I never understood why RZA didn’t produce an entire album for him. He should have reached bigger heights of popularity. This song has aged like fine wine.
The reason why is because shy was apart a production deal the Big Homie RNS who produced his classic Album. RNS was and still is that Brother on Staten Island..Where you think RZA get his style from?
In my opinion, the best rappers are Hollywood Undead, Eminem, Kriss Kross, Snoop Dogg, Dre, Xzibit, D12, and thats just what i can think of off the top of my head
Even though he was very young, he sounds harder & flows nicer than most cats today! Shyheim blesses the MIC from beginning to end. I never get tired of listening to this!!!
I just heard about that last night I gotta see it. But Wi Tang is one of my favorites of all time, More must have had beef back 8n the days that's the only reason I think he would just go against them
It's kinda sad that he saw all this at a young age but really incredible how he was able to report it. Shyheim is HipHop personified. Respond to the circumstance no matter how difficult it is. #GodEmcee
@@craigr4763 RZA said Shy wrote all his stuff....Just like BG wrote all his own stuff as a underage rapper on cash money. Kris Kross didn't write their material...
@@craigr4763 no matter what age, it is possible. Not dissing you at all but listening to him if you were a true fan of his music you’d kno the boy wrote his own raps. Shy was no other kid rapper, he was way ahead of his time.
The 2nd verse of this song Shyheim spit in a freestyle with Tupac an Biggie live at a concert in New York. I had it on cassette tape and was blown away how he held his own with two legends like Pac and Big. Shyheim a underground underrated legend point blank period
I'm 59 years old I was born in King county Manhattan in 1965 and raised at the downtown Brooklyn New York City salvation home for boys, every time I hear Nas, it makes me feel even more proud of where I came from, and my Brooklyn heritage, I love you nas and what you stand for, and how true you have stayed throughout the years, I pump your old school music daily, much love
Still my shit 7 years later. I remember hearing this sophomore year of high school. I was deep in educating myself in hip hop and had ventrued into wu tang and their affiliates. This shit popped up on a oldschool hip hop instagram page and I had to look this shit up immediately. Then I listened to the album, the rest is history.🔥
Back when youngsters had substance and were tapped into what was going on around them not like today's youth who only care about social media likes and fairness...still bumping this track today, Shyheim was the realest young head back in the day, glad I grew up in the Golden Age of Hip Hop where originality and skills meant something and not everyone was called "Lil" or "Young"...Salute Shyheim ✊🏾✊🏾 waiting for him to drop new darts...and for Vlad to drop the full length interview!!
I didn’t realize how crazy this video and song was as a child. It’s amazing what me & my generation went trough as kids. I couldn’t imagine children going trough what I went trough. Just think, everything in this music video was every day life In the 90s. This was normal life. That’s shocking to me now that I think back on it. Honestly it seems unreal
Keep showing them. Hopefully they'll be influenced by this REAL SH-T!! If they go the 🍪 cutter way they'll only be hot for the "moment". Keep spreading the "lyrical" gospel 💆👍✊!
This was the golden era. I remember this lil nigga and I wanted to be that kid that famous kid rapper back then. Now I dont even want to be categorized in this new wave of bullshit.
“I never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?” That line hit me so hard. No kid should ever go a year without Christmas. And no kid should ever have to live in the hood. It really amazes me how this kid who’s like 14 or something is able to make better music then most rappers today. Modern hip-hop really has to change. We need a person to kill of mumble rap, and make music like in the 80’s and 90’s, while being somewhat creative.
i got 35 y o . i know more than you can ever imagine . when it comes to music . anytime my man name it . hip hop or hindi or arab music even japanese. i know a lot about them obsolete singer as mr sinatra to tupac amaru shakur mate . you got that mate .
tamim ansari Again, clown GTFO. You dont know shit haha. From mr Sinatra to tupac Shakur. how vague can you be. And noone that know indepth of hindu/arab OR Japan music, would know real rap haha. Now go listen to Big Lurch.
In New York back then you had to have musicality AND dope lyrics. This13 year old kid had both heavy. Musicality in rap is the ability to mix up the flow without every line being predictable. Biggie Jay-z and Nas were all musical. So was Wu-Tang and a few others.
He's a Wu Tang affiliate that got started rhyming around 13/14 years old. This video came out around 94. This is from his album "Aka the rugged child (94)". His first 2 albums are instant classics👍! His story on how he came up is pretty sad. Just Google his name and you'll either shed a tear or just be mentally blown away.
