JAY-Z AND ROCAFELLA TAKE OVER HOT 97 (2001): PART 1
In 2001, way before people documented every single move of every single person every single day for youtube, a crazy invasion happened. The good old days when people actually broke records and artist on the radio. Jay-Z called Funkmaster Flex and told him that he wanted to bring all his new artist up and Blackout on the radio. I had a bullshit camera with me that day, but I was in the room that everyone was rappin in, so I got all the visuals but all the audio was all acapella. I finally tracked down the audio from the radio and linked it with the video. This is one of many parts I will be putting up. This shit is crazy.
- Cipha Sounds
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roc-a-fella 4 life
cabo - November 5, 2008 at 8:17 am
This is EXACTLY why I rock with you. You are in the game but you still have a fan’s love. I know you must have been GASSED that night. HAHA
You keep the heat coming. Quiet as kept you are part of the change thats coming in the game
G Ball - November 5, 2008 at 8:56 am
CLASSIC !
Daaamn I miss the old Jay…
Sindanu - November 5, 2008 at 8:56 am
got’damb.. cipha this is some historical sh*t you blessing us w/ right here.. True hiphop at its purest form, when RAPPERS used to black out on flex show b/c they knew that was the main outlet.
man_amazin - November 5, 2008 at 9:54 am
Yo i remember this ish….
“He’s only 15!!”
“All he had to do was walk a block and a half!”
“Stop playin all these happy beats. All theses xylophones and ish”
L.E.S. - November 5, 2008 at 10:05 am
I used to listen to this session alot back then. This was one of the great moments of Roc-A-Fella’s Dynasty years. Freeway and the rest of the cats from Philly was really a breath of fresh to the rap game and I think they changed the way average rappers started to flow. Even Jay-Z started to spit like Young Chris and would whisper certain lines etc. Rappers should really start to go to the radio to break their records again. There are alot of hot records that I still associate with Flex dropping bombs and doing cut-backs on them. Thanks for uploading the video.
Wet Knee Houston - November 5, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I remember this like yesterday
good look
korey - November 5, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Man you are crazy for putting this up here, i had this whole session on CD, and of course it doesn’t play anymore. I didn’t know that they had video of this. This was the first time I became an official Freeway Fan! you gotta put the rest of them up here
King Jamarr - November 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I have all this freestyles on my IPOD and listen to it all the time. My brother tells me that I’m living in the past but every time I listen to these freestyles its like I’m listening to them for the first time. This was a great time in hip hop and a great night.
BushwickMinded - November 5, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Cipha, I acutally want those in acapella, you know what a talented DJ like me could do with those? I put my email address in the comment window if you dont see it then post it up on dontgetgassed!
DJ - November 5, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks for posting that!!! Classic material right there!!! its a revelation to see what the video looks like, after listening to the track so much.
Can’t wait till you drop pt 2!
Che - November 6, 2008 at 9:58 am
Yo Cipha!
I give you much props on posting this video. This was such a special moment in my life because I remember sitting in my room that night listening to the radio when they was spitting. And I also remember Jay screaming the infamous line, “GET YA TAPES READY!”
When he said that shit, I went into a FRENZY trying to find a blank cassette tape to record that shit and I STILL have that tape TO THIS DAY!
Thank you once again for posting this, Ciph! I’ll be on the lookout for part 2!
SkankyRJ - November 6, 2008 at 4:42 pm
So wait wait wait…Ciph…u have had this video all this time and all u needed was the audio to sync it up and make it complete? Son do u know how long all of these freestyles have been floating around the Internet? Mad people have it. U coulda asked anyone. I play these all the time. Like it’s an album. Props for putting in the work to release these though. I didn’t even know video existed until now.
Dee Phunk - November 6, 2008 at 6:13 pm
@ dee phunk : you know im mad late on this blog shit. I had no reason to do anything with it. I forgot i had it. wait til I out the videos up from the TUNNEL night club…..some crazy shit there.
cipha sounds - November 6, 2008 at 6:19 pm
@ Cipha U INSTANTLY GOT ME HYPED. Wow. Now that’s something I would like to see as well.
