Kangol From the Legendary UTFO Candidly Speaks on Why the Group is No Longer Together
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2016
- Coming up in the 80's, Kangol and UTFO paved the way for an insane amount of rap artists, he opens up about why the group is no longer together and celebrates his Haitian heritage.
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Kangol From the Legendary UTFO Candidly Speaks on Why the Group is No Longer Together | Sway's Universe
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Sad to hear that he just passed away a couple of days ago. As a Haitian, I know exactly what he went through, because I went through it in the early/mid ‘80s. We had to tighten up our Zo crew, and handle up. Gone, but this legend will never be forgotten. RIP Kangol Kid.🇭🇹
It would have been the same thing if a American kid went to Haiti. He would have had problems also. Just the way it is. Tribal Wars.
I GREW UP on utfo, dougie fresh, the fat boys, all of em...but utfo made me really fall in love with rap music... damn...nobody knew what this was....ive been into rap music ever since...
UTFO, Whistle, The Force MD's and New Edition are the main groups that brought the rapping/singing song format to the music industry....
Say that!!!
UTFO was probably one of the most INNOVATIVE rap groups EVER. They changed rap. I remember. Production, lyrics, subject matter. UNPARALLELED!
AGREED!!!!
Creative and brilliant
and they had the best scratching DJ in the world until Jazzy Jeff came along. Leader of the Pack was badass, and of course Roxanne Roxanne. Ice scratched that whole song as an overdub, after it was finished, which is why there's scratching in the verses and under lyrics (which wasn't really done), instead of just the breaks. He'd been unavailable, and just made it back in time to put the final touches on the song.
No question about it!!
How can you say that that's like a disrespect to people like Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five the Fantastic Five the
Cold Crush Brothers
come
on
Stop
It
Much respect, Kang! UTFO was one of the greatest, but most underrated groups ever. Legend status!
R.I.P. to my Brooklyn brotha' the legendary Kangol ! 🇭🇹 My condolences to the family and friends ! 🙏🏾🕊💜
Mix master Ice was as cold as his name on the 1&2 s.....
When you have a scratch style named after you, speaks volumes about your talent...
RIP to a great man, Kangol Kid. Your true fans love you and will miss you for a lifetime 😪always had a smile on his face
He really did have a beautiful smile that could light up a room may he rip .
UTFO was a dope group that doesn't get enough recognition. If VH1 does the Hiphop Honors again they need to show UTFO some love.
Exactly I always wondered why the hell vh1 didn't honor them they definitely deserve it smdh.
I know right they did it for Run DMC, Whodini so they deserve to be honored as well.
Being originally born in Newark, NJ and moved out to LA when I was 8 yrs old, back in 1979. I remember hearing The Suger Hill Gang, Funky Four Plus One More, Baambata, Grandmaster Flash right before we left the East Coast and trying to explain it to kids I met at my new Elementary School about what Hip Hop Music was back then, which hadnt reached the West Coast yet, Until That One Day I went to Venice Beach in 1983, with my new yet Tiny Ghetto Blaster, my Aunt who took us, her friend and my sister, it was then I Heard Roxanne Roxanne for the first time, MY WORLD CHANGED FOREVER, that was when I was Re-united with Hip Hop once again, Thank You Kangol for All Your Contributions to The Hip Hop Culture!!! UTFO is GOAT!!!!
Thank you Sway for capturing history. You have one of the most important jobs in Hip Hop.
Farewell for now to our brother Kangol. Rise high and blessings to your family. Thank you, you’re a gift to my childhood ❤️🕊👑
UTFO was a dope rap group. Mix Master Ice was a wizard on the wheels. I was there watching Dr. Ice and Kangol dancing with Whodini. The very first dancers with a rap group. I was there when Mix Master Ice battle Jazzy Jeff in the NY street seminar at the palladium.. I still listen to UTFO and all the rap groups from the 80s.
50-year-old white guy here ... hooked on rap when I heard Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. Discovered UTFO some years later... and now I compare every current rap artist to UTFO. These guys set the standard.
Who cares that you're white? I don't know why white people have to announce that they are white every time they comment on hip-hop & R&B videos or any video that has a black person in it.
They thinks that makes US accept them, smh
lmaooo! right..it ain't like white people don't listen to/are not supposed to listen to hip hop/rap... lol
wat
Your color means nothing. Either you know or you don't.
