48 year old white guy from Oakland here. I was 17 when this came out shortly after the East Coast "Self Destruction" collaboration came out. I loved both. I was a huge NWA fan and of course seeing Hammer and Digital Underground on here as a Bay Area kid made me connect. I knew the message wasn't for me, but I felt it's weight and respected more than just any track by these artists. We need some of this today. It's about personal accountability and responsibility.
you know MC Hammer recorded his verse after asking why his hit on 3rd Bass hadn't been carried out yet? Talk about a lack of personal accountability and responsibly lmao
@Steven Darkins Right, I go to Chicago often. Get Twista, Crucial Conflict, Common, Da Brat and some other OGs in the game and get with the newer artists Chief Keef and others to do a peace treaty song.
That's just it, they don't want Peace, they want anarchy and hatred to be the fuel for their own discontent so they can play the blame game and continue the ways of the past.
in this crazy world , this song would be called a racist song because the dear to speak truth ! if they only would blame white people in this song it would be called revolutionary ! same shit but worse today and you're totally right ! why is nobody doing this right now ! it dont fits the blame game narrative
East had they own thing and West had they own thing. Still crazy to me. Both sides of the coast going through the same thing just different styles, beats, slang, etc.
I'm a 48 year-old white male who grew up in this John ra of music and still to this day cuz that music is sure in the hell better than this music.. and as a teenager in this city is Chicago in the early 90s mid-90s it didn't matter what color you were white brown black purple orange yellow green did Chicago Police had orders is there a commander no teenager was safe. In the message in this song lasted for a the hoodlums today are too stupid to listen
Check out L.A Underground Scene..... Good Life/ Project Blowed.... They always was there and they 'll never leave. Start with : Riddlore-de la ghetto Otherwize- very much a Threat Mister CR -Independent Hustle Rifleman- faces oder def Quaesar, 2 Mex, Busdriver, Really toooooo many to Name ngafsh-boss oder da ghetto Afterlife records-iz Hip-Hop dead? You will see..... Its still there..... In the most purest form
The difference is all the Self Destruction artists lived their peaceable words -to this day. Unlike most of the west coast artist herein. To them this was an antic for optics. Like Dr. Dre years later with 'Bitches "Ain't Shit-type themes.
Chosen One im 43 years old, i remember when this came out, i was thinking these rhymes were dope, then DU's part came up, and that beat drop...damn! Speechless. still one of the best verses in hip hop
THIS SO COLD!!!!!!! Maybe no one will read this But in case you do Can You Put A "Thumbs Up "So Others Can See. I Just started rapping seriously Type in ( Lunden Ivory - Holding On freestyle ) people will ignore this but if you don't can you listen, comment and subscribe Thank you all God Bless
I mean most artists back then had a similar delivery as well. Every era has a format. The main difference now is not much is regionally distinguishable anymore. Still a dope idea fasho, we need that unity now more than ever
@@jeronjones7959 not gonna argue with u over that i get what are u trying to say, but back then "Biting" in any form or way were the worst crime any rap artist could do. Shark N****s, remember that?
@@rezagorgin5707 Facts can't be debated ain't make my comment for dat. As much of a cardinal sin as it might've been it was happening. Wouldn't have had Nas, Pun etc if it wasn't for G rap. Everybody borrows something, it's considered culture for a reason. Love n respect tho
@@jeronjones7959 I agree. That's Inspiration and that's how things eventually evolve. U can't help but to get similar to the people u admire so much. that much is surely accepted. Peace !
Digital Underground come in with one of the best opening rhymes for its time. "America-the red, the white, the bluein. The blue and red for Bloods and Crips, the white for whos got you doin time for busting caps on one another??.." DOPE!
Ice T, Easy E, etc. "Had the best rhymes" man fk that! Everyone was on point with their flows. And the production was clean af. Especially how the beat changed to match each artist! This was slept on back in my day but I always admired this record for it's unity and message.
Slept on...? More like a lulling back to sleep on a beautiful trojan horse to promote more of Hollywood's money sex drugz = power. Just see if another ngga got his head blown off in the next record or so & see what I *meen*.
Real shit. S*** was so cold back in the days that is still relevant 24 years later... I remember buying this on cassette back in the day. Anyone else miss Eazy E?
Yeah Ole Eric Wright A.KA. Eazy - E if he was here in the music studio rapping he'd probably make more record sales that some of the rappers that suck today......
Love how Eazy never waves his hands much and flexes and etc. He always looks like a king in the crowd, leading and ruling shit). He defenitely had much respect And still has. LEGEND
Yes, Hammer did. People don't know that Hammer started off as a hard underground rapper, playing his music on KPOO and selling mixed tapes (way before he became Hammer-Time). He just changed the game and gave a new versatile perspective that reached across all color lines and borders.
