Styles, Pharoahe Monch - The Life

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  • čas přidán 23. 12. 2009
  • Music video by Styles, Pharoahe Monch performing The Life. (C) 2002 Rawkus Entertainment LLC
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  • @nasirperkins3819
    @nasirperkins3819 Před 3 měsíci +25

    2024 🔥 been bumping this since i was 14 i’m 38 now 🫡

  • @user-rq5ch1em3e
    @user-rq5ch1em3e Před 14 dny +3

    THE LYRICS ARE LEGENDARY. THE ARTIST STYLES IS STILL LIVING WHAT HE RAPPED ABOUT. THATS WHY HE IS STILL MAKING MONEY AND MUSIC. KEEP THESE LEGENDARY PIECES ON THE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRE 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 FOREVER!!!!!!!THE TRUTH SPEAKS STILL 2024🎉

  • @mafiagang20
    @mafiagang20 Před 5 měsíci +42

    I’ll never forget years ago sitting in rehab with my man Harvey from Wilmington DE..we sung this hook and recited styles verse all day it helped get us through ..oh yeah today I’m sober ..cuz MY LIFE is all I have..

    • @stellaroze
      @stellaroze Před měsícem

      Felt that. Using this song for my young men's group as a discussion point. I want them to start thinking about their life and their story. This song is powerful. Congrats and blessings for getting sober. May God keep you.

    • @mafiagang20
      @mafiagang20 Před měsícem +1

      @@stellaroze thank you !! Yes this song help me do just that 💯

    • @t-god2439
      @t-god2439 Před 24 dny

      @@stellaroze smh rap used to give us these messages

  • @ricodenis8126
    @ricodenis8126 Před 3 lety +359

    Cole made me come back to this one. One of Hip Hop best hooks. Monch killed that shit.

    • @kid5042
      @kid5042 Před 3 lety +6

      One of the dopiest hip hop songs

    • @Youtube_is_Trash
      @Youtube_is_Trash Před 2 lety +5

      Style going hard too, feel me? I know you are 👌🏾

    • @brown47million
      @brown47million Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, I was like, "is he really covering this track? Hell yeah!"

    • @rjhikups78
      @rjhikups78 Před 2 lety +3

      You can tell Cole really respects and reps the golden era legends

    • @j24575
      @j24575 Před rokem +1

      What’s the name of the j cole track that samples this

  • @eighty2snkrs
    @eighty2snkrs Před 11 měsíci +17

    Styles is the most consistent, never changed up, never had too!!!!

  • @georgenam6954
    @georgenam6954 Před 3 lety +704

    Who here from J. Cole tryna remember the hook for my life and where he pulled it from. Legends never die.

  • @trentyates418
    @trentyates418 Před 3 lety +1115

    This beat epitomizes real hip hop in the early 2000s. Who else got this on they 2024 playlist

  • @standground8284
    @standground8284 Před 5 měsíci +2

    *I’m 36, Styles been my favorite street lyricist since I was kid in 1997!* The Ghost is legendary 🔥

    • @errolonbryant1723
      @errolonbryant1723 Před 21 dnem +1

      Same here I've listened to money power respect back in 98, I. Also 36

  • @ThumbsUpMike
    @ThumbsUpMike Před 8 lety +318

    One of the greatest hooks ever

    • @broadstbully97
      @broadstbully97 Před 8 lety +5

      Yup this and talib qweli and kayne just to get by

    • @markk1813
      @markk1813 Před 8 lety +1

      +brandon ADAMS kanye is a skirt wearing ass pu$$#!

    • @Kyle-bc7lo
      @Kyle-bc7lo Před 8 lety +7

      Hey say what you want about him now but this was 2002 Kanye when he was putting out some of the best music and "Just to get by" produced by Kanye and sung by Talib Kweli was an awesome song..

    • @teamdunklin
      @teamdunklin Před 8 lety +2

      +Mike DeSimone I agree. This is a hook that makes you feel something deepl.

    • @logansilver4200
      @logansilver4200 Před 8 lety

      +Mark k Kayne has extreme talent... Top 10 hip hop producers of all time too..

  • @MrMessyb
    @MrMessyb Před 4 lety +470

    This song will NEVER get old. Realness and truth never die

  • @gfys756
    @gfys756 Před 2 lety +50

    All-time banger. Styles P and Pharaoh Monch are legends. Listening for 15 years, time sure does fly.

