Well, I'm in my 50s and I don't know where you grew up but apparently you weren't in any major American city. Violent crime in the 80's (and early 90s) was WAY higher than today. Not to mention once crack hit the scene, the gangs and murders got 50x worse. Fun fact: Back then, NYC + Chicago + LA = 5000+ murders a year. In 2022, those three totaled less than 1500.
I grew up in a small English village from 1966 onwards. There were only a few Indian folk and one black family .We had a dico on wednesday nights for under 16s at the civic centre. Someone knew some black lads from Crewe who could breakdance and fetched them up one week and they put a show on for us. It was a amazing thing to see .This song was played and it was no doubt one of the very few songs played on uk radio at the time of this new scene. I come back to this track and Run Dmc and Jason Nevins its like that track often.
I first heard this about 1983 on the radio but it was edited i was only 11 I went out and bought it on vinyl with my pocket money! I've still got the 12inch vinyl single it was one of the best rap songs of 1983 in the USA and UK music charts A timeless song as in this day and age the most of the UK has got a bad sniff/beak/cocaine problem as the UK uses more cocaine than any other country in the world 🌎 sadly!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I was of the age when this style of music and breakdancing came through and I was always gutted I couldn't grasp breakdancing at all, no matter how hard I tried and was a little jealous of my mates who could. Enjoyed watching the challenges though between rival schools etc. I always remember the teachers hated anyone caught practicing during break times. Fantastic memories.
They played at a Festival in our local park some years ago. This song went down an absolute storm, with most of the crowd off their faces on something!
When hip hop was new fresh and exciting. 51 now, been into hip hop/rap since 1981. Wish i wasn't born in the UK so i could witness the birth of hip hop in the Bronx block parties in the 70's.
As a Rock and roll lover,who loves alllllllllllllllll music,this was first heard in my Montreal school daze,FRENCH, and it was hilarious then because we knew nothing at dances and hilarious now because GEN X just HADITALL. GOOD AND BAD ALIVE AND NOW GONE BLESS US ALL.
"A street kid gets arrested, Gonna do some time, He got out 3 years from now just to commit more crime. A business man is caught with 24 kilos, he's out on bail, and out of jail, And that's the way it goes" Truer words are harder to find than this statement.
Oh , this is amazing! Can’t keep still with this playing. Awesome video. Important message in it though….😮Those dancers must have been so fit . Recommend for all break dancers then and now! 😊
Remember having a big Philips portable tape deck it was blue and silver it took 10 big fat batteries it weighted a ton and pumped this track out in Hackney Jack Dunning Estate next to Upton House School batteries would last 20 mins turned up lol 😆 if lucky xxgreat days 70s 80s
Ditto JL knocking bass out in Dulwich and West Norwood. Gotta love hefting a dozen D cells and set of spares, we would've killed for lithium ion batteries
Thiz will alwayz be A , and stay in our memories, for ever as part of our culture , not just A song , an Anthêm to us all whom listen to it!,🤔🙄Dance to it, Dj. And play it at the radio stations" so true to the lirycs and consenquences it delivers...🙈Grand Masterflash & rappers Delight forever 🤗🎵🎶🎙🎼Beat Street HOÖ- RÂÂH👍🎵🎶🎙🎼
Yes now do u know what movie the break dancing is from yes the most famous is the empty subway break dance battle dance off where they are jumping the train gates. ( oh please don't try that shit today in NYC ) OH ALSO MICHAEL JACKSON RECORDED HIS BAD ALBUM VIDEO AT THE SAME PLACE EXACTLY FROM THE ONE U SEE IN THIS VIDEO NOW THATS SOME REAL TRUE MUSIC LEGEND HISTORY OF 2 LEGENDS! GRAND MASTER FLASH N MICHAEL JACKSON! 💯🔥🎤
The bass line and the 'something like a phenomenon' were appropriated from Liquid Liquid's Cavern. A long court case ensued and Sugar Hill chose bankruptcy rather than pay the $600,000 judgement. I'd never heard of Cavern until I heard it on the soundtrack to the John Favreau film, Chef.
One of my only prized possessions is the 12 inch vinyl of this and one of my beautiful memories is as a child in the U.K learning to try and break dance in my mates back yard in the early 1980's on a piece of MDF wood in the summer holidays-good times 😊 xx
My (pasty white & conservative) uncle was about 60 when this came out, and he really admired breakdancing. Loved watching it. This may make little sense, or seem really odd today where everything thing is divisive, but those were happier times. You kind of had to be there.
