Heavy D. & The Boyz - We Got Our Own Thang

[@davidhunter2824]

Song still jams even in 2024!! Long live Heavy D🕺🕴✌

[@glenngrant9388]

50 YEARS OF HIP HOP THANK YOU HEAVY D 8/2023

[@mommatina7321]

This man can spit lyrics while making sense, and no foul language! That’s a legend!

[@rexyumul1910]

BADD dude.. . rest OG⚔️🏀

[@Saveyourbs]

Different era. RIP Hev

[@sjw520]

Facts!

[@mortimerlivan557]

He did spit foul lyrics as a guest artiste at a KRS-1 show. This might be before he blew up.

[@professorjordan8461]

Trouble T-Roy was the absolute STUFF!!! I LOVED watching him dance!!! RIP King!!! 🥰🤩😆💪🏾

[@cecilmarshall6445]

To be a teenager in the 80"s was a blessings from God....best decade EVER😄

[@godfirst7770]

Yes, it was!!! ❤

[@monicanorman4681]

Yes, I Second Agree😊😊😊

[@monicanorman4681]

Yes, I Second Agree 👍 😊😊😊

[@brandonrichey3866]

THE BEST ERA EVER

[@donalddavis6689]

So True!! From Being A Teenager!! To Being Around Between 18 Year's Old To 21 Year's Old.. Best In Believe That ⭐.

[@micheledaly5823]

Look how Troy smiled through the whole video.He had such a great spirit and loved what he did.Continue to RIP.You are still missed 30 yrs later.RIP Heavy D.

[@rexyumul1910]

U absolutely RIGHT 🏀🌄🌅

[@renobrown5402]

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[@damonadams9640]

LOVE THESE BROTHER'S!!![999]

[@TheStickyLabel]

🫡 i was 9 then sheesh! ❤️💯

[@kimberlyt.2981]

Omggg I loved me some Trouble T-Roy

[@theonlyheinz2624]

One of the most underrated hip-hop artists of all time...Heavy was dope and he had the moves for a big man...RIP Heavy D

[@atoosas]

Not underrated. He was extremely popular. Why do people always use that word?

[@butterflykisses1222]

​@@atoosasbc they just want to be saying something. Lol we all this man was very Popular never underated. I'm here in 2024;okkk ❤👍🏽

[@kimberlyt.2981]

Heavy D could move..you heard!???? RIP and Love Heav and Troy!

[@aquiringmind]

​@@atoosasPeople are popular yet still underrated... 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@setondriveable]

Don't clock anybody let em all clock you. Don't be down with anybody. Let em all be down with you. One of the greatest hip hop lines ever.

[@denisejackson776]

I agree

[@sychophantt]

tips hat

[@lexg3607]

Heav was, is that dude...Monr Earnin Mount Vernon all day.

[@lexg3607]

Correction: Money Earnin Mount Vernon

[@mx8290]

... 'Don't b borrowed; don't b bought... Follow ur own movement' also great! Peace w/ a smile

[@ladiiblue2u634]

he could dance his ass off Rest in Peace Heavy D #legend #icon #pioneer

[@jerrywillard4768]

Kisha McDonald amen!

[@tammanthashaw5141]

Your so right, for a big Man he could move smooth, so talented and handsome. RIP , Heavy D, we love yah

[@angieh.3376]

Ikr...he could move

[@AboveSanity000]

That's what caught my attn when I 1st heard of him. I thought he the sexiest BIG DADDY in the game bcus he was working that weight like a feather😂

[@blessed5545]

@@AboveSanity000 Me to. For a big guy, he was just so sexy to me.

[@randolphsmedley9381]

A real class act. He made big men look smooth. His lyrics were so on point.

[@shedparker]

Yep. Biggie was definitely influenced by him. 🎼It was all a dream..Salt-n-Peppa, Heavy D up nda limosine🎼

[@garyaugustus690]

If Jackie Gleason had soul....

[@bigcharlie7489]

I GOT MY BIG MAN SWAG FROM HEAVY D 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@TheCodedtestament]

Heavy D was in a class by himself. Fusing R&B with hip-hop. When your parents and grandparents tap their toes or do their dances to his music that speaks VOLUMES !

[@beverlytate8391]

My mom use to love him and Kool Moe Dee.

[@theodorephil6683]

God bless you you still have your people and you're right it's beautiful music and lyrics and everything that went with it that's when we was having a good time not this nonsense now can't even go out to a club have a drink smoke some bud and relax then go home and chill out wow what a world I'm not going to say a wonderful world what a world

[@kierancarter8369]

I think that the argument could be made that was the purpose of New Jack Swing as a whole

[@patriciawatkins9539]

"You're a Chicken McNugget and I'm a Big Mac" always loved that line in this song. Made me laugh every time.

