Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Straighten It Out (Official Video)

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Straighten It Out (Official Video) from the album 'Mecca & The Soul Brother' (1992)
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[@stereo-type1510]

I will never understand how we let Hip-Hop like this slip away from us..

[@uncledanielvicente2375]

Same thought..like how sway🤔🤔

[@C-Lyfe85]

Record companies. Soon as Curtis blow & them sign record contracts in '79. Now I understand why Grandmaster Flash and them didn't sign with Sugar Hill immediately.

[@mrDamianJames]

It is one of the greatest travesties of mankind. At least those who know about it still know.

[@necallijones2790]

I love this comment

[@uncledanielvicente2375]

Exactly 💯

[@lamontwilson2709]

CL Smooth is one of the most underrated MC's of all time. His flow is sick.

[@mrmartywaring]

Agreed!

[@dwaintrent825]

Feel the same way one of the best lyricist to ever bless a mic!!

[@fendibabii2118]

He's the smoothest other than Kane​@@dwaintrent825

[@Jblow-u2m]

Yeah this Nigga does not 🚫 suck!!

[@lawrencemills9196]

100% facts

[@harry.flashman]

I swear this is more than music.

[@alchemY.420]

Soul food my friend 🙏🔥

[@kevinsimpson4993]

To black people it is... To white people it isn't!! Black American's have to learn from Jamaicans on how to protect their culture..

[@antonioo316]

Good

[@jeangabriel4444]

Still bumping this in 2024 fire mount Vernon stand up

[@jaecalderon260]

Out here in Reseda CA bumping this in my 1990 r129

[@SalahuddinWilliams-j8m]

🎉fire sick lyrics wit meds

[@ant0091]

RIGHT😎😎🎶

[@SmilingGo-Kart-tz4rb]

11-25-24, Syracuse NY Stand Up So We Can Straighten It Out ✌️

[@jaybruno3571]

New York home of REAL hip hop

This is hiphop in its purest form.

[@briankh2007]

+Reflex Point And not to mention the dopest, too.

[@gchannel4216]

TRUTH! Whoooo!

[@MrBarksdale149]

Baby you better know it teach you rappers

[@karonbarwick541]

@@MrBarksdale149 True dat

[@dirricksmith3330]

Money earning MOUNTVERNON WEST CHESTER GAL DEM 1993 TOO 2019 STAND WOOD PICKSKILL 2 DAYNA.... MY MACYs gal at one time2 made paper name don't chg. BANG bklyn bad boy come Flatbush again au LOVE... DEM Man dem. Outta dem side 2heart

[@davithambardzumyan39]

If this beat doesn’t make you move your head and give you goosebumps then you have no right to listen to this masterpiece

[@zekemowad6501]

Or you're half-dead🤣

[@Dropshot1]

Just thinking the same!

[@saldeck6189]

One of the hardest beat and breakdown...ever...

[@ourculture9920]

Straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@marsalmaurer6864]

Oh yeeeeah

[@donebone7516]

This is history,this is culture,this is art,this is rap!!!

[@traycee114]

THIS is hip hop! Not that nonsense you hear on the radio today, that i call HIP-POP

[@a-dub-u949]

true that. back in the day hip hop artists kept it clean and rapped about something other than money violence and nonsense

[@KulvoWOW]

A-DUB-U wrong m8 the subject manner was always the same

[@paytonsquad1218]

Preach brother. I have a 17 yr old and I hear more BS that his generation calls RAP MUSIC. This takes us to place of great times nobody died from beefing. Remember when break dancing solved everything. Dam getting old sucks

[@uncledanielvicente2375]

Definitely

[@toriano433]

Pete and CL so underrated its ridiculous.

[@atribecalledcat]

Pete Rock & CL Smooth, one of the greatest hip-hop duo of all time!

[@dwaintrent4353]

ATRIBECALLED CAT All time bro!!

[@rastamedic7793]

ATRIBECALLED CAT Amen!

[@October3074]

4 sho!

