Common & Sadat X feat. Talib Kweli "1999"

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

It’s depressing how far we steered away from this type of hip hop

[@АндрейВиноградов-г5в]

Who’s still I listening to this joint 2020?

[@Blaksmif2014]

"Classic Material Circa 99".

[@ejyarbrough8356]

21 from the D gotta get mine 🤙🏾

[@singingchef23]

Until infinity

[@melissadurham8086]

Real talk

[@trentyates418]

Dopest underground joint ever. Hi tek is the producing 🐐. I wish kweli had a verse

[@JDivine]

You can feel it when you hear real hip hop music. This is the essence and it’s undeniable

[@williest1]

This is one of the sickest beats in hiphop history!

[@OSU2015]

⭕️•H

[@rayespinoza9509]

wrong ...."MillkBone - keep it real" is the greatest beat of all time

[@pocketmonack]

Both are amazing instrumentals

[@williamharris6395]

I would have to agree

[@BlackenedLiam]

@@rayespinoza9509 He said ''one of the sickest'', not the best.

[@tapsirusaccoh67]

Who’s still I listening to this joint 2019

[@darling_savage]

Forever.

[@thegentlemansmith5411]

Broooo I remember buying this in kmart for 19.99 (didn't even notice the price same as song) bought this and kept it in my skipping ass cd player!

[@philipthongtawath6958]

I miss that era!!! A lot of L’s & 40’s!!! Skateboarding, snowboarding, adrenaline junky

[@pennhillsyouthfootball432]

☝🏽999

[@maryeasterling6174]

Me ......still 🔥

[@PDotTheJournalistyoutube]

I'm here listening on May 21, 2024. It still sounds like yesterday, I love this music ERA 🙏🏿👑

[@chrisjarrett9724]

I'm here listening on July 27th😁😁

[@Dwayne815]

We had the best music im Here Aug 5 2024 🥲

[@chrisjarrett9724]

@@Dwayne815 DAUGHHHH😆

[@lovingmemories8902]

09-08-24

[@azzy1000able]

"Some get range rovers some religion change over , angel on my shoulder telling me to remain sober" what a line common is real

[@KtotheG]

azzy1000able "Toby nigga, game over... ain't no payola in freestyle... in battles, I'm warrin' (Warren) like a G child, searching for the child in me"

[@OHioyungsta]

Damn

[@natalieschannel4508]

Common is a poet.

[@johntelvin8645]

@@natalieschannel4508 chi-town's Nas

[@kenotambo7881]

Nice punchline here

[@brentdonhauser]

“Hold the mic like a memory” any true hip hop fan will know that line.

[@ftwdamfseyg]

Before that bar he said “ i shine in spaces where time is just a glare” common is not human.. 🔥🔥🔥

[@VoidDweller86]

( Common Sense rap verse ) "These record companies, I don't like when I see them"

[@busyrand]

Common's flow is So Chicago!... I love how much he represents... This is one of my all time favorite tracks.

[@soundmathematicsmusic]

Nothin touches real Hip Hop, love that.

[@progressivelife841]

Sound Mathematics this is not real hiphop this is hiphop anything else is just pop

[@JamalInshallah]

“Crash courses slow you can’t learn that quick “. Legendary BARS LIKE POETRY

[@DJkautionNY]

R.I.P Harold Hunter. Former pro skaterboarder rocking the Zoo York beanie at the start of the video. Legends never die.

[@priorjon]

That’s big, a lot of people don’t know that

[@UndergroundRap4eva]

He lives forever on this track

[@dafnisvolcke5837]

Larger than life

[@emjay604]

RIP

[@mauriceross1464]

Kids

[@northphillycryptobul2112]

This joint is like a good bye to an era that I miss & never coming back, funny they named the song 1999. Salute 90s 80s HIP HOP

[@UndergroundRap4eva]

Rawkus was that era

[@phatplates]

This era will live forever

[@malikstone1]

Man I swear this has got to be the most song I’ve ever played on repeat!

[@lsimmons24]

Lmao

[@zingzingleafs..4168]

Lol...m in love wit the beat..!

[@Bennett1430]

That opening scene. We need more brothers helping each other up.

[@richardsmith669]

This song was wayyy before its time, lyrically this is up there with the best raps of all time and that beat, mannnn listen!

[@SoKREATIvE]

Every since I heard this on the And1 Streetball VHS Mixtape, I been on it! 20yrs later, maaaaaaaaaaaan what a feelin! Still get the same vibes

[@BVSGV626]

Every time i bump this track i get the chills... Real poetry....

[@michaelcorleone7598]

This is so Hip Hop I actually feel emotional listening to it🔥 goosebumps

[@Skarakathintwa]

2024 still one of the illest 👊🏿

[@YellaMach1]

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest HipHop tracks made! This is a Tri-fecta of real HipHop!

