Their (CL and Pete’s) discography should have been like that of Mobb Deep, OutKast or even GangStarr. No reason they shouldn’t have at least 4 or 5 albums
Pete Rock and CL Smooth! Top 5 favorite group growing up. I was sad when they broke up. What was even more frustrating was not knowing why. Thank you CL for the clarity. Nore and EFN, another classic. Thank you!
@@absolute95allah7 I interviewed Wise Intelligent extensively several years ago for a magazine I launched. Still have the audio if it's something you are interested in. Also got Sadat X, Domino (Hiero) and a few other heavyweights in the archives.
I love how he explains it at the end, He needs to come to LA with that voice , voice of the blackman in 2024 . This voice of hiphop is needed now today urgent!
I MET HEAVY D AT THE NY LIFE PREMIER. HE WAS A ANGEL. HE WOULD GIVE YOU THE SHIRT FROM HIS BACK. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MAN N SO HUMBLE. RIP🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@cmn225 I hate to be that guy, but i honestly love the both the same. I've always played them back to back together like one long album. If I had to pick I'd say Mecca. But Main Ingredient is just the same and it's got my favourite Pete Rock CL track ever - Take You There. I love the All Souled Out EP too. How about you?
CL Smooth is in my personal top 10 BECAUSE he actually shifted my appreciation and perception of Hip Hop rhymes. BECAUSE he had the baddest Producer/DJ on the wheels of steel. They were unique and not in a pop way but in a smooth intelligent thoughtful impactful. His rhymes stuck with me when I got over the bubble gum shit. 2 albums and an EP being a catalogue better than some loads of rappers with over ten albums. TROY, Take you there, One in a million, Searching, Escapism, Lots of lovin, . They are a benchmark for rapper and dj producer chemistry. Long live the champs. RIP Heavy D. Another one in my top 10. And they didnt have to cuss all over the record.
This was dope because not only was he dropping jewels 💎 the whole time, he literally explained the bars “T to the R O Y how did you and I meet in front of Big Lou’s fighting in the street.” 🤯
Glad CL Smooth is on Drink Champs. Hopefully him & Pete Rock work things out and do music together again. Never knew CL Smooth & DMX had dogs that were related to each other.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth is one of the only groups past their heyday that I think could make another classic TODAY. Them together is so natural and organic, to NORE's point. I want one more album from my bros. Blessings to both of my guys. Bless. Bless. Bless. Big up Nore and EFN for making the most of this platform. Love.
I had an opportunity to record some DJ promo's with CL Smooth. He's such a class act. Bro was mad cool, he invited my friends and I to his show. He got us back stage and we got to hang out and meet the other guys that were on the show. I remember meeting and taking pictures with Das Efx, Kool Herc, just to name a few. Def something I remember forever!
CL 🫡.. hope him and Pete Rock can work it out at some point. That whole Mount Vernon team was part of the soundtrack of my youth. Peace to the Godz 💫💫💫
With this interview. The world really got to see CL Smooth. I was in the 10th grade when Mecca and the Soul Brother came out. I never had heard a rapper speak with so clearly and pure. Whole album with no cuss words. Our names(Corey) and dates of birth are even close. This dude really changed my life!!! To hear him speak about life and manhood is a blessing.The two album Pete and him made were basically the foundation of his mindset today. Just go listen to them!!! This was beautiful and greatly appreciated. 🙏🏿✊🏿
I think the Reuben that CL was referring to was Reuben Rodriguez who started Pendulum Records (Signed Digable Planets to that label) and was at Elektra.
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“I got to this age strategically” - CL Smooth 2024
I read this as he said it crazy
1:12:33
THAT WAS A POWERFUL STATEMENT 🔥
Yo CL probably had the most intelligent conversation I ever heard on Drink Champs
Yes!!
while drinking and smoking and going along with the theme
I said the same thing
@hoodhandyman true, but I did not expect less
this was a good one.
Finally drank champs…back to the legends
Facts!
Exactly
@@donnellwaters6852 WERD
FAAAAACTS BACK TO THE ESSENCE ❤
DEFINITELY one of the greatest MCs to ever grip the MIC 🎤
FACTS 💯
REAL TALK 🔥🔥
THAT'S A SNAPPLE FACT
I'm saddened that Pete and CL aren't on good terms. Their music caused a major shift in Hip Hop through beats & rhymes. Salute to the legend.
I wish I could like this comment 1000 times 😊
I'm withchu
The culture missed out big time .....
Super underrated mc. People act like it was all Pete Rock. Pete is incredible, but don't forget it was CL Smooth with those dope ass stories.
Definitely a great story teller
They complemented each other well…
Their (CL and Pete’s) discography should have been like that of Mobb Deep, OutKast or even GangStarr. No reason they shouldn’t have at least 4 or 5 albums
Facts.
