@gotjuice9 I'm not a big hip-hop fan but mos def actually made this song a little more interesting. I heard the original before this remix and I actually thought the song felt plain. Like eminem and dido, mos def helped goergia reach a bigger audience.
I'm usually not into hip-hop that much, but I really love how this song sounds! The chord progression is unique and beautiful, unlike the stupid I-V-VI-IV shit you would usually hear on pop-radio stations. Is this what Mos Def usually sounds like? If so, he has a new fan! :D
I bought all his CD's at an F.Y.E for a trip I was taking to vegas. The whole ride there I listened through all his albums. Gonna have to say this is the greatest rapper ever. And yes. CD's.
Okay listen, it really irks me to read a comment where people say there are no more real artists. Lil Wayne is an artist, Drake is an artist, hell even Gucci Mane is an artist. And don't fire at me saying they suck and I don't know real music. Yeah, they are no where NEAR as lyrically sound or deep as Mos, Nas, Pac etc. But they are artists and you CAN knock their lyrics but for God's sake, DO NOT KNOCK THEIR HUSTLE. No matter how much you hate it, they're going to be around for a while.
@patharris1996 Well said..HOWEVER, entertainers is what I prefer to call them..all have a shelf life: where's J.Dupri, Diddy..? Even M.C. hammer was chart/dollar wise on top in early 90s...BUT, those type of producers/artists get played out..just like Lil Wayne will. Just 3 or 4 yrs ago, it was Akon, Kanye, TPain who OWNED the charts...give Wayne another year and the next bubblegum rapper will takeover. MOS DEF and all like him have been around since Hammer and will remain LEGENDS...
@patharris1996 Wayne, Drake, Minaj are the Diddy, Biggie, Lil Kim, of this decade...BUT, as most would agree, it doesn't mean they are most talented etc..only flavors of the month (decade)..Talib, Common, Mos, Nas, Roots, Dre have been here, not trillionaires, but consistently make great music. They don't have to talk about bitches, money, weed, to be "popular". Take those 3 elements out of Wayne, Drake, Gucci lyrics and you have just some great production/beats...FADS...
@MrSlojam308 Whether you believe it or not, that's the way most songs always have been. Take any Dre song. The first thing that jumps out at you and makes you want to listen is, the beat. Then after you've listened to it all the way through, you're ear is automatically pinned to the lyrics the next time you hear the song. This is where Lil Wayne Nicki and Drake fail. Their producers have made great music but the lyrics are sub-par, which is why songs are only hot for no more than 2 weeks
@MrSlojam308 Oh yeah, and if an artist has GREAT lyrics like Pac, Big, or Mos Def, you take almost all your attention off of the beat and listen solely to the lyrics.
So yeah, mainstream Hip Hop is dying out, the only ones left and alive are basically Mos, Nas, Black Though etc, but what you guys need to do now is broaden your ears. I caught this one dude by the name of Shing02 through Nujabes and he's dope. And some Substantial from Bop Alloy. Underground like Blue Scholars and Cunnin Lynguist is good also. A new generation is coming up. It may not be the old boom bap, but yo its still got some Hip Hop oppression/lyrical roots.
Mos def, Nas, Black Thought, Joe Budden, 3000, and Lupe are the few dudes that rap that are true artist. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a love for music I would never listen to anyone else besides those dudes.
@MrJduke40 haha me too but who is 3000 you mean Andre 3000 and Black Thought doesn't even have an album just a few songs. Nas is the best rapper of all time. Mos Def and Talib Kweli both equally ill. Joe Budden is just too deep he's my dude.
Hip Hop isn't a song it's a lifestyle you live it, breath it, and understand it. After that you can easily seperate the fake artist from the real.
Mos Def is inspirational to me as a poet. If you come listen to my poetry, you would probably hear no similarity when it comes to the stuff that is in my poems,but when it comes to being a poet.
lolll. mos def didnt 'find' this song, im sure. and its not the fact that it's not his song, people dont like this song only because of georgia or only because mos def's rapping, its the whole production. dipshit.
I couldnt help but notice the comment Chill MB sent. That nigga mad stupid . Yo, if you don't call this "good music" then iCain't WAIT to hear your views of good music. This delivers a message through the words, listen to the lyrics, nigga. I bet you bump that Soulja Boy song, and I bet you at home playing with your SuperSoaker and spraying it on your Blow Up Dolls and yell "Super Soak Them Hoes!" while its bumpin. Nigga you mad lame, juss keep it quiet if you dont got anything smart to say ( ;
@ChillMB That's the point, dumbass! You don't know anyone on here, but call everyone names because we have a sense of what good music and you don't. It's ok, though. You can't stop us!!!
@ChillMB dude its all hip hop and more importantly its all music. respect other peoples tastes ...your shits weak. quit bein an ass. who the f*ck do you think you are? that unlearn shits pretty straight but I enjoy this style more AT THIS MOMENT
@FUCKSALT666 Criticism is a form of opinion. I wouldn't say that I'm exactly criticizing anyone who I refuse to label an artist or who I refuse to address in that manner as such, I just simply don't like their material. If I have standards for what I personally believe an artist to be then those are mine. I don't impose them on anyone else and I'm definitely not trying to set up any type of resource to bash anyone who produces certain material. I like what I like that's it.
