Probably my favorite Kid 'N Play video. The energy of this video was ridiculous. It was like the ultimate block party. Everytime I see it I think "why couldn't I have been there." I can't tell you how many times me and my friends would try to imitate the choreography of these video's. It was so much fun. Although, now if I tried I'd probably pull something. Dancing and having fun. That's what the late 80's was to me.
Back in the days when hip hop, rap music, was fun, everybody having fun, relaxing, dancing.... nothing like todays hip hop in which everything is about giving a bad image of black people showing killing, robbing, drugs, prostitution etc.
i'm white, and these guy's taught me how to dance back in the 90's, needless to say my taste in music has taken me places........plus House Party was DOPE!
Growing up in the 80's was awesome. Real hip hop music at it's best. I'm in my early 40's and still play this music in my house and car and now have my teenagers listening to it. Although their friends never heard of the music, they say they like ole' school music.
dont worry, this will never die out, im 18 and all my friends are really into this old school music, classic rock, or old school jams like this. i was born in 95 and i wish i was born in 75. but hey as long as im alive im guna bump that real music. and my children will be bumpin this in 2035
i have 2 say...i was born in the right era! Now this is music, entertaining and fun...u didnt have 2 be from da hood, the projects, the suburbs...it didnt matter. You just had to like to DANCE!
Yeah !...1987-88 are the years I started to embrace HIP-HOP culture !!...I was 13 years and wanted to become a B.BOY cause I loved so much the OLD SCHOOL era just a cupple of years before KID' N PLAY and the new breed of MC'S like KRS ONE, EPMD, ERIC B. AND RAKIM, JUICE CREW etc...but for me, these guys were the NEW SCHOOL of that time...I first recorded all these jams on a radio called COULEUR 3 !...now I'm DJ and I've got all these tracks on vinyl !!...word BIG UP to that era ! DJ FRESH ROCK..
classic video, and they made it look like a lotta fun...but I wouldn't call life simpler back then in the hood. I think it was crazier back then then it is now.
peacheslovesjesus ...I was there to, life was not all peaches an cream, I lived in those neighborhoods that they filmed these videos, it may be stupid out on the streets now...but it was a different kind of stupid back then.
Do you have a link to some stats to backup your claim? Here is a link that would say otherwise: www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160603/downtown/chicagos-violent-may-rivals-bloody-90s-our-community-is-under-siege
Times like this is priceless,they say history repeats but times like this will never be,there's so much ignorance in todays hip-hop world,and the sad thing about it all is that they don't care to make it right,nobody wants to take mature adult rolls in this industry they just go with the crap it's spilling out to our youth,i'd rather God just end it all now,cause it's not gonna get any better.
You hit it right on the head!! Old school block parties were the thing! So much fun back in the day...and now you can barely find one and if you do...NOTHING like the ones we remember...So sad..
Just saw them perform and being interviewed in the Convention Center at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans about 2 weeks ago. They seem so down to earth and really nice. So glad they're still cool with each other after all these years!
YO!!!! 40-58 sec. These boys F**KED IT UP!!! Listening to this makes me want to be in that era again having fun. GAURANTEED TO MAKE A PARTY HYPE. Ya'll might think it crazy but I would definitely give this to Chris Brown and tell him to do this song and video...right now. It would change the game.
I want to do an experiment....take a child unaware to music and let him hear this type of music with its multiple elements. Dance rhythm poetry and all around feel good vibe and let him hear what's poppin nowadays....I'm beating my money on the kid gravitating towards what's more natural and what requires less thought. Its easier to love and create than the amount of energy it takes to destroy love, feel up with hate and then create. Hope that makes sense to some of ya
+Soverign Cold-Steel ...True but I can't totally discount the beat makers today. The beats are pure fire with a lot less samples. But I do agree with you as far as positivity, creativity, uniqueness/variety (if that's a word) and the nursery rhyme schemes. Although a handful of the rappers today do spit pure lava, most of em are weak azz set trippin copycats waving guns around looking smoked/coked/leaned/zombied out and ashy and shit. Not many look fresh and clean or at least have exceptional skills with something worth hearing. The rap game is on top but yet so rock-bottom and provides a ticket to bullshit for the youth and old alike who are enthralled by the mumbling chanting. Let's bring back the good times yall. Poetic Justice
Pure unchoreographed talent! Look, even the little kids was out there. Hip-hop videos were hard to shoot back then. Even they made it look so easy and flawless. I remember back in 88' when I first saw them perform at the Salt n' Pepa/Rob Base concert. I thought to myself "These dudes are the future" (aside from the amazement of the giant high top fade that Kid donned) the moves these guys did were unparallel to anything out. This is what hip-hop is missing today...fresh, innovative, expression
The good ole days of Music! Feel good music that made ya wanna get up and dance and have a good time. Not that music that makes you wanna stare someone down and try and act all hard. It would be great if music could return to this. LOVE IT!
kid n play flipped me out back then! i couldnt believe what i was seeing. a duo of dancing rappers was amazing to me. and Yes, i can do "The kid n play". when you hold one leg and jump over it with the other. Nowadays i have to stretch first before i do it.
