One of the best underground joints of all time. The flow. The beat. Everything.
@stefaunwatson48067 жыл бұрын
I agree you said it best
@zatiticherry34215 жыл бұрын
1000% Agreed!!!!
@karimboucetta34035 жыл бұрын
For sure!!!
@2slick354 жыл бұрын
It's just hands down dope! Hip Hop excellence!
@waligibson2403 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest hip hop underground joints of all time! I concur 💯 💯 Facts!
@Wrekkshoppe11 ай бұрын
I swear when I first heard this track back in 1997, I thought it was a DJ PREMIER beat. The drums, the scratching, the sampling style and the overall vibe. I was shocked when it wasn't him who produced it. Also, can we just give props to L the Head Toucha for rocking this beat lovely. His bars are just too ill. This is a PERFECT track.
@andredonald63726 ай бұрын
THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽
@assistant6063 ай бұрын
@@andredonald6372R.I.P Double K from P.U.T.S
@MentalPistol2 ай бұрын
everyone thought exactly the same
@jayelbee11116 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this back in 1997, this joint is still slamming to this day. This is true hip-hop right here.
@andredonald63726 ай бұрын
THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽
@jrag1000Ай бұрын
@@andredonald6372 good catch
@Mordecai1546 жыл бұрын
My God this is beautiful.
@andredonald63726 ай бұрын
THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽
@MongoSlade842 ай бұрын
@andredonald6372 Thanks a lot, bro. I've checked those songs out and they are awesome.
@mr_aythakorver12263 жыл бұрын
Real music! Golden Era. Culture, Love. ❤️🙏🏼
@MrJeffreyromain7 жыл бұрын
"Greater than your Benz or your Lexus, the engine to my comprehension is just too complex" That uniquely lengthy sample is masterfully incorporated. Could bob my head all day to this lost gem. And i will.
@ReeferFatness3 жыл бұрын
24 years old and still hot like it was made today. Incredible!
@generalgen15423 ай бұрын
💯
@enyway67545 ай бұрын
God dam!! How have I not stumbled on this!
@jrag1000Ай бұрын
More where that comes from, like uncovering Egyptian artifacts. Young heads just don't know.
@frankmc3.5378 жыл бұрын
this dude L, dropping jewels all over this blazing track.
@each1teach1academy43Ай бұрын
90s Hip Hop is the greatest form of music ever created
@biglex7854 жыл бұрын
Timeless one of the greatest beats ever! peace Don Blackman
@djmsup2 жыл бұрын
Word Big Lex! This ones a banger. Hope you're doing well.
@biglex7852 жыл бұрын
@@djmsup likewise brotha man!
@RatioBozo692 жыл бұрын
@@biglex785 hope you doin well g
@biglex7852 жыл бұрын
@@RatioBozo69 likewise brotha man
@andrewgordon80487 жыл бұрын
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
@dannywoodring78765 жыл бұрын
Check out clear soul force
@raketenheini75703 ай бұрын
90" Best Time Of My Life! Thx L.
