THE LOST GENERATION - THE SLY SLICK AND WICKED

[braves3100]

1970

[80945367]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF US.

[TheBillykiller]

songs like this dont need to be in hd. I personally love that dusty 240!

[theee14u]

Love this

[unique74muzik]

the words still stand to this day..CLASSIC..

[dluv79]

yeah this when music was so dam real and u could listen to it over and over and never get tierd of hearing it peace to tha 1979

[kinstube]

N!!!!CE

[JAZZYCELEST]

Great group, man the masses always sleep on the good shit!!!!

[DonCramon]

Just chillin....... :)

[bnewton31]

Running with Marlene.

[bnewton31]

School daze and runnning with Marlene.

[rwoods1954]

proud of my generation.

[chrismorale]

intro to IT WAS WRITTEN

[TheMares64]

"This is a Good Jam" Reminds me of so good ol times with MY GIRL " L I S A "..

[SADMANMUSIC35]

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[illeatyoufukfull]

OLDIES ARE FOREVER!

[apendy80]

5 people are sly, slick and wicked wicked wicked

[njezan1]

Fantastic song. Indescribably good. Why this group was not a household name is beyond me.

[antmo20]

I'm a 80s baby I love this music

[kushwynn]

love oldies :)))))

[RitaGfunk]

<3

[yelloscorpio]

Really doesnt get any better than this, brahs.. Listen up

[sabrinaurogers]

yall niggas r fakers so i got my good man here jammin dis ole skool so u trashed niggas get real life 2short

[dachieff2]

I was born in 1982 but it don't matter how old you are good music is good music.

[ARBELL1982]

@dachieff2 Born in '82 too & I agree with you 100%!

[ProjectPauma]

1996!!! Back up in this nigga!

[PookieHemanes]

I LOVE YOUTUBE, I FIND MOST OF THE MUSIC FROM DAYS GONE BY, I WAS JUST GETTING INTO BOYS WHEN THIS CAME OUT ON A 45...LOL

[BeenaBee]

it was written...

[FUNKYBLOK]

GEE

[thevgmk1]

This is a monster tune..... What a voice

[thevgmk1]

This is a monster tune.....

[dailygrime1]

cool calm pete flipped this shit nice

[theDailydose5]

@dailygrime1 Hell yeah he did

[solesirching73]

That bassline in the intro sounded just like "Ain't Understanding Mellow" by Jerry Butler/Brenda Lee Eager

[princessgraification]

That song made such a great impression on me that even at 54 I am still careful what men I let into my life. It has saved me much unnecessary heartache & tears.My dad said (at the time) he couldn't have said it better to his 4 daugters.

[kariebeez]

Love the lead vocalist's voice. The lyrics applied to me as a young girl during the time.

[YuNGnJeSkA]

damn...this when music was music...

[Shawnie810]

If you all like stepping music listen to" Thinkin bout cha" with The New Lost Generation. It featured Fredalso fron Lost Generations. Oh must add and m,y sister Waxy "rip".

[oneluv72]

The70's..... such a beautiful time for black culture & music.....Women were respected, social commentary, the message was love, Good Times, What's Happening, The Jeffersons, Flip Wilson, Sanford and Son, Naturals were cut tight, Soul Train Saturday Mornings, J5, Muhammad Ali, SOUL Brotha, Right on!!!....Shaft, Foxy Brown, Super Fly, Ice Cream truck in the hood, Afro pick with the Black Power salute on the end....BLACK WAS BEAUTIFUL!!....Lets get it back!! One Luv!!

[princessgraification]

@oneluv72

I feel exactly as you do. We as a people have lost something along te way.

[mrgroove661]

AND TURN UP THE OOOOLDIES A LIL HIGHER!

[XSALVADOO3]

@mrgroove661 CRUISE A LIL SLOWER LIKE MY OG LOWRIDER

[mrintimateluva]

Its so amazing that I still know the words of this song after not hearing it for years, and it had to be around 1972 and I was 17 at the time

[manutdfan007]

It Was Written!!!

[RealOldie]

Another day another dollar for the man or woman ect...great song...4

evr...truthfuul

[Brilliantbeing]

Nobody today has this type of feel.

[wicked2740]

The sly, the slick and THE WICKED!!!!!

[dombinii]

jajja classic, of classics

[ancienttravellar]

ONE OF THE GREATS!

[TheCounslor]

@ARB082 yes he does

[missbee46]

Loved this song!

[DannyBkyn]

This single reached #30 Pop and #14 Soul in Billboard in 1970.

[moidounltd2]

Remeber this??!!

[Trisha2940]

This is what i call music, not to be rippin on this stuff they call music today but they don't got nothing on this.

