Nah homie the blastmaster KRS-One Was right where he wanted to be underground,He didn't sell out to any major record deal he kept it real and represent the Big 🍎
There are some legends around still just harder to find. For instance complete perth is a lyrical God who has rhyme schemes like doom while managing to have a narrative and guys like k.a.a.n are incredible.
I’m 54 and WOW!! it’s an impossible concept and profound feeling to explain how utterly life changing it was to be there and AWARE when Rap and Hip-Hop erupted. More and more, I don’t share any of it. It has all been an incredibly personal, political, and spiritual journey. I can’t and won’t share this, my heart and soul, to dead shark eyes. Feel so very honored (and VERY lucky) to have witnessed its beginnings and constant evolvement…i went to every live show I could get to if I could make it in a 6-7 hour drive. This Music. Matters. Now more than ever. Forever changed my life then, and it continues to, consistently. ETERNALLY thankful to KRS-One, and all other artists of this genre who had/have unbelievably powerful stories to share in their music. The urgency. The truths. That the artists who’ve had the undeniable courage to tell the tales (ones that MUST be heard), to convey the tragic disparities in this country, speak about the violence, relate the inhumanity of injustice and disenfranchisement, illuminate and deeply flawed and widely misunderstood system of incarceration - and so much MORE - can also manage to create the most fire beats, funk, and deep soulfulness … **AND** to then imbue it all with a magical poetry? Beyond brilliant. Just. Beyond. Absolutely Ineffable. I’m glad to see female artists fighting their way in, but we need more, soooo many more of their voices. Girls of color, all POC, but women especially, need to see powerful female artists and know better their undeniable strengths and deep worth. (And they shouldn’t have to learn that any woman’s wise truths, notably from any woman of color, will only be heard if she’s nearly naked.) Truthfully, we ALL need to hear those important stories women have to tell us, or the historical experiences male artists in Rap and Hip-Hop have paid a deadly price to tell, of so many tragic centuries, will remain undeniably incomplete. Their time is past due by decades. Please let us do everything possible to change that however we can. 🙏❤️🔥
This is just pure magic!… The flow, the beat, the lyrics, the vibes, the vocals, the melodies, the moves, the scratches, the samples, the Boogey Down production… Pure unadulterated magic! Thank you KRSONE, the greatest rapper of all time! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
🔊🎧😎🎧🔊What's up people? My name is DJ DML and I represent some of the old school DJs from back in the 80s who are still rockin the 1 and 2s for my old school peeps, AND I TRY TO EDIT OUT ALL BAD WORDS so that the whole family could hear the music you grew up to. I know my music and how it was mixed back in the days and I'm still throwing down for all of you. Love to see you guy's in the mix with me. Check it out. Link to my TH-cam page: th-cam.com/users/superdave772videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view_as=subscriber PEACE and GOD BLESS.
I witnessed the birth of rap from the beginning, saw live most of these pioneers, but KRS ONE is the best to have ever done it. Lyrically and musically.
The closest i ever got to the feeling of real Hip Hop was, when i saw Krs One performing in my Hometown in The Netherlands. The man was touring with his two sons and let people come to the stage and rap with him. After the show, KRS comes of the stage and started talking with people and giving hands and signatures. I was standing a couple of meters from the man and i thought by my self, this is the teachter and one of the most important souls of H.I.P H.O.P. I feel blessed and thankfull for that moment!
Mate, with you on that. I watched him 2nd Dec in my home town of Preston & - was the first in the crowd to get up & follow him on the mic! Will be forever buzzing after that mate, he IS Hip Hop! Not many understand the meaning of it today
NEVER... EVER.too many kids love that Bs stuff they listen to today.Wishful thinking thou.but they say everything comes back around thou.it don't matter I still listen to the old school shit.the real real old school stuff.some of the old school mix tapes on here are not old enough for me.
KRS1 is one the most significant artists/poets of late 20th Century African American history.His body of work should be preserved in The Congressional Library.
Funny you say this. I always thought he was HUGELY underrated. I have never met someone that knew who KRS was when I used to listen to him. I guess same can be said about Big L, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Hieroglyphics, Louis Logic, Blackstar, The Roots (more known...but god are they good...Quest Love and Black Thought deserve to be preserved too), People Under the Stairs, Pep Love and a shit ton more. Guess I didn't listen to the most mainstream of music lol.
