I remember watching this from my prison cell on BET. I thank God that I'm rehabilitated alive and free now. Didn't think I'd be alive 20 years later. Praise God... 🙏
Used to rush home from high school to listen to this when I was about 14. Now I play in this in my class while my students are working. Such a peaceful song.
Who's listening to this glorious piece of work 2022? Ive actually been trying to find this song for 20 years. Been humming it to myself since i was a child. My life is complete.
@@3037795 first heard this song blazing hella herb back in high school in the early 2000s however we usually marked everything that was dope so this has been on the channel for almost 20 years
I have a video right now and if you listen to music old and new you will NEVER believe what famous RNB group Hi-TEK sample them from and added the baseline and the percussion....Shout out to Hi-Tek for this masterpiece. If you want it let me know and I will email it to you or if you got Facebook in can send it to you....I promise you will never guess who they are and how he did it
I'm playing all the dope albums that came out 25 years ago aka 2000, and I wanted to hear the 3rd verse of this song, found only on the music video. This is my favorite music video of all time and this album is arguably the best that came out in 2000, next to Supreme Clientele.
This was the kind of music that make you think, while at the same time, make you have a good time, it was real, from the heart, filled with truth and soul, one part of the 90's and early 2000's I'll always remember back in my days of youth, when the real outweighed the bullshit
@@cl0udnn3tv32 You have a point. However, I think The Blast sounds so natural or organic, if you will… like the lyrics just wrote themselves on the paper. Get By was thought out and very well put together, produced, orchestrated and it turned into a classic, but it seems like that was the mission. Doesn’t sound as organic to me as The Blast
Ey, there's a reason, same way theres a reason we don't see ppl like this on our TVs anymore....if our culture, our true nature was predominant in our hip hop, we'd be a scary ppl for white power folk, same as this degeneration of rap has influenced so much pain and suffering our kids dish out to each other.....we all know the power of music....shit, will we ever wake the fuck up?
that's just this channel there's another upload from 2007 that has 5 million+ views. which sounds about right for this duo. im more impressed that decade+ old upload is still on youtube.
Living in Mt Vernon, NY (where this video was filmed) and being like 13 watching this video and hearing this song for the first time… 🔥 I’ll never forget it that feeling.
Saw this video on Rap City: The Bassment literally 20 years ago. I loved the beat, loved the verses, loved everything about it. This put me on to Talib Kweli and then Mos Def. I was fifteen years old in the tenth grade. I’ve been a fan ever since. Damn time flies
I miss that show as well as all the music shows WHY did they get rid of it?Just to show fake religious people cruddy Tyler Perry trash🗑SERIOUSLY👎What a fucking joke 😝
Man, I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song. I was also in the 10th grade...I was laying on my couch just woke up from a nap after school turned the TV on and this shit came on...I laid there for 3 mins probably without blinking. It's hard for a song to be so great you remember EXACTLY where you were at you were doing when you first heard it
@@seankiesling2054 That just shows how good music especially real Hip-hop should feel like.All this new generation just don't know what good music is no more that's very sad 😢
this is just one of those legendary songs my dad listened to that i never understood before. just liked the beat. almost 23 an it just hits different now..
I remember watching this from my prison cell on BET. I thank God that I'm rehabilitated alive and free now. Didn't think I'd be alive 20 years later. Praise God... 🙏
AMEN!!
Jesus is Lord
Stay blessed brother
Praise God!!!
Congrats bruh! May the blessings keep coming.
I still listening to this masterpiece in 2024
Sweet Memories , soon the new day as well
Same here homie!
Am here too
June 2024
🔥🔥🖤
Bro anyone still listening to this masterpiece in 2020
Classic!! I'll be back in 2030 as well
In deed still a great classical hit dammit boy
🙋🏽♀️
I can’t find this track ANYWHERE
@@ixideathxi1657 it has a link in the description for the album
I'm still listening in 2024. Such a classic banger
Indeed 🧚♀️
who here 2024
Here bro 🌟👌🏾
Song still slaps
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Me!!!
Only legends here
My friend who passed away loved this song as much as I still do. Memories.
RIP
Condolences
God bless x
My condolences to you and family.
this is one the best hip hop songs of all time. and you extremely beautiful by the way.condolences to your love one.
Used to rush home from high school to listen to this when I was about 14. Now I play in this in my class while my students are working. Such a peaceful song.
Man I was just thinking that frfr
It was the same thing it used to come on BET HipHop channel played all the hip hop classics
what channel :? bet ?
