No argument there, J. I'm a Soulful House music DJ but I was there at the birth of Hip Hop. I also remember the park jams where DJs would plug their equipment up to the nearest lamp post and it WAS ON for the next couple of hours! And what was so cool was that people could drink their beer and wine and smoke their weed and the cops would be there but they'd be off nearby because they were assigned there. But they didn't have to worry about anything because people knew how to act back then. The MCs and the DJs would both battle each other! Back then, it was all about one rapper's rhyme being better than the other rapper's. And the DJs would be battling over who could cut records the best. And there wasn't all that yelling, cursing, dissing each other, calling women BITCHES and HOES, or shooting and stuff! Yes, J. It was definitely a cool time! But all that changed due to two things. One was the song "Don't Push Me" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five and people misinterpreted the song's true meaning. Two, the evolution of Gangster Rap on the West Coast trying to keep up and outdo the East Coast. The true message of Hip Hop has long been lost. And BTW, I knew Scott LaRock and played ball against him shortly before he was killed.
Bro I definitely agree that line is cool blooded. It also touched my soul as well because I grew up in a household that was pretty poor and I can identify with a lot of what you said. I remember hearing this song when I was a young teenage boy it was an amazing song Back Then and it still is now
I grew up to this too and it had a big impact on me in my youth. The message never stopped applying to any given time period or generation. The lyrics, music, video are so well made and meaningful it's astonishing the amount of bs BDP/KRS1 had to deal with at the time, including a push to have him, "banned," or censorship by racism as I call it.
It will never get old as long as we have ignorance in or communities.. We talk, walk, and scream about police reform.... But, we're killing each other at over a 1,500% higher rate! All those black faces are forgotten about if they weren't killed by a badge.
Agree especially in middle school because kids need poetry because they are not reading on grade level in Alabama. I write poetry and work with kids and my son is almost thirteen and I can reach kids with poetry. Behavior in school would change.
Now days they glamourize the streets. When we were coming up they warned us about the streets through hip hop songs like this. Krs one is a hip hop legend!!!!!!!!!
That’s it right there! Artists back then used their stories of the streets as a means for a new life with a message of admire me because I am escaping ! Whereas the “artists” today, wannabes mostly, want adoration for seeking out the “Thug Life”. It’s an insult to the struggle.
IT’S GOOD VERSUS EVIL. CHOOSE GODLINESS. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. MELANATED PEOPLE… DO BETTER! STOP MAKING EXCUSES WITH THE LAST PLACE MENTALITY! GOD IS LOVE! ONLY GOD WILL PREVAIL 💪🏽🙏🏽☮️
@@davidcarlisle1667 IT’S GOOD VERSUS EVIL. CHOOSE GODLINESS. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. MELANATED PEOPLE… DO BETTER! STOP MAKING EXCUSES WITH THE LAST PLACE MENTALITY! GOD IS LOVE! ONLY GOD WILL PREVAIL 💪🏽🙏🏽☮️
At the ultimate height of the dope selling era... this song encapsulates that period in time perfectly!!! (People still sell dope yes, but this song was from a time where things in the inner city across the nation were at there worst IMO!)
It wasn’t the worst time, it was the best! Street Money was insane back then. Nowadays these kids are taking too much of a chance and aren’t making any money! We took chances too back then, the streets were a lot more dangerous back then. But the reward was the boat loads of paper. I’m not condoning it, and I advise todays youth to stay in school and get an education! It was a time in my history.
@@thebrooklyndon Are you saying that the emergence of the crack epidemic in the black community wasn't the worst time? That era did incomprehensible damage to the black community that echoed far into modern time. Think about the bs laws that came to be during this time. (I'm speaking from experience btw)
OK, YALL!! WHY have I listened to this Track THOUSANDS OF TIMES, but today; it hit me in my SOUL!!(?)!!! Said it once & I’ll say it again; still too relatable in this day & time.
I miss Yo! MTV Raps because it opened my eyes - and ears - to songs like this. Late 80's and early 90's Hip-Hop is like a full volume of encyclopedias about life, love, and everything in between!
I started getting into car audio around the time this was out, someone turned me on to this so I could check how my bass sounded. At the time I didn't know much about this song because I was a Rock & Metal guy, I seriously couldn't believe how hard this knocked, it felt like someone was kicking the back of my seat, this had so much bass. It probably rattled every screw in my car loose.