At a young age this kid was addressing topics that really do happen in drug dealing neighborhoods!! He should show all of those new trap rappers how to write ✍️ real songs that people would start listening too!! Trap rappers can't touch this real raw Rap Music!!!
Bra that shit was wack I remember being a kid when this came out. And the time we looked up to him as super kid hero. That time never seen a kid rock out like that. He was hanging with the big homie at the time . Spitting freestyle with biggie being best friend with big L.
Fusionn Lord Finesse “Yes You May Remix” was his first appearance in Feb 1992 but he already was making records before that and did radio freestyles in 1991
My cousin came back from Newyork in 2001 with this album CD. He played it every day in the house. Before he travelled back to USA, I stole the DVD. I was so shocked that a young kid of this age had a lot to say about his environment. He wasn't moving with his age mates for sure. He a man's brain. Love all the way from Africa.
This song will always be in my rotation. This song in my opinion beats any of the nonsense hip hop that we unfortunately need to listen to today. #irockwiththewu
What goes on in the hood will never stop. The cycle will always continue. All you can do is tell the story through your point of view and then the next generation will do the same.
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I never understood why RZA didn’t produce an entire album for him. He should have reached bigger heights of popularity. This song has aged like fine wine.
The reason why is because shy was apart a production deal the Big Homie RNS who produced his classic Album. RNS was and still is that Brother on Staten Island..Where you think RZA get his style from?
rza wrote and produced the song little rascalz
@@jonez2020 faccts
Imagine a 14 yr old boy being bigger than you and your whole group , they wasn’t going let that happen
jeslousy..
Shyheim was only 14 here... Respect, what a flow... 🤝 The beat is dope
Hip hop, reality!! Catch up mcs. Classic material. Salute S.I.
Reminds me of Eazy
old school never dies and never will
So true ..
💯👍💯✌💯👌💯👍💯✌💯👌💯👍💯✌💯👌
You Know Dat
l hope never dies
I want to like this comment a thousand times bro!
1993: Children rapping like adults
2022: Adults rapping like children
Sad but true
Word
WOW SMFH NOT ONE LIE TOLD 😵💫 shits a damn shame
Real talk 💯
Truer words have never been spoken!!!!
His flow is still better then like 80% of today's music, especially rap. Hip-Hop needs to look at it's past man for real, music was way better.
Eminem is still the best
Tris Fireblood bullshit, he's one of the best.
but he sure as hell isn't the best in the entire world.
In my opinion, the best rappers are Hollywood Undead, Eminem, Kriss Kross, Snoop Dogg, Dre, Xzibit, D12, and thats just what i can think of off the top of my head
Tris Fireblood you need to listen to A LOT more artist before you say that. so many better artist out there.
meh
U will never find anything like this these days
Just make some reminisce of the good old days
Plenty of old rap to discover
Trust me bro....dis yoot had mad bars
Real talk
He will body bow wow
in the 90's...you could not be wack...u would get beat down seriously!!!...
Facts it was a trend to be Dope back in the 90's to be trash was simply not excepted
The Realest Talk..
I wish it were like that today ... IJS.
Now the beat just has to be good..
💯👍💯✌💯👌💯👍💯✌💯👌💯👍💯✌💯👌
This joint knock Harder than 98% of the bs they call hip hop today.💪🏾🎤✔
Yes mane 100%
ik tony, insane isnt it?
💯....BRING IT BACK NOW YALL🙌💞
Even though he was very young, he sounds harder & flows nicer than most cats today! Shyheim blesses the MIC from beginning to end. I never get tired of listening to this!!!
RAQUAAHWA TheCodedtestament Something you only realize after everyone becomes wack lol
Wow, 14 and better than most grown rappers just fkn unbelievable
NORE and DJ EFN talking crazy and wreckless. Shyheim was dope. The whole Wu was dope!
What was nore doing during this time? Nothing..lol
I just heard about that last night I gotta see it. But Wi Tang is one of my favorites of all time, More must have had beef back 8n the days that's the only reason I think he would just go against them
@@Jblah THATS A FACT WASNT EVEN THOUGHT OF
Wtruuuuuuuuuuu
The life they love to hate but want to live!!!
It's kinda sad that he saw all this at a young age but really incredible how he was able to report it. Shyheim is HipHop personified. Respond to the circumstance no matter how difficult it is. #GodEmcee
He didn't write his raps man. I think Wu members did it for him.
@@craigr4763 RZA said Shy wrote all his stuff....Just like BG wrote all his own stuff as a underage rapper on cash money. Kris Kross didn't write their material...
