this song was kind of personal to me, cause in 1986 i was 10 years old and my parents was on that shit, then i lost a family member from an overdose on christmas that same year. my memories of it are so vivid. and the whole time this was going on, this song was in heavy rotation. i still remember riding with my dad while he was gettin a rock whilw this song was playing, almost felt like i was in a movie
I bet you stayed away from crack 2. Any way I thought apple jacks was disgusting along with Captin Crunch. And do yall remember digg em smack with that creepy frog😀
I have a nephew going through a crack addiction RIGHT NOW. It's so sad, and he's so pitiful. His mom ( my sister) has stage 4 liver cancer and HE DOESN'T EVEN CARE!!!!!!😪😪😪 PLEASE PRAY FOR MY FAMILY 🙏🙏🙏
I ran disco in the days when this song was HOT, but back then I was only smokin' weed. I said I would never do crack, then one cold Xmas night.... Oh my God!!! I sold ALL my equipment the same night. Next was the job, car, mobile home, the dog....It's like the "Lay's Potato chip,"Can't eat (smoke) just one. It took me 20 years to get clean. DON'T DO IT ! ! ! There is no control......(Clean & sober 6 years)
Living in Cali when this song came out you would hear people jamming this down the street even crack heads would sing it smh! It was just a song to them but a warning to me! Death still lives in the Rock House!
At age 16, in 1986, I was in a 'facility for mentally ill and suicidal teens' and a kid kept playing this, and It caught on. I hated it at first, but after I heard it 101 times, I kinda liked it.
RIP. I lived in the same area as General Kane. I remember when I was a kid back in the early 90's he was in the local newspaper. Him and a family member where murdered execution style in his bails bond business.
I read that a long time ago, too. He was one of the artists I enjoyed throughout his career. I think it was his nephew who was murdered with him. I wonder when the rest of his "Kane" music will be out here besides "Girl Pulled The Dog".
When this first came out, many high school talent show bands tried to get the bass right and couldn't but the lyrics made me pause in the middle of a raging dance floor. It was like a fire alarm had gone off and the song was saying...this is not a drill. Many of them kept on dancing...right to the cemetery.
Interesting story if it weren't so confusing. The way you told this seems like you either left out some details, or choice of vocabulary words is off, or this only occurred inside your head... Other than that, ALL GOOD...........😬😬😬😵😵😱
Damnnn I forgot about this joint ! The mc has a southern accent so I know it wasn’t outta NYC it sounded like a guy who wasn’t a mc but like a singer trying to rap. Song had a good message .
I remember when this song came out in the early 1990's. Some of my friends were talking about trying crack but I heard that you only need to do it once to get hooken. So, I never tried it. Seeing what some of the people I new who tried it ruined them physically and financially.
Same here Monique Jones ( and I thought I was the only one ) I used to work with these older guys ( 5 or so years older ) & one guy would sing "Devil went down to Georgia" but alternating the words & making them funnier ! This song along with ( Grandmaster Melle Mel's White lines ) made me scared of drugs !
I always wondered who sang this and what it was called! It's sad to find out he passes away. I recorded it off the radio in the eighties! (I guess that was actually, "pirating," it, off the radio.) CKA
oh he was telling the truth, he was like a preacher, back then seeing people u knew and loved gettin brought down by those crumbs & kibbles, back in your mind u hear that hook, "death lives at the rockhouse."
No disrespect but I found this tape in the dumpster when I was like 7. I was googling this song and was so surprised that this shit is on UA-cam! Big ups!
yo im from the bronx and im 46 now..im sure i heard this when it came out on the radio in north carolina and probably said then..what the fuck is this shit doing on the radio.i was buggn like i am now.this record is mad funny
Most of my older family hates rap music. I tell my little cousins about anti crack rap back in the 80's and 90's..... They wish their daddies listen to this shit. Lmao
4:11 Oh God! It CAN'T be ALL GONE! What is this... I've become... I'm AppleJACK Lewis! Man... The Hood was SO TIGHT before Crackheads. Rest In Peace to all the dead, 1st Generation Greedy Coke Smokers that couldn't get off the PIZZIPE! You were Sprung to the Nation, Geeked Out, Through with Money, Antenna Mouthed DUSTBUSTERS!
