Eric B and Rakim - In The Ghetto

[TRiPL3H3LiX]

why does every video have the remix audio, O.G. version plea$e.

[ballrub]

I fucking loved this music when it came out. And I'm white!!! l

[blackrogue162]

Hip Hop music crosses all boundaries...It's the only music that openly accepts every race, nationality, and culture under the love of the music. Too bad you were not around for the golden era of Hip-Hop and not the trash being played today...

[grandmaster71]

The real RAP.. Only the original. PEACE TO: KRS 1 EPMD NWA PUBLIC ENEMY EAZY E (R.I.P) DR DRE ICE CUBE GANGSTARR ICE T LL COOL J Kommt Bald wieder Wir vermissen euch

[yungkr]

I TAKE A A TRIP AROUNG THE WORLD TWICE FROM ("KNOWLEDGE REBORN") BACK TO KNOWLEDGE PERCISE rakim is who pretty much inspired my name kr and inpired almost all rappers with hip hop quotables like"when its time to build ima mechanic. small things like taht u never noticed is in about like 30 different rap songs!!!!!!!!!! the R definitly more than a legend

[TupacDaDon]

for real man, he's not only a legend he's a genuine PIONEER => together with Kool G RAP and Big Daddy Kane he shaped hip hop untill it got ruined=> all good things end I guess

peace

[jcaban1973]

Ask the teenagers, Og's and ask the kids. what they definition of classic is...Timeless... cause age dont count in the booth, when your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth.

Eric B

[jtbone420]

actually Rakim said that, Eric B doesnt rap

[SCHMOOVNESS]

eric b?

[theallseeingeye9]

the brotha said I TAKE A THOUGHT AROUND THE WORLD TWICE. FROM KNOWLEDGE TO BORNE BACK TO KNOWLEGE, PRECISE! yeah.

[pr2409]

Rakim is the G.O.A.T. Best MC to ever grab a mic... The God

[acquario213]

Up there with the best of the best rappers. Introverted, complex lyrics. Smooth delivery with unique twists of rhythm. Gonna see him in S. Diego at the end of the month!

[thespursareadynasty]

hope he shows up on time for you. lol he didnt for me. waited 2 hours for this dude

[Cengiz123abc]

look how eric b represent himself..."quiet,casual & smooth" perfect to the rhythm...

[yoanno89]

respect

[cupraqueen]

This is the better version i watched on yo mtv raps in 1990 ish?

[tksalknds2mkwrlgornd]

rakims suppose to be comint out with a new release in November 09. Bring it back, please bring it back. Rap has really taken a beat down bring it back.

[fleshnbone187]

Yeah really. Veterans like Big Daddy Kane should also get off their ass and release something for all us real fans. Rakim at least has taken the time for this album and I'm anticipating it more than anything else.

[qwandiddy]

You kidding me!!!! I hope they do, shit, its been 17 years since their 1992 Album.

[yuriboss]

this is timeless from the next generation..hip hop today is on a 2nd grade reading level

[marselus88]

this is so fuckin classic, can't even rate it in 5 man!!!!! 100000000 stars please!

peace

[BrianMcGooch]

Yo, FUCK this version, the original beat is much better

[ZachyZach69]

Its Rakim! he can float strong notes over a windy coast....u dont get it he dont need a beat joe!

[BrianMcGooch]

I understand that its fucked up the original beat is harder to find on youtube then these damn remixes.

[ZachyZach69]

lol you have to dig deep some where else to find it

[cripzvsbloodzw]

Nice!

[speeches]

The song that change my way of thinking and looking at the world.....Real Hip Hop are lessons not songs. One Love !

[smoothnovelist]

Greatest MC ever.

[BeatsNKarats]

he don't need to curse, because that is a vocabulary predecessor. I dont know anyone I'd rather listen flow.

[boahplayer]

So gangster, man Iaint never seen a cat so gangster without cussin

[Dontfollowasheep]

Anti-Heros and Anti-Heroines can win

Destroy Enemies with the positive thinking method.

Eradicate the power of mind stress.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve your target or mission.

