I think the coolest thing about all of this, is that the production and whole feel of The Cold Vein and Def Jux in general, really reflects in this documentary. Like, this is exactly how I picture the whole recording process. Nothing fancy, just a bunch of dudes with a creative outlet. The fucking old staticy TV and Blade Runner posters just encapsulate that whole Def Jux vibe.
11:55 that freestyle , when Aesop drops his biggest punchline after 13:20 , the beat kicks in perfect as it sinks into the other 2 reacting, perfect timing like it was meant to be
One day the world will appreciate the BRILLIANCE of Cannibal Ox "Cold Vein" album....know that age old question of if you were stuck on an island, which 5 albums would you want to have? Cold Vein is not only of the albums I'd pick, its probably the first one that I'd pick.....
Im actually in such "awe" of the way Vast Aire talks. He pronounces every syllable of each word. It sounds almost illiterate at first but then you realize how "literate" it really is. Never seen or heard that before. Kinda mind blowing.
very well observed, sir. he has the skills to generate StreetSmart Darts that sounds spountaneous 1st but they're actually polished a.f. !! and u realise after a moment that it's also funny, like ure roasted beyond the speaker but in a professional and nice way
Breezy Dominant • Rap Artist • Producer bro you are officially now a best friend of mine! Not that many people find me in old def jux videos! You got a twitter we can take this to? I prefer talking there lol
This documentary along with the whole Cold Vein album changed my life and approach to rapping about 10 years ago when I first discovered it. I can't thank these guys enough for giving me a reason to keep on keeping even at my lowest. Long live dope music and real MC's. 🤘
Ah thanks for uploading this, I remember getting it when it first came out years ago. Long since lost it (or it was stolen from my lab) either way. Tons of great content on this . A perfect snapshot of that era.
When I heard The Cold Vein..It was my senior year in H.S...I smk'd high grade for the first time, my homie put this CD in and I went to a whole other dimension!! Classic underground Album!!🤯🤯
"you have any new joints?" .... "uh, yeah, but they kinda wack n shit" .... then 4:14 starts lol - that beat is dope as fuck! Adversity Strikes 9X9 Remix fkn beast
when vast aire starts talking about being poor and how time is different when you have money, shit thats some deep stuff right there. never thought of it like that.
had no clue Vast Aire talked exactly how he rap. No clue how I never saw this. I been wanting for so long to hear the sample from Pigeon in its original form for soooo long.
pretty weird to think about the intro where el is trolling the interviewer about the end of the world, when you consider 9/11 was about to happen soon when this was filmed. The way El and Vast talk about and exist in new york reflects this feeling that the house of cards is about to fall. Of course El-P has addressed in interviews the shit on fan dam that sounds like it predicted 9/11 etc. But when you see the footage and hear the music it really feels heavy, like the sky's about to fall
like think about the fact that when they're talking about school shootings, they hadn't even experienced hearing about multiple mass shootings in a WEEK.
@@gepettowins It really just sounds like they red from philosophers and theorists. Marx predicted how the breakdown of capitalist society would happen. Parenti talked about the sins of America. There's this point where everyone in the past 200 years has been reading the writing on the wall, and we're experiencing the beginning of the end.
@@Thrashman-ye4cf ah i didn't notice that. still, El-P at least spoke extensively in an interview about making 90% of Fan Dam before 9/11 and, when it released after the attack, having people think various lines were references to it. So maybe El-p in particular was already on some Phillip K. Dick dystopian future tip, but I think my point is Cann Ox was already on a similar but slightly different tip with regard to how they made music about NYC and that's why it's so eerie that they came out around 9/11. I mean that energy Vast is talking about comes through in the music for sure, which was probably largely if not completely written before this interview came out.
Okay I'm soooo late on viewing this but i was hooked from about 0:47 and its crazy to be viewing this in 2020 during this "pandemic" really watching the first real tangible movement toward worldwide enslavement....."oh you didn't know....this is world war three and we'll all be dead soon".....he wasn't being facetious....but the good thing is I've been dead with my Lord yeshua HAMASHIAC so they can't kill me twice no double jeopardy
I think the coolest thing about all of this, is that the production and whole feel of The Cold Vein and Def Jux in general, really reflects in this documentary. Like, this is exactly how I picture the whole recording process. Nothing fancy, just a bunch of dudes with a creative outlet. The fucking old staticy TV and Blade Runner posters just encapsulate that whole Def Jux vibe.
Album is amazing no question.
Dirty Bubble Eats Ass Yes! That’s what makes Definitive Jux so legendary.
Vast Aire has the most awesome voice.
+TheCarrots101 I want him to narrate my life.
I wanna here him in an anime.
The high calm voice
He realizes that it's mostly about the voice.
That’s facts.So DOPE for that lazy style
You be like "Ah, Vast Aire is dropping a verse", and then realize "oh okay, he was just talking, alright."