We 40 and over black folks lived through the entire crack epidemic. Outside of slavery that almost destroyed us. We still climbing out from under that nightmare.
I was about 12 when came out in 90. I was a white kid who was obsessed with hip hop. the creativity and consciousness of the rappers at this time was incredible. This song showed the immense talents and unity of West coast artists. 5:07 I had this taped on VHS and would watch it daily. Just about every artist kills their verse-even Hammer & Young Mc. On the low, Above the Law was one of my fav groups. It’s sad I had to learn so much of Americas events from hip hop instead of the news or history books during this time but I also feel fortunate as well. Hip hop during this era to me is the greatest musical form ever invented period-ever.
I was a teenager when this video came out, i remember all the crazy shit happening back then. Damn...RIP Eazy E Love and Respect for all other 90s hip-hop Icons!
@Hersey Berry why even pit the two songs against each other? They were both dope with great messages. I was in high school when they both came out and I loved both, especially this one because it exposed me to a bunch of west coast artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise like Above the Law, Def Jef, and King Tee.
Well WTF is a "multiple" Hip Hop Community....as opposed to a "single" one??? (I swear people make up shit, trying to intellectualize and trivialize blackness).....
Shock g killed it..always been a digital underground fan I can never get used to the disparity between Michel'le's singing voice, and her speaking voice! I can never get used to the disparity between Michel'le's singing voice, and her speaking voice!
Damn, when I was 6 I use to go through my Mom's cassette case, I remember liking this one the most. I would sit there for hours playing and rewinding it haha. Man I miss those days. RIP hiphop
Tone loc one of the most underrated mc's of all time, he had it all delivery, word play and punchlines, and young mc too very underrated, they came from the delicious vinyl camp.
@@olearyeugene I would say more of a realest, while every is saying quit cold turkey and come together, E knows what's up. Gonna take more than a song to bring generations of bangin to an end.
Young M.C. deserves acknowledgement on this. " I try my best to set an example, saying hype lyrics over Hip Hop samples, NOT JUST TO BRAG OR BOAST BUT TO INFORM".
I'm a white boy and I am of the generation that was grew up on heavy metal and rap, even before Walk this Way, Run DMC's early stuff was full of guitar rock riffs, which I believe were done by Kerry King and Tom Arya of Slayer, they also did the guitars on the seminal Beastie Boys You gotta fight for your right to party and No Sleep Till Brooklyn, those songs just reinforced my love of hip hop, I was in 6th grade we Kurtis Blow, If I ruled the World, then LL Cool j, Fat Boys, Run DMC dropped Walk this way and it was over, the early hip.hop was fun. But still gave messages Slick Rick Children's Story , Teenage 💘, my school was 45/4o white/black / Laotian and Latino(we had large Laotian population) everybody got along we all played football together, it was middle-class all the way my dad owned a Barstow, next door was shoe repair and apolstry and my Dad was 6'6 300 lbs former boxer/ LB and opened barbershop, whole team got haircut for free, the shoe shop/ hooked up the old Nike Shark football shoes to be I'm school colors with players number on it. The owner if shoe shop was African American and his son was my best friend and our QB and we practically lived at each other's houses. It was in fairly big Midwestern city, I think now days the media and wants us to racially divided. It was better in the 80s and 90s! Still best friends with my lifelong friend too!
This is a song that should be re-made BY this GENERATION OF HIP HOP ARTIST... THIS SONG IS A CLASSIC... IT DID BRING THE GANGS TO HALT FOR A MINUTE... Think about it!!! Stop the Violence Young Hip Hop Artist of this Generation... LIVE FOR THE FUTURE... SAD CAUSE EVERYONE OF U WERE YOUNG AND VERY TALENTED AND TO BE GONE AT THE BEGINNING OF UR PEAK HAS LEFT SO MANY OF UR FANS LOST N HEARTBROKEN... NO MATTER THE DIFFERENCE MAY THE LORD GUIDE YOU ALL ON UR NEXT JOURNEY N THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE MUSIC THAT U ALL HAVE SHARED WITH US... MANY BLESSINGS TO ALL UR FAMILIES... (REST IN PARADISE)... NOW TO THE REST OF THIS GENERATION OF HIP HOP ARTIST, "YOU ALL SHOULD COME TOGETHER N DO A RE-MAKE OF THIS AMAZING SONG".... ITS UP TO YOU ALL **TO STAND UP N STOP THE VIOLENCE N MAKE A CHANGE**... Just Saying be A LEGEND not just an idol once there... LEAVE UR LEGACY YOUNGSTERS OF HIP HOP.... Much Love you all....
