Best voice ever!! Tony passing still saddens my heart. Addiction is real and can take out the best players. I so miss his voice his talent and this group was SO underrated.. RIP TONY..
He died from inhaling Freon from an air conditioning unit. He was found next to and outdoor air conditioning unit and the post mortem said he had lethal amounts of Freon in his blood. He was addicted to meth, but his death may have been an accident.
I wish Tony, Roderick, Torriano, Marcus, and Russell had been able to make more music together...A professor once told me: "Sometimes life gets in the way." R.I.P. Tony Thompson 💜
I saw them in concert back in Feb 2014 at the Valentine's concert with Jagged Edge before Russell killed his wife. I watched their unsung special after he killed his wife and he seemed so together and mature when they were interviewing him (not saying a mature person can't kill anyone, he just didnt seem he'd do something like that, just his whole demeanor and his personality). Idk if he snapped or what, but I guess he wont be performing anymore w/ hi 5 and he's still living unlike Tony who is no longer with us and that's his reason he'll never perform again. R.I.P Tony!! R.I.P Russell's career and R.I.P to his wife!!
@@Carolina_girl86 Russell had money troubles. I think that’s what he and his wife fought about. Even in Hi-5 they had money troubles. They were just a bunch of young boys who got swept along in the music biz, made some very bad decisions (as young guys do), and couldn’t seem to right their ship.
I like how they stopped him at the end like “yeah we get it bro but she too old for you.” That’s brotherhood right there. Love this song, love the video even more
I based my fictional 90s R&B made up group off these guys : “The Juice Crew’”. Hi Five inspired me to create them! #R.I.P Tony Thompson! There will never be another one! 💯💯💯
First BBD with "Back stage / Under age" and now Hi Five with "I was only 16 / She was 25." At 42yrs old, listening to songs I loved as a pre-teen in the 90s is starting to ruin my entire childhood🤦🏾♀️😬🥺 Cold part is, its not like I haven't been listening to these all along. How did these lyrics never dawn on me.🤷🏾♀️
Classic example of way too much way too soon. He wasn’t even old enough yet for a driver’s permit when they recorded this and barely out of high school by the time Jive dropped the group and they were considered “washed up.” Add in the exposure to drugs and solo deals on the table with Bad Boy, etc, just a tragic tale. Incredible talent gone way too soon.
The original members, they had better chemistry back then. Too bad we did not get a chance to see these five brothers full potential, but the group did well given the bad situations it faced. Definitely one of my fav groups
Tony was the best singer and dancer in this group by far. Plus he dominated the background singing as well. He could have been out from day one as a solo artist.
The arrangement and Tony Thompson vocals this group with the smash production of Mr. Teddy Riley Hi Five came through with excellence! Hi Five Forever!!!!!!!
Because the young people would think music videos are lame because no woman taking out her fake butt cheeks. Nobody smoking weed (or rocks). They don't just want to see the talent and the executive producer all in the video dancing.
he was only 15 here... just a baby. lol we use to sing about sec at damn near any age and it was hidden because the beat was so hype. hell, he did have a son the next year.
I am so glad I was apart of that time when there was good music. I was very young, but I loved Hi-Five. Tony Thompson was that guy! ❤ Not only he was so handsome and adorable...he had a voice that was like no other and it stood out. I loved it. ❤ A smile and dimples out of this world 😊🥰 This was one of my favorites and I have so many favorites by them and him when he did his solo. He is still definitely loved and missed. Continue to Rest In Peace Tony Thompson ❤🕊
If people think New Edition got ripped off these guys couldn't even afford to buy cars after their hit songs and were in debt each time they toured. People like Berry Gordy didn't become rich by paying artists what they were worth.
Yeah, but I wonder if leaving Jive was the best move. Russell wanted to renegotiate for more money but the others voted him down. Then later they ended up switching record labels. Maybe Russell was right. Maybe they should she stayed and just tried to renegotiate.