'wendiddeygivehimdabeat?'
Lmaooo
hahahahah damn straight, I thought the same thing, bruh has groove even talking
This comment always makes me laugh cause it's true. Haha.
The dopest M.C'S Rap like they Talk 🤣🤣🤣
Nothing will ever top this era. It makes me incredibly happy that I lived through it but also depressed that it's gone just like that.
still plenty of pockets around percolating with this energy.. but i feel you broski
Something better is on its way.
I lived through it and was heavily into Def Jux as it was happening but I still feel like I missed it.
Yeah it breaks my heart man.
Hahaha no it’s not.
11:55 that freestyle , when Aesop drops his biggest punchline after 13:20 , the beat kicks in perfect as it sinks into the other 2 reacting, perfect timing like it was meant to be
Even off the microphone, Vast Aire has this metronome behind his voice. I've never heard anyone that talks with as much rhythm as he does.
DMX
@@KtotheG & Busta Rhymes
he feels his heart, the natural metronome
One day the world will appreciate the BRILLIANCE of Cannibal Ox "Cold Vein" album....know that age old question of if you were stuck on an island, which 5 albums would you want to have? Cold Vein is not only of the albums I'd pick, its probably the first one that I'd pick.....
Im actually in such "awe" of the way Vast Aire talks. He pronounces every syllable of each word. It sounds almost illiterate at first but then you realize how "literate" it really is. Never seen or heard that before. Kinda mind blowing.
nickbagelboy i knew im not the only one
very well observed, sir. he has the skills to generate StreetSmart Darts that sounds spountaneous 1st but they're actually polished a.f. !! and u realise after a moment that it's also funny, like ure roasted beyond the speaker but in a professional and nice way
This is such a damn good hip hop documentary. It's a shame most people will never know about this gem.
Foreal!
thats 6 videos in a row that i see you in the comment section. are we best friends now? lol
Breezy Dominant • Rap Artist • Producer bro you are officially now a best friend of mine! Not that many people find me in old def jux videos! You got a twitter we can take this to? I prefer talking there lol
this and "Life is Easy" from sage are pretty great.
ah, no, its not. its mine!
This documentary along with the whole Cold Vein album changed my life and approach to rapping about 10 years ago when I first discovered it. I can't thank these guys enough for giving me a reason to keep on keeping even at my lowest. Long live dope music and real MC's.
🤘
damn, vast aire sound like hes rapping just by the way he talks
That group freestyle was incredible
that cypher was out of this world. imagine the freestyles we never saw.
i could listen to vast aire talk all day long.
Thank god somebody was like "lets do a documentary"
I come here every few months to witness greatness in the making.
Vast has such a nice chilled voice hes speakin so clearly..
How he gonna say the beats are kind of Whack...Then thrown on some straight fire!!!!?
I was like dam! That's heat!
This is so great. Thank you for uploading this gem!
Not sure if vast air is rapping or talking
Ah thanks for uploading this, I remember getting it when it first came out years ago. Long since lost it (or it was stolen from my lab) either way. Tons of great content on this .
A perfect snapshot of that era.
This is so dope. The beginnings of multiple underground legends.
ASR-10 behind El-P there in opening scene.
oh ish. thanks for upping this. def bringing back memories. was so fun discovering these guys back then.
Why am I just finding this now? Long live Cannibal Ox.
Does anybody knows the name of the instrumental in 4:15 ??
When I heard The Cold Vein..It was my senior year in H.S...I smk'd high grade for the first time, my homie put this CD in and I went to a whole other dimension!! Classic underground Album!!🤯🤯
"you have any new joints?" .... "uh, yeah, but they kinda wack n shit" .... then 4:14 starts lol - that beat is dope as fuck! Adversity Strikes 9X9 Remix fkn beast
That beat is nuts, sample is from Omega Man
@@SurgeCess what song
I remember this, I think it was shown on lola da musica. Thanx for the upload! trip down memory lane
anybody know the name of the instrumental playing at 3:11-3:56 or what song it was used in?
THAT COMPUTER
Anyone know the instrumental or track at 4:20?? It's fire shazam doesn't know it of course. Anyone?
Everyone but Vast Aire looks crazy coked out.
He’s so right about not having money.
Revenge of the RObots... Nice. I watch this DVD a few times a year since I bought it over a decade ago!!!
HELLLL YA i love aesop rock and vaste air, and i just found out that they worked together and practically lived together.
“They had to shut the school down early, there was bombs inside the lockers”
Aesop looks so young in this
been listening to cold vien a lot recently - sounds as prescient and dusted today as it did 20 years ago
Both beats buddy played round 3:14 were nice af
“They are kinda whack” then proceeded to play the illest beat anybodys ever heard lmao
Right lmao
He's really lyrical just speaking regularly
i wonder is vast has ever narrated a book, if so ill buy a copy.
C Ray Walz was so dope here.
when vast aire starts talking about being poor and how time is different when you have money, shit thats some deep stuff right there. never thought of it like that.
