HALF A MILL IS THEE BEST MC IVE HEARD VERY INTRICATE VERY GIFTED DELIVERY , DISTINCTIVE VOICE AND IMAGINATION. ITS 2021 I STILL AINT SEEN A NIGGA WITH THE FLYING SAUCER ENGINE
Man now you Got Me in My Bag Now I Gotta Go And Turn My G On Cause I Can't Even Listen To This Bullshitt Of Today Man ima be 100 years old and I'm Still Going To Go Back And Bang That Half Shit.
half a mil will always be one of my greatest MCS he sparked the mic with knowledge of self and was beyond any other elite rappers level period 100,000,000,000
"I don't gotta carry a gun I'm protected You get within five feet of the prince And dont yell what up or bet it Them young niggas will cut you cemetric And yall cant be us you hustle dyslexic" Still bumping vegas 20 years later All his music aged well.
Nas said when I was 12 I went to hell for snuffing jesus.We all went crazy over that line...I'm sure Ali Vegas heard it..He cant say he didn't look up to nas..
Right I Don't Get Why People Don't Give Mill Gates Aka Half A Mill His Respect He Definitely After He Been Gone for Years Definitely In my Top 5 Nigga Only 1 Other Rapper Other Than Nasty Nas That Got Busy On Az on A Song And Az in My Top 3 Forever Rap Greatness.
@Isaiah “ u call yourself the PONY(prince of New York), so watch how I HORSE the game, ain’t my fault u got lost in it mane! U miss your GENERATION, and I’m Leading this one, I’m feasting while ya’ll fast....”
@@frankwhite7109 he was signed to trackmasters entertainment which stoute owned. Ali fumbled his opportunity that's all. Ali signed bad label deals which is his fault. He is bitter towards nas for almost 20 years.
Good hearing from Vegas, but Gully didn't seem to know Ali's catalog. He didn't ask Ali enough questions about Ali. The interview was questions about Stack, Nas and Half A Mill. Like you mentioned, you gotta at least ask Vegas about The Specialist, although Anyone is my favorite Ali joint.
Gully Great Topic To Choose To Get Information From Somebody That Used To Kick It With Half I Miss My G Flow And Rhymes Son Was So Far Ahead of His Time With That Pen Game.
@@rauakbar1 By Your Side, Anyone, Love At First Sight, etc. Ali made them joints that you REALLY felt. He put his life in those lyrics and the instrumental fit perfectly with his rhymes.
Naw Gully you hit it on the head when you said was it more so when people compare you to greatness you start inspiring to be that...THATS WHAT IT WAS I REMEMBER!!! At 6:10 mark Vegas said "I didnt even know who he was" 🤣🤣🤣 He on here cappin bro! We the same age both born in 82, it's no way he was compared to Rakim he aint old enough. He never use to say that when asked in old interviews about being compared to Nas. He know damn well Nas was inspired by Rakim so he tryna sneak that rhetoric in there 🤣😂😂😂 trust me ima Ali Vegas FAN, his music came out in 1999 and early 2000's when 50 first came out, when Vegas had the King Of NY joint and was on In Too Deep soundtrack so ain't no way Vegas ain't no who Nas was in 99. Vegas said his people had to play Nas for him, that would've had to been in 93/94 when Vegas was 10/11 years old...CAP 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But vegas said in the interview he was rapping around 9 years old.....seem like one of these young niggaz that been around older gs his entire life just gaining knowledge
His pride won't let hom admit it. Nas doesn't acknowledge him like he never existed. Its deep. That was his idol. Imagine meeting your idol & je become tour rival. Ali was only 16.
@@jusforever8185 Nah! Lets not get crazy. Ive heard the demos made in 90 91 w Large. Sounded like Rakim. Ali was amazing but he was mimickin Nas too much. Then he threw shots when the magazines called him out on it. "Yall critics gotta alotta nerve Im him to the 3rd! A new King has emerged" After that it was a wrap. Nas went back at him on Projects Too Hot.
