The Pharcyde - Drop (Official Music Video)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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The Pharcyde "Drop" from the album Labcabincalifornia. Video directed by Spike Jonze.
It took three years for The Pharcyde to follow up on their debut release, Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde. Not that they didn’t keep busy in that period with supporting slots for De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest as well as a successful spot on Lollapalooza's 1994 tour. Of course J-Swift had parted ways with the group just before the conclusion of the Bizarre Ride sessions. Rather than try to out an out replace Swift, production on Labcabincalifornia was handled by the Pharcyde’s own Bootie Brown, Fatlip and Slimkid3 along with contributions from Diamond D, M-Walk and very notably the work of a recent arrival in LA, Jay Dee aka J Dilla. The resulting project, Labcabincalifornia, maybe calmer than the group’s debut but it s no less warped with stand out cuts like “She Said”, “Drop”, and “Runnin’”. The lead single, “Drop” was supported by one of the best videos ever directed by Spike Jonze and along with the above mentioned singles propelled solid sales on Labcabincalifornia ultimately securing it’s own position in the pantheon of must have records.
“If Labcabincalifornia came out today, boasting production by J Dilla on seven out of 17 tracks would be a big deal…” - Complex Magazine
01 Bullsh!t
02 Pharcyde
03 Groupie Therapy
04 Runnin'
05 She Said
06 Splattitorium
07 Somethin' That Means Somethin'
08 All Live
09 Drop
10 Hey You
11 Y?
12 It's All Good!
13 Moment In Time
14 The Hustle
15 Little D
16 Devil Music
17 The E.N.D.
Music video by The Pharcyde performing Drop. (C) 2017 The Bicycle Music Company, Inc. Distributed by Concord Music Group, Inc.
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If this comment gets likes, then that's proof that people come here everyday
FACTS...BEST VIDEO EVER
Yes
Lol
200 like
If you had posted eralier you would have like 1k 10k if I had to guess
2024. This still holds the Record as the Best Rap Video of all time.
smoking crac
What about Busta and Missy?
Not just rap; all styles of music.
Facts
20+ years old and still sounds like the future
Thats Dilla for ya
Excuse my bad knowledge of The Pharcyde, this is probably my first song I've heard from them, but I actually thought this beat was new lol.. btw any other recommendations of their music ?
GrrandSmack Labcabincalifornia has a lot of great songs. “She said” is one of my favorites from them. “Y?” is a good track, “devil music” is good too. “Runnin’” and “Passing me by” are their two most popular tracks besides “Drop”. Enjoy the music my friend!
This is the realest comment
GrrandSmack “otha fish”
I just saw a video that this crew recorded everything backwards and even had to hire someone to help them teach them how to rap they verse backwards for 5 days straight of training. This insane I love the story behind this song, unique.
I'm the same. I'm disappointed they didn't actually show the mouths moving they didn't learn to rap backwards.
Me too. That's why I'm here and this video goes hard. Especially considering the time.
@@booth1906 where’s the video?
The beat is also samples backwards from dilla!
This is the way. Please make friends again. You're music rocks.
If this was in your recommendations you're my kind of people.
69lewie Mick Loving
walter
Absolutely....
Let's goooo
Eyyyy
RIP Dilla. giving tons of thx to him for making dope ass beats like this.
no doubt, the arrangement & snare are classic Dilla. R.I.P.
@@militantmarxman5275 fo sho man.... so sad cuz he is gone, hope we could get an another musical genius
❤ JD
@@mikemurphy8714 love 4 Dilla
The creativity of rappers in the 90s was incredible. Very visual and original.
The Pharcyde never got the props they deserved from the mainstream
Unfortunately 🙄 most was on that "Hardcore" boom bap style around that time and most wasn't feeling that "Tribe Called Quest" (Q Tip) style 😉
what you get for not wanting to sell ur soul
Spike Jonze directed this.
who cares underground rap more unique than every shit out there 💯
@@thisistheendpt2 Spike Jonze is one of the goats, I'm just saying
"Controlling is a swollen way to wreck a proud mind. You hold it in your hands and watch a man start crying. Tear after tear in the puppet man's hands, every time you take a stance, you do the puppet man's dance. And the world's at a standstill, deep in broken-man's-ville, trapped in the moat with an anvil, still killing yourself, and dogging your health. You ain't amphibious, so grab a hold of yourself."