This will always be one my favorite songs always … my childhood
Reminiscing on the year 2000...I was 14...
Who's listening to this glorious piece of work 2022?
Ive actually been trying to find this song for 20 years. Been humming it to myself since i was a child.
My life is complete.
I had the same experience with this song 🤣😭
I'm glad you guys finally found this ABSOLUTE JAM
@@3037795 first heard this song blazing hella herb back in high school in the early 2000s however we usually marked everything that was dope so this has been on the channel for almost 20 years
Just watched it again today on 8/14/21 at 1:37 am east coast time. Makes me want to go out in the rain & dance 🕺🏾
✊🏿
How does someone even come up with a track like this, HIP HOP at its finest. Immaculate
Buy an MPC 5000 or any MPC AND LEARN SAMPLING
@jabuelitept
That doesn't mean, you'll EVER create something THIS timeless.
I have a video right now and if you listen to music old and new you will NEVER believe what famous RNB group Hi-TEK sample them from and added the baseline and the percussion....Shout out to Hi-Tek for this masterpiece. If you want it let me know and I will email it to you or if you got Facebook in can send it to you....I promise you will never guess who they are and how he did it
I was very lucky to have grown up during this era of hip hop.
AGREED💎
@@freebasereese6478 No doubt man. Truly is timeless music.
I was 13 when this dropped. Now I'm 36.
@@PokrPro21 That is amazing.
@@PokrPro21I was 10. I’m 33. Remember this like yesterday
One of the dopest hip hop classics
💯 accurate
I completely agree! 💯
💯% agreed
word is bond
Yup!👍🏽
THIS SONG SHOULD PLAY EVERY TIME IT RAINS
Factz
this the goat comment
@@nycapple Indeed
ONE OF THE BEST COMMENTS 💯
I play this song every time it rains
When it comes to production, Hi Tek is highly underrated!
Big Time he is a beast
CRIMINALLY 🔥🔥
& he from OHIO ‼️💯💯
513's Finest
#CINCINNATIMUSICHALLOFFAMER
@@KBdoubleE502 Louisville Kentucky salutes
2024, anybody Rockin dis Classic 💪🏾, well I Am, Real HIP HOP🔥🔥🔥💯
Still a lyrical banger in 2022 almost 2023 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 let’s go talib! 😤👌🏾
Facts, king!
I heard that my G
Word bro
Bro im not an English speaker but it still sounds like banger
P😅😊
How Hi-Tek made this from Boogie Nights is nothing short of a masterpiece and a miracle. That’s why Vinia says “keep on dancing.”
Woow, never knew that
Both HEATWAVE and Tek are Ohio
truly timeless beat. Hi-tek is a gifted one
Facts
Hi-Tek underated
Totally agree. Hi-Tek is a god.
Hi tek is the illest!
HI TEK , TRUE CINCINNATI NATIVE
Still hot A.F. real hip hop never gets old
2024 THIS KIND OF RAP WILL ALWAYS BE MY GO TO WHEN THE WORLD GET HEAVY.....EVERYDAY STRUGGLE ..LOVE TO ALL
Real music. Congratulations Hi-Tek being inducted into Cincinnati Black music walk of fame.🎉
I'm from the 513 , Represent
I'm from jersey but Cincinnati my second home. The T is where I used to stay
@@lloyd4180 that's what's up
My daughter just asked me to remind her of this banger - warms my heart to know that the next generation still appreciates good music! #hiphopisdead
Who here in 2025
Me this is my Favorite Song ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm playing all the dope albums that came out 25 years ago aka 2000, and I wanted to hear the 3rd verse of this song, found only on the music video. This is my favorite music video of all time and this album is arguably the best that came out in 2000, next to Supreme Clientele.
@@phetoloMak268 my favorite too
Nostalgia is insaneeeeee
Right chia
“A young chameleon adapt to any circumstance”. HiTek
I can relate!!
Word
Still goes super hard in 2023!!! Real rap at it's finest 💪🏾😤
My Era of hip hop is by far the greatest eras of all time. Period. 80's 90's early 2000's
Yep
@@shawndon3622th-cam.com/video/tiLoFbDDpzY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=y_ZCpSbG9SryysLI
You already know people who have a special relationship with music is blasting out to this for life
For real if you know you know 👌🏽
Classic man. almost brought a tear. Haven’t heard this song in decades.
IKR💯‼️‼️‼️LOVVVE THIS SONG Used to listen to this on a HottTRAX CD For a Former local Record store in my Neighborhood back in the Day.
