i'm married to the producer (midas wells from tensei) of this track who is still friends with serengeti. i'll make sure to pass on your wonderful message! they will love to hear it. =)
@@aprill.graham-jackson9863 There are many current 16-inch softball teams named after this absolute masterpiece, and they all suck. Because they aren't my team. Can't talk, gotta go watch the Bears lose now.
First time I watched this vid I was 29. I'm 43 now. I have no idea how Serengeti managed to capture middle age so well, but this song means more to me with each passing year.
Thanks for the dope comments everyone. We shot this in less than 4 hours one day in Chicago. Good times. Definitely hit me up on the next video! There is more to come. Peace, Larry
It was so fuckin lit. 6 World Titles. The Big Hurt. Jeremy Roenick, Ed Belfour. Wannstedt. Alternative on 101.1, EDM on B96. PERFECT!!! Taste of Chicago 1st week of July!!! I'm cryin now, ngga!!!
Its almost my favorite Rap song or any song really Top 5 Rap for sure, it just god damn works, those drums, that sample, that flow, the lyrics, originality really amazing shit fucking love it. It's so strange to but should be held as a Hip Hop classic with shook ones, regulate, 2001, and what ever else people hold in high regard.
I lived in Chicago 99-07. I know Southside guys exactly like this, minus the Ditka stache. N/A or light beer, sausages on the grill, Bears Hawks Sox Bulls on TV. Sneak in a game of 16" softball on Sunday and avoid the wife. It's been a decade since I lived there but this takes me right back.
Connor Burke You can find it elsewhere (I'm in Pennsylvania, we have it, seen it in Portland) but the only people I've ever met that truly like it are from Chicago.
Elizabeth Cavanaugh The whole point of this song is to show how special it is to be a southsider of Chicago. Southern Wisconsin has Squirt, and ruffles, the degree of how awesome the sausages are special to your area.
This song reminds me of my uncle. Just a guy from Chicago who loved sports, outdoors, grilling and drinking. This video is the perfect time capsule of growing up in Chicago during the 00s. Rest in peace Tio!
I listened to this song today on my way home from work and it made me feel like everything was gonna be alright it helped my depression just melt away definitely a gem
I went to Chicago for the first time 5 years ago in early September. I heard this song shortly thereafter, and it resonated with me. I could only imagine what it was like growing up in Chicago summers during your formative years. I'm definitely jealous.
A GF of mine in college went to homewood-flossmoor. We met at a WMU party and long story short I ended up spending a long hot summer in my early 20s around Chicago and its suburbs and my god what memories. Chicago is a great American city with all that entails.
I love this song so much. Year after year I remember it out of nowhere. Today I was reminded again merely when someone said "Jewel" in a completely unrelated context. Brings a tear to my eye. Absolutely brilliant.
The greatest city in the world people always say this city bad but my heart is forever here this makes me wanna cry cause you manage to capture the feeling of a chicagoan beautifully respect real hip hop
I'm flying to Chicago tomorrow for a week-long vacation. I've been listening to this everyday for the past few months to get fired up! BACK IN THE DAMN BUICK!
This song is from my era, SNL Bears skits, etc. It took a few spins to realize just how great of a track this really is. Music sharing apps suck for artists, but I have to thank Spotify for introducing me to Serengeti.
This remains one of the most perfect four minutes on the internet. If it doesn’t make you want to be a middle-aged man grilling brats in Chicago then you’re lost…
10 years later, I hope Serengeti knows how fucking brilliantly this piece of art has touched anyone who has ever seen it.
Couldn't of put it better
i'm married to the producer (midas wells from tensei) of this track who is still friends with serengeti. i'll make sure to pass on your wonderful message! they will love to hear it. =)
@@aprill.graham-jackson9863 There are many current 16-inch softball teams named after this absolute masterpiece, and they all suck. Because they aren't my team. Can't talk, gotta go watch the Bears lose now.
for sure man.
11 years and this comment is still true
Whenever I listen to this song I can't help but feel like everything is going to be alright.