Still bumpin this in 2022. Still sounds as fresh as it did the day it came out. I've listened to a lot of hip hop over the years and this track is absolutely God tier in every way possible. Peace
i’m 17 years old and a musician, i wasn’t alive to experience this kind of music when it first came out but i recognise that this is how music should be and this is what i’m aspiring to create
First song in the charts to feature a rap verse - even if it was by Debbie Harry, and pretty bad. Still, kudos to her for bringing it to the mainstream.
Not taking anything away from Pac, Nas or Big but when they talk about the greatest MC’s KRS is right at the very top! He and Del are the best IMNSHO! KRS is one of the most intelligent MCs and it definitely comes through in his bars more than most others. In a different style Del is undeniably great! His flow is sick and the vibe and subject material is always great too. For me those two give a wide ranging plethora of great tracks!
@@tonyjeffers2606 Del the funky homosapien. A founding member of the Heiroglyphics crew. I would check out the Heiroglyphics records but as for Del, though he is prominent in the crew albums, check out the “Both Sides of the Brain” album and “Deltron 30/30.” Those two albums are classics in the very best sense!
KRS ONE, was ahead of his TIME. The flow, message and song structure was magnificent. My favorite Rapper of all time. Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone (KRS-ONE) is a dope MC!
A Dope Emcee is A Dope Emcee, with or without a record deal all can see and that's who KRS be son, I'm not the run of the mill for the mill I don't run💣💥💣💥💣💥
@@demetriusevans4139I dont care jf it sells tbh. Originally hip hop wasnt made to be sold, it was to talk on black issues. As long as there are artists out doing this, I will listen to them regardless of their numbers.
Its only now I'm in my mid 40's that I realize how truly great Rap music was in the 70's to early 1990's. I cherish all these classics now, most of the rappers are retired or passing on. :-(
Crazy thing is when this came out in I wanna say 97 it was seen as a throwback to old school hip hop from about a decade prior to that. Now both decades are ages in our rear view mirror and the song is still fire
I was just a kid and I remember the guys listening to this sound in their cars on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil in the 90s, and I wanted to be like them. Today, I walk down the streets listening to this sound in my car, older people see me and say that I understand Rap, younger people see me listening to this sound and want to know who sings it. 🇧🇷👊🏾✊🏾
YES, YES YALL! THE 90'S WAS THEE GOLDEN AGE OF RAP! MAJORITY OF THOSE RAPPERS ROCKING THE EUROPEAN SCENE WHERE THEY'RE SHOWN MAD LOVE. MUCH RESPECT TO THAT ERA FROM THE EASTCOAST TO THE WEST!
Legends of the game. Those were unreal times! So grateful I was a teenager to have experienced this in the 80s and 90s. Wish I could go back and relive those days again and again.
the pinnacle epitome of this type of hip hop dude above commented if this dropped now itl will own everything masta class, timeless i spelt mast class like that intentionally
been bumping KRS since 1988 back when I had my old Walgreens headphones barely held together with electric tape, back when I could tell you which song is on the B-side of the cassette while listening to the A side, been bumping KRS since walking to school with the fake "pleather" Thriller jacket and S curl, and a book bag full of 40 Cent Now& Later´s in the book bag, and flipping them for a dollar a pack or 10 cents each. Been rocking KRS since fronting by pressing the button on the Motorola beepers to make it look like somebody was calling you in class. been rocking KRS since "Senior skip day" in 91 bumping "Edutainment" and I had the big ass speakers in the trunk but my amp didn´t have a good ground so I ended up using an old school 40 watt "BOOSTER" with the cable going straight to the fuse box and scorch marks around it had my dad´s work car "smelling like electricity". Been bumping KRS since siting in the barracks getting my uniform ready for Marine Corps Commanding General´s inspection... now 30 years later, I am 49 years old STILL bumping KRS ENTIRE collection like it just came out while I am running up and down stairs all day at work IN FINLAND. And to those of you younger folks that want to "compare KRS to anyone in the 2000´s? a little advice, go on ahead and listen to his ENTIRE collection, not just 1 or 2 songs, don´t look for quotables... oh you´re gonna hear them... but don´t just listen only for that. Don´t look for KRS verses anybody... just LISTEN... that´s it... listen. Don´t listen to him trying to compare who is "the greatest rapper of all time" because if you are doing that then you might as well just Google search "best rapper