- ♪ In the city ♪ - Yeah.
- ♪ City of Compton ♪ (React laughs)
♪ We keep it rockin' ♪ - I can't not vote for Tupac
on this one. - I mean! - (React) Today, the west coast
and east coast are battling it out to see
who is the best coast for rap music. - (both) Ooh! - ♪ Get money ♪ I was always singing
background vocals. My friends wouldn't
let me rap. I was always like
Nate Dogg. - If I walked into a guy's apartment,
and he was playing this, I'd walk straight back out. (both laugh) - What? - This
ease to him...
- Is that Charli Baltimore? - I'd be like what kind of vibe
are you trying to set up here? - That's fair,
that's fair. - I actually haven't seen
a lot of these music videos. (Noah laughs) - Come on! ♪ Hey, hey, a ha ha ♪ - Make you wanna lean. - (laughs) Wow. - I love him. - I didn't grow to appreciate him
until later in life. - Uh-huh. - But I was just so entrenched
in the Tupac. - Yeah.
- I couldn't see past it. The rivalry, I just couldn't. Eighth grade was
a formative year fo
r me. (both laugh) - ♪ Fresh out of jail ♪
♪ California dreamin' ♪ - ♪ Soon as I step on the stage ♪
♪ I'm hearing hoochies screamin' ♪ ♪ Fiendin' for money and alcohol ♪ - Okay.
- I haven't seen this video either. Isn't that crazy?
- You've not seen this? - (Jayka) No, I literally haven't.
- This like Mad Max in the desert, just Dr. Dre, just,
they're all like in bondage and stuff. - Dude, Pac was so hot. (laughs)
- (laughs) Yes! - He's very handsome. (laughs)
- Oh, Tupac, he's amazing. - Thro
w it up, throw it up,
Daniel, throw it up. - You can't...
(laughs) - Throw it up, Daniel.
Westside! - I'm not gonna make
anybody cringe, we're gonna spare that. - ♪ Bow down to no man ♪ - Mmm.
- Yo! - Ooh, he is so fine.
- That is untouchable. - It's literally played everywhere,
it's so iconic. - Yo, Pac, man. (sighs) Yeah, this gonna be like
a nice little west coast win, I think. (both laugh) - (React) Between east coast
and west coast, where are we going
for this round? - Pac got that one,
th
at's west coast on that one all day. - West coast for me,
hands down. - Yeah. - Pac!
- Tupac! - You know, I grew up listening
more to Biggie. - Ooh.
- But... I'm gonna give it
to Tupac right now. - Gonna have to go with Tupac.
Westside! - I'm gonna have to do
Tupac as well. - He almost look like
my twin right there, too. I thought it was me
with the bandana on for a second. I was like yep,
I feel you. I'm with you, bro. - ♪ Broken glass everywhere ♪ - Oh no, yeah!
- Oh, I know this song! - ♪ B
uh-buh-buh-buh-buh ♪ - ♪ Can't take the smell ♪
♪ Can't take the noise ♪ ♪ Got no money to move out ♪ - Takes me back to
Everybody Hates Chris. - Puffy and Biggie redid this. - It looks so like, old.
(both laugh) - Actually, you hear this on TikTok. I hate how that's how
I know this song. - ♪ Close to the edge ♪ - ♪ I'm trying not to ♪
- ♪ Lose my head ♪ ♪ Ha-ha ha ha ♪ - ♪ It's like a jungle sometimes ♪
♪ It makes me wonder ♪ ♪ How I keep from going under ♪ - I feel like this song
gets so sampl
ed. - All the time!
- Oh my God! - This has been like sampled
and parodied so many times. - Mm-hmm.
- This is iconic. - See, I know it,
I was tripping myself out. It wasn't from TikTok,
it was from Happy Feet! - Yeah!
(both laugh) - ♪ Going down ♪
♪ Your eyes are closed ♪ ♪ But you hear the sound ♪ - I definitely have not
heard this before. - No. Oh, but I do like the visual. - ♪ Young in age ♪
♪ But old in sinnin' ♪ - It's very '80s. - I remember my uncle
listening to this. I remember this. -
Damn. - His skunk was bunk.