@@craigr4763 no matter what age, it is possible. Not dissing you at all but listening to him if you were a true fan of his music you’d kno the boy wrote his own raps. Shy was no other kid rapper, he was way ahead of his time.
@@smirror6964 I swear I heard that older members/affiliates helped with his lyrics. That's just something I remember hearing a long time ago.
@@craigr4763 nah dat was all Shy. I think even Rza I believe said he wrote his own stuff.
Sha Is legend ! Only One Kid who had old rapper skills ! Facts true legend
Go listen to BG
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JAMAL
Special Ed/Chi Ali?
A+ and da youngstaz
@@12MXC Exactly!!! In case they forgot
Shyheim was definitely ahead of time at one point during that time
i got chills right when the beat started its so street
-thomas1195 - no bullshit fam, i was like "word" and took another hit as brought it back once more. 💯
-thomas1195 - real talk
That rakim flow, occupying ever corner of the beat with ease. No pausing, no breaks. Hella breath control.
🙌💯
That's not rakims flow
@@javiervega1065 apparently 59 other peoole disagree with you 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
@@BoomSkwad47 they're trolls
Shyheim just got out of jail. Good for him. I love that kid. Word Life , son! be that shaolin style souljah superstar
I'm 37 years old and I'm still bumping my favorite childhood rapper
Back when rap had a message and was genuine before money and fame watered it down...salute to us old school cats
Dude was the rawest 14 year old ever! This kid at 14 is better than a lot of rappers in that era and kills most rappers now days
truuu
Nah lil gin
Yeah he can flow but guarantee he didn’t write that
@@joshuaakers8645he said in interviews that he wrote all of his lyrics.
@@youngm.a.r.s2614 he lied no way
The 2nd verse of this song Shyheim spit in a freestyle with Tupac an Biggie live at a concert in New York. I had it on cassette tape and was blown away how he held his own with two legends like Pac and Big. Shyheim a underground underrated legend point blank period
Chosen One I was wondering where I heard that verse before
Would like to hear that.
i havent heard thatt in forverr thanks forr the reminderr
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@@michigancleaningcrew4508 No problem bro
I'm 59 years old I was born in King county Manhattan in 1965 and raised at the downtown Brooklyn New York City salvation home for boys, every time I hear Nas, it makes me feel even more proud of where I came from, and my Brooklyn heritage, I love you nas and what you stand for, and how true you have stayed throughout the years, I pump your old school music daily, much love
Everything about this song is beyond amazing.
I’m glad I grew up on real Hip Hop🔥🔥
Am I the only one Loving the Drums
Josh Morgan Sooo crisp yet gritty. Always the first thing my ear picks up when this starts playing. That snare.. dayum!
its sounds like a sharp 909
Wow..
Trepdem Morgan
Something that today's rap doesn't seem to have anymore.
yes only u
When kids were spitting meaning and knowledge
Still my shit 7 years later. I remember hearing this sophomore year of high school. I was deep in educating myself in hip hop and had ventrued into wu tang and their affiliates. This shit popped up on a oldschool hip hop instagram page and I had to look this shit up immediately. Then I listened to the album, the rest is history.🔥
A 14 year old with mad flows. That's killer.
Know. Of. Him . . never. Cheked. His. Beatz . . gotta. Go. Back. An. Find. His. Flavor . .
Anthill - 2 Sadler why.... do. ... you... type.... like ..... this
Lmfao some people are just different
14? He looks 11...
@@thebeatnumber puberty is different for everyone
One thing I've always loved about him... he has lyrics but also an incredible flow.. he rides the beat in a way that not everyone can
Shyheim is one of the best emcees to start at a young age and he was 14 when this was released.
I'm 30 & this is HARD AF!!!! CLASSIC TO THE ONES WHO BEEN ON GAME. MAD RESPECT 🙏🏾💪🏾🌹
U at the age we’re u going back to the roots like me keep this shit jamming hommie
Bro I’m 30 too my boys put me on to him like 12 years ago listen to wu and big L smoking blunts on L rides. Shit was amazing
30 here & I'm loving this 💯
Back then I was like was shorty cursing sooo tough lol 😂 reminded me of shorties around the way
LISTEN TO WHAT THIS YOUNG BROTHER IS SAYING!! IT PRETTY DAMN SAD! STILL DOPE AS FUCK! IRONIC
Forrrr reallllllllll sad an dope
Good news! 10 years later and all these problems have been solved!
Classic early 90s sound.