of all time" and whatever comes up first, tit will probably be whoever is the most popular rapper of the moment, whoever has the most Twitter followers this week. To me, KRS IS Hip Hop... he has longevity, hits, lyrics for days, style, he was "conscious before that was even "a thing", his live albums? PLEASE, him staying close to Jamaican roots, graffiti artistry, B.boys / B girls, peace movements, putting unsigned artists on, close to his fans, him not just "squashing beefs and putting it behind him... but squashing beefs and making dope tracks together years later, KRS can hold his head up in any hood, any country, on any stage, doing world tours, generation after generation of fans. Don´t look at me like I am just an old school "fanboy" actually I am a former LIVE dj/radio host, so hell yeah... I can rattle off 10 dope unsigned NEW young artists right now. By the way.... The song "Rapture" by Blondie w lead singer Debbie Harry was THE first #1 single in the US to have a rap feature.... yup... a former punk rock band with a pretty girl doing lead vocals so they called them "new wave" not to confuse them with racist "Oy Punk" bands of the time. So there you go... a partial history of the song "Rapture" now go on ahead and check out the song "Yuletide Throwdown" by Fab 5 Freddy and Blondie for a real surprise. thank me later
Relying on talent not marketing and promotion 💯
ITS DAX who loves talking about how he was a janitor
@@MrSlowshin xD
I couldn't have said it better Dax
Fax dax
@@MrSlowshinl
Low key one of KRS' best songs lyrically, ever. Aged like wine for real.
Faaaacts
Real Talk. In My top five MCs easily probably 1
the somg is great the fact he acted as tatiana burke, not great
What about "a friend"
@@thearough You talking that song from the cd? Right... low key a great album from 1 to 19.
KRS-One is one of the most underrated artists. Always has been one of my favorites. Rocking this beat since 97’
Never under rated
No he's not. He's number 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5!!
Nah homie the blastmaster KRS-One
Was right where he wanted to be underground,He didn't sell out to any major record deal he kept it real and represent the Big 🍎
6th@@OceanStateSwAmPpeR104
Boogie Down Production-criminal minded one of the best hip hop songs ever!
Feb 2024, and this still rocks. This is the best of Hip Hop, all of it.. clever, big, a global sound and a proper, proper party track.
yup, same here..
April 2024✊️
So many bars💥🎤🎧🎛️🎚️💥
Krs is fo life like mak 10
Eric b and rakim where better
When you hear a woman singing in a soft, angelic voice on a hard ass beat, you knew that it gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Check out the song it was sampled from , blondies the rapture. You will likely dig it
@@joseureste8257 Is a matter of taste but did you know Rapture was 1 of the first popsongs with a video with rap in it. And it was a white girl 😄
@@evitacalor743 Blondie goated in the POP but KRS One hit her with the "yeah I sampled your voice you was using it wrong" cause he did it way better
Exactly like sleepy hollow song
That woman is Debbie Harry she done a track called rapture with Blondie where she raps. Its with Granmaster Flash i think im 44. Go check it out.
"Relying on talent. Not marketing and promotion"
Ain't that the sad truth
If you cant spot it then slot it player
Those bars ring truer than ever in the current time
"MCs are just hopeless, thinking record sales make them the dopest" Eat your heart out Lil Wayne
@abobjenkins: you miss understood him. He is agreeing with that line. Most rappers today its all about promotion and lack of talent.
Just as I made it to this comment, I heard this line lol
About to be 46 in February 2023.
When I tell my kids they missed the Golden Age of Hip Hop, I MEAN IT.
This beat......🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
There are some legends around still just harder to find. For instance complete perth is a lyrical God who has rhyme schemes like doom while managing to have a narrative and guys like k.a.a.n are incredible.
I’m 54 and WOW!! it’s an impossible concept and profound feeling to explain how utterly life changing it was to be there and AWARE when Rap and Hip-Hop erupted.
More and more, I don’t share any of it. It has all been an incredibly personal, political, and spiritual journey. I can’t and won’t share this, my heart and soul, to dead shark eyes.
Feel so very honored (and VERY lucky) to have witnessed its beginnings and constant evolvement…i went to every live show I could get to if I could make it in a 6-7 hour drive.
This Music. Matters. Now more than ever.
Forever changed my life then, and it continues to, consistently.
ETERNALLY thankful to KRS-One, and all other artists of this genre who had/have unbelievably powerful stories to share in their music. The urgency. The truths.
