Northern Touch (Official Music Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2018
  • Music video by Rascalz performing Northern Touch. (C) 1998 Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc.
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  • @djensomnea
    @djensomnea День назад +155

    Here from Drakes story button

  • @ronaldsabino1310
    @ronaldsabino1310 День назад +23

    Thx Drake for reminding me of this masterpiece ❤😂

  • @mbogucki1
    @mbogucki1 2 года назад +27

    "I like chillin, Monday night Raw watching
    Me and Daneo at the Sky Dome when it's in town"
    Man I miss the 90s.

  • @96youngjay
    @96youngjay 4 месяца назад +35

    Still listening to this in 2024🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @mikebogucki5832
    @mikebogucki5832 2 года назад +34

    Late 90's in the TDot was where it was at. Best decade.

    • @geekpharm2108
      @geekpharm2108 Год назад +2

      Broooooo i keep saying this to every human i meet- no better time and place

    • @77Creation
      @77Creation 4 месяца назад +1

      I'd rather be in Toronto, for sure.

  • @MeanBeanKerosene
    @MeanBeanKerosene 5 лет назад +303

    This entire song is a rapline of Canadian music royalty.

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 года назад +6

      Thrust wasn’t all that either if we’re being real. Ironically Thrust did the best on this particular track trying his best to sound like B.I.G. And pulling it off pretty good.

    • @randydube1423
      @randydube1423 4 года назад +7

      It's missing Michie Mee, but she was out the game by the time this was conceived.

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 года назад +2

      Yess

    • @amchow78
      @amchow78 3 года назад +14

      Not without Maestro Fresh Wes! 😉
      #JustSayin

    • @DIGIHENDRIX300
      @DIGIHENDRIX300 2 года назад +2

      so glad i found this page.. not enough canadians supporting their own.. you should add Yardi Black aka Mykill Darcshyne.. dudes been a o.g for a long time lots people dont know. keep up this page and stay blessed.
      yardi black ruclips.net/video/tlaVPTuEnUo/видео.html
      Mykill Darcshyne ruclips.net/video/jvgYk3A_1SU/видео.html

  • @tnice8282
    @tnice8282 5 лет назад +62

    Remember this the Summer of 98 on Rapcity

  • @whatsthedirt
    @whatsthedirt День назад +6

    Drake is showing love to Canadian Hip Hop in Canada Day 🇨🇦 🫡

  • @championchuck777
    @championchuck777 День назад +7

    With a young Melyssa Ford on the lap.

  • @SL504NYY26
    @SL504NYY26 4 года назад +98

    I was bumping this all the way down in New Orleans. Was the part of the soundtrack of my senior year (SHOUT OUT C/O 2000)Have ALWAYS respected the 6 hip hop scene.... Thank you Canada

    • @bigrod8816
      @bigrod8816 4 года назад +4

      SL504NYY26 appreciate the love but most of these guys are from Vancouver Canada, not Toronto

    • @forgotaboutbre
      @forgotaboutbre 4 года назад +4

      @@bigrod8816 Daaamn northern touch all the way down in the dirty south?

    • @SymbolicSplenetic
      @SymbolicSplenetic 3 года назад +2

      @@bigrod8816 Kardinal was from Toronto though for sure. Dude went to my school. Graduated a few years before I went so I never met him or anything, but yeah he was on the wall of pictures of grads. By the time I was in gr 9, he was already all over much music so everyone knew.

    • @hitek9too255
      @hitek9too255 2 года назад +6

      Word! I'm from and love Toronto hip hop; Madlocks, Ghetto Concept, Saukrates, Kardinal, Drake, etc.

    • @KK-cb1eb
      @KK-cb1eb 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@bigrod8816kardi, choclair definitely from Toronto. As is Saukrates who appears in the vid.

