The Roots - Proceed

[2011zacchaes]

BOB YO HEAD TO DIS SHIT ALL DAY

[DjSkyfaze]

fuck vevo



[spidermanjedi]

also the perfect amount of time for a song ;D cheyyaA!

[pong224]

I love how the length of this song is 4:20.

[deijajadewalker]

the rhodes is tickling my ears...Classic

[Cheesebtrz]

Thumbs up if you still watch this in 2012!

[Massaka99]

Thumps up iff u still watching this in 2012

[Yronlnemuscproducer]

im sorry ive been conditioned wemen with no hair no go only a few can do short bt no hair no hair hell no

markmanbeatz . c0m

[TemplarLeonem]

I can't believe some fool mentioned FEMINENin the context of Roots

[lilangie87]

Thumbs up if you still watching this in 2012,2013,2014,2015...... ;)

[AllAboutKicks723]

I never really listened to the roots up until now. This song really changed my perspective on everything. This, is real hip-hop

[ivy91ful]

Old school! :)

[djslimm74]

REAL Hip Hop.......one of my favorite joints of ALL TIME

[TheRealCocoaKush]

thumbs up if your still listening to this in 1993

[mrpapafunky7879]

wonder how the cute white girl at 1:32 is doing

[dakandishop]

Pour out a drink for Hip Hop May She Rest in Peace... Gone but, Never Forgotten. (-.-)

[NASHSILZ]

Thumbs up 4011

[cassuntella]

My lovest track of the Roots yeaahh!! Big up from Seychelles !!

[KaiL3127]

MEOWW

[rapperOHM]

thumbs up if you're still watching this in 4011!

[4city1cid5]

as long as the roots are still alive hip hop will never be dead

[Jar0on]

Love it!

[jenluvzya]

damn loving the mellow instrumental.. y havent i heard this song earlier! love it

[TheSuperchillmonkey]

aaaaah that's the shit

[RunGunnerRecall1]

thumbs up if youre watching this in 1695

[oAkimboDutchiesX]

1:45 ?UEST LOVE is funny as hell

[Dreamer909IE]

R.I.P. hip hop

[busycloud77]

@Dreamer909IE - LOL its a DAM SHAME! Hip Hop you are missed

[Bangtidy091]

if you like this song you should like my video of a lazy afternoon , you dont have to like it but just give it a view hop on to my channel :)

[TheTKCreborn]

MEEEEEOW! lmao best clean version ever!

[fucidol]

that real ish man. when it was about stylin out, not just fucking gimmicks n all that paper and gun talk b.s. stuff to relax the masses from the day to day struggles and such. break beatbox pop bomb skratch n rap kids 1

[KiidBamBam515]

real hip hop yo...

[HYCE42]

bow your head in respect and node when Real Hip Hop is in session......Roots...

[checkavanz101]

i shall proceed and continue to rock the mic....i definitely will proceed and continue listenin to the roots, a tribe called quest, the fugees, digable planets, common, geto boyz, pete rock n cl smooth, grandmaster flash, kurtis blow, sugar hill gang, spooney g and the list goes on ...old raw talent sensible hip hop.

[nopolice45]

FUNKY HOMOSAPIENS

[GreyFormat]

13 dislikes?

[TheRevolutionaryPoet]

@GreyFormat those 13 dislikes are from people who dont really understand and/or cant handle this level of pure music.

[allrealhiphop5150kid]

Apollo Brown-Just think

[JoeBVidss]

Those 13 dislikes should be 0.

[Ayokolomo]

Man I wish the roots hadnt sold out and still made hip hop. No wait theynstill do

[checkavanz101]

@Ayokolomo sold out? how do u mean

[BigSax26]

So..................chill. Hub's bassline is a thing of beauty.

I got the chords on my channel.

[chickenjoe211]

black thought out raps eminem i rekon i their cypher together

[2Faded247]

@chickenjoe211 Ya think so? i kinda think Eminem ripped Everyone in that cypher...And i'm a Black Thought Fan

[game2game101]

@chickenjoe211 you 100% rite hommie

[StickyCal420]

Ahhh! That was great. MAN! this shit just takes me back. Fuck!!! The whole fuckin' crew is dope but, Black Thought and Malik B have the most sickest flow in the game. Malik B on Illadelphalflife "No Great Pretender" a thing of beauty.

