My childhood around 1984, growing up in the Bronx. These vids would always come on TV back in the day. But listen to the message through the lyrics. Rappers always had something meaningful to say about real life through their poetry. These days, you can't say the same for these "artists".
What's an awesome fact is that the Jews ( Negroes,True Israelites) were known for their poetry w/music in the background!!+ Can't tell us we ain't God's chosen!!!!!!
THE 70'S AND 80'S WERE GREAT. THE RENT WAS CHEAP, FRIENDS WERE REAL FRIENDS!, AND THE MILK WAS GOOD! BEING FROM BROOKLYN I REMEMBER GOING TO THE BRONX A FEW TIMES. WE WENT TO A BIG MOVIE THEATRE AND I REMEMBER WHITE CASTLE RIGHT THERE. I THINK IT WAS CASTLE HILL IF IM NOT MISTAKEN?
This is when hip hop music 🎶 and culture actually meant something. Nowadays, hip hop today is a complete joke, these so called artists have no real talent whatsoever 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤦♂️🤦♀️
Thank u!!!🙂 U really said that "eloquently". That's what I meant when I said that regarding a Whodini song and I guess...well I know it didn't come across the way u did and it started a big beef. Others knew what I was trying to say and I only went back and forth like twice trying to get em to understand and just squashed it.😊 But Yes u r exactly right. Well said. Thank u😍
This is a timeless banger! The beat, the mixing, the chorus, the lyrics, the flow, compliments each other perfectly. This needs to be played in modern times.
The light skinned brother was my best friend in high school Brooklyn New York. Shelton was his name. I haven’t seen him since I left Brooklyn about 30 years ago. I always wondered how he’s doing or if he’s still into music like I am. I hope Shelton is doing okay.
This is another one of those rap songs that hits really hard! The things they’re rapping about are still relevant to this day for real though! This is truly a classic and one of the greatest rap hits ever made!
I haven't heard this song since I was like 14. I'm 47 now and it's still relevant in 2019. 808's and synthesizers ruled 80's rap along with the break moves. $50 tennis shoes today would be considered Goodwill quality by this young generation that want $500 Jordans.
like suckers they pay the $500 for dem shoes....i can only image how it must cost to manufacture that shoe? probably damn close to cheap payless shoe...
Am 49, and remember this back in school, the days of breaking, popping and locking, I still got electro 3 on cassette tape, and PROUD of it too, cant nobody take away the early and best years of electrofunk/rap/hip-hop, better than a lot of crap you hear flying about these days......
@@wrenchaholic just love it when our old asses get on here and hand down judgement. Once paid $75 for a pair of high top converse weapons. More than my mamas rent back then. Not saying i would consent to $500 ANY BRAND SHOE. If you can comfortably afford it then aaey! Don't believe in letting them run to mom and pop. Incidentally i worked my young ass to tha bone for them sneaks.
I know you us citizens think the world revolves around you, but everyone else in the world has the same problems in this song. Whether Harlem, Berlin, Mogadishu, Kabul..Capitalism and godlessness rule everywhere
The guy in the Adidas hat is Richard. He lived next door to my grandmother in Brooklyn. I thought he was the coolest brother ever when I was a little kid
I love old school, New York rap music, house music/garage music. Lord, Jesus please bring some STABILITY too this mumble jungle music we have today. This is REAL music!
In 1984 this was one of my favorite jams on the radio. A year later I meant them on an old tv show in Philly that we both performed on called Dancin' on Air. Wonder memories that I will never forget.
I grew up on this record here in England U.K! Never seen this video until now today! Classic! East Coast rappers had cadence and flow in records that you truly admired as a Hip Hop head new to the music in the 80's.
This video brought back all the memories. When women in videos were just neighborhood ladies, not bitches and hoes. All the dance moves and fashions. When New York City looked so different. It's like a moving time capsule. The song still jams too.
Your so dam right on that one! I couldn't agree more. This is pure originality stemming right from the beginning. No foul language just a rap song telling it as it is and still has meaning to this day!
