METHODMAN & REDMAN: How High

[@edrepresentin]

The mid 90's was the era of so many great duos. Mobb Deep, Heltah Skeltah, Smif n Wessun, Doggpound, Red and Meth, Das Efx even Reakwon and Ghost

[@90s-is-the-golden-era]

M.O.P., Cypress Hills, Outkast, Gang Starr, Dead Prez & Capone-N-Noreaga 💪💪💪

[@jesusrivera6424]

Wasn’t really considered a duo but smooth and trigger the gambler was so underrated no one even mentions them but as a fan bro they was ill

[@40EastTrill]

​@@90s-is-the-golden-eraCan't really call Cypress Hill a duo tho

[@BladedRaider78]

​@@jesusrivera6424Broken Language

[@p-jaywade1333]

@@edrepresentin Can't forget Smooth Tha Huster and Trigga Da Gambler. Rock even recognized them on Funkmaster Flex Vol II

[@OmegaRed77]

M.O.P😮

[@RamonErazo-p7z]

Red and Meth became the new age "Blues Brothers " once they linked up. Bonds like that are extremely rare these days #wordisbond

[@eddied80]

🎤🎤🎤🎤 Heltah Skeltah was definitely one of the illest duos! I’ll also throw Organized Konfusion in the mix (Pharoahe Monch & Prince Po)

[@chaunt100]

THE ARTIFACTS CAMP LO

[@reasun_pgh]

OK is a 🔥 mention. Artifacts were dope too

[@utilize3eyes]

Das Efx, ill n Al scratch, smiff n wessun, mobb deep..

[@GMPGMP-jp5ut]

"How High" debuted on "The Show Soundtrack" in the summer of 1995. Legendary track, Red and Meth killed it, and it stands the test of time. I still bump both versions. Erick Sermon was super on point with the production back then, too.

[@EricWheeler-rz5cy]

" IT WENT DOWN LIKE THIS",.....Rockness Monsta! I was hooked for life!!!

[@abdulbyron5105]

Here these ninjaz come being all dope and ish 😂😂😂I get it tho 🎤 🎤 🎤 🎤

[@GEEMUNN]

That original version of How High is on the soundtrack for the movie "The Show", and Redman got Verse of the Year, in the Source magazine for that verse! 🎙🎙🎙🎙

[@darthknowl9222]

Well deserved

[@mistermay7986]

Redman top 5 lyricist of all time

[@utilize3eyes]

Loved the Wu segment, it was on repeat in the VCR

[@Ironman79]

That soundtrack had some joints on it too 🎧🔥

[@josephevans6993]

🎤🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥

[@DZNUTZakaKINGD]

Mannn... I miss the tape era. I still got a gang of 'em too. I started DJ'ing and mixing with the pause button before recording myself spittin'. My Pioneer 3 CD rotator with 2 tape decks to double tape at the front was🔥🔥🔥 Damn... Triggered a lot of memories. 😂

[@Rizzlyricist]

"Look up in the sky, it's a bird it's a plane." 💯

[@renojames4498]

This is my favorite SIGMA episode so far. This takes me back to listening to The Show soundtrack with Meth’s Headbanger Boogie skit, followed by this jawn.

[@anthonydangelo5720]

I wish I could post pictures on here. I still have the St.Ides Special Brew Poster with the 2 of them on it & i still have the How High single on wax. I sold a lot of my vinyl lately & that's 1 of many I couldn't part with.

[@steveday1622]

I'm with yah on that one my good man. I got the vinyl in Japan in Tokyo or Osaka at a record ⏺️ store. Super excited when I saw that there,one of my fav Redman tracks. Still love the deer iz a dark side album n muddy waters. Also Erick sermon insomnia which has some Redman tracks.

[@demetriusreynolds9657]

Thanks!

