Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Take You There (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2019
- From the album "Main Ingredient" (1994)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth are a hip-hop duo from Mount Vernon, New York. They made their debut with their 1991 EP, All Souled Out and followed with 1992's Mecca and the Soul Brother LP.
As a producer, DJ Pete Rock (Peter Phillips) gained notoriety for his use of obscure soul and jazz records, frequently making use of horn-driven hooks. Lead vocalist CL Smooth (Corey Penn) delivered more conscious style of rap which contrasted with the popular gangsta rap records of the time, and he mostly avoided profanity, similar in style and delivery to positive East Coast rappers like those associated with the Native Tongues Crew. Their signature hit was "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)", a requiem for fallen friends-namely Troy "Trouble T-Roy" Dixon, a member of Heavy D & The Boyz, who died in 1990. They were first signed to Elektra Records, managed, and Executive Produced by Eddie F of Heavy D and The Boyz and Untouchables Entertainment who also then managed Pete Rock as a producer. Pete Rock was one of the original three "Untouchables" producers along with Eddie F himself and Nevelle Hodge.
In 1994 the duo followed up with The Main Ingredient, and they appeared as frequent guest artists collaborating on remixes, soundtracks, and other works. Public Enemy, EPMD, Heavy D and Johnny Gill were among the artists they collaborated with, and they can also claim credit for producing (and performing on) Run-D.M.C.'s 1993 comeback single 'Down with the King'.
The group broke up in 1995 (shortly after a Sprite TV commercial), however they have collaborated several times since on a handful of cuts from Pete Rock's solo recordings: Soul Survivor (1998), PeteStrumentals (2001) and Soul Survivor II (2004). The duo also went on a brief reunion tour as a warm up for their then-anticipated new album, which ended with a show at London's famous Jazz Cafe. Despite these intermittent collaborations, the pair has exchanged dismissive comments toward each other in separate interviews, disavowing plans for a full-fledged reunion.
Their best-of compilation, Good Life, was released on Elektra/WEA in 2003.
During this period, CL Smooth went on to release two solo albums - American Me in 2006 and The Outsider in 2007. Pete Rock would produce tracks for numerous artists, including CL Smooth's It's a Love Thing and Love is a Battlefield from each of his solo albums. Pete Rock had confirmed that among his promised new slew of releases in 2011, that one of the albums would be the third album between himself and CL Smooth, that as of 2012, is still in the works.
A deluxe CD box set of Mecca and the Soul Brother was released on September 14, 2010 by Traffic Entertainment Group. The package includes a remastered CD of the original album, a second disc of remixes, instrumentals and a cappellas, a fold-out poster and a detailed booklet with interviews and insights from Rock and Smooth by Brian Coleman.
In late 2010, the two finally ended their creative differences after 15 years of being at odds with each other. The duo has officially reunited for the sake of hip-hop and are respectfully working with each other again. The death of hip-hop pioneer Guru earlier in the year was a major catalyst which led to inspiring their reunion. They wanted to avoid the fate which befell Gang Starr, in which lead rapper Guru had not been on speaking terms with DJ Premier for roughly seven years and could not resolve their differences before his untimely death from cancer.
While touring in London with CL Smooth in early December 2011, Pete Rock stated that a new album was already in the works and would be released by year's end, or as soon as it was completed. The album will be the duo's third album, and the first album since 1994's The Main Ingredient. 
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No Guns, No Drugs, No Violence just dope beats and fly lyrics
For real 💢👌💢
This was when music was music. I sure do miss those days!!!
@@LifeBehindtheMusicandCameras True indeed!
💥💯💥
This came during the same time Ready To Die did
Pete Rock is easily one of the greatest producers of all time.
I'll fight over that.
Nobody should be fighting you over this statement good sir. Petes production has always been among the elites in the game! Straight Fuego🔥🔥
Not even debatable, Pete Rock is a LEGEND 🔥🔥
Me too....
