Highest chart position was #82 in June 1983 (US chart) Didn't enter the UK chart as far as I know. In my opinion an underrated track with great lyrics.
So, you're against freedom of speech ? Which is what all music is supposed to be about. And are you conveniently ignoring the fact that this song contains both the B word and N word in it ? Also, another Hip Hop song from this same era that was released a year after this one had swearing in it, which contained the MF word, it's called "The Roof is on Fire" ( 1984 ) by Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three.
When Rap was Genuine, and actually teaching something culturally accurate. "Nobody loves me, nobody cares, I dream about life, but I'm living in a nightmare" true to this day.
Not totally true, actually the song New York New York has been sampled many times by various rap artists and singers so it gave an insight and an understanding about that part of New York and a lot of people that's not from New York had never been in New York know about that's my take so you say it's not one of the best songs in history I can partially agree with you on that but the song turned out it's several cash check out the dog pound check out that's all I know the dog pound and one other guy has sampled it but a bearish people that sampled it and a couple of them had did pretty good on the sales...
one of the top five songs of hip hop... i remember when it first came out... i was awe struck... the verses about the girl and the baby brought tears to my eyes... monumental piece of work...
Absolutely. This exists from New york city to the smallest cities in India. When it comes down to it, it's survival. It's not all life and death , sometimes it's scraping together just a few dollars.
@@TheSpecialTimes well not exactly.... not every city is a city of dreams... and the more crowded the city the more easy it is to get lost in the sauce - so small cities don't fit it either
where in Manhattan? and what year? when it started it was mostly a Bronx thing. Though the Lower East Side and Harlem were places in Manhattan you would see
I wore out this cassette til it broke in a few places back then. Taped it back together with scotch tape. I hadn't heard it for a long time. So glad I found it.
Agreed. You really understand the lyrics in the verses more when once you reach that middle-aged point in life. Then realize that these were kids barely in their 20's when they wrote these songs.
The bass licks are what got me hooked on this song when I was in my early teens...it rips even still 35+ years later.....theses guys, Sugar Hill and Curtis Blow cut a path for all other 80$ rappers that followed....what history! My fun teen years and fond memories. Thumping the bass grew poplar in the 80$ and it still sounds good to me.
Geminai Jamminay Yeah this is that real social commentary about life in New York city during the Reagan era. This song and The message are really the most powerful and most influential songs ever with Tupac's "Brenda's Got a Baby".
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.
Amazing song! Never lived in New York but visited a number of time. I love New York but I think it's easy to get a hint of something more lurking beneath all the glitz and the glamour.
So original to a genre! The electronic synapse and spot-on rhyme meter sends a resounding message to this old Country/Bluegrass fan. Few Rap/Hiphoppers can replicate this unique composition! Need to get subsidies for Brooklyn Bed Sty/Williamsburgers to vacation at Apache/Ute "Reservations" out west, and Kansas farmers to see what rough inner-city life in Detroit/West Baltimore is like. Then we come together more unified!
I swear that when listened, this song I move to that time, same year of this release and I see everythings of 80's ambient. The clothes, the old technologies, builds, square cars, mainly Caprices taxi crossing the streets. Looks like so real.
Yup, crazy how they were even using synthecisers back then, same shit they do nowadays, loud sound, the recipe is the same but nowadays it's a lot of dumb talk lol but it's amazing how timeless this is, the Blueprint 🙏🙏
Grew up with this song in Sweden back in the early 80's. Kind of the same situation today 40 years on in Stockholm. If New York was bad in the 70-80's what have we learned in the world several decades later? Other than the music, I guess not much. But music inspiration is great and often times for the good. Great rhymes my bros! Love you
fühl mich wieder zurück in meine Jugend...haben das zeug ganzen tag gehört....aber die texte nicht wirklich verstanden...aber wir haben breakdance versucht....war geil...
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.
@@yandunker4273 I dont know too much about that. Just because in the western hemisphere demographic numbers are reducing does not mean this happens worldwide. Außerdem brickst du den deutschen Vibe hier haha :D Die homies haben es verstanden!
