THE KING OF FLOWS!! Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Road To The Riches (REACTION)
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Rakim, Kane, and g rap were always considered the cream of the crop lyrically
and KRSONE
KRS1 and Slick Rick
@@adogbewise6561 Krs1 along with Kool Moe dee we’re definitely part of the lyrical group but slick Rick was not considered a lyrical giant. He was well respected as an elite storyteller though, many consider him the best at that.
I agree and throw KRS 1 in there too
Agreed. Full 🛑
Nas, Biggie, Pun, AZ, Pac, Wu, Beans, Jigga, X, Em, Treach. Everybody that ever did a multi-syllable first person street narrative verse took a page out of the book G Rap wrote. One of the original "favorite rapper's favorite rapper" title holders.....
When you say x do you mean X-Clan?
@@jowhit226 dmx
@@jowhit226 DMX
This is FAX
When Pun first met G Rap he literally got on his knees and kissed his hand. Kane and. G Rap where his favorites.
You need to see “The Symphony” if you haven’t already. Him, Big Daddy Kane and others. Classic fo sho!
This x 1000 … Kool G Rap, Craig G, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace - stone cold classic posse cut without question.
@@micheluzzo5019 you’re right. I was just too lazy to write all the names. Lol
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FACTS!👑
Only if it's the original 6-minute audio version from Marley Marl's 'In Control Volume 1' album. The music video/remix version got too many edited lines, in my opinion.
When i hear this i get a little teary eyed- this is part of that golden era i miss so much🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This era is endless bro. No reason to cry my man.
@@maren5174 yeah being a cat 3 years older than hip- hop, seeing it go through so many phases i tend to get emotional about the songs that to me are timeless. 🤷🏾♂️
THIS WAS HIS FIRST SINGLE WE USE TO CALL HIS FLOW "THE SEMI AUTO FLOW" SHIT WAS LIKE A GUN SPITTIN.... IN NYC WE HAD THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO SHOW CALLED "VIDEO MUSIC BOX" HOSTED BY VJ RALPH MCDANIELS, THAT SHOW PAVED THE WAY FOR ALL THE OTHER RAP VIDEO SHOWS THAT CAME AFTER
I remember that show well. A lot of well known came through that show.
Definitely his first video but, I remember hearing IT’S A DEMO and RIKERS ISLAND on Mr. Magic’s radio show on WBLS before the video dropped.
His first video on the Box maybe
Wasn't his first single "Cause I'm Fly"
With all respect...
That was probably earlier but I remember hearing "Its a Demo" all over the radio early. Not sure
It was his 4th single. G Rap been down since 1986. Might have been his 1st video, though.
I LOVED that show as a kid in Brooklyn back in the day.
No other emcee wanted it with G Rap!!! You can listen to Black Thought’s incredible freestyle with Funk Flex and you can hear G Rap’s influence heavily. G Rap birthed some of Hip Hop’s absolute greats like Nas, Pun, Em, and so many others! Juice Crew was and is still my favorite crew ever in Hip Hop
what about when black thought rapped like Kool
g rap in a song
Tarik even named Kool G in the funk flex freestyle
In NY we watched this on Video music box with Ralph McDaniels. You can check the documentary on Showtime. Produced by Nas!
Do MEN AT WORK by him. Video music box was a show that came on a public access station on tv in NYC. You had to know the time it was coming on because sometimes there would be nothing on the channel. This reminds me of how there was a lane for back up dancers. Dudes really wanted to dance in the videos.
G Rap was 18 when this released crazy how the 80's to late 90's rappers at 18 looked like grown men meanwhile 2000's+ not the case... Btw you got a really good ear you should get into some type of music production,mixing,mastering,etc. Anything, the world is yours go get it
“A Thugs Luv Story”… it’s mind blowing that people don’t mention this song.🤯 1 of his best stories with a different beat for each verse..