  • @WhosCallingPlease
    @WhosCallingPlease 4 года назад +26

    Aw. He called it the Sky Dome. ❤️

    • @mikepereira2273
      @mikepereira2273 5 месяцев назад +5

      It is the Skydome

    • @KingKogi
      @KingKogi 4 месяца назад +1

      It is forever the Sky Dome in my mind d

    • @user-zo8jk9jh6h
      @user-zo8jk9jh6h 5 дней назад

      @@mikepereira2273 Rogers Centre but you call it what you want

  • @martinokezie
    @martinokezie 24 дня назад +3

    I had this on tape. Played it on repeat till my cassette broke.

  • @CaapriceTube1
    @CaapriceTube1 3 месяца назад +5

    FOREVER A CLASSIC

  • @gladlawson61
    @gladlawson61 Год назад +23

    Criminally underrated group.
    Thrusts lines on this are the best

  • @from_each_to_each_1848
    @from_each_to_each_1848 3 года назад +137

    This blew up so hard in Canada when it dropped, respect

    • @Ohcanada28
      @Ohcanada28 3 года назад +1

      @Oh Canada oh boy.

    • @avalanwa
      @avalanwa 2 года назад +1

      Facts bro. Good times.

  • @shawngaetz8161
    @shawngaetz8161 Год назад +6

    Canadian Wu Tang and I'm here for it!!

  • @RoLPeace
    @RoLPeace 2 года назад +7

    Good ol' MuchMusic. Damn! I miss those days.

  • @JennieAndOwen
    @JennieAndOwen 5 лет назад +23

    This should be the anthem for the Raptors. #northovereverything

  • @exposedhobo
    @exposedhobo 4 года назад +41

    I think ill still be here 30 years later pulling this up every time i want to show people the best of canadian rap

  • @yourguilty4465
    @yourguilty4465 4 года назад +18

    40 year Italo Canadian I grew up on this shit !!!!! I wish they would do with Canadian tour

    • @missjuliej1
      @missjuliej1 Год назад +1

      They're part of OVO this year in Toronto! Whole line up of canadian artists!

  • @canuckfan1745
    @canuckfan1745 2 года назад +31

    they don't make rap like this no more. sad times we're living in.

  • @alexjessop5330
    @alexjessop5330 5 лет назад +34

    When the raptors won the finals this song came to my head

  • @theodorep9569
    @theodorep9569 3 года назад +59

    how has it been 22 years... damn life moves fast.

    • @1moreastronautttv
      @1moreastronautttv 3 года назад +1

      how has it been 23 years... damn life moves fast.

    • @EvangeleFlyrr
      @EvangeleFlyrr 3 года назад

      @@1moreastronautttv you might even say the years start comin' and they dont stop comin'

    • @adee1626
      @adee1626 3 года назад

      For real

    • @mikepereira2273
      @mikepereira2273 6 месяцев назад

      Get busy living or get busy dying.

  • @patrickgrondines6781
    @patrickgrondines6781 3 года назад +10

    this is real Canadian hip hop

  • @richgauthier1946
    @richgauthier1946 Год назад +12

    This is still a beauty in 2023!

  • @deepblue2
    @deepblue2 Год назад +21

    I remember when this track dropped. They came out swinging with this one and it became a grand slam IMO. Also, that opening beat 👌

    • @nathanmciver6496
      @nathanmciver6496 Год назад +1

      Look up! You will find it there with where it came from! What Mo O? Not cool these days devil? Thanks for the cheap credit! Wheres my wife? Sure as hell isn't you

  • @moer7795
    @moer7795 2 года назад +7

    Still amazing boys …… CANADA

  • @seithseith
    @seithseith 2 месяца назад +3

    Years later, this still hits

  • @tanyab7034
    @tanyab7034 2 года назад +19

    Canadian hip hop Gold 💛🍾🏆🎖

  • @bigelakafatdaddychannel5002
    @bigelakafatdaddychannel5002 4 года назад +19

    This song goes hard greetings from Baltimore

  • @sarahgordino6695
    @sarahgordino6695 2 года назад +16

    Still blast this in the car while driving through these streets.