Samples used in this song: Pleasure - I’m Mad Dexter Wansel - Theme From The Planets (Drums) 0:03 Chil-L.- Give More Power To The People James Brown - Say It Loud, I’m Black And I’m Proud (Vocals) 0:16 James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Vocals) 0:20 James Brown - Untitled Instrumental Syl Johnson - Different Strokes 0:39 Cash Money - Ugly People Be Quiet 1:20 Dennis Coffrey - Scorpio (Bongo) 1:23 Funk, Inc. - Kool Is Back (Drums) 1:42 Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Bass) 3:26
But you gotta admit, self destruction was a better video even though the message was the same. Shit I remember when these videos came out. Old skool is real skool 😁
Big ups from Philly, this track was dope back in the day. I loved this, when Humpty step up and said America, the red the white and blue and, I had to jump up!
What a classic. Someone gave me the full album cassette for Christmas when I was a kiddo. I played it on loop all the time. And introduced me to a whole new genre of music that I'll always be grateful for.
when humpty starts rappin and that beat changes whoooo man!
Definitely fire.
he turnt it up notch
👃👓lots of beat change ups. ssso gooood🔨🔨🔨
His verse was the most unique bc half of them had two rappers going back and forth while he's going back and forth with his own alter ego
RIP Shock G...❤❤❤❤
Yes.. rip 🙏🏾
48 year old white guy from Oakland here. I was 17 when this came out shortly after the East Coast "Self Destruction" collaboration came out. I loved both. I was a huge NWA fan and of course seeing Hammer and Digital Underground on here as a Bay Area kid made me connect. I knew the message wasn't for me, but I felt it's weight and respected more than just any track by these artists. We need some of this today. It's about personal accountability and responsibility.
Tone Loc was in both videos
"White guy from Oakland", there are White people in Oakland?
and yo mc u missed that @@jada8047
you know MC Hammer recorded his verse after asking why his hit on 3rd Bass hadn't been carried out yet? Talk about a lack of personal accountability and responsibly lmao
@@FromThe36thChamberain’t 3rd base white? 😮
Record companies hurried up and got this kind of rap outta here🔥🔥
Divide and conquer is the only way they roll
Word. Rap like this could have changed the world. They hurried up to push the other side of the narrative.
Yep can't have us talking about stopping the violence an sticking together
@Buck Rogers gtfoh
@Buck Rogers don't you have a meeting or cross burning to attend
That Shock/Humpty verse is the rawest of all-time
I’m not gonna lie... Shock-G’s verse was the tightest... Flipped it back and forth to Humpty... solid
RIP Shock G...❤❤❤
I just played his verse back 10 time3
3:15 I can just listen to Shock-G verse over and over again
THERE WAS NO ALTER EGO HUMPTY WAS SHOCK G'S BROTHER THE WHOLE TIME....IT WAS BROUGHT UP DURING HIS EULOGY...
No dis but he not the only one was good
The breakdown with digital underground was so hard
It was the hardest 💯💯💯💯💯💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
🔥🔥🔥🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱💯💯💯
They stood out. And tone loc
Hell yes!!! Still Mad hard in 2020
Oh yes!!!🙌🙌🙌
This is what modern rappers need to do for Chicago.
@Steven Darkins Right, I go to Chicago often. Get Twista, Crucial Conflict, Common, Da Brat and some other OGs in the game and get with the newer artists Chief Keef and others to do a peace treaty song.
Rap will never be the same
And everywhere, too.
@Steven Darkins me too
101st
Down the street from Percy L Julian High-
Went to Marcus Garvey Elemetary
Now living in Atlanta
Still rep 60643 ❤❤❤
Say that again!!!!
Back when Hip Hop was about spreading awareness and message. R.I.P. Eazy and Shock G
R.I.P. Heavy D and KMG
@@leebutz4727 they weren’t on this
Not Heavy D
@@roderickstockdale1678 You are absolutely right. I watch the Self Destruction video before this one and conflated them both. 🙏🏿
@Lee Butz… me too.. me too
I wish todays rappers had this vision, came together to show unity and representation, and make songs with powerful and positive messages like this.
I agree but it seems today rap promotes being a gangsta
@ THIS POINT, WE NEED A FEW SONGS AND THEN SOME REAL RESULTS, WE GOT REAL
👮OPS💯💯💯
That's just it, they don't want Peace, they want anarchy and hatred to be the fuel for their own discontent so they can play the blame game and continue the ways of the past.
in this crazy world , this song would be called a racist song because the dear to speak truth ! if they only would blame white people in this song it would be called revolutionary !
same shit but worse today and you're totally right ! why is nobody doing this right now ! it dont fits the blame game narrative
Facts
This and Self Destruction were amazing 🔥
Facts 💯‼️‼️‼️‼️
East had they own thing and West had they own thing. Still crazy to me. Both sides of the coast going through the same thing just different styles, beats, slang, etc.
Om I jus 🤔same thing & I'm 29 but I Kno gud music I remember this song & video
Agreed
And that HEAL yourself project joint was dope too!!!
