Goosebumps. Im 53 and proud of hip hop as i saw its birth and all its stages of growth. As soon as hip hop started teaching and elevating the youth, they squashed this type of rap from the mainstream and you see what it was replaced with.
Coming from down south I think it was better when NYC was #1. Look what they were trying to give us : knowledge of self. West coast brought us the Crip & blood culture. Down south (outside of dungeon family) is just a fkn party everyday smfh. 5% rap all day👍
It never crossed my mind that the Golden Era of Hip Hop would be supplanted and come to an end. What a time it was; Brand Nubian, X-Clan, Poor Righteous Teachers, Movement Ex, The Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Lakim Shabazz, Rakim, Sista Soulja, Intelligent Hoodlum, Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, KRS 1, King Sun, etc.
Beautifully Done.. Sample is immaculate. Puba is in rare form here and altho the rest of the group doesn't even spit on this his jewels shine so powerful that they are not even missed and looks like he's not just taking his audience to school he's doing the same with his own crew who listens very intently.. Instant Classic. Salute and Peace To The Gods..
I3 year old white teen who was obsessed with hip hop when I first heard this in late 90. My boy had the CD and dubbed it for me. Brand Nubian became my favorite group and this song was my fav. All for One is one of the greatest albums ever. I The melody, sample, and lyrics are incredible. I never knew until a few years later that MTV banned the video because of the white devil face. A few years ago my cousin and I were talking about old school hip hop and he said “ Man, Wake Up was your favorite song back in the day”.
Drugs in our community (that ain’t right) lying who is god (that ain’t right) Brand Nubian been dropping jewels since I was a kid 2018!!!!!! Still rockin this shit heavy!!!!!!
You can't, this is real Hip Hop culture featuring Rap music. Today's generation knows little to nothing about this music or the messages associated with it.
@@moneybuilden thanks to the powers that be that had a secret meeting in Los Angeles to make sure that they stop signing conscious artist to record deals. They were told to sign only the artist that promote genocide to our people.
These are my homeboys 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾and we're honoring them in our home town in New Rochelle, NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK 🥰 Saturday 9/16/23 in Lincoln park 3pm to 8pm the mayor is supposed to give them the key to the city👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brand Nubian is supposed to perform along with their children,C L Smooth,Mr Cheeks and special guests 🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚Mary J Blige may be there her Mom lives in town,Dougie Fresh is next door in money earning Mt Vernon and the Ruff Ryder family may come through if DMX was here physically he would come because he came to New Rochelle whenever he wanted to because we love him and he loves us😘bless his soul ❤️🖤💚🙏🏽❤️🖤💚
'IT'S TIME TO MOTIVATE .. BUILD AND ELEVATE .. BLIND .. DEAF .. AND DUMB .. WE GOTTA CHANGE THEIR MINDSTATE' .. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 .. #REALHIPHOP #HIPHOPLEGENDSONLY
I remember being in high school seeing a bunch of white boys in a cypher at a party playing this right outside DC, back in 91. Hip Hop lives in mysterious ways
THIS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE JOINT!! GRAND PUBA BLESSED THIS TRACK.. HE'S DROPPING KNOWLEDGE. AND THE USE OF THE RAY,GOODMAN AND BROWN SAMPLE/LOOP ,"ANOTHER DAY" IS GENIUS!!!!
I be seeing you comment on all the dope old school joints. A beautiful woman that has good taste in music to. The perfect woman does exist. Nuff respect Sista. 👊🏾❤️
Peace Just watched the Unsung. These brothers spoke so much knowledge wisdom and understanding that back then when I first heard them I didn't understand but over time I began seek the truth which allowed me to see all things true and false and have an understanding of what is good, pure and wicked.
Sang this word for word as a lil dude ...got knowledge of self as a teen and realized these dudes was teachin the seeds...ME! Influential shit yall...peace
People not of the culture control the mediums. They're in control of your image, what sound is popular, and even who gets popular. We must first reclaim SELF, before we can heal the communities and music.
