I’ll never forget years ago sitting in rehab with my man Harvey from Wilmington DE..we sung this hook and recited styles verse all day it helped get us through ..oh yeah today I’m sober ..cuz MY LIFE is all I have..
Felt that. Using this song for my young men's group as a discussion point. I want them to start thinking about their life and their story. This song is powerful. Congrats and blessings for getting sober. May God keep you.
Pharoah should never be censored. His singing is so beautiful. I never knew he could sing. This song is my life. At 37 with kidney failure. Needing a donor. Looking for one is such a pain.
Hey say what you want about him now but this was 2002 Kanye when he was putting out some of the best music and "Just to get by" produced by Kanye and sung by Talib Kweli was an awesome song..
2002-2003. Man, this album came out right after my mother died. A Gangsta and A Gentleman. To me his album was one of the greatest ever. He kept it real every track, My good friend was really into underground rap, always talking about Sheek, Jada, and Styles..Styles P, truly a great. Thanks for the song. Got me through some hard times.
This song should have wayyyyyyyyyy more views, the fact that it doesn’t just shows how much ppl don’t know about real hip hop . This is as real as it gets.
Idk how many black people outright own the Labels. They put out what they want if we owned em more Songs like this would thrive we should and hopefully will own Labels outright frfr.
2:42 DAMN Envy looks young there. This song is so familiar and feels like yesterday it dropped. But it was YEARS ago. I've never moved on from this era lol
I was at Ground Zero for 4 weeks when I was in the Army National Guard I heard this track on the FM Radio, It relaxed my nerves after seeing so many bodies that jump out the windows of the Twin Towers.
THE LYRICS ARE LEGENDARY. THE ARTIST STYLES IS STILL LIVING WHAT HE RAPPED ABOUT. THATS WHY HE IS STILL MAKING MONEY AND MUSIC. KEEP THESE LEGENDARY PIECES ON THE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 FOREVER!!!!!!!THE TRUTH SPEAKS STILL 2024🎉
This beat and hook popped in my head randomly just now. So I looked it up and commented. 🤣 if you listening to this right now you know good hip hop music! 🫡
So if Cole didn't do what he did with this hook, many of y'all done already forgot about this classic? Shame on y'all. Real fans still have this joint on repeat in their head phones and sound systems even in 2021.
This one came out early in highschool and gave me the confidence to just be me. Sounds sad, but it was what I was listening to in the weight room, studying, all that shit. Just gave me that extra to be better.
This is soul touching music. If you can't feel this then you won't feel any song....EVER! One of the best tracks ever made.....clearly...no debating! Stays in heavy rotation...
need more real hip hop like this in todays music. This came out when i was living outta my car hustling to eat as a teen. Its part of my lifes soundtrack. Hip hop soul. Classic.
wow people in utube comments arent racist pricks ALL the time.... lol something surprises me every day about the internet. sorry for ur loss tho. my father passed away last september. songs will instantly bring u back to a moment with a loved one. thats why good music is so powerful. u associate a song with an individual and it is there forever. that bond between the 3 of you can never be broken.... but now a days these moronic rap "fans" wanna hear music from these clowns in skirts and skin tight girl jeans. redundant repetitive hollow lyrics. nothing will be remembered from this current generation of rap music. rap needs another 50cent. as bad as he was now he was a monster when he got on. these days we got riff raff lil b migos asap mob and the chicago goons.... a bnch of bad "music"...lol sorry for rambling but this song is dope as fuck as i have a lot of good memories associated with this one... crazy how a song can mean so much to two people in two totally different ways.... THATS THE POWER OF MUSIC
mark barrett Thanks for your words, yes, music is very powerful, and I often feel like the days of the best music is behind us..I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your dad.....It's nice tho when music can bring you back to another time, another place....as for music today, there are a few good ones now, but very few and far between....I can't listen to commercial radio, I usually jus listen to my mp3 player or i make a cd of the good stuff, my favs, typically music from 2002 or older, stuff that they don't play on the radio anymore.
