Lakim Shabazz - Black Is Back (Video)

[@PrAnG2000]

I came here because of Lakim Shabazz

[@theredroadeast723]

Exactly. These were the Golden Years of Hip Hop. I feel sorry for those who missed it!

[@miiiiisvibes]

I mean...

[@FMDad-dm5qo]

“With negative brothers, you know Shabazz don’t bother / Most brothers strive, but I strive harder” Holds up 30+ yrs later Also that horn stab is premium

[@jjurney1]

This guy should've been huge.

[@osiawideman5744]

I been a fan since I first heard Lakim back in '89

[@theredroadeast723]

Facts!

[@MisterElement]

Me Too!!

[@BJSteigner]

WRKS 98.7 broke this track in 88...Gold

[@rucksmith2240]

Newark new Jersey in full effect!

[@richardsingh5827]

I wish the music was still like this

[@johndrake2729]

Yeah, man, me too.

[@dreparker9686]

There is music like this.but algorithm and powers that be, hides it! this is one of the songs he is on! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mauqnYiGo9N0d5I

[@seanberry1969]

This is our culture ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jeremiahwoods1845]

👑Lakim Shabazz from the golden era

[@fizzypop8937]

Lakim could defnitley spit. His flow delivery and voice is amazing.

[@BJSteigner]

His spit is clean and clear.

[@alondathomas293]

I remember this from back in the day, when a lot of rappers were rapping about black history and pride and all that. Love it, plus it's catchy as hell. Hard to believe Shabazz was only 20 when he made this---his voice made him sound 10 years older.

[@rucksmith2240]

Til this day him and Mike C Essex County living legends

[@bluecollarman-b.c.m290]

Hands down!! Still one of the hardest track. I played this track so much back in the day, the tape popped. Then, I spliced the tape and played it until the cassette melted. Lol.

[@errolthomas9426]

It's been 33 years since I've only seen this on Video Music Box

[@BJSteigner]

YO! MTV Raps also broke this in

[@errolthomas9426]

​@@BJSteignerSo did BET's Rap City

[@profesae]

This song is 30 years old and still good today than 90% of Mainstream Rap 👏🏽

[@BJSteigner]

Mainstream killed the art of hip hop.

[@johndrake2729]

@@BJSteignerSadly.

[@montoyamorrow9919]

💯 of main stream!...they can't touch La!

[@michaeledelman6743]

The best of hip hop. Especially back in the days. Old school rocks!!!

[@billystrayhornsghost]

This is Hip Hop straight up beats and rhymes.I was 16 years old when this album dropped and i will be 50 this year.Lots of memories came flooding back hearing this classic.Good times had by all.

[@ishammc7211]

I still know these lyrics since 1988. ✊🏽

[@michaelwilliams5454]

His flow was crazy

[@brianel8550]

Conscious Hip Hop. A thing of the past. I think there were many more styles of Our Music back in the day.

[@lazarickchatman327]

Forget the fact that Lakim Shabazz can rhyme his ass off, Peep the Voice he got and DJ Mark The 45 king's Production Work on this joint downright cold as hell

[@nondelusional]

Golden era of hip-hop

[@NONcorrupt]

i was a little kid watching this video when it 1st came out , was loving it then & still feeling now (str8-up classic)

[@ctbadcop15]

Why?

[@lazarickchatman7946]

That voice is extraordinary, DJ Mark " The 45 king " on Production!!!!

[@aayammusic4584]

his flow and rhyming patterns were way ahead of its time 🤯🤯🤯

[@4evertwisted]

Still got Pure Righteousness on vynl. Man I miss those day's.

[@BJSteigner]

Golden era couldnt be beat...This was the rap where people played their own game.

[@oldturntables8215]

That electric piano loop is killin it. Lakim lyrics of course goes without sayin.

[@dricjackson4902]

Old Turntables that’s From Shaft in Africa soundtrack

[@bigstacks1463]

Classic material, Lakim Shabazz and 45 King! This is timeless dopeness, real heads know!!!

[@MikerodRod]

Big Stacks Hell yeah!

[@ctbadcop15]

Big Stacks It’s the 45 kings junior

[@rong805]

Used to watch this video on Pump It Up back in the day. Loved that show.

[@jaybossert6012]

The 45 king did great production

[@lazeezee]

the realest -once upon a time we had hip hop!

[@UBZUKki]

for real....

[@paulgabbard6743]

OLD SCHOOL MTV YO! RAPS LAKIM SHABAZZ BLACK ⚫️ IS BACK MUSIC 😀🙏👍

[@qazzzie]

Shout out to Eminem shouting out Lakim Shabazz in Rap God... That's real..