This what I'm talking about. This where it all started. Real Hip Hop. I spy Staci Lattisaw. The bass line though! Look at my fellow Gen X'ers pop lockin, and break dancin! I see King of Pop Michael Jackson took inspiration for his "Bad" video 2:20-2:34. All kinds of pure gold in these clips.
From David A.Wood: "White Lines" has to be one of the most acurately topical, yet also musically scintillating "Hip-Hop" songs ever made! Also, I might modestly add, it is one of the most subtly compelling and emotionally sinister Pop Songs ever made! And to think it was an anti-Narcotics song from 1983 that was solely directed at the then tragically trendy activity of Powdered Cocaine abuse, the same year that the more insidiously dangerous version of the drug, that is the less monetarily expensive, Crystallized and Smokable Pebbles version (AKA: Crack or Rock Cocaine) of Cocaine was ominously introduced in large and teeming American cities like New York City and Los Angeles. As I previously said, "White Lines" came out in 1983, forty-one years ago, and the musically scintillating and emotionally aggressive song is still relevant to the people that reside in the Inner Cities portions of American Society. Nuff Said and Peace Out from Kettering, Ohio, everybody. ☮️🇺🇲😃✌️👍
Timeless or great music never gets old and always sounds fresh. Sometimes a little bit dated maybe, or from a certain period, but it stays fresh! (+ my opinion is that you're only old when you feel 'old' or a bit dated, but we can reinvent ourselves many times if we want to, like 9 lives all rolled into 1!)
This song just came to me out of nowhere do I had to find I just keep hearing white lines lol and I actually never knew what they was singing about when I was breaking dancing to this lol so crazy when your going and have no damn idea what a song is about til years later
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Honestly one of the best songs taking me back to the 80’s. No stabbings, no shooting in the dance clubs. Just good fun!!
only coke
Well, I'm in my 50s and I don't know where you grew up but apparently you weren't in any major American city. Violent crime in the 80's (and early 90s) was WAY higher than today. Not to mention once crack hit the scene, the gangs and murders got 50x worse. Fun fact: Back then, NYC + Chicago + LA = 5000+ murders a year. In 2022, those three totaled less than 1500.
5,000 murders 😂 that’s the coke you’re snorting
80s was the peak of crips and bloods
Not if you lived in the South Bronx.
🔥 still one of the greatest songs EVER... still jammin in 2023
I can't believe that this song is not in the billions view.
The spirit of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s live on forever
I grew up in a small English village from 1966 onwards. There were only a few Indian folk and one black family .We had a dico on wednesday nights for under 16s at the civic centre. Someone knew some black lads from Crewe who could breakdance and fetched them up one week and they put a show on for us. It was a amazing thing to see .This song was played and it was no doubt one of the very few songs played on uk radio at the time of this new scene. I come back to this track and Run Dmc and Jason Nevins its like that track often.
To think my generation came out with break dancing. Some in their 60s now and can still do this. Talk about muscle memory.
Gen X
Breakdancing actually was started in new orleann
I am 51 now and still can do some movements😉
@@RKID so can I, I just can't get up off the ground lol
Best anti drugs song ever... 😁
Against the crack!
😳 This is the proper white lines emoji....
yup. put that in yer pipe n smoke it. losers.
@@danh6948😤I nominate this emoji as my the Unofficial Tony Montoya one. 🌬️💨 Lol🤣
Ironically when this was played in clubs in the 90's everyone did a line when this song came into the playlist
The dancing is still unbelievable. Such invention and athleticism
Michael who?
Still a classic, cocaine bear bringing it back to the masses is 😊🎉
The message, the voice, the music, the groove, the composition...chills.
Q@@arujkhan1459
Thanks for a trip back to the 80's!
ahh to be that young again. awesome song
A masterpiece
“It’s hard as hell to fight…don’t buy it.”
This song makes me wish I could do all these dance moves 😄
Still a modern great tune after all these years !
I first heard this about 1983 on the radio but it was edited i was only 11 I went out and bought it on vinyl with my pocket money! I've still got the 12inch vinyl single it was one of the best rap songs of 1983 in the USA and UK music charts A timeless song as in this day and age the most of the UK has got a bad sniff/beak/cocaine problem as the UK uses more cocaine than any other country in the world 🌎 sadly!!! 😎🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I was of the age when this style of music and breakdancing came through and I was always gutted I couldn't grasp breakdancing at all, no matter how hard I tried and was a little jealous of my mates who could. Enjoyed watching the challenges though between rival schools etc. I always remember the teachers hated anyone caught practicing during break times. Fantastic memories.