UTFO one of my all-time favorite hip hop artist ever!!! I'm willing to say my favorite ever!!! The Ride, Ask Yo Mama, Beats and Rhymes, Fairytale Lover and Leader of the Pack!!! This was the group of groups!!! Very underrated!!! The 80's RULED!!!
I give honour and respect to this hip hop legend Utfo.They we're one the most old ✏️ school 🎓, innovative, versatile, coolest 😎 rap group, in the hip hop world 🌍!! R.i.p educated rapper and Kangol kid!!I love ❤️ you all!!!🗽🗽🎤🏰👨👨👨😦🧒😡📺🎥😍🎈🎵🏆🙂♋👍🌎🙏🏿👑👑🗿😎😎
UTFO's self titled album is one of my all time favourite albums, not just Hip Hop either, just an all time great album. Really interesting interview. Cheers Sway's.
Kangol Kid is a real living legend and Sway has given better introductions and respect to bums. Put some respect on this brothas fame.
the Educated Rapper was the dopest in the group. i'm surprised he didn't transition into the 90's. he was real funky.
heard he started getting high in the late 80's
EMD was my favorite
discoAL U thought Educated Rapper was better than Doctor Ice? I liked them all. Kangol was always my fav but lookin back I think Doc had the most swag. UTFO will always be #1. Hopefully they all unite! That would be good for Hip Hop.
MrWARBUCKS24 Jeff (the Educated Rapper) was much more into education and community service. He truly was the Educated Rapper. He was always taking classes, shelling out information and working in the community. I was blessed to get to know him and his heart.
RIH🎓📚🎙🎶🎧
Back when boys used to dedicate songs to you on the radio and play songs for you over the phone. The dedication hour let everybody know who was hooking up. I miss them 80s days.
Maybe I just miss being young but I also miss the era. It was kicking!
Everyone knew Kangols part In "you cold wanna be with me" it just had that flow "I wanna girl that'll turn me on, when i say go i wanna hear her say gone, when i say leave, i wanna hear her say left and if i say was it good, she better say DEF! " we use to fight over who was gonna be Kangol when that song came on and end up missing the whole song on the radio, for some reason nobody wanted to be the Educated Rapper 😄 RIP Brothers
"The world's most educated rapper, M.D. and I'm causin' MUCH DAMAGE in the place to be!!" Classic line from EMD.
Much love to the UnTouchable Force Organization!!!!
Sway this is a very special video. Almost reduced me to tears when y'all started singing together. Wow! What a beautiful moment. RIH Kangol 😔💔🕊️ I still don't want to believe he's no longer with us. My God😥😥🙏🏽
First group of the golden era ..real hip-hop history
That's
Not
True
I give the real credit for Kangol (along with Howie Tee) for working and producing with Whistle. Whistle's first album was so Rap and years later, their 2nd album marked their change to an R&B group. Whistle was like the R&B version of UTFO after UTFO.
I liked the ride,leader of the pack, just watch and bite it. I remember buying the UTFO cassette, I was younger I was so excited to listen to the tape I sat in my moms car and listened to it while she shopped. It was funky fresh music Whodini, Mantronix, Rockmaster Scott, Boogie Boys, RunDMC they all were a big part of the start of my intro to hip hop.
I'm an 80's head, and never knew Kangol was Haitian. The thing it wasn't just Haitian, really all people from the West Indies went through this especially at that time because there was a heavy influx of Caribbean people coming into NY generally, Brooklyn/Queens more specifically
Sure is interesting, Educated Rapper also came n born in UK carribean heritage too. As well as Slick Rick uk born carribean parentage but you know how it is, west Indian cultures were moving around choices of English speaking destinations such as Britain, Canada, north America. Comparison to it's west African counterparts would move to china, Korea and almost anywhere without even thinking of fitting in language wise.
RIP Kangol Kid !! Sleep well pioneer.
R.I.P. Educated Rapper. Really sad that they all couldn't come together before he passed.
blocSonic ER loved them unconditionally though and them being there when he was on his dying bed was everything to him.
This is the exact reason why Ed Lover was on his show pleading for Leaders of the New School to come together. UTFO lost the Educated Rapper, and A Tribe Called lost Phife.