“Even with the losses, I count the victory” 🦾
Point of correction, it is " don't listen b.Even when we suffer losses, l count the victory."
One the dopest song of all time. When my brother passed away i listened to this on repeat. He loved these brothas. Epic.👍🏽
It's hard to believe this track is over 20 years old, it's aged so gracefully & will always be a part of me🤗
This was the kind of music that make you think, while at the same time, make you have a good time, it was real, from the heart, filled with truth and soul, one part of the 90's and early 2000's I'll always remember back in my days of youth, when the real outweighed the bullshit
I agree with you 100%
💯💯💯💯💯FACTS ✊
Thats to pimp a butterfly in a nutshell
💯
🎯
I’m a 90s baby, reminds me of my daddy playing his hip hop beats growing up! Emotional, nostalgia ❤️
90S baby 🤞🏾
Man, it was a different type of feeling coming home from school, smoking a little herb, and looking at legendary videos like this on Rap City 😌
You literally just described my junior high days. That was the every day protocol.
Facts my brother, nothin but facts!!!!
Facts 😂
Lyricist lounge!!!🤘🏾
The third verse gives me chills every time.
Me too !!!!!
And my man BIz MARKIE
Who's here 2024
Sept 11, 2024
Wednesday ❤
Sept 19 2024
“Yea you pronounce my name KWELI” such a classic. Beat too hard
I’m 20 years old and I love this song. I remember my dad playing this in the car when I was little
That's a cool dad😎
I feel old now🤦🏿♂️
Your Dad was a G
Remember this on BET in 2000 at 10 years old. Was a classic and still is.
A time when hip hop was simply marvelous
I absolutely love this song and Hi Tek is an underrated af producer
Way underrated!
Going in to 2023 🕺with this still on classic forever
THIS SHIT AINT OVA!!
KEEP GOIN FOR THA GUSTO KEEP GETTIN THAT PROVO!!
Facts
🫡
Yessir 🔥🔥
🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
this was a moment in hip-hop, some songs are forever this is one of them ones... long live the razor blade
Facts 💯💯💯💯💯
This record was nothing but a hit....
This song & the video concept is genius! Standing in the rain is so metaphorical! I love this classic record from great minds on the mic!!!!
1 additional verse comparing 2 album version of the track. Makes sense with a video like this...
Simple yet complex , no cars , no hoes , just dope rhymes
_Mean GreenJersey Facts!!
Thats a fact
Maybe they got rained out and just made the most of it.
This is better than any rap from the past 20 years. Video, song, track all immaculate
Anyone here in 2022??? This is easily one of my favourites 💯
For sure.
Damn near makes me cry, this track
Kweli is so slept on. His flow and cadences are par excellence.
IF YOUR READING THIS, YOU KNOW GREAT MUSIC!
I’m still here 2024 I’m 37 I grew up listening to this real music
Yessir!!
One of the greatest beats and best samples in hip hop history... imagine hearing it for the first time as kweli 😬
All three minutes and forty five seconds of this was and still is pure hip hop perfection. By far the best record he ever did.
I think "get by" is his best work this second
@@cl0udnn3tv32 You have a point. However, I think The Blast sounds so natural or organic, if you will… like the lyrics just wrote themselves on the paper. Get By was thought out and very well put together, produced, orchestrated and it turned into a classic, but it seems like that was the mission. Doesn’t sound as organic to me as The Blast
this not having millions of views is craaaazy
Ey, there's a reason, same way theres a reason we don't see ppl like this on our TVs anymore....if our culture, our true nature was predominant in our hip hop, we'd be a scary ppl for white power folk, same as this degeneration of rap has influenced so much pain and suffering our kids dish out to each other.....we all know the power of music....shit, will we ever wake the fuck up?
Word! I was thinking the same thing...smh...
that's just this channel there's another upload from 2007 that has 5 million+ views. which sounds about right for this duo. im more impressed that decade+ old upload is still on youtube.
imagine if we were all smart...
"Even when we saw for losses I counted the victory."
This song is really legendary for real
Peace
BiG Facts Dunn
2023 STILL DOPE. BIG UP FROM THE UK.
Right on brotha. Much love from San Diego. 😎👍🏽
Omg 23 years ago… still love
Omg I have tears I cpuldnt remember the name of this song... So happy
*couldn't*
@@jayskicksnfits9372 ton bec
😘
THIS SONG RAISES MY VIBRATION EVERYTIME 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 HIP HOP FOREVER 🙏🏾💪🏾
2024 and still one of my all time favorite hip hop tracks...😮
i remember seeing this video and then immediately going to buy the CD. (which is amazing)
I have whole album in my car, heard it thousands times and still didn't get bored of it...
