MCRBeats Interesting interview I read of DJ Premier's a few years back. When he met up with Dr Dre to work together on that wack Welcome To Compton album, Premier was surprised to see that Dre, like himself, also preferred to stick to old fashioned production style and not the computer generated bullshit the likes of Kayne West and everybody else is on
Heard this back in 96’ when I was in the Marine Corps. I was in Cali off base and they played it on LA’s station 92.3 of all places. Been looking for this shit ever since then... Flaming ass version 🔥
Havoc's production, he and P's rhymes dripping with soul, a gem of the underground. The Sound of an Era. Rest in Beatz P, the Infamous shall reign forever in this shit
big thanks 4 that post !! man that'S some incredible good-old shit of mobb deep, still one of my favorite rap songs ever made ! i wish they still would do such awesome music today
I have this 12" promo Vinyl. I always liked this version better. That Quincy Jones sample is dope. Then they added a filter on it. That was the sound of the 90s. The album version is dope too, but I always play this one.
Such a dope version…reminds me of my cousin who I used to look up to…now he’s in Mex fuckin around lost but till forever I’ll remember him with this jam…
This version was too good for the album...and the album is a masterpiece. Apparently they couldn't clear the sample back then though....correct me if I'm wrong...
I had this version on one of these promo DJ 12 inches that I used to get sent to me down in Charlotte through a subscription service outta NYC back in the day, you'd pay a fee and every month you'd get a grip of the newest 12"s some hot some shit but they'd always throw in these weird little like bootleg double 12" compilation 12"s. Itd be a double 12" set that came in two plain white paper sleeves stuffed into a single plain white cardboard 12" cover with the label sized holes cut out in the middle front and back and no info on the cover at all. The records themselves weren't dub plates or white labels, they had professionally printed labels that listed the track names and artists but there was never a record label name or logo and they'd always saY "NOT FOR SALE FOR PROMOTIONAL DJ USE ONLY" or something to that effect. Theses sets would typically have three tracks per side six per twelve inch, of whatever was hot at the moment in the clubs in NYC or on Hot 97 or the latest Funk Flex, DJ Clue, or Tony Touch tapes or whatever. They weren't quite bootlegs but not exactly legit either, sort of quasi-legit semi-boots but I think the labels and artists looked the other way as these discs we're widely distributed to DJs worldwide and thus got the included tracks a lot of free exposure. Anyway this version was on one of those 12" sets I got circa 94-96.
Thats dope man. Crazy how far shits come. Im only 17 but these old tunes stay in rotation always. Just hearing this track brings me chills. Thanks for the story man, real shit right there. Back in the days💪
Fwiw, I'm here because Stretch and Bobbito played it on November 9th 1995 on 98 tech 9 in NY lol and fuck, I had never heard this version and had to search it out. That organ is sick asf.
@@Attackonacid the low-fi 90s sound just reverberates so hard in this song. "Lose lips sink ships" that ww2 British intelligence saying gives me shivers. 50 years after the saying was said, this lyricist introduced the line into a hip-hop song flawlessly. Mad love for Mobb Deep.
The 90's is the best hip hop era! I prefer the album version because of the better sample and singing but this version takes me back to the pirate radio days of Stretch & Bobbito.
stfu white boi, fuck your racists ass race why dont yall tell em about your hip hop obsession! wanna be racists ass bitches yet ya all over black people music and shit!
NWA362 fuck u mean I’m white and grew up to this shit, I have listened to rap since I was 4 years old I could probably school you at rap. You must’ve had a bad experience with whites lol cause you seem crazy as fuck. It’s actually racist for you to call us all racists and acting like your race is better. Also he isn’t even white he’s Hispanic you don’t see his name?
listening to an album version feels like travelling in time back in these days trying to truly get what they are rapping about by imagination. listening to this feels like being prodigy and hav, nervously smoking cigs in home studio at 3 am and trying to figure if your verses are finished while bugging about killa's wellbeing.
dk how some men here like this more than the album version. This is dope but the album version is just a 10/10 track. Has been my fav Mob Deep joint forever
I can't remember how I obtained this (maybe ebay) back in the late 90s but I have this on cd and wished it was on their infamous album. How rare is that cd promo?