  • @derrickbraithwaite-mais8469
    @derrickbraithwaite-mais8469 3 года назад +11

    Canadian talent.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @DataLal
    @DataLal Год назад +5

    Can't believe this song is a quarter century old already. Such a classic. It was on MuchMusic all the time back in the day.

  • @volcommerce
    @volcommerce 4 года назад +18

    baby blue soundcrew was poppin around that time, this joint used to knock on much, classic

  • @bigal1456
    @bigal1456 Год назад +46

    Makes me very proud to be Canadian 💯🙏♥️🇨🇦🇨🇦

  • @ToothpickTony2
    @ToothpickTony2 5 лет назад +17

    I remember this song 20 years later.... was the tune i liked most in Rap category in 1998.....in T.O all ages clubs ... or back in the day on City Tv ... back when local Toronto Tv channels were more Local..... I miss these days ... Was allot of fun

  • @Ann-hm7gj
    @Ann-hm7gj 25 дней назад +2

    Omg this song use to play everwhere
    💯 103.5 haha

  • @bmorephasion
    @bmorephasion 4 года назад +8

    I can't front...This had me checking for T Dot back in da day...Along w Sean Paul videos with them bad ass chicks

  • @Goatchild90
    @Goatchild90 Год назад +6

    Because of this song I knew what reall hip hop was. Props to all these Canadian Kings

  • @MladenTheBoss
    @MladenTheBoss Месяц назад +1

    I give this song a "YES SIRRRRR" stamp of approval.🔥🔥🔥

  • @philchroniger7839
    @philchroniger7839 3 года назад +6

    I remember bumping this shit at parties in 98 bc I was *that* head in high school (living in Virginia, not a lot of heads were hip to Canadian MCs).

  • @I_LUV_SEO
    @I_LUV_SEO 11 часов назад +1

    Drizzy got me here LFG

  • @steelpipetv2073
    @steelpipetv2073 Год назад +6

    Northern Touch should of had a billion views by now I guess they dont like to see greatness in Canada I dont understand what happened this was the blueprint for all Canadian rappers

    • @stever1412
      @stever1412 Год назад

      Home is where the hate is man. Toronto's has this weird thing where they like to kill their own rappers out of jealousy. There's a few RUclips documentaries u can find on the topic

    • @Mike-hu3pp
      @Mike-hu3pp 7 месяцев назад +1

      As amazing as this is and was the blueprint was created before. Think of guys like Maestro original Canadian hip hop. Great time in hip hop and unfortunately Canada is now known for Drake. He couldn't read the blueprint.

  • @tyrellsayese7564
    @tyrellsayese7564 2 года назад +5

    Nothing but Canadian love in this video

  • @tinatriantafillos3910
    @tinatriantafillos3910 9 месяцев назад +1

    When the video dropped on MuchMusic, every teenager in Toronto was like "'woahhhhhhhhhh.... we're here!....." This jam still hits hard.

  • @danielirving7209
    @danielirving7209 4 года назад +23

    Needed Maestro in this song 100%

    • @amplecleaner
      @amplecleaner 4 года назад

      Daniel Irving -Yup

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 года назад

      Whoa didn't realize that the north god wasn't on the track

    • @dewyglover3880
      @dewyglover3880 4 года назад

      Let's petition for a new northern touch tune

    • @villiantwo
      @villiantwo 3 года назад

      + monolith crew! + saukrates

  • @EvilCracky
    @EvilCracky 4 года назад +5

    Checkmate the Legend =) Vancouver legends, Amazing shit still to these dayz

  • @africaRBG
    @africaRBG 4 года назад +33

    The goldern era of canadian hip-hop, late 90s-mid 2000s. Great memories. We had our own style, while americans were lost in their bling-bling era.