@Screen5113 жыл бұрын
[Verse One] Deep in the depths of the mind The pro is prime, trapped like a mime In the same space and time, lifeless Vocals excel when trifers Centerfold of your ciphers My aura shines divine, priceless Much to complex to yap Maybe perhaps when I think of rap My thinkin' cap (what?) Reveals the skills unlimited Rappers be half as great Mentally they can't elaborate So they exaggerate and fabricate My words collaborate, formulatin' a sentence It's all ill when the blunted mind defense this Intense mechanism Respect next to wisdom Makes the god's mental Inflammable grammable feel gentile Reignin' dominate We be the essential I sense y'all don't know the art Comprehensively, energy enters me when I depart It's like sweet sorrow Bottles I follow catch wreck Engine's to my comprehension be just too complex To get vex and just step I'd rather snatch a rapper's rep Ruin it to a degree Breakin' them into debris Vocally, y'all label me as the illest mic killa Top biller Still in the grind, the mind driller Sublime thriller Poetically is how I'm depicted The rhythm's got me addicted so my ill skill inflicts it On any device Nice Similar, the verbal Christ Enormous, my performance equally will be precise We puttin' rappers on ice The ultimate heist Most of 'em should have thought twice now they're payin' the price I knock 'em out like Mic Tys when the tracks connect The engine's to my comprehension is just too complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex" [Verse Two] To M.C. the art of rhymin' should be pure and natural When I think of all these ill skills, international You see my words in actual will attract the steel like a magnet Niggas is stagnant and incomplete like the fragments Actually, my words are a jagged edge, criminal Borderline, subliminal One of the earth's finest minerals I'm past the pinnacle And still I hold my fort like a general Intervals, all excerpt the maximum Release the minimal energy Cock me back Hennesy's sure to blur the memory Remember me, that ill nigga? I still trigger Thoughts sporadic set to peel niggas Standards Mics are metaphors of what the man is, might merge I recite slurs with the right words What occurs when I conjure Illest spirits from beyond ya You was warned like Alaja The drama ganja drains away Plain as day When my mind's A.K. spray in the A.K.A Nine trey, double rays, bubble thin Fry Mass murderous The illest niggas we devour from out the dark So kill the talk Either that or walk the walk You claim you had your shit together now it's fallin' apart Lyin' lion, no heart Who woulda thought you'd be wack? We gave you dap in the beginning now we takin' it back I only boogie from a track when mad niggas react We specify the artifacts and represent 'em on wax It' complex [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex Much too complex" [Verse Three] Let's take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those who prison in the minds and those that been bailed Fuck the fan shit, it's about to hit the windmills What I reveal, not omni still it's strictly been real Y'all know the deal, skills Steelos, alter egos Poetry hits my peoples like food for thought Vocals distort, shorts the sequels Mics forever like the paradox of pure evil The crowds will come Like throwin' crumbs to the seagulls Too predictable Old folks pray in cathedrals Tryin' to live that better life legal Feeble, my mind remains haunted by mad things I'm wanted Plus everything is real when you're blunted These days the trees blaze F doin' the shade We backspin 'em like the DJs Playa be swaze I'm the live one Mic's like a knife Cuttin' you down to size in The fantasy land you and your mans was devisin' We wise men Puzzle your thoughts It ain't surprisin' I set it off like horizons No mistakes allowed Strategically, it's like I'm movin' the crowd I'm lickin' shots, bustin' up at the clouds We be audacious, treadin' on glaciers Slang got sprayed down in Tanqueray without the chasers On the earth there ain't a place you can run to hide When my sets collide with your planet Rock bottom solid my frame be like granite Very few can understand it The dialect I wreck Perfects my mic's sex when the thoughts connect The engine to my comprehension is just too complex The engine to my comprehension is just too [echo] [Scratch Hook] "Greater than your Benz or your Lex The engine to my comprehension is just too complex
@trinitylegacygroup2481 Жыл бұрын
Damn‼️🔥🔥☄️☄️☄️
@AK-pr9cz9 ай бұрын
There are more words within the track than in admission's essay
@RatioBozo692 жыл бұрын
2022. Wish I had friends that listened to joints like these.
@DMVLeGenD967 жыл бұрын
Beat is addicting and L's flow is sick
@chucknorris73497 жыл бұрын
Heard this for the first time on 89 tech nine, the best memories.
@Monty_McFly6 жыл бұрын
Chuck Norris stretch n Bob baby....
@missayawk6 жыл бұрын
Chuck Norris Me too....between 1am & 5am....before the Jazzman....Stretch & Bobby Bongos with the mad flows.
@GonguRoach5 жыл бұрын
Wow me too 1 of my favorite underground stations.
@rloco802 жыл бұрын
One of the Most Lyrical Hip Hop songs with one of the Dopest Beats combined in this ill track.