This promo might be a bootleg because it has no SRC stamp. Watch out for the vinly (it must be thick) and the label must be very like very bright white instead of the yellowish label so I recommend you to not sell it
We still bumping this in 2022.
2/21/22
🤜🏾🤛🏾
(585)
YESSIR!!
Mobb
2023
Good hip-hop doesn't die. That's the beauty of music. We lose these artists from time to time. But we always have their music.
This shit was the golden era of hip hop. Shit aint never gonna be the same b, damn.
now we got so much technology, computers and powerfull softwares but hip hop sounded better back then
93-96 was incredible.
MCRBeats Interesting interview I read of DJ Premier's a few years back. When he met up with Dr Dre to work together on that wack Welcome To Compton album, Premier was surprised to see that Dre, like himself, also preferred to stick to old fashioned production style and not the computer generated bullshit the likes of Kayne West and everybody else is on
Heard this back in 96’ when I was in the Marine Corps. I was in Cali off base and they played it on LA’s station 92.3 of all places. Been looking for this shit ever since then... Flaming ass version 🔥
Found this 12" in the shop yesterday... gasped like something out of a movie.
Crazy, been looking for it..
@francoisleroux3310 Hope you find one in great condition. Gotta do a little cleanup/EQing on the rip but it was money happily spent.
The album version is a classic, the original version is a masterpiece.
Havoc's production, he and P's rhymes dripping with soul, a gem of the underground. The Sound of an Era. Rest in Beatz P, the Infamous shall reign forever in this shit
This was like a breath of fresh air
2024 first time hearing this DEMO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Same here brother👊
YAH CAN'T BE SERIOUS......🤦SMDH!!!!!!!!
@@geesehoward357sorry bro I wasn't on this world during the 90's
I've been listening to a lot of funk and jazz lately, but had a mood to listen to Mobb Deep. Rest in Power P, your music is timeless.
Heard this on Hot 97 around the time this album came out. Fire!
Dope at another level!!! The album version of this is my favorite Mobb Deep song.
That and Shook ones pt2 a close second
I’m still bumpin this in 2039!
Got damn, never heard this OG version 🤯🙌🏼
Thousands of songs , this is by far the hardest and raw product
So damn good. This version is more grimey and soulful while the album version is more jazzy and polished, but they are both just ridiculous!
All these years later , STILL FIRE !!
This version is fire!
By far the better version! This is straight raw son.
Best version
This is Legendary.
RememberVietnam
I love this version more than the album one
Prodigy rip.❤❤🔥🔥
big thanks 4 that post !!
man that'S some incredible good-old shit of mobb deep, still one of my favorite rap songs ever made !
i wish they still would do such awesome music today
Wow I never heard this version I love it! That shit is dope. 2024 RIP PEE THE HNIC
That's how special hip hop was back then. They wouldn't even play this version but this jont was way better than the album version.
I like back then they would make different versions for a song, same lyrics different vibez and they’re all 🔥
facts...
They played this version on the radio one time, Hot 97. Love it!
I have this 12" promo Vinyl. I always liked this version better. That Quincy Jones sample is dope. Then they added a filter on it. That was the sound of the 90s. The album version is dope too, but I always play this one.
Classic Hip Hop. Some of the best in the 90$ era
Toujours d’actualité en juillet 2022!💪🏾👌🏾👍🏾 une pensée à P!🕊
Such a vibe, real rap
If you can rap, you can rap to this beat. It's that simple, this beat is fucking beautiful.
@@viszualz7631 Q-Tip made that beat, not Havoc
The original cats are here least once a month )
I'm here every week
v3ry tru
Such a dope version…reminds me of my cousin who I used to look up to…now he’s in Mex fuckin around lost but till forever I’ll remember him with this jam…
like this better than the album version
This version was too good for the album...and the album is a masterpiece. Apparently they couldn't clear the sample back then though....correct me if I'm wrong...
Quincy Jones probably wasn't allowing it
Better than the album version imo.
