Vlad u MUST make OG Chuck D a regular. His wisdom and knowledge of what hip hop is, will need to be documented to educate the current generations and the many to come after that.
@Spread Love I have to respectfully disagree. There aren't too many living legends like him who can not only give a true account to certain artists, situations, etc. But can shed light on the science behind many hip hop icons we grown to love today. Hip hop history is rich beyond the obvious (drugs, beef, and money). He won't be here forever and documentation is necessary from one who embodies what hip hop is. Not the rapping art form but the whole culture.
Facts. And it taught me what the black man was up against at the age of 12 lol. Our music was street and educational. Something these young fools don't have these days smh.
music is music- tru dat. wish had we had all realized that back then. it couldna been no east coast west/coast beef and maybe biggie and pac would both still be here. cubes lyrical skills got better and better afterwards. but production wise- amerikkkas most wanted was the best he put forward... but thats just my thinkin- u might be right.
Chuck D is an absolutely amazing guy, so much knowledge, is there ANYTHING this man can't talk about...from hip-hop to rock, production to labels, Dropping Knowledge on fools like its just another day...MUCH RESPECT!! 🐐🐐🐐🐐
What Chuck said about Michael Jackson and LL Cool J is so in point. The Beyonce era has very little idea of how huge those people were at the time.... No disrespect to Beyonce.
@@jasondawson92 they were cool but Karyn White and Vanity are nowhere near the names they're discussing... the only one you named that was iconic in her era that's comparable to what Janet and later Beyonce were is Diana Ross
Love that he gives Too Short props. I'm from Philly, I became a fan in 88 with Life is Too Short, but my friends in Philly and NYC cousins didn't mess with him at all lol. The East in general (Boston to DC) hated on him, but my cousins in SC loved him during that time. The South knew what time it was early...
(1) Takes A Nation Of Millions (PE) (2) America's Most Wanted (Ice Cubes) (3) The Chronic (Dr. Dre) All 3 are the most iconic masterpieces albums...ever.
To the younger generation, Public Enemy was the greatest live performance group of all time, their concerts were unmatched and absolutely hyped as hell!!!!
Chuck D is on my list of heroes. "It Takes a Nation of Millions..." changed my life as a white kid from the Chicago suburbs. Much respect. Now, always...
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was Cube's best work! Periodt. Never knew any artist as hungry as he was at that time even till now. Every track was great! It's a hip-hop opera. I bought AmeriKKKa's and Death Certificate on first day. AmericaKKKa had a stronger impact at the time (not in retrospect).
@@jayaallday8516 Every old-school rap battle in the 80's. It was usually one song blowing up, then a bunch of other rappers responding to it over the instrumental. Jacking for beats was the first DJ style compilation of different beats on one song. Definitely a game changer.
Chuck... you are still the King in my opinion. Everyone knew and loved Flav, including me, but the real PE fans like me and my friends knew that Chuck definitely was and always have been the man in PE. I remember reading your PE album covers and you would always try to mention as many hip hop artists as you could think of on the back of the cover, regardless of what part of the country these artists were from. I thought that was very impressive. You were all about unity from day one. And this was the beginning of the beef rap era with LL and Moe D. You have always believed in respecting everyone, which is one of the many reasons why I have so much respect for you til this very day. As far as I am concerned... Chuck.. you are still the King.
Willie, Ive always thought exactly that as well. Right from the time i started bumpin PE. Chuck, is the main reason i became a hip-hop junky, back in 88. After i first heard Don't Believe The Hype, music was on a whole new level for me!!!
SUNGLOW RAYZ: He made tooooo many chick songs. The machine gassed him and told him that your winning with the chicks so talk to them "exclusively" them. LL never realized that he wasn't Prince or Mike Jackson. That younger chicks didn't gravitate towards him. Also I don't care what no one says once a music artist moves away from the music into the film and tv medium, that artist is going to lose his musical edge. No man can serve "two masters"
Man I remember seeing a whole row/section of "Kill at Will" Eps sitting on the record shelves..... about 25 images of Ice Cube handing that gun over..... and I started laughing out loud...... when I finally bought it and heard it, I was blown away
I used to bump "Once Upon a Time in the Projects" a lot back in '90. The production on that album was real good and it helped that Cube was already legit.
Chuck D is the real deal and still looks the same as he did over 30 years ago. He definitely has taken care of himself no doubt my love and respect for this man 💯💯💯
In my opinion on LL’s music “Walking With A Panther”, is his best and most slept on album in his career. It had banger after banger, I didn’t like “Two Different Worlds”, but the rest of the album...mad dope.
Death Certificate is Cube’s masterpiece. It’s a concept record that stays listenable which is hard to do. Amerikkka’s Most Wanted is probably my favorite Ice Cube album though, the energy and anger that he managed to focus into that album is so amazing. Kill At Will is Cube really showing his growth. Jackin For Beats is so dope how he flips styles. Ice Cube is probably top 10 MC’s of all time.
PROBABLY?? He's most definitely TOP 5 in mines, simply because he studied the game and knew what lane was his and where he wanted 2 eventually be at, which is right next 2 CHUCK D, as his understudy and predecessor 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
Chuck D is the SUPER GLUE that holds all the different hip hop regions & styles together. He's quietly the most important hip hop figure ever as well as the most universally respected by ALL. Nobody else is even close. KRS ONE is a distant second. FACTS
November 23rd,1988 The Bring the noise tour came to the St. Louis Arena. It featured EPMD, Ice T, Stetasonic, NWA, and Public Enemy!!! MY first concert I paid to attend. I was 15 years old, a sophomore in high school and in hip hop HEAVEN!!!!! Thx Chuck!!!!!!!!
Public Enemy needs to have a movie showing them influencing all of the different hip hop acts. That would be a more interesting story than Straight Outta Compton.