That the artists who’ve had the undeniable courage to tell the tales (ones that MUST be heard), to convey the tragic disparities in this country, speak about the violence, relate the inhumanity of injustice and disenfranchisement, illuminate and deeply flawed and widely misunderstood system of incarceration - and so much MORE - can also manage to create the most fire beats, funk, and deep soulfulness …
**AND** to then imbue it all with a magical poetry? Beyond brilliant.
Just. Beyond.
Absolutely Ineffable.
I’m glad to see female artists fighting their way in, but we need more, soooo many more of their voices. Girls of color, all POC, but women especially, need to see powerful female artists and know better their undeniable strengths and deep worth.
(And they shouldn’t have to learn that any woman’s wise truths, notably from any woman of color, will only be heard if she’s nearly naked.)
Truthfully, we ALL need to hear those important stories women have to tell us, or the historical experiences male artists in Rap and Hip-Hop have paid a deadly price to tell, of so many tragic centuries, will remain undeniably incomplete.
Their time is past due by decades. Please let us do everything possible to change that however we can.
🙏❤️🔥
Yes.
Happy Belated Birthday! & 2 Many more. 🎆🎉🥳
Whenever i hear that intro my eyes fill with tears. Its was such a beautiful time.
This is just pure magic!… The flow, the beat, the lyrics, the vibes, the vocals, the melodies, the moves, the scratches, the samples, the Boogey Down production… Pure unadulterated magic! Thank you KRSONE, the greatest rapper of all time! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Exactly!
I second that. Greatest of ALL TIME!!
Well said🫡
Classic hip hop
Yes yes!
When you realize that you were born in a era that had bars!!!!!!. And real beats!!!.
🔊🎧😎🎧🔊What's up people? My name is DJ DML and I represent some of the old school DJs from back in the 80s who are still rockin the 1 and 2s for my old school peeps, AND I TRY TO EDIT OUT ALL BAD WORDS so that the whole family could hear the music you grew up to. I know my music and how it was mixed back in the days and I'm still throwing down for all of you. Love to see you guy's in the mix with me. Check it out.
Link to my TH-cam page: th-cam.com/users/superdave772videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view_as=subscriber
PEACE and GOD BLESS.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
SO GLAD I GREW UP IN THIS ERA‼️
One of the Sickest beats, and Mc's ever, hands down.
not one of...the one and only ^^
did you not hear? 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5!
And the simplest beats to make as well
Mike L #Factz
Jesse West
This track is a masterpiece.
Nonshit
The best line I'd ever heard when I was little,
"I'm not trying to say I'm number one, uh I'm sorry I lied, I'm number 1,2,3,4 and 5...
He fucked me with that line krs one forever 💯
Rapping GENIOUS !!!
It's one of the best lines in Hip-Hop
Until Dylan took over all Top 5 spots
I subbed and liked all this man’s videos because I have a feeling he didn’t make the money off these epic songs he should have.
I witnessed the birth of rap from the beginning, saw live most of these pioneers, but KRS ONE is the best to have ever done it. Lyrically and musically.
His live show is unreal! He brought katz on stage to battle him at his own show! Unreal. The Godfather of Hip Hop Culture
Same here I’m 53 and hip hop been out for 50 years.
I'm 45 krs 1 son none is better period
Me to remember when the only place you could get hip hop Was from friends or at the park.
FACTS
The closest i ever got to the feeling of real Hip Hop was, when i saw Krs One performing in my Hometown in The Netherlands. The man was touring with his two sons and let people come to the stage and rap with him. After the show, KRS comes of the stage and started talking with people and giving hands and signatures. I was standing a couple of meters from the man and i thought by my self, this is the teachter and one of the most important souls of H.I.P H.O.P. I feel blessed and thankfull for that moment!
Respek
pigeon john is pretty close to real hip hop/real rap imo
oaktreep1987 you are very lucky let me tell you
Mate, with you on that. I watched him 2nd Dec in my home town of Preston & - was the first in the crowd to get up & follow him on the mic! Will be forever buzzing after that mate, he IS Hip Hop! Not many understand the meaning of it today
oaktreep1987 you truly are blessed for experiencing that moment.
Can't WAIT for this style of rap to take over again.
we will never have it this good again
@@alexandershepherd8793 it’s slowly making a rise again
only thin stopping it from coming back is you not putting it in a play list
It's coming!
NEVER... EVER.too many kids love that Bs stuff they listen to today.Wishful thinking thou.but they say everything comes back around thou.it don't matter I still listen to the old school shit.the real real old school stuff.some of the old school mix tapes on here are not old enough for me.