Believe t or not, When Dre, you and I was hanging out at that spot? That was my very first time just sitting at 125th and Adam Clayton Blvd. since that video was shot 8 years earlier. I felt at home in Harlem.
These God will always be supreme in my mental perspective of hip hop. Not only was the knowledge timeless and relevant. But as a writer, lyricist and studious person, does one realize how difficult it is to rap, write and compose songs combining complex subjects and yet still make them rhyme and attractive to the listener's ear?? W5X
I'm a believer in Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior but I love this song too God made MAN in HIS image we are Gods chosen I don't follow the Quran because the real battle is spirit not flesh
Can't believe I used to listen to this Shit in my adolescent ignorance and think it was cool back in the 90s. So glad my eyes are open now praise God. Glory to the Father Son and Holy Spirit. God is not mocked and beware that your day of Judgement draws near.
![Brand Nubian - Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cUTAtPLBPQo/mqdefault.jpg)
Rappers don't educate or teach anymore. LONG LIVE BRAND NUBIAN!!!!
Listen to Raz Fresco & you'll see you were wrong lol. Peace.
@@JesuIsTheOnlyWayToSalvation You misunderstood or maybe I just didn't clarify. I meant rappers today in 2022.
KRS ONE
That is by design.
Goosebumps. Im 53 and proud of hip hop as i saw its birth and all its stages of growth. As soon as hip hop started teaching and elevating the youth, they squashed this type of rap from the mainstream and you see what it was replaced with.
Yup. It's like Grand Puba said, the devil is a conniver and good at the game of tricknology.
Facts
This is real hip-hop
NEW YORK HIP HOP YOU CANNOT FUCK WITH IT!!! WE ARE THE BEST!!!
New York don't run hip hop anymore
Coming from down south I think it was better when NYC was #1. Look what they were trying to give us : knowledge of self. West coast brought us the Crip & blood culture. Down south (outside of dungeon family) is just a fkn party everyday smfh.
5% rap all day👍
Old school hip hop still and will always be undefeated
Food for thoughts. Puba was the whole package.the flyest drips, flow, cadence, lyrics. So underated.
Unquestionably
@georgethompson8196 Facts he doesn't get the credit he deserves but he went crazy on this shit .
Yea Grand Puba is super dope.
You blessed so many Brand Nubian! Couldn't have survived HS without you.🙏🏽
Identity is everything!❤💛💚
This was the real "gangsta rap" they feared.
OH, did you hit a grand slam, tape measure homerun with that comment !!!
No...
🎯💫🙏🏼
He's talking about u "whitey" how many white people "bobbed their heads to this in the 90's" 😆
So true knowledge of self and black unity they still scared off
19 years old black then when this dropped. 51 and words so true. Still breathing. Peace love and blessings
So am I
Peace7
Peace God.
@@Empty7able peace
Same here.
I was 15 when this dropped back in 1990 48 now this is one of the best hiphop songs of all times i still listen to this album dope what a time
Same here
Sams here … I still get chills when I hear this and the POWER OF THE WORDS MAN
It never crossed my mind that the Golden Era of Hip Hop would be supplanted and come to an end. What a time it was; Brand Nubian, X-Clan, Poor Righteous Teachers, Movement Ex, The Jungle Brothers, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Lakim Shabazz, Rakim, Sista Soulja, Intelligent Hoodlum, Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, KRS 1, King Sun, etc.
Damn this is still fire! I miss when Knowledge of Self was taught in Hip Hop. Peace to the god Lord Jamar!
Still love this
Nothing Eminem did can f*ck with this
Blaze Simpson
Facts!
@@blazesimpson8830 only these new kids so hard on with eminem
Word queen that's real
Beautifully Done.. Sample is immaculate. Puba is in rare form here and altho the rest of the group doesn't even spit on this his jewels shine so powerful that they are not even missed and looks like he's not just taking his audience to school he's doing the same with his own crew who listens very intently.. Instant Classic. Salute and Peace To The Gods..
