Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Ill Street Blues [Explicit]
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2018
- From the 1992 single: "Ill Street Blues"
Nathaniel Thomas Wilson (born July 20, 1968), better known by his stage name Kool G Rap (or simply G Rap), is an American rapper from Queens. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew. He is often cited as one of the most influential and skilled MCs of all time and a pioneer of mafioso rap/street/hardcore content and multisyllabic rhyming. On his album The Giancana Story, he stated that the "G" in his name stands for "Giancana" (after the mobster Sam Giancana), but on other occasions he has stated that it stands for "Genius".
He has also been cited as a major influence to some of hip-hop's most critically acclaimed figures such as The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Eminem and Jay-Z, as well as many underground rappers.
Wilson grew up in the poverty-ridden streets of Corona, Queens, New York with legendary producer Eric B. In an interview with The Source he stated.
Growing up in Corona was like a little Harlem, it wasn't that hard for a nigga to be influenced by the street life type of mentality. I was like 15 years old, Ma dukes couldn't dress a nigga no more and at that age you want a little money in your pocket. That's what gets us all, material possessions. A nigga got caught up in that mentality. Nigga started selling drugs at a certain point, and all that shit, it's what was goin' on in the streets ... eventually all my friends got smoked. Everybody was droppin'. All my friends started packing burners everyday, we was wild shorties.
- Kool G Rap, The Source Magazine, issue 72, September, 1995.
Around this time, Wilson was looking for a DJ, and through Eric B., he met DJ Polo, who was looking for an MC to collaborate with.
Juice Crew producer Mr. Magic and DJ Marley Marl allowed Polo and G Rap to go to their studio to record a demo, which resulted in the song "It's a Demo." The song was written and recorded in one night, and had Marley so impressed, that he instantly embraced Kool G Rap and DJ Polo as Juice Crew members/ In 1986 on Mr. Magic's Rap Attack radio show on 107.5, the duo got their first exposure which created more buzz. They eventually released "It's a Demo" as a single with "I'm Fly", along with two more singles. Shortly after this, Kool G Rap appeared on the Juice Crew's classic posse cut "The Symphony" before they released their debut album, Road to the Riches in 1989. This album and their two later albums, Wanted: Dead or Alive (1990) and Live and Let Die (1992), are highly regarded and considered hip-hop classics. Eventually in 1993, Kool G Rap parted ways with DJ Polo in pursuit of a solo career.
In 1995, G Rap started his solo career with the album 4, 5, 6, which featured production from Buckwild, and guest appearances from Nas, MF Grimm and B-1. It has been his most commercially successful record, reaching No.24 on the US Billboard 200 album chart. This was followed by Roots of Evil in 1998. In 1997 G Rap was featured on Frankie Cutlass' "Politic & Bullsht" album track titled "Know Da Game" which also featured Mobb Deep.
He was then meant to release his next album, The Giancana Story in 2000, on Rawkus Records, but due to several complications with the label, the album was pushed back several times, and eventually released in 2002. "My Life" the hit single from the album featuring Talk Box legend G-Wise reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Rap singles charts. He then released a joint album with his group, 5 Family Click, on his own Igloo Ent. label to mild success. In the following years, mixtapes were made and further collaborations continued. There were even rumors of G Rap's signing to both Rocafella and G-Unit Records, and even at one point Maybach Music. In 2007 he released Half a Klip on Chinga Chang Records, featuring production from, among others, DJ Premier and Marley Marl. A full LP was released in 2011, Riches, Royalty, Respect showcasing his true to form style and lyricism. The promise and prospects of collaboration albums were announced later the next year on his own, newly formed label FullMettle.
