Jeru The Damaja - Come Clean [HQ Ver.]

From 1994 Album: "The Sun Rises In The East".....
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About JERU THE DAMAJA
Jeru the Damaja (born Jeru Davis) aka D. Original Dirty Rotten Scoundrel hails from Brooklyn, New York where he was born and raised. Jeru was first introduced to hip-hop in the local parks of his neighborhood at age seven and started writing his own lyrics at age ten. Hip-hop has been a part of his life for as long as he can remember. Jeru created and took on the persona of the Damaja (because he damages the mic) that is part conscious truth teller and part true to the streets Brooklyn hard rock. Jeru the Damaja then hooked up with DJ Premiere and Guru, collectively known as Gangstarr, shortly after they moved to New York on the late 1980s. Jeru first introduced his unique hardcore conscious style to hip-hop audiences on Im the Man a track on Gangstarrs 1992 Daily Operations album. The East New York native then cemented his place in the hip-hop world by releasing the 1993 classic single Come Clean from his legendary album, The Sun Rises in the East. After a two year hiatus, Jeru released The Wrath of the Math that included the hit singles Ya Playin Yaself and Me or the Papes and was proclaimed the savior of hip-hop due to his honest and straight forward critique of the state of hip-hop music. In 2000 Jeru released Heroz 4 Hire completely autonomously, from the production of the album to its release on his independent label KnowSavage Records. Jeru recently released his second independent project Divine Design on his new label Ashenafi Records featuring production by new producers Ed Dantez and Sabor and the new classics singles WAR and Dont Get it Twisted featuring LilDap from the Group Home. Jeru has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Africa in the past ten years. In between tours Jeru has done joint projects with the gold selling UK group Groove Armada, DJ Cut Killa, Doudou Masta in France, and DJ Honda from Japan now based in New York. Jeru recorded Verses of Doom with Chad Muska, a professional skateboarder, can be heard on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 video game and is on Chads compilation album Muska Beatz. Jeru was recently named on of the 50 Greatest Emcees in Kool Mo Dees book There Is a God On the Mic released in 2004 and is looking forward to continuing that legacy in the future. Jeru is also participating on a Self Destruction Part II Stop the Violence with the legenday artists KRS-One and Chuck D who have both been great influences on his music and life. Through ten celebrated years in the music business Jeru established himself as a multitalented, multifaceted artist and businessperson.
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[@Macmittens411]

Damn this was so HARD when I first heard this. Still is! 🔥🔥

[@robincarter1490]

Still one of the sickest Hip Hop tunes ever.

[@jeyzeus]

One of Premo's finest work

[@sieman78]

facts upon facts

[@sieman78]

@@jeyzeus also facts.

[@biggiepablo9776]

It ain't hip hop if u call it a tune😂

[@patientlywaiting77]

FACTS

[@khurtisel-haneefabdur-rahm1093]

From 1994 to 2024 this Track STILL KNOCKS! Primo Cruddy Grimy Beat Jeru Precise Rhymes and Verbal Cadence Flowing on this Track is the Signature of 90’s Classic Hip Hop. I definitely salute this combo … 🫡 “Just For Frontin’ Ya Got Dat Ass Waxed” 💪🏾

[@seandacosta2421]

🥶🥶🥶 as fruck forever

[@cactus-b]

The father of rhyme, meaning, and style! Jeru The Damaja - You Are TOP #1 for Me.

[@jvelez1998]

Greatest hip hop beat of ALL TIME... 25 years later has never been matched. Primo ascended to God level after this track...

[@phillipbrown2318]

This is MASTERY by Primo.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

@@phillipbrown2318 that's why we're here .

[@StreetLethalRacing]

Nah, punks jump up to get beat down has the best beats…

[@PaulNigelWarner]

Facts!!

[@BF6ct]

Now I remember this when it came out. It blew up like the world trade.

[@MOBROOKS]

Damn! He was rappin his ass off! Plus that beat! Oh my! "Flyyy like a jet! Sting like a Hornet!"

[@addappmusic7167]

MOBROOKS Premo beat, never goes wrong

[@ddave7026]

he came out on rap city back in the day saying he used stuff Premo was throwing out! whaat

[@bonaventurensekela5664]

One is Brooklyn’s finest representation of lryical fury , one of Brooklyns dopest Mcs, one of Dj premiers hardest beats .