Quiet as kept,
but I wouldn't want him to know .
Pete Rock is top shelf 🔥🔥🔥
@@J.R.__
Top Shelf is really
DARK CHILD -
JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS -
Quincy -
DRE -
Peter is E&J Brandy.
CL still has one of the illest voices and butter-like flows of all-time.. classic cut.
All Facts!!!
Yeah he definitely got a smooth flow
yeah CL Smooth and Grand Puba
Some people thought I was listening to LL Cool J when I was bumping this song on my speaker lol
So LL took his style huh?
This generation has no idea what type of music they missed out on.
I wouldn't count us short lol I'm only 23 but a few of my early high school "experiences" went down with this playing in the background lmao 😂😂 that's just cuz I knew the real tho
I was born in 86, I feel so lucky to have heard this stuff as a child, even if I didn't understand lol
Kids nowadays listen to trash music
fredo310 They’re ok!! They have Blueface and Da Baby 👶🏽! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
@@Grace_acie I dont know, there are some rappers today who've got some great social commentary lyricism like Nas and A Tribe Called Quest, you've just gotta weed through whats there and you can find some great artists.
That is the sound of real hip hop....
THIS SO DOPE!!!!!!!
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Thank you for helping me reach my dreams Thank you, God Bless.
@Shanon B I wish...these were better days.
I agree. Back then it seemed more like art, now it all seems more commercial.
@@calik7712 yup. You're right
Facts. Not that repetitive garbage
This album is a slept on classic!
Blackdragon6 Those that did should listen 💯🔊
Blackdragon6.....not slept on by our generation
This was slept on because biggie smalls was running and game then.
@@eliwol3789 ....cant REALLY say that....did you have this album and biggie album....i did
@@eliwol3789 I bought they shit b4 I EVER thought of buying Biggie's SHIT,that Mecca and the soul brother was straight FUKKNG fire B!!!!✊😎
Shedding tears cuz they don't make them like this no more...
@Alfredo Mata, I'm afraid you are probably right. My mom always says never say never, but in this case it's an exception!!!!
😢... I know
❤
Fa sho, bra bra!!
Alfredo Mata I’m with you bro. I feel the same way. It takes you to a place. The first time I heard this, I was driving with my girl watching the the sun go down. I’ll never forget it.Rest In Peace to a Sound we will never hear again.
Their will never be another era like the 90s!!!!! So many magical moments 😧😁
Época sin igual música hecha con el corazón
State of Address
Sodomy justifies adultery an a dimension of people under influence of a host paying tax for the trial of abuse. Passions need to be tamed, fantasies with the imagination isn't an escape. For the abused are vulnerable for help, but where there's deceit is self interest and mercenaries in a Kingdom of Sodomy, and best, one, self help. Its harder to meet peace than an argument, for some don't express their feelings nor share their hearts when they're hungry, least satisfied and humble. Desire (pleasure or vanity) looks for confidence, not protecting the well being of a people for a fortune (wealth) to support it, that one needs its intellect, as a people unite before the truth, where peace is best kept. Why, digest the breadth than the flesh and blood for the animal and be saved from a defied land. Avoiding adultery, avoiding forces and have salvation. If one doesn't share its heart and mind, influence will share what's left of it at a cost and release the animal when hungry, and better served with water. Principle can't be threatened to take bribes and loans to pay debt, principle is reinvested to life, and a labyrinth is taking more life than one in it, can give. Why witnesses protest it by fasting.
That gorgeous lady harmonizing the hook killed it 🔥🔥🔥
This song ages like fine wine. Perfecto!
Eat the hearts of one another and digest it with understanding thee, before eating or influencing the mind and have one, united. The body is not used often for a job if one can hold it and the animal doesn't discriminate; why we are dependent on the brains. Walls don't separate the soul from another, but the flesh and blood from its relative and relativity. There's plenty of life for those who apply its principles with a contract and commitment, than following others, bread crumbs an ordinary line through a threshold. For everything has instructions, but they don't always answer and what the conscience don't need, don't apply to them; life always makes things better. Children don't argue to be praised, influence and pride honors those who follow it for worship and fortune, fighting to the end, short of it and fame.