None of these artists were paid what they were truly worth by the companies they were signed by and his started long before Barry Gordy get a copy of the movie THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
That record label move was already a done deal when Russell Neal decided to leave the group for a 2nd time (Hi Five Unsung August 2014) …after the Florida ‘92 accident (Pooh) left them with only 3 members.. he returned and they were back at four (4) members, but left again in matter of months… by early ‘93 he was gone and a new member name (Murphy) appears in their lineup promo... according to Russell the new Hi Five record deal w Giant records came with $60k signing bonus, he said they only wanted to give him half $30k and the other $30k would be slit between the other three🤑🤑🤑 so his words to them “you can have this group” and he left Hi Five for good as a member…maybe they wanted him out and set him up by messing with his share of the 💰🤷🏽♀️… his interview segments with TVOne filming occurred year before, around late 2013.. his partner (wife) was killed early July 2014, about a month before Hi Five Unsung episode aired… 😳
Get in there Tony, R.I.P. I met Hi-five in their dressing room in Clearwater Florida in the summer of 1992. We had just won a bass contest for cars. So we had backstage access. They we're nice guys.
Lilly Davis They were our age so we talked to them about music and clothes. They really liked the car we had entered in the bass contest. Tony was really polite and upbeat, with a boyish personality about him. We were about 20 yrs old at the time.
@@tyliekinc. Russell Neal was kinda the quiet one but very nice. They liked our car and were looking at it. we spoke about clothes and music with them. They were waiting to get on stage. We watched their concert and they gave us a shoutout on stage. We screamed like little girls.
This was the video I remember watching on Video Soul on BET in early November 1990 when I was just five years old before I turn six on November 28 that same year. New Jack Swing was in a full gear. Toriano was the dude that never saw it coming after this video because he was sentenced to jail for shooting the other guy. So when 1991 begins, Treston Irby finally fits in for him. I feel sad about Toriano Easley sentenced to jail at a very early age....whew. Those were the days.
Just a term we use Konnie J. I miss "Dimples" just like you and everyone else. Yeah he was my heart. And we shared some special moments over the years.
Yaasss! I love Hi-five! So glad I was raised in this era! Tony had a beautiful voice my biggest crush back then. Gone too soon.SIP Tony🙏❤ Prayers for the other members as well🙏
I worked @ a grocery store in Chicago in 1990 & I was 16 & this fine older co-worker, use to sing this to me & yes she was fine. This song bring back memories!
This song popped in my head....damn i can't believe it's 27yrs old....1990 was a great year for music and me....Cinco deMayo was off da chain that year.
I still jam this song lol. my favorite parts: The beginning, the end, the parts where they're on the bridge, especially 2:30-2:40 lol. When I was 13, I looooved that part Lmao.
Whoever wrote the lyrics to this song is WILD.
😭
Ikr, I was thinking if it was today, comments be going sick about grooming etc lol
Teddy Riley
😂
YOU KNOW!!!
Tony Thompson is arguably one of the best vocalist in music ever. I stand on that!
Lil g from silk
I stand with YOU...💯💯💯💯💯
⛪️
Also Dino from H-town
I definitely agree with you. He had such a great voice just to be a child.
The intro of this song is still one of the dopest ever. Tony could straight up blow. He is truly missed!
Soul for Real Candy Rain
Yes!
Exactly the Intro is fire , I keep repeat it over and over
Yes this the best intro best song his voice is sick love him miss him
The best part 💪🏾
That bassline on "She's got that funky walk" Gets me everytime. 🕺
Meeeee too
His voice is amazing
I know right???
R.I.P. Tony Ulysses Thompson Gone Way Too Soon September 2 1975-June 1 2007👼👼🕊🕊
Best voice ever!! Tony passing still saddens my heart. Addiction is real and can take out the best players. I so miss his voice his talent and this group was SO underrated.. RIP TONY..
@Detra Jenkins He died from the act of HUFFING the act of inhaling poison inside a bag.
😔
Your right about that summer Breeze
He died from inhaling Freon from an air conditioning unit. He was found next to and outdoor air conditioning unit and the post mortem said he had lethal amounts of Freon in his blood. He was addicted to meth, but his death may have been an accident.
