I am today years old when I realized Little Shawn was in the background playing the banjo dancing 😂😂😂 If you don’t know who Little Shawn is, do your homework. He made classic hits like “ I Made Luv For The Very First Time, Hicky’s On Ya Neck, and Dom Perignon ft The great Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious BIG. That guy is a legend in the Hip Hop game/ entertainment industry. He literally the Forest Gump of Hip Hop frfr.
Math Hoffa interview with lil Shawn brought me here always loved this whole album by Special Ed but also loved lil Shawn especially I made luv and dom perignon. Big up from the UK! Good to see these old school rappers getting some recognition
@@floydjr3189 How do I know?? Lord have mercy, you don't see Tupac face and him dancing in the video? Put the video on pause and look at dancers face. Its Tupac!! You know Tupac was a dancer for Digital Underground, right? I guess he was a dancer in some of Special Ed videos before becoming a rapper. Tupac wasn't balled headed his whole life. lol
Sadly my opinion he had very bad promotion and the Era was changing when ED started to go hard, I was a hustler so I related to gangsta rap more but always respected lyrical híp họp as well, real híp họp fans know ED is a living legend, To me he was the 1st to start the flossy rap
"They" don't promote positivity that y.... this music is motivating, self helping, which is not the agenda n 'they' understand the law of attraction which was the teachings of our ancestors to 'them' when this land was hijacked.... meaning you get what you put out so this is not what they want us to be listening to therefore they will not promote this but this is real hip hop with a message which never was for radio n the first place...so F em!!! Special Ed is good and still Special! 💪🏽✨ He's the Magnificent!!!! Understand??? He does n did at a very young age must have been raised by the greatest generation like me...😎 Fun fact: the words I Am is the most powerful words in the universe... therefore what you put behind it will Be... thus I Am the Magnificent. I am powerful I am charitable get it? 🏹🏹🏹🤎✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿💪🏽🤎🧚🏾♀️✨ Bottom line watch the words that come out of your mouth and I thought as well 🤗 and remember the devil was a liar 🤥
This guy made rap look so elegant and ingenious he showed you didn't have to have bling and his words was clean man I jamming to this before my Bible study...his words was smooth as butter and you couldn't even cut it with a knife.
His dancers (Prancer and Kazo) went on to form a rap group in 1992 called ZHIGGE and dropped an album with the singles "Toss It Up" and "Rakin' In The Dough". 😉✊🏾
Back when we looked & listened to music Videos for not only the lyrical content but the hook. And most importantly the dance moves. Born in 1973 and I was blessed to be raised in the 70s & 80s. I still bump the classics in my ride to this day. TRUE HIP HOP lives forever
I am in total agreement. We are from the same era. That was a time of TRUE HIP HOP. I'm not certain what is being played nowadays and is being peddled as Hip Hop.
I've only been on this planet for 25 years, born in '91. I wasn't even here yet when this came out, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED??? This is a MILLLLLLLLLLION times better than ANYTHING released nowdays. This is music...
He does use Desmond Dekker's 007 Shanty Town, as well as Dave Barker and Ansel Collins' Double Barrel, and Lyn Collins' Think (About It), which was also used by Rob Base for It Takes Two ... 🎶🔊
I would say mainstream has been appalling since late 90's on the whole. There has been some interesting stuff outside of mainstream in that time but overall I don't think hiphop is anywhere near as good as back then. As soon as that dark sounding rap just before trap came along I switched off completely. Its slowly getting better but has a long way to go.
Oh, you think you're tough, cookie I think you better call your bookie 'Cause you can bet your life, I'm gonna play you like hooky :) Special Ed, one of the best.
I am soooooo damn Proud of my era!!. I will be 50 in December. And PROUD of it! MY MUSIC is MUSIC that MADE YOU FEEL GOOD!! OUR music was what you got ready to in the morning before school. And produced some of the DOPEST Outfits while listening. I'm ALWAYS on my OLD SCHOOL! Y'all can have this BS that IS the REASON we need to bring back HOOKED ON PHONICS!! Im GOOD!! DJ, BringDatBeatBack!!
This sounded great on my Mom’s Sony stereo system back in the day! I had the house bumping!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾! Chi stand up! New President today! Stay Safe!✊🏽1/20/2021!
