Brand Nubian - Hold On

[TheChangenick]

this was mtv!!!

[hiphopmadness420]

sik! as song

[FINbball]

What is Brand Nubian's best album?

[ymsparks]

HOW CAN U DISLIKE THIS SONG FIRE RIGHT HEAR BROTHER NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG STOP ALL THAT BUL SHIT PEACE TO BRAND NUBIAN FOR THIS SONG

[TheLesaneParishCrook]

nice OnE..Back to tha Oldschool

[BENJAMINPUCHERT]

AIIIGHT ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::­::::::

[murdok620]

the shizz music aye, love it.

[andrewcopleston]

These guys are top cats

[jedimind94]

1 feeble minded fool is doin the work of the klan

[beq0]

hey youngters take note this is real hip-hop...

[larrycaddy]

Always 1 damn idiot that clicks dislike..sheesh

[heysteele]

Def one of the top three Nubian trax - love it.

[MrFedecr7]

viva l'old school!!!! altro che tutta la merda che c'è adesso

[vincee10134]

This is what hip hop/rap was supposed to be about. I would still be listening if more of this was produced consistently.

[fropol]

Big H at 2:30 loool

[BeNegative665]

Fuck KKK

[1lifestyle]

@BeNegative665 whens last time you heard of a klan member killing a nigga?

[MyDormantSoul]

@BeNegative665 fuck the police

[booyaaka]

"See you were fed thick pieces of swine as a baby. It only helped to drive your mind crazy."

Real shit!

[jriley1992]

Simply Red- Holding Back The Years.

[rudebwoy08041986]

fantastica

[hasardestin]

I discovered lately this song, fell in love with her!!! So so good!!

[hooray718]

The 90's will always be relevant in all genres of music!

[dolphingigglez]

One of the best Rap songs ever

[rollandlowery860]

Good vid. Got the ringer for my iphone at celltonez,co,cc!

[TheRicmusic]

Magico fratello!

[robpeter2paypaul]

Decent but it's no black and yellow.... lmao. They should make all the youth in America listen to real hip-hop and stop playing all all that meaningless BULLSHIT! You was a little weeded and I seen you don't need it. Who the fuck would say some shit like that these days??

[FameKillusion]

ragged lyrics,deep message and amazing refrain makes this song UNBEATABLE CLASSIC

[eslubin]

"No more standing on line trying to find Jehova"

Wow that's some completely offensive stuff. You trying to tell a person what's what?

[arkim44]

@eslubin

your kidding right?

offended by a 90's hiphop gem?

[star1astroboy]

@eslubin listen closer he was saying nomore waiting to see GOD cause the man died and ppl tell others "what's what" every day, you choose what you want to believe...shout out to all hiphhop heads, NGE (5%er's) my pops on the chorus, Brand nubian for putting me in the video. peace

[77musica]

Most black people today work for the KKK

[77musica]

@xcamizlle oh come on you fucking blind idiot, go to any metropolitan area in this fucking country and see the rate of homocides comitted by black on black crime, better yet, go to Africa and see what I have seen the genocide of blacks against blacks, so fuck you.

[asherwebb]

the more golden era hip hop I hear the more I get amped. What happened people--y'all new artists sold your soul or you just pathetic, non-creative. Lets get guerilla distro for creative hip hop b/c it's out there. I am from the stix of redneck part of nc--I'm 31 now, bought this CD @ 14 or so. Loved it, they were rollin in a tarheel blue landcruiser..classic. I remember the review in the source was like "they went from pro-black to gangster, boo" In retrospect All for one--pure hip hop!

[63AIONSON]

Para clarificar pienso que debe haber entendido mal, simplemente porque comprendo que dosis no significa que concuerdo, todavía en el sujeto de la matanza de KKK hombres negros, lo que usted significa quieren que algunos de sus Terrores rastafarios quisieran matarme, el parece un caso de se recupera,

Hispano/latín Ugermam323 Mealcore

[PhilaBul]

a whole lotta soul in this, deep song...

[TheChangenick]

this is the real hip hop

[MrDust1981]

"shit is strife, when ur doing the work of the Klan, that's what you doing when you ruin the life of a black man" damn, damn, damn real rap....

[RexGdubb]

Dam lord jamal prophecized whats going on right now!

[alleyeseing]

this vid was gansta, showed how real they were how real rap was not all that east west bullshit, real rapers going to another coast and getting respect and love from real people

[productions271]

Yo Mtv Raps! memories..... feels like i'm going to cry.

