El-P - The Overly Dramatic Truth

[stfuitsmax]

@zerobeachskim

Many people understand this song, it's just different for everyone. To understand the phrase, you have to be able to understand the song (in your own way of course.) For me personally I believe the song is about breakin' in the hymen, and resenting it because you've been around the block. I also believe the phrase represents the vibes you put off and the persona play out when trying to impress a girl you've just met. Really about body language and exchanged messages without words

[ayer619]

first time i hear this song, had to log in to comment, felt like a found a gem.

[TheRapResurrection]

Can people give me there interpretations to this track ? I personally think its about a naive girl and the narrator knows how corrupted he is and sees this innocent, blissful girl who he cant help but love, yet tries to keep away as his corruption will taint her beauty . Which could/probably is a metaphor for something completely different .

[Bootel1794]

This is honestly the best fucking song i've heard in my lifetime.

[lucky806]

never been a fan of his flow but his lyrics are genius.

[every1zhero13]

This is a song about rape.

[Eogmasta]

really great song.

great music on the track also.

rappers like this deserve more recognition.

[slushie360]

Reminds me of my life in 2001-2003, being that naive girl. This song....so powerful and perfectly done. Lyrics hit me so hard.

[BootyBot]

this song is AMAZING. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK.

this song needs to be on the radio NOW.

[TexasFreakshow]

El-P is an angry man o.o

[trashywarhol]

you still think i'm here to save?

[nastyockie3]

Why do both the top rated comments on this video make so little sense?

[hooplablahblahblah]

@nastyockie3 My guess is cause everyone here is high as fuck.

[BeBoBli]

@nastyockie3

The first one makes perfect sense. Read it again? By 'big' videos he means either expensive, long or popular. This lacks a video at all, which is one of the songs he enjoys, so the only video he could have is one he would be forced to imagine.

[C00cooCAchoo]

Pedo song?

[KindredKunoichi]

@C00cooCAchoo

What?!?! - He is talking about taking advantage of a young, naive girl who is sadly attracted to the "bad boy" image which he is blatantly just living up too!! Basically he can either stay & carry on sleeping with her, or leave her blissfully & not corrupt her, guess what, he is a guy, so he is gonna do both!! Beautiful!! At the end you usually hear El-P say "This is my type of Religion" - So I guess he plans on being a Pedo again or something!! ;)

[C00cooCAchoo]

@KindredKunoichi How is that "beautiful"? I like El-P, but this song is all kinds of wrong.

[C00cooCAchoo]

@KindredKunoichi How is being a pedo beautiful?

[PopTartsNinja1]

@C00cooCAchoo It's all about individual interpretation, bro. Personally, I believe it's about a man who's experienced life, and meets this young girl, who is full of innocence and is very naive. He believes he is corrupt and fears for tainting this young girl. Although, he can't deny his love for her. That's were the struggle comes in.

[CamFM1]

@PopTartsNinja1 similar concept to Draconian love "I'll tell her she's innocent, she'll show me she's not"

[babypiano666]

gives me goosebumpz

[DownEins]

Hairy Testicles ? LOL

[Greatnowwhat32]

Tairy I want your children.

[zerobeachskim]

I dont think many people truely understand this song. I BECAME WHAT YOU HAD ASKED, TELEPATH. Now how do we figure shit out? by talking to OURSELVES through TELEPATHY!

[SickSchizophrenic]

@zerobeachskim So....we just think? To ourselves? Makes sense...

[helenthebum]

such a sexy fuckin song

[badbrains1037]

Thanks tairy..much appreciation

[epd0123]

God damn.....this is sick. I love it.

[OralHerShizer]

This talk about who is the best producer shit isnt really always relevent. El-p 's music is specific. Idiosyncratic even. It's not for everyone. And it's certainly not always helpful to compare it to other producers' shit and try to determine who is "better". It's art.

[upsdelft]

TairyHesticles, you're the fucking man.

[lificpro]

Everyone shoutout to TAIRYHESTICLES, you contribute more to hip hop than you can ever imagine, much respect from SOUTH AFRICA.

[lollmfaorofllawlftw]

although El is an above average mc/producer, he is nowhere near close to being the greatest like some of you claim he is...there is a whole array of emcees and producers youve never heard! get out some more!