One of my neighbors Joe had a 1986 Nissan Hardbody with a camper on it with four 12s tucked inside, he was only running a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 but that mf would knock pictures off the wall when he came through the neighborhood. My parents HATED that mini truck!😂😂😂😂
@@JaysRandomnessChannel I probably had the same subwoofers, I can't remember the model number. I remember the amp that was hooked up to them, it was an early 90s Kenwood 1021, I think it might of been a USA made. The subs were hooked up in a method called isobaric, two subs facing up and the other two facing down connected to each other, reverse wired that resulted in some very violent bass. This was installed in a 93 Camaro Z28, those at the time were hatchbacks. I remember if someone lit a Bic lighter inside the car with the windows up with the radio was on, the air or vibration would literally blow the lighter out. I've had several systems in different configurations since then but nothing has come close. ✌️
@@deancoronado4898 off the top of my head, it doesn't ring a bell. I'll check it out and get back to you, I do remember Digital Underground. The singer wore those glasses with the nose piece?
No way, I have such a similar memory, getting in the back of the older lads car as a youngen, them playing this tune with a sub in the back. A coming of age
i was a teenager through the 80s and i was born and raised in the Bronx and saw the rise of BDP and the whole hip hop movement! While watching Luke Cage i got a tear in my eye... for many reasons... because I remembered the movement and all the ways times me and my friends contributed to it.... because KRS ONE is one of my favorites of all time! .... and of how GREAT and important real hip hop was because songs like this one told the story of what it was like growing up in the projects in NYC and really for any kid in "any where hood/ghetto" USA where the odds were stacked against them. As i watched krs perform, it brought back all those memories.... of the song itself, the artist, the message, the whole movement...but most importantly the constant struggle and fight to survive and or get out and be better!... and i did (as many people in my generation did) get out and today decades later, my life is much better, I'm much stronger. Its hard for people who didn't live through all this and during this time to understand it all... and if could go back in time... i wouldn't change a thing!
+KM Zoilus Damn big respect. I always had love for NY & the hiphop scene. My brother brought me into hiphop when I was 7 years old he was 13. He'd buy 12" vynil albums in the 80's. We'd stop in this record store back in 1987 similar to that record store Q & , Bishop(2pac) went in on the movie juice. He eventually bought the whole 80's hiphop collection on wax. I remember he bought the Paid n Full album in 86. Epmd, Boogie Down Productions, Biz Markie , Dana Dane, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, NWA when it came out. Kool G Rap & Dj Polo, Kool mo Dee, LL Cool J, Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, he had Damn near everything on wax. I still got the Biz Markie album the only one remaing album from his original collection.When he went to college someone stole the whole collection I was devastated. He remained a true hiphop fan put a album out in the 90's with his crew. He introduced me to Nas in 1994 no one knew who he was. He handed me a cassette single with a black cover with the words Nas in red on the cover. I was like who the hell is Nas? He responded & said dude is nice. The track was Ain't hard to tell. Not long after illmatic dropped then everyone discovered him. He showed me what real hiphop was really about. When he wrote rhymes he idloized Rakim & even copied his sound when he was recording. He showed me the right way. I got off into the westcoast gangsta movement in the mid 90's but never forgot my roots of what hiphop really was. Your story is jewels & artifacts. I'm not from NY but hiphop's rhymes took me there & showed me the projects & streets of NY like real hiphop used used to do. Not real not too many people are able to be from Bronx or Queens & was apart of the hiphop movement in NY. It's still some of yall out there but it's rare. That's some legendary shit I salute it.
I had the good fortune of being at a smokeout in Tompkins Square Park when he debuted this song. Great memories. I was probably 15 surrounded by Rast as and herb, and tried to get with a French college girl.
KM Zoilus FACTS!! BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH BROOKLYN REDHOOK PROJECTS EAST. I GREW UP IN THE LATE 70'S AND 80'S. I'M A BROOKLYNITE TO THE HEART. BUT YO I CAN'T MY FAVORITE EMCEE WILL ALWAYS BE KRS ONE. AND OF COURSE RAKIM ALLAH,BIG DADDY KANE,MASTA ACE,GZA AND M.O.P!! I'M JUST A HIP HOP HEAD TO THE CORE. WE NEED TO BRING THE REAL HIP HOP BACK!!!! ENOUGH WITH ALL OF THE BUBBLE GUM MAINSTREAM NONSENSE.
