He talks about hos too and eviscerates them lyrically, as he should.. so stop romanticizing. He does celebrate the black queens though and deserves a lot of props for that. Can't deny that about him.
Ladies do be looking better now sometimes but they were better mentally and emotionally. Definitely better vibes though all around.I have to agree.They werent all trying to be the next contestants on America's Next Top Thotinaire.
And he made the video about them! Real, sexy but classy and confident women. It seems so innocent compared to the songs and videos today. Women calling themselves by their privates and bodily functions!!?? Wow
NAH FAM FATHER MC .....ILL DO FOR YOU...... MARY J FIRST EXPOSURE.....TREAT EM LIKE THEY WANT TO BE TREATED....... JODECI FIRST EXPOSURE...THEM SOME CLASSICS..AGREE WITH YOU ON EVERYTHING ELSE..
I loved the music of the 1890s.. definitely the best era.. I miss my old colt six shooter, dysentery, and westward expansion of the railroad. Those were the times
Culturally the 90's were so awesome! Including this song! ❤ The music, fashion, shopping malls, and no social media! The 90's will always have a special place in my heart. My childhood and adolescence. ❤
I was born in 1984, I love the 90s. I agree that culturally the 90s was awesome! 90s & early 2000's is my favorite era but Social Media is one of the greatest things to be invented imo, I wish the 90s and early 2000s and even the 80s had social media even tho I miss the mall pictures.
My pop always told me growing up LL was the man back in the day. He definitely doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, man is a true ICON in the culture without a doubt.
No dignity! I was a young adult. He used to party at a spot called After Midnight on 13th and Cherry In Philly he and a lot of rappers etc use to come and have fun no huge entourage just come and have a good time. Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff the roots. We had so much fun. I drug my daughter to his concert in DC. She had a ball. I was so happy and winded.
Wtf are you even talking about? LL is one of the Biggest and Brightest Stars in hip-hop history. Multi platinum, actor, and he destroyed careers in beef. Hip hop never respects its architects or respects it's history.
Actually got to meet him in person right after this song dropped. It was crazy. The girls all around us wouldn't stop screaming. LL was super cool, really nice guy.
I never grew up in the 90's I was born in 2004 but my parents raised me on this music and though I never personally experienced the 90's I wish I could go back to those days with that vibe, with that atmosphere.... I'm an old soul at heart....
Sometimes you're so good people take you for granted. He's definitely in the top 5 MC of all time. The amount of hits, impact on Hip Hop and lyrical skills is unmatched
I was 13 in 1990. This decade was when I learned 90% of what I carry through life as my mental toolkit to this day. I also appreciate knowing what the analogue world was like and friendships that existed on word of mouth communication and being present in the moment. Nothing beats the pure essence of being a child and carefree. Enjoy every minute life brings.
wow , this sounds beautiful.. I wasn't yet a thought in my mother's mind at this time . I adore the recollections from others of the 90s.. I wonder if I can recreate this type of truly social and present upbringing for my child (if/when I have one)
Best song L ever made, easily. This sort of jam seems way more authentic coming from him than when he tried to act hard, it's just fun and relatable. That R&B hook just works.
I'm still jamming this track from my OG LLCoolJ as of 2024. The song evokes a lot of fond memories for me from listening to tracks from the hip-hop scene of the 1980s straight into the early 1990s when "Around The Way" was first released. Those were memorable years for me. LLCoolJ remains within the top five of my all-time hip-hop artistes. Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee, I love you, you're from around the way."
It’s in my top five all-time as well for any artist. This and loungin is a nostalgic rush of being a city kid in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 90s in the sunshine with the city buildings across the beach 🏝️ 🏙️ 🌁
Yall we are SO BLESSED to have been apart of the era in time. #The90s it was the fashion , the music , the radio stations , BET, MTv , Vh1 all played music videos. The tv shows OMG We really got lucky to have been and grow in during this time. ❤
He's a music genius, and very cute !. As a white British Woman he was one of my first crushes when I was about 10 It's the cheeky smile and the glint in his eyes..You can tell that he's a good lad..I hear his music and it takes me back to being a kid
Y'all know that I'm obsessed w/ this record. The video is finally available on his page. Such a fun and simple time in life. My big cousins and I made a step to this song. We even had my dad join us. This record just makes me smile, dance and remember the sweetest time in my life. I grew up in this era.
Welp, won’t see any girls like this anymore with all this surgery going around lol at least we have the video and yes, the white girl is the best dancer in the video she killed it I’m sorry. (No shade Big Lez) This is classic classic 🥰🥰🙌🏽 !
