Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road To The Riches (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2011
- Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road To The Riches (Video) from the album 'Road To The Riches' (1989)
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Many legs I broke, many necks I choked, and if provoked I let the pistol smoke. This is street storytelling at it's finest.
Leeza Da Diva yup
yeah you is right about that
I hate to say it but I must cats don't flow like that anymore those days are long gone and they will never be seen again. How I'm so happy that I live through it!
Word life😎
@@rebelpumpfitness4904 Oh sho nuff. I grew up in this era and I can't bring myself to listen to any of this crap today. These idiots have no flow or real lyrics, rhyme like they got a mouth full of marbles and the music all sounds the same. This classic here got the dopest hook eva.
This IS REAL RAPPING HERE!!!
I so miss the late 80's and early 90's. The true golden age of Hip-Hop!!
Rap nowdays is just bullshit!
Will Bx this is storytelling!
Will Bx rap lost it when rappers became actors
NO THAT IS HIPP HOPP . RAP IS THAT 💩 THEY DOING NOW AND SOME OF THAT 💩 YOU CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND
Period always
This is what you call a timeless masterpiece. Pure beauty and artistry
They wouldn’t even understand by the time they do it’s too late ⏰ we’ll be back to dusk💯
This is lyrical excellence
He definitely set the bar high
Yes
Don't forget about Rakim. And back then, we had a whole arsenal of people that went in on the mic
Absolutely!! Glad you pointed that out my G! That's why I'll always be an old school fan!!
@@rashawnbanks148 9999
True story
One of the Greatest rap songs ever written
Damn right brother
fasho
Might be of all time
100 %very inspiring
I love the Scarface fetish
One of the best storytelling gangster rap songs ever!
Correction, he is one of the best story telling gangsta rapper. Check out on the run, the video version. And off his 456 album, one of my favorites by him The ghetto knows.
One of the best, most underrated hip hop songs of all time. Awesome beats and rhymes.
100% agreed.
If it’s brought up to hip hop heads true hip hop heads will have to acknowledge G-Rap this at the time was a banger the East needed. East Coast emcees didn’t really make a lot of noise about the harsh realities of the neighborhoods the way west coast rappers did. I believe without Kool G-Rap you don’t get a Nas, Big, or Jay-Z without him.
Yall gotta stop with this of all time stuff just say it’s a good song and it was underrated
He rapped so fast and smooth you had to rewind to hear the lyrics. G. Rap is one of the TITANS of the old school.
Kool g G rap big L big daddy Kane big pun nas and many more
U mean of all time
Where do you hear him rap so fast you can't understand him? Just asking don't get offended I'm with you just asking brother
@@ITISOKIUNDERSTAND37 exactly 💯
@@oscarholley891 I do the same thing to hear his verses again men at work and the symphony are the ones I did it with recently but I most definitely understand him
"A thug who mugs for drugs he eventually bugs
Lookin for crack on carpets or rugs
A squealer tells but a dealer still sells
To Little spoiled kids inheriting oil wells"
Damn Kool G Rap killed that shit.
Sick!
i actually started reading this comment at the exact moment he was rapping that verse!!!
"I was the type on the opposite side of smoking a pipe..."smh
vdubb20 indeed
@@DaKhid150 i say this line alllllll the tyme, these guys made my youth complete and so proud to have grown up in that time
way back in the better dayz
Goosebumps. Takes me back to when hip-hop gave you that rush...
Yesss his voice alone gives me an adrenaline rush to the head.
I no that's right 😮
The lyrics, the rhymes, the flow, the beat, the delivery...
You have Billy Joel to thank for piano riff.
The delivery of my 🍕
You don’t get that in today’s BS rap music in fact, it hasn’t been done since the early 90’s. Words you can hear, flow and delivery just like you said. I still play KGR, the shit still hits home in Queens, NY
If you love hip hop like I do, then you have to appreciate the rhyme scheme and patterns. Sheesh. Talk about painting a picture. This is ridiculously good.