I been trying to figure this guy out forever: immediate phenom, even more mysterious how he never blew, buttt, i tried over the years to give the Nas thing a chance but, at this point.. seems a little obsessive
@@frankwhite7109 no he didn't. He signed bad label deals. First it was trackmasters casablanca and Lamar odom label so the trackmasters he was young. The other two he should've known better which is his fault. N166a been blaming nas for 20 years for not doing a record with him. Son is goofy.
A Naw Gully We Ain't Letting That Slide A Get Vegas Back On The Court I Need To Know Who Out Here Claiming To Be A God Mc And Ain't Writing There Rhymes Naw That Shit Not Sitting Right With Me Cause I Take This Music Shit To The Heart Yo Vegas We Need That Info Cannon.
And I Fucks With You Cause You Fucks With My Boy Oddie Too Make Sure You Stay On His Biscuit And Make Sure He Stay In That Studio Too I Got Hit Oddie Up Too That's My Guy Grew up Together But You Already Know Where He Been Most of His life.
Right n166a still salty. Son been lying on esco for years. Steve stout played you against nas and filled ya head up with the nas fear me stuff. Nas went to war with pac big jayz 50 dipset and all qb rappers still maintained his spot. He feared you. Yeah ok dawg.
@@heybuddy7789 Nas that nigga, but I feel Ali about Nas not showing him the ropes about the industry. Think about it, Ali was younger, was lyrical like Nas, had that look that the chicks liked like Nas and they both was from Queens. Nas probably felt a lil threatened and didn't want to help the young cat with the buzz blow up.
@@al5603 Being from Queens and being from Queensbridge is two totally different things... He looked like Nas and rhymed liked him... So why would he show a younger him that he ain’t eating off of the ropes? That’s not realistic... Plus he over here acting like he ain’t know Nas... Dude got washed in the first round of that Blaze battle... The reason why him, Bathgate and Secario didn’t make it was because we already had the guys that they sounded like... Vegas was and is not as good as he thinks he is and was!
Gully he did retaliate but it was shots not a real diss track. He dissed em on million dollar baby mixtape but can’t find that shit now. Some of the freestyles are on UA-cam. But he was getting at clue as well
Your from queens god, how are yo 10 years you than nas and didn't listen to him, but you listened to biggie who was popping at the same time nas was popping?? If you heard big you heard nas, that illmatic album was ringing all across America yo, stop capping yo,I like you but give nas his props homie 👊🏿👍🏿 and your whole set up nas, the voice the flow, nothing like rakim ,more of nas in your flow yo
@@mr.enigma4475 makes sense, most rappers like 50 cent & Jay z put the brakes on other rappers careers... like they did Jadakiss & DMX just to name a few in that order.
n166a still salty. Son been lying on esco for years. Steve stout played you against nas and filled ya head up with the nas fear me stuff. Nas went to war with pac big jayz 50 dipset and all qb rappers still maintained his spot. He feared you. Yeah ok dawg.
You damn sure teamed up with Stack foh, lol but nah he nice but something about his story seem like I'm missing something.. but I still listen to drops from back in the day so I ain't complaining
His story keep changing. 1st it's clue 2nd nas than now it's the labels coming after him because he didn't sign with them. Son has never taken accountability for signing with bad sub labels i.e. trackmasters, casablanca and Lamar odom label.
Alexa play stillmatic intro. Hate to cease ya plan it's the raps repoman. Son never recovered from fab, stack or blaze battles. Why don't you tell the world you turned the Sony deal when trackmasters got dropped? How you blackballed in the industry if a major trying to sign you? His story never added up to me.
