JAY-Z - Streets Is Watching

Official music video for "Streets Is Watching" performed by JAY-Z.
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Music video by JAY-Z performing Streets Is Watching. © 1998 S. Carter Enterprises, LLC., Distributed by Roc Nation Records, LLC.

[@jagdishgowd8930]

One of Hov's greatest tracks *A certified Gem*

[@JDOGFTW]

Dat ending though! top tier!

[@ynglesmadeit]

When u listen to old J you realize how relevant the things he said was

[@user-yp4vc2lo8n]

Was or still is 😅

[@wallace9075]

I took JAY-Z advice way back in the days Brooklyn NYC style Brownsville

[@austin8304]

Hov noticed how much I’ve been listening to his old albums lately and decided to bless us with them old videos. Thank you sir!

[@rondo_zw]

His old music is better than new rappers music nowadays

[@MrUnpredictable187]

@@rondo_zw some of it is cool but I agree💯

[@ladimu1]

The vest, the jeans, the low cut Caesar…Claude hammercy..❤

[@edwinkiama9996]

I grew up to this era of music. And i must say I'm glad I saw a living legend. Pure Prowess

[@majorleagz7846]

Bulletproof Vest Hov Legendary 🔥💯‼️

[@chineduonyeoziri7408]

This was way before 50 started doing it

[@jah6432]

"Once you tagged lame The games follow the leader" Hovie!!

[@Seiji96]

For those of you who don’t know. This was one of Biggies favorite songs. He told Jay Z to replay it soo many times that Jay Z gave it to him. When Biggie did Life After Death he gave Jay a couple records in return.

[@altonpettijohn2189]

Rip the black Frank White

[@universem2978]

What you mean he gave it to him? Big got this same song? What name is the track? Just heard this for the first time.

[@jeremiahmckenzie5532]

I'm actually a bigger fan of BIG than JIG, and my favorite shit from JIG is what he did with BIG.

[@MONSTAMEEZYTV]

@@universem2978he super Big capping

[@DiceB]

@@MONSTAMEEZYTV biggi did love this song that part was true

[@yuan1630]

Hov playing with our feelings.

[@phoneroma]

Sure the fuk is

[@kingartison]

How?

[@truplaingodschild8979]

Exactly y'all 🤔🤔🤔

[@24KinfO]

@@kingartison he's posting his old music as new. We like it. It's hip hop 50th anniversary or something.

[@HipIsLife864]

@@24KinfO his bday

[@mhicks880]

These songs are still better than 95% of everything else out. #2021

[@slowflowlowlow]

%100

[@hipking23]

@@slowflowlowlow for real 💯 👏🏾

[@Kingjerome1986]

Word man

[@Kingjerome1986]

There’s no heart and soul into rap no more

[@solowonabeat]

Times change OG. It's some good MCs in the new age, they not hard to find either. Just gotta keep ya ears open 👂🏼💯

[@Dmanaka2dice]

"The streets is watching plots keep plotting waiting for you to break make your first mistake" that line I understand. Trust nobody fear no one.

[@ShadrockMarciano]

It's dope that he's putting these old classics on KZbin for his day one and new fans to appreciate. Wish they let it be the uncensored version but it's still a classic

[@straightlead8]

can barely follow the flow with the censorship

[@tman4life01]

Couldn’t get the sample cleared for the dirty versions

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@SherronSapp]

❤

[@thepettyyardmanshow819]

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[@yuvithedope]

100% pure Hip hop

[@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb]

One of the most mellow and smoothest hip hop songs ever 🌎😇😇😇🔥🔥

[@thusogababine3009]

#Jayz is the main reason most rappers wanna rap. He represents someone coming from nothing to being the greatest. I love this man...

[@vegasnights777]

He came up rappin about real drug dealers and what they was doin.rapping is a job,talkin all that street shit is unnecessary period.

[@mateibabu]

Nothing? How do you call that nothing? He had money

[@thusogababine3009]

@@mateibabu he wasn't born rich...

[@Jay212digo]

He was a drug dealer damn near a kingpin already had money before hip hop

[@dpowell468]

@@Jay212digo still grew up broke. This man was born in 1969.. he definitely grew up poor.

[@hellboy4128]

His flows on verse 2 were some of his best in my opinion. Great album too vol 1

[@leanoleotwane6035]

97/98 Hov' was just so special man.

