This brings tears to my eyes we need this kind of music to day!!!
@derrickjackson17592 жыл бұрын
I’m with bro🥺
@ryanyoung89282 жыл бұрын
Yes we do!!!
@akibax27812 жыл бұрын
Say dat!!💯
@rosej50292 жыл бұрын
Brings tears 2 my eyes that the lyrics from 40 years ago still applies in 2022. No much changed in communities of color.
@BJSteigner Жыл бұрын
The new cats arent talented enough to see this
@marlondaniels79124 жыл бұрын
KRS ONE's verse hits so hard in 2020!...and he only did 8 bars!
@marcustrice32464 жыл бұрын
There's a reason he's Knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone" Krs one" and this proves it
@23000tc4 жыл бұрын
KRS is nice!
@HaileyB7773 жыл бұрын
Way ahead of time
@psilytea Жыл бұрын
Real
@bernarddunnom6718 Жыл бұрын
Facts always stand the test of time
@justinrusso73133 жыл бұрын
A beautiful conscious time in Hip Hop. This resonates even stronger in today's world. "Before you're a race you're a human." Rest in power J.M.J.
@cvodka91110 жыл бұрын
I was 11 when they made this. Right in front of my school. They let us out early that day. Lyte walked past me at 2:17.....I had the blue windbreaker on....lol....and I got her and Kid Capri's autograph
@luciadeluna655010 жыл бұрын
OH!! that must have been a moment you do not forget!
@cvodka91110 жыл бұрын
Definitely
@neighborhoodwood24286 жыл бұрын
Sweet
@oochiewally27836 жыл бұрын
crazy kid.... this was shot in brooklyn right?
@RoeLuv15 жыл бұрын
I was just about to write "I bet it was cool to be there when they shot this"
@OswaldBatesIIIEsq3 ай бұрын
Over thirty years later and this song and video still means a lot to me.
@je92126 жыл бұрын
Freddie Foxx killed it
@rgw1380rw4 жыл бұрын
I occasionally see him right up the block from me.
@Powerule234 жыл бұрын
He did smash this.
@stevenhosea48494 жыл бұрын
J. E. No. Hi. Goodness
@kevinjohnson19584 жыл бұрын
Black and white ain't the real fight, that's the only thing the media hypes......KRS 1.
@derrickjackson17592 жыл бұрын
Facts!
@Laura-sg6ss2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's a symptom of capitalism, and capitalism uses racism to grow. They are one in the same.
@dannydbrown90 Жыл бұрын
@Joey Afrika bro don't be dumb, the fight is rich vs poor no matter the race
@br-ym3gg Жыл бұрын
“Before youre a color, youre human.” Its another way of saying greed is a bigger problem than racism as power is what enables it in the first place.
@leeballinger82229 ай бұрын
💯 facts!
@jalaciaenglish85392 жыл бұрын
I cried listening to this song as a dark skinned in this society I've been through a lot of racism & bullying but I'm still standing one time I was bullied so bad I almost committed suicide by slicing my wrist up I thought that would make all the pain and bullying go away luckily I did commit suicide I love being dark-skinned. I love that it marks me as a proud daughter of Nigeria; that it identifies me as a member of the Nigerian generation. I love celebrating my blackness and what it stands for.
@GoldenArrow3692 жыл бұрын
God bless 🙌
@animalfinatic93662 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND STRONG. NEVER FORGET THAT.
@Laura-sg6ss2 жыл бұрын
There's one Nigerian generation?
@lhariibikunle11544 жыл бұрын
i was in Nigeria (Africa)the first time i heard this raps and i fell in love with all the artists, so i learned all their raps, but how we started from this to mumble raps, smh.
@mranon8293 Жыл бұрын
No need to put (Africa) after Nigeria. I'm sure everybody knows where Nigeria is! (I'm half Yoruba)
@lhariibikunle1154 Жыл бұрын
@@mranon8293 Not in 1989
@mranon8293 Жыл бұрын
@@lhariibikunle1154 👍
@rogerwilkie85553 жыл бұрын
Too many generations missed out in this message.
