The Roots - What They Do (With Text)

This video must always be seen with the texts/captions.

This was a biggie diss but hes the goat 😒🤔🤣🤣

Surprised they didn't include the gratuitous over the shoulder ass shot. Damn near ever rap and a few r&b videos had that. 😏

lhm I remember now 😂 Shots 🪟🌨️

Can the text messages boost the grade?

B+

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The text is what makes the video hit wayyyyy more cause it’s shit that EVERYONE is doing 🔥🔥🔥

The Biggie subliminals are heavy…RIP

Glad y’all got the version with the text, I was finna be sick

I wish they did a part 2 for this video to capture the videos of today

What's GR8 about this? EVERYTHING. It takes the piss,& tells the truth simultaneously!!!!!!!

They chatting real-shit. Thx need thus for the souless ,BULLSHIT that is called HIPHOP Now!!!!!! God bless U Roots,& BIG UP Black Thought. 1 of GOAT 's no doubt.

99% have never heard, played or ever saw the label

1% have - Thank yourself for having a ear for hip hop

Heavy

Ps Peace to The Native Tounges and Power.

One luv O.G. brotha$.. in the streets we all deserve to push a big body beam'a.. People look at u$ Po hu$tla$ differently .. on my word..

THIS SHIT IS CORNY AS FUCK, THIS GETS NO PLAY IN THAT TEXAS THIS SHIT DON'T BUMP IN THE TRUNK

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Now this the original 🧊🏔️

That one light skinned guy with the Big Afro been in a lot of New York rappers videos. I think it was because of his fro and being light skinned 🤷🏿‍♂️💯😅

cats always running from something in 90s rap vids

This is the version I used to see. The captions make all the difference.

Samurai Sataman Smoke

2023

now!!! this the REAL version. bet people seeing this version for the first time understand the song better, especially if they weren't around during the era. emcee's was fighting to keep hip hop free from the "industry" shit. 😢y'all fought a great fight.

The video that pissed off half of hip hop.

This is the correct version of the music video. I don't know why one without the text even exists...

I remember this. They done what De la Soul was doing by subliminally going after rappers etc. I may be wrong but I for sure know it's a shot at Biggie, Nas, Digable planets and maybe deangelo, Mobb Deep, ,Puffy, and Maybe Wu.

How many came here after watching Drink Champs?

On Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. just said Nas told him: they was talkin about me. [Paraphrasing] N.O.R.E. was talking about the separation of Back Pack Hip-Hop & Gangsta Rap. Wow.

One of the best videos ever. I hate that there’s a version without the hilarious text.

Drink Champs 🏆 brought me here

Listen to the work of my brother FEELFOUND, he really needs support, he is trying. 💯

Is that Common in the video??

I'm mad the "no logos in the shot" shot has the logos uncovered.. for the unititated back in the 90s MTV was HEAVY on blurring out name brands in rap videos.

This is the only version of this video that should exist.💀😐

is it not strange that the original video with text has lesser views then the one without text with 15 million views.

Sad thing is mf's still do stupid videos like that

Beautiful concept

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I LOVE THIS VERSION WITH THE SUBTITLES

WHO ON EARTH PREFERS THE VIDEO WITHOUT THE SUBTITLES ... WHAT THE HELL

This video is dissing a lot of artists especially Jay-Z

Damn … I got goosebumps. Real hiphop

The part with the confused question mark symbols with the exclamation marks at the end is so classical hip hop exposure moment.

Great song Great video

Still one of the best hip hop videos ever:)

The west coast version of this is Paparazzi by Xzibit, two dope songs.