@jenghi21 uituituitummmm.... clearin my throat a lil i see what your saying but ummm.... im sorry but soulja boy should die pretty much he deserves the act of criticism if you ask me
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@charmaniac100 Nope, because she features on his album. Also the whole idea of the song was probably made up by Mos and he probably asked her if she could come up with anything to sound good and go by the story/message that is being told.
@RetardTE Naw man, I don't know if I understand you correctly but Muldrow's Roses definitely came before this version. If you listen to Roses on her Umsindo album you can tell that this is the same exact song minus Mos Def throwing his rhymes in various places. It's just his rendition of Muldrow's song.
@RetardTE this is originally Muldrow's song. Mos Def asked to remix it and feature it on his album. Mos Def as amazing as he is didn't write or produce this song. He respected the magic she made in creating it and wanted to add to it. This is not his song but Georgia Ann Muldrow's. It shouldn't say Mos Def featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow, because it's not his song. This is the remix featured on his album. That's it.
@UrbanRyuk I don't know what this man is thinking. He did no research whatsoever and won't even give this woman claim to her own song! And is so adamant about his lack of knowledge being right! smh. Why won't ppl educate themselves? I love Mos too, but come on, this was hot fire, before he added to it.
@Finkster5 never fthought about it like that, although its probably true... we should send theder kids to 3rd qorld countrys for 6 months and then bring em back.. id imgine thatll make em reavaluate the meaning of "problem". lol
@movidablue i tried looking it up to see if it had slipped into my subconscious and i was plagerising some how. Although the themes' spoken universally about, it's a one off, in a one dream one love world
stop bitching about race and religion. we are all people. our individuality should unite us, not divide us. I accept all type of people, culture, religions. Emo, Gay, Muslim, Jewish, idfc. As long as they're good people, its fine with me. im a spic and proud.
I wish color didn't matter anymore. But there are still a lot of people who want to keep the color thing going, still teach their kids to pre-judge and hate based on ethnic lines. A lot of us have evolved and judge each person based on what's inside them not outside. We enjoy music, art, etc...based on it's value not color lines. But there are still many who are stuck in the quicksand of hate. We all love our kids the same, we go 2 movies, the beach, etc...let's get past this race thing please.
Fuck color! Im black and i hate when a black person says that white people dont know shit about rap... its the same thing that saying that blacks don't know shit about the english language, books or cinema... stupid fucking idea
we are all equal... well we're not but is not the collour that will meake the difference, but what you have inside your mind
color doesnt matter anymore now the world revolves around class and your status and if you guys are still stuck hating eachother and arguing over your human differences your never going to progress but take steps back and lag behind just please stop being stupid.
Everytime you say "...the N word" you ARE saying "Nigger". It is a word people. 6 letters that form a feeling in you and the person hearing it. That's it. Don't give it any power. Then it will become just 6 letters that form a word. Honesty and Truth are Real. Now listen to some REAL TRUTH from MOS DEF then you will see.
no, im sorry if u misunderstood me. i dont mean to be offensive to anyone nor degrading and im certainly not talking about slaves. im not talking about the color of your face, im talking about the mentality and the behaviour... black people calling them self niggers and talking about hoes and rides. again, its just a word that has bad history... thats the way i feel about it anyway, peace
it was wholly appropriate in this context... he's saying the word has outlived it's usefulness in the original sense AND the re-appropriation by african americans...
Are you white and telling me about the word and it's usage, are you kidding me. What re-appropriation by the african americans. Think carefully before you answer I ignored his last response for a reason, but if you want to continue please do so.
i will. i'm not defending the guy for saying 'stupid nigger shit'. what i am trying to encourage is the fact that there are artists georgia and dudley who are taking black music to a fresh intellectual level that people haven't seen in a while. i'm talking about the beauty of coltrane, sun ra, tribe called quest. it's not good to see shit like fifty cent being listened to by the majority of white kids on english council estates on their mobile phones... that is stupid shit.
Like I said to the other I am glad people out there are appreciating good music, but it doesn't give you or anyone else the right to speak for me as a black person. I cannot even begin to understand how you feel you can. Music is only part of the paradigm to being a black person. It does not will not answer for me. So it has not 'outlived it's usefulness' an insulting word is an insulting word..
My friend, what makes you "black enough" then? It seems you are focusing on physical attributes only. So Obama is not black? I am white and live in a predominantly non-white environment, yet I have a black ancestor far about three generations back. I look pasty white, so how do define "blackness"? I absolutely love Mos Def's music, ever since I was 14, because he spoke a language of consciousness not limited by a single lens. So then, who speaks for me? Humanity?
You have a serious issue with race. & since I'm not a 100% pure black (guess that makes me irrelevant 2 u) & since u're self-proclaimed beyond my capability of understanding, why don't u enlighten me about the wiser ways of seeing things? In Botswana there's also a biracial president (thnx KBrizle) who is the leader of..a majority black African nation. BTW, just what is your higher system that you speak from? Surely it would benefit ur inferiors if you were truly conscious of the Ubuntu spirit.