Kool G Rap is regarded as a hugely influential golden age rapper. Music journalist Peter Shapiro suggests that he "created the blueprint for Nas, Biggie and everyone who followed in their path". Kool G is described by Kool Moe Dee as "the progenitor and prototype for Biggie, Jay-Z, Treach, Nore, Fat Joe, Big Pun, and about twenty-five more hard-core emcees", and Kool Moe Dee also claims Kool G Rap is "the most lyrical" out of all of the artists mentioned. MTV describes Kool G Rap as a "hip-hop godfather", adding that he paved the way for a lot of MCs who we would not have heard of otherwise. Rolling Stone says, "G Rap excelled at the street narrative, a style that would come to define later Queens MCs like Nas (who was hugely influenced by G Rap on his early records) and Mobb Deep".
G rap is your favorite rapper's favorite rapper.
True,my favourite rapper is Styles from the Lox.I think Kool g rap is one of his favourite.
This is a Certified Hood Classic.
I'm 49 years old this year 2018 and I remember when this joint was rocking like crazy in NYC radio stations.
angel ortiz 41 here. Remember the same thing!
What about that Money In The Bank. That track was ill.
cool hot
I am 36 years old living in Bangkok remember this track made my headphones slap me in my face son!!!!
16 currently live in russia
That flow mixed with the story telling is just classic
I'll Street blues 🔥🔥
@@Blacktolite this n brotha on the run is STILL🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤 🔥👑
Pioneer of that shit that of shit. One of the best to ever do it.
True and try STREETS OF NEW YORK.
iLL street blues still 🔥 till this day the good ole days
The GODFATHER OF RAP & LYRICISM LITERALLY!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
30 yrs later, and my head's still bobbin....
And keep bobbing!!! Yeah
I'm year 78 baby!!! When I first heard K.G.R. I was young at the time!! Something about K.G.R was before his time!!! I just want him to be acknowledged as 1 of the best
73 baby
Same here we're lucky we came from a great era of rap!
G Rap lisp makes the flow even more wicked!!!!
I've realised rappers with a lisp have a great flow like method man, gza, necro, daylyt
@@dassolosyndikat5113 AZ 2
Common on his first two albums as well
@@dassolosyndikat5113
Daylyts trash….
A Real Lyricist since way back! *CLASSIC* *LEGEND*
SURE YOU RIGHT.
No doubt
True.
Little Shop of Horrors
At 33 years old now i know why my late great uncle harrell loved G Rap.
Me too
Your great uncle got taste. This is my era
My top 20 is
1. Ice Cube
2. Scarface
3. Black Thought
4. Redman
5. Method Man
6. Nas
7. Big L
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Raekwon
10. 2Pac
11. Kool G Rap
12. KRS-One
13.Rakim
14. Fat Joe
15. Big Pun
16. Busta Rhymes
17. Q-Tip
18. Jay -Z
19. Treach
20. Sticky Fingaz
And I’m 28
@@djcrystalclear420 good list, add Foxy Brown n AZ n this is pretty much my list too give or take
It was a new era in rap...he paved the way for acts like Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep and Nas.
My dad listened to this alla time. Imma miss him till I’m ashes or buried somewhere 😢
Member it like it was yesterday back in "92", G Rap was kicking this jam on the stage at Mahorns in Cherry hill Nj..I was standing right there on stage just a few feet a way watching the crowd go bananas!..it was sick. He killed it! I'm glad to have experienced that once in a life time moment right there watching a Giant Hip Hop Legend in action. Took it all for granted at the time. You know how it is when you're a teenager, you're thinking it's all going to last forever. You don't realize what you had until it's all gone. It was truly a timeless honor to have inhaled that moment seeing Kool G Rap set fire to the stage.
#Mahorns‼️ I used to fly up once a month to Philly just to go party there‼️#WhatATimeToBeAlive
WOW.... THATS HIP HOP....
I seen at SENSATIONS NWK ..NJ...
NO SECURITY BODY GUARDS JUST HIM HIS DJ AND HIS RHYMES..
Beautiful
I was standing right next to them near the entrance when Rick Mahorn met them for the first time, Was surprised how short G Rap and Polo were.
Always went to Dennys down the street right after
Still one of the hardest joints ever.
How is this possible?
I have to agree.