Fucking poetry.
Trust me this is a masterpiece 😍
Amphibious???
@@AnonymousUser568 amphibious creatures survive in water
@@littlekmc1493...and on land. like frogs i.e.
One of the dopest pieces of literature ever written..
The mainstream never showed enough respect to these geniuses.
You are joking right? The Pharcyde were extremely popular in the 90s. Most people were bumping The Pharcyde, Quest or Brand Nubian.
And you NEVER hear the pharcyde mentioned in the general history of hip hop and if you do you hear about tribe send brand nubian.
@@nicholaswojton8258 Pharcyde's songs are always played by DJ's that I accompany, who listens to real hip hop knows that Pharcyde is a Classic, but for new listeners I really think it hard for them to know. Sorry for my english
Mainstream never shows enough respect for great artists, period. Thats where the underground scene comes in
Same with Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics
Imo they are the best rap group ever. Their lyricism in; 93' Til Infinity, 3rd Eye Vision, Trilogy: Conflict, Climax, Resolution, Full Circle, and Montezuma's Revenge cant be touched by any other crew. Their longevity is unrivaled.
This was the most Innovative video in the 90s nothing came close to how this video was film even Kanye West was inspired by this video. Also lets not forget that drop was produced by the legendary J dilla ( R.I.P )
J dilla r.i.p.
Dammmnn bro I just got to know that beat from Dillaa all this time I was vibing with Pharcyde
Kanye isn't worthy of licking the dirt from their shoes. He doesn't even deserve his name in the comment section of a Pharcyde video...
@@rickysnickle2962 shut up Kanye the goat
No wonder the beat was so good
I swear this is the best hip-hop music video of all times, period
capital steez free the robots is better
@@timcoy4345 false, not even close
Spike Jonze is a genius
You should check out MF DOOM's videos for "Dead Bent" and "Guv'nor". You'll probably appreciate those, as well.
If we talking music videos and only music videos, ASAP Rockys definitely take the cake. Far far away from the best rap, but the music videos are crazy
the pharcyde did it before coldplay lol
Banger comment
I hear you😂 Coldplay are still GOATED
Creators are always imitated
What's Coldplay?
don't get that comment. as coldplay never did legendary shit.
I honestly didn’t know they rapped this backwards. Holy shit, I just thought it was creative editing.
J Dilla actually sampled the music backwards, I didn't see anyone do that
Mark Gonzalez
I watch the behind the scenes too and I found out they’re rapping backwards that took ALOT of time
Very very creative video
@@jennyneon what did they sample backwards
That is literally INSANE 😵
J Dilla, Spike Jonze and Mark Gonzalez all in the same place. Three legends in their respective fields contributed to the greatest hip hop video ever. So dope.
Where does Gonz show up?
adam horovitz and mike diamond from the beastie boys also appear in the vid
@@jorozco13yearsago40 Gonz does the artwork at the end
@@GP-ff8en the guy form gummo?
@@DiegoMonroy2000 he more then just that bro
The fact that they actually memorized their lines backwards is just unreal. Best hip hop video of all time.
When youre filming a video thats not how it works- you have it written next to the camera and you hear the song playing backwards, they dont really say words backwards, they say random jibberish that makes their lips look like theyre actually rapping when its reversed
yeah you’re wrong. They memorized it backwards. Don’t talk about shit you’re not for sure about as fact. Don’t spread false information because you made it up in your head. Watch the making of the video or something first.
@@yeah5874 lmao damn son u got checked
yeah They actually did memorize it
@@markusburns329 you fucking melt go watch the fucking video you fucking simpleton
About to watch them perform tonight. Been a fan since 8 years old. Whoever missed the 90s just know it was epic.
