Shout out to RA, I think it's dope that he mentioned Nas's 'What Goes Around' that been a Nas gem of mine for years and I often think how much that song is still relevant.
Love the guy. I'm a hip hop junkie. I listen to R A alot as much as listen to WU and Nas, as well newer shit like kevin gates and others. Took a long time for me to get over the 90s and shit. But R A, the albums I hear came out in the 2000s it is what is....
Really depends on what you particular value more in the craft of a lyricist. Jay got verses on Reasonable Doubt and Black album as strong as anything from Kool G. Both greats, 2 different styles
I think you have to sometimes pair rappers at the same exact time. We can compare Jay-Z and Kool G Rap from 90-2004 year for year and tally up who wins what year.
I've never been a big 80s rap fan but I can't help but appreciate R.A.'s extensive knowledge of it. He makes me want to dive into it and give it a shot. A real fun dude to listen to, lots of interesting thoughts
Listen to Public Enemy's "it takes a nation of millions to hold us back" I listened to it the first time a few weeks ago. The album is back loaded in my opinion, as the production gets louder and crazier the later you get into it. Edit: thought this would be helpful as I discovered it recently and am not biased by nostalgia
I enjoyed this interview alot... always liked ra since back in the day. Wish I could rap as good as him. It was nice to see we share the same opinions on hip hop and different artists. I'm still dissapointrd that we never got to meet having a mutual friend in Eamon who was my child hood friend ..... keep doing you RA .. AMHAD was my favorite album of that year. Shout outs to you Toure for having him on.... good shit guys.... peace
Ra the rugged man is one of my favorite rappers. But I do prefer the 90s and the aughts over the 80s. But I legitimately think I have it figured out. What ever music you connect with when your first being blasted off into hormones and puberty - that’s your shit for the rest of your life. That has to be it
It's that, but also he saw a whole complex intricate genre of music being created and experimented with in front of his eyes. Eighties saw the FASTEST advancement of the craft out of all decades, and that must have been mind blowing even for adults at the time
RA is the goat, a god emcee.. I couldn’t stop smiling when I saw him perform. Even when he started talking about his family members (RIP) my dumbass was still smiling. He did not appreciate that. I’m sorry RA
RA is 100% correct about about the difference between an emcee and a entertainer. The interviewer lacks some knowledge on what real rap is vs commercial hiphop. Also why does he interrupt RA so much?
The music got better in the 90s, the styles more refined, and the beats more artistic and creative , and a sound that became timeless. No disrespect to the 80s legends which deserve all their flowers, but stuff like 36 Chambers, Illmatic, It Was Written, Only Built for Cuban Links, Reasonable Doubt, The Infamous, Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, then Mos Def and DMX and on, it all took the qualities of MCing of the 80s but also evolved the music artistically into something truly viable and fully formed. It still evolved today, just not popular.
Rappers never will admit that it needed a pop influence to structure music. Most of the legendary hits were and are produced by the pop label figures not the DJs on the block.
I get your point but disagree on the creativeness - with production techniques being solidified, styles began to solidify and become popular. Groups became carbon copies of one another (how many Onyx or Mobb Deep clones' were out?). Also, people weren't living what they were saying (I call this the "triple-beam" everybody had used a triple-beam at one time. Ain't everybody hard). '88-'89 there were complete albums that were so diverse. The sampling law suits that came about a yr. after that knocked holes in those styles of albums, but at least we got them for a little while.
@@SkribbalOfficialthat's a whole different argument. There's no MJ without Jerry West but clearly MJ was superior. 90s took it to another level artistically while still keeping all the great MC qualities
@@SkribbalOfficialIf you argue like this you can always say but the before but the before 😂 90s had more worldwide distribution while the 80s was more local.
G Rap crushed that dragon track. I love leaving the house and hitting outside with that track. 80's was dope. I question anything beyond the Mobdeep era.