[spetsnaz5]

My God that baseline is killer. Jazz hip-hip at it's best.

[djro]

@spetsnaz5 Hip Hip!!!!



[monkeymia4]

The roots passed the mic to my dad him to me and I will rock the mic until I have a kid to pass it to. Hip hop will not die while I'm still around :D

[julianamoose6]

I met the Roots and Malik B. in May 1994 in London ... What good times and good memories !!! Does anyone know where

Malik B. is now ? I'd like to invite him to the Aloha state !!!

[denzarino]

Those were the dayz.......

[TheNic33]

the roots are a classic in my book. real hip hop at its best.

[TheWordMC]

yo honestly, when i listen some real hip hop on youtube and look at the comments, i feel like im not alone, and i know some of yall have heard, or felt this way before.

let's keep it alive baby!

I'm also an MC, and by no means am i trying to advertise, just peep game!

Hip Hop till i die!

[stableoner594]

this really makes me wish i was born during this time...

[MASTERBEATS619]

THE ROOTS ROCKIN DA MIC IN SAN DIEGO

[SteeZeeG]

"I can make conan and the titans clash/ and I can make metallica and guns-n-roses thrash..." Dopeness!!! that ol' real sh!t it boyee it don't get no betta

[chlingui]

Thumbs up if u still watching this n 2011

[Stn3dRaid3r]

@chlingui yo I jus´ STARTED watching this in 2011 holmes.... and it´s almost end of da year!

[PascallaTanna]

@chlingui

you dickhead, everybody who watches it now, does that.. too easy to get thumbs up like that!

[BookingBossDC]

@chlingui yessir !

[IIIIAlexxIIII]

@chlingui I will watch this in 2035

[NWAIZDASHIT]

@chlingui GOD knows, i'll listen to it also in 2012 and forever

[daplaya88]

@chlingui i cant give thumbs up cause im watching this in 2012

[PhilaBul]

what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

[MrWildwildeast]

This song go hard check out Crack City DVD channel

[KENZOSneakerhead]

Black Thought and Malik B should put out a album!

[getoutski]

chemotherapy



[lala0578]

i love you HIP HOP

[OwiseKayla2110]

My dad at 0:35 my uncle at 0:49

[OwiseKayla2110]

My dad at 0:35 my uncle at 0:49

Long time ago my dad was soo young

[Usc777]

i wake up early in the morinin, i mean early after early ... story of my life

[jred011]

I MISS THE 90'S WHEN REAL MEANT REAL NOT WHAT THESE HOSER'S CALL REALLISH.

[widerling]

Questlove's sister at 1:30. DONN T. Cop her album "Kaleidoscope" Heck of a singer!!

[TigerFury13]

real smooth tune. Cool

[flyguygoon1]

str8 smooth feeling like Orange juice in the morning u kno its good for you

[FASMEBSR]

232,067 <----- really?? thats all that have witnessed real hiphop...

wow.

thats whts wrong with hip hop now..

[cwbridge]

OHHHHHHH YESSSSSSS!!!! This is my JOINT!

[elmerthugg]

CLASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS­SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIC! TRUE HIP HOP @ IT'S FINEST! HAIL 2 DA ROOTS!

[nec644]

what a classic. video always made me think what the hell the white dude in the begining was doing in the vid :)

[IceManLikeGervin]

Str8 up chilly most from coast II coast!!

Black Thought is a top 10 emcee- point blank!

[daevism]

10 unfortunate folks have no eyelidz and simply caint stop cryin....leave them pcz be.

[TheFeinschnitt]

...hahaha glad i found this. why is hip hop these days so fucked up?

[deffine1]

D BOMB

[digflo]

If you are feelin this, you will love akua naru's new album "The Journey Aflame."

[StickyIckzy]

4:20 <3

[RukussMC]

9 people are not deep enough in this realm of hip hop.

[IAmBob23]

@RukussMC this isnt a realm of hip hop this is hip hop

[jmiles12081208]

@RukussMC im happy becus im not 1 of those people im just glad tat my dad introduce me to this stuff

[EnVeeThaQueen]

One word describes this "ROOTS" meaning "The Roots" of true hip hop! This is just INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There will never be another.......