Classic I'm 54 the criminal minded was the first tape I bought. Rip Scott LA rock
KRS1 is one the most significant artists/poets of late 20th Century African American history.His body of work should be preserved in The Congressional Library.
His body should be preserved
Dont put him in a box and label him a African American artist, he's one of the greatest artists of all time regardless of race, music is colorblind
Funny you say this. I always thought he was HUGELY underrated. I have never met someone that knew who KRS was when I used to listen to him. I guess same can be said about Big L, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Hieroglyphics, Louis Logic, Blackstar, The Roots (more known...but god are they good...Quest Love and Black Thought deserve to be preserved too), People Under the Stairs, Pep Love and a shit ton more. Guess I didn't listen to the most mainstream of music lol.
FACT'S!!!
M.J Edwards Together with Rakim and Chuck D
Still bumpin this in 2022. Still sounds as fresh as it did the day it came out. I've listened to a lot of hip hop over the years and this track is absolutely God tier in every way possible.
Peace
Same.
You the REAL MVP 💯
@@CS-np2oo real recognize real
2023!!
I've heard nothing to compare to this. This is definitely God tier. the lyrics, the message, the beat, the hook. Unfuckwitable!!
This song is still hotter than 99.9% of the rap music that’s came out from 2000- 2019.
Absolutly. Only old school in my 👂🏼
I was just saying this today. And his flow.....
REAL SHIT.STILL 🔥🔥🔥
Nah 100% better lmao
Facts facts facts...
KRS is a national - hell, a GLOBAL treasure.
From the UK; u rite!
You hear this children? this is what real hip hop is....
Facts!!!!
Relying on skill not marketing and promotions!
@@raybenitez9699 read your reply literally as he said it bro lol
Well said👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😎
@@raybenitez9699 Well said👏👏👏👍😝
Still listening to this song 21 years later
Ulysses Reynoso 💯🎧🎶
0:17 LL CooL J ?
yes,yes ya! me 2.awesome track back in the days like today
Me too
Always
Timeless classics never die. These lyrics burn a hole in today’s rap scene. So much truth.
Even the worst record never dies. Music is spoken words and word's are life.
Like Rakim sajd, timeless
1:47: " A dope emcee is a dope emcee, with or without a record deal all can see!" Very true!
Rap orijinal
KRS-One is a timeless Mc. I'm 51 still rocking this in the Lex...
When they talk about best MCs all-time, they sleep on this GIANT!!
Nobody with any respect for hip hop sleeps on this man.
Real heads know.
Rakim Allah, KRS-1 are the top two of all time
In my opinion this is KRS 1 Greatest
50Cent said he used to listen this Mister when he was a kid. Pure masterpiece which never gets old.
too bad 50 had to turn his heroes in for slaughter
THIS is hip hop in its purest form
The Last Dance is single handedly introducing most of the world to good hip hop 👏🏽👏🏽
💯%facts!!
Damn i feel this like a shot to the vein 😑
Just listen to ALL the rappers from 2980-1986 those r the OGs, the ones that matter😎
this video had millions of views before that shit came out
Most profound comment in this thread
This is the Hip Hop I miss, please come back and save us from the BS out now
on the same page
So much better than anything that exists today. Hail KRS
He predicted the future “Cop some breakdancin', boogie poppin', and lockin'
Tic tockin', guaranteed to have you clockin'”
Has a whole new meaning in 2024
2018 and this STILL one of the toughest bangers in the entire game 🔥🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
Cut it out lol
2021 and this is still the truth
@@ryane5801 you know damn f u c k i n g well it is…..stop the frontin’
KRS ONE is Hip Hop
Hip Hop in its purest form. He is the Teacha
I’m 45 and still pumpin’ this JAM UP !!! ❤️🫶🏼
I'm 61 and still......
49!!
38😂🎉
45 what a Crew..💯
54 Australian checking in . . .
Who's listening in 2019?? This song gives me chills! 1997 until infinity!🔥🔥💪🏿
This song gives money to my dealer
1990s Hip Hop was the best and this is a good example of it !!!!!!
Me to bro real hip hop omg still till this day
Me
Tee Po ... bro Big time!!!
Im 50 years old now, and I remember breakdancing to this joint back in the Bronx when this first came out. Big love from London, England.
Best rap song anthem ever hands down
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!
