Was lucky enough to get this on one of my Stretch and Bobbito KCR 89.9 tapes back in the day. Must have pressed rewind at the end of this song at least 50 times. The mighty Mos at his finest.
i remember hearing this for the first time on Stretch & Bob, recorded it on a 90 minute cassette flexing the next day at school. salute Yasiin/Mos and J. Period for this classic.
Mos Def makes me wish I was born & raised in Brooklyn............this man is pure genius!! I met him and he is mad cool. I always catch mad wreck to this song (that's dancing my a** off to the hip hop impaired).
This was the Jam back in the 6th grade!!! I remember hearing this song when my bro bought the single which also contained "If you can Huh you can hear". Just remember that was one of his first records that he bought when first started to mess with Turntables. Ah those were the days...
When they first broke this track on college radio over here, I knew this was the future of Hip Hop, this was the next level shit that all the underground heads was starving for!
Same. CAU student living on Stokes Ave, a few blocks from the Cascade Kroger, Churches Chicken and the cheap Chinese food spots. Had my tape decks set for WRAS, WRFG and WCLK all day every day. 🖤✊🏽
@@77Creation wow, I stayed on Holderness ave, closer to Lucille ave. WRAS ha the hip hop on saturday with Iras, and sunday had the reggae. Never once ate at the chinese spot across from kroger looked suspect. The malcom x festival at the west end park was right down the street, and I usually ate Yasin's or Soul Vegeterial... LOL and got my books from the shrine. ofthe black madonna. west end aint the same, its gentrified now
That bassline is slick as fukk!! Along with the Hannah-Barbara, reptilian sound effects in the back was straight killin 'em!! Lol Summer of '97 was phenomenal, man....
yall hate on most def as you bump his songs on you tube. that says alot. and yall picked def too, one of the most underrated and unappreciated to have contributed to hip hop. i sincerely wish his career hadnt been so short lived he coulda been in this game for years more
@AntonioVillaJr This track was an underground track before mos def was signed to a major label. It was on Black on Both Side, it was an underground single.
Baby it's in my chromosomes to ROCK/Microphones sets who wanna test the M-O/Best to leave that nigga alone/I make no bones or poems about droppin bars/I make the world full swing under the Mos Def YES/I ring the alarm like tennis sore/My style hella-raw, I keep it raw bone like Skeletor oooh the good old days
Even if Mos def didnt have ill rhymes he has amazing delivery and hes always making reference to older hip hop songs witch is important now adays because kids dont know anything pre 1996.I bet you are one of those kids thats why you dont like it you dont understand that the rhymes are supposed to sound simplistic.Mos def is AMAZING and dropping smart lyrics with that old school hype sound.You just have no respect for the culture or its roots
Love it's bigger than hip hop gin and juice pump pump heltah skeltah shook ones part 2 D.P.G Mecca and the Soul Brother Luchini Blackstar Latyrx Bad Meets Evil - new song*! lol
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Mos Def forever. Just a real guy who happens to be insanely talented.
its our job as future parents to show our future children what REAL music is.
Life isn't just about material and drugs.
This ain't nothing to do with real or fake
Great as an old hiphopjunkie to discover when one of your kids sends you a link of something like Jinxtro - Nahncenz.
All is not lost 😁
@@korruptnovellst4751 most definitely :)
Was lucky enough to get this on one of my Stretch and Bobbito KCR 89.9 tapes back in the day. Must have pressed rewind at the end of this song at least 50 times. The mighty Mos at his finest.
Anyone in 2018 wishing hip hop had evolved into sumpin like this? Mos definitely , this is hip hop to me!
Illest Mos Def track of all time!!!
Rawkus era shit was the bomb
hell yeah... they never put out an alum/single I didnt like... RIP Rawkus
Im rappin' Rawkus will reborn
This is better than anything in mainstream now
Most definitely!
Its all mathematics here :)
Still true in 2021
Fax wtf is the crap being played today. Only few is decent in my opinion.
