New Jack City is a criminally underrated movie...it gets lumped in with "hood" movies but it was something different...STILL watchable from start to finish 30+ years later...
Idk about underrated, but it's a classic for sure. Feel like it's a pretty well-known and a loved movie, at least with millennials and gen x. Might be underrated when it comes to the younger generations, though. But the scene where nino grabs the kid and uses them as a human shield lives in my head rent free to this day, lol. Nino Brown is one of the best villains I've ever seen in a movie. Wesley killed it. And Chris Rock, as pookie, was great too (I'm so tired I typed Chris Brown at first, lol 🤦🏻♂️)
I always admire how Ice articulates his experiences and his perspective. Never pushy, listens and is in tune. Doesn't tap dance around the convo. Respect.
Exactly! As I said, his opinion is the “most” accurate. My opinion is the same as his, along with millions of others, Which is the most accurate? So, YES HE DID! if you think differently, that’s your prerogative. No one’s going to have 100% answer to how Hip-Hop Got started. This is why It’s called an open discussion
Ice-T is a cultural icon, Historian, multi-faceted & talented artist! I respect all that he has done & just love listening to his stories & commentaries. Man's a legit hip-hop LEGEND!! 🤔
Nino, ate a bullet center of the chest, and proceeded to fall like 3 stories onto a marble floor!...that's one RESILIENT dope dealer if he survived that!😂
Thank you, Ice T, for educating all who may not understand the history of Hip Hop. Chuck D is also a great teacher. He can give great lessons to all who want to learn about the history of the Hip Hop Culture. Great interview
Man love this brutha ICE T ✊🏾 True “LEGEND” of the Hip-hop era and excellent visionary and storyteller of our Hip-hop world 🌍 community, he continues to contribute giving forth a history lesson and knowledge on the birth of Hip-hop and the founding artists whom helped to shape Hip-hop music.
Fun Fact: New Jack City was loosely based off of The Chambers Brothers (CMB) that was based out of Detroit, but they was really from Arkansas if I'm not mistaken. It was an apartment building in Detroit back in the 80s that one of the older brothers used to run similarly like the Carter in New Jack City.
In Jamaica, back in the 70's there were artist like Trinity, U Roy & Jah Stitch that were "toasting" or ryhming over Jamaica rocksteady dubs or instrumental tracks, this was the start of rapping & the famous "beef" tracks also from Jamaica. The studio producer were using recording equipment as an instrument to create big huge bass or sound effects with the sound board. Reggae from Jamacia forever changed music across the world. Kool Herc had the head start being from Jamaica.
How could that be the start of "rapping" when you had Pigmeat Markham drop "Here Comes The Judge" in 1968. He dropped "Who Got The Number" in 1969....where you hear him actually trading bars with another artist on the record. The term "toasting" itself comes from the US. The Jamaica origin sounds like a cool story but its just not what actually happened in Hip Hop. Herc wasn't even the one to introduce rap to the NY emcees. That came from DJ Hollywood, who was a Disco DJ and part of a different scene. Herc introduced the "merry go round" technique that Ice T mentioned in the video, but he actually got the inspiration for that from a NY DJ named John Brown, not Jamaica. All of this has been well documented so I get confused when people still try to push the old "toasting" origin of rap music when none of the facts support it.
New Jack City didn’t need a sequel. Nino Brown going out the way he did was symbolism for where the drug game will lead you. Jail or death💯and Karma will always get you
When I first watched New Jack City on boot legged VHS. I swear I watched it three to four times in a row. Since then I can honestly type that I've watched this iconic film well over twenty times. Remembering the entire script word for word at one time.
Yep this is similar to Chris Tucker in Friday people wanted Chris Tucker to come back and do a Friday 2 but he went and did Rush hour instead which is way more money.
Not sure how I would have felt about New Jack City 2. What I loved about the original was that it took place in the 80s and brought us into the 90s where things got more violent. It was a great transition. You can't repeat that.
