I had an anthropology professor in 2011 say "Today we are going to listen to a song that depicts the how those struggling on the fringe of society might possibly operate outside normally accepted societal means to survive." I immediately asked "Is it Dead Prez's 'Hell Yeah'?" and the look on her face when she paused and said "....Yes" is still with me to this day. Needless to say I was the only one in class rapping along. Dr Amason, hope you're doing well.
Nooo brooo it's real rap... It's not in big label... It's in the hear... Im in Germany... I'm the best around By far... So by far... I rap like 2pac...but ask u self... Want universal 2pac? No hahha why when 69 made dumb music for the mass 🤣👍
2024 still bumping RBG album. Been bumping Dead Prez in LA since 11 in 6 th grade. Reciting every verse by heart to all my little homies including the jay z verse on the remix
most old school hip hop showed how it ended lol you never noticed those old songs people went to jail or died at the end? It was the whole damn point lol
@@EriPages It's a mini series starring Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, and Benny Safdie. Check out the trailer. I highly recommend you give it a chance. If you are able to view it, that is.
dead prez - is absolutely killing it on this one! If he saw the short on my channel about how these rappers are blowing up, he'd be getting way more hits.
its funny 2023 and I still think people dint get the message. The whole thing was like a buildup to the ending. But this track is so good its still stuck in my mind. Dead Prez are so underrated in the old school HipHop community. Thank you guys for giving me this track growing up, kept me on the right side even when I was doing wrong for myself ^^
Dead Prez is self-described as a politically revolutionary hip hop group. The message is that people at the bottom of society live in conditions and within systems that make these crimes almost necessary for survival. The ending is just another part of the oppression cycle the video is outlining. It's not a "this is the ending crimes deserve" type of message.
Who’s still slapping this in 2024? I been slapping this for 20 years since the RBG album dropped! All DP music is still relevant and only gets more relevant with time and the growth of capitalism and inequality. I’m Mexican and all my homies growing up loved Dead Prez. Revolution and resistance against white colonialism and capitalism is in our Aztec blood. DP showed love on “I have a dream too” with the Zapatista roll call/shout out! Big ups from LA. This song and RBG album are timeless
This video got me stuck the first time I watched this because before the song even started I was hit with a flash back of visiting Miami and having the exact same situation happen to me pulling down a wrong turn road. The only difference was I floored the gas and accelerated as fast as I could not slowing down for anything or anyone. Probably only reason I’m around still. Crazy how much truth is spit in this track. Way underrated for the knowledge being dropped in it. Dead prez is raw.
Awesome video and beautiful story-telling lyrics on how to make money..the ghetto way lol. Just remembers bankers and politicians steal money the legal way.
Khmerog1 this is not an awesome video at all to me, it is not beautiful story telling lyrics either, Public Emeny has awesome videos, and beautiful story telling lyrics all together.
Just come outta a 7 year relationship and saw someone talk about this tune, took me straight back to who I am, fuck, ahhh man this tune is too much. Went from drowning in pain to skankin out in my room 😂😂
That's what I thought ..... Generally people call u names but then can't explain why or anything ...it's like a triggered reaction that was propagated into ur consciousness and u don't even realize ...
"Got me flippin' burgers with no power, can't even buy one off what I make in an hour" "Don't put me on dishes, I'm droppin' them bitches and takin' all day long to mop your kitchen" Those have to be some of my favourite rhymes in rap!
@@rajukhatri8991 it takes a lot of time to understand this, because you gotta learn about power dynamics and labor strategies. on top of all that you gotta know your history. these dudes got life experience through community work and did a lot of reading but a good place to start is by looking up "work-to-rule" also look up how wages have stagnated while worker productivity has more than doubled in the past 50 years, plus you got inflation on top of that. minimum wage ain't been a livable wage for decades and politicians still fool people into thinking we're asking too much for $10-20/hour. the burger costing more than one hour of work is just a way of illustrating that point
I miss these guys for real. Last Time I saw Dead Prez was live in Cape Town South Africa and please believe me they were right on par Blunts Blowin and all. This is RAP.
@@ericdavison1710 Never really heard alot of his stuff, but Internal Affairs was a great album front to back...Its actually funny to me that the "hit" from the album that got a ton of air play was my least favorite song.