This brother is untouchable. Mad skills & rather unique 👊👌🔪
i remember hearing this for the first time on Stretch & Bob, recorded it on a 90 minute cassette flexing the next day at school. salute Yasiin/Mos and J. Period for this classic.
Mos Def makes me wish I was born & raised in Brooklyn............this man is pure genius!! I met him and he is mad cool. I always catch mad wreck to this song (that's dancing my a** off to the hip hop impaired).
You can thank Shawn J. Period for this beat. One of the most under-appreciated producers in the world.
Yes indeed
Genius production!
Very very true
Agrred 🇬🇧
This track is on the first soundbombing LP It came out back in '97. & it got some other bangers on there too!
This track is a lesson in Hip-hop Greatness! Someone please inform the future! Thank you.
This was the Jam back in the 6th grade!!! I remember hearing this song when my bro bought the single which also contained "If you can Huh you can hear". Just remember that was one of his first records that he bought when first started to mess with Turntables. Ah those were the days...
Still getting goosebumps in 2019
Right here with ya!!!
Damn, takes me back to Summer, 97!
I almost got tired of hearing it after being played so much on the local hip hop radio shows.
LOVE HIS JAZZY BEATS HE USE THIS IS OFF THE HOOK
Probably one the best debut album ever
This and "Next Universe" and "If You Can Huh! You Can Hear" and most Mos Def songs are amazing
Legendary from the first time hearing it on the Beat Junkies mix tape from the 90’s...good ol days
best debut track any artist has EVER made..nuff said
The Universal Magnetic, u must respect it!!!! Mos Def=supreme flow
His flow and rhyme scheme sounded very Q Tip influenced
He considers Q-Tip one of his style fathers, and he's also considered a Native Tongue family member.
*Nasal flow.
That was my main issue with him at the time. He sounded too much like Tip at the time.
Good choice most of what I have done in music is Q Tip Influenced
From the Sound Bombin album in 1997. Pure classic shit.
Shawn J. Period!!!!!!!
The ONE who does rap from heart
forgotten gem this one. Love like thisssss!
hes the true meaning of a lyrisist its asif he doesnt have to think about what he says its just so natural n sounds fucking awesome
I got this on vinyl...double homie!
I love mos def
Mos Def.... he certainly is.
shame mos def's heart wasn't really in rapping, he really is an unfulfilled genius
Sick beat in this
The unsung God of Rap
Mos Def da master 😤😤😤😤😤😤
its the Mighty Mos Def!!!
I thought hip hop was gonna be like this forever damn where did we fail
When they first broke this track on college radio over here, I knew this was the future of Hip Hop, this was the next level shit that all the underground heads was starving for!
....what i like about mos is that i can understand everything he is sayin......
Love this Track. Also a huge fan of MATHEMATICS. Mos and Talib need to cut another Blackstarr album.
brings me back to when I used to live in the west end (atl) and when I bagged my joints from fat beats atlanta
Same. CAU student living on Stokes Ave, a few blocks from the Cascade Kroger, Churches Chicken and the cheap Chinese food spots.
Had my tape decks set for WRAS, WRFG and WCLK all day every day. 🖤✊🏽
@@77Creation wow, I stayed on Holderness ave, closer to Lucille ave. WRAS ha the hip hop on saturday with Iras, and sunday had the reggae. Never once ate at the chinese spot across from kroger looked suspect. The malcom x festival at the west end park was right down the street, and I usually ate Yasin's or Soul Vegeterial... LOL and got my books from the shrine. ofthe black madonna. west end aint the same, its gentrified now
this is music DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!
"i reply the u-n-i-v-e-r-s-a-l magnetic work to respect angelic..."
Stretch and bobbito show use to bump this joint alot
“Most of yall brothas is living with ya mothers, boogie man yanking up ya covers” 😂
That bassline is slick as fukk!! Along with the Hannah-Barbara, reptilian sound effects in the back was straight killin 'em!! Lol Summer of '97 was phenomenal, man....