This was back when rap still had some funk ... Real electric guitar, real drums coupled with a few drum machine sounds, real bass guitar; after that, it became all about ''sample this, sample that'', and repeat it over and over again ... most especially in the early 1990s (even Run DMC and the like did it)
Cow Boy is dead since 1989, and Kidd Creole became a simple car park attendant - in New York of course - after the ''GrandMaster Flash'' adventure was over ... Just to show you how life is cruel in the music/show-business industry, after the fame has passed (anyways life IS cruel, period; in the showbusiness or not, in New York or anywhere else). Not too long ago, he got mad at a bum who insulted him, calling him a fag, something like that; or they say the bum made homosexual advances, it remains obscure what was the reason, actually; but one thing is for sure : Kidd Creole stabbed him. He is now in jail, and will probably never get outta there ... Sad ending, huh !?
“A baby cries and a mother dies And the tears fall from the doctor’s eyes ‘Cause in this room, on this day The Good Lord has giveth and taketh away” Just wow…
Its not god. Too much? Too many people? NorthAmerica and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.
@@yandunker4273 - The day the government made Mom go to work, is when North America started it’s down slide. This generation has no respect for their parents, authority, or anyone. They think there’re entitled to anything they want, and get offended by everything. This country is also being overrun with illegals by the millions, and the government is granting them benefits, drivers licenses, healthcare, and basically everything our veterans SHOULD be getting. This country is heading towards being a third world nation, and it’s getting their quick. And I agree with all the sheep believing this fake virus “epidemic”. It’s just a different strain of the flu, and the government controlled media has everyone believing their bullshit with highly inflated death counts. I know someone who died in a motorcycle accident, and they try listing his death as a corona virus death. Sheep, will be sheep!!!
The message & this one.. Two of the best most important beginnings of hip hop. Mel & Duke. Inspiration! R.I.P. Duke! There would be nothing without these guys! RESPECT!
No disrespect to RunDmc,but these guys introduced hip hop and rock.Wanna talk about the essence of real instruments, without all the crazy samples that you hear to take away from the raw lyrics......Love dis shit man,for real!
Melle Mel doesn’t get enough credit for his contributions to hip hop. I only learned recently that he was the main MC and Grandmaster Flash was the DJ.
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die. In fact NorthAmerica and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate! In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single. In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began. In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations. ... and many people believe this scam.
original genius first OG this is still bumbin in my head like it was yesterday this like never stop be for my better than everthing today is about the layrics and nessage behind only if new sound !!!old school is legandary never dies forever !!!
grew up in an industrial city in Germany ... was the only one who was listening to that music when i was 15 .... they looked at me in a very strange way 🙃 but i loved every song from them. Had a friend who brought me some vinyl directly from NY then ... no official recordings as far as i remember .... no idea where he got them from ... but yes ---- i just loved that music .... beside computer games they taught me English ... still getting goosebumps these days when i listen to them again ... hahaha and the girls liked it too then ... knew all the lyrics when they finally played them in the clubs and they asked "oh u know all that?" ... worked well 😁
I was there too. I heard it on KSFX out of SF of all places. A station that played primarily hard rock, but tossed in the occasional soul or new wave album, and of course, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Oldschool rules! I had this tune on vinyl back in the days! We are not alone - at all! Cheers from Sweden! I'm 60 and alive and kicking - peace! Doug Wimbish!? A million thank's for upload phil x! God bless! And hot damn (!) give us more!
Now this is what I'm talking about! Nothing like that "Good Old-School" there baby! It's Very Intellectual. And you can Understand Every Word!! Now what y'all younguns know about this?!!
I'm 16, german and I love oldschool origin-/ underground-/ alternative hip hop, it's everything I'm listening to all day, almost every day. Even if the most of todays youth doesn't know anything about good music,... don't judge too fast.
I live in Northwest Alabama and I use to pick up stations out of Memphis, Tn. and this is where I heard this. Love this song! Very deep song. Too Much Too Many People!
That's how it was for many in NYC in the early eighties. I grew up there in the sixties and went back in the 2000s for med school. I don't plan on ever returning.
Thank you for this post. Awesome song who's lyrics expressed the disorders of the times back in the day. Unfortunately things haven't changed almost 30 yrs later.