@@deanallen2868There were some foul words in there. Listen again. Foul words are fine, a few, as long as you have a story or a moral to tell in the song, like these brothas do.
I played this live on the air last night on KXSF 102.5! DMC of Run DMC called in a little after(not kidding). I mentioned on the air,this song is soo hard turn it up!! ;) Still goes hard in 2021.
Was able to still buy the 12" version (still sealed) a few years ago. Ordered from Uk... from the U.S. Was amazed I could still get this. Awesome track and remember it so much from the electro/hip hop days. I wish they would rerelease the electro albums on cd. I ended up buying all the cd's I could that had all the tracks from the electro albums. Even managed to get 'I'm the Pac Man' and the instrumental version too :()
I remember listening to this as a kid on KISS FM out in New York and would always get so excited when they played the whole thing instead of cutting it short because it's a long song with so many verses! They played it like every hour (I remember it being in 1983) but sometimes they'd fade the song out early.
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic 3, Funky 4 + 1, Divine Sounds, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, UTFO, Treacherous Three, Newcleus, Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Marley Marl = REAL HIP-HOP!!
OoooooMY GOD.. I haven't heard this song since I was at least I believe Ten or eleven What people do for money back then Music let's beautiful to listen to Some of it today ????
Great song that I remember hearing on WKTU at the factory in Dover, NJ back in '84. I loved the soul, rap, dance, freestyle, pop and rock music back then and many times the lyrics were socially conscious. This will always be a stand out tune for that time along with Nuance "Love Ride", Debbie Deb "When I Hear Music" and Rock Master Scott "Request Line" to name a few. Miss those times and living in NJ but am still loving the music in 2023!!! Thanks for posting this rarity vid Altra Moda Music
geeeeez....i am from germany and heard this in ´85ish in a friends car for the first time. I am NOT the usual consument of that kinda music but THAT stuck! Man...this stuck AGES!
Really a black person ALWAYS in that, we realized that ( HARD TIMES. IS WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK EVER TIME WE GETTING UP IN THE MORNING AND WHEN WE LAY DOWN TO SLEEP BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE A $ OUT OF A 10 CENTS SO KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND YOU'RE FAITH STRONG LOVED YOU ALL. ❤❤
Nos anos 80, meu irmão escutava no último volume. Vizinho reclamando e ele cantando o "inglês" dele 😂 Depos ia pro baile todo perfumado 😂 Época boa! A música soa melhor a cada ano❤
All We Can Do Is Move On Forward Pass The Growing Pains & Not 1 Thought Of Any Of The Hard Struggle Of The Root Of All Evil To Be Back Into Depression Again To The End.
Back when hip hop music had a real voice and delivered a message at the same time. I was a sophomore in high school when this came out..... Still makes Sense in 5/7/2022!😌🤎✌🏾💪🏾🙏🏽
The eighties felt great!!!..⏩⏩ to 2019 and it feels so different like separation and coldness mix with a whole bunch of B.S.Thank God for the 70's 80's and 90's
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES, BUT IN THAT ERA OF THE MID 80S.JUST SO.MANY GREAT JAMS WERE BREAKING OUT, OR BETTER YET THE WHOLE ERA OF THE 80S BROUGHT US GREAT FLAVOR TO THE MUSIC WORLD,POOPING BREAKDANCING,AND POPLOCKING INCLUDED UNTIL 1988 NEW CHANGED THE GAME,BUT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BACK IN THE 80S WAS MORE OPEN FOR TALENT....
Im 17 and this song hits harder than all 2023 songs all together.
Rings true what you say try slick rick hay young world
That's the kind of music I grew up on during the 80's.real music
I was there. It was a special time. 84-89
💯💯 agreed
Nailed it
This song is sadly more relevant today as it was when released 40 years ago.
Yes indeed 😢😢
love this tune
@@Futura2500 booya!
😊l@@Futura2500
Así es todo por dinero que mal
The realest song of all time 👑🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤💵👑
The lyrics are still relevant today.
Indeed
I'm 65 and this video and music holds true today!!!!