@@tamecad504 yay the comment I've been looking for I knew someone's mother found him sexy lol I don't know if mine did or not but she was heavy into BET back then during this time she thought Big Daddy Kane was hot.
One of the best inadvertent Law of Attraction songs of all time! I used to play this tape, especially this song, over and over again in the early 90's.
Surprisingly he had the best moves even though he clearly just doing whatever tf he wants 😂 the other guys just flailing around all crazy like 1/2 the time
Special Ed sampled Desmond Dekker's "007 Shantytown" for the guitar riff. The music is ska. Paul McCartney actually wrote a song that shouted out Desmond..."Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" while in The Beatles! 💃🤗
OOOOOOOOOH!!! THIS IS MY SONG, THE BEAT IS HYPNOTIZING AND THE DANCERS WERE ALWAYS ON POINT!!! HE WAS MY BOYFRIEND IN MY HEAD WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL....
We rocked suits and/or a dress shirt with patent leather shoes when we danced and hit the clubs. The 90's killed all that when Hip Hop went back to the gutter and the hardcore rap took over. Both eras were dope in their own rights... but this era was definitely more fun.
THIS IS STILL BETTER THAN 90% OF THE MUSIC OUT NOW!
All day long!
I'll say 99.5%.
My 80s teenage years were actually MAGNIFICENT due to the hip hop / rap culture.💯🔥✨️
Facts...BIG Facts!
Better than 99%
This was when Hip Hop was golden!
100% correct.
IGREE
Aww we will, QA
@@La_Mascara_8😊😊pp0i⁸89⁸8i8⁸8⁸⁸88888
Affirmative!
Yes!!😅
Youngest in charge ❤
Glad I grew up in this era...Hip Hop was real, not like what we hear now
Malcolm-Jamal did an excellent job directing this video. Ed was THE MAN!!
🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾👍🏾💯
An excellent job? Which part? I'm not being a wise guy I'm curious I mean they're in one room literally.
Lmao!! Whatchamacallit gonna towards God's pp!@@@ a
I thought dat was him lol
Everything on this CD was great. No skipping
I am today years old when I realized Little Shawn was in the background playing the banjo dancing 😂😂😂
If you don’t know who Little Shawn is, do your homework. He made classic hits like “ I Made Luv For The Very First Time, Hicky’s On Ya Neck, and Dom Perignon ft The great Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious BIG. That guy is a legend in the Hip Hop game/ entertainment industry. He literally the Forest Gump of Hip Hop frfr.
Math Hoffa interview with lil Shawn brought me here always loved this whole album by Special Ed but also loved lil Shawn especially I made luv and dom perignon. Big up from the UK! Good to see these old school rappers getting some recognition
Same. I’m just now realizing he wasn’t supposed to be in the video. He’s good.
It's nice to be able to understand what the artist is saying because he's not cramming in 5,000 words a minute.
YO SPECIAL ED WAS NOT ONLY MAGNIFICENT! HE HAD IT MADE!!
😀👍🏼
Oh okay I see what you did there 😂
Plus he was ON A MISSION
LOL play on them words y'all!
🔥
Happy 50 to all Rappers.. and D.J.s!!!
His dancers were on fire with the moves🔥 .
Y'all know one of the dancers was Tupac Shakur right? lol Pac was getting it.
@@dwaynerhone9733 how do you know?
@@floydjr3189 How do I know?? Lord have mercy, you don't see Tupac face and him dancing in the video? Put the video on pause and look at dancers face. Its Tupac!! You know Tupac was a dancer for Digital Underground, right? I guess he was a dancer in some of Special Ed videos before becoming a rapper.
Tupac wasn't balled headed his whole life. lol
@@dwaynerhone9733 that’s not pac
@@DaRealNaga Definitely not Pac
This joint still goes hard 30 years later!!!!
WORD!!
Facts
You ain't ever lied! He STILL sounds amazing!
Howie Tee...all time great, whether widely acknowledged or not. SHOUT!!
30 years...wow
Big up Special Ed! Port Royal, Jamaica Captain here
One of the most underrated rappers ever
Seriously
Why Special Ed isn't proclaimed more is beyond me. He's very underrated.