New York New York, big city of dreams And everything in New York ain't always what it seems You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law and I know my way around Too much, too many people, too much (aha-ha) Too much, too many people, too much, Raaah! A castle in the sky, one mile high Built to shelter the rich and greedy Rows of eyes, disguised as windows Looking down on the poor and the needy Miles of people, marching up the avenue Doin? what they gotta do, just to get by I'm living in the land of plenty and many But I'm damn sure poor and I don't know why Too much, too many people, too much Too much, too many people, too much! A man's on a ledge, says he's gonna jump People gather round, said, "He won't he's just a chump" ?Cause he lost his job, then he got robbed His mortgage is due and his marriage is through He says he ain't gonna pay no child support Because the bitch left him without a second thought He got nothing to eat, no shoes on his feet She even left his clothes out in the street He keeps hearing noises when he's at home He always hears voices when he's all alone His wife took the kids, the car and the crib In this man's world, so much for Women's Lib New York New York big city of dreams But everything in New York ain't always what it seems You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law, and I know my way around Down in the Village, you might think I'm silly But you can't tell the women from the men sometimes They're sugar and spice and everything nice But when you get ?em home ain't no telling what you find Right next door is a little old man I seen him eating dog food out of a can He says, "I got to eat, when I can't afford meat I barely can stand, on my own two feet I got a bad habit and I just can't break it Something?s on my mind and I just can't shake it I need some time, and I want some space I gotta get away from the human race? Too much, too many people, too much (aha-ha) Too much, too many people, too much! Raaah! Staring at a skyscraper reaching into heaven When over in the ghetto I'm livin' in hell Just play ball or be an entertainer 'Cause niggaz like me can't read too well Nobody loves me, nobody cares I dreamed about a life but I'm livin' in a nightmare Paranoid schizo, set back, snowbound Bad news psycho, heart attack, breakdown! Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, HUH! If only I could sleep just ten more minutes I might find the strength to make another day If I didn't have to get up and do my thing I would probably sleep my whole life away I messed up a nice dream, somethin' bout ice cream Whipped cream, fruits and a cherry on top Now I gotta get up and face the world, huh The pressure is on, It ain't never gonna stop I sho' gotta learn to use my mind I don't want to be kissing nobody's behind Just standin' on line lookin' like a jerk Gotta get off my butt and do a full day's work I ran into a pothole, got into a car crash Should?a been thinking and tried to fake whiplash A crowd gathered round, they're callin' me fat Who you lookin' at with a face like that? New York New York big city of dreams Everything in New York ain't always what it seems You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law and I know my way around On 42nd Street, lookin' for some action Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction One young punk just leaning on the fence Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents Really is a prankster, tried to be a gangster Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands Just did a stick-up, just got picked up One dead punk, killed by the man New York New York big city of dreams And everything in New York ain't always what it seem You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law and I know my way around Too much, too many people, too much (ha ha ha ha) Too much, too many people, too much! Huh! A baby cries and a mother dies And the tears fall from the doctor's eyes Because in this room, on this day The Good Lord has giveth, and taketh away, huh! The gift of life really means a lot And in the ghetto your life is all you got So you take to the streets, trying to exist In the trash and slime of a world like this What you watch on TV tells you what life is supposed to be But when you look outside the only thing you see Is the poverty stricken reality, Heh! Abandoned places, angry faces Much hate and hunger throughout the races You say, "I'm grown and I'm on my own So why don't everybody just leave me alone!" Now you stay at home, talking on the phone Doin' ninety miles an hour in the fifty mile zone They never took the time to tell you ?bout sex So you had to learn about it in the discotheques Nine months later, the baby is there And the Nigga that did it said, "I don't care!" You don't have enough money to help feed two So you have to choose between the baby and you The sky was crying, rain and hail When you put your baby in the garbage pail Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid And you tried to forget what you just did, Huh! The muffled screams of a dying baby Was enough to drive the young mother crazy So she ran in the rain trying to ease the pain Huh huh, And she drove herself insane New York New York big city of dreams But everything in New York ain't always what it seem You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law and I know my way around Too much, too many people, too much (haha ha ha) Too much, too many people, too much! HUH! New York New York big city of dreams But everything in New York ain't always what it seem You might get fooled if you come from out of town But I'm down by law and I know my way around Too much, too many people, too much (haha ha ha) Too much, too many people, too much
The Interesting thing is "Americans" hear this and hear creativity, "Sick beats" and a style, they do not hear PAIN!!! They do not hear Humans in pain, what we were doing was connecting what we were experiencing on one coast to those on the other and connecting dots in relation to our common struggles. This foundational expression was a voice of a voiceless people, they disregarded then and now the humanity in the people, only hear what appeals and discard the reality in the lives of others, The innocent so Called African-americans, here as a result of Human Trafficking, there is a solution..Follow the Drinking Gourd!!