Pete Rock: Great Producer
C.L. Smooth: Great lyricist
Pete Rock & C l Smooth is one of the dopest duos I've ever heard in hip-hop history! Classic.
I graduated in 1994 [at 23yrs young]; now some 30years later still struggling to move beyond 'replay'; a true 90's classic!
I feel you! I was 24 at the time!
This track is smooth and cool!! I’m glad I was alive to experience the 90’s era!! I was 15 when this track/album was released
One of the best feel good hip hop songs ever 😌
Shawnsta 777 they’re lost 😔.. damn 🤦🏽♀️
A masterpiece and Not a single curseword required.
EXACTLY 💯
Real talk 🔥🔥
Yep 👍👍👍👍💯💯💯
He literally said God Damnit at 2:52
@@BugOnAChip That's just one cuss word. Even Will Smith cussed in one of his songs.
Classics! 🌴🔈🎶 the 90s were unbeatable.
No doubt about it
Don’t forget the late 80s too
I loved when hip hop sounded like this! It had so much substance,originality and power!! It's so dumbed down now til its ridiculous!!
And it felt good. Unmatched vibe.
The music of New York city!
CL Smooth was so underrated. His flows and lyrics are so real and smooth. Effortless!!
I think commercially yeah, but rap aficianados who scour plenty of 90s rap and put premium on lyrical ability dont.
One of the smoothest and articulate mcs to ever bless a mic. Perfect balance of big daddy kane lyrical and ll cool j slick..underrated great.
Dope.......Jus Dope
Pete's ingenious production coupled with C.L slicing through it with his silky smooth flow goes together like peanut butter and jelly
Don't forget the singer! She's ace
Eat the hearts of one another and digest it with understanding thee, before eating or influencing the mind and have one, united. The body is not used often for a job if one can hold it and the animal doesn't discriminate; why we are dependent on the brains. Walls don't separate the soul from another, but the flesh and blood from its relative and relativity. There's plenty of life for those who apply its principles with a contract and commitment, than following others, bread crumbs an ordinary line through a threshold. For everything has instructions, but they don't always answer and what the conscience don't need, don't apply to them; life always makes things better. Children don't argue to be praised, influence and pride honors those who follow it for worship and fortune, fighting to the end, short of it and fame.
Listening to this makes me sad. The good old days when life was simple 😩😞...
This should have been the first single! 1994 was a feeling!
State of Address
Sodomy justifies adultery an a dimension of people under influence of a host paying tax for the trial of abuse. Passions need to be tamed, fantasies with the imagination isn't an escape. For the abused are vulnerable for help, but where there's deceit is self interest and mercenaries in a Kingdom of Sodomy, and best, one, self help. Its harder to meet peace than an argument, for some don't express their feelings nor share their hearts when they're hungry, least satisfied and humble. Desire (pleasure or vanity) looks for confidence, not protecting the well being of a people for a fortune (wealth) to support it, that one needs its intellect, as a people unite before the truth, where peace is best kept. Why, digest the breadth than the flesh and blood for the animal and be saved from a defied land. Avoiding adultery, avoiding forces and have salvation. If one doesn't share its heart and mind, influence will share what's left of it at a cost and release the animal when hungry, and better served with water. Principle can't be threatened to take bribes and loans to pay debt, principle is reinvested to life, and a labyrinth is taking more life than one in it, can give. Why witnesses protest it by fasting.
I stumbled on this joint last night on Facebook. My older brothers were big fans of Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, but I NEVER heard this joint until now. This is straight fire. It's like the further you go back in time, the better the music gets. Shoutout to C.L.!