My favorite documentary
I love Vast aire. I'm actually in love with him
The beat at 2:17 gets stuck in my head. Anyone know where I can find it?
GTA 3!!!! Best fucking game ever.. so many memories..
Im still not high enough like the ceilings stuck wow xDthat just hit me
I just figured out why weed is called Buddha.
Such a good documentary, this shit inspired me so much back in 2008
I still have this dvd
7:32 *eckō sticker where did u get it from ?
love the old school home setup...
Oh man, good times. . .
13:25 I damn near dropped the portable DVD player when I heard that.
had no clue Vast Aire talked exactly how he rap. No clue how I never saw this.
I been wanting for so long to hear the sample from Pigeon in its original form for soooo long.
Love that Jays hat
omg, what's that sample at 03:15???
The intro has aged well.
These folks are amazing
5:26 with Abul Mogard's Clouds simultanously playing
the freestyle at the end is fire
14:17 is that asuka from NGE in the background :o
Frank The Bunny most likely
definitive had a really solid line-up at one time I feel like stone throw never really had that.
5:27- 6:10 is the truth...vast is the Truth!
I could listen to Vast elucidate all day
what Cryptic One song did that beat become?
Yeah man I'm looking still...
I WANT A HUNDRED AND EIGHT MICS!
Can some one please let me know if they released that beat at 2:18!
+liam2x4 working on it.
such a hidden gem
Def Jux is priceless!💰
I need the hole documentary in a good quality, i dont want to rip it ... can someone please help me out?
RIP Camu Tao
Word, RIP, never forgotten
whats the song at 3:10 !!!!
I miss those days more then ever right now...
@4:10 OK, what production program?
Vast aire has the most knowledge
whose that at 9:23? lol, thought it was DJ Abilities for a second
It is, I messaged him on Facebook and asked. Really cool to see him in NY, he was doing some work I think on company flow.
@@bernardshalvey1581 it was 2002. So I assume the Turntable scratches for the one joint from EL-P's Fantastic Damage.
Long live Jake Bourey and Hip-Hop Fights Back!!
pretty weird to think about the intro where el is trolling the interviewer about the end of the world, when you consider 9/11 was about to happen soon when this was filmed. The way El and Vast talk about and exist in new york reflects this feeling that the house of cards is about to fall. Of course El-P has addressed in interviews the shit on fan dam that sounds like it predicted 9/11 etc. But when you see the footage and hear the music it really feels heavy, like the sky's about to fall
like think about the fact that when they're talking about school shootings, they hadn't even experienced hearing about multiple mass shootings in a WEEK.
@@gepettowins It really just sounds like they red from philosophers and theorists. Marx predicted how the breakdown of capitalist society would happen. Parenti talked about the sins of America. There's this point where everyone in the past 200 years has been reading the writing on the wall, and we're experiencing the beginning of the end.
He was saying that cause this was January 2002, 3 months after 9/11 yo lol
@@Thrashman-ye4cf ah i didn't notice that. still, El-P at least spoke extensively in an interview about making 90% of Fan Dam before 9/11 and, when it released after the attack, having people think various lines were references to it. So maybe El-p in particular was already on some Phillip K. Dick dystopian future tip, but I think my point is Cann Ox was already on a similar but slightly different tip with regard to how they made music about NYC and that's why it's so eerie that they came out around 9/11. I mean that energy Vast is talking about comes through in the music for sure, which was probably largely if not completely written before this interview came out.
Vast Aire has such and cartoony and slow voice
What year was this made?
Matt Orfalea 2002 ish.
yoooo that freestyle was fucking sick lol
Thank you so much!
does anyone know what the beat is around 3:15 is? was it ever used?
this is how it is in east new york ik mad heads just like them
Where did you find this video?
revenge of the roobots DVD if you are still interested
Vast Aire very underrated
i cant fucking belive i just found this
Does anyone else know of any more of these videos of copywrite, cage, el-p, vast air all them cats?
Oh Snap JestOneArt!
That dude been nice, since the EBS days
Def Jukies 4 life!!!!!
Okay I'm soooo late on viewing this but i was hooked from about 0:47 and its crazy to be viewing this in 2020 during this "pandemic" really watching the first real tangible movement toward worldwide enslavement....."oh you didn't know....this is world war three and we'll all be dead soon".....he wasn't being facetious....but the good thing is I've been dead with my Lord yeshua HAMASHIAC so they can't kill me twice no double jeopardy
Was c rayz walz spitting off the top of the head or was that writtens? If written anyone know what song?
Yeah i wouldve been pissed too if they gave away that beat at 3:13. That shit is crazy
anyone know what program art is using?
That beat at 2:13. Sheesh!
This is gold
This is... Yes!!! So happy! :)
It seemed like Vast really wanted to. He should too.
Their music is ill but they all look so depressed ... shit