@irhabi0 i agree with you on the issue of black enough but calling barack obama predominatly "black" will be disrespectful to the moms side of the family.. He is a birracial person not saying it matters but him being categorized as "black" is not the appropriate way... he isnt white and he isnt black he is birracial.. people shoudl look at him as a leader not as a colour anyway good point :)
thanks for the clarification. There's another case in point about a leader who may not necessarily represent a movement of thought or a people and that's Ian Khama of Botswana. He's also biracial and yet his nation is mostly black African. So perhaps one could ask if he truly represents his people, since he is not 100% black? It shouldn't be an issue but perhaps it can become one. Anyway, thanks for the thought-provoking response!
yea people always say that and look at the issue from one view. Personally i dont think obama is the first black president because he has black blood but no fully ( one drop rule) its like the president who had mixed indian blood ( forgot his name) if i see a person with chocolate skin colour in office then i will be like okay he is black.. but yea it shouldnt matter at all people should look past colour we are in 2010!!!! i loved ur comment btw i jus replied to add my view
the N word as you say is inappropriate i agree. totally. but that stupid fiddy shit has taken it to a whole new level. and i'm not talking about how nwa took it back turned it round and reappropriated it (much in the same way gay people have taken back the word 'queer'). that needed to be done. i'm saying it's outlived it's usefulness in this day and age where america has a black president and we can look forward to a brighter day.
That's all fine and well, but don't use the N word, period. There is no debate to be had here and please don't tell me we have moved on because the President is mixed race, seriously that's insulting....Hundreds of BS and still counting are not erased by one change. Seriously..
i think it is time for debate and to move on. please don't tell me the fact that the american people voted obama into office counts for nothing... doesn't erase anything but it does invalidate old attitudes...
you've not said anything yet. what do you think of this song? gam? dudley perkins? mos def? or are you just pissed off at people?
I saw a comment that was totally inappropriate and corrected the person. I already gave my thoughts on the music. Seriously, a mixed race president has not and does not mean anything. His mum is white, when there is a president whos dad and mum are of African, then we can talk. And that's still only a fraction. Your unbelievably ignorant..
You were the one who responded to me. Seriously get a life, talk about yourself rather than black people moving on and outliving, because you as a white person say so. I bet you don't even effing see the irony in that.
And what do mean taken back?? Your fooling yourself because you listen to rap music and hear people using it, it means the word has be taken back. Are you even thinking before you speak..
@jabre12 that's because Mos Def is a hip hop artist, not rap, although some don't see a difference. But if you listen to hip hop then you know what it is when you hear it. You might like Jill Scott's love rain featuring Mos Def if you like this.
@jenghi21 theres no difference between hiphop artist and rap artist... your actually using the wrong terminology. The only way the term "hiphop music" came out is that labels wanted to seperate themselves from Gangsta shit & artist like JayZ & then be able to sell it to a different audience but theres no difference lmao... the only difference are their topics & rap skills. If you wanna know the Real definition here it goes: HipHop is a culture Emcees are what they are & Rap is what they do.
@Igot4soul I disagree. I think that hip hop and rap music are two different genres of music, the difference residing in the consciousness of the music, the artist, and also in structure and delivery of verse. I do believe that hip hop is a culture but I have standards for what an Emcee is and I don't just thow that around to label anyone claiming to be one. To each his own. Have a nice day
@jenghi21 What are you talking about disagree and to each his own lmao... theres no choice hahaha that shit is the wrong terminology but i guess people not part of the hiphop culture/community wouldnt know that. HipHop will never ever be a music genre its a fuckin culture do you even know what HipHop means?!!? YOU may have standards but what there cant be bad emcees all emcees gotta be good?!!? Thats like me saying your not a painter or a photographer cause your shit is wack hahaha
@Igot4soul That's fine if you want to call into question my knowledge about the subject. I'm not going to take what you're saying as any complete truth. And at the same time I'm not going to try to force you to believe what I believe. Because I have standards of what an artist does, or an emcee does, then I won't call someone an artist, or emcee, if they're not doing what I think those people do, if they're not fulfilling all the standards that I have to call someone an artist, or emcee firstly
@jenghi21 Dude Im not questioning u in any way Im telling u Its the wrong terminology. Theres not 5elements of HipHop theres only 4 do u even know what they are lmao. By your explanation what your talkin about is yur personal taste but it doesnt constitute anyone not being an Emcees... & whats stardards are you talking about?!!? You tell me whos a rapper & whos an emcee? Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, Dead Prez, Warren G, CommonSense, BlackMoon funny thing these mcs all talk bout the same thing: Struggle.
@Igot4soul I'm glad you named the ones you did because I respect most of them and their work. But I'm not going to go further and add anyone else to that list right now. Struggle is a pretty broad topic though. When I say standards I'm not interested in laying those out for anyone to question, I leave those things to myself. In my mind, whether someone adheres to my standards does indeed constitute who I would label an emcee. Would you call Soulja Boy or Waka an emcee? I wouldn't.
Please don't cut them or anybody. Let them BE to GROW! Leave them BE to LIVE. Amazing beauty. GRATITUDE FOR EVERYTHING & EVERYBODY. GOOD GOD! I feel so much better. Peace and blessings to ALL. Practice GRACE.
PLEASE somebody tell me what he says after "said a little prayer then i cleared my eyes" SOMEBODY RESPOND IF YOU KNOW
nyghtmare3000 1 day ago
This song leaves me speechless...in a good way
nicholas920us 1 month ago
I don't know about this... Mos Def walked all over a beautiful song. I wish I had 2 more hands, I'd give this crap FOUR THUMBS DOWN!
raymondmcgill003 2 months ago
@raymondmcgill003 and fuck you too. mos was great on this song.
bigddagenius 1 month ago
"Some gratitude in my attitude this morning"...I like that line
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Actually, this is Georgia Anne Muldrow's song originally.. Mos Def just ruined it.. Otherwise, this is a very good album.
gotjuice9 3 months ago
@gotjuice9 Ruined it? hardly.