[@edwin99901]

@L.I. Schooner love seeing racist expose themselves.

[@sleapur1]

@L.I. Schooner Exactly!

[@sleapur1]

@@brucebanner3935 Shit is straight garbage! Better take that bullshit back to American Bandstand...

[@TheEdub1]

@L.I. Schooner Word!

[@keithbranch5181]

@L.I. Schooner Besides know that he know who he got his skill from....

[@caliclassicstv2024]

LONG LIVE DJ MARK THE 45 KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!✊🏽☮️🙏🏽✅

[@anthonyjamessr3176]

Like him shabazz is one of the iconic rap gods of the golden era

[@samuelmedina5471]

DAM I CAME UP ON THIS NEWARK NJ ALL DAY!! HIP HOUSE HIPHOP WITH A CUASE, AND HIP HOP OH HOUSE AND DANCEHALL!

[@aarionmickles9995]

Happy Birthday to Lakim Shabazz!!

[@t.m.gmusic9771]

Great era in hip hop you had a lot of artists going against gangster rap knowledge of self was the main focus for a lot of artists

[@johndrake2729]

I remember when I first saw this 30 years ago or so, someone selling cooked crabmeat was in the neighborhood. My mom bought some and I loved it. My first time experiencing two things in one day: crabmeat and the powerful dopeness of "Black Is Back". Memories, man.

[@1lifestyle112]

you will never hear a rap song like this again

[@BJSteigner]

This was when hip hop was clean and clear...Not today's shit music

[@osiawideman9932]

lakim had one of the illest flow I've ever heard, used right he had that it factor.

[@pmoeadeec2559]

Most brothers strive but i strive harder these are actual facts the dominant black i'm right & exact i came to tell my brother black is back ,,,,,, LAKIM SHABAZZ FOREVER

[@nitrothechef]

This is the illest shit you will eva hear, the golden era of hiphop!!

[@tinyvox]

Some of the finest lyrics in all hip hop. Remember when MTV played it once for me back in the day. What do you know, the song worked. Black came back.

[@azahel1975]

This is a life track from my life in Brooklyn circa 1989...the memories...❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@sallyjane9994]

Lyrics With Superb Delivery...Shabazz was firing on all cylinders..fly as F...the 45 King beat Mined for a Mind Beat - the bass sits on the drum break..the snare is definitely marching through the track hence it is Dope.

[@rtee8904]

That's a great description of a great tune !

[@c2daj2dat]

man i miss the days when this was on tv! after this came chill rob g

[@Multifacted_Brotha]

Whatever happened to these forgotten hiphop artists from the 80s and early 90s?? They were dope!

[@JeromekJerome1972]

God damn, Hip Hop from 86/87 to 91 is up there with any music anywhere.

[@theredroadeast723]

This was one of my favorite joints back in the days. Dude's flow was sick!

[@jamesshala4173]

Wow, his lyrics absolutely amazed me. This is great.

[@Calisoul510]

One of my golden Era favs.... he had on the classic ACG low nike boots

[@robertdellafave3715]

Was slept on. Big voice

[@rashadshabazz5818]

Peace unleashed upon minister Farrakhan for preaching and teaching the truth to the death and blind

[@theredroadeast723]

"...to the DEAF and blind"

[@fr3kyshield33]

Who's here in 2022? Respecting the greats

[@maneevent1508]

2024

[@mywifecangametoo1111]

Newark all day baby 19th Ave and 19th st . The Avenues back in the 80s where yall at!!

[@davejackson4010]

I remember this. This is classic. I miss these days of hip-hop. Artists had something to say that had element unlike today.

[@dryhail]

Damn, that's just sad though! We had so much wealth in our music back then...damn damn damn!

[@BJSteigner]

Hip hop like this is so fuckin underrated

[@tariqcampbell4996]

Back in the days

[@thenowschool]

Classic track and the album was a work of art too..Peace to the 45 King on production

[@Melvin-kq5we]

Hot beat 🔥

[@gifted1der]

I was just thinking the same thing. It looks weird at first, but it really blends in with the older footage and draws a subliminal connection between the old civil rights era and hip-hop's Black Power movement. On a side note, man I miss the days when listening to a rapper made you feel a sense of pride in our people. Not all rappers were putting out Afrocentric music, but there was balance in the industry. Being "gangsta" isn't keeping it real; educating and helping our people do better is.

[@timyellek7764]

This dude is a prince among men

[@evelsteev]

Damn, he's lettin' the Knowledge be born!