  • @dburban613
    @dburban613 Před 15 dny +1

    Yo!! People slept on Pharaoh Monche!!🔥🎤

  • @prokeds8371
    @prokeds8371 Před 3 lety +252

    Pharoah should never be censored. His singing is so beautiful. I never knew he could sing. This song is my life. At 37 with kidney failure. Needing a donor. Looking for one is such a pain.

  • @Trill104
    @Trill104 Před 3 lety +5

    Iyatolla on the beat... Rawkus was a short lived DOPE label.

  • @kareemabdulwahhab6919
    @kareemabdulwahhab6919 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is one of the hardest songs I ever heard. I’m mad it never got that much play.

  • @MeezyTheKid99
    @MeezyTheKid99 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Classic Rap song and video by Styles P-(of The LOX Rap Group) and Pharoahe. For real. Yes.

  • @blajenkins2123
    @blajenkins2123 Před 9 lety +150

    Pharoahe kicked the sh*t outta this hook. Ghost murdered the track

    • @SamarIqbal1-2-1
      @SamarIqbal1-2-1 Před 6 lety +2

      Blaklex Jenkins in other words they soundly bombed the joint in true hiphop fashion! 😎

    • @ScottKazan
      @ScottKazan Před 6 lety +2

      Blaklex Jenkins the sky is blue. Money is green. That's all these guy do is kill their tracks

    • @kennyray3803
      @kennyray3803 Před 2 lety +2

      Yessssssss🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @baldemarvela8659
      @baldemarvela8659 Před rokem

      Alright so this what dope sounds like

  • @spectah24
    @spectah24 Před 9 lety +592

    After this i dont know how Pharoahe wasnt sought out to do more hooks for big artists. This hook really illuminated this record. Period!!

  • @micglow84
    @micglow84 Před 2 lety +3

    This used to get heavy rotation on BET n ESPN bk in the dayz...classic shit

  • @jarridbest6295
    @jarridbest6295 Před 3 měsíci +1

    They don’t know how good this is

  • @everettjohnsoniii3466
    @everettjohnsoniii3466 Před 7 lety +252

    2002-2003. Man, this album came out right after my mother died. A Gangsta and A Gentleman. To me his album was one of the greatest ever. He kept it real every track, My good friend was really into underground rap, always talking about Sheek, Jada, and Styles..Styles P, truly a great. Thanks for the song. Got me through some hard times.

    • @TruBlue357
      @TruBlue357 Před 6 lety +11

      Everett Johnson I know you posted your comment a while ago but sorry for you loss, This song is very deep! God Bless!!!

    • @mrtruthhurts2307
      @mrtruthhurts2307 Před 6 lety +4

      My God be with you

    • @phraze410
      @phraze410 Před 4 lety +6

      My home boy lost his brother right when this came out so we had my brother on repeat outside....nobody said nothing.....

    • @mefman9
      @mefman9 Před 4 lety +2

      Rest in peace to your pops. 🙏

    • @jaybucks2222
      @jaybucks2222 Před 4 lety +4

      R.i.p. to ya mom dukes fam.this actually came out the summer of 2001

  • @JeppeS782
    @JeppeS782 Před 2 lety +13

    Really glad that Verzuz made more people look into Styles P.

  • @coretruehiphophead540
    @coretruehiphophead540 Před 2 měsíci +1

    This joint had the streets in a rizzy

  • @jakblue7724
    @jakblue7724 Před 15 dny +1

    lol I just saw him sing this live on 4/20 at toasted jam 2024. My boy got old…

  • @jdmv0817
    @jdmv0817 Před 2 lety +71

    This song should have wayyyyyyyyyy more views, the fact that it doesn’t just shows how much ppl don’t know about real hip hop . This is as real as it gets.

    • @annuitcoeptis2928
      @annuitcoeptis2928 Před 2 lety +2

      Few are chosen🙏🏾

    • @eighty2snkrs
      @eighty2snkrs Před 11 měsíci +1

      Don’t forget this is a third party post, them some nice numbers if u look at it that way!

    • @freerell
      @freerell Před 10 měsíci +1

      Idk how many black people outright own the Labels. They put out what they want if we owned em more Songs like this would thrive we should and hopefully will own Labels outright frfr.

