Their most underrated song....I remembered this when it made its debut on rap city...I knew they were going to be great...this song was eons ahead of it's time and it introduced us to the Neptunes sound...98 was a great year for hip hop indeed
Agreed! I used to work at BET during this era and it was nothing less than a magical time. Clipse were definitely slept on. Shame on you, music industry.
I declare myself one of the very first Clipse fans ever in Cali. Back when this came out, I kept pumping them and not one soul had heard of them until years later.
“One of my best friends who actually championed the record-Shampoo-he got killed soon after as well and we wrote about him in ‘Virginia.’ Pusha T: “’The Funeral’ was written at a time when a few of my friends had died. It seemed like we were going to an abnormal amount of funerals all at once. I wanna say it was probably around like four or so, but they were just really back to back. So we decided to make a song eulogizing ourselves. That’s essentially what ’The Funeral’ was-two eulogies of myself and Malice. The beat was so dynamic though that it really caused a stir. It was just loud and chaotic and it sounded like the second line that they do in New Orleans funerals where they march down the streets. We shot the video with that in mind. I love that record and that video. I was definitely still growing [as a rapper]. I was young and rebellious and the rap was just totally untamed. For me, it’s just a time stamp telling everything that was going on in that period.” - Pusha T on Clipse's "The Funeral"
Both are good in their own right. Pusha T covers the dichotomy of a coke dealer pretty well in an end justify the means manner. Malice had held the dichotomy of good vs. evil manner.
I remember when this joint dropped. I went to my local Mom & Pop store and asked for The Clipse and dude said “who?” After a while, they disappeared. Never thought they would turn out to be who they are.
I remember seeing this on BET sophomore year of college in 99. I thought this joint went hard then and it still does. I hope the Neptunes go back and do some more beats like their early joints.
This song is legendary on many levels. The fact that you guys wrote your own eulogies in song form was un thought of cuz nobody wants to imagine there own passing, let alone talk about it. The thing I respect most about this song was yall were living your truth which is what makes this record so powerful. The video for this made the song even more heart wrenching while being creatively astounding. Art imitates life and yall captured that moment yall were going through and brought us into the mindset you were walking in. Definitely none like yall boys in VA... So glad this was not the story tho.. peace. DFAITH
@@6mic respectfully Mase's song was about what they would do on their last day on Earth... The clipse song is about my last wishes after im dead. Both dope songs but this was on another level yo 🤲🏽
@@The495marauder I stand corrected. I think im about to delete this comment. I ran thru the comments and every other one is ppl saying they remember watching this on Rap city all the time back in the day.
Pusha’s voice was sooo ill back then. He sounds sooo young with sooo much grit in his voice. The beat reminds me of the Otis beat with the chopped up sample. This was flames 🔥
I had this beat back in 2004-2005 when I use to host a studio at my spot. I use to dl anything from the clipses off limewire because I knew the neptunes was doing their production. Nobody rapped off this beat and I’m glad I did because now I got to experience the real song and the real 7 cities. I love music man 🤣😂
crazy i remember this is before i knew who the clipse was. Forgot about them until gridin came out and I was like oh shit those cats from the funeral. man the VA bros are a great duo
I was playing basketball in my front yard, I had my stereo hooked up in my garage with an extension cord. The only local hip hop station played this and So Icy back to back....what a time to be alive.
I was an adult when this came out and I never saw it even though I love hip hop and especially Pharrell. It goes to show you need to sample everything and keep looking for music you're not familiar with.
Wow. But, I guess because I’m from 757 VA, like the Clipse, I can’t expect the nation to be up on Clipse from day 1, like we were. But, you didn’t hear Grindin first?
Gosh I am getting old. Lol. Saw this originally on BET, wasn't Rap City tho, when nobody nationwide knew who the Clipse were yet.... I remember thinking, still do, Malice's & Pusha T's earrings are way to big in this video, LoL....
This song was great... The album was very good based on the early tracks I heard considering that half the beats they used ended up being hit singles for other artists...
Pharrell/Chad's late 90s work is slept-on
For real, I love the early Neptune's stuff it was grimey and fresh
This is the hardest Clipse song, hands down.
