and when they also had a aggressive style deep voice, now even rappers who can rap clearly have a high pitch voice like J-Cole or Kendrick its like a teenage type pitch voice, i cannot explain it but they sound like teenagers but old school rappers sounded older then they were
Wordsmith. Periodt: I don't write I build a rhyme I draw plans draft the diagrams An architect in effect And it slams And if it's weak when I'm done Renovate and build another one
This is where it all began, if you wasnt born in the 70s 80s, and know your history? just shut up and learn. this is where rapp was born. he is one of the god fathers of rap.
Cool to hear that I'm not the only one listening to some classic hip hop. I always thought Kool Moe Dee was very underrated. He definitely had some jams like this one.
Kool Moe Dee is on the Mt. Rushmore of lyricists. One of the all time greats. The only rapper from the 70s that lasted thru the 80s. If you were studying hip hop/rap/lyricism this song is a prerequisite.
It's 2024 and about 10 years ago I was bragging to some of my co-workers that this is one of the best rap lines I've ever heard in any rap song because it never left my mind since I was a kid. "When you hear me, you'll compare me to a prophet for profit, not merely." It's just such a hard ass, creative rhyme. And this was long before rappers were ultra creative when putting together their verses.
exactly he's a machine like i wouldn't think it would ever be possible for a rapper to be this adept and skilled and impressive at making points with words in a way that is easy to digest for the listener. to do this you have to be clever enough to sound original and creative enough to impress people but also stay relatable and be understandable to a regular person listening. they talk about this point in something from nothing the art of rap music with ice-t. someone said a rapper can't just be good at rhyming and be a good rapper bc you can't say words that are too intelligent for most people to get.
I swear, Kool Moe Dee is HEAVILY underrated. He was advanced over what was the norm in rapping all the way back in the late '70s. The lyricism in this cut STILL holds up. Dude is the Patron Saint of Rhyme Spitters.
He wasn't underrated during his time. It's the newer generation today that werent around during that time that don't know who he is because the rappers that came after him didn't shout him out and give him his proper acknowledgement as one of the rappers that influenced them... Like they did with Rakim or Big Daddy Kane ect... It's up to us old Heads to keep his name alive and let the younger cats know how important he was / is.
@@christophermoody6840 thank you, that word overrated is overused and abused by these new cats just because they just discovered an old school artist that they never heard of before
this is top quality rapping and the best rhyming i've ever heard. every point he makes is so powerful impactful and impressive, and the highest quality with how he says the point. oh my gosh i am stunned. and he's rapping so fast also which makes it even more impressive that he can rhyme so many intricate and complex rhymes that fast.
This is definitely one of the best, most intelligent and most intricate raps in history. With that beat and those lyrics...never get sick of his sound.
@@tallyrc Not so, it hails from an era when vids told a story. Not just a bunch of scantily clad chicks dancing, and nothing like the cheesy videos Puff and other cats made in the 90's. I can name 100 vids off the top of my head worse than this. I was 16 when MTV began.
Moe Dee had some of the best lyrics... still cool after all these years! And what made him so awesome, like other foundation rappers, they did it cuss free!
I remember people calling me strange trying to write down & learn these lyrics when this song 1st came out. Little did they know: Kool Moe Dee with this song became a Legend with a rap song that had a message/flowed over an impeccable James Brown-flavored beat/danced to even still to this day/studied & taught by professors and instructors as to how music can speak to the listener on multiple levels. To those I'd say (in KMD's words from another hit song) How Ya Like Me Now? This is a classic full of 🔥🔥🔥 and one of the best rap songs put on wax 😎
@@bridgettate8109 Back then it was an argument between Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. I would always throw MOE DEE in the convo and get laughed at. But MOE DEE was one of the absolutely best. Period.
