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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@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
@GodBBody 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.
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!
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.
I JUST discovered this sample source I bought the 52nd st. Record and put on side 2 first and the piano about made me shit myself. I was like VHHFFHTVFD ThaTs road to the riches! And started tripping over myself to call my friend who said he swore it was from some Billy Joel track a few years ago but he couldn't put his finger on it, so just gave up and figured he was wrong.
"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.
@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
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
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.
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...
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....
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.
Many give GTA the hard look for being a violent series of games, but how they contributed to my musical education to a genre that was completely closed to me before, I'll always be grateful. This one KICKS ASS.
Ahhh!!! The Billy Joel sample! We used to bboy to this sample. It’s on Kid Capri’s 52 beats mix tape. A legendary mix tape of all the earliest bboy break beats!
Kool G Rap is among My top 5 Greatest MC's EVER! That Man was the true meaning of a Lyricist, A Tough Humble Man that Commanded Respect on the Mic, he has My Respect just alone to give Props where it do!. 🫵👍👍🤨😎🆒 G. Rap!.
When I was five years old I realized there was a road At the end I will win lots of pots of gold Never took a break, never made a mistake Took time to create 'cause there's money to make To be a billionaire takes hard work for years Some nights I shed a tear while I said a prayer Been through hard times, even worked part time In a Key Food store sweeping floors sometimes I was sort of a porter taking the next man's orders Breaking my back for a shack from headquarters All my manpower for four bucks an hour Took my time and wrote rhymes in the shower Shoes are scuffed cause the road gets rough But I'mma rock it cause my pockets ain't stuffed enough All the freaks wouldn't speak cause my checks were weak They would turn the other cheek so I started to seek A way to get a play, and maybe one day I'll be performing up a storm for a decent pay No matter how it seems, I always kept the dream All the girlies screamed and suckers get creamed Dreamed about it for five years straight Finally I got a break to cut my first plate The road ain't yellow and it ain't no witches My name is Kool G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches I used to stand on the block selling cooked up rock Money busting out my sock cos I really would clock They were for kind of fiends bringing jackets and jeans Magazines, anything, just to hustle for beans The cash was coming fast, money grew like grass People hungry for the blast that don't even last Didn't want to be involved but the money will get ya Gettin' richer and richer, the police took my picture But I still supplied, some people I knew died Murders and homicides for bottles of suicide Money, jewelry, living like a star And I wasn't too far from a Jaguar car In a small-time casino, the town's Al Pacino For all of the girls, the pretty boy Valentino I shot up stores and I kicked down doors Collected scars from little neighborhood wars Many legs I broke, many necks I choked And if provoked I let the pistol smoke Loyal members in a crew now down with the game Selling nickels and dimes in sunshine or rain What I had was bad from my shoes to my pad In the first time in my life loaning money to dad Now the table's turned and my lifestyle switches My name is Kool G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches A thug will mug for drugs, he eventually bugs Looking for crack on carpets and rugs The squealers tells but the dealer still sells Little spoiled kids inheriting oil wells I was the type on the opposite side Of smoking the pipe, in a beef I got hype Cause rags to riches switches men to witches Become stitches, body bags in ditches Bloodshed, I painted the town red People fled as I put a dread's head to bed That means dead, in other words deceased Face got erased, bullets got released Bombs were planted and kids were kidnapped In fact this was a way to get back At enemies who tried to clock G's On my block, now they forever knock Z's Plans of rampages went for ages Some got knocked and locked inside cages Some bit the dust for crumbs and crusts In God we trust, now rots to rust Bust caps to cops, policeman drops You blew off his top when the pistol went pop Troopers, soldiers, rolling like boulders Eyes of hate and their hearts get colder Some young male put in jail His lawyer so good his bail is on sale Looking at the hourglass, how long can this power last Longer than my song but he already fell He likes to eat hearty, party Be like John Gotti, and drive a Maserati Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he's Jello Mellow, yellow fellow, tell or hell, hello One court date can turn an outlaw to an inmate But just stay, ship him upstate by the Great Lakes And than a-wait and wait and wait Until he breaks, that's all it takes So he fakes to be a man, but he can't stand On his own two feet because now he's in a new land Rules are different and so is life When you think with a shank, talk with a knife Not my lifestyle so I made a U-turn More money I earn, more money to burn Pushing all buttons, pulling all switches My name is G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches
Thank you..listened since a youth and l still do..appreciate the clarity of the lyrics..makes it even more if a majestic legendary hip hop work of art. Much respect.