My crew and I, were @the $ports Arena that night. Run D.M.C. Ice T, by way of Uncle Jams Army, sold out crowd 10k. In #CaLA R.1.P. Jam Master Jay! God almighty, bless everyone involved, and your families. Duces from Ca.L.A. Be:Easy
Ice-T, thee ORIGINAL OL' G master of Hip-hop & giving a little history lesson of that culture starting with Kool DJ Herc. New Jack City is my absolute favourite classic movie of the mid 80's into the 90's with the most banging soundtrack featuring the king of the New Jack Swing movement Teddy Riley & the band Guy. Junior from London 😎😎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇯🇲🇯🇲
i had the new jack sound track on tape , the fold out was dope, dope music on this movie, i think Kevin White made a cameo in this. color me bad made a blew up w this. dang yo this movie had alot. a sequel would have been cool , thanks for posting and sharing this thumbs one
Thank you see this Jamaican woman still tryna tether they way into it I’m in New York Jamaicans weren’t even listening to hip hop straight dance hall once busta tether ass started this nonsense it snowed ball
Ice T was there at the beginning he was a literal pioneer of hip hop anything he says has more credibility than tariq nasheed he was also pioneering hip hop when tariq was probably a little kid and ice T was a grown man.
I saw ICE T with Metallica and Guns N Roses @ Jack Murphy stadium in San Diego he sang Cop Killer after reading a note from the mayor's office asking him not to sing it.. before he sang it he wipes his @$$ with it.. the crowd went crazy and it was an amazing concert moment
_New Jack City II_ must be a new Mandela Effect because I could have swore there was a straight to dvd sequel that came out in the 2000s during that time period where they were making a lot of straight to dvd sequels to classics like _Carlito's Way Rise To Power_ , _Lost Boys_ , _The Butterfly Effect_ , _S. Darko_ , etc. I also remember around that time that The Source magazine had an article that they were supposedly gonna make a _Scarface_ sequel with the rapper Cuban Link. Man the 2000s were a wild time for fake news. Lol
Master Of Ceremonies > The term is earliest documented in the Catholic Church since the 5th century, where the master of ceremonies is an official of the Papal Court responsible for the proper and smooth conduct of the elaborate rituals involving the pope and the sacred liturgy.
Break dancing was on filmed with the OG's of TAP and jazz band groups ,B bop,z suit area. One thing other groups never done . This is how you know what other groups of people have elevated any other musics , dance, clothes, America culture,foods seasoning. Our building structure, just because most of our people don't remember we must keep our History remembered
The character Nino Brown from the 1991 film New Jack City was inspired by the real-life Detroit gang, The Chambers Brothers. The Chambers Brothers were known for taking over the Broadmoor apartment complex on E. Grand Blvd and Ferry St.  
I grew up with Faizon. He was DJing before he started standup. Probably late 80s? I don’t remember if he entered an IceT hosted contest, but he might’ve.
@ 😂 😂 my favorite one was when Ice T said “I wanna shoot you so bad, my dxxx’s hard”. I said that out loud in Walmart and then woman said to me “that’s not lady like” lol Or the one my twin sister says from Keisha “rock a bye baby”. My brother quotes the one Chris Rock said “ehhh baby you got some skim milk in those tixxxx’s” lol.
Some movies don't need a sequel.
Right... MF literally gets shot and falls 3 stories down to his death... *Next movie he's recovering in hospital* 🤔🤦♂️
Right! New Jack City was already a full movie. Never needed a sequel.
@@torrisfairley3227 Although, "Brooklyn's Finest" was a lightweight sequel on the low. 🤣
@@AndreFarrar I swear I thought the same thing.
NJC is terrible now. Definitely don't need more
New Jack City is a criminally underrated movie...it gets lumped in with "hood" movies but it was something different...STILL watchable from start to finish 30+ years later...
Idk about underrated, but it's a classic for sure. Feel like it's a pretty well-known and a loved movie, at least with millennials and gen x. Might be underrated when it comes to the younger generations, though. But the scene where nino grabs the kid and uses them as a human shield lives in my head rent free to this day, lol. Nino Brown is one of the best villains I've ever seen in a movie. Wesley killed it. And Chris Rock, as pookie, was great too (I'm so tired I typed Chris Brown at first, lol 🤦🏻♂️)
Underrated? Wat in the world
The music was dope!!
Nothing underrated about this movie. Not unless you were born after it came out. This was Wesley Snipes’ coming out party as a leading man.
I had new jack city, five heartbeats and blood sport in heavy rotation.
I always admire how Ice articulates his experiences and his perspective. Never pushy, listens and is in tune. Doesn't tap dance around the convo. Respect.
True. The same way in every interview 👍🏾
ICE gave the most accurate and definitive explanation of how Hip-Hop got started
RESPECT! ✊🏾
NO HE DIDN'T. He gave his opinion, that's not the same.
@@bierlichen1what’s your opinion?
Exactly!
As I said, his opinion is the “most” accurate. My opinion is the same as his, along with millions of others, Which is the most accurate? So, YES HE DID! if you think differently, that’s your prerogative. No one’s going to have 100% answer to how Hip-Hop Got started. This is why It’s called an open discussion
@@bierlichen1True indisputable facts in this world are few and far between, everything else is an opinion.