  • @Qahtanite
    @Qahtanite Před rokem +23

    One of the greatest songs i've ever heard

  • @OrIgInAlMan1914
    @OrIgInAlMan1914 Před 7 měsíci

    2023....STILL 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!! SALUTE to Styles P aka Pinero the Ghost, aka Holiday Styles!! He, along with Pharoahe Monch are 2 of my ALL TIME FAVORITE LYRICISTS!!!
    #BARZ

  • @MrMurray
    @MrMurray Před 3 lety +2

    Classic Hood Anthem

  • @timothyanderson1330
    @timothyanderson1330 Před 11 měsíci +3

    2023 my life is still all I have

  • @mariowalker9767
    @mariowalker9767 Před 7 lety +19

    REALIST FUCKING SONG EVER MADE! AMEN

    • @MASTERu75
      @MASTERu75 Před 7 lety +3

      I AGREE, I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE ON THIS 1.

  • @21GESE
    @21GESE Před 4 měsíci +2

    The hook goes hard af 🔥

  • @emilcooper2364
    @emilcooper2364 Před 3 měsíci

    Cole really knows hip hop man. I always get surprised when people don’t sample this song right here. There’s so many jewels in it

  • @michaeleccles-james6647
    @michaeleccles-james6647 Před 7 lety +291

    This deserves a few billion likes, what y'all listening too?

  • @diegoog3654
    @diegoog3654 Před 5 lety +79

    Who's here in 2019?
    Dis going straight to my "CLASSICS" playlist

  • @karljjr
    @karljjr Před 6 lety +2

    What we miss is the creativity of young brothas who made up their minds to tell their truth.

  • @eugenedavis6792
    @eugenedavis6792 Před 4 měsíci +2

    I was at Ground Zero for 4 weeks when I was in the Army National Guard I heard this track on the FM Radio, It relaxed my nerves after seeing so many bodies that jump out the windows of the Twin Towers.

  • @tanyagbc1764
    @tanyagbc1764 Před 10 lety +70

    Weird how a song puts you back where u were. Just listened & not sure to smile or cry. Ya know?

    • @staygold9798
      @staygold9798 Před 4 lety +9

      Ive always felt that tgis song is bitter sweet ... It makes me sad .. But also makes me happy at the same time

    • @Mr-gx9dx
      @Mr-gx9dx Před 3 lety +7

      Me and my dudes were in the Navy playing basketball. This was the soundtrack to our Saturdays. LOVE THIS TRACK!

    • @marathongaming1877
      @marathongaming1877 Před 3 lety +2

      Emotions are real

    • @davehero3507
      @davehero3507 Před 3 lety

      4 ued 444

    • @mannytaylor6923
      @mannytaylor6923 Před 3 lety +1

      REAL SH#T...PEACE

  • @Purplemilk_689
    @Purplemilk_689 Před 2 lety +5

    Today is my birthday. I always listen to this on my birthday.

  • @jamesPD1
    @jamesPD1 Před 11 měsíci +2

    The swing on Pharoah's vocals make it sit in that pocket so well mannn

  • @NatureBoi53733
    @NatureBoi53733 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Real Hip-Hop will alway$, RULE 4 LIFE!!!! 😤🔥

  • @louisbrains
    @louisbrains Před 9 lety +6

    This is the illest song styles ever wrote.

  • @KrazyDave1978
    @KrazyDave1978 Před 9 lety +8

    This is hip hop. Not money or fame but, overcoming your struggles and surviving the game.

  • @BdoubleU24
    @BdoubleU24 Před 4 měsíci +2

    This beat and hook popped in my head randomly just now. So I looked it up and commented. 🤣 if you listening to this right now you know good hip hop music! 🫡

  • @pointreazonTV
    @pointreazonTV Před 7 měsíci

    Felt ! 💯 2023 I’m still listening
    Thank You Styles 💯
    Thank You Pharoahe 💯
    Thank You Producers🎵

  • @luisbroas422
    @luisbroas422 Před 6 měsíci +3

    My life is all I have ....

  • @Ayplus
    @Ayplus Před 9 lety +61

    Classical. . .classic . . .2000's Hip-Hop. Good ol' Rawkus Records.

  • @deekogangsta3587
    @deekogangsta3587 Před rokem +1

    Still playing this 2023❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️RR 5L

  • @ogmotherhustler
    @ogmotherhustler Před rokem +1

    2023 & still banging this AND I'm Black ✊🏾🇰🇪 ...♥️ The Sizzla version...Mario

  • @guyhill6269
    @guyhill6269 Před 2 lety +9

    Pharoahe Monche's chorus speaks to my soul.

  • @77Sherms
    @77Sherms Před 7 lety +48

    Pharaohe and Styles so slept on. please believe.