My favorite I miss him
I love the ending. Tony getting carried away like Martin in the courthouse lol
yea that good to
LMFAOOOOOO right
So do I
GTD😂😂😂
😂I wasn’t born in this era but apparently that was a thing back then where guys would whine up at girls to get them.
Gone way to soon! 😯 RIP Tony Thompson ♡
Tony died?😔
+Minaya Smith wow I didn't even know 😢
+Erik Teneyuque he died 9 years ago
u right R.I.P
u right R.I.P
I wish Tony, Roderick, Torriano, Marcus, and Russell had been able to make more music together...A professor once told me: "Sometimes life gets in the way."
R.I.P. Tony Thompson 💜
I saw them in concert back in Feb 2014 at the Valentine's concert with Jagged Edge before Russell killed his wife. I watched their unsung special after he killed his wife and he seemed so together and mature when they were interviewing him (not saying a mature person can't kill anyone, he just didnt seem he'd do something like that, just his whole demeanor and his personality). Idk if he snapped or what, but I guess he wont be performing anymore w/ hi 5 and he's still living unlike Tony who is no longer with us and that's his reason he'll never perform again. R.I.P Tony!! R.I.P Russell's career and R.I.P to his wife!!
Lorna Simmons-Cooks Anithe crazy thing is that Russels brother also murdered his wife (or gf) in cold blood. Scary.
Me to Mz Lee
@@Carolina_girl86 Awesome
@@Carolina_girl86
Russell had money troubles. I think that’s what he and his wife fought about. Even in Hi-5 they had money troubles. They were just a bunch of young boys who got swept along in the music biz, made some very bad decisions (as young guys do), and couldn’t seem to right their ship.
The intro is better than anything put out these days
GTG Beats ... FACTS!!!
That intro is Lit! RIP Tony
Yassss
Yes like I keep rewinding it
That could've been a song in itself.
I like how they repped Texas throughout the video. Waco landmarks,Spurs and Mavs hats
me to Lisa Jackson
I like how they stopped him at the end like “yeah we get it bro but she too old for you.” That’s brotherhood right there. Love this song, love the video even more
Hi-Five was the outstanding groups like New Edition of the 90's and their music was outstanding too.
💯💯💯
Seeing them live at Grad Night '93 @ Disneyland blew my mind!!🤩😍🎶💥💜
I based my fictional 90s R&B made up group off these guys : “The Juice Crew’”. Hi Five inspired me to create them! #R.I.P Tony Thompson! There will never be another one! 💯💯💯
the lyrics man; but why the beat gotta be so catchy tho😭
Who's still listening 2024 had to rewind the intro like a 100 times though he kilt that shit
First BBD with "Back stage / Under age" and now Hi Five with "I was only 16 / She was 25."
At 42yrs old, listening to songs I loved as a pre-teen in the 90s is starting to ruin my entire childhood🤦🏾♀️😬🥺 Cold part is, its not like I haven't been listening to these all along. How did these lyrics never dawn on me.🤷🏾♀️
16 is the legal age in most of the world including America
Tony Thompson Had A beautiful voice 👍
Classic example of way too much way too soon. He wasn’t even old enough yet for a driver’s permit when they recorded this and barely out of high school by the time Jive dropped the group and they were considered “washed up.” Add in the exposure to drugs and solo deals on the table with Bad Boy, etc, just a tragic tale. Incredible talent gone way too soon.
Yes he did
@@trevorhembrough1290 Your right about that
I LOVE TONY AND FUNKY WALK DANCE, TOO CUTE 😍😍
@Fred Staton Jr On me😂😂😂😂😂
Me to lol my mom loved that part she is gone now r.i.p mom and tony..😍😘
It was cute
Me to Danielle Deneen
Yes. The main reason I love this video
Rest In Peace Pooh. Reunited with your brother Tony🙏🏿🕊️
One of my favorite Hi-five songs. Its a shame that R&B music don't sound nothing like this today. R.I.P. Tony Thompson.