It's good to hear from Ice T about Our Hip Hop Culture. ONE
Ice-T is a cultural icon, Historian, multi-faceted & talented artist!
I respect all that he has done & just love listening to his stories & commentaries.
Man's a legit hip-hop LEGEND!! 🤔
Totally agree!!!!
True Hip-hop Pioneer & All-Time Legend🔥🔥🔥
Nino, ate a bullet center of the chest, and proceeded to fall like 3 stories onto a marble floor!...that's one RESILIENT dope dealer if he survived that!😂
🚨lmaooo word cuz that old man made sure he was DONE 🤣🤣
@bxny1511 big facts!
He was on that powder anything is possible 😂
@LorenzoETX
Nino didn't use, G Money did!🤦🏾🤣
Allegedly Ghost from Power ate a bullet to the chest and survived.
Ice T should talk to the show runners of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and have Wesley Snipes as an added main cast member to the show.
Or definitely have an episode referencing him being Nino Brown. I think that would be dope. Good idea either way 👍🏾
Definitely not a bad idea!
Wut up Square
@@LunaTik423 SMIB
SMIB
You learn something new everyday. Thanks ICE T👍
Crazy thing is he talkin bout before hiphop became a thing and imagine Cowboy finally stamping it and what it became.
I would absolutely love to see Wesley in anything with a good production and talented people.
Maybe another Blade but hes in Wolverine&Deadpool
Thank you, Ice T, for educating all who may not understand the history of Hip Hop. Chuck D is also a great teacher. He can give great lessons to all who want to learn about the history of the Hip Hop Culture. Great interview
Man love this brutha ICE T ✊🏾 True “LEGEND” of the Hip-hop era and excellent visionary and storyteller of our Hip-hop world 🌍 community, he continues to contribute giving forth a history lesson and knowledge on the birth of Hip-hop and the founding artists whom helped to shape Hip-hop music.
Fun Fact: New Jack City was loosely based off of The Chambers Brothers (CMB) that was based out of Detroit, but they was really from Arkansas if I'm not mistaken. It was an apartment building in Detroit back in the 80s that one of the older brothers used to run similarly like the Carter in New Jack City.
Edit it again. Remove the falsehoods. Basically delete the whole thing
@You_adopted_your_opinion lol make me
@@McLarenMadness dont have to. Its such a ridiculous and blatant misrepresentation of the truth, its obvious to anyone who reads it.
@You_adopted_your_opinion 😂😂😂 ok
Chambers brothers had some good songs Time has come today
Love to hear Hip Hop history! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Ice t the OG
He's not a gangster.
Holy shit New Jack City 2 would’ve been crazy 🔥
Hard Luck is pt2
but no gee money, duh duh duh man, keisha, no pookie, RIP to Bill Nunn. but I would have been in front the screen no doubt for pt2
No leave a classic a classic
Can’t believe they actually had a script for it.
Nope! Leave classics be
I’m glad they didn’t make a sequel. ‘New Jack City’ ended the way it should’ve ended… perfect movie
Nino didn't need to survive..... That wasn't the story being told.
"There'll be another one after me..... A hustler."
The sequel sounds wack.
In Jamaica, back in the 70's there were artist like Trinity, U Roy & Jah Stitch that were "toasting" or ryhming over Jamaica rocksteady dubs or instrumental tracks, this was the start of rapping & the famous "beef" tracks also from Jamaica. The studio producer were using recording equipment as an instrument to create big huge bass or sound effects with the sound board. Reggae from Jamacia forever changed music across the world. Kool Herc had the head start being from Jamaica.
Heavy D intro rap music and he is Jamaican...
How could that be the start of "rapping" when you had Pigmeat Markham drop "Here Comes The Judge" in 1968. He dropped "Who Got The Number" in 1969....where you hear him actually trading bars with another artist on the record. The term "toasting" itself comes from the US. The Jamaica origin sounds like a cool story but its just not what actually happened in Hip Hop. Herc wasn't even the one to introduce rap to the NY emcees. That came from DJ Hollywood, who was a Disco DJ and part of a different scene. Herc introduced the "merry go round" technique that Ice T mentioned in the video, but he actually got the inspiration for that from a NY DJ named John Brown, not Jamaica. All of this has been well documented so I get confused when people still try to push the old "toasting" origin of rap music when none of the facts support it.