@ryco87e2 жыл бұрын
Especially the gen z missed out on real hip-hop
@XavierCoolDude7 ай бұрын
I was a 13 yr old white kid back in 91-I was obsessed with hip hop. I would buy or dub any tape I could get my hands on. This type of consciousness abd creativity will never be duplicated. Freddie Foxxes verse always grips me hard-especially the line about “guns n hoses”. And Latifahs verse was very underrated. So many legends on this song
@KingJamesKingChaos4 жыл бұрын
Back when rap was conscious. I definitely remember this.
@frankzappa951 Жыл бұрын
Looking back, these brothers and sisters were like super heroes !! All bringing their unique flavours, aromas, identity and styles to the culture. Golden days indeed.
@enxgmatxcofficial3 жыл бұрын
KRS-One has the most simplistic yet meaningful verses in almost every song he’s in. Dude is definitely a goat 🐐
I was 19 years old when this came out and I have finally healed through suicidal ex-girlfriend, porn addiction and faith 30 years later with producing media for political action and social enterprise completing my educational journey.
@2020-g8s4 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace Ms Melody & JMJ
@derrickjackson17592 жыл бұрын
Thanks for acknowledging 🙏🏽
@noahjohnson38922 жыл бұрын
White boy who grew up in South Florida born in 2000 I finally realized big difference between hip hop and gangsta rap
@frankzappa951 Жыл бұрын
Wow not seen young KRS since well, early 90s!! Golden AGE.
@estebansteverincon711710 жыл бұрын
Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding...the only thing that will save us all.
@kwibzi3 жыл бұрын
Took me almost a decade of watching this to realize the entire music video is in one uninterrupted take
@JFCroce2 ай бұрын
From EUROPE EVRYBODY NEED THIS WHO NEED IT❤
@BushiBato7 жыл бұрын
RIP Melodie and JMJ
@karonbarwick5415 жыл бұрын
Word is bond !
@jamilanicholas54459 ай бұрын
I was 13 when they made this video was had on purple shorts and white T-shirt behind DMC and Jam Master J. Rip. Super memories. 😊
@OswaldBatesIIIEsq3 ай бұрын
Now that's cool. **Carlito Caribbean Cool voice**
@jree8239 Жыл бұрын
My heart just skipped a beat! Core memory unlocked! This was on a mix tape I played till it broke. Brought back those good feelings of being 16 and the world was yours for the taking!
@bobbyworldwide4 жыл бұрын
damn its September 26 2020 and this makes me feel the way I felt when I first heard it in 1991.. This is the real music
@marlondaniels79124 жыл бұрын
Bumpy Knuckles is awesome. So underrated in the game.
@michaelstover9573Ай бұрын
I watched this video over and over again
@MonkeyBarz1795 жыл бұрын
Music has changed soooooo much from what was being said in this song.
@zaziorambero11793 жыл бұрын
KRS had the best verse. Still relevant to this day sadly.
@animalfinatic93662 жыл бұрын
Nothing has changed. MLK was murdered and the people who support that terrorism still exist. So ridiculous.
@bobbyworldwide4 жыл бұрын
This beat was crazy then and its crazy now!!
@notaytguru82144 жыл бұрын
I was LITTLE as hell when this came out but I’ve had random verses of it in my head for years 😩😩😩
@JGeezy86872 жыл бұрын
It's such a shame the conscious rap era only lasted for a brief period during the early 90's. Thank goodness for us youngsters, we have KZbin so we get a chance to experience a snapshot of that era.
@abrahampalmer87612 жыл бұрын
Exactly I love old school hip hop from the 80s/early 90s it was the golden era for a very valid reason.
@SDSOverfiend4 жыл бұрын
1:19 LL verse💪🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 period and of discussion
@RokiBossable Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@stephenheath84656 ай бұрын
LL not being in the video is pretty much industry politics lol
@CylenX64 жыл бұрын
When I saw Kid Capri jump in, I would get hyped and wanna yell, "IT'S DA KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID CAPRI!!!"