@@joeng4057G Rap was basically the first gangster rapper. He fathered so many styles. Nas said he “wrote the Bible of hip hop”. And Big Pun when he first met G Rap, he kissed his ring. Respect to the true OG.
That track was absolute fire, he demonstrates his range as one of the most ruthless emcees alive
Indeed
vintage rap 🔥🔥🔥❤️
Track still fire!🔥
Perfect usage of the word ruthless
Phaxxx
I’m 45 and this still gets play in my ride! Kool G Rap is a hip hop heavyweight💯💯💪🏾💪🏾
Same here and I’m 47 💯
Legendary music never gets old
@@deathcheater9303 nope.
@@shog4267 I'm a little younger but this era and older is what I listen to most.
@@shog4267 hip hop history...
Kool G is in my top 5 MCs of all time
Only one who came close to Rakim in my opinion.
@@31ctp agreed
That first verse alone gave birth to several entire styles....what a legend 🙇
Big Pun and Treach 💯
True that
Facts
These Artists These Days Are Spitting His Cadence's Acting Like They Invented It
I heard biggie in there
No words. A classic
G-Rap & Slick Rick the Ruler Top Super Story Tellers of all time!!
🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
@@reginaldthomas1838 🎯
The flow, the lyricism, the delivery. All these years later, G Rap is still just fucking dangerous with it. 🔥🔥
One of my favourite songs of all time
7/20/1968 A GENIUS WAS BORN BY THE NAME OF KOOL G RAP. MAN IF HE AINT IN UR TOP FIVE OR TOP THREE EVER I DONT KNOW WHAT TO TELL U. THE DOUBLE AND TRIPLE SYLLABLES IS FANTASTIC. BEEN ROCK N WITH G RAP SINCE 86 ITS A DEMO. A TRUE LEGEND AT ITS FINEST AND TO ME THE BEST TO EVER DO IT. STILL RELEVANT IN 2021. THANX G RAP FOR 35 YEARS OF GREATNESS AND COUNTING. GOD BLESS. 🙏💯☝
still here in 2024 🔥🔥
THEE UNTOUCHABLE - THE GODFATHER - KOOL GENIUS OF RAP
G.Rap was a microphone wizard , one of the greatest story tellers ever ,
That beat is just AWESOME !
Bruno Severs on Friday night radio back in the day, Ron G mixed this song with the Dre day beat
Its. A. Sample. Of Thelonious monk
Large Pro
Tone & Poke killed that beat!...ill sample of "Get out my life woman" from the 60's too
For you to inspire BIG you must be a God of rap!
Kool g rap bodied this so amazingly 👏 🔥 💯
Yes he did.
Best rap track of all time!!!!
"Im hopping you got spring or wings on your shoes" That is pure hardcore
Most underrated rap song in the history of hip hop!!!!
Facts.
True
Major Facts
Incorrect...heads know
@@joeng4057 for sure
G Rap. Your favourite rappers favourite rapper. Certified G
Gotdam this is the hip hop I know..
this is the hip-hop I love.
@@dassolosyndikat5113 My Dad put me on stuff like this
AND ID A GROUP TODAY CAME OUT WITH THIS TYPE RAP, THEY'D KILL IT... RAP TODAY ABSOLUTELY SUCKS AND AN INSULT!!
Juice Crew All-stars!! Oh my goodness!! I'm 57 yrs young & this joint still Bang it out with the kids!!
From da South, Louisiana 9THWARD!!.....Like many of us, caught on late to this fire ass flow. Ole boy was killin everything I heard him rhyme on. Kool G Rap ha!!
That piano.
Just dope!!🔥
He's always been my favorite out of all the legends. I learned how to tell stories from G-Rap. He never got the credit he deserved when people mention legends. G-RAP Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Nas, Krs my top 5
GREAT LIST.💯💯💯💯💯
Real talk, it’s really between him and Ra and that’s it, bars, cadence, wordplay and never once needed to change his flow to rhyme his words, literally a flawless lyricist, Emcee and storyteller G rap absolutely had it all!