Other than nightmares fosho
I'm Serious is up there.
Yeah it is!
This is correct. I remember seeing this video on Rap City and being like, holy shit, who are these dudes
No argument from me.
I love the over-dramatic, animated body language. It went so well with the video.
Their most underrated song....I remembered this when it made its debut on rap city...I knew they were going to be great...this song was eons ahead of it's time and it introduced us to the Neptunes sound...98 was a great year for hip hop indeed
Agreed! I used to work at BET during this era and it was nothing less than a magical time. Clipse were definitely slept on. Shame on you, music industry.
Use to run home early from classes to catch this video on Rap City ...will never forget 1999 and still 🔥🔥🔥🇯🇲
If this was re-recorded, this would've been a hit today.
Malice's verse is godlike.
Mad Marx Media LTD Damn straight, ironic that he bowed to Yeshua
Mad Marx Media LTD already
He was preaching 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I usually feel like Pusha T and Malice did a good yin and yang thing on their albums, but Malice kind of bodies Push on this song.
mah5191 but it’s good tho you came here after that drake and Pusha t diss huh
This one of the dopest pharrell beats
Chad Hugo too, those horns are probably Chad's
Shit Pharrell and Kanye’s beats were so ahead of its time.
From "The Funeral" to "Life Change", what a ride it's been.
I declare myself one of the very first Clipse fans ever in Cali. Back when this came out, I kept pumping them and not one soul had heard of them until years later.
Can’t believe this only just now got added to Spotify. Legendary song now 21 years old
“One of my best friends who actually championed the record-Shampoo-he got killed soon after as well and we wrote about him in ‘Virginia.’ Pusha T: “’The Funeral’ was written at a time when a few of my friends had died. It seemed like we were going to an abnormal amount of funerals all at once. I wanna say it was probably around like four or so, but they were just really back to back. So we decided to make a song eulogizing ourselves. That’s essentially what ’The Funeral’ was-two eulogies of myself and Malice.
The beat was so dynamic though that it really caused a stir. It was just loud and chaotic and it sounded like the second line that they do in New Orleans funerals where they march down the streets. We shot the video with that in mind. I love that record and that video. I was definitely still growing [as a rapper]. I was young and rebellious and the rap was just totally untamed. For me, it’s just a time stamp telling everything that was going on in that period.” - Pusha T on Clipse's "The Funeral"
Ocean Sage "We miss you Shampoo!"
+The Mr2000 Show com And ya Grams too...
My nigga....
"We miss you Shampoo, and your grams too"
757 Trucker yeah one luv to y’all in da 7 cities y’all a different breed of swagger ya diggg
Both are good in their own right. Pusha T covers the dichotomy of a coke dealer pretty well in an end justify the means manner. Malice had held the dichotomy of good vs. evil manner.
Malice and Pusha are mad animated in this video. lol
probably the best verse ive heard from malice honestly. legendary song
His verses on "Champion" and "Life Change" seem to be pretty introspective. Not necessarily better, but they always pop into my mind.
djokawari his verse on I’m Not You.... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fly Genyus his verse on whamp whamp
you need to hear more Clipse songs then...Popular Demand verse is one of many
I’m not you summarizes his brand of hip hop
I remember when this joint dropped. I went to my local Mom & Pop store and asked for The Clipse and dude said “who?” After a while, they disappeared. Never thought they would turn out to be who they are.
Underrated Clipse, back in 1997, damned beat, lyrics and song!
IM2BiZ I think both is 99 cuz that when it got play on rap city
This was 1998
Song was made in 1999........STILL SOUND NEW......JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW MUCH MUSIC HAS DROPPED.
Melvin Chavers yea you could tell. pusha don't even have braids
Word Pusha had fresh but must of to begun to grow braids after Video
Melvin Chavers Or how insanely talented Pharrell is.
Even before 99 like 96-97
@JoJo killz 3000 How do you know?
never ever thought i'd see Push without his braids .. only seeing this video for the first time
This is a lost gem. So good
one of the best songs ever written
I wish rap still sounded like this...
I remember seeing this on BET sophomore year of college in 99. I thought this joint went hard then and it still does. I hope the Neptunes go back and do some more beats like their early joints.