Im proud the be the third person to comment. This track is not just a song it is a PIECE OF MUSIC HISTORY. The youth of today have no clue about songs like this. Songs like this is what built rap music.
This is what rap is supposed to be. Actual musicians and not a single "F" word. I remember picking up this on vinyl when it came out.......in 1983!
So, you're against freedom of speech ? Which is what all music is supposed to be about. And are you conveniently ignoring the fact that this song contains both the B word and N word in it ? Also, another Hip Hop song from this same era that was released a year after this one had swearing in it, which contained the MF word, it's called "The Roof is on Fire" ( 1984 ) by Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three.
You should check out some NZ rap & hop hop as it's still like that
When Rap was Genuine, and actually teaching something culturally accurate. "Nobody loves me, nobody cares, I dream about life, but I'm living in a nightmare" true to this day.
Hip Hop geniuses right here! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
How is this not the most popular song in the history of hip-hop?
Not totally true, actually the song New York New York has been sampled many times by various rap artists and singers so it gave an insight and an understanding about that part of New York and a lot of people that's not from New York had never been in New York know about that's my take so you say it's not one of the best songs in history I can partially agree with you on that but the song turned out it's several cash check out the dog pound check out that's all I know the dog pound and one other guy has sampled it but a bearish people that sampled it and a couple of them had did pretty good on the sales...
Factz Of Life
Well, there is also a very popular song The Message, by the same band/Gang.
It should be. I grow up with sex pistols and grandmaster flash.
We 're going to the 2nd week-end in 2022..looking for that Taï restaurant with waterfall on their walls. I 've been there once..
this type of hip hop should make a come back in 2020, getting tired with modern music.
@Nate-O- Nation Well where is it
Funk was even better ... when made well.
one of the top five songs of hip hop... i remember when it first came out... i was awe struck... the verses about the girl and the baby brought tears to my eyes... monumental piece of work...
If you pay attention to the words... this song described many cities across America..... I love this song
Not correcting grammar but ... describeS.
Absolutely. This exists from New york city to the smallest cities in India. When it comes down to it, it's survival.
It's not all life and death , sometimes it's scraping together just a few dollars.
@@TheSpecialTimes well not exactly.... not every city is a city of dreams... and the more crowded the city the more easy it is to get lost in the sauce - so small cities don't fit it either
well most cities in America didn't have sky scrapers back then... most weren't overcrowded either.
@@hanstun1 hans ziz iz just a typo, relax..
First ever trip to Manhattan, and got to see Breakdancing for the first time! It went mainstream about 1 year later.
where in Manhattan? and what year? when it started it was mostly a Bronx thing. Though the Lower East Side and Harlem were places in Manhattan you would see
NICE!
LMAO
Over 30 yrs and this is still applicable today. Grandmaster Melle Mel one of the best ever!
It's even over 40 years now, and still great!❤
That guitar piece is perfect!
Adoro
E quero conhecê-los
There's much guitar
"...In my opinion an underrated track with great lyrics." Absolutely agree!
Totally agree 👍
Agree wholeheartedly
This was the cut , a master piece , hold value still till this day,
I wore out this cassette til it broke in a few places back then. Taped it back together with scotch tape. I hadn't heard it for a long time. So glad I found it.
Greatest rap song of all time in my opinion. Way ahead of it's time. Even better than The Message in my opinion
Message has that one verse though, sets it apart from everything else. Neon King Kong standing on my back...
Fair enough
Agreed. You really understand the lyrics in the verses more when once you reach that middle-aged point in life. Then realize that these were kids barely in their 20's when they wrote these songs.
The bass licks are what got me hooked on this song when I was in my early teens...it rips even still 35+ years later.....theses guys, Sugar Hill and Curtis Blow cut a path for all other 80$ rappers that followed....what history!
My fun teen years and fond memories.
Thumping the bass grew poplar in the 80$ and it still sounds good to me.
that's Doug Wimbish
The bass turned my head - it still does.
This song is telling some serious story behind... You should play it more often people!
Geminai Jamminay Yeah this is that real social commentary about life in New York city during the Reagan era. This song and The message are really the most powerful and most influential songs ever with Tupac's "Brenda's Got a Baby".