I certainly miss these kinds of records
Me 2
Nostalgic
Absolutely Queen ❤️
I'm still here 2021 because good , real hip-hop is good. I'm not going to stop because it still talks to me
SOUL FOOD MUSIC
I3 year old white teen who was obsessed with hip hop when I first heard this in late 90. My boy had the CD and dubbed it for me. Brand Nubian became my favorite group and this song was my fav. All for One is one of the greatest albums ever. I The melody, sample, and lyrics are incredible. I never knew until a few years later that MTV banned the video because of the white devil face. A few years ago my cousin and I were talking about old school hip hop and he said “ Man, Wake Up was your favorite song back in the day”.
Few days away from heading into 2023, still jamming this timeless hit! 🔥🔥🔥🔺️🔘🔻
As a child of the 70s, this is my national anthem.!!!!!
🫡
W126th & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
......STILL STANDING STRONG!!!!! 👊🏽
NY Yo, it's where it all started
Pure Hip-Hop When Consciousness Was A Priority In Hip-Hop!
heath smh facts and people to brainwashed now
Drugs in our community (that ain’t right) lying who is god (that ain’t right) Brand Nubian been dropping jewels since I was a kid 2018!!!!!! Still rockin this shit heavy!!!!!!
How can you put this side by side with any kind of rap of today. Wow. ❤
Ha,ha,ha folks be playing and listening to a lot of wack and dehumanizing commercial trash
You can't, this is real Hip Hop culture featuring Rap music. Today's generation knows little to nothing about this music or the messages associated with it.
Classic hip-hop 2024????🔥🚬🔥🚬🔥🚬🔥🚬🔥🔥🚬🔥🚬
30 years and counting.....still fiyah 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song made me drop a tear.
We shall rise again
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
💯
Supreme Mathematics being dropped on that joint.
Indeed... Peace to the gods 🌙⭐
Most of the 120 lessons were dropped in this joint ...dopest song ever!!! That’s why gangsta rap was created to kill this vibe
@@moneybuilden thanks to the powers that be that had a secret meeting in Los Angeles to make sure that they stop signing conscious artist to record deals. They were told to sign only the artist that promote genocide to our people.
ra7 Sun yeah I heard about that and they invested stock into it after that
Factual
These are my homeboys 🥰👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾and we're honoring them in our home town in New Rochelle, NNNEEEWWW YYYOOORRRKKK 🥰 Saturday 9/16/23 in Lincoln park 3pm to 8pm the mayor is supposed to give them the key to the city👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Brand Nubian is supposed to perform along with their children,C L Smooth,Mr Cheeks and special guests 🥰❤️🖤💚✊🏾❤️🖤💚Mary J Blige may be there her Mom lives in town,Dougie Fresh is next door in money earning Mt Vernon and the Ruff Ryder family may come through if DMX was here physically he would come because he came to New Rochelle whenever he wanted to because we love him and he loves us😘bless his soul ❤️🖤💚🙏🏽❤️🖤💚
This is what “they” feared! Had to figure out a way to dumb it down! Talk bitches, cars, money! Illusions of a great life!
“Manifesting thought with my infinite styles”.
Thank You Brand Nubian for being a beacon in the darkness all those years ago!
When we were proud to be black. Hip-Hop, Black Colleges, and Spike Lee Joints....
Sea Pea Real Spill,it was all about unity uplifting being strong organizing fashion art and Black love..
So it's no longer that way because the two of you say so? Wtf?
@@josephpeters49 smh hip hop would nv be like this again not with these new kids mind
Still proud ✊🏿💚🖤❤
#Asiatic African Medallion Times
This is one of the songs that sparked me to want to know more I grew up in a good area of Hip Hop
The message of Brand Nubian still needs to be heard .
Karon Who ??? Facts
@@motherofanactress Word is bond.
Gotta peep Lord Jamar's Godcast. You'll get a good dose of messages there.
