I don’t care what anybody says, this is one of the greatest hip ho tunes ever be created. It’s got the funk, soul, sound, feel, lyrics, story and moral the lot, the epitome of 90s hip hop.
yes sir!!!!.....and people get jealous too. i think thats whats going on with some of these rappers that r gettin killed......like Young Dolph n others.
I heard this track by mistake a few weeks ago. I have no clue how this dude was never mentioned as one of the illest MC’s. His voice and his bars are sick. No lie he is right up there with Nas at this time and era, IMO
If you were in your teens in the late 90's on the east coast and listened to hip hop you definitelly would have known gangstar...they had some big hits that played on mainstream radio. search some of their other hits from the era like; "take it personal", "mass appeal", "dwyck"
Back when this song was big (still is in my book), rap still had meaning and told a story unlike today all they rap about is their dicks, pussies, and how much money they steal, complete trash like you know "Cash me outside girl" 🤦♂️😂
True Crooklyn classic! that story was so relevant to the time and place, little dudes was hungry always lookin for a come up to be the next street legend. It never ends well.
Real talk Broadway junction was ot to play will Cat got rob in the junction with police downstairs. East New York Bed Stuy and Brownsville deadly combo
As a 14 year old kid all I wanted to do is get a rep by robbing a chain….not by starting a family or owning a business and house but by doing something negative….and this was the thinking of 7 out of 10 people I grew up with 💯 …… the power of music 💯
Good to hear you straightened up and was flying right. I was in 22 or 23 when this joint dropped, hanging with dudes that stole at least 3 cars and motorcycles every weekend. They robbed the pancake house and jewelry store. We werecat the club one night and they all put there chains around my neck while th fought a group of other guys. I put my back against the wall cuz I was standing there looking like Slick Rick with a neck full of dookie gold chains. I finally decided to distance myself from those dudes.
They are, in the hearts of the true hip hop fan. Nothing the white man can approve for hip hop has credibility. He’ll never feel the soul of a people!!!
This song along with the Message by GMF are 2 of the most timeless hip hop songs ever made. It was happening then and it’s still happening now. Proof the streets never change. RIP Guru🎉
Absolute masterpiece/masterclass of a hip-hop/rap song with a meaningful message! Guru and DJ Premier were a hip-hop/rap music dynamic duo! Memories of me as a little kid growing up into a young teenager 1990s, watching/listening to this music video of a rhythmic opus/poem on Video Music Box, Ch.31 afterschool! God bless the soul and rest in glory to the late, great; Guru! God had to add him to his ultimate music and real dude collection in heaven!
I found GangStarr just a little late, but they are definitely an important part of hip-hop culture. Rest in peace Guru, your legacy is well respected. Peace.
I’ll be 84 and annoying my grandkids with this shit. Just imagine what hip hop will sound like then. It’s already terrible now! I checked out in the early 2000s except for a few quality artists.
This is the era when rap was recognizable and understandable....the messages that the 80s/90s rappers gave stuck to yo' conscience whetha' you was bout that life or not....wat we got today?....airhead lyrics wit mild to medium tempo that you couldn't groove to if you wanted to....lol #HipHopIsDead!💔
The lyrics and story telling in this video is the bomb plain and simple. I remember this song from back in the day but it's not a song that I became to familiar with. Listening to it whilst watching the video (for the very first time) really drives home just how good a story teller Guru is.
This is the realest scenario i have ever heard next to Slick Rick Children's Story back in the day when i lived in Brooklyn. Respecto and rip Guru. I currently live in Milwaukee. Another wild city 93 miles north of Chicago. Turn the pandemic page comrades.....