Legend Of The Underdog 19th Aug 2009.

Mr Grimez The Anti Hero.

Mr Grimez The Anti Hero

[1980sEntertainment]

Is he still rapping? He has Talent

[NightLinks]

Yeah rakim is still rappin.

The best rapper of all times...

[SkorpBX]

he has talent?.... u've got a keen observation my man..... guess what else, Jordan was pretty decent at basketball, and Tiger Woods is ok at golf

[Bloodstride]

wisdom

[blackblackroses]

2pac & Rakim are two completely different ppl.Besides,2pac looked up to Rakim so it just not even worth it lol I love both of dem tho.But I must say...DIS SONG IS PRETTY DEEP THO-VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING-only for da ppl who can really grasp on 2 wut hes sayin.

[gallantfellow]

Yo, idk if I forgot from back in the day but is that Mike Bivins next to Ra at 2:59? Also, i like this joint but prefer the album version, overall...anyone else?

[PhenomAJ]

Yeah, it was. This was back when it was an event to see artists in each other's videos. My friends called me up like "you saw Biv in Rakim's video!?!"

[mr2damngood73]

Biv was the Hip Hop to New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe

[ZachyZach69]

uhh and u comparing to whom...not Rakim! that is like comparing Britney Spears to Tina Marie

[mr2damngood73]

I feel you on that one

[ZachyZach69]

Where the real old school music lovers at, not these cracker jack 10 minuts of fame cats!?

[itsoverforuman]

This version: the bass is somethin-well..base! So mean my man. So hard gutta, like an old jazz bass from underground streets in the 1920's chicago.

[tomas007]

i can picture this in a harlem club during the renaissance. rakim is blazing the spot, the electricity in the joint has the hair doing handstands.

[agjanyo]

REAL HIP HOP.

[MusculosoJitgi]

A Straight MASTERPIECE

[nptrock]

what more can i say? DOPE!

[HiralShah00]

When I listen to things like this, I take in a deep breath and think This is what music is supposed to be like not like it is now, with shit like grime and shit like eminem polluting the definition of music

[BeatsNKarats]

I cant even tell how much this fiend has influenced the way I think of english. Straight Baller.

[plesssmies]

pure genius!! let the rhythm hittem album!!

[Unified17]

Pac's music lyrics weren't always complex cause it was more of a personal narrative.

But his poetry that was never meant to be music is pretty deep.

[IceColdKilla214]

yeah i'm feelin this

[gsuperior777]

real hip hop

[73dodge]

epic!!!! completely destroys anything out there today!

[Schmooveness]

what can i say???

this is the definitioin of hip hop

10000% agree

[killahkoreah]

MASSIVE!!!!!!!! dam near 20yrs later

[tocklove7]

I LOVE HIP-HOP !!!!!!!

[tetsiga]

the difference between hip hop then and hip hop now is that this has soul.

not the shit we hear today yo.

[lykopis]

ppl that talk ahit about hip hop know nothing about this .. nor krs one .. but honestly imo hip hop has went to shit

[lykopis]

lyrisist

[zepp666]

rah, the best lyricist ever lived

[merkseason09]

rakim=best lyricist

eazy e= most gangsta style(but cant write)

pac=real mutha fuckin words bro(rakimz more complex though)

but pac doesnt have complexity he just says it how it is but rakim is straight complex

[BeatsNKarats]

You nailed it merk.

Rakim lyrical predecessor of Em.

[slliks67]

lyrical predecessor of everybody. don't forget about KOOL G RAP

[BigLupeRakimDee]

Eazy-E DID have the most gangsta style, but, IMHO, he jocked Kool Keith's style like a pitbull vocally, aurally, musically, lyrically and creatively. Listen to some of the early Ultramagnetic MCs records, especially "Ego Trippin'," "Funky," "Chorus Line" and "Ease Back," and you'll begin to realize just how limited Eazy's innovativeness in hip-hop really was. I agree wholeheartedly with what you said about Rakim and 2Pac, though. You hit it right on the money. The prototype for all emcees today.