As a white kid from Brooklyn & Massachusetts took a lot for being a bBoy. In Brooklyn in 81-86 living with dad I’d be sneaking out the house at 2am to go bomb walls & trains. Break dancing during the day. I’d take that back to Massachusetts when go to see Mom where Id take alot from other kids (white & black) for trying to be black. But funny they later caught on and I had to give it back.🤣
This is so funny too me bc I can relate on so many levels. First rap record I ever bought was the Fat Boys. It was a 45 ( for you kids that’s a small vinyl record with one song on each side) with Jailhouse Rap on one side and Stick Em on the other side. I was also the white kid in places where a 13 year old white kid had no business being. lol I’m also ashamed to say that I too wore a Flavor Flav clock until I broke it over some kids head during a brawl at a bowling alley. 🤣
First rap tapes I ever bought was Christmas 85 or 86 My parent's got me the fat boys, Big daddy Kane and DJ Jazzy Jeff and rhe fresh Prince as stocking stuffers
how he demonstrates the thin voice style is hilarious haha, I'm kind of with him that style takes getting used to sonically for me, I'm with the host that the flow and sonic element is more important musically and I'm not into thin nasally voices
RA is a real rap fan. Krs vs Snoop is a no brainer to true heads..I put him up there with Murs for O.G Rappers (25_ years), real passion of rap music history and range. RA might loose in overseas Rap, murs knows some shit. Love to see a rap quiz with these two, slug is pretty good too.
I absolutely love G-Rap he’s in my personal top3-7 GOAT tier, but he did not “wreck Nas on Fast Life”. They both murdered that song. It’s an all time classic. I say this as someone who has been a fan of R.A. since 1997 Rawkus (he’s had 2 real dope albums in row 2013/20 too and was signed in early 90s at 18). I would agree G-Rap may of been a tad better, but to say he “wrecked Nas” is just not true. Glad he named Locksmith & Elzhi bc they’re 2 of the illest lyricists EVER!
@@hendrx if someone is a 9.3/10 vs 10/10 that’s not “getting wrecked”. Getting washed is when it’s not even close like G-Rap on plenty of other songs or Eminem on Forever vs inferior emcees or R.A the rugged man on Uncommon Valor. I don’t personally think Em wrecked Hov on Renegade either. I thought Em was doper but both dope on it
How does he say flow is the most important and then thin Jay belongs in the conversation? Jay is a decent lyricist, but his flow has always been his most vulnerable attribute. It's why em sounded so much better than him on Renegade.
The point about he can just rap good he can't do anything else, that's the same thing I remember hearing Tech N9ne and Eminem say lol (if I remember correctly), it's probably exaggeration though
Depends on your hood/school. I lived Canarsie/Williamsburg Brooklyn (tough areas then but hipsterville now) and was a Bboy bombing walls & trains/Break Dancing in the early 80s (81-86) and didn’t hear it until I went into other hoods of BK. Yeah! They were predominantly white neighborhoods. Those same individuals that gave me shit (white & black) were imitating my shit later.
@@CesarSanchezfool You wanna tell me KRS simple rhyme patterns wld body Snoop in a track vs track battle? 😂 LA never had the battle culture that NY had but Pac, Snoop, Kurupt were known as pretty well of the dome freestylers that allowed them to record many tracks in a short period.
Many people still prefer snoop. Only the corny white guys and east coasted biased hip hop heads say otherwise. Lyrical stuff is cool, but we still love great sounding music
What. Even if he was why would he not be That's where he's from. And it's not even the East Coast to East Coast goes from Maine to Florida. Bro just represent where he's from, IMHO
@ New yorkers are the worst when it comes to their biases. See im from the west coast, i give credence to artists from different regions. This foo R.A always downplaying the west coast and the south just cuz we dont really like that spiritual miracle lyrical rhyming style. even him claiming the 80s as the best era in hip hop implies that he aint like when hip hop spread to other states in the country
@southE619 I don't agree with you. That's his favorite era and he allowed to say so. It's the one that influenced him to be who he is why would he not like that area and era of music the most when it was the most influential in his life. I mean we all know where rap came from that area and to be there during the time frame when it started is insane. I mean could you imagine being around when some dude was like yo I'm going to build a hoop with a backboard and a net and we're going to dribble the ball off the ground and then shoot it into the thing 10 ft in the air. You would have lost your f****** mind. Also the dude interviewing is not good at interviewing and didn't let him really explain a lot of things either. Like the interviewer guy was consistently interjecting cutting him off talking over him and that is poor interviewing skills. But even if they are homies you invited him on so you can hear what he has to say. Anyways taking my ass to bed
Thats a silly comment we all are us NYC cats who are lucky enough to be Gen X'ers know our time and city invented this culture and music if you are not from NYC you don't have a comment that matters
U guys are internet geeks , Tim pool was being disrespectful and got checked is what happened …. Idk where u guys grew up at or what u dudes where watching
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i can listen to RA talk all day
One of the best moments in my life was meeting ra and watching him perform live. Beautiful soul he is.