@@russelladams7134 "the Message" was almost like a sequel to this
yessir
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate!
In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single.
In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began.
In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations.
... and many people believe this scam.
@@russelladams7134 Reagan was the greatest president ever tho.
Good old times, my friends used to practice breakdancing in the 80's
Amazing song! Never lived in New York but visited a number of time. I love New York but I think it's easy to get a hint of something more lurking beneath all the glitz and the glamour.
So original to a genre! The electronic synapse and spot-on rhyme meter sends a resounding message to this old Country/Bluegrass fan. Few Rap/Hiphoppers can replicate this unique composition! Need to get subsidies for Brooklyn Bed Sty/Williamsburgers to vacation at Apache/Ute "Reservations" out west, and Kansas farmers to see what rough inner-city life in Detroit/West Baltimore is like. Then we come together more unified!
maybe...I doubt it though,unfortunately
I swear that when listened, this song I move to that time, same year of this release and I see everythings of 80's ambient. The clothes, the old technologies, builds, square cars, mainly Caprices taxi crossing the streets. Looks like so real.
Yup, crazy how they were even using synthecisers back then, same shit they do nowadays, loud sound, the recipe is the same but nowadays it's a lot of dumb talk lol but it's amazing how timeless this is, the Blueprint 🙏🙏
Looking at New York from the bottom up - It's hard. Great song. Sugar Hill is a real hill, in Harlem.
Yeah but the sugarhill gang are from New Jersey but they started their carrer in the bronx thats why NY always shouts out Jersey in these songs
they were pioneers!! everybody copied them but they wont admit it!
EXACTLY, PIONEERS BEFORE THEY WERE CALLED LEGENDS.
Grew up with this song in Sweden back in the early 80's. Kind of the same situation today 40 years on in Stockholm. If New York was bad in the 70-80's what have we learned in the world several decades later? Other than the music, I guess not much. But music inspiration is great and often times for the good. Great rhymes my bros! Love you
Cheers from Gothenburg!
In my opinoion lyrics sharper than "the message"
this one no.1
You are No1 Vanessa.
Close
Melle Mel, a fucking poet....
What do you think R.A.P. stands for you already awnserd the last part for yourself.
fühl mich wieder zurück in meine Jugend...haben das zeug ganzen tag gehört....aber die texte nicht wirklich verstanden...aber wir haben breakdance versucht....war geil...
Ging uns nicht anders :-) War einfach nur eine geile Zeit^^
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die! In fact N.America and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate!
In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single.
In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began.
In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations.
... and many people believe this scam.
@@yandunker4273 I dont know too much about that. Just because in the western hemisphere demographic numbers are reducing does not mean this happens worldwide. Außerdem brickst du den deutschen Vibe hier haha :D Die homies haben es verstanden!
I remember this, classic hip hop.Prophetic
Visionaries.
This was back when rap still had some funk ... Real electric guitar, real drums coupled with a few drum machine sounds, real bass guitar; after that, it became all about ''sample this, sample that'', and repeat it over and over again ... most especially in the early 1990s (even Run DMC and the like did it)
Cow Boy is dead since 1989, and Kidd Creole became a simple car park attendant - in New York of course - after the ''GrandMaster Flash'' adventure was over ... Just to show you how life is cruel in the music/show-business industry, after the fame has passed (anyways life IS cruel, period; in the showbusiness or not, in New York or anywhere else). Not too long ago, he got mad at a bum who insulted him, calling him a fag, something like that; or they say the bum made homosexual advances, it remains obscure what was the reason, actually; but one thing is for sure : Kidd Creole stabbed him. He is now in jail, and will probably never get outta there ... Sad ending, huh !?
“A baby cries and a mother dies
And the tears fall from the doctor’s eyes
‘Cause in this room, on this day
The Good Lord has giveth and taketh away”
Just wow…
Its not god. Too much? Too many people?
NorthAmerica and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate!
In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single.
In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began.
In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations.
... and many people believe this scam.
@@yandunker4273 - The day the government made Mom go to work, is when North America started it’s down slide. This generation has no respect for their parents, authority, or anyone. They think there’re entitled to anything they want, and get offended by everything. This country is also being overrun with illegals by the millions, and the government is granting them benefits, drivers licenses, healthcare, and basically everything our veterans SHOULD be getting. This country is heading towards being a third world nation, and it’s getting their quick. And I agree with all the sheep believing this fake virus “epidemic”. It’s just a different strain of the flu, and the government controlled media has everyone believing their bullshit with highly inflated death counts. I know someone who died in a motorcycle accident, and they try listing his death as a corona virus death. Sheep, will be sheep!!!