Mobb Deep forever
This the best version !
2021 still rocking.
All 3 versions are great but this is my favourite.
yeah, this is the even fresher version...so funk and bluesy- perfect tone set for the point of the song
This version is sooooo much better than the others! Been listening to this one on repeat for an hour straight!
I had this version on one of these promo DJ 12 inches that I used to get sent to me down in Charlotte through a subscription service outta NYC back in the day, you'd pay a fee and every month you'd get a grip of the newest 12"s some hot some shit but they'd always throw in these weird little like bootleg double 12" compilation 12"s. Itd be a double 12" set that came in two plain white paper sleeves stuffed into a single plain white cardboard 12" cover with the label sized holes cut out in the middle front and back and no info on the cover at all. The records themselves weren't dub plates or white labels, they had professionally printed labels that listed the track names and artists but there was never a record label name or logo and they'd always saY "NOT FOR SALE FOR PROMOTIONAL DJ USE ONLY" or something to that effect. Theses sets would typically have three tracks per side six per twelve inch, of whatever was hot at the moment in the clubs in NYC or on Hot 97 or the latest Funk Flex, DJ Clue, or Tony Touch tapes or whatever. They weren't quite bootlegs but not exactly legit either, sort of quasi-legit semi-boots but I think the labels and artists looked the other way as these discs we're widely distributed to DJs worldwide and thus got the included tracks a lot of free exposure. Anyway this version was on one of those 12" sets I got circa 94-96.
look at that, vivid memories just from hearing a record. classic in every sense of the word
Thats dope man. Crazy how far shits come. Im only 17 but these old tunes stay in rotation always. Just hearing this track brings me chills. Thanks for the story man, real shit right there. Back in the days💪
Fwiw, I'm here because Stretch and Bobbito played it on November 9th 1995 on 98 tech 9 in NY lol and fuck, I had never heard this version and had to search it out. That organ is sick asf.
2022🔥
Best version ...
Im Feeling the original in 2021 Rest in Peace Prodigy
this one is just 20x better
same for me too i feel that maad smooth vibe 🔥🔥🔥
@@sens-meyebenjamin8131 yea it’s just a lot more RAW
@@Attackonacid the low-fi 90s sound just reverberates so hard in this song.
"Lose lips sink ships" that ww2 British intelligence saying gives me shivers. 50 years after the saying was said, this lyricist introduced the line into a hip-hop song flawlessly.
Mad love for Mobb Deep.
Possibly even 60x
🧢
Quincy fronted on the clearance...
See you 25.02.25 in finland apollo i already bought early bird ticket. Rip prodigy❤
Anyone in 2024?? 🗣
Til infinity
Not surprisin
me and in 20 years I will come back to this classic... forever
RIP PRODIGY SEE U IN HIP HOP HEAVEN SOME DAY
goodbye prodigy rest in peace
hav went all out on this verse
damn, never heard this one, and i've heard mobb depp thousands of times :)
always awesome to find an overlooked gem :)
This was before Q-Tip got involved with The Infamous.
The 90's is the best hip hop era! I prefer the album version because of the better sample and singing but this version takes me back to the pirate radio days of Stretch & Bobbito.
We up baby
this is raw hip hop
Great post fammo!!! Been lookin for this for years...
This song about Killa Black, Havoc older brother.
Younger brother
ONLY REAL HIP HOP HEADS ARE HERE
Remember songs use to be so good they required remixes or alternate versions lol.
Sample is "The temperature's rising, and it's not surprising." from 'Body Heat' by Quincy Jones.
impeccable flow
BEST VERSION
damn this is so gutter, Imma have to bump this in the whip at night!
This shits so good I ain’t sharing this with tha homies. I keep my play list in a safe! ✌️
This is not the way..
That's not keeping it real, that's keeping it wrong
pure wax gold! 12"s DEEP
This has always gone way harder than the official version
Hell no
Ps verse is so good, it makes the song. It would sound good with any 90s beat.
