- ♪ It's the hard knock life ♪
- Okay, Annie, what? (laughs)
- ♪ It's the hard knock life ♪ ♪ For us ♪
- ♪ Instead of ♪ - ♪ Treated ♪
- ♪ We get kicked ♪
- It's Jay-Z! (both laugh)
I know so much!
- (React) Does Gen Z Know '90s Hip Hop?
- Yes. - Totally.
- Blah, yes.
- Oh! - Okay!
- The '90s. (both laugh)
- I mean. - Oh, me?
Obviously! - Let's find out. (laughs)
- No.
- ♪ One, two ♪ - ♪ Three and to the four ♪
- Oh, Snoop!
- Oh, Snoop Dogg. - Snoop Dogg?
I only knew 'cause they said his name. (laughs)
- Oh my God.
- Do you know it? You're like vibing to it.
- Ain't Nothing But A G Thang.
- It's probably the name of the song, isn't it?
- Yeah. (laughs)
- I've never seen him look this young!
- I can't stop looking at the cars!
- I mean, I'm used to seeing him on like the Martha cooking show, right?
- (React) Who was in this video?
(Paulina laughs)
- (laughs) He spelled his name. - Snoop Dogg?
Yes, Snoop Dogg. (both laugh)
- D-O-G-G. - Oh, G!
- (React) That is Snoop Dogg, but who else was it?
- Dr. Dre? (laughs) There you go.
- When I think of Beats headphones. - Yeah. (laughs)
- It was very chill,
which I feel like a lot of Snoop Dogg songs are very chill.
- It's a chill, yeah. - I like it, it's very good.
- It's a slow ride.
- (React) You guys ready for the next one?
- Yes. - Mm-hmm.
- (React) But before we get into it,
let's do some trivia!
- Ooh. - Oh yeah.
- (React) After you stop and drop, what should you do next?
A is roll, B is hands up, C is shut 'em down, open up shop,
or D is hand over license and registration.
Why'd you pick shut 'em down, open up shop?
- 'Cause it's the longest. - It just, it was...
Well, I didn't go like that route.
- Shut 'em down, open up shop, baby!
- (React) C! - Is it C!?
- Ah, I knew it!
- Yeah! - Yay!
- (React) You've heard the song before?
- Sure have.
I don't know who it is though.
- ♪ Stop, drop ♪ - Drop.
- Who is that artist?
- ♪ Stop, drop ♪
- DMX! (bell rings)
- Hey!
- ♪ Oh ♪
- I forgot he's '90s.
- Oh my gosh, the camera angle.
So '90s.
- Oh, Eve!
- I don't know why I'm feeling like there's a lot happening,
and I'm just not processing it all.
- Yeah. (Jack laughs)
I'm just like nervous for them. - (Jack) Yeah.
- On the wheelies.
- DMX was huge!
- ♪ Snitches wanna lie ♪ - What?
- ♪ Snitches wonder why ♪ - What?
- ♪ Snitches wanna die ♪ - What?
♪ Where the hood, where the hood ♪ ♪ Where the hood at ♪
- (React) So you know DMX? - Yes.
- (React) Do you guys know the artist DMX?
- Heard of.
- DMX be on that (barks). - Is it because they do that...
- He barks! - Oh, okay.
- He's literally like (growls).
(Paulina growls) (both laugh)
- Woo! I like this one.
- Hey! (laughs)
- ♪ Soon as I stepped on the scene ♪ ♪ I'm hearing hoochies screamin' ♪
♪ Fiendin' for money and alcohol ♪
- This is more my style.
- Can you name who this is though?
(both laugh)
I'm like, I know the hit, but I don't know who this is.
- And the set is so cool too.
- It looks like EPCOT. (both laugh)
- ♪ Let 'em recognize ♪ ♪ From Long Beach ♪
- Long Beach, baby!
My grandma's from Long Beach! (laughs)
- ♪ California ♪ - Ooh!
- ♪ Knows how to party ♪
- ♪ In the city ♪
- I wanna go to like a party, and just like jump up and down,
and like, with the crowd. (Jair laughs)
- (React) So we do know this song?
- Yes. - Absolutely.