@andredonald63726 ай бұрын
THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽
@denstonekhakali83148 жыл бұрын
Deep in the depths of the mind,pro is prime trapped like a mime.......those opening lines My God,its. too complex
@captinweestain5268 жыл бұрын
+denstone khakali Takes me a while to hear the lyrics..the beat is soo Dope.
@frankmc3.5378 жыл бұрын
+captin weestain YES LAWD,the beat is hypnotizing
@PeediSigel9 жыл бұрын
Boston's finest, East Coast stay winning
@MaxMuggins14 жыл бұрын
I always thought L Da Headtoucha did this track more justice than Jay-Z did. Line for line this was amazing.
@frank-xp6pj5 жыл бұрын
Yes sir, he went in on every bar on this joint....L cant be fucked with here ...he was on top of his game.👍👍👍
@jamesroberts18103 жыл бұрын
Jayz rapped on this beat for the i got the hook up" soundtrack
@jamiecaudle653 жыл бұрын
Also the original was sampled by People under the stairs on the track: Give love a chance 👌
@PRCRSTNTR2 жыл бұрын
@@jamiecaudle65 word !
@assistant606 Жыл бұрын
so did people under the stairs give love a chance
@lcdabbs62498 жыл бұрын
Remember this being hyped in The Source for months and not being able to find anyone with a copy to check it...finally copped it on DJ Premier mixtape a year later - blew my mind.
@earthworm666112 жыл бұрын
One of the best tracks ever
@kevjonzin70518 жыл бұрын
love the comments Vinyl Reanimators I believe on the beat from Boston....Song still gives me chills....Real Hip Hop
@MsLady999111 ай бұрын
Yup- DJ Shame!!!
@princeekeson1211 жыл бұрын
Beautiful as a dime piece...
@sumwhatkeezy8 жыл бұрын
I remember i used to hear this on a dope hip hop radio station back in the day when i was in high school :)
@lostperfectionchef9 жыл бұрын
L is a dope MC
@ANTLIFEACADEMY7 жыл бұрын
Classic underground joint.
@Knobbingham12 жыл бұрын
"peoples, my mind remains haunted by bad things, I'm on it / most everything is real when you're blunted" beats & lyrics! - Den Gale Pose (formerly known as Madness 4 Real) flipped the sample in 1996 on a joint called 'Fler Hos'.
@BiGfukkinA7 жыл бұрын
Oldie AND goldie
@Fineartz3346 жыл бұрын
Smh going into 2018 and this is still dope now from the time it was created🔥🔥🔥
@100timessquare12 жыл бұрын
Stretch Armstrong and Bobitto 89 Tech 9, Martin Moore and Mayhem NYU radio. The '90s New York City!
@monicaxnyc7 жыл бұрын
I discovered this gem two years ago but stopped listening to it after a while. I'm glad I'm listening to it right now; the nostalgic livens my soul up again.
@jamesngene65506 жыл бұрын
This cat can rhyme, period!
@frank-xp6pj5 жыл бұрын
let them motherfuckers know 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@dkastal2 жыл бұрын
Never gets old! Worcester greatest all time Hip Hop classic
@S0ULSURVIVOR18714 жыл бұрын
good vibrations!
@galaxyangel91283 жыл бұрын
Damn he is str8 killing his lyricism here. I can't even keep up it's so good, I was just listening to the original song by don black's-holding me I found here on youtube studying my oldies then I found a comment saying this song was sampled and now I'm here and I'm happy I clicked on this vid :), nothing can defeat that original 90's sound of rap. This is real hip hop
@southjerseysfinest12 жыл бұрын
classic joint right here.still sounds good in 2012 & beyond.
@Love2HateU9 жыл бұрын
Shout out to L da Headtoucha!
@Igotcha063 жыл бұрын
“Let’s take a deep breath and inhale and exhale For those whose present in the mind and those who’ve been bailed” This nostalgia could make me cry,Beautiful!!