This man is so on point! The way his words flow, and his delivery is impeccable! I love the way he enunciates and articulates his words. I have been a fan since my college days and I have to say he is one of the baddest rappers ever IMO! What a prolific rapper this man is! Dope lyrics and such a smooth drlivery. My daughter's are fans just like I am of course! 😁😁😁
Am I the only one that thinks that this song has some of the best lyrics ever arranged in a rap song. It’s mind blowing to me. If you listen to it a couple times and I mean really listen.
he fits in more lyrics per minute in this song than pretty much any rap song that has ever been made! it is amazing the creativity in the lyrics and it's also impressive the perfect ways he delivers the lines and he says them in a such a great sounding way.
This is the song that made me fall in love with rap. This was my first rap video I had to see every time. I was 6 or 7 when this dropped and I still love Kool Mo Dee to this day. I wanted to be this dude in the late 80s lol
I no this is the ash shit girl stop playing around with my loving I'm not u no I love my lovey wife song yes baby 🍼 the best team in town today ok sure 😊 cute 🥰
Before "Everyday I'm hustling", there was "I go to work!" Shout-out to the rapper with a college degree and also the rapper no-one recognizes of he takes his shades off🤘🏾
OG ...Kool Moe D this song is still🔥 in 2024 !! Timeless...This track came out in 1989 !! I was a teenager !! I had the cassette Tape on the Album Knowledge is King....Stand up Generation X ! 💯💯✊
Moe Dee was rocking the 80’s-90’s .
Not only a Legend but a Black Conscious Legend with morals
Still one of the cleanest deliveries in hip hop.
52 yr old white boy from Indiana still gitten some!!! Thank you Moe👊
KMO said, I don't write, I build a rhyme. Babbbyyy, he got that right because this is nothing short of spectacular.
I'm a fan. No cussing , no negativity. An awesome flow that rocked back then & still rocks today.
Don’t y’all miss the days when rappers actually pronounced their words. The whole word!!!
and when they also had a aggressive style deep voice, now even rappers who can rap clearly have a high pitch voice like J-Cole or Kendrick its like a teenage type pitch voice, i cannot explain it but they sound like teenagers but old school rappers sounded older then they were
@eazy-cheez-e8033 they sound like that because these young folks are soft as 💩..😎
Kool Moe Dee killed it on this song. One of my favorites.
This is a classic. Flow is impeccable.
This was an absolute masterpiece!!!
@Jane Skidmore Bennett aa+l
Kool Moe Dee👑
@Jane Skidmore Bennett mk
👑🏆⭐
Kool Moe Dee's flow is everything. I love hearing a rapper who has a great vocabulary.
Wordsmith. Periodt:
I don't write I build a rhyme
I draw plans draft the diagrams
An architect in effect
And it slams
And if it's weak when I'm done
Renovate and build another one
This man doesn't get enough credit for his flow and lyricism.
Totally 💯 agree
WHO'S STILL LISTENING TO THIS WITH ME IN YEAR 2024🔥🔥🔥🔥
An icon! Nobody got the flow of Moe Dee! My right hand man is the mike stand! Killed it!
Who's still asking this gay ass question? You're trash! F.a.n.
This is where it all began, if you wasnt born in the 70s 80s, and know your history? just shut up and learn. this is where rapp was born. he is one of the god fathers of rap.
I'm right here wit cha❤
Cool to hear that I'm not the only one listening to some classic hip hop. I always thought Kool Moe Dee was very underrated. He definitely had some jams like this one.
Kool Moe Dee. You are respected. You are loved. You have the lyricism that's nearly uncomprehendingly advanced with ENERGY.
Kool Moe Dee is on the Mt. Rushmore of lyricists. One of the all time greats. The only rapper from the 70s that lasted thru the 80s. If you were studying hip hop/rap/lyricism this song is a prerequisite.
😂😂😂
KOOL MOE DEE!!!!!!! Still🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Moe Dee…This a classic lyrical exposition of what an MC is!
Still a banger nearly 25 years later. Every artist's dream is to have the one that defies time. Timeless achievement unlocked KMD!
fracture unlocked
35 years
35 years and counting
Over 30 now
It's 2024 and about 10 years ago I was bragging to some of my co-workers that this is one of the best rap lines I've ever heard in any rap song because it never left my mind since I was a kid. "When you hear me, you'll compare me to a prophet for profit, not merely." It's just such a hard ass, creative rhyme. And this was long before rappers were ultra creative when putting together their verses.