[@virgoblue7874]

Pete Rock and Cl smooth has a place in the hip hop history PERIOD!

[@jayskicksnfits9372]

*duos*

[@abcevo8282]

It's was definitely a privilege for me to be born in 1972. Our generation had the greatest experience !

[@exactdigital]

Damn Right! Not a single lie detected!

[@e.r3519]

GEN X ✌️🙏

[@deedavis5star]

73’ 💪🏾

[@drewb3665]

1992. What an incredible year. The west had "The Chronic" and the east had "Mecca and the Soul Brother". Everybody wins.

[@rippedtorn2310]

"The Chronic" is one of the most overated albums ever . The beats are kind of nice but soon get annoying and the lyrics are some of the dumbest ever recorded onto wax . Snoop doesnt stand up to the slightest scrutiny .. unbelievably wack.

[@harlem6365]

@@rippedtorn2310 How can u say that..the chronic created a whole new genre

[@patq1924]

West coast is trash... the beats are the same and they rap about the same exact things. They honestly started the downfall of rap...

[@mitchelljordan3521]

Patrick Q you sound like a sad hater the west coast was the shit that the time

[@Jump7Off]

It was a dope year.

[@HannibalHector714]

This generation will never understand how DOPE the 90's were. ✌🏾😎

[@breeezzy2k]

Born in 2000 every day wishing every day I as 15 in 1990

[@BrosepherStoned]

Speakin Truth My Brother

[@trosharrahchapman2558]

This 80's baby approve your message to infinity!!

[@rzatheking3370]

I understand, trust me. Real Hip Hop is the greatest musical genre ever

[@bmwfan1988]

Born in 01 but i love this kinda music 👍🏼

[@BigPun1997]

BRING THE 90's back 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔

[@opinionpublica7784]

We can do it listening to this songs ;)

[@tavisbanks4781]

Pleeeeease

[@BACON-l3t]

@@opinionpublica7784 And play it on the block

[@jefferylittlejohn184]

I miss the 90's

[@510baysharkantthizzle4]

The 90's was the last of the Real 1's just thankful i experienced it 💯 Never will be a decade like that again...

[@larrywilliams7760]

Purest form of Hip hop

[@michaelleguen5103]

😤

[@TheAbeauti1]

The way CL rode that beat- absolutely insane. Pete Rock did his thing 😍 The best Classic Duo hands Down💯💯

[@TheGrrson]

His wordplay is unlike any other MC. "Carmel City" and Take You There" have some incredible rhymes that are practically woven into the beat.

[@Adrian-fp3ij]

yep, they rocked it.....

[@Krazidawg]

I tell my son that his Father was born in 1971 and because of that I got to listen and be around when rap/hip hop was at it's pinnacle. I tell him about my friend who was good friends with Tupac in Marin city aka "The Jungle" and told him about how Wrestlers talk about always maintaining K Fab, basically staying in character, today's rappers are average dudes, their material doesn't touch the masses, just certain niches. Rap back then was universal in how in changed lives. You had all walks of life and people and culture trying to emulate rappers like Nas, Big Daddy Kane, Krs-1. Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth had real messages in their music. Many others as well, now we drill rap that doesn't unite. It kills and keeps us separated/divided and these labels love it. They put life insurance policies out on these literally here today gone tomorrow rappers, keep their masters and on to the next. Very sad.

[@aquilmikaeel1098]

Great comment and On Point! I was born in 74, so I relate to everything that you've written My G! Stay up and do Your thing, Brother...

[@deedavis5star]

73’ Straight facts! 💪🏾

[@RobP7602]

The positives that brings people together is far more powerful than the negatives that drives people apart

[@jonsmark1154]

Free your Mind n the rest will Follow! Free yourself from Mental Slavery !

[@ricardorodriguez2119]

U right ¡!!!

[@Cameo718.]