I'm So Proud of You! I was also born and raised in a ghetto during the mid and late 1980s and early 1990s! I also came out stronger! I also wouldn't change a thing, even if I could go back in time!
Me and my friends used to try to finish the story after KRS 1 crew got shot up by the police with our own version of the story.. A bunch of 5th graders writing raps about how we save KRS 1 from the police, then became his New Crew.. GREAT POST !! THX FOR SHARING THIS CLASSIC..!
@Brick Face :: No recordings were made of our school house raps. :( KRS1 inspired a lot of people through his music. Im glad to have been a witness of REAL HIP HOP culture. Thank you for your reply
@Raphael Joseph Oh wow.. I really don't remember how the song went that we made up.. We spent most of our time going back and forth between Young MC Bust a Move and Love Gonna Get cha. Nothing was ever set in stone. THX for hype-n me up to think I could be a rapper again though..lol.. Have a GREAT day
This song is so under appreciated. It’s among my top 5 all time favorite hip hop songs . I googled the greatest story telling rap songs and looked at 3 or 4 list and not one of them included this song. One of them list 50 songs and didn’t include this! Blasphemy!
I are so right this is the this is what got everyone doing what they doing now this was the start 😁 please keep listening friend we have moments 🙏 💙 ❤️ music for are fantastic friend and fantastic fans so we think yall for listening and playing are beautiful memories music 😁
@@quinejohn No doubt. Shoutout to the all the crews & posse's from the 1980's era. Yellow top crew Purple top Crew, NFL, The Supreme Team. All the get money crews. Shoutout to Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Dj Red Alert, Grandmaster Caz, Paid n Full posse, Juice Crew, Boogie Down, Productions , Run Dmc. The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Statan Island, Harlem ,Manhattan The whole hiphop 90's era NY is legendary.
I love seeing KRS on verzuz, this is one of my favorites from him. I always laugh when I see Heather B, aka the Happy Hour, She can flow. RIP Ms Melody 💔
I'm from Texas & was a teenager when this song was released. I remember hearing this before Geto Boys or NWA took over. This song actually glorified the gangsta dope dealing mentality of the era but the 1st to also include the consequences of that lifestyle & the 🎵 was BEATING LIKE A MF. Salute to KRS for a real message. Still BEATING in 2024.
Actually puts tears in my eyes bringing me back in time where we rolled with force like KRS said. And at barely 46 years old the friends that I have lost is sometimes unbelievable. KRS One is the king of the hip scene 🙌. Thank you for bringing me back to a time when my best friends Roy and Ray my brothers really were still alive.
Back when rap had a real message
Fho Sho
Real Talk Bro
That whole album needs to be in the library of Congress.
Exactly!!!
FACTS!!!
💯💯💯
@@underdrifter 1
I doubt 🙌
That message is still relevant today.
RIP Miss Melody
KRS doesn't get the props he deserves as an elite storyteller.
Ice Cube put him in his top 5.
KRS -One remains #1 to me
"I never won a Grammy, I won't win a Tony"
@King Kami just going to say that patna
Doesn't get his props? Where do you think 'The Teacha' name comes from?
R.I.P. Ms Melodie. 🎵🎶🎼🕊️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
❤❤❤ 🙏
🕯️
We need this style of rap back
It never left, most just chose to listen to the music pushed by the system over independent artists.
People just dont know. This is it. This is it
Greatest rap story telling ever.
One of the greatest and hardest hip hop songs ever !!!!!!!!’
Timeless classic
You have no idea what onyx did!?
marcellus wallace ?
It’s up there💪🏿💪🏿
The way he puts a story together and you can just visualize what he saying it's so dope that's why he's one of my top five Lyricist ever
Now there's steak with the beans & Rice (The come up 🤘)
Hip hop biblical lesson. A bronx anthem on a hot summer night
This should be mandatory listening material for our young ones. This is true hip hop and creativity at it's finest.
My mom showed me this from whenever I could remember when I have kids I'll be sure to make sure this song is heard by all the generations
fax
No argument there, J. I'm a Soulful House music DJ but I was there at the birth of Hip Hop. I also remember the park jams where DJs would plug their equipment up to the nearest lamp post and it WAS ON for the next couple of hours! And what was so cool was that people could drink their beer and wine and smoke their weed and the cops would be there but they'd be off nearby because they were assigned there. But they didn't have to worry about anything because people knew how to act back then. The MCs and the DJs would both battle each other! Back then, it was all about one rapper's rhyme being better than the other rapper's. And the DJs would be battling over who could cut records the best. And there wasn't all that yelling, cursing, dissing each other, calling women BITCHES and HOES, or shooting and stuff!