New Jack City didn’t need a sequel. Nino Brown going out the way he did was symbolism for where the drug game will lead you. Jail or death💯and Karma will always get you
I wanna go back to the 80’s-90’s so bad💯🔥
JAMES BROWN STARTED HIP HOP BY ACCIDENT
Black people invented music
👊
You gotta see that old James Brown interview when the reporter was trying to get him out of character about his cases a classic 💯💯💯
Hip hop was created by DJ cool herc💯
Im a man!! Ima son a man!!! Dont they tell ya!!! Gotta deal wit you! GOTTA DEAL WITCHA!!
Solid flick
ICE IS SOLID GOLD.
LOVE that guy 100%
This was a cool interview
ALL FACTS spoken by Ice T 🫡
Ice T one of the mfs that gave us our right to rap...🎉
That premise that ice T said about a possible new Jack city two would have been amazing
"Pimp behind the wheels" from Home Invasion gave mad props to Evil E
A true OG of the game!
Ice T A Real One
Classic interview
When I first watched New Jack City on boot legged VHS. I swear I watched it three to four times in a row. Since then I can honestly type that I've watched this iconic film well over twenty times. Remembering the entire script word for word at one time.
Salute Ice T for the truth on Hip Hop origination.
My boy boss talk doing his damn thing great interview
Yep this is similar to Chris Tucker in Friday people wanted Chris Tucker to come back and do a Friday 2 but he went and did Rush hour instead which is way more money.
A sequel would’ve spoiled it. It’s a classic. Everything about it’s great - the style, the actors, the soundtrack. It still holds up today.
GREAT INTERVIEW
Thank you king this was so inspiring frfrfrfr💯💯💯🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Is that Pimpin' Ken? I'm going to need to hear more from him. New subscriber.
thats him...LMAO
Good Knowledge From A O.G.!!!!!💯
Not sure how I would have felt about New Jack City 2. What I loved about the original was that it took place in the 80s and brought us into the 90s where things got more violent. It was a great transition. You can't repeat that.
My crew and I, were @the $ports Arena that night. Run D.M.C. Ice T, by way of Uncle Jams Army, sold out crowd 10k. In #CaLA R.1.P. Jam Master Jay! God almighty, bless everyone involved, and your families. Duces from Ca.L.A. Be:Easy
Ice -T , thank you for taking a photo with my granddaughter. You’re the man…
This was a major one boss talk
Great interview !
New Jack City can definitely hold it's own in the Gangster Film genre. A part 2 would be epic.
Ice-T, thee ORIGINAL OL' G master of Hip-hop & giving a little history lesson of that culture starting with Kool DJ Herc. New Jack City is my absolute favourite classic movie of the mid 80's into the 90's with the most banging soundtrack featuring the king of the New Jack Swing movement Teddy Riley & the band Guy. Junior from London 😎😎🇬🇧🇬🇧🇯🇲🇯🇲
Great insight from Ice-T.
I remember a press conference about new Jack city two a couple years after the first one came out. They were bragging talking about Nino‘s back.
That second movie would’ve been ahead of it’s time too
That script was whew…
Good breakdown Ice.
He knows the history of his craft so thoroughly he could teach a class on it. Much love Ice.
JERSEY! And shouts to Big Ice 🙌🏾🫡🤙🏾
i had the new jack sound track on tape , the fold out was dope, dope music on this movie, i think Kevin White made a cameo in this. color me bad made a blew up w this. dang yo this movie had alot. a sequel would have been cool , thanks for posting and sharing this thumbs one
Ice-t a legend in HipHop
One of the greatest to ever breathe on the mic
U gotta leave a all time great classic b and no sequels 👥️ One my best movies and soundtrack 💯
Ice just gave a hip hop history lesson so smooth and clear. Love ya ICE
Carolina West, now that is ole school. Had many drinks in C West. Great Club!
😮😮😮😮😮WOW HE DIDN'T DIEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tariq nasheed put this to rest, Black Americans started hip hop and not Puerto Rican or Jamaicans.
FBA!
Thank you see this Jamaican woman still tryna tether they way into it I’m in New York Jamaicans weren’t even listening to hip hop straight dance hall once busta tether ass started this nonsense it snowed ball
Exactly 💯
Ice T was there at the beginning he was a literal pioneer of hip hop anything he says has more credibility than tariq nasheed he was also pioneering hip hop when tariq was probably a little kid and ice T was a grown man.
@Jesus.X Sorry but Tariq interviewed many that was there from the place it originated, so they have more say so than ice T.
4:06 it's crazy how many people forget this. Like KRS said, "Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live".