How was it? 🎉
@@thruntroll2983 It was a good show but I was a little upset to see barely any black people. As an 80s baby who grew up on hip hop that was shocking.
I'm jealous now lol
Hope you enjoyed ❤
@@BENNIJERROD things changed. the culture is shifted towards the loud mouths and the nerds are keeping up with the oldies.
So TENET IS BASED ON A RAP MUSIC VIDEO.
Or was this video based off Tenet? heheh 😁
Explains why Christopher Nolan used a rap song in the end credits
pharcyde unite 2017
Lol Honest Trailers mentioned this 😂
Go and search cold play scientists
That's has maked in 2002 and released in 2011
This video is dope
FACTS!💯
For real one of my favorites
PUTAIN Yann Solo tu fous quoi là?!!!...😂😂😂
Like all their discography
Yeah they showed the making of it
Just learnt they had to hire a private linguist to learn how to say the lyrics backwards
Lol
You mean lip sync
Yuki The Doggo no
@@ThatJT well lip sync backwards. Ofc they’re not saying the lyrics backwards bro f
I hope u know this is a joke right?
These guys literally had lightning in a bottle. The top three, De La, Tribe and these goons. The foundation of underground hip hop.
dont forget souls of mischief bro!
How could you both over look Outkast?!!
@@troypeterson6511 he meant underground
Don't forget the Beastie Boys.
@@vijaydizzle right! Hiero had it locked- Souls, Del, Casual...& the COUP opened the door
I wish I could see the original run, just to see how crazy they look doing this video backwards.
Winston McGregor ua-cam.com/video/8CBsxCUhNu0/v-deo.html
Spike jonze
Creativity made the 90's untouchable. The Pharcyde was untouchable #Classic
Don’t act like creativity is gone
It is gone ratchedness took over.
KPOPFANBOYUK well said.
Creativity is gone everybody at the top in the rap game talks about the same shit shootin niggas and trapping
@@cgonthebeat3741 Don't act like gangsta rap never existed. We only remember high quality music, but there was a lot of trash then too. The garbage of today will be forgotten just like 90s garbage was.
This is an all time iconic hip hop video. So unique, original. Just fun stuff all the way around. This album "Labcabincalifornia" is my favorite of all the great stuff they have done. And it came out when i was 23 years old, thanks to hip hop my teens and throughout my 20's was the best time of my life. At least artists like The Pharcyde played a role in making it great. Couldn't imagine missing this Golden Era for anything.
7 songs produced by dilla on this one
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!
Yes man
The video is 🔥 to. I could imagine how much of a trip it was at the time
And the video puts it all together
16 years old here Aboriginal from Australia living in a busted down ass house and my mum got 9 years in jail so u know living with my grandparents and iv recently gotten into old school hip hop it helps and found this gem much love from here
Hope you're doing ok
Keep ur head up man💯
*original 🌍🌎🌏
Stay strong!
Fellow Aussie here mate, much love 💪🏼
the quality of this video has no limits, the pharcyde actually rapped the whole song backwards in real life to match the playback! Great director, i think it's the best rap video ever made
Spike Jonze was already a legend to me "US" skaters in early 1990's because he created bLind SKatebards w/ his BFF The Gonz. and made The bLind Video..
The bLind Video was probably my favorite skate video for the best year of my life in skating. I wanna say summer of 1990 or give/take.. But we mainly knew Spike as a skater as he was always in skate magazines..
Aside from this he did a video for Sonic Youth 100%. A epic song that I had no idea there was even a video for it for almost a year.
Best part of this video is the Gonz piece of art at the end...
It's like the movie TeneT
I'm here because I'm an "old head" who used to watch this on Rap City when I was *14.* I'm 40 now and I still rap like it's *1995👍🏾*
🤣🤣🤣 man you took me back with the rap city comment. I'm 43 so me and you are in the same boat
Old heads represent
Rap City fam👍🏾👍🏾
“It’s 1995” reference from Runnin’
Same here dog..