Lyrics delivered with surgical accuracy. Guys a absolute legend. Sounds like no other in his time
exactly he's a machine like i wouldn't think it would ever be possible for a rapper to be this adept and skilled and impressive at making points with words in a way that is easy to digest for the listener. to do this you have to be clever enough to sound original and creative enough to impress people but also stay relatable and be understandable to a regular person listening.
they talk about this point in something from nothing the art of rap music with ice-t. someone said a rapper can't just be good at rhyming and be a good rapper bc you can't say words that are too intelligent for most people to get.
Он - головной вагон поезда рэпа. Можно назвать его создателем рэпа.
The best 80s rapper yo
Those HBCU Bands back in the day brings back fun memories to this tune.
No cuss words no mumbling and still was a hit..take notes youngsters..this was rap..
❤❤
They will not understand!!
Legendary lyricist. Kool Moe Dee.
Not just a legend! The man is ICONIC for how he represents the 1980's Rap scene for being the way he is!
Proud owner of the original cassette tape since the late 80s.
I’m 42 I got this tape at 5 years old and shit literally changes the path of my life
Yo... even the way Moe Dee runs is smooth......
Kool Moe Dee snapped on this song! And, didn't even curse one time at all🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
One of the Dopest rapper in history
YEES
👍🏻👍🏻
True
@Luis Ishmael One of best Battle Rappers in the late 70s and early 80s. You never heard his underground verses
@Luis Ishmael what do you mean hell nah this is how rap used be back in the days and you got to accept it.
Who's listening to this in 2024 ? 🎵 🎶🎶🎵
I'm here once a month at the very least..✌️🤙 I gotta have my fix..😎
flawless, the real spirit of hiphop in my opinion
Kool Moe Dee deserves his flowers and props while he's still here. 🔥💯
Back then rappers taught about "possibilities" for kids....Doctor...architect...boxer
💯
Kool Moe Dee, the "GREATEST" lyricist that ever picked up a MIC. Often imitated (LL), but never duplicated (LL).
Happy 58th Birthday Kool Moe Dee!(Born August 8, 1962)😀🎂🎉🎊🎈🎁🍾👍🏿👏🏿🙌🏿
K00L M0E DEE👑🏆⭐🦾
MERRY XMAS🎄🎀🎁
HAPPY NEW YEAR
2021📀💿-
HAPPY BELATED
BIRTHDAY😎🥰😘
K00L M0E DEE
Y0U DESERVE T0
HAVE Y0UR
CAKE🎂 🍰
THEN ,
EAT IT T00!'
'G0 T0 W0RK !'
The GOAT of rap battles. The pioneer of rap battles. The king of rap battles.
Kool Moe Dee is an absolute legend. A LYRICAL POWERHOUSE!!!!
Damn this late 80s rap rabbit hole giving me life.
fr fr The algorithm is strong!!
One of the greatest mic controllers of all time! Moe Dee was the man!
Decades later, still hits hard
I would love a TECHNO HOUSE REMIX with Wesley Snipes doing the live action video!
@@kevinbell1138. It's a classic, explain Wayne 😂
1989. The last year rap music was full of positive messages. "I go to work!"
Year I was born my dad loves this one lol
One of the all time greatest flows...I forgot how good this was lyrically!
I TOTALLY agree with you on 👍🏾
The breath control on this is insane. Also he took this joint 4 verses. Bar work 10/10 flow 10/10 subject matter 10/10.
I swear, Kool Moe Dee is HEAVILY underrated. He was advanced over what was the norm in rapping all the way back in the late '70s.
The lyricism in this cut STILL holds up. Dude is the Patron Saint of Rhyme Spitters.
He wasn't underrated during his time. It's the newer generation today that werent around during that time that don't know who he is because the rappers that came after him didn't shout him out and give him his proper acknowledgement as one of the rappers that influenced them... Like they did with Rakim or Big Daddy Kane ect...
It's up to us old Heads to keep his name alive and let the younger cats know how important he was / is.