You are going to be;
a very ntelligent man one day.🧐
One of the dopest shit to ever come out. Brings back great memories
Aww man perfect timing I need classics like this in my life right now
Duude I downloaded this a couple days ago for my playlist and this got here.
@@YETH1NKYAKNOWHUDUMMEANIN Thats Crazy!!!
Facts!!!
This was grown man music then, its grown man music now!
Watch Thirty-Three Hip Hop on RUclips!
DJ Kenny RecK why what’s up
Broke my heart when these two parted ways.
First the Fat Boys break up
Sengo lol Chris Rock - Boomerang!
i seen them play last year but they travel separate and have different tour managers for the same tour haha
What happened??
Tré creative differences
Love Pete rock and cl smooth
If anyone is listening to this song
Knows true hip hop and that’s for real
Until next time peace and I’m out here banging this song
My favorite song of all time. In heavy rotation to this day😎🎶🔈🔉🔊
Don't understand how CL isn't mentioned among the greatest MCs of all time. 🤷🏿♂️
CL underrated , much respect from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
'True to the table'
There are the well versed soldiers we have today,
then the ones whom spoke before, but these soldiers here just put it out on the table long before, yeah gotta admit they definitely took us there and further !!! They are reminisced and most certainly remembered.
I hate the fact kuti vanhu vakachinjwa kuita mabhambhi neka duzvi Jonathan Moyo. I still listen to this
@@h.m.5724 ohh that evil professor of doom who messed up the airwaves ...akandibhowa paakaisa zvima 100% local crap music
Remember George Munetsi’s Rap City on Radio 3 on Saturday’s in the 90s? That’s where I first heard this and fell in love with rap…
Arume we have a track here
This era was so short lived.
isnt any era if your lucky to be born before the era an d old enough to appreciate it and experience it in real time when it was cut fresh
you carnt buy that ,i was 25 at the time
to hear it when it was released is just priceless
As a adult I understand the lyrics and appreciate how great cl and ahead of his time this brother was and still is
One of the most underrated. I tell peeps all the time
True true.....I've always said cl was well ahead and quality intelligent lyrics!!!!
The 1990s..The music..the videos..Karl Kani..🌟🌟🌟🌟I was leaving school when this came out!! Damn!! #Memories #BestTimes
OMG, the Karl Kani! You just closed the door on a time machine for me there 😆 I remember being in elementary school and wanting SO BADLY to be able buy the Karl Kani jeans from that "cool store." ✌️😆
RIP to the legends, RIP to my mother who just passed this year, long live the culture and everyone in it...so many stories are told through this song...1 love
Julian Mihdi sorry for your loss bro my condolences!
@@kharyrichardson4491 appreciate you bro!
Sorry for your lost fam. Moms watching over you. Dont worry
Jesus Christ is there with you every step of the way man. I lost my uncle who was like my father figure and I used to be so upset but I feel he is at peace now and is watching over me as well. Death isn’t the last part of life it just means your soul is somewhere more beautiful and precious. I pray that you make it through and sustain your strength through these hard times!
@@ashleycarter4155 thank you so much for your kind words! I share that perspective, our loved ones are all still with us and we'll see them again in that higher reality, when our souls too cross over. Many blessings to you!
This beat laced with the lyrics is just so nostalgic. How I reminisce my teenage years. I am literally time travelling now...
I'm 15 and I'll take Pete Rock and CL over any rappers today.
That's saying A LOT!
Well spoken young sir. If only there were more like you!
@@Africa1000 there is, im 20 and been bumping 90s rap since early teens but we in the minority
Same I’m 15 and CL Smooth Is where itz at
Im 25 and its a fact. C.L Smooth..one of the only rappers who really got to work w Nujabes. The Methodon*
Still gives me the chills when I hear this. This song forever lives
yessssss CL's voice is just I cannot lol.
