Theres something so magical about early 80s rap/hip hop, its all just so happy. No singing about crime or drugs or women, no its just a bunch of guys spinning around on their backs seeing who can do it better then the other
That synthline literally defines the '80s for me. I wasn't there but.. thankyou to Vice City for ensuring I grew up to be an '80s kid, even if I was a little too late to the party.
@@charlesn898 - I mean, yeah, Dolby was made a Professor of the Arts in 2014 but he's not known as Professor Dolby. You're not thinking that he's the mad professor in the video for She Blinded Me With Science are you? As that is British scientist Magnus Pike.
Seriously, this has more groove to it than the shit they call "rap" nowdays where's just about bitches, hoes, money and bling bling and pretending gangster is a desirable career choice. Ugh. Nah, man. Old School Rap all the way!
i still get the vinyl of this hit my brother bought it in 1982 !! And i remember when we were little we made a little band with my brother and my sister trying to play this song with invisible instrument, so mythic !! We were listening to this everyday in the morning on a vinyl player !! i feel sad of grewing and being so far from the 80's... But... Good old days never die...:)
If you drop into jam on revenge when they get to the chanting at the end, and cosmo will come on right talking as they fade out. Wikki wikki wikki wikki
All the people in this video look just like some college students of the early 80s .That's the way everyone dressed back in the 80s. Its 2021 now .who's listening with me?
When I get my wand I'm off to re-live the 80's < simply the best... if you know, you know!! Whilst listening, I just mixed this gem (in my head) with 'The Crown' 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
BDP literally sat with an array of guns and weapons on the front cover of Criminal Minded in 86. Public Enemy rapped about "My Uzi Weighs A Ton" and KRS-One held an Uzi on the cover of By All Means Necessary both in '87. All three of these were Incredibly important, conscious, politically charged hip hop albums from the 80's. Guns don't automatically make it worse or....I don't even know what you're suggesting.
Back in the day when rap was fun, there was variation in the rapper's voice and the music is so funky and great to breakdance to, this song defines the kind of rap/hip-hop I like, great song!!! :) This kind of rap needs to come back bring the fun back in to rap as well as the great synth funk music with it and breakdancers along the lines of The Rocksteady Crew!
This was like back in 1983. Rapping was was light hearted dance music. Now everybody wants to be a gangster saying the n word talking about selling drugs and gangbanging.The shit is old now.
this is funky fresh cant believe they got it in hd better quality go jalil and Ecstasy this was before grand master dee joined the crew rip mr magic sir juice
What about Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Message?” Though gritty, that video was a large size budget and it came out in the summer of 82”. “Magics Wand” video came out at the end of 1982 (in 82”, only BET and USA’s Niteflite played this video since NY Hot Tracks came out the following year, and MTV didn’t play black American musicians at this time, especially rap and funk).
I did know this until the other day but Thomas Dolby had produced this classic track back in the early 80's and was also the keyboard player on Belinda Carlisle's first hit, 'Heaven is a place on earth'.
I KNEW YOU IN fLORENCE YOU WERE WITH aFRICA bAMBATAA wE SPENT ALL NIGHT LONG IT WAS 1981 OR MORE I WAS VITH MY GREAT FRIEND tOXIC oNE I AM uGO dELUCCHI OF upA AND YOUR SONG IS THE BEST THE CLASSIC OF FREEDOM OF CHOICE
I’m so damn that they repost this video I remember back in the fall of 1982 when this song came out and I use to go to the Disco Fever in the Bronx NY and DJ Junebug use to spin the hell out this record and you can’t forget about Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack on 107.5 WBLS with Marley Marl the good old days growing up in NYC R.I.P. to John Rivas aka Mr.Magic and John Fletcher aka Ecstasy.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
Theres something so magical about early 80s rap/hip hop, its all just so happy. No singing about crime or drugs or women, no its just a bunch of guys spinning around on their backs seeing who can do it better then the other
Grand Master Flash's "The Message"?
Yes and black and white dancing in the same video without any external obligations.
R.I.P. Mr. Magic.
😭
That synthline literally defines the '80s for me. I wasn't there but.. thankyou to Vice City for ensuring I grew up to be an '80s kid, even if I was a little too late to the party.