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

My line was " The place was packed though, stuffed like an Oreo"

[@EastTexasjrcollegehorizonncjaa]

Needed attention

[@EastTexasjrcollegehorizonncjaa]

Build toilver

[@5tryk]

Nowadays a Big Mac is no bigger than a McNugget 😂

[@Me2times]

No cursing, no dissing, no hate-filled speech, no inciting to violence or killing. The women looked like women, the men looked like men. This was Hip Hop then. What has happened to it?

[@reallykid2]

yea because nwa wasn't a vouce of gangsta rap.

[@trippdaddy3000]

nwa was needed trust

[@kelvinbell1106]

(2 Timothy 3:13) But wicked men and impostors will advance from bad to worse; misleading and being mislead. - New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

[@mylesa.williams6281]

This was the kind of rap I enjoyed

[@missluvmoney]

Me2times the 90s had their sluts too. 2live crew whores in their video

[@buffalosoldier4045]

Rip heavy d real hip hop music still bumping 2023

[@NinaCatherineWillmon]

New Jack Swing couldn't be possible without Teddy Riley, Andre Harell and Heavy D.

[@pelicanfanNea]

Janet Jackson Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis also where it all started

[@stephensheppard1083]

@@pelicanfanNea Keeping it in the family, Teddy Riley did produce the entire Michael Jackson - Dangerous album

[@pelicanfanNea]

@@stephensheppard1083 control album was out before dangerous

[@stephensheppard1083]

Jam & Lewis are more of a branch off the Prince family tree. Two similar sounds but from 2 different parts of the country. Yeah Dangerous was later, but Teddy himself broke out around the same time as Janet

[@stephensheppard1083]

@@pelicanfanNea Funny, I wasn't commenting on which album came out first, Just giving Teddy props for having MJ on his resume 📄📄😂

[@jocelynh3708]

"You're a chicken mcnugget. I'm a Big Mac!" Hells yeah!!!

[@don1mega]

I'm 42 and I think I was 17 when this came out. Me and my boyz use to blast this on the way to summer school everyday. LOL!!! This SERIOUSLY makes me want to go buy a system for the ride. I think I might! Old School forever...... I truly feel bad for the young ones who were not fortunate enough to enjoy this era. But for the young ones that do enjoy and appreciate all of the great music from this era, MUCH RESPECT TO YOU!

[@mrsmullins1151]

That's right!

[@snakeyj.9427]

Yea I'm witcha don..I'm 45 and i come here to youtube when I get in the mood to listen to music..todays music is just soo crappy. nothing will replace the 80's music an we will never get tired of listening to it...never.

[@dennissanchez5171]

I am thankfully from that era & enjoyed every minute of it.

[@legbreaker]

don1mega I feel you

[@williamkalal7793]

Lots of rhyme, jazz, funk, action, no cursin' no killin', no slurring,

[@carmel_coco]

Teddy Riley….. Man this song slap so hard still in 2023. I was like 8 wen this was out and my Mom was Fly and in her 20’s so this was in rotation on our stereo . My sister and I could do all the dances they did in this video, BACK THEN 😂😂. R. I .P Heavy and Trouble T Roy.

[@nadinef2142]

Everyone do you notice anything about the young ladies in this video....their ALL wearing CLOTHES!!!. And this is why I've always loved and listened to Heavy D's music/videos. He totally R E S P E C T E D women. #enough said

[@raquelrene8911]

I think HE would STILL have his video models modestly clothed. RIP Heavy D!

[@nadinef2142]

Raquel Rene' Yes, I totally agree!!.

[@feltro19]

He was awesome!

[@smithjones3548]

Not only that, I didn't hear one word about a Glock, a 40 oz., smoking weed, or taking someone's life. This was REAL music that you could play anywhere and not have to worry about the language. Heavy D summed it up best: "IN THIS LIFE I STRIVE FOR IMPROVEMENT, BE YOUR OWN GUIDE FOLLOW YOUR OWN MOVEMENT." RIP Big Man!

[@bgoode1807]

Nadine F RIP big brutha from heaven. I can see you dancin jus like in the video. Thank u for giving us good music for the soul.