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@gotjuice9 I'm not a big hip-hop fan but mos def actually made this song a little more interesting. I heard the original before this remix and I actually thought the song felt plain. Like eminem and dido, mos def helped goergia reach a bigger audience.
ronskfc 2 months ago
album is so overlooked
RappinForFree 4 months ago
every rose is thankful for this song
parchment52 4 months ago
I'm usually not into hip-hop that much, but I really love how this song sounds! The chord progression is unique and beautiful, unlike the stupid I-V-VI-IV shit you would usually hear on pop-radio stations. Is this what Mos Def usually sounds like? If so, he has a new fan! :D
PsytranceMan777 6 months ago 4
@PsytranceMan777 Yep check out mos def- mathematics and history by him as well
lwhite1997 5 months ago
Greatest Rapper Alive
Chtud 6 months ago 3
dis nigga is one of da GOATS
eachneverydaynosleep 6 months ago 2
I bought all his CD's at an F.Y.E for a trip I was taking to vegas. The whole ride there I listened through all his albums. Gonna have to say this is the greatest rapper ever. And yes. CD's.
MrEvitcartta 7 months ago 22
b u t ful
KaramuKarim 7 months ago
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MarcoOrBust 8 months ago
Okay listen, it really irks me to read a comment where people say there are no more real artists. Lil Wayne is an artist, Drake is an artist, hell even Gucci Mane is an artist. And don't fire at me saying they suck and I don't know real music. Yeah, they are no where NEAR as lyrically sound or deep as Mos, Nas, Pac etc. But they are artists and you CAN knock their lyrics but for God's sake, DO NOT KNOCK THEIR HUSTLE. No matter how much you hate it, they're going to be around for a while.
patharris1996 8 months ago
@patharris1996 Well said..HOWEVER, entertainers is what I prefer to call them..all have a shelf life: where's J.Dupri, Diddy..? Even M.C. hammer was chart/dollar wise on top in early 90s...BUT, those type of producers/artists get played out..just like Lil Wayne will. Just 3 or 4 yrs ago, it was Akon, Kanye, TPain who OWNED the charts...give Wayne another year and the next bubblegum rapper will takeover. MOS DEF and all like him have been around since Hammer and will remain LEGENDS...
MrSlojam308 7 months ago
@patharris1996 Wayne, Drake, Minaj are the Diddy, Biggie, Lil Kim, of this decade...BUT, as most would agree, it doesn't mean they are most talented etc..only flavors of the month (decade)..Talib, Common, Mos, Nas, Roots, Dre have been here, not trillionaires, but consistently make great music. They don't have to talk about bitches, money, weed, to be "popular". Take those 3 elements out of Wayne, Drake, Gucci lyrics and you have just some great production/beats...FADS...
MrSlojam308 7 months ago
@MrSlojam308 Whether you believe it or not, that's the way most songs always have been. Take any Dre song. The first thing that jumps out at you and makes you want to listen is, the beat. Then after you've listened to it all the way through, you're ear is automatically pinned to the lyrics the next time you hear the song. This is where Lil Wayne Nicki and Drake fail. Their producers have made great music but the lyrics are sub-par, which is why songs are only hot for no more than 2 weeks
patharris1996 7 months ago
@MrSlojam308 Oh yeah, and if an artist has GREAT lyrics like Pac, Big, or Mos Def, you take almost all your attention off of the beat and listen solely to the lyrics.
patharris1996 7 months ago
So yeah, mainstream Hip Hop is dying out, the only ones left and alive are basically Mos, Nas, Black Though etc, but what you guys need to do now is broaden your ears. I caught this one dude by the name of Shing02 through Nujabes and he's dope. And some Substantial from Bop Alloy. Underground like Blue Scholars and Cunnin Lynguist is good also. A new generation is coming up. It may not be the old boom bap, but yo its still got some Hip Hop oppression/lyrical roots.
zarenj21 8 months ago
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS TRACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheKingkali 8 months ago
Mos def, Nas, Black Thought, Joe Budden, 3000, and Lupe are the few dudes that rap that are true artist. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a love for music I would never listen to anyone else besides those dudes.
MrJduke40 9 months ago 2
@MrJduke40 haha me too but who is 3000 you mean Andre 3000 and Black Thought doesn't even have an album just a few songs. Nas is the best rapper of all time. Mos Def and Talib Kweli both equally ill. Joe Budden is just too deep he's my dude.
Hip Hop isn't a song it's a lifestyle you live it, breath it, and understand it. After that you can easily seperate the fake artist from the real.