That's some [censored] weed. Or swag weed.
Swaggy. - If you remember the movie,
House Party, this seems like something that
they would be playing in that. - Oh. - Ooh! - Okay!
- I like this! - I mean, that's a bop though. - This is why no one
was fat back in the day. - ♪ I can't stand it ♪ - Oh!
- That was good! - She killed that!
- Mm-hmm, that was good. - That's like where
pop music is now. - Right? - Like rap chorus with like,
super banging hook. - Is he the first
guy to be like
okay, I'm gonna get a pretty girl who can sing, and she's
gonna do the hook. - Yeah.
- That's what's gonna happen. - She sounds pretty.
- Yeah, she does. - Like, she probably is pretty.
- You know! - Not a bad song.
- Not a bad song. I do think I have
an answer already though. - I'm going east coast.
- East coast on that one. - (React) Okay! - If we're actually talking
about the music, I would say I preferred
Captain Rapp. - (both) Grandmaster Flash. - Okay, good.
- Yeah, you hav
e to, you gotta go... - Yeah, you can't.
- That was quality. - Yeah, dude! - Grandmaster Flash.
- I think the east coast wins. That was good.
- Yeah. - For me, it's Grandmaster Flash.
- Really, I see. - I like the way that he
disguises, not that I don't want to hear
what the social problems are that he's experiencing, but I think
that Grandmaster Flash had just a way of appealing
to the masses too, still to get that
message out there. - West coast is more bumpy.
- It is more bumpy. For me, that
would usually
make it work more, but I think in this case...
- Yeah. - The Message
was a little better. - I'm like damn.
♪ The world is flying around us ♪ ♪ But this [censored] ♪
♪ Is going hard ♪ (laughs) - ♪ 1989 ♪
- Come on! - ♪ Sound of the funky drummer ♪
- Oh! - ♪ Music hitting your heart ♪ - I love the outfits.
I am living for it. - Was that Flavor Flav?
- Yeah dude, I was gonna say! - Flavor Flav! - Wow, so young!
So young! (laughs) - I swear to God,
he looks the same. - (laughs) Yes. -
I'ma bump this
all the way back home. I'ma be sweating by the time
I get back to my house. - I used to be so scared
of him when I was a kid. - Oh! - I love this, 'cause it was
just saying so much against the censorship
of rap, like in the '90s too, like, just white people suck,
and we just weren't ready for just like oh, this hip hop
is a bit too much! - That was a movement, too,
by the way. I remember my mom and my dad
used to be like going heavy with that,
super duper heavy. Yeah, that was...
I'd be knocked out.
Fight the power! Can we turn this down, please?
(both laugh) - ♪ Straight outta Compton ♪
♪ It's a crazy brother ♪ ♪ Named Ice Cube ♪
- Ice Cube! - ♪ From the stupid dope gang ♪
♪ With an attitude ♪ - His son looks
so much like him. - Absolutely. - Yeah, the genetics
are strong. - They are. - It's just too good!
- It's so good! I love Ice Cube!
- I literally can't! - His evolution is crazy.
- Facts, yo. He really, like...
180'd that thing, man. - ♪ They wanna rumble ♪
- Hey!
- ♪ Mix 'em and cook 'em ♪
♪ In a pot like gumbo ♪ ♪ Going off on everybody like that ♪ - He looks just like him. - ♪ With bass that's ♪
♪ Droppin' in your face ♪ - Yep.
- Look at Dre. Look at young Dre. - It's so funny to like...
- Peace! - Think about how influential
they were. - Danny, you're not giving! - I'm sorry, I'm like thinking about
them as like a group, and their music.