It was played by Thomas Dolby, a new wave artist best known for his hit "She Blinded Me With Science".
@@tera_2024 That's Professor Thomas Dolby.
@@charlesn898 - I mean, yeah, Dolby was made a Professor of the Arts in 2014 but he's not known as Professor Dolby.
You're not thinking that he's the mad professor in the video for She Blinded Me With Science are you? As that is British scientist Magnus Pike.
We all were a little late but never unwelcomed.
Haha it’s great isn’t it lol 😂
RIP. Ectasy!
RIP E
Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Malibu Vice Club 2002
And WildStyle of course.
Oh my god, I think I’m having a rap attack!
and me,but i love it..
Oh my God, I think I'm having a rap attack😀
It's just a bunch of guys dancing at J.C Penny, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the best raps of all time💎
The "dancing at J.C. Penny" did it for me! 😂😂 Thank you...this comment made my day!
We always dance in front of K Mart
So 80s
And maybe one of the best RUclips comments :)
I agree with that
Vice City :')
Vice city my favorite :')
🤦🏻♂️
Yup Wildstyle pirate radio 📻
Yeah man
R.I.P Mr. Magic and Ecstasy 🙏🏾🎤
Yes. Missed
Mr. Magic died? I didn't know that
@@blueskyy43 that sucks I too didn't know but hey perks of being born in 03 is that I still have access to find grooves like this and many others.
R.I.P exstacy , you was a pioneer man. The foundation!!!
Im 57 and back in the day this was IT
Still is, OG.
I'm 25 and it still is
Seriously, this has more groove to it than the shit they call "rap" nowdays where's just about bitches, hoes, money and bling bling and pretending gangster is a desirable career choice. Ugh. Nah, man. Old School Rap all the way!
“ it was big fun while it lasted “ loved the early eighties- pre crack world
Word we could never get that time back but I'm glad I lived in it.
What a golden time for rap...so good.
And men and women looked fit and just pure swagger
@assiabenslimane2589 I agree. Not nearly as many over weight people back then.
Yup, the golden age of wireless, if you catch my drift.
Produced by Thomas Dolby with samples of his track "Puppet Theatre" . Great fun.
ruclips.net/video/rlyCzgQf-rs/видео.html
It doesn't sample it.
This song takes me back to the good days when life was simple!
Vice City's Wildstyle FM revealed this song to me😍😍😍
=))
Me too
i still get the vinyl of this hit my brother bought it in 1982 !! And i remember when we were little we made a little band with my brother and my sister trying to play this song with invisible instrument, so mythic !! We were listening to this everyday in the morning on a vinyl player !! i feel sad of grewing and being so far from the 80's... But... Good old days never die...:)
ruclips.net/video/rlyCzgQf-rs/видео.html
Ich habe die Vinyl auch noch 12" Maxi, das ist ein unvergängliches Vergnügen und immer wieder Top der Song ! :-)
@@djscratchin1345 - That is fucking terrible. The vocal is horribly out of sync with the backing. It sounds horrible
My God, how did the world become such a sadder place? Really miss this world 😭😭🇧🇷
Ditto!!!!! Tragic how things have become....
Stay safe 👊😎 big love from the UK 🇬🇧
You must have forgotten the constant threat of nuclear war, are you sure you were alive back then?
@@timmturner I guess coz we were kids we didn't think about nuclear war too much. Well... I did, but it didn't bother like it did the adults. 😁
@@stuartgoswell1193the bomb drills in school were fear mongering at it's best
I think this, came out in 1982, if I'm correct. I love this song. My sophomore year of high-school. What memories.
Yes, late 1982.
Así es, 1982
Thomas Dolby brought me here. Hard to believe I know, but it's true - amazing stuff!
Ha!, yes, me too. Page 45 of 'The Speed of Sound'. 😀
I love these times I'll always remember this type of music forever
Me too man, I miss this 😢
This beat is sick as fuck ✌️🔥🔥🔥
Now who can rock a video like this in a random office lobby?? The simplicity's giving me a rap attack lol
The flattest butts in rap history😂😂😂
GTA vice City 😎😎
See
i hate it when all you can relate to is a silly game
Wildstyle Really
Да
@@garymeacham7353 Ok boomer
Played this on V-103 in Atlanta back in the day! Heavy rotation!