90's music was the best decade to us always and for today's music, not better than Hi-five's music, they were incredible like New Edition.
16+ are all already physically grown
This why I only listen to 90s
My kids will hear my 90s music an they love it
Nobody mentions the end when Marcus and Toriano carries Tony away. So funny and cute
This was Toriano's first and final music video with Hi Five, if only he didn't get into that altercation and had that gun, he even regrets it
the begining will always b da best part
Yasss I love tony
+The real Gerrod Yep its is a nice intro, but personally i prefer the intro on the Teddy's Extended 12' mix of this song.
+budaluvaz he had voice range.
+Nyesha Brooks yasss
+The real Gerrod ikr it was so adorable
RIP Roderick "Pooh" Clark!! One of the Original Hi Five members!!
The original members, they had better chemistry back then. Too bad we did not get a chance to see these five brothers full potential, but the group did well given the bad situations it faced. Definitely one of my fav groups
This is ONLY music video Toriano Elsley ever shot. He was arrested and jailed for shooting his BFF over a Girlfriend soon after this video was filmed.
Didn’t 2 become murderers
Tony was the best singer and dancer in this group by far. Plus he dominated the background singing as well. He could have been out from day one as a solo artist.
Kyrie Sampson Russell was the best dancer
Toriano could sing too...
The best group, with so much wasted talent. I miss you Hi Five. R.I.P
" Tony"
Whitney forever
Whitney forever Yes so tragic..
The arrangement and Tony Thompson vocals this group with the smash production of Mr. Teddy Riley Hi Five came through with excellence! Hi Five Forever!!!!!!!
Love it...🔥🔥🔥
Can We Bring Back The 1990s ??🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵
Because the young people would think music videos are lame because no woman taking out her fake butt cheeks. Nobody smoking weed (or rocks). They don't just want to see the talent and the executive producer all in the video dancing.
@@Ricobaca 😆😆💯💯👍👍
My favorite of this song will always be the bridge!! I still get chills and remember when I was kid trying to learn the dance rountine lol
ZenLifeTV this and Rhythm Nation!
45 years old. Those clothes & haircuts taking me way back! 💙 the 90s!
Tony Thompson was sooo underrated, will forever be missed. 🙏🏾
If you never heard Tony in concert you missed a good show. That dude could sing.
he was only 15 here... just a baby. lol
we use to sing about sec at damn near any age and it was hidden because the beat was so hype. hell, he did have a son the next year.
Really?
wow
Yes Tony has a son name Tevin Thompson he was born in the early 90's
@@Seriousthing13 he had a baby with who at 15 or 16??
Right was it with someone over age like the song suggests? Yah these lyrics would never fly today and shouldn't have then.
tony was my crush at age 12...those dimples, those vocals. i wudve loved to have met him. Gone way too soon 😔
That group has been through alot, passing of members, members going to jail, and one member got paralyzed and then passed years later
Tony is the loml on everything!!! Pooh was fine , but Tony was just....oowee!!!
Yesss
I love Tony's voice! Just perfect. Miss the 90s music
It's been 10 years since Tony Thompson death which was this month. He would've been 41 right now.
That's great Tony Thompson would have been 41 in 2017
Baby you a victim if that grown woman was looking at you 😂
Tony and that funky walk.. LMAO!!😂😍
They just don’t make music like this no more….😢
The original members🔥🔥🔥
I’m in tears, this young man was everything to me. Till this day love his family , l will always listen his
Music
Wait wait what did I hear him right TONYYYYY 😂😂😂😂 16 messing with a 25 yr old Lawd... She could’ve went to Jail wowwwww
Lmao. I was 18 and the woman was 26.
It’s the school teacher’s theme song. 🤷🏻♂️
@@raider7782
18 is legal. You weren’t taking any risks. When I was 25, my wife was 14. Of course, I didn’t know her then, but that’s the age gap.