2004 to 2024. 20 years bumping RBG all across LA and IE! SoCal got mad love for Dead Prez. Especially us Mexicans. Being Revolutionary is in our blood and culture. From Moctezuma to Zapata to the EZLN, resisting white colonization and oppression is in our DNA just like our African brothers and sisters
@@lPOTCl I'm not entirely sure what the criticism is here. Like, was there something you disagreed with? Latin American nations do have a long history of resistance to colonial exploitation, so I can't really figure out what he said that you're contesting.
2024 and still slaps! 20 years later! DP is timeless and still extremely relevant. All of their albums are timeless and relevant (except for that one weird album “Information Age” lol the beats and flow were horrible but message was on point still) and only gets more relevant as capitalism grows along with inequality. the class gap between rich and poor gets bigger and the hood suffers more and gets worse.
I remember seeing this on BET uncut in the middle of the night in the early 2000s. These young cats dont know nuttin bout that life!! Was also on the 2 fast 2 furious soundtrack.
I heard this song when I was 12 years old, I’m 25 now and it bangs better than it did when I was young.. s/o to my dad for bringing all those dvd’s full of music videos back in those days… it took me 1 hour to try and find this song 😂
How; as a 24 year old hip-hop fanatic, who writes political philosophy in a MA program, and has a philosophy bachelor's; am I just actually listening to dead pres. Really think you just really sparked something. Possibly best sophomore rap album ever made. I aint pimping the system, I'm here to break it.
This is fresh I originally descoured a mad as country metal band "hellyeah" and gave this a shot thinking it was the band, two completly different genres both boss and underated
Most poor people that commit crimes do so because of the way society is set up. The system is unfair to them so the only way out is pimping the system.
I had an anthropology professor in 2011 say "Today we are going to listen to a song that depicts the how those struggling on the fringe of society might possibly operate outside normally accepted societal means to survive." I immediately asked "Is it Dead Prez's 'Hell Yeah'?" and the look on her face when she paused and said "....Yes" is still with me to this day. Needless to say I was the only one in class rapping along. Dr Amason, hope you're doing well.
Legend
I don’t believe you
Are you a targeted individual?
Dr. A Mason lol😂
Why would this be considered the fringe of society....
This song is legendary, I’ve seen them perform it live too. But shoutout to The Curse for using it.
Nathan sent me here.
@@DigitalBathInAZWho,s House is that?
same i got to see them with snoop in denver
@@DigitalBathInAZme too, he absolutely rocked it
watching Nathan Fielder rap the entire first verse on The Curse was actually crazy.
that man is canadian treasure.
That's why I'm here. Totally forgot about this song
I slept on this song, just heard it today but have no idea what this show is everyone is mentioning
Fuck the show. I could show you like ten more songs that could top that lol @@ballsdeep2520
Man, the recording, editing, and script of the music video turned out amazing! The guy who coordinated this music video must be in Hollywood by now
Nathan 04thewinyoooo
I don't think people realize how crazy it was when this was released!
I do. Was skating everywhere bumping this. What a year to be alive.
Love these foos
This blew all our fucking little minds and i am 34 years old 💯 this shit will always be🔥
I did I’m 29 I was surprised they could get away with airing this shit as a teen
Dead Prez was crazy allaround! I fkn loved it!
This genius mad underrated
There’s two people in dead prez playa
Stic man & M1
Where do you see the ratings??
No doubt... Way ahead of it's time.
Nooo brooo it's real rap... It's not in big label... It's in the hear... Im in Germany... I'm the best around By far... So by far... I rap like 2pac...but ask u self... Want universal 2pac?
No hahha why when 69 made dumb music for the mass 🤣👍
Man…we need Dead Prez to make a comeback in 2025 😭
The cinematography in this video is truly masterful.
Awesome stuff.
yeah it's fucking sick. One of my favourite music vids
hell yeah
thanks for perpetuating the stereotype.
check out paranoidpartiot & getfreefm same stuff.
indeed next level lipdub
2024 still bumping RBG album. Been bumping Dead Prez in LA since 11 in 6 th grade. Reciting every verse by heart to all my little homies including the jay z verse on the remix
💪🏿🫶🏾☝🏿
Kaning it for 24 years, scottish white guy 44 . Solidarity ✊️
Most realistic rap music video of all time. Nobody ever shows the cost. Respect to DP for showing how it ends
Never? It Never ends?
most old school hip hop showed how it ended lol you never noticed those old songs people went to jail or died at the end? It was the whole damn point lol
My guy if you interpret this song as a cautionary tale about committing crime, you should take a high school English class
@@flaminggarbage8241 Anyone who missed the very end when Stic wakes up probably spent too much time in English class
Mate it always ends like that
This tune still hard as hell...still banging it 2023!!