I hope all whos in this video are doing well. Kids, homes, grans.... & 4 all who were called home to rest, you are remembered through the music! God bless yall!
Who's still jamming to this in 2024???
summer time in the whip...me...lol.
Me!!!
Summer time bumpin this with the top down, sun glaring!!
Here 2024
I am!!
I miss the 90s. I miss the atmosphere, I miss my grandparents, I miss the Church elders, I miss that entire generation. I miss the normalcy.
Agree 100%
Me too. I miss my brother I miss just everything about the 90’s
Facts
Tell me about it bro
I know, right? I know exactly how you feel. Uncanny, isn't it?
2024 CLASSIC GOOD MUSIC....BBQ TO THIS IN THE SUMMER....
No cursing, no violence, no disrespecting women (in fact it’s quite the opposite). Love and respect to this man!
"Goat""
Well he did tell the first girl that appeared she looked like the Addams family that was a lil disrespectful lol
@@literallyunderrated well who knew if he liked the Addams family?
Right Dawg
I Definitely Agree With You Dawg
LL has always celebrated Black women in all their splendor - sexuality included - without disrespecting them. Salute to this King!
His music. His culture. Ladies Love...
He'll yeah he did
He talks about hos too and eviscerates them lyrically, as he should.. so stop romanticizing. He does celebrate the black queens though and deserves a lot of props for that. Can't deny that about him.
I'm sure LL holds a different perspective on black women right now though 😂
@@METALFACEDOOMXXXX i know i do compared to when ll was in the game
The 90's decade was truly special. The music, styles, and swag was so fly! The ladies were looking so good too
L L Damn We love you Well I do Go be go get get it Never will be it run out Go L L Coo J!!Love you!!!!!!
Ladies do be looking better now sometimes but they were better mentally and emotionally. Definitely better vibes though all around.I have to agree.They werent all trying to be the next contestants on America's Next Top Thotinaire.
Was a time to be a teenager in the 9o's!
90s R&B stand above all that have followed. Always in the background during my college years.
90's the best ever
He told the girls (especially black girls) in the hood that they were beautiful and that they mattered.
Nothing special about that, Black men say that all the time
We been saying that, but they listened to hollyweird and went to started getting fake booties etc
Pandering.
And he made the video about them! Real, sexy but classy and confident women. It seems so innocent compared to the songs and videos today. Women calling themselves by their privates and bodily functions!!?? Wow
I know that's right. LL assisted with my self confidence. I use to blast this song every morning before school. Thank you LL!
Where did the time go. 30 year old classics. That’s like living in the 90s playing music from 1965 🙄
That’s how it was tbh in the 90s they played music from the 60s and 70s especially for the 70s being like 20 years old at the time
Scary, I know. Time doesn't wait.
Good comment.
Nah. It can't compare the same way. The 90's is a totally different vibe. Not the 60's hilarious 😆
being alive during them times was priceless
Sho you right 👌🏾
Facts
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ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!🙏🙏🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯💯💯🫡🫡🫡👋👋👋🤎🤎🤎
Eh the music was dope but socially?? People were more racist back then
That Mary Jane Girls sample makes this song epic
Onb this shit never got old and never will. 😂☠️
@@whayes8084 Real Talk!!!
I didn't know this was a sample. I thought it was his own original sound. I found out the song from Xscape "Who Do I Run To" is a Mary Jane sample.
Keni Burke - Rising To the Top🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@julianhudson9843 Actually Xscape sampled from The Jones Girls "Who do I run to?"
I was 15 in 1990and this song brings back so many memories of that time. The 90s were an awesome time to be a teenager!🥰
Yep! Sure was...
Definitely!
Yup! I was 14 in 1990. Good times 🎉🎉🎉
I was the same age 😢
1990s...🔥🔥🎵🎵
These kids just don’t know what they missed during the 90’s. #TheBestEraOfMuzik
I agree and I’m 22. I missed a lot in the 90s. I wish I was from the 90s but I’m just as glad to listen to this masterpiece ❤ good song
I agree 100%
@@jeahwinder4600 💯
@@luvvjulia21917 💯
Amen
LL Cool J’s First Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 Hit ❤
No,first was "I Need Love"
Natural bodies ❤
@@RU-cm7yki came here to say that...😅
@@RU-cm7ykI thought "I Need Love" reached number 14 and not in the 10s
LL- Round the way girl
Fresh Prince- Summertime
Father MC- Everythings gonna be alright
BIG- Juicy
2pac- Kep ya head up.
Feel good clean music.