The perfect 80s party song.
And what if I said I assassinated President Kimball.
@@angushoffs1380 i killed him on my last fallout new vegas game.
@@franciscoprazzio225prazzio Okay then. To each their own.
If you drop into jam on revenge when they get to the chanting at the end, and cosmo will come on right talking as they fade out. Wikki wikki wikki wikki
No Guns, swimwear or swearing, just good fun rap like we had back then. I'm glad to be 50 (almost)
Paul Schlote so true man how rap has changed
I wish you another 50 bro
Do you curse?
Cause if you do, why would you want our art not to be able to embody our anger. Not sure Black anger needs to be pacified.
There's room for both kinds of rap.
There has been cursing, guns and girls in hip hop since the mid 80's.
All the people in this video look just like some college students of the early 80s .That's the way everyone dressed back in the 80s. Its 2021 now .who's listening with me?
I remember watching this as a kid in New York! Proud to see how far Hip-Hop has come since then!
Hip Hop Classics plays this all the time . Super underrated classic . Didn'r even know a video was out
It's such a wholesome music video.
rap attack man not a heart attack yeah love this old 1982 tune
When I get my wand I'm off to re-live the 80's < simply the best... if you know, you know!!
Whilst listening, I just mixed this gem (in my head) with 'The Crown' 💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
And not a gun in sight
Hip Hop at its best
These are 80s black guys not 90s black guys 😂😂😂
BDP literally sat with an array of guns and weapons on the front cover of Criminal Minded in 86.
Public Enemy rapped about "My Uzi Weighs A Ton" and KRS-One held an Uzi on the cover of By All Means Necessary both in '87.
All three of these were Incredibly important, conscious, politically charged hip hop albums from the 80's.
Guns don't automatically make it worse or....I don't even know what you're suggesting.
the message came out same year and mentions guns , foo’
im 30 years old and i love this shit and my 90s and 00s and early 2010s fuck that bull shit that playing now
@@tera_2024 please tell these goofy MF's!!
Back in the day when rap was fun, there was variation in the rapper's voice and the music is so funky and great to breakdance to, this song defines the kind of rap/hip-hop I like, great song!!! :) This kind of rap needs to come back bring the fun back in to rap as well as the great synth funk music with it and breakdancers along the lines of The Rocksteady Crew!
If ever there was a time machine, I'd go straight back to the 80s, what an unforgettable era that was.....
Crack, aids, gangbangin n Reagan administration..yea u can keep it
I'd like to go back to the eighties and stay there. I love this group so much. RIP Mr. Magic and Ecstacy. God bless you always ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Peaceful journey see you on the other side 🙏😢🙏
Damn... unbelievable that this joint is about to be 40...
Gta Vice City memories. Cruising through Little Haiti in a Voodoo at 11:30, jamming to this beat.
This gets me every time, that bass.
When rap was fun
My dad used to be a DJ in the 80s and played this song. He is so cool! Hehe
ruclips.net/video/rlyCzgQf-rs/видео.html
John Fletcher "Ectasy" was just 18 in this music video!
Who's that
WoW
When you thought it was a bad connection or MPEG glitch.. Nope! Early '80s video editing... So far ahead of its time.
Essa linha de baixo é contagiante!
Man now this is the real true rap not like the mumble rappers of today
yes!
Gotta love the 80's
One of the first hip hop songs and artist’s that paved the way for so many amazing artists.
REAL HIP-HOP!!!
This was like back in 1983. Rapping was was light hearted dance music. Now everybody wants to be a gangster saying the n word talking about selling drugs and gangbanging.The shit is old now.
Great song and greater rap history lesson
thomas dolby production...some say this an outake from may the cube be with you...
Excellent!!!! Been waiting a few years for someone to upload a good quality version of this. Thanks.
I can't believe this video has only 46 views...
This channel is newly created, no wonders.
& 4 dislikes wtf!!!
I was just going to say, I can't believe this has only 484 views.
41k now.
Produced by the one and only Thomas Dolby!
i did not know that
Never remaster this please.