[MrCh33pshot]

@lollmfaorofllawlftw Go die.

[lollmfaorofllawlftw]

@MrCh33pshot  why you so hostile!?

[TazAgainstTheMachine]

@lollmfaorofllawlftw Why so stupid?

[BootyBot]

@lollmfaorofllawlftw drop some names. drop some names on an artist, just one song that makes me feel shit more than this. I feel this song more than almost every song I've heard.

[GalaxyGrain]

Yes, good lyrics and production style however his flow is very lacking so therefore he does not capture the essence of hip hop. Therefore, I have disliked this video.

[92BadBird]

@GalaxyGrain fuck the flow. fell it

[snipercheez]

@GalaxyGrain

Look, I know everyone has diff. tastes and what not, but you saying that he Lacks The Essence of Hip Hop is absolutely Retarded.

Company Flow??? Their album was the Epitome of Hip Hop.

Someone should delete your comment.

[upsdelft]

@snipercheez agreed dude.

[TazAgainstTheMachine]

@GalaxyGrain You, sir, are an absolute fucking idiot.

[Fuelofwar77]

Holy fuck.

[snipercheez]

This is Absolutely Fucking Amazing.

He is hands down one of the best song writers in Hip Hop. His words are so deep that he MAKES the listener relate to the song.

Powerful.

[mrliamthecool]

I'm someone who always listens to rock and metal, but I decided to give hip hop a try...and i gotta say, i'm impressed with EL-P

[MannyFressh702]

This song is just... wow

[6free6jesse6]

so sick

[msgtostring]

I can still see myself driving my car through the darkness of night while my blonde passenger's expectations keep rising. I hoped she'd get the message when I put this track on.. Good times, good times

[Drunkenher0]

@msgtostring Yea, done that a few times as well dude. Girls don't listen to my music tho...

[echen30]

Unfairly unpopular in my opinion.

[Evker0]

Guess what?.... Listverse.

[crhymes104]

i love this song but this is sort of like proof he has/had sex with underage girls.

[FlyingRock225]

@crhymes104 Not really, 18 - 19 is still awfully young ya know?

[crhymes104]

@FlyingRock225 im just being a dick.

[SHUNsome]

as epic as hip hop gets

[szaagman]

All the music I hate has big videos. The music I love I have to imagine my own....

[TheUltimatePoole]

@szaagman I don't like the videos at all anyways. It distracts me from the actual song.

[westside159]

@szaagman i know why is that ? music industry shit

[jcthomas521]

so nice

[losmata]

Ill.

[alexiog40]

nah this is shit in my opinion... try kyza or jehst

[hottrobb91]

if the The Reem brought you here press like

[tune5k]

the reem......

[DSIMPEL777]

check out cise starr 

[Rankmoistmeat]

/watch?v=R0-Qu9ZnNbc

[Fudgeyer]

ive been listening to a lot of cage and aesop rock lately, now el-p. this music is so haunting.... like no other "rap" ever made. aesop and el-p, cage, theyre not like any others. it's poetry with a sick flow.

[tonyf686]

i've commented on here before but i keep hearing this song and samples from it various different places and i cant say enough about it, i wish i could go back in time and tell myself and my current girl to wait for each other, i never thought i would feel like i do about our pasts, i wish i would have hear this song as a freshman in high school but i dont think i would understand it. what i would give to be able to give her everything, and i know she feels the same way.

[MichellelovesIvan]

The picture looks like a weird bird with a halo

[WaSxMeDDLeR]

searched most of youtube, no HD version of this Masterpiece. sadface+facepalm x infinity.

[PKMao]

"afghan whigs on rap"... I love it

[Schnarkel]

I wanna use this for a skate video but im afraid youtube will copyright it. Is this copywritten?

[sfef84]

@Schnarkel Usually artists don't care if you sample their stuff for media as long as two conditions are met:

1) Make sure they get credit

2) The video you are making is given out for free

To be 100% safe, call Definitive Jux and ask for permission.

[dahleric74]

This song kills me..its like the Afhgan Whigs on rap..the same lyric ideas..