[danciebear]

these kids need this

[bradym2s]

The kids do listen to this

I'm only 15

[WestsideOldSkool]

Same, I'm 15 And Support The Real Hip Hop !

[merkseason09]

im 13 and with this

[Ragzz1234]

WHAT IS THIS I DONT EVEN

[BronzeSultan]

A MUSLIM AND AN AWESOME RAPPER<

[bradym2s]

Well not really

he is a 5 percenter, not a muslim

[soxrip123]

Whats a 5 percenter?

[Henrydaddy69]

better than Pac, better than Big, better than anyone

[BennyCorleone]

COSIGN

[RealspitHiphop604]

so many classic lines in this song, rakim is just beyond anyone honestly.

[richlandrecords]

true dat!

[shepperj]

This is the best!

[LordDeimos775]

Inbred crackers.

[MACjunior415]

PUNK ASS Bitch

GET A GRIP

[jakec360]

Don't really like this track

Not hating, just not really feeling it

[Tha6l9]

How do you NOT like this track? Serious question..What is there NOT to like?

[rlbella35]

peep the mathematics

[CarsonHot]

I thought the ghetto was the worst that can happen to me.....

[mbproject21]

Can someone please tell me what that sample says after the "nobody's smiling" part? It sounds like it was sampled from a female singer.

[dtmcotl]

The group that did the original sample is called 24 carat black (I can't remember the name of the tune) and the woman sings "You ain't gonna see smiles in here"

[mbproject21]

Thanks!

[doublearejazz]

great groove !

yeah !

[Crisfromcal]

This song left me to realize "Let The Rhythm Hit' Em" is one of the greatest albums ever, but I think "Know The Ledge" is probably greater.

[Califacience]

You mean the labum Know The Ledge was on "Don't Sweat The Technique"? Yeah I would give that album a slight edge with classics like The Punisher, Know The Ledge, Casualties Of War and lesser known high quality stuff like Kick Along Keep The Beat and Relax but Pep

[pdm146]

and Whats on Your Mind ? i think is one of the best on that album

[Califacience]

Definately , Forgot about it.

[Crisfromcal]

Damn I love this version. I can almost here some Barry White piano in the back...

[edrodriguez4224]

rakim is the greatest lyricist of all time.

[davidbobo25]

What year did this song came out?

[phogginess]

1990

[DnWvideo]

man y do dey seem like everythin in dey life was hard...

[tattypatty]

How the fuck can anyone listen to Soulja boy and all this other bullshit after hearing this? Fuck I'm lucky I grew up when this was poppin....

[nevawrong]

at 2:57 thru 3:03 - MICHEAL BIVENS from NEW EDITION is trying to look hard, lol lol lol HA HA HA :D

[grambo111]

Cuz it aint where u from itz where u AT

[upinthecut]

nobodys smilin

[newyorkironfist]

stand alone and need nothin to lean on.......make way...cause here i come.....i thought the getto was the worse that could happen to me

[Tangawizi23]

Rakim is in my top 5 mcs of all time. His voice, flow, lyricism are ill. And the NY accent for me is wicked. The amount of rappers who put quotes from rakim in their rhymes is crazy. mosdef, kweli, J5, dilated the list goes on.

[Ason1995]

best talents 1. Wu-Tang Clan (all of them) + Red 2.Nas 3.Big L 4.GangStarr 5.Slick Rick 6.Cocoa Brovaz 7.Onyx 8KRS ONE 9.Snoop Dogg 10.A tribe Called Quest

[fighting185]

how are you not gonna have rakim in at LEAST the top 5? if anything should be in the top 3

[kingcreole59]

tweedy bird loc

[nevawrong]

what happened to - koog g.rap ? big daddy kane ? freddy foxx ? jay-z ? eminem ? papoose ? big-pun ? cl smooth ? remi ma ? lord finesse ? az ? tupac ? biggie smalls ? beanie seigal ?

[ExTuhSee]

of coarse u dont mention nas cuz he's still consistent. :)

[nevawrong]

i was respending to "ASON1995", he wrote down NAS name already, so thats why i didnt write NAS name.