All of hip-hop's best MCs were interviewed for the books, *HOW TO RAP* and *HOW TO RAP 2*. Everyone from Pharcyde to Big Daddy Kane, Wu, Brand Nubian, Masta Ace, Tribe, Cypress Hill, and Public Enemy were interviewed in those books.
Ralph macdaniels 88 video music box, Jordan 3s had some run and these dances were funky...we was talking about them Monday morning in Spanish class 10th grade
I'm tellin' ya. I went to everyone from Brownsville, East New York, Ocean Hill, etc. The rappers were awesome in true freestyle, the DJing was off the chain. It was all the way live and the major jams back in the day was Love is the Message, Got to be Real, Bouce, Rock, Roll, Skate (which was also for the roller rink as well). I can't tell you how much I miss those days. Even if someone was bold enough to have a block party today, it won't be the same! It's truly dead now!
There literally was no such thing as bad hip-hop back then. Even the subpar stuff was good because it was new.. Kid N Play haven't got enough credit as integral parts of classic hip-hop IMO. Great song, great video. Props.
Sweet Lord.....this brings back memories sooooooo fkin sweet. YO!!!!!@!@!@.....remember you and your homie moving that coffee table out of the way n doing the kick-step?.....OldSchool hip hop was so dam fun and inclusive.
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Back in the day when it wasn't enough to just have a funky beat and smooth rhymes...you had to be able kick them heels too!
Damn, hip hop used to be fun as shit.
RIGHT
Whatever happen to fun hip hop!?
they involved political opinions and played out race cards it went to shit
rugman196927 that's not because during the time of Kid n Play we also had Public Enemy, there was a balance
yep!
Probably my favorite Kid 'N Play video. The energy of this video was ridiculous. It was like the ultimate block party. Everytime I see it I think "why couldn't I have been there." I can't tell you how many times me and my friends would try to imitate the choreography of these video's. It was so much fun. Although, now if I tried I'd probably pull something. Dancing and having fun. That's what the late 80's was to me.
Back in the days when hip hop, rap music, was fun, everybody having fun, relaxing, dancing.... nothing like todays hip hop in which everything is about giving a bad image of black people showing killing, robbing, drugs, prostitution etc.
not even lol now it's about wearing skinny jeans a blouse or dresses with a fucked up hair cut lol
my dude that's a bad image fam
BLOCK PARTY!!!
Lansuel Martinez Rocha your right and rap is not even called hip hop thats how wack it is hahahahahahahah
That vibe still exists if you know where to look, such as the group Ugly Duckling. Peace.
rap was great at this time ahhhh yes
Golden Era
Kid n Play are lyrical beasts!!!!
I concur
one of my favorite kid n play songs.. classic..
Put ur money on old school. Daamm this is good ole days
The beats are slamming the lyrics are on point great dance song!!!
#Classic
My dad use to say "stop all that stomping up there". I use to dance my ass off to this one. Can't do it like this anymore.
Man I really miss this hip hop
My dad use to have a hi-top :) He's one of the main reason why I have appreciation for 70s,80s, and 90s music.
This Defently Brought A Smile To My Face..
Man I miss the 80's
no shit! I'd love to go back just for one day.
Maaaan no doubt. Let's all get in a time machine and go back. Who's with me?
@@rexsexson5349 i am
i'm white, and these guy's taught me how to dance back in the 90's, needless to say my taste in music has taken me places........plus House Party was DOPE!
that beat is dope!!!!!
Growing up in the 80's was awesome. Real hip hop music at it's best. I'm in my early 40's and still play this music in my house and car and now have my teenagers listening to it. Although their friends never heard of the music, they say they like ole' school music.
maybe the best old school video of all time..
i'm jus sayin
The quality and budgets of music videos have definitely pulled a complete 180 in the past couple decades....this is pure gold.
Kid N play is actually the first to flow back to back rhymes. Styles p and Jada are killing it now.
one of my all time fav beats... goes hard sick breaks
That song was the shit back then. I still love it. That is some block party music.
I show this to my son in explaining the joy of my youth. We expressed ourselves thru real dancing. Not flossing or dabbing....
The great days of the rap Era, kid and play was good
I didn't know they were gay tho
I didn't know they were sweethearts tho
Bruce Stevenson they are not gay..lol. ..where the hell did u hear that?
+Kenneth Scarborough Never mind this bitch ass punk man, this D sucker just trying to throw salt in the game!!