The Ali Vegas Nas comparison comes to an end now!!! There is no comparison!!’ Nas dam near the 🐐 Ali Vegas had a light mainstream buzz and some hood classics… With that said Ali wasn’t blackballed and he was never even slightly close to Nas…. And deff not Fuckin with Stack Bundles…truthfully Ali Vegas got the joint on the In Too Deep soundtrack and Tuff Guy wit Half A Mill other than that he really don’t have even a slight career… Stack Bundles run from 04-07 is better than Vegas whole career tbh just the facts
HALF A MILL IS THEE BEST MC IVE HEARD VERY INTRICATE VERY GIFTED DELIVERY , DISTINCTIVE VOICE AND IMAGINATION. ITS 2021 I STILL AINT SEEN A NIGGA WITH THE FLYING SAUCER ENGINE
Man I'm Mad That Cats Don't Mention Him In The Top5 Doa Conversation Cause He Definitely In My Top 5 And He Definitely In My Top 3.
Man now you Got Me in My Bag Now I Gotta Go And Turn My G On Cause I Can't Even Listen To This Bullshitt Of Today Man ima be 100 years old and I'm Still Going To Go Back And Bang That Half Shit.
AZ switched his entire style and subject matter on Pieces of a Man and The Firm album! Half’s energy was definitely felt! He’s one of my favs too!
They mad because we jump out of cabs and hop on the bus
FACTS gully, or Kaiser Caser intentions
half a mil will always be one of my greatest MCS he sparked the mic with knowledge of self and was beyond any other elite rappers level period 100,000,000,000
"I don't gotta carry a gun I'm protected
You get within five feet of the prince
And dont yell what up or bet it
Them young niggas will cut you cemetric
And yall cant be us you hustle dyslexic"
Still bumping vegas 20 years later
All his music aged well.
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Realist shit I ever wrote 10.6.23 est@1400hrs NYC
That dude Vegas had BARS!!! 🔥🔥🔥... R.I.P. to the 🐐 Stack Bundles too 🙏🏿💯
I was listening to half a mill when this popped up. But then again i listen to half everyday.
Damn, thank you @Gully! I was always a big Ali Vegas fan and wanted to see him blow! This man always been held back and underrated! 💯💯💯
Nas said when I was 12 I went to hell for snuffing jesus.We all went crazy over that line...I'm sure Ali Vegas heard it..He cant say he didn't look up to nas..
You know he's capping lol
No matter how much you keep it real,
You gotta sleep with steel,
Cause if your foes don't kill you,
Then yo peoples will🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My ish!!
Thank you I've been waiting for this Hal-A-Mil is the best!!!!!!!!!!
I love this Vegas that’s my mans and dem Respect to gully for this interview
The best get held back. This is why they say the industry is fake.
Salute to Ali Vegas! Ali got a bunch of shit that I bump, but his song Anyone is REALLY my shit. That joint stays in constant rotation in the truck.
Peace to the Prince of the town . Always getting down. We use Record songs in the basement putting the tissue in the tape
Shout out to Ali Vegas !!!! R.i.p. Half A MiL!!!
That was the blaze battle on HBO
i thought so
Word and eyedea won and he was wack he dead now so rip
A Gully I Gotta Give You Mad Props For Shotting Half Out Damm My G Was a Monster On That Mic.
Half a mill he was one of the greatest to ever touch the microphone lyrically Brooklyn’s finest St. John’s Avenue
Right I Don't Get Why People Don't Give Mill Gates Aka Half A Mill His Respect He Definitely After He Been Gone for Years Definitely In my Top 5 Nigga Only 1 Other Rapper Other Than Nasty Nas That Got Busy On Az on A Song And Az in My Top 3 Forever Rap Greatness.
#StackBundles!🙏🏼🐐🗽 #Sssquad🆙💯
They mad cause we jump outta cabs n hop on the bus.... I thought it was only me
Veg is so underatd!
💪Veg bouta be 40 & Still look like a Teenager💪
Vegas ain't that old to be compared to Rakim.....it was always Nas and sometimes some songs Jay-Z
Facts then fab n cain crushed him
I think vegas said he looked up to rakim, but niggaz was comparing him to nas.....