@@augustknight3483cl smooth is dope by himself .pete rock is dope by himself ?celebrate yours history together💿 48:43
Watchin C.L. roll up while hes talkin is classic in itself 💪🏾😜😤💨💨🤣
I still rock “The Main Ingredient” album to this very day!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@sassyone82 you got a man?
Straight up that’s a classic
30 f'ing years!!!!!!
yes
@stevechase2232 30th anniversary in November would be perfect time for a reunion.
This gonna be a classic cl smooth one my favorite rappers
yes! he’s in my top 10 for sure.
Word He My Favorite M.C.
CL done dropped nothing but JEWELZ! It’s diamonds, rubies and emeralds all over the floor. Respect. ✊🏽 💯
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
He absolutely did 💯
Facts!
🎉
FAAAAACTS 💯
One of the best voices, tones and delivery. Clever pen. Legend 🫡 CL Smooth
He’s right there with Guru in my opinion 💪🏼🔥
Agree @@JoseGarcia-wl3im
Well said… Definitely in my top 5 MC’s🎙️
Well said
Super clever pen
C.L is not mentioned enough, he has always been in my top 10 !!!
Me too!
A legend. TROY my favorite record,but I need to see your top10 list immediately 🤣😂✌🏿.
Talk!!!
😂
What's funny @@troyall9506
“ It ain’t hard to the core, it ain’t sex on the beach.. it’s just another plateau the brothers have to reach “ CL Smooth.. CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED 🔥🔥
That’s my joint. 1994 shit. When it was real in New York.
@@BROOKLYNVILLAIN: REAL TALK.. 1994 one of my personal favorite years of hip hop 🔥🔥
That was my joint!!!!!!!!!
Nobody talks about Diamond D enough. The man is a real genius……..
I agree. As a emcee he's underrated.
Agreed
About to play Stunts, Blunts right now
stunts blunts and hip hop super solid from top to bottom. top 3 hip hop producer rappers
One of the best producers to ever touch the mic.
Still got all 3 Pete Rock & C L SMOOTH tapes n ment condition ❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Can I buy one😂. Lol jk I Love collecting music.
💯
That’s so dope!👊🏽👊🏽
"ment" 😂 its "mint".
@@Larry-zv8li ebonics
Hip Hop NEEDS another Pete Rock & CL Smooth project.
1,000%🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Indeed
@@robthelusma5964 facts
yes indeed
Blu & Exile's album in 2007, "Beneath The Heavens" was like Pete Rock & CL Smooth reincarnated for a younger generation. They def carried that torch.
We need more of this!!!!!! Not no damn Rich The Kidd interviews. This is the drink champs we love. Real legends
@@Prince-233 absolutely 💯
facts. i didnt even click the RTK interview. so many more legends that could have been interviewed
He speaks like a rhyme. Come on Pete. Make this classic album
“Mecca & the Soul Brother” one of the best albums of all time
BEST MC EVER ON A PETE ROCK TRACK- MECCA AND SOUL BROTHERS AND MAIN INGREDIENT BOTH TIMELESS. THANKS DRINKCHAMPS
... You do realize Nas has a Pete Rock produced Track.
@@dagangsta0fluva few
@@dagangsta0fluv and AZ, I still take CL lol.
ON GOD. TO ME ITS DIFFICULT TO HEAR THEM WORKING WITH OTHER ARTISTS. NOTHING COMPARES TO MECCA....ALL SOULED OUT EP WAS GOOD BUT MECCA🔥🔥🔥
Facts 💯
This is one of the best interview on Drink Champs top 10
DRINK CHAMPS HAS NEVERRRRRR BEEN THIS HEAVY.. DAMN CL
Hopefully this interview will lead to a reunion album.
Crazier things have happened. Look what happened with Cam and Ma$e after they did “MDWG”
Word
The label was wrong for not giving C.L his money,The group went it`s own way because of that.
It will
I hope so!
The fact that we had to go through the 50th anniversary without Pete & CL performing the classics is truly INSANE!!!
Exactly.
Blame LL cool J for that. It’s like the music game turned to politics
Now we get to hear CL side of the story
C.L I’ve always respected this dude. And my respect continue’s.
He is talking real talk CL, this is a grown man talk
Pete Rock and CL Smooth! Top 5 favorite group growing up. I was sad when they broke up. What was even more frustrating was not knowing why. Thank you CL for the clarity. Nore and EFN, another classic. Thank you!
"Someone has to benefit off this destructive culture"
Thank you for that comment Legend!🙏🏿
Facts or real life facts? Hip Hop needed this interview. CL Smooth needs more recognition
“The birth of a child on the 8th of October”❤❤❤
A toast...