Always like listening to RA.
Great interview. L.I. Legend
So glad this showed up on my feed
Shoutout to Touré for a dope interview!🔥
Dope interview! Hip hop lives 1❤
RA is a rap historian always putting on a clinic!
The Legend Himself, RA the Rugged Man 💯👑
Shout out to RA, I think it's dope that he mentioned Nas's 'What Goes Around' that been a Nas gem of mine for years and I often think how much that song is still relevant.
RA is a beast on the mic and the stage. I saw him open up for ICP and he killed it.
same. ICP was rapping over entire vocal tracks it was pathetic after seeing rugged man destroy the mic.
He was better than Michael Jackson.
Massive fan of both. RA needs to do some collabs with them. Also with Twiztid. I just want all my favorite rappers to do collabs 😂
Legends never die
Love the guy. I'm a hip hop junkie. I listen to R A alot as much as listen to WU and Nas, as well newer shit like kevin gates and others. Took a long time for me to get over the 90s and shit. But R A, the albums I hear came out in the 2000s it is what is....
Yo R.A. is 100% correct that Kool G Rap would body Jay-Z on anything lyrically! Facto!
Really depends on what you particular value more in the craft of a lyricist.
Jay got verses on Reasonable Doubt and Black album as strong as anything from Kool G.
Both greats, 2 different styles
I think you have to sometimes pair rappers at the same exact time. We can compare Jay-Z and Kool G Rap from 90-2004 year for year and tally up who wins what year.
I've never been a big 80s rap fan but I can't help but appreciate R.A.'s extensive knowledge of it. He makes me want to dive into it and give it a shot. A real fun dude to listen to, lots of interesting thoughts
Listen to Public Enemy's "it takes a nation of millions to hold us back" I listened to it the first time a few weeks ago. The album is back loaded in my opinion, as the production gets louder and crazier the later you get into it.
Edit: thought this would be helpful as I discovered it recently and am not biased by nostalgia
I enjoyed this interview alot... always liked ra since back in the day. Wish I could rap as good as him. It was nice to see we share the same opinions on hip hop and different artists. I'm still dissapointrd that we never got to meet having a mutual friend in Eamon who was my child hood friend ..... keep doing you RA .. AMHAD was my favorite album of that year. Shout outs to you Toure for having him on.... good shit guys.... peace
Dope interview
Great interview! Love ra
Been an RA fan since 93 NYC stand up!
Ra the rugged man is one of my favorite rappers. But I do prefer the 90s and the aughts over the 80s. But I legitimately think I have it figured out. What ever music you connect with when your first being blasted off into hormones and puberty - that’s your shit for the rest of your life. That has to be it
It's that, but also he saw a whole complex intricate genre of music being created and experimented with in front of his eyes. Eighties saw the FASTEST advancement of the craft out of all decades, and that must have been mind blowing even for adults at the time
It is
Salute RA ! Legends never die ! 💯
Legend
Can't believe people still try to put commercial rappers above pioneers
Toure I wish you would let your guests finish a sentence.
The Nas record RA is talking about is "What Goes Around"
AFRO and RA forever...
RA is the goat, a god emcee.. I couldn’t stop smiling when I saw him perform. Even when he started talking about his family members (RIP) my dumbass was still smiling. He did not appreciate that. I’m sorry RA
RA is 100% correct about about the difference between an emcee and a entertainer. The interviewer lacks some knowledge on what real rap is vs commercial hiphop. Also why does he interrupt RA so much?
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The music got better in the 90s, the styles more refined, and the beats more artistic and creative , and a sound that became timeless.
No disrespect to the 80s legends which deserve all their flowers, but stuff like 36 Chambers, Illmatic, It Was Written, Only Built for Cuban Links, Reasonable Doubt, The Infamous, Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, then Mos Def and DMX and on, it all took the qualities of MCing of the 80s but also evolved the music artistically into something truly viable and fully formed.
It still evolved today, just not popular.
Rappers never will admit that it needed a pop influence to structure music. Most of the legendary hits were and are produced by the pop label figures not the DJs on the block.
