Northern Touch (Official Music Video)

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  • Опубліковано 8 лис 2018
  • Music video by Rascalz performing Northern Touch. (C) 1998 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 503

  • @djensomnea
    @djensomnea 4 дні тому +182

    Here from Drakes story button

  • @ronaldsabino1310
    @ronaldsabino1310 4 дні тому +35

    Thx Drake for reminding me of this masterpiece ❤😂

  • @416IXER
    @416IXER 2 дні тому +3

    All the way from Tdot to the Van City All Stars 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @jazzsaxmusician
    @jazzsaxmusician 4 дні тому +6

    Here after Officer Ricky got humbled 😂😂😂

  • @MeanBeanKerosene
    @MeanBeanKerosene 5 років тому +303

    This entire song is a rapline of Canadian music royalty.

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 роки тому +6

      Thrust wasn’t all that either if we’re being real. Ironically Thrust did the best on this particular track trying his best to sound like B.I.G. And pulling it off pretty good.

    • @randydube1423
      @randydube1423 4 роки тому +7

      It's missing Michie Mee, but she was out the game by the time this was conceived.

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 роки тому +2

      Yess

    • @amchow78
      @amchow78 3 роки тому +14

      Not without Maestro Fresh Wes! 😉
      #JustSayin

    • @DIGIHENDRIX300
      @DIGIHENDRIX300 2 роки тому +2

      so glad i found this page.. not enough canadians supporting their own.. you should add Yardi Black aka Mykill Darcshyne.. dudes been a o.g for a long time lots people dont know. keep up this page and stay blessed.
      yardi black ua-cam.com/video/tlaVPTuEnUo/v-deo.html
      Mykill Darcshyne ua-cam.com/video/jvgYk3A_1SU/v-deo.html

  • @championchuck777
    @championchuck777 4 дні тому +9

    With a young Melyssa Ford on the lap.

  • @mbogucki1
    @mbogucki1 2 роки тому +27

    "I like chillin, Monday night Raw watching
    Me and Daneo at the Sky Dome when it's in town"
    Man I miss the 90s.

  • @ScorseseNeverDie
    @ScorseseNeverDie 4 дні тому +9

    Rascalz are a Canadian hip-hop group from VANCOUVER 😂 Drake with the subliminal paying respect to vancouver goons

  • @I_LUV_SEO
    @I_LUV_SEO 3 дні тому +3

    Drizzy got me here LFG

  • @mikebogucki5832
    @mikebogucki5832 2 роки тому +34

    Late 90's in the TDot was where it was at. Best decade.

    • @geekpharm2108
      @geekpharm2108 Рік тому +2

      Broooooo i keep saying this to every human i meet- no better time and place

    • @77Creation
      @77Creation 4 місяці тому +1

      I'd rather be in Toronto, for sure.

  • @tnice8282
    @tnice8282 5 років тому +62

    Remember this the Summer of 98 on Rapcity

  • @whatsthedirt
    @whatsthedirt 4 дні тому +15

    Drake is showing love to Canadian Hip Hop in Canada Day 🇨🇦 🫡

  • @exposedhobo
    @exposedhobo 4 роки тому +41

    I think ill still be here 30 years later pulling this up every time i want to show people the best of canadian rap

  • @SL504NYY26
    @SL504NYY26 4 роки тому +98

    I was bumping this all the way down in New Orleans. Was the part of the soundtrack of my senior year (SHOUT OUT C/O 2000)Have ALWAYS respected the 6 hip hop scene.... Thank you Canada

    • @bigrod8816
      @bigrod8816 4 роки тому +4

      SL504NYY26 appreciate the love but most of these guys are from Vancouver Canada, not Toronto

    • @forgotaboutbre
      @forgotaboutbre 4 роки тому +4

      @@bigrod8816 Daaamn northern touch all the way down in the dirty south?