The bet and samples are sick too. That’s a Billy Joel piano loop from the song “stilleto”
Facts !
Absolutely
might be the most underrated song ever. i really mean that.
He didn't curse or use the *N* word, and was STILL able to convey his message and keep it GANGSTA!!!
g rap the godfather of storytelling. so many rappers took him as a role model. same like rakim
And still came out hard
Would've been better if he used n word
Exactly the point!!!! One of the best rap songs of all the time !!!!!
@@youngchedr2088 ...He didn't curse or use the N- word because censorship was strong.. especially for rappers back then.
This is proof that you don't got to cuss to make a masterpiece I love old school hip-hop
That beat + That Flow =🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
G is killing every second of this joint!
Real classic shit, right here!
Moozy Mathers all thumbs up. 👍🏼
Janet Jackson come back to me
Original video
@@jlee8106
Can
I'm
Ain't that scoop n scrap dancing n da back?
Im 54 years old and I played this for my 17 year old son the other day and he couldn't believe it was from 1989
Wassnt this dude messing with superhead when she was just 17?
@You Can't Handle The Truth wow. You really don’t know who superhead is. You must be one of those old out of touch dudes. It’s karrin Stephens his ex wife. The 17 year old wife that he beat and had a kid with. And since she left him he’s never been in the kids life
Word that’s what’s up
I heard that my boy that’s wassup
This whole reply shit is funky but I’m responding to my boy that introduced this song to his son that’s wassup that’s what I’m talking about
One of the illest sample ever! Marley Marl murdered that Billy Joel piano break!! And OH MY GOD Kool G Raps flow and story telling!!
I love Stiletto, and these guys took that riff, and sampled as tremendously as one could. It's really excellent.
This was, and always will be, a straight BANGER!
Seriously true. This happens to be one of the dopest tracks from the golden age of rap.
Not many Mc's can paint a picture with their Lyrics like this today..Incredible
Period
Djs today don't play hip hop like this
8 year old comment
There's no rap record out right now that would ever be harder than this. period.💯
Its. A classic. Thats WHY
I’ll take it one step further,theses new artist don’t have albums better than this song!!!
Confirmed!!!!
Yes, but it's the 89 version of Melle Mels the Message
Janet Jackson come back to mr
If this man isn’t atleast top 5 lyricism wise your crazy tbh
Man this song hard asf I’m glad my Dad played this shit in the car😂🔥💪🏾💯
I'm 55 and still bumping this 😂🔥💪💯
Many legs I broke, many necks I choked and if provoked, I let the pistol smoke.
I followed the lyrics and my brain was sweating afterwards. The best lyrical flow ever!
His lyrics are so DEEP! He's so underrated!
One of the best rap songs ever..
The art of storytelling at its finest. Kool G is one of the best at it.
Kool g is definitely on top 3 but slick rick will always be the best at it
"Not my lifestyle, so I made a U-turn; The more money I earn, the more money I burn,
Pushing all buttons, pulling all switches, my name is G. Rap;
I'm on the road to the riches."
That's some deep ish.
that message in the beginning should be told to all kids.
The music in the old days 80s & 90s are the best, this new generation is too lost, real music is dead.
Classic Kool G Rap
this one track changed hip hop forever, this is the blueprint
I was in 7th grade..My nieghbor played this on his boombox and I knew.....Hip Hop is forever! My mind had never been blown like that from a song.
@@will3kgt 😂😂😂😂😂thats amazing
Surprised it's not more known.
Nas got his flow from here. If you listen to Halftime on Illmatic, it's very similar to this kool g rap track here. Kool G rap was a huge influence in Nas very early
so many years and still this smit is HARD!!!!!
Not one curse word in the entire song, words so clear and concise you can see the images in your head.