Rob Perez the realest talk

[@240573521]

Rob Perez righteously put my g

[@candaceglover828]

Rob Perez exactly

[@welcometothewarreport]

CL Smooth was one of the most underrated but dopest rappers of the 90’s era. Lexus LS400’s, dope samples and beats produced by Pete Rock…this video was shot like a movie. Classic shit 🔥🔥🔥

[@johnmoore6277]

In 1992 I was 23 and I still Jam to this 2018 Detroit Eastside.

[@orjichinedu3924]

Hip hop in 90s still the best

[@dbospickz187]

I remember waiting for this song to come on the radio with a blank cassette tape ready to Press record as soon as I heard it about to come on. This was so NYC! Dope!

[@sandycheeks3473]

Damn I remember those days 😂😂 aww man the memories.

[@marystackhouse3232]

Tru Story,I'm From Tha 315, And When I Heard This Joint I Went Bananas, Finally Hear This One's 4Tha Crew!!!!All Yeaaaaaaa

[@dbospickz187]

@@marystackhouse3232 that's what's up my g!

[@faithamcneill9069]

Yes and hope they don't mix with something stupid

[@Hborn]

CL in Caldwell

[@Scorpiokills]

CL SMOOTH AND THIS BEAT IS LIKE ORANGE TO THE JUICE!!!!

[@anthonye.hammondjr.8510]

HipHop of today is not what it used to be HipHop of yesterday had meaning,understanding and passion.

[@felixmortem]

Now that I’m 43 I look back and it’s crazy I was like 12 listening to this.

[@Scorpiokills]

that beat is dangerous and smooth

[@twantwan22]

I don’t see how these two Brothers can’t follow their own lead and come together for a fan deserved reunion effort. PLEASE STRAIGHTEN IT OUT❗️

[@seanwilliams2764]

90's hip hop was the best ever in my book!

[@LOVELYC20]

Who is still listening to this in 2023🔥

[@stevebrown2572]

2024

[@ThomasChisale]

April 2024🤤

[@marlonsimmons8297]

Definitely me Mt Vernon,even though I'm from Long Island Hempstead,Westbury I still mess with them Mt Vernon people,hell yeah me

[@andrepedroso4803]

June 2024

[@l.st.m.t]

​@@andrepedroso4803 I still do these the best days 90🎉

[@TeddyStrongBear]

This was the Golden Generation of Hip Hop..... We know how to do it back then.......

[@thegrinch1874]

Knowing Apartheid on a first name basis living through it a kid, Hip Hop was my virtual escape.🙏🏽👌🏿 I owe my life to God & Hip Hop. Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[@bonaventurensekela5664]

Cl flows so effortless , it’s really an incredible beautiful flow , my man is phenomenal lyrically and his cadence is second to none . Raw Hiphop at its finest .. The Great Cl Smooth

[@virgildawkins703]

Nobody ever talks about how great CL Smooth's flow is 🤦🏾‍♂️easily the greatest flow of all time

[@allgoodwoods219]

Still bumping this in 2020! Pete Rock killed this beat!

[@charlestucker7955]

Still bumping this in 2023 my man 👊🏽

[@MrCbwTV]

Pete Rock was ahead of his time! CL was a great song writer! NY back then had a special energy.

[@ROBBSTAR76]

Pete rock & CL were just anotha example of the best hip-hop and showing other rap cats dat u didn't need to swear to come hard on an album. One of the few groups who put it together without curse words !

[@torianmcneill3794]

Heavy D too he didn’t swear either

[@traviscarter1023]

Mt Vernon

[@taurusl7014]

CL Smooth was far ahead of his time and his flow to advanced back then.

[@evokeevolveexploremindmatt956]

When u hear it u hear it .

[@bigboiron2570]

The intro to this song sound so authentic, the horns killed it !! the bass line critical, say whaaaaat, black people we must straighten it out.

[@raybrigante2110]

Bigboiron all people sir

[@terenciob5398]

All Black people must, "straighten it out" one of my favorite parts of the song, shout out to Pete Rock & CL Smooth and 90s hip hop. 👍💯

[@Thyrion07]

Still relevant to this very day!

