If not, THEE. (It depends on the mood i'm in. But i'ts either 1 or 2 for me aside from illmatic, both beating out The Infamous, which is a no-argument #3)
The location is Sobel Ct. at Targee St. The trees in the background are now townhouses and the abandoned building across the street is now a Home Depot. The graffiti was painted over and made into a Wu-Tang mural.
grew up runnin a muck on targee street , 😢 i miss shaolin bad bro i dont think ill ever get over the homesickness. Couldn't wait to leave growing up , now i cnt wait to come back.
@@Honky.DigiTaL because every coast was making noise. In the 80s it was mostly ny and in the 2000s the south started taking over. But the 90s had east, west, south and Midwest making big waves.
This couldn't have come more at the right time! I've watched the full edited interview for years since I was young, hoping one day to visit the exact area of where this was shot. I'm finally travelling to NY in December to visit all the 5 boroughs, including here, and these videos are getting me HYPED. Thank you for uploading! 🔥
@@GDC-v8pYou mean gentrifying it and forcing people to move from their generational homes? Yeah, I like seeing corrupt politicians systematically destroying historic communities, so all of their wealthy friends can buy everything, gentrify it, and then force brown people from an area they’ve been in for generations. Yeah, they cleaned it up real well.
You can tell Raekwon was in them streets. To me he was low key the king of ny instead of biggie. Raekwon was cool with mobb deep, fat joe, nas, busta, etc. Biggie wasn’t linked up with NY artists like Rae.
Biggie was dope, BUT....he was arrogant too. He was talking reckless about E-40 and Spice 1....like they ain't some of the greatest MCs in their own right...
this is GOLD. This is like the black ethiopian egyptians having a unfounded video of they area of the times that don’t exist anymore. Nothing in that background is the same. ALL murals painted over.
Damn thats fucked up. thats historic monuments. They fucked up painting that over cause people woulda came from all over the world until tha end of time just to take a picture behind that mural.
@ yep. I’m from buffalo ny. I never been to that part of the real NY. A comment on here said it’s home depot stores there now in the background somewhere.
i was 15. 1992-1998 is the greatest era or rap and r&b to me. but of course thats because that was at the age most ppl love music the most. their highschool years
@ Sun I was 17 in 1995 and I’d give a baby toe to go back. No matter how rough and turbulent the times might have been. This shit right here is ultra madness and demonic. Worse times ever now.
I had grown up in a working class town, and some of the tough kids I wouldn't mess with, the ones who ended up in jail pretty much immediately after high school, they listened to Wu-Tang. But, there I was, living it. Immediately after college, through a combination of bad luck, poor decision making, and youthful defiance, I found myself wandering around Canal St, well after dark, with my downstairs neighbor's brother, while he drank a 40 and chatted up the berries. Homie told me we were just walking down the block to get a slice at Bari's on Bay St. To say I was scared would be an understatement. My only comfort was the knowledge that my wallet was thinner than my rice-and-beans body, and if I got robbed, they'd only be getting me for a five and whatever change was in my pockets. But no one bothered me - not that night anyway. That summer in Shaolin, at this point, I can recall only fragments: the junkyard pit bull who never warmed up to me even though I walked past it every day on the way to the bus; beating the heat drinking Miller tallboys on the roof lookin' up at the projec's; the refrigerator that never worked; the weird TV interference that turned all of the cartoon characters brown; talking fast on the street whenever folks would ask me what I was doin' there; reliving that high school necessity of having to look every dude in the eye out of both respect and fear; and, of course, the tomato incident. I lived it. And then, suddenly, expectedly, I could leave. And I did. And I never went back. The little nonsense up above really poorly captures all I experienced that summer. Even in all that poverty, even with all that fear, a fear shared by everyone in that community; people never gave up on living. They hung out, they chatted with strangers, store clerks, facility attendants, and each other; on the street or the bus. There was a social fabric, albeit a social fabric frayed from generations of deindustrialization, drug-war oppression, and overpolicing. But so many people knew each other. And in that way it was unlike any of the "nicer" neighborhoods I've lived in where people have things but not necessarily unconditional relationships. But make no mistake, everyone that can leave does. #FromTheSlumsOfShoalin #ForASummer
@@jonathanjelks5743 Thanks for the compliment. Dunno. Maybe one day I'll have a collection of grad school graffiti grand enough to publish 😉. Take care!