Dude... 4 years later. I commented "Everything's gonna be alright," and first post I see is yours. Uncanny.
This is keeping me going through COVID dawg
@@benclifford4718 Need this to be over so we can get back to playing softball with the guys
@infrasonicwave84 so freaking true tho, everything is going to be okay.
Aye god bless Amen
First time I watched this vid I was 29. I'm 43 now. I have no idea how Serengeti managed to capture middle age so well, but this song means more to me with each passing year.
Just turned 40. I feel exactly the same.
Lost a buddy to COVID recently. Unfair. This song reminds me of chicago hangtimes more than any other. Nice work dudes, dennehey endures
Facts
💯💯🙌🏼🙌🏼❤️
@@patrickstonelake7429 'dennehey endures' needs to go on a fuckin shirt, man.
Thanks for the dope comments everyone. We shot this in less than 4 hours one day in Chicago. Good times. Definitely hit me up on the next video! There is more to come.
Peace,
Larry
I'm bumping to it right now
any chance you still have access to your account 12 years later? that’d be pretty lit
it's 2021
Hope you're doing good, man.
@@KristenDETW Hey sexy
RIP Brian Dennehy. This song is the first thing I came to for his memory.
Qwikstreet Corner came here to comment exactly this
Came here to say this. Great actor R.I.P.
Me too ❤️
Yup
Favorite actor Dennehy - RIP
I'm in my 20s and am from Australia and this song makes me feel like I grew up in Chicago in the 90s
It was so fuckin lit. 6 World Titles. The Big Hurt. Jeremy Roenick, Ed Belfour. Wannstedt. Alternative on 101.1, EDM on B96. PERFECT!!! Taste of Chicago 1st week of July!!! I'm cryin now, ngga!!!
Dude, I live on the Southside where it's always the 90's! Let me know if you ever wanna do a house swap! I'd check out Australia!
@@johnandyourmom lmao
I’m from the suburbs, but this is hauntingly accurate.
Welcome to Chicago!
RIP Brian Dennehy, back in the damn Buick to heaven
This dude makes me want to be from Chicago.
IM IN.
ChrisCuts its really just as magical as it sounds, I will always be proud of where I come from
it's a lifestyle
I’m from Chicago and we are all proud of where we are from
:D W
This is an American classic.
Its almost my favorite Rap song or any song really Top 5 Rap for sure, it just god damn works, those drums, that sample, that flow, the lyrics, originality really amazing shit fucking love it. It's so strange to but should be held as a Hip Hop classic with shook ones, regulate, 2001, and what ever else people hold in high regard.
I lived in Chicago 99-07. I know Southside guys exactly like this, minus the Ditka stache. N/A or light beer, sausages on the grill, Bears Hawks Sox Bulls on TV. Sneak in a game of 16" softball on Sunday and avoid the wife. It's been a decade since I lived there but this takes me right back.
George Mcrogers 100
I'm from Birmingham UK and just found this track on Spotify a couple of months ago...it makes me feel happy and kinda wanna be American
The best Chi song ever. "Back to the Jewels to get a case of Squirt."
Squirt is refreshing.
I guess I never thought about it, but is Squirt not popular outside of the Chicago area?
Connor Burke You can find it elsewhere (I'm in Pennsylvania, we have it, seen it in Portland) but the only people I've ever met that truly like it are from Chicago.
Elizabeth Cavanaugh The whole point of this song is to show how special it is to be a southsider of Chicago. Southern Wisconsin has Squirt, and ruffles, the degree of how awesome the sausages are special to your area.
@@lithiumtensors1 From Virginia, never heard of it
this is probably the most Chicago thing ive ever heard.
Probably? 😅
This is one of the tightest Chicago culture song I have ever heard. They even captured the Chicagostache.
I've listened to this roughly 200 times since yesterday.
This song reminds me of my uncle. Just a guy from Chicago who loved sports, outdoors, grilling and drinking. This video is the perfect time capsule of growing up in Chicago during the 00s. Rest in peace Tio!
We took a break from our NFL Sunday to watch this. Had nine dudes from Oakland and SF chanting "BEARS HAWKS SOX BULLS." Amazing.