I was only writing the rappers down that he didnt write.

[mariusbleek]

beanie is a homo thug man check out him suckin up to his boyfriend during rap battles

[yojenkempusha]

Damn. Rakim is still what I think of when I think of hip-hop, even years after he quit makin' records with Eric B. Nobody can touch this level.

[southrapsucks]

think about the brothers and sisters in .....AFRICA

[rareunheardsound]

hear dat beat!

[TENIZE]

The greatest lyrical RAP song ever. 120 120 120 K W U. NGE.

[Lil0LF]

damn. lyrics are amazing...

[kullmack]

nowadays being stupid is cool;read a book smart dummies.you can be smart and still be kull which is all of that like me,sissies get knowledge with a key.

[MasterBuilda]

sorry goner....we dug through the crates to find beats---not because we had to sift through bullshit. that's yall "music" these days--i don't know what this shit is today, but hip hop it aint. never hating--get yo money all you wack ass "rappers" out there. let's just keep it right and exact when we discussing HIP HOP---just cause a "rapper" got a large bank account doesn't make them nice on the mic--in my humble opinion, just means there's as many wack ass ears out there to buy that shit

[kullmack]

true

[keilyngodson26]

"The next state will shake from the power I generate, people in Cali use to think it was earthquakes"... "I learned to relax in my room to escape from New York, then return through the womb of the earth as a thought, thinkin how hard it was to be born, me being cream with no physical form".. "I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me, Im glad I listened when my father was rapping to me, Back in the days they lived in caves(whites), exiled from the original man and strayed away..

[sfinx2000]

"Planet earth was my place of birth

born to be the soul controller of the universe".

This was one of the illest intros in hip hop. Rakim is a lyrical beast.

[eastsidestory44]

rakim is a god

[ricedadi]

rakim needs to come back n save hip hop..

[nevawrong]

i love my years of growin up on hiphop

1980 at age 8 - SUGAR HILL first album "RAPPERS DELIGHT"

1984 at age 12 - THE PEAK OF THE BREAKIN ERA & RUN-DMC arrived

1988 at age 17 - RAKIM, KOOL G.RAP, KANE, & KRS-1 was out

1993 at age 21 - WUTANG arrived

1995 at age 24 - EAST & WEST COAST RAP was at its peak, & the NEWYORK club seen was HOT

2003 at age 31 - G-UNIT & EMENEM was on FIRE

but now in 2009 at age 37, HIPHOP IS DEAD, but im fortunate to be young in its best years :)

[gonner709]

hip hop isnt dead some of the realest shit ever done is being dropped now a days. and just like your generation had to dig through the crates we have to sift though the bull shit to find that realness.

p.s. g-unit was never on fire. its just made up of flamers.

[nevawrong]

i feel u, well almost, because i'm still bumpin that old G-UNIT shit

1- POWER OF THE DOLLAR

2- BEG FOR MERCY

3- HUNGER FOR MORE

4- GET RICH OR DIE TRYING

them albums were HOT, i still play them classics in my car, im not gonna lie, lol.

maybe G-UNIT is wack now, but from like 1999 to 2005, them niggas were HOT in the street, they started falling off from like 2006 till now.

[gonner709]

my beef with g unit is my beef with the genre of gangster rap as a whole, i respect lyricism so i'll deal with the content. i'm not too big on people fronting so im sure you can understand how this effects my opinion on the genre.

[nevawrong]

i respect your opinion. as for me, i still love gangster rap, because its all just entertainment, so it doesnt influence me 2 do what they do. i first heard real heard GANGSTA RAP in 1987 from NWA, i was 17 at the tme, & i never stopped listening since, lol. from WUTANG, REDMAN, ONYX, M.O.P, MC-8, ICECUBE, MOBBDEEP, KOOL G.RAP, LENCH MOB, TUPAC, BIGGIE & many more, ive came up thru the whole 90's enjoying that GANGSTER RAP sound, so thats why i still like 50, & 50 was pretty lyrical back then

[deoxys03]

i hope he keeps this sound in his new cd

[jaiskrilla]

One of the deepest songs l have ever heard. Notice no references to killing or slangin

[joeunion99]

Good observation jaiskrilla. When asked "Do you

know who Eric B. & Rakim are?" most people mention "Move The Crowd" but "Let The Rhythm Hit

Em" and "In The Ghetto" are industrial underground classics more people should know about.