Tone loc... Underrated asf😎
For me it was ice t dude was just pure west coast
Today's Lupe✊🏿👊🏿
yeah i used to love his voice and dat wild thang...
Still here in 2023 ❤ we need more rap like this ! Please bring it back !!!
I'm a 48 year-old white male who grew up in this John ra of music and still to this day cuz that music is sure in the hell better than this music.. and as a teenager in this city is Chicago in the early 90s mid-90s it didn't matter what color you were white brown black purple orange yellow green did Chicago Police had orders is there a commander no teenager was safe. In the message in this song lasted for a the hoodlums today are too stupid to listen
In the 80's and 90's rappers were much more united than now despite the coastal wars.
Check out L.A Underground Scene..... Good Life/ Project Blowed.... They always was there and they 'll never leave. Start with : Riddlore-de la ghetto
Otherwize- very much a Threat
Mister CR -Independent Hustle
Rifleman- faces oder def
Quaesar, 2 Mex, Busdriver,
Really toooooo many to Name
ngafsh-boss oder da ghetto
Afterlife records-iz Hip-Hop dead?
You will see..... Its still there..... In the most purest form
We gone bring it back ‼️
For sure forgot all about this joint but it rings true today
Rest in peace, Shock G.
❤❤❤
Ok I will
He is dead??..i saw him last night at Hip Hop Evolution 😭
🙏
RIP #TheOneThatPutTheSatinOnYourPanties
These are the REAL OG’s and the REAL rappers!!!! The Kings and Queens of Rap!!
So true
The difference is all the Self Destruction artists lived their peaceable words -to this day. Unlike most of the west coast artist herein. To them this was an antic for optics. Like Dr. Dre years later with 'Bitches "Ain't Shit-type themes.
@@KingvKing Very valid point!
Amen sis real Men in this one
And you know it
"MY BABY AIN'T NEVER HURT NOBODY....BUT HE STILL GOT SMOKED AT BEBE's PARTY" [ EAZY-E ] 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Game copied him
Shock G was on another level.
Facts
Big facts him n money b was
P😊😊@@Mookaron
Diabolical"Shock G" RAW= Greatness at Its BEST.....🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Shock G is so underrated. So much talent.
The West Coast version of " Self Destruction" . I love and Respect it.
(this is old but what the hell)
Avengers infinity war:the most ambitious crossover of all time
West coast hip hop from the 90s:
@ANDREW SAMPSON.... I WISHED BOTH SIDES COULD HAVE COLLABED TOGETHER... THROW IN CUBE AND PAC...THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELLA FIRE.
Nah...it the West Coast version of We're All in the Same Gang...
❤❤❤❤❤
@@sinfulthep773 yeah that is true
Eazy E just has a natural flow that I can't get enough off. Whatever he says is just comes out so smooth.
“MY BABY AINT NEVER HURT NOBODY”!
@@carpediem4512 But be still got smoked at Bay Bay's party.
People forget he was measuring stick for Tupac and Biggie....
RIP SHOCK G/HUMPTY 🕊
❤❤❤
He/They had the hardest part of the Song.
I don't remember no other rapper switching characters like that in the same verse.
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@@bobrob376 K-Rino 💙👊🏽😎
Shock came through with the tightest verse of all
RIP Shock G
He went crazy 😎
Right!👍🏽
Shock G was humorous. MC Hammer and Young MC was very commercial. All three kickass!
I can never get used to the disparity between Michel'le's singing voice, and her speaking voice!
@@michaelnunez6123 Me too!
Ya KNOW!!?
Lol
Some Milli Vanilli stuff goin on there.
I always thought that voice difference was an act. But whuddo I know?
Shock G ripped this ish!!! That beat drop was too sick
Chosen One im 43 years old, i remember when this came out, i was thinking these rhymes were dope, then DU's part came up, and that beat drop...damn! Speechless. still one of the best verses in hip hop
The beat drop on tone loc's part was f****** dirty too bro. This song is genius
THIS SO COLD!!!!!!!
Maybe no one will read this But in case you do
Can You Put A "Thumbs Up "So Others Can See.
I Just started rapping seriously Type in ( Lunden Ivory - Holding On freestyle )
people will ignore this but if you don't can you listen, comment and subscribe
Thank you all God Bless
One of the greatest bay area legends
Please Hammer don't hurt em
'we won't see this type of Unity in HipHop no time soon.....
Nope smh
Gotta be pressure to do it. 80's gang violence was bad. The times created the song.
Sea Pea Golden age hip hop era will always send messages
yea cus there's no more mc's
HipHop died with these MC's
As an old schooler I would love to see young rappers today do something like this . It's long overdue.
most of em gonna sound the same on the same track so i dont see it happening LoL
I mean most artists back then had a similar delivery as well. Every era has a format. The main difference now is not much is regionally distinguishable anymore. Still a dope idea fasho, we need that unity now more than ever
@@jeronjones7959 not gonna argue with u over that i get what are u trying to say, but back then "Biting" in any form or way were the worst crime any rap artist could do. Shark N****s, remember that?