@MrB0gart There's no way to scientifically quantify the influence of rap groups.There's a gang of hip hop crews and individuals that influenced and shaped hip hop either directly or indirectly.Indeed PE and the bomb squad in particular influenced the hard-edged,outspoken content of nwa,though they were totally different groups. But sense we're talking about influences Flash and the Furious 5 (and particularly Melle Mel)are the true pioneers of the kind of social realism in hip hop that would be the foundations for gangster rap,trap,drill etc. And I agree.What's old was often far superior.(Though not always.) And that certainly can be said for one legendary rap crew more than any other - the Herculoids. This sound system/crew contained the first hip hop dj,emcees(coke la rock,timmy tim,clark kent,labrew,sweet 'n' sour etc),female solo emcee(pebblee poo) and two of the earliest b-boys(the nigga twins). In other words they established the very template that every crew you mentioned built entire careers off of. If that's not good enough for you then cats like Schoolly D,Too Short and Funkmaster Wizard Wiz were cursing,talking about pimping,street gangs,street violence and utilizing shock to provoke years before nwa ever did. Furthermore Rakim influenced today's crop of emcees 100-times more than Quest ever has. (Indeed Kendrick and Nikki literally sound nothing even remotely close to Quest.) Not to mention every artist today and throughout rap history that raps fast,utilizes metaphors and multisyllable words are forever indebted to the Treacherous Three. Yeah,money.It's funny you mention wikipedia,considering that every single artist you've mentioned reads like the millennial list of hip hop greats. Now go sit yo' corporate ass down.
Much as I criticize Glad, interviews with the great legends, I appreciate when he has those types of interviews. It’ll be nice if he could get a Cube interview.
Salute to the OG for shouting out Shy D, one of the hip hop pioneers from ATL👊🏾 These so-called hip hop historians leave out his influence on hip hop in the south. He was actually being lyrical and was very big in GA and FL.
Off topic, Props to Too Short, We were listening to him in Detroit from day one. Growing up I don't know anyone that didn't know the lyrics to Cusswords back in the day.
@@jahnkonoo Bob Marley is one of the greatest ever, however he was no Michael Jackson,I respect prince big time as well however he didn't hit like Michael Jackson did,the most domiant artist in my lifetime and I didn't stutter when I said Stevie wonder is a very close second
@@kookutta you and him are both tripping no rapper was making no Michael Jackson,prince or Lionel Richie look back,tired of folks acting like rappers were on that kind of level, Michael Jackson alone stopped the whole world and had folks hooked on thriller,you can't put the ten best rappers on their best day commanding that for 6 months no rapper seeing no prince or Lionel Richie,truth is we're it not for James brown then alot of rappers would have been stocking selves,stop revision history turkey
Nawll fool you the one trippin i remember one of those top magazines back then had a cover of micheal and ll and the mazine cover said "whos da baddest"..micheal didnt even write his own stuff and if they wasnt concern about rap why micheal em started doing songs with them.
@@kookutta you are a cornball no nothing turkey they asked whose bad after MJ had a career from 69-87 dumb turkey that's a 20 year career to a newbie, Michael Jackson wrote songs, while a turkey like you couldn't get your Jerri curl on straight,you need to stick to your lane because turkey you clearly don't know how talented and how bad Michael Joseph Jackson was,I ain't got time to educate a lightweight on music like you about Michael Jackson,you don't wanna go rounds with me turkey
Chuck D messages STILL resurnate in my head as a voice to be reckoned with for years to come, and I'm 58 years old. I really miss his vocal flows in his songs.
Love how Chuck controls the interview, makes it flow much smoother than when Vlad throws in his opinions. Hearing about shows where 2 Live Crew and Too Short opening up for Public Enemy, sounds like a odd ass line up. 😂😂
Man!!!! Chuck D What a humble great brother who I never met. He is so responsible for a huge part of spreading knowledge and feeding positive information to the masses. I was introduced to him thru the home video of PE and of course and who could forget, It takes a nation of millions to hold us back I was 19 and I played it so much and memorized all the lyrics of Chuck's lines I was Chuck D the older brothers around when they saw me would say " here comes lil Chuck D." My APOLOGIES i should be addressing him as Mr Chuck or Bro Chuck. I needed to put a handle on his name because he has been and is so valuable to and for us💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿👍🏽🙏🏿
I can’t live without my radio, I’m bad, rock the bells, Jack the Ripper, I need love, booming system, around the way girl, jingling baby, mama said knock you out, I need a beat, go cut creator go, headsprung, going back to Cali, and the list goes on and on...
That's dope you're open minded about Chuck D. I was around when Public Enemy was huge, and I wasn't really into them.... except for when they came out with "Fight the Power" song and the "Fear of a Black Planet" album...... but make no mistake, PE was a verrrrrry popular group back then.
Thanks man! I was never into hip hop growing up,just my older bros,I first saw Flava Flav in Def Jam fight for NY😂so I thought a lot of these cats were fictional characters until my bros told me lmao as for their music,my uncle made me hear their first album few weeks back,now I'm ready to study sum mo!:D
It's good to see youngsters dig into the past. Back then, anything that wasn't kicking street knowledge or for the culture was considered Bubble Gum rap. And, Bubble Gum rappers would get ran off the stage by other rappers.
Death Certificate is my favorite ice cube album too. and i really love grandmaster flash shit, i wasnt even born then. But this is is the dude who was dj on flashback fm in sa?
@@carlborman5165 I guess you mean NWA was better without Ice Cube. Which is true. Efil4zaggin and 100 Miles & running are better projects than Straight Outta Compton. Ice Cube didnt belong in that group. Which is why he made better albums as a solo artist. F^$$ that Straight Outta Compton movie. They made it seem like NWA needed Ice Cube. They didnt need each other.