[TruthSmack]

Justin beiber and el p together, NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­O! He lost me. 

[snipercheez]

@TruthSmack It's not like they teamed up....he just was challenged to remix his track and he came through...hard.

[mike93stray]

did anybody know Daryl Palumbo (the guy from glassjaw) did the keys on this track? I thought that was pretty interesting

[anthonyshingo]

@mike93stray he does abit of vocal work on it to

[GHOST2924]

one m0:00re time

[ilovespongebobsomuch]

this song is actually amazing. reminds me of my life last year

[WaSxMeDDLeR]

@ilovespongebobsomuch This is like my life right now. D:

[ilovespongebobsomuch]

@WaSxMeDDLeR surprisingly enough my life has turned back to this song in the past week!! its nuts :(

[gsu7117]

Help me help you, walk away, leave this unamazing grace

You don't know from pure disgrace, you still think I'm here to save

I was never even here, I can't give what I can't take

...incredibly powerful

[twiredboy]

all this decade talk is like a Y2K flashback.

[timmychips]

1 - 10 a decade 0 - 9 also a decade, 200(0) - 200(9) also a decade

[Vanoc91]

@IrishUSAwrestler 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, count them out loud.

[philtion]

@Vanoc91 Was the first ever decade only 9 years? Or was there a year 0?

[Rankmoistmeat]

Intense stuff

[eric5661]

El P is one dope dude

[SpairoAce]

This song is pure beauty. I just get that knot feeling in my chest like...yeah - I've been here.

[bigdaddyvtec]

sick fucking genius

[orgflow]

dope album!

[Br0k3nS41nt]

I like how the beat reminds me of Robert Miles's Children in the intro.

[populargrey1]

Coldest track iv heard since super ball

[WowThisWasntTaken]

you still think i'm here to save

[tera1320]

VERY INTERESTING SONG ABOUT TAKING A SEXY GALS VIRGINITY...WHAT MAKES THIS SO INTERESTING IS THIS....considering the chemical environment on an emotional and physical dimension ( more than 3-D ) ....it isn't crazy to believe, and then know that such a person has yet to be dated....IS NOT WICKED, yet is very much into futuristic things when applicable which means : (how to apply it ).

With that being said, should you know this. You might enjoy FINGERING the approach with that connection!!!

[layneforever6702]

Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica played some keys on this

[dragonzord250]

My problem is I always favourite videos but never like them. Not this time. I literally discovered El-p 5 minutes before this comment and I'm sold.

[AMinorof325Music]

@dragonzord250 i've known about el-p since company flow, my cousin before he went off to iraq for his second tour, let me cop some of the newer stuff at the time, introduced me to aesop rock, cannibal ox... great stuff

[snipercheez]

His music opens up doors to other worlds.

He's amazing.

[Wheetpunk]

It's outstanding...

[Sluggler]

every tune i seem to look up that is dope is upped by you tairyH your actually a legend

[iOpacity]

I'll sleep when 10 people are dead.

[KillTimeKillingTime]

@iOpacity It's until they jet, Not until they're dead, Silly heyron :D

[iOpacity]

@KillTimeKillingTime >:C ..

[SamuraiBlade2247]

I can't believe it took me this long to subcribe to u TairyHesticles... u put up some ill hiphop

[fourminutewarning]

so are the words of a persistant religious spirit. Truly amazes me.

[glenndeguz]

El-P is the truth

[UnclePaulHahrrgis]

amazing ...

[DaliNaples82]

9 Suckers!

[TheOrderofPineapple]

This beat is so original and chill.

[wordsliketurds]

Great song, great album. El-P, so fuckin' ahead of his time...

[crhymes104]

i really appreciate this, years later.....at first wasnt really feeling it.....this song is pretty damn good

[millki]

TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE

[flanerone]

this song changed my life. this whole release did. el-p - one of the MOST brilliant artists of my generation!

[kirby6891]

Tairy, day by day, you make my life a little bit better

[powwerranger]

anyone know where to find instrumental of this? this track is dope

[msnikish]

does anyone know if the cats on this now defunct label found homes yet??and Del recently got on Def Jux

[joshridesbmx]

F&%^ing AMAZING song

[pupiberto]

7 people are fucking whores.