- You need to serve! - It's good [censored]. - Wow, now that I live in L.A., I'm like, this is,
it's so classic L
.A. You always see the architecture
and everything, it's just like okay,
I get it now. - Through everything
that we've seen, everyone has been just
communicating their real life experiences,
and that is, I think, what people want
from their artists. - Mmm. - Is just a complete honest
portrayal of their life. - I grew up in East L.A.,
so I was like around South Central, East L.A., Compton,
like those areas, is where I spent
my childhood. - Wow. - So seeing even like the clips
of where he's walki
ng around, I'm like that's my home,
you know? - Westside! - Yeah, we gotta
go westside on this one. N.W.A. that's too good. - (both) N.W.A. - I love Ice Cube though,
I gotta give a shout out to Mr. Ice Cube!
- I do, but we gotta give it... - Yeah, but we're going with....
- To Public Enemy, man. - I'm sticking with
the west coast. - Like, it is west coast,
best coast still. - I'm definitely for
Fight The Power, but that...
♪ Duh ♪ - Ice Cube's just too good
in that one. - Yeah. - ♪ Now we're
the stars ♪
♪ Of stage, wax, and video ♪ - Yes, the hair!
- (laughs) Yes! - ♪ Pump it up ♪
♪ This is high powered stuff ♪ - This is just like
such an old school beat. - Oh yeah.
- So funny. - ♪ Funky go-go-go rhythm ♪ - Hey! - Damn, this is going hard!
(Noah laughs) - ♪ Boy, we no game ♪ - I love it.
- ♪ Large is how we're living ♪ - Mm. - This looks like they shot this
at like a school auditorium. - ♪ And I'm the fella ♪
♪ With the hi-top fade ♪ ♪ Get down to the sounds ♪
♪ You know we're bout
to turn it out ♪ - Hey! - ♪ Roll with Kid 'n Play ♪
♪ Everybody shout ♪ - ♪ Oh-la, oh-la, hey ♪ - ♪ Oh-la, oh-la, ayy ♪
♪ Oh-la, oh-la, oh ♪ - Yeah, I've not heard
this song before. - My cousin, like I was Play,
and he was Kid. And he used to rock
the big 'fro like that. - Aw!
- And I had my low little cut. - (React) Have we done
the Kid 'n Play kick step, at least once in our life?
Oh. - It's okay,
I'm gonna help him out. Here.
- Okay. - Step back.
- Okay. - And then you hit it again here.
- O
kay. - Step back, and this time,
we're gonna hold, and we're gonna turn
one, two, three, yeah! We killed it!
(both laugh) - ♪ Can't touch this ♪ - This is a classic!
You can't compare! - No! - Yeah, look at those pants,
that's what I'm talking about! - ♪ My, my, my ♪ - ♪ Can't touch this ♪ - ♪ Musics hits me ♪
- ♪ So hard ♪ ♪ Makes me say ♪
♪ Oh, my Lord ♪ ♪ Thank you for blessing me ♪
♪ With a mind to rhyme ♪ - This song is just
incredible though. I'm sorry, it's better.
It's better! - I need
some of those pants! - You didn't own a pair
of Hammer pants, like me? - No, I never did.
- I had zebra Hammer pants. - ♪ I told you homeboy ♪
- ♪ Can't touch this ♪ - ♪ Yeah, that's how we living ♪ - What Daniel?
♪ You can't touch this ♪ Oh!
- Yeah. - Oh, oh!
- She's just going! - It's not even
a competition. - (React) Have you guys ever
done the Hammer Time? - Oh for sure.
- Like, attempted it, yeah. - I wanted the pants
and everything, man! - Yeah, just like the...
Just some of this. (Jayka l
aughs)
There you go, there you go. Just a little snippet for you. - (React) We have Kid 'n Play
on the east, MC Hammer on the west,
who we picking? - You ready?
- Three, two, one. - (both) MC Hammer. - We're on the same page again.
- Yeah. - MC Hammer! - I gotta say MC Hammer. - MC Hammer for the win! - Yeah, Jair said it.
Jair said it. - I gotta go with
MC Hammer. Like, west coast for that,
just for his time in history. He was iconic, like everybody...
- Mm-hmm. - He had his own pants, like ev
erybody had to
have the pants. - ♪ Cooling by day ♪
♪ Then at night ♪ ♪ Working up a sweat ♪
♪ C'mon girls ♪ - Yeah! (laughs) - ♪ Let show the guys that we know ♪
♪ How to become number one ♪ - They're just so cool!