[SuperFunkDoctor]

youtube comments really can be so annoying yaal make me wanna throw up fake ass bitches

[mj75mj75]

9 people have no clue....

[chrislc11]

How true? The Roots are entering their 4th decade of proceeding to continue to rock the mic.

[creamnall]

9 people should blink themselves away

[MrCopeRTC]

He's representing Philly on my birthday

[ThaBelgian]

9 people aren't proceeding

[RightWinger78]

Leonard Hubbard

[RightWinger78]

Miss Leonard Hubbard!

[jmiles12081208]

i shall proceed and continue to rock da mic check out the other version its WAY better

[berries1]

9 people need to throw themselves off a building.

[lboogie64]

@socoolio it seems like you care lol.....if tats how I feel thats how I feel why do you care about what I feel?Unless you are one of the busters that don't like it...

[lboogie64]

What?! 9 dislikes?You got to be kidding me! This is classic....

[socoolio]

@lboogie64 who cares? there is always haters!! if you just like the music your self, ain't that enough?

[raid3n92]

1:30 questo's sister, lol random fact

[vicokwaro]

ooooooooh...this was a classic, haven't heard it in years!need to download roots first 2 albums...

[Scrappyluv55]

I choose the old school rap generation than the new school rap generation ANY DAY

!

[nosequiters]

Whatever's stopping me in life , I listen to this and.. proceed

[mrhazel]

9 people got mad because Rhianna copied the part when black thought said "Ella Ella aye"

[realblackxxxx]

real black music!

[HipHopDesk]

Damn! i love the roots music so much!

[Moniqtee]

Damn...ya know.. I've played this song for the first time in YEARS...and I swear I keep playing it over and over and over since that day. I can't even get it out of my head. LOVE The Roots...This was my joint back in the day and apparently...still today!

[KomicGenius]

I got chills when I first heard this years ago on The Box channel, that's how dope it was. I went out to the mall and bought the cassette when it first came out

[raspopitudeceneu]

9 people are realy fucked up

[doorslammerules]

today's HIP HOP? lol that shit is pop. and them so call rappers are just...pop stars....because REAL HIP HOP IS NOTT ON THE RADIO. feel me? peace

[Henneseysmooth]

They were creative because they were hungry, and it was about the quality and purity of the music in hip-hop...back then...way before the stupid ass empty shit that's being played now...damn! But, that bass line is a beast!

[ejjigga]

This is the chemotherapy for today's hip hop cancer.

[rodeew]

@ejjigga This is the weed for today's hip hop cancer

[NoGodHereOnlyMuzik]

@ejjigga / Nawl, betta than chemo. This is some of that all natural herbal cure without the 'chemo-side effects'.

[MrShagnasty18]

@ejjigga Well Said ............

[bigmike5989]

@ejjigga that's a understatement.

[nadavnaz2]

I shall PROCEEEED

[leonmccollum1994]

black thought got skills

[juliustheman]

Last week I just saw Black Thought and ?Love with Last Poets at the BARBICAN CENTRE in London, daaamn they are dope!

[viciousbattleraps]

black thought; most underrated rapper?

[grandpasun]

@viciousbattleraps Agreed. Black Thought is the true heir to the Rakim throne.

[Lordofthecourt]

for me, this is art!

[mrspankys410]

one of the reasons i watch jimmy now

[Etek9thefuture]

hip hop from the soul

[EricSchwin22]

Back when Hip Hop wasn't about pulling guns or robbin people...it had positive messages that spread truth. ::SIGH:: Not like that anymore now... Now, you got rappers dissin each other over stupid shit, you got BLINGIN CHAINS, you got autotune, and rappers that claim they "GANGSTA"...it's not the same no more.

[Provemkid]

BACK WHEN HIP HOP WAS HIP HOP!!!

[DCBOOBAS]

Oh my where has this kind of music gone? The 90's was where it was at...I shall proceed and continue to rock the mic

[TommyRizos]

Is this when Black Thought just got rid of his hair? hehe

[brahmin21]

old school.................!!!!!

[Freshadeneu]

Is that or is that not Scott Storch on the keys?

[TheGravitationist]

@Freshadeneu

Scott Storch was on the keys in the recording of the track but he's not in the video because he had already left the Roots by then. Kamal Gray is in the video.