I couldn't agree more
I get your point but disagree on the creativeness - with production techniques being solidified, styles began to solidify and become popular. Groups became carbon copies of one another (how many Onyx or Mobb Deep clones' were out?). Also, people weren't living what they were saying (I call this the "triple-beam" everybody had used a triple-beam at one time. Ain't everybody hard). '88-'89 there were complete albums that were so diverse. The sampling law suits that came about a yr. after that knocked holes in those styles of albums, but at least we got them for a little while.
KRS-One is thé best emcee period.
Snoop not even good, he's just got swag out the ass
I AGREE..THE 80'S HAD MORE PROMISE, 90'S JUST WENT TOTALLY BONKERS WHEN WE SHOULD'VE ELEVATED..
Nah 90s hip hop is goated
Thats your opinion. But 90s rap wouldnt exist if it wasnt for those from the 80s and late 70s. So if 90s rap is goated, 80s rap is daddy goat 🐐 🤔 🤷
For sure 90's over 80's
Quality of albums in the 90s overall def surpassed the 80s imo
@@SkribbalOfficialthat's a whole different argument. There's no MJ without Jerry West but clearly MJ was superior.
90s took it to another level artistically while still keeping all the great MC qualities
@@SkribbalOfficialIf you argue like this you can always say but the before but the before 😂 90s had more worldwide distribution while the 80s was more local.
I'm here after Not Like Us, and Drake jokes are soooooo back on the table lol.
G Rap crushed that dragon track. I love leaving the house and hitting outside with that track. 80's was dope. I question anything beyond the Mobdeep era.
Enter the dragon is a sick ass song. My favorite is probably 4.5.6.
g rap WOULD body jay, how is that even questioned?
RA bodies everybody don't be mistaken
You're right but nobody🎉 is looking after bodies like RA
This can't be a top comment RA is too hard!
I don’t know if he would body 96’ Jay
96 hov is dead, so it doesn’t matter imo
1:08:37 Reminds me of the 90s when we did colonoscopies at my home lab
Where does he talk about Noah dming him ?
As a white kid from Brooklyn & Massachusetts took a lot for being a bBoy. In Brooklyn in 81-86 living with dad I’d be sneaking out the house at 2am to go bomb walls & trains. Break dancing during the day. I’d take that back to Massachusetts when go to see Mom where Id take alot from other kids (white & black) for trying to be black. But funny they later caught on and I had to give it back.🤣
This is so funny too me bc I can relate on so many levels. First rap record I ever bought was the Fat Boys. It was a 45 ( for you kids that’s a small vinyl record with one song on each side) with Jailhouse Rap on one side and Stick Em on the other side. I was also the white kid in places where a 13 year old white kid had no business being. lol I’m also ashamed to say that I too wore a Flavor Flav clock until I broke it over some kids head during a brawl at a bowling alley. 🤣
First rap tapes I ever bought was Christmas 85 or 86 My parent's got me the fat boys, Big daddy Kane and DJ Jazzy Jeff and rhe fresh Prince as stocking stuffers
how he demonstrates the thin voice style is hilarious haha, I'm kind of with him that style takes getting used to sonically for me, I'm with the host that the flow and sonic element is more important musically and I'm not into thin nasally voices
I have a big l lifestyls shirt...signed by r.a. and percee p.
RA is a real rap fan. Krs vs Snoop is a no brainer to true heads..I put him up there with Murs for O.G Rappers (25_ years), real passion of rap music history and range. RA might loose in overseas Rap, murs knows some shit. Love to see a rap quiz with these two, slug is pretty good too.
RA is a fuckin clown and one of the dumbest people on the internet.
I absolutely love G-Rap he’s in my personal top3-7 GOAT tier, but he did not “wreck Nas on Fast Life”. They both murdered that song. It’s an all time classic. I say this as someone who has been a fan of R.A. since 1997 Rawkus (he’s had 2 real dope albums in row 2013/20 too and was signed in early 90s at 18). I would agree G-Rap may of been a tad better, but to say he “wrecked Nas” is just not true.
Glad he named Locksmith & Elzhi bc they’re 2 of the illest lyricists EVER!
Kool G wrecked him indeed
@@hendrx no he did not. That makes it sound like Nas wasn’t dope on it also
@@superdopehiphop Kool G was doper by far
@@hendrx if someone is a 9.3/10 vs 10/10 that’s not “getting wrecked”. Getting washed is when it’s not even close like G-Rap on plenty of other songs or Eminem on Forever vs inferior emcees or R.A the rugged man on Uncommon Valor. I don’t personally think Em wrecked Hov on Renegade either. I thought Em was doper but both dope on it
I was a white kid that that grew up in Stamford Connecticut and Bridgeport and Milford
How does he say flow is the most important and then thin Jay belongs in the conversation? Jay is a decent lyricist, but his flow has always been his most vulnerable attribute. It's why em sounded so much better than him on Renegade.