I missed my chance to buy a Crack killed Applejack t-shirt. I would have worn it for a ghetto glamour shot. The pink Cadillac background or the stairs to heaven background. So many choices. Anyone know where I can get a giant teddy bear for a sidewalk memorial?
this is not the version i was looking for...as this version was no way as funky as i remembered....the Kool Moe Dee, Whodini kind of funky...this ain't it...
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I've been singing this song for years and nobody knew what I was talking about. I knew I wasn't crazy!!
Me too!!! I’m not the only one out here lol
You are not crazy this song and Hey little Walter
@@BuddyfolksJudah Now I got that song in my head. Thanks! Heeeey, little Walter...hey hey hey...🤣🤣
@@chynawyatt4068 Prayers out to Sinbad remember he played Walter in the video 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@@chynawyatt4068 and your welcome 😂🤣
I started singing this for no reason right now. Jumped on google, searched the lyrics and noticed this. Thank you for posting it.
this song was kind of personal to me, cause in 1986 i was 10 years old and my parents was on that shit, then i lost a family member from an overdose on christmas that same year. my memories of it are so vivid. and the whole time this was going on, this song was in heavy rotation. i still remember riding with my dad while he was gettin a rock whilw this song was playing, almost felt like i was in a movie
:'(
I'm sorry you had to experience that 😔
That sucks bro..God bless
Sorry to hear that. You're in my prayers and hope everything aaight now...
I understand completely; I had the same experience.
One of my favorite jams from the 80's
SHIT WAS THE JAM!!
when I was a little girl I didn't want to eat Apple Jack's anymore cause of this song
Shannon Hill Lol
Now that was real and that was also real funny.
😂😂😂
I bet you stayed away from crack 2. Any way I thought apple jacks was disgusting along with Captin Crunch. And do yall remember digg em smack with that creepy frog😀
😂😂😂😂
I have a nephew going through a crack addiction RIGHT NOW. It's so sad, and he's so pitiful. His mom ( my sister) has stage 4 liver cancer and HE DOESN'T EVEN CARE!!!!!!😪😪😪 PLEASE PRAY FOR MY FAMILY 🙏🙏🙏
I ran disco in the days when this song was HOT, but back then I was only smokin' weed. I said I would never do crack, then one cold Xmas night.... Oh my God!!! I sold ALL my equipment the same night. Next was the job, car, mobile home, the dog....It's like the "Lay's Potato chip,"Can't eat (smoke) just one. It took me 20 years to get clean. DON'T DO IT ! ! ! There is no control......(Clean & sober 6 years)
Keep up the good work. The only way too stop and staying stop in by hand of God, take care Jesus loves you.
GOD BLESS YOUR CONTINUED RECOVERY.
😌
I hear lyrics
Weak fool.
✌️❤
he died screaming : oh my God. Gives me shivers down my spine: very raw song, for those who understand.
I was 19 years old when this came out. This beat was hard. But a true song because crack was real strong then.
What a POWERFUL message!!!!!!
Living in Cali when this song came out you would hear people jamming this down the street even crack heads would sing it smh! It was just a song to them but a warning to me! Death still lives in the Rock House!
+amirracurls101 Hear this song by Stevie Salas
I had school mates on this terrible drug.
amirracurls101 Damn right.Can I get a Somebody Say Amen and Amen and Amen?
Riiiiight this mite be the biggest red flag in my life i remember it so well
At age 16, in 1986, I was in a 'facility for mentally ill and suicidal teens' and a kid kept playing this, and It caught on. I hated it at first, but after I heard it 101 times, I kinda liked it.
One of my favorite rap song
Man I remember this jam when I was like 12 the radio played the hell out of this song I have been looking for it everywhere...THANKS BRO!!!