Classic selection. Quick notes…to clarify what a lot of the comments are saying…if you lived in the NY/NJ/CT area, you watched VIDEO MUSIC BOX (or before that a show called HOT TRACKS and a short lived channel called U68). Later YO! MTV RAPS, RAP CITY (on BET) and a channel called THE BOX ran nationally and many cities had similar local programs like VMB. Some of the other nationally televised video shows steered clear of Hip-Hop videos early on…it wasn’t until MTV finally started showing Hip-Hop (or Black music in general) that the other mainstream national outlets followed suit.
Hot Tracks with Jesus Colon yes sir👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
G Rap said
“The cash was coming fast
Money grew like grass
Ppl hungry for the blast
That dont even last…” 🙏🏾 🤯
Mind blowing!!!
He said “… getting richer n richer, then police took my picture, but i still supplied
Some ppl i knew died
Murders n homicides FOR BOTTLES OF SUICIDE” ☠️
… yo 🤦🏾♂️ the lyricism is just epic and undefeated
Salute to u young King for getting this education
Peep how in the beginning G Rap told the kid(that would have to be my same age)
“You dont want to be a gangster”
This was the accepted message that rappers from that era would give us even if the song content was kinda rough rappers back then tried to incorporate some consciousness into the music 💡
Correct brother
There's a message in this
That's what I love about g rap, every syllable is tight
@@jowhit226
That’s right
Pen ✍🏿 is still sharp 🔪
In the early 90's as kids we watched YO! MTV Raps on cable television on the west coast. Hosted by Fab 5 Freddy on Saturday. During the summer you could catch it on the weekdays. Some cities had radio stations with hip hop shows. So those were our two best options. TV and radio. If I liked someone's music enough I would walk to the record store and by the tape or order it by mail. I would also record videos using good ol' VHS!! Haha! Yes my age is showing and I truly don't give a fuck. I remember having two or three 6 hour long vhs tapes of nothing but rap videos.
I believe my very first rap cassette tape might have been Kool Moe Dee's "How Ya Like Me Now" and a couple of Whodini cassette tapes. Remember Whodini's "One Love?" This was the type of rap you could play at a barbecue because it was clean and family friendly for the most part. As I grew up to be a pre-teen I started getting into riskier stuff like Public Enemy, NWA, Too Short, Geto Boys and Ice T. This was the good stuff that I had to hide from my parents lol. My dad loved Public Enemy though. Most black people did.
Ahhh the good ol' days of real hip hop with music like Gangstarr, De La Soul, MC Lyte, and Eric B. and Rakim bumpin in the background.
One of the greatest that beat he actually got from Billy Joel stilletos but he crushed it 👍
He’s a legend. Nas had a lyric on Wave Gods off his new album Magic mentioned looking up to “Kool G”. Big Pun idolized him too. “fast life” us a G rap song featuring Nas its a classic. On the run, Ill street blues , streets of ny and it’s a shame are some other classic tracks he has
Ill street blues
Kool G Rap “ILL Street Blues”.,., recap that track
Great reaction! In Manchester, UK, we had a radio show called Bus’ Diss, with Stu Allan, playing all the US imports - late 1980s, UK kids listening to Kool G Rap, BDP, Schoolly D, LL, PE, King Tee, Chubb Rock, Cool C, Shante, Ice T, Sparky D, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Stetsasonic, The 7A3, MC Shan, Twin Hype, Jungle Brothers, Kings of Pressure, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Craig G, Mantronix, Skinny Boys, EPMD, King Sun, T La Rock, Steady B, Spoonie Gee, Cash Money, JVC Force, Super Lover Cee, Tuff Crew, Eric B & Rakim, Latifah, Rob Base, Davy D, Heavy D, Def Jef, Dana Dane, Rodney O & Joe Cooley and more. Respect to the music you gave!
Now your listening to the birth of modern rap.... A Masterpiece
Back in this time even if you used the same words someone else used we called it biting
All about originality
And this song is pure innovation
Kool G Rap definitely the blueprint for NY 'street rap'.