@briansmith99598 жыл бұрын
I still have this cut on a DJ Premier CD....with different cuts I bumped this cut in my brand new '98 Chevy S10....back in the day. I love the sample & De La from the "Stakes is High" LP.
@mathice8 жыл бұрын
+Brian Smith The sample is crazy, from Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You
@jerichosound Жыл бұрын
a joint like this redeems rap music. reminds me why i fell in love with hop hop in the beginning
@BlackKanoli3 жыл бұрын
This is 1 of "THEE" most "PERFECT" songs ever!
@CRock8787 күн бұрын
using Trugoys voice from the cut "The Bizness" off the Stakes is High is fire! Rest in Peace to Dave plug 2!
@Sibjacj6 жыл бұрын
L The Head Toucha is my sister's favorite rapper.
@quillatron12 жыл бұрын
Mental tune, well regret not getting this on wax.
@MsLady999111 ай бұрын
L and the Great DJ Shame!!!!🙌
@alexisadkins73696 жыл бұрын
My brother is forcing me to listen to his type of music so I had to listen to this along with the rest of a playlist like this 😂😂😂😂
@puglife58806 жыл бұрын
LOL BIG UPS TO UR BRO DO YOU LIKE IT THO SO FAR? 😂
@robertbryant61994 жыл бұрын
Jesus the beat and the flow is sick!!! DJ Premier L the Head Toucha!!!💯💯💯💯💥💥💥💥💥
@Heavenw1thin Жыл бұрын
ITS TOO COMPLEX when before any new beginning you already know the ending. To that and everything. It’s like prep work😊
@IceManLikeGervin5 жыл бұрын
The Don Blackmon (RIP) sample from Holding You, Loving You is extra chilly most...
@yungcoetz16786 жыл бұрын
People Under The Stairs - Give Love a Chance
@andredonald63726 ай бұрын
THE People under the stairs Also had this CLASSIC Dope Hip hop track . It was by sample the same by R & b artist :Don Blackman. The Song is Loving you, holding you R.I.P. Don Blackman 📻🎤🎶🎶👍🏽👍🏽
@amazibrowning2 жыл бұрын
‘97 SHIT! L DA HEAD TOUCHAAAA MURDERED THIS . My god! 🔥
@whatistimejb5 жыл бұрын
Wow it take me to a better place in time...this joint real....
@supramanta18289 жыл бұрын
CLASSIC !
@paulgabbard65824 жыл бұрын
Im a rap music check me on 3rd bass and check me on KZbin and you will like 3rd bass and im a rap music on 3rd bass and name is mc and check out 3rd bass im mc 3rd bass📀😃🎤⛽
@marcoantoniomorales671420 күн бұрын
2024 y sigue sonando esta joya desde México
@MadFlow14 жыл бұрын
True classic! They re-issued this a few years ago but I have the orignal lol.. The underground was so dope these days..
@SJ-ym8xv23 күн бұрын
Yooooooooooo!!!!!! I heard the sample and dug deep! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@musecluv115 жыл бұрын
Its all lovely. Mad Ill Track. Love it.
@illadvised5014 жыл бұрын
It's hard to believe this is already 12 years old. Man. The new classics.
@dramatyst5661 Жыл бұрын
Damn 24 tears now
@toteknowledge5 ай бұрын
26 now!
@hawkeyemode31152 жыл бұрын
The beat is magical
@rfinch0916 жыл бұрын
this is hot
@AndriMar505015 жыл бұрын
The sample is john blackman - loving you, holding you Great song
@jiujitsuboy3 жыл бұрын
People Under The Stairs used it for Give Love A Chance
@monsterdime11 жыл бұрын
i remember this especially this beat this is real hiphop epic and too complex much too complex 93
@kwesihorton39539 жыл бұрын
L THE HEAD TUCHA - TOO COMPLEX = BLU AND EXILE - AMAZIN
@satura41132 жыл бұрын
CLASSIC!!!!!