[@dorothybollen2011]

I miss the 90's, the dancing, the clothes...the human interaction

[@RichardSmith-uz3hu]

If you thought you missed human interaction. Say hi to Covid 😆

[@mc365mc]

I thought Trouble T died in like 88

[@QueenBee75246]

Wishing we could just build a time machine and go back!!!

[@blackwhip]

Human interaction!! Nailed it!

[@MrCalverino]

YESSSSSS

[@prettyboyvalentino2386]

Such an Iconic group! Rest In Peace Heavy D and Trouble T Roy!🕊 Both had exquisite dance moves!

[@angelawolfhagen7689]

I was 13 years old great music ❣️🥳🥳🥳

[@TotallyRadical]

Heavy D is still one of the 🐐 dude was innovating with every track back then. Dude just oozed style with everything he did. RIP.

[@brownb1959]

Teddy Riley was a beast back them. Great rap without degrading anyone!

[@Abdulrazak_genX]

Still dancing and rhyming to Heavy D & thd Boyz since 1989. Dwight 'Heavy D' Myers was a class act. Hip-Hop from hus generation was defined by artistry, consciousness & expressionism Teddy Riley, DJ Eddie F. were producers ahead of the game times. Sadly, Hip-Hop died at the turn of the millennium.

[@ManifestedSonofTheMostHigh23]

I still bump this in the car to this very day. I love Heavy D, my favorite MC. Rip Papa. ❤🙏🏿

[@3kingkool]

Can't get enough of that riff Heavy D does throughout the song.

[@brandonrichey3866]

HEAVY D AND TEDDY RILEY DID THEIR THANG WITH THIS SONG

[@ronthompson310]

"Flipping on the mic makes me a rapping acrobat. Don't try to swing 'cause you couldn't even hang..." #BARZ

[@dreammakar]

RIP Heav and Troy. Reminds me so much of my adolescent years.

[@brianjames723]

Have to come back every so often, to remember how WE did this HipHop thing. RIP HEAV & T-Roy

[@masterwu7784]

Cuz WE did that shit back then!

[@gloriawhalen1732]

This was my jam..I was 18 and a Freshman in college..New Jack Swing Rap was the stuff..❤❤❤Heavy D and the Boys

[@omartriplett]

And I still love this song. And it still holds up.

[@kellymills8779]

Teddy Riley! I tell ya. Great times back then. We just didn't know how good we had it! ❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thed.brownexperience6247]

Heavy D and the Boyz was soooo dope 💯 Rip Heavy D and Trouble T Roy

[@samaxamen]

"Don't clock anybody, let 'em all clock you. Don't be down with anybody, let 'em all be down with you Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught Be your own man, don't be borrowed, don't be bought..." -Heavy D #rip

[@andreward8268]

Real!!!!!!!! Still 🔥in 2021

[@samaxamen]

@@andreward8268 exactly!

[@DominikSobolewski]

This by default is one of the best rap songs of the 1980s.

[@gregw4737]

drdre

[@CJ_7519]

AMEN TO THAT, DOMINIK!

[@sexypoet8694]

Dominik Sobolewski yes

[@ms.pandatalktime]

Dominik Sobolewski agreed

[@curtisdelor5097]

Dominik Sobolewski Except it came out in 1990

[@danb308]

This music is absolutely timeless 👍

[@MelRiley-pz3je]

Rite on rite on

[@tobytoxic]

Can we please bring back New Jack Swing??????

[@theadmiral460]

Bruno Mars tried it

[@ZachariaYonis]

The Admiral he failed with his corny ass, but would be dope for some good artists to bring it back lol

[@FireeGee]

@@theadmiral460 Bruno Mars did an exceptional job with finesse and I was feeling that song from jump but we need more to do the same... That was party music and its time to bring it back... I would if I had the right beat... Njs for life

[@robertwhitfield7313]

Please can we bring it back!😫

[@dowdydiva]

A lot of the practitioners are writing songs for Kpop bands.

[@g0ldenhearted1]

Heavy D deserves mad props as one of the greatest lyricists of all time! ✊🏾 #RIPHeavyD #RIPTroubleTRoy

[@curtdews4691]

Back when I had knees this was one of those "show out"jams. R.I.P HEAVY D. U truly had YOUR OWN THANG🙏🏿

[@terryrambarran5917]

I remember when going to a party was all about showing off yo' dance skillz and not about who got da gunz, money, women and cars, pure fun and love. miss da good old days boy...........RIP Heav....

[@lovehate8286]

Man... say it again!

[@msladylibra8373]

@@lovehate8286 Yeap you had to have that footwork action in back then 😉

[@williemoody8898]

1 of my favorite dance songs of all time, Heavy just makes you feel good.