1988 was a great year for Hip-hop. A lot of classic albums came out.
dont worry, this will never die out, im 18 and all my friends are really into this old school music, classic rock, or old school jams like this. i was born in 95 and i wish i was born in 75. but hey as long as im alive im guna bump that real music. and my children will be bumpin this in 2035
I would put my life on hold every time this video came on.
i have 2 say...i was born in the right era! Now this is music, entertaining and fun...u didnt have 2 be from da hood, the projects, the suburbs...it didnt matter. You just had to like to DANCE!
Yo MTV Raps, back when Mtv was still a channel about music.
SO MUCH ENERGY!!! xD
I remember my dad dancing like this when I was a kid. It was so much fun to watch and try to copy.
when Hip Hop was ALIVE and WELL
My favorite album/single from them. Bought it when it was new. Best sample /samples they used!
Just finished watching Unsung on TVOne had to come watch the videos.....Hip-Hop's golden era
Yeah !...1987-88 are the years I started to embrace HIP-HOP culture !!...I was 13 years and wanted to become a B.BOY cause I loved so much the OLD SCHOOL era just a cupple of years before KID' N PLAY and the new breed of MC'S like KRS ONE, EPMD, ERIC B. AND RAKIM, JUICE CREW etc...but for me, these guys were the NEW SCHOOL of that time...I first recorded all these jams on a radio called COULEUR 3 !...now I'm DJ and I've got all these tracks on vinyl !!...word BIG UP to that era ! DJ FRESH ROCK..
Back when hip-hop and rap was still fun
This was Kid and Play best song. Great collaboration to hip hop.
DJ Wizz - another underrated DJ!!!!
Life was simpler back then...
classic video, and they made it look like a lotta fun...but I wouldn't call life simpler back then in the hood. I think it was crazier back then then it is now.
bigbabysld No, life was a lot more simpler. It's a mess now, especially spiritually. Trust.
This is a late post, but the murder rate back then was much, much higher than it is today.
peacheslovesjesus ...I was there to, life was not all peaches an cream, I lived in those neighborhoods that they filmed these videos, it may be stupid out on the streets now...but it was a different kind of stupid back then.
Do you have a link to some stats to backup your claim? Here is a link that would say otherwise: www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160603/downtown/chicagos-violent-may-rivals-bloody-90s-our-community-is-under-siege
I miss the old days. No death and violence, just pure fun!
This was actually a sick ass beat. One of my favorite Kid N Play songs
Times like this is priceless,they say history repeats but times like this will never be,there's so much ignorance in todays hip-hop world,and the sad thing about it all is that they don't care to make it right,nobody wants to take mature adult rolls in this industry they just go with the crap it's spilling out to our youth,i'd rather God just end it all now,cause it's not gonna get any better.
+1969Tisa ...naw...wont get better anytime soon. especially with the execs leading the charge of ignorance and degredation
man! brings back memories this is it
best beat I ever heard.
especially the part from 1:16 to 1:30
You hit it right on the head!! Old school block parties were the thing! So much fun back in the day...and now you can barely find one and if you do...NOTHING like the ones we remember...So sad..
Just saw them perform and being interviewed in the Convention Center at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans about 2 weeks ago. They seem so down to earth and really nice. So glad they're still cool with each other after all these years!
There is NOBODY dancing off-beat in this video! Cmon nah! I lived this...good times
YO!!!! 40-58 sec. These boys F**KED IT UP!!! Listening to this makes me want to be in that era again having fun. GAURANTEED TO MAKE A PARTY HYPE. Ya'll might think it crazy but I would definitely give this to Chris Brown and tell him to do this song and video...right now. It would change the game.
Kevin Mi YES INDEED
I want to do an experiment....take a child unaware to music and let him hear this type of music with its multiple elements. Dance rhythm poetry and all around feel good vibe and let him hear what's poppin nowadays....I'm beating my money on the kid gravitating towards what's more natural and what requires less thought. Its easier to love and create than the amount of energy it takes to destroy love, feel up with hate and then create. Hope that makes sense to some of ya
Soverign Cold-Steel I've performed this experiment many times over and you're right on the money.
+Soverign Cold-Steel ...True but I can't totally discount the beat makers today. The beats are pure fire with a lot less samples. But I do agree with you as far as positivity, creativity, uniqueness/variety (if that's a word) and the nursery rhyme schemes. Although a handful of the rappers today do spit pure lava, most of em are weak azz set trippin copycats waving guns around looking smoked/coked/leaned/zombied out and ashy and shit. Not many look fresh and clean or at least have exceptional skills with something worth hearing. The rap game is on top but yet so rock-bottom and provides a ticket to bullshit for the youth and old alike who are enthralled by the mumbling chanting. Let's bring back the good times yall. Poetic Justice
One of KidNPlay's Best Tracks. This song brings joy to my eardrums.