  • @aznph1l
    @aznph1l Před 8 měsíci +2

    fine wine baby 2023

  • @grxxvymax6025
    @grxxvymax6025 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Str8 classic memories 🪶🙌🏾💪🏾

  • @RealMusicLives33
    @RealMusicLives33 Před 4 lety +36

    One of the greatest songs ever

  • @centurysam6679
    @centurysam6679 Před 7 lety +759

    Censoring music is like walking into art museum and covering up nude paintings. Art shouldn't be compromised...

    • @RsKnDR0991
      @RsKnDR0991 Před 7 lety +48

      The US: where bad words are bad and guns are legal :) I think I once listened to a song where the word Damn was censored xD

    • @dblock2626
      @dblock2626 Před 7 lety +4

      Century SAM well said. but i smoke Backwoods

    • @toraw4tv1
      @toraw4tv1 Před 7 lety +1

      Century SAM to bad holiday, is strictly styles p now 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😤😭😭😭😭

    • @aipimpcalled2450
      @aipimpcalled2450 Před 6 lety +3

      I am my own filter , unless on CZcams

    • @jonathanheaden9982
      @jonathanheaden9982 Před 6 lety +4

      Century SAM FACTS!!!

  • @tru6579
    @tru6579 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I do! Play it in the whip! Everlasting music.

  • @WholeWorld100
    @WholeWorld100 Před rokem +1

    Real Rap played it to my son, told him this is what we came up on, and he fx wit it he’s 14 in 2022

  • @SweetChinMuzik1
    @SweetChinMuzik1 Před 5 lety +58

    Ayatollah the most criminally underrated producer ever

    • @musaka2022
      @musaka2022 Před 3 lety +3

      THIS

    • @TheFUNKSTARR
      @TheFUNKSTARR Před 3 lety +3

      Straight fucking facts! Massive fan of dude!

    • @Ayplus
      @Ayplus Před 3 lety +4

      This and Ms. Fat Booty alone

  • @jamartalmadge7247
    @jamartalmadge7247 Před 3 lety +17

    I miss these days real hip hop y'all young people respect this this is real music 🎶🎶

  • @mariusbleek
    @mariusbleek Před 3 měsíci

    2:42 DAMN Envy looks young there. This song is so familiar and feels like yesterday it dropped. But it was YEARS ago. I've never moved on from this era lol

  • @emmanuelchikumba7937
    @emmanuelchikumba7937 Před 3 lety +2

    j cole done brought this back to life.cole world no blankets mayn......

  • @essj3334
    @essj3334 Před 2 lety +3

    If you're listening to this in 2022 you definintely grew up in the golden era of Hip Hop.

  • @swagonmax
    @swagonmax Před 4 lety +23

    Now, this is Hip hop right here! Pure pure realness

  • @TheGhost8783
    @TheGhost8783 Před rokem +1

    You can’t edit a man’s art like this.

  • @ncstreetnews6145
    @ncstreetnews6145 Před 3 měsíci +1

    "My life is all I have"

  • @glennclark9100
    @glennclark9100 Před 6 lety +17

    This is soul touching music. If you can't feel this then you won't feel any song....EVER! One of the best tracks ever made.....clearly...no debating! Stays in heavy rotation...

  • @KashidRome
    @KashidRome Před 11 měsíci +3

    Classic Joint

  • @KhalikAllah
    @KhalikAllah Před rokem

    The women in this video are so reserved and classy. Real culture, real Hip Hop

  • @cliff5355
    @cliff5355 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Sheesh this song brings back instant memories and im grateful for them ❤️

  • @IvanaSantini
    @IvanaSantini Před 3 lety +24

    I had to come back to this after the new J Cole brought back such good memories.

  • @nicolasgarney
    @nicolasgarney Před 7 lety +30

    this is what the game been missing
    real rap meaningful lyrics and bomb ass beat with a sick chorus

  • @illel-zorro9527
    @illel-zorro9527 Před 3 lety +1

    Styles P is so underrated. The hidden gem of lox. Way better than overrated Jadakiss.

  • @lwamainsamushinge381
    @lwamainsamushinge381 Před 5 měsíci +1

    They say death is eternal sleep... But the only thing is you ain't really sure if you prepared for the bed... 🙆🏾‍♂️🔥🔥🎙️

  • @ny1984able
    @ny1984able Před 7 lety +17

    who ever disliked this tune they ain't lived in da hood

  • @LovelyTee2323
    @LovelyTee2323 Před 4 lety +10

    New rappers don't know how to spit education like OG's... #Classic

  • @Underdog271
    @Underdog271 Před 3 měsíci +1

    2024 this song is still fire 🔥

  • @Lantern08123
    @Lantern08123 Před 3 lety +23

    Thank you J. Cole for breathing new life into this masterpiece.