[zithamia11]

NICE,,,,,very Nice,this is a real song..

[romepierceayyyyyy]

Spider Loc used the same sample on his album "The Prequel"

[titodibiase]

MASHALLAH

[jriley1992]

Simply Red- Holding Back the Years---- the song they sampled...

[rexboogie]

Who disliked this song? A klan member?

[royaliste2000]

pure HipHop.

[arandation]

love 90's videos

[frankwhite432]

oh shit, i remember this. back when MTV actually showed MUSIC and not idiotic reality shows

[booyaaka]

@str8guerillaz Are you sure it doesn't say, "So I guess we'll bury him well?"

[booyaaka]

You were fed thick pieces of swine as a baby

It only helped to drive your mind crazy

[mddarch2]

yo this song is straight real~~~~ i almost forgot about this one but i still remembered it. dope real lyrice to educate brothers of the fact that they usually dont want to hear...

[nojusticenoweed]

classic

[minorxxthreat81]

what song is playing during the first few seconds?

[WisRonsin1]

Keep Holding On !!!

[1178wash]

this song to real

[GoGetter18]

Outstandin track (first came to my mind Simply Red)

[master120344]

Brand Nubian is better than any rapper today I don't like this song though is this brand nubian lol?

[mrmolestah]

@master120344 ether your retarded or just jokin'. this is Brand Nubian, & this shits treal homie!!!

[11elfen]

Life-injecton!

[morsche77]

wie alles bei mir mit Rap begann....traum-melodie!!! for ever music....

[consentimiento1980]

very very very good beautiful song

brand nubian is the best raper

[jerbol]

dude brand nubian is 3 rappers, sadat x, grand puba and lord jamar

[phesterjr]

Man, niggaz attitudes seemed so much more real around this time. Even how kats use to dress. People were being themselves and talking about murder and BLACK on BLACK Crimes being a problem. Not glorifying the shit.

[martb615]

R.I.P. MTV

[StoicTwo]

@martb615 Lmao!

-Stoicone!

[Orbot]

@martb615 Lol, u can throw VH1 in the grave with'em too! Both those networks are garbage, and now do absolutely NOTHING for music. They've been reduced to doofy reality shows with wanna be famous low lifes, or washed up, drugged out, has beens!

[afroexcobazz]

yeh u right

[Rocafile]

@martb615 theyre still programing

[BricktownBubba]

@martb615 RIP BET too.

[missmuppet234]

one of the really cool joint s o the 90s, man. they all dat n den sum!

[altdvdmag]

"Why it gotta be me B? I just came to chill. Came to see the flicks, nothin' more, nothin' less."

Lyrically superior to what's being pushed on the mainstream nowadays.

[RICHNICE75]

@altdvdmag Nah sun it's that "all the real hard niggas I know/ is on the down low (pause (what up with that X?))/straight with real estate/ on a scale I place your fate/ nah I'ma let you skate/you was a little weeded/ and I seen you don't need it" fuckin classic.

[pmsan29]

classic Brand nubian joint off everything is everything 1994.

I could of did without the corny singing on the hook, but this joint is still SOLID!

Classic hiphop right here!

5 stars

[OneRyt]

corny singing? Dude, it's sampled from Simply Red's Holding Back the Years.... excellent song... and I'm a firm believer that the song sampled on a track adds posterity and extra meaning to it.

Supreme track all around... verses, hook etc.

[jokkeloco]

I think the singing is a part of the original song that has been sampled

[SN00PYdeuce4life]

ohhhh look like they turned the video on the west coast this hood look like Watts

[blackadam06]

"this hood look like Watts"

It is..they shot it in Watts..

[SN00PYdeuce4life]

pretty weird that they filmed it on the west it was in the east vs west conflict time

[royalsteven]

This song got that whole melncholic feel to it. Master beat and Sadat X comes hard as usual -_-

[hennylo68]

Damn I been looking for this.............

[norisan41]

holding back the years by simply red !man i am ashamed of myself for even knowing this !

[OneRyt]

Why are you ashamed? It's a classic reflective song.

[OneRyt]

not to mention... clearly Brand Nubian as a whole knew the song... -_-

[grgson1]

from which song is the first couple of seconds???

please anybody :D

tnx

[darthknowl]

It's a track of the everything is everything album

[oxside]

its a song called Lookin' at god (interlude)

on the everything is everything album. so fuckin good

[grgson1]

yea,i know.but i thought they took the sample.