[blilly1000]

The Trandells in Buffalo, NY used to blow this out the water, Jerry Williams, Henry Graham (Gumps), Sam Shannon and Reginald Holt

9Trek)

[udeenallah]

my head hurts from moving my head to this song so much.............my joint

[tha1calldgeorgiep]

used in Nas' intro from introduction on it was written

[SugalandTV]

this is a gangsta tune so soulful

[meechamaka411]

DJ Pooh used this on King Tee's "The Triflin' Album"...I've been wonder'n what that sample was for years!!!

[dopescale]

@meechamaka411 Whats the track name, I wanna hear how he flipped it.

[meechamaka411]

@dopescale It's a skit on the album (U can say)!!! I think it's on the 2nd side of the album, but I can't seem to find the album anywhere nowadays...I've been look'n for it since I lost my tape like some 15 years ago!!! Awww man...the song it's a skit to is on the tip of my tongue tho'...LOL! Pooh was doin' some "Barry White-like" talkin' over the loop...Pooh's my dude!!!

[dopescale]

@meechamaka411 I can't find that track anywhere on the internet man, if you find it shoot it my way. On another note though i've been bumpin a lot of king tee since you put me up on this.

[meechamaka411]

@dopescale True indeed 'cuz I'm lookin' for it as well!!! It's not on here...LOL...I was plan'n on ship'n it to U the other day actually!!! The Triflin' Album was the bomb...but I kno' for sure that this sample wasn't in the song itself, but in the skit "Where'sa Hoe Sat" (the 2nd version on side B). I want'd to sample this so bad back in the days when I first heard DJ Pooh bug'n on it. He's a funny character...sound'n like Barry White on it!!! LOL...I'mma keep U post'd tho' when I do find it...

[meechamaka411]

@dopescale sorry to bother U again, but I found it...the Tha Triflin' Album! Jus' cop'd it...I mighta been wrong 'bout what song it was because it was a skit, but email ur address, 'n I'll send the whole album to U (free) when I return home from work! I'm 'bout to load it up in my phone, 'n find out the exact song it was...it might not B "Where'sa Hoe At (pt. 1 or 2), but it's somewhere in between tho' songs 'cuz all those songs dealt wit' female situations (in that li'l cluster)!

[meechamaka411]

@dopescale Found it..."Where's A Hoe Sat"...the second one is wit' DJ Pooh (there's two...one is the song, 'n second is the skit)

[OronaV31]

Now this is music....Loving this!!

[magic13w]

once again this music is so beautiful even on my saddest day .i couldnt be sad with thesez cuts

[oldsnake8592]

It Was Written Intro

[BIBmusic]

@oldsnake8592 best album intro ever

[vjzaico]

RED FRANKY BLACKIE you will never be forgotten

[LaidBackLewisBlack]

Cool Calm Pete... alright i can dig it. lol

[adevaalldaylong]

My Father "Wayne Bennett" was the lead Guitarist for the group. Love the group

[hogreality1]

this song is the reason i got my nickname slick which is still with me to this day...wow, if the kids today knew what we know the world would be a much better place man cause we all in this chit together and the music back then let u know that.. anyways thanks for the post..

[TheBrusier35]

OMG!! Boy the memories UMM!!

[Southerngirl675]

wow! this is so good.

[sherah1212]

OH YEAH THE SOUL BROTHERS HAVE DONE IT AGAIN.....

[sonofmaat]

This is a great old school cut.

[aphillynative]

This song is sick.

[maceo28]

79th and Kingston...Chicago, the begginning of the 70s...we thought we were so cool...so tough...invincible...but when them slow jams came on...we broke our necks trying to get with someone...anyone who would slow dance with us!! LOL! memories....

[AtoOOniko]

TEMAZO

[fuuny1234]

when im lowriden and i drop the ass to the ground when this song is on the girls go crazy for me in my 1954chevy...

[yoshluv7]

This is the jam, these words are so true

[ydballard09]

OH YES!!!!

[DISCOVEGASGUY]

Wow. This is an amazing song. Never heard of it til Casey Kasem played it on AT40 today from August 1970. Love it !

[76Geegee]

LOVE THIS SONG MEMORY LANE OMG....LOL

[GameBeats]

Nas used this for the intro forhis 2nd album.

[brut2810]

yo who ever dropped this cut u got big props

[TheAteeyah]

omg,wish that i was old enough back then. they sang the hell out of this mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[ayla8251]

ohhhhh ohhhhhhhh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh.......beware young girl.

[theTWIN2345]

REAL MUSIC BRING BACK MEMORIES, MEMORIES: JUST DONT MAKE IT LIKE THIS NO MORE!!!!

[MsRiverside69]

oldies are forever ey

[secondking76]

my pops used to run this back in Mannheim circa 83. Great post!!

[blackamerican40]

Groovy baby!!

[L33tPwNeD]

Cool Calm Pete sampled this for LOST, both amazing songs

[XxSpAnKyDiZzlexX]

Dang wish I was born when music was this good to bad my generation is going to have to suffer with horrible music it's a damn shame

[djksolo]

i just got the warm and fuzzies ;-) this song is the meaning of LIFE brothas and sisters, they just dont make em like this anymore.