(Corey laughs) - Dude, they had the choreo too!
- Yeah, and the outfits are on point! - ♪ Push it ♪ - This is perfect for if
you're taking a dump. - Push it! - I first heard this song
on In Living Color. - Push it. ♪ Push it real good ♪ - Hey!
The choreo, you were right! - ♪ Nah-nah-
nah-nah ♪
♪ Bah-nah-bah-bah ♪ - Ooh, she dropped it back! I'm not as flexible
as I used to be. - I'm sorry,
how old are you? (Jair laughs) - Damn, that was good!
- That was energy! - That was fun. - That, push it, like little
synthesizer, whatever. - It's ingrained.
- It's ingrained in my head forever. Like that will never, ever
leave my brain. - ♪ Supersonic ♪ - I knew it!
- ♪ Supersonic ♪ - J Fad, okay. And they're even kinda dressed
like Salt-N-Pepa too. - Yeah. - I've heard this before. - I
feel like this comparison
is not fair in the slightest, God! - They low key fly, too. - Yo!
- I like these 'fits. - Dude, the style back then,
bring it back! - Mm-hmm! - ♪ World ♪
Hey! - ♪ Supersonic ♪
- Supersonic! - 'Cause this is, Fergie,
she sampled this. ♪ Fergalicious ♪
Right, yeah, yeah, yep. - Come on, y'all see them dunks?
She started shoe game, too? - I love that move,
that move was always... (laughs) On the ground. Any dance routine had to
include that when I was like nine. I was like
I gotta do
the knee move. - I just knew it from Fergie.
- I didn't wanna speak for you. Yeah, you knew it from Fergie.
- Yeah, I knew it from Fergie. ♪ I was like F to the E-R-G ♪
- ♪ The I, the E ♪ - That's so funny,
'cause that is. She did, low key,
take that. - (React) Where are we going? - We're going east coast.
- I mean... - No, it's east coast. - ♪ Supersonic ♪
I was kinda feeling that! - I love Supersonic.
- Right. - I would bop to that
every day, but I'm going with
the east coast tod
ay. - Facts, I knew it!
We on the same page! - Yeah, yeah.
- We on the same page. - (both) Salt-N-Pepa! - Salt-N-Pepa.
- You know what, yeah. - Salt-N-Pepa's here.
- It's gonna be east coast for me. - You're going east coast!? - Alright, I guess we're gonna
go east coast. Will you throw up
an east coast for me? East coast! - No, we're not going that either.
- East coast! - ♪ Yeah, if you feeling like pimp ♪ - ♪ Go and brush your ♪
♪ Shoulders off ♪ - He's so much younger there. - ♪ Go and brush
your shoulders off ♪ ♪ [Censored] is crazy baby ♪
♪ Don't forget that boy told you ♪ - ♪ Get that dirt off your shoulder ♪ - (laughs) It's so funny. - I wore one of those hats
in college all the time. - 'Cause they don't make videos
like this no more. - Get it, get it Daniel. - ♪ Middle finger to the [censored] ♪ - Come on, Dame! That's when they were
buddy-buddies. - Mmm! - ♪ All the ballers is bouncin' ♪
♪ They like the way I be leanin' ♪ - He's just showing up
with Sway in the morning. He's
just dropping a track. It just looks like he's at like,
a radio station right now. - Literally so casual. - This is like on my playlist.
- Yeah? - Yeah dude, I love Jay-Z. - I need to add it to my playlist
if it's not there already. - Ah! (laughs) - ♪ Dre ♪
- ♪ What up Dogg ♪ - What up Dogg?
(Daniel laughs) - That was really good!
(Jair laughs) - ♪ City of Compton ♪ - Oh my God, they're so young!
It's so weird! - Yeah, it is weird. - ♪ Bow wow wow ♪ - That's a style I gotta
bring back, y'all. I
gotta bring back
the legwarmers with the tights. - God, he's so young! - Okay, you've seen
this before? - Yeah, I have seen this.