  • @cyrusshah6175
    @cyrusshah6175 Před 3 lety +28

    Listening to the J. Cole Track today? This will forever be classic...

  • @albinotv6468
    @albinotv6468 Před 2 lety +1

    This is why I'm alive. Real hip hop

  • @michaelbull4344
    @michaelbull4344 Před 8 měsíci

    Pharoe monch was so underrated

  • @mastervader218
    @mastervader218 Před 9 lety +58

    one of the greattes REAL hip hop songs out there!...shit gives me chills!

  • @guizaobernoldi
    @guizaobernoldi Před 8 lety +42

    One of the greatests Hip-Hop/Rap songs of all time.

  • @thortczodtcrhodie6364

    I saw Monch when this dropped. He was driving by and gave me 2 honks on his horn and said "What up man!". I was going back to Royal/Rurak that spring.

  • @Lesnewbold
    @Lesnewbold Před 11 měsíci +1

    Hip hop was something else, miss the originality it had. Glad I was around when it was at its best

  • @Oblig
    @Oblig Před 9 lety +32

    one of my favourite hip hop songs of all time right here

  • @DGreen-zh1fq
    @DGreen-zh1fq Před 10 lety +42

    Good track but bad memories.........This was the start of a 55 month vacation. What an unpleasant learning experience that was!

  • @chasidyjethro335
    @chasidyjethro335 Před 3 lety +2

    Classic...the off season brought me back here

  • @user-qc5jm2vb5n
    @user-qc5jm2vb5n Před měsícem

    This is what real music sounds like good music can never fade bumpin this in my whip #2024#

  • @baverfjant
    @baverfjant Před 8 lety +41

    This and Black Hand Side, we need these two to collaborate more often!

  • @uncvic1
    @uncvic1 Před 3 lety +5

    The intersection between backpacks and street dudes 🍻

  • @rayhanes1347
    @rayhanes1347 Před 3 lety

    Remember this on Rap City. These were the last days of mainstream hip hop. Now u gotta hunt for this type of sound, richness and soul, real hip hop

  • @IsaacVansoffthewallMcCormick

    “ Death is like internal sleep, but the only thing is your not sure if your prepared for the bed” 🙏🏾✔️

  • @RokzSide
    @RokzSide Před 11 lety +10

    We really need more rappers like him now. Big up from Poland!

  • @mefman9
    @mefman9 Před 4 lety +51

    Man I remember when this came out I was going thru some legal trouble. This song helped me get thru some tough times. 💙

    • @tracykozyra6319
      @tracykozyra6319 Před 2 lety +5

      Agreed! My fiance would play this all the time... God I wish he was still here. WE WILL REUNITE AGAIN JOSH

    • @sanyatesGRIA
      @sanyatesGRIA Před rokem

      Salute

    • @JaM-xg4vk
      @JaM-xg4vk Před rokem

      ​@@tracykozyra6319 rip Josh. I am sorry for your loss. This song got me through so much.

  • @RyuBlack93
    @RyuBlack93 Před 8 měsíci

    Still blasting this track in 2023 💯🔥🎶

  • @Youtube_is_Trash
    @Youtube_is_Trash Před 3 lety

    "You could not live with your new hip hop. Where did that bring you? Back to Style"

  • @wangboi69
    @wangboi69 Před 3 lety +10

    Who discovered these great musicians after hearing J Cole's "The Life". Off Season tho is straight 🔥🔥🔥

  • @jacobstough6238
    @jacobstough6238 Před 9 lety +18

    need more real hip hop like this in todays music. This came out when i was living outta my car hustling to eat as a teen. Its part of my lifes soundtrack. Hip hop soul. Classic.

  • @o-megasupreme1188
    @o-megasupreme1188 Před 11 měsíci +2

    LOTTA REAL HIPHOP STREET LEGENDS IN THIZ KLASSIK !!!! 💯💪🏿 #S.P. #THEGHOST #HOLIDAY

  • @ceezo3494
    @ceezo3494 Před rokem +1

    Still in rotation 2023

  • @carmencockfield4659
    @carmencockfield4659 Před 2 lety +3

    As a Yonkers native this album spoke to me then and now. Best rap album hands down 🔥🔥🔥