    • @SymbolicSplenetic
      @SymbolicSplenetic 3 роки тому +2

      @@bigrod8816 Kardinal was from Toronto though for sure. Dude went to my school. Graduated a few years before I went so I never met him or anything, but yeah he was on the wall of pictures of grads. By the time I was in gr 9, he was already all over much music so everyone knew.

    • @hitek9too255
      @hitek9too255 2 роки тому +6

      Word! I'm from and love Toronto hip hop; Madlocks, Ghetto Concept, Saukrates, Kardinal, Drake, etc.

    • @KK-cb1eb
      @KK-cb1eb 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@bigrod8816kardi, choclair definitely from Toronto. As is Saukrates who appears in the vid.

  • @WhosCallingPlease
    @WhosCallingPlease 4 роки тому +26

    Aw. He called it the Sky Dome. ❤️

    • @mikepereira2273
      @mikepereira2273 5 місяців тому +5

      It is the Skydome

    • @KingKogi
      @KingKogi 4 місяці тому +1

      It is forever the Sky Dome in my mind d

    • @user-zo8jk9jh6h
      @user-zo8jk9jh6h 8 днів тому

      @@mikepereira2273 Rogers Centre but you call it what you want

  • @96youngjay
    @96youngjay 4 місяці тому +35

    Still listening to this in 2024🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @alexjessop5330
    @alexjessop5330 5 років тому +34

    When the raptors won the finals this song came to my head

  • @shawngaetz8161
    @shawngaetz8161 Рік тому +6

    Canadian Wu Tang and I'm here for it!!

  • @patrickgrondines6781
    @patrickgrondines6781 3 роки тому +10

    this is real Canadian hip hop

  • @richgauthier1946
    @richgauthier1946 Рік тому +12

    This is still a beauty in 2023!

  • @sarahgordino6695
    @sarahgordino6695 2 роки тому +16

    Still blast this in the car while driving through these streets.

  • @CaapriceTube1
    @CaapriceTube1 3 місяці тому +5

    FOREVER A CLASSIC

  • @RoLPeace
    @RoLPeace 2 роки тому +7

    Good ol' MuchMusic. Damn! I miss those days.

  • @moer7795
    @moer7795 2 роки тому +7

    Still amazing boys …… CANADA

  • @canuckfan1745
    @canuckfan1745 2 роки тому +31

    they don't make rap like this no more. sad times we're living in.

  • @from_each_to_each_1848
    @from_each_to_each_1848 3 роки тому +137

    This blew up so hard in Canada when it dropped, respect

    • @Ohcanada28
      @Ohcanada28 3 роки тому +1

      @Oh Canada oh boy.

    • @avalanwa
      @avalanwa 2 роки тому +1

      Facts bro. Good times.

  • @JennieAndOwen
    @JennieAndOwen 5 років тому +23

    This should be the anthem for the Raptors. #northovereverything

  • @theodorep9569
    @theodorep9569 3 роки тому +59

    how has it been 22 years... damn life moves fast.

    • @1moreastronautttv
      @1moreastronautttv 3 роки тому +1

      how has it been 23 years... damn life moves fast.

    • @EvangeleFlyrr
      @EvangeleFlyrr 3 роки тому

      @@1moreastronautttv you might even say the years start comin' and they dont stop comin'

    • @adee1626
      @adee1626 3 роки тому

      For real

    • @mikepereira2273
      @mikepereira2273 6 місяців тому

      Get busy living or get busy dying.

  • @DataLal
    @DataLal Рік тому +5

    Can't believe this song is a quarter century old already. Such a classic. It was on MuchMusic all the time back in the day.

  • @naasr
    @naasr 4 дні тому +5

    Drake brought me here 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @tanyab7034
    @tanyab7034 2 роки тому +19

    Canadian hip hop Gold 💛🍾🏆🎖

  • @Goatchild90
    @Goatchild90 Рік тому +6

    Because of this song I knew what real hip hop was. Props to all these Canadian Kings

  • @yourguilty4465
    @yourguilty4465 4 роки тому +18

    40 year Italo Canadian I grew up on this shit !!!!! I wish they would do with Canadian tour

    • @missjuliej1
      @missjuliej1 Рік тому +1

      They're part of OVO this year in Toronto! Whole line up of canadian artists!