[@sunnydee7745]

Back in the 90's. Where people would bob they're heads to mainstream. When mainstream was awesome .

[@theernalrealestategroupatk707]

Still listening to this song in 2018.

[@guincysmithradio]

Fucking right That's that real crack None of that tight jeans wearing wanna do all the drugs at the party type music This real HIP HOP right here

[@anthonyali7309]

💯🕯🔥🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤✌🎤✌🎤

[@РусланБалковой-ц7ж]

Still listening it in 2013

[@Russell_74]

Still listening in 2019

[@pbrown711]

I just dropped a tear, seriously!!!

[@GRNhpglobal]

Hip hop like Refreshing water ,used to tint, like flint cause our pigment a little tint , shit I push through it and separate the boys from men , negus at war this for next gen,

[@acesoul1689]

When hip hop was hip hop

[@marselmusic]

still is

[@BThaSmoovUno]

Yep

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

@@marselmusic 😂😂😂😂

[@jeremydavis7321]

Word

[@prodbymef1537]

Sadat X too damn slept on

[@Stanlayy-em4fk]

It's like no one can ever duplicate his voice and cadence.

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

@desertdetroiter me neither

[@wesone7429]

@@Stanlayy-em4fk grand puba

[@lewiscoy8474]

The brother Derrick x kicks flavaa

[@purplehazera]

That is the sad reality of many of our talented brothas and sistas

[@tapemaster8252]

One of the best albums of all time, stayed in my CD changer for around 7 years, Salute to the whole Soundbombing crew!

[@turk3sh]

Stll have mine after 20 years. Saw the video on Rap City then went to the FYE and go it. It was 17 dollars for a CD. Miss those times!

[@mama-bin-schübladen]

@@turk3sh truewords

[@DGreen-zh1fq]

The concept of this video sends CHILLS through my anatomy........ The thought of how it "COULD'VE" been and how it "SHOULD BE" is POWERFUL!

[@elvinsolano6177]

Rest in peace Harold Hunter from the movie Kids.

[@ReedMarcos]

If you're still listening to this in 2020, you're a legend!!!

[@martinterry7613]

1999 was a golden year people. graduated high school, simpler times, beautiful summer

[@nerdbamarich2063]

Times were definitely simpler back then.. I graduated in 1999 as well.. I really do miss it..

[@theflyent7106]

Class off "99" checking in oh how I miss the 90z I can't even turn the radio now without getting pissed off wit all this swag rap about drugs n clothes. I'm at work with a smile n head nodding cause I found this by accident 😁😁😁

[@nerdbamarich2063]

@@theflyent7106 man same here fam I'm class of 99 as well and I can't tell you how much I miss the 90s and the early 2000s era.. I wish I could go back every single day..

[@brianbarit3091]

Heck yeah, Martin Terry!!! I feel the same way. Just graduated high school back then. #ClassOf1999 #GoodTimes #RealHipHopMusic *_*

[@WELLHELLOMISSAMANDA]

Is this from 99 though?

[@RigoOrozco]

So dope 20 years later. Common still the best rapper from Chicago

[@turbotone5058]

By far

[@OsvaldoGodson]

What about Lupe

[@0nuknuko]

Came for a visit the beat still transports

[@kingb8380]

Classic brings me back to my High school days I used to watch this every morning before going to school

[@adiestheguru]

Who still listens to this in 2018? Av been here since...

[@jahazshine4587]

How about 2019??!! Me!!

[@duderoo1975]

@@jahazshine4587 too true, I'm 43 and this is still one of the true hip hop tunes of all time. Keep the faith.

[@ricocrockett370]

I burned the laser out in my CD player playing this when it came out

[@KtotheG]

"I shine in spaces where time is just a glare, hold the mic like a memory."

[@ftwdamfseyg]

Kory Green one of my favorite bars,,, goosebumps!!!!!

[@KtotheG]

@@ftwdamfseyg After hearing emcees like Common and Andre3000 talk about time, I wrote a bar that went: "Here's a riddle... my age is my mind's life plus time flight/ my divine right is to rip mics/ I'm sick, right?"

[@oblivion_007]

Is that a reference to salvador Dali's famous painting "persistence of memory"

[@KtotheG]

@@oblivion_007 Oh, I have no idea. I need to research that.

[@remainstainless757]

Who is here in 2025?

[@chrisbullock6477]

Man I miss this so much....banging beats and samples, with hard hitting lyrics and food for thought all at the same time

[@tr3ynag4ta]

This needa be inna museum 💯🔥 neva forget da 90s I love dat time period

[@ernestchikoto8261]

Still bumping this in the 2-0-1-9!