@holygoat15 жыл бұрын
Need I remind you, L's right behind you.
@jehosafats300011 жыл бұрын
Still a classic
@Tribeofjudah895 жыл бұрын
Just heard it's almost like 2 minutes ago my brother put me up on this it's a dope beat Dope lyrics positivity things always a message in that's what it was about back in the day
@DudlDude1875 жыл бұрын
still goldie that Oldie
@marioselva71629 жыл бұрын
Greater than your ben'z or your lexis.
@booshthelurker12 жыл бұрын
I used to rely on this track in a pinch. It would always get the vibe up, and get people onto the dance floor. Thanks for posting!
@alliancefrancaise48955 жыл бұрын
U can def feel the warmth of that good ole 90's vibe :))
@desastermasterking11 жыл бұрын
damn. puppets of chaos, large professor, kev brown, eyedea and shadez of brooklyn in the related videos and a dope track right here. finally, i'm in the good part of youtube :)
@vision_on Жыл бұрын
Am here for the comments ❤️ This has it all..the perfect tone, the illest beat and the sickest flow. If someone ever asked me to define hip hop and what is means to me, I'd play them this. Then I'd play it again and again and again.... ✌🏻
@spliter2276 жыл бұрын
20 years old wow! I used have this in my head phones when I skated around the city, still sick
@trygvie11 жыл бұрын
Another song has this melody. Can't think of it yet....
@fusionrevivo12372 жыл бұрын
Stream of consciousness Samurai
@ginoventura72262 жыл бұрын
Who’s here in 2021 ??? I miss when hip hop was like this.
@Goldenera953 жыл бұрын
OMFG 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@billyblonko114 жыл бұрын
AMAZIN TRACK
@Jstan8516 жыл бұрын
greater than your benz or your lex. that sample was from tugoy dove from DE LA SOUL
@jeroenfigee12 жыл бұрын
Damn! yummy yummy yummy ! It can't get any better then this!
@scottthorne85849 жыл бұрын
Cuz everything is real when you're blurted,,, real hip hop son
@onemanarmyasonrip15 жыл бұрын
ooo L the Headtoucha sickest name sick track
@triplep60622 жыл бұрын
This still sounds good in 2022, made when MC's displayed true mic skills!
@mydasmurray6 жыл бұрын
Jay-z heard this sample and used it in 98' on 'what the game made me'
@bloodshotred63347 жыл бұрын
Beat is hypnotizing i dig
@vicdrummer113 жыл бұрын
just bought this LP yesterday fucken dope trak
@KoolTeddyX14 жыл бұрын
Classic!!!
@jazzymania9311 жыл бұрын
Classiiiiiic
@Benjaminbutton867 жыл бұрын
Premier, Premier, puhpuhpuh PREMIER
@spliter2276 жыл бұрын
lololol
@aaronverico13966 жыл бұрын
Lol, New York Reality Check, vol.1 #Classic. 💯
@alliancefrancaise48955 жыл бұрын
Well, that's cuz it's jus too Complex... ;)
@milicacetnik15874 жыл бұрын
@@aaronverico1396 101
@simeon81952 жыл бұрын
CLASS NEVER DIES...
@djcelsoo12 жыл бұрын
Gostaria de saber quando que o Hip Hop Underground vai voltar? Quando as músicas eram bem feitas, aquela perfeição que você não vê nos dias de hoje! Tem um primo meu que chegou até mim dizendo que as músicas de agora são muito mais bem feitas do que as do passado dei muita risada por dentro, por que ele ainda não sabe qual é a verdadeira raiz da quela música que ele tava escutando! O nosso verdadeiro ritmo a gente aprende de pequeno. R.I.P Hip Hop Underground Tomara que volte como era antes :S
@keyopronin41342 жыл бұрын
Hip-Hop from a bygone ERA.
@pablo2793014 жыл бұрын
i have been looking for dis for years who ever put dis on respec