@ThomasBones2 ай бұрын
I just want to comment on the fact that this video is one tracking shot! Crazy!
@owenwu-pac54184 жыл бұрын
Kane, Freddie, KRS, Lyte, RUN-DMC, LL Cool J so many legends on 1 track
@lukedee63083 жыл бұрын
Queen latifah
@marcustrice32465 ай бұрын
And Ms Melodie
@MrBoswel1 Жыл бұрын
This song was so dope
@TheAutisticCapricorn8113 жыл бұрын
Aw man, the East was boomin' with this one 💯💯💯💯💯 Old-school rap > Modern rap.
@rgw1380rw4 жыл бұрын
My uncle and cousin were in this video. My uncle "Reno" (RIP) is the Hispanic looking guy with the shades and sky blue hat moving along with JMJ and DMC.
@eternalyfeful3 жыл бұрын
I see him....may he continue to rest in power bro, he's a part of this thing called Hip Hop.
@Tytanic9043 жыл бұрын
Crazzzy I just screenshot that exact part to send my bro Big Rock. Reno was my dude. He was there to chill with me. If Reno is ya Unc. He was my street Unc too. So I'm saying wussup Fam. Crazy how peeps unite over music 30yrs later. FYI this is Uptown Ty 💪🏾💯.
@rgw1380rw3 жыл бұрын
@@Tytanic904 I was just with Rock, his brothers, sister, mother, wife and daughter on family vacation in VA a few days ago. What's hannin', Chief🤓!? I'm Rock's first cousin because my father, Cliff is his mother's brother. #Saundersfam #FarRock
@rgw1380rw3 жыл бұрын
@@Tytanic904 My name is Raymond, but I'm commonly known as "Little Cliff" in Far Rock. Reno's son was also with us down in VA as well.
@joedashizzz2704 ай бұрын
Queen Latifah killed it...KRS is the best of course!
@rickymcgruder4868 Жыл бұрын
what a amazing song. the fact that this rap will never come back saddens me. wish to get one song in 2020s like this.
@jefflturner1 Жыл бұрын
KRS still spits it!
@capricornqueen907 ай бұрын
Love old school music 💯👌🏾☺️
@xxBONGHUNTER420xx2 жыл бұрын
I bump this track on weekends sometimes still loud as fuck too and then back down the rabbit hole of lost but never forgotten joints of my personal memories … which I’m about to do now 😅
@rodrickhudson6537 Жыл бұрын
This is at time when hip hop had a balance and had substance. I still have hope!
@DJG245 Жыл бұрын
I love hiphop so much..🔥🔥🔥💪😎 salute to the 50 year anniversary!!!!
@kg84727 ай бұрын
We have come a long way in rap but this will forever be the deal!
@seatownfunk29852 жыл бұрын
H.E.A.L yourself, Were all in the same gang, and Self destruction when HIP-HOP came together 🖤✌🏼😎
@LastSifu4 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Jam Master Jay spittin’.
@coreyhendricks94903 жыл бұрын
I remember this video way back when I was young and I still listening 🎧 to it til this day.
@JaniceCarter-ws7lu5 ай бұрын
Have a blessed day everyone❤
@Bbjjij-h4fАй бұрын
Over and under as i progress to this. Got no time to be HAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGIN out with humanists....-R.I.P PXO... FREDDIE FOXX AND KANE WERE THE ONLY ONES KEEPING IT REAL HERE!!!!
@dale853006 жыл бұрын
The brothers were rocking those jeeps back in the 90s
@NONcorrupt5 жыл бұрын
Queen Latifah spitting over the breakz ~ !!!
@jleron225 жыл бұрын
Shit was dope
@yewell813 ай бұрын
love&peaCe
@catherinemartinez55584 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that the Lord took me off of drugs amen
@rewade70 Жыл бұрын
Had this cassette single back in the day. Now I gotta add this to my hip-hop playlist on KZbin.