[@reasun_pgh]

Always loved the original version way more! 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@angeleye8953]

Waaaaaay more Red got the Source qoute for the remix diss against Mobb Deep

[@Bigg_Westcoast]

It was on the “the show” soundtrack

[@oba1560]

Do more of these. Peace Monsta 💯

[@xavierorion290]

Seconded

[@nyceflix]

I had to go back and revisit it. Red also name checked Smif N Wessun with Let's Get It On which you also blessed. I've been to the Concentration Camp dope to know the back story

[@oskamadison]

Red’s last verse on that shit is a hall of famer. He left earth on that shit…

[@frederickshelton9119]

I never really liked the radio version of How High, because the original was soooo hard. Great story Rock, thanks!

[@waynesworldizm]

🎤 🎤 🎤 🎤 without a shadow of a doubt my favourite Redman and Method song and I love the original but still prefer the remix as it reminds me of my first trip to New York in 95. I remember you guys were on smoke at the time and a lot of your videos were getting played daily along with these joints. Coming from the UK, we didn’t have access to Raw Hip Hop videos like that at the time so I was a like a kid in a sweet shop . I just put together a compilation of music on Spotify from that year and that was to of the list. 👌🏾✨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TipToe71]

I’m from the West and when I first heard you and Sean P back when y’all first dropped y’all instantly became my favorite duo and I became a fan of Duck Down records. Boot Camp Clik was my ish. Heltah Skeltah 🔥

[@richardbruce3595]

That Erick Sermon beat was Grimey and Dirty and is and will forever be the best version in my humble opinion.

[@shon7820]

🎙🎙🎙🎙 #NoFreeVotes! B1and Shalom...............

[@SONNYHOTmusic]

0:59 thank God he cleared up which version.. Bro had me nervous when he started the conversation… lol

[@bigprecise81]

😄😄 I was gonna say the samething

[@Moor6544]

Yo, Rockness, that Nocturnal album was fire!!! I agree Heltah Skeltah was that duo

[@BGeorgeVideo]

I used to listen to that song over and over on a tape (meaning, listen, rewind, listen again LOL)

[@9thLevelG.byTrenchKeith]

And I just rocked out to Fly the Coop on my Pandora yesterday!💪🏾🏁

[@RazorReg]

This might have been my favorite episode. Dope story.

[@rhymesgalore81]

I got one - who remembers buying the first Fugees album? And then the dope version of Nappy Headz WASN'T on there? Bruh

[@jonathankinney14]

MOBB DEEP, M.O.P.💯

[@michielkroder4031]

As far as super lyrical duos of that time go, can't forget about Organized Konfusion! As a matter of fact I always noticed similar duo dynamics between OK and HS, despite nobody biting anybody and the music output being very different. 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@anthonydangelo5720]

I remember the end of summer of 95' I had the cassette single. That & the purple tape was on heavy rotation in the deck. I lived in Shaolin at the time. I wish I could take a time machine to that time. The music was so dope.

[@DEEVIL]

sht, I live in Hawaii at the time and those same 2 was in HEEEAAAVVVYYY rotation. What a time.

[@jamespowell75]

🎤🎤🎤🎤 Love the story and Yea that original How High song is fiyah, Fly Robin Fly up to the sky, man I Love Hip Hop Music

[@MrAllustrious]

I think the Redman verse was going at Mobb deep at the time he said something like "look I'm not a halfway crook with bad looks but I just may murder your case like my name was cal brooks ... this may have been in response to when Prodigy was talking on a skit on the infamous album when he sort of said something like to to you spaced out rappers talking about how much blunts you smoke and how high you get talking that crazy spaced out shit don't ever say nothing to me might get on some high school shit start punching ninjas in the face just for living... then the alleged incident with lil Jamal running up to queensbridge and Kieth Murray allegedly putting hands on Prodigy in a club. So yeah that verse had to get cut! I may be wrong though🤷🏾‍♂️

[@bombay3201]

Thank you bro I always felt red went all the way in on that verse he definitely had something on his mind

[@DemetriusJones-x4n]

Luv the original version yo I still got that single yo

[@jessbracken8943]

You ARE the tical of bootcamp Rock 🪨

[@coolone8531]

Dope video , and y'all was and are the truth! A very dope era to live through

[@anthonydangelo5720]

🎤 🎤🎤 🎤 They complimented each others sound & style perfectly. Its hard to debate that. 1995 was ill!!!