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.
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💯
Facts
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
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
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
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.
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
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
RIP DJ Polo. On your way to Paradise on the Road to Riches.💰 ©2024
The production tight as well
Damn, I did not know that..Whoa WTF, these people are not that old...this world is sucking RIP Brother Polo
This was my Era of Hip Hop and wouldn't trade it for the world. R.I.P DJ POLO
Ever we had older gods they got a lot we not the same😂😂🦾
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
@@krispalm02 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
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
Word life😎
@GodBBody 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.
Ruff in the ghetto.. But in jail.. He's jello.. Mellow yellow fellow tell or hell hello
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!
might be the most underrated song ever. i really mean that.
Agreed I got It top 3
It was over shadowed by the rise of the west coast.
That beat + That Flow =🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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 😮
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
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
The music in the old days 80s & 90s are the best, this new generation is too lost, real music is dead.
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.
I JUST discovered this sample source I bought the 52nd st. Record and put on side 2 first and the piano about made me shit myself. I was like VHHFFHTVFD ThaTs road to the riches! And started tripping over myself to call my friend who said he swore it was from some Billy Joel track a few years ago but he couldn't put his finger on it, so just gave up and figured he was wrong.
"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.
His lyrics are so DEEP! He's so underrated!
G is killing every second of this joint!
This is proof that you don't got to cuss to make a masterpiece I love old school hip-hop
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
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
When I was a baby girl...... I remember every car and every house blasting this......One of the greatest MC'S EVER🤴✌
so many years and still this smit is HARD!!!!!
They don't make 'em like this no more. My dad used to love this record.
Salute to yor dad
Im that dad… listened to this before HS wrestling matches in 90
REST IN PEACE! D.J. POLO!! KOOL G RAP THANK YOU! THEY GAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE HOPE! WHEN THERE WAS NONE! YOU ARE (LEGENDS)!!
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?
This is in my top 5 hip hop tunes of all time. Just brilliant.
Yo, he rapped with a lisp & ROCKED THAT SHIT! Kool G. Rap & D.J. Polo, 1 of the best rap duos in hip hop...
There has been nothing put out like this in so many years. Classic!
2023. Yep. Still bumps.
Yep 2024
From the 80’s. Real
I can listen to this jawn everyday
Still hitting in 2024
@@FrederickMayo2024 August 😅
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
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
The Architect of 90's NYC rap.....RIGHT HERE.
Rest DJ Polo .. this beat
was so raw .. best rap intro ever . ❤️🩹🕊️🏹
If this man isn’t atleast top 5 lyricism wise your crazy tbh
that lisp makes his flow that much more ill.....long live Nathaniel Thomas Wilson
L
Be
Janet Jackson come back to me original video
Dirklewinsky1 🎤🎤🎤🎤
like 50 cents lisp but more pronounced.
RIP to DJ POLO a true Hip-Hop pioneer! 🙏🏾
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.
Not one curse word in the entire song, words so clear and concise you can see the images in your head.
I listened to this when I was retired. Now I have a full time job and still bumping this 🧡
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
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
Kool G Rap on this song has some of the best rap verses in history.
Yours is the best description of this masterpiece
Factz
Man, what a positive message. I miss the days when rap lyrics were like 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...
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
@@dazednconfused-r4o ampichino from Akron ohio
How's he not more well know?
@@dazednconfused-r4o big daddy kane
that message in the beginning should be told to all kids.
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.
No cusses, and G still managed to spit so confidently and quickly, while also conveying the message.