It's heart-stopping stuff. Makes me go cold all over.
reading books gets everyone out of the ghetto.keep reading regardless of the internet
Resources and money gets you out the Ghetto. Unfortunately both are scarce.
both@@DjTIMEJD
New York, new York and the message are my favorites. We had problems at least we didn't have Corona virus.
No but there was the start of the AIDS outbreak in the 80s
Tha Dogg Pound Gangstas say..... RESPECT!!!!
This way before the dogg pound
@@sactownloc9165 czcams.com/video/SL58erspGtw/video.html
Respect
@@sactownloc9165 everyone knows. Dogg pound sampled this track to show respect and love for New York, but it was taken the wrong way by some
The message & this one.. Two of the best most important beginnings of hip hop. Mel & Duke. Inspiration! R.I.P. Duke! There would be nothing without these guys! RESPECT!
You can feel the dusk and city lights in the music. Amazing song.
Found the full record diggin in my father in laws collection
New York.. Electro was born there ;D
And the Bronx can tell stories ..
I LOVE THIS!!
This got me into breakin'
Deep.... WORLDWIDE 🙏🙏🙏✊✊
Forgotten classic, the real NewYork.
2:33 first time the wonderful word was used in a song in rap/music HISTORY. -_-
No disrespect to RunDmc,but these guys introduced hip hop and rock.Wanna talk about the essence of real instruments, without all the crazy samples that you hear to take away from the raw lyrics......Love dis shit man,for real!
very first rap i ever heard... love it...
Havent heard this in YEARS...PEACE TO MELLE MEL
Melle Mel doesn’t get enough credit for his contributions to hip hop. I only learned recently that he was the main MC and Grandmaster Flash was the DJ.
Melle Mel is awesome though.
The lyrics are as relevant today as there were in 1983. Last verse is deep.
yes it was
Ha, they made people believe this " Too much? Too many people". Not realizing that they have to die. In fact
NorthAmerica and Europe is dying. 1.3 birthrate!
In the 50ies the men did work raising three children, mother at home, but building a house, having a huge car, in the 70ies mother had to work too for keeping life standard or living as single.
In the 90ies living on credit card and dept began.
In 2020 they made fear of Covid and start with mass-vaccinations.
... and many people believe this scam.
@@yandunker4273 quiet nazi
@@yandunker4273 word up bro, didn't expect a comment like that randomly here though
Last verse is mental
The first Rap album I ever bought...no downloads, no itunes no ipods,and no internet and we still did the damn thing!
Great Song from the 80`s Thank`s
original genius first OG this is still bumbin in my head like it was yesterday this like never stop be for my better than everthing today is about the layrics and nessage behind only if new sound !!!old school is legandary never dies forever !!!
Love this song. Had it on vinyl. Been looking for years. Thanks brought back good times memories for me.
Woke up singing this chorus. Haven't heard it since I was 12 and had no idea it was this deep. Wow!
I heard this back in 1983, found it again . Fantastisk. Very good lyrics.
Living in Toronto now and still listening to this
Eine echte perle best of 80s ever
Ja Mann!!!
Mell hands down greatest mc . Greatest ever past and present. His lyrics are so deep and true.
Fantastic. One of The Best Hip-Hop Tracks.
*Eastside Low Bottoms sh*t !*
_Tappin' in from South Central LA_
The definition of "reality rap".
🤜🏾💥🤛🏾
i still know every word of this song by heart. shame there is no video to accompany it. imho their best work...
Gotta pay homage to all the artists came from NYC the Meeca of hip hop.
what a vibe...amazing
grew up in an industrial city in Germany ... was the only one who was listening to that music when i was 15 .... they looked at me in a very strange way 🙃 but i loved every song from them. Had a friend who brought me some vinyl directly from NY then ... no official recordings as far as i remember .... no idea where he got them from ... but yes ---- i just loved that music .... beside computer games they taught me English ... still getting goosebumps these days when i listen to them again ... hahaha and the girls liked it too then ... knew all the lyrics when they finally played them in the clubs and they asked "oh u know all that?" ... worked well 😁
Grüss Gott!
i was 14 when this came out
Aaron Waugh me too
This song is before its time. It is what America is going through right now! It's just more in our face! It's just not all relocated to NY anymore.