Actually age of consent in most places and in America too is 16. So nobody would be in jail unless the individual was that individuals teacher
I feel so much nostalgia listening to this wish the old days could return 😢😊
This cut went hard hi 5 had cuts and Teddy Riley was unfadeable in those streets back in the day rip Tony Thompson,he had a voice
this song never gets old....i love the bangin early 90's beats.
The intro is simply beautiful. Miss my teenage years so much sometimes!
My big brother had this cassette back then. I remember this song at only 4 years old.
I died on 3:01 she had that funky walk
LOL
lmfao!
Kendall King me too!!
He killed that shit
My favorite part!! Lol
yeah I like his funky walk
I am so glad I was apart of that time when there was good music. I was very young, but I loved Hi-Five. Tony Thompson was that guy! ❤ Not only he was so handsome and adorable...he had a voice that was like no other and it stood out. I loved it. ❤ A smile and dimples out of this world 😊🥰 This was one of my favorites and I have so many favorites by them and him when he did his solo. He is still definitely loved and missed. Continue to Rest In Peace Tony Thompson ❤🕊
If people think New Edition got ripped off these guys couldn't even afford to buy cars after their hit songs and were in debt each time they toured. People like Berry Gordy didn't become rich by paying artists what they were worth.
Yeah, but I wonder if leaving Jive was the best move. Russell wanted to renegotiate for more money but the others voted him down. Then later they ended up switching record labels. Maybe Russell was right. Maybe they should she stayed and just tried to renegotiate.
None of these artists were paid what they were truly worth by the companies they were signed by and his started long before Barry Gordy get a copy of the movie THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
That record label move was already a done deal when Russell Neal decided to leave the group for a 2nd time (Hi Five Unsung August 2014) …after the Florida ‘92 accident (Pooh) left them with only 3 members.. he returned and they were back at four (4) members, but left again in matter of months… by early ‘93 he was gone and a new member name (Murphy) appears in their lineup promo... according to Russell the new Hi Five record deal w Giant records came with $60k signing bonus, he said they only wanted to give him half $30k and the other $30k would be slit between the other three🤑🤑🤑 so his words to them “you can have this group” and he left Hi Five for good as a member…maybe they wanted him out and set him up by messing with his share of the 💰🤷🏽♀️… his interview segments with TVOne filming occurred year before, around late 2013.. his partner (wife) was killed early July 2014, about a month before Hi Five Unsung episode aired… 😳
dope af + way before my time = best era of music
you little grass hoppers this is real r&b you now a dayz singers step your game up R.I.P Tony t real music
And stop biting. We already bit. You just cant keep biting LOL
Get in there Tony, R.I.P.
I met Hi-five in their dressing room in Clearwater Florida in the summer of 1992.
We had just won a bass contest for cars. So we had backstage access.
They we're nice guys.
What was Tony like
Lilly Davis They were our age so we talked to them about music and clothes. They really liked the car we had entered in the bass contest. Tony was really polite and upbeat, with a boyish personality about him. We were about 20 yrs old at the time.
That cool thx
@@slikkrik what was Russell Neal like??
@@tyliekinc. Russell Neal was kinda the quiet one but very nice. They liked our car and were looking at it. we spoke about clothes and music with them. They were waiting to get on stage. We watched their concert and they gave us a shoutout on stage. We screamed like little girls.
One of my favorite groups from of the 90's! They were so cute..
Ikr. That's all I can keep thinking about. I would've been crazy over them if I could've met them back then when they looked like this.
Rip Tony
Yesssssss new jack swing and full of fact sure do miss the early nineties!!!!!!
I was only 15 when this came out living in Detroit attending Denby High! Sooooo many memories!
r.i.p. lil tony miss u lil cuddy. these boys out my city str8 outta Waco Texas . still jammin in 2017
❤❤ she had thar funky walk i love Tony Thompson (RIP) 😢. Miss your beautiful voice and fine self 💕💕
This was the video I remember watching on Video Soul on BET in early November 1990 when I was just five years old before I turn six on November 28 that same year. New Jack Swing was in a full gear. Toriano was the dude that never saw it coming after this video because he was sentenced to jail for shooting the other guy. So when 1991 begins, Treston Irby finally fits in for him. I feel sad about Toriano Easley sentenced to jail at a very early age....whew. Those were the days.