Love this song and the break dancing! 🎶💙✊
A masterpiece at the time and still a masterpiece class never fades loved sugarhill and everyone involved
Still to this day...absolutely perfect. As a dancer...this was and always will be 💫💫
The more I see the more I do! He was bloody right of course.... Class!
Boom 💥
They played at a Festival in our local park some years ago. This song went down an absolute storm, with most of the crowd off their faces on something!
The best 80
When hip hop was new fresh and exciting. 51 now, been into hip hop/rap since 1981. Wish i wasn't born in the UK so i could witness the birth of hip hop in the Bronx block parties in the 70's.
Incredible base line. Intense talent of the young people dancing! Spot on enjoyable!
The actual famous bassline was taken by Grandmaster Flash from a record called Cavern by Liquid Liquid. Most people don't know that.
This brings me back to my teen years
As a Rock and roll lover,who loves alllllllllllllllll music,this was first heard in my Montreal school daze,FRENCH, and it was hilarious then because we knew nothing at dances and hilarious now because GEN X just HADITALL. GOOD AND BAD ALIVE AND NOW GONE BLESS US ALL.
i miss it sometimes...but its very destructive
Moderation is key 🔑
love this record ,takes me back
Good old days
Yes it was
Best bass line ever!
Doug Wimbish is the bass player. He currently plays for Living Colour.
And to think that many people knew this song covered by Duran Duran... Both versions sound very fresh! Applause from Argentina 👍
No one with a brain thought this song was a Duran Duran original
Duran Duran..? I never heard that one at the time, gonna check it out! -hifromholland 🧡💥
"A street kid gets arrested, Gonna do some time,
He got out 3 years from now just to commit more crime.
A business man is caught with 24 kilos, he's out on bail, and out of jail, And that's the way it goes"
Truer words are harder to find than this statement.
I was 23 then amazing times
Oh , this is amazing! Can’t keep still with this playing. Awesome video. Important message in it though….😮Those dancers must have been so fit . Recommend for all break dancers then and now! 😊
Remember having a big Philips portable tape deck it was blue and silver it took 10 big fat batteries it weighted a ton and pumped this track out in Hackney Jack Dunning Estate next to Upton House School batteries would last 20 mins turned up lol 😆 if lucky xxgreat days 70s 80s
Ditto JL knocking bass out in Dulwich and West Norwood. Gotta love hefting a dozen D cells and set of spares, we would've killed for lithium ion batteries
Thiz will alwayz be A , and stay in our memories, for ever as part of our culture , not just A song , an Anthêm to us all whom listen to it!,🤔🙄Dance to it, Dj. And play it at the radio stations" so true to the lirycs and consenquences it delivers...🙈Grand Masterflash & rappers Delight forever 🤗🎵🎶🎙🎼Beat Street HOÖ- RÂÂH👍🎵🎶🎙🎼
Timeless ✅
This was the first rap music, showcasing break dancing to the masses through media. With a Lil PSA to boot.
Yes now do u know what movie the break dancing is from yes the most famous is the empty subway break dance battle dance off where they are jumping the train gates. ( oh please don't try that shit today in NYC ) OH ALSO MICHAEL JACKSON RECORDED HIS BAD ALBUM VIDEO AT THE SAME PLACE EXACTLY FROM THE ONE U SEE IN THIS VIDEO NOW THATS SOME REAL TRUE MUSIC LEGEND HISTORY OF 2 LEGENDS! GRAND MASTER FLASH N MICHAEL JACKSON! 💯🔥🎤
Who's here in 2023 from the break dance era, 💯😀
The only drawback to this Great song and video is it's in danger of being overlooked for its serious life-and-death message ! !
Love this song and the video and dancing! 💙🎶✊
The bass line and the 'something like a phenomenon' were appropriated from Liquid Liquid's Cavern. A long court case ensued and Sugar Hill chose bankruptcy rather than pay the $600,000 judgement. I'd never heard of Cavern until I heard it on the soundtrack to the John Favreau film, Chef.
I heard this song once and only 20 years ago and never heard it ever since. Untill now, goosehumps...
The pinnacle of Rap.
Still listening in 2020 !!! LOVE THIS SONG !! 😎😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Still listening to this song in2021
🤣
And they'll still be watching in 3020. 🤷🏼♀️
👋
@@lindahenigin $ is Rob
From meeting
Love this song
God thank you,GENX
A masterpiece, great great song
True story. George Bush (Snr.) loved this song. Used to rock out to it with Col Oliver North.
