World Renown - How Nice I Am (Produced by K-Def)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- From the 1994 Single: "How Nice I Am"
Duo consisting of Seven Shawn (Cousin of K-Def) and John Doe (Cousin of Marley Marl). Their 1995 album "World Renown" got shelved by Warner Brothers, even though it received a 3.5 mics review in The Source. The album is said to be reissued some time in 2009.
K-Def:
K-Def (full name Kevin Hansford) is an American, New Jersey based, hip hop producer/DJ who has been actively involved in the music industry since the early 1990s. He has recently produced music for artists such as Ghostface Killah and Puff Daddy. K-Def earned critical praise early in his career for his work with Marley Marl on the album Here Come the Lords by the hip hop group Lords of the Underground. Among the songs from that album that benefited from K-Def's production work include the hits "Funky Child" and "Chief Rocka".
K-Def was also member of the duo Real Live, which released one album The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama on Big Beat/Atlantic Records in 1996. "Real Live Shit (Remix)" featured Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Killa Sin and Lord Tariq. During the 1990s, K-Def co-produced some of Marley Marl's tracks.
K-Def is mostly known for his blues-soul sampling style. While the majority of his early-mid 1990s productions were produced using the Akai MPC sampler/sequencer, around 1997 he started incorporating computers into his work flow and now exclusively uses a software based setup.
In 2004 K-Def produced "Its Over" on the Ghostface Killah release The Pretty Toney Album (Def Jam/IDJMG/Universal). He then contributed tracks to another Ghostface project, Theodore Unit, and Ol' Dirty Bastard's The Osirus Mixtape. He was a contributor to Diddy's 2006 release Press Play, and, in 2007, he produced a track on UGK’s album Underground Kingz.
In 2006, K-Def released an instrumental album called Willie Boo Boo The Fool. The album was originally only available on CD and vinyl, but it was digitally re-released in 2008.
In 2008, K-Def released a collaborative EP with the rapper Dacapo under the name the Program, which was titled The Article.
seven shawn is actually my dad, i wish he didn't throw his rap career away because he is so good
Yeah your dad was DOPE...
I would work with him now if he was still looking for beats. 🤷🏾♂️
Your dad was signed to the wrong label.
Are you serious? Whenever I listen to this I always think he could've been one of the greats like Nas if he kept rapping
Big up your father from the UK!
Your dad’s music helped me through a tough time last year and I still blast it daily. Just got someone into it too so tell him thank you from a U.K. fan!
this instrumental is butter
You ain't never lied!!!!
It's margarine
That’s my go to. This shit was definitely before it’s time.
"Cutting the butter smooth brother"
*Budda
When Hip Hop peaked. We didnt know how good we had it 😢
No lies detected 😕
Seriously, what sounds this good now?!!
Hip Hop will never be this good again
Never ever 😢
truth
The 90’s will never be duplicated. Golden Era forreal. Everything was fire!!! music, sports, and life!!! I felt the magic as a kid. Thank God I witnessed a piece of it!!!
facts as a 80's baby I feel blessed to have grown up and experienced the full decade that was the 90's
90’s don't need to be duplicated man
I ❤ the jazzy rap 😊
They play this song alot In Minneapolis MN sorry they got drop . From Sony
I'm jealous
The piano sample 👌👌👌
Tones for Jones Bones - Chic Corea Trio.
This is the type of instrumental I could leave on repeat for hours!!!😎🔊🔊
Jermaine Long yessssss omg
Yeah, that type of joint you could just vibe out to. I miss when hip hop made you feel those good feelings.
Big facts ... i came here to think of the perfect comment .. and you spilled it before i could
I swear to God, i had for bout 8 hours while i was doing a 10 hours shift work in a dump truck!. You're spot in ther mate
The sample is from Chick Corea trio - Tones for Joan's bones
JESUS, they dont make em like this no more
David Chaki sho'nuff!
I swear!!!
Shit makes me wanna cry...
*Snapple facts!*
thank the fucking zoomers
one of the tracks that reminds me of summer '94 - so damn good, Shame their album was never released properly.
New York dominated the space in the 90s...
Crazy seeing this in 2023
2024
2024
This is my kind of hip-hop. Only the classics. Props to World Renown and K-Def for constructing this dope track. Was lucky enough to get a digital version of their entire LP.
You have great taste Sam 🙌🏻
Whatever happened to these cat’s? I know K-Def for working with Marley Marl and Lords of the Underground but I only know World Renown for this track and the video getting heavy rotation on BET’s Rap City at the time.
@@jeanemlicar They got dropped [from Warner Bros] shortly after the release of this video. Then put out a single back in Y2K. Here's an interview w/ Seven Shawn from 2011 that has a lot of answers..
Where’s the link to the video you speak of???@@steeltownbrown52
p⁹😅and a few
I remember one day this was the last video for the day for rap city. As it closed out and rap city went off I switched on the Super Nintendo to play some Mortal Kombat II........the memories!