"I saw Ditka on the Edens in a Sports car" - Legit Classic Chi Town song up there with the "Shuffle"
I’m from Long Island and this song makes me proud to be from Chicago
very sick track that captures the essence of working class Chicago.
Not from Chicago, but from what I've observed visiting, if I had to pick up a song to sum up the city's spirit, this would be it.
It's been over 10 years, and this shit still hits
RIP Brian Dennehy. Pouring out some Ruffles for him tonight.
This is in fact the most Chicago song ever... my great grandfather settled here in 1903 and I'm sure he would approve of this
RIP Brian Dennehy. A legend who fully deserved this tribute.
Craig Burley the reason I’m here
I don't think this is a tribute
Only Serengeti could write "onions, onions, onions" and have me singing along
I came back for this song while eating onions
i lived in chicago most of my life, 33 years, but moved out in 04 and whenever i start missing it, i always turn to this. classic shit.
ONIONS ONIONS ONIONS
BULLS BULLS BULLS BULLS BULLS
TheRealGolem Boss Boss Boss Boss
I just watched Skilling's last night on WGN. Couldn't get this song out of my head the whole time
Vacation place 'Consin, sausage Johnson's, chicken Swanson's.
Damn that is a great line.
RIP Dennehy
"Take her out to Bennigan's, see if they cook chops right"
Thanks to the great people of First we feast, the burger show get me here. How real can a single song get? Totally missed that one, simply fantastic!
i want this song to be played at my funeral
Funnily enough, so do I!
i'm 16 and i love his music so much, every song just hits for me
This song makes me inordinately happy.
This is a Chicago middle class male stream of consciousness,
I wouldnt say middle class...more like working class or lower middle-class
Jerome Beck Yeah, you're right.
Jay Beck that was middle class back in the Ventue/ Zayre day.
A real meeting of the mind…
This needs to play on loop at the airport while you're waiting for your luggage.
This is the best Chicago song ever
Whenever I watch this video I get so happy.
same
Same, must be the sentiment of the whole thing.
this was straight poetry
There is nothing better in the whole world than this song.
12 years later and still jammin to this track.
Why does this video only have 700k views?! The world ain't right!
Moved to Mississippi in 2014 but this song always reminds me of home and makes me miss it. This guy needs Jay’s Hot Chips ASAP
This gets mad play down south!!!
the combo of the video and song perfectly encapsulate a summer afternoon over a long weekend in Chicago. it's magnificent
RIP Favorite actor Dennehy
RIP the GOAT! Dennehy will live on in this song!
"Got a splittin' frickin' headache/So I popped a couple Bayers"
Such a great line.
Many great lines
He probably bought them at Zayres
God, do I miss home! Chicago is the king of cities!
"weatherman: Skillen
music: the Blues"
such a good jam.
'Skilling' - TOM Skilling
FAVORITE ACTOR: DENNEHY
every time I talk to someone with this accent I think of this song. never even been to chi. love call center life ( :
Favorite Actor Dennehy. RIP
I listened to this song today on my way home from work and it made me feel like everything was gonna be alright it helped my depression just melt away definitely a gem
Just got me out of a two month long depressive slump. It's on repeat.
I went to Chicago for the first time 5 years ago in early September. I heard this song shortly thereafter, and it resonated with me. I could only imagine what it was like growing up in Chicago summers during your formative years. I'm definitely jealous.
A GF of mine in college went to homewood-flossmoor. We met at a WMU party and long story short I ended up spending a long hot summer in my early 20s around Chicago and its suburbs and my god what memories. Chicago is a great American city with all that entails.
This beat is perfect for the song, the lyrics give me the spirit of Chicago but the beat makes me wish I grew up there
I love this song so much. Year after year I remember it out of nowhere. Today I was reminded again merely when someone said "Jewel" in a completely unrelated context. Brings a tear to my eye. Absolutely brilliant.
WEATHER MAN SKILLING , MUSIC THE BLUES !!!!
this is basically my "Back in the day" by ahmad.
it seriously just sounds like my aunts and uncles talking.