- And I actually have watched that music video.
- (React) Who's our main rapper in this one?
- I'll go first. 2Pac.
(bell rings) There you go.
- Tupac Shakur!
- I feel like it's not 2Pac.
- (React) It is 2Pac. - Oh yeah, okay!
- (React) This whole idea, the whole Thunderdome, and all that,
that's inspired by Mad Max.
- What's it called, and then, driving out onto the desert.
That's Mad Max. - (React) Mm-hmm.
- It's like Coachella.
- Yeah, honestly. (laughs)
- Coachella! - They're at Coachella right now.
(both laugh)
- ♪ Get money ♪
- Who is that?
- ♪ Get money ♪ - I know this one.
- I don't know what they're saying. ♪ Get on it ♪
- ♪ You wanna sip mo' ♪ ♪ On my livin' room flo' ♪
- Oh, it's Biggie, okay.
- ♪ Play Nintendo ♪ ♪ With Cease and Nino ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪
- Is Biggie also west coast? - (React) East coast.
- East coast? Okay.
- I love this! - I've definitely heard this song.
I feel like it was on TikTok or something recently too.
- (React) He goes by a few names.
Notorious. - Big?
- (React) Yes! - Oh, okay, yes!
- Biggie is another one of those lyrical geniuses.
- I'm so used to seeing like, listening to hip hop
and like collabs with actual singers,
that I always expect there to be like a melody.
But I like this style too.
- ♪ As I walk through the valley ♪ ♪ Of the shadow of death ♪
- ♪ I take a look at my life ♪ ♪ And realize there's nothing left ♪
- ♪ 'Cause I've been blasting ♪ ♪ And laughing so long that ♪
♪ Even my mama thinks ♪ ♪ That my mind is gone ♪
- I would still listen to this song, like to this day,
and I feel like such a badass. (laughs)
- ♪ That's unheard of ♪ ♪ You better watch out ♪
- I don't know who that is. (laughs) I know the song.
- ♪ You and your homies ♪ ♪ Might be lined in chalk ♪
- ♪ Been spendin' most our lives ♪
- ♪ Livin' in the gangsta's paradise ♪
- Oh, I know this one!
- ♪ Been spendin' most our lives ♪ - Is this called Gangsta's Paradise?
- ♪ Livin' in the gangsta's paradise ♪
- I'm just gonna be like ♪ Ah ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪ (Jack laughs)
- I know of the song.
- Give me the first letter. - (React) C.
- I was gonna say Coolio, but it's not Coolio.
- (React) It is Coolio. - It's Coolio.
- The person? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- (both) Coolio.
- (React) Are you guys ready for trivia?
- So ready.
- (React) Everything that you heard, the melody, the chorus,
that's actually taken from another song,
and that song was recorded by which artist or group?
A, we have Stevie Wonder, B, The Jackson 5,
C, Donna Summer, or D, Diana Ross and the Supremes.
- I feel like that's a vibe that Stevie Wonder would go for.
- I said D or A, but I think it's D.
- We love that.
- It was between the two, so.
- (React) I'm going to reveal this answer to you
in this next clip. - (both) Okay.
- I... (sighs) (Lucas laughs)
- Ooh, I know this one.
- ♪ Paradise ♪
- ♪ Been spending most their lives ♪ - I knew it.
- Ooh, I love Stevie Wonder, he has the most beautiful voice.
- Oh, come on, choreography. - Ah.
- What's her name? Ugh!
- You got it.
- Superfly, I know her!
- ♪ Me, I'm supa fly ♪
- I love this! - Same.
- And the fish eye lens. - And the fish eye, yep.
- I'm here for the trash bag outfit. (laughs)
- I love that outfit! (laughs)
- Ooh, I love the outfits. It's just like...
- Oh, yeah, that was her thing. - (Paulina) Divine.
- She's such an icon.
- That's fire!
- The colors, it's giving like yellow M&M, red M&M. (laughs)
- Who is this?
- First letter? - (React) M.
- ♪ You get our styles tangled ♪
- Missy, Missy Elliott! Woo!
- (React) How do you know Missy?
- I just listen to her music,
and one of my dance teachers was one of her backup dancers.