[@jknumber5138]

I remember my boy turned pastor M. He gave me a bag full of tapes. My favorite were SB2 & Prince Paul A Prince among Thieves. I still listen to Pain & 1-9-99. Da son don't chill☀️

[@hip2thabone_da_sticky1]

*STILL* bobbing my freaking head 2 dis in 2017 and *BEYOND!!* 🔊👂🏼🕺🏼

[@johnarobinson5640]

hip2thabone Bobbin 2 family in 2018. we almost 20 years in with this gem.

[@caramelmosaicmosaic7940]

hip2thabone same here...2018

[@うぃてぃ]

I'm Japanese.I recognized the old skateboarder by his face. Thanks for the great skateboarding Harold Hunter.

[@MADDLION247]

No dancing...... Strictly Head Nodding!!!!! Salute to Real Hip Hop!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@anythinggoesvideospart-2242]

Dancing isn't considered part of "real hiphop" ??

[@cjtaylor2359]

@@anythinggoesvideospart-2242 dancing is fun... the hell is this dude on about ?

[@ritmoequis]

@@cjtaylor2359 yes, I can dance to this!

[@PrimeraEspadaStark]

Hip Hop started at a dance party, you still trying to argue whats "Real" vs "Fake" in 2019 ? Hip Hop has countless styles and forms, no need to divide one against the other

[@Zo_1987]

Facts 💯💯

[@maurocastro5181]

this is my funeral song.... I can't stop listening.... and I got 39 yrs

[@bilalali1412]

That second verse Common spit was crazy

[@saeed9111]

I love this song never gets old 2019 still like it just came out yesterday 🇾🇪💪❤

[@sigmarieti8]

✊Soundbombing II ✊ Master Class of Hip Hop Classics.

[@mike_t_007]

😎

[@EshuOdara21]

I miss the 90s, man... that aesthetic was so dope back then, the beats, the gear, the slang... the culture was so live back then...

[@aldonoriegacruz2537]

_i need come back the time for the 90's_

[@baysidedlove3427]

Still listening in the 2024👍🏾Real hip hop is timeless.

[@Weerdoh.]

1999....20 yrs later: 2019

[@KtotheG]

The best hip hop album of '99.

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

Were did that time go!!

[@nerdbamarich2063]

@@eminemisdogshit4626 man I ask myself that all the time brotha..

[@wesone7429]

yes

[@kedurham226]

Literally.....the video dropped in November of 1999 on BET

[@shaneyoyo5226]

Still bumpin in 2023!👊🏼

[@Burn_pancakes]

You can just feel the realness.

[@benskinner8580]

A rainy cold January 2023 and I’m self employed only just making it through on Universal Credit in the UK and blasting this 90s gem in my small flat 👍🔥

[@_JellyDonut_]

This song is bout to be back! Still gettin mine into the two oh one nine

[@charlyj6]

This beat sound in my head since i was a child.....daaaammmm...beatifull...

[@AS-fz5dp]

This beat man to this day grabs me

[@charlesmontgomery3692]

2020 classic hip hop wormhole, glad to be here right now. I Miss this music

[@matchesmalone79]

Harold Hunter RIP. Always remember chillin at big boy after the skate comp. That's one real conversation from my teens past down to the seeds!

[@chiathach206]

I was a Jr in high school when this joint came out. Man how I wish I could go back !

[@duderoo1975]

Found this from Soundbombing 2 many years ago, in fact 20, tunes are unreal Rawkus4Life.. Its still the best tune on the album.

[@supman6230]

Im from down south but real talk east coast hip hop is on point since day one!!!! Always live!!!

[@lashunrichardson1928]

Boom bap and lyrics. You need this in your life

[@Monty_McFly]

Damn...totally forgot about this song. Teared up when the beat dropped...then I see Harold....damn! Who cuttin onions in here?

[@DawgPound85]

The greatness of tracks like that is just unbelievable.. Damn I miss these times.... They vanish more and more....with each day... It's hard to take that MY beloved music, the artists, this style of production, the deep lyrics....is just gone... And I lose hope that it'll ever have a comeback.

[@AD-Angel-Davison]

Favorite song of all time. 1999. Check it, it’s like I’m fightin for freedom!

[@khoss76]

And they ask us why it was better before... "Street ministry, my poetry's a penitentiary, track is visitation Sentences is life, I'm like chief up in this demonstration"

[@oblivion_007]

New niggas cant even dream about writing something like this.including j cole,kendrick etc.

[@duecetre87]

30 For 30 brought me back here. 🏀🔥🔥

[@ohgee420]

20 years later and still better than anything out right now!! The real hip hop

[@seandacosta2421]

Common ras kass Talib Pharoahe Sadat x hi tek all rocking out at da end of da video. Watched dis video for 20 + years an only jus clocked dis legendaryness lol 😎.