I feel the 80'👍
Folks this is hip-hop crawling out of the primordial sludge. And I was there to see it first hand. The 12 inch of this AWESOME.
It would be dope if New York Artists covered this song as a tribute.
I was there too. I heard it on KSFX out of SF of all places. A station that played primarily hard rock, but tossed in the occasional soul or new wave album, and of course, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
54 years ahead of their time. Please come back with conscious music to wake the world up!
Grandmaster flash is a genius so many great songs
Classic Hip Hop. No swearing, just rapping about how it was, and still is...
Sugarhill New York, newyork
Bought this in 1983 when I understood Latin better than English HAHA
My gen. Bought the ep.
Relistened recently.
So good. Very deep.
listened billion times...
...and more.
better than rappers delight
Sugar Hilll Records
Of course
Oldschool rules! I had this tune on vinyl back in the days! We are not alone - at all! Cheers from Sweden! I'm 60 and alive and kicking - peace! Doug Wimbish!? A million thank's for upload phil x! God bless! And hot damn (!) give us more!
Hip hop the way it's supposed to be! These guys are still the best even after all these years....
These are
the roots 😍
that kick drum tho!
Great song!
learned the whole song in like 10 min its a good song im a teen..... at 12 i learned this in music class
I still have all these albums on 12'.
Grandmaster Flash - New York New York.
Now this is what I'm talking about! Nothing like that "Good Old-School" there baby! It's Very Intellectual. And you can Understand Every Word!! Now what y'all younguns know about this?!!
I'm 16, german and I love oldschool origin-/ underground-/ alternative hip hop, it's everything I'm listening to all day, almost every day.
Even if the most of todays youth doesn't know anything about good music,... don't judge too fast.
Classic from my high school days!!
2018 and I Still know all the words . Crazy
I live in Northwest Alabama and I use to pick up stations out of Memphis, Tn. and this is where I heard this. Love this song! Very deep song. Too Much Too Many People!
New York still keeps the history alive, amazing to still see kids Flippin and dancing on the trains.... 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🗽🗽🗽
lyrics are true and awesome
40 years later nothing's changed
dope lyrics..relates to the times today.
Great memories from back in the days!
After all these years....I still love this rap song.
That's how it was for many in NYC in the early eighties. I grew up there in the sixties and went back in the 2000s for med school. I don't plan on ever returning.
Thank you for this post. Awesome song who's lyrics expressed the disorders of the times back in the day. Unfortunately things haven't changed almost 30 yrs later.
New York New York, big city of dreams
And everything in New York ain't always what it seems
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I know my way around
Too much, too many people, too much (aha-ha)
Too much, too many people, too much, Raaah!
A castle in the sky, one mile high
Built to shelter the rich and greedy
Rows of eyes, disguised as windows
Looking down on the poor and the needy
Miles of people, marching up the avenue
Doin? what they gotta do, just to get by
I'm living in the land of plenty and many
But I'm damn sure poor and I don't know why
Too much, too many people, too much
Too much, too many people, too much!
A man's on a ledge, says he's gonna jump
People gather round, said, "He won't he's just a chump"
?Cause he lost his job, then he got robbed
His mortgage is due and his marriage is through
He says he ain't gonna pay no child support
Because the bitch left him without a second thought
He got nothing to eat, no shoes on his feet
She even left his clothes out in the street
He keeps hearing noises when he's at home
He always hears voices when he's all alone
His wife took the kids, the car and the crib
In this man's world, so much for Women's Lib
New York New York big city of dreams
But everything in New York ain't always what it seems
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law, and I know my way around
Down in the Village, you might think I'm silly
But you can't tell the women from the men sometimes
They're sugar and spice and everything nice
But when you get ?em home ain't no telling what you find
Right next door is a little old man
I seen him eating dog food out of a can
He says, "I got to eat, when I can't afford meat
I barely can stand, on my own two feet
I got a bad habit and I just can't break it
Something?s on my mind and I just can't shake it
I need some time, and I want some space
I gotta get away from the human race?
Too much, too many people, too much (aha-ha)
Too much, too many people, too much! Raaah!