NAH FAM FATHER MC .....ILL DO FOR YOU...... MARY J FIRST EXPOSURE.....TREAT EM LIKE THEY WANT TO BE TREATED....... JODECI FIRST EXPOSURE...THEM SOME CLASSICS..AGREE WITH YOU ON EVERYTHING ELSE..
Don't forget Ed OG be a father to your child.
Babyface-whip appeal
Whitney Houston-I’m your baby tonight
Bbd-poison
Tribe called quest-left my wallet in
Don’t forget Heavy D ❤
They need to start blasting 90s music on all of the airwaves. The best music era of all time.
They do in 94.7 the block radio station in NYC.
Yeeeeeessssss!
@lof7845 Well we meed that station in SC😊
I loved the music of the 1890s.. definitely the best era.. I miss my old colt six shooter, dysentery, and westward expansion of the railroad. Those were the times
👍🏾💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Anyone who lived through the 90s is very lucky, truly wish I was alive in the 90s 🙏 this is one of my absolute favorite songs
IT REALLY WAS A SPECIAL TIME!!!!!💐💐💐🤎🤎🤎
The music was good but life wasn’t if you were poor. People weren’t fat either.
We were blessed
Hi
@@FreshRose-z3s i bet yall were 😂!
Literally everything LL touched turned into Gold 💯 🔥
Diamond *
EVERYTHING!
Yep 🌟
Culturally the 90's were so awesome! Including this song! ❤ The music, fashion, shopping malls, and no social media! The 90's will always have a special place in my heart. My childhood and adolescence. ❤
I was born in 1984, I love the 90s. I agree that culturally the 90s was awesome! 90s & early 2000's is my favorite era but Social Media is one of the greatest things to be invented imo, I wish the 90s and early 2000s and even the 80s had social media even tho I miss the mall pictures.
@@dethomas4803 The early 00's were the best too! Miss those days so much! The good ol' days! ❤️
80'$ rocked as well!
🙏🏿 🙏🏿 🙏🏿
1990 was still very much culturally in the 80s
I don't want Ivana, I want Towanna! Classic!
My Top 5 LL song EVER!! This song screams 90s vibes.. very nostalgic
It definitely gives me early 90’s NY vibes
It is the 90s
Gotta agree with you 💯.
Great comment. Great Times. I guess they just don't make them like this anymore.
Very True!
LL was going crazy with the dance moves😂
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All the rappers back then had moves...now it's "illegal" to dance as a rapper..because your not street enough
@@MrMG76 rappers today are to busy trying to lookout for " opps" to dance
@@MrMG76 rappers today can't dance like they do back then and are too worried about not looking "gay" because it's not thug enough.
He look like he was was enjoying life, no skit just being himself with a camera great video!!!!
1990 great year no cell phones or social media played outside mtv on the tv radio 📻 and magazines and kid board games
@2:49 Big Lez was the it girl back then💯 she was in all the best music videos 😍😍
Yep❤💯👍🏽🗽✨️
Perfect summertime ride around song.....timeless
My late 80s early 90s playlist is dope 😎
My pop always told me growing up LL was the man back in the day. He definitely doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, man is a true ICON in the culture without a doubt.
So true kinda forgotten but we gotta let them know ll is one of the greats
@@jasondawson92my pops is a big fan of ll he my mom also said they look alike 😂
No dignity! I was a young adult. He used to party at a spot called After Midnight on 13th and Cherry In Philly he and a lot of rappers etc use to come and have fun no huge entourage just come and have a good time. Fresh Prince DJ Jazzy Jeff the roots. We had so much fun. I drug my daughter to his concert in DC. She had a ball. I was so happy and winded.
Wtf are you even talking about? LL is one of the Biggest and Brightest Stars in hip-hop history. Multi platinum, actor, and he destroyed careers in beef. Hip hop never respects its architects or respects it's history.
This man received a Kennedy Center honor. I’m thinking he’s not being ignored.
Amen to that how wholesome and cool that era was.
Actually got to meet him in person right after this song dropped. It was crazy. The girls all around us wouldn't stop screaming. LL was super cool, really nice guy.
The hook on this song is so sentimental...makes me feel to cry. I wish we knew back then to cherish our 90's childhood. I miss it. So much 😢😢😢
I am 62 years old, I used to dance this song a lot.
So happy that he's stiill with his #1 " Around the Way Girl", his wife, Simone, after all these years! True Black Love!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yup❤. Through all the ups and downs…they still together
That MF got a side piece in Harlem
Shout out to those unknown singers in the chorus. Those vocals and hooks have been stuck in my head for decades.