- (React) Wow. - Woah.
- Is Missy Elliott the one that Alyson Stoner danced in?
That was like her breakout,
she was a big dancer in one of the videos or something?
- (React) Yes!
- I feel like this song is more for like a kick back sort of thing,
where you're just kinda chilling.
- Yeah, kinda just nodding your head along,
and like smiling. - Mm-hmm.
- ♪ You ain't a [censored] ♪ ♪ Or a ho, here we go ♪
- ♪ U-N-I-T-Y ♪
- Who is this? I like this.
- Is it Queen Latifah?
- Oh my gosh! - Yes!
- It's giving like hold my earrings, I'ma fight, you know?
- I really like this, actually.
- I feel like you got it. - I've seen her!
- First name is Queen.
- But I can't name the song.
- (Jillian) No. - I know it's Queen Latifah.
- Queen Ma... - Queen...
- Ma...
- There's always either a motorcycle or a car.
- I know. - In the '90s.
- Queen La... - La, Latifah.
Ooh! (bell rings)
- That was so good! - It is really good.
- God, what is happening to me? - ♪ U-N-I-T-Y ♪
- What is happening to me? I'm like into it!
- (React) This is Queen Latifah.
- Oh! - Oh my God!
- I know the name, I did not know the song,
but I really liked it.
With the sax in the background, nice lyrics to go along with it.
That's what I look for.
- ♪ Just waking up ♪ - Ooh, why do I know this?
- It makes me wanna just like vibe.
- ♪ But today seems kinda odd ♪
- I don't know his name,
but he's in always like, action movies.
- I know this! I know this!
- Ice Cube, baby! (bell rings)
- Wait, actually?
- I was finna about to say Ice Spice.
(Jaime laughs) If I'm gonna be so honest.
- (React) What did you think of it? - I liked it.
- (React) Do you think of him as an actor first, or a rapper?
- Rapper.
- I only, like, picture him as like the actor.
- (React) Like Ice Cube said, today is a good day for trivia.
- Mmm. - Okay!
- (React) Ice Cube and Dr. Dre were in a group called N.W.A.
Ice Cube left the group in 1989 due to royalty issues.
The group made some jabs at him, and as a result,
he made a diss track.
What was the name of the diss track?
A, No More Games, B is Hit 'Em Up,
C is No Vaseline, or D, How Ya Like Me Now?
- Yeah, Vaseline does not...
- I don't think that one's the one. - I don't know. (laughs)
- How You Like Me Now?
- (React) It is actually C, No Vaseline.
(Jillian laughs) - No, really!?
- I just wanted to do ♪ How ya like me now ♪
Ugh! - Ooh!
- ♪ What a man, what a man ♪
- (gasps) I know this one!
(Carolina gasps)
- ♪ Mighty good man ♪
- Oh, it's so good! - Oh, you've heard this one.
- ♪ What a man, what a man ♪ ♪ What a man ♪
- I can't remember the name of this freaking group.
- I have no idea who this is.
- So good though.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
What is it, what is it, what is it? Salt-N-Pepa.
(bell rings) Mmm!
- ♪ What a man, what a man ♪ ♪ What a man ♪
♪ What a mighty good man ♪ But like, who?
- (React) Do we know what group?
- (sighs) I definitely do.
- (React) It's Salt-N-Pepa, and then the chorus was En Vogue.
- Oh, Salt-N-Pepa, En Vogue. - (both) Mm-hmm.
- I love their voices.
- ♪ Humpty Dance is your chance ♪
- Ooh, I love this!
- Not the Humpty! (laughs)
- ♪ Do the Humpty Hump ♪
- Oh my gosh, my dad listened to this.
- (Jillian) Ah!
- I don't know why I know this.
(Jack laughs)
- So your parents did listen to it when you...
- The Humpty Hump, yeah! - In '97.
- This is like early '90s.
This is like almost '80s, I feel like. - (Carolina) Yeah.
- ♪ And do the Humpty Hump ♪ ♪ And do the Humpty Hump ♪
- Oh my God, no, this is like bringing me back.
We'd be driving on the highway and my dad is looking at me,
he's like ♪ Humpty Hump ♪
- Was he like singing all the words? - Oh yeah!