[@infraReD_JETSPodcast]

The Muddy Waters album is about to drop 20 years later! It ain't the same no more. I ain't feelin' it!!! And I'm from "Jumpin' Jersey"!!! Prove me wrong wrong Redman. ✌️

[@9thLevelG.byTrenchKeith]

You just took me all the way back! ⏸️ I was spittin every line wit you!

[@DemetriusJones-x4n]

🎤🎤🎤🎤Big up Rock still dope yo

[@agehaynes7620]

I also like the remix 95 how high

[@MichaelHoward-bz7mv]

Word is bond !!! I had figured it out about a couple of years ago , the perfect verses battle would have been Rock and Ruck ( Rest In Paradise ) against Method Man and Redman.

[@knucklegame5050]

Much luv Rock. Keep up the Great Work King💯💯✊🏾

[@Discipleofyeshuahamaschiach]

Aye Rock man initially you and Louiville Sluggah had the hardest voices ! Rah like this rah like that the heltah the skeltah the gunn the clappaz ! Bruh no one had your voice in rap you was the main one in rap with that voice we all knew it like we knew Sadat, Snoop or Nore voice ! You was wild boy you calmed down a lot ! Love from DC ! 💪🏾

[@callmekam22]

Louisville was so slept on. That flow was crazy!

[@Bless999-ny]

Yes indeed my brother... That would have been crazy with all of y'all on that track...🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@PharaohTheBarber81]

It was on Blackout 1, too.

[@kendraydunn2004]

That one was the video/"commercial" joint

[@ducklife420]

that heltah skeltah painting in the background is beautiful

[@4thEyeVision]

Great story that song is crazy and Shout to Louieville Sluggah

[@4thEyeVision]

🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@coziay7201]

I love the breakdown of the verses Rock! Hip Hop!

[@kingpreemo7]

🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤 Y'all got 5 mics from me. Your cocoa brovas was fire 🔥 too.

[@101iswhatsup]

Salute Rock. I miss P!. You all have always had respect for the Wu camp, that's dope. "It's the reign... forever like Wu Tang" that track still go. ("I ain't having that")

[@touch182]

Red and meth was a cheat code. 🎤🎤🎤🎤 "I was tight but I liked it" was the craziest thing I've ever heard.

[@mannydebrew]

Ayo, Rockness! Nocturnal 4-ever. From the first time i seen u and Price get busy in the Fab 5 Blah video, i knew yall was my 1,2.. Peace and salute always Heltah Skeltah. BCC ish.

[@mychaldudleyii2039]

yeah that first version had a crazy bop to it. I appreciate the smooth'd out mix for what it is, but yeah, that first beat was like a third voice on the track

[@duckdown4life718]

Health Skeltah always top duo....& I get what u saying...but...Mash Out Posse???...whewwwww 🎤 🎤 🎤 🎤

[@ehmon8142]

A new hat and a matching t-shirt each upload

[@andrewwilliams2345]

Brah Brah!!! I remember when this dropped and brothers from 1 Deuce or 12th Ave in Brick City were wide the fuck open off this family. I was heavy and always will be a big fan of The Boot Camp Click, Heltah Skeltah, Black Moon, Smif and Wesson, The Representatives Y'all raised me..😢..But when my fellow Brick City homie linked with Method Man I was flabbergasted. Those verses by both on that song is Golden Era at it's finest. 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@MonstaNation]

*Clik!