Man, no lie, L.L. Cool J is the only person ever to make me put Michael Jackson on the passenger side. I was 14, rap was so new and LL was larger than life to me. He commanded respect on stage and on his albums. I get chills just thinking back on those times. "Do you like Michael Jackson? WE LIKE COOL J!" Crazy he isn't in the hall of fame, he definitely deserves to be.
And this why Ice Cube is top 10 all time! He left a grew that was big, went solo, and the rest was history. Think about. He left the west coast to record his first album on the east. He rapped over east coast beast but still kept it west coast in his themes. At a time when the West wasn't getting no respect from the east. Cube was the first to go to the East and made a legit classic album! I don't think people get how extraordinary that was at that time. it's not like how it is now when you can travel back and forth with ease being blackballed because of where you from. And after AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted what did Cube do...he went back home to the west and created another masterpiece "Death Certificate". That's back-to-back classics.
I saw the Bring The Noise tour when i was younger in philly. I still say PE did Eric B and Rakim dirty by having them go on after them. I felt so bad for Rakim because NOBODY stayed to watch them play after PE tore it down. Dirty smh
@smoothcollected NO SIR...you don't understand how hot PE's show was at that time. It maybe wasn't to outright disrespect Eric and Rakim back then, but you have to realize that Rakim wasnt considered the god back then like he is today. Their show was not fuckin with PE in any shape or fashion back then
@smoothcollected well..its like chuck d said in this interview. You had to have been there because its not just about what the artist did or does on stage or in their recordings...its about the climate of the times. PE's show game was so huge at the time because it was a show that no one has ever seen before. A loud lyricist A joker hype man A DJ And instead of dancers..you had the S1Ws who were doing millitant steps and marches all on beat with the music..while holding fake machine guns. I dont care how dope you are lyrically, if you don't have a show to even compare to that presentation, the crowd will be drained out to even want to see what's next afterwards. And that show line up was a MONSTER. Biz Markie opening, Big Daddy Kane, Stetsasonic, BDP, and THEN PE.. and then Eric B and Rakim. It was a VERY fond hip hop memory when I was 12 years old.
I love Chuck D and Public Enemy! I'm straight up West Coast but love all the early East coast hip hop icons which made rap music what it became. It's why I never understood all the beef and bullshit with notorious b.i.g. and Tupac. West coast always give it up to New York for starting it all!
The beef between Tupac and Biggie started in November 1994 when Pac was robbed and shot in the lobby of the recording studio where Biggie and Junior MAFIA were upstairs cutting some tracks. Pac claims Biggie knew he was coming and set the whole thing up. It also hurt that Pac was about to sentenced to jail time the day after the shooting. It escalated into a beef between their respective record labels; Death Row/Interscope on the west and Bad Boy on the east.
I'm 50yrs old now but as a kid I had a long jerry curl and I was tall when my mom bought me a "knock off" Michael Jackson Billy Jean jacket and when I wore it to school the girl went crazy!!! It was insane!!! They bumrushed me...
Seen Too Short in concert. It was 2013 Columbus Ohio a club called skullys and my friends were performing and of course Short Dog was the final act. Too Short got on stage and said "Columbus Ohio, I haven't been here since 87-88 so Y all know what that means??"...The crowd goes Whaaat? Too Short said "That means I might be some of y'alls daddy"....Everybody laughed and was kinda like hey man lol.
Whaaat man.i was reading to see who was sharp enough to catch that real ass shit.and Vlad kept trying.that mountain don't move my friend... Good ears my friend.
What a brilliant interview, Chuck D is an icon! Public Enemy are one of the best Hip-Hop groups ever!! I remember when rappers like L.L. Cool J, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz & Run-DMC were so popular, brilliant times!!!
DJ Mr. MILES I saw PE when Digital Underground with Tupac! Before the show begin, Flav had ( I believe his oldest) his daughter with him waving at the crowd! The energy he brings and the whole group brings was incredible!
Yup! After the dis track that brought down a whole crew we was like what's he gonna do next...and it's 1,2,3 and I come with the wicked! He also dropped that bomb on our moms!
@@mrkareem7264 He had only done Boyz-N-Tha Hood and Trepass at that point, not quite a movie star yet. To each is own, but I feel The Predator exemplified the climate of what was happening in America at the time, especially in Los Angeles with the 92 riots.
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Chuck D is a legend but doesn’t get the recognition he deserves
Most new york rappers from that era dont
So true. So sadly true.
Depends on whose giving the recognition. All the real ones kno
He gets it in Europe
Facts bro!
Feeling like this whole Chuck D interview is probably the best Vlad interview ever! So many gems.
Yeah because he ain’t trying to get him to snitch on himself because Chuck is a straight up dude.
Facts, he just needs the bomb squad on there. Hank is a genius
People say that shit is legendary but this is truly a legendary story. The birth of features.
VLAD does his research!
Agreed... one of the best.
Vlad u MUST make OG Chuck D a regular. His wisdom and knowledge of what hip hop is, will need to be documented to educate the current generations and the many to come after that.
Versatile, i agree. Chuck, is like a hip-hop encyclopedia!!!
@Spread Love I have to respectfully disagree. There aren't too many living legends like him who can not only give a true account to certain artists, situations, etc. But can shed light on the science behind many hip hop icons we grown to love today. Hip hop history is rich beyond the obvious (drugs, beef, and money). He won't be here forever and documentation is necessary from one who embodies what hip hop is. Not the rapping art form but the whole culture.
FACTS
💯
Chuck D reminiscing about Too $hort!
This is so surreal and amazing!
I'm born & raised in East Harlem NYC...Death Certificate is hands down his best album! Doesn't matter where you're from, music is music!