Yes, J. It was definitely a cool time! But all that changed due to two things. One was the song "Don't Push Me" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five and people misinterpreted the song's true meaning. Two, the evolution of Gangster Rap on the West Coast trying to keep up and outdo the East Coast. The true message of Hip Hop has long been lost.
And BTW, I knew Scott LaRock and played ball against him shortly before he was killed.
I’m a jit and this is fire 🔥
Real talk. Let us move on
Miss Melody carried herself like a real lady. RIP Miss Melody.
Frfr
Yes for sure
She was SO YOUNG here, but I thought of her as being a good 5-10 years older. Not because she looked old, but because she carried herself like that.
❤❤❤❤
My Big sister
Not 20 years old when this dropped.... Still relevant, im 52 now 👊🏿
Me too bro
Werd... OLDHIPHEADS ... good 2 c we are still around... H.S 92 I always banged it 😁😎🙃
Greatness from our days! 51 myself
we're the exact same age
@@masteraether4789 I'm class of 89
“ I do it once I do it twice. Now there’s steak with the beans n rice” That line was so cold it touched my soul. KRS killed this song 🎧 🎶 🔥
Bro I definitely agree that line is cool blooded. It also touched my soul as well because I grew up in a household that was pretty poor and I can identify with a lot of what you said. I remember hearing this song when I was a young teenage boy it was an amazing song Back Then and it still is now
Right now it's steaks with the beans rice lived it whatever
Yeah I feel it bro. 80s. Hip hop master. Boogie down productions
I still say that line till this “Now it’s steak with the he beans and rice 2023”
I no right 😁
This is what real hip hop is.
Knowledge reigns Supreme over nearly everyone.
Growing up to this, you don't realize at the time, how positive the music was until you compare it to what's out now.
Leo Claiborne Facts
If u told me in the 90s "wap", that lil nas x record, and "throat baby" are some of the most popular "rap" songs in 2021, I say you bugging out.
@@alexhayes7853 we paid...ha a ha ha ha
@Jmatac999 you only ever care about money 💲💲 💲 when you don't have any...
I grew up to this too and it had a big impact on me in my youth. The message never stopped applying to any given time period or generation.
The lyrics, music, video are so well made and meaningful it's astonishing the amount of bs BDP/KRS1 had to deal with at the time, including a push to have him, "banned," or censorship by racism as I call it.
The art of storytelling=this song
Rish
This song and Slick Rick Children Story two of the best storytelling
Moment i feared is way better than this or that
Yes!!!
@@pvargasjr omg yes!!! 🔥🔥🔥
A CAUTIONARY TALE!!!!!!!!!😮😮😮
I’m so glad I grew up in this era of hip hop 👌🏽❤️
❤
Me to thinks for supporting are new Hollywood industry members. 😁
REAL HIP HOP....
I cant even see how mumble and autotune garbage sells.
Grateful that I was 12 when this song dropped.
🍺⚡️🍺
Dois mo Brothrer
He was and still is one of the best rappers/storytellers
Ghostface Killah
Slick Rick
Redman (Soopaman Luva collection)
Notorious B.I.G.
Kool G Rap
KRS ONE
KRS ONE is the UNDISPUTED GOAT...
Fact's!
2:17 to 2:27 One of the hardest lines in Hip Hop history.
ONE MOST POWERFUL SONGS IN HIP HOP HISTORY!!!
It's the best rap song ever period
this along with stop the violence 🔥
To bad the younger, or yungins don't understand this classic!
Im a 42 year old Atlion. This song was my intro to real rap. I remember the bass line caught my attention and has held it ever since.
The hardest song out the East.
This one song will destroy 95% of so called rappers these days...
LIL TY G Hear dat!
LIL TY G NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH THESE RAPPERS ARE HOT 🥵 DOOKY 💩 GARBAGE 🗑
💯🤺🏋🏿♂️
Today's Mumble rap is straight Tampax pads and garbage
curious as to learn who the blessed 5% are that can produce a track even remotely as relevant as this one, maybe Joyner Lucas, or Cole?