    • @KillaSin515
      @KillaSin515 4 года назад +3

      Stop. NY still ruled hip hop at that time.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 года назад +5

      @@KillaSin515 i didnt say that canada ruled hip-hop at that time. I said it was a golden era for us. And new york was not on top back then. It was the south that was on top and hip-hop suffered because of it. There was a reason that nas dropped the album 'hip-hop is dead' during the bling bling era.

    • @KillaSin515
      @KillaSin515 4 года назад +4

      @@africaRBG Nas dropped that album in 2006. This is late 90s early 2000. NY was still on top. The South was just starting. By the way...this song came out in 98. So yes. NY was still on top.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 года назад +1

      @@KillaSin515 what is the late 90s early 2000s ? In the late 90s the south was ascending already with master p, mystikal, juvenile, manny fresh, lil wayne, outkast etc. They were on top in the 2000s. Yes, nas dropped the album in 2006, which is the mid 2000s. And he dropped it for a reason, having seen the trend thus far of commercial hip-hop in the 2000s, which was coming primarily from the south.

    • @africaRBG
      @africaRBG 4 года назад

      @@KillaSin515 and this song came out in 1997*

  • @user-lq7gz7nw8e
    @user-lq7gz7nw8e 9 месяцев назад +4

    25 years later and still a banger

  • @FrequencyandFever
    @FrequencyandFever 5 лет назад +22

    Surprised this song was posted so recently... Classic Canadian Hip-hop.

    • @BonGrips
      @BonGrips 5 лет назад

      Frequency and Fever it’s reposted. This video always gets taken down I’ve noticed

    • @leepeeching3907
      @leepeeching3907 4 года назад

      Classic still in 2020

  • @DrewRycerz
    @DrewRycerz 2 года назад +6

    Real hip hop. Shout out from Toronto - And a shout out to Saukrates, Maestro. Still stickin to my vision. I remember bein at the Skydome and the Rascalz got off stage and we all were yellin at em to come back. The car show. Man. Subbed. Much love.

  • @KiDSON.
    @KiDSON. День назад

    Heard this yesterday on the radio and it threw me alllll the way back!! Haven’t heard this in years.

  • @grandanse5827
    @grandanse5827 5 лет назад +40

    Thrust is my favorite verse

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 года назад

      Not even as good as most of these rappers but on this track he bodied everyone.

    • @Chimp.Foo.
      @Chimp.Foo. 4 года назад +1

      @@UstashaMe84 by biting biggie's style

    • @UstashaMe84
      @UstashaMe84 4 года назад

      S W 100% he did. Blatant.

    • @irishmacky8773
      @irishmacky8773 3 года назад

      He even says "Notorious"

  • @bierlichen1
    @bierlichen1 10 месяцев назад +1

    As soon as I heard what they were rapping over I thought America at it's finest. America is a continent, not a country. Big ups from Minnesota.

  • @Matt-no6fz
    @Matt-no6fz Год назад +2

    Who still Monday Night RAW watchin' in 2023?

  • @jazzsaxmusician
    @jazzsaxmusician День назад +3

    Here after Officer Ricky got humbled 😂😂😂

  • @acesoul1689
    @acesoul1689 4 года назад +5

    When hip hop was hip hop Forever Classic🎹🎹🎹🎤🎵🎧🎶🎶💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯👐👐🎵🎧🎧🎹🎤🎤🎤🎤💯💯💯

  • @stillatit90
    @stillatit90 4 года назад +5

    damn!!!...a young melyssa ford! wooow❤😍😍😍❤

    • @m.j.1087
      @m.j.1087 4 года назад

      Shes still young & fine!

  • @magicdntz154
    @magicdntz154 Месяц назад +1

    Had to rally back for this! Flashback Friday! 🔥💯

  • @raj_arjune
    @raj_arjune Год назад +5

    My best friend Joshua sent me this video because I was having a very bad day at work. I got to say it changed the rest of the day with a smile because this song epitomizes our high school years and our long standing friendship. Late 1990's if I am not mistaken was when I saw this video on MuchMusic and like a lot of other comments below, Canadian hip hop royalty in full effect. Ah, those were the great days of hip hop.