[@BoboKoyo]

Very random but very needed music vid releases

[@jasminerogers1522]

One of the greatest rappers!

[@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb]

Facts

[@casheldominicanotv]

The Real 🤴🏾 King of New York 🗽

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@tumelomotlalane4996]

Conveyed his storytelling genuine, clean and similar. Exact reflection of his brand: Fresh, clean and well-connected Jay-Z.

[@Strength860]

Everyone that’s watching this going through the Struggle/Pain hang in there i wish y’all Health, Wealth and Blessings

[@champmorgan7166]

Wishing the sane to you. Thanks.

[@dannydillon997]

You too ssm

[@pacha777]

thanks same to you

[@marvinspeak3777]

Thank You And BLESSINGS To You And Your Family!!!!

[@2w0nGranTurismo]

same to you fam🙏🏿💫

[@whodissis1]

Back when Jigga’s flow was impenetrable (pause)

[@whodissis1]

Oh yeah 😂 uploaded all these on his 52nd birthday 🥳 HBD HOV!! 🙌🏻 💎

[@TreMakaveli]

Can’t ignore this is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@phoneroma]

We used to smack on Vol. 1 heavy bak in"96 das when we knew Jay wasn't playing, he said "give me the whole section size 10." "Where I'm from" hands down the hardest song ever made and still slaps, pretty timeless das Zone fr.

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@aarongdukey]

The message this delivers is alive today even more than it was back then because of the fact that the masses have access to so much information and everything going on.

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@Dylan-tv6os]

Old period jay z and damon dash good memory thanks you 🙏🏼

[@jaykriss724]

Legendary

[@scinnyc]

This is the Jay-Z that inspired me to rap👑

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@shuvonbamberg4368]

“How real is this?” -Jay Z

[@timetraveler7122]

,,

[@kevals7]

It's great how this song and this video served as a real warning don't mess with Jay z, back when it first came out and today also. I love how as soon as he gets the beautiful woman in his drop, he's not bothered at all, calls up his boys to take care of the situation wow he's off with that pretty girl. The switch from the first song to the second is so abrupt just like things can flip real quick in the streets

[@bryantkelley]

You are the whole quarter of music.. I dig ya style son.

[@YoungoneYoung-lm4xe]

This is the Jay I remember, bring it back.

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

OMG there is finally a Streets is Watching video in higher quality. Thank you Jay

[@moncefalahlah6325]

How is this high quality?

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

@@moncefalahlah6325 it's MEGA high quality compared to the version that's been on KZbin for years lol

[@JDOGFTW]

It's 2021 get it in HD or go home and take your ball.

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@Lstead15]

These songs are still better than 95% of everything else out. #2024

[@brooklynsown80]

You see the name so you know What It Is! #JayZ will 4eva be the best rapper alive IMO

[@marcsmith6651]

EMINEM...gotta keep it real..bro

[@derrickwilliams918]

@@marcsmith6651 never em 😂😂

[@marcsmith6651]

@@derrickwilliams918 my Nan Jay-Z can't come close to EM...NAS maybe...look some top 10 rappers what they say...anyway

[@brooklynsown80]

A lil back story. 1994 in Prospect Park(Brooklyn) the summer Jam Fest featured RocAFella BadBoy and several others. JayZ and Biggie Smalls bounced a Freestyle back and forth for 20mins straight. It was EPIC. I got JayZs autograph and met almost all of them. So my opinion is biased but again it’s MY opinion.

[@kendersonsainval4036]

@@marcsmith6651 Eminem isn't even close to be the greatest Nas is the greatest alive

[@oscarw.7325]

Jay’s biggest comeback was this!! I thought he was done after that Sunshine video !!!

[@georgehernus9963]

Jay dropping dynasty classics on KZbin???

[@evem620]

Today is Jay Z’s birthday 🎂

[@liveyourlife5295]

This album had some sick word play this second verse one of his greatest verses

[@jesusalkhalifah8609]

no dowt

[@elesiete]

Hov said big kept telling him to play it again 💯

[@gregoryhill343]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@zillionairedavinciii6874]

💯 This was so ahead of its time.....ENCORE👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏾👏🏾

[@user-yp4vc2lo8n]

It was not , there’s nothing new under the sun ☀️

[@brianjackson3031]

3rd verse is insane

[@941lowelife2]

The more I listen I'm like dam j was slept on back then

[@FyahAlex]

That's just it...he wasn't slept on. It's more that people forgot how ill Jay Z is.