K.M.D.‘s Poster was stolen from my apartment by my Super! Got2get a new1! One of my favorite artists…
Rival Rakim
@@christophermoody6840 thank you, that word overrated is overused and abused by these new cats just because they just discovered an old school artist that they never heard of before
Adavvvavavaaamced
this is top quality rapping and the best rhyming i've ever heard. every point he makes is so powerful impactful and impressive, and the highest quality with how he says the point. oh my gosh i am stunned. and he's rapping so fast also which makes it even more impressive that he can rhyme so many intricate and complex rhymes that fast.
He's my favorite old school rapper
He went to work on this one. Pure lyrics!!!
Kool Moe Dee was legit. Old School shreds mumble rap!
So does modern lyricists. Just search up Kendrick Lamar
@@NChapaWI9436 is he the only one ? Plus j cole who just adds unnecessary words to make it rhyme. Nas actually puts necessary words
ABSOLUTELY
You got that right. This was good music
Kool moe d is one of the best lyrically rappers of all time
This is definitely one of the best, most intelligent and most intricate raps in history. With that beat and those lyrics...never get sick of his sound.
This is the best rap song ever written.
Combined with the worst video of all time... That's epic
@@tallyrc Not so, it hails from an era when vids told a story. Not just a bunch of scantily clad chicks dancing, and nothing like the cheesy videos Puff and other cats made in the 90's. I can name 100 vids off the top of my head worse than this. I was 16 when MTV began.
@@hightone-mofo I hail from the same the period.. this wasn't cool even then... Fixed it since you couldn't deduce the implicit meaning.
@@tallyrc well being that you don't take time to utter a coherent sentence...I deduce that you're not cool.
Moe Dee had some of the best lyrics... still cool after all these years! And what made him so awesome, like other foundation rappers, they did it cuss free!
Love the line "when I'm done.. RENOVATE!, And build another one - I go to work!
this song is absolute fire
Real, pure rap. 50 million tons better than this current junk on the radio.
Totally Agree!!!
you got that right
Still true!
16 Jahre war ich alt! Vor 33 Jahren, damit jeden Tag aufgestanden!
Thanks Kool Moe Dee, the is my drive to work music…🔥🔥🔥
I'm 39. I can't believe I had never heard this lyrical masterpiece before!
Still one of my favorite tunes ever. I never get tired of it. I wore this cassette single out.
Tight, Crisp, Hard = Perfection
His flow is impeccable.
My favorite Kool Moe Dee track, hands down.
It just doesn't get any better than this. Superb!
Me too ❤️
I remember people calling me strange trying to write down & learn these lyrics when this song 1st came out. Little did they know: Kool Moe Dee with this song became a Legend with a rap song that had a message/flowed over an impeccable James Brown-flavored beat/danced to even still to this day/studied & taught by professors and instructors as to how music can speak to the listener on multiple levels. To those I'd say (in KMD's words from another hit song) How Ya Like Me Now? This is a classic full of 🔥🔥🔥 and one of the best rap songs put on wax 😎
Thank you Kool Moe Dee for recreating the rap flow!
This song showed the lyrical mastery and skill of Kool Moe D.He was underrated.
💯
There will never be another real artist like Kool Moe Dee.
"I don't write, I build a rhyme."
#MoeDee
This is my theme song for every 80s party I attend! This is a legend! The greatest to ever to do! 👑👑🎤
The flow,and,the slickness that Moe Dee was capable of is absolutely astounding.
"You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation!"
Question asked and answered 🤔😄
hot line!
Kool Mo Dee was doper than dope!!! Those are some serious bars
@@bridgettate8109 Back then it was an argument between Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. I would always throw MOE DEE in the convo and get laughed at. But MOE DEE was one of the absolutely best. Period.
@@jefferyrandall8030 Exactly!!
This man is so on point! The way his words flow, and his delivery is impeccable! I love the way he enunciates and articulates his words. I have been a fan since my college days and I have to say he is one of the baddest rappers ever IMO! What a prolific rapper this man is! Dope lyrics and such a smooth drlivery. My daughter's are fans just like I am of course! 😁😁😁
Agree.