I was 18 in 1995 a Senior in High school out here in the West Coast. I liked the East coast rappers back then for sure like Wu Tang mobb deep Biggie and so many more. Craxy to think the baby in the carriage would be like 28 29 going on 30 today.
I miss how the hood use to be before gentrification split everybody up. Then once Facebook came out with all these cameras ppl stop hangin outside lyk dat
1995 was a classic year wish I could go back
BRO For Real
Good times
That lyric on the wall says it all
Can it be that it was all so simple then
Tell me about it
1995/ 1998🔥💯‼️👍🏾 I think this was 1994 though
1995 looked so 80's. 1998 looked like the 2000's. I swear there was some time portal between those two years.
Show'll was
Times he said YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING: 584 times 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Takin a nomsensus 😂
😂 That's HipHop. That's part of our Vernacular. Peace.
Lol no way….
Yep
Rae's purple tape still one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.
If not, THEE. (It depends on the mood i'm in. But i'ts either 1 or 2 for me aside from illmatic, both beating out The Infamous, which is a no-argument #3)
@@EsauistheCaucasianI can respect that. Cant go wrong with that list
@@edhooper1421 Respect to you too. It's all subjective, but that's just my honest opinion. And I'm NOT ARGUING with anybody about it.
Illmatic is easily top 3 for me. Also ATCQ- Midnight Marauders. Man, 90s era was amazing. The list could go on and on.
Facts. Incarcerated Scarfaces is legendary.
I’m the baby in the carriage!! Love this video forever 🥹
Lying ass 😂
I was one of the chicken skewers! Good times!
@@kaiza9184 what would he gain from lying about that?
thats gold, i was lookin at the video thinkin i wonder if any of those people in it are in the comments here :)
@@stormlah same!
NYC in the 90s mustve been a VIBE, I FEEL it Thru this...
💯
Yeah 90s was lit especially 94 shit switch 4real
yes it was!!
After early 2000s, NYC completely lost they culture/ originality, became a suspect PHONY TUFF SUCKA town,
A whole vibe 🙌🏼
Rae flexing w the baby gotta be the most funniest & wholesome shit you can tell he really has love for his block!!
I was ready for him to pour a little out to baptize the baby for the gods…😭
The location is Sobel Ct. at Targee St. The trees in the background are now townhouses and the abandoned building across the street is now a Home Depot. The graffiti was painted over and made into a Wu-Tang mural.
Will be visiting this place for the first time this Christmas....been a wu tang fan since kid and wanted to visit hear since young
grew up runnin a muck on targee street , 😢 i miss shaolin bad bro i dont think ill ever get over the homesickness. Couldn't wait to leave growing up , now i cnt wait to come back.
I figured it would be totally different these days, i bet its a quiet neighborhood now
@@CrashOutTiming718 did u hang with the Wu Tang growing up?!
Not too for away from there is Stapleton Projects where Ghostface Killah and his cousin Shyheim The Rugged Child is from
90's had more of a community feel to it.
Definitely did
Absolutely it did
Everybody was outside there was really nothing to do in the house.
Word. 2000s did too before the recession
Yeah, no cellphones or computers...
I just jumped in to a time machine and entered "New York Staten Island 1995"....wow great footage! 😁
Yes, Raekwon, we know what you're saying. 😂
😂😂😂😂
f*ckn ayyy
no disrespect to 80s hip-hop, but mid 90s was the real golden era 💯
🤔
Agreed it was the golden age of rap.
@@Honky.DigiTaL because every coast was making noise. In the 80s it was mostly ny and in the 2000s the south started taking over. But the 90s had east, west, south and Midwest making big waves.
@@donovanbrown7993 Midwest was still here in the 2000s but just different. You had Kanye, Common, Lupe. I'm still mad Lupe didn't make more music.