Kool g rap represent. The legendary queens new york like i am.kool g rap the icon the legend.word up son
KRS said it best, " you can be a mac, a pimp , hustler or player, but make sure live you is a dope rhyme sayer. Kool G gave you three hard verses with no curses, amazing. In New York there was a show called video music box. On the old school tv's they had two knobs. One gave you standard 2- through like 13 and the other one gave you these crazy u channels. video music box was on the u channels because hip hop wasn't popular to the masses yet. As soon as you came home from school your tv was on that channel, then came rap city, the originals with Prince Dejour, Joe Clair, and Big Lez, too dope. side note, can we give some props to the background dancers in the video. Real Hip Hop!!!💯💯💯
Also Nas did a documentary about video music box with Ralph Mcdanials, the original host you should check out
Oh yeah, and that crazy channel happened to be channel 31, I remember this like it was yesterday.
Don't forget about the rap city host Chris. Damn I can't remember my boy last name but he was a funny ass skinny nigga
@@blackdog4553 I believe that his last name was Thomas. Two of the hosts of Rap City were Chris Thomas and Joe Claire (I hope I'm spelling his name right).
@@jaspervetti5012 u absolutely right. Look at u showin our age 🤣🤣
@@blackdog4553 yep, old school and proud of it!!!
Part of the greatest years of hip hop 1988-1989. Look it up.
Here in NYC, we credit Uncle Ralph Mcdaniels and his public access show VIDEO MUSIC BOX!!!! He been doin it since MTV was really playin only music videos. He played street music and cultured videos relevant to NYC. He covered parties and hosted his own show. UNCLE RALPH GIFTED US MUSIC WE WOULDNT HAVE HAD ACCESS TO WITHOUT HIM
one of the best used to listen to him back in the day I'm now 56 and seen Ems hall of fame speech showing props to all the OG rappers and I was was like oh shit Cool G rap been listening to this shit in the ride every day since
You have one of my favorite channels in all of TH-cam. Great seeing a new generation give honest takes about old school jams.
We(in NY) watched videos on a show called,
"Video Music Box",
Ralph McDaniels show
Also,
BET's "Rap City"
&
"Yo MTV Raps"
Yo! MTV Raps only came on every so often, so we’d catch these on Rap City (BET) and there was another channel called The Box (originally called the Video Jukebox Network) that had a waaay more raw catalog than MTV - the catch was you had to dial a 900 number and pay a few dollars to watch a video; but they had more and better selection than MTV, and across all genres too; but especially hip hop, punk and metal. MTV ended up buying the Box basically to put it out of business.
This is one of my fav tracks of all time, the way he skips over the beat.. it's incredible, I love Rakim but Kool G Rap takes it's somewhere else here... you can see how Biggie found his style from this.
Everyone has their preference of a top 5. He's often overlooked but he's in my top 5. He's my #3. His use of words does it for me
Facts he created gangsta rap ask snoop an dre they will tell u were they got it from Kool g rap
@@hookswu6251 Schoolly D from Philadelphia is credited with the creation of Gangsta Rap. Ice T also was doing Gangsta Rap before Kool G Rap or at least about the same time.
Video Music Box right after school hours. One Love Ralph McDaniels. Hip Hop pioneer.
Check out the Video Music Box Documentary on Prime
The original place to get ur shoutouts Video Music Box
This song is Poetry in Motion!!
KRS coined the term “edutainment” where even if they talked about the streets it was in the context of steering the youth clear of those kind of obstacles
Very influential on my young mind personally
Unfortunately
That was the bygone era where rappers would try and teach lessons in their music
In the 90s it was too much pop that 🐱
And shoot that 🧔🏾♂️
One thing about the south and that Atlanta sound i was happy to see was that ppl were dancing having fun again
I got tired of everybody walking around looking hard(pause) and trying to be thugs smh
Same here bro.
Edutainment on my top 5 all -time albums
Loved your reaction to this one. Kool G Rap is definitely one of the greats. Also like that slogan on your shirt - “HARDER THAN MY DEMONS”, that’s kinda inspiring, we all need to try and be harder than our demons.