One of if not the hardest cleanest beat I've ever heard
This song didn't do so well because it was too far ahead of its time. This could drop today and be a top 100
It just released 🖖🏼
Right on
Eric Garcia they was on Eastwest and got shelved but this video got play on rap city tho
Yupp
Well no but when i heard the beat I believed it was 2020 cos it says on spotify but when you hear them rapping you can tell... still hot tho
Still one of my Favorite Clipse Jointz!!!! When the Neptunes was on Their Way!!!!
This song is legendary on many levels. The fact that you guys wrote your own eulogies in song form was un thought of cuz nobody wants to imagine there own passing, let alone talk about it. The thing I respect most about this song was yall were living your truth which is what makes this record so powerful. The video for this made the song even more heart wrenching while being creatively astounding. Art imitates life and yall captured that moment yall were going through and brought us into the mindset you were walking in. Definitely none like yall boys in VA... So glad this was not the story tho.. peace. DFAITH
Listen to "24 hours to live" by Mase, The Lox, Black Rob, and DMX. That whole song is their eulogies!
@@6mic respectfully Mase's song was about what they would do on their last day on Earth... The clipse song is about my last wishes after im dead. Both dope songs but this was on another level yo 🤲🏽
Drake ain't nothing compared to uncensored Clipse
The best hip hop video you've never seen.
Rap city played this for a long time. It’s how I found it back in the 90s
@@The495marauder I stand corrected. I think im about to delete this comment. I ran thru the comments and every other one is ppl saying they remember watching this on Rap city all the time back in the day.
16 years later Pusha T still relevant
20
This drop in 98/99
22
nearly 25 years later
Legends
Pusha voice and cadence has definitely evolved since this video
B.E.T. Uncut used to, play this like crazy!
"Exclusive Audio Footage" was my joint!
Heard this LONG before grinding. Undeniable.
Pharrell looking 15 in this one.
nigga looks 15 now
DavidFiggs lol
Pharrell been looking 15 for the past 30 years
@@larrymiles100 🤣
Malice verse is one of the Greatest of all time. Too Cold. 🥶
To cold
Pusha’s voice was sooo ill back then. He sounds sooo young with sooo much grit in his voice. The beat reminds me of the Otis beat with the chopped up sample. This was flames 🔥
I know right. He was like 21, 22 years old at that time and fast forward to 2002 when "Lord willin" dropped his voice got deeper
STILL flames til tis day!!!!!!!!
I remember the first time hearing this.... i was blown away
I first heard this on DJ Clue mixtape show. When he was on Hot 97
I had this beat back in 2004-2005 when I use to host a studio at my spot. I use to dl anything from the clipses off limewire because I knew the neptunes was doing their production. Nobody rapped off this beat and I’m glad I did because now I got to experience the real song and the real 7 cities. I love music man 🤣😂
crazy i remember this is before i knew who the clipse was. Forgot about them until gridin came out and I was like oh shit those cats from the funeral. man the VA bros are a great duo
I remember getting this mailed as a free promo CD back when nobody had heard of The Neptunes or The Clipse and loving their trademark snapping snares.
do you still have that cd??? that’s hip hop history right there!
My favorite Clipse track
I was playing basketball in my front yard, I had my stereo hooked up in my garage with an extension cord. The only local hip hop station played this and So Icy back to back....what a time to be alive.
U guys was ahead of ur time dope
Remember this was a 102.9 JAMZ special. #757
Boodah Bros 6-10 and then 2-6
this is a powerful song but the video is really powerful great job
Zeek Word yeah, this song and video never got enough shine when it dropped....so slept on.....
Pusha with the low cut! Clipse the shit!!
This song is still FIYAH!!!
no more tears no more fears , i'm french and this song kick my ass
THE NEPTUNES PRODUCTION YEZR!
Still Relevant to this day ♟🎻⚰️🖤🎶♣️♠️🏴🌑🌎🛐
i remember watching this on rap city in 199
a bos I was thinking the same
I was an adult when this came out and I never saw it even though I love hip hop and especially Pharrell. It goes to show you need to sample everything and keep looking for music you're not familiar with.
