Nik Carter oh c’mon now! Hell, f’kn Mtv played this shit for quite some time on yo! Mtv raps! so I know damn good n well that BET played just as long if not longer!
@@Tonia682 it's actually that kind of rap that got me into hip hop but bac then in France I didn't understand the lyrics but I knew the message was about affirming the African heritage. And as a African growing up in France I had that image of so called blac Americans being proud of being African descent (even more than africans themselves). But this movement quickly was replaced by gangsta rap unfortunately
Not just "legends" alone, but SERIOUS "knowledge layers". I was a teen when i was first introduced this & my family was mostly ProBlack Men TEACHINGS me (a female) lessons. Once I discovered "lessons put to music" in the 90's, I was FOREVER GRATEFUL!!! I'm grateful for every person that helped along my little journey. The only thing i would honestly STOP doing is remember I'm a woman, bit they get so they scream on us so loud & jump up in our faces. I'm strapped, but I also look at other bistanters like HELLO. ANYWAY GUYS, HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!
Brother J from X Clan was interviewed for the books named *HOW TO RAP* & *HOW TO RAP 2*. This is one of his quotes inside those books: "That inner voice of talent tells you where to lift your voice up at and where to drop it and where to ride and bounce and play at. That’s not a joke, that separates Gladys Knight from “I sing well in the shower” - it’s two different worlds. Someone who does it on that level... it’s like the heavens come."
Those esoteric symbolisms in the video are as powerful as the song. They were with the Maroon tribe in Jamaica who were liberated as soon as the slave ship docked there because the climate and terrain was so similar to where they came from they were able to take refuge and never were enslaved.
gangsta rap was around then too,but nwa blew up and everybody tried to copy.No going back then.You gotta remember we had a lot of lanes a artist could go in back then.LL,Epmd,Heavy D,Public Enemy,Too Short, Ice T,saltnpepa,Boogie Down p. Now it's mostly gangsta,shame
I don't know why the video edits out "I'm the one who cut Tarzan's vine, ran his ass out the jungle with his homeboy swine, one of those brothers that they just can't find and makes 'em shake and make 'em shiver when it comes night time yeah!". That's my favorite part.
+ReeseMac I think they had to cut that out because the video would have gone over 5 minutes. I think 5 minutes was the standard amount of time allowed for a video.
@@stickmanbw It wasn't a remix, just the full length version. The song was edited for the video (despite being labeled "unedited"). The full version is over six minutes long.
I'm a white boy from Arkansas and I shoplifted this CD because one of my black classmates wore an X-Clan t-shirt. I have been listening to rap and hip hop since 1981 and this is one of my favorite tracks ever.
Just hearing this joint again after 25yrs, this joint is a straight BANGER. Got my head nodding like Crazy. Who did their beats? Didnt get the credit they deserved
That pink caddie imagery was perfection. Could u imagine if this group came out 2dey. Everybody's head would fall off including so called black leaders. Nuff Respect!!! ONE
I KNOW ITZ HARD OUT HERE 2 DISPLAY UUR FEELINGS ON DIS SO CALLED SOCIAL MEDIA BUT EVEN THO U DON'T LEAVE A COMMENT I KNOW U AGREE TO A CERTAIN DEGREE WITH EVERYTHING/ALL IN THE LYRICS AND VISUALS IN THIS KLASS+SIKK... JUS IN UPDATE ON THIS BLAZE HIP HOP JAWN! MUCH LUV & RESPECT Y'ALL! PEACE!
Yo I was in love and in tune with hip-hop especially being from the Bronx but this track completely shifted of how I think and how to observe the closest shady and Brother J's voice and lyrics are massively underrated
This reminds me of my fort green project days in the early 90's...copped this album back in the days in beat street record shop which was in downtown Brooklyn Fulton st
def a banger in so many ways!! however on a conscious & Lyrically level no record ever made is beating Professor X & Brother J message on this one. They went in deeper than Public Enemy!!!
I was late 20's early 30's when this came out.The X Clan are just as important now as they were then.And thnkx to Brother J for being one of the best and most educated (on African history) MC's ever. To The East Blackwards.....
I brought this "tape" when it came out 1990, I was 16, the biography of Malcolm X was required reading in my highschool and do the right thing was coming out. I'm revisiting this now bc It feels like so many lifetimes ago.
"I remember all the times you called me an animal, but in Milwaukee, there's a cannibal!" The illest dope rap line ever!