#alilujah Veg Been one of the Illest since day 1. Rip Half Rip Stack
REST IN PEACE EYEDEA , FROM SAINT PAUL MN CHEROKEE PARK THE GAWD NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN ABOUT. ONE OF THE BEST BATTLERS EVER
He dead?
Veg always mentions Sleep aka Eyes Low! A Queens legend!
STACK BUNDLES MENTIONED HIM TOO
@@THEREALGULLYTV eyes low is from linden and 132st.
@Isaiah “ u call yourself the PONY(prince of New York), so watch how I HORSE the game, ain’t my fault u got lost in it mane! U miss your GENERATION, and I’m Leading this one, I’m feasting while ya’ll fast....”
That's my guy I spoke to half a mil few weeks before he passed real and great mind
Vegas is still one of my fav mcs.. boy get busy and yet he gets no shine
Only thing Ali need is new music and let the past go
The song by Ali Vegas invincible produced by Premier has Sleepy Eyes featured on it.
Urban Wolves did that champ..he never had a primo jawn ....sadly
Chop Diesel Dream Team
@@frankwhite7109 fax
Good interview on both sides Half was ahead of his time like he came straight out of 2025
Veg acted accordingly on this one.. He knew gully audience
This the one Gully
You got me hype spitting them bars for tuff guy lol
He missed his time. Vegas should've got his piece of the pie in the late 90s
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the dribble undefeated
I always liked ali. He just needs a new crew or link with someone to showcase his talents.
Manger. He needed some1 like Stoute. Bimmy tried to help him. He went thru alotta situations.
@@frankwhite7109 he was signed to trackmasters entertainment which stoute owned. Ali fumbled his opportunity that's all. Ali signed bad label deals which is his fault. He is bitter towards nas for almost 20 years.
Excellent interview 🏀
Peace Lords another Banger... HalfaMil Aka the Freestyle Scholar 😊 #MillaTronIsThrGREATEST
In THE WINTER HAVING COOK OUTS SMACK MY WIZ LOOK
MILLIE -ANKA USE TO SMOKE BLUNTS WIT BENNY BLANCA🔥🔥🔥
Damn! Deo was the 1 who signed discovered him. That was Az manager. Deo a good dude. Responsible for Heavy D Pete Rock CL Smooth.
Ali Vegas Big Pun half-a-mil
Dope interview
Gully Laughing 😂
shout out my man PI
Gully got the ill interviews. Take it back to The Specialist joint b
Good hearing from Vegas, but Gully didn't seem to know Ali's catalog. He didn't ask Ali enough questions about Ali. The interview was questions about Stack, Nas and Half A Mill. Like you mentioned, you gotta at least ask Vegas about The Specialist, although Anyone is my favorite Ali joint.
@@al5603 I TOLD HIM I WANTED TO INTERVIEW HIM TO TALK ABOUT HALF. THIS WAS A "TOPIC" INTERVIEW
Gully Great Topic To Choose To Get Information From Somebody That Used To Kick It With Half I Miss My G Flow And Rhymes Son Was So Far Ahead of His Time With That Pen Game.
@@al5603 My favorite joint was By Your Side. That was my shit. He was dumb nice. Only young cats I listened to were him and A+.
@@rauakbar1 By Your Side, Anyone, Love At First Sight, etc. Ali made them joints that you REALLY felt. He put his life in those lyrics and the instrumental fit perfectly with his rhymes.
Peace To The God's, Nice One GullyTV
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He wrote for Snoop by his body language lol
and jayz
Wtf?
Naw Gully you hit it on the head when you said was it more so when people compare you to greatness you start inspiring to be that...THATS WHAT IT WAS I REMEMBER!!! At 6:10 mark Vegas said "I didnt even know who he was" 🤣🤣🤣 He on here cappin bro! We the same age both born in 82, it's no way he was compared to Rakim he aint old enough. He never use to say that when asked in old interviews about being compared to Nas. He know damn well Nas was inspired by Rakim so he tryna sneak that rhetoric in there 🤣😂😂😂 trust me ima Ali Vegas FAN, his music came out in 1999 and early 2000's when 50 first came out, when Vegas had the King Of NY joint and was on In Too Deep soundtrack so ain't no way Vegas ain't no who Nas was in 99. Vegas said his people had to play Nas for him, that would've had to been in 93/94 when Vegas was 10/11 years old...CAP 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That a whole 💯
Vegas is a dope rapper from the late 90s... There's no need for a new narrative now, we all know the deal.