[@candy5742]

I can't believe Heavy D was never scared to be jumping and bouncing around his size with his own style on top of that. That's an example of Never be scared to be different. God Bless his soul

[@faithman48]

"Flippin on the mic makes me a rappin acrobat, dont try to swing cause you couldnt even hang (yo..)... We got our own thang"... Go, Heavy... Rest Well, Sir.. and THANK YOU for the amazing fun and good times your music still gives us all.

[@herkloader34]

Back in the day when rap was awesome! Damn fun times. Heavy D was king!

[@rodney1b]

these cats today can't relate this these days, all they know about is keepin it gangster dumbasses lol

[@URBANGENTLEMAN1965]

back then we danced our asses off

[@rexyumul1910]

Fosho🌄🤔

[@msladylibra8373]

OMG I Miss Heavy D and the Boyz so much I was stationed in Puerto Rico when this song came out me and two girlfriends, and two guys did a dance routine to this in a Talent Show we practiced so much and we Won #1 place where does the time go GOOD TIMES 😉 RIP Heavy D & Trouble T Roy

[@monicawism]

Teddy Riley unstoppable during the 90s!! r.i.p Heavy D. #90s4life

[@noelsidney]

My sister in law "Janice Williams " Loved this song RIP

[@maureencora1]

I'd Liked on the Soul Train Awards He Won and Said Don't Have a Grammy or American Music But I Got SOUL' R.I.P. King. (smile)

[@jesuswilljudge7296]

Thiefyonce sold out, they can't relate, they want white validation so bad

[@jesuswilljudge7296]

Thiefyonce wants white validation at Grammys smh

[@jesuswilljudge7296]

Yet Thiefyonce wants white validation at the Grammys smh

[@maureencora1]

@@jesuswilljudge7296 ?!

[@masonstorm9540]

R.I.P. Trouble T- Roy and Hev D. This is when music was music. Miss u Hev , brings back great memories.

[@davidtookes7784]

This man was smoove like a hip hop gentleman and incredibly guy of the New Jack Swing movement, R.I.P Heavy D.

[@tremainebarbour4396]

I miss the good old days....I’m still listening to Heavy D in 2018

[@tomcigarsmoker8958]

2024 and this song is still slammin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jaynycha1705]

That Teddy Riley New Jack Sound was my entire Middle School soundtrack. Along with Public Enemy

[@briandm33]

Heavy D has always been one of my main squeezes in all of his songs. My heart is still Heavy because he's gone.

[@kevingipson5356]

One of the GOATS - Overweight Lover, Rest in Power King!

[@meatball557]

I just came by to tell an old good friends thank you for being a great artist of Hip Hop and to my culture and race We Got Our Own Thing#1 Heavy D & The Boys #1 Happy 50th Birthday Hip Hop Birthday Heavy D & The Boys .

[@applecandy713]

Heavy D and Bobby Brown always had the best male dancers.

[@DaytimeNitemare]

Right

[@KevinBufkin-f8e]

This song and D mob's put your hands together is the best thing to come out of 1989

[@cadiking2006]

Rest in peace Heavy D. You're gone but not forgotten!!!

[@mrmaxxx94]

one of the most underrated MC S ever. RIP and respect Heavy D and also to Troy. Heavy D and the Boyz and. Teddy Riley brought the jams and you had to move back then.

[@natashagreen1898]

Heavy D was a big man but his moves were smooth as butter baby 😎......LOL 🤣🤣🤣 Heavy could put it DOWN, dance light as a feather....I use to LOVE watching him dance 🕺! We miss you Heavy 😘

[@johnnynoel7502]

I'm glad I was in that era of rap music...51 yrs now and bless to see life R.I.P heavy D my brother

[@ivaberry2020]

We Got Our Own Thing, Love and Light always Iva 💯 ❤🎉😊

[@rikkiwinfrey1229]

Miss U much Heavy...absolutely no1 could rock the party like Heavy and the boys... I’m class of 1985

[@CORENyc-pn4vz]

Video Soul Days with Green eyed Donny...only real Hip Hop heads knows about that...Rip Heavy

[@asill.6668]

Yes! The one and only Donnie Simpson!

[@MearlDunlap-si2jy]

Donnie Simpson Detroit owns

[@fosterchild72]

I remember practicing those dances every day after school.

[@Breakbeats92.5]

I wonder if the Lord said, "The overweight lovers in the house!" when Heavy D came to the pearly gates. R.I.P Dwight "Heavy D" Myers.