Back when youngsters had substance and were tapped into what was going on around them not like today's youth who only care about social media likes and fairness...still bumping this track today, Shyheim was the realest young head back in the day, glad I grew up in the Golden Age of Hip Hop where originality and skills meant something and not everyone was called "Lil" or "Young"...Salute Shyheim ✊🏾✊🏾 waiting for him to drop new darts...and for Vlad to drop the full length interview!!
some shit today is way realer
As example the drill wave
So underrated unreal talent
Still here in 2024❤❤❤
Nore done bumped his head. This kid is a legend
💯
I didn’t realize how crazy this video and song was as a child. It’s amazing what me & my generation went trough as kids. I couldn’t imagine children going trough what I went trough. Just think, everything in this music video was every day life In the 90s. This was normal life. That’s shocking to me now that I think back on it. Honestly it seems unreal
real hip hop at its finest
2018 and still bumpin this funk.
Much love from Texas 🤟
Fuckin right
2019 and still bumpin this funk.
2020 and yep...
2024 and beyond❤
nyc needa come back like this
Shy was blazing then and still blazing.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I show this to my nephews to show them how we use to be.
Keep showing them. Hopefully they'll be influenced by this REAL SH-T!! If they go the 🍪 cutter way they'll only be hot for the "moment". Keep spreading the "lyrical" gospel 💆👍✊!
Bro sound like Bart Simpson 😂 he was rapping some real stuff tho 🤔🔥
I'm back in my time machine traveling to when music was good
This was the golden era. I remember this lil nigga and I wanted to be that kid that famous kid rapper back then. Now I dont even want to be categorized in this new wave of bullshit.
Can I hug you?
“I never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?” That line hit me so hard. No kid should ever go a year without Christmas. And no kid should ever have to live in the hood. It really amazes me how this kid who’s like 14 or something is able to make better music then most rappers today. Modern hip-hop really has to change. We need a person to kill of mumble rap, and make music like in the 80’s and 90’s, while being somewhat creative.
Mumble rap is easier for dumb people to understand that's why real rap now gets overlooked
@@TheGrimeekid for real bro it's on us old school rap heads to keep the flame of real hip hop burning
Fck xmas
ONLY TRUE HIP HOP HEADS KNOW!!!!!
I've always had love for this song since day one. Salute King 🌹
The best era of rap proud to be from this era I’m a 80 baby
This was my shit back in 93. Shyheim was so underrated man really ahead of his time!!!
Remember hearing on the radio late 1993. And it blew up in the summer of 94 bra
Has to be acknowledged how young he is and the way he ripped this wowwww what a time
BRING THE REAL ORIGINAL HIP-HOP BACK!!
This makes me feel like I'm still chilling wit my crew in front of the bodega with some wings covered in hot sauce back in the 90's
This real rap music right here I wish grew up in the 90s experience this
Youngin spitting that fire, sep 2019 still banging.
Damn !Shyheim. Your skills are off the walls.You murked every lyric .Once i saw this i fell in love with you. I was 14. We need this Shyheim back !! 💓
From the golden age of BET Rap City.
dtownlove10 For real!! Miss those days!!
dtownlove10 was actually much vibe rip but up bet for life
Before Jews at Viacom swallowed up BET
@@TheHumanBallsack forreal its like Chappelle said in his show once they get their hands on some thing its over
That nigga shyheim always been dope.I remember being in a group home listening to his music all the time.
That album was classic an before its time
I love you shyheim you are my favorite rapper
One of the rawest deliveries on a hip hop track ever. Vocals jump at [me] kind of like AZ's verse in "Life's A Bitch" (Illmatic).
To be rapping like dis at that age (which looks like 12) at THAT TIME is beyond incredible
Shout out to Shyheim FR 💯
the best tracks you can get from a young cat like shyheim underground music we miss things like that npwadays
Were you even alive when this song came out?
i got 35 y o . i know more than you can ever imagine . when it comes to music . anytime my man name it . hip hop or hindi or arab music even japanese. i know a lot about them obsolete singer as mr sinatra to tupac amaru shakur mate . you got that mate .
tamim ansari lol clown gtfo
tamim ansari
Not gonna lie, you're kinda corny.
tamim ansari Again, clown GTFO. You dont know shit haha. From mr Sinatra to tupac Shakur. how vague can you be. And noone that know indepth of hindu/arab OR Japan music, would know real rap haha.
Now go listen to Big Lurch.
Still WU... enough said, watch your back and your steps
My shit!! I use to Crush on Shyheim in the 90s!! Loved the ''Rugged Child ' album! Classic!! Free Shyheim!!!!