@@rezagorgin5707 Facts can't be debated ain't make my comment for dat. As much of a cardinal sin as it might've been it was happening. Wouldn't have had Nas, Pun etc if it wasn't for G rap. Everybody borrows something, it's considered culture for a reason. Love n respect tho
@@jeronjones7959 I agree. That's Inspiration and that's how things eventually evolve. U can't help but to get similar to the people u admire so much. that much is surely accepted. Peace !
Shock g killed it..always been a digital underground fan
bars
digital underground rule!
Yea me too, as its weird how tupac the one that created humpty shock g alter ego!!!!🤗
Absolutely destroyed this track... shock bodied the track... still hard in 2020
Rip
R.I.P The Great Shock G and The Great Easy E.
When Humpty goes hard with his "alter ego"...SHIFT CHANGE!!! 😂😂😂
Evry time I watch/hear this jam that's the part I'm waiting for ... killed it
When rap stood for something. How the mighty have fallen 😢
Now it's a death sentence smh
It stands for mumbling now
Hip Hop still stands for a lot of great messages. You just can't tune into the radio.
Digital Underground come in with one of the best opening rhymes for its time. "America-the red, the white, the bluein. The blue and red for Bloods and Crips, the white for whos got you doin time for busting caps on one another??.." DOPE!
Hina Dude, that was my favorite part too. That was some Bars he spit.
Make you think on that one
That beat change was dope
For years I never knew what he said. 😂
Why u never understood what he said BLACK JESUS it was clear an understanding
M.C. Hammer so cool he wears a full leather jumpsuit in the summer
And he still was able to pull off a spin move😂
😂😂😂
Mc hammer is no chump in no way shape or form
lol
With shoulder pads!
This song and "Self Destruction" were both dope ass songs about the same subject. 2 classics
FACT
And the song “heal yourself”
@@slycooper1979I forgot that song. Thanks for the reminder
3:14 The Shock G And Humpty Hump verses went so hard when I was a teenager I studied this song until I mastered those parts! 🔥💙
Ice T, Easy E, etc. "Had the best rhymes" man fk that! Everyone was on point with their flows. And the production was clean af. Especially how the beat changed to match each artist! This was slept on back in my day but I always admired this record for it's unity and message.
Slept on...?
More like a lulling back to sleep on a beautiful trojan horse to promote more of Hollywood's money sex drugz = power.
Just see if another ngga got his head blown off in the next record or so & see what I *meen*.
Eazy-E himself will tell you how he dabbles w/the devil via records & real-life/etc*°
No foolz over here*°
❤ this comment!✊🏾
Easy never wrote none of his song tho..lbvs I believe D.o.c wrote this..
da trill dc Dre and doc and cube wore his songs but when he went solo all those sex songs that he done it . Gimmie that nut automobile he wrote that
Digital Underground & Eazy E did their thang.
ronny davis and hammer
Hammer was on point
ronny davis,
Pac was still a roadie at the time right?
@@508ctk yup
@@Moe-qn8fg,
Thanks.
Much RESPECT for every artist on THAT SONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shock G killed it with his verse!
yeah, gave me chills.
East’s part was dope too.
It was the beat
Real shit.
S*** was so cold back in the days that is still relevant 24 years later...
I remember buying this on cassette back in the day.
Anyone else miss Eazy E?
yea may he rest in peace.
Ohitika Píško THİS İN NOT SHİT THİS İS FİRE :)
Yeah Ole Eric Wright A.KA. Eazy - E if he was here in the music studio rapping he'd probably make more record sales that some of the rappers that suck today......
I think the tape was black?single
24 years ago!? ...damn Im old! 🤣
Love how Eazy never waves his hands much and flexes and etc. He always looks like a king in the crowd, leading and ruling shit). He defenitely had much respect
And still has. LEGEND
I respect the West like they love the South . some of us have the same dam problems no matter what hood ya from
Yeah and they shitted on him in that movie
Needs to be played on every station at least once a day.
one of the stations in my area plays this sometimes on Sundays when they play old school music. I have heard it twice on there.
+TheGamerOfTheAwesome
you in cali? 93.5 kday?
+Acaciastreet yeah but in Sacramento.Hot 103.5 Sundays for Sunday school. V101.1 the rest of the week.
This & Headed for Self-Destruction
AT LEAST!
Don’t act like Hammer didn’t do his thang.
Still here for this.