This was their first ever video that appeared on national television. I seen it on BET
If they re-release this. You would think they wrote this yesterday.
hardest/coldest clipse rap song !!!!
When the Neptunes go hard...... they shit is flawless! I remember watching this video on Rap City and just rocking!
I always use to order this video on the box
+Tellemwhyuglad Hahaha, I did that too! - I couldn't remember what it was called. I used to order this, and MC EIHT Automatic.
Damn! The Box!? You brought it back!
Tellemwhyuglad I use to order bone thugs crossroads on the box
Woah I always thought The Box was a local Dutch station because of the lowbudgetness and how they didn't do things like other stations
OttoNL Nah Playa Florida had that Muhfucka too where I'm from..... I remember LL 4,3,2,1 was Real Popular that and Aaliyah One In a Million....
This is on a next level compared to Drakes Cat in the Hat-type elementary Raps
Reppin' Gun Hill Rd( The Bronx) remember them as youngsters before they moved to Va.
patrick y Ppl don't know that about them
What they not from Bronx
@@halloffamegeo741 they were born there but moved to VA as kids.
One of the sickest videos
These guys are so awesome. Better than almost anything on the radio.
Push was going crazy 😂💯🔥
He went by Terrar here
2016 still 🔥🔥🔥
Va sht, tidewater sht, 7 city sht, 97, before the world heard of clipse this was that hit locally, classic
Pusha wrote a letter to his brother. that was beyond dxpe
Still goes hard over twenty years later
This came out in the 90's !!!!!!
God damn Electra shelved album....
First albums are usually done with special fire, if only they dropped it .
Their first joint, I remember this like yesterday
The first clipse song I heard
Wow. But, I guess because I’m from 757 VA, like the Clipse, I can’t expect the nation to be up on Clipse from day 1, like we were. But, you didn’t hear Grindin first?
@@koreysylver9276 nah I heard this waaaay before grindin
Hardest Clipse beat ever.
Back when pusha t was known as Terrar
Hell yea, Terror and Malice I remember that
Ppl slept on this song
Amazzzzzzzzzzing!!!!!!
Here in 2018 😂
Malice destroyed this
Malice ate this song up
Extremely underrated song. 2019 banger.
Very much an under rated group.
Gosh I am getting old. Lol. Saw this originally on BET, wasn't Rap City tho, when nobody nationwide knew who the Clipse were yet....
I remember thinking, still do, Malice's & Pusha T's earrings are way to big in this video, LoL....
The first time I saw this Was like 97 or 98 long time ago push was spittin 🔥🔥 back then sheeshhhh
The good old times..
I wasn’t outside when this dropped cuh
The Whole Eclusive audio Footage album is a classic!!! Sad it was never officially Released..
CLASSIC!
RIP DRAKE since 1999
Basses Mehdi this was 97
IM2BiZ lol i think the video is 99 but idk if it was recorded in 97
Meanwhile...Drake is at a photo shoot posing in blackface.
that is because he is a jew. he does not even consider himself black.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Drake was in 7th grade when this came out bruh. Lol 1998-1999
Thanks for keeping this alive!
Still 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is for all of those we lost that was in the struggle or going through the struggle. #Love #Respect #R. I. P.
This song goes hard
Song so hard just came across it 2021
This song was great... The album was very good based on the early tracks I heard considering that half the beats they used ended up being hit singles for other artists...
They gave Hear Me Out to Jadakiss and he had the hottest single of his career
Very true
But the Neptunes sound is the reason they shelved this album
They gave them a lot of great beats that didn't make a great album. The subject matter was too dark for the party style beats
+Sylvester Diggs Especially on Got Caught Dealin 1&2. Which in my opinion has the best Pharrell verse of his career
I’m mad they don’t do this no more for real
Damn they look young asf why I'm just now hearing this
I remember this.
they albums always had a religious title.
In case you wondered, this is the funeral for all the wacky rappers they just killed with this song
this still fire. jamming to this as a teen
Thanks for keeping this video alive. I haven’t seen this in years!
Keep sleeping on pusha ....one of the most underrated mc’s