Schoolly-D at The Latin Quarter - Old School Hip-Hop 1986

[@Maxxroad]

Schoolly D is a time traveler. Its like he isn't from 1980s. Compared to other rappers at the time, he was different.

[@Mr.Neighborhood7]

Schoolly D is the man i met him on chestnut street records mailed me some records from his artist down to earth and very humble to be the architect of Gangsta boogie much respect 🫡

[@oredi2159]

First rapper with a flat top in 85, Philly had flat tops or “boxes” in 84 while everybody else was still in Jheris and baby fros

[@SeisanStnc]

Yup! I'm from western New York, and when the flat top first appeared here it was called the "Philly." It was years later before we called it a box or a fade.

[@geneconnell279]

I was listening to Schooly D when he first showed on the scene. I remember being blown away by how raw and powerful he was. I used to love smokin a doob and listening to Saturday Night. Being a white boy listening to rap in the early and mid 80's, I knew only a handful of other people who listened to rap. And it was mostly Dougie Fresh, RUN DMC, Whodini etc. I would play Schooly D and people would say "Man, that's crazy music, it's too profane." And I would say that he's just rapping about reality. No fantasy bullshit. He got straight to the point and delivered hard! When NWA got big, all the same people jumped on the ganster rap bandwagon. I would tell them that Schooly was rapping like that when NWA was singing love songs ( World Class Wrecking Crew).

[@yeroun1974]

Fucking Epic! The first three Schoolly D records are the blueprint of Gangsta rap

[@mrkneel5760]

he tells the future at the end there! This is the GLAM ROCK era in Hip Hop right now!!!

[@tesbuyshouses]

Before anyone knew where Hiphop culture was going. What a great moment!

[@southjerseysfinest]

schoolly d west philly legend psk 52

[@killaskrilla5320]

whoa..... this is hiphop gold. BIG THANKS for uploading this.

[@jacobgroce6613]

This was my dude ..no lie I meant him in Philly back in the 90s ....he was very down to earth

[@bunjicarlin1]

I WAS THERE! 48st Mid-Town Manhattan!

[@afreeman69]

Schooly D.Straight up raw with it at Latin Quarter like no other.

[@ronaldsneek]

Love his Rock 'n Roll example, he couldn't be more right.

[@tamikabell6575]

Man, I needed this 😁🙌🏾💜

[@nolaboyteroylee9794]

#SchoollyD is the Real Fresh Prince of Philly ✊🏽👑😎🎤🎶💕🌎💯

[@EvidenceBasedMedsin]

I always repped Schooly.....this was the original gangstah...you had just ice, iceT, PE, early LL, RunDMC first album, and cold crush brothers, MAAN I miss this shit.

[@northphillycryptobul2112]

I remember seeing Schoolly as a Kid on 52nd & Girard White Lincoln town car gold chains. West Philly stand up MILL CREEK PARKSIDE stand up miss those days

[@superfly19751]

This man was a visionary! He summed it up perfectly at the end

[@moezilla8562]

Da Original of dis Gangsta rap ish!!

[@pepxxx]

rap is turning into what rock turned into in the 80s

[@keem008]

I love Schooly's dance!!!!

[@MultiChino19]

FIRST TIME I SEE THIS VIDEO WOW THIS IS SCHOOLLY D..NICE VIDEO

[@randyfliss1066]

Those last couple of lines. SMH 34 years later..

[@fantasyguru26]

Downtown, Latin Quarter Got inside, drunk some water Stepped on stage, started to talk Said "Yo Yo" what up New York? Smoke Some Kill (1988)

[@Maxxroad]

"What up New York?" Danced all around. Acting real silly. Niggaz in the crowd said, "he must be from Philly."

[@thesouthrapsucks]

im 15 and i love hiphop!!!!!!!! respect to tha legends

[@EASFromTheWest]

dam now you’re 25 and i’m 16 now

[@geraldjohnson8929]

@@EASFromTheWest he prolly got a new KZbin kid

[@ANDROID697]

he made the 1st gansta rap record

[@nickster1059]

Wowww legendary latin quarters, eric b and rakim beat? Gr from holland

[@keithkerbe]

Holy shit! He is a prophet! Listen to what he says at the end of this clip

[@justicecaswell4838]

Brooklyn’s Definitely In The House!!!

[@dogo2164]

The real living legend.

[@vRoDmAn91]

there is no party like old school party

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

I love his album 🎉🎉🎉so raw

[@MrDavis...42]

Since, I have my own record company, I going to say it🥇👑

[@panama8009]

I first saw Skooly D, Philly legend, at the Disco Fever in 84 with Cutmaster DC, "Brooklyn's in da House". Yup, looking at my Gucci it's about that time". Plus, very first to introduce gangster rap, facts. Ask Ice T.

[@puritycharge]

Unbelievable piece of video! Thanks for posting. Rap started and ended with this man.

[@marconebws]

i remember seeing this in 1986. Schoolly School Rules!

[@CitySkin09]

I wanted to go to Latin Quarter so badly when I went to NYC on a business trip a few years back.