The differences between my generation and this new generation is when I was 14 back in 2000, I listen to the L.O.X. These kids in 2024 listening to 6ni9e smh.
The Underachievers - Shine All Gold Joey Bada$$ - Paper Trails A$AP Twelvyy - Strapped Ka - Born King N.Y / Mourn At Night / 30 Keys Freddie Gibbs - Thuggin' Oddisee - You Grew Up / Want Something Done There's plenty of good hip hop today, just gotta look beyond what's on the radio
2024 🔥 been bumping this since i was 14 i’m 38 now 🫡
Yessir till I’m in a casket
@@jaredparker5574 💯
Can relate! 🫡
Same 🔥 still
Me 2
I’ll never forget years ago sitting in rehab with my man Harvey from Wilmington DE..we sung this hook and recited styles verse all day it helped get us through ..oh yeah today I’m sober ..cuz MY LIFE is all I have..
Felt that. Using this song for my young men's group as a discussion point. I want them to start thinking about their life and their story. This song is powerful. Congrats and blessings for getting sober. May God keep you.
@@stellaroze thank you !! Yes this song help me do just that 💯
@@stellaroze smh rap used to give us these messages
Good man. Keep it up.
That is so deep but
Pharoah should never be censored. His singing is so beautiful. I never knew he could sing. This song is my life. At 37 with kidney failure. Needing a donor. Looking for one is such a pain.
stay strong, wishing you the best
I hope all is well
Keep up the hope bro,you will get off that dialysis
prayers right now to you frfr!!!!!!
i don’t have to know you .: that energy of blessings will
be coming
Any updates??
Cole made me come back to this one. One of Hip Hop best hooks. Monch killed that shit.
One of the dopiest hip hop songs
Style going hard too, feel me? I know you are 👌🏾
Yeah, I was like, "is he really covering this track? Hell yeah!"
You can tell Cole really respects and reps the golden era legends
What’s the name of the j cole track that samples this
This song will NEVER get old. Realness and truth never die
MrMessyb never,,good energy lives for ever,
MrMessyb NEVERRR!!!! 💯☑️
Never
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Facts tho
After this i dont know how Pharoahe wasnt sought out to do more hooks for big artists. This hook really illuminated this record. Period!!
NaTe dog status
100%
WORD UP
He also had shut the fuck up which was a huge banger back then
Salute By slaughterhouse was dope
Pharoahe kicked the sh*t outta this hook. Ghost murdered the track
Blaklex Jenkins in other words they soundly bombed the joint in true hiphop fashion! 😎
Blaklex Jenkins the sky is blue. Money is green. That's all these guy do is kill their tracks
Yessssssss🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Alright so this what dope sounds like
One of the greatest hooks ever
Yup this and talib qweli and kayne just to get by
+brandon ADAMS kanye is a skirt wearing ass pu$$#!
Hey say what you want about him now but this was 2002 Kanye when he was putting out some of the best music and "Just to get by" produced by Kanye and sung by Talib Kweli was an awesome song..
+Mike DeSimone I agree. This is a hook that makes you feel something deepl.
+Mark k Kayne has extreme talent... Top 10 hip hop producers of all time too..
Who here from J. Cole tryna remember the hook for my life and where he pulled it from. Legends never die.
damn i almost forgot about this song. bless cole :D
Pulled up the song halfway and had to come and play this one
Facts. P is so underrated.
Yup finally found it
Me. I’m here from…
This beat epitomizes real hip hop in the early 2000s. Who else got this on they 2024 playlist
Ayatollah
4 sho!! 🤙
Always makes me wonder how we went from beauty like this to fucking mumbling bs?
Sooooooo true
I got it
2002-2003. Man, this album came out right after my mother died. A Gangsta and A Gentleman. To me his album was one of the greatest ever. He kept it real every track, My good friend was really into underground rap, always talking about Sheek, Jada, and Styles..Styles P, truly a great. Thanks for the song. Got me through some hard times.