My generation had the best music being the 80"s
Shout out to your comment ! Putting you up for it !
Agreed!
AAAAA.MAN❤😂🎉😅
Betta, believe it!!!
❤😊
My childhood around 1984, growing up in the Bronx. These vids would always come on TV back in the day. But listen to the message through the lyrics. Rappers always had something meaningful to say about real life through their poetry. These days, you can't say the same for these "artists".
What's an awesome fact is that the Jews ( Negroes,True Israelites) were known for their poetry w/music in the background!!+ Can't tell us we ain't God's chosen!!!!!!
THE 70'S AND 80'S WERE GREAT. THE RENT WAS CHEAP, FRIENDS WERE REAL FRIENDS!, AND THE MILK WAS GOOD! BEING FROM BROOKLYN I REMEMBER GOING TO THE BRONX A FEW TIMES. WE WENT TO A BIG MOVIE THEATRE AND I REMEMBER WHITE CASTLE RIGHT THERE. I THINK IT WAS CASTLE HILL IF IM NOT MISTAKEN?
This is when hip hop music 🎶 and culture actually meant something. Nowadays, hip hop today is a complete joke, these so called artists have no real talent whatsoever 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤦♂️🤦♀️
Agreed.... lyrics used to come from the soul, now from the wallet
Thank u!!!🙂 U really said that "eloquently". That's what I meant when I said that regarding a Whodini song and I guess...well I know it didn't come across the way u did and it started a big beef.
Others knew what I was trying to say and I only went back and forth like twice trying to get em to understand and just squashed it.😊 But Yes u r exactly right. Well said. Thank u😍
this is an 80s rarity, honestly ... this should be in a museum
word 💯
Its a belter ! As are loads from this year , 82 -85 was the golden age of electro hip hop
They told a story like them and Grand Master flas n furious five could tell.
Hip Hop back in the days had something that Hip Hop today doesn't " A Message ! "
50 years of hop hop❤❤
We had the best music in the 80s. The relevancy of this song then and now tells you how fantastic the 80s were and are.
Hhh
I said something in one of my replies. I'm 56 yrs. old and what I said was " You never know what you had until it's gone forever."
@ Maine Source: This problem is still happening now in NewYork, in the same places.
Facts! 💯
💯 agree
This song hasn't aged a day. Take notes aspiring rappers!
Classic Capodopera!❤
This is a timeless banger! The beat, the mixing, the chorus, the lyrics, the flow, compliments each other perfectly.
This needs to be played in modern times.
Has been played in a DJ Set by Intergalactic Gary in the last few years. He mixed into it from techno! That's how I found this track.
Right 🔥🔥🙌🏽
Is this Run DMC or not?.... Surprised.
This message never gets old
Ain't that the truth!!!+ Omg...
Still true til this day
The light skinned brother was my best friend in high school Brooklyn New York. Shelton was his name. I haven’t seen him since I left Brooklyn about 30 years ago. I always wondered how he’s doing or if he’s still into music like I am. I hope Shelton is doing okay.
If he was your best friend look for him. He may be saying the same thing about you 🤷🏽♀️
Still real in 2024❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
🫡🌹
…always will be…
No doubt
Absolutely 💯
Yes yes in holland to😢😢
One of The Greatest Rap Songs ever written! #FACTS!
Whodini friends also!
This is another one of those rap songs that hits really hard! The things they’re rapping about are still relevant to this day for real though! This is truly a classic and one of the greatest rap hits ever made!
Rappers from the 80'"s kept it real!!
IKR
I'm back to being a teenager again! The message in this song still rings true 40 years later. What a song!
I haven't heard this song since I was like 14. I'm 47 now and it's still relevant in 2019. 808's and synthesizers ruled 80's rap along with the break moves. $50 tennis shoes today would be considered Goodwill quality by this young generation that want $500 Jordans.
like suckers they pay the $500 for dem shoes....i can only image how it must cost to manufacture that shoe? probably damn close to cheap payless shoe...