Facts. And it taught me what the black man was up against at the age of 12 lol. Our music was street and educational. Something these young fools don't have these days smh.
music is music- tru dat. wish had we had all realized that back then. it couldna been no east coast west/coast beef and maybe biggie and pac would both still be here. cubes lyrical skills got better and better afterwards. but production wise- amerikkkas most wanted was the best he put forward... but thats just my thinkin- u might be right.
Well put together album
@Sean Wright... I concur and I am from Phila.
FACTS!!
Death Certificate
Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Predator
Kill at Will
B-legs&B-sides
Vlad felt like Malcolm X when he said he threw out his Aunt Jemima bottle
😂
Vlad X 😂😂
'did you keep the syrup?' lol
All of a sudden he throws it out.....
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chuck D is an absolutely amazing guy, so much knowledge, is there ANYTHING this man can't talk about...from hip-hop to rock, production to labels, Dropping Knowledge on fools like its just another day...MUCH RESPECT!! 🐐🐐🐐🐐
I could sit in a lecture hall for HOURS listening to Chuck D speak on art and HIP HOP!!!
exactly what i was thinking
Yup me too....I could listen to Chuck talk all day...cuz he drop knowledge all day.
For real. For real.
public enemy #1
Ditto
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted is my fav Ice Cube album. that bomb squad production mixed with Ice Cube 🔥
Classic album
"AmeriKKKas Most Wanted" was the BOMB !! MY favorite Ice Cube album by far !
What Chuck said about Michael Jackson and LL Cool J is so in point. The Beyonce era has very little idea of how huge those people were at the time.... No disrespect to Beyonce.
Beyonce, the new Janet Jackson. Janet the original Beyonce. Aaliyah, a close second. One in a million.
@@williamallen2565 Precisely! JJ paved the way....
Don’t forget Karyn White, Jude Wately, Jane, Diana Ross, and Vanity.
@@jasondawson92 they were cool but Karyn White and Vanity are nowhere near the names they're discussing... the only one you named that was iconic in her era that's comparable to what Janet and later Beyonce were is Diana Ross
Beyonce never shut down network tv to showcase a video MJ did matter fact no other artist has.
Love that he gives Too Short props. I'm from Philly, I became a fan in 88 with Life is Too Short, but my friends in Philly and NYC cousins didn't mess with him at all lol. The East in general (Boston to DC) hated on him, but my cousins in SC loved him during that time. The South knew what time it was early...
Greenville, SC cued up ✊🏽
Facts!!!
WE MUST PROTECT CHUCK D AT ALL COST!! 🐐
FACTZ!!
That's for real for real
Agreed!
He don't need that....that's the bullshit we talkin about. He';s not a white woman in distress....knock that shit off
Protect the brother
(1) Takes A Nation Of Millions (PE) (2) America's Most Wanted (Ice Cubes) (3) The Chronic (Dr. Dre)
All 3 are the most iconic masterpieces albums...ever.
Gotta have Eric B and Rakim's Paid in Full in there too, that is a masterpiece if there ever was one.
Im gonna put Outkast's Stankonia over Ice Cube's Amerikkkas Most Wanted.
Can’t forget me against the world and it was written
@@conservativeasiatic9752 LOL
@@falsealarmno i cant put stankonia over aquemini. i love em both- but i just cant do it...
To the younger generation, Public Enemy was the greatest live performance group of all time, their concerts were unmatched and absolutely hyped as hell!!!!
Them S1W's were fierce, I remember Public Enemy opened up for U2 Achtung Baby tour lol I never seen so many scared white people in my life lol
seen them 5 times over 20 year... incredible every time. Only more consistently good live act in hip hop for me is KRS
@@MikeJones-pf4wd
That was called Zoo TV tour. U2 back then had great support acts!
Chuck D is on my list of heroes. "It Takes a Nation of Millions..." changed my life as a white kid from the Chicago suburbs. Much respect. Now, always...
You being from Chicago I know you know about Common, Twista and Crucial Conflict. This was before Kanye West. Do or Die from Chicago as well.
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted was Cube's best work! Periodt. Never knew any artist as hungry as he was at that time even till now. Every track was great! It's a hip-hop opera. I bought AmeriKKKa's and Death Certificate on first day. AmericaKKKa had a stronger impact at the time (not in retrospect).
Ice Cube's 1st album is 🔥
Get off that beat fool this a full time jack move... first time ever a rapper took other rappers beats and rapped over them..Cube definitely a 🐐
That aint the 1st but Cube is a beast! 1 of the 1st west coast dudes we was rockin too in Nj!
I'm from P.a..We most definitely was rocking with cube..But find me a song before that were a rapper going in on somebodies else beat..
@@jayaallday8516 Every old-school rap battle in the 80's. It was usually one song blowing up, then a bunch of other rappers responding to it over the instrumental. Jacking for beats was the first DJ style compilation of different beats on one song. Definitely a game changer.
@@jasonwalton2065 agree to disagree.Respect
Nope, I can't even think of one rapper to do that before cube.
Chuck... you are still the King in my opinion. Everyone knew and loved Flav, including me, but the real PE fans like me and my friends knew that Chuck definitely was and always have been the man
in PE. I remember reading your PE album covers and you would always try to mention as many hip hop artists as you could think of on the back of the cover, regardless of what part of the country these artists were from. I thought that was very impressive. You were all about unity from day one. And this was the beginning of the beef rap era with LL and Moe D. You have always believed in respecting everyone, which is one of the many reasons why I have so much respect for you til this very day. As far as I am concerned... Chuck.. you are still the King.
Willie, Ive always thought exactly that as well. Right from the time i started bumpin PE. Chuck, is the main reason i became a hip-hop junky, back in 88. After i first heard Don't Believe The Hype, music was on a whole new level for me!!!
So true
LL never gets credit for his Greatness!!!
