- ♪ 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 for 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.
- Throw 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, that'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!
- ♪ Buh-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 sampled.
- 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 have 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 walking 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. - Okay.
- 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 laughs) 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 everybody 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 today.
- 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 what?
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 California 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!
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- (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.