Am 49, and remember this back in school, the days of breaking, popping and locking, I still got electro 3 on cassette tape, and PROUD of it too, cant nobody take away the early and best years of electrofunk/rap/hip-hop, better than a lot of crap you hear flying about these days......
@@wrenchaholic just love it when our old asses get on here and hand down judgement. Once paid $75 for a pair of high top converse weapons. More than my mamas rent back then. Not saying i would consent to $500 ANY BRAND SHOE. If you can comfortably afford it then aaey! Don't believe in letting them run to mom and pop. Incidentally i worked my young ass to tha bone for them sneaks.
That's sounds about right 48 myself remember the jams!
@@joshuaedwards1309 Yes, sir old school the best of still jamming cassettes keep jamming blessed!
This is just truly a badass song. I'll take listening to this magnificent song over the Overwhelming majority of the crap on the radio today
Sending everyone who sees this love from Harlem Nyc!!!!!!!👊👊
Ucla ! University corner of lenox Ave!
I know you us citizens think the world revolves around you, but everyone else in the world has the same problems in this song. Whether Harlem, Berlin, Mogadishu, Kabul..Capitalism and godlessness rule everywhere
Jersey here. Where you from? Shout your city out if you loving real hip hop..
The guy in the Adidas hat is Richard. He lived next door to my grandmother in Brooklyn. I thought he was the coolest brother ever when I was a little kid
Como eles estão hoje?
Who still watching / listening to this classic? ✋🏽
This song is so real and never goes out of style! It is still prevalent today ....even more so now!
MORE SO NOW, EVEN???
I love old school, New York rap music, house music/garage music. Lord, Jesus please bring some STABILITY too this mumble jungle music we have today. This is REAL music!
We all love the 80s... Missing.
In 1984 this was one of my favorite jams on the radio. A year later I meant them on an old tv show in Philly that we both performed on called Dancin' on Air. Wonder memories that I will never forget.
I grew up on this record here in England U.K!
Never seen this video until now today!
Classic!
East Coast rappers had cadence and flow in records that you truly admired as a Hip Hop head new to the music in the 80's.
Jason Hardy I have this on a 12” single, but I’ve never seen this video before either!
What People Do For Money!!!!!! Love it! Telling my age. I still love it today!!! Man 1984 was yesterday.
word. I was19 when this came out.
one of the tightest songs in the history of mankind
Rude jude on shade45 brought me here
Listen up y'all, been away from home (NY home of the brave) for about two decades, please appreciate our music, God bless America 🇺🇸.
This video brought back all the memories. When women in videos were just neighborhood ladies, not bitches and hoes. All the dance moves and fashions. When New York City looked so different. It's like a moving time capsule. The song still jams too.
devans00 43
You mean when New York City was New York City? ;-)
Do u see any fat people. No right.
Old skool. All hail New York!! Birthplace of hip hop! Gates Ave. Kid. Brooklyn stand up.
Definitely a classic gem brings me back!
This song and video says it all. I love it! It's real and true.
...never realized how much they sound like run dmc, or they them. Loved this track. Tommy Boy or Def Jam, uff.
It´s 2018 and we won´t see real talent like this anymore, the 80s was the Boss!!!!!!
right you are
Your so dam right on that one! I couldn't agree more. This is pure originality stemming right from the beginning. No foul language just a rap song telling it as it is and still has meaning to this day!
@@deanallen2868There were some foul words in there. Listen again. Foul words are fine, a few, as long as you have a story or a moral to tell in the song, like these brothas do.
I played this live on the air last night on KXSF 102.5! DMC of Run DMC called in a little after(not kidding). I mentioned on the air,this song is soo hard turn it up!! ;) Still goes hard in 2021.