Lucious Thomas lol.
Damn
Good ol days...MK on SNES and Rap City.... I wanna go back
Rap city, snes, cd's, open up a can of coca-cola, they just don't know these days
LOL that's dead real Lucious Thomas
The 90's was always the best I damn sure miss it
Sean Carver God I do too.
Classic 🔥!
One of the illest beats ever made.
This makes me cry and smile. I truly miss the 90s. When girls in baggy clothes was sexy. What a beautiful time. Hip-Hop ❤❤❤👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
less was more and twice as sexy
You always get the hot 90s tracks
24 years later and this still bumps
28 years later. Still!
@@bong0003 29
Fell asleep after smoking a joint as I was watching an uploaded episode of rap city for learning purposes & idk.. something bout the intro woke me up. The shit jus spoke to me. I've never heard this before
Same I found a bunch of old episodes, definitely going back to do my homework but this shit I had to run back like 10x Facts
this beat reminds me of my childhood...and it's because of that i get chills listenin to it. Smh, who's cuttin onions!
I listened to this song 10 times in 2 days.
Me too
Since I was born in the 90s I’m spending all 2023 doing my homework on 90-97 hip hop 🔥🔥🔥
the clothes , swag, vibes all amazin
Dope classik when HipHop was mad fun, miss those days
7ISH GodISeeHim True Indeed!
Chawana House Designs Studio,LLC. You can tell our age , when we say that, Real Hip Hop forever,, Yo you make or design logos,
7ISH GodISeeHim True Indeed! This Is when Hip Hop was fun, creative and simply dope. Pure nostalgia.... I design things here and there. I'm In a transition right now.... So once I get settled In to my new place, I will definitely get back Into my creativity.
Chawana House Designs Studio,LLC. Cool Peace ,
Agreed! ✊🏾 Good thing the memories will live on through the music and video like this 🤙🏾💙✌🏾🎨⛅
Beautiful track
I cannot stress enough on how dope this track is.
I swear to god on my own life, this piece would be the coolest, most chilliest song i have ever heard in my 30 years of living. I do 10 hours shiftshift work, this was on repeat for straight 8 hours. The first 2 hours was spent, randomly skiping songs until...
2021 🙌
Rap City allll day. If you old enough to to remember that you feel me.
So CZcams blessed me today. I totally forgot about this song. Good times back in the 90's. Never to be duplicated.
Yes, I did too.
Glad to finally have the album physically in my collection. This was 28 years overdue. This could have been the best album of 95
Classic. I was in college at the time with next to no money. Regardless, after the video initially broke, I copped the Maxi-single from NRM on College Ave... I still have it to this day. Respect for the post.
BoChosen Realness
BoChosen i lost my treasure of tapes in a housefire 01
Thakns indernet
ULTRA A I K : I feel you, Fam. That's a blessing that we can simply connect to channels like this. Besides, nothing can erase all of the memories. Peace.
BoChosen It sure is fam 🤝 Peace
BoChosen And yes the memories are sure there ;)
Authentic Classic Hip Hop.
Memories
Ayyyyyye! Fuuuuck I miss these days...
J.R. Brawlers yessss 😢
K Def is the man, Marley Marl knew it
K-Def on the beat is top notch 👍
Nothing better than straight up 90s, boom bap shit
Vintage you da man for this one! I used to absolutely loved this song back in the day!
Peace to Vintage Hip-Hop Seattle
For real, one of the best beats ever......
Love the pure essence of the culture
this song puts me into another dimension
Quintessential 90's vibe, dances, beats, dip, only thing missing is a dope horn sample on the hook lol
90’s Hip Hop = Once great, ALWAYS great.
Real HipHop...
1994 was the Year
Actually, this was 95'.
I heard the song on an underground Hip Hop station in 95
That was Pirate Radio with Marley Marl and Pete Rock on WNWK FM before it was officially released 🔥
"But as the clock ticks, came wisdom the seed, understand my third eye master me!"
That entire verse is incredible...
7 is dope
Ultra Chillness
Thanks to the channel that uploaded Rap City with this video included. Discovered unheard artists from the 90's thanks to rap city.
Gotta say yo...ya'll catz keep the real HipHop over here yo...
HipHop is a way of life, walk, talk, act.. not just a genre....just like rap too, but they are not the same. (as this industry would have you to believe) rap got they culture, and hip hop got its culture....
This whole song is like honey butter all in my ears!!!
That song at the start sounds dope as hell
name from the start song
Real hip hop
Maan!!!! Wtf happened to Hip Hop??? This shit damn near brings me to tears 😌
This channel always putting me onto that heat.
Pure Summervibe
3:39 never forget
Heh heh...
My Favorite Part of the video @ 3:39 🤣😂🤣
Hip Hop 90's forever ! Very dope track ! peace from france ...