But vegas said in the interview he was rapping around 9 years old.....seem like one of these young niggaz that been around older gs his entire life just gaining knowledge
Facts!
His pride won't let hom admit it. Nas doesn't acknowledge him like he never existed. Its deep. That was his idol. Imagine meeting your idol & je become tour rival. Ali was only 16.
@@jusforever8185 Nah! Lets not get crazy. Ive heard the demos made in 90 91 w Large. Sounded like Rakim. Ali was amazing but he was mimickin Nas too much. Then he threw shots when the magazines called him out on it. "Yall critics gotta alotta nerve Im him to the 3rd! A new King has emerged" After that it was a wrap. Nas went back at him on Projects Too Hot.
Mr. Vegas! Come to Memphis!!!
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I been trying to figure this guy out forever: immediate phenom, even more mysterious how he never blew, buttt, i tried over the years to give the Nas thing a chance but, at this point.. seems a little obsessive
Ali got blackballed...
@@frankwhite7109 no he didn't. He signed bad label deals. First it was trackmasters casablanca and Lamar odom label so the trackmasters he was young. The other two he should've known better which is his fault. N166a been blaming nas for 20 years for not doing a record with him. Son is goofy.
Nas wins a Grammy here these saltine queens cats come out the woodwork.
Facts!
@@ryno6040 Veg not salty, he told this story before. Plus he still big Nas up to this day!
A Naw Gully We Ain't Letting That Slide A Get Vegas Back On The Court I Need To Know Who Out Here Claiming To Be A God Mc And Ain't Writing There Rhymes Naw That Shit Not Sitting Right With Me Cause I Take This Music Shit To The Heart Yo Vegas We Need That Info Cannon.
WORD
And I Fucks With You Cause You Fucks With My Boy Oddie Too Make Sure You Stay On His Biscuit And Make Sure He Stay In That Studio Too I Got Hit Oddie Up Too That's My Guy Grew up Together But You Already Know Where He Been Most of His life.
This fully is lame
Stopped at 701...Boy you knew who nas was..
Right n166a still salty. Son been lying on esco for years. Steve stout played you against nas and filled ya head up with the nas fear me stuff. Nas went to war with pac big jayz 50 dipset and all qb rappers still maintained his spot. He feared you. Yeah ok dawg.
@@heybuddy7789 Nas that nigga, but I feel Ali about Nas not showing him the ropes about the industry. Think about it, Ali was younger, was lyrical like Nas, had that look that the chicks liked like Nas and they both was from Queens. Nas probably felt a lil threatened and didn't want to help the young cat with the buzz blow up.
@@al5603 he a clown he tied to act like he didn't look up to nas...
@@heybuddy7789 We all knew about nas back then...The nigga was talking about when I was 12 I went to hell for snuffing jesus wtf
@@al5603 Being from Queens and being from Queensbridge is two totally different things... He looked like Nas and rhymed liked him... So why would he show a younger him that he ain’t eating off of the ropes? That’s not realistic... Plus he over here acting like he ain’t know Nas... Dude got washed in the first round of that Blaze battle... The reason why him, Bathgate and Secario didn’t make it was because we already had the guys that they sounded like... Vegas was and is not as good as he thinks he is and was!