Thanks for posting this classic.
RIP Mitch "General Kane" McDowell.
Thanks for the great music- you went too soon.
Turning 50 next week....Never did the crack thing, but loved to dance to the remixes
Our kids think we are stupid...
lol...kids
The message of the lyrics sure as hell isn't stupid!
Heard this in 86
MAN!!! I REMEMBER HEARING THIS ON THE RADIO BACK IN THE DAY!!
DEATH REALLY DOES LIVE IN THE HOUSE OF ADDICTION!!!!
RIP. I lived in the same area as General Kane. I remember when I was a kid back in the early 90's he was in the local newspaper. Him and a family member where murdered execution style in his bails bond business.
+grand2313 Really? Damn.
+Jack Atkinson Yeah. Check out my instagram. I got all kinds of music on it. SoCal_Flavors.
I read that a long time ago, too. He was one of the artists I enjoyed throughout his career. I think it was his nephew who was murdered with him. I wonder when the rest of his "Kane" music will be out here besides "Girl Pulled The Dog".
Dayum...thats f'd up..Rip
I remember this as a kid.
Old school at its best.
When this first came out, many high school talent show bands tried to get the bass right and couldn't but the lyrics made me pause in the middle of a raging dance floor. It was like a fire alarm had gone off and the song was saying...this is not a drill. Many of them kept on dancing...right to the cemetery.
shihanUKS wow that's deep
Interesting story if it weren't so confusing. The way you told this seems like you either left out some details, or choice of vocabulary words is off, or this only occurred inside your head...
Other than that, ALL GOOD...........😬😬😬😵😵😱
@@kamilahbeaty1213 It's poetically written. 2+2=4.
I remember this song. But I didn't know General Kane passed away.
William Reed when did general caine die? I didn't know that!!!
Murdered about 20+ y years ago. Unsolved
@@allthingsfunk3809 also he was bail bonds owner before he got out of music business late 89 early 90
His cousin Darryl just passed two days ago. He is the one standing next to him in the yellow
@@christiekennedy8126 is his sister denise still around?
Everypony cried at Applejack's passing.
Damnnn I forgot about this joint ! The mc has a southern accent so I know it wasn’t outta NYC it sounded like a guy who wasn’t a mc but like a singer trying to rap. Song had a good message .
If they would have only listened.......I played in my ca load as possible too! Thanks for bringing the memories back.
This song still hits hard.
I remember when this song came out in the early 1990's. Some of my friends were talking about trying crack but I heard that you only need to do it once to get hooken. So, I never tried it. Seeing what some of the people I new who tried it ruined them physically and financially.
1986 actually.
The song came out in 1985. Not the 90s
I love this old school song death lives in the rock house
poppymomma69 that's my favorite part of the song "DEATH LIVES IN A ROCK HOUSE"
13 years old when I heard this one
The rap reminds me of the devil went down to georgia by the charlie daniels band.
Same here Monique Jones ( and I thought I was the only one ) I used to work with these older guys ( 5 or so years older ) & one guy would sing "Devil went down to Georgia" but alternating the words & making them funnier ! This song along with ( Grandmaster Melle Mel's White lines ) made me scared of drugs !
loved this song back in the day
Glad you found ; )
We played it in the car those days as loud as possible.
Came out about the same time as "I don't need that."
combo of a Janet Jackson song and Whodini Five Minutes of Funk ...
Sounds like Cameo.. word up.. 😊
Damn shame that you can’t find this song anywhere.
All they had to do was listen to the word,they gone learn today it’s sad to see someone go thru ir
Frontman Mitch Mcdowell became a Bail Bondsman after rap...and was whacked in LA his office, back in 1992.
Would love to add this to my old school collection on iTunes but this version isn’t available.
Today is the 29th of June.