If KRS is in your list you know music
Consistent, convincing and strong top 5 list!
Jesus Christ this is still fire 🔥 in 2020 I don’t care what anyone says!
You said it!
It"s G Rap. Lol
St8
I agree
Dope
His style is still hard hitting in near 2021
Flow bars story telling and talent equals TOP 5 G RAP is a legend
A Juice Crew Heavy Weight!!! True Classic!!! And a Goat!!! Boom Bap the best genre of Hip-Hop!!! Ever made!!!
Undoubtedly one of the best hip hop anthems of all time...it still has the ill Street Blues 💥💥💥
How do you feel a about Godfather Don? I think he might be one of the most slept on from that era
@Slic Rick I feel ashamed to say I've never heard of him, but I looked at his sings on UA-cam as I saw your comment and I think it's safe to say I will be listening to his music because it's 🔥
He’s in my top 5 greatest rappers of all time
Top 10 in my favorite M.Cs. 🔥🔥🔥
Classic
Who. .ever. This. Consarn this .is. Shawn..Willis. .,
One of the Greatest rap songs ever written
Top 5 Lyricist for all time
Classic. All 3 albums
The mastery of art in every respect in this track is unbelievable. Timeless masterpiece
true. if u havent heard it already them check out his song "on the run" -- original or remix are both good.
If G Rap not in your top 5, you don't know Hip-Hop
@@adriangrenazi2809 This is like my list but without DMX
@@adriangrenazi2809
1 MF DOOM
2 Nas
3 K Dot
4 eminem
5 Earl
6 Kool G
7 AZ
8 GZA
9 Ghostface
10 Raekwon or Danny Brown
@@adriangrenazi2809 If you like ODB check out Danny Brown if you haven't yet
@@adriangrenazi2809 What's your top five new school?
My favorite rappers
Tupac , Biggie , Eminem , Nas and Kool G rap
NOW THIS IS REAL RAP
I’ll take this over mumbling hip hop any time.
Respect, G Rap's flow is top notch!
2021.. This was the hottest track at one point in Queens.
My top 20 is
1. Ice Cube
2. Scarface
3. Black Thought
4. Redman
5. Method Man
6. Nas
7. Big L
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Raekwon
10. 2Pac
11. Kool G Rap
12. KRS-One
13.Rakim
14. Fat Joe
15. Big Pun
16. Busta Rhymes
17. Q-Tip
18. Jay -Z
19. Treach
20. Sticky Fingaz
I’m 28 years old white guy from Louisiana 😆 I had to add that in
Yo B I'm 50 and G rap is my shit when I go to the gym,my opinion this cat was the hardest lyrically King harder than a Hart attack ,back in those days was a few good crew's,but the juice Crew was the best fo sho..old school hip hop til I die.. ,
Sheesh, G Rap was cold. Give him his flowers. This guy was a lyrical genius.
LOL Kool G Rap is not dead my Man
@@Vinicius-ze3oj this i know brother, what I meant is give him his flowers now before he's gone.
Go listen to g rap "men at work", it's a master piece. ..
Kool g rap is definitely a top tier rapper and this flow is amazing man.
Kool G-Rap the Greatest mob story teller....
G Rap one of my favourite top 5 with Rakim and wow who can realy say , soooo many good MC,'s, at that time!!
Hardcore man, used to goto Peterborough every Saturday to buy my 28.50 yts money on American imports from DJ Mark, great guy always pointed me in right direction, bless u brother
U made me what I am today man!
Still got thousands of vynl from 85 to 2000, never get rid of, love th vynl!!!
I hear this and HEAR BIGGIE style and where it really came frm🥶🥶🥶
I've been waiting for a KOOL G. RAP / SCARFACE/ cd for years. Produced by DJ PREMIER...
2 OF THE BEST STORY TELLERS IN RAP. Man I wish it could happen.
I remember these days no bs, i use to play this song and go out make my come ups back in the day. Ill street blues is real
G Rap was just a heavyweight lyricist
Not to mention, his style and voice was one of the harshest I've ever heard.