Facts ll is the Goat Greatest Of All Time
LL about top 12 for me. He definitely fell off a few times, both in the early 90s and that head sprung bullshit in 2004 but he still a legend
SUNGLOW RAYZ: He made tooooo many chick songs. The machine gassed him and told him that your winning with the chicks so talk to them "exclusively" them. LL never realized that he wasn't Prince or Mike Jackson. That younger chicks didn't gravitate towards him. Also I don't care what no one says once a music artist moves away from the music into the film and tv medium, that artist is going to lose his musical edge. No man can serve "two masters"
"I take a muscle bond man and put his face in the sand"😂
I think it's because he is so far removed from rap that you almost forget he was that dude at one point.
Even if you down with my crew,
(Yo Chuck man, I don't understand this man. You gotta slow down)
I'll jack them, too!
That was on the “Kill at Will” EP
And then we’ll freak it, kick that bass and look what we did!!
Wick-ah-wick-ah..."This is a journey...a journey"
Man I remember seeing a whole row/section of "Kill at Will" Eps sitting on the record shelves..... about 25 images of Ice Cube handing that gun over..... and I started laughing out loud...... when I finally bought it and heard it, I was blown away
Jacking for beats..the first remix ever..salute cube
Tupac and Biggie looked up to LL Cool J. Let that sink in.
Everyone in hip hop of that generation did. LL is a legend
everyone back then respected those that came before then, unlike now
That moment when Cool j spit in Kristy groove. Mannnnnnn
They looked up to alot of rappers from that generation like Rakim, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, KRS-1, etc.
Pac admitted that he look up to Cube & copy his style..
Give Chuck D his flowers!!
I like how Chuck D doesn’t allow Vlad to overtalk him or interrupt...I’ll give Vlad props for showing respect to a legend
Krs one should come on there
I was thinking the same thing
I don't think krs likes vlad
KRS May never do an interview with Vlad, he and other legends hates him
He has an interview on here.
I used to bump "Once Upon a Time in the Projects" a lot back in '90. The production on that album was real good and it helped that Cube was already legit.
One of my all-time favorite rap songs
Much love to Redman for doing his spin on it too
The Betty Davis sample for that song though.
The Bomb Squad knew their music.
THE NIGGA YOU LOVE TO HATE
I'm With Chuck D!!! "Kill At Will" Was My Favorite!! Not Too Many Songs, Damn Near All Of Em Crazy!! I Still Listen To "Dead Homies" Now!! 💯
@Thulsa Doom Fact!! Pete Rock & Cl Smooth's "All Souled Out" Is #2 In My Opinion!
Chuck D is the real deal and still looks the same as he did over 30 years ago. He definitely has taken care of himself no doubt my love and respect for this man 💯💯💯
"Art is short for Artificial" Damn!! Chuck STILL droppin knowledge!!!
LL deserves to be in the rock and roll hall of fame
So does Bone Thugs, Wu-Tang, & Snoop
Fuck the rock n roll HOF. Its HIP HOP we need our own shit
@@cu806 fuck the cops
C U I agree with everything u just said
According to the criteria, both LL & Tribe Called Quest are eligible now
In my opinion on LL’s music “Walking With A Panther”, is his best and most slept on album in his career. It had banger after banger, I didn’t like “Two Different Worlds”, but the rest of the album...mad dope.
Hell yea, it’s great!
Death Certificate is Cube’s masterpiece. It’s a concept record that stays listenable which is hard to do. Amerikkka’s Most Wanted is probably my favorite Ice Cube album though, the energy and anger that he managed to focus into that album is so amazing. Kill At Will is Cube really showing his growth. Jackin For Beats is so dope how he flips styles. Ice Cube is probably top 10 MC’s of all time.
PROBABLY?? He's most definitely TOP 5 in mines, simply because he studied the game and knew what lane was his and where he wanted 2 eventually be at, which is right next 2 CHUCK D, as his understudy and predecessor 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤
To me..
Lethal Injection will always be my favorite album from him
Probably? Ice cube is the greatest west coast rapper ever.. Top 10 is disrespectful lol
@@rzn2258 "Lethal Injection" was weak.
Del wrote jacking for beats
I'm from Chicago and I dug death certificate Ice Cube that was my favorite about that tape and everything
Chuck D is the SUPER GLUE that holds all the different hip hop regions & styles together. He's quietly the most important hip hop figure ever as well as the most universally respected by ALL. Nobody else is even close. KRS ONE is a distant second. FACTS
“Did you keep the syrup?”😂😂😂
Right!🤣
Why throw it out now in 2020? What took so long?
😂😂😂😂😂
First thing I thought. Keep the syrup 😆
@@darrylnelson05 💎 word....because its symbolic to do so.... Typical caucasian attitude....we don't care about a fuckin bottle
Ice Cube talked about them Jews on Death Certificate so of course we understand Vlad!
lol just one song but of course it contaminated the whole album so he'll never acknowledge it.
Victor Lazlo Lol no it wasn’t just one song.
@@alishabazz7431 what other song besides no vaseline?
Victor Lazlo True 2 da Game
@@alishabazz7431 Enough Said...Salute!!!
November 23rd,1988 The Bring the noise tour came to the St. Louis Arena. It featured EPMD, Ice T, Stetasonic, NWA, and Public Enemy!!! MY first concert I paid to attend. I was 15 years old, a sophomore in high school and in hip hop HEAVEN!!!!! Thx Chuck!!!!!!!!
Public Enemy needs to have a movie showing them influencing all of the different hip hop acts. That would be a more interesting story than Straight Outta Compton.
or just as good. i would definitely want to see it.
Ice cube said he wants to produce it
MrB0gart wasn’t it 2 live crew?
@MrB0gart
Run dmc is the only rap group more influential than who?NWA?