[@p-jaywade1333]

Staten Island and Newark coming together in '95. It doesn't get anymore gritty than that. 😅😅

[@zncuentertainment712]

I still have the CD single for this with the original, remix and both version instrumentals on it.

[@markcartel]

I could deadass hear y’all on that track!!!!!! And it woulda fit perfectly!!!!

[@luciousthomas6141]

Great story I heard that version the first time on The Show soundtrack. Its like if you were there then you know!

[@iTSY0URb0YEE]

about the cassette tapes, I was born in the late 70s. it sucked when the film tangles up and you need a #2 pencil to roll it back in that mf😅 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@1kizhun]

TDK SA 90 them tapes never snapped😁

[@bigshorty4855]

​@1kizhun yep, cassettes and videos (vhs). Anyone remember long play om newer vhs tapes, making 4 hour tapes into 8 hours😂. Putting all the best flicks on 1 tape.

[@iTSY0URb0YEE]

@@bigshorty4855 yeup, I sure do, I had. A Nightmare on Elm Street 1, 2, and 3 all on one vhs cassette.😅

[@iTSY0URb0YEE]

I think it had 4 movies on one, Robo Cop i think lol

[@bigshorty4855]

@iTSY0URb0YEE yea with lp you could make a 240 min tape into 480 min. Loved that feature. Also, renting movies, putting a black tape over the small square that's off the tape (copy protection 😂 ) so I could still copy the movies.

[@BladedRaider78]

'You wouldn't like it when I'm angry. Ill thoughts through the dome start to change me' Salute to Da Inflixta n Da Flipsta.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

Ooowee, those old Erick Sermon beats around the time of the HitSquad. Damn, I didn't know about ChamPain. I would've liked to hear how the two of you sounded.

[@Ah-ed6ie]

Damn, rock isn't wrong. I remember back in the 90s, at a concerts the DJ has a slot before artist comes out he warms up the crowd. The dj played the how high "remix" the crowd ' were like nah ' I was feeling it though, but the minute the dj rewinded and played the black out version the crowd went mental. This was at a place called The institute in Birmingham UK and guess who the concert was for?.... funk doctor, yes redman.

[@stevenjamesgiurbinojr6893]

Respect Rock, i’m super off topic, but, Chino XL/Madlib still got a piece together, but that work is on Madlib time, so WestCosst heads know how that be, lol 💯🙏✌🏻

[@90s-is-the-golden-era]

Rest in Peace Chino XL 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@stevenjamesgiurbinojr6893]

@@90s-is-the-golden-era 💯🙏🕊️

[@DJDeei]

great take & video salute

[@ADJones-vy5hs]

🎤🎤🎤🎤 love and respect ROCK!

[@jizzel115]

The gritty version u right that was the illest version

[@samsneadd]

I would say Ghost n Rae was pretty close

[@iernie1]

I’m with you no doubt

[@posajnejkwahb]

Great story and def understand

[@LawrenceRoanelll]

Rocknessssuss Monnnn! Peace King 👑! Yheeeeeeee'! Glad 2CU Still Doin' thee Da'am Thizzle My Nizz.... 😊😊😅😊😅!....

[@karamtaylor5229]

2 Hulks is the perfect analogy. HeltahSkeltah was untouchable.

[@jokermasmedia8091]

I definitely co-sign this message. Heltah Skeltah was the main duo I bumped in the 90’s. Rocks voice and Ruck’s slick wit was unmatched. 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@kendraydunn2004]

Both are 💥🔥💥🔥💥tho ✊🏾👑👑

[@omarcurry5535]

I’m a huge Red fan and when I first heard the original How High on Strech and Bobito the rush I got was indescribable. That said, Nocturnal was notches above Blackout and Blackout 2 put together. If it were released on Def Jam with their resources it would have been multi platinum. Nocturnal came out before Blackout and it definitely fed my appetite for the upcoming Blackout. Not a weak moment on the whole joint. Top 25 hiphop album of all time in my opinion