- (Jayse) Yes, okay. - ♪ Sylvia got my back ♪
- Oh! - ♪ 'Cause if I slip ♪
♪ Then I'm slippin' ♪ - He's always just been
permanently old in my mind. (Jair laughs) - (React) Who, Snoop Dogg?
- Yeah! - He doesn't even have
the ball-balls in his hair. - He barely has
any facial hair! - (laughs) He's looking like
a chihuahua back there. - This one's hard,
and you know wha
t? We might disagree on this. - Three, two, one.
- (both) Jay-Z. - Oh!
- Ah! - Oh, east coast baby. - One, two, three.
- West coast. - I was gonna say Dre.
(both laugh) - I literally gotta go
with Dr. Dre. - She was like for my mom.
- For my mommy. She's done it,
she's educated me. - I'm just gonna have to
go west coast. That song, I have known
my entire life. - You grew up with
a G-Thang? - Yes, for whatever reason,
that's the one song so far, that's been played...
- What!? - Other than Califor
nia Love. - I'm also picking Dr. Dre, just because his impact
on my life personally. I mean, it's The Chronic,
it's Doggystyle, it's The Chronic 2001,
he launched Eminem. I mean, it's like ah,
he's done so much. - Something about Dre's sound
is just so satisfying to me. - Yeah, it's something sonically,
he was able to capture our attention for a great period of time, and made sure that it was gonna be
nostalgic, even during the time, it was like we knew we were living
in a great moment when it
came out, and then to now relive that, it's like you get the same feeling
every time. - Thanks for watching
this episode. - Which coast had the best
rap music? Let us know below! - Be sure to subscribe
for more REACT videos! - (both) Bye! - I voted for east coast
far more than I thought I would. - And Daniel, since you rep
west coast so much, could you throw it up
for us once? - No, we're not doing that.
I'm not gonna embarrass myself. - Westside! - There you go,
Jair took care of it.
Comments
For Biggie, they should've done some of his more famous songs like Hypnotize or Big Poppa vs. California Love. I think it would've been more competitive.
Doesn’t matter whether you’re East Coast vs West Coast but what should be clear is hip hop back in the day is SOOOO much better than the majority of what comes out now
Both bring so much to the table. Would have loved to see DMX, Wu-Tang, Redman/Method Man, Missy Elliot, Luda, A Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Queen Latifah, and so many more.
Y’all did East coast dirty. A west coast channel that played California Love vs Get Money. Why not play Hypnotize or Big Poppa a more iconic Biggie song.
Ummm east coast? Where is nas? Where is wu tang? Where is mobb deep? Foxy brown? Lil kim?????
For me growing up in the 90s, I didn't know West and East Coast. I just knew it was Rap. It's all Rap to me.
Y’all did east coast DIRTYYYYYY so many classics that they would’ve known and could’ve easily been better
Daniel and Jair are literally the black cat and golden retriever duo I love them 😭
First off, as a Pac fanatic, you know damn well y'all shoulda chose a better Biggie song......where was Big Poppa? Hypnotize? That was a b.s. comparison. Secondly, I loved this format. Let's see South vs Midwest.
“Lookin’ like a chihuahua back there” LMAO, Jaïr is sooooo funny😂🫶🏽
As for the east coast I think the song selection could have been a bit better
No Wu Tang, Lauren Hill or Nas? Doin the east coast dirty.
The difference between Daniel's and Jair's reactions are amazing to see!!
As someone from the west coast. You guys did the East cost 0 justice with these comparisons lol
Tribe called quest, llcoolj, queen latifah, de la soul,….still jamming to them
they did east coast dirty on this one
Great episode. But it’s a crime y’all didn’t put wu tang clan and death row up in this. Do a part 2 if possible
WEST COAST - GANGSTER RAP EAST COAST - LYRICAL POETRY RAP
We're not even going to address that that is Noah Grossman from Smosh lol.😂
Whoever selected the tracks needs to listen to more East coast stuff. Half ass selection man.