2023 ✊🏾
People say that Mc hammer had all the of Oakland on his side. He didn't play either listen at rappers talk about Mc hammer
@@WinstonCharles-fy9lx hammer was the most feared mc at dat time
Yes, Hammer did. People don't know that Hammer started off as a hard underground rapper, playing his music on KPOO and selling mixed tapes (way before he became Hammer-Time). He just changed the game and gave a new versatile perspective that reached across all color lines and borders.
@@shararosierose3133 real talk bruh, mad love from ALGERIA 🇩🇿, peace
I like King T's verse. He is a talented and very underrated emcee. One of the best
he is one of the original West Coast Pioneers when it comes to Gangsta Rap
RIP King T
@@chibang492 King Tee is no longer living??
He still alive smh
This was such an amazing cultural moment. A message for humankind and done by some of the greats of all-time. More of this today, please.
It was a message, not a movement......movements apply to everyone......all black men don't gang bang.
@@chriso8193 who said “movement?” A message in the *moment.*
dam u still arguing my god he didnt say nothing wrong but u just has to nit pick @@chriso8193
We 40 and over black folks lived through the entire crack epidemic. Outside of slavery that almost destroyed us. We still climbing out from under that nightmare.
They should bring back all the surviving rappers and do an updated version for Chicago and Detroit.
Most def
Hmmm, they should get Mos Def and Talib Kweli on it.
I love my city Detroit..
Truuu much needed ‼️💯it
An St.Louis
I was about 12 when came out in 90. I was a white kid who was obsessed with hip hop. the creativity and consciousness of the rappers at this time was incredible. This song showed the immense talents and unity of West coast artists. 5:07 I had this taped on VHS and would watch it daily. Just about every artist kills their verse-even Hammer & Young Mc. On the low, Above the Law was one of my fav groups. It’s sad I had to learn so much of Americas events from hip hop instead of the news or history books during this time but I also feel fortunate as well. Hip hop during this era to me is the greatest musical form ever invented period-ever.
Fucking whole joint was like " fuck it I'm delivering this message, kill me if you want..."
@@81carlos yes sir. Greatness of all these coming togetjer
R.I.P to our fallen OG HipHop brothers and sisters on here. Especially our fallen brother on here that just recently left us. R.I.P Shock G 💙🙏🏼🕊️
I was a teenager when this video came out, i remember all the crazy shit happening back then. Damn...RIP Eazy E Love and Respect for all other 90s hip-hop Icons!
RIP EAZY
Shock G killed it 🔥🔥 I used to watch this on the box as a kid in the Bay Area
RIP Shock G...❤❤❤
RIP Shock G...also one time I ran the phone bill up to 300🤑 ordering videos from the box...got a good ass whooping and started watching MTV 🤣🤣🤣
@@crisrockzz6892 Lmao same here, I also ran up the bill for Crucial Conflict Hay
The VIDEO JUKEBOX back then👍🏾
Humpty verse felt on point & personal...& how the beat flipped was a master piece...powerful & legendary...R.I.P shock G.
Eazy straight killed it save best for last and it went smooth nuff said
yes he did.
GenuineXLegacy .
It's the era baby
s how it eazzze
GenuineXLegacy eazy always went last.
GenuineXLegacy R.i.p Legend of West Coast...Gangasta for love...N.w.A. !! Forever
This shit is dope. It should have won the Grammy
It should've gone platinum. Top ten.
Self-destruction had a stronger message but this song still goes.@Hersey Berry
@Hersey Berry why even pit the two songs against each other? They were both dope with great messages. I was in high school when they both came out and I loved both, especially this one because it exposed me to a bunch of west coast artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise like Above the Law, Def Jef, and King Tee.
You mean a black entertainment grammy????
They try 2 act like living in the ghettos cool and fun like a vacation..lol
R.I.P. Eazy-E
father of gangsta rap
I'm 54 and have never heard the West Coast "Stop the Violence". Now i have💯
You late… 😂
Where you been???😊
Quite a powerful message from a single hip-hop community.
Well WTF is a "multiple" Hip Hop Community....as opposed to a "single" one??? (I swear people make up shit, trying to intellectualize and trivialize blackness).....
Shock g killed it..always been a digital underground fan
I can never get used to the disparity between Michel'le's singing voice, and her speaking voice!
I can never get used to the disparity between Michel'le's singing voice, and her speaking voice!
And that's the chorus too
Digital Underground has one of the best verses.
RIP Shock G...❤❤❤
Shock G is all need to be said. RIP brotha
Damn, when I was 6 I use to go through my Mom's cassette case, I remember liking this one the most. I would sit there for hours playing and rewinding it haha. Man I miss those days. RIP hiphop
Easy E’s voice is freaking legendary!!!!
Tone Loc's too ! #legends
Damn, back then rap was amazing. Flow, rhymes and message. Pure Gold
Facts
Yes
Humpty 🐐 🔥 RIP Shock G
Humpty said it best. "Are you working for the clan"! Deep!