Everett Johnson I know you posted your comment a while ago but sorry for you loss, This song is very deep! God Bless!!!
My God be with you
My home boy lost his brother right when this came out so we had my brother on repeat outside....nobody said nothing.....
Rest in peace to your pops. 🙏
R.i.p. to ya mom dukes fam.this actually came out the summer of 2001
Censoring music is like walking into art museum and covering up nude paintings. Art shouldn't be compromised...
The US: where bad words are bad and guns are legal :) I think I once listened to a song where the word Damn was censored xD
Century SAM well said. but i smoke Backwoods
Century SAM to bad holiday, is strictly styles p now 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😤😭😭😭😭
I am my own filter , unless on UA-cam
Century SAM FACTS!!!
The hook goes hard af 🔥
Forever grateful this is from my time. Fr! rather be 80yo me than 20yo you..
“I light a blunt cuz never will the struggle end”
Styles🐐
This deserves a few billion likes, what y'all listening too?
Michael Eccles-James facts
Im thinking the same thought 💯💯✨✨
Young people don’t know art 💯
@@osshmove9486 I do
Agree
Styles is the most consistent, never changed up, never had too!!!!
Facts 💯
This song should have wayyyyyyyyyy more views, the fact that it doesn’t just shows how much ppl don’t know about real hip hop . This is as real as it gets.
Few are chosen🙏🏾
Don’t forget this is a third party post, them some nice numbers if u look at it that way!
Idk how many black people outright own the Labels. They put out what they want if we owned em more Songs like this would thrive we should and hopefully will own Labels outright frfr.
Real Hip-Hop will alway$, RULE 4 LIFE!!!! 😤🔥
All-time banger. Styles P and Pharaoh Monch are legends. Listening for 15 years, time sure does fly.
Str8 classic memories 🪶🙌🏾💪🏾
Really glad that Verzuz made more people look into Styles P.
Facts 💯
@@jumahbrady670I believe they ain't deserve it
2:42 DAMN Envy looks young there. This song is so familiar and feels like yesterday it dropped. But it was YEARS ago. I've never moved on from this era lol
"My life is all I have"
They don’t know how good this is
Who's here in 2019?
Dis going straight to my "CLASSICS" playlist
Classic
One of my top 10 songs of all time
We out here man. Shit still fire no weak verse from Ghost
@@questafurasfrisqo9591 word, they hit harder in person, and the hardest as friends
20200000000000000 México
I was at Ground Zero for 4 weeks when I was in the Army National Guard I heard this track on the FM Radio, It relaxed my nerves after seeing so many bodies that jump out the windows of the Twin Towers.
One of the greatest songs i've ever heard
Facts 💯
This is one of the hardest songs I ever heard. I’m mad it never got that much play.
Hard body classic
My life is all I have ....
This used to get heavy rotation on BET n ESPN bk in the dayz...classic shit
One of the realest songwriters out, stay on the playlist
One of the greatest songs ever
Pharaohe and Styles so slept on. please believe.
Facts 💯
Today is my birthday. I always listen to this on my birthday.
Classic Joint
I do! Play it in the whip! Everlasting music.
Ayatollah the most criminally underrated producer ever
THIS
Straight fucking facts! Massive fan of dude!
This and Ms. Fat Booty alone
One of the greatests Hip-Hop/Rap songs of all time.
Classical. . .classic . . .2000's Hip-Hop. Good ol' Rawkus Records.
I miss this time frame
one of the greattes REAL hip hop songs out there!...shit gives me chills!
This joint had the streets in a rizzy
I still love this song ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾🇹🇹🇹🇹
Pharoahe Monche's chorus speaks to my soul.