- Oh my gosh! - And I was like please stop singing!
(both laugh)
- The hat too, like the little marshmallow hat.
(Jaime laughs)
- That was funny. - Yeah.
- (React) His name is Shock G.
Shock G or Humpty. - Hey, he's selling it.
- (React) He is a part of what hip hop group?
- I don't know the name.
- (React) This is Digital Underground.
You ready for some trivia?
- (both) Yes.
- (React) Digital Underground is notable for launching the career
of which rapper?
A is Jay-Z, B is 2Pac, C is Ludacris, D is Coolio.
- You go with what you know.
- My gut is saying two things.
- I solely went off of name. - Me too!
- Like solely went off of name.
- Jay-Z.
- (React) I'm gonna reveal the answer to you in this next clip.
- ♪ Just watch ♪ ♪ 'Cause my name is Shock ♪
♪ I like to rock ♪ ♪ And you can't stop this ♪
♪ 2Pac, go ahead and rock this ♪
- ♪ Now I clown around ♪ ♪ When I hang around ♪
- Oh, it's 2Pac!
- It's 2Pac?
- Really!?
- I...
- I didn't know 2Pac, what?
- Dang, we were really off.
- ♪ It's the hard knock life ♪
- Okay Annie, what? (laughs)
- ♪ It's the hard knock life ♪ ♪ For us ♪
- ♪ Instead of ♪ - ♪ Treating ♪
- ♪ We get kicked ♪
- It's Jay-Z! (both laugh)
I know so much! - Ah.
- But this is the original, or no? It's from like a musical.
- It's from Annie.
- That's Annie, the music, like the movie and musical.
- I was like did Annie make this, or did they make this? (laughs)
- (React) You've heard this song?
- I heard the remix version with Dr. Evil.
♪ Dah nah nah ♪
- Ugh, Jay-Z.
The freakin' GOAT. - Wasn't he dating Rihanna?
- Oh no.
- I thought he dated Rihanna. - No, he signed Rihanna!
- Signed Rihanna, married Beyonce. - He signed her.
- Are those bagpipes? Like what?
- It sounds like children screaming at that part.
(screams)
- ♪ Pack it up, pack it in ♪ - Who is it?
- ♪ Let me begin ♪
- I was about to ask you! (Jillian screams)
- ♪ Battle me, that's a sin ♪
- I don't know, is this Beastie Boys, I don't know.
No. (buzzer)
- I love the Irish accent.
- ♪ So get out your seat ♪ ♪ And jump around ♪
♪ Jump around ♪
- ♪ Jump, jump ♪
- ♪ Jump, jump, jump ♪
- ♪ Jump, jump ♪ - ♪ Everybody jump ♪
- I would jump, but...
- I wanna jump around. - Yeah.
I wanna feel like a little kangaroo.
- (React) This is House of Pain.
This was an Irish American hip hop trio.
- What?
- (React) Only two thirds of the group actually had Irish origin,
and even then, they were just from California.
(both laugh)
So you ready for your last trivia?
- Let's do it. - Yes.
- (React) This song was a smash hit when it came out.
But it was actually turned down twice
before House of Pain got their hands on it.
First was Cypress Hill,
and the next was which group or artist?
A is Snoop Dogg, B is Salt-N-Pepa,
C is Ice Cube, or D is Junior M.A.F.I.A.
- Salt-N-Pepa. - (React) And Snoop Dogg!
- Oh!
- (React) One of you is right.
- Is it me? - I hope it's Ice Cube.
- (React) That is Ice Cube.
- (both) Oh.
- Ice Cube! - It was Ice Cube!
- I knew it. ♪ Jump around ♪
Like, I could hear Ice Cube singing it.
I had fun. - It was fun!
- Trip down Memory Lane.
- Yeah, not for me though,
'cause I didn't know most of them. - Yeah.
- I honestly thought I wasn't gonna know anything,
but I did recognize a couple of these.
- I don't know too much about hip hop,
but it's really fun to just like, learn more about it.
I definitely need to get into it more.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- What's your favorite hip hop song from the '90s?
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- (both) Bye!