2023. Yep. Still bumps.
Yep 2024
From the 80’s. Real
When I was a baby girl...... I remember every car and every house blasting this......One of the greatest MC'S EVER🤴✌
The Architect of 90's NYC rap.....RIGHT HERE.
Nobody could spit like this to this day!!!!
Greatest hip hop song of all time! This set the bar beyond high.
He Wuz Ontha Road2 Riches From Day1,He Blew Off His Top When Tha Pistol Went Pop!!!!!
That billy Joel loop is fire. The rap is excellent and the video is still fresh. Timeless talent right here!
It took about 50 comments to finally see a mention of Billy Joel's classic riff. From Stiletto, of course.
Sickest piano sample ever
Billy Joel and Kool G Rap Both are legends
''No No see, You can be a rapper, but you cant be a gangster. You don't wanna be a gangster''. - Cool G Rap.
I listened to this when I was retired. Now I have a full time job and still bumping this 🧡
I always thought his flow was ahead of his time 💪🔥
he spit like his life depended on it... some still cant see this dude
Right
Right
CANT THINK OF ONE
You're Absolutely right about that straight up.
no one got shit on that
This is in my top 5 hip hop tunes of all time. Just brilliant.
G Rap changed the game for east coast hip hop.
I would often see Kool G Rap and Polo driving down Northern Boulevard in corona Queens in a custom made blue Mercedes Benz in the late 90's. All the drug dealers admired them and wanted the material success that they had. The great music that they made was so prolific and profound.
Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Black Thought, Nas, Jay Z, Eminem, Pusha T, R.A. The Rugged Man, Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, and 38. Spesh. All have some KOOL G RAP in them.
1989-Present all successful rappers have some Kool G Rap in them.
@@jasonito23 u forgot ice cube.
Big Pun
Can put AZ on that list too.
Big pun mostly
that fuckin beat
Chase Royal Marley Marl was one of the best who ever touched a MPC 60
This song seriously has the best rhymes, just so good.
This song is still 🔥
This track seriously just makes a stain out of anything current rap. As old as this is it just blisters the mind how insane this was. Still holds up!
Billy Joel piano sample is so fire
Kool G Rap on this song has some of the best rap verses in history.
Yours is the best description of this masterpiece
Factz
Unreal... Just unreal.. not enough hip-hop fans know about this 👑👑👑
And don't get me started on how cool Scoob & Scrap were..
I love scoob and scrap!!!!!! They also danced for Big Daddy Kane!!!
didnt realize that was them back there
Word!!!!
that's not Scoob and Scrap. this is Kenny and Shawn and to me they were WAY better.
u mean Sean and Kenny. Scoob and Scrap only danced for Kane
They don’t make ‘‘em like this anymore . Sheesh what a track
that lisp makes his flow that much more ill.....long live Nathaniel Thomas Wilson
I agree 💯 FACTS
L
Be
Janet Jackson come back to me original video
Dirklewinsky1 🎤🎤🎤🎤
The best rap song ever made, just listen to the lyrics and the style, and facts.
One of the greatest hip-hop songs EVER.
All I know is G rap should have been awarded.
Damn I wish it was 89 again
LOFL! I FEEL YA BOY, ME TOO!
Heard that. Great times. Great music.
Joe Smith I always say I'd like to start at 85 ..go to 99 and then repeat over n over. I don't recognize the world in this new age.
Joe Smith no doubt
Word!
That piano riff is from Billy Joel's Stiletto.
I knew it was bill joel but I couldn't remember which song, thanks!
@William ckemons Carolyn Dobson is probably a chick
Yes
No the movie untouchables
Too bad no one used it at the original tempo.
Real hip hop will never die.
Real hip hop will only multiply.
Kool G Rap real recognizes real.
A humble brother from Corona.
Crown city boys.
Combat you anytime style.
I remember when I was a kid I heard this on MTV and was like whoa!
The judge's face at around the 1:16 mark, his expression just reads 'damn son he's going hard'.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
WORD!