Love the New Yorkers gathered around watching the taping knowing thier gonna be on MTV. 👍
I love this old school ❤❤❤❤❤
The 80s 👏📼🎥☎🎶🎶🎶🎼🎧 wish I could go back
Tim G. So do I
Was able to still buy the 12" version (still sealed) a few years ago. Ordered from Uk... from the U.S. Was amazed I could still get this. Awesome track and remember it so much from the electro/hip hop days. I wish they would rerelease the electro albums on cd. I ended up buying all the cd's I could that had all the tracks from the electro albums. Even managed to get 'I'm the Pac Man' and the instrumental version too :()
I remember listening to this as a kid on KISS FM out in New York and would always get so excited when they played the whole thing instead of cutting it short because it's a long song with so many verses! They played it like every hour (I remember it being in 1983) but sometimes they'd fade the song out early.
Am 50 now but this song Still keep on bung on and on just like yesterday
Remember it like yesterday 1983 year I left school had electro albums up to 14
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic 3, Funky 4 + 1, Divine Sounds, Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, UTFO, Treacherous Three, Newcleus, Whodini, Kurtis Blow, Marley Marl = REAL HIP-HOP!!
rakim,and mantronix
You forgot sugarhill gang in the list as well as Grand Master Flash & furious five.
Mark Flanigan knows what's up.
BDP, EPMD, MC Shan and Public Enemy...
Whodini Run DMC. MC Shan indeep BB and the Q band
This song is still relevant today during this madness happening back to back drama on social media.
OoooooMY GOD.. I haven't heard this song since I was at least I believe Ten or eleven What people do for money back then Music let's beautiful to listen to Some of it today ????
80s was ALWAYS THE BEST 4 HIP HOP!!!! 😃👍🔥🔥🔥
Seen them at The Funhouse in Manhattan on West 26th street back in the day......That was the spot !
THE big 80's.Still the best.
HIP HOP 80'S THE BEST ERA 👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥
The message in the song is powerful and the beat is dope. This song brings respect to classic old school rap "master piece of rap cultutre".
Great song that I remember hearing on WKTU at the factory in Dover, NJ back in '84. I loved the soul, rap, dance, freestyle, pop and rock music back then and many times the lyrics were socially conscious. This will always be a stand out tune for that time along with Nuance "Love Ride", Debbie Deb "When I Hear Music" and Rock Master Scott "Request Line" to name a few. Miss those times and living in NJ but am still loving the music in 2023!!! Thanks for posting this rarity vid Altra Moda Music
First time I heard this masterpiece of hip hop , It was in summer 84 somewhere on a road near Atlanta to Richmond.
Sooooo goooood memories.
geeeeez....i am from germany and heard this in ´85ish in a friends car for the first time. I am NOT the usual consument of that kinda music but THAT stuck! Man...this stuck AGES!
It’s hard to believe it but this was the only hip hop song put out to show people what happens when we hit a recession 😊
Really a black person ALWAYS in that, we realized that ( HARD TIMES. IS WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK EVER TIME WE GETTING UP IN THE MORNING AND WHEN WE LAY DOWN TO SLEEP BECAUSE WE CAN MAKE A $ OUT OF A 10 CENTS SO KEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND YOU'RE FAITH STRONG LOVED YOU ALL. ❤❤
*Run DMC had songs like "Hard Times" (1984) and "It's Like That" (1984)
Nos anos 80, meu irmão escutava no último volume. Vizinho reclamando e ele cantando o "inglês" dele 😂
Depos ia pro baile todo perfumado 😂
Época boa!
A música soa melhor a cada ano❤
When NYC was In NYC and When America was America!!!🇵🇷🇺🇸
💯
Where is NYC now?
Ive brought those back already,Ive worn all those classic shoes back and GOT ALOT of PRAISES, BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!!
I miss those days...
I miss you 2 RIP ❤
"The more things change the more they stay the same"💯
Unfortunately very true
All We Can Do Is Move On Forward Pass The Growing Pains & Not 1 Thought Of Any Of The Hard Struggle Of The Root Of All Evil To Be Back Into Depression Again To The End.
A gem of 1980s early rap/hip hop.Social commentary relevant in 2022.
❤❤break dancing 4danzing 💃💃💃
Oct.2023. Anyone ? Peace and love ❤️
This and fast life by dr jackyl were the deterent for unsavoury behaviour in 1987 , god bless em ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️
My cousin had this on his Sony walkman back in the day, might have been the first rap I ever heard. Early 80's, very beginning of rap hip/hop.