I only went to the Tunnel once when it was *the* spot on Sundays. And that was enough for me. I’m not ashamed to say I was not built for that place. That night I got searched prison-style, escaped a near violent episode near the door when someone was heated that they couldn’t get in (I think he wanted to shoot the bouncer for real) and I watched someone get their ass TOSSED UP by security for starting an altercation inside. Security converged on him like the shadows in Ghost when they are about to take you to hell.
Dee Phunk - November 6, 2008 at 7:13 pm
please add part 2 im so hype i didnt know u took a vid i still rock this whole session
alcapone904 - November 6, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I got this shh on CD man. Cipha you did it with this one homeboy. Good looking.
http://www.myspace.com/cityboyradio
CityBoyRadio - November 7, 2008 at 5:10 am
YO I NEED THE ENTIRE FOOTAGE……………….EVERYTHING
JWILL - November 8, 2008 at 12:20 am
Damn my niggas got to get back together. they was fuckin unstoppable!!!!
Ill Will - November 8, 2008 at 3:27 am
My niggas!!!! Damn they need to get back. Fuckin unstoppable. Delaware stand the fuck up!!!!!
Ill Will - November 8, 2008 at 3:28 am
to BuschwickMinded or anybody else, where can i get the whole thing one mp3? help ya boy out, i gotta have this classic!
kingjamarr@yahoo.com
King Jamarr - November 10, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Yo Ciph stop BS*ing put up da full joint at least part 2.
G Money - November 10, 2008 at 3:59 pm
RI-DIC-U-LOUS!!.. Classic Sh!t Ciph.. being from Philly and hearin them BUMRUSH Hot 97 like dat was craaaazy!.. Half of Philly didnt know any of these dudes!.. State Prop.. The Streets Need You!!!.. Hearin Beans go right at Kiss neck all crazy just gave me goosebumps.. N!ggaz knew he wasnt playin!!..
Tippa - November 10, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I remember listening to this all the same night and someone… I think Young Chris breaking out the craziestttt freestyle ever… Wondering if anyone could help me find it… some lines I remember…
“Im good with rap better with triggers,
My money wont stop like a cab for ni**ers”
“My guns like Janet Jackson cause they out of control,
Dont got to go platinum just let me go gold,
Cause to your funeral its polo shirts and gold”
If anyone can help me out thatd be sick.
Nik - November 11, 2008 at 4:10 am
Roka fela (Tswana, 1 of south african language, meaning JUST ROCK). This is classical…feeling the beat all da way across the Atlantic down South of Africa…Johannesburg
Segokgo – spYda
Segokgo - November 12, 2008 at 9:53 am
it’s a damn shame siegel never got with jay’s “let me upgrade you” program. he’d a be a rich fat boy right now. instead, he’s fighting suicide.
citizenseph - November 13, 2008 at 1:30 am
OMG!!!….this was crazzzy. i remember the first time hearing this on the radio and i was only 19 at the time and i was chilling with my shorty bout to get lovey dovey wit her but once this came on i stopped everything…lol. cip u gotta put the whole joint up here man cause it only gets sicker
ray- breezy - November 15, 2008 at 8:35 pm
for those looking for the other parts of the video, did yall try clicking on the YouTube link?
that might help…
JAEHAD - November 18, 2008 at 7:20 pm
This is that ish I miss right here, that unintentional footage you know is gonna be priceless someday. You gotta post the rest of it fam, I need that fix. Lol
Goodmusicjunkie - November 19, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Cmon now niggas is feinin for this jank , People want the whole footage to download…this is a moment in history that people need to share with otha hip hop heads, and kids who neva witnessed the real history of the roc!! Somebody knows where the whole footage for download is at.?
Frank - January 28, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Niggas was def jam this brooklyn in ya mouth all day from the back in that. Jay put um together hope every body appreciated the work it aint easy. One.
Grey Business - June 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm