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a song called just breathe, it’s a collab with 3racha from stray kids who you’ve reacted to before where they’re known for being in the top rappers of kpop right now and a japanse rapper called SKY-HI, the rapping and lyrics in it are just amazing please check it out knox
Fun Fact: Eminem wrote the whole track, including Dre’s verses. He surprised Dre with it, wrote it from his heart because people disrespecting Dre and talking BS about him pissed him off. He originally wrote it for Dre and Snoop to do. But Dre liked his vibe on it so much, he put Slim on it instead of Snoop. And when it came out on his album 2001, it and that whole album was hard AF, and shut down all the critics, and this lead single revived Dre’s career as a recording artist. Dre and Shady have a lot of mutual respect and love for each other. They both saved each other in different ways. They’re more than friends at this point, they’re family.
sheelahussain4577 I heard that the vocals on "Forgot About Dre" were Eminem's demo vocals. It was because Dr. Dre liked Eminem's demo vocals that they ended up on the final version.
The fact he can put himself in someone else's shoes and write a rap about there life is crazy, Also the fact that em wrote the song for Snoop and Dre shows how talented he really is 🤑
@@WallahNein Good example but even Ice Cube hasn't done what Em has done but yes your right in the early day Cube wrote most of NWAs lyrics along with countless other rappers
Mm you can always tell if it's an Em track if it feels "punchy" IMO. Most Em tracks are very punchy, they hit you with bars and very rapid fire punch lines, with quick stops and starts, flow switch ups etc. As far as when he produces you can also tell he's producing because he includes a lot of rock and classical instruments into his works. It's pretty awesome that Em has such a noticeable and iconic style that you can just tell almost as soon as you hear something you know it's an Em work.
He's my favorite to. I like no life Shaq but his outburst or yelling or the loud noises he does are hard to get past. Can't really hear the song or he misses alot of stuff. Plus Knox raps also so he understands the writing process and flow schemes.
For those who didn’t catch it, “Highly Intensive Tongue Talents Making All Nervous” also spells out his rap name, HITTMAN. Everyone forgets about his part on the track, including myself most of the time because I usually hear the audio version with the skit and his verse cut out.
I think it says a lot about Dre's skills that he is able to rap at the skill level of Em's writing, and vice versa. Em writing lines that he knows Dre is capable of. It made for one hell of a redemption rap. I remember this song felt like it took over the world at the time. I think it's a top five song for both of them. Love the breakdowns as always Knox. I learn so much about rap because of your breakdowns.
As a random aside, a detail I like is that when Em and Dre have performed this live Em says 'A hand full of gas and a can full of matches' instead of 'A can full of gas and a hand full of matches'. Just a detail that has stuck with me after all these years. Anyway, great breakdown as usual. Keep it up!
"It's like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder, how I keep from going under". That was my association to Dre's line here: "it's like a jungle in this habitat".
I watched the interview with Dr Dre and he said that Eminem wrote the song but Snoop was supposed to do Eminem's part but Dre preferred M's voice on it instead of Snoop
I wonder if Eminem changed the lyrics a bit for his part after Dre decided to have him on it instead of Snoop, because I really can’t imagine Snoop doing the exact same lyrics that Em did without it sounding kinda silly in some parts.
Knox has to be one of the best, most adept and proficient people to decipher rap lyrics I’ve seen! He also knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the musicality. He doesn’t just decipher lyrics, he gives a history lesson of the song and artist! Knox is an undisputed lover of, not only the genre of rap/hip-hop, but of the entire culture. He has a deep, vast knowledge and respect from its infancy to the present that’s second to none. Plus, he’s a great artist himself! Not to mention, Knox Hill is one of the coolest names! 😂 Much props and respect to you, Knox! Keep doing what you do! 💯👍🏾
ur damn right ur the best breakdown channel on youtube, some reactors and breakdown channels break down bars, singing, or production, and u do it all, and take ur damn time, and focus, which is very rare and valuable, and the shared passion of music, the intelligence and attention to detail is unmatched, u always deliver to the fans and constantly earn new ones, much respect and keep being the goat man, lets go for that mill subs, much love
What I REALLY like is that part of what made Eminem relatable and funny was, unlike most, cocksure rap that said "I'm in control, don't step into my area!", Em always sounded a little neurotic, off, unsure of himself. When he raps the chorus, you really get the idea that people not taking his friend seriously is REALLY affecting him, it's not just a clever string of lyrics. It's almost like a comedian talking about his home life troubles, it's great to listen too, but you also feel his angst.
17:48 That is what is insinuated if you only listen to the song but the visuals show Em AND Dre being arrested & a policeman holding Hailey, EM could not have been telling Haile to go with Dre since they are both being locked up, he was telling Hailie to go with the Police man...who we can see holding her 17:50
In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, I think the line about being strapped with gats while you were still cuddling a cabbage patch could be referring Dre's pre-NWA group World Class Wreckin' Cru whose big hit was "The Cabbage Patch." Eazy E dissed Dre back in the early 90s for having worn makeup and wearing parachute pants in the WCWC, but this line just reminds people he was a hardcore OG even back then.
Royce's manager said he went into the studio and Em was telling Dre how to rap several verses and you'd have thought the white boy was producing Dre, Em and Dre were pissed that he said that in an interview, that's what led to Royce going back to Detroit and signing with a label for a bigger advance but lost all the connections that was around Dre and Em never spoke to him for about 5-6 years until Proof and Royce were locked up together and squashed it, then bad v evil came back.
Royce did sign with another label for a lot more money , but he actually was beefing really bad with D12 up until maybe 6 months before Proof died in 2006. Which is why BME first album was never released. There was a documentary called What's Beef that featured the story. I thought it was weird that Eminem linked back up with Royce for Slaughterhouse , and BME , but that's before I saw Proof had ended their beef. Which I'm happy he did.
@KnoxHill First time listening to your reactions; I'm super pumped! You are very knowledgeable about your history with not only rap but the breakdown and structure of a song, including but not limited to the vocabulary, the context, the puns, the adlibs. Man, you're on top of your game here!!! Fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 great job
I was always mad the music video dropped the dopest bar IMO. “ I’m harder then me tryin to park a dodge when I’m drunk af right next to a humungous truck in a two car garage”
what a classic, love that song. amazingly wrote by Eminem and amazingly done by Dre and Eminem. Knox hill as always an education when I react to a song. can't wait for the next one
First time finding your page. I'm an acoustic songwriter. This album changed me. Really enjoy the breakdown of rhyme scheme and the constructed melody.
Not only do artist write for Dre but they also lay reference tracks so he knows how to flow to what they wrote. Look for the Og version of Crack a Bottle. Dres part is performed by Eminem.
I’ve know the lyrics to this song for years (and I mean years) but I’ve never actually clocked the ‘up to me’ repetition until now. How is Knox shining new light on a song I’ve known since the album come out in 2000?
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 go on youtube and find the video where Dre talks about the song. He says it. Maybe he altered his verse a bit when he found put that he was being kept on the song
@@makeyourself1988 yeah i dont doubt thats what happened im just thinking i cant imagine snoop talking about choking people in a parking lot and all the other shady related lines like the references to Hailie so there must be a different part of this song that was altered.
Ooo I like the double meaning of “trying to get this damn label off” obviously it means, releasing an album, ie album label, but also the preceding verse says , people have been saying that “now I get hate mail saying Dre fell off” so he’s trying to write “pen to the pad” to release the album (label off) and get rid of the ‘label’ that people are giving him “dre fell off” wow really good writing!!
Thanks for being such a phenomenal analyst of rap. SOOOO knowledgeable on every flow, and reveals so much about every line! Keep moving forward, dude. You're awesome!..... And, yes, I agree that EMINEM IS THE GOAT!
Another great breakdown Knox, haven’t even watched the video yet and I know it’s gonna be a flex of your breakdown skills. Plus I would like to see you do the original chloraseptic from revival
Well, since most of the people in the comments seem to be more informed than most of the people in the comments: I, as one of most of the people in the comments, too, have riveting facts that I, alone know as a self-described expert on easily found facts. 1) Eminem was originally from Detroit when this song dropped. - 2) he was also in this song when it was heard by people who heard it - 3) and even when people who hadn't heard it hadn't heard it - 4) the song is 72% lyrics and 49% music. 5) math can be difficult for wordy people who are better at words than math. 6) I don't know if we're living in a simulation, but I don't know that we aren't, and I don't know if Eminem knows either. love you.
You have to be one of the best reaction channels ever, your one of the only ones who break stuff down fully! Most don’t, they just say oh that’s fire and repeat the lyric and that’s it!
I’m not gonna lie, when you paused it right as dre was gonna start his verse, I was pissed 😂😂 but I love your videos man, you’ve inspired me to start trying to rap so keep it up! Plus your music is 🔥
Love this breakdown and analysis. Helps me to understand how all the elements come together to sub-consciously explain why the song is one of my all time faves!
Nice one Knox, some great memories relived. 20 odd years and I never heard the 'Compton' scratch, time to listen harder and play more 2001 sh1t. thanks bud, Paul UK
Great reaction but one thing you missed is Eminems bar of "me and Dre stood next to a burnt down house. With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches and still weren't found out". That was actually an homage to the Detroit holiday of devil's night which is the night before Halloween. It's been a long standing tradition of many Detroit residents to burn down abandoned houses on devil's night aka the night before Halloween and Detroit is known for it's large number of abandoned houses, so much so that you can go on Google Earth and see only a couple houses in an entire city block. However many of the houses have been demolished, there's still quite a few that were burnt down
I know it crazy at that time I never really caught on. But Em style is all over chronic 01, and these folks sayin we could live without his music. I know he rebuttaled his statement, but he has always put great respect to the old and transformed the new. Every one about that I don't jam Eminem, but have no problem listening to one of the many songs he wrote. He's not my favorite, but he's definitely to skilled to be taken out of the top 10.
Loved the reaction/ breakdown as always Knox! Keep dropping these banger reactions, and your banger songs! Would love to see a reaction of My life, By Em, featuring Adam Levine, 50 cent. It’s underrated, like real underrated, and would appreciate the breakdown of yours behind it, would also reach people/ Em fans, who haven’t really heard the song.
Ay i use the same headphones to record my music that you used during the intro, kinda wierd but dope🤣, now i can write and record my songs knowing that my headphones have the knox hill magic in them😂, big fan keep grinding
Another great video! 💙 When this song came out, I definitely remember sitting with my friends trying to get that damn hook right lmao. We got it eventually. Ah... memories. I also realized later in life that there were some words in the song that we didn't have right. 😅😅😅 There was no Genius back then to help us confirm lyrics hahaa.
I ain't having that This is the millennium of my Aftermath It ain't gonna be nothing after that So give me one more platinum plaque and Fuck rap! you can have it back. Hardest lines in the song. This is a classic and I still listen to it
Amazing Knox. So good. Much respect to Dre and Eminem too. PS - I remember so many hours of listening to "The Firm Flop" on my diskman. Not his best, but anyone young in that era knew the genius of Dr Dre. And not everyone got Eminem right away, but now pretty much everyone - EVERYONE - does.
First thing I ever heard with Em in it in full. I was aware of Hi my Name Is and had heard portions of it and I think maybe Guilty Conscience but Ems first verse that really GRABBED me was this one.
We need to see reaction on In your head, i think its very underrated song and explains a lot of his struggle inside his head and after he lets it all out in Castle/Arose songs, it only shows his rise, fall and comeback after his struggle. So much love and anger at the same time
please check out a song called just breathe by 3racha of stray kids and a japanse rapper called SKY-HI, you’ll love the rapping and i wanna see you breakdown the lyrics too
Em wrote Forgot about Dre; and Jay-Z wrote Still D.R.E. You can really sense the ghostwriting in both songs, you can imagine Em and Jay rapping Dre’s verses
I mean, both benefited greatly from their friendship...Em got the hottest beat maker in the game and Dre got to release tracks with some of his hottest bars with assistance from the rap games hottest artist. Everyone won. Us included.
i love your breakdowns and i would love to see you break down a song called just breathe by 3racha of stray kids and SKY-HI, i know i keep commenting but that’s the only way you’ll know it exists and can hopefully check it out
10:05 it's like the equivelant of taking a whole note in a measure and turn it into 8 1/8 notes (especially if singing choral pieces with melisma or like taking a simple drum beat and then bringing in a drum roll XD
There was a radio interview I caught a few years back where Dr. Dre said Eminem didn't actually write his lyrics on this track. Eminem brought the song to Dre but the rhyme scheme Em originally wrote was too fast and intricate for Dre to pull off, and the verses were much longer. Dre kept the same base ideas from Eminem's first draft, but he had to rework it to fit his more measured and simple flow. Dre still adhered to the overall ideas that were in those early verses, but that 70% of what we hear on the finished product had to be rewritten by Dr. Dre himself in his own words to make it work.
I don't fully buy that, for the simple reason that the rhyme schemes are pure Em; Dre can't write intricate bars like that. So while he may have rewritten some of the lines, I don't buy that he rewrote 70% of it.
@@TheToddAndOnly Now that right there, I don't know. It sounds like you know a lot more about rap than I do. I'm primarily a metal head first. I took Dre at his word when he said he rewrote 70% of his verse in his own style for no other reason than this is Dr. fucking Dre we're talking about here- to a rock n roll listener like me, all I know is Dr. Dre is one of the immortals. Therefore, I accepted his responses at face value because it seemed like something in the realm of possibility for one of the all time titans to do. I'll trust you when you argue otherwise because, again, I honestly don't know enough about the genre one way or the other to pass a sufficient judgement on it.
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soldier like me-2pac ft eminem
Twenty one pilots chlorine please 🙏
a song called just breathe, it’s a collab with 3racha from stray kids who you’ve reacted to before where they’re known for being in the top rappers of kpop right now and a japanse rapper called SKY-HI, the rapping and lyrics in it are just amazing please check it out knox
Why dont you do some raps by The Game
just breathe by 3racha of stray kids and SKY-HI :)
My English teacher in 2001 told me there was no song with the word snowmobile in it.... Chuckled to myself, lady you forgot about Dre
Wish I can like your comment 100x more
Why would he make that claim I don’t get it?
@@lonniethompson758 Oh R I T4:20
@@Langley_Ackerman19ohh bruhh sameee his comment is so underrated
@@lonniethompson758maybe he didn’t think you could place it? Oops.
Fun Fact: Eminem wrote the whole track, including Dre’s verses. He surprised Dre with it, wrote it from his heart because people disrespecting Dre and talking BS about him pissed him off. He originally wrote it for Dre and Snoop to do. But Dre liked his vibe on it so much, he put Slim on it instead of Snoop. And when it came out on his album 2001, it and that whole album was hard AF, and shut down all the critics, and this lead single revived Dre’s career as a recording artist. Dre and Shady have a lot of mutual respect and love for each other. They both saved each other in different ways. They’re more than friends at this point, they’re family.
so glad it was Eminem instead of snoop. Snoop is cool but doesn't have it.
“Family”
Dom toretto has entered the change
Agreed but you can instantly hear the Snoop vibe and it makes sense.
sheelahussain4577 I heard that the vocals on "Forgot About Dre" were Eminem's demo vocals. It was because Dr. Dre liked Eminem's demo vocals that they ended up on the final version.
The fact he can put himself in someone else's shoes and write a rap about there life is crazy, Also the fact that em wrote the song for Snoop and Dre shows how talented he really is 🤑
that's literally what every ghostwriter on earth does. literally
@@cashjerseyblock2890 but non of them has done what em has done
@@akcr2889 what about Ice Cube
@@WallahNein Good example but even Ice Cube hasn't done what Em has done but yes your right in the early day Cube wrote most of NWAs lyrics along with countless other rappers
Jay Z also wrote all of Still D.R.E.
Mm you can always tell if it's an Em track if it feels "punchy" IMO. Most Em tracks are very punchy, they hit you with bars and very rapid fire punch lines, with quick stops and starts, flow switch ups etc. As far as when he produces you can also tell he's producing because he includes a lot of rock and classical instruments into his works. It's pretty awesome that Em has such a noticeable and iconic style that you can just tell almost as soon as you hear something you know it's an Em work.
It’s like in crack a bottle when Dre rhymes “el dorado” with “hell if I know” 🤣 I heard that and said that’s definitely Em on the pen lmao
You are the only person I watch do breakdowns. Every other channel I watch is just for reactions. You the goat
He's my favorite to. I like no life Shaq but his outburst or yelling or the loud noises he does are hard to get past. Can't really hear the song or he misses alot of stuff. Plus Knox raps also so he understands the writing process and flow schemes.
There definitely are other channels that do breakdown, you must be looking at the wrong one
For real there a couple kids that react but not one bar break down and miss some of the easy ones
For real. Knox is the lyrical reaction goat. Hands down.
Tommee profit, had to do that with all of them he produced for NF
For those who didn’t catch it, “Highly Intensive Tongue Talents Making All Nervous” also spells out his rap name, HITTMAN. Everyone forgets about his part on the track, including myself most of the time because I usually hear the audio version with the skit and his verse cut out.
Damn that's some good writing man. The song is a masterpiece.
Hitman was legit when he was with Dre
DAMN!!! 🔥🔥🔥
I find his flow dull that's all
@@tonydale4474 Ya it definitely doesn’t fit the whole rest of the song before it. It’s like it was just tacked on at the end for promo or something.
No one breaks songs down like you do.
Master class Knox!
After all those years I'm giving Dre mad props for his delivery of Em's lirycs on this track.
I think it says a lot about Dre's skills that he is able to rap at the skill level of Em's writing, and vice versa. Em writing lines that he knows Dre is capable of. It made for one hell of a redemption rap. I remember this song felt like it took over the world at the time. I think it's a top five song for both of them. Love the breakdowns as always Knox. I learn so much about rap because of your breakdowns.
This is one of my favorite Dre songs ever, and I had no idea Em wrote Dre's verses. That's wild, it sounds like Dre's own words through and through.
As a random aside, a detail I like is that when Em and Dre have performed this live Em says 'A hand full of gas and a can full of matches' instead of 'A can full of gas and a hand full of matches'. Just a detail that has stuck with me after all these years. Anyway, great breakdown as usual. Keep it up!
i bet he still made it rhyme the crazy bastard
I could Never have enough of knox's dad jokes😂😂
Truth. the dad jokes and stupid/silly humor keep this fun.
"Dont push us, cause we close to the edge" from The Message by Grandmaster Flash &Furious Five! Again great breakdown of a classic song Knox!
"It's like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder, how I keep from going under". That was my association to Dre's line here: "it's like a jungle in this habitat".
Also where the famous line " I keep my hand on my gun cause they got me on the run " comes from.
Classic, total classic.
I watched the interview with Dr Dre and he said that Eminem wrote the song but Snoop was supposed to do Eminem's part but Dre preferred M's voice on it instead of Snoop
I wonder if Eminem changed the lyrics a bit for his part after Dre decided to have him on it instead of Snoop, because I really can’t imagine Snoop doing the exact same lyrics that Em did without it sounding kinda silly in some parts.
@@CrippledMerc yeah he must have because snoop saying 'gibberish' and all the shock factor stuff doesn't really make sense
And that’s the moment that Snoop decided rap didn’t need Eminem’s music, lol
@@here4thecookies676 what
@@vnmeister9418 it’s just some beef snoop has been having with Em on and off again
Knox has to be one of the best, most adept and proficient people to decipher rap lyrics I’ve seen! He also knows what he’s talking about when it comes to the musicality. He doesn’t just decipher lyrics, he gives a history lesson of the song and artist! Knox is an undisputed lover of, not only the genre of rap/hip-hop, but of the entire culture. He has a deep, vast knowledge and respect from its infancy to the present that’s second to none. Plus, he’s a great artist himself! Not to mention, Knox Hill is one of the coolest names! 😂 Much props and respect to you, Knox! Keep doing what you do! 💯👍🏾
ur damn right ur the best breakdown channel on youtube, some reactors and breakdown channels break down bars, singing, or production, and u do it all, and take ur damn time, and focus, which is very rare and valuable, and the shared passion of music, the intelligence and attention to detail is unmatched, u always deliver to the fans and constantly earn new ones, much respect and keep being the goat man, lets go for that mill subs, much love
fax baby
He should definitely have at least 1M subs. 🔔 💯. WTH TH-cam?!?? Y'all sleeping on our guy Knox!! 🤔
That's Facts! 💯🔥💯
Yessir! Imma huge Knox Hill fan from the tiny island nation the Maldives. Peace out!
The hook by Eminem sounds like someone playing a snare drum on a drum line.
THIS, YES!
What I REALLY like is that part of what made Eminem relatable and funny was, unlike most, cocksure rap that said "I'm in control, don't step into my area!", Em always sounded a little neurotic, off, unsure of himself. When he raps the chorus, you really get the idea that people not taking his friend seriously is REALLY affecting him, it's not just a clever string of lyrics. It's almost like a comedian talking about his home life troubles, it's great to listen too, but you also feel his angst.
17:48 That is what is insinuated if you only listen to the song but the visuals show Em AND Dre being arrested & a policeman holding Hailey, EM could not have been telling Haile to go with Dre since they are both being locked up, he was telling Hailie to go with the Police man...who we can see holding her 17:50
Please please do "Eminem-Baby" next please....you gona love the cadence and flows Knox!!!
Yesss
In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, I think the line about being strapped with gats while you were still cuddling a cabbage patch could be referring Dre's pre-NWA group World Class Wreckin' Cru whose big hit was "The Cabbage Patch." Eazy E dissed Dre back in the early 90s for having worn makeup and wearing parachute pants in the WCWC, but this line just reminds people he was a hardcore OG even back then.
Royce's manager said he went into the studio and Em was telling Dre how to rap several verses and you'd have thought the white boy was producing Dre, Em and Dre were pissed that he said that in an interview, that's what led to Royce going back to Detroit and signing with a label for a bigger advance but lost all the connections that was around Dre and Em never spoke to him for about 5-6 years until Proof and Royce were locked up together and squashed it, then bad v evil came back.
Oh wow, didn't know this. Thanks.
Royce did sign with another label for a lot more money , but he actually was beefing really bad with D12 up until maybe 6 months before Proof died in 2006. Which is why BME first album was never released. There was a documentary called What's Beef that featured the story. I thought it was weird that Eminem linked back up with Royce for Slaughterhouse , and BME , but that's before I saw Proof had ended their beef. Which I'm happy he did.
@KnoxHill
First time listening to your reactions; I'm super pumped! You are very knowledgeable about your history with not only rap but the breakdown and structure of a song, including but not limited to the vocabulary, the context, the puns, the adlibs. Man, you're on top of your game here!!! Fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 great job
I was always mad the music video dropped the dopest bar IMO.
“ I’m harder then me tryin to park a dodge when I’m drunk af right next to a humungous truck in a two car garage”
You’re one of the best bar breakers on TH-cam, loving your vibes and content!. 💙🙌🏼
what a classic, love that song. amazingly wrote by Eminem and amazingly done by Dre and Eminem. Knox hill as always an education when I react to a song. can't wait for the next one
forgot about dre is my current favorite song, it’s just so addicting to me
I remember borrowing this CD from a friend of mine. Just bumpin in the Corsica. Good memories.
Best reaction channel on TH-cam! 🔥
Breakdown "8 Mile" By Eminem next week plz....it one of his best songs yet UNDERRATED
It's actually the most streamed Em track so definitely not underated
@@PJ-po7fu are you thinking of Lose Yourself? When has 8 Mile ever been his most streamed song?
First time finding your page. I'm an acoustic songwriter. This album changed me. Really enjoy the breakdown of rhyme scheme and the constructed melody.
Not only do artist write for Dre but they also lay reference tracks so he knows how to flow to what they wrote. Look for the Og version of Crack a Bottle. Dres part is performed by Eminem.
Hip-hop school right here. I’ve always liked that you pay attention to the production as well as writing.
Another great reaction and breakdown. Goat breakdown! Next song should be stimulate by Eminem. Love the message and flow is impeccable!
I’ve know the lyrics to this song for years (and I mean years) but I’ve never actually clocked the ‘up to me’ repetition until now. How is Knox shining new light on a song I’ve known since the album come out in 2000?
There are prob tons of tracks he has wrote that we don’t know of
Eminem wrote this song for Dre and Snoop originally, but Dre liked the version with Eminem so much, he kept Eminem on it
are theyre lyrics for snoops verse or was it never revealed? Because ems part is completely em related so there must have been a different verse
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 go on youtube and find the video where Dre talks about the song. He says it. Maybe he altered his verse a bit when he found put that he was being kept on the song
@@makeyourself1988 yeah i dont doubt thats what happened im just thinking i cant imagine snoop talking about choking people in a parking lot and all the other shady related lines like the references to Hailie so there must be a different part of this song that was altered.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 yeah, fair point.
I remember suggesting this 2 years ago man……time flies fast
Heard this song a million times and I’ll never listen to it the same. We’ll done @knoxhill!
One of my favorite song
'"All I know is im upstairs listening to my will Smith CD." I'm crying. Why have I never seen this music video before? 😂😂😂😂
Ooo I like the double meaning of “trying to get this damn label off” obviously it means, releasing an album, ie album label, but also the preceding verse says , people have been saying that “now I get hate mail saying Dre fell off” so he’s trying to write “pen to the pad” to release the album (label off) and get rid of the ‘label’ that people are giving him “dre fell off” wow really good writing!!
Thanks for being such a phenomenal analyst of rap. SOOOO knowledgeable on every flow, and reveals so much about every line! Keep moving forward, dude. You're awesome!..... And, yes, I agree that EMINEM IS THE GOAT!
Holy shizzle I had no idea Em wrote this whole track. #KnoxTheGoat disagree fight me!! 😉👊
Another great breakdown Knox, haven’t even watched the video yet and I know it’s gonna be a flex of your breakdown skills.
Plus I would like to see you do the original chloraseptic from revival
Yes! I only ever see the 2 chains version and the original is definitely the best!
Well, since most of the people in the comments seem to be more informed than most of the people in the comments: I, as one of most of the people in the comments, too, have riveting facts that I, alone know as a self-described expert on easily found facts. 1) Eminem was originally from Detroit when this song dropped. - 2) he was also in this song when it was heard by people who heard it - 3) and even when people who hadn't heard it hadn't heard it - 4) the song is 72% lyrics and 49% music. 5) math can be difficult for wordy people who are better at words than math. 6) I don't know if we're living in a simulation, but I don't know that we aren't, and I don't know if Eminem knows either.
love you.
Lmao
@@KnoxHill when will you do a reaction to patiently waiting by 50-cent
Ermahgurd, WRONG!!!!! That ratio is 73% lyrics an 48% music!!!! How Dare YoU!
You have to be one of the best reaction channels ever, your one of the only ones who break stuff down fully!
Most don’t, they just say oh that’s fire and repeat the lyric and that’s it!
"Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge trying not to lose my head"
-The Furious Five
The Firm was also connected to the French scene with the group Supreme NTM, one of the most important rap group in France
Knox my guy you are legit the Eminem of the breakdown world... No one compares!
I’m not gonna lie, when you paused it right as dre was gonna start his verse, I was pissed 😂😂 but I love your videos man, you’ve inspired me to start trying to rap so keep it up! Plus your music is 🔥
Great job breaking this down
This just reminds me how old i am. I remember bumping this 25 years ago when I was a kid. Can still remember it word for word.
Hey Knox! Got my Blacklist CD!!! Thx! 😁 Breakdown great as always! No one does it like you do! 😁
Love this breakdown and analysis. Helps me to understand how all the elements come together to sub-consciously explain why the song is one of my all time faves!
Your music is getting absolute fire bro I've watched your progressions for a while now keep it up man
Knox Hill one of my favorite break downs to one of my favorite songs. N.W.A
This is the song that got me into old school hip hop. It will always remain as one of my favorite songs.
Nice one Knox, some great memories relived. 20 odd years and I never heard the 'Compton' scratch, time to listen harder and play more 2001 sh1t. thanks bud, Paul UK
I enjoy the way you put words together. I'm learning standup comedy and doing well. But it's all the hits and and the pauses
Glad you're gettin paid for teachin hip hop classes. Much respect and love from a big fan.
Great reaction but one thing you missed is Eminems bar of "me and Dre stood next to a burnt down house. With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches and still weren't found out". That was actually an homage to the Detroit holiday of devil's night which is the night before Halloween. It's been a long standing tradition of many Detroit residents to burn down abandoned houses on devil's night aka the night before Halloween and Detroit is known for it's large number of abandoned houses, so much so that you can go on Google Earth and see only a couple houses in an entire city block. However many of the houses have been demolished, there's still quite a few that were burnt down
I know it crazy at that time I never really caught on. But Em style is all over chronic 01, and these folks sayin we could live without his music. I know he rebuttaled his statement, but he has always put great respect to the old and transformed the new. Every one about that I don't jam Eminem, but have no problem listening to one of the many songs he wrote. He's not my favorite, but he's definitely to skilled to be taken out of the top 10.
He is thee best rapper imo we all respect 2pac and biggie ofc becoz they are the og but probably they are slighy overrated becoz they died
“You’re destroying the microphone” -Jane Yamamoto 13:58
Knox hill, Eminem, some mcdonalds on lunch... highlight of my day bro
Loved the reaction/ breakdown as always Knox! Keep dropping these banger reactions, and your banger songs! Would love to see a reaction of My life, By Em, featuring Adam Levine, 50 cent. It’s underrated, like real underrated, and would appreciate the breakdown of yours behind it, would also reach people/ Em fans, who haven’t really heard the song.
This👍🏻👍🏻
Good idea
Ay i use the same headphones to record my music that you used during the intro, kinda wierd but dope🤣, now i can write and record my songs knowing that my headphones have the knox hill magic in them😂, big fan keep grinding
Yeah it’s crazy how he wrote the whole song I was shocked when I heard it as well
Oh yes!! Know this is gunna be good 🙌🔥
The cabbage patch kid line is my favourite line of all time 🔥🔥🔥
Another great video! 💙
When this song came out, I definitely remember sitting with my friends trying to get that damn hook right lmao. We got it eventually. Ah... memories.
I also realized later in life that there were some words in the song that we didn't have right. 😅😅😅
There was no Genius back then to help us confirm lyrics hahaa.
When you imitated Em I shot milk from my nose, great video
that hitman verse was phenomenal. when I listened to this for the first time I was like damn what the fuck just happened? Literally the best outro!
I ain't having that
This is the millennium of my Aftermath
It ain't gonna be nothing after that
So give me one more platinum plaque and
Fuck rap! you can have it back.
Hardest lines in the song. This is a classic and I still listen to it
Do White America by Eminem!! That one is one of my favourites from back in the day
Amazing Knox. So good.
Much respect to Dre and Eminem too.
PS - I remember so many hours of listening to "The Firm Flop" on my diskman. Not his best, but anyone young in that era knew the genius of Dr Dre. And not everyone got Eminem right away, but now pretty much everyone - EVERYONE - does.
Awesome video, first one of yours I have seen. Was def worth the watch.
First thing I ever heard with Em in it in full. I was aware of Hi my Name Is and had heard portions of it and I think maybe Guilty Conscience but Ems first verse that really GRABBED me was this one.
Hey Knox..gr8 video
The vet and the goat
We need to see reaction on In your head, i think its very underrated song and explains a lot of his struggle inside his head and after he lets it all out in Castle/Arose songs, it only shows his rise, fall and comeback after his struggle. So much love and anger at the same time
super bowl has got me listening to all the dre snoop and em tracks
thanks knox
@@myscottishopinion9955 how was it?
@@eikei3172 excellent
please check out a song called just breathe by 3racha of stray kids and a japanse rapper called SKY-HI, you’ll love the rapping and i wanna see you breakdown the lyrics too
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge - grandmaster flash and the furious five
Keep up the good work 👏
Love the intro, thank you sir
Em's been 🔥 from day 1
The rhyme structures oh my days 🤦♂️
This guys an alien 👾
jane yamamoto is also the name of the reporter in the music video of Stan.......DAMN !!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn the intro music tho so fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Such a classic,
young SlimShady
Em wrote Forgot about Dre; and Jay-Z wrote Still D.R.E. You can really sense the ghostwriting in both songs, you can imagine Em and Jay rapping Dre’s verses
They is credits for them both 🌚
I mean, both benefited greatly from their friendship...Em got the hottest beat maker in the game and Dre got to release tracks with some of his hottest bars with assistance from the rap games hottest artist. Everyone won. Us included.
i love your breakdowns and i would love to see you break down a song called just breathe by 3racha of stray kids and SKY-HI, i know i keep commenting but that’s the only way you’ll know it exists and can hopefully check it out
Man you aee going down as an important contributor to the hip-hop 🔥
10:05 it's like the equivelant of taking a whole note in a measure and turn it into 8 1/8 notes (especially if singing choral pieces with melisma or like taking a simple drum beat and then bringing in a drum roll XD
great video man!
There was a radio interview I caught a few years back where Dr. Dre said Eminem didn't actually write his lyrics on this track. Eminem brought the song to Dre but the rhyme scheme Em originally wrote was too fast and intricate for Dre to pull off, and the verses were much longer. Dre kept the same base ideas from Eminem's first draft, but he had to rework it to fit his more measured and simple flow.
Dre still adhered to the overall ideas that were in those early verses, but that 70% of what we hear on the finished product had to be rewritten by Dr. Dre himself in his own words to make it work.
I don't fully buy that, for the simple reason that the rhyme schemes are pure Em; Dre can't write intricate bars like that.
So while he may have rewritten some of the lines, I don't buy that he rewrote 70% of it.
@@TheToddAndOnly Now that right there, I don't know. It sounds like you know a lot more about rap than I do. I'm primarily a metal head first. I took Dre at his word when he said he rewrote 70% of his verse in his own style for no other reason than this is Dr. fucking Dre we're talking about here- to a rock n roll listener like me, all I know is Dr. Dre is one of the immortals. Therefore, I accepted his responses at face value because it seemed like something in the realm of possibility for one of the all time titans to do.
I'll trust you when you argue otherwise because, again, I honestly don't know enough about the genre one way or the other to pass a sufficient judgement on it.
Ah c'mon issa slim shady pen work all over. Its highly probable yo!!
Marshall is such a student of Hip Hop he could write for anyone!!
Could you check out Groundhogs Day by Eminem? Would love to see your thoughts and analysis on it.
I don't know very good English and your videos help me to understand all the song thanksss