[@labrownmd]

Happy Birthday Jay!!!! 💕🎉♐️

[@charlesquentin934]

Goat

[@digonzakeimbe8435]

Until now still hot..who else here in 2023? thumb up please..

[@b-rainwash410]

These the type of dudes that got XXX Tentacion

[@E09154]

Wish Biggie took heed to this song. Jay always rolled in bullet proof limousines. Streets always watching!!

[@winstonrollins6983]

Biggie rolled bullet-proof too, he was just in Cali in them rental suburbans. His Benz was bullet-proof.

[@E09154]

@@winstonrollins6983 Yeah that’s suspicious in itself Puff probably set up that rental as well as the hit!!

[@CoolCaddish]

a real classic got the whole dvd since the release

[@grg20111]

2021 and still fire 🔥!!!!

[@beb5407]

TRUTH BE TOLD 💯🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@tedgramz4449]

2022 you mean lol

[@kelvinboateng5141]

Jay was sleeping, didn’t even notice he released a hit. 2021 and still 🔥

[@ColdJelly19]

He told a story how this was the last record he played for Big and he loved it

[@rigobertodegracia6108]

Biggie shouldve been listening

[@kiki___.]

I'm so happy to have been in the right place, at the right time.

[@jermainelatimer804]

I see you beautiful 😉

[@PacificDark]

Agreed.

[@reallife0728]

THE TRUTH THE WHOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!!!!💐💐💐

[@anthonyj5771]

Jay Z was from the hood but ain’t got the hood in him… he ain’t dangerous he was just tough.

[@animebrospodcast4577]

He didn’t have to act like a wild animal .

[@duncankamau3814]

True. Help me out. This beat here 2:11 was sampled in which other famous song? My mind is playing tricks on me.

[@breonwilliams6674]

Not dangerous lol Watch friend or foe

[@dominiong8022]

Irv Gotti still watching Jay Z's back in the street till this day 🔥

[@mikeycrump8838]

Lil Wayne can't touch this

[@xxxxbigrich5752]

Deadass‼️

[@therealjpoe23]

😂😂😂

[@TaylorBennett]

For allot of fans this may go over your head but Jay Zs Birthday Today! He just released all The OG videos on KZbin + Streaming Services! HE NEVER STOPS WORKING BEST RAPPER OF ALL TIME! #HOV

[@beb5407]

December 4th is born day 💓

[@franciscoc9005]

Ether is the best song ever dropped on Jay Z’s birthday 😂😂😂

[@blackspider1405]

Over whose head? This ain't that deep, champ.

[@yangasidziya3245]

@@franciscoc9005 bro chose to be an asshole😂

[@animebrospodcast4577]

@@franciscoc9005immature brat . Ether called jay gay 50 times what a great diss

[@antwaunharris8248]

Love u Hov for making the video so crispy 💯💪🏾🖤

[@leonardbryant6]

Crazy how biggie used to play this s*** back-to-back ....Great lyrics!!!

[@ShawnGattis]

True Lyricist amongst rappers! 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@rasheemmoore6734]

Classic Record's 🗽

[@jghgiroot6735]

Probably one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time

[@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb]

Agreed

[@the9957]

I remember this dropped when we was on the block arguing who was the 5 at the top timeless classic music what era for hip hop👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽💪🏽

[@jamint.jaddua1771]

Who else bought dem streets is watching DVDs 📀 💿 ⏏

[@MEETMagazine]

Hov's two best songs.