"THAT WAS MY MONEY TOMMY MY MONEY" Sonny Forelli
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
"IM LOOKIN FOR THE MONEY, SONNY!"
RIP ECSTACY
This was the first song 🎵 I ever learnt to bodywork to. Great memories. Thanks 4 posting this classic 👌.
really?? only 4k views?that group deserves the way more attention
yes very sad
Well, it's ten times that now.
Classic. And produced by Thomas Dolby, no less.
Really??
@@BobsBand yup, he also used the music for this: ruclips.net/video/Y-9hhw5G__4/видео.html
@@Sphat90 prove it
@@omalone1169Read his autobiography.
Love the fashion in this clip
"they're just mad cause they aren't invited"
love the message of this song
I don't leave the car if this song is playing in GTA VICE CITY
1:00 Tik Tok in the 80's
x)
Thomas Dolby playing synths.
Nice music and video..@brianne in USA
RIP John Fletcher 😭🙏🏾
Thanks GTA
this is funky fresh cant believe they got it in hd better quality go jalil and Ecstasy this was before grand master dee joined the crew rip mr magic sir juice
One of the first Rap/Hip Hop videos from one of the Greatest Rap Groups of All Time.RIP Ecstasy.
Yaaassss 👌
This was the first properly directed and produced rap video. I thought Magic's wand was before the message
What about Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Message?” Though gritty, that video was a large size budget and it came out in the summer of 82”. “Magics Wand” video came out at the end of 1982 (in 82”, only BET and USA’s Niteflite played this video since NY Hot Tracks came out the following year, and MTV didn’t play black American musicians at this time, especially rap and funk).
for the 16 p. that thumbed this down: there's something seriously wrong with your ears and/or your heads!
i know,probanly tone deaf
this black guy is wearing a sick turban lol
And fancy leather trousers 🤣😎😍
Hearing in 2024 ❤
the real hip-hop rap 🔥💣
almost 40 years old damn
I did know this until the other day but Thomas Dolby had produced this classic track back in the early 80's and was also the keyboard player on Belinda Carlisle's first hit, 'Heaven is a place on earth'.
Didn't know that either but now I hear the _She Blinded Me With Science_ similarity!
@@NostalgiCrazy me too now .
Genius
RIP John Fletcher aka Ecstasy....Dead at 56...too young.
My favorite group love it happy music good old days
thank you tommy vercetti
I KNEW YOU IN fLORENCE YOU WERE WITH aFRICA bAMBATAA wE SPENT ALL NIGHT LONG IT WAS 1981 OR MORE I WAS VITH MY GREAT FRIEND tOXIC oNE I AM uGO dELUCCHI OF upA AND YOUR SONG IS THE BEST THE CLASSIC OF FREEDOM OF CHOICE
I heard this song when I was playing gta vice city, i listenned it on the radio and I liked it so much.
I remember seeing this video on Night Flight on USA network
Mr Magic no stop Vice city
Weird ass song😂
"where this guy from man? fucks sake you havn't heard of a rap attack? what where you dropped on your head as a child ? JESUS"
To me this is the best rap Trak ever
NEVER goes out of style. Please come to CHICAGO!!!!!
WE NEEEEEEEED YOU!!!!! This BULLSHIT NOWADAYS BORES THE HELL OUT OF ME!
I've spent 3 days of my life in Chicago about 5 years ago. I'm from the UK. Love this sort of music.
Pure party music. If this doesn't get you off the wall, nothing will.
GTA:Vice City
I’m so damn that they repost this video I remember back in the fall of 1982 when this song came out and I use to go to the Disco Fever in the Bronx NY and DJ Junebug use to spin the hell out this record and you can’t forget about Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack on 107.5 WBLS with Marley Marl the good old days growing up in NYC R.I.P. to John Rivas aka Mr.Magic and John Fletcher aka Ecstasy.
Temazo de los años 80. Linda epoca.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
Fun fact: This was the first rap song accompanied by a music video
THIS SONG IS REALLY "MAGIC" IT'S THE REALLY VAXINE THE RIGHT ONLY MEDICINE FOR HUMAN RACE NATURE GOD BLESS YOU