[@mostlymisunderstood7328]

I named my 1st born son Jeru....hes 22yrs old now...

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

What a cool mom how creative.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

I bet you played this song for him to show him where his name comes from.

[@anatorres-ym8ke]

Ur a cool ass mom

[@1MOBBDEEP7]

White ppl 😪

[@presise]

dope

[@themodeladultcentral6920]

One of the greatest moments in hip hop

[@alexmcdougall2823]

“I’m a true master you can check my credentials cause I choose to use my infinite potential” flows so good with that beat to

[@99alfailiwaqain51]

Peace To The Gods! Jeru was going at True Master; a friendly rivalry among good friends!

[@mxolisiwilliams6178]

This is a flavo we miss, Flo, message etc. .. Dope $h1z!! How many still enjoys this flavo?

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Me lol 😆🤣.

[@MakizZz]

This beat is SICK !!!!!!

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Yesssss I stole my brother's tape back then and told him I had no clue what happened that maybe his friend did it lol 😆😂.

[@marcfloyd3365]

"Leave your nines at home and bring your skills to the battle"

[@deborahkeating4508]

ELEMENTS

[@callumbrowns]

1994 1 of the best year in hip hop

[@matthijsn559]

And techno and rock... After that i dunno

[@tonynixburger9371]

95' was the greatest, problem wit that is you can only go down when you hit the plateau

[@willm7994]

Callum Brown 94-98 sickest period in hip hop

[@eminemisdogshit4626]

True words. The early/mid 90's was the peak of hip hop. By 1997 it was all but over

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

1991 for me breaking atoms and brand Nubian year 👍

[@DEVINEJUSTICEALLAH72]

This was and always will be the joint!!

[@CITIZENYOST]

Maybe the most slept on rapper.

[@aleaseaubreyfrieson5106]

For Sure

[@Martwall69]

Had a chance to hear it live couple years ago, almost dislocated my shoulder when this joint went on

[@badeboom]

Will never forget: did a dj gig that year at a birthday party and when I startet playing this beat EVERYBODY freaked out, like screaming. Was great, thanks, Jeru.

[@tolblackburn7995]

One of the hardest beats of all time!

[@sieman78]

this shit will be bumping still in 2090

[@deborahkeating4508]

I'll be 120

[@blakwater777]

I dont Gang Bang or shoot out bang, bang! The relentless lyrics the only dope I slang. HIP HOP

[@jvelez1998]

The instrumental is genius at the level that us mere mortals will never comprehend... a level of science and math that makes everything else appear like simple arithmetic. Premo on par with Beethoven and Mozart... only from BK and better. I needed to hear this again in 2020 to remember the work of this master.

[@michaelbrown2167]

The sample premiere used is masterful.

[@EWheels]

Much love but Primo from Texas

[@bayareanewman1566]

Word. I was t sure this was him. Ridiculous skills here. I’ve been bumping this for 30 years

[@JohnWick-gl6mw]

​​@@EWheelsTrue BUT he learned his craft from Queens . Large Professor was his mentor & taught Primo the science . Primo has said on Record NY taught him and he ran with it as he should . He became one of the Elites !

[@djstatz]

​@@EWheelstx tellem

[@lepulanaledwaba7637]

Ahoy Jeru. A cut that failed the call to answer. But, a classic that lived on to bring rise to Original Woman...

[@ClasherSports]

Still my favorite song! Best song from the 90s.. today's garbage doesn't even pale in comparison

[@ruqone]

Them scratches at the end 🔥🔥🔥🔥🫡

[@deborahkeating4508]

all the way

[@joseocciano1939]

U goddamn right. #RealHiphop

[@zayatkinson9507]

A real fire-spitter!!! Omg.

[@jeffreydavis5506]

One of the greats for sure! Ive talked with him breifly....helluva down to earth guy...just genuine.

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Wow how cool.

[@deborahkeating4508]

I met him outside the Elbo Room in Chicago right after he performed this, place to be & yes, he's witty & extra chill

[@MrYoungAndClueless]

Real rough and rugged

[@pungisotu]

Everytime I pick up the microphone I drug it.

[@deborahkeating4508]

shine like a GOLD NUGGET...

[@sayitoutloudchp]

Nasty beat

[@xtrextrex]

Since I was born in the 90s I’m spending all 2023 doing my homework on 90-97 hip hop

[@WilsonianGarveyite]

Go back to the beginning.