Eat the hearts of one another and digest it with understanding thee, before eating or influencing the mind and have one, united. The body is not used often for a job if one can hold it and the animal doesn't discriminate; why we are dependent on the brains. Walls don't separate the soul from another, but the flesh and blood from its relative and relativity. There's plenty of life for those who apply its principles with a contract and commitment, than following others, bread crumbs an ordinary line through a threshold. For everything has instructions, but they don't always answer and what the conscience don't need, don't apply to them; life always makes things better. Children don't argue to be praised, influence and pride honors those who follow it for worship and fortune, fighting to the end, short of it and fame.
What happened to hip hop😢😢😢😢😢tracks like this make me wanna go back into the 90s and just be stuck in that era
CL Smooth is 5th in my top 5. They came out with records at pivotal points in my life. Those albums marked a time period for me.
The Main Ingredient was one of the first hip hop albums I properly listened to, so definitely an all time favourite and important album for me
That's what music does for you
C.L Smooth was born to flow over Pete Rock beats.... I hope they get back together after this pandemic, economic depression & a social uprising..2020 the year of "clear vision"
"It ain't hard to the core, it ain't sex on the Beach/ It's just another plateau that brothers have to reach"
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The 9 people who give this a thumbs down aren't too bright.
Man this just bring back so many memories. You don’t get any smoother than this. Keni Burke keep rising to the top.
Kenny Burke is my uncle
Bradley Gordon he’s a legend.
Same here fam
Dwight Hayes he is related to you?
@@bradleygordon1622 No we're not related. My comment was in agreement with this bringing back great memories.
One of my all time jams...
The whole of the Main Ingredient is an all time jam
anya williams Truth!
Just realized how underrated this guy is: L E G E N D
Damn I miss this era of Hio Hop music...!
Me too
Memories of the 'Golden Era'...one of my favs
This is purely hip-hop culture at it's finest brought to you by the legendary one and only Peter Rock & CL Smooth!!
I'm not a rap fan, but I still consider this one of the greatest songs (rap or otherwise) in the history of mankind!! 🔥💝😍🥰😘🎶🎵🎶😘🥰😍💝🔥
They were such a perfect duo, like many ones in the east during that era. Guru & preemo, eric b and rakim, kool g rap, qtip & phife dawg. So much inspiration the guys nowadays lack, I never lived It so Id rather be born in the 80s not 90s (._. )
Masta Ace & Marco Polo
Nice & smooth
Kool g rap is 1 person but hes legendary.
If your born in the 70s you can live the 70s 8s snd 9s in yohng years
So true, even to this day these bomb ass lyricist & dope emcees from the 90's are yet to be outdone as far as rhyming & dope beats....this new shit today just sounds plastic as a motherfucker.
Pete Rock and C.L.Smooth was the classic group in Hip-Hop and I love the soundscape of Pete Rock with the sample placements and smooth production, and C.L. With the smooth wordplay just riding it was flawless 💯💯💯
Mumble rappers take notes!
#BringBackRealMusic
#BringBack90sMusic
#BringBackRealHipHop
When rap was ART !!
The good old times - hip hop as a masterpiece 👌
LL COOL J “Paradise” later sampled this as well. This is fire, C.L. went off 🔥
They both sample Keni Burke - Rising to the Top along with OC's Born to Live
Classic.
@@Mar.Escobar24 no, LL COOL J did sample this track for paradise, and Pete Rock & CL sampled Keni Burke & OC as their arrangement is what LL Cool J took.
LL COOL J sampled a sample of a sample(s)
I love Pete Rock so much that I made this mix… check it out!! Subscribe to my channel!
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@@Mar.Escobar24 yessir that was the original one. That’s why I love hip hop. It all sounds familiar to me because I’ve heard these beats before as a baby. My father had a lot of those records with keni Burke
Nothing but a classic 💎
YALL IN YA BAG TODAY HUH? THIS MY SHIIIIIIII BLOOD
Another Banger that NEVER get old. Miss these days!