[@AreULookingAtMe]

the original gangsta of hip hop. loved Schoolly's first two albums (esp the 1st). classic video thanks for the upload :)

[@bridgetown1966]

Oh Schooly... you have NO idea how right you would prove to be...

[@dhobson]

Brilliant.

[@ParisMorece]

crazy classic!!!

[@b4kst33n6]

He can see the future. Hes totally right, some of what they call hiphop nowadays aint hiphop or rap, I call it rather hippop (and crap :P). Not saying there al like that. schoolly d is raw... (greets from The Netherlands)

[@brfisher1123]

Rap has sure changed a lot in the 37 years since this happened!

[@songojin]

Word the fuck UP! I saw schooly D at the videomusicbox 25th anniversary free show in central park, and among all the old school acts, he was the only one who cursed and said bitch, etc. You could hear the audience not feeling it and kind of booing, but he didn't care. It was kind of funny because he stuck to his words from way back then. "We're not like your other rappers, we say things they're afraid to say"

[@dangerousd1312]

Glad everyone is saying he predicted what they'd do with rap at the end lmao

[@user-nq8tr1hw3w]

This is amazing‼️

[@sleepleZZZV3]

This is wonderful!!

[@nsphoenix6660286]

I'll go back to the 80s in a time machine and bring all modern drugs for them hehehe

[@proni1]

prophetic

[@MrPhillyrick1]

scholly D was the original gangsta rapper!

[@wysefavor]

Kool G Rap was right ?

[@bkstandard882]

Unfortunately, rap has gone down the same route as rock n roll. Sorry to disappoint you Schooly.

[@RABBI2717]

Excellent..thanks for sharing

[@40jesh]

take me back to da old days

[@jesseyv1519]

40jesh those was great good memories

[@jesseyv1519]

Back in the days was the best years 80s 90s great memories

[@OWN12S]

Finally! Thanx!

[@RaiderSteelerfan]

Schoolly D was NWA and 2 live crew combined before NWA and 2 Live Crew put together. Hell, D would make William Roberts (The Fake Rick Ross) roll up in a corner lol.

[@keem008]

He was gangsta back then gangsta rap started with him though or it blew with him. hip hop culture and Hip Hop nation langue is the best thing that ever happen to the world. Haak Blast Keem008. I got a remix to Lets Dance to The Drummers beat. I will put it on you tube so yo check it.

[@Saragis007]

Yea that was pretty cool he said that.

[@rateds9127]

He brought up gangsta rap by his lyrics

[@tollertoller4life]

Hip Hop right now is like how glam rock was back in the 80's. A joke..

[@CasparWilson]

Very interesting about what he said at the end, hoping that rap wouldn't go the same way that rock n' roll had...

[@brfisher1123]

I wonder what he thinks of the "rap" music 30 years later in 2016.

[@GreatDetecting]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@hiphophobbyklub]

The TR-909 MC LIVE!!!

[@KamenHanya]

schoolly d was the coolest. he's the real $hit. but suckaz today think hip hop started with eminem & lil (whatever)s. EAST COAST!

[@DaFunkyAquarian]

And they did exactly that with rap

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

Hell yeah, they made rap pretty & bad. Newschool petty 😂

[@djfuze187]

would love to know that also

[@heffechapo9544]

OG certified

[@diggindeeptv]

Hear what schoolly's sayin @ the end of this vid? - pretty much what happened to Rock has happened to Hip Hop nowadays

[@HardKore5250]

The Schooly D Dance clean 2 Live Crew

[@yegsmitty22]

Philly had some real shit.

[@MegaMuskat]

Fuck I would have wanted to be at that show

[@wm3284]

Ffs, words fail me 👍🏾👌🏾

[@BudNibbler]

Yeah, it's just that Schooly was overlooked for a looong fucking time because he didn't get airplay.

[@capone345]

3:40 real talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@BeatsYouCanDig]

haha, hiphop did not turn out how he wanted, all these fashionable hiphop artists, it's a shame. hip hop was so great in the 80s

[@denveresq]

"Do It, Do It"

[@LS-ti1rz]

I remember one time i went to this very club, Latin Quarters. It was one of those Saturday nights in which I went club hopping. I would take the Path train from my home town ( Newark, N.J.) head on out to the scene. Anyways, I am Puerto Rican but I look very very white. So there i am having a good time, I went alone, and asked this gorgeous nubian lady to dance with me she agreed and we were having a nice time. I was having a drink just enjoying myself all of a sudden I see a tall black guy dressed like a B-Boy Kangol hat and Addidas Shell toes, belt buckle with his nickname i assume and Gazelle shades to top it all off. I thought to myself oh shit it's bought to pop off. See I had encounter numerous times throughout this decade black guys getting really pissed off that i would be with a beautiful black girl. But, the guy comes up pulls on a chain that was wrapped around his neck and at the very end of it was a NYPD detectives badge. I damn near choked on my drink. He asked me to follow him so i did. He took me to this small office and said he believed that i was selling drugs. Well needless to say i wasn't and he frisked me gave me the ole' rigmarole and that he'd be watching me, blah, blah, blah. I know it was a long drawn out tale but seeing this old footage reminded me of that encounter.