Video Music Box! Uncle Ralph McDaniels and Crazy Sam!! 🎯💯💪
Off the hook track …classic legendary ish ✊🏽✌🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏽King dope reaction check out it’s a shame from 456 album K G Rap a legend hip hop icon 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song here was amazing. The beat, the multilayered rhyme scheme, the subject matter, all was fire. As for how we were able to see the latest rap videos, there were a couple of ways. One was Video Music Box, starring Ralph McDaniels and the Vid Kid, and that was on a UHF channel, channel 31 (which would come on between 3:30 - 4:30pm) in NYC. Another was a show called Rap City, a show on BET that used to start at 4:30pm, and I believe that it went to either 5:30 or 6pm. Then there was Yo MTV Raps, hosted by Doctor Dre and Ed Lover. MTV Raps also had a weekend show where Fab Five Freddy hosted it. On one of the shows, a funny thing occurred when NWA guest-appeared because both Dr Dre and Doctor Dre were saying "I'm Dr Dre from MTV Raps and you're Dr Dre from NWA). Those were some times.
I remember coming home from junior high school and seeing this music video on Yo!-MTV Raps. I was like damn this dude is taking hip-hop to another level
This was prob the 1st G Rap cut I ever heard, iconic 1 at that! 👌
Grap is n.y. hip hop forever.Thank you for playing this.💯
I’ve often thought that G Rap was on the same level as Big Daddy Kane & Rakim & he doesn’t get the credit he rightfully deserves cuz every MC in NYC that came out after him was influenced by him whether they know it or not....nothing but love & respect from the DMV/Baltimore area 🖤
Basically, we saw all these videos through shows on TV. There were shows that would come on our local channels, there was also Rap City on BET, YO MTV Raps on MTV, "Pump It Up" on FOX, etc... there was also a cable channel called 'The Box' or the Jukebox Network where you could call and punch in a 3-digit code for the video you wanted to see for like $2.50 a video.
Great reaction! Can u react to "MEN AT WORK'? Probably the best lyrical verses ever!
Kool G Rap is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I'm glad alot of the youngyins are starting to recognizing his greatness and what bars are supposed to be
Check "Men at work" , "Streets of New York", "Ill street blues"... G Rap is the blueprint for so much
Well back in the days we were watching "Video Music Box" with Ralph McDaniels in the early 80's. What funny is Biggie was in Video Music Box giving a shout out " What's up Video Music Box Ralph McDaniels. Fat Joe was freestyles all the times.
"Ill Street Blues" and "Street of NY" are a must to react to!
Oh yeah
One of my 1st cassette single purchases was “ill street blues”. G Rap a certified General. Notice, how most of the hardest dudes from this era actively told our youth to NOT to get involved in the fast life?
It was channel 31 in Brooklyn, Video Music Box was the show. I used to record it on video tape, from like 1987.
We used to watch the Music Videos on regular cable on BET & MTV both channels used to have several great Music Video Shows 2 great classics were YO MTV Raps & Rap City The Basement
Rakim the greatest of all time and G Rap we’re always down with each other. Look at the back of Eric B and Rakim’s first album called paid in full and you will see Kool G Rap and DJ Polo in the crew picture, most people didn’t even notice that back in the day. We use to watch videos on rap city and yo mtv raps and in nyc they had the pay channel called Ralph McDaniel’s video music box. Other areas of the country like the Midwest also later had pay channels where you could dial a number and watch videos on tv and it was charged to your monthly landline phone bill but as far as free channels it was rap city, video soul, yo mtv raps and Friday night videos.
Rakim always took G Rap on tour with him even before he had his record deal to keep him out of the streets
Video Jukebox/The Box was the pay channel, Video Music Box wasn't pay.
@@aligaines8476 you’re absolutely right, I got them mixed up. Thanks for the correction because I definitely do not want to give out or spread the wrong information. Thanks for that, real talk. Utmost respect to you.
Kool G Rap Feat. Joell Ortiz - It's Nothing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
VIDEO MUSIC BOX . That’s where NYC /NJ area would watch HipHop videos
Yeah he killed that! 🎤🔥🔥 Also we had "Yo MTV Raps" that played music videos from artists non stop. It's where everyone learned the new dance!👍🏿
I was 15 in 88. I saw videos on YoMtv Raps and BET at Grandmas lol. Video Music Box in 90 when I got to college. Appreciate your videos.