THE LYRICS ARE LEGENDARY. THE ARTIST STYLES IS STILL LIVING WHAT HE RAPPED ABOUT. THATS WHY HE IS STILL MAKING MONEY AND MUSIC. KEEP THESE LEGENDARY PIECES ON THE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 FOREVER!!!!!!!THE TRUTH SPEAKS STILL 2024🎉
I miss these days real hip hop y'all young people respect this this is real music 🎶🎶
Classic Rap song and video by Styles P-(of The LOX Rap Group) and Pharoahe. For real. Yes.
This beat and hook popped in my head randomly just now. So I looked it up and commented. 🤣 if you listening to this right now you know good hip hop music! 🫡
Pay attention to all the mc"s in the video that didn"t spit, REAL RECOGNIZE REAL! SUPPORT REAL HIP HOP!!!!!
Word to both our Mommas
BIG FACTS
Tek n lily fame
This is hip hop. Not money or fame but, overcoming your struggles and surviving the game.
“ I have talks with the Lord and he’ll be calling me soon “ DAMNNN that shit so deep
Listening to the J. Cole Track today? This will forever be classic...
So if Cole didn't do what he did with this hook, many of y'all done already forgot about this classic? Shame on y'all. Real fans still have this joint on repeat in their head phones and sound systems even in 2021.
this is what the game been missing
real rap meaningful lyrics and bomb ass beat with a sick chorus
one of my favourite hip hop songs of all time right here
Weird how a song puts you back where u were. Just listened & not sure to smile or cry. Ya know?
Ive always felt that tgis song is bitter sweet ... It makes me sad .. But also makes me happy at the same time
Me and my dudes were in the Navy playing basketball. This was the soundtrack to our Saturdays. LOVE THIS TRACK!
Emotions are real
4 ued 444
REAL SH#T...PEACE
Original and authentic
Word up fire 🔥 track
Iyatolla on the beat... Rawkus was a short lived DOPE label.
Now, this is Hip hop right here! Pure pure realness
Really miss these times 💯!
Facts 💯
Man I remember when this came out I was going thru some legal trouble. This song helped me get thru some tough times. 💙
Agreed! My fiance would play this all the time... God I wish he was still here. WE WILL REUNITE AGAIN JOSH
Salute
@@tracykozyra6319 rip Josh. I am sorry for your loss. This song got me through so much.
I use to rush home from high school to watch rap city just for this video
Felt ! 💯 2023 I’m still listening
Thank You Styles 💯
Thank You Pharoahe 💯
Thank You Producers🎵
Homie remix that first rhyme the Grizzly Bear, 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✌️🙏🤔 your music makes sense I listen all time, Stay smooth
*I’m 36, Styles been my favorite street lyricist since I was kid in 1997!* The Ghost is legendary 🔥
Same here I've listened to money power respect back in 98, I. Also 36
This one came out early in highschool and gave me the confidence to just be me. Sounds sad, but it was what I was listening to in the weight room, studying, all that shit. Just gave me that extra to be better.
It don’t sound sad at all! This song will forever be motivational 💯
Sheesh this song brings back instant memories and im grateful for them ❤️
They murdered this beat,2022
They say death is eternal sleep... But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed... 🙆🏾♂️🔥🔥🎙️
LOTTA REAL HIPHOP STREET LEGENDS IN THIZ KLASSIK !!!! 💯💪🏿 #S.P. #THEGHOST #HOLIDAY
This Song and "Alone in the Streets" Shoulda been on Versuz 💯💯.. Lox Forever🙏🏿
It's MAAADDDD SHIT They Should've, But It Was A MASSACRE Without.
This song still gives me the chills!
lol I just saw him sing this live on 4/20 at toasted jam 2024. My boy got old…
Wow nice
j cole done brought this back to life.cole world no blankets mayn......
Good track but bad memories.........This was the start of a 55 month vacation. What an unpleasant learning experience that was!
you're probably not talking about college, are you?