Today is when I understood this song!
Now theirs steak with the beans and rice.. hardest verse ever!!
that and '....business is boomin and everything is cool/ i pull about a G a week....fuk school!' LOL
*there's*
With 1 1/2 pair of pants you ain't cool!
@@mikerooney7600 But theirs no dollars for nothing else i got beans rice and bread on my shelf
💯💯💯💯
A man before his time, this applies so much TODAY.
Knowledge Reigns Supreme.
THIS SONG WILL ALWAYS BE RELEVANT TO THE STREETS!
The first trap song
My streets
True 👍 please keep listening to are beautiful memories music thinks and watching friend are video 📹 ❤️ 😁
This song is dedicated to his brother not biological but brothers none the less R.I.P. DJ Scott La Rock
No one could tell a better story and yet drop a hard beat to make the message clear!
This song has to be ARCHIVED in Washington DC
Please bring this style out of retirement. We need it more than ever
Who from this Era is still alive today? If you from this Era and reading this, Congratulations. You made it to 2023.
🦾🎤
Still here fam. 1977 was my arrival date! 🫡
2024
2024
I came to Earth in 1972. This song was legendary.
THIS SONG WAS A STROKE OF PURE GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still relevant today.
FuQuanAli HIP HOP🙌🏾
That’s the power of Great music. TIMELESS !!!
It will never get old as long as we have ignorance in or communities.. We talk, walk, and scream about police reform.... But, we're killing each other at over a 1,500% higher rate! All those black faces are forgotten about if they weren't killed by a badge.
@@JNigelReese669 1500 percent higher rate than what?
That beat was ahead of it’s time! Krs such a superb storyteller
"Got myself a Uzi and my brother a 9!" Man I don't know how many times I've heard rappers use this KRS-1 line (get it ;))
I first heard it in 93 with The Chronic.
*The Day The Niggaz Took Over from Dre's Chronic album sampled it.*
Krs1 is telling the truth this is what happens when you live that life 🙏
This man maybe one of top two most valuable social analyst and public speakers in the past 40 yrs.
Wow! I remember watching this video all the time on Video music box. If you grew up in NYC in the mid 80’s, you know what I’m talkin about 😂❤
4:30pm weekday afternoon.. old school monday’s, nervous thursdays. 😂😂
I’ll be 50 next month and I still listen to KRS. We need to pass this educational hip hop to this current generation!!! He a legend!!!
Happy Belated 50th!!🎉
Agree especially in middle school because kids need poetry because they are not reading on grade level in Alabama. I write poetry and work with kids and my son is almost thirteen and I can reach kids with poetry. Behavior in school would change.
Could be in the argument as the best rap song of all time .
Legendary ✊🏾
Definitely
My vote
WORD...
Definitely defines real Hip hop
Only in his 20s still too. KRS had already done a lot of living by then.
Now days they glamourize the streets. When we were coming up they warned us about the streets through hip hop songs like this. Krs one is a hip hop legend!!!!!!!!!
That’s it right there! Artists back then used their stories of the streets as a means for a new life with a message of admire me because I am escaping ! Whereas the “artists” today, wannabes mostly, want adoration for seeking out the “Thug Life”. It’s an insult to the struggle.
IT’S GOOD VERSUS EVIL. CHOOSE GODLINESS. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. MELANATED PEOPLE… DO BETTER! STOP MAKING EXCUSES WITH THE LAST PLACE MENTALITY! GOD IS LOVE! ONLY GOD WILL PREVAIL 💪🏽🙏🏽☮️
@@davidcarlisle1667 IT’S GOOD VERSUS EVIL. CHOOSE GODLINESS. NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. MELANATED PEOPLE… DO BETTER! STOP MAKING EXCUSES WITH THE LAST PLACE MENTALITY! GOD IS LOVE! ONLY GOD WILL PREVAIL 💪🏽🙏🏽☮️
This was so ahead of it’s time especially after that video of that sucka Jim Jones crying in Gucci
"My mother's nervous but she knows the deal." Hard!
😂😂😂 4Real
The art of story telling!! Real Hip Hop you young punks
Not punks!!! Just CORNY YOUNGLINGS🤣🤣🤣
Listen to Sing About Me I'm Dying Of Thirst and see who's a punk lol
@@prod.icemarisso Exactly lol
This is the real deal for the youngsters, who have not a clue of this game
This is probably my favorite of of BDP.