Tone loc one of the most underrated mc's of all time, he had it all delivery, word play and punchlines, and young mc too very underrated, they came from the delicious vinyl camp.
I fortunately met Tone Loc here in Clearwater Beach, FL at Sheperd's after his show. Nice guy to sit and talk with.
SO TRUE. HIS VERSE WAS DOPE!
4:28 MY BABY AIN'T NEVER HURT NOBODY! BUT HE STILL GOT SMOKED AT BABY PARTY---- Eazy E
My guy,I was looking for this comment...🤭🙆🏾♂️
His verse was more on the opposite end of the song to me but still dope.
Thinks it's "Bebe" party
"Bebe's" party. ala "Bebe's Kids" from Robin Harris, earlier that year (1990). Geez, I see someone was born after Generation X.😒
@@olearyeugene I would say more of a realest, while every is saying quit cold turkey and come together, E knows what's up. Gonna take more than a song to bring generations of bangin to an end.
When Shock G took over. Damn! He killed it!
Let’s argue: humpty, easy e and hammer had the best verses. Young Mc was slept on. Humpty aka shock g has the best verse. R.I.P 3:17.
Shock G, Hammer, Tone Loc and Young M.C.
No argument there. The flows, cadences and rhymes were on point.
Digital Underground 🔥🔥🔥
RIP Shock G....❤❤
That beat goes hard & everyone had dope rhyme schemes
Young M.C. deserves acknowledgement on this. " I try my best to set an example, saying hype lyrics over Hip Hop samples, NOT JUST TO BRAG OR BOAST BUT TO INFORM".
Shock G, Young MC, Ice T, Hammer, and Eazy E tore that song up.🔥🔥
The unedited version does better justice to Young MC and Ice T’s verses since they got edited in the video version
@@Boygonebad RIP Shock G....❤❤❤
And Michele’ singing the hook!
@@truthhurtz8517 RIP
RIP SHOCK G aka HUMPTY HUMP who killed it along with Digital Underground when he switched the beat at 3:14.
Born in 1982 and I'm still bumping this ✊🏾🖤✊🏾
Me too and born in 1989 ✨💕
Hell yeah love this jam bumping in 2022 💯🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶
Me too bro
Born in 95 bumping this 🙏🏽💪🏽🎧
Born in 84, I'm jamming to this.
Easy e was and is the most gangsters dude off all time. Nobody could mess with easy e
I'm a white boy and I am of the generation that was grew up on heavy metal and rap, even before Walk this Way, Run DMC's early stuff was full of guitar rock riffs, which I believe were done by Kerry King and Tom Arya of Slayer, they also did the guitars on the seminal Beastie Boys You gotta fight for your right to party and No Sleep Till Brooklyn, those songs just reinforced my love of hip hop, I was in 6th grade we Kurtis Blow, If I ruled the World, then LL Cool j, Fat Boys, Run DMC dropped Walk this way and it was over, the early hip.hop was fun. But still gave messages Slick Rick Children's Story , Teenage 💘, my school was 45/4o white/black / Laotian and Latino(we had large Laotian population) everybody got along we all played football together, it was middle-class all the way my dad owned a Barstow, next door was shoe repair and apolstry and my Dad was 6'6 300 lbs former boxer/ LB and opened barbershop, whole team got haircut for free, the shoe shop/ hooked up the old Nike Shark football shoes to be I'm school colors with players number on it. The owner if shoe shop was African American and his son was my best friend and our QB and we practically lived at each other's houses. It was in fairly big Midwestern city, I think now days the media and wants us to racially divided. It was better in the 80s and 90s! Still best friends with my lifelong friend too!
This is a song that should be re-made BY this GENERATION OF HIP HOP ARTIST... THIS SONG IS A CLASSIC... IT DID BRING THE GANGS TO HALT FOR A MINUTE... Think about it!!! Stop the Violence Young Hip Hop Artist of this Generation... LIVE FOR THE FUTURE... SAD CAUSE EVERYONE OF U WERE YOUNG AND VERY TALENTED AND TO BE GONE AT THE BEGINNING OF UR PEAK HAS LEFT SO MANY OF UR FANS LOST N HEARTBROKEN... NO MATTER THE DIFFERENCE MAY THE LORD GUIDE YOU ALL ON UR NEXT JOURNEY N THANK YOU FOR CREATING THE MUSIC THAT U ALL HAVE SHARED WITH US... MANY BLESSINGS TO ALL UR FAMILIES... (REST IN PARADISE)... NOW TO THE REST OF THIS GENERATION OF HIP HOP ARTIST, "YOU ALL SHOULD COME TOGETHER N DO A RE-MAKE OF THIS AMAZING SONG".... ITS UP TO YOU ALL **TO STAND UP N STOP THE VIOLENCE N MAKE A CHANGE**... Just Saying be A LEGEND not just an idol once there... LEAVE UR LEGACY YOUNGSTERS OF HIP HOP.... Much Love you all....