The actual famous bassline was taken by Grandmaster Flash from a record called Cavern by Liquid Liquid. Only found that out today.
terrible cette chanson 1983 ma belle annee 😎📻📻
В молодости эта часть жизни на планете Земля прошла мимо меня, Ваши работы восполняют пробел. Спасибо!
fuck teah friend
One of my only prized possessions is the 12 inch vinyl of this and one of my beautiful memories is as a child in the U.K learning to try and break dance in my mates back yard in the early 1980's on a piece of MDF wood in the summer holidays-good times 😊 xx
1980song l love it.pacas,shadow csl
The great Doug Wimbush on bass on this.
LEGEND 👑 1#HOLY SPIRIT 🔥
My (pasty white & conservative) uncle was about 60 when this came out, and he really admired breakdancing. Loved watching it. This may make little sense, or seem really odd today where everything thing is divisive, but those were happier times. You kind of had to be there.
Thank you cocaine bear for showing me this
I want this played at my funeral ...last song ..😅
Wow. Amazing time capsule in this video. 💜💜💜
I look this song up at least once a year 🎉
Truth never gets old
i remember buying this
Oh my god !!!
I miss this time❤️👍
this song was in a series that was black and white. about gang life in a black area of a chicago like city. this was the series song opener.
This what I'm talking about. This where it all started. Real Hip Hop. I spy Staci Lattisaw. The bass line though! Look at my fellow Gen X'ers pop lockin, and break dancin! I see King of Pop Michael Jackson took inspiration for his "Bad" video 2:20-2:34. All kinds of pure gold in these clips.
素敵なビデオありがとう
real hip hop 💯
Break dancing ..miss the 80s and 90s
Famously great track and equally great video mix .... huge kudos italoeurodisco!!!! p.s. Holy San Remo 😇
A great message song....don't do it! With a great beat and great vocals. Should be played at every party at least twice.
Grandmaster flash singing what was to happen in the future with drugs a warning
Flash is a DJ not a singer this is Melle Mel
Listening to this in the 2000s, sat in the car thinking my dad was drug free ! Haha
My first time seeing this version I like it
Im off to see him end of Oct cant wait
Awesome song and video man
My getting ready to go out n party song
So true jajaja
Id like to break dance again without breaking a hip
Yes white line I used to play the song constantly yes it has a funky beat but the best powerful message that is truth going down even to this day
I don’t think any music can be as cool as 80’s music noticed there’s lots of songs today with 80’s beat.
One Of The Best Songs In Recorded History .
From David A.Wood: "White Lines" has to be one of the most acurately topical, yet also musically scintillating "Hip-Hop" songs ever made! Also, I might modestly add, it is one of the most subtly compelling and emotionally sinister Pop Songs ever made! And to think it was an anti-Narcotics song from 1983 that was solely directed at the then tragically trendy activity of Powdered Cocaine abuse, the same year that the more insidiously dangerous version of the drug, that is the less monetarily expensive, Crystallized and Smokable Pebbles version (AKA: Crack or Rock Cocaine) of Cocaine was ominously introduced in large and teeming American cities like New York City and Los Angeles. As I previously said, "White Lines" came out in 1983, forty-one years ago, and the musically scintillating and emotionally aggressive song is still relevant to the people that reside in the Inner Cities portions of American Society. Nuff Said and Peace Out from Kettering, Ohio, everybody. ☮️🇺🇲😃✌️👍
awesome
Legendary
Ty for being in my movie film!! Joe DrT ! #rojo2022!
White lines turned to white rock's.
Beautiful break dancing
Mega Coooool
Nice💪
Nice song
dance année 80 France ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
More songs like this
Probably shouldn't love this at my age......but I DO 😂
Timeless or great music never gets old and always sounds fresh. Sometimes a little bit dated maybe, or from a certain period, but it stays fresh! (+ my opinion is that you're only old when you feel 'old' or a bit dated, but we can reinvent ourselves many times if we want to, like 9 lives all rolled into 1!)
Masterpiece ! These days people had skills, far from that Instagram shit
He tried to tell 'em.....but.......they did it anyhows.....'til they woke up.......
Still sounds good now.the mark of a good song
this movie is BEAT STREET 1984... nice breakdance and grafiti movie... 1:30 - ...
Some of the clips are Breakin and some Beat Street. I saw a go go clip from Rare Essence "Happy Feet"
Still going strong And the Make your own style [Break] Dance I mis that nowa days ThX Posting
This song just came to me out of nowhere do I had to find I just keep hearing white lines lol and I actually never knew what they was singing about when I was breaking dancing to this lol so crazy when your going and have no damn idea what a song is about til years later
The depeche mode version, is okay
80s BBOY4LIFE ✌🏽😎
something of a phenomenon...