This was more of a masterclass than an interview..C.L is a genuine guy and dropping nothing but gems ! This was a good one Drink Champs!
Yessss 🙌🏽
CL and Special Ed are my favorite interviews on here, hands down 💯
Facts! Cormega was good too! Was thinking would wise Intelligent ever come on🤔😂
Buju was great as well 🇯🇲
@@absolute95allah7 I interviewed Wise Intelligent extensively several years ago for a magazine I launched. Still have the audio if it's something you are interested in.
Also got Sadat X, Domino (Hiero) and a few other heavyweights in the archives.
The Main Ingredient is my #1 hip-hop album!
SAME!!!!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Soundtrack during my middle school years!!!!
Mine too before Cuban Linx or supreme clientele.
My favorite album
Classic album
How comfortable and close pac was with CL it was second nature
I haven't said this for years but this is the best interview I've ever seen on drink champs
This interview had so many jewels CL was going off 😂😂😂
The equivalent of P Rock and CL Smooth would be DJ premier and Guru
GangStarr!!!
Great call ....
man .. CL is still the man.... intelligent eloquent brother
CL dropping so many bars.... sounds just like on the records
T.R.O.Y must be the greatest rap record ever made which has transcended time and the genre. Spiritual, reflective, deep, moving... a perfect record.
CL is spittin 💎
A walking jewelry store.
I love how he explains it at the end, He needs to come to LA with that voice , voice of the blackman in 2024 . This voice of hiphop is needed now today urgent!
Appreciate Nore being quiet and letting CL drop them jewels😊
Cl smooth should do an album with premo or q-tip
That would be 🔥🔥🔥
DAMN! THAT WOULD BE DOPE!
Man.,..!!
yea with Primo…..not Q-tip due to his latest LL 1/4good production yo…..come on Tip you KNOW BETTER brobro💚💯
@@gradymcclinton. u ain’t lying 💯
CL Dropping the heaviest Drink Champs ever!
The legendary CL Smooth, I've always been inspired by his music 💐 this gonna be dope
Finally someone worth watching! I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been skipping episodes
Me as well. Some of the guests that they've had on recently don't interest me much.
Me too
Yea not everyone deserves the flowers yet.
This is one of the best interviews I've seen in a long time❤
This is the BEST Drink Champs !
Nobody raps like CL SMOOTH.. The God is unique with the word play
Mt V Class of '94 CLSmooth was the Man!
Class of 93 all day
Money Earnin all day 914 stand tf up!!!!
I MET HEAVY D AT THE NY LIFE PREMIER. HE WAS A ANGEL. HE WOULD GIVE YOU THE SHIRT FROM HIS BACK. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MAN N SO HUMBLE. RIP🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Heavy is at the door 🚪 so there will be no bum rushing
@@mrwhite77781
GOD HAS HIS SON.
MR. BIG STUFF
WATER
Heavy D was a class act. 💯
Those 2 Pete Rock and CL Smooth albums are exactly what I'm talking about. 2 of my favourite albums of all time. Run them back to back.
which one you think is better?
@cmn225 I hate to be that guy, but i honestly love the both the same. I've always played them back to back together like one long album. If I had to pick I'd say Mecca. But Main Ingredient is just the same and it's got my favourite Pete Rock CL track ever - Take You There. I love the All Souled Out EP too. How about you?
ayo…..they had 3-4 albums together so heads up…..dig in them crates fellas and ladies….that demo tape🔥🔥🔥
@@blacksunshine7485 definitely The Main Ingredient for me
@gradymcclinton What's the names of the other albums? You talking about the Basement Demos?
"....this one is for the crew!" Solid brother here! Met CL at his show last year here in Brooklyn! Legend! 💪🏾
CL is spitting the whole time! glad to hear the TRUTH actually being said in all avenues.
CL Smooth is in my personal top 10 BECAUSE he actually shifted my appreciation and perception of Hip Hop rhymes. BECAUSE he had the baddest Producer/DJ on the wheels of steel. They were unique and not in a pop way but in a smooth intelligent thoughtful impactful. His rhymes stuck with me when I got over the bubble gum shit. 2 albums and an EP being a catalogue better than some loads of rappers with over ten albums. TROY, Take you there, One in a million, Searching, Escapism, Lots of lovin, . They are a benchmark for rapper and dj producer chemistry. Long live the champs. RIP Heavy D. Another one in my top 10. And they didnt have to cuss all over the record.
Gained EVEN MORE respect. Last of the dying breed for hip hop… salute CL
This was dope because not only was he dropping jewels 💎 the whole time, he literally explained the bars “T to the R O Y how did you and I meet in front of Big Lou’s fighting in the street.” 🤯
Rakim and Jody Watley Friends was before the Johnny Gill song he said waa the first Hip Hop w R and B song.