ChimaTheKilla 8 months ago
Mos Def is inspirational to me as a poet. If you come listen to my poetry, you would probably hear no similarity when it comes to the stuff that is in my poems,but when it comes to being a poet.
kingacobra1 9 months ago
wow! :-)
CHARLESHARDIN96 9 months ago
This is real rap. Respect the love inside this song
IAMDOPE91 9 months ago 4
Mos Def brings this song and artist out!
utwobing 10 months ago 2
lolll. mos def didnt 'find' this song, im sure. and its not the fact that it's not his song, people dont like this song only because of georgia or only because mos def's rapping, its the whole production. dipshit.
chadstone03 10 months ago
I couldnt help but notice the comment Chill MB sent. That nigga mad stupid . Yo, if you don't call this "good music" then iCain't WAIT to hear your views of good music. This delivers a message through the words, listen to the lyrics, nigga. I bet you bump that Soulja Boy song, and I bet you at home playing with your SuperSoaker and spraying it on your Blow Up Dolls and yell "Super Soak Them Hoes!" while its bumpin. Nigga you mad lame, juss keep it quiet if you dont got anything smart to say ( ;
Innosens3 11 months ago 2
Mos def is beats. Album is ill,
MrBboyHP 11 months ago
This shit is trash. You clowns support and like anything by anyone you DICKRIDE.
ChillMB 11 months ago
@ChillMB Nah, we just know good music when we hear it - you no-sense-of-history-or-culture-having-ass...
creop 11 months ago
@creop As if you know me clown. Dick-riding sensitive emo fag.
ChillMB 11 months ago
@ChillMB That's the point, dumbass! You don't know anyone on here, but call everyone names because we have a sense of what good music and you don't. It's ok, though. You can't stop us!!!
creop 11 months ago
@ChillMB what do you call talent?
reese1990drm1 11 months ago
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Listen and t h i n k.
ChillMB 11 months ago
@ChillMB dude its all hip hop and more importantly its all music. respect other peoples tastes ...your shits weak. quit bein an ass. who the f*ck do you think you are? that unlearn shits pretty straight but I enjoy this style more AT THIS MOMENT
bombadier203 10 months ago
This song is actually by Georgia Anne Muldrow, Mos Def just heard it and then rapped over it and called it his FEATURING Georgia Anne.
Check her original version the whole album is incredible.
Rambonbon 11 months ago
@FUCKSALT666 lol Glad to see im not the only one
Trace2099 1 year ago
To answer your question I wouldn't consider either one close to being called an Emcee
Trace2099 1 year ago
@FUCKSALT666 Not even close
Trace2099 1 year ago
@FUCKSALT666 Criticism is a form of opinion. I wouldn't say that I'm exactly criticizing anyone who I refuse to label an artist or who I refuse to address in that manner as such, I just simply don't like their material. If I have standards for what I personally believe an artist to be then those are mine. I don't impose them on anyone else and I'm definitely not trying to set up any type of resource to bash anyone who produces certain material. I like what I like that's it.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@jenghi21 uituituitummmm.... clearin my throat a lil i see what your saying but ummm.... im sorry but soulja boy should die pretty much he deserves the act of criticism if you ask me
Jamil131millz 1 year ago
Hip hop isn't dead it just has a virus
erictheguy1234 1 year ago 5
MAN I LOVE THIS SONG <3
sgtpepper713 1 year ago
best money I ever spent on an album
TheWeedPirate 1 year ago 63
@TheWeedPirate true-er words have never been spoken.
bigddagenius 1 month ago
This is her song and he is featured on it, but I love my man Mos
jenghi21 1 year ago
Ahhhhhh, hip hop at its finest.
Hiphophead1904 1 year ago
all i am thinking of.....pretty roses
Rightious14U 1 year ago
People change their minds every day who are you or I 2 say it's a bad decision or a better way of seeing thaangzzzz
pnmcrw 1 year ago
i like this it has a floetry flow LOVE IT!!!!!!
mandi30336 1 year ago
I like Georgia's version w/out Mos but he definitely adds a wonderful quality to her voice and production......Beautiful colab!
MsPeaceism 1 year ago
@MsPeaceism I love his "singing" voice lol
jenghi21 1 year ago
"Sign off my name Dante when I'm finished/Put it to your memory for permanent exhibit".
Few can do it like Mos. Great song.
Ginga 1 year ago 3
best song on da album
Jamil131millz 1 year ago
GM... Woke up with this playing in my head.
ezkl622 1 year ago
Georgia Anne is ridiculous!
dstsai1303 1 year ago 2
hahahaha pple are fighting on youtube and on a mos def song ...
lasthoughts 1 year ago
great song
doomkid1331 1 year ago
flippin hell how amazing is this dude i think he is the most underrated and best rapper of all timee love himmmm :) <3
MzJordizzle 1 year ago 4
This made me smile this morning.
MannyStyles 1 year ago 4
How do I get youtube to play all Mos Def songs one after the other?
DeathSlayer2 1 year ago
@DeathSlayer2 i want to do this too, but i dont think its posssible.
JamKeepingItReal 1 year ago
@DeathSlayer2 go to youtube disco
criminalistic 1 year ago
@DeathSlayer2 make a plylist
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shayshay387 1 year ago
mos def is the truth
mjscarousal 1 year ago 21
They kind of sing bad and awkward together in the chorus, but that's exactly why I like it...
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charmaniac100 1 year ago
This song say's Mos Def featuring G.A Muldrow, but it should be Georgia Anne Muldrow featuring Mos. I'm just saying.
charmaniac100 1 year ago
@charmaniac100 it says Mos Def because the song is on his album and is his rendition of the song.
jaysundawn 1 year ago
@charmaniac100 Nope, because she features on his album. Also the whole idea of the song was probably made up by Mos and he probably asked her if she could come up with anything to sound good and go by the story/message that is being told.