Power rise of Kanaan brought me back here. But I was alive when this jont 1st dropped. We were living in S.E. DC shit was a warzone low key got flashbacks. Lol
I learned how to dance with the ladies from this video as a hip-hop kid like look how they dancing to hip-hop in the street right there no breakdancing freaking this with the ladies this was so cool 😎 that Gucci link is still King crazy fat 👑🏆🏆🏆
Let this video be a life lessons to all of us you live by the gun you die by it nothing good ever comes being a drug dealer/gangster all is going to take you 1of the 2 place the grave or prison there's no happy endings in this game. FYI in this video most of those guys you see in there were real drug dealers now that's crazy. Rest in peace to Guru he was a very talented man it's a shame that he made some very bad decisions with the guy which is what cost of his life.
hip hop rap royalty, pioneers and masters of the craft. heard this in ‘91 and have become a now long time fan circa ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’ in ‘88. rest in perfect peace and power, Guru and the god and living legend Premier’s still killing it in 2021. peace, salute and long live Gang Starr.
I was 12 when this was on Yo MTV Raps, and would to get excited every time I was the only white person in my school to love this music. Every one else was listening to Vanilla Ice and Metallica. I like that stuff too, but this music will always be something that shaped my childhood.
I listened to this and groups like Whitesnake and Rush etc as well & i was a lil black kid...am I invited to the POTLUCK? lol you had good taste and a lil soul I see
I was 8 or 9 when this was on channel 19b the jukebox. Crack had hit D.C. and turned the place into a warzone! P.G. county Md along the border wasn't any better. Very scary times, heard this on Power rise of Kanaan and got flashbacks of hearing my next door neighbor brother getting murdered at her houseparty while I was laying in bed one night. P.S. got hipped to metallica in the military. I run on the treadmill to for whom the bells toll.
@@Kalashnikingz47 Sounds like we’re from different worlds, but you’ve got good taste in music. I was poor but safe for the most part. Glad you made it through.
I don’t care what anybody says, this is one of the greatest hip ho tunes ever be created. It’s got the funk, soul, sound, feel, lyrics, story and moral the lot, the epitome of 90s hip hop.
Periodt❗️❗️❗️
True.
Listen to KoolG Rap & DJ Polo's "Streets Of New York" It follows the same criteria.
Agreed🙏🏾👌🏾🤘🏾
Even TODAY it's relevant.
Guru is one of the best rappers in the music history
Skillful story telling, that is what hip hop today lacks!
THANK YOU!!
Gangstar, DJ Premier actually were responsible for bringing me into Rap. Still listening in 24(71yrs old). ❤💯👊
I love it❤️
Do u make it in rap
0:35 Those Patrick Ewings kicks are Sick!
said same thing
Catch the Wave Those were the da good ole dayz, I was in my early 20's.
Hard AF...good eye
And Spanish boy next to him had the white fire red 5’s too.. with the NC State hoodie on
Yea I had the black and the blue ones bitd.
Damn I use to listen to this on my Walkman on my way to High School 1990. R.I.P Guru 🙏🏿
The lyrics of this song are still relevant. Timeless music.
Indeed they are homie
Loving those lyrics entirely, especially at the very end. It’s true about what he said.
yes sir!!!!.....and people get jealous too. i think thats whats going on with some of these rappers that r gettin killed......like Young Dolph n others.
In the black community it will always be relevant
Guru easily the greatest Boston born rapper.
The way Premo sampled Nice & Smooth. CLASSIC!!!
The true art of storytelling to perfection RIP Guru and
GURU wrote this after he was robbed
you cant spell art of storytelling without slick rick
If you were young a gunning in the 90's this was ya anthem... 💪🏽👑👍🏽🙌🏾💯🙏🏽
Miss Guru Everday!!! But His Music Lives Forever!!!R.I.P 🙏🙏
Not just this song that whole album was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Album was so fire. Guru/ gangsta was ahead of their time" 1990"
When you hear the names Guru and Premier you pay respect
Word is born
Facts
Yes Indeed
RESPECT!
Correct. Great duo.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
I heard this track by mistake a few weeks ago. I have no clue how this dude was never mentioned as one of the illest MC’s. His voice and his bars are sick. No lie he is right up there with Nas at this time and era, IMO
If you were in your teens in the late 90's on the east coast and listened to hip hop you definitelly would have known gangstar...they had some big hits that played on mainstream radio. search some of their other hits from the era like; "take it personal", "mass appeal", "dwyck"
That’s Gangsta , they made on off the best album off the 90s
Because the whitewashing of Hip Hop puts Eminem before REAL
Honestly most true Hip Hop heads definitely have him as one of the best to do it.
Guru is at the top of the underrated list
It's almost heartbreaking seeing what has happened to Rap music and the culture.
Back when this song was big (still is in my book), rap still had meaning and told a story unlike today all they rap about is their dicks, pussies, and how much money they steal, complete trash like you know "Cash me outside girl" 🤦♂️😂
No cursing sagging
It’s by design
You just have to look harder for it, but it’s there. Go listen to ROME STREETZ - Snow Beach, you might like it
yes.....true
True Crooklyn classic! that story was so relevant to the time and place, little dudes was hungry always lookin for a come up to be the next street legend. It never ends well.
Straight from Brooklyn also known as crooklyn
Real talk Broadway junction was ot to play will Cat got rob in the junction with police downstairs. East New York Bed Stuy and Brownsville deadly combo
Premo is from Houston, Texas and Guru is from Roxbury, Massachusetts though
Around that time in NYC, A LOT of muggings (many turned up fatal casualties)...NOTORIOUS 80S AND 90S...
👑🔥🔥🔥👑
DJ Premier is a legend.
Guru lives forever.
Effortless bomb-ass beats. Guru dropping science like it was easy or something!
Dj premier turntable artist
This rap speaks volumes, pay attention to the lyrics. What he rapping about is what happened to Nipsey Hussle.
Maybe now, some of these guys know how dangerous it is, of trying to take what isn’t yours. What people do to others, is gonna be done to them.
Classic 70's 80's & 90's Hip Hop era always had a message in their music. This new generation have no clue what it takes to be a real Lyricists.
Without a doubt one of the best hip hop songs ever made
Sure is and biggie sampled this for gimmie the loot
👍 it's the part where he says "while he stickin you takin all your money"
Mo bee sampled it for big
Fact
Facts 💯
Classic Brooklyn Hip Hop ......
One of the best beats in hip-hop. Big up to Premo, TEXAS' own!
Incredibly talented area regarding hiphop through times. Six Two, The D.O.C. Premo and others. Mad props
This beat has never been replicated. That siren sound all through the best made it so ill
As a 14 year old kid all I wanted to do is get a rep by robbing a chain….not by starting a family or owning a business and house but by doing something negative….and this was the thinking of 7 out of 10 people I grew up with 💯 …… the power of music 💯
Please tell me you ended up owning a house, starting a business or a family…🙏🏽
@@lyndawilliams4570 Not before I went through a bunch of shit….But I made it thanks for asking 🙏🏽
@@leeryan925 praise the Lord! Glad to hear it 💐👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Good to hear you straightened up and was flying right. I was in 22 or 23 when this joint dropped, hanging with dudes that stole at least 3 cars and motorcycles every weekend. They robbed the pancake house and jewelry store. We werecat the club one night and they all put there chains around my neck while th fought a group of other guys. I put my back against the wall cuz I was standing there looking like Slick Rick with a neck full of dookie gold chains. I finally decided to distance myself from those dudes.
This song is so raw! Timeless Classic! Salute to Gang Starr! True Legends Premier and Guru (RIP)!
They deserve to be in Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame
They are, in the hearts of the true hip hop fan. Nothing the white man can approve for hip hop has credibility. He’ll never feel the soul of a people!!!
No matter who you are you can be touched. 💯
"Brothers are amused by others brothers reps
But the thing they know best is where the gun is kept..."
This song along with the Message by GMF are 2 of the most timeless hip hop songs ever made. It was happening then and it’s still happening now. Proof the streets never change. RIP Guru🎉
Even though there are a lot of Gang Starr songs that are bangers, this will always be my favorite!