My god ❤️❤️❤️❤️ this is life
Listened to this one back then until the vinyl wore down the vinyl.
This is hard asf🔥🔥
Amazing
" i keep it raw bone like skelator" - LOVE THAT LINE!
MOS DEF
bringin me back. that is the da.y~its still here right now tho, word to that tho, b.
that beat though
yall hate on most def as you bump his songs on you tube. that says alot. and yall picked def too, one of the most underrated and unappreciated to have contributed to hip hop. i sincerely wish his career hadnt been so short lived he coulda been in this game for years more
I heard this track on Stretch and Bobbito on WKCR.
98bigbutt yo yo yo yo yo yo!!
@AntonioVillaJr This track was an underground track before mos def was signed to a major label. It was on Black on Both Side, it was an underground single.
Name one M.C. that fux with mos? "mos uh ya brovas iz livin witcha muthaz"
the classic rawkus days
This is the shit!!! Mos did it once again!!!
All I could remember was the line 'whether you speak Japanese or goonie goo goo' so thatd what I googled and here we are, found this 💎
he sounds so young
if you like this, you will like next universe even better. its basically the original version of this. it has the same chorus
Baby it's in my chromosomes to ROCK/Microphones sets who wanna test the M-O/Best to leave that nigga alone/I make no bones or poems about droppin bars/I make the world full swing under the Mos Def YES/I ring the alarm like tennis sore/My style hella-raw, I keep it raw bone like Skeletor
oooh the good old days
tingokuman Shout out ur pro pic.. Itachi the Black Star of Naruto
"Whether You Speak Japanese Or Guni Gu Gu" hahah Eddie Murphey Delirious,,,,,(ithink)
Even if Mos def didnt have ill rhymes he has amazing delivery and hes always making reference to older hip hop songs witch is important now adays because kids dont know anything pre 1996.I bet you are one of those kids thats why you dont like it you dont understand that the rhymes are supposed to sound simplistic.Mos def is AMAZING and dropping smart lyrics with that old school hype sound.You just have no respect for the culture or its roots
this song gives me the feeling that im back in NY like if you feel the same way
yea he gives him a shout out in the song and i always wondered who "shawn J" was
must of been golden days lol
20 years later....
to fucking dope!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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what? he has some kick-ass roles.. hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, be kind rewind, 16 blocks, the italian job.. just my opinion...
dj rhettmatic's mixtape version of this sounds absolutely incredible.
it doesn't get much better.
Even when da record skip...
best shit he ever did
Love it's bigger than hip hop gin and juice pump pump heltah skeltah shook ones part 2 D.P.G Mecca and the Soul Brother Luchini Blackstar Latyrx Bad Meets Evil - new song*! lol
it was mainstream in da 90s
yes yes yes
#FreeMosDef
You must be crazy dude.
what album is this off???
@tmanley111
This track actually preceded "Next Universe".
can someone please give me a list of old school rappers similar to 2pac, biggie, mos def, NWA, and eazy-e
This was released a year before BOBS. It's a good track, but outside of "Do It Now", there isn't another track on that album I'd replace with this.
lol this is the best videogame ever
real shit yo
"So tell your whole wack ass crew to retire/ Before I make they ass catch fire like Richard Pryor"
reminds me of asheru
+KingKayhan i thought the same
I know you ment off but agreed!
I think it was a track on the first soundbombing....
@uzamaki205 keith murray, bone thugz n harmony, talib kweli, gang starr, and you might like MF DOOM and slum village too. happy hip hop hunting.
@Teefless thank you.
soft like baby doo doo.... haha.. barz!
,,,,,,,,,,,,,notYetAnyway hhaaahhhhaaaa
thank You
Gert
its a Living thing .....
@uzamaki205 Don't forget Rakim and Az
thats a bold statement--very arguable but can't keep Common out of the running
why wasn't this on black on both sides
there are 5 songs this could have replaced
sickkk as fuckk