Arguably one of the best rap songs.
Mobb deep feel frfr if they woulda collabed on this it woulda been epic
This song is from 2000.....and it still makes my head bounce every single time i listen to it....not many songs nowadays that can do the same
This song gave me so much life when I was a teen. Its still very powerful...
I’m getting chills listening to this! This will always remain a classic!
2024 still here since 1999 ..
Living in Mt Vernon, NY (where this video was filmed) and being like 13 watching this video and hearing this song for the first time… 🔥 I’ll never forget it that feeling.
Saw this video on Rap City: The Bassment literally 20 years ago. I loved the beat, loved the verses, loved everything about it. This put me on to Talib Kweli and then Mos Def. I was fifteen years old in the tenth grade. I’ve been a fan ever since. Damn time flies
💯
I miss that show as well as all the music shows WHY did they get rid of it?Just to show fake religious people cruddy Tyler Perry trash🗑SERIOUSLY👎What a fucking joke 😝
Man, I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this song. I was also in the 10th grade...I was laying on my couch just woke up from a nap after school turned the TV on and this shit came on...I laid there for 3 mins probably without blinking. It's hard for a song to be so great you remember EXACTLY where you were at you were doing when you first heard it
@@seankiesling2054 That just shows how good music especially real Hip-hop should feel like.All this new generation just don't know what good music is no more that's very sad 😢
Me too I was in elementary school at my aunt's house when I saw this on rap city back in the day
One of the hottest beats eva still, even in 2022! Who still playing this banger???
💯💯💯💯💯
We here in 2023 😎
Bumpin this straight into 2024 and beyond 🔥🔥✊🏾
Hey, real rap enthusiasts are here in 2024. Throw up duces if you feel this real Hip Hop!!!✌🏾✌🏾✊🏾
Now I see what y'all old heads be talking about 😭😭😭
💯
The older u get, the better older rap sounds. :)
THIS REAL SOULFUL RAP THAT GIVES YOU THAT FEELN BRO❕️
Thank you😅
welcome to hip hop
Been looking for this song finally found it
Im still here for this on October 24. 2023 #keepondancing
was having a panic attack and this was the only song I could think to play to bring me back down to earth. That bassline just feels so good.
U know it was 2000s when every body dancing in the 🌧️
this is just one of those legendary songs my dad listened to that i never understood before. just liked the beat. almost 23 an it just hits different now..
Yeah same
A real classic from the 2000s! When mc's had the real sound of hip hop
Mos & Kweli were 2 of the most underrated rappers of my youth. Saw kweli on a side stage at a festival in 98 wit like 100 people. Best show ever..
This song got me through some rough times when I was younger. 🙏🏽
So underrated, train of thought front to back is amazing
2024 in Portugal listening to this classic!
The rain made it even better. Fya!!!
THIS SONG WILL STILL ROCK A PARTY
Still sounds so fresh, what the hell has happened to hip-hop! The sample, the combination of smooth styles, classic!🔥
Still listening in 2024 ! Hip hop never stop to that body rock!!
2024 im still here and i"ll be here next year
2021 and ima still be banging this joint!
One of the most satisfying beats that been made
Props to Hi Tek
A CLASSIC!!!! This was in heavy rotation!!! These youngsters don’t know about real music and real hip hop like this!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Man fr
Right girl
That's why it's up to us to show them!
2024 who is still rocking with em. I surely am. #2024standstrong
This is straight classic. That rain part hits different. I loved the video version because of that.
This was my “on my way to college algebra” music back in undergrad. What a time to be young!
This beat is mesmerizing. 2022 and still listening!
beats like this, reason why i started listen to hip hop in the first place. vibin
2024 forst heard this back on '05 when I was 12yrs old, Hitek carried me thru teenage years with his beats, mad underrated!! TekZilla!
Throwback Thursday
I Was 7 Years Old When That Song Came Out.
When the rain comes I put this on and miss the day
2021 and this never gets old!! This still bangs for me! We need to raise this year! Not for a month but for a lifetime!🙏🏾
20 years ago this video. Still sounds good
🎯
A timeless track, A timeless duo
I forgot about this joint. It's been years...still gives you that same feeling though. Classic.
I remember hearing this In Japan. Brings back so many memories!