Who’s here in 2024
🙋🏾♀️❤
Me😂
checking in.
😂🤝
Right here
1990 I remember this jam like it was yesterday ❤
Brings me back I could cry
I will always love this song. It will always have a place in my heart. I will never forget it. ❤️🔥✌️😌
I actually just love it, it's my first love of Ladies Love Cool James.🎙🎤✌️😎
No way you and her no you didn't tell me that is not true it doesn't matter unforgivable 🖤🤍🖤
My sister grew up liking him and the dallas cowboys you all had your fund
@@JennifeRae210 cool j will always be one of my greatest.respect
I was 11 when this came out. I'm 42 loved it the 1st time I heard. Love it now.
So u say 11 that means you were born in 79 cos this came out 1990 so u would be 43 or 44 so dont lie for clout
@@WayneMaher-uh5vzyes she was born in 79, because I was and just turned 44 October 😂
Damn i wish we can run it back one more time with our era
bruh music back in the day had substance! something this generation is missing smh!
HONEYS WATCHING BROTHERS ON THE BASKETBALL COURT,,,WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!!💯💯💯🫡🫡🫡🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥🔥🏀🏀🏀🙏🙏🙏
Man what a time the 90s was❤❤❤
LL's music always gives me a warm feeling inside. ❤️
LL got so many classic hits that make me miss the 90's...
LL gave me the confidence each and everyday to be the best version of myself. Thank you!
👋🏾
ALL THE HONEYS IN NYC LOVED THIS TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!!💯💯💯🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥🔥
Bring old school music back ❤
90s was something else straight pure and raw talent ll is a living legend.
32 yrs Later and still jamming this classic in summer 2023. The 90s was such a great time to be a kid ✊🏾💯
LL Cool J had a way of making all women feel special 😊
I never grew up in the 90's I was born in 2004 but my parents raised me on this music and though I never personally experienced the 90's I wish I could go back to those days with that vibe, with that atmosphere.... I'm an old soul at heart....
The Village was the spot to hang in the early 90s too...if you know,you know
He has so many hits! I think he’s underrated. ❤
Sometimes you're so good people take you for granted. He's definitely in the top 5 MC of all time. The amount of hits, impact on Hip Hop and lyrical skills is unmatched
Hard to Believe this was 33 Years Ago 😲😳 1990.
Shit eating me that we at 34' now, mannnn
The same year House Party came out.
🗣️ Perm in your hair or even a curly weave with your New Edition, Bobby Brown button on your sleeve 🔥 LL was spittin'
1990 perm in your hair or even a curly weave hair.
2023 I hate weave, I hate wigs, I hate perms, I hate women. 😂
@@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302 😢
Bobby Brown was popping back then! Those where the days!! Best era ever!!
I was 13 in 1990. This decade was when I learned 90% of what I carry through life as my mental toolkit to this day. I also appreciate knowing what the analogue world was like and friendships that existed on word of mouth communication and being present in the moment. Nothing beats the pure essence of being a child and carefree. Enjoy every minute life brings.
1990 but in the UK it was released in March 1991
It was nice to read this
I was born in 1991 and appreciate this, I felt the shift from analog to digital around 2005. I miss the old days...
wow , this sounds beautiful.. I wasn't yet a thought in my mother's mind at this time . I adore the recollections from others of the 90s.. I wonder if I can recreate this type of truly social and present upbringing for my child (if/when I have one)
OK Ms Big Lez 😍 she was killing the Music Videos In the 90's
The 90s a different vibe altogether. Miss those days
I miss those late 80s early 90s club songs. Also the clubs with the dim sparkling lights and glare I miss it 😢
Best song L ever made, easily. This sort of jam seems way more authentic coming from him than when he tried to act hard, it's just fun and relatable. That R&B hook just works.
I will never get tired of this song💃🏽
I like that song better california hotel my beloved 💜
“That’s all I need to get me in a good mood”- this jam! 🎶😄🎶🙌
I read this comment right during that line 😂
2:55 - pure perfection!!!!!!!!!!
I'm still jamming this track from my OG LLCoolJ as of 2024. The song evokes a lot of fond memories for me from listening to tracks from the hip-hop scene of the 1980s straight into the early 1990s when "Around The Way" was first released. Those were memorable years for me. LLCoolJ remains within the top five of my all-time hip-hop artistes.
Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee, I love you, you're from around the way."
THIS JOINT OWNED VIDEO MUSIC BOX!😎💯
I always live for minute 3:50 + of this song. The background vocals were the 🍒 on top. 😍
Omg that is my favorite part also
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Those were Darren and his brother Cliff Lighty
This song hits me in my middle school feels, late 80s early 90s feels, the nostalgia is real.