LOL!
Lol
Yo, he rapped with a lisp & ROCKED THAT SHIT! Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo, 1 of the best rap duos in hip hop...
G-Rap is a legend.
I remember getting the tape when I was in the 8th grade and playing this song and rewinding it over and over on my sony walkman 'til my battery drained out...young cats today don't know about that.
"And for the first time in life loaning money to dad."
Gotta sit and think about that line for a second.
you dont hear too many rappers saying they wanted to help their fathers
"What"life changing lyrics..these youngboys Don't know shit$$$_
We dont even have dads to relate
@@garyrobinson41 that's because they got caught up on that road... it was lined with risk
I was 14 makin grown man executive decisions life changin shit off this
The crack era... G Rap superbly raps about what was REALLY going on back then... This Album Came Out Right In The Middle Of That era...People Were Kicking And Knocking Each Other off...
Timeless Classic!🌟💯
The fact that this is tougher than most of the rap and hip hop music that’s out now is PRICELESS‼️🏆💪🏽👨🏽🎤🎵🎶
STIIL THE ILLEST JOINT. THIS WAS THE DOPE MANS ANTHEM
This was the whole hood's anthem back then
Exactly
and that shit bump
U dam sho right bout that 💯💯👌
One of the greatest story tellers in hip hop
Slick Rick
In my opinion, the top 5 storytellers are Slick Rick, Scarface, G Rap, Nas and probably KRS
@@oldschool1107 ampichino from Akron ohio
How's he not more well know?
@@oldschool1107 big daddy kane
Reason why he’s one my top 3 of all time...masterpiece painted with lyrics
This is what Hip Hop is Period!
"Money, jewelry livin' like a star and I wasn't too far from a Jaguar Car!
Damn. It's been 26 years since I've seen this video. That was when Rap was real.
And now we have mumble rap... like... really?!?
Who else is listening to this in 2020. I was a 1980s teenager. I'm 46 and I still know the lyrics. :)
That flow mixed with the story telling is just classic
rap at its finest!
Love the dancing in the background back then
Ferre Eugene
It was fire!!↕️
That type dancing is a universal language of energy at it's purest form.
Definitely the best in the 80s to me
“Giving my manpower for 4 bucks an hour” dam brah !!
Kool g rap top 5 for real💯
One of the most underrated rappers of all time...
Bombs were planted, kids were kidnapped, in fact, this was a way to get back at enemies that tried to clock Gees on my block, now they forever clock zees....
Amazing how you can still play this song and enjoy the beat ❤😊
One of the toughest dude that ever touch the mic 💯💯
This is definitely one of the hardest ever!!! GOAT!!!!!
Officially when G surpassed Ra & Kane. This flow was the prototype for the next 10 years. Ya favorite rapper borrowed it from him.
Great point
It’s called EVOLUTION good brother we really respected the ones before us, that’s who they wanted to empress the most 🎯
FACTS!!
G the only one out of the 3 that still got it
@@cibida1 exactly many mcs were inspired by him he's our favorite rappers influence.
One of the greatest songs ever
He is a LIVING LEGEND
Pioneer of gangsta and hardcore rap . This man changed the whole game
Respect to any rapper who would care to sample Billy Joel
That was a popular old school break beat quietly.
Check out Lethal-C
Down In The Boondock's.
KRS did it on The Bridge Is Over
Cold Crush brothers used this beat often for one of their routines.
What Billy Joel song is this
I love the way they dance recently i heard that song at GTA San Andreas and my dad started dancing like them lol i was like wtf i didn't knew my dad used to dance like that
Legend still blows any thing nowadays out the water
Kool G Rap is a lyrical genius.
love, this! youngsters can't rip it like this anymore... REAL RAP! original gangsta rap!
One of the GOATS! He did his thing.
The little boy in the beginning reminds me of my young nephew. I wanna give him good advise like Kool G and teach him well!