  • @TheRelandi
    @TheRelandi 5 лет назад +13

    First concert I ever went to (Rascalz). Got early entrance because I knew the owners of the skate shop hosting the show. Forever locked in my memory.

    • @Ronstopable28
      @Ronstopable28 2 года назад +2

      Legendary! 🇨🇦 …. P.s. what skate shop?

    • @georginabastien49
      @georginabastien49 Год назад +3

      Rascalz should have blown up ... crazy Canadian music scene ... they got robbed!

    • @corymay7520
      @corymay7520 8 месяцев назад +1

      Me to bro first hip hop show was rascalz I was 16 it was 1996 in Edmonton in some ole garage somewhere. Shit was classic

  • @Mister-Thrasher
    @Mister-Thrasher 7 месяцев назад +2

    Still on my playlist 2023

  • @kushnastay
    @kushnastay 2 года назад +3

    I remember This track like it was yesterday , good times back in them days

  • @diywrites8703
    @diywrites8703 Год назад +1

    Man, for a while, this song was... if not Canada's national anthem, it was Toronto's national anthem.

  • @erinecollett
    @erinecollett 4 месяца назад +2

    Early 2000s I lived near the don valley jail
    Iconic

  • @corymay7520
    @corymay7520 8 месяцев назад +3

    2023 still bumps

  • @AnthonyM-ey6xo
    @AnthonyM-ey6xo 2 месяца назад +3

    The original Canadian Ogs they put van city and Toronto on the map

  • @dga6191
    @dga6191 4 года назад +6

    Classic! Soul Obligation is another classic! 2020

  • @ScorseseNeverDie
    @ScorseseNeverDie День назад +5

    Rascalz are a Canadian hip-hop group from VANCOUVER 😂 Drake with the subliminal paying respect to vancouver goons

  • @420ElBasterdo
    @420ElBasterdo Год назад +2

    I miss this kind of hip hop

  • @sparxxvizion
    @sparxxvizion 4 года назад +15

    2020 and I'm still banging this classic

  • @TheeStoicc
    @TheeStoicc 5 лет назад +6

    This needs to become the anthem if the Raps take the championship this year

  • @Steve-ve7mr
    @Steve-ve7mr 6 месяцев назад +2

    I miss Much Music.

  • @hardonthegasgtboyz1586
    @hardonthegasgtboyz1586 4 года назад +7

    This video still bangs even now that the sky dome name is the Rogers centre.

    • @randydube1423
      @randydube1423 4 года назад +1

      It will always be the Sky Dome.

  • @XLL-LyricaLance
    @XLL-LyricaLance 6 месяцев назад +1

    I've been here since the early 2000s

  • @kendram9776
    @kendram9776 5 лет назад +53

    TORONTO RAPTORS BROUGHT THE NORTHERN TOUCH AND ARE THE 2019 WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

    • @justindot4887
      @justindot4887 5 лет назад +2

      take that... Drake

    • @aramkim9915
      @aramkim9915 4 года назад +1

      Kendra M I’m wit u!

    • @leonardbaker3776
      @leonardbaker3776 4 года назад

      This was made before your time buddie,this is real hip hop

    • @bprime6926
      @bprime6926 4 года назад +1

      @@leonardbaker3776
      tf you talking bout, we still celebrating over here, what anybody age got to do with it?