  • @seithseith
    @seithseith 2 місяці тому +3

    Years later, this still hits

  • @bigelakafatdaddychannel5002
    @bigelakafatdaddychannel5002 4 роки тому +19

    This song goes hard greetings from Baltimore

  • @Ann-hm7gj
    @Ann-hm7gj 28 днів тому +2

    Omg this song use to play everwhere
    💯 103.5 haha

  • @derrickbraithwaite-mais8469
    @derrickbraithwaite-mais8469 3 роки тому +11

    Canadian talent.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @erinecollett
    @erinecollett 4 місяці тому +2

    Early 2000s I lived near the don valley jail
    Iconic

  • @tyrellsayese7564
    @tyrellsayese7564 2 роки тому +5

    Nothing but Canadian love in this video

  • @user-lq7gz7nw8e
    @user-lq7gz7nw8e 9 місяців тому +4

    25 years later and still a banger

  • @MladenTheBoss
    @MladenTheBoss Місяць тому +1

    I give this song a "YES SIRRRRR" stamp of approval.🔥🔥🔥

  • @deepblue2
    @deepblue2 Рік тому +21

    I remember when this track dropped. They came out swinging with this one and it became a grand slam IMO. Also, that opening beat 👌

    • @nathanmciver6496
      @nathanmciver6496 Рік тому +1

      Look up! You will find it there with where it came from! What Mo O? Not cool these days devil? Thanks for the cheap credit! Wheres my wife? Sure as hell isn't you

  • @ToothpickTony2
    @ToothpickTony2 5 років тому +17

    I remember this song 20 years later.... was the tune i liked most in Rap category in 1998.....in T.O all ages clubs ... or back in the day on City Tv ... back when local Toronto Tv channels were more Local..... I miss these days ... Was allot of fun

  • @grandanse5827
    @grandanse5827 5 років тому +40

    Thrust is my favorite verse

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 роки тому

      Not even as good as most of these rappers but on this track he bodied everyone.

    • @Chimp.Foo.
      @Chimp.Foo. 4 роки тому +1

      @@UstashaMe84 by biting biggie's style

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 роки тому

      S W 100% he did. Blatant.

    • @irishmacky8773
      @irishmacky8773 3 роки тому

      He even says "Notorious"

  • @steelpipetv2073
    @steelpipetv2073 Рік тому +6

    Northern Touch should of had a billion views by now I guess they dont like to see greatness in Canada I dont understand what happened this was the blueprint for all Canadian rappers

    • @stever1412
      @stever1412 Рік тому

      Home is where the hate is man. Toronto's has this weird thing where they like to kill their own rappers out of jealousy. There's a few UA-cam documentaries u can find on the topic

    • @Mike-hu3pp
      @Mike-hu3pp 7 місяців тому +1

      As amazing as this is and was the blueprint was created before. Think of guys like Maestro original Canadian hip hop. Great time in hip hop and unfortunately Canada is now known for Drake. He couldn't read the blueprint.

  • @bierlichen1
    @bierlichen1 10 місяців тому +1

    As soon as I heard what they were rapping over I thought America at it's finest. America is a continent, not a country. Big ups from Minnesota.

  • @tinatriantafillos3910
    @tinatriantafillos3910 9 місяців тому +1

    When the video dropped on MuchMusic, every teenager in Toronto was like "'woahhhhhhhhhh.... we're here!....." This jam still hits hard.