Staring at a skyscraper reaching into heaven
When over in the ghetto I'm livin' in hell
Just play ball or be an entertainer
'Cause niggaz like me can't read too well
Nobody loves me, nobody cares
I dreamed about a life but I'm livin' in a nightmare
Paranoid schizo, set back, snowbound
Bad news psycho, heart attack, breakdown!
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh
Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, Huh, Hee, HUH!
If only I could sleep just ten more minutes
I might find the strength to make another day
If I didn't have to get up and do my thing
I would probably sleep my whole life away
I messed up a nice dream, somethin' bout ice cream
Whipped cream, fruits and a cherry on top
Now I gotta get up and face the world, huh
The pressure is on, It ain't never gonna stop
I sho' gotta learn to use my mind
I don't want to be kissing nobody's behind
Just standin' on line lookin' like a jerk
Gotta get off my butt and do a full day's work
I ran into a pothole, got into a car crash
Should?a been thinking and tried to fake whiplash
A crowd gathered round, they're callin' me fat
Who you lookin' at with a face like that?
New York New York big city of dreams
Everything in New York ain't always what it seems
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I know my way around
On 42nd Street, lookin' for some action
Women standing on the corner selling satisfaction
One young punk just leaning on the fence
Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents
Really is a prankster, tried to be a gangster
Real big wheel when a gun is in his hands
Just did a stick-up, just got picked up
One dead punk, killed by the man
New York New York big city of dreams
And everything in New York ain't always what it seem
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I know my way around
Too much, too many people, too much (ha ha ha ha)
Too much, too many people, too much! Huh!
A baby cries and a mother dies
And the tears fall from the doctor's eyes
Because in this room, on this day
The Good Lord has giveth, and taketh away, huh!
The gift of life really means a lot
And in the ghetto your life is all you got
So you take to the streets, trying to exist
In the trash and slime of a world like this
What you watch on TV tells you what life is supposed to be
But when you look outside the only thing you see
Is the poverty stricken reality, Heh!
Abandoned places, angry faces
Much hate and hunger throughout the races
You say, "I'm grown and I'm on my own
So why don't everybody just leave me alone!"
Now you stay at home, talking on the phone
Doin' ninety miles an hour in the fifty mile zone
They never took the time to tell you ?bout sex
So you had to learn about it in the discotheques
Nine months later, the baby is there
And the Nigga that did it said, "I don't care!"
You don't have enough money to help feed two
So you have to choose between the baby and you
The sky was crying, rain and hail
When you put your baby in the garbage pail
Then you kissed the kid and put down the lid
And you tried to forget what you just did, Huh!
The muffled screams of a dying baby
Was enough to drive the young mother crazy
So she ran in the rain trying to ease the pain
Huh huh, And she drove herself insane
New York New York big city of dreams
But everything in New York ain't always what it seem
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I know my way around
Too much, too many people, too much (haha ha ha)
Too much, too many people, too much! HUH!
New York New York big city of dreams
But everything in New York ain't always what it seem
You might get fooled if you come from out of town
But I'm down by law and I know my way around
Too much, too many people, too much (haha ha ha)
Too much, too many people, too much
Thank you, I was able to get the lyrics 🌠
Very underrated indeed! For me it's a clear #1 hit! Like The Message!
This song still has relevance in today's society !
The Interesting thing is "Americans" hear this and hear creativity, "Sick beats" and a style, they do not hear PAIN!!!
They do not hear Humans in pain, what we were doing was connecting what we were experiencing on one coast to those on the other and connecting dots in relation to our common struggles. This foundational expression was a voice of a voiceless people, they disregarded then and now the humanity in the people, only hear what appeals and discard the reality in the lives of others,
The innocent so Called African-americans, here as a result of Human Trafficking, there is a solution..Follow the Drinking Gourd!!
heard this in Montreal.wow
Im proud the be the third person to comment.
This track is not just a song it is a PIECE OF MUSIC HISTORY.
The youth of today have no clue about songs like this.
Songs like this is what built rap music.
They really were the pioneers of these Street Tales....
I really like this song-- great music, and deep lyrics
R.I.P to the great Duke Bootee
Came on the car radio yesterday what a belter !
Did my first German speaking birthday rap on the 12" instrumental in 1987. Horrible mix, but a lot of fun for the girl friend in those days.