2 u & your daughter's 😘
One of the greatest (and most unsung) rappers of all time.
I was a child when this came out I’m back in 2023 and damn Unc went in on this one
Listening to this song makes it easier to go to work!!!! Great song and video!!!! Old school Rap FOREVER!!!!!!!
Am I the only one that thinks that this song has some of the best lyrics ever arranged in a rap song. It’s mind blowing to me. If you listen to it a couple times and I mean really listen.
he fits in more lyrics per minute in this song than pretty much any rap song that has ever been made! it is amazing the creativity in the lyrics and it's also impressive the perfect ways he delivers the lines and he says them in a such a great sounding way.
The first time I heard it, I got goosebumps. This jam was a master class.
I used to ❤ to see The Grambling Tigers and The Southern Jaguars marching bands perform this song!💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
One of thee tightest beats in hiphop history
Vincent Magallon made by Teddy Riley
@@deebilkhair12 by way of James Brown.
Nelson Blake II you mean by way of james brown band THaT he never payed /given credit
Agreed
"Superbad" by James Brown.
This is the song that made me fall in love with rap. This was my first rap video I had to see every time. I was 6 or 7 when this dropped and I still love Kool Mo Dee to this day. I wanted to be this dude in the late 80s lol
This was/is the jam!!!
The flow/the lyrics /the beat!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 I love everything about this song!! 💃🏽
No one rocks the Porsche glasses like Moe Dee!
One of the first fast rappers. This guy would give alot of today's rappers some problems.
He legit one of the first rapper PERIOD. Was rapping in the late 70's
He’s actually who invented fast rap lol
Yeah...today's rappers. Not late 90s/early 2000s rappers. You're shot.
Kool Moe Dee is a.
Lyrical Beast!!!!
Lyrical genius AT WORK!!! 💯🔥
As a hard-core L fan back in the day I didn't truly appreciate this Moe D work. Dude rocked this shit! Golden age classic!
Same
Like vlassic
This is real rap!!
I play this song before I “Go to work” everyday lol 😂
I no this is the ash shit girl stop playing around with my loving I'm not u no I love my lovey wife song yes baby 🍼 the best team in town today ok sure 😊 cute 🥰
I've been listening to this since it came out and will continue to listen to this
Before "Everyday I'm hustling", there was "I go to work!"
Shout-out to the rapper with a college degree and also the rapper no-one recognizes of he takes his shades off🤘🏾
KOOL MOE DEE is one of the original authentic MCEE'S
Just listening to this lyrical masterpiece makes my head spin. Such an underrated hip hop talent.
I'm a 70'$ baby.. Grew up listening to all the best genres oldies,doowhop,freestyle,house, rock and hiphop.. These kids will never no... 😥
A forgotten Great! In his prime, no one wanted smoke with Kool Moe Dee 😤!
This is my favorite old school rapper. I don't care 🤷🏾 what anyone says this rap song is legendary
This was my jam! Good work out song Gotta put Rakim as one of my favs too.
Literally 21 years old today. This is my first time hearing this song. I don't know how I stumbled across it..... but I'm glad I did
OG ...Kool Moe D this song is still🔥 in 2024 !! Timeless...This track came out in 1989 !! I was a teenager !! I had the cassette Tape on the Album Knowledge is King....Stand up Generation X ! 💯💯✊
I listened to this in the first time in years. Hype. He has one of the coolest voices in rap history.
Moe Dee was the thinking man's Rapper. Real juice flows from his lips.
Kool Moe Dee was a great rapper and he’s never gotten his due respect! This song was the jam and I still play it in 2021. I go to work baby!
LYRICAL GENIUS
Undeniably!
Lyrics, lyrics, lyrics.... This is hip hop.
CLASSIC!!❤💯✊🏿
Skills to pay the bills, now this is a lyricist
Best rap song I ever heard! Who else can even touch this?!! Love this song!!!
My AP Physics teacher started rapping this after a student asked him to spit bars.
She said duh!
That's what's up: 'When you hear me, you'll compare me to a prophet for profit....' 🔥🔥🔥