[@EphraimMeade]

Their best song imo 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@bombay3201]

How high the og went hard I'm 50 yrs old and I still know the lyrics. ...Redman snapped on that last verse

[@Resounding888]

Love the honesty mi bredda. YESH YESH YESH 😎

[@eriejohnson1884]

🎤🎤🎤🎤 Nocturnal is one of my all time favorite

[@NeoNitty]

Still got my basketball cards, my CD’s and tapes, including Nocturnal. And for the record, both versions were hard. Song period was hard. 1995, was hard💯

[@ChazBrown22]

Both versions slapped but I liked the remix better. 🎙️ 🎙️🎙️🎙️. Don’t forget Outkast!!

[@probably_not_though]

🎤🎙🎤🎙All respect but for decades I've been putting mfs on to yalls warzone remix. The version that came on that bonus cd with like 4 songs. That version 2 me is straight heat frfr!!!

[@Yeahbuddy2014T]

I remember having a la session, hopping in the back seat of my boy's Monte Carlo, him inserting Nocturnal in the tape desk and looking at me like I was in for a treat. The Intro was dope and I had already heard Let the Brainz Blo. Undastand came on and I knew the album was special. When track 9 hit (Soldier's Gone Psyco) I had to stop the tape like WTF!?!?! Long story short I went to the mall the next day, bought Nocturnal myself and let the tape rock until the tape popped! Peace and Love to Ruck(RIP) and Rock for creating a classic, hardcore Hip-Hop album that STILL stands the test of time. One Love to Boot Camp Click

[@medaanhil4133]

Great story Rock. We do need more insight like this about other artists. Yes you and Ruck were those guys but yall weren't as well known as Meth and Red but we who knew yall loved yall. We are grateful yall were able to make enough noise for us. Fuck if you weren't known like Method Man but on a lyrical level yall was on the same level

[@grantblaaw2286]

Back in high school my friends and I use to debate which duo would be best to jump on that track with Red and Meth and to this day we all agree Ruck and Rock would've been perfect for that FYI I have Nocturnal on cassette and CD and had How High on cassette tape too but lost it bloody hell. Dope story love from Cape Town SA

[@EverythingBusiness718]

You def could’ve and still could lyrically body How High no doubt ! I think we need to hear that Rock

[@TheMoicanoMC]

The pioneer talk🎉😮😮

[@leftlanehiphop6259]

He telling them truth...the last time I had this feeling on a song...was when I first heard Jay Electronica. I drove all the way to Jersey to my brother, had him come outside to sit in the car to listen. We sat in the car four 2hrs listening to that joint. He said" ninjas really would back the uhaul truck up"

[@larrymizelljr]

one of my favorite songs ever

[@SoulRedeem7]

"I was tight." - Rockness Monsta 🤣🤣🤣 The How High Remix is my favorite version. (Fly Robin Fly) That version is Funky. 🕶️💯 EPMD, OutKast, Heltah Skeltah, Organized Konfusion, Ghost & Rae, Das EFX, M.O.P., Smif N Wessun, De La Soul, Jadakiss & Styles, Whodini, Dogg Pound, Luniz, Black Star are some of the dopest Duos. 👑💯

[@DarezDarez-is7dm]

Peace from France. Voilà 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@b3musik]

True indeed! 🎤🎤🎤🎤

[@20FreeWill]

Favourite song off the blackout album I had that album when it was new , one of the earliest rap CDs i owned Also bought "The W" when it was brand new Time flies

[@Lisa__M.]

🎙️ 🎙️🎙️🎙️

[@KamranConsultant4Hire]

My favorite parts of the song: the Boot Camp shoutout ala the Smif N Wessun line by Redman And the overcast cloudy weather in the remix video

[@BxChamber]

🎤🎤🎤🎤 Can we get a CampWu part 2? And a video how that song came about , Wutang Bootcamp and D'Block is my favorite groups of all time