Im feeling you there, bro
1995e34 Jail homie
hope u doin OK
I feel you fam I did 120 months in butner nc
GREAT!!!.DOPENESS!!!
REALIST FUCKING SONG EVER MADE! AMEN
I AGREE, I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE ON THIS 1.
Classic Hood Anthem
They said, "Death is eternal sleep"
But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed
This and Black Hand Side, we need these two to collaborate more often!
Need a whole album
and children
B c. B. B. 😬😬☺️
baverfjant "children"
Styles the illest in lox 4 me.....betta albums den kiss...by far......💯💯.
This is the illest song styles ever wrote.
Damn Styles this is a Classic! One of my favorites song from you ever bro!
STR8 LEGENDARY ❤
Not heard this since 2008
When my brother passed away
1st time in a long time
This is that one song no matter how many times i hear it ill never get tired of it
This is soul touching music. If you can't feel this then you won't feel any song....EVER! One of the best tracks ever made.....clearly...no debating! Stays in heavy rotation...
Facts
need more real hip hop like this in todays music. This came out when i was living outta my car hustling to eat as a teen. Its part of my lifes soundtrack. Hip hop soul. Classic.
Really hip hop. Pharor ND styles. P.
Substance abuse and chemical dependency can be some of the hardest shit anyone can go through in life. Believe me, I been there and done that.
Reminds me of good times, my daughters father, listening to this together, he passed away years ago...still think of him if i hear this
I feel u on that
coffeeNcreambaby stay bless
keeplisted
thank you
wow people in utube comments arent racist pricks ALL the time.... lol something surprises me every day about the internet.
sorry for ur loss tho.
my father passed away last september.
songs will instantly bring u back to a moment with a loved one. thats why good music is so powerful. u associate a song with an individual and it is there forever. that bond between the 3 of you can never be broken.... but now a days these moronic rap "fans" wanna hear music from these clowns in skirts and skin tight girl jeans. redundant repetitive hollow lyrics. nothing will be remembered from this current generation of rap music. rap needs another 50cent. as bad as he was now he was a monster when he got on. these days we got riff raff lil b migos asap mob and the chicago goons.... a bnch of bad "music"...lol sorry for rambling but this song is dope as fuck as i have a lot of good memories associated with this one... crazy how a song can mean so much to two people in two totally different ways....
THATS THE POWER OF MUSIC
mark barrett
Thanks for your words, yes, music is very powerful, and I often feel like the days of the best music is behind us..I'm sorry to hear of the loss of your dad.....It's nice tho when music can bring you back to another time, another place....as for music today, there are a few good ones now, but very few and far between....I can't listen to commercial radio, I usually jus listen to my mp3 player or i make a cd of the good stuff, my favs, typically music from 2002 or older, stuff that they don't play on the radio anymore.
We really need more rappers like him now. Big up from Poland!
2020 and this track is still lit 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Who else is bumping this?
The swing on Pharoah's vocals make it sit in that pocket so well mannn
The differences between my generation and this new generation is when I was 14 back in 2000, I listen to the L.O.X. These kids in 2024 listening to 6ni9e smh.
New rappers don't know how to spit education like OG's... #Classic
Real talk
It's a shame that they stopped making hip hop like this
TheTurdFerguson1 TRAGIC.
real talk !!!!!
The Underachievers - Shine All Gold
Joey Bada$$ - Paper Trails
A$AP Twelvyy - Strapped
Ka - Born King N.Y / Mourn At Night / 30 Keys
Freddie Gibbs - Thuggin'
Oddisee - You Grew Up / Want Something Done
There's plenty of good hip hop today, just gotta look beyond what's on the radio
The south took over
TheTurdFerguson1 Styles is still droppin heat...listen to The Children produced by Pete Rock!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 This that real heat these new kids can't even comprehend.
What we miss is the creativity of young brothas who made up their minds to tell their truth.
Real Rap played it to my son, told him this is what we came up on, and he fx wit it he’s 14 in 2022