RetardTE 1 year ago
@RetardTE Naw man, I don't know if I understand you correctly but Muldrow's Roses definitely came before this version. If you listen to Roses on her Umsindo album you can tell that this is the same exact song minus Mos Def throwing his rhymes in various places. It's just his rendition of Muldrow's song.
UrbanRyuk 1 year ago
@UrbanRyuk Oh, my bad then :) Anyways, Mos still asked her to do the song with him on his album so it can't be her song.
RetardTE 1 year ago
@RetardTE
The orignal should be in the side-bar there.
crieswhicharewings 1 year ago
@RetardTE it's HER song. Written, produced and performed by her long before this version.
justinjbutler 1 year ago
@RetardTE this is her song....he just wanted to do a remix of it
carlosjlanderos 1 year ago
@RetardTE this is originally Muldrow's song. Mos Def asked to remix it and feature it on his album. Mos Def as amazing as he is didn't write or produce this song. He respected the magic she made in creating it and wanted to add to it. This is not his song but Georgia Ann Muldrow's. It shouldn't say Mos Def featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow, because it's not his song. This is the remix featured on his album. That's it.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@UrbanRyuk I don't know what this man is thinking. He did no research whatsoever and won't even give this woman claim to her own song! And is so adamant about his lack of knowledge being right! smh. Why won't ppl educate themselves? I love Mos too, but come on, this was hot fire, before he added to it.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@RetardTE na she made the song before mos def even asked her....mos def wanted to make a remake and feature it on his album
carlosjlanderos 1 year ago
this song iz beutiful
CipherStreet1234 1 year ago
Power and Grace... Let's Move!!!
2blakandbold 1 year ago
But yeah, dude you're right.
Finkster5 2 years ago
Haha, emo isn't a race, a religion, or a sexual orientation. It's spoiled kids whining about their minuscule problems.
Finkster5 2 years ago 97
@Finkster5 All agreed man
BaLlErRaMpAgE23 1 year ago
@Finkster5 ????
CipherStreet1234 1 year ago
@Finkster5 never fthought about it like that, although its probably true... we should send theder kids to 3rd qorld countrys for 6 months and then bring em back.. id imgine thatll make em reavaluate the meaning of "problem". lol
wasguan 1 year ago
@Finkster5 pretty much when i see emo kids and i tell them that there are kids in third world countries that got more to complain about then you do
blackstar21595 1 year ago
close your eyes blind and have the meeting of minds; tell me what race you see when words are the real currency
masonicboom181 2 years ago 4
Where is that from? That's great!
movidablue 1 year ago
@movidablue i tried looking it up to see if it had slipped into my subconscious and i was plagerising some how. Although the themes' spoken universally about, it's a one off, in a one dream one love world
masonicboom181 1 year ago
color will always matter, because through it is status and laws that are built around this country's prosperty through division.
nubianqueen456 2 years ago
Great song
its so relaxing smooth awesome lol
MOTIIFkeys823 2 years ago
stop bitching about race and religion. we are all people. our individuality should unite us, not divide us. I accept all type of people, culture, religions. Emo, Gay, Muslim, Jewish, idfc. As long as they're good people, its fine with me. im a spic and proud.
KingVirmire 2 years ago
I wish color didn't matter anymore. But there are still a lot of people who want to keep the color thing going, still teach their kids to pre-judge and hate based on ethnic lines. A lot of us have evolved and judge each person based on what's inside them not outside. We enjoy music, art, etc...based on it's value not color lines. But there are still many who are stuck in the quicksand of hate. We all love our kids the same, we go 2 movies, the beach, etc...let's get past this race thing please.
galaxyworldwide877 2 years ago 4
It helps more than it hurts.
Lrdvltr 2 years ago
Fuck color! Im black and i hate when a black person says that white people dont know shit about rap... its the same thing that saying that blacks don't know shit about the english language, books or cinema... stupid fucking idea
we are all equal... well we're not but is not the collour that will meake the difference, but what you have inside your mind
we are the streets!
i love white people
PLRB86 2 years ago 3
im black and love white girls.. is this normal????
CJ3517 2 years ago
hahahaha same here!!!
but i really love all kinds of girls! spanish, asian, brazilian, white, red, black, green... haha
"pussy is pussy so yeah i hit that"
PLRB86 2 years ago
@PLRB86 woooooooooord ^^
pussy is punany
ElSolidaro 1 year ago
@CJ3517 you're entitled to love anyone you want. lol
sbgal13 1 year ago
nice song
mschi 2 years ago
color doesnt matter anymore now the world revolves around class and your status and if you guys are still stuck hating eachother and arguing over your human differences your never going to progress but take steps back and lag behind just please stop being stupid.
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Infinite454 2 years ago
Everytime you say "...the N word" you ARE saying "Nigger". It is a word people. 6 letters that form a feeling in you and the person hearing it. That's it. Don't give it any power. Then it will become just 6 letters that form a word. Honesty and Truth are Real. Now listen to some REAL TRUTH from MOS DEF then you will see.
bongcouver 2 years ago
this is the worst song on mos def's ecstatic. .
NationInvasion 2 years ago
word 2 momma
RiddimandCultureTV 2 years ago
This track is awesome.
DynamicD10212 2 years ago
Mos Def ruined this!!!!
Rayrulesohye 2 years ago
Her original track sounds much better without mosdef over the top.