Remember 1st playing this beat in 1997 damn I miss the 90s
The 90's are the greatest decade ever
Aint that something...
Take me back to the Era of Rock and CL.... miss these days.. 2019
This brings me way back to some good memories. This album was smooth as x.
This is what you call "REAL" HIP-HOP
Effortless Dopeness. When you look back 25yrs ago to 1994. Pete Rock n CL Smooth solidified their position with The Main Ingredient. If only they had the wisdom to overcome their differences... Representing south Africa🇿🇦 ✌🏾
This takes me back to some great days in my life!!
Love this jam!!! Still sounds good in 2019!!!
Back in the days weekends had a different feel😢thank you CL for this timeless piece
i still have this cassette. To think i bought this in the golden era.🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 nostalgia.
Back in the 90s I swear when this came on the radio.it felt so 90s and relaxed me
That's what I'm talking about!! Real rap!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
CL is the kind of man I would like to hang out with as a Brother...His Mature Lyrics are pure Musical genius 🙌
I just shed a tear. It was a rime to be alive when this came out. ❤
I'm sure all the commentors are mid 40's lol. Shout out to real hip hop lovers.
I'm 21 bro, this shit slaps more than most of the new music out now.
33 Years old, But that's the beauty of classic music. It never dies
Yes sir 🙋♂️
I've been blessed to witness the beginning of Hip Hop to now and the mid 80's to early 2000 it was the best. Not saying today's Hip Hop is trash but it lacks context and substance. I'm from Bushwick Brooklyn born and raised I seen it all from jams in the park to parties in abandoned buildings. Greatness at it best.💯💯💯
These comments are real and true. If you all wouldve been born
during the golden age of rap and hip hop,oooweee
26 Here. Been on Pete Rock and CL smooth since high school but DMX my all time favorite since I was 7
Deadly!!!
What a duo that was...
Pete Rock & CL....
One of my favorite rap songs. And O.C. used this same sample on "Born 2 Live" another all time favorite of mine.
I heard the OC song on IG, I’m like I heard that sample. It brought me to listen to CL and Pete rock. Both fire songs
Golden Era Classic!
Good memories❤
Ahhh...that buttery voice is like an ear massage...lol. CL has got one of my top 3 or so favorite voices in the game. And is for sure one of my favorite emcees, and also is just highly underrated these days.
It's 2023 tell me who's still rocckin to this❤
At times there was still real hip hop like this
A Higher "Lyrical" Learning... A flawless, smooth & soulful timeless classic
Masterpiece 😚🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
One of my favs. I was born in ‘96.
Glad my pops put me on all this real rap
Same
2023 Still Popping 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
From France, East old school 40's grimlins .... when we reminisce over us...🤔🤔🤔un truc dans l'genre
Big UP
Man, idk why this was just uploaded, but I'm damn glad it was. Pete rock and cl were among the best to ever do it
In Japan, this song and OC's Born 2 Live 12" lined up in stores at the same time.
I immediately bought "Classic Mellow Mastercuts Volume 1". I was 17 years old.
Only 1.1 views, you'll crazy.... This classic of all time...2024 still listening
Facts! Super classic! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
19 year old from Germany here, this music will never and nowhere ever be forgotten
I feel like i could dance until the end of times with those type of masterpieces.😇😇
Real smooth lyricalizing right there
Pete rock and cl smooth has followed me every where since I discovered their music.
CL and that rapper from Nice & Smooth got the smoothest flow.
still sounds fresh ❤this joint is timeless
.... not OLD SCHOOL but the REAL SCHOOL!! 90s 4LIFE!!
These are the type of pure lyricists that keep me going love it much respect 💯💯💯✊🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I wish they never broke up. Miss there music. This joint reminds me of my Lil Bro
That 90s vibe always the best
I don’t care what anyone says, this is the best song off the best hip hop album of all time 🔥..