The more I watch this clip, the more I realize how brilliant it is...
For any one wanting to know the locations on where this video is filmed,
The first part, is filmed on "St Vincent ct" alley way where "Garos Deli" is,
The second part, where the big theatre sign is showing and the beasties boys cameo is, that street is broadway "Los Angeles theatre" (the st Vincent alley way is right behind this)
The ending part, where they past the flourist and hotel, that hotel is called "Alexandria hotel" on 5th street, the (flourist is out of buisness)
And the alley way where they go in and get wet and have a gonz painting at the end is a alley way right accross the hotel, its closed off to the public now
** the only reason i did this is cus i was also curious about the locations and i went out to la to find them myself so im sure some one else out there is too**
You are right
I was curious too
Thank you
nice.
Most impressive part about this is you didn't have to edit this once 👍🏼
this is sick man! no need to provide a disclaimer appreciate the sleuthing
I came to the comments to see Gonz mentioned.
shouts to Spike Jonze man
Who else is listening to this classic in 2021
Me, because I watch some of the music videos I loved last year! : )
✊🏽
I am, why?
Yeah me too
No music video in 2021 has reached this level of creativity!
星野源のJ Dilla特集番組でこの映像流れてた。かっこいいな〜
One of the most simple and yet dopest hip hop videos ever made. The Pharcyde was ahead of the game back in the day!
1:29... cameo by King ad rock from the beastie boys... he's actually the guy that said the "drop" that they are scratching in their song...cameo by mike d from the beastie boys... the guy on the bicycle... Back when hip hop artists supported each other
*Supported each other for reasons other than financial gain
Facts ✊🏿💯
Does anyone know why mca isn’t in the video?
He was busy smoking cigs
Cant believe i never noticed that. Good lookin out!
Remember watching this with my best friend while smoking a couple of joints many many years ago. Me and him were staring at the screen in silence high af and blown away, faraway
X2 with my friends
Amazing track produced by a legend and those cameos of Mike D and Ad Rock 🔥
Bike-riding backwards.
TENET
Best covid-19 lockdown isolation jam. Stay safe good peeps.
Just like Ol' Dirty Bastard's "N!gga Please"
Chill man, all he's stating is that it's a good song to chill too, especially when isolated. I agree Nothing negative there, just appreciation for the song.
@ SlimKid3 DOES put on his facemask at 2:49 tho. JS
@ c'mon, just chill and enjoy the song dude
Banging this from italy
RIP J-Dilla
Amen.
Ill Will was this a dilla beat??
Yep, Dilla did some nice work for the Pharcyde in the 90s with this track, Runnin, and some remixes of Y and She Said.
Ill Will
Poor J Dilla Rest in peace
The creativity, the originality, the innovative, the visuals...LEGENDARY!!!
I can't believe I've never heard of this group before. This is not only by far the most original concept for a video that they NAILED, but the song itself is miles above 99% of any other rap song imo. The flow and lyrics feel like a giant maze of domino's are perfectly falling down, knocking over a new row every few seconds in my head.
Well, aren't you in for a bizarre ride. I suggest "Passin' Me By" "Pack the Pipe" and "Runnin'"
I wouldn't say that the idea is new in any real way, what it did is took something that plenty of people tried before and surpassed pretty much anyone else. with help from Spike Jonze
I think we are all forgetting how clever my comment was.
Get to know, yo!
Yeah. UA-cam Bizarre Ride and LabCab. Both albums are incredible.
One of my favorite music videos ever
1 of my favorite songs ever
Mines too my brothas ✊🏿
As anyone who has been to a Pharcyde show life knows, they are all great dancers. This video definitely shows their dance and rap skills.
Understandable. They've started off as a dance group. One of the early episodes of "In Living Color" shows some of them dancing.
I'm 40 yrs old... and still can't stop listening to the Pharcyde
I'm 54 and still listening.
Classic don't begin to describe this
Absofukinglootly :)
Omfg I'm getting the chills
Shout-out to my old geography instructor for playing this on the projector before class once day.