Facts!!!
The sh#t. The illest
He wasn’t lying
WORD!!!
Yet they were child rapists themselves, Patrice Griffin
This song is way too HARD for Obvious Reasons!!!! I will Forever Love this Song!!!!!
2018 still bagging this. Pro Black ain't no fad! Peace, Love and Light. ✊
for real, I remember B.E.T played this, ... like..... ONCE.... then?... "peace" lol
I still bang this monthly!!!
U not lyin! This and brand nubian wake up (reprise in the sunrise)
Nik Carter oh c’mon now! Hell, f’kn Mtv played this shit for quite some time on yo! Mtv raps! so I know damn good n well that BET played just as long if not longer!
Who listening in 2024!!
I'm in here!! These was my dudes!!
Still hitting hard! I miss real rap!
To the East My Brother ✊️
Im still listening
2024 and beyond my brother
Brother J had one of the smoothest rap voices ever.
full ack
Criminally underrated IMO
Professor X is one of those rappers who can rap while not actually rapping
DJ Keytronikz facts
Lol facts
When Professor X the Overseer did it, I called it, "hypnotic conversation".😉
Poetry
Fo REAL !!
We need more teachers like X Clan
KRS
💯💯💯
Back when hip hop had pride in the African culture
This is why they had to squash it with all that corporate gangster rap
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Therefore thy got that class and hype back then but if you look now all this pioneers and revolutionists are now dead
@@Tonia682 it's actually that kind of rap that got me into hip hop but bac then in France I didn't understand the lyrics but I knew the message was about affirming the African heritage. And as a African growing up in France I had that image of so called blac Americans being proud of being African descent (even more than africans themselves). But this movement quickly was replaced by gangsta rap unfortunately
And is the reason it disappeared
I never fully understood X Clan when I was young, but I now get everything they were trying to tell me then.
Too Crunk same here, I used to think these guys were hilarious compared to rakim n big daddy cane. Now I respect it tho.
Same.
Me too aswell
Same.
The purpose of dropping a seed. In time, it's watered and will grow.
Love Professor X's flow on this, really unique, rest in peace X the Overseer!
The ultimate African-centric Hip Hop group. This lifts my soul. 🔥🔥🌍
Aaaah yes 🔥🔥🔥
One of the most dopest groups in Hip-Hop...hands down!!🙌
This is what hip hop sounds like !!
Lisa Reed FACTS!!
Lisa Reed YES Red black and green
"BUT IN MILWAUKEE THERE'S A CANNIBAL." ONE OF THE ILLEST LYRICS WRITTEN..
Terry Turner Word Brother. ✊
+Allure Hearts FACTS!!
Terry Turner FRFR
Dahmer
cool
the X CLAN will always be legends in my book
StayGold PonyBoy
Mine too.
They got me interested in Egyptology.
Not just "legends" alone, but SERIOUS "knowledge layers". I was a teen when i was first introduced this & my family was mostly ProBlack Men TEACHINGS me (a female) lessons. Once I discovered "lessons put to music" in the 90's, I was FOREVER GRATEFUL!!! I'm grateful for every person that helped along my little journey. The only thing i would honestly STOP doing is remember I'm a woman, bit they get so they scream on us so loud & jump up in our faces. I'm strapped, but I also look at other bistanters like HELLO. ANYWAY GUYS, HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!
Miss educating music
Facts
@@williemclean7999 Triple facts💪
RIP professor X
news to me. when did he passed
he passed away back in 2006 at 50 years old
damn he was young. thanks for the info
ctbadcop15 no chill
he was 49 but his anniversey of his death is 2morrow on the 17th
They wore some dope-ass outfits! I will always love these brothers.
RIP Grand Verbalizer.
Vanglorious: This is protected by the Red, the Black and the Green with a key on the road again, Sissyyyyyyy!
And you don’t stop
Brother J from X Clan was interviewed for the books named *HOW TO RAP* & *HOW TO RAP 2*.
This is one of his quotes inside those books:
"That inner voice of talent tells you where to lift your voice
up at and where to drop it and where to ride and bounce
and play at. That’s not a joke, that separates Gladys Knight
from “I sing well in the shower” - it’s two different worlds.
Someone who does it on that level... it’s like the heavens
come."
Rest In Peace goes out to SugaShaft.
I love their flow. Way ahead of their time.