2019 Anyone?
Unsung
I always wondered who sang this and what it was called! It's sad to find out he passes away. I recorded it off the radio in the eighties! (I guess that was actually, "pirating," it, off the radio.) CKA
108 Fm... 1986, Rap Hour, 9-10pm... That's all rap got back then, & they jammed most songs in non stop for an hour...💯💯💯
Same here. I forgot about the song. I grew up in skating rinks and assume it’s where I heard it. I don’t remember if it had radio play.
I was born the year this came out
A bowl of Apple jacks yesterday morning made me think of this song
Great times back in the 80s
oh he was telling the truth, he was like a preacher, back then seeing people u knew and loved gettin brought down by those crumbs & kibbles, back in your mind u hear that hook, "death lives at the rockhouse."
Poor Applejack !!
Underestimated song wich still sounds very good
No disrespect but I found this tape in the dumpster when I was like 7. I was googling this song and was so surprised that this shit is on UA-cam! Big ups!
yo im from the bronx and im 46 now..im sure i heard this when it came out on the radio in north carolina and probably said then..what the fuck is this shit doing on the radio.i was buggn like i am now.this record is mad funny
Here I am .. Born '81 .. Made it out !!
Crack killed a few, friends and their families..
Damm I Just Graduated That Year "81"!
this song is pre Public Enemy
This is the result of all these rappers bragging about the dope they sold.
The new version for modern times, Smack killed Crackerjack, lol.
I forgot that I heard this.
This takes me back to 5th grade in SoCal. Wow.
Most of my older family hates rap music. I tell my little cousins about anti crack rap back in the 80's and 90's..... They wish their daddies listen to this shit. Lmao
I remember this whilst breakin as a teen listening to electro (street sounds)
poor applejack :(
check out the Stevie Salas version. Totally different but awesome
asome music
Can someone post their song Buffaloes???? I LOVE that song, but can't find it anywhere on ITUNES. Thank you. Captain T, U.S.M.C.
Congrats and keep on dancing ; )
Awsome
1:56 sounds so much like Prince's "Kiss". Is it just me?
omg true
I hear that and 5 minutes of funk
Hello Mister Johnson!
You are right here.
The Purple Love Assistant
I could not find this song on the Apple iTunes library.
Than it is good you found it here !
"then"
"applejack" may have been Len Bias
possibly, nice observation...💯💯💯
@@henrybiggs8001 It was Rock Hudson. Ppl did not know that he was into DL bros and slap bass
I've heard the same
Leon Childs jr Len O.D.ed on powder cocaine
Jc ks1986
Wish I could find this on Apple ITunes. I have it on vinyl 12”
4:11 Oh God! It CAN'T be ALL GONE! What is this... I've become... I'm AppleJACK Lewis!
Man... The Hood was SO TIGHT before Crackheads. Rest In Peace to all the dead, 1st Generation Greedy Coke Smokers that couldn't get off the PIZZIPE! You were Sprung to the Nation, Geeked Out, Through with Money, Antenna Mouthed DUSTBUSTERS!
Typical Oldschool Disco rap;
like "White Line Fever."
me myself am an oldschool dj in the 42066 area
I missed my chance to buy a Crack killed Applejack t-shirt. I would have worn it for a ghetto glamour shot. The pink Cadillac background or the stairs to heaven background. So many choices. Anyone know where I can get a giant teddy bear for a sidewalk memorial?
Don't make them like that anymore 🎉
I first heard this song in high school...some white boy on the basketball kept rappin' it...lmao
hey post some lyrics to this song. i cant find them anywhere
Just google a picture of the album cover, lyrics are there
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I wonder if Applejack knew Corn Pop. They were both bad dudes.
for you, scott..... not for our jack
Seriously? You sold our dog? Please tell me it isn't true!!!!!
AMERICA'S NATIONAL ATHEME
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lol that would be awesome
😂❤
Lorenzo james
I DON'T THINK THEY KNEW HOW TO MAKE IT WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT
When old dudes think anybody can rap. It was trash then and it's trash now.
this is not the version i was looking for...as this version was no way as funky as i remembered....the Kool Moe Dee, Whodini kind of funky...this ain't it...
look for the dance club remix