Your lucky you have geography, I sadly don’t
Rapping backwards is way more skill-full than mumble rapping forwards.
@cyberthug nah he is correct it took a lot more skill rapping backwards but right now we got people mumbling in da mikes or yelling in our ear like we can't hear
Yeah I saw the making of this video. That shit is creative and 100x better than mumble rap. I use to watch to video everyday on Rap city.
@cyberthug my brain hurts
cyberthug so you like c-rap too?
well . you tried making a witty comment.
Spike jonze is a legend. This video is a raw gem. I’ve watched it many times trying to figure out how it’s both forward and backwards. There’s something to that.
Still sounds just as fresh as the day it first DROPPED 😉.
Facts!! Very dope and Addicting
Lyrics
Let me freak the funk,
Obsolete is the punk that talk more junk than Sanford sells
I jet propel at a rate that complice their mental state
As I invade their masquerade
They couldn't fade with a clipper blade
10 years in the trade is not enough, you can't cut it
I let you take a swing, and you bunted
For an easy out, I leave mc's with doubt
Of exceeding, my name is Bottie Brown and I'm proceeding, leading,
They try to follow but they're shallow and hollow
I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle, of O.E.
They have no key, or no clue
To the game at all, now they washed up
Hung out to dry
Standing looking stupid, wondering why
(Why man?)
It was the fame, that they tried to get
Now they walking around talking about represent
And keep it real, but I got to appeal
Cause they existing in a fantasy when holding the steel
Rock a bye baby,
Listen to my heart pumping to a fine ravine
Of all things it's a vain of a shrine
All missions impossible are possible, cause I'm
Heading for a new sector 365 days from now, I'll
Wipe the sweat from my brow
And each and every true will stick, or fall from the sky of my cloud nine
From homies all the way to chics, no matter how fine
Controlling is a swollen way to wreck a proud mind
You hold it in your hands and watch a man start crying
Tear after tear in the puppet man's hands
Every time you take a stance you do the puppet man's dance
And the worlds at a stand-still
Deep in broken mansville, trapped in the moat with an anvil, still
Killing yourself, and dogging ya health
You ain't amphibious, so grab a hold of yourself
Shit is-shit is ill, my flow still will spill
Toxic slick to shock you sick like electrocute
When I execute, acutely over the rhythm
On those that pollute, extra dosages is what I gotta give em
Got em mad and trembling
Cause I been up in my lad assembling
Missiles, to bomb the enemy
Because they envy me, and the making of my mad currency
Currently I think we're in a state of an emergency
Cause niggas done sold their souls, and now their souls is hollow
And I think they can't follow
They can't swallow, the truth because it hurts
This is how I put it down, this is my earth, my turf
The worth of my birth is a billion, and you know what time it is
I'm going to make a million
To think this is directed by the same guy who made Her and Being John Malkovich.
Trash Bunneh dont forget adaptation
...Where the Wild Things Are.
Crazy, but they had a linuguist on set to teach them German and Fremch for this vid...
I didnt know i couldnt do that....
DIRRR-RROOOP
Beastie Boys cameo is CLASSIC.
Бисти это классика
I actually came here after listening to beastie boys intergalactic
@@ИгорьЗенченко-у2н только что понял, что это бисти бойс. Взрыв мозга :0
RIP JDILLA🕊
Was that Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, I saw?
Yup and Mike D was the one on the bike
This Track Was Ahead Of His Time
One of the best visual videos ever made, I agree with the other comments still fresh today as it was then Pharcyde did not get the credit they deserve
THEY ARE THE TOP OF 90'S HIP HOP
@@foodstampz you have no argument from me I concur.
Who’s still bumping this in 2019?
DROP! I went down the 1990's rabbit whole and finding this was like finding my childhood again! Coolio is next!
Only real G's
Imani's verse is probably one of my favorite verses of all time
Fuckin right 👌 D-D-D-D-DRROOOPPPPP
yo whatup from 2020!