[@seandafny]

U new years drunk

[@oochiewally2783]

I'm so happy i was 19 in those days to full enjoy the 90's

[@altonpettijohn2189]

I remember watching the Streets is Watching movie and loving the cinematography of this movie. Shouts out to Dame Dash for talking Jay Z into doing this movie. Dame Dash would go on to direct/produce/write/and star in Paper Soldiers,State Property 1&2, and the classic Paid In Full! Jay Z was the talent but Dame was the visionary

[@miltonscott1322]

Happy birthday jay z

[@destineetyson7756]

I love you Jay z you are my favorite rapper on the plane ❤️❤️❤️❤️♥️❣️❣️♥️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️

[@bosslover1646]

Dammm real hip hop never dies ... 🙆🙆🤔 2022 no way in hell in this life we living we will get songs like these " OMW "

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@nms6431]

STILL SLAPS FLAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... shout out the west side highway... major cameos in the 90's

[@RamonDockins]

I remembering having this VHS tape, and had the house party jumping with it.... Jay had a video movie, and it was smooth as hell... I do not think any Emcee can top that.... I like that Jay and Dame are talking again.... Might mean..... dope things ahead.

[@TheYellowBrickRoadTV]

Agreed. I had the VHS and DVD.

[@MrWrightNowTV]

The streets is watching VHS had the street on fire the summer of 98!!!!!!

[@mysonmoney3865]

"I got Timbs I got hush puppies" haven't seen jay in the ballistics since 2019

[@trewright7834]

Still got the dvd! Streets Is Watching!

[@christopherpcreation]

Make it happen hov we need an album

[@Issey_B_Devo]

If u were out there at the time then u fully understand the reality. 💎

[@brokeben125]

💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾😎😎😎😎💯💯💯💯

[@swood248]

just watching him go into Tom Dee's is special

[@seandafny]

How real is... This

[@reallife0728]

EXACTLY!!!!💯💯💯💯

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@foranyandevery7656]

Jay always been the smartest…from the streets to the boardroom.

[@kolawolefagbamiye3882]

Thank for everything you have stood for in the blk community. Gangsters move in silence!! Salute!!!!!!!!!

[@danyulwilliams9823]

JAY Z is my favorite rapper and he’s my rap legend and rap icon!!!! ❤😊❤😊❤😊😊❤

[@moniquehamblin4381]

SEAN COREY CARTER! ❤️ This Song Is 🔥 I

[@TraphouseBoominOU]

Still a banger…

[@agentm.3066]

2021 and it still goes hard.

[@sab1b2b8]

If I shout you I am brainless... 23 years later and still the same statement: street is "stil" watching Dope 👌🏾

[@lct8954]

Do you know how many times I used to play the bootleg version of this

[@vaughnalexander32]

Classics!!

[@lordg3803]

This was my shit back then. Crispy Quality too. Damn. Salute Jay. Been a staple In HipHop for a GOOD WHILE. 💪🏾

[@bunnyman6321]

Facts

[@matthewsomerville1905]

Why are we getting gifts for his birthday? Regardless, I'm here for these classics!

[@heatherhill9535]

This whole album was and is nothin but 🔥. My young, white -12 year old - Straight outta Decatur Ga self had this goin hard back in 97. Still one of my favorite albums to this day and I listen to everythingggg Hank Williams, Led Zeppelin to Metallica. This one is in my top 10 of all times.

[@bunnyman6321]

😂😂

[@philipviolenus6835]

Corrupt a lung where I'm from marcy son ain't notin nice. Memorized line foe line word for word. One of my most favorite of Mr j Z

[@reneemartin943]

Best line ever The Streets Is Watching 👀💯💯 Remember Trust No One💯💯

[@icanttrustasoul.]

*timeless music.*

[@bunnyman6321]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4bJoGCkptmsrrs

[@angelplaza4608]

That classic Bk heat 🔥🔥 will never grow old.🎙 HOVA🎙

[@woosa5334]

Happy birthday hov. king.

[@ketchyshubby]

So glad this video got out of music video jail. I haven't seen it in ages. Although the censoring is terrible.

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

This the Jay Z that was on it like a hornet !

[@treydubs5332]

Classic 2022 streets is still watching 👀

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

The trippiest thing about this beat is that it samples the same exact song as my name is from Eminem. They don't sound anything alike but the original song has a crazy beat switch like halfway through it and the producers took inspiration from both separate parts to make 2 fire tracks.

[@KardiFan2000]

Big up to the producers of both tracks (Ski Beatz and Dr. Dre)...legends!

[@LogoAttitude]

My Name Is incidentally required censorship for the sample to be cleared, just like Streets Is Watching

[@NdosiMagaye]

If he Uploads all his live performances it would be dope too🙏🏽🥺

[@Vickydondada]

Till this day the streets stay watching waiting for you to make a mistake