[Amaan305]

@TheGravitationist he can create really good music why does he make that pop stuff now

[DanielDumile]

Oh man this is where it's at.

Pretty much the best video on YT period...

[furiousphoenix77]

The "Golden Times" and Shining Stars in the darkness...

[lofo3004]

Man this is so classic i was a senior in high school when this came out my girl at the time use to say she didnt like rap untill i put her on the roots!!!

[DahammerMan]

we like breakbeats

[gat333]

Smooth FUNK and it's to bad that all these updated slave type minstrel coon thugs

can't relate.

Can't even see that the devil is tricking them.

[mobbrollsdeep]

anyone peep that boom bap shirt questlove is rocking in the beginning of the video? thats an illl shirt

[mcdoopy]

my fav roots track

[bboyDanii2]

one of the best Urban hip hop groups and still making hits...

[TheWarriorfrmConey]

i shall proceeed and continue to rock the mic!

[manwomanboogie]

Damn it...Hip Hop!

just come back.

i miss those days, in the basement with The Roots, Digable Planets, ATCQ, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers....Poor Righteous Teachers on BLAST!!!!!!!!!!

[getotogetto]

it broke my heart when they a late night show band nine to five no tours came out with a ablum and they get bury with all the bullshit gonna on

[qwandiddy]

1980s- 1997 of BEST HIP HOP!!!

Fuck South Hip Hop

[celph414]

@qwandiddy

stfu please nothing worse than a whiny little bitch about hip hop, hip hop never left the stupids just dont support it and its just isnt on the radio and isnt really arketable right now....

dont just point at the south shit in NY took a dive after big died

[qwandiddy]

@celph414 You don't know WTF you're talkin about, you probably 15 and bumpin Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane all times and don't know shit about this real underground shit. First of all, I'm not dissin South, The South was good back in 90s with Outkast, UGK, Scarface (My fav South Rapper). So you stfu.

[celph414]

@qwandiddy

im an 80's baby born in 80 and i know my shit, get out yo feelings..

[ALLENLAVENDER19]

the roots will always be real

[BigNickontheDrum]

that Peavey T-40 bass has soul, just like the band

[williamhasan1]

old school so smooth!

[manwomanboogie]

@williamhasan1 remember the remix? - Hot!

[Mackadoeshez]

Pure butta!!!!!!

[313weldo313]

their name says it all, full stop

[qwandiddy]

I got this one on Itunes. And I bump this in my car everyday. Fuck Todays Commercial garbage.

[Boblafrance]

WOOOOW YESSS!!!

Nice!!

[NombaWon]

the roots did it correct, sounds so right.

[MrTony081]

Love this whole CD!

[dededeclown]

I grew a bush and became a drummer becuz of quest Love :)

[kgrimes2nd]

like a nerd, I can make ya say "he's superb!" One of the best Roots Songs.

[daggakid90]

Its the MC that sucka niggas envy

[dturn28]

FOR ME! This is the THE best song The Roots ever done! I love all their stuff, but Proceed is the shit!!!

[axtg710]

What They Do. Whats your take on that song?

[mellohwan]

-thadeal

internet arguments is never worth nothing. but i can't see a reason for you giving a negetive feedback on this song, just cause people cant connect the roots and rhiana with fitzgerald.

i guess if i put my two cents worth in, all i can say is i dont think they two fan bases really overlap. the roots are just a bit above a transient pop star like rhina.

[design941]

The cd name is Do u want more ??

[djkaneck1]

Blackthought another underrated Emcee!

[ChrisEgnew]

you see him on that cypher with mos def and eminem? that shit was tight

[Spookimitsu]

P.s. thadeal1, you kinda completely failed with that rhianna "ella" point you were trying to make. We see what you were saying, but no. Fail.

[Spookimitsu]

my timberlands are fully laced, I'll be the Mr. BoogeyMan., w/ records from 125th to japan; I lay the plan like Donny Hathaway and shake a hand shake a hand, ya lady tried ta kick it but i couldn't play my man

Do you want more?!?! has been in my heavy rotation for over a damn decade.

illest living emcee. Of all time maybe. Nuff said.

[Miamizoe15]

Hip-hop to the fullest.