Nobody comes back to this everyday. Look at the views…
Here!
We need music like this again 👍🏿🤎✌🏾👏🏾✊🏾🤲🏾
Facts!
This music was a moment in time only a few generational hands will truly understand 🙏 we definitely need that back 👍🫀🖖✌🤟
i’m 17 years old and a musician, i wasn’t alive to experience this kind of music when it first came out but i recognise that this is how music should be and this is what i’m aspiring to create
KRS ONE one of the greatest MCs ever nobody wanted to battle him!! This dude stood alone!! Real lyrics real hip hop!!
he says hes got bars that will destroy anyone in the top 10 at any given time and keeps it updated n fresh....one of the best real MCs ever
@Tsephe Letseka funk Nelly
Don’t forget The Grand Verbalizer Funkin’ Lesson Tehunzuj Brother J from X-Clan…
Rakim is his equal
It is a classic that will never die.
"I'm not sayin' i'm number one, oh, i'm sorry I lied. I'm number one, two, three, four & five!"
such cool line
KRS renegaded hip hop with that one
I saw krs 1 live in Brighton, the music when silent " Im number", the crowd erupted " IM NUMBER 1,2,3,4 AND 5"....awesome
Lovin' that line too!
Tom Warren Awsome lyrics
This is an example of how a Siren would sing...so enchanting.
Shes dope. Original is by Blondie
That boom in his voice....that new York city feel of the 80s and we'll into late 90s...
NO 1 IS ABLE TO TOUCH KRS 1 !!
IM HERE IN 2024 AS A LIFE LONG FAN !! HANDS DOWN THE DOPEST MC EVER !!!!!
Legendary Song, my youth!
Nice
KRS-One was always ahead of his time. His lyrics are as true today as they were back then. Had this song on repeat in high school.
0:12 krs one you're blessed forever ♾️
I don't even know how but a bunch of sheltered kids who grew up in rural PNW were rocking this in the 90's so hard. Cool to hear again.
Classics don’t die 2024!!!
KRS one .. one of the BEST EVER...
“Yo I’m strictly about dope skills and lyrical coasting, relying on talent, not marketing and promotion ...” Love it!
Dam right!
My dad used to always listen to krs one I the 90's. i thank him for it! Shaped my music taste today!
Your dad sounds like a cool guy.
th-cam.com/video/1DzcZq3gvAY/w-d-xo.html
Your pops is a legend for that
Scott La Rock & KRS-1!!!!
That womans vocal straight hits my soul
"Rapture" by Blondie
Its Debbie Harry
First song in the charts to feature a rap verse - even if it was by Debbie Harry, and pretty bad. Still, kudos to her for bringing it to the mainstream.
Timothy Roach Debbie Harry is not singing on this track.
LAKERSandDODGERS4LiFe !!!!!!!! It was a capella at the beginning...
Not taking anything away from Pac, Nas or Big but when they talk about the greatest MC’s KRS is right at the very top! He and Del are the best IMNSHO! KRS is one of the most intelligent MCs and it definitely comes through in his bars more than most others. In a different style Del is undeniably great! His flow is sick and the vibe and subject material is always great too. For me those two give a wide ranging plethora of great tracks!
Hell yeah loved DEL since I was a little kid
Who is Del ?
@@tonyjeffers2606 Del the funky homosapien. A founding member of the Heiroglyphics crew. I would check out the Heiroglyphics records but as for Del, though he is prominent in the crew albums, check out the “Both Sides of the Brain” album and “Deltron 30/30.” Those two albums are classics in the very best sense!
I’d personally put Mobb deep up there too.
Need to check this out never herd of del thanks. 👍
KRS ONE, was ahead of his TIME. The flow, message and song structure was magnificent. My favorite Rapper of all time. Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone (KRS-ONE) is a dope MC!
KRS One is just from the Genesis of Hip-Hop where skill and message to the people was PARAMOUNT.
Thank you for sharing this as I never knew that krs one was a acronym so thank you
Big up to the Boogie Down Bronx and to the Teacha, KRS-One. Always representin' fi di people dem!
Yo THIS song just played on "The Last Dance" and I just lost my entire mind. LOL!!
For real turning back the time!!!
Tameka Curwen 🙋🏻♂️
Agreed. It was a pleasant surprise for the old school. To where my daughters asked who made that track.
Lol!!! That's why I pulled this up after getting hype while watching the last dance..vibes Sis👍🏾💯😎
That 95-96 season 🔥
That beat is unstoppable
Relentless
Last Dance has got SUCH a good soundtrack. This is a stone-cold tune.