[@jayo552]

THIS SHOULD B #1 ON EVERY ARTISTS WATCH LIST, OWN THE RECORD COMPANY OR BECOME A SLAVE, AND HIPHOP & ROCK WERE NOT MEANT 2 B PRETTY. BUT GRIMY!!

[@ToanEccentric]

@ 3:41 Unfortunatley, Rap and Hip Hop has taken the same route rock did, Made it pretty Smh.

[@marquel5018]

Schoolly a legend but all yall oldheads hating on rap now even though we still got people coming from the streets and telling it raw. and nothing raw with glam rock

[@AJAXNELIS]

je bedoelt big fun in the city

[@goldenmodem8722]

he can't dance, but he can rap

[@floydjr3189]

He’s pretty good dancer

[@iloveafricanart]

Is Schooly D still living?

[@noroomfortoys2820]

Yes

[@themanamp]

@NicKingPapiChulo The first to use the N word more often and more casually possibly. But Melle Mell used it in "New York, New York" a few years earlier.....

[@MidnightToker24]

I wonder how he feels about rap from 2005 to present day 😐

[@OWN12S]

What was the name of that song? With three little pigs sample.

[@itz_ryan01]

Do it do it

[@sponooch]

onrust?

[@999eye]

@pwr1965 Are you crazy son? I love Schooly D. since 1985 but how in the world would you make that statement about KRS ONE?? You don't know Hip-Hop because it represents a culture of a people. KRS One represents that culture from many different angles that Schooly just wasn't dealing with. Hip Hop needs them both and to separate and try to battle them just shows a lack of understanding. A lot of cats want KRS ONE! Dont get it twisted.

[@tw.o.g]

This had to be b4 jay z

[@gregbee891]

Huh

[@HardKore5250]

Pro drugs

[@dumisatonyjohnson8145]

And now hip hop as we know it is dead 💀

[@PETETHEMEAT42]

he makes 50 cent look like celine dion

[@gstrdms]

cheesy and plastic kraft singles if u please we need some punks to dirty up the game necro once said, hip hop, its too nice, too pretty, i wanna take a razor...AND SLICE IT

[@MrCoughupalung]

Gangsta's dont dance or dress like that. Especially in the 80's.

[@MrCoughupalung]

lyfe1zruff Gangsta's DON'T dance!! They boogie shit-head!! But you wouldn't know that now would you?

[@MrCoughupalung]

lyfe1zruff I'm referring to the 80's bra. My brother did time for trafficking coke to Vegas in the 80's. N.W.A. and Schooly D was in the box at all times. I remember what him and his friends used to do. All the pool party's. Hey, It's Los Angeles. Guess they danced like that in the 80's and did they gangsta shit like that in NY.

[@ChaChinnngK]

***** Funny, you don't look like you had anything to do with those times

[@MrCoughupalung]

ChaChinnngK I'm 36. It's called being vegan. I still get carded for blunts.

[@ChaChinnngK]

***** I'm not vegan and look loads younger. And I meant were you even of age to be part of the scene, a 3 year old in 1980 in the Streets of NY as a gangsta, sounds a bit young.

[@skillet6870]

American music forms: Spirituals, Blues, Ragtime, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Bluegrass, Folk, Rock n Roll, Doo-Wop, Soul, Funk, Disco, Punk, House and of course Rap and Hip Hop---all enjoy well documented Black American roots coupled with undeniable Black American influence---whether directly or indirectly.. Latinos -- puerto ricans particularly -- explain how you co-created or co-invented yet another installment in the legacy of Black Musical expression known as Rap and Hip Hop, yet didn't co-create or co-invent any of the elements of the 14 or so African American music forms that preceeded it? Or why you were nowhere to be found and absent during the creative and inventive foundation outlining the forms of Black American musical expression, brilliance and greatness throughout, or even prior to the previous 14 or so Black American music forms that are mentioned above. Yet then, all of a sudden--out of nowhere, you folks come along and falsely claim latinos and/or puerto ricans co-created and co-invented Rap and Hip Hop 50/50 half n half (which is the evidence-free and utter nonsense being peddled by derrick colon, radical latino, fat joe and numerous other un-informed and envious latinos---claims latinos never mentioned, verbalized or asserted during its inception in the early 1970's)---latinos claims of "50/50--half & half co-creation and co-invention just don't add up---it makes no sense and are increasingly coming under heavy scrutiny which is leading to these claims being easily debunked--as it should've been. Moreover, the heavy hateful and many times racist criticism directed at the Black American youngsters, by the racist white media over having created Rap and Hip Hop, latinos -- particularly puerto ricans -- and jamaicans NEVER came forward to denounce the vicious onslaught, yet 50 years later they want to take credit for this FBA art form that they didn't create..

[@AJAXNELIS]

town

[@viranko7530]

The original hip hop gangster. Too bad rap sucks now