Right
Those esoteric symbolisms in the video are as powerful as the song. They were with the Maroon tribe in Jamaica who were liberated as soon as the slave ship docked there because the climate and terrain was so similar to where they came from they were able to take refuge and never were enslaved.
thanks for sharing bro I will research this topic, very deep!
Yea I gotta look this up
X Clan we need you now more than ever🎤
I remember hearing this 1st on In Living Color. Funny how the Afro-centric movement somehow got replaced by Gangsta Rap...
Damn as true as that statement is it is overlooked by all the flash of modern hip hop.....very good point
Afrocentric Hip Hop was replaced by the Corporate Agenda .
gangsta rap was around then too,but nwa blew up and everybody tried to copy.No going back then.You gotta remember we had a lot of lanes a artist could go in back then.LL,Epmd,Heavy D,Public Enemy,Too Short, Ice T,saltnpepa,Boogie Down p. Now it's mostly gangsta,shame
not funny planned that way. This why we have to take our culture and masculinity back. Blk 1ST Hotep
that's the first time I heard it too. dope times
Been at least 20 years since I've heard this. Still an absolute banger.
I got to see X-Clan live a few years ago, It was wild. I felt privileged.
I was about 11-12 years old when I started listening to X Clan on Video Music Box in NY and it had a very positive affect on me from then.
I don't know why the video edits out "I'm the one who cut Tarzan's vine, ran his ass out the jungle with his homeboy swine, one of those brothers that they just can't find and makes 'em shake and make 'em shiver when it comes night time yeah!". That's my favorite part.
+ReeseMac I think they had to cut that out because the video would have gone over 5 minutes. I think 5 minutes was the standard amount of time allowed for a video.
And then labeled it as UNCUT.
Mine Too!
That was on the remix
@@stickmanbw It wasn't a remix, just the full length version. The song was edited for the video (despite being labeled "unedited"). The full version is over six minutes long.
This group embodies our struggles from the past to the future. One on my all time favorites.
One of the best songs of all time in any genre.
Its 2020, this still holds up
Oh indeed.
This is one those jam. You find yourself going back to over and over again.
Filming a video among the descendents of Jamaican Maroons.
That's next level shit...from 1992.
thirdshift47 Islam
@@BearFacedTV no smh 🤦♂️
Love All the music of X Clan great music n messages ❤❤❤❤❤
I just said the line "but in Milwaukee there's a cannibal" out loud to myself sitting here in quarantine. Still a killer track.
Yessirrrr I'm here today on this beautiful black 2021 morning..X-Clan forever man..yeah
This is probably my favorite song by xclan so raw and suave and black!!!! Sisseeeeyyyy!!!!
I'm a white boy from Arkansas and I shoplifted this CD because one of my black classmates wore an X-Clan t-shirt. I have been listening to rap and hip hop since 1981 and this is one of my favorite tracks ever.
CUT OUT "WHITE BOY"
CUT OUT "BLACK CLASSMATE."
I GOT THIS ALBUM BECAUSE IT WAS FIRE - SEE HOW MUCH BETTER THAT LOOKS?
Why does this video only have 100,000 views.. this is crazy, X Clan was one of the best rap groups of the 1990's.
This video needs more views.
Earth wind and fire 🔥 message behind this song
Who's still slapping in 2021?
When I LOVED hip-hop!! #2023
Just hearing this joint again after 25yrs, this joint is a straight BANGER. Got my head nodding like Crazy. Who did their beats? Didnt get the credit they deserved
this song and video is just unbelievable. I wish artists made music like this still.
August 2019!! Still reppin the RED THE BLACK AND THE GREEENNNNN!!
STILL SLAPPING THIS LOUD IN 2020! AND SO FORTH!!! 💯
It was so crazy how we could resonate with this as kids.
One of the greatest videos of all time!
*When we were kids "Our parents just* *don't understand this music"*
*Now as parents "Kids just don't* *understand this music"*
Lol...facts!
This is the type of music I grew up with... 20 years + It still brings me back here and stayed with me through out my youth...
That pink caddie imagery was perfection. Could u imagine if this group came out 2dey. Everybody's head would fall off including so called black leaders. Nuff Respect!!! ONE
SI- LINCE hahaa I would love if these brothers (any brothers) would come out like this today
+Zahid El they would never be allowed to see the light of day smh
+ChiGuy251 Luciferians hate this form of true expression...
this agenda was killed off ASAP. smh
NWA and downward spirals were promoted.