[bigmikesamuel]

Okay u notice hes talking about life in the ghetto without gloryfying drugdealing and killing so rappers whats your excuse now?

[hulkman44]

Young'ns these days don't understand that Rakim was to Hip Hop, what Michael Jordan was to basketball. He was on a level(lyrically) that no other rapper could come close to, and he changed the entire game for generations to come. In my eyes Rakim is the GOAT.

[ronald034]

Agreed.. But its not the youth its the industry that has corrupted our minds. Noone blames the media for not expressing the importance of the origins of hip-hop. I think a new wave of music is gonna come and do such a thing: THE HIP-HOP RENAISSANCE

[brownsugar976]

WHY is his lyrics so futuristic or always on point, on any given year, date month you listen to it. and he's rapping about the time you look at your computer screen clock or watch or wheneve Im done typing. he's always on time with his picture of words. Why is that.

[byrd1nypa]

Thats what prophets do....

[brennanthebrown]

eric b's banging the hugest rope chain

[PhotoPhoenix]

no doubt. nice post.

[strikeout1991]

somebody know what version this is, cause it's not the album version

[shamsta19]

Video version

[rudycharles]

This mix was available on the 12 inch version

[SkimGFK]

Eric B always had that big truck jewelry. Quiet nigga always trucked up with jewellz. OG hip hop shit. Rakim flows like no other. Thats that real shit from back in the day.

[newyorkowner]

not one curse...legend

[HIPHOPCHAMBER]

this is one mean nigga

[allfiveny]

I got my back my gun on my side./It shouldn't have ta be like that/ I guess it ain't were ya from it's were ya at. Man... this is timeless.

[newyorkowner]

new york city set tha bar!!!

[allfiveny]

True indeed.

[jeffblacc]

yeah but he from Wayndanch strong island

[TheeCentaur9]

The God breaking down life in the hood,lyrically,Bombsh*t !!

[SayItLoudMedia]

Love this song...but this is definately the video remix. Different beat...slightly

[imtoofly41]

Can someone dub this video with the album version of the song?

[kenyancheena]

This ain't the album version.

[Biggie4ever123]

Biggie is better.

[J2theMillz]

smh

[Biggie4ever123]

Yup, hes better (biggie that is).

[J2theMillz]

lol, rakim > biggie

[mavmack]

sigh

[Playastatus45]

rakim and biggie are two different types of artists...you can't compare them. any rapper, nas, dre, the game, lil wayne, and even pac and biggie would have said that they owed a lot of their style to rakim..he was ahead of his time, and he revolutionized the rap-game...simply a legend

[finessdotwilliamsONE]

nas - ghetto

[J2theMillz]

what?

[washneck2323]

dude! the audio on this song sucks. how did you record it? you need to reroll this joint and smoke it.

[slickscience]

Rakim is the god emcee!

[bigstae]

video filmed in the lower east side,shots of avenue d.lillianwald projects.i was there...met rakim that day..cool dude.he said the l.e.s is the real ghetto.don't sleep on the lo'deck side.

[Bigd1814]

these cats are sleep on rakim

[slickwalt]

G.O.A.T = (lyricist)

[missmafia623]

this is bull shit

[missmafia623]

too shorts version is best.! bull shit

[strikeout1991]

yo i love too shorts version but ra's version is light years ahead of too short's

[Labworkpro]

CLASSIC, THX 4 ADDIN

[GUNINYOFACE]

man getting memories of this

[ozkatrz207]

real hip hop....fuck 50...his career over messin w/ the clan...peace

[howyoodoo]

anyone know if Eric B made this mix ? I haven't heard this version before.........it's nice

[hiphophead9]

yeah i havent heard this mix before either.....hmmmm

[young891]

Eric b didnt Make this Ra's Brother Blast made this