This was one of Black Thought’s favorite raps of all time. He played it everyday he was walking home from work. There’s an interview on this one.
G Rap is the godfather of East Coast street rap . They all give him his respect . You have never heard him get disrespected . Do Erase the Racism n Heavy D -Don't Curse . Kool G came off on both .
This song is one of my favs all time. He’s top 5. RAW remix with Big Daddy Kane 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I live in Japan now and in the downtown area of my city, they play hip hop over the speakers on the main street. I pretty sure they have no idea what is being said because it's not the radio friendly versions hahaha. I'm certain they like the beats. Probably because it reminds them of taiko. I heard this being blasted and I'm like, who at the plaza knows about G Rap? Crazy that in this little city, the locals are sitting in the ramen shops and stores nodding to Road To The Riches. Like everyone else said, cable TV man. BET, MTV, the Box or someone you knew had a VHS tape with videos they copped from elsewhere. Thinking about it, unless you had a local radio station that played some rap, you were hard pressed to get news about new stuff being dropped. Unless you came across it in a magazine.
i was a kid watching this....yo MTV raps & video music box in NY was the only way to watch rap back then. Not sure how it went down in other places.
Kool g rap is legend.road to the riches is a legendary song and video. Scarface 1983 masterpiece.word up son
Video music box is what we was watching back then.and yo mtv raps and rap city.etc a lot of classic rap song i copy back then .i had my 📼 vhs and vcr.and eat .drink .relax and watch and listen to those rap videos masterpieces.word up son
In my we had video music box . This before cable tv.
Big Pun kneeled down on one knee and kissed G Raps pinky ring. Gangsta
True indeed
2 hidden gem G Rap songs: "I Feel Bad For You Son" and "What's More Realer Than That" you might like
You'll enjoy Canibus and Kool G Rap "Allied Meta-Forces"
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REST IN POWER DJ POLO
In New Jersey, New York area we had a public channel that had a show called VIDEO MUSIC BOX. they even had R&B on Wednesdays, they would play lots of stuff you wouldn’t see on MTV or mainstream video shows. You can find it on TH-cam I’m sure.
G Rap is still cold blooded to this day bro.
Had to go to the record store and listen or record the song on a tape until the weekend
You wanna know how dope Kool G Rap is? Go listen to a thugs love story chapter 1-3. The way this man tell stories with his lyrics is insane. G Rap always been a top 3 lyricist for me.
I use to watch it on MTV... the show was called Yo!MTV Raps
Fab 5 Freddy!! Dr. Dre and Ed Lover
easily one of my favorite rap songs of all time
At the end you asked how we saw rap videos back in the day. I was a teenager in the 80’s. We had the “YO, MTV RAPS” show on Saturdays. Where they would play all the latest videos by all the new rap artists as they were just starting to appear. Most of the great rappers of the mid-late 80’s, me & my friends discovered for the first time on that show. Then we’d run out to the record store at the mall to hopefully find the tapes by the new rappers we liked best that we just found out about on YO MTV RAPS.
That was back when MTV was still cool & mainly played music videos 24/7.
I remember bumping this in My Sony Cassette player whe. I was like 12.
I'm a old schooler 40s and I like your videos better than others bc you give em a Real chance I stead of all that bs others do when doing older vids
Back then we had Yo MTV Raps and Rap City on BET. I would pop in my VHS tape and record all my favorite videos…good times!
That beat was so dope! Koolgrap was that dude! You took me back with this one young homey
Was? He still relevant today, peep him and 38 Spesh #Trust
Still is.
@@BThaSmoovUno I didn’t say wasn’t relevant. Trust and believe homey I’m stuck in the 90. I’m a 2022 Jerome. Lol
@@REAL6 I listen to some new stuff here and there, and I agree the beat is still dope. I was only speaking past tense because it made sense to in this context. Trust and believe all I listen to is my era of music. 80s, 90s, and early 2000s rap. I would never disrespect my own era.
@@steelersluv Word up!