  • @danielirving7209
    @danielirving7209 4 роки тому +23

    Needed Maestro in this song 100%

    • @amplecleaner
      @amplecleaner 4 роки тому

      Daniel Irving -Yup

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 роки тому

      Whoa didn't realize that the north god wasn't on the track

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 роки тому

      Let's petition for a new northern touch tune

    • @villiantwo
      @villiantwo 3 роки тому

      + monolith crew! + saukrates

  • @raj_arjune
    @raj_arjune Рік тому +5

    My best friend Joshua sent me this video because I was having a very bad day at work. I got to say it changed the rest of the day with a smile because this song epitomizes our high school years and our long standing friendship. Late 1990's if I am not mistaken was when I saw this video on MuchMusic and like a lot of other comments below, Canadian hip hop royalty in full effect. Ah, those were the great days of hip hop.

  • @FrequencyandFever
    @FrequencyandFever 5 років тому +22

    Surprised this song was posted so recently... Classic Canadian Hip-hop.

    • @BonGrips
      @BonGrips 5 років тому

      Frequency and Fever it’s reposted. This video always gets taken down I’ve noticed

    • @leepeeching3907
      @leepeeching3907 4 роки тому

      Classic still in 2020

  • @420ElBasterdo
    @420ElBasterdo Рік тому +2

    I miss this kind of hip hop

  • @bmorephasion
    @bmorephasion 4 роки тому +8

    I can't front...This had me checking for T Dot back in da day...Along w Sean Paul videos with them bad ass chicks

  • @Wegotdb
    @Wegotdb 4 дні тому +4

    Drizzy 😂😂

  • @gladlawson61
    @gladlawson61 Рік тому +23

    Criminally underrated group.
    Thrusts lines on this are the best

  • @EvilCracky
    @EvilCracky 4 роки тому +5

    Checkmate the Legend =) Vancouver legends, Amazing shit still to these dayz

  • @patrickgrondines3994
    @patrickgrondines3994 5 років тому +4

    this is real Canadian hip hop music

  • @magicdntz154
    @magicdntz154 Місяць тому +1

    Had to rally back for this! Flashback Friday! 🔥💯

  • @diywrites8703
    @diywrites8703 Рік тому +1

    Man, for a while, this song was... if not Canada's national anthem, it was Toronto's national anthem.

  • @acesoul1689
    @acesoul1689 4 роки тому +5

    When hip hop was hip hop Forever Classic🎹🎹🎹🎤🎵🎧🎶🎶💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯👐👐🎵🎧🎧🎹🎤🎤🎤🎤💯💯💯

  • @user-gb4km9rb5v
    @user-gb4km9rb5v 10 місяців тому +1

    i wish hip hop sounded like this again

  • @Mister-Thrasher
    @Mister-Thrasher 7 місяців тому +2

    Still on my playlist 2023

  • @corymay7520
    @corymay7520 8 місяців тому +3

    2023 still bumps

  • @raullyral
    @raullyral 3 роки тому +2

    R.I.P DMX

  • @TheRelandi
    @TheRelandi 5 років тому +13

    First concert I ever went to (Rascalz). Got early entrance because I knew the owners of the skate shop hosting the show. Forever locked in my memory.

    • @Ronstopable28
      @Ronstopable28 2 роки тому +2

      Legendary! 🇨🇦 …. P.s. what skate shop?

    • @georginabastien49
      @georginabastien49 Рік тому +3

      Rascalz should have blown up ... crazy Canadian music scene ... they got robbed!

    • @corymay7520
      @corymay7520 8 місяців тому +1

      Me to bro first hip hop show was rascalz I was 16 it was 1996 in Edmonton in some ole garage somewhere. Shit was classic

  • @africaRBG
    @africaRBG 4 роки тому +33

    The goldern era of canadian hip-hop, late 90s-mid 2000s. Great memories. We had our own style, while americans were lost in their bling-bling era.

    • @KillaSin515
      @KillaSin515 4 роки тому +3

      Stop. NY still ruled hip hop at that time.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 роки тому +5

      @@KillaSin515 i didnt say that canada ruled hip-hop at that time. I said it was a golden era for us. And new york was not on top back then. It was the south that was on top and hip-hop suffered because of it. There was a reason that nas dropped the album 'hip-hop is dead' during the bling bling era.