[@mansamusa2012]

By the way thanks for this upload. In the late 80s I was into this type of Rap when I was only 8 or 9 years old. At this time I was only aware of PE and BDP. I did not know about Lakim until recently.

[@WuBloodKin09]

My shit, peace to the gods! 👊✌️

[@tr8086]

2019 Who still listening??

[@BJSteigner]

I am...This is real not today's shit music

[@johndrake2729]

Same here.

[@PiggyPickem]

Listening in the middle of “2020”

[@BloodBoxing]

bro i seen this one forever......yeah....this era brought some great positive jems

[@ants8527]

I always liked the way he flowed over this beat His voice reminds me of Chill Rob G Court is in session 1988 89''

[@alanmorris7669]

My favorite rap song

[@michaelreyes6761]

This is dope

[@alexmack2014]

Lak is one of the dopest ever.

[@reuseamen]

you can dj this bomb to an audience not used to that hip hop feeling and the groove reaches boom

[@curtisshaw7903]

Lakim Shabazz had awesome flow with 45 king

[@ToppFade]

Man this right here ❤

[@babynyxe4784]

This is so freaking catchy and satisfying. Overall a vibe

[@BruceDragon]

Back in the day when we used to wear african medallions to school lol

[@sleapur1]

I still have a few of them...

[@4evertwisted]

...with the hi top fades and wearing wallabees.

[@lezlethal]

i have been looking for this song for 20 years. I always thought this was the Defiant Giants.

[@LaCheleWallace]

My dad introduced me to this brotha's music and I was an instant fan. Lakim Shabazz was so sick. Criminally underrated. Hearing these old cuts is making me miss the message...the sincere/genuine message. I don't know what these new school pro-black brothas are talkin' about nowadays. Ice Cube said that they couldn't wait to phase political hip hop out so that they could introduce the new agenda... Y'all know what happened to hip hop after they phased this style out in 1994...

[@roberthouston8463]

LaChele That's exactly right 😎

[@osiawideman7641]

Straight truth, my sister

[@johndrake2729]

Yep.

[@miguelacosta5446]

dang, i see you on all the videos

[@LaCheleWallace]

It's good to be seen.

[@webbgems67]

I came here because black is back 🤜🏾🤛🏾

[@MrSpaceWorm]

Imagine spitting this hard in 1980's

[@ericbilli]

Video music box had this on repeat back in the days 0:43

[@darrellhenderson1459]

dude was spitting

[@BJSteigner]

His spit is pure flow

[@ClipDog]

I remember coming home from Jr High to try and catch this on Video Music Box, still watching this in 2019!

[@juliocesardantas5513]

Voltando às origens do Hip Hop... Lakim Shabazz, simplesmente fantástico.

[@anzaya_1]

45 King joint.. ftw

[@ronnielovelace9948]

From new Jerusalem New Jersey

[@ursamajor2000]

A rap song uplifting our people. Imagine that!

[@DerekMusic57]

I remeber when that came out it was a hot track and his flow he was difference.

[@Fletcher938]

i used to listen to this in the early 90s, and forgot about him until Eminem mentioned him in rap god, why cant hip hop and rap be like this now?

[@longbeachcalifornia6040]

Who still bumping this song 🎧 2021?

[@westsidewil]

Just playing it today

[@brucekrom9001]

Salaam alaikum brother

[@amanipowell5732]

Didn't know that there was a video too. First heard it on Sirius XM Rock the Bells B Side. 👍🏾

[@ORIGINALTHINKA]

Lakim got that flow!

[@anzaya_1]

45 King at it's finest..

[@TheLordGoat]

This shit was hardcore.

[@briankh2007]

That beat speaks for itself.

[@fadedthanahoee]

Gore Elohim 😂😂😂😂

[@omaralinter2101]

@@briankh2007 best than lil pumb and lil xan

[@Repeal-19thA]

This was the *ISHT* back in the day

[@tr8086]

2018 Who still listening?

[@toddricfryson972]

Has the cadence of Chuck D. This dude was dope af. I was always amped whenever his video came on. I wish he would have blew up way more....

[@dawudyelton2177]

still want those nike boots lakim has on in the beginning of the video, brown suede; sh*ts were butta

[@shiftyfiftyonefifty4511]

Thank God rappers like em are keeping the old school hip hop alive.

[@jkrush]

Damn this song here makes me wanna go in the basement and find my Africa medallion and free South Africa t-shirt!!

[@thedarkchild86]

I remember watching this video on rap city .... " The Mayor " Chris Thomas

[@MADDLION247]

I'm here... Going into the year 2020. 💪💪

[@RondellDarden]

peace to da god this was and steel is a classic real hip hop word bond