Yes sirrrr!!!💪🏿
Yaaaassssss 😊
2024!!
Now we jus walk right an say charge it
amazing video still
This will never get old
Still one of the best songs and music video made.
I miss good rap that tells a story :/
Hell yeah!
This is timeless
Still sounds just as good as it did when it was first released 👍👍👍
Hell Yeah 😂
That's the 90' hip-hop sound ,but in the 00' and it's 2023 and it's still fire ❤🔥
@@Dizle81 Hall of Fame track that’s for sure 👌 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Last verse was crazy
And they're NOT wrong..... WHY should we starve WHEN their is plenty too eat
3:42 Mary Jane 😍😍😍😍 I watched this when it FIRST came out and caught she was in it... love Dead Prez and they put Miami's FINEST in here...
2:46 shoutout to the production assistant up there opening and closing that dusty attic door one time.
This is brilliant satire. Honest and in your face.
I'm not ashamed to have found this song through The Curse.
Who or what is The Curse?
@@EriPages It's a mini series starring Nathan Fielder, Emma Stone, and Benny Safdie. Check out the trailer. I highly recommend you give it a chance. If you are able to view it, that is.
dead prez - is absolutely killing it on this one! If he saw the short on my channel about how these rappers are blowing up, he'd be getting way more hits.
its funny 2023 and I still think people dint get the message. The whole thing was like a buildup to the ending. But this track is so good its still stuck in my mind. Dead Prez are so underrated in the old school HipHop community.
Thank you guys for giving me this track growing up, kept me on the right side even when I was doing wrong for myself ^^
Dead Prez is self-described as a politically revolutionary hip hop group. The message is that people at the bottom of society live in conditions and within systems that make these crimes almost necessary for survival. The ending is just another part of the oppression cycle the video is outlining. It's not a "this is the ending crimes deserve" type of message.
Let’s get free is one of the greatest hip hop albums out there....there are not many out there like dead prez...!!! Real shit
Me and my guys was living this shit....video brings back so many memories...I was shocked at the accuracy of this song when compared to our lives...
Really? What did you guys do that was so relatable? Sounds awesome but let's hear some deets. I can relate too.
@@iamthemiracle81 eloquently spoken, pig
We studied this music video in my media class, best class ever! I love hip-hop!
u lucky shit
yea right
I wish I was in that class?
What course and what college?
If you don’t want to disclose that is fine
Smh
That is fucking awesome. I bet that was a cool ass professor FOR SURE lol
such a well made, hillarious, music vid, to go with a sick ass song! Dead prez b funny
Im a Brooklyn, NY .. Dude...moved to Fla in 88 shit is real down there...in MIA ...BIG RESPECT TO DADE COUNTY!!!!!
Who’s still slapping this in 2024? I been slapping this for 20 years since the RBG album dropped! All DP music is still relevant and only gets more relevant with time and the growth of capitalism and inequality.
I’m Mexican and all my homies growing up loved Dead Prez. Revolution and resistance against white colonialism and capitalism is in our Aztec blood. DP showed love on “I have a dream too” with the Zapatista roll call/shout out!
Big ups from LA. This song and RBG album are timeless
Yes sir
2023 🔥🔥🔥 Hell Yeah new Year 🙌🏼
Trill soul music, it hurts to hear the pain and struggle in This, as when it first dropped ain't nothing changed.✌🏽☝🏽💙
Hell Yeaaahh! So glad I just refound this song, I remember when this song came out 😂
Dead Prez a legend.. grew up bumping this and I still love it
This song remind me of a thew area's of Devon .one love sharing the love.
Wish Dead Prez made more songs like this damm probably my favorite.
Apoc414 they did lol
@@discostu6045 lol
Apoc414 I wish that Dead Drez did not make more songs like this at all.
@@danielmartz1065 why tf you come here then dummy?😆
This video got me stuck the first time I watched this because before the song even started I was hit with a flash back of visiting Miami and having the exact same situation happen to me pulling down a wrong turn road. The only difference was I floored the gas and accelerated as fast as I could not slowing down for anything or anyone. Probably only reason I’m around still. Crazy how much truth is spit in this track. Way underrated for the knowledge being dropped in it. Dead prez is raw.
One of the best videos of all time
one of the best music videos ever of any genre.