[@austinedwards5577]

Real hip hop Forever

[@tlinc80]

Who still bumpin 2021?

[@mikec3949]

Me. Down the Rawkus rabbit hole right now

[@TheCossack]

22

[@aylosh3305]

Im in Love with tha beat 😍

[@fairplayterrific147]

Hi-Tek Doesn't Recieve Enough Credit "The Blast" & "Music For Life" "Can We Go Back" Along With "Beakin' Bread" Are Works Of Genius.....

[@zingzingleafs..4168]

Me2...

[@101iswhatsup]

This album!! All I got, just dope collection of emcee barring the game up. Salute!

[@justinlopez7793]

Com sense... people sleep dude was smooth with the flow

[@wesone7429]

Did they?

[@avalino79]

damn this track get me a little emotional... 99 was such a good year, there was so many great albums out... while society was all nervous because of the new millenium hip hop was drioppin great music and I was hitting alot of shows with my homies... good times-this track took me right back to that simpler time.

[@nerdbamarich2063]

John Doe this comment just about made me shed a tear.. 1999 was the year that I graduated and I still remember this song playing on the And1 mixtape.. I miss those simpler times.. if only I could go back to them....

[@nerdbamarich2063]

Zipgun TV I totally agree my man.. one of the best times ever to be alive was in the 90s/early 2000s... I really do miss it....

[@xlhits]

@@nerdbamarich2063 brother, I TOTALLY feel you! Its encouraging to see others feeling this way.

[@xlhits]

Thank you for sharing this!!!!!!!!

[@nerdbamarich2063]

First song on the And1 mixtape volume 1...the good old days man...I really do miss it.....

[@beyondsurreal9782]

just like his looks common's music never ages or gets old !!

[@legendaddy2571]

Uploaded almost 11 years ago and so few views. I don't get it, this is a classic song.

[@Ddeville0906]

They don't know to even look for it. Hip hop is lost on this generation.

[@chadharrod5246]

Probably because it was encoded with a fucking potato..

[@marvingonzalez6891]

Saw them perform this live at The Palladium in Worcester MA in 1-9-9-9

[@richardsmith669]

"Hold the mic like a memory"

[@joshuawarren8340]

Niggas say im nice with metaphors but these are smilies

[@arthurturner9307]

This song is a classic piece of work

[@kevinhsu7733]

R.I.P Harold Hunter =(

[@hezekiah234]

Hezekiah new album "Dreams Don't Chase Themselves", features a short film + Jazz Deluxe Instrumentals.

[@uptownkev]

Kevin Hsu can I ask who’s is that?

[@oliverjones1845]

He was a professional skateboarder he’s who kweil is talking too in the beginning

[@oliverjones1845]

He passed away years back

[@biggarah11]

uptownkeevo wow you never saw kids? 🤔

[@Ho11is2Ho11ywood]

I remember when And 1 mixtape dropped and had this on it. Hip Hop and NYC Park basketball is my childhood.

[@edwardfreeman3922]

Classic fire... Even in 2018!!🔥🔥

[@trayalmigthy1]

Rawkus Records was everything once upon a time.

[@DamnMixes]

And they blew it all by being same corporate assholes who tell artists what music to make. Like when G Rap was doing Giancana Story and thought they could tell G Rap, one of the greatest ever, what type of music to make. After the album was made, rawkus lost their financial backing, by the time another record label released his album it was already bootlegged with some really dope songs left out. Fuck the rawkus records I will never ever have a respect for those goofy ass scammers 😂😂

[@koolhandhill]

Common is fire. Damn.

[@paulc9694]

This track will forever bring me back to this time. I’m so happy I grew up in this beautiful era of hip hop and lyrics that made you think..99 forever

[@dahelsalazar282]

Listening in 2022. Real hip hop for the soul

[@olskool1964]

One of the best hip hop videos ever. New York stand the fk up!

[@mytowntrill5441]

Black Excellence.

[@randomaxe7746]

YES!

[@Moshe.1972]

Still listening to this classic joint

[@SoularDNA]

Still getting mine in 2015!!

[@marvinhagler4721]

ANOTHER CLASSIC..!!!!!!!!!!!!LIL SIS TURNED ME ON TO COMMON..I STOPPED LISTENING TO RAP A LOT BY THIS TIME

[@luisarocha9459]

never stop hearing.

[@kasafusmaximus4326]

One of a greatest beat ever,still listening in 2021!

[@nicollas8299]

VCS BRASILEIROS QUE VEREM ESTE COMENTÁRIO, SAIBA DE UMA COISA, ESSA MÚSICA É PERFEITA E JESUS AMA VCS❤️👌

[@DjJHustle]

,I was ballin today with this sick Joint.....2021,whos bumpin it?