[@benhopper7341]

Word

[@michaelcorleone7598]

Why not 98-99 ?

Start from '86 then trek through '99. I say '86 because RUN-DMC, L.L., Ultramagnetic MCs, Masta Ace, EPMD, Special Ed, KRS-ONE & BDP, Rakim, Public Enemy, Kool G Rap, Slick Rick, Compton's Most Wanted, MC Lyte, and MANY dope hip-hop artists broke through in the late 80s throughout the 90s. That period is known as the "GOLDEN ERA OF HIP-HOP". RUN-DMC - The Avenue Special Ed - I'm The Magnificent (remix) KRS-ONE/BDP - Love's Gonna Get You Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin' Compton's Most Wanted - One Time Gaffled Em Up Ultramagnetic MCs - Bait MC Lyte - Paper Thin A Tribe Called Quest - Description of a Fool Freshco & Miz - Ain't You Freshco Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome L.L. Cool J - Going Back To Cali Masta Ace - Go Where I Send Thee EPMD - Strictly Snappin' Necks

[@camry21205]

Respect The Damaja!!!!!!

[@zayatkinson9507]

Word up!!!

[@Richabus2]

Jeru!

[@EricOutler]

"Sicker than your average!"

[@terrencewashington6858]

1 of the NICEST EMCEES ever to grace the microphone and arguably the dopest beat ever peace to Premo. BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!!

[@erichall297]

1 word this equals "CLASSIC"

[@deborahkeating4508]

tight rhyme loose beat will never not be a banger ultimate jeru

[@diegothekidbodybuilderabou6512]

This has been sampled many times like the lines, when the East is in the house, and leave ya 9s at home and bring your skill to the battle.

[@jamescassidy8770]

Absolute ear candy....why the **** am old skool !!🤯🤯

[@GODs_Son777]

Damn! Real Hip Hop!!

[@davidvidalnyc]

I. Have. Been. Searching. For. THIS. Track! Since I first heard it as an INSTRUMENTAL, when I was a kid- for over 20 years!!

[@EWheels]

I’ll tap ya jaw!…. Ya prolly heard it before!.. step to the bedlamite I’ll prove my word is law!..” is where I first heard Jeru Da Damaja on Gang Starr’s “I’m the Man” and he killed it at the the end after Guru and Lil Dapp did their thing on different beats all fire 🔥 But when this dropped I knew immediately it was Preem!

[@konoyarobakayaro6120]

Premo and Dj Krush saved my life.

[@HondaPactStudent]

You'll get yo slap box bussed....he said Rip my cousin Jason olds u hipped me on this back in the day

[@lizagates6252]

I dated this guy for like, a solid year. It was the strangest relationship I've ever been "too" but it was my own life. I was hanging out with like, the Zulu nation and shit. I'm actually in his video, "don't get it twisted"... I loved every moment of it... Except for his RAGING homophobia, which I just thought was "his own gayness" projected. Its so strange, but that was only "internal violence" I saw in him. He LOVED that I was in school and used to tell everyone about it. So nuts, man. Weirder still, he literally saw me one day at the Jamaican festival, that's how we met, and just comes up to me and said, "you'll be my girlfriend"and I say , "I already am" and we like,full body committed to that shit for A FUCKING YEAR. I loved being young. I love partnering with strangers. It's like, a thing I LOVED about myself until I married a psycho.it was going SO WELL, and only padding my delusion that "everyone is trustworthy". Literally, I would meet certain people and just fall in love... Until god sent down a psycho, straight from the devil's hell. Now I'm basically agoraphobic, but it seems so logical

[@DC-xp4bl]

Did you pick up weird vibes from the Zulu Nation? Now that all the allegations are out, you feel Jeru was gay?

[@patricksichinga3658]

2022, still dope, still here!

[@Grigor92]

Respect Jeru from Romania !

[@bulldogface8259]

Loving this shitz, shots out from the west coast 👍

[@90srapclassics]

classic.

[@morewithles2738]

As a east cosst head this was my joint in 1994

[@miketthomas3995]

I mean the best loop I ever heard!!!

[@d5078]

Primo pulled from the ancestors on this track..Africa rooted instruments all over this.

[@deborahkeating4508]

here to stay

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

When the east is in the house you beta come equipped ☮️

[@JimmyDee12]

Jeru & Premo should’ve made more albums together Throw Ya Gunz - Onyx Infinity - Shelly Mane are the main samples for whoever is curious...