Art
My precioussss
The video is gold. Respect to Dead Prez one of the best of an era.
Can't believe this song doesnt have more views..... One of the best hiphop tracks over
What Chu mean it's got 4.9 million views. I think u probly meant that it should have more likes cuz this is a masterpiece
It doesn't have more views because this version of the song sucks....
The original album version is 100 times better.
Absolutely perfect story. This is one of the best music videos, no, short films, I've seen.
Awesome video and beautiful story-telling lyrics on how to make money..the ghetto way lol. Just remembers bankers and politicians steal money the legal way.
Khmerog1 this is not an awesome video at all to me, it is not beautiful story telling lyrics either, Public Emeny has awesome videos, and beautiful story telling lyrics all together.
Yea, but they call it 'Extortion', 'Embezzlement' and 'Larceny'...fancy terms for Corporate/Political Theft
Who said it is legal ?
"Educated criminals work within the law"
Nothing wrong with using welfare but attacking a family seems wrong.
Just come outta a 7 year relationship and saw someone talk about this tune, took me straight back to who I am, fuck, ahhh man this tune is too much. Went from drowning in pain to skankin out in my room 😂😂
That’s a fact, very powerful Music.
Me and the bros going to try this, this is perfect
Still bumping this classic Dead Prez in the year 2638 #TheTimeTraveler
Such an incredible commentary on the socioeconomic class of America.
socioeconomics or lack of desire to learn or do positive ?
You missed the point of the song and the human condition.
+Myrtle McNappy you are a idiot
+Ste Butty yawns really loud .... why u think ?
That's what I thought ..... Generally people call u names but then can't explain why or anything ...it's like a triggered reaction that was propagated into ur consciousness and u don't even realize ...
I love this.
Love these... They don't say how loaded they are.. They spit real shit... A rarity in this era... Or any era
One of the best storytelling songs ever, to say the least
Still relevant 🔥
"Got me flippin' burgers with no power, can't even buy one off what I make in an hour"
"Don't put me on dishes, I'm droppin' them bitches and takin' all day long to mop your kitchen"
Those have to be some of my favourite rhymes in rap!
Can you Please explain it
I don't get this
@@rajukhatri8991 There's no explaining. If you ain't know, you ain't know
@@rajukhatri8991 it takes a lot of time to understand this, because you gotta learn about power dynamics and labor strategies. on top of all that you gotta know your history. these dudes got life experience through community work and did a lot of reading
but a good place to start is by looking up "work-to-rule"
also look up how wages have stagnated while worker productivity has more than doubled in the past 50 years, plus you got inflation on top of that. minimum wage ain't been a livable wage for decades and politicians still fool people into thinking we're asking too much for $10-20/hour. the burger costing more than one hour of work is just a way of illustrating that point
@@rajukhatri8991 you have to be in the culture, and in the system to understand the art and the poetry.
@@missedinfo4623 BINGO!!
They were so dope we don't have music like this anymore
Yep, it's such a shame!
This video visuals are better than award winning. Pure genius.
Don't mind me, just dropping a comment so that I can be part of this legendary piece of art.
And I’m replying to this
@@Cardiacarrested445 I'm replying to this
any seats left on the bandwagon ? stop the train, open the door & puffpuff give smokee lol
Let's do it 🤣
@@PHOTOVIDEODUDE and I'm replying to this
top 5 best music videos' ever .
My first favorite song by Dead prez is hell yeah 👍
Very good song
Shout out Nathan Fielder.
I still have the album 2020.
2020 & it’s still a banger. And more true than ever.
True, but in 2021 you go around rolling folks like that sooner or later you will get shot the F up before you ever have to deal with the cops.
This is the sickest gd mf song for the 18th year in a row. Everyone can go ahead and try again next year.
Much Love
I miss these guys for real. Last Time I saw Dead Prez was live in Cape Town South Africa and please believe me they were right on par Blunts Blowin and all. This is RAP.
One of the baddest songs ever!!!! Hell yeah!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Uprise 2022 and furthermore Hell Yeah
Can't believe it took 12 years for me to see this...absolutely fing amazing....the beat the flow the story...smh...
Tonight!
I'm trekking through Pharaoh Munch rarely seen stuff- this totally touches the sky
@@ericdavison1710 Never really heard alot of his stuff, but Internal Affairs was a great album front to back...Its actually funny to me that the "hit" from the album that got a ton of air play was my least favorite song.