I do enjoy mos def, but his mumble just sounds so out of place on such a beautiful, smooth track.
mcgeve 2 years ago
LOVE IT!!!!
relliedwellie 2 years ago
Music like this makes me feel good
queenray1 2 years ago 3
Sounds like Hip Hop Broadway
queenray1 2 years ago
Yeah, this and Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind". Sounds like hip hop is growing and embracing new sounds
camking88 2 years ago
awsome tune. I usualy dont listen to rap, but mos def is great, not a bunch of stupid nigger stereotype shit, this man got style
jabre12 2 years ago 4
@jabre12 yo ur rigt its time out for that whack streotypical rap ya feel me?
madKdigity 2 years ago
aye man, i feel ya
jabre12 2 years ago
I am glad you appreciate good music, but the use of the N word was quite inappropriate.
star83 2 years ago
thats because its inappropriate to you, im just talking about the mentality, not a race.
jabre12 2 years ago
Are you black?
star83 2 years ago
no, im sorry if u misunderstood me. i dont mean to be offensive to anyone nor degrading and im certainly not talking about slaves. im not talking about the color of your face, im talking about the mentality and the behaviour... black people calling them self niggers and talking about hoes and rides. again, its just a word that has bad history... thats the way i feel about it anyway, peace
jabre12 2 years ago
it was wholly appropriate in this context... he's saying the word has outlived it's usefulness in the original sense AND the re-appropriation by african americans...
leolodreamland 2 years ago
Are you white and telling me about the word and it's usage, are you kidding me. What re-appropriation by the african americans. Think carefully before you answer I ignored his last response for a reason, but if you want to continue please do so.
star83 2 years ago
i will. i'm not defending the guy for saying 'stupid nigger shit'. what i am trying to encourage is the fact that there are artists georgia and dudley who are taking black music to a fresh intellectual level that people haven't seen in a while. i'm talking about the beauty of coltrane, sun ra, tribe called quest. it's not good to see shit like fifty cent being listened to by the majority of white kids on english council estates on their mobile phones... that is stupid shit.
leolodreamland 2 years ago
Like I said to the other I am glad people out there are appreciating good music, but it doesn't give you or anyone else the right to speak for me as a black person. I cannot even begin to understand how you feel you can. Music is only part of the paradigm to being a black person. It does not will not answer for me. So it has not 'outlived it's usefulness' an insulting word is an insulting word..
star83 2 years ago
My friend, what makes you "black enough" then? It seems you are focusing on physical attributes only. So Obama is not black? I am white and live in a predominantly non-white environment, yet I have a black ancestor far about three generations back. I look pasty white, so how do define "blackness"? I absolutely love Mos Def's music, ever since I was 14, because he spoke a language of consciousness not limited by a single lens. So then, who speaks for me? Humanity?
irhabi0 2 years ago
Oh please, I am beyond your capability of understanding to even branch into any conversation with you. So please move on...
star83 2 years ago
You have a serious issue with race. & since I'm not a 100% pure black (guess that makes me irrelevant 2 u) & since u're self-proclaimed beyond my capability of understanding, why don't u enlighten me about the wiser ways of seeing things? In Botswana there's also a biracial president (thnx KBrizle) who is the leader of..a majority black African nation. BTW, just what is your higher system that you speak from? Surely it would benefit ur inferiors if you were truly conscious of the Ubuntu spirit.
irhabi0 2 years ago
Yawn!!
star83 2 years ago
Thought so.
irhabi0 2 years ago
@irhabi0 i agree with you on the issue of black enough but calling barack obama predominatly "black" will be disrespectful to the moms side of the family.. He is a birracial person not saying it matters but him being categorized as "black" is not the appropriate way... he isnt white and he isnt black he is birracial.. people shoudl look at him as a leader not as a colour anyway good point :)
KBrizle 2 years ago
thanks for the clarification. There's another case in point about a leader who may not necessarily represent a movement of thought or a people and that's Ian Khama of Botswana. He's also biracial and yet his nation is mostly black African. So perhaps one could ask if he truly represents his people, since he is not 100% black? It shouldn't be an issue but perhaps it can become one. Anyway, thanks for the thought-provoking response!
irhabi0 2 years ago
yea people always say that and look at the issue from one view. Personally i dont think obama is the first black president because he has black blood but no fully ( one drop rule) its like the president who had mixed indian blood ( forgot his name) if i see a person with chocolate skin colour in office then i will be like okay he is black.. but yea it shouldnt matter at all people should look past colour we are in 2010!!!! i loved ur comment btw i jus replied to add my view
KBrizle 2 years ago
the N word as you say is inappropriate i agree. totally. but that stupid fiddy shit has taken it to a whole new level. and i'm not talking about how nwa took it back turned it round and reappropriated it (much in the same way gay people have taken back the word 'queer'). that needed to be done. i'm saying it's outlived it's usefulness in this day and age where america has a black president and we can look forward to a brighter day.
yes i'm white. i'm also european.
leolodreamland 2 years ago
That's all fine and well, but don't use the N word, period. There is no debate to be had here and please don't tell me we have moved on because the President is mixed race, seriously that's insulting....Hundreds of BS and still counting are not erased by one change. Seriously..
star83 2 years ago
i think it is time for debate and to move on. please don't tell me the fact that the american people voted obama into office counts for nothing... doesn't erase anything but it does invalidate old attitudes...