Classic storytelling.
I have a whole rotation of favorite BDP jams tbh🔊🎶🤌
This generation will never understand how DOPE the 90's were. ✌🏾😎
❤❤❤
🙌💯
ACTUALLY THE 80 S WAS THE BEST
THAN THE 90S
I was born in the 2000s so I have a basic understanding of hip hop
Young folks needs to hear this classic cut. The risk of selling drugs and getting fast money can be deadly
One of the most under appreciated songs in Hip-Hop. A masterpiece.
At the ultimate height of the dope selling era... this song encapsulates that period in time perfectly!!! (People still sell dope yes, but this song was from a time where things in the inner city across the nation were at there worst IMO!)
I wish that was the case. It's far worse now because kids today have zero respect for anything.
@@dudasd They said the same thing about kids from the 80’s. And the 70’s. And the 60’s. And the 50’s. And the 40’s.
It wasn’t the worst time, it was the best! Street Money was insane back then. Nowadays these kids are taking too much of a chance and aren’t making any money! We took chances too back then, the streets were a lot more dangerous back then. But the reward was the boat loads of paper. I’m not condoning it, and I advise todays youth to stay in school and get an education! It was a time in my history.
@@thebrooklyndon Are you saying that the emergence of the crack epidemic in the black community wasn't the worst time? That era did incomprehensible damage to the black community that echoed far into modern time. Think about the bs laws that came to be during this time. (I'm speaking from experience btw)
Youngsters take note on what real hip hop sounds like
OK, YALL!! WHY have I listened to this Track THOUSANDS OF TIMES, but today; it hit me in my SOUL!!(?)!!! Said it once & I’ll say it again; still too relatable in this day & time.
Give this man is flowers now ! Like his flow storytelling is mind blowing
fax
Check out his theme music for I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!
I miss Yo! MTV Raps because it opened my eyes - and ears - to songs like this. Late 80's and early 90's Hip-Hop is like a full volume of encyclopedias about life, love, and everything in between!
Such a banging beat, and a serious lesson lyrically portrayed ✊🏿
Sample is from Pat Metheny's Spring Ain't Here. The sample is at 0:34-0:37. ua-cam.com/video/rCIasa6kO00/v-deo.htmlsi=Z6-YbGE8wBOTArBJ&t=34
Music with a message
Rasheed Bey hello beautiful lady
I started getting into car audio around the time this was out, someone turned me on to this so I could check how my bass sounded. At the time I didn't know much about this song because I was a Rock & Metal guy, I seriously couldn't believe how hard this knocked, it felt like someone was kicking the back of my seat, this had so much bass. It probably rattled every screw in my car loose.
One of my neighbors Joe had a 1986 Nissan Hardbody with a camper on it with four 12s tucked inside, he was only running a Rockford Fosgate Punch 150 but that mf would knock pictures off the wall when he came through the neighborhood. My parents HATED that mini truck!😂😂😂😂
@@JaysRandomnessChannel I probably had the same subwoofers, I can't remember the model number. I remember the amp that was hooked up to them, it was an early 90s Kenwood 1021, I think it might of been a USA made. The subs were hooked up in a method called isobaric, two subs facing up and the other two facing down connected to each other, reverse wired that resulted in some very violent bass. This was installed in a 93 Camaro Z28, those at the time were hatchbacks. I remember if someone lit a Bic lighter inside the car with the windows up with the radio was on, the air or vibration would literally blow the lighter out. I've had several systems in different configurations since then but nothing has come close. ✌️
You ever hear Digital Underground's "Freaks of Da Industry"...? That is right up there with this BDP track.
@@deancoronado4898 off the top of my head, it doesn't ring a bell. I'll check it out and get back to you, I do remember Digital Underground. The singer wore those glasses with the nose piece?