Welcome
19 years actually
You ought to go on a deep dive into Dead Prezz' history
Heard him yell a couple streets in Tallahassee. And T-town. Dope shit
Orange Ave holton street lol
This shit was so innovative. Real bars, no auto tune and a tight Florida Breakbeats style track in the back.
Who here listening to these godfathers in 2020??
GGGlider helllll yeaaahhhhhhh
You're so corny
GGGlider 2020 and forever
Yes .
Yes bro... haven’t heard this for years, banger!!
I am not american, but an outside observer. This is smart commentery on your society and political economic situation.
Yeah, it's a beautiful story about how these niggas are never gon get out da hood. Sheeeiitt.
people seems to believe this is a manual instead of a critique
Mouse Guardian Of The Galaxy lol i love hearing foreigners point of view on black issues. interesting thanks.
@@AK-fj8yo anyone can have a valid opinion on anything bro.
@@slabhead yup, just as long as they don't spout basic sense aloud too loudly (i.e. remotely Audibly)...
This song was extremely legendary to a point where it's ahead of its time
2004 to 2024. 20 years bumping RBG all across LA and IE! SoCal got mad love for Dead Prez.
Especially us Mexicans. Being Revolutionary is in our blood and culture. From Moctezuma to Zapata to the EZLN, resisting white colonization and oppression is in our DNA just like our African brothers and sisters
damn foo put down the skante, youve been on a sick one i can tell especially listening to this. get your life together man
@@lPOTCl I'm not entirely sure what the criticism is here. Like, was there something you disagreed with? Latin American nations do have a long history of resistance to colonial exploitation, so I can't really figure out what he said that you're contesting.
@@lPOTCljajajajaaaaaaa de acuerdo
2024 and still slaps! 20 years later! DP is timeless and still extremely relevant. All of their albums are timeless and relevant (except for that one weird album “Information Age” lol the beats and flow were horrible but message was on point still) and only gets more relevant as capitalism grows along with inequality. the class gap between rich and poor gets bigger and the hood suffers more and gets worse.
Dead Prez. The founders of the hiphop anthem. Legends.
Truly an underrated song and video...
Stic, truly an underrated human... One of the real good ones
4:08 is that jay-z?? in the white T?
No, but Jay was on the remix.
one of my fav tracks of all time im pissed i can’t buy it on itunes
Great message. Good song. Hell yeah
You. Over tens late to the party bro this been. The anthem
great message gaghahah
DP FOR EVER ❤
how did i miss this??!!
Legendary track bro I was going thru some hard times when this came out.
Damn i was young and I remember getting goosebumps hearing the start. My brothers being cool and just bobbing their heads slowly
One of the dopest songs and video of all time!!
One of the best music videos of all time!
The most randomest thing I ever seen! I can't help but grow to like this.
the most randomest? grow to like this? are you on crack? are you speaking english?
Naw, I'm on adrenaline. Lol. I got Dead Prez's Informatoion Age, so this surprised me. I like it believe me. Lol.
hahahaha
kool
More important every day!
This is a masterpiece.
Underrated video these brothers are responsible for raising me up they prophetic
These boys are dangerous. I dare the industry to really put a groip like this really on.
they was Hustlin FrFr💯
These boy's taught me to live early
THE CURSE 😂 🔥
I remember seeing this on BET uncut in the middle of the night in the early 2000s. These young cats dont know nuttin bout that life!! Was also on the 2 fast 2 furious soundtrack.
I heard this song when I was 12 years old, I’m 25 now and it bangs better than it did when I was young.. s/o to my dad for bringing all those dvd’s full of music videos back in those days… it took me 1 hour to try and find this song 😂
still one of the best rap videos and songs EVER (3/14/2023) !!! ❤😊❤
best music video of all time
Awesome message but I see it went over so many heads!!!! Try watching it to the end!
How; as a 24 year old hip-hop fanatic, who writes political philosophy in a MA program, and has a philosophy bachelor's; am I just actually listening to dead pres. Really think you just really sparked something. Possibly best sophomore rap album ever made. I aint pimping the system, I'm here to break it.
This is fresh I originally descoured a mad as country metal band "hellyeah" and gave this a shot thinking it was the band, two completly different genres both boss and underated
I love bumping this song loud so everyone can hear the message in the music when I'm driving my car.
This hits hard.
love this song and the message behind it!
whats the message behind it?
Most poor people that commit crimes do so because of the way society is set up. The system is unfair to them so the only way out is pimping the system.