[@karonbarwick541]

The Sun Rises In The East album just turned 28 today .

[@mircomeuser1685]

Still one of the sickest Hip Hop tunes ever in 2020 too!

[@plantaherbalknowledge9423]

underground NYC hip hop

[@danielmarquis5258]

First listen as a teen and I was hooked.

[@desmondsquires]

You'll get your snotbox bust if press up on this.

[@lamarcraven2314]

If you’re on this page and listening to this song you listen to real MF and hip-hop or blessings to Ja the damage

[@derrickcross8630]

Legendary 😮‍💨🔥

[@brettarcher7405]

Real rough Shine Like A Gold Nugget

[@Mastarde]

Que suerte tuve de verlo en directo, increíble, único.

[@michaelnixjr.familymembers9188]

My Old School Hip Hop and R&B.

[@jahpowerful1]

Gotta Freaky "Freaky"" Freaky ,Freaky Freaky " Flow "

[@OKG1979]

Still bangs in 23/24

[@1LORENZOUTUBE]

Personal Jeru favorites! Lyrics! Lyrics! Lyrics!

[@Whitebrowpriest]

Real Hip-Hop.

[@victorvictor8871]

Anyone here in 2019? When hip hop was dope!!

[@morenoskindevil6027]

Sick tune

[@powerfullthoughts]

Fire nothing less! 🔥🔥🔥

[@chuck.radio.F.]

Lyrical fucking genius raps. With a fucking heavy back track. Fuck. Cursing is meant for emphasis. And sometimes the best word in a moment. But you all know that already. Thank you for... Well, fucking everything.

[@freebasereese6478]

This Shit Too Mean Yo !

[@yeshuaisyahweh7939]

I and the Father are One John 10.30 praise Yeshua

[@flashmcdash36]

This track really f*d my mind up. I swore the sample was from Planet of the Apes backminnthe day.

[@deborahkeating4508]

wasn't it lol

[@GODs_Son777]

Classic!!

[@d5078]

One of the best!

[@markusniepmann919]

Genialer beat geniales Dope uncut video thankz of Dope old scool beatz

[@yopacific]

Yo I just found Jeru and I’m listening.

[@EWheels]

Freaky freaky freaky freaky flow!

[@Otrebor0707]

Had to hear this song over & over after watching the movie Morris from America on Netflix.

[@shawn4ever77]

This song made a good battle record too. Westside Connection kinda used this beat for "Westside Slaughterhouse".

[@patrickfarrell5615]

So perfectly laid .

[@olivierdepryck5610]

Real hiphop!

[@DoNE021]

Still fresh 2023

[@ecidantunes739]

2019 ???

[@georgebusybee1497]

Ugh.... one of the best😂

[@realp.1700]

I see alot of folks commenting on the beat, Primo's beats were/are insane, but none of that would have mattered if Jeru didn't say "That one!". Jeru rode the beat like he heard it in his mama's womb.

[@deborahkeating4508]

🖤

[@BigMike2912]

Tight

[@DexDiamond4]

FIRE!

[@michaelballos9458]

He slayin the west coast harrd💥💨

[@antoniogambardella785]

Timeless 2021 !?!?

[@nokspit]

dope vid

[@donniec832]

So wassup? brought me here thank you primo

[@fahadal-shqwi5015]

"blow em like the world trade Center" that was great line

[@easytiger78]

it aged well...

[@chef8118]

@@easytiger78 yooo 💀💀

[@DaFifaKid]

it was about the bombing in the 90s

[@largemalebigboy7583]

@@DaFifaKid look at the album cover broski

[@DaFifaKid]

@@largemalebigboy7583 yes ive seen it many times...whats your point?

[@TertuliaRoja]

Love the colour of the video Looks vintage

[@foxycreole1128]

It is

[@tillainfinity]

1993

[@jayskicksnfits9372]

@@tillainfinity Nah, early 1994.

[@tillainfinity]

@@jayskicksnfits9372 well maybe the video was released in early 94 but the song itself was released in October 1993

[@ddave7026]

dude with the Radien hat.

[@Tev2191]

Dude is dope

[@thehonorlight9491]

Jeru gotta g.o.a.t. rap level

[@9534alex]

Ruff and rugged