'IT'S TIME TO MOTIVATE .. BUILD AND ELEVATE .. BLIND .. DEAF .. AND DUMB .. WE GOTTA CHANGE THEIR MINDSTATE' .. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 .. #REALHIPHOP #HIPHOPLEGENDSONLY
One of my favorite songs POSITIVE SONG, VERY UPLIFTING , REAL KNOWLEDGE ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
"I wrote this on the day of Wisdom Power"! (25!) "All being Born to myself " (God) (7)! 2+5=7!
I remember being in high school seeing a bunch of white boys in a cypher at a party playing this right outside DC, back in 91. Hip Hop lives in mysterious ways
Foreal?
Damn!!!!!
I was probably one of those white boys! I remember having this single before the classic All For One dropped.
GUESS they didn't know they were the devils mentioned in the record! L0L
That's why Eminem was smart. He knew he couldn't come like this or he would be laughed off stage. Some things are just reserved for us.
This is a classic! Definitely shows Grand Puba as one of the dopest emcees in hip hop.
Speak on it!!
@@georgethompson8196 ☺️
@@celesteharvey978*WE'RE ISRAELITES !* Knowledge, wisdom, understanding queen
ruclips.net/video/P1c5eYpjyzE/видео.html
@@spartan199 💯
THIS WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE JOINT!! GRAND PUBA BLESSED THIS TRACK.. HE'S DROPPING KNOWLEDGE. AND THE USE OF THE RAY,GOODMAN AND BROWN SAMPLE/LOOP ,"ANOTHER DAY" IS GENIUS!!!!
When Hip Hop had Balance!
Smh we lost
Back when it was pure, sincere and soulful. I hope ya'll know what y'all did on this song, fellas.
I be seeing you comment on all the dope old school joints. A beautiful woman that has good taste in music to. The perfect woman does exist. Nuff respect Sista. 👊🏾❤️
Rhyming with Puba is on my bucket list!...still in my top 5 MC's of all time!!!
How could we not put Grand Puba Maxwell in the top 5👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇯🇲
Puba All Time GREAT.....I have him @8 in My Top 10
They can come back and spit the same album, right now!!
Peace to the true and living God, the Asiatic Black Man.
Peace Just watched the Unsung. These brothers spoke so much knowledge wisdom and understanding that back then when I first heard them I didn't understand but over time I began seek the truth which allowed me to see all things true and false and have an understanding of what is good, pure and wicked.
I'm watching it right now as we speak
THIS WAS GRAND,JUST LIKE PUBA,LOVE THIS BROTHER FOR THIS MSG,ITS BIGGER THAN RAP
New York hip hop is the greatest most purest form of the craft ...
🫡✌🏽👁️✌🏽
Speak on it God.
so underrated
O'neil King this was number 1 on the rap charts for several months far from underrated
Shout out to Brand Nubian.
Peace to the Gods and Earths!
Peace Love N Happiness to the true n living God's
"I guess im like the Verbalizer for the fact im movin blackward..." - word to X CLAN
"To the East my brotha to the East" R.I.P. Professor X The Overseer
Vainglorious ❤♠💚
this asiatic Blackman is a dog spelled backward
@@kareemsupremet.v.5189 vanglorious
A blast from the past, Brand Nubian are special. You killed it Grand Puba 👊🏽💯
And my 22 year old son wonder why I don't take most of the rappers from his generation, seriously.
I play him this.
Now he innerstands.
Y equals Self
me being 22. Wow. 👁.
Before bloods and crips flooded the streets of NY.
Conscious Rap at it's finest
Excuse my last comment.
I really appreciate this album.
I was a younger man.
Classic hip hop
P.lease
E.ducate
A.llah
C.hildren with
E.quality
Miss this kind of lyrical content and samples. Conscious music needs a rebirth.✊🏽🖤
Devil run wrap now
This is just priceless 💯💯💯💙💙💜💜💛
I'm not a 5%er but still LOVE this!