He said remix
Knowledge of self matters... respect🌹✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
All day! Respect
Glad CL Smooth is on Drink Champs. Hopefully him & Pete Rock work things out and do music together again. Never knew CL Smooth & DMX had dogs that were related to each other.
THE PETE ROCK question at 53:13
🙏🏽💯
CL Smoothis top shelf! When I see his name or hear his voice I stop what I’m doing and give him my undivided attention ❤
All facts!!
SHOUT OUT TO CL SMOOTH AND PETE ROCK
I have never waited for a Drink Champs interview as much as THIS ONE. I’ll stay up as long as it takes to watch the whole thing.
Pete Rock & CL Smooth is one of the only groups past their heyday that I think could make another classic TODAY. Them together is so natural and organic, to NORE's point. I want one more album from my bros. Blessings to both of my guys. Bless. Bless. Bless. Big up Nore and EFN for making the most of this platform. Love.
I miss the 90s so bad, it was an Golden Era frfr
Money Earnin Mt Vernon in the house
I had an opportunity to record some DJ promo's with CL Smooth. He's such a class act. Bro was mad cool, he invited my friends and I to his show. He got us back stage and we got to hang out and meet the other guys that were on the show. I remember meeting and taking pictures with Das Efx, Kool Herc, just to name a few. Def something I remember forever!
🔥🔥🔥Long overdue low key master of ceremonies, CL Smooth!
I listened to "Mecca and the Soul Brother" and "The Main Ingredient" in the last couple of days. They were instant classics right out the gate.
Don’t forget about All souled out
That interview with CL man that was priceless
Big Ups CL Smooth! Happy BirthAnniversary Nas.
Anyone who watches this needs to check out “Appreciate” by Pete Rock and CL Smooth. Slept on Gem💎
CL 🫡.. hope him and Pete Rock can work it out at some point. That whole Mount Vernon team was part of the soundtrack of my youth. Peace to the Godz 💫💫💫
Hev was dat dude.. big ,agile & smooth charismatic 🙏🏽👑🕊🕊
With this interview. The world really got to see CL Smooth. I was in the 10th grade when Mecca and the Soul Brother came out. I never had heard a rapper speak with so clearly and pure. Whole album with no cuss words. Our names(Corey) and dates of birth are even close. This dude really changed my life!!! To hear him speak about life and manhood is a blessing.The two album Pete and him made were basically the foundation of his mindset today. Just go listen to them!!! This was beautiful and greatly appreciated. 🙏🏿✊🏿
Coming up in the same time era…. There’s just something special about being the last analog generation, and seeing the transition
56:22 ... Drink Champs break the internet with a Pete Rock/ CL sit down
Thank you lol
His flow is awesome....he rides the rythmns like no other...
This was a great interview. Nore actually let CL speak lol.
What he saying about pop smoke is right we got to stop harming each other
CL is an underrated legend.
Hopefully Nore doesn’t do his usual cutting off guests that are talking 🤷🏽♂️😃😊
... That's not going to happen Sir
Good luck with that lol
Bruuuuhhhhh... He has that bad.💯
Hey y'all it's good to wish.....LOL
Ahmen Ra
Im on vacation every day im alive. CL is the God MC
The best drink champ interview in 2024
I agree!!
No question. Been waiting for this.
Appreciate C.L Smooth coming to drink champs. As a child I remember hearing him on the radio in the Barbershop... I miss the nostalgia 😢
Cl and Pete need to link back up for the culture tomorrow is never promised man
CL before ur time young blood!
@@onodagreat he in my top 20
@@onodagreatthat's even better and more rare! I hope he continues to find and know lesser known "diamond in the rough" MCs!!!!
Cl has so many classic tunes Take you there is one of my all time favorites
C L Smooth is in my top 10 of all time love his lyricism
Pete and CL is like PB&J together perfection.
Damn....I wish I could wake up and it's 1992 again....11 years old....Walkman on....bumping "I reminisce."
Fans wish them to come together ✨️ Best Hip-hop duo 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I take it u never heard Mobb Deep
Relax man. MOP still dropping!
yooooo imagine if they never split = Mobb + MOP + EPMD + Public Enemy + Run DMC catalog flawless level
It's about time for a new pete rock and c.l. smooth album like right now! been past due!!!
I think the Reuben that CL was referring to was Reuben Rodriguez who started Pendulum Records (Signed Digable Planets to that label) and was at Elektra.
Down with the king saved Run Dmc
Dmc says that too.
The best interview ive seen on drink champs hands down
C.L Smooth is one of the many goats in hip-hop. He has always been considered an inspirational legend in my book 💯
What’s dope is he still behind the scenes in hiphop! CL didn’t age a bit.
He hasn't had an album in years