Nigga,please.Lmfao
@MrB0gart
There's no way to scientifically quantify the influence of rap groups.There's a gang of hip hop crews and individuals that influenced and shaped hip hop either directly or indirectly.Indeed PE and the bomb squad in particular influenced the hard-edged,outspoken content of nwa,though they were totally different groups.
But sense we're talking about influences Flash and the Furious 5 (and particularly Melle Mel)are the true pioneers of the kind of social realism in hip hop that would be the foundations for gangster rap,trap,drill etc.
And I agree.What's old was often far superior.(Though not always.)
And that certainly can be said for one legendary rap crew more than any other - the Herculoids.
This sound system/crew contained the first hip hop dj,emcees(coke la rock,timmy tim,clark kent,labrew,sweet 'n' sour etc),female solo emcee(pebblee poo) and two of the earliest b-boys(the nigga twins).
In other words they established the very template that every crew you mentioned built entire careers off of.
If that's not good enough for you then cats like Schoolly D,Too Short and Funkmaster Wizard Wiz were cursing,talking about pimping,street gangs,street violence and utilizing shock to provoke years before nwa ever did.
Furthermore Rakim influenced today's crop of emcees 100-times more than Quest ever has.
(Indeed Kendrick and Nikki literally sound nothing even remotely close to Quest.)
Not to mention every artist today and throughout rap history that raps fast,utilizes metaphors and multisyllable words are forever indebted to the Treacherous Three.
Yeah,money.It's funny you mention wikipedia,considering that every single artist you've mentioned reads like the millennial list of hip hop greats.
Now go sit yo' corporate ass down.
I can listen to the great Chuck D all day!! The guy is filled with so much knowledge!!!
8:28 “...Mrs. Butterscotch.”?
Maybe he meant Mrs. Butterworth?
LL should definitely be in the Rocknroll Hall of Fame.
I can’t stop listening to AMW. Cube over Bob Squad production...damn! He should have been on the fight the power remix
*BOMB
WOW! I thought LL was already in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. He should to be in.
Why you do Chuck dirty and go all in his nose like that... Chuck is a legend! Show that man some respect.
Chuck D is an amazing man and artist. I’ve been a fan for nearly 30 years and counting.
Much as I criticize Glad, interviews with the great legends, I appreciate when he has those types of interviews. It’ll be nice if he could get a Cube interview.
If there is no Tupac/suge or crime angle to ask the guest questions about then he really does do great interviews.
As a South African, I'm piecing the history of hip hop together and Chuck D what a cool inspiration figure
Salute to the OG for shouting out Shy D, one of the hip hop pioneers from ATL👊🏾 These so-called hip hop historians leave out his influence on hip hop in the south. He was actually being lyrical and was very big in GA and FL.
Everything I say you know is rough my name is shy d and I gotta be tough. Grady Baby 73'
Harold Ransom 👊🏾💯
True even tho Shy D from NY, he definitely got his start in the ATL.
My first rap concert was Too short Nwa PE in Philadelphia at the Spectrum thank u mom !
Did too short get love out there?
I was there too bro, I remember the crowd not so crazy about Short
DJaySplitSecond short got booooooood I will never forget short said fuck y’all I got a big azz car Nd big azz house Nd left the stage 😭😭😭😭😭😭
ceeloc nawl Philly was hatin on short he was too new
Zeke Rodgers he also got booed at the Ritz in my hometown in NJ, his music was just trash, the beats and sounds! Us east coast fans hated it
Chuck D's Kane impression was on point
Ice Cubes best album:
AMERIKKKAS MOST WANTED:
Endangered Species
Rolling With The LynchMob
Death certificate
Introduction Tv
The Predator
Off topic, Props to Too Short, We were listening to him in Detroit from day one. Growing up I don't know anyone that didn't know the lyrics to Cusswords back in the day.
Once upon a time in the projects, YO!!!
Thriller is the standard album always and Michael Jackson is the most domiant artist of my lifetime,not even close except you might say Stevie wonder
Bob Marley & Prince...
@@jahnkonoo Bob Marley is one of the greatest ever, however he was no Michael Jackson,I respect prince big time as well however he didn't hit like Michael Jackson did,the most domiant artist in my lifetime and I didn't stutter when I said Stevie wonder is a very close second
Amerikkka's most wanted was also my favorite Cube album.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but Ice Cube progressed when he left nwa. Before amerikkkas most, he was just a rapper.
LL Cool j is one of the best to ever rock a mic, however Michael Jackson and prince weren't sweating, LL is bad however not on those cats level
He didnt mean they were worried bout him he just mean that they look back and saw notice him in which they didnt with no other rapper during that time
@@kookutta you and him are both tripping no rapper was making no Michael Jackson,prince or Lionel Richie look back,tired of folks acting like rappers were on that kind of level, Michael Jackson alone stopped the whole world and had folks hooked on thriller,you can't put the ten best rappers on their best day commanding that for 6 months no rapper seeing no prince or Lionel Richie,truth is we're it not for James brown then alot of rappers would have been stocking selves,stop revision history turkey
Nawll fool you the one trippin i remember one of those top magazines back then had a cover of micheal and ll and the mazine cover said "whos da baddest"..micheal didnt even write his own stuff and if they wasnt concern about rap why micheal em started doing songs with them.
@@kookutta you are a cornball no nothing turkey they asked whose bad after MJ had a career from 69-87 dumb turkey that's a 20 year career to a newbie, Michael Jackson wrote songs, while a turkey like you couldn't get your Jerri curl on straight,you need to stick to your lane because turkey you clearly don't know how talented and how bad Michael Joseph Jackson was,I ain't got time to educate a lightweight on music like you about Michael Jackson,you don't wanna go rounds with me turkey
@@mrmaxxx94 why yo lipz red dude..lmao. You got red lips with a curl..no mo talk
Chuck D messages STILL resurnate in my head as a voice to be reckoned with for years to come, and I'm 58 years old. I really miss his vocal flows in his songs.