@@michaelwilliams6704
The Furious 5
Lost
Keith Cowboy
UTFO definitely underrated in the game. Roxanne, Roxanne still holds in 2017. You Cold Wanna Be With Me was my favorite song as well.
Juan Santiago my favorite was beef pattie
I loved Bite and it's so relevant today cause there's no more originality. I think because celebrities are scared to be different.
One of the dopest hip hop tracks “Ever!”
"We're called Whistle
and this is true
We love to do the things that we're not supposed to do
We don't mean robbin', stealin', or muggin'
In fact, don't take it seriously-we're only buggin'
This is crazy the last 2 weeks I been looking at the you cold wanna be with me video
Damn these boys still looking young ass hell
I was born and raised with the New School Rap/Golden Age Hip-Hop era. I'm proud to be represented that generation as Hip-Hop pioneers changed the game. UTFO, Run-DMC, The Fat Boys, Whodini, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, you name it and you got it.
Kangol Kid was the flyest cat ever to wear a kangol. First OGs to mix with rapping and singing: UTFO, The Force MDs, Whodini, Full Force, Whistle and of course - New Edition!! Rapping and singing in one song begins with those artists I grew up with!!
That is not true they was not the first to mix rapping and singing Sugar Hill record labels
Rap
Artists
was also doing that before UTFO back
In
the 70s and early 80s
My first hip hop album my mom bought for me was UTFO with Roxanne Roxanne on it
This was my guy. One of my main inspirations as an MC.
I just want to write that back in the day I listened to Oldies, Metal, HipHop, top40, Funk but mainly Rap & Rock, even to this day! I'm not gonna say that it was better back in the day and more exciting because there's small pockets here & there that have a good scene but damn I do wish I could crawl into a time machine and visit the 80's & early 90's once again. And seeing Kangol here floods my head with fantastic memories of the most greatest music ever! Thank you for this interview & video. And for any younger viewers out there that haven't checked out Please take a little time out to have an experience.
So long and peace to
The Kangol Kid and
The Educated Rapper.
Whodini still doinh their thang and still friends.Geto Boys,NWA and Public Enemy is still cool to each other.Luv the old school 4 life.K.J.
This was Epic. Thanks for sharing.
legend right here
Plz come together and do a album 🙏 put bs aside yall was the best at it guys
Sway, thank you for this interview!
RIH my brother!!
Great interview!! Thank you.
Much Gratitude
If everyone realized that no one's better than the other then this world would be a better place
Kangol Kid is the BEST looking and FINEST HAITIAN I've ever seen in my life. If he would've told people he was HAITIAN back then, nobody would've cared cause this brotha was the shyt...#RIPKANGOLKID
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I was 10 when UTFOs hit "Roxanne Roxanne" came out. My mom was a YOUNG mother and she would be bumpin this song waiting for me to get outta school in her black 280ZX Turbo w/ the sheep skin seat covers!
My friends parents were a little older, so everyone thought my mom was fly because she listened to rap.
Los Angeles, CA
Yass. Was the same age lol. Lived in West Adams back then. Used to walk up Western to the original Fat Burger on the way back from Boys Market. Roxanne played everywhere 84-85. We was sangin Romeo by Roxanne after that. Issa legacy.
It's messed up our music heroes break up die but old school rock artists are still touring.
True story.
tamar mapp For real. I was thinking that just this weekend.
tamar mapp the dysfunction of our HORRIBLE Tenure here in this Land.
i hear that, but you gotta equate early 80s rap with early 50's rock...and lets be real, what rock group from the 50's were touring 30 years later? Innovators rarely get that respect. Thats just how it goes.
tamar mapp ..damn..youre right
omg I had no idea he was Haitian too! I was a kid loving hip hop trying to hide it cuz if my mom heard it I got in trouble! Rest in Paradise king
ahhhh! the memories! Loved these cats!
Pioneers indeed!!!
I love Whistle
Brown Suga you buggin'
me too
I don't normally disagree with anything Sway says, cause he's always on point. Before UTFO the Fearless Four rapped & sang their own hooks, that same year RUN-DMC took off with Sucker MC's and that ended The Fearless Four's run.
furious 5 sang too
@@corybee1200 The Furious Five & Fearless Four that all fell apart, after Run-DMC took the top spot on the charts!
One of my top 5 groups ever. Get your asses back together.