  • @patrickgrondines3994
    @patrickgrondines3994 5 лет назад +4

    this is real Canadian hip hop music

  • @ilnas
    @ilnas Год назад +1

    OVO fest 2022 got me back here. Canadian Anthem

  • @zedhedmusic
    @zedhedmusic Год назад +1

    brings me back to Finch & Sentinel.. if you know, you know

  • @user-gb4km9rb5v
    @user-gb4km9rb5v 10 месяцев назад +1

    i wish hip hop sounded like this again

  • @raullyral
    @raullyral 3 года назад +2

    R.I.P DMX

  • @abdulalimbaakza954
    @abdulalimbaakza954 3 года назад +8

    This is an amazing rap song, why did it not trend that much

    • @Can-eh-dian
      @Can-eh-dian 2 года назад +3

      It sure did! It's old now

  • @chimaygrant5546
    @chimaygrant5546 4 года назад +1

    RIP Bayboy! Sept 11, was a tragedy muchmusic will never be the same...

  • @DamezCS
    @DamezCS 3 года назад +2

    This came out a year after I was born but my mama didn't refrain from showing me absolute bangers.

  • @broramsey8950
    @broramsey8950 8 месяцев назад +1

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😎🙈🤣🎶😏 Makes you wanna get up & dance!!!!

  • @prettyfunnygirleh
    @prettyfunnygirleh 9 месяцев назад +1

    Man .. Obsessed with this song.. Sweet high school memories ❤❤

  • @chichinjoku9913
    @chichinjoku9913 Год назад +2

    Happy 25th Anniversary! Such a impactful song for Canadian Hip Hop

  • @curtislavallee8444
    @curtislavallee8444 4 года назад +4

    Still Bump'in to this day

  • @J.5.M.
    @J.5.M. 5 лет назад +3

    CLASSIC. Getting busta rhymes vibes from Kardinal here. 🔥

  • @AC-mb1lp
    @AC-mb1lp 3 года назад +30

    WE WERE SO MUCH BETTER BEFORE DRAKE CAME ALONG....MISS THESE DAYS😎

    • @michaeljanknegt5233
      @michaeljanknegt5233 2 года назад

      fuck drake he fake
      young people dont know

    • @randydube1423
      @randydube1423 2 года назад

      I wonder if the cats from our gen listening to this can dig back deeper with boss Canadian hip hop like Michie Mee.

    • @rileyk5228
      @rileyk5228 2 года назад

      @@randydube1423 sadly no, there's no interest in the history of music these days. people stumble across "old songs" mostly for reaction videos, or live under a rock

    • @patrickgrondines9520
      @patrickgrondines9520 Год назад

      i have nothing against drake but i like old school Canadian hip hop more

  • @android_4420
    @android_4420 3 года назад +2

    Usually my rule for the Hip Hop golden era is "98s too late". But not in Canada! We're always a year behind the states, lol.

    • @bobabola1386
      @bobabola1386 3 года назад

      Always a few years behind lol 😭

  • @andrewmanara5289
    @andrewmanara5289 10 дней назад

    Yesssss from the Northwessst

  • @rn4lrnfl915
    @rn4lrnfl915 5 лет назад +11

    Thrust best verse

  • @bmoreguy862
    @bmoreguy862 2 года назад +2

    This song will be already classic

  • @YS-mx9jm
    @YS-mx9jm 11 месяцев назад +1

    How this aint touch 1 milly views

  • @curtisskowaisa972
    @curtisskowaisa972 Год назад

    I love this song ..
    A Canadian song back in the day ...
    I popped my cherry to this song !!!’and that’s from a white boy ...
    On the BC Coast !!!
    Love ya clowns !!!

  • @JamesG12
    @JamesG12 2 года назад +2

    Good memories

  • @derrickbo8847
    @derrickbo8847 5 лет назад +6

    i come here evry frida' night, we need to get those views UP!
    summa da best!

  • @erinkrar-mf9wf
    @erinkrar-mf9wf Год назад +2

    Just to see you smile and enjoy yourself 🥰 . So many good lyrics in this song. Would love to see a part 2 to this song!!

  • @pattyboy9183
    @pattyboy9183 2 года назад +5

    love this song