you've not said anything yet. what do you think of this song? gam? dudley perkins? mos def? or are you just pissed off at people?
leolodreamland 2 years ago
I saw a comment that was totally inappropriate and corrected the person. I already gave my thoughts on the music. Seriously, a mixed race president has not and does not mean anything. His mum is white, when there is a president whos dad and mum are of African, then we can talk. And that's still only a fraction. Your unbelievably ignorant..
star83 2 years ago
You were the one who responded to me. Seriously get a life, talk about yourself rather than black people moving on and outliving, because you as a white person say so. I bet you don't even effing see the irony in that.
star83 2 years ago
i was talking about both of us but i guess you'd rather spout rhetoric.
leolodreamland 2 years ago
Take your uneducated, pathetic attempt somewhere else..
star83 2 years ago
And what do mean taken back?? Your fooling yourself because you listen to rap music and hear people using it, it means the word has be taken back. Are you even thinking before you speak..
star83 2 years ago
blah blah blah...
leolodreamland 2 years ago
Ok, since ur not following me at all. Try and replace the word nigger with "niggah" in my first comment. Jeez...
jabre12 2 years ago
@jabre12 that's because Mos Def is a hip hop artist, not rap, although some don't see a difference. But if you listen to hip hop then you know what it is when you hear it. You might like Jill Scott's love rain featuring Mos Def if you like this.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@jenghi21 theres no difference between hiphop artist and rap artist... your actually using the wrong terminology. The only way the term "hiphop music" came out is that labels wanted to seperate themselves from Gangsta shit & artist like JayZ & then be able to sell it to a different audience but theres no difference lmao... the only difference are their topics & rap skills. If you wanna know the Real definition here it goes: HipHop is a culture Emcees are what they are & Rap is what they do.
Igot4soul 1 year ago
@Igot4soul I disagree. I think that hip hop and rap music are two different genres of music, the difference residing in the consciousness of the music, the artist, and also in structure and delivery of verse. I do believe that hip hop is a culture but I have standards for what an Emcee is and I don't just thow that around to label anyone claiming to be one. To each his own. Have a nice day
jenghi21 1 year ago
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Igot4soul 1 year ago
@jenghi21 What are you talking about disagree and to each his own lmao... theres no choice hahaha that shit is the wrong terminology but i guess people not part of the hiphop culture/community wouldnt know that. HipHop will never ever be a music genre its a fuckin culture do you even know what HipHop means?!!? YOU may have standards but what there cant be bad emcees all emcees gotta be good?!!? Thats like me saying your not a painter or a photographer cause your shit is wack hahaha
Igot4soul 1 year ago
@Igot4soul That's fine if you want to call into question my knowledge about the subject. I'm not going to take what you're saying as any complete truth. And at the same time I'm not going to try to force you to believe what I believe. Because I have standards of what an artist does, or an emcee does, then I won't call someone an artist, or emcee, if they're not doing what I think those people do, if they're not fulfilling all the standards that I have to call someone an artist, or emcee firstly
jenghi21 1 year ago
@jenghi21 Dude Im not questioning u in any way Im telling u Its the wrong terminology. Theres not 5elements of HipHop theres only 4 do u even know what they are lmao. By your explanation what your talkin about is yur personal taste but it doesnt constitute anyone not being an Emcees... & whats stardards are you talking about?!!? You tell me whos a rapper & whos an emcee? Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, Dead Prez, Warren G, CommonSense, BlackMoon funny thing these mcs all talk bout the same thing: Struggle.
Igot4soul 1 year ago
@Igot4soul I'm glad you named the ones you did because I respect most of them and their work. But I'm not going to go further and add anyone else to that list right now. Struggle is a pretty broad topic though. When I say standards I'm not interested in laying those out for anyone to question, I leave those things to myself. In my mind, whether someone adheres to my standards does indeed constitute who I would label an emcee. Would you call Soulja Boy or Waka an emcee? I wouldn't.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@jenghi21 so if you don't like someone's art, they're not an artist?
ggnoobsnore 1 year ago
@ggnoobsnore A word like artist is a label, and if I don't think what someone is doing is art, then I'm not going to call that person an artist.
jenghi21 1 year ago
@ggnoobsnore A word like artist is a label, and if I don't think what someone is doing is art, then I'm not going to call that person an artist.
jenghi21 1 year ago
great collabo her style is so unique and mos kills on it
hammondlover 2 years ago 4
love it.
mszxmelli 2 years ago 2
waaaw tight!
funky2flavor 2 years ago 2
Please don't cut them or anybody. Let them BE to GROW! Leave them BE to LIVE. Amazing beauty. GRATITUDE FOR EVERYTHING & EVERYBODY. GOOD GOD! I feel so much better. Peace and blessings to ALL. Practice GRACE.
FedUpSista 2 years ago
Beat is dope. Sounds like Georgia on the production.
fooloof 2 years ago 14
LOVE this track!!!! Even tho I don't know what kind of pencil that is she talkin about. LOL! :(
naturalesque81tv 2 years ago 2
@naturalesque81tv stabilo color pencils. they're smooth like butter. :)
tammee128 2 years ago 2
brilliant song, probably best from ecstatic album
FuckinMadafucka 2 years ago 2
no it's casa bay lol
Axlepros 2 years ago
After i heard Master Teacher, i had to look Georgia up!!!
jazzyphay21 2 years ago