Its for the black man and any other person of the world who's mind is geared towards peace and civilization.
remember when this first came out. the whole album is ill. golden age of hip hop
PEACE FOREVER TO THE GODS , THE EARTHZ AND SEEDZ
This song is a lesson !
Long live the five percent nation of gods and earths
Sang this word for word as a lil dude ...got knowledge of self as a teen and realized these dudes was teachin the seeds...ME! Influential shit yall...peace
Peace 7
@@bacoleone5756 Peace almighty
This joint and EASY STAR by PRT pure knowledge!
Respect
Peace to the God's and Earth's
Best era ever
my pop put me on to this as a young bul ....i finally understand everything theyre talkin about it applies to today
Arguably the greatest hip hop song ever
'IT'S TIME 2 MOTIVATE .. BUILD & ELEVATE .. DUMB .. DEAF AND BLIND .. WE GOTTA CHANGE THEIR MINDSTATE' ..🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 .. #REALHIPHOP #HIPHOPLEGENDSONLY
Peace to the gods and earth's of the universe. Maintain
WE NEED THIS GOD-POSITIVE ENERGY IN 2022 AND BEYOND.....
I soooooooooo miss this era!
I shed a tear everytime I listen to this song and think about the current state of hip hop...we gotta get the Gods back into the culture...
We too lost black people dont like knowledge anymore they too dumb down
People not of the culture control the mediums. They're in control of your image, what sound is popular, and even who gets popular. We must first reclaim SELF, before we can heal the communities and music.
This whole album was 🔥🔥🔥🔥 I had the cassette & played it until it popped!
Still bumping this in 2018!!
The way rap was & should be!
Man I adore this song!
This is the Hip Hop that gave alot Knowledge and insight on things we didn't learn in school. During my era!
my favorite top ten rap song since 1991 thomas h. henderson middleshool days
DAMN i was just transported back to my High School days of at Lincoln Heights Califas class of 93
Rap at it’s finest!!!
Peace.
Hip-Hop with Knowledge. Not today's garbage. Parents please school your kid's to this in 2018.
Jean Emlicar Agreed
Jean Emlicar yes indeed my brother
I definitely agree with you on that 👌🏿💯
black music awesome Cool good good Cool Awesome hip-hop group favorite
Amen
Speak on it god
I was a child probably ten when this came out, but im grateful this is what I was exposed to coming up.
Peace to the Gods!!
The track is HEAVY!!!
Still relevant ALWAYS RELEVANT!!!
Facts
I’m 27 my dad put me on old school hip hop in particular this song I been hooked ever since
Most ✨✊🏽✨Refreshing Song in Hip Hop
Damm, 2 endangered species: Real hip hop and what used to be called Mecca, Harlem NYC!
Facts
Manhattan is still Mecca. Ain't nothing changed.
Believe t or not, When Dre, you and I was hanging out at that spot? That was my very first time just sitting at 125th and Adam Clayton Blvd. since that video was shot 8 years earlier. I felt at home in Harlem.
@@selectexpress9315 They been tryin to change Harlem yo
Yo know Brooklyn took that crown a long time ago
Real hip hop...I miss these days!!!! Beautiful time!!!!!!!
These God will always be supreme in my mental perspective of hip hop. Not only was the knowledge timeless and relevant. But as a writer, lyricist and studious person, does one realize how difficult it is to rap, write and compose songs combining complex subjects and yet still make them rhyme and attractive to the listener's ear??
W5X
PEACE TO THE GODS
CHICOIZPAIN peace
Peace 7
When music had a message
I'm a christian but love this
I'm a believer in Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior but I love this song too God made MAN in HIS image we are Gods chosen I don't follow the Quran because the real battle is spirit not flesh
the Real hip-hop
Can't believe I used to listen to this Shit in my adolescent ignorance and think it was cool back in the 90s.
So glad my eyes are open now praise God. Glory to the Father Son and Holy Spirit. God is not mocked and beware that your day of Judgement draws near.
I understand what you are talking about but honestly I didn't take the video as that I took it ass just giving black people knowledge of self