@300-WARRIORS5 ай бұрын
Who listen to this in 2024 dope message
@MartinzodiacАй бұрын
This song fire
@feca28252 жыл бұрын
Kane,Cool J, Freddie Foxxx,KRS...ALL STARS in my hip hop list!
@Non-Serviam300 Жыл бұрын
KRS always nails it🤘
@joecarter7610 жыл бұрын
I love this songs good old memories man.
@ShawnC.T.2 жыл бұрын
The irony of one of the lines the late Jam Master Jay spit, "live to a very old age", that's deep...
@danteofficial7762 Жыл бұрын
This needs more views and likes.....this was so powerful to see in the 90's. Damn shame todays kids of rap will never put something like this out.
@dan80724 жыл бұрын
Big Daddy Kane,Run DMC
@SamuelSivak-xo6ns Жыл бұрын
Real hip hop
@rjvernesto.4 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite posse cuts. Killer video too.
@Regreviews2 жыл бұрын
LL verse hits you listen hits hard
@horrorflikmusickofficialyo10147 жыл бұрын
wow jam master jay was rappin.R.I.P
@lcdd90914 жыл бұрын
Yaaaa and he was good!! I was scrolling to see if anyone else noticed!!! R.I.P
@BrianLife7 ай бұрын
So close to Self destruction, love them both!
@Statuslock Жыл бұрын
Wow this song is amazing!
@tossedxfactor67284 жыл бұрын
Why is this not on Spotify
@ShawnC.T.2 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Jam Master Jay and Ms Melodie...🙏🏼...
@tjrocha77322 жыл бұрын
Queen latifah killed it
@ryco87e Жыл бұрын
And KRS-One
@gerardrbain19729 ай бұрын
As well as Mc Lyte
@antoniogambardella785 Жыл бұрын
this is rap classic 💣🔥👊🙏✌🔝🎙🎤
@marlonwhite22573 жыл бұрын
A lesser known conciousness track in the vein of "Self Destruction".... classic nonetheless
@EDIAMINful10 жыл бұрын
peeepz im from the other side of the world and I really can say this whole rugged NYC image and culture was the bomb and sooo beautifulll. The people from Nyc shouldve held on on this image now it is just garbageee
@desicastell26212 жыл бұрын
Don't be mistaken it's still here sort of like a bubbling volcano under the surface.
@malikadickinson24344 жыл бұрын
I MISS THE 80'S AND 90'S RAP. MY ERA OF RAP MUSIC 🎶 💯
@hallzy-j9i4 жыл бұрын
I had to watch this in summer camp.
@fightingquads91982 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember this, this jawn is like Self Destruction part 2.
@shunsui56263 жыл бұрын
Bruh freddie line just hit different 🤕💪🏾 and ms.M❤️🩹💪🏾
@billbandoh58183 жыл бұрын
This song just randomly popped in my head 🤣
@noahjohnson38922 жыл бұрын
Love you hip hop always forever thank you for saving my life
@MrBoswel1 Жыл бұрын
Everyone com together as one no matter what race
@bargerkenneth3 жыл бұрын
Wow I don't think I've heard this since it came out! So much to say! Everyone was great! I can't even pick a favorite!
@AdrianoSilva-tb4jv6 жыл бұрын
Da hora esse som, qualquer dia desses aprendo a falar inglês e vou dar uma volta em NYC.
@brorow68212 жыл бұрын
Wow I forgot about that one this video just brought back some good memories.
@MR_slim_merrit6 ай бұрын
This is real rap.
@Tomason1874 ай бұрын
Golden Era!
@PERKIODURKIO2 ай бұрын
Latifah🔥
@MrBoswel1 Жыл бұрын
I love this song I’m bout to cry
@aaronmcallister42644 ай бұрын
Look at KRS-One that was his old look but now he has a brand new look. When did this album come out like 1989 this CD is hard to find yourself.
@paulgabbard6743 Жыл бұрын
Old school hip-hop h.e.a.l. big buddy kane Freddie foxxx mc ly music 🎶 🎵
@itslb67934 жыл бұрын
this is so sick! getting to see an inside to how they are living