Sadly my opinion he had very bad promotion and the Era was changing when ED started to go hard, I was a hustler so I related to gangsta rap more but always respected lyrical híp họp as well, real híp họp fans know ED is a living legend, To me he was the 1st to start the flossy rap
Alot are underrated
"They" don't promote positivity that y.... this music is motivating, self helping, which is not the agenda n 'they' understand the law of attraction which was the teachings of our ancestors to 'them' when this land was hijacked....
meaning you get what you put out so this is not what they want us to be listening to therefore they will not promote this but this is real hip hop with a message which never was for radio n the first place...so F em!!! Special Ed is good and still Special! 💪🏽✨ He's the Magnificent!!!! Understand??? He does n did at a very young age must have been raised by the greatest generation like me...😎
Fun fact: the words I Am is the most powerful words in the universe... therefore what you put behind it will Be... thus I Am the Magnificent. I am powerful I am charitable get it? 🏹🏹🏹🤎✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿💪🏽🤎🧚🏾♀️✨ Bottom line watch the words that come out of your mouth and I thought as well 🤗 and remember the devil was a liar 🤥
Now Special ED was truly underrated! He was super nice and didn't get the acclaim
But he had kats shook to battle him at the time!
Big up yard man a do him ting back in the early 90’s!!!✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Special Ed was so lyrical. And he could flow. 🔥
The dancers are MAGNIFICENT! ❤
If you were fortunate enough to grow up with this 'era' of hip hop then I don't need to tell you how sweet life was back in those days.
Yes
I have the highest respect for SE. The rhymes and wordplay he developed at 14 were phenomenal.
Big up mi Jamaican yute.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
For me this is my jam 1989 !
This guy made rap look so elegant and ingenious he showed you didn't have to have bling and his words was clean man I jamming to this before my Bible study...his words was smooth as butter and you couldn't even cut it with a knife.
Love his dancers, I miss that in hip hop.
Me too
Me too
My poor son tried his best to rock the dancers. Lol! He's about to turn 42 next week. Miss those days.
His dancers (Prancer and Kazo) went on to form a rap group in 1992 called ZHIGGE and dropped an album with the singles "Toss It Up" and "Rakin' In The Dough". 😉✊🏾
Back when rappers actually had talent
That's right there own unique styles
I was 21 when this hit the airwaves. Ed should've got more recognition with his smooth beats and great lyrics!
I was in 7th grade and still have the tapes and 12” records! 😮💨
Lil Shawn dancing like his life on the line
The music in the 80's was the best ever. Special Ed was top shelf.
90s
I'm so proud to say that I loved growing up as a teenager in this era of great music! I miss the good old days!
💜
True that
Definitely❣❣❣
Me and you both….uuugh take me back !!!
For real
All his music was dope!
Who in the fuck would actually wholeheartedly dislike this!? It's Hip Hop in its purest form! People need to get their heads checked. 😂😂😂
NYCRyderman special ed vs jaz-o in a rap battle?
They were probably looking for Lil Yachty when they searched up Special Ed
SO TURNT everybody thought Tupac was the dancer. 2pac knew jaz-o and special ed in 90?
my life was hip hop😂
+Jarrel Ely exactly keep schoolin em, they don't know
Back when we looked & listened to music Videos for not only the lyrical content but the hook. And most importantly the dance moves. Born in 1973 and I was blessed to be raised in the 70s & 80s. I still bump the classics in my ride to this day. TRUE HIP HOP lives forever
Yeahhhhh boyyyyyy
Agreed! Forever, forever ever? Forever, ever! #downbylaw
I was born in '72 myself, & I am so grateful for it...
God Bless!
I am in total agreement. We are from the same era.
That was a time of TRUE HIP HOP. I'm not certain what is being played nowadays and is being peddled as Hip Hop.
100% correct.
Sad, but these days are LONG GONE!
Flatbush Avenue, STAND UP for Special Ed! Dope mix back in 1990!
2023 this brother still tha magnificent.
That beat when the hook come is so FIRE
I still have mad love for this video! Malcolm-Jamal, Ed, and of course those dancers! I just can't get enough!
These were PROFESSIONAL dancers that didn't know they were, well l'm giving them the title!!! PROFESSIONAL!!! I love you GUYS!!! CellaMadea
@@CellaMadea ❤️
Malcolm -Jamal directed the video, if I'm not mistaken.
2020 and beyond! Who else banging this?