I loved these guys.... They seriously rocked. This is my fav vid by them.
when rappers could just be them and not hard core on 100
OH THIS THIS IS STRAIGHT FIRE.
this was the first record my mom bought me.
Pure unchoreographed talent! Look, even the little kids was out there. Hip-hop videos were hard to shoot back then. Even they made it look so easy and flawless. I remember back in 88' when I first saw them perform at the Salt n' Pepa/Rob Base concert. I thought to myself "These dudes are the future" (aside from the amazement of the giant high top fade that Kid donned) the moves these guys did were unparallel to anything out. This is what hip-hop is missing today...fresh, innovative, expression
Back when hip hop was good, had talent and influenced so many genres of music.
Wow ! This took me BACK ! This is knocking on 40 years ago. CRAZY !
I could watch these two dance all night!
I heard this in 06 on a iPod even though I was born in 92 it was my 1st exposure to the old school.
I loved this song when I first heard it - like 20 years ago. I still love it and I dont like much from back then.
This brings back memories of my childhood. I'm 47 now and i'm sitting at my desk ready to jump up and dance lol.
One of the funkiest beats. Ever!
I was 15 when this came out. It's still a fucking tune.
the dancing back then was so acrobatic! Back in the day... :)
They really were those dudes!!
My fav K&P song
Before,'House Party',these two,put out,great records!
Hip hop kept your ass in shape jack! Cardio all day and night!
Kid N Play most underrated group in Hip Hop history
Takin me back to '87!
The good ole days of Music! Feel good music that made ya wanna get up and dance and have a good time. Not that music that makes you wanna stare someone down and try and act all hard. It would be great if music could return to this. LOVE IT!
Doin the 'kid n play' was surely fun for whoever tried it.... then and now! They made it look so easy!!!
Dude was KILLIN' it @ 2:43 lol!!!!!!!!! That was always my favorite part in the video!
minute by minute
yo, hour by hour
kid n play got soul power!
we getting funky
Old skool everytime, this wipe the floor with the new hip hop scene bring back the old days
kid n play flipped me out back then! i couldnt believe what i was seeing. a duo of dancing rappers was amazing to me. and Yes, i can do "The kid n play". when you hold one leg and jump over it with the other. Nowadays i have to stretch first before i do it.
All of hip-hop's best MCs were interviewed for the books, *HOW TO RAP* and *HOW TO RAP 2*.
Everyone from Pharcyde to Big Daddy Kane, Wu, Brand Nubian, Masta Ace, Tribe, Cypress Hill, and Public Enemy were interviewed in those books.
I love the way that they danced... Music is so ridiculous today..
Ralph macdaniels 88 video music box, Jordan 3s had some run and these dances were funky...we was talking about them Monday morning in Spanish class 10th grade
party hip hop such fun back then
Man, I am so thankful that I grew up to 80s and 90s Hip Hop! Just look at how much fun we had back then!
The kings of happy rap.
HOT throwback!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥Legends
The good old days! i miss this era of hip hop so much!
I'm tellin' ya. I went to everyone from Brownsville, East New York, Ocean Hill, etc. The rappers were awesome in true freestyle, the DJing was off the chain. It was all the way live and the major jams back in the day was Love is the Message, Got to be Real, Bouce, Rock, Roll, Skate (which was also for the roller rink as well). I can't tell you how much I miss those days. Even if someone was bold enough to have a block party today, it won't be the same! It's truly dead now!
There literally was no such thing as bad hip-hop back then. Even the subpar stuff was good because it was new.. Kid N Play haven't got enough credit as integral parts of classic hip-hop IMO. Great song, great video. Props.
just took me back to the funnest era ever in history. nothing but house parties and fly gear and women.
For every gangsta rapper, every message rapper, we had to have the ones that kept it what hip hop originally was... FUN!! That's Kid N Play!!
my old school music im dancing right now.
I'm so glad I grew up during this time in rap music.
GOD!!!!! I MIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS THIS ERA OF REEEEAAAALLLL HIP HOP.
"This ain't hardcore but yo it ain't soft!" No doubt. Real Hip Hop
Kid was nice with the dancing
could dance and have fun to this. what hip hop is about! loved those days and music....
I sooooooooooo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ this song! This my workout song😀😀😀😀😀😀
Back before talent became extinct
Saw these cats when they were on tour with Public Enemy and Digital Underground. They damn near stole the show from those guys! Great song.
The instrumental on this is super hype!
These are my guys. HIP-HOP was so diversified back then. I don't know what's going on NOW.
I have listened to this like 5 times in the last 2 days. I love it.
Oh dam the high top fade, the 88 air Jordan’s wow man I miss those days
Sweet Lord.....this brings back memories sooooooo fkin sweet. YO!!!!!@!@!@.....remember you and your homie moving that coffee table out of the way n doing the kick-step?.....OldSchool hip hop was so dam fun and inclusive.