[@brohype]

Yep....because the cream always rises to the top.

[@vanessakenney3144]

Still!!!!

[@amiracle1269]

I was 12 when i first bopped my head to this and now at 42 I still smile, bop my head and share wit my grandbaby....💪🏿👊🏿🕺🏿🔥 TIMELESS IS THE WORD

[@alchemY.420]

🙏👊👊

[@bigkyle38]

Happy Birthday CL Smooth!!!!!!! "The birth of a child on the 8th of October,a toast, but my grandaddy came sober". Keep doing your thing.

[@oaklandsfinest6770]

My Birth Day

[@anthonydwaindavis]

This song never gets old classic for life

[@SwaggerLikeUz]

Real hip hop forever, 1.

[@READY400]

SwaggerLikeUz is a great yuuuu iuiyyyheiuuuityiuiuyeeuuieuuuuuiiiieieyieiiih and urhehygeuuyiuuuuiuuuuuuieder

[@franckt5574]

its more than real hip hop .if you dont know their classic you not hip hop .listen to is song is simply addictiv ..real i say real hip hop junkie.

[@BeyBrightOfficial]

As of this writing ✍️ it’s 2023 and Pete Rock and CL Smooth are now bitter enemies and still at odds with each other for over 20 years! Such a shame that these two brothers have been estranged from each other for so long! Looking at this video and them walking away hugging each other I pray that they can do what their classic says and Straighten It Out! 🙌🏾💯❤️💪🏽🙏🏾

[@donaldmelton9681]

23 years old jamming this old school got me feeling like I’m getting the power back in my hands as black man in America 🇺🇸

[@Nica-Ra-Wata]

40 belows, swagger, NEW YORK flava, style, nonchalantness, Caribbean influence...

[@9etherking707]

CL Smooth was one of the greatest lyrical story tellers on wax ever!

[@kyndread71]

SOOOO HAPPY that I got to see Pete Rock/CL Smooth perform this album live in '92. One of my all-time favorite hip-hop albums ever!

[@joshuaolson9642]

No wayyyy!!

[@jordanwright4038]

Late 70s 80s and 90s hip hop was the best eras. Today music and lyrics don't compare lost of positive messages back then

[@bigbadasstruckdriver2915]

The way they walked out of jail to the whips and drove off is classic i can feel the 90s thru my soul just by that scene

[@dannyparsons9097]

First Album I ever bought. Still on this in 2016!!!! Timeless!

[@CarlosMunoz1980]

Danny Parsons that whole album is nice

[@danitadrake8765]

The only hip hop album I bought

[@otisyoungblood]

Mecca and The Soul Brother is a top 10 album

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

Them horns, boy!!!

[@garron109]

Yeah, I forgot about them , CL had a raw flow also.

[@999across]

Indeed, Pete Rock is mos def. an underrated as a producer.

[@iLikesTheCoke]

Jazz+HipHop is the best combo

[@traviscarter1693]

Yea Money Making Mount Vernon stand up. New York City lets get back to this shit man whats going on now dayz.

[@jaywarner1976]

Yup!! #RealHipHop

[@montybespoke3110]

Mecca and The Soul Brother, One of my favorite HIP HOP Albums of all time, plus it is one of the greatest HIP HOP Albums made period.

[@chriscaruthers4268]

YEP.

[@CarlosMunoz1980]

Cody Brooks agreed

[@CarlosMunoz1980]

Cody Brooks from beginning to end. Love this album

[@derrickforrest5166]

Cody Brooks ..but 'The Main Ingredient',something special

[@kevinjohnson1958]

I bought Mecca and the Soul brother without hearing a single track on it back in 92. It was all because of Shut em down remix.

[@dwaynethomas4131]

From Cleveland Ohio but lived in Jamaica Queens from 90-94 loved this Era

[@Gump-tion]

"Pete a make a loop, lovely way to troop in da Lexus coupe!"