Covid companions
10/18/2020 philly all day
👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸
Still, my friend
Me😊🎶
Old school rap is so much better than today's 👎🏿
When Hip Hop and dancing were a unit. Good times.
I've only been on this planet for 25 years, born in '91. I wasn't even here yet when this came out, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED??? This is a MILLLLLLLLLLION times better than ANYTHING released nowdays. This is music...
Jezzy-Rallz spread tha word to ur generation youngin’! 🔊
Jezzy-Rallz I’m 22, I feel you.
He is good
Jezzy-Rallz this is real hip hop music you know what sad about about this these guys was getting ripped off
Rap was good to listen to and you could understand what they said back then
Special Ed is still the magnificent in 2024!
The dancing is 💯 on point!
I heard this song bumpin down the street and realized real music ain't dead. #80's baby when music was real.
He does use Desmond Dekker's 007 Shanty Town, as well as Dave Barker and Ansel Collins' Double Barrel, and Lyn Collins' Think (About It), which was also used by Rob Base for It Takes Two ... 🎶🔊
Special ed was so dope. Thank you for posting this for us.😎👍🏽
Who's here in 2020? The music, the dancing.. I Love It!!!!!!!
Golden Era was the best
I so miss this era!!! Loved Special Ed. Wish we could go back.
Me
@@Shon_Janel he was soooo fine too lol.
@@Shon_Janel I bet everybody's mama had a crush on him.
This type of hip hop with the happy dancers and smiles began to phase out with the entrance of NWA. ICE T, etc in 1990
Still here in 2024 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
He's still the magnificent
I miss the 80 & early 90s
mike lawrence me too. the music in the past 15 years has been garbage
I would say mainstream has been appalling since late 90's on the whole. There has been some interesting stuff outside of mainstream in that time but overall I don't think hiphop is anywhere near as good as back then. As soon as that dark sounding rap just before trap came along I switched off completely. Its slowly getting better but has a long way to go.
U ain't by yourself
littlegee dark rap like what
mike lawrence I wasn't born til 94 but this is the real shit. Everyone says I miss the 90s and only mention Biggie and Tupac
Omg....the beat that is still beautiful today!
Why?
Theos' groove at the end punctuated a prime time in Hip Hop Dance. We used to be ~jammin' on the one~
This jammin!!!!! Special Ed Alltime Great
Special Ed is always the magnificent still is....🇯🇲🇺🇸
Oh, you think you're tough, cookie
I think you better call your bookie
'Cause you can bet your life, I'm gonna play you like hooky :) Special Ed, one of the best.
Back when rappers had lyrics and style
Listen to Young MA
Kenny the ledger offset so yall just waiting too steal the powerball wit powerplay!
Yes Girl! You said it right!
Cheers To Cute Ears & Good Lyrics 🍷
Too all my BALLS? What up?
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 real hip hop
THE INNOCENT TIMES OF HIP-HOP❤💯👌!!!!!!!
One of the most underrated rappers of all time.
Little Shawn ate with the dance moves. ✊🏾🔥
lol you come from MEO podcast too?
Lol
Black culture was at its peak at this point in time. but my god.. How far we have fallen since.
The MOST UNDERRATED rapper in the history of Hip Hop...case closed
I am soooooo damn Proud of my era!!. I will be 50 in December. And PROUD of it! MY MUSIC is MUSIC that MADE YOU FEEL GOOD!! OUR music was what you got ready to in the morning before school. And produced some of the DOPEST Outfits while listening. I'm ALWAYS on my OLD SCHOOL! Y'all can have this BS that IS the REASON we need to bring back HOOKED ON PHONICS!! Im GOOD!! DJ, BringDatBeatBack!!
You know its good when you can remember every word 30yrs later
This dude had bars!!!!
D21 Yo for life
D21 Yo, Damn, you must be a lil youngin! Special Ed is one of the GOAT's!!
D21 Yo he still does look type in special ed 2018 he raps this live
You must be young
4 days bruh
Thank you Malcolm Jamal Warner (Theo, from the Cosby show), for producing this and others... You were hella funny dancing at the end.
Real Hip-Hop the 80's&90'sO and Malcolm Jamal Warner rocking off at end of the video classic
He directed it
This dude was 16 rapping like he been doing it for years
IKR !!
He most likely had "ghost writers" like so many up and coming rappers today do"...