Chuck D is the man he is one of the realest mc from his era I truly believe.
Damn... I don't think I've ever heard someone say "Art is short for Artificial"... hmmm. Let think about that for a second.
That caught my attention as well. As a flat statement, not sure I'm buying that. Within the context he's speaking on it, maybe. Sharp dude though.
Indeed. Lends a completely different perspective on the word "Art".
Artistry
Artist
Artistically Expressive
Oh wow. Thanks Vlad for just letting the Master talk.
What a conversation..thank you Glad...Haha Vlad and The Great Chuck D
Love how Chuck controls the interview, makes it flow much smoother than when Vlad throws in his opinions. Hearing about shows where 2 Live Crew and Too Short opening up for Public Enemy, sounds like a odd ass line up. 😂😂
i saw PE live in 87, along with Rakim and LL, it was the most incredible i ever saw....80s decade blew EVERYTHING...really
Man!!!! Chuck D
What a humble great brother who I never met. He is so responsible for a huge part of spreading knowledge and feeding positive information to the masses. I was introduced to him thru the home video of PE and of course and who could forget, It takes a nation of millions to hold us back I was 19 and I played it so much and memorized all the lyrics of Chuck's lines I was Chuck D the older brothers around when they saw me would say " here comes lil Chuck D." My APOLOGIES i should be addressing him as Mr Chuck or Bro Chuck. I needed to put a handle on his name because he has been and is so valuable to and for us💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿👍🏽🙏🏿
I can’t live without my radio, I’m bad, rock the bells, Jack the Ripper, I need love, booming system, around the way girl, jingling baby, mama said knock you out, I need a beat, go cut creator go, headsprung, going back to Cali, and the list goes on and on...
U cute
Did she say headsprung lol
Loungin, shut em down, back seat,Luv u better,paradise, phenomenon,Baby ft the dream,I shot ya
Oh and Big ol butt & hey lover
To The Break Of Dawn, Illegal Search, I Shot Ya, Loungin, Ill Bomb, 5,4,3,2,1, 1800 LL.......
keep aunt jemima,uncle ben etc. on the product that's imspiring for young native black people's to own our own peace.
Black people were used to sell these products. They're not black owned, or am I misunderstanding your statement?
Yeeee Uncle Chuck I just turned 27 soo ion even know these dates you be talking bout LOL I'm learning though!:D
That's dope you're open minded about Chuck D. I was around when Public Enemy was huge, and I wasn't really into them.... except for when they came out with "Fight the Power" song and the "Fear of a Black Planet" album...... but make no mistake, PE was a verrrrrry popular group back then.
Thanks man! I was never into hip hop growing up,just my older bros,I first saw Flava Flav in Def Jam fight for NY😂so I thought a lot of these cats were fictional characters until my bros told me lmao as for their music,my uncle made me hear their first album few weeks back,now I'm ready to study sum mo!:D
It's good to see youngsters dig into the past. Back then, anything that wasn't kicking street knowledge or for the culture was considered Bubble Gum rap. And, Bubble Gum rappers would get ran off the stage by other rappers.
Yo me too bruh, I was bumpin Spoonie Gee and OG's was looking at me like I was from a different planet.
This chuck d interview literally blue my mind! He was around for everything 🤣 he put ppl on!
Thank you Chuck,Cube was great before you two met but when you schooled brother he became LEGENDARY, my favorite lyricist!
Death Certificate is my favorite ice cube album too. and i really love grandmaster flash shit, i wasnt even born then. But this is is the dude who was dj on flashback fm in sa?
Huh?
Ice Cube's 1st album is 🔥
"KEEP THE SYRUP" those bottles aren't the issue....its the people and changing an image does nothing....symbolic.....let's talk real.
I'm not from the West Coast I'm from V.A and Death Certificate is Cubes best album in my opinion
He’s right bout LL. LL might be the first rapper to become a household name.
Facts
Nah, Run DMC were.
@@stephenheath8465 he didn't exactly say solo.
History, lessons, facts. Man, I'm tuned in to this chuck d. interview.
Ice cube was better solo. NWA was better without ice cube.
NWA made two classics without Cube
@@erickennedy906 yep. MC REN underrated. The D.O.C uncredited.
NWA second album was better without cube
@@carlborman5165 I guess you mean NWA was better without Ice Cube. Which is true. Efil4zaggin and 100 Miles & running are better projects than Straight Outta Compton. Ice Cube didnt belong in that group. Which is why he made better albums as a solo artist. F^$$ that Straight Outta Compton movie. They made it seem like NWA needed Ice Cube. They didnt need each other.
@@dianevrules oops yeah sorry
CHUCK D = GAME
Jackin’ for beats was iconic.
Ice cube was the closes thing in rap to Stevie wonder when dropping all those tight albums,ice cube was like Shaquille o Neal unstoppable
Exactly
Damn good interview...
Easily in the top 10 greatest mcs of all time
No order
Rakim
Nas
Krs One
Jay Z
Chuck D
Ghostface Killah
2Pac
Biggie
Ice Cube
Big Daddy Kane
Dope bro but u left out AZ
Don’t see one lie or one person I’d remove!
@@MKDAVIS323 that's the line up bro fo real tho
@@carlprinceprince3238 nah he left out Redman
@Dave Chaps u must be in the 8th grade.
Man, no lie, L.L. Cool J is the only person ever to make me put Michael Jackson on the passenger side. I was 14, rap was so new and LL was larger than life to me. He commanded respect on stage and on his albums. I get chills just thinking back on those times. "Do you like Michael Jackson? WE LIKE COOL J!" Crazy he isn't in the hall of fame, he definitely deserves to be.