No way, I have such a similar memory, getting in the back of the older lads car as a youngen, them playing this tune with a sub in the back. A coming of age
Definitely the GOAT .
i was a teenager through the 80s and i was born and raised in the Bronx and saw the rise of BDP and the whole hip hop movement! While watching Luke Cage i got a tear in my eye... for many reasons... because I remembered the movement and all the ways times me and my friends contributed to it.... because KRS ONE is one of my favorites of all time! .... and of how GREAT and important real hip hop was because songs like this one told the story of what it was like growing up in the projects in NYC and really for any kid in "any where hood/ghetto" USA where the odds were stacked against them. As i watched krs perform, it brought back all those memories.... of the song itself, the artist, the message, the whole movement...but most importantly the constant struggle and fight to survive and or get out and be better!... and i did (as many people in my generation did) get out and today decades later, my life is much better, I'm much stronger. Its hard for people who didn't live through all this and during this time to understand it all... and if could go back in time... i wouldn't change a thing!
+KM Zoilus Damn big respect. I always had love for NY & the hiphop scene. My brother brought me into hiphop when I was 7 years old he was 13. He'd buy 12" vynil albums in the 80's. We'd stop in this record store back in 1987 similar to that record store Q & , Bishop(2pac) went in on the movie juice. He eventually bought the whole 80's hiphop collection on wax. I remember he bought the Paid n Full album in 86. Epmd, Boogie Down Productions, Biz Markie , Dana Dane, Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, NWA when it came out. Kool G Rap & Dj Polo, Kool mo Dee, LL Cool J, Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, he had Damn near everything on wax. I still got the Biz Markie album the only one remaing album from his original collection.When he went to college someone stole the whole collection I was devastated. He remained a true hiphop fan put a album out in the 90's with his crew. He introduced me to Nas in 1994 no one knew who he was. He handed me a cassette single with a black cover with the words Nas in red on the cover. I was like who the hell is Nas? He responded & said dude is nice. The track was Ain't hard to tell. Not long after illmatic dropped then everyone discovered him. He showed me what real hiphop was really about. When he wrote rhymes he idloized Rakim & even copied his sound when he was recording. He showed me the right way. I got off into the westcoast gangsta movement in the mid 90's but never forgot my roots of what hiphop really was. Your story is jewels & artifacts. I'm not from NY but hiphop's rhymes took me there & showed me the projects & streets of NY like real hiphop used used to do. Not real not too many people are able to be from Bronx or Queens & was apart of the hiphop movement in NY. It's still some of yall out there but it's rare. That's some legendary shit I salute it.
I had the good fortune of being at a smokeout in Tompkins Square Park when he debuted this song. Great memories. I was probably 15 surrounded by Rast as and herb, and tried to get with a French college girl.
KM Zoilus FACTS!! BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH BROOKLYN REDHOOK PROJECTS EAST. I GREW UP IN THE LATE 70'S AND 80'S. I'M A BROOKLYNITE TO THE HEART.
BUT YO I CAN'T MY FAVORITE EMCEE WILL ALWAYS BE KRS ONE. AND OF COURSE RAKIM ALLAH,BIG DADDY KANE,MASTA ACE,GZA AND M.O.P!! I'M JUST A HIP HOP HEAD TO THE CORE. WE NEED TO BRING THE REAL HIP HOP BACK!!!! ENOUGH WITH ALL OF THE BUBBLE GUM MAINSTREAM NONSENSE.
Thanks
I'm So Proud of You! I was also born and raised in a ghetto during the mid and late 1980s and early 1990s! I also came out stronger! I also wouldn't change a thing, even if I could go back in time!
Heather B and Miss Melodie!
Angineda Dentis Heather B looks good.
RIP me melody
Never knew that was Heather B til now....all these years later.
Yeah Heather B. She did MTV the real world after the BDP thing.
I never realized that was HB
White dude from Utah here. I own this cassette. BDP. I miss this kind of music. 😎
Me and my friends used to try to finish the story after KRS 1 crew got shot up by the police with our own version of the story.. A bunch of 5th graders writing raps about how we save KRS 1 from the police, then became his New Crew.. GREAT POST !! THX FOR SHARING THIS CLASSIC..!
Benn Dickerson: do you have it recorded?
@Brick Face :: No recordings were made of our school house raps. :( KRS1 inspired a lot of people through his music. Im glad to have been a witness of REAL HIP HOP culture. Thank you for your reply
Benn Dickerson that was a long time ago... You think you could post the/your lyrics?
Benn Dickerson I wanna see that I can't lie lol
@Raphael Joseph Oh wow.. I really don't remember how the song went that we made up.. We spent most of our time going back and forth between Young MC Bust a Move and Love Gonna Get cha. Nothing was ever set in stone. THX for hype-n me up to think I could be a rapper again though..lol.. Have a GREAT day
Discovered this gem yesterday and today in school it was still playing in my head every class.... KRS deserves more props
Dont worry , He got lotsa props back in the day .