When I was a child is still hot
How does this only have 400K views? I have watched it about a thousand times
I Saw This Video A Trillion Times Already
He is a younger version of Big L :D
More Method Man than BIG L
More like little illmatic nas
Mixture of nas and Big L
He was a peer of L and collaborated with him so makes sense
Descanse en paz Big L 👺
In New York back then you had to have musicality AND dope lyrics. This13 year old kid had both heavy. Musicality in rap is the ability to mix up the flow without every line being predictable. Biggie Jay-z and Nas were all musical. So was Wu-Tang and a few others.
I’ve exchanged DMs with Shyheim and he’s a super dope person on and off the mic. Excited to hear new music!!
Damn this kid got skills 💯💯. Just found this doing a random old school rap sesh
He's a Wu Tang affiliate that got started rhyming around 13/14 years old. This video came out around 94. This is from his album "Aka the rugged child (94)". His first 2 albums are instant classics👍! His story on how he came up is pretty sad. Just Google his name and you'll either shed a tear or just be mentally blown away.
At a young age this kid was addressing topics that really do happen in drug dealing neighborhoods!! He should show all of those new trap rappers how to write ✍️ real songs that people would start listening too!! Trap rappers can't touch this real raw Rap Music!!!
Came back here after Nore called him a flunkie on drink champs SMH he bumped his head the rugged child will never be that
Bra that shit was wack I remember being a kid when this came out. And the time we looked up to him as super kid hero. That time never seen a kid rock out like that. He was hanging with the big homie at the time . Spitting freestyle with biggie being best friend with big L.
Check out his "Manchild" album and video if u haven't heard it.
This shit still bangs. HAAAAAAARD!
Use to hear this on HOT 97 back in early 1994.👍🏾
Happy 41st Birthday to Shyheim 2020!!!
Lil big L
@H Man Big L came out in 1991
@@hiphopsouljah7221 No he came out in 1992. He first appeared on Diamond D's Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop album.
@@fusionn4316 ruclips.net/video/av6Y_kcsKUY/видео.html
@@hiphopsouljah7221 That song came out on his first album aka Let 'Em Have It "L".
Fusionn Lord Finesse “Yes You May Remix” was his first appearance in Feb 1992 but he already was making records before that and did radio freestyles in 1991
Man if we could get this music back in the mix as of today the world would be a better place
My cousin came back from Newyork in 2001 with this album CD. He played it every day in the house. Before he travelled back to USA, I stole the DVD. I was so shocked that a young kid of this age had a lot to say about his environment. He wasn't moving with his age mates for sure. He a man's brain. Love all the way from Africa.
Please never delete this video
old man got shot in front of my building I hang with his grandchildren the list goes on 90s hip hop the greatest
Michael Williams a old man got shot , in a parking lot* infront of my building. I hang with his grandchildren
This song will always be in my rotation. This song in my opinion beats any of the nonsense hip hop that we unfortunately need to listen to today. #irockwiththewu
maaan this little homie was so street for his age o.o, but wtv, never get tired of this awesome track !
This makes me want to workout crazy, this era of music will never be forgotten. Much respect ✊🏽, mad respect ✊🏽
his best song by far ...
Shyheim... wherever u r now. please know U were Born A Prophet....keep bringing the flow. U always had something special
Shyheim had that flow right here.... Damn this still sound mean... Listening in 2k19✊🏾✊🏾.
What goes on in the hood will never stop. The cycle will always continue. All you can do is tell the story through your point of view and then the next generation will do the same.
Sad..education is the way out..
Just bobbin and vibing! Wow how I miss real hip hop! I mean this kid raps better than 90 percent of rappers today! Facts!
I got caught trying to steal this cd as a child, bcuz mom and dad would not let me use my own money to buy it lol Good times as a young dumb kid..!!
😂✊🏽
Damn what happen to rap
RT
Mumble rappers and 2 word lyric autotune artists, that's what happened lol
Everybody selling their soul nowadays for hits.
rip
Crazy true . .
listening to this on repeat 21/06/24 ❤❤❤
Essa música é um hino do Hip Hop, essa música está entre uma das minhas favoritas.
This is just on another level 🥰🔥 I miss the good old days 😥 ‘94 was THE BEST year for hip hop, hands down 🙌
WU-TANG CLAN REPRESENT!!
Shoalin!
Rather lisin to this than lil pump six 9 all them mumble fools
So mature for his age my goddddd
One of the illest tracks ever !!!
The good old days. I miss the 90s
Damn. So much talent he had. Rapping and acting. Its a shame he's in jail now. Hold your head in there Shyheim.
He's been out already homie
He’s out , he’s on IG @shyheim_rugged check him out🎯