So Michael Jackson and LL was really beefing?
You listen to Ice Cube when he was in the group CIA and he was rapping like the Beastie Boys.
PE needs a movie too! Peace!
So Dr Dre invented mixtapes?
Dr. Dre and Tony A swap meet mix tapes.
Yep at the Roadium Swap Meet in Gardena, CA.
What about Too $hort? He was slangin tapes outta the trunk of his car in the early 80s! Before Dre even thought of getting serious.
@@theDavidChannel1 I'd more say those were street albums
@@theDavidChannel1 Short was producing his own tapes, not tapes with other artist mixed together!
And this why Ice Cube is top 10 all time! He left a grew that was big, went solo, and the rest was history. Think about. He left the west coast to record his first album on the east. He rapped over east coast beast but still kept it west coast in his themes. At a time when the West wasn't getting no respect from the east. Cube was the first to go to the East and made a legit classic album! I don't think people get how extraordinary that was at that time. it's not like how it is now when you can travel back and forth with ease being blackballed because of where you from.
And after AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
what did Cube do...he went back home to the west and created another masterpiece "Death Certificate". That's back-to-back classics.
I saw the Bring The Noise tour when i was younger in philly. I still say PE did Eric B and Rakim dirty by having them go on after them. I felt so bad for Rakim because NOBODY stayed to watch them play after PE tore it down. Dirty smh
@smoothcollected NO SIR...you don't understand how hot PE's show was at that time. It maybe wasn't to outright disrespect Eric and Rakim back then, but you have to realize that Rakim wasnt considered the god back then like he is today. Their show was not fuckin with PE in any shape or fashion back then
@@dn30001 100%
@smoothcollected well..its like chuck d said in this interview. You had to have been there because its not just about what the artist did or does on stage or in their recordings...its about the climate of the times. PE's show game was so huge at the time because it was a show that no one has ever seen before.
A loud lyricist
A joker hype man
A DJ
And instead of dancers..you had the S1Ws who were doing millitant steps and marches all on beat with the music..while holding fake machine guns.
I dont care how dope you are lyrically, if you don't have a show to even compare to that presentation, the crowd will be drained out to even want to see what's next afterwards. And that show line up was a MONSTER. Biz Markie opening, Big Daddy Kane, Stetsasonic, BDP, and THEN PE.. and then Eric B and Rakim. It was a VERY fond hip hop memory when I was 12 years old.
@@caramelking-zf8wu if anyone got taught a lesson, it was KRS One..because he wasn't the live show master that he is today...and he was on that tour.
They never had much stage presence. Rakim is very dull on stage. P.E had so much going on stage I can see that.
I love Chuck D and Public Enemy! I'm straight up West Coast but love all the early East coast hip hop icons which made rap music what it became. It's why I never understood all the beef and bullshit with notorious b.i.g. and Tupac. West coast always give it up to New York for starting it all!
The beef between Tupac and Biggie started in November 1994 when Pac was robbed and shot in the lobby of the recording studio where Biggie and Junior MAFIA were upstairs cutting some tracks. Pac claims Biggie knew he was coming and set the whole thing up. It also hurt that Pac was about to sentenced to jail time the day after the shooting. It escalated into a beef between their respective record labels; Death Row/Interscope on the west and Bad Boy on the east.
One, two, three and I come with the wicked.
Style..
And you know that I'm from..
The wicked.
Crew.
Act like you knew. ✊🏾💪🏾🔥🔥🔥
I'm 50yrs old now but as a kid I had a long jerry curl and I was tall when my mom bought me a "knock off" Michael Jackson Billy Jean jacket and when I wore it to school the girl went crazy!!! It was insane!!! They bumrushed me...
Learn something new everyday.
Seen Too Short in concert. It was 2013 Columbus Ohio a club called skullys and my friends were performing and of course Short Dog was the final act. Too Short got on stage and said "Columbus Ohio, I haven't been here since 87-88 so Y all know what that means??"...The crowd goes Whaaat? Too Short said "That means I might be some of y'alls daddy"....Everybody laughed and was kinda like hey man lol.
I don’t get into generational rap discussions 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯😭💯OG FORREAL🔮
Whaaat man.i was reading to see who was sharp enough to catch that real ass shit.and Vlad kept trying.that mountain don't move my friend... Good ears my friend.
What a brilliant interview, Chuck D is an icon! Public Enemy are one of the best Hip-Hop groups ever!! I remember when rappers like L.L. Cool J, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Grandmaster Caz & Run-DMC were so popular, brilliant times!!!
Chuck D mentioned my city B'more I like how said Baltimore Ballymore lol
Hahahah!! I saw PE at the Arena when I was around 18!! Damnnn!! That shit blew my mind!
fun fact tho...Short got booed BIG TIME at that show in Bmore from what I understand. So did EPMD when they first came out with It's My Thing.
DJ Mr. MILES Damn
DJ Mr. MILES I saw PE when Digital Underground with Tupac! Before the show begin, Flav had ( I believe his oldest) his daughter with him waving at the crowd! The energy he brings and the whole group brings was incredible!
Amerikkka's Most Wanted is one of my all-time favorite albums along with It takes a Nation
Nobody ever talks about The Predator. That album imo was a perfect combination of AMW and Death Certificate.
Yup! After the dis track that brought down a whole crew we was like what's he gonna do next...and it's 1,2,3 and I come with the wicked!
He also dropped that bomb on our moms!
Predator was wack he was a movie star by then
@@mrkareem7264 He had only done Boyz-N-Tha Hood and Trepass at that point, not quite a movie star yet. To each is own, but I feel The Predator exemplified the climate of what was happening in America at the time, especially in Los Angeles with the 92 riots.
Vlad, u might be a culture vulture, but I know one thing, u love hip-hop. Great interview and keep them coming. Peace 7