His record sales didn’t justify how good he was
KRS1...those who know hip hop...Dope...respect 💐
I'm 27 yrs old I ❤ this song real rap
Songs never gets old.. ❤
This song is so under appreciated. It’s among my top 5 all time favorite hip hop songs . I googled the greatest story telling rap songs and looked at 3 or 4 list and not one of them included this song. One of them list 50 songs and didn’t include this! Blasphemy!
I love this song bro. This when rap had a meaning! Bullshit now with no meaning. But who am I.
This, The Message, Children's Story are mandatory story telling rap songs
I are so right this is the this is what got everyone doing what they doing now this was the start 😁 please keep listening friend we have moments 🙏 💙 ❤️ music for are fantastic friend and fantastic fans so we think yall for listening and playing are beautiful memories music 😁
This song is timeless cuz it's message will always be relevant
That beat bumped hard
Knocking 🔊🎶
Deweun Wood That was meant to played in the ride with two 15 inch woofers in the trunk!
Still does, fabric of part of my soul.
Yup, the first pair of 12's I ever had in my trunk, this knocked hard AF
Check out handle the vibe by bone thugs.
so damn dope
Unreal. These young kids wouldn’t even appreciate this dude. Underrated af.
Right 😢
Yea but this allday wisdom is annoying.
"This is Edutainment!"
Something that we're sorely lacking in these days.
My favourite song of all time...
Rest in peace Miss Melody
when did she pass?
@@Mikegog2460 couple years ago 🙏
I remember this era like it was yesterday. KRS no need to explain.
That icon/avatar you got ERIC B FOR PRESIDENT had the hood goin CRAZY too. That's all you heard bumpin out if them BMs and 190Es and SAABs.
@@quinejohn No doubt. Shoutout to the all the crews & posse's from the 1980's era. Yellow top crew Purple top Crew, NFL, The Supreme Team. All the get money crews. Shoutout to Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, Dj Red Alert, Grandmaster Caz, Paid n Full posse, Juice Crew, Boogie Down, Productions , Run Dmc. The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Statan Island, Harlem ,Manhattan The whole hiphop 90's era NY is legendary.
This song is still relevant to this day. The 808 is boomin'
a black man's life in four minutes no cap 🧢💯💪
I love seeing KRS on verzuz, this is one of my favorites from him. I always laugh when I see Heather B, aka the Happy Hour, She can flow. RIP Ms Melody 💔
Krs always giving wisdom
One of the most influential Hip-Hop songs of all time. Boogie Down is the foundation of the genre.
There’s one creator, the only dominator that plant the seed and create hip hop, Herbie Hancock!!
@@2fast4u2win9😂😂😂
crazy how after all this time the song still bumpin
Good music is timeless
@@robbybrown2313 for real!
the vibes from the bass touch the soul from the 90s hiphop beats that's why it's my favorite
Yessss...BANGING
I'm from Texas & was a teenager when this song was released. I remember hearing this before Geto Boys or NWA took over. This song actually glorified the gangsta dope dealing mentality of the era but the 1st to also include the consequences of that lifestyle & the 🎵 was BEATING LIKE A MF. Salute to KRS for a real message. Still BEATING in 2024.
Real Hip hop..not that B.S on the radio 📻
The Teacher,teaching. Absolute ' Banger' The essence of real HipHop. Good storyline,great samples & a message. Done.
Remember when this first came on da radio in Cali 1580 KDAY radio station 🤣😛 Good ole days ...RIP Ms. Melodie 🙏
KRS-One da Teacher blessed this track!
This is one of the greatest songs in hip hop
Real music with a message
💯💯
I'm a Westside rider but boogie down krs 1 got down on this beat.much love to real hip hop
One of the greatest rap tracks of all-time
This should have way more views ,this man plays into the lineage of story real stories
Agreed. This needs to be required listening for the young ones.
Classic!!! These young kids need to listen to it!!
Actually puts tears in my eyes bringing me back in time where we rolled with force like KRS said. And at barely 46 years old the friends that I have lost is sometimes unbelievable. KRS One is the king of the hip scene 🙌. Thank you for bringing me back to a time when my best friends Roy and Ray my brothers really were still alive.