Brings back memories💞Good ones that will never be Forgotten
2021 and it's still better than anything made today!
Show de funk
Realmente top 🔟
I’m 26 years old and listen to this like I’m from this time 😂
Welcome kid. We're making you an honorary gen X'er
Jammin this up in Los Angeles on Sept 25th, 2021..oh ya
I Love the 80's. The beginnings of hip-hop I was all into it.
What people do for no money
Now days you know this is old.
Love from Dallas Texas during the shutdown. Wow. Not me I pray never have too.
Back when hip hop music had a real voice and delivered a message at the same time. I was a sophomore in high school when this came out..... Still makes Sense in 5/7/2022!😌🤎✌🏾💪🏾🙏🏽
Great Music 🎶 🎉🎉🎉🎉BOYEEE 4LIFE ❤❤❤
Back when Fila was the top prestigious sportswear brand. I'm bout to bring it back though. You had to have money to rock Fila back then.
I brought it back years ago, you kinda late.
Adidas anyone?
wittyexquisite Yes I had a pair I rocked. Don’t forget the New Balance high tops! Damn those were the dayzzz!
@@danuelruez7823 BKs were my favorite shoes. Like pillows on your feet 😀
You're right, I bought a Fila tracksuit in London in 1984 and it cost me £60. That was a lot of money back in the day !!
How good modern day edm started kuz righteous breakers!. Who cares about wat st. It's filmed onn, It's the joy of fulfillment.
The 80's kick ass great memories
My Old school Jam ❤😅🫠🫶🏾💯👂🏽❣️🎵🎵💃🏾
still love this tune in 2019 booyah
Money is the worst evil of them all.
This song says it all!!
.... Back when rap was original & real.
I say donate all the money to the countless amount of those that don't count because they can't count! ✌
I would listen to this before any of the so called "hip hop" on the radio today.
Let's keep it real, Greg. Today's so-called "Hip Hop" should be renamed "Shit Hop".
U listen to whatever ur old lady tells u too
Hip Hop is still there. Just turn off the radio, because they airing only cRap.
Mumble rap is not Hip Hop
& Yet white folks spend the most on today's rap music lol
The early 80's were the best era for NYC. Lots of break-dancing, crime, drugs, peep-shows and urban decay. 👍
Man best music in the 80 at time didn’t know the real meaning back than but did had good memories tho 😎
Nothing changed!! It’s still the same until this day until ETERNITY
2023 still timely..current events...this message should be implemented in the public school curriculum..children respond to cold hard facts of life 🙏
🥰 This is so Classic. ❤️ The sistas rocking real hair, casual jeans, and sweaters. 😂👍🏾
Just heard this song today definitely underrated!
One of the greatest rapper of all time
Listening until the end of time!💯
People will do DAMN near ANYTHING for Money 💰💰💰. Not Everyone...The KING 👑 👑👑, Great Rap.... YEAH
One of Your favorite songs, Frank! And, You were so right, it's crazy what people do for $$$. I hope You're resting in peace, My best bud! 😇
The eighties felt great!!!..⏩⏩ to 2019 and it feels so different like separation and coldness mix with a whole bunch of B.S.Thank God for the 70's 80's and 90's
Takes me right back...yowsers....dope tune and great video of the times.
This is real real times back in the day
Great 80s song
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES, BUT IN THAT ERA OF THE MID 80S.JUST SO.MANY GREAT JAMS WERE BREAKING OUT, OR BETTER YET THE WHOLE ERA OF THE 80S BROUGHT US GREAT FLAVOR TO THE MUSIC WORLD,POOPING BREAKDANCING,AND POPLOCKING INCLUDED UNTIL 1988 NEW CHANGED THE GAME,BUT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BACK IN THE 80S WAS MORE OPEN FOR TALENT....
WHY ARE YOU YELLING?
Without the right sound system at the loudest volume you can't appreciate this jam ! It is epic , timeless and always relevant !
A very solid track from way back that still holds true today...