Possibly the best music video ever
have spike jonze to thank for that, mans is an insane surrealist director
they are actually rapping backwards.. is incredible
As a 42yr white man from Engand i can prodly say i worn out my CD of this a few times.
1:22 Beastie Boys cameo
Joshua Stephens the “drop” sample is from a beastie boys song too
Yeah, Ad-Rock who originally does the ‘drop’ sample in The New Style off Licensed To Ill is the one miming it, and Mike D is the one that cycles backwards
When you out-Beasty the Beasty Boys, and they out_Beast you right back with the cameo. Peace.
I always figured that was them. But I can never find a written credit to that being them. Because wheres my boy MCA?
OMG! I never knew!
Shout out to Spike Jonze and J Dilla (RIP)
This is ART!!
This is the craziest music video I’ve ever seen. Even if you reverse it…it’s still in reverse. Iconic
Of course this was directed by Spike Jonze -- guy was an absolute genius w his music videos.
Truth. He showed it even more in his movies.
@@cactaceous Yup! 'Being John Malkovich' and 'Adaptation' remain favourites of mine. Genius!
Funny how I didn't appreciate groups like Pharcyde or Digable Planets or any of the Native Tounge type groups as much when I was a kid, as I do as an adult. Some if their shit was so far above my maturity level at that time that I couldn't truly dig it the way I do now .
Bizarre Ride To The Pharcyde got my white heavy metal friends getting into hip hip
I been telling my friends about this dope music video that was directed by Spike Jones and is played in reverse, and that the group even learned the phonetics to be able to perform this "backwards" and they don't even believe me :( they said I was making it up
They memorized sounds. Like how Chinese sing rap songs but can't speak English.
Here in 2019 August, i still feel the fire from this jam.
October 24th, still banging!
Republic Of Casuals because of your comment i just listened to it again. Cheers.. still banging
November 11 lol
Sept 5th 2024
Idk why but listening to this beat always makes me think of Outer Space....
KidLewThaGreat Danny Brown's Outer Space?
Just saw a behind the scenes video of this and they hired a linguist to transcribe the lyrics backwards and they learned them in a week or two.
Funny how the best groups never got enough attention...
this is a good example.
Really sick beat !
this is still the greatest hiphop vid ever made
Damn this lyrical laser precision is needed to cut through today's crap
watching things from the 90s in 2020 blows my mind away to be honest.
*If you miss that creative 90s sound then ✔ out my tracks...I specialize in making old school-styled hip hop...!!!👍🏾🎤🎧📀🎶🔥*
1:02 the way he says "why" and "fame" sound exactly how Andre 3000 speaks his rap. That's crazy how now that I am older that I can pin point where other rappers got their inspiration and style. Andre 3000 got it from Bootie Brown
That’s insane I literally was just thinking and that and happened to your comment right as that came across my mind, it sounds like just him I actually thought it was him for a sec cuz I wasn’t looking at my phone
Spike Jonze for the video, J-Dilla for the instrumentals and sound editing, and the Pharcyde to wrap it all up into this beautiful masterpiece! RIP Dilla! 1974-2006
The Pharcyde in HAM on this right here, straight up BANGAAA! Even Tho he used *AUTHENTIC* *VIEWS* to glow up out of CHIRAQ it dont change the fact that he is a mad talented artist
Ummm what?! Wtf are u talking about 🤔
" All I have for you is a word. It'll open the right doors, but some of the wrong ones too..."
"Tenet?"
"No, *DROPPP!* "
The original Tenet right here
how tf does this only have 633,000 views? this is a classic and an inspiration still.
The last year must have people woke to great 90's music, over 2 million!
TENET before tenet
Timeless classic 💯
Im 24, grew up listening to all the rap greats… can’t believe I’ve only just found this 0_0
This is slept on hard & deserves a tonne more recognition
it wasnt slept on back then. i mean it got mad play and we was rockin pharcyde here in germany... 95-96 something like that. those were the days, man
Fuck me .... this is a throwback. Gosh miss those days. Props Pharacyde. Best hiphop group of all time. Love from UK.