HEEEEEELLLL NAW, CUZZ THIS GENERATION IS 😖🙃🥴
Who would you suggest remake it?
Young M.C. and Humpty Really And Truly Had The Hardest Messages!! But The Whole Family Was The Truth!! 💯💯💯 We Need This Today!
RIP Shock G...❤❤❤
Samples used in this song:
Pleasure - I’m Mad
Dexter Wansel - Theme From The Planets (Drums) 0:03
Chil-L.- Give More Power To The People
James Brown - Say It Loud, I’m Black And I’m Proud (Vocals) 0:16
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Vocals) 0:20
James Brown - Untitled Instrumental
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes 0:39
Cash Money - Ugly People Be Quiet 1:20
Dennis Coffrey - Scorpio (Bongo) 1:23
Funk, Inc. - Kool Is Back (Drums) 1:42
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Bass) 3:26
When the beat dropped on Humpty verse 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Eazy E, MC Hammer, Shock G/ Humpy, King T, Dre and Ren, etc. On the same song. True classic track.
R.i.P Eazy E
Been listening to you since 10
I'm 44now.:
When this dropped, I thought Hammer was the weakest dude in the song.
30 years later, I know Hammer was running that set like a boss.
omg right lmaooo
Серьезно?)
Lool right! ,😂😂.
Wouldn’t say the weakest, but his verse was alright for hammer, but I rank others a lot higher on this track. I like Eazy’s verse the best. Classic!!!
I think most of us feel that way now lol
Only ones missing in this video from the West in that era were Too Short, Sir Mix a Lot and of course Ice Cube.
And Pac. Digital Underground WAS on here, were they not?
Pac wasn't with Digital Underground yet when this came out.
+Kwaku 忍者 (DAT NINJA) He was a background dancer for them around that time.
What about DJ Quick! Wish he was on this classic!
Lew Alcindor they should of put crip and bloods in here too
Ice - T tho! The real OG of gangster rap.
No
Mc schooly d
Schooly started it. Ice-T took it to another level.
his old stuff is funny shit.. deff og!
It would be dope if Schoolly D was on this track.
NWA and the rest of the rappers made this song back in the year 1990 and this song is going hard
3:16 was the dopest verse
RIP Shock G/Humpty Hump rapping as two different personas on the same verse. GOAT status.
Exactly! I had just posted this😂. I love when Shock G goes back and forth with his "alter ego". Like you said, that alone was GOAT status LOL.
Thank you for making me realize this! So good I watched it 3 times...and counting!
OG Ice T was cold
"My baby ain't never hurt nobody, but he still got smoked at Bae Bae's party" Eazy E
senseless murders still going on n 2020, Rest easy Pop Smoke
Best line in the rap
@@rodrickbradley4707 smoke got popped for a reason
Classic!
One of the most deepest and hardests rap songs ever made.
Back when rap means something
Humpty is just one of a kind!! Rest in peace ❤ eazy e is stilll in my car radio till this day
Love it! ♥️♥️♥️
The East Coast had “Self Destruction” and the West Coast had this video 😊😊😊
1000
But you gotta admit, self destruction was a better video even though the message was the same. Shit I remember when these videos came out. Old skool is real skool 😁
@PremoMeztiso .....I was just watching that video before this one.....10-4-2020@10:43am....Laughing.
Yo when the beat changes when humpty start rapping!!!!! Favorite part
Mc Ren is way underrated
shock g too.
Criminally underrated
REN WAS THE DOPEST AND MOST LOYAL
yeh Ren is a quality rapper
@@bluv812 so true!
Songs like these are the best so many legends ❤️🔥
Big ups from Philly, this track was dope back in the day. I loved this, when Humpty step up and said America, the red the white and blue and, I had to jump up!
I'm 28 and I agree with everything Shock G saying
Shock smoked it... still hard in 2020
This beat was sick as fuck back then. Shock G and Shock G as Humpty killed it.
They're sure did they're verse is the one I remember most
Shock G has to be the most underrated MC and hiphop musician ever.
The message of this video gives me chills. POWERFUL!!!!!
Str8 classic from "The Dayz of Wayback". 👍🏼
MrWicked61671 funny nwa has a song called that
MrWicked61671 final days of officer friendly
Unknown ehi c'è ne sono di italiani eh ;-)
What a classic. Someone gave me the full album cassette for Christmas when I was a kiddo. I played it on loop all the time. And introduced me to a whole new genre of music that I'll always be grateful for.
Classic...the West Coast version of 'Self Destruction'. But due to video runtime, they had to cut out JJ Fad and Oaktown 3,5,7.
thank god
@M N I have a 12 inch