Still is actually
Yes! Right up there with Eric B and Keith Murray ( my top 2 favorite MC's back in the day) back then. Their execution and style of rapping was my flavor
Is*****
@@dylanemerson9981 word
One of my favorite rappers since I heard him on Yo MTV Raps as a kid.
G Rap always son🔥👑❤️
GANGSTA..!! 😎💨
Ill Street blues still listens to this song 2018.
2k19 tho
Ahahahaha yo name Toyota corolla 👌
2020
@@DonBienveRosario15 January 27 2020
Undeniable classic
Proud to be from CORONA, QUEENS. 27 years strong and still holding it down
OG?
I'm from the Coronavirus era and still got the ill street blues
This whole album was heat , and this and on the run was the radio joints let that sink in
I think Large and Trackmasters did the beats for this Album
Still a Classic for 2018
And beyond
Kool G Rap was nasty on that mic true champion
The production is so remarkable, so smooth and g rap killing with that flow
THE GREATEST RAPPER OF ALL TIMES!
I was first introduced to KGR was in the 6th grade on a song called "Butcher Shop" from the "Colors" soundtrack back in 88' and I've been a fan ever since!!💯💪🏿
Probably the illest beat Trackmasters ever made.
I'm from Chechen republic, North Caucasus. 31 y.o.
We used to listen to these songs during the war against Russia in the mid 90s
Hip Hop Pioneers
Legendary
Then these kids wonder why we love this so much. If we could go back to these times of hiphop they handled the game so well its nothin we could've changed we would have to leave it.
i remember listening to this as a kid and loving it. this type of rap music raised me
My top 20 is
1. Ice Cube
2. Scarface
3. Black Thought
4. Redman
5. Method Man
6. Nas
7. Big L
8. Ghostface Killah
9. Raekwon
10. 2Pac
11. Kool G Rap
12. KRS-One
13.Rakim
14. Fat Joe
15. Big Pun
16. Busta Rhymes
17. Q-Tip
18. Jay -Z
19. Treach
20. Sticky Fingaz
I’m 28
@@djcrystalclear420 So am I... I'm 28
Aim broke don't fix it
Real Hiphop 💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
The best Ive heard so far!!!! Were the hell have you been all my life?!!💯💯💯🎶🎧
Crystal Cardinal Kool G Rap baby, the best to ever do it!!!
🐐🔥🎤👽👑🛸🚀🐐🔥🎤👽👑🛸🚀🐐🔥🎤👽👑🛸🚀🐐🔥🎤👽👑🛸🚀
A classic through and through
How he is starting a verse is in my opinion just incredible in every Song!
RIDING IN MY CUTLASS SUPREME ME AND HOMIES LISTENING TO THIS SONG HEADING TO SCHOOL IN THE 90' GREAT MEMORIES GOOD OL DAYS!!!!
This my favorite polo and g rap song
On the run just a little better !!!!!
G Rap best ever!
25 yrs old and this is what rap is about my generation sucks so bad, this music speaks the mind of a real hustler
Kool g rap is the pioneer of Hip hop
This song is a masterpiece! Timeless!
Up up up...buck buck buck! Classic!
Classic!!!
I just sent this to my 17-year-old nephew. I'm 48.
I couldn't start mixtape without this beat ,first and foremost...
I’ll be 27 this year , g rap shit sounds so fresh yo just started getting into G rap a few years ago
Facts gibberish not lyricist like cool g
Im 43 this takes me back. One of the best to do it 🎤
Memories NYC 🥃 cheers, 🇵🇷, Brooklyn 💯☝️, never judge a book by its cover real talk 💯
"Word to mother", lol classic.
@Leo Walzim' damn son where you find this'
Definitely one of the sickest flows ever. G Rap is hip hop!
Legendary G"
Number one in the top 5
If I could give this more then one thumbs up I would. Stone cold classic
Hip hop in it's purist form