I saw ICE T with Metallica and Guns N Roses @ Jack Murphy stadium in San Diego he sang Cop Killer after reading a note from the mayor's office asking him not to sing it.. before he sang it he wipes his @$$ with it.. the crowd went crazy and it was an amazing concert moment
“The people who makes movie don’t watch movies” Ice -T…
*Only the MK’s watch movies.
Incredible 🔥
I am impressed Ice knew what toasting was
LOVE that movie!! Watch that shit all the time!
King Tim the 3rd was the first rap record, i have that record on vinyl. I am happy to her Ice Tea mention it. I have been saying this for years.
_New Jack City II_ must be a new Mandela Effect because I could have swore there was a straight to dvd sequel that came out in the 2000s during that time period where they were making a lot of straight to dvd sequels to classics like _Carlito's Way Rise To Power_ , _Lost Boys_ , _The Butterfly Effect_ , _S. Darko_ , etc. I also remember around that time that The Source magazine had an article that they were supposedly gonna make a _Scarface_ sequel with the rapper Cuban Link. Man the 2000s were a wild time for fake news. Lol
I have never thought of a New jack city, it didn't need a part 2..
In Jamaica the DJ is called the selector and the MC is known as the DJ
Cause he ride the riddim
“ If Ice-T isn’t in your Top 5 , i can’t trust your JUDGEMENT or value your OPINION “ . #icet #verzuz #llcoolj
They should do a prequel now, how Nino and Gee money became who they were!!!
Homie got one of the cleanest fades I’ve seen in a long ass time
I can listen to Ice-T tell stories all day
"Brooklyn's Finest" could be the pseudo Pt. 2
Ice-T, was a Rap Talker.
And that's all.
Classics... (New Jack, King of New York, and Deep Cover)
ICE...
LET ME GET THOSE SUN SHADES ! 😎
I agree with everyone who said that we don't need a sequel to New Jack City...you don't mess with greatness
The talk about raps origins way more interesting, not to say I'm not a "New Jack City" fan, but...that second half was fascinating.
it's so rare to listen to a rapper give honest perspective without the BS. He also knows how to preface properly. Thank you Ice-T.
❄❄❄THE ICE❄❄❄
Master Of Ceremonies > The term is earliest documented in the Catholic Church since the 5th century, where the master of ceremonies is an official of the Papal Court responsible for the proper and smooth conduct of the elaborate rituals involving the pope and the sacred liturgy.
Next thing you know the dr dre nvented the term doctor. please watch > who's the man?
I just stopped by to see why they got Wes lookin like the mamma from Good Times on that thumb nail😳
Florida 😩😂🤣
Ice T should really write a book or do a documentary on the history of hip hop. All what he described was the history of hip hop. Extremely detailed.
Jazz pioneers' musicians say rhyme in their songs.
I can listen to Hip-Hop history all day
Oscar Brown, Jr., Gil-Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, aka Leroy Jones were influences on the culture from back in the 1960s.
Goodwork
Break dancing was on filmed with the OG's of TAP and jazz band groups ,B bop,z suit area. One thing other groups never done . This is how you know what other groups of people have elevated any other musics , dance, clothes, America culture,foods seasoning. Our building structure, just because most of our people don't remember we must keep our History remembered
Hip Hop is culture 4 parts 🫡Ice for reminding ppl
The character Nino Brown from the 1991 film New Jack City was inspired by the real-life Detroit gang, The Chambers Brothers. The Chambers Brothers were known for taking over the Broadmoor apartment complex on E. Grand Blvd and Ferry St.


FACTS!!!!
I grew up with Faizon. He was DJing before he started standup. Probably late 80s? I don’t remember if he entered an IceT hosted contest, but he might’ve.
NINO! YOUR SOUL BELONGS IN HEEELLLLL!!!
I love this movie. I be quoting so much lines from this movie.
My favorite and still say it, “sit your $5 dollar a$$ down before I make change”😂
@ 😂 😂 my favorite one was when Ice T said “I wanna shoot you so bad, my dxxx’s hard”. I said that out loud in Walmart and then woman said to me “that’s not lady like” lol
Or the one my twin sister says from Keisha “rock a bye baby”.
My brother quotes the one Chris Rock said “ehhh baby you got some skim milk in those tixxxx’s” lol.
ICE Rules!!! 😎 👍
Big Quis made a remake to one of Tina Marie songs its called get off, one of the hardest samples, that girl had straight up heat back in the days
Boss talk salute 🫡
Nah... New Jack City didn't need a part 2. You see what they did with Belly Part 2.
As a 71 yr old white man , loved the movie would of loved a sequel