Let me freak the funk,
Obsolete is the punk that talk more junk than Sanford sells
I jet propel at a rate that complice their mental state
As I invade their masquerade
They couldn't fade with a clipper blade
10 years in the trade is not enough, you can't cut it
I let you take a swing, and you bunted
For an easy out, I leave mc's with doubt
Of exceeding, my name is Bottie Brown and I'm proceeding, leading,
They try to follow but they're shallow and hollow
I can see right through them like an empty 40 bottle, of O.E.
They have no key, or no clue
To the game at all, now they washed up
Hung out to dry
Standing looking stupid, wondering why
(why man?)
It was the fame, that they tried to get
Now they walking around talking about represent
And keep it real, but I got to appeal
Cause they existing in a fantasy when holding the steel
Rock a bye baby,
Listen to my heart pumping to a fine ravine
Of all things it's a vain of a shrine
All missions impossible are possible, cause I'm
Heading for a new sector 365 days from now, I'll
Wipe the sweat from my brow
And each and every true will stick, or fall from the sky of my cloud nine
From homies all the way to chics, no matter how fine
Controlling is a swollen way to wreck a proud mind
You hold it in your hands and watch a man start crying
Tear after tear in the puppet man's hands
Every time you take a stance you do the puppet man's dance
And the worlds at a stand-still
Deep in broken mansville, trapped in the moat with an anvil, still
Killing yourself, and dogging ya health
You ain't amphibious, so grab a hold of yourself
Shit is-shit is ill, my flow still will spill
Toxic slick to shock you sick like electrocute
When I execute, acutely over the rhythm
On those that pollute, extra dosages is what I gotta give em
Got em mad and trembling
Cause I been up in my lad assembling
Missiles, to bomb the enemy
Because they envy me, and the making of my mad currency
Currently I think we're in a state of an emergency
Cause niggas done sold their souls, and now their souls is hollow
And I think they can't follow
They can't swallow, the truth because it hurts
This is how I put it down, this is my earth, my turf
The worth of my birth is a billion, and you know what time it is
I'm going to make a million
Love how Mike D cycles through for a short few seconds and Ad-Roc comes swinging in to do the sample
Truly one if the best rap group of all time, the lyrics, knowledgeable, and innovative! " You ain't amphibious, So get a hold of yourself" "Drop"
J Dilla really did start something special like ahah unreal production on this track
I forgot this was a Dilla beat. That very soft but at the same time full percussion could’ve only been him though
Love the actual cameos by the beastie boys on this classic joint 1:21 1:29 and dtla in the 90s was lit. 2:51 and slimkid was 24 years ahead of the mask covering in LA
Just dropped by to watch this video for the first time in 27-28 years. To this day, it beats me that regardless of how fancy special effects have become, this video is one of the most genious of all music videos ever made - using only one of the earliest and most simple effects known as “reverse”.
This is pre-Tenet Tenet
I flip out everytime at 0:31. Like that's done backwards. This is nuts!
fuckin classic! The beat, the video, everything
Porque rayos no veo los comentarios de Latinoamérica, acaso no saben de esta joya del hip-hop
Desde Colombia escucho esta droga llamada The Pharcyde
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Referida en la Pronoia del Sun Joke Fú de Chystemc, y la inspiración para otro himno de la música contemporánea : Severla de 31 minutos!
Temon
Love that they had the Beasties in the video.
Who's listening this during covid - 19 ? God bless you all and enjoy the song.
God never blessed me but ok
God bless u too
From naija senegalese Broda #Socio
we all need something from backnin the day during these sad times...roll on 1996.
Bruh its crazy how you never fail to find more and more underrated amazing artists when you dig into old school hip hop.
Lol what. This is a classic. Very well-known.
When it was your time but not at the same time 😂😂 I am female. Sound System Culture Gave birth to you 😂😂 riddims I probably know the original 😂😂😂
2024 and here! BEST album imo! LabCabinCalifornia. Perfection.
I’ve yet to see another hip hop video as innovative as THIS