Bro Lupe just put out a new project earlier this year @@williamshakespeare9815
This couldn't have come more at the right time! I've watched the full edited interview for years since I was young, hoping one day to visit the exact area of where this was shot. I'm finally travelling to NY in December to visit all the 5 boroughs, including here, and these videos are getting me HYPED. Thank you for uploading! 🔥
I did the same thing in 2022 I was drunk af traveling all over NYC 😆
THIS ONE OF MY FAVORITE VDEOS OF ALL TIME. CAPTURED A MOMENT IN TIME, THE REAL NYC
Get a chopped cheese my boy
🥳 Enjoy your trip in December, I'm sure you'll find your vibe out here😎
Thank you!!!
That Acura Legend in the background was one of the dopest whips you could have back then in the East coast
West coast too
Yeah, those 90's cars were great
@@RicArmstrong facts
West as well i had 2
Word!!!! And the Maxima! I grew up and first chance I got to buy a car, I got a new Maxima. It wasn’t like the old joints but I was proud!!! 😂
Love how putting the Glaciers of Ice beat in the background makes every other sentence sound like a classic skit from 36 Chambers or Cuban Linx
Back when nYc had it's own identity......damn shame what happened to that city....
Factual, you ain't never lie 💯💯💯
Yep,,now we dick riding the south...Terrible
The nerve of the powers that be trying to clean it up! 🤔
@@GDC-v8pYou mean gentrifying it and forcing people to move from their generational homes?
Yeah, I like seeing corrupt politicians systematically destroying historic communities, so all of their wealthy friends can buy everything, gentrify it, and then force brown people from an area they’ve been in for generations.
Yeah, they cleaned it up real well.
What’s the shame lol? I’m trying to understand.
You can tell Raekwon was in them streets. To me he was low key the king of ny instead of biggie. Raekwon was cool with mobb deep, fat joe, nas, busta, etc. Biggie wasn’t linked up with NY artists like Rae.
I cant argue with that. Rae has some of the best verses with Mobb Deep, Pun etc .
Biggie was dope, BUT....he was arrogant too. He was talking reckless about E-40 and Spice 1....like they ain't some of the greatest MCs in their own right...
Yes sir, any problems, Raekwon front line
@@aharris82remember that
@@aharris82 Spice 1 Neva Eva amongst the best mcs. Neva eva
Iconic footage . Thanks!
You know what I’m sayin
@ lol 😆
The best album in hip hop ever, purple tape can never be duplicated nor defeated
Yes Sir.
That NY lingo heavy… word I hear you Chef 🤣
Ya know what I'm sayin
it's too many know im sayings
Word
Damn 30 years ago…time goes huh
This is a great video ❤❤ Staten Island 1995.
✌🏾 Raekwon, good haircut, as always. Word Up Sun
That Baby is blessed to be on this legendary video.💎
this is GOLD. This is like the black ethiopian egyptians having a unfounded video of they area of the times that don’t exist anymore. Nothing in that background is the same. ALL murals painted over.
Damn thats fucked up. thats historic monuments. They fucked up painting that over cause people woulda came from all over the world until tha end of time just to take a picture behind that mural.
@ yep. I’m from buffalo ny. I never been to that part of the real NY. A comment on here said it’s home depot stores there now in the background somewhere.
The mural is repainted with wutang clan faces painted on the wall and that corner is now known as the wutang district
@@yosimtybred1762 dun no 👐
@@yosimtybred1762 thats wassup.
One of the greatest voices in hip hop ever and an elite wordsmith , could listen to him talk for hours
Damn, I miss the 90s
I am so glad the whole interviews have came out. Wu Tang Forever!!
90s NY hip hop was so dope. Wu gave love to all regions. Love Rae and Wu, all the way from H Town.
i was 15. 1992-1998 is the greatest era or rap and r&b to me. but of course thats because that was at the age most ppl love music the most. their highschool years
Notice how young brothas in the 90s was articulate and meant things from the heart
You ain’t lying! ✊🏿
@ Sun I was 17 in 1995 and I’d give a baby toe to go back. No matter how rough and turbulent the times might have been. This shit right here is ultra madness and demonic. Worse times ever now.
Sayin’ “nahmsayin’” every 5 words isn’t articulate 😂😂😂 nah jokes aside I know what you mean
@ back in the days herbs like u couldn’t exist or have a voice. You’re a 👩🏾🦰itch
@@Zambineaux305
You joke, but it turns out you DID nahhimsayin
This video is priceless. Made me feel like I was right there chilling with them.