Knowledge,Reign,Supreme ignorance is poison. Proper education always corrects errors.
One of the best party tracks ever. KRS kills this one straight up.
A Dope Emcee is A Dope Emcee, with or without a record deal all can see and that's who KRS be son, I'm not the run of the mill for the mill I don't run💣💥💣💥💣💥
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” The Most High
“So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because a dance with devil might last forever” best line 💯
When
@@MrKhrys619 lol I think he commented on the wrong video. It's an Immortal Technique song called Dance With The Devil.
That was the previous song in the play list, you got me confused for a minute then 😂😂
@@jnz1439 yup you’re right lmao idk how that happened
WoW.
This could drop today and it would still crush everything out now! It will be dope forever!
It wouldn't sell though because this is the era of the Dummy. Only what caters to the lowest of low seems to gain popularity and make dollars.
@@demetriusevans4139I dont care jf it sells tbh. Originally hip hop wasnt made to be sold, it was to talk on black issues. As long as there are artists out doing this, I will listen to them regardless of their numbers.
this sounds so bronx, the essence of the culture
Takes you back to early 80s nyc
@@sabirabdul-lateef5352 exactly
"I'm about dope skills, relying on talent and NOT marketing & promotion!" (KRS-1)👏
46 years old and Hip Hop still never stops 4 me. 2023. Big Fan ☮️🎙️💯👏
The 90s, the best Hip-Hop and on the other end incredible rock/metal/alternative (Metallica, Nirvana, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam)
Glad I lived through it
Pantera, testament, hermetica, malon
Wish I could bring this time back and make the 90's last for ever
Hell yeah it was!!!!
And meshuggah \m/, although I guess technically they started late 80s
The real hip hop!!!!!!
Andrew M. sounding off. :)
Yeeeeee! 90s over here
listen to miss melody too she cool
as opposed to?
mad old, but still hot!
Everything he's saying is true and relevant to this day kRS-1 rock on🤘
Yes
The Greatest Rapper and Hip Hop Head of All Time.
No doubt. MC's ack like they don't know. K R S -1.
you might be right about that
back in the day when rap was still art, no school like old school!
dont worry man ppl r still coming around
Djah Ngo
ZEEN!!
Facts
Djah Ngo Word!
Who else was in their 20's when this came out and bangin it in 2019?
Right here
I definitely was yo
Over here Son.
I was 18, this was on the radio same time as blackstar and fox first single.
I was 4 years Old when this dropped :D but still love myself some KRS -One! :D
Was 14 when this came out. Talk about the soundtrack if my life! I miss THIS KIND of hip hop.
I was 16 then, im so nostalgic.
Crystal Downs. I agree
Crystal Downs I was privileged years before this song hit..he KRS one asked me what I thought of the sample..those days were so dope.
yep,that's true.
Its only now I'm in my mid 40's that I realize how truly great Rap music was in the 70's to early 1990's. I cherish all these classics now, most of the rappers are retired or passing on. :-(
Top 5 Tracks ever! Front the inventor of SAMPLING. MARLY MAL. LEGEND.
“I’m not the run of the mill, ‘cause for the mill I don’t run.”
Immortal 🎶❤️🎤👏👊🏻🙏
master of hip hop
I will still be listening to this in 2044..pure classic
" Emcees are just hopeless thinking record sales make them the dopest ".
More aplicable today than ever before
True statement
I heard that. Fax
Dope line
I like the MC with The Dopest lyrics and not the one who sales the most records
Real Hip-hop the beat the lyrics the delivery. Timeless Classic
Crazy thing is when this came out in I wanna say 97 it was seen as a throwback to old school hip hop from about a decade prior to that. Now both decades are ages in our rear view mirror and the song is still fire
I was just a kid and I remember the guys listening to this sound in their cars on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil in the 90s, and I wanted to be like them. Today, I walk down the streets listening to this sound in my car, older people see me and say that I understand Rap, younger people see me listening to this sound and want to know who sings it. 🇧🇷👊🏾✊🏾
YES, YES YALL! THE 90'S WAS THEE GOLDEN AGE OF RAP! MAJORITY OF THOSE RAPPERS ROCKING THE EUROPEAN SCENE WHERE THEY'RE SHOWN MAD LOVE. MUCH RESPECT TO THAT ERA FROM THE EASTCOAST TO THE WEST!