    • @KillaSin515
      @KillaSin515 4 роки тому +4

      @@africaRBG Nas dropped that album in 2006. This is late 90s early 2000. NY was still on top. The South was just starting. By the way...this song came out in 98. So yes. NY was still on top.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 роки тому +1

      @@KillaSin515 what is the late 90s early 2000s ? In the late 90s the south was ascending already with master p, mystikal, juvenile, manny fresh, lil wayne, outkast etc. They were on top in the 2000s. Yes, nas dropped the album in 2006, which is the mid 2000s. And he dropped it for a reason, having seen the trend thus far of commercial hip-hop in the 2000s, which was coming primarily from the south.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 роки тому

      @@KillaSin515 and this song came out in 1997*

  • @martinokezie
    @martinokezie 27 днів тому +3

    I had this on tape. Played it on repeat till my cassette broke.

  • @Steve-ve7mr
    @Steve-ve7mr 7 місяців тому +2

    I miss Much Music.

  • @TheeStoicc
    @TheeStoicc 5 років тому +6

    This needs to become the anthem if the Raps take the championship this year

  • @kushnastay
    @kushnastay 2 роки тому +3

    I remember This track like it was yesterday , good times back in them days

  • @dga6191
    @dga6191 4 роки тому +6

    Classic! Soul Obligation is another classic! 2020

  • @DrewRycerz
    @DrewRycerz 2 роки тому +6

    Real hip hop. Shout out from Toronto - And a shout out to Saukrates, Maestro. Still stickin to my vision. I remember bein at the Skydome and the Rascalz got off stage and we all were yellin at em to come back. The car show. Man. Subbed. Much love.

  • @chimaygrant5546
    @chimaygrant5546 4 роки тому +1

    RIP Bayboy! Sept 11, was a tragedy muchmusic will never be the same...

  • @bigal1456
    @bigal1456 Рік тому +46

    Makes me very proud to be Canadian 💯🙏♥️🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @abdulalimbaakza954
    @abdulalimbaakza954 3 роки тому +8

    This is an amazing rap song, why did it not trend that much

    • @Can-eh-dian
      @Can-eh-dian 2 роки тому +3

      It sure did! It's old now

  • @sparxxvizion
    @sparxxvizion 4 роки тому +15

    2020 and I'm still banging this classic

  • @volcommerce
    @volcommerce 4 роки тому +18

    baby blue soundcrew was poppin around that time, this joint used to knock on much, classic

  • @stillatit90
    @stillatit90 4 роки тому +5

    damn!!!...a young melyssa ford! wooow❤😍😍😍❤

    • @m.j.1087
      @m.j.1087 4 роки тому

      Shes still young & fine!

  • @AnthonyM-ey6xo
    @AnthonyM-ey6xo 2 місяці тому +3

    The original Canadian Ogs they put van city and Toronto on the map

  • @ilnas
    @ilnas Рік тому +1

    OVO fest 2022 got me back here. Canadian Anthem

  • @XLL-LyricaLance
    @XLL-LyricaLance 6 місяців тому +1

    I've been here since the early 2000s

  • @curtislavallee8444
    @curtislavallee8444 4 роки тому +4

    Still Bump'in to this day

  • @AC-mb1lp
    @AC-mb1lp 3 роки тому +30

    WE WERE SO MUCH BETTER BEFORE DRAKE CAME ALONG....MISS THESE DAYS😎

    • @michaeljanknegt5233
      @michaeljanknegt5233 2 роки тому

      fuck drake he fake
      young people dont know

    • @randydube1423
      @randydube1423 2 роки тому

      I wonder if the cats from our gen listening to this can dig back deeper with boss Canadian hip hop like Michie Mee.