RIP Mr. Dennehy, this is the 3rd time I've listened to this today so I decided I should probably comment. Much Love!
As an Aussie who loves this song I've always been curious about the Brian Dennehy connection.
R.I.P. Brian Dennehy. The greatest supporting actor ever
The greatest city in the world people always say this city bad but my heart is forever here this makes me wanna cry cause you manage to capture the feeling of a chicagoan beautifully respect real hip hop
Favorite song of all time!.... The older I get the more I resonate with this masterpiece of perfection! Dennehy 4 ever!
deadass though, when you listen to it alot, it just gets more and more sincere
the chicago wave was too real and underappreciated. real art from prolly one of the best cities in the world
RIP BRIAN DENNEHY!! One of the greats
I'm flying to Chicago tomorrow for a week-long vacation. I've been listening to this everyday for the past few months to get fired up! BACK IN THE DAMN BUICK!
I’m on the east coast but this is dope. I don’t think I’ve heard anything like it for any other major city.
This song got me into hip hop and rap, because I too love Chicago and polish sausage.
straight chicago! the park is smith park, the grocery store is farmers pride (western&chicago) hell yeah UKI village!
This song has magical properties
This song/video just scream summer. When it gets nice out I listen to this song every day.
RIP Dennehy. I came here when I heard.
not from chicago, but love the place just cause this song.
Donny Dab BroncoGang
I’m from SF, need to go to Chicago one day! And I’m hungry for a Burger!
@@CP-pb3pj a burger? You mean a polish?
@@danidelafuente1 That too.
Just heard this on Spotify... Still solid after all these years!
This is actually my favorite video on all of UA-cam.
RIP favorite actor
My Mom saw Walter at Poppin Fresh pies once. He opened the door for her and said "Hi Maam". She still talks about it to this day! Awesome video!
Peak of human achievement was early 2000s Chicago and I was too young to notice. Nothing's got better from that softball game.
First We Feast sent me! Sean Evans dropping lines
This song is from my era, SNL Bears skits, etc. It took a few spins to realize just how great of a track this really is. Music sharing apps suck for artists, but I have to thank Spotify for introducing me to Serengeti.
I feel you bro, it was amazing to be from Chicago in the 90s
If I were coach of the Bears, we'd get at least 10 wins, Dennehy on the O line, Berenger at Tight End
Favorite Judge: Mathis lmao this is perfect
Weatherman: Skilling
@@Mac2095 slide:chacha
Living so far from home sometimes I get homesick. Then I watch this video and then I feel much better.
Besides visiting Second City twice, this is all that I know about Chicago
Shawn Dunston wild throws 🤣🤣
favorite tower - sears
Chicago in the summer. Nothing better.
The nostalgia got me crying
Same
Was going to NIU when this song came out. God we loved it. So many good night blasting this.
we had a time. Peace to Tanya who couldn't make it! Doing another one so let's link!!
How many people getting back in the damn Buick in 2023?
Is a Volvo. But yeah I'm always getting back in that damn thing.
Buick all day
gotta get a stinkin' bag of ice.
favorite mayor daley, cigarettes cools lol shoutout to judge mathis
Reid Sanders *kools
OMG he said Zaires! So Hilarious! And Awesome
Zayre
I think he was saying Sears
i just found this and it’s on repeat for me now
Happening to me at the very moment. Actually popped me out of a two month long depressive state.
This remains one of the most perfect four minutes on the internet. If it doesn’t make you want to be a middle-aged man grilling brats in Chicago then you’re lost…
"Tryin' to find a decent Fiero with a for sale sign."
LOL
...my dad was on the hunt for many years.
RIP Dennehy. Gone too soon.
This makes me miss living in Illinois!! I miss chill leisurely summer days in Chicago and the suburbs. I don't miss the snow though!!
Favorite actor: farina
Dandruff: tons
So I'm back in the damn Buick to get a stinking bag of ice , to get a stinking bag of rice ,my wife Jewels is cute .
Don't talk about jewels!