THIS BEAT IS THE BOMB
💯💣
Anyone found this version on Spotify? I prefer this one, legendary
GoesWithTheNameOfGTJ no luck man. I prefer this version, plus it's the version I first heard.
flashback to riding around with my ipod earbuds in playing this on the beach cruiser catching tags.
Cool Story hahaha I feel you but he might be talking about like 2001. Still a good 15 plus years back
Wtf never heard this version. RIP Prodigy.
gives me goosebumps and nearly tear MOB 4 lyf
best version for me. gives a better feeling for the shit their in
Shit's raw AF harder than the album version.
this reminds me of home every time I hear it
R.I.P PRODIGY
stfu white boi, fuck your racists ass race why dont yall tell em about your hip hop obsession! wanna be racists ass bitches yet ya all over black people music and shit!
NWA362 fuck u mean I’m white and grew up to this shit, I have listened to rap since I was 4 years old I could probably school you at rap. You must’ve had a bad experience with whites lol cause you seem crazy as fuck. It’s actually racist for you to call us all racists and acting like your race is better. Also he isn’t even white he’s Hispanic you don’t see his name?
Agreed! This cut is so smooth
excellent thanks for uploading this !
Very rare
feel like that beaut lil B should be on here saying that lol
true!!! just hearing this version
Timeless hip hop this version is fire
I'm 17, White, Male and live in the UK... This is the REALEST shit I ever heard in my whole life... Mobb is the only shit that ever touch me inside...
The criteria you just laid fits me exactly rn. 17, white male n i’m english. Still bumpin this g
Brothers 27 now
R.I.P 🎉🎉😢😢❤❤❤
This version is really good but the one that ended up on The Infamous feels more refined and fit the album better imo
yall are tripping this is one of the greatest havoc beats of all time, i’ve never even made it thru the album version once 🤮🤮🤮
@@heyyouoverthere100 Facts! they don't know
bstrongdonowrong....this version is too mellow for the mobb mentality in the album
@@edm1207 "Up North Trip" had a mellow beat too. Fit the album just fine imo.
Amen 🙏
listening to an album version feels like travelling in time back in these days trying to truly get what they are rapping about by imagination. listening to this feels like being prodigy and hav, nervously smoking cigs in home studio at 3 am and trying to figure if your verses are finished while bugging about killa's wellbeing.
Great insight!
BEST SONG EVER
Much prefer this over the album version
Yea true its a dope ass beat here
Stop it. Shit heat tho.
This and the remix are the only versions I ever listen to.
Damn I think I like this version too.
if night time was a song
Indeed. City lights and all that
This is absolutely 🔥…..that Patrice Rushen sample adds something special to this tho 🫡
RIP P ♟️🐐
My jams
Hip hop art...word!
This version is really good but doesn't fit the album mood. More like 12" material.
Nah no way this version fits nicely
@@megadehart2154 this version feels more like the second album than the first imo
Nahhh this would of been a great outro
@@megadehart2154fo sho
I agree. Give Up the Goods and the album version are really important for the emotional flow of the record.
Catchy ass tune
This is fire!!!
Easily the best version
dk how some men here like this more than the album version. This is dope but the album version is just a 10/10 track. Has been my fav Mob Deep joint forever
Depends on the mood
Album version is most definitely better.
@@alexgracia9728 for sure bro I thought I'm going crazy reading these comments. The beat on the album is just unmatched
I'll take this version over anything/anytime/anywhere, & I've been accustomed to The Infamous album since I was a youth
This one is more energetic...
I can't remember how I obtained this (maybe ebay) back in the late 90s but I have this on cd and wished it was on their infamous album. How rare is that cd promo?
Very rare, like $200 rare.
@@elliotekg dang!
Bought this on a C.D downtown Newark, NJ. when it first dropped. When the album came out and I heard it. I was like the album Version is TRASH!
@@thechosen5805 couldn't agree more with you!
This promo might be a bootleg because it has no SRC stamp. Watch out for the vinly (it must be thick) and the label must be very like very bright white instead of the yellowish label so I recommend you to not sell it
Second verse is the best I’ve ever heard
Great verse but no where near the best
Didnt realise the one on apple music wasnt the origainal, This is dank