Rest in Peace Warrior Kangol Kid Hip Hop Love Music Live Shows The Memories. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Rest In Heaven and Rhymes Kangol Kid 👑🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I played my whistle cassette so much that the high frequencies went away then later on someone gave me the transformation album and to this day I still own both
Man, this group is real Hip Hop. Legendary.
Reunion Tour, I'm there.
Got me reminiscing
R.I.P..... EDUCATED RAPPER
Utfo was the shit in Ja.(all over the radio) along with all the o ther groups but everybody knew there songs word for word(the young people back then.) Kangol need his videos on the music station now!
R.I.P. Legendary Kangol Kid!!
Never knew Haitian were discriminated like that back in the day. Damn
Depended on where
It was real. I'm Haitian and grew up in Flatbush BK back then. We were sterotypesby other Black nationalities. People said that Haitian stunk, practiced voodoo, dressed funny. They cracked on our language and Haitian accents. And we were bullied, chased, robbed, all that. It was real. Thank God those days are over.
Yep im from miami they use to beat them up so most would say they were bahamian or jamaican. I use to lie for my haitian friends and say they were my cousins and im bahamian
UTFO, Definitely a favorite of mine coming up! it only gets greater, Later..and there's money out here!
I would definitely be at the tour.
concert
That Transformation was dope.
Rip Kangol Kid what a gorgeous smile his son is definitely his twin.
yo sway in Muskegon Michigan we use to play the hell out of that transformation album..... I have the cassette and two of the album's even though they scratched up
UTFO had an actual slow jam on The Leader of the Pack kalled fairytale lover these dudes song the ish outta that
I saw them give a good concert in STL back in the day.
RIP Kangol. UTFO Forever!
Dag I wish come together yall all still alive.
Rest Well King👑❤️🙏
Went to Wingate H.S with a couple of the 3 dudes back in 82. Damn, how time flies.
that was in prospect lefferts gardens... cause I lived on hawthorne st.
@@sidneyatkins6678 you mean Flatbush. Was no Prospect Lefferts Gardens back then
The Caribbean power, with love from Puerto Rico, the Coquito creation
He’s called , what we call , the leader of the pack! ...
They managed to talk for almost 40 minutes without mentioning Roxanne Roxanne. Impressive.
yesssssssss!
COQUITO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only on #sway would COQUITO even be mentioned...... ORRRR THE HAPPY HOUR WITH HEATHER B!!! it really is nice to hear your culture referenced even when the focus was on CRÉMAS (HAPPY HAITIAN FLAG DAY). i'm a daily listener and appreciate this interview! Peace to The whole SwaysUniverse crew .... #nappimusic .... looking forward to manifesting my dream citizenship on that 5 finger one day. PEACE
funny how I was just listening too diss and found this .love utfo
classic!
Hangin out!!
Just seeing Kangol up and jumping makes my day. Love that UTFO^^
@swaysuniverse +swaysuniverse #LETZCUTTHECHEKSWAY!!!!!!! Soundz like a gr8 investment! If all memberz were to agree, hell I would be honored to be a part of this history! I hate it when you hear lack of communication, men/women, &/or money become the break of legendary runz #factz
I found when living in Montreal they looked down on Haitians too but they're also known for having great hair. This was in 89 though.
I dealt with that hate living in the projects in NYC and in high school.
ayiti forever! 🇭🇹
The brother looked so healthy right here see you never know what can happen.
34:16🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃🙃😃😃😃 !!! The Entire Interview is OUTSTANDING !!!
Not just Kangol...Kangol KID!
He's now down WITH the guardian angel 😀🤣
RIP Educated Rapper and Kangol Kid. Amazing that both passed shortly after. There has to be more to why they were not speaking. Dr Ice did come to his bed side before he passed
KANGOL❤
Some group just not like that , I was like the one who was inspired by Kangol Kid and I had a advantage because I was a buyer for a clothing store and got all my Kangols for a good price 👑
Kangol sound's just like Key and Peele. UTFO straight from my time in Brooklyn
MC Tee from Mantronix was also Haitian.
Correct
Oh wow! Didn't know that! That cool!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
R.I.H. KANGOL 🙏🏾🕊️
Educated Rapper passed away.... our beefs WOULD not be ANYTHING if we knew how short our time is
You cold wanna be with me was my shit...
I always wondered why Whistle sounded so much like UTFO