 99 with groups like tribe called quest, wu tang, de la soul, the roots, mobb deep, big l, nas (illmatic) and the pharcyde

[2manyfakerappers]

@bigDtheshiz177

the electro age 1982-1987 is when hiphop was at its best,originality was the key,graffiti and breakdance played a big part

1991-1997 is the golden age of rap not hiphop,sadly the industry started to ignore the scratch dj,the graffiti writer and the bboy in most rap songs..

Now were stuck with greedy ignorant kiddy rappers,even the underground is lacking the other 3 elements.

[bigDtheshiz177]

@2manyfakerappers oh aight i gotcha. If youre looking for good underground check out jay electronica and dela. both are recent artists.

[JaeGERmeister4711]

nice tracke chice ^^

[yellmello]

these rappers 2day don't know about real hip hop.

[FreeSignature]

ahh, my friend has been making me listen to some deathgrind piece of shit all day. this is such a break to my ears :))))

[seand67]

Love this video. I can't listen to the mess they're trying to pass as Hip Hop these days. NOTHING but negativity & ignorance is glamorized today. Sorry, I'm sticking with the Old School. Thanks for this video!

[TheThirdEyeCeesU]

Great post of a Great Mix from the Greatest 10 yr period of Hip Hop!! I've been saying for yrs that 1983 - 1993/94 is the greatest 10 year period of Hip Hop. (By the end of '94, the music began to chg., in ways that weren't so obvious then, but in retrospect...)

The creativity that existed then; the way the music transformed right before our very eyes, during that 10 year period is just UNBELIEVABLE.

How much has changed in the past 10 years

(1999-2009), i.e., style wise & creatively?

[jwh1999]

WHERE IN THE HECK IS PE????

[jwh1999]

Thanks for this!!Today's hip hop is krap!!

[AMAruofAssassinz]

Premier sampled the drum from "You're A Cutomer" by EPMD (3:47 to 4:19) 4 Mass Appeal

[lightmocha]

Ya killin me here. Love it!

emeemaka, do you happen to have a song by RUN DMC called Here we go? Not sure if that's the actual name of the song, but they performed it live...at the Roundhouse I think?

Nice job on the vid.

[1337Kuken]

great vid man. but i can't remember the name of that audio two song. can someone help me with that?

[TheNinjaSpectre]

Top Billin-Audio Two