Top tier song.
''No No see, You can be a rapper, but you cant be a gangster. You don't wanna be a gangster''. - Cool G Rap.
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....
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.
Many give GTA the hard look for being a violent series of games, but how they contributed to my musical education to a genre that was completely closed to me before, I'll always be grateful. This one KICKS ASS.
Never gets old. I was living in the suburbs of Phoenix doing my paper route in 5th grade listening to this.
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
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!
An amazing classic that still sounds as fresh as it was when it first hit the streets back in 1989!
Ahhh!!! The Billy Joel sample! We used to bboy to this sample. It’s on Kid Capri’s 52 beats mix tape. A legendary mix tape of all the earliest bboy break beats!
This is insanely good. I’m a psychedelic rock fan but I have massive respect to amazing Hip
Hop/Rap like this
love, this! youngsters can't rip it like this anymore... REAL RAP! original gangsta rap!
Disgrace that this doesn't have at least a million views. G Rap was so underrated.
Nobody could spit like this to this day!!!!
Ku G Rap & Dj Polo
4 Life
4 That 1
Mad Respect 💪🏆
One of the hardest rap songs written. And he didn't curse at all! Love the 90s hip hop because rap had messages about not selling drugs
What a classic..Brings back many great memories..what a great time for hip hop..
Kool G Rap is one of the best rappers on my top list ...Very creative
G.Rap. is one of the greatest to ever do it. This is my shit. Dude had bars and skills for days! Real hip hop. Bar game was serious!
The lyrics and the Billy Joel sample 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kool G Rap is among My top 5 Greatest MC's EVER! That Man was the true meaning of a Lyricist, A Tough Humble Man that Commanded Respect on the Mic, he has My Respect just alone to give Props where it do!. 🫵👍👍🤨😎🆒 G. Rap!.
One of the best rap songs ever..
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!!!!!
One of the hardest rap beats and vocals combination all time. Golden age of Hip Hop. CLASSIC
This song seriously has the best rhymes, just so good.
That flow mixed with the story telling is just classic
Straight Classic!! When Hip Hop had Real Lyricists & Real Messages!! Stay Blessed My Brothers and Sisters in JESUS CHRIST Always
tHIS SONG IS STILL RELEVANT IN 2015 NOTHING HAS CHANGE BUT THE TIME. REAL TRUTH RAP & POLO WERE SPITTING
2019...still going
Bullshit it ain't the same
I will NEVER get tired of this!!! 🔥🔥🔥 #classic
RIP DJ Polo. Thanks for the journey filled with beats and flavour.
#RestInParadise D.J. Polo. Thank you for your time and your music. Sending my condolences and prayers to your family.
When I was five years old I realized there was a road
At the end I will win lots of pots of gold
Never took a break, never made a mistake
Took time to create 'cause there's money to make
To be a billionaire takes hard work for years
Some nights I shed a tear while I said a prayer
Been through hard times, even worked part time
In a Key Food store sweeping floors sometimes
I was sort of a porter taking the next man's orders
Breaking my back for a shack from headquarters
All my manpower for four bucks an hour
Took my time and wrote rhymes in the shower
Shoes are scuffed cause the road gets rough
But I'mma rock it cause my pockets ain't stuffed enough
All the freaks wouldn't speak cause my checks were weak
They would turn the other cheek so I started to seek
A way to get a play, and maybe one day
I'll be performing up a storm for a decent pay
No matter how it seems, I always kept the dream
All the girlies screamed and suckers get creamed
Dreamed about it for five years straight
Finally I got a break to cut my first plate
The road ain't yellow and it ain't no witches
My name is Kool G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches
I used to stand on the block selling cooked up rock
Money busting out my sock cos I really would clock
They were for kind of fiends bringing jackets and jeans
Magazines, anything, just to hustle for beans
The cash was coming fast, money grew like grass
People hungry for the blast that don't even last
Didn't want to be involved but the money will get ya
Gettin' richer and richer, the police took my picture