[mcteal]

"shit is trife when a nigga do the work of the clan thats what ya doin when ya ruin the life of a black man"

[CanchozI]

i remember the video on MTV back then..it was mutilated and i was so glad when i got the LP finally listenin di tune raw

..but i watched the video over and over again anyway.

always loved it.

Biggup Jamar and X....and Puba too off corse!!!

mi neva gwaan lef fi di nubian jam deh!!!!

[md9751]

hey what hell i mean im just 18 and too young to know this track.....but i gotta say a track like this is what hip hop is all bout...i dont like rappers of today like 50 and all...this track is legend...

[md9751]

Man this song i can relate to every single day....i mean no matter how the days go by...this song is such a great reflection of life....

[u2hubbard]

I wouldn't call it a reflection of life, but a message for life. Not to sound like I'm dissin you or anything, but do you want the hood to forever be a reflection of your life? I grew up in South central and I went to college and now I live far away from my old hood. We could forever pump messages like this into the hoods across America and shit won't change. It's when brothas and sistas move away from these environments and start getting exposed to different surroundings.

[Mackadoeshez]

Str8 up dopeness!

[venedata123]

Stop black on black violence peace to brand nubian! or any violence for that matter!

[phed1979]

shit is trife when a nigga do the work for the clan, that's what you doing when u ruin the life of a black man!!! HOTTEST LINE. hands down...

[u2hubbard]

That line is nothing but truth.

[daM00SEisL00SE]

Yep, it's sampled from Simply Red, Holding Back The Years. Check out the rest of SR on that album, it's insane. So is Brand Nubian : - )

[EMECHAVEZ]

yeah my niggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[PacifcNWPlaya]

I listen to this track everyday and love it. Props for the post and much love to anyone in the struggle.

[beatjunky76]

Im grown up with this...(reminds me of ... i reminisce over you;).

Nowadays it's an outdying art ,btw. if never accepted this and i will never accept this till the day i die

[billiefrank21]

this, and stuffs like this, is what rap is all about...

[coreydb2]

Sadat X is one of the most underrated MCs

[PacifcNWPlaya]

Word

[fifdaddy]

You said it!!!

[LionofZion7]

Respect to Brand Nubian

[tigraig]

Tha real essence of tha 90'z. How time changez.

[kinonomics]

simply red-i keep holding on

[PacifcNWPlaya]

Damn they were holdin back the years with this joint... Thanks for posting it

[francisapple]

i always though dosnt sadat sound like jon amos

[francisapple]

to be real i thought this was from like 90'

[krisr487]

this is the shit, real hip hop with a message, not studio bullshit, bling, rented cars an shit

[krisr487]

this is the shit, real hip hop, not studio bullshit

[GGHBT]

damn!! i used to love her

[mysticman02]

F-F-F-FRESH!!!!!

[bj7499]

its "holding back the years" by simply red

[dubhank]

just heard the song where the sample and the words are taken from...anyone can help me out ? female singer, amazing...

[projektcancer]

I need to know where its sampled too!!!!! been searching for it but no luck

[seriouskiller85]

Sneakin' in the Back - Tom Scott & LA Express ?!

[seriouskiller85]

Sneakin' in the Back - Tom Scott & LA Express

[projektcancer]

thanks..i think i got it already..simply red..thanks anyway

[ko87jam]

This needs to be on tv again, send a message, the truth!

[frmthacrdle2thagrave]

bangin this shit in 94 when hip hop was still great,

[rainbowdragon187]

hm, i picked this up yesterday, awsome man, my girlfriend loves the background music :)

[magicuno]

Love Brand Nubian!

[royalsteven]

X's flow is so nice in this. 'Why it's gotta be me B I just came to chill...

[wteva99]

Hip hop, come back baby PLEASE!! I won't do it no mo'

[DAINFAMOUSDJKG]

i remeber when star did this joint

[wickedjuggalo50187]

Man, I remember when this album came out, Senior year of high school. Why can't rappers be more creative and more lyrical like the hip hop from the early to late 90's. If this keeps up, hip hop is gonna fade out. Nobody is being original and creative anymore.

[afroexcobazz]

yeh u ar right bt i am still keeping it 90s bt i dont have much love

[alleyeseing]

@wickedjuggalo50187 class of '94 stand up last year for hiphop

[kazk76]

the glory days of rap. i want them back!