    • @rileyk5228
      @rileyk5228 2 роки тому

      @@randydube1423 sadly no, there's no interest in the history of music these days. people stumble across "old songs" mostly for reaction videos, or live under a rock

    • @patrickgrondines9520
      @patrickgrondines9520 Рік тому

      i have nothing against drake but i like old school Canadian hip hop more

  • @hardonthegasgtboyz1586
    @hardonthegasgtboyz1586 4 роки тому +7

    This video still bangs even now that the sky dome name is the Rogers centre.

  • @YS-mx9jm
    @YS-mx9jm 11 місяців тому +1

    How this aint touch 1 milly views

  • @Matt-no6fz
    @Matt-no6fz Рік тому +2

    Who still Monday Night RAW watchin' in 2023?

  • @LampLoungeLive
    @LampLoungeLive 5 місяців тому

    Monday night raw watching !

  • @prettyfunnygirleh
    @prettyfunnygirleh 9 місяців тому +1

    Man .. Obsessed with this song.. Sweet high school memories ❤❤

  • @DamezCS
    @DamezCS 3 роки тому +2

    This came out a year after I was born but my mama didn't refrain from showing me absolute bangers.

  • @zedhedmusic
    @zedhedmusic Рік тому +1

    brings me back to Finch & Sentinel.. if you know, you know

  • @KiDSON.
    @KiDSON. 4 дні тому

    Heard this yesterday on the radio and it threw me alllll the way back!! Haven’t heard this in years.

  • @OssyJr.
    @OssyJr. 10 місяців тому

    My bros from the 33rd Vancity viva Chile

  • @JamesG12
    @JamesG12 2 роки тому +2

    Good memories

  • @bmoreguy862
    @bmoreguy862 2 роки тому +2

    This song will be already classic

  • @chichinjoku9913
    @chichinjoku9913 Рік тому +2

    Happy 25th Anniversary! Such a impactful song for Canadian Hip Hop

  • @J.5.M.
    @J.5.M. 5 років тому +3

    CLASSIC. Getting busta rhymes vibes from Kardinal here. 🔥

  • @broramsey8950
    @broramsey8950 8 місяців тому +1

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎🙈🤣🎶😏 Makes you wanna get up & dance!!!!

  • @Recoils14
    @Recoils14 2 роки тому +1

    This song has been one of my favs for years. this is definitely older than 2018.

  • @kendram9776
    @kendram9776 5 років тому +53

    TORONTO RAPTORS BROUGHT THE NORTHERN TOUCH AND ARE THE 2019 WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

    • @justindot4887
      @justindot4887 5 років тому +2

      take that... Drake

    • @aramkim9915
      @aramkim9915 4 роки тому +1

      Kendra M I’m wit u!

    • @leonardbaker3776
      @leonardbaker3776 4 роки тому

      This was made before your time buddie,this is real hip hop

    • @bprime6926
      @bprime6926 4 роки тому +1

      @@leonardbaker3776
      tf you talking bout, we still celebrating over here, what anybody age got to do with it?

  • @philchroniger7839
    @philchroniger7839 3 роки тому +7

    I remember bumping this shit at parties in 98 bc I was *that* head in high school (living in Virginia, not a lot of heads were hip to Canadian MCs).

    • @Soitbegins_
      @Soitbegins_ День тому

      Which part? DMV or tidewater?

    • @philchroniger7839
      @philchroniger7839 День тому +1

      @@Soitbegins_ west of both out in the Valley. Moved to VA from DC in 97. All these dudes bumped was No Limit and Cash Money

    • @Soitbegins_
      @Soitbegins_ День тому

      @@philchroniger7839 don’t forget Go-Go. Alexandria, VA for me. TC Williams.

    • @philchroniger7839
      @philchroniger7839 День тому +1

      @@Soitbegins_ oh yeah, I grew up with that on the block before my ass ended up in the country

  • @pattyboy9183
    @pattyboy9183 2 роки тому +5

    love this song