[MrStephensmitty]

Finally I found another artist that is my style to a T,

and check out Nujabes, he made some of the best beats R,I,P jun seba

[tb3rg]

Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, and Jeremy Fish are all the shit!

[drumfool]

Daryl Palumbo

[crabizback]

El-P = Fucking Genious

[FromHopeToHate]

Y'know, this is something that hits home for me. Seeing the beauty of a girl but knowing it ultimately won't work because of yourself. You're her number 1 in almost every since, but she's in the double digits to you. El-P just hit home and inspired me to check his music.

[tonyf686]

@FromHopeToHate its crazy i feel like a huge amount of guys can relate to this song

[crhymes104]

@tonyf686

indeed man

[crhymes104]

@FromHopeToHate

for real man, i can relate to this track

[c0dead]

@FromHopeToHate you hit it on the head my man, couldn't have capped it better than that

[goshygosh]

this guy's a true poet. pretty incredible.

[SydnaySpencer]

epic

[spike7s]

you think i'm a genius? I know i'm a whore. That line had me dying xD

[msnikish]

sorry but that "fuck you raw dog " line ruins it a little for me , its corny

[lovinlife909]

Great break up song

[gettingmoney866]

i can listen to this on repeat and not say a word

[ToSoft]

Would be nice if EL-P was to come to Denmark...

[ToSoft]

Would be nice if EL-P was to come to Denmark...

[ColoredKaizoku]

Which two uncultured idiots disliked this

[ElProductofan]

This song is ill as shit, man. I've been bumpin El all day long but this track is the only one I've played more than once. Its fucking..amazing.

[randomhenchmen]

great song

[RobMenje]

myspace slash robertmenje

[RLhockey203]

just found this shit like 2 seconds ago. epic as fuck

[RobMenje]

i rip this instrumental on my music myspace

search B.F Wattson on myspace music if you want to hear it

the songs called this is endless

[jonnypops1984]

"You deserve the ignorance of bliss that I still wish I had" - Shit kills me every time I hear it.

[paydn202]

not a good thing

[Boratfarted]

he was sayin he was bad for you, maybe he was older than you, he wanted you to enjoy your youth and not be dragged down with him

[fantom909]

Lol well you want the good news or the bad news?

[spencetube89]

lol

[kingr33per]

@itwantsrevenge did he take ur virginity?

[paydn202]

thank god for rhymesayers, and indie hip hop i dont know where i would be in my life without this music ive been inspired countless times by el-p, atmosphere, sage francis, aesop rock, eyedea, abstract rude i cant name everyone i'll be here all day, this comment is dedicated to all of those artists, thank you for everything you have unknowingly done for me. it IS the world to me.

[smurfedalottasmurf]

preach

[christoawp]

@paydn202 Word! As a Danish hip hop artist wrote "Jeg føler mig som junkien med kanylen // Når jeg ligger nålen på vinylen" (translation-->) "I feel like the junkie with the needle, as I put the needle to the vinyl record" (Cant make it rhyme in english tho)

[SpeedyStorm]

El-P is one of the very few people that I consider a true artist. The guy is ahead of his time, and pure brilliance with every song. This and T.O.J. are some of the most beautiful songs ever written.

[plwl19]

Wow..found this dude from the collaboration with Trent..damn, he isn't that bad...and it means something cause I'm not a fan of rap and all that comes from that

[TheReasonBeingMusic]

Mad. So good!

[nemesis700]

this reminds me of anime

[FD3913FD3913]

ELp is the man fo real!

[itsallgointoshit]

Only 15,000 views? Fuckin A. This guy is a true artist, among the likes of Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin if you ask me.

[amber13lucky]

@itsallgointoshit He is musical genius. I think one day way in the future, he will be studied like Shakespeare.

[WannabeMusicMaking]

@itsallgointoshit who ... ?

[avaelenaa]

@WannabeMusicMaking some fantastic poets. read up

[Defurii]

his flow sound's like eminem's on superman....

[robdibbles]

wow, cant believe u caught that!!!totally does!

[Defurii]

i suprised myself to :D

[carneilius]

@Defurii haha it does

[fantom909]

Wow... your right...