It's all good baby baby.... I understand what you are saying, you know what I'm saying 😂😂😂😂😂
If I had a dollar for every time Raekwon said you know what I'm saying, I'd be a Billionaire 😂
such a nice and honest vibe...love it
been a fan and felt the community even being few thousand miles away X
Never went to that street but it felt like I was in New York 1995 again watching this clip lol, very cool
"Have Wu Tang tagged up on your tombstone by Gano"
New York rappers are always more cultured than the rest. That’s why they make the best rap music.
Wu tang clan is Staten island nyc 🔥 🔥
No they not. This a front. Them dudes from Houston TX. The whole wu
peoples interaction with a camera back then was vastly different from today. I miss these times.
how it it even possible to say "you know what i'm sayin'" so many times😂
Jay rock from Trailer park boy
Copy this shit
You know what I'm saying?
Peace to my beautiful nation! The nation of gods and earths✌️💯
I had grown up in a working class town, and some of the tough kids I wouldn't mess with, the ones who ended up in jail pretty much immediately after high school, they listened to Wu-Tang. But, there I was, living it. Immediately after college, through a combination of bad luck, poor decision making, and youthful defiance, I found myself wandering around Canal St, well after dark, with my downstairs neighbor's brother, while he drank a 40 and chatted up the berries. Homie told me we were just walking down the block to get a slice at Bari's on Bay St. To say I was scared would be an understatement. My only comfort was the knowledge that my wallet was thinner than my rice-and-beans body, and if I got robbed, they'd only be getting me for a five and whatever change was in my pockets. But no one bothered me - not that night anyway. That summer in Shaolin, at this point, I can recall only fragments: the junkyard pit bull who never warmed up to me even though I walked past it every day on the way to the bus; beating the heat drinking Miller tallboys on the roof lookin' up at the projec's; the refrigerator that never worked; the weird TV interference that turned all of the cartoon characters brown; talking fast on the street whenever folks would ask me what I was doin' there; reliving that high school necessity of having to look every dude in the eye out of both respect and fear; and, of course, the tomato incident. I lived it. And then, suddenly, expectedly, I could leave. And I did. And I never went back.
The little nonsense up above really poorly captures all I experienced that summer. Even in all that poverty, even with all that fear, a fear shared by everyone in that community; people never gave up on living. They hung out, they chatted with strangers, store clerks, facility attendants, and each other; on the street or the bus. There was a social fabric, albeit a social fabric frayed from generations of deindustrialization, drug-war oppression, and overpolicing. But so many people knew each other. And in that way it was unlike any of the "nicer" neighborhoods I've lived in where people have things but not necessarily unconditional relationships. But make no mistake, everyone that can leave does. #FromTheSlumsOfShoalin #ForASummer
Deep salute🎉
Beautifully written 🎯 When is the book coming out?
@@jonathanjelks5743 Thanks for the compliment. Dunno. Maybe one day I'll have a collection of grad school graffiti grand enough to publish 😉. Take care!
My fam is the illest the most realest! Legendary footage from 95. Peace to my man Ninth and the whole 'Army!
I’m actually going to his dispensary today. WU - TANG!!!! 🙌
I went 2 weeks ago in Newark 💯💯💯
This is what you had before Hood Vlogs and all the other shows.
This is a time capsule, you know what I'm saying?
Ohh sh*t! Yo I remember the fish market in the plaza, which now is the Home Depot smh
Love this era of Hip Hop, Wu Tang Forever 👊🏾🙏🏾👏🏾
that's crazy I had the same exact shorts and I never seen anyone else with them anywhere 🔥
Glad I stumbled across this. What year is this video
95
My old hood killa hill 10304 this brings back memories plo weed spot 160 etc Shaolin represent
Them graffiti letters are clean
Gano did that, the original Wu-Tang Monument. Unfortunately its not there anymore. The new one is much worse.
@@spearPYN Gano is dope!
'Kwon has officially broken the "You know what I'm Saying" counter. It couldn't handle the onslaught.
Lol is that apple juice?
😂😂😂😂
You know this is back in the day. Peep the payphone behind him in the beginning.