But I still supplied, some people I knew died
Murders and homicides for bottles of suicide
Money, jewelry, living like a star
And I wasn't too far from a Jaguar car
In a small-time casino, the town's Al Pacino
For all of the girls, the pretty boy Valentino
I shot up stores and I kicked down doors
Collected scars from little neighborhood wars
Many legs I broke, many necks I choked
And if provoked I let the pistol smoke
Loyal members in a crew now down with the game
Selling nickels and dimes in sunshine or rain
What I had was bad from my shoes to my pad
In the first time in my life loaning money to dad
Now the table's turned and my lifestyle switches
My name is Kool G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches
A thug will mug for drugs, he eventually bugs
Looking for crack on carpets and rugs
The squealers tells but the dealer still sells
Little spoiled kids inheriting oil wells
I was the type on the opposite side
Of smoking the pipe, in a beef I got hype
Cause rags to riches switches men to witches
Become stitches, body bags in ditches
Bloodshed, I painted the town red
People fled as I put a dread's head to bed
That means dead, in other words deceased
Face got erased, bullets got released
Bombs were planted and kids were kidnapped
In fact this was a way to get back
At enemies who tried to clock G's
On my block, now they forever knock Z's
Plans of rampages went for ages
Some got knocked and locked inside cages
Some bit the dust for crumbs and crusts
In God we trust, now rots to rust
Bust caps to cops, policeman drops
You blew off his top when the pistol went pop
Troopers, soldiers, rolling like boulders
Eyes of hate and their hearts get colder
Some young male put in jail
His lawyer so good his bail is on sale
Looking at the hourglass, how long can this power last
Longer than my song but he already fell
He likes to eat hearty, party
Be like John Gotti, and drive a Maserati
Rough in the ghetto, but in jail he's Jello
Mellow, yellow fellow, tell or hell, hello
One court date can turn an outlaw to an inmate
But just stay, ship him upstate by the Great Lakes
And than a-wait and wait and wait
Until he breaks, that's all it takes
So he fakes to be a man, but he can't stand
On his own two feet because now he's in a new land
Rules are different and so is life
When you think with a shank, talk with a knife
Not my lifestyle so I made a U-turn
More money I earn, more money to burn
Pushing all buttons, pulling all switches
My name is G Rap, I'm on the road to the riches
Fucking awesome
That was just beautiful to read. Thanks for printing the lyrics.
Thank you..listened since a youth and l still do..appreciate the clarity of the lyrics..makes it even more if a majestic legendary hip hop work of art. Much respect.
💎💎💎💎💯💯💯💯💯
THANK U
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.
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.
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.
I’m only 17 years old and I listen to this type of music. RIP to DJ Polo
💯
The judge's face at around the 1:16 mark, his expression just reads 'damn son he's going hard'.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
WORD!
LOL!
Lol
Facts lol
This is the BEST example of story telling in this genre of music!!!! There hasn't been another song with this level of skill and imagery since.
morganman2015 Nas?Dance with the devil-immortal technique?
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Rethinking over this comment and this totally isn't true, plenty of good storytelling songs came after this like Wu Tang's cream.
Nas "I Gave U Power"
Check out the song Scarface by Scarface.
Infectious beat, understandable lyrics, a message and no real foul language.
Timeless Classic!🌟💯
Bring this back on Spotify!!!
My forever favorite classic
Kool g rap is the best ever no competition.
@Gregory Williams nah Face is dope but can't f with G lyrically.
king esseen That’s Mad Debatable
Rakim
Kool G Rap
Big Daddy Kane
Krs-One
Nas/Jadakiss/Big Pun/Spit Gemz
N.A.S.
G rap rakim krs one
Pioneer of gangsta and hardcore rap . This man changed the whole game
Rest in Peace DJ Polo thank you for the hot joints you gave us.
G rap always gave the pros and cons of street life ❤
Reality Rap at its finest right here 🏆
After seeing this video for the first time, my hip hop experience was never the same. S/o to Kool G Rap & Polo!