Fax, Jay is always nice with the wordplay but flow wise he's pretty average
Wise Intelligent should be part of the top 5 discussion.
FACTS
Like how in the hell did the rapper SEXY REDD even blow up absolutely crazy
27:55 waaAAack
The point about he can just rap good he can't do anything else, that's the same thing I remember hearing Tech N9ne and Eminem say lol (if I remember correctly), it's probably exaggeration though
Toure looks a little like Humpty Hump at this stage..
Krs1 would obliterate snoop ! And I’m a snoop fan ….
KRS1 is pedophile-defending garbage.
@@DabNaggityes, but that's not what's being discussed
RA is the best man, but I was a white teenager in long island in the 80s rapping and I didn't get any hate like that.
Depends on your hood/school.
I lived Canarsie/Williamsburg Brooklyn (tough areas then but hipsterville now) and was a Bboy bombing walls & trains/Break Dancing in the early 80s (81-86) and didn’t hear it until I went into other hoods of BK. Yeah! They were predominantly white neighborhoods. Those same individuals that gave me shit (white & black) were imitating my shit later.
I agree KRS can body Snoop easy
Not in Snoops best rap time!
@@stillgotyourmomsnoop always had a great flow and a nice voice but he isn’t lyrically great like the blastmaster
@@CesarSanchezfool You wanna tell me KRS simple rhyme patterns wld body Snoop in a track vs track battle? 😂 LA never had the battle culture that NY had but Pac, Snoop, Kurupt were known as pretty well of the dome freestylers that allowed them to record many tracks in a short period.
Your audio and video are way out of synch... sorry but it's unwatchable
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RA is the badest rapper 16:35
right now everyone needs to catch up
Lupe is the goat
He is definitely top 1 to 2 lyricist
Krs would body snoop. Not even close what's snoop gonna say bow wow wow?
Many people still prefer snoop. Only the corny white guys and east coasted biased hip hop heads say otherwise. Lyrical stuff is cool, but we still love great sounding music
Brotha Lynch would body KRS...
YOU NEED A TOP 5 LYRICIST?
RAKIM
BIG DADDY KANE
NAS
BLACK THOUGHT
PHAROAHE MONCH
Being the first doesn't make you the greatest.
R.A is way too east coast biased
What.
Even if he was why would he not be That's where he's from.
And it's not even the East Coast to East Coast goes from Maine to Florida.
Bro just represent where he's from, IMHO
@ New yorkers are the worst when it comes to their biases. See im from the west coast, i give credence to artists from different regions. This foo R.A always downplaying the west coast and the south just cuz we dont really like that spiritual miracle lyrical rhyming style. even him claiming the 80s as the best era in hip hop implies that he aint like when hip hop spread to other states in the country
@southE619 I don't agree with you.
That's his favorite era and he allowed to say so.
It's the one that influenced him to be who he is why would he not like that area and era of music the most when it was the most influential in his life.
I mean we all know where rap came from that area and to be there during the time frame when it started is insane.
I mean could you imagine being around when some dude was like yo I'm going to build a hoop with a backboard and a net and we're going to dribble the ball off the ground and then shoot it into the thing 10 ft in the air.
You would have lost your f****** mind.
Also the dude interviewing is not good at interviewing and didn't let him really explain a lot of things either.
Like the interviewer guy was consistently interjecting cutting him off talking over him and that is poor interviewing skills.
But even if they are homies you invited him on so you can hear what he has to say.
Anyways taking my ass to bed
Thats a silly comment we all are us NYC cats who are lucky enough to be Gen X'ers know our time and city invented this culture and music if you are not from NYC you don't have a comment that matters
@@ImFromSanDiegoCAcause it's all garbage NYC is real rap
This guy got punked out by Tim Pool.
I can’t even make this stuff up.
Tf? Tim Pool was a clown in that interview, as he is in all of them.
@@samrice5926 Tim Pool is the worst. But he shut RA down.
U guys are internet geeks , Tim pool was being disrespectful and got checked is what happened …. Idk where u guys grew up at or what u dudes where watching
@@ryanfoerst Who cares where I grew up?