Yup Acura legend and vigor , Mazda MPV, millenia
😂 it’s about a million things that make it obvious it’s back in the day
Baggy flannels and a san jose sharks jersey? Must be the 90s
These vids are dope
Not a single soul stuck in a cellphone screen, everyone is in the moment
Wasn't to many cellphones in the hood back then
@@FBA-ld6tjbro there was barely any cellphones anywhere
Yea they are flocking to the camera which was the next best thing at the time.
@@samueldavis5895 Was they flocking t the camera? They was chilling and the camera was going to them.
The Shaolin and the Wu Tang could be DANGEROUS
Do you think your wu tang sword can defeat ME?
He spoke to his aunt like he ain’t know her at first then says later in this is his aunt
What a time to be
Nice seeing so many familiar faces. Really captured the essence and specialness of Park Hill.
Staten Island needs to be renamed “Wu-Tang, NY”
Wu Island, word to mother !
Golden footage, truly iconic, respect to Wu Tang. Wu tang forever 💯💯💯💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Man the early 90s was a different time. Fashion, hairstyles, the cars. So many memories.
Yes the shit is raw coming out your door prepare for mic fights plus the cold wars
Awesome video. You know what im saying.
I miss the 90s man... ❤️
damn people used to be so happy back in the 90s for a second I swear, bring this happiness back ! NY looks beautiful yo !
Rae' one of the illest MCs in the WU - spittin' facts!
looks and talks the exact same still :) thats authentic
Legendary video. Btw, this video was for MTV?? Somebody remember and can answer my question? Wu Tang Clan is for the children 👐🏻❤.
Love seeing the classic vehicles from this time. M.v.p.
Acura and 300zx. The early mid 90s were the golden era of hiphop I think. Wu forever!
A payphone...
This was as a few thousand lifetimes ago... 😮
Facts.
Lol
Hardlines baby.
Man, this is so amazing. You can never get this back again. Black people looking good with so much soul, raw swag & energy. I love my black people's.
And y'all paved the way for everyone. WU TANG FOREVER.
Take a shot every time Raek says know what I’m saying.. and die in 9 mins and 49 seconds flat.. know what I’m sayin?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chef Reakwon 🐝🔥👐🏼🔥🐝 WU Tang Forever 💚💧⚔️💧Suuuuuuu 👑
Faith Evans trying to be slick at 7:34, always cheating on Biggie.
Its funny how iconic his voice is now, you here that shit you know whos talking 😂
My Hometown Is Brooklyn But I reside now in Staten island 20+ yrs. Shout Out To The Wu Clan ❤👊
good ole days luv it, Know what I'm saying 😁🤣
That San Jose sharks jersey is killer🤙🏽
🔥 Acura Legend and the MPV were them cars back then. Hood classics.
I was 18 in 1995 a Senior in High school out here in the West Coast. I liked the East coast rappers back then for sure like Wu Tang mobb deep Biggie and so many more. Craxy to think the baby in the carriage would be like 28 29 going on 30 today.
Butters: Yes, I do believe I know what you are saying! 😂
The mpv and Acura legend in the background
Classic shit!!!
Beautiful people. beautiful footage.
Salute
Music back then was superb. Life was very bad unfortunately
This neighborhood seems pretty peaceful.
I miss how the hood use to be before gentrification split everybody up. Then once Facebook came out with all these cameras ppl stop hangin outside lyk dat
I don’t know what he’s sayin’ 😆🤣😂
This is amazing footage Wu-Tang forever
Wow I remember those Tropicana apple juice bottles !!!!😮😮😢😢 the craziest part of this is the MPV in the background !!!😅😅😅
"...ya know'm sayin'. So, ya know'm sayin'..."
Gano grillz VGL ,just left the Shaolin 3yrs ago ,Orlando baby...🎉
The best hip hop group ever from the most unrecognized burrough.
The Older Gods put me on / on how to rock this /maintain 360 Lord / Live Prosperous
If this was today… the cat that did that graffiti name would have came out a new artist mouth 😂😂🤣🤣
U know im sayin,,,u know im sayin,,u know im sayin......know what i mean 😮
Wu Tang Clan at that time was on another level,still got classic debut cassette 36 Chambers.Their debut album