"I'm not run of the mill cuz for the mill I DON'T RUN"
🔥
WHOOOOOO
I quote this bar weekly. KRS-One is one of the three greatest MC's of all time!
Rock but don't stop, production Cru, S2WIFT, BRONX FAMILY CRU!
Legends of the game. Those were unreal times! So grateful I was a teenager to have experienced this in the 80s and 90s. Wish I could go back and relive those days again and again.
Tell me about it.
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The epitome of Hip-Hop!! And KRS1 carries it still!! 📿🙌🏾✊🏾✊🏾
The Essence of Hip Hop to me
This js what hip hop was meant to be! Us talking about our issues! Not this Da baby and young thug nonsense.
Facts!!!!
the pinnacle epitome of this type of hip hop
dude above commented
if this dropped now itl will own everything
masta class, timeless
i spelt mast class like that intentionally
The Bronx is another planet for real everyone walking around in the summer time at 3 in the morning likes it's day time.....
I need to visit my family in da Bronx that's gonna be dope!!!!😂😂😂😢
Love & Respect for the BX!
been bumping KRS since 1988 back when I had my old Walgreens headphones barely held together with electric tape, back when I could tell you which song is on the B-side of the cassette while listening to the A side, been bumping KRS since walking to school with the fake "pleather" Thriller jacket and S curl, and a book bag full of 40 Cent Now& Later´s in the book bag, and flipping them for a dollar a pack or 10 cents each.
Been rocking KRS since fronting by pressing the button on the Motorola beepers to make it look like somebody was calling you in class.
been rocking KRS since "Senior skip day" in 91 bumping "Edutainment" and I had the big ass speakers in the trunk but my amp didn´t have a good ground so I ended up using an old school 40 watt "BOOSTER" with the cable going straight to the fuse box and scorch marks around it had my dad´s work car "smelling like electricity".
Been bumping KRS since siting in the barracks getting my uniform ready for Marine Corps Commanding General´s inspection... now 30 years later, I am 49 years old STILL bumping KRS ENTIRE collection like it just came out while I am running up and down stairs all day at work IN FINLAND.
And to those of you younger folks that want to "compare KRS to anyone in the 2000´s? a little advice, go on ahead and listen to his ENTIRE collection, not just 1 or 2 songs, don´t look for quotables... oh you´re gonna hear them... but don´t just listen only for that.
Don´t look for KRS verses anybody... just LISTEN... that´s it... listen.
Don´t listen to him trying to compare who is "the greatest rapper of all time" because if you are doing that then you might as well just Google search "best rapper of all time" and whatever comes up first, tit will probably be whoever is the most popular rapper of the moment, whoever has the most Twitter followers this week.
To me, KRS IS Hip Hop... he has longevity, hits, lyrics for days, style, he was "conscious before that was even "a thing", his live albums? PLEASE, him staying close to Jamaican roots, graffiti artistry, B.boys / B girls, peace movements, putting unsigned artists on, close to his fans, him not just "squashing beefs and putting it behind him... but squashing beefs and making dope tracks together years later, KRS can hold his head up in any hood, any country, on any stage, doing world tours, generation after generation of fans.
Don´t look at me like I am just an old school "fanboy" actually I am a former LIVE dj/radio host, so hell yeah... I can rattle off 10 dope unsigned NEW young artists right now.
By the way.... The song "Rapture" by Blondie w lead singer Debbie Harry was THE first #1 single in the US to have a rap feature.... yup... a former punk rock band with a pretty girl doing lead vocals so they called them "new wave" not to confuse them with racist "Oy Punk" bands of the time.
So there you go... a partial history of the song "Rapture" now go on ahead and check out the song "Yuletide Throwdown" by Fab 5 Freddy and Blondie for a real surprise. thank me later
100 years later and still a CLASSIC!
A dope MC is a dope MC
I know a rap artist.
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Real hip hop
Most realest
Yup
Saw him performing this a few years ago, he still kills it on stage!
one of the dopest hip-hop songs of all time, beats & rhymes
I have no idea what “The Last Dance” is but happy to have you all here 23 years later 👍🏼
G Regal
Will do, thanks!
23 you know 😏😉
1997, I was going crazy❤️❤️
look at tatianna burke
that hom is good at dance moves too.... smh
Kids I hoop with play NBA 2k25 and had never heard of this one before. I am glad they got to experience a true legend.