Non-rhetorically, why is that likely/"probable ? 🤔
@@robertsorel5216 idk man, ghostwriter or not, this dude is a dope MC.
@@robertsorel5216 prove it
🙌🏽 😁 my upbringing was LIIIIIIIT !!! Where the hell is Special Ed !? 😁
I had the biggest crush on him growing up. I know it would never happen but a girl can dream at least....70s baby here still rocking with old school
Bars 🔥🔥 that can stand in 2023
This sounded great on my Mom’s Sony stereo system back in the day! I had the house bumping!💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾! Chi stand up! New President today! Stay Safe!✊🏽1/20/2021!
Damn Special Ed was so cute!😍
OMG I’M 40 right? He looks like that cute, popular boy in school we all crushed on. You know the one.
Blue tooth the OG cuz meaterhead is what lith/mag what?
He still is and built!
My mom was crazy about him back in the day😂
@@tamecad504 yay the comment I've been looking for I knew someone's mother found him sexy lol I don't know if mine did or not but she was heavy into BET back then during this time she thought Big Daddy Kane was hot.
This guy was ahead of his time
The good old days of rap, love it
This album hit the scene in 89 and still sounds fresh. Special Ed & Howie Tee came strong with this joint. Nuff respect to my Flatbush brethren. 👊🏾
back when hip hop was fun.
Yes! I was looking for a way to describe this period of time. This is it.
MATH HOFFA LIL SHAWN BROUGHT ME BACK HERE
2023 still Bumping S.Ed🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪🏾💯
2024 Dec still listening
There is a Reason he is Nas Idol… He’s The Magnificent 💯💪🏾 32 years later still my Jam
Nahh that first verse was simply crazy! First time hearing this too
The dance moves tho
I like the way the videos of the 80's and 90's cost $5 to produce, but the music is legendary.
Yeah because CGI wasn’t a thing then. Now everything looks like a video game-esque pile of shit along with the music.
typical video cost in 88 for a rap song was 200,000.
This was directed by Malcolm Jamal Warner.
I'm Michael Jackson had about 4 videos in the 80's that cost way more than $5.
One of the best inadvertent Law of Attraction songs of all time! I used to play this tape, especially this song, over and over again in the early 90's.
I came here after Little Shawn's interview on Math Hoffa's show, and yup, that's him for sure dancing with the guitar in the back, LMAO
Surprisingly he had the best moves even though he clearly just doing whatever tf he wants 😂 the other guys just flailing around all crazy like 1/2 the time
Special Ed is one of my favorite rappers!!! ❤😊
Yes me too
Thanks for all the rhymes keep rhyming
Special Ed sampled Desmond Dekker's "007 Shantytown" for the guitar riff. The music is ska. Paul McCartney actually wrote a song that shouted out Desmond..."Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" while in The Beatles! 💃🤗
One of my favorite Special Ed songs ever ❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊🎉🎉🎉🎉!!!
the beginning of the golden era of hiphop ! dope track dope vid love action love !
Yessss!! My era!❤ I had the BIGGEST crush on Special Ed when I was in high school!!
The song STILL bangs in 2024! Not a SINGLE curse word! 🔥🔥🔥
God I miss this kind of music so bad!
Greatest time ever to be young!!!
Still one of my favorite songs ever.
Special Ed was definitely magnificent!!!!❤️🔥❤️
This guy was so incredibly masterful on the mike. His lyrics are always pure and clean, his flow is awesome and over the clouds, he's a beast, 2me.
Back when Malcolm Jamal Warner was directing all the Hip Hop videos, LOL!
Remember Special Ed on the Cosby show I was so in love with this guy.
Remember Special Ed on the Cosby show I was so in love with this guy.
he did R&B too!
he was??!!
name 3, everybody knows of the 2.
OOOOOOOOOH!!! THIS IS MY SONG, THE BEAT IS HYPNOTIZING AND THE DANCERS WERE ALWAYS ON POINT!!! HE WAS MY BOYFRIEND IN MY HEAD WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL....
Still hitting hard! So underrated and not talked about enough anymore
We rocked suits and/or a dress shirt with patent leather shoes when we danced and hit the clubs. The 90's killed all that when Hip Hop went back to the gutter and the hardcore rap took over. Both eras were dope in their own rights... but this era was definitely more fun.
He really is the magnificent!