Back in them days in NY we used to watch Video Music Box, The DJ Chuck Chill Out Show, and Yo MTV Raps. There would be other underground stations that would pop up for a little bit and play vids too, but didn't last long. The ones I named were the ones that really hit for a while...but back then, we was on the mixtapes and the radio shows heavy. If there was a video that came out for a hot song, it was a bonus.
G Rap was the first gangsta rapper to come out of NY with all that street hustler/ gangster talk. Other rappers touched on it a lil bit. but didn't hit like G Rap with it. That's why he's a godfather to the game and such a big influence. He's like the Don Corleone of NY gangsta rap and he's still better than a lot of these rappers today!!! I mean he still got it to this day. Much respect to you for your channel. Keep putting out these fire vids, my boy.
To answer your question at the end here most of us from that era probably (spring '89) caught this on either 'Ralph McDaniel's Video Music Box' or 'Yo MTV Raps.' If you were lucky enough to have BET back then it also most likely would come on a show called 'Video Vibrations.' BET's 'Rap City' probably played it too but that show didn't debut until Fall of that same year of '89.
to answer your question about where we watched old videos: up here in the great white north (canada) it was Much Music or in the USA it was MTV - and you had to wait and wait and wait.. but once in a while, in between Michael Jackson & Madonna videos we'd see something like Kool G Rap! ......... speaking of canada where's our love? haha - check out one of the biggest hits from 1989; Maestro Fresh Wes - "Let Your Backbone Slide" keep up the good work bud
In NY there was a local show called "Video music box".
This song used to get me so hype..his dancers were so ill too
One of his dopest songs, next to Poison, it's a Demo, talk like sex, streets of NY, on the run, etc... in NY we had Video Music Box, in the late 80' s Yo MTV raps came on, and many other local video shows on public access channels.
I forgot Rap City on BET
"For tha brothaz" and "Blowin' up in the world" are two songs you have to check out by G Rap. Truly your favorite rappers favorite rapper.
We watched these videos on Video Music Box in the NYC area. If you were fortunate to have cable in those days you’d watch these videos on “The Box” a 24/7 video request channel, or on BET and MYV.
I wound up popping this cassette because i played and rewound this so much
I'm going to keep saying this... love the Sox hat, and since you're reppin the Chi, you gotta react to DO or DIE po pimp... dirty version, but it's not that dirty just need the few words to appreciate it lol keep doin you kid!!
Twista verse on that is godly
@@Synchronite probably the greatest hook ever recorded too... RIP JOHNNY P
@@bigernmacrackin6176
Definitely one of those hooks from that era that everybody know n love
#RapCity 💯
Kool G.....4,5,6 in the mix
Kool G Rap - Cannon Fire 🔥🔥🔥
Another track where the flow is crazy... Your reaction would be great
I remember waiting for that wax to drop! CRAZY🤯
The Box, Yo, MTV Raps...We used to stay up late to watch for Hip-Hop videos & ciphers. Wasn't nothin like the 90s bro! Wish you was there!!
I love the way you recognize greatness I love it yeah I love your channel keep doing what you doing piece one outLove peace and happy Greece
Yeah, g rap was something different when I was coming up. Truly was amazing.
In NY we watched on video music box . This was a specific channel on the tv. Then they came out with BET channel 1988
G Rap came b4 many rappers tht ppl consider goats....as stated..one of "your favorite rappers' favorite rapper"...ur journey has been must watch...1
You gotta do Kool g rap and polo featuring Big daddy Kane and Biz Markie-Erase Racism,it sends a great message that people need to hear
Peace brother! You asked how we used to watch videos back then. I remember watching MTV in 1984…I don’t remember watching BET before ‘87. MTV was straight ignoring hip hop for the most part during those days. BET would play popular hits but rap reached its golden era in the early nineties. You saw the formation Of TV shows geared towards “rap” on both networks. There was no On Demand besides “The Box” music network that you could call and pay 💰 to watch hip hop videos 😂. A VCR was your best friend back then.
video musicbox with ralph macdaniels was mandatory daily viewing in 1989
Back then we had video shows like Video Music Box every day after school (shout out Uncle Ralph), Pump It Up on the weekends and YO' MTV Raps if you had cable.