+Eric Stewart Video Soul, Video Vibrations, YSB, Tavis Smiley.... BET used to be a good channel to watch. Now 90% of it, to me, is pure garbage.
Feelin Nice Agree!!!
the rest of them had very tragic circumstances happen too
Luther© I agree with you more.
My mom said this was on MTV too she was 9-10 at the time when this came out
Teddy Riley was making those hits man!!
RIP baby daddy Anthony Ulysses Thompson Jr. My favorite video cause Tony was hilarious with his dancing. Fly high Tony Thompson.
That Funky walk dance lol and the end of the video my fav parts.
Baby daddy? Labanda is that you? ctfu
konnie??
How is you his baby momma girl?
Just a term we use Konnie J. I miss "Dimples" just like you and everyone else. Yeah he was my heart. And we shared some special moments over the years.
Lol, I love the ending of this video.
Besides me and my boys imitating this video with any older lady walking by, this is undoubtedly one of the best dance jams ever made! Peace!
Yo this is incredible
I love Tony's "funky walk"
RIP Tony your soul lives on in 2016
2021 and this song still makes me dance and smile!
Yaasss! I love Hi-five! So glad I was raised in this era! Tony had a beautiful voice my biggest crush back then. Gone too soon.SIP Tony🙏❤ Prayers for the other members as well🙏
Still miss his voice! Can’t stand drugs and what we miss due to them!
Im so happy that i got to experience this era so many memories ❤
The way he said she had that funky walk and did the funky walk at the mid ending😂🤣🤣🤣
I worked @ a grocery store in Chicago in 1990 & I was 16 & this fine older co-worker, use to sing this to me & yes she was fine. This song bring back memories!
This song popped in my head....damn i can't believe it's 27yrs old....1990 was a great year for music and me....Cinco deMayo was off da chain that year.
Now 33 years!!
That funky walk 😂
🔥💃🏼🔥Still here in 2023 ❤️🔥✋🏾❤️🔥
I still jam this song lol. my favorite parts: The beginning, the end, the parts where they're on the bridge, especially 2:30-2:40 lol. When I was 13, I looooved that part Lmao.
OMG this intro is just so incredible, I wish I have known this kind of music , it was so better than nowadays
Can't stop looking at Toriano. He was so fine!!!.
Tony had such a beautiful voice...
He said what am I going to do. Baby call 911
😂😂😂😂
One of the best groups ever.
It's so sad looking at the one guy who ends up in jail and also watching Pooh dance around and smiling so happily knowing his fate😡
I lost it at the End When They Carried Tony Thompson like Martin
Rest in peace Tony loved the sound of this group
They were taking advantage of. .. But they were a blessing.
TIMELESS!!!!!
they are eating tf outta this beat! that bridge is immaculate!!!
Happy 47th Birthday, Tony Thompson ❤
September 2, 1975 -
June 1, 2007
[9-2-2022]
WACO,TEXAS IN THE HOUSE RIP TONY THOMPSON GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BRO.
so who is still listening to this in Sept of 2017 and taken back to when u were young and just chillin?! OMG i miss this music SOOOOO MUCH
sept 2018 im still doing the funky walk
It's a fuckin bop but it's low-key about grooming 😭
that Intro was the most beautiful singing and melody I have ever heard
New Jack Swing Still Handles it in 2017 😂 !! RIP Tony 🙏
Best music ever...90s jam!
Just wish we could've seen the full potential of Hi Five. Were about to be another New Edition.
Yeah The New Edition of the 90s
Should have more views.. instead "young thug" and "21 savage" gets millions of views smh
Real music/Authentic WWE 2k Footage this would've got as much views but back then UA-cam was taking down videos
Aquilah C. Lol this came out before UA-cam
Lmaoo hilarious. Everyone knows that. Your interpreting it wrong.
Exactly and who in the hell thumbs down this song this is real music better than some of this garbage out today i am old school today and always!!!