Kick Tha DOORS TOO YA HUMMER IN🔥🔥🔥
Gully he did retaliate but it was shots not a real diss track. He dissed em on million dollar baby mixtape but can’t find that shit now. Some of the freestyles are on UA-cam. But he was getting at clue as well
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Your from queens god, how are yo 10 years you than nas and didn't listen to him, but you listened to biggie who was popping at the same time nas was popping?? If you heard big you heard nas, that illmatic album was ringing all across America yo, stop capping yo,I like you but give nas his props homie 👊🏿👍🏿 and your whole set up nas, the voice the flow, nothing like rakim ,more of nas in your flow yo
It AINT NO FAIR ONES THEIRS ONLY FAIR WELLS
Wow! How I miss this? This Kid had next @ 16 in 99...Really feel for Ali. Industry did him dirty. He was only a teen. Sad!
Fuck Wit THE BULL...YOU GET HORNS
ALI VEGAS ILL WIT SALUTE 100
Ali Vegas lost to Eyedea #RIP in that Blaze battle
On another note, Ali killed that The Specialist beat from the In Too Deep soundtrack
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What fucks him up is the fact that he’s proud to be sounding like someone else. I’m sure nas wasn’t feeling that who would.
Word. I strongly feel Steve Stoute pulled some power moves and had industry doors closed on Vegas
@@mr.enigma4475 makes sense, most rappers like 50 cent & Jay z put the brakes on other rappers careers... like they did Jadakiss & DMX just to name a few in that order.
n166a still salty. Son been lying on esco for years. Steve stout played you against nas and filled ya head up with the nas fear me stuff. Nas went to war with pac big jayz 50 dipset and all qb rappers still maintained his spot. He feared you. Yeah ok dawg.
That makes the most sense to me. Stoute pulled some heavy strings.
@@mr.enigma4475 facts
Veg needs to understand business. If ur not signed to nas theres no need for nas to give u an alley oop. Foh.
Its a lil more than that. It was personal. Not business. He was 16.
“Y’all niggas is Trash!!!” RIP Stack
Son... that was definitely a shot at stack.. lol but Stack is better
I see why he never popped. He think he too cool. You too cool, you gonna lpse
Yep! That's the rep he got in the industry. He got a big head early and nothing ever popped. Not his fault. He was a kid who had rhe most talent.
You damn sure teamed up with Stack foh, lol but nah he nice but something about his story seem like I'm missing something.. but I still listen to drops from back in the day so I ain't complaining
Fab bodied this kid do did stack but he gon say clue blackballed him.....
His story keep changing. 1st it's clue 2nd nas than now it's the labels coming after him because he didn't sign with them. Son has never taken accountability for signing with bad sub labels i.e. trackmasters, casablanca and Lamar odom label.
Facts
Alexa play stillmatic intro. Hate to cease ya plan it's the raps repoman. Son never recovered from fab, stack or blaze battles. Why don't you tell the world you turned the Sony deal when trackmasters got dropped? How you blackballed in the industry if a major trying to sign you? His story never added up to me.
GO LISTEN TO MAHOGANY
10 AVEIES
I actually like Ali Vegas better than Nas... too bad they Black ball him. The best from Queens, NY
Generation Gap is a classick.
Oh shit its like that was for Nas. ?? And Nas passed on the beat?? Wtf. Thats one of jayz best songs. Lol
Allah Akbar!!!
Stack was better than Vegas and 98% better than the rest of these rappers
The Ali Vegas Nas comparison comes to an end now!!! There is no comparison!!’ Nas dam near the 🐐 Ali Vegas had a light mainstream buzz and some hood classics… With that said Ali wasn’t blackballed and he was never even slightly close to Nas…. And deff not Fuckin with Stack Bundles…truthfully Ali Vegas got the joint on the In Too Deep soundtrack and Tuff Guy wit Half A Mill other than that he really don’t have even a slight career… Stack Bundles run from 04-07 is better than Vegas whole career tbh just the facts
Ali lying. He on a Dvd saying Nas was his favorite. He got his flow from Illmatic. He still hurt in his feelings.
he was destined to be king....
They stopped that, but I wish he was still nice....he is not.
Alphabet Paper
Son nice but he got issues with his self
Million excuses