Only if I had a time machine
[Vocal sample: Phife Dawg]
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
[Verse 1: Seven Shawn]
My words who live between the bars and the page
And they set free, when I release on stage
My raps just froze, from days of olde
And my butter hit the book with ink
Until the whole pen sink
It's Seven Shawn, a relic from the lost place
I kick backs, that is a North baby's off wage
Just in case the crabs don't understand the rhyme
But they keep the scoop
Go on a square root, like forty-nine
I give a sharp math attack, like a box cutter
So nice, make precise, cuttin' the butter
Smooth brother, heat up in the drop top
I get a pen and pad, and write down bad rhymes
(Wicked) One time for the mind
Just what I see
Stay the same, never do a run game on my people
Hot like the sauna, Seven's the rhyme owner
When I rock I make brothers flock this like the corner
Wanna
Melt the butter down into the depths of her king sips[?]
Words on my lips sink ships
I mean hips of honey bitches start to spazz and speak
Make 'em drop and shake, and make their knees get weak
Okay, rub it in like Bengay, then say:
Squeek and bam, teach it like a damn sensei
Slice and bash, I'm like weed or the hash, I make ya high last
By completing my task
[Vocal sample]
[Verse 2: John Doe]
When my mentality flips you better run
Straight to the West, smack dead in the sun
Because I make it hot like a known drug lot
And John won't let up until I get my props
Facin' reality, man they can't grasp
You better jet past, I'm comin' for that ass with the
Reel o' real, I don't have to pack steel
Bitch I'm outstanding like Shaquille O'Neal
When I leave morasses I muster, maintain
Stress piles up leavin' sores on my brain
But I keep a level and a way to sidetrack
Where I'm at?
In my ghetto peepin' to my raps
'Cuz when I think back and I look at the times
Butcher, hittin' dimes, doin' petty crimes
Rush to get old, I was bold
Threw myself into the world, no coat, it was cold
By all means necessary kept me above
Had to hit the cream to support my one love
Do on my camouflage, blendin' in the streets
Doin' long extras to make ends meet
But as the clock ticked, came wisdom to see
Understandin' my third eye master me
Now the black market is my target of attack
Yo, my peoples are you with me? Where you at?
Let's wreck
When hip hop was hip hop👍🏾
Ahhhhh the 90s !!!
*Timeless!* 😃🙌🏾 This joint is soo dope and the video makes it even more better. I can't even count how many times I've watched it since my homie Stefaun put me on this 🤙🏾 Soo many dope, underrated artists out there man it's crazy. Regardless, shout out the real ✊🏾 One 💙✌🏾🎨⛅
Came here just now Marley marl playing this on the 📻 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊added to the Spaceship Playlist
Golden track + perfect flow = Real hiphop
The best grooves k-def makes ^ ^
One of my favourites
K def de los mejores productores, 1L!
I was only in the 8th grade when this came out and it's very slept on.... It's unfortunate they're album got shelved because warner brothers didn't know how to market them like that.... Until the album was re-issued on a independent label and it's available for purchase on Bandcamp
I always thought A tribe call quest sing this ❤❤❤
I thought that too but it was a sample which worked nicely...but RIP Phife
The World Renown Album is Out Now, on Smoke on Records
And every track is in good quality, finally. Only one track is missing (State Of Mind).
vintagehiphopseattle > worldstarhiphop
the lightest phase of the moon obviously 😂whs is just stupid hypebeast music
Phife!!!
This is hip hop, for me.
Old school mid 90s nyc rap was the shit
*Timeless!* 🤙🏾
When hip-hop had many styles.
this is rap classic 💣🔥
underrated is not the word.,
Heard this for the first time on the Stretch Armstrong show with bobitto in 1994-95
This bump ❗😎
Everything on point. Beat, rhymes, video.
I used to love this song and instrumental
Now this is some dope ass hip hop music! The dancing females (with clothes on) are extra tite!!
Does anyone know who the 2 ladies are that are dancing in this video...much respect to them both!
According to Seven Shawn, they were just random girls hanging around the set.
@@steeltownbrown52 Thanks 4 the info... they're both melted butta!
Chilly days in NYC.
Jersey baby 🔥
Please release this album its been years
Apparently Marley Marl has been the one holding back.
GOLD! 🌟
That beat tho...!!!!
Dope 💪🌞
Don't know what to say about this song from niggaz of world renown......
Way back with the real shit of hip hop that we missing nowadays coz many of mcz can't look where this music comes from oooh bullshit....
This is the real hip hop homies
one of my fave vidz
Love everything, rime edit simply amazing!
Queens All day
CLASSIC 🕊
High school!
Lucious Thomas first time I heard this track its Dope miss intelligence in Rap.
Titus Trillion Respect!
Deep vibes. 👌🏼
I was in love with every baggy clothed female dancer in this video as a adolescent.
damn fine channel!
Even had my mom bopping to the instrumental.
Back in tha da
Insane instrumental