I KNOW ITZ HARD OUT HERE 2 DISPLAY UUR FEELINGS ON DIS SO CALLED SOCIAL MEDIA BUT EVEN THO U DON'T LEAVE A COMMENT I KNOW U AGREE TO A CERTAIN DEGREE WITH EVERYTHING/ALL IN THE LYRICS AND VISUALS IN THIS KLASS+SIKK... JUS IN UPDATE ON THIS BLAZE HIP HOP JAWN! MUCH LUV & RESPECT Y'ALL!
PEACE!
Soothes my soul ❤love the message !!!!
Yo I was in love and in tune with hip-hop especially being from the Bronx but this track completely shifted of how I think and how to observe the closest shady and Brother J's voice and lyrics are massively underrated
"the one you fear, be scared you can't figger"
"a boom-bap with a pro-black slap"
brothers are DEEP!
I want this back now. Love this
rip baba prof. x, paradise, sugar shaft. you are with our ancestors sittin on your thrown. ASÈ!
This shit was hard
Classic 🔥
They can do this album today and still hit
This reminds me of my fort green project days in the early 90's...copped this album back in the days in beat street record shop which was in downtown Brooklyn Fulton st
Lived down from fort green an worked
On Fulton
@@theettabell153 word me too...I was the 1 with the sign screaming Free phones Free phones
I used to bump this on the way school almost every mornin back in the day ...
THIS IS HIP HOP IN ITS PUREST FORM..
my fav song from them i was young but i understood what they were sayin and feelin it deep..miss the 90ship hop
Fire .Brotha J flow was impeccable.
2021 still banging to this
def a banger in so many ways!! however on a conscious & Lyrically level no record ever made is beating Professor X & Brother J message on this one. They went in deeper than Public Enemy!!!
Finally an uncensored version. Love it!
02:50 "got no time to be hanging out with humanists"
KRS-One diss.
didn't krs reply with "overseer overseer officer"
didn't krs reply with "overseer overseer officer"
didn't krs reply with "overseer overseer officer"
wilfredo romero No. That was entirely different. That was directed at the Po Po.
Really? I didn't know that??
Hell yeah, positive message 4 all people who seek justice...no one should feel excluded from enjoying songs like this.
Both of these lyricist with the futuristic flows were way underated at the time and slept on...too much knowledge that average fan couldn't absorb it.
I remember this as a kid and was one of the dopest groups back then...loved this song...strong and powerful and THE TRUTH
Still an all-time favorite video
Forgot about this 'ish!!!!! Yes, this STILL protected...
To the east, my brother, to the east
William Mason Come One Come All
I was late 20's early 30's when this came out.The X Clan are just as important now as they were then.And thnkx to Brother J for being one of the best and most educated (on African history) MC's ever. To The East Blackwards.....
peace to the GODS and EARTHS !
1991 this group was so dope
2017 Anthem
Grooveskin Play this during Trump rally
I got this record I'm glad I grew up to this! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Still listen in 2019
This was my SH*T back in the day!!! Had it on cassette, no CD's back then. Old school to the core!
They have been trying to tell us for the longest
2020 let's gooooo fireeeee period salute
This is real hip hop right here
Love, love this record.
RESPECT TO THE X CLAN
I really feel for the youngsters of today and to think this was my childhood Growing Up This Is The Hip Hop I listen to as a kid
DEEPNESS,DOPENESS,CONSCIOUS&POWERFUL AND JUST STRAIT DOPE HIP HOP AT ITS BEST. SAMMAH SEHSO!!!!
Sammah Houstafari&I FACTS!!
I miss those days ..rappers had pride and culture
X Clan were large back in the day. Standing up for the black family with pride & honour! Knowledge in abundance!
I brought this "tape" when it came out 1990, I was 16, the biography of Malcolm X was required reading in my highschool and do the right thing was coming out. I'm revisiting this now bc It feels like so many lifetimes ago.
One of the greatest groups of all times
This was a banger when I was in 10th grade! RIP Professor X & Sugar Shaft
Art Work; please make more of this funky Music and 1991more more more
🙏🙏🙏 much respect peace and love brothers.
3:43 Is the dopest thing ever. The image of my people united.
As a 40ish white guy, bumping this in my ride is a little awkward in 2023, but the track still slams!
Brother j has one of the best flows i heard
Good Lord,,, 20 years looking for this jam...
the best era of the culture
Love this group