[@trrch5149]

This still in rotation in 2018.. Straight EAST COAST CLASSIC..

[@atlbackin82fool]

'92 my oldest was born, music had meaning and made you move! I'm a 70s baby and rock to these joints! Young folks tune in and listen, I mean really listen!

[@traviscarter1693]

Summer of 1992 was crazy. Still remember it im 80s baby so I can relate.

[@truevipermark]

Back when Hip hop producers were diggin' in the crates searching for that ultimate original break to use creatively to make a hit song/album. That is the foundation of Hip Hop, these new kids just don't know.

[@MonumentalKB]

This is when music was at its best!

[@damonadams9640]

BROTHERS WORKING IT OUT WILL ALWAYS BE THE SUPREME DOPENESS!!![999]

[@avictory472]

When Hip Hop lived......

[@jaymoney2310]

N. Alford yo love you

[@containeduniverse]

--- > yep.

[@23dgoudeau]

N. Alford for sure when it lived and brought people together

[@moe48]

hip hop still lives. she just went underground

[@ageless15]

No Doubt Queen. True Hip Hop!

[@danielvega6191]

“I don’t need the unnecessary hostility,” is my world view. Every year, I understand it more.

[@themountainsandthesea4121]

Yes

[@theprofilepod]

This is untouchable. Genius. Magnifique. Listening in 2023.

[@mutwirimutuota6895]

Another banger from CL & PR, one of hip-hops most gifted duo

[@simonitsejang8856]

Funny how I play this kinda feel-good-hip-hop and the young ones be like, “You and your boring songs”. I just smile but deep inside I weep for em.

[@JamesWalker-em4eo]

Man that La la la la chokes me up every time I hear it!!!!! Showing black unity.

[@jeffknight1444]

Classic!!! This was music and you could never get tired of this!

[@mikedutch8699]

Nostalgia of the 90s the way we walked the way we talked.... I miss those days

[@jujagthemag]

The perfect hip hop cut. Perfect and quality video. Like a short story. What a duo!

[@michonbeauty7444]

Right...a short story with a gorgeous beat, and other related stuff!

[@chriswilliams3220]

Right back them Mc's told stories.

[@traviscarter1023]

Juneteenth anthem we played the fuck outta this song.

[@dibent]

90's hiphop

[@krishnabrockington5543]

Pure Hip Hop! No degrading women, glorifying ignorance. I miss the 90's, I was 19 when this came out and I still love it.

[@jacquigreen8895]

The 'Golden Age' of Hip Hop. Wish I could teleport back to this time.

[@user-bz7yu9gr4c]

Golden era of hip-hop. Damnn, times changed... Bring me back to these days

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

SUCH A DOPE TRACK STILL.

[@ladymarmaladea.2463]

Marcus Reeves #CHECK OUT (PETESTRUMENTALS). PETE ROCK STILL ROCKS ON. I COULD NEVER SAY ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER, AND CL SMOOTH IS STILL A LIVING LEGEND!!!!!!!

[@forevershampoo]

I Kno mane

[@fairplayterrific147]

Marcus Reeves Still? Classics Are Never Outdated....

[@oliverjones1845]

Facts

[@HRDK-SKLETRMUMMR-MEGTRN]

💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍

[@salsasoul4112]

26 years later... Still that shit. God, I love these men ♡

[@chillinvillain8560]

Things still ain't how they should be in 2023. God we're gonna need you ever more in 2024 🤲🏽🙏🏽

[@themountainsandthesea4121]

🕊💙

[@naturallysieisdope]

I can't believe I stumbled upon this gem & instantly remembered that I heard this on In Living Color! My Lord this song is everything👏🙌❤ Everything about this song is dope.

[@leekyg2502]

Dam u sexy hit me up sometime ms jackson.

[@Danielcooper33]

L

[@FckPeace2]

Siedah Holmes you must be from the new wave of you stumbled on this joint

[@LuisSoto-cw4fq]

Who’s bumping this In 2022?