I Love the 90’s what a time to be
The 90's & real early 2000's will always be the BEST for hiphop & R&B!
💯🔥💯🔥
Marly Marl was THE producer in 90's. He was that dude.
What a great song. Impressed to see LL is still doing his thing in 2024 with Eminem also!!
LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out album is a classic from beginning to end!!
❤❤❤❤ 90s
The 90’s…many moons ago. Had to be there to understand!
Glad to be born in the 70s to rock the 80s and 90s was epic! ❤ yall for putting it out there!!
The 90s was the Golden Era of everything... Music, Sports, Movies, Animation, Crime, Cars, Clubs, and Corruption.😅
My favorite song of all time! It’s in my daily playlist 👑
It’s in my top five all-time as well for any artist. This and loungin is a nostalgic rush of being a city kid in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 90s in the sunshine with the city buildings across the beach 🏝️ 🏙️ 🌁
This should be at 2 billion views.
It's at 3.2 million now as I watch. Nice!!
Another timeless classic uncle LL is one is one a true living legend 🎉thank you for blessing us with your talent.
I really miss the 90's,, things were soo much fun and easier back then and everyone got along without trying so hard 💯💯
Truth ❤❤❤❤❤
Right at the top of the 90's too!!
This songs comes to mind on every trip to NYC. Thanks LL
Anyone here 2024?? 😁
Right here with you 🤎😜
I was born during the right era of rap music nowadays WTH is the new so called music is doing.
BONG
This was my SH*T!!!! A true legend!
Yall we are SO BLESSED to have been apart of the era in time. #The90s it was the fashion , the music , the radio stations , BET, MTv , Vh1 all played music videos. The tv shows OMG We really got lucky to have been and grow in during this time. ❤
ABSOLUTE TRUTH,,,IT WAS AN AMAZING TIME!!!!🙏🙏🙏🫡🫡🫡
Love this classic!…makes me feel like it’s 1991 every time I hear it… good vibes 😎👑🎼🎶🎵💫✨🌟⭐️
He's a music genius, and very cute !.
As a white British Woman he was one of my first crushes when I was about 10
It's the cheeky smile and the glint in his eyes..You can tell that he's a good lad..I hear his music and it takes me back to being a kid
I miss how simple things used to feel. Before life became complex.. this song brings so much nostalgia.
BLACK GIRLS! Nobody does it better ❤
😆
Racist.why can’t you listen to what you’re saying? What if a white person said that? You’d call aclu for g sake. Racism is a two way street.
One of my ultimate favorite songs from LL!!!🤍
Y'all know that I'm obsessed w/ this record. The video is finally available on his page. Such a fun and simple time in life. My big cousins and I made a step to this song. We even had my dad join us. This record just makes me smile, dance and remember the sweetest time in my life. I grew up in this era.
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Still GOLD after 30+ years‼️#QUEENS
9 of cups please 🙏 ❤️
Happy tears. Wow. Im so grateful to have lived as a teenager in the 90s. The best ever. Girls were so sweet and beautiful also.
This my shite the young ones don't know bout the video cameras. When life was so Simple. 🫡❤️
A forever Jam...
Welp, won’t see any girls like this anymore with all this surgery going around lol at least we have the video and yes, the white girl is the best dancer in the video she killed it I’m sorry. (No shade Big Lez) This is classic classic 🥰🥰🙌🏽 !
One of the coldest songs ever…😊❤…
LL Cool J is so fine 💖 I loved him since I was 7 years old 😍😍😍😍😍
@LLcoolJmusics OMG I love you so much 😘🥰🥰🥰🥰
@LLcoolJmusics what's your number?
This was one of my favourite hip-hop songs growing up… not only was it a dope song, he also said my name in the lyrics ☺️
Yeah LL Cool J is a great raper and he will always be missed, okay tell me how long have you been an LL Cool J fan?
If I could go back in time to any year it would be 1990.
We need a time machine 😢
I hope all whos in this video are doing well. Kids, homes, grans.... & 4 all who were called home to rest, you are remembered through the music! God bless yall!
A true classic!!!
One of LL's best tracks 🙏🏽
MY ERA IS UNDEFEATED!!!!!🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥🔥🤎🤎🤎
If only you'd contributed something to it.
@@Masutora OF COURSE I DID,,,HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GOT HERE!!!💯💯💯
@@reallife0728😂
@@reallife0728Love it. (class of 93)
Facts!!
MASTERPIECE