[jase9lives]

Nas sampled this.. for it was written

[milwaukeeblue]

@jase9lives I had "It Was Written" back in high school. It took years before I figured where the sample came from cause that shit sounded hardcore the way it was sampled,then again "the sly,slick,and wicked" was just a slick song anyway.

[jase9lives]

@milwaukeeblue

Yes indeed I bought it when it first came out.. I don't know why I always thought he took the sample from the scarface movie.

This song is so far ahead of it's time though

[Smacker775]

This had always been one of my dad's favorite tunes..:')

In Loving Memory, Cecil<3

[sallee48]

These songs bring up nothin but good memories. I love theses brothas.

[williamg2552]

They kinda sound like THE PERSUADERS.

[sugerbearful]

she say she loves y but what happend

[squarladac]

this jam is the jam ....hard to find...pasadena

[yoli52]

I bought this song from Itunes.

[yoli52]

also the itune copied is remastered sound great.

[braves3100]

1970

[dmb3dz]

there all right i gess y di dey stop

[greathayz]

My pops and my uncle sang in this group...Leslie and Jesse Dean, R.I.P. Jesse

[ladyceetee]

These were great singers. I saw them live when i was a teenager. this was my jam!!!! The Sly, Slick and the Wicked never make it

[gedbeat15]

they are very very soulful. im a record digger and i was happy to come across this record

[TheMysticAudio]

@greathayz That's awesome.

[lowendfella]

@greathayz We appreciated the great sounds your family gave us back in the days. They were dynamic!.

[Thatzmysh1t]

@greathayz

In my opinion, this still one of the greatest songs of ALL time!

[LaTainaIndia]

@greathayz - ROYALTY... ;-)

[BeB1essed]

@greathayz OMG! Jesse was my son's Head Start teacher (in Madison) back in the '80's. We sang a little bit together. I thought I remembered he told me he sang with this group ... but then I ran across it & saw the album cover. That's Jesse!! R.I.P. (Love to Julia & Les and the family ... )

[kariebeez]

Damn. I thought these guys were singing to me when I met my first boyfriend and thought I was in love. I took their message to heart though. "You've got look out look out look out...

[Dred1locks]

This is the jam! This is one of my all time favorite old school jams.

[3kingkool]

Me, too. I was just a kid when this came out and we used to have dance parties where we would play the latest records and then make up dances to them. This song is still good!

[SexcK1]

I was 10yrs old we had a talent contest my brother sung the heck out of this song and my twin brother and my sister they loved us I still remember the steps

[catheyeluvsmusic]

I'm so sad to see that the song "Talking The Teenage Language" is not in the list of Sly Slick and Wicked or the Lost Generation song listings-- I've been looking for that song FOREVER and cannot find it anywhere. I think it would be an interesting "sample" for a rap/hiphop recording...he lyrics are as profound today as they were when I was a kid growing up-- and I am 51 years old now.

[shogunmetic]

nas sampled this for an album intro

[ladyceetee]

This was my JAM!!!!! the SLY, SLICK, and the WICKED never make it baby!!!! ask TEE TRAVIS???????????

[1211Lucky]

man nice ass tune one of my all time favorites

[HDTV543]

no artist today can duplicate such music...impossible...listen to that beat....The Sly The Slick The Wicked...wow...lets go!!...Great

[trotteramj]

OMG! SO MANY MEMORIES!!! WOW!!!

[mamasgirl51080]

i can't hear this song without thinking of the Hey Love compilation cds in the 80's.

"No my brother, you got to buy your own"

[krisgenia]

Any group claiming to be Sly, Slick and Wicked without a John Wilson, is not the original group, remember that. I just got dupped into a concert with the "fake" group, no John Wilson. The fake group may be able to legally use the name but it doesn't change that they are not the one on the recordings or the one's that were signed to Motown.

[KDaMiZZ]

CCP.

[troijeddah]

me and my baby was just listening to it was written.

[jody808]

great great old school jam, i can hear the brothers crooning this on the street corner late at night outside my window.

[earthsaylove]

Yes, CLASSIC - Muchas Gracias!

[givgoodluv7]

All right now. I recall this cut. I was a youngun' as the old folk said back in the day. Watching the teens two-steps to blue lights in the basement. waiting for my turn...

[chiselhammer]

great track . I was introduced to this via Nas' album It Was Written. thanks for posting this. great again

[jojoda4thnigga]

I know what you're talking about. That was the intro to It was written..

[bigboidumpsta]

I was just looking through It Was Writtin trying to find which track this was sampled on but I can't find it. I heard the first part and I knew it was It Was Written

[LuccaIsAwesome]

its on tha end of tha intro

[milwaukeeblue]

@bigboidumpsta I had "It Was Written" back in high school,that was a sick ass joint back then. But "the sly,slick,and wicked" was a sick song in itself.