[@dr.michellemykelhouse4565]

Music Power WHEN I REMINISCE ABOUT YOU MI SAVANT😱😱😱

[@tayeshahudson4794]

Yes! Heaven is jamming with a lot of music now! RIP

[@Kedda486]

😇🤦🏾‍♀️😜😜😜🤸🏿‍♀️

[@teeq6055]

This is when music was good.. Glad we grew up in 80's and 90's.. They don't make music like this anymore

[@elijahblack7167]

Hornets announcer Eric Collins definitely brought me here. 🚨🚨🚨 #HumDiddlyDee

[@pauletteadams4344]

We used to be WORKING IT OUT on the dance floor!!! L😄L Cause we had OUR OWN THANG!!!!! The 90's was BOMB Heavy D was BOMB

[@lesley2100]

I can't believe me and him are related on my mother side never thought he was Jamaican R.I.P Cousin

[@Sight2Behold]

So that means Pete Rock is someway related to you, too...Heavy and PR were cousins

[@gwise8095]

Word.. Mount Vernon resident

[@demetriusbennett4305]

Still black

[@robertrzezuski7370]

I have seen alot of the classic 90's artist,but i would have to say that one of my favorite of all time was seeing Heavy D and the Boyz.that boy can move.you are gone,but never forgotten.

[@cinco6535]

heavy D went in on this...r.i.p

[@samantharobinson1866]

I remember being in the club turning up 2 this one!

[@aw5347]

Hella Facts!!!!

[@pontiacman64]

Excellent memories of one of the best years of my life; 1990.

[@arnelevans4803]

The best year of my life was one year later, 1991. So many great movies were released, and I was a very smart eight year old, turning nine, in September 1991

[@yell0wberry]

A very extremely underrated, MC, the one thing Heavy D demonstrated in this video. Besides, the fact that a big man can move like that is the fact that he can spit some rhymes in great coordination and flow. rest in peace, Mr. Myers

[@davidcoven9427]

...dance a lot, dance a little, shuffle to the middle. Don't clock ANYbody! Let them ALL clock YOU! Don't be down with anybody let them be down with YOU! Awesome food for thought! Then and now.

[@blessedk77]

Thank you, Teddy, for these jams!

[@liedub]

OMG, he was so fun folks! I swear his music just made me want to have a great time.

[@galandalexander9245]

Miss this Era of hip hop so much

[@eleazar_medellin]

I forgot how many hits Heavy D had... One banger after the next. R.I.P.

[@toprankedtay584]

This guy could dance his ass off im a 96 baby I still respect this man ❤️

[@darlenegidron856]

He's one of my favorite Rappers. No one could rap and dance like Heavy D.

[@colettesanders5701]

Awwww, the 80's when rap artist were respectful, and pleasant to listen and dance to. RIP Heavy D!!

[@reallife0728]

MY ERA IS UNDEFEATED!!!!🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥🔥🫡🫡🫡

[@librasoul1705]

Rosie Perez killed the choreography in this video...😍👌🏾

[@mrryanstills]

Thank you Heavy D for gifting me and the world with great feel good music. You”ll live on forever. Rest In Paradise brother.

[@drrobotnikmeanbeanma]

Heavy D kept getting better every time he raps that's how you know you a true lyrical rapper. His 1st verse was super powerful and got busier in the 2nd and summed it up in the 3rd. A rapper is a person like this and want us to have a good time cause that's what it's about.

[@wonderjoyce]

I can't count the times that my dance floor was bumping to this dance track ! RIP Heavy D ! From DJ Wonder Woman

[@jimirwin5623]

MJ would request this one by Heavy D and the Boyz during pre-game warm ups at the Chicago Stadium when the Bulls were up and comers in the late 80's. True story.

[@barnespatricia40]

I miss and LOVE HIM, REAL MUSIC...PERIOD!!

[@RedRag684]

Thank god my mom knew about this song. Im 19 and if it wasnt for her i never would of experienced this cut!!! Got me dancin

[@andreaclement5704]

i was 21 and fly ass hell when this was out omg memories

[@mahoganyjoy3502]

Miss you so much Heav. 🙌🏿😍

[@aaronnickey1]

Dope Video and a serious club song!!!!

[@Bruggetop8]

That was music, nowadays they can't make music anymore ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@winkie1234]

Music was so much fun back then...party party party......

[@kidvillian1415]

I was born in 89 and I love the album Heavy d was a 💎

[@TheStickyLabel]

🫡

[@bravehero6704]

Africa Culture was the thing in the 1990s