[@aarongoodman7000]

Now this is REAL HIP HOP!! Hands down 👍👍

[@williamchappell9858]

1992 What a year for rap and hip hop !One of my favorite years for rap and hip hop From the beginning to the end of '92 nothing but great hip hop especially this song clever lyrics excellent sampled music great production by Pete Rock JUST BRILLIANT! Need I say more?

[@alchemY.420]

The Golden Era 🏆

[@adamf34]

Feel like I'm watching Yo MTV Raps back in the day.

[@opoxious1592]

I did the same every saterday morning

[@imyourrealdad.6071]

Ha ha ha.....I know right?

[@essence____beauty_92]

💯💯💯

[@hectorblas689]

This was da fukin shitz I'm 47yrs and still banging to this!!!!!

[@creightonwilliams9445]

Hip Hop's Golden Era!!

[@clueless0414]

Still straightening it out in 2020 and beyond!🚀🚀🚀

[@ericjones1796]

this man got raw talent;this is real rap!!!!!.....

[@Teryxfun.]

Riding 5 deep in the Suzuki sidekick when this came out on the radio. Damn I remember like it was yesterday.

[@ericharrison2236]

CL Smooth doesn't get the flowers that he truly deserves . Its hard to stand on stage and hold it down after RAKIM and Big Daddy Kane. Kool Gs . CL be holding his own.

[@synthoelectro]

where was this hip-hop in the 90's. I grew up to the big players, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Fat Boys, Beastie Boys, etc. Love it all.

[@invisiblerevolution]

Why is this song still BANGING in the year 2014.....guess it that real shit!

[@wav.yliving]

You're damn right lool YESS

[@L330ne]

yeah it is

[@johne7850]

Pete Rock and J Dilla both make "timeless" beats. They transcend their time.

[@MrFasikaH]

Still bangin' in 2016!

[@gluehigh416]

ALKEBU-LAN correction 2017 peace!

[@ElvisDavila-oz2qk]

In Them Brockton Mass. Streets on My step•Brothers Porch with his woman Us Few Fellas Smoking drinking Chefin Up Burgers Fries rice steaks Wow!! What a Time.

[@traviscarter1023]

Can't believe this video is 30 years old. Time go by so fast in life I mean we are so far removed from this Era of hip hop still had to come back for it 1992-2022 happy birthday Mecca and Soul brotha album hop to have many more years to come shout out to Mt Vernon NY.

[@torianmcneill3794]

2023

[@traviscarter1023]

@torianmcneill3794 We still here

[@biglebauski8842]

I like the 2nd verse about sampling, equipment and clearing stuff very much (''Now you wanna sue me, but fans never boo me'')!

[@soul2soul504]

Oh Hip Hop where have you gone?

[@The-Vision]

soul2soul504 Underground

[@tharris91]

+The Vision where its supposed to be. get the blueprint people and follow along

[@tharris91]

Soundcloud(.)com/Tharris91 I got the bomb shit foreal

[@The-Vision]

***** Too many to list, but there are some rosters that are putting out phenomenal shit - Duck Down (R.I.P. Sean Price), Mellow Music, Rhymesayers, and a lot of their affiliated acts.

[@craigbeade8654]

+tharris91 Dude your music has no soul in it.

[@Rudolph-eo3jm]

Peterockand cl smooth were one of the best rap.😢groups out there

[@chrisgrimes4880]

real pure hip hop it gets no better than this!!

[@andrededeaux1193]

It's a damn shame how far hip hop has fallen!!!

[@Adrian95ak]

I'm from 95. but classics like this one raised me, I remember when i heard the Mecca & The Soul Brother for the first time as a kid, damn...

[@traviscarter1023]

Bra same thing when I first heard it was different this is album you get for Christmas and it still hit like it's 1992.

[@L4LaLand]

I can’t help but nod along to this.

[@sheneyquamercan1699]

Me too

[@dcaseng]

Late 80s to early 2000s Hip Hop will never be surpassed.