GANGSTARR, PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH. Both had awesome flows.
This couldn’t be reenacted as 1990 today.
Everything is 1990, it’s amazing
For years since i was a kid i thought it said "stick up kid this is how he died" the whole time but its "the stick up kids out to tax." mindblown.
Miss the 90s,if I’d knew the world would turn out like this I wouldn’t have left it
That's dark
The game doesn't change only the playas
Music these days are still good
Can we take a vacation back to the 90s? I will be glad to give up my cell and the interent.
Raising kanan brought me here. 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥#BANGER
Absolute masterpiece/masterclass of a hip-hop/rap song with a meaningful message!
Guru and DJ Premier were a hip-hop/rap music dynamic duo!
Memories of me as a little kid growing up into a young teenager 1990s, watching/listening to this music video of a rhythmic opus/poem on Video Music Box, Ch.31 afterschool!
God bless the soul and rest in glory to the late, great; Guru!
God had to add him to his ultimate music and real dude collection in heaven!
The step outta the cut...Guru& Premier yo!
I found GangStarr just a little late, but they are definitely an important part of hip-hop culture. Rest in peace Guru, your legacy is well respected. Peace.
2021 and you say "just a little"? lol just kidding its never too late for timeless music!
STRAIGHT up classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Golden era of Hip Hop💯
THIS WHAT WE CALL REAL RAPP MUSIC
Indeed
This is real music
I'll still be playing this in 2064 when I'm 85.
Just drop it in the bag 😁
I’ll be 84 and annoying my grandkids with this shit. Just imagine what hip hop will sound like then. It’s already terrible now! I checked out in the early 2000s except for a few quality artists.
*If you miss that creative 90s sound then ✔ out my tracks...I specialize in making old school-style hip hop...!!!👍🏾🎤🎧📀🎶🔥*
Lol that's wassup.. I'll be 84 listening to it too lol
😂😂😂
This is rap ....gold 💯🧏
This is the era when rap was recognizable and understandable....the messages that the 80s/90s rappers gave stuck to yo' conscience whetha' you was bout that life or not....wat we got today?....airhead lyrics wit mild to medium tempo that you couldn't groove to if you wanted to....lol #HipHopIsDead!💔
90s HIP-HOP legend
Back Back 😎🔙 Music Show ZzzzzzZoom 💯
Legendary joint right here. This was my era
Hip Hop at its finest ✊🏿
Just quality content💯
One of the greatest classics ever
1991 15 years old- Southwest Philly was a stickupville University.All my Southwest Philly Niggas whom Unfortunately passed away 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
RIP GURU 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Rip Guru…. On of the best
This was a real profession back in the days...we used to come up town to see PAPI..HAD to watch for police and stick up kids
Another DOPE joint by the very underrated Gang Starr!!! Rest in peace Guru!!!
The lyrics and story telling in this video is the bomb plain and simple. I remember this song from back in the day but it's not a song that I became to familiar with. Listening to it whilst watching the video (for the very first time) really drives home just how good a story teller Guru is.
today on what’ve been his 59th birthday, we lost Keith Edward Elam on April the 19th 2009... Many Happy Returns Guru
April 19, 2010
Priemer is the best DJ of all time
Demetrius Trotman, Nah dude, Nobody does it like Primo. 🙃
@Demetrius Trotman How could you even compare Premo to Jazzy Jeff. Jazzy Jeff couldn't see Premo with a telescopic lens.
Hes up there alongside RZA and Dre dor sure
4-17-24 We need videos like these . If not, it is up to me and you to pass it on to the youth. Gangstarr is underrated. 💯 😊 😎 🎶 🎯
I played this tape until it broke 💯 R.I.P. Guru
This is the realest scenario i have ever heard next to Slick Rick Children's Story back in the day when i lived in Brooklyn. Respecto and rip Guru. I currently live in Milwaukee. Another wild city 93 miles north of Chicago. Turn the pandemic page comrades.....
That flow... Guru and Primo #1!
OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP RAP GANG STARR JUST TO GOT RAP MUSIC 🎶
I LOVE GANGSTARR❤
Story telling era in hip hop
Power rise of Kanaan brought me back here. But I was alive when this jont 1st dropped. We were living in S.E. DC shit was a warzone low key got flashbacks. Lol
its was the best time my live...Old Shool never die
Premo brought me here. Now the song is even more hotter because he confirmed it’s a true story. These guys were dope!
How does this not have more views
This songs reality plays till this day as a hit in every ways.
O my god I can't listen to this. This brings back to many memories of close friends that I lost along the way.
Gaslit flamethrowing lyrical respect!!! Jazzmatazz last poet....
"Classic ".. ... (NUFF SAID) 🔥 🔥 🔥 🎉 1❤
Love these classics when hip hop was real originality and making classics was a must!! 2020!! Still listening
Real 💩✊🏾💯
A ton of brothers in the west slept on Gangstar... I didn't...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This and Code Of The Streets. Str8 anthems.
Them Patrick Ewings are everything!!!
Are you serious right now. I had no idea this had a video!! RIP GURU
Timeless Hip Hop #ripguru
There will never be a time when I will stop liking this song. The video on the other hand..
Still listen to this, still better than most rap now, RIP GURU, GANGSTAR FOREVER BROOKLYN
I learned how to dance with the ladies from this video as a hip-hop kid like look how they dancing to hip-hop in the street right there no breakdancing freaking this with the ladies this was so cool 😎 that Gucci link is still King crazy fat 👑🏆🏆🏆
Let this video be a life lessons to all of us you live by the gun you die by it nothing good ever comes being a drug dealer/gangster all is going to take you 1of the 2 place the grave or prison there's no happy endings in this game. FYI in this video most of those guys you see in there were real drug dealers now that's crazy. Rest in peace to Guru he was a very talented man it's a shame that he made some very bad decisions with the guy which is what cost of his life.
When hip hop was a respectable genre. They were talented artists
Couldn't wait to see this video after school...B Girl for life.
Top 5 favorite emcees and best producer ever
hip hop rap royalty, pioneers and masters of the craft. heard this in ‘91 and have become a now long time fan circa ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’ in ‘88. rest in perfect peace and power, Guru and the god and living legend Premier’s still killing it in 2021. peace, salute and long live Gang Starr.
They tried to tell us 20+ years ago and it's still happening.
When they told stories in their raps which takes more skill than nowadays
2023 he's underrated Guru was the man
Masterpiece . Audio AND Visual
These guys music helped steer my life on a positive road unlike what new rap is doing now, promoting slander, drugs, sex and no god
'And this is how the story goes...'!
🔥🌊🐬💦💧 FIRE 🔥🐬 WATER!
Classic shit!
🦍😤🦍😤🦍😤
2023 Still hard as ever!!
facts
One of my top 5 , got to listen to his content and delivery
R.I.P. ICON
I was 12 when this was on Yo MTV Raps, and would to get excited every time I was the only white person in my school to love this music. Every one else was listening to Vanilla Ice and Metallica. I like that stuff too, but this music will always be something that shaped my childhood.
Congratulations, you're invited to the BBQ my dude.
Bring your family well make sure you have food to take home too
I listened to this and groups like Whitesnake and Rush etc as well & i was a lil black kid...am I invited to the POTLUCK? lol you had good taste and a lil soul I see
I was 8 or 9 when this was on channel 19b the jukebox. Crack had hit D.C. and turned the place into a warzone! P.G. county Md along the border wasn't any better. Very scary times, heard this on Power rise of Kanaan and got flashbacks of hearing my next door neighbor brother getting murdered at her houseparty while I was laying in bed one night.
P.S. got hipped to metallica in the military. I run on the treadmill to for whom the bells toll.
@@Kalashnikingz47 Sounds like we’re from different worlds, but you’ve got good taste in music. I was poor but safe for the most part. Glad you made it through.