this band is amazing, and opened up the minds of many redneck white boys in the 80s and 90s. God bless LIVING COLOUR for writing and singing about the TRUTH. One of the best bands of the era, but "black rock" did not start with LC -- look back to the 70s with MOTHERS FINEST!
@Stablemable2 I don't think it's just White people, I think it's whatever makes folks uncomfortable. I live out in farm country (Indiana) grew up in Chicago 45 years. I get some pretty nasty looks from Black people because I may look like a redneck to them. Which makes me laugh pretty hard. Judge me AFTER you know me, not after you see me. Apply that to food, media, music...you're missing alot if you judge things by initial sight. Just remember how much fun 31 flavors was first time as a kid.
@DUSTYBASS If Blacks controlled media and films and made most White people appear as "rednecks" or criminals or anti-American or worst, for a very,very long time, then I can sympathize with your experience.
It's about something deeper and solutions are being ignored.
Blacks(males) are frequently seen as boogedyman and its medias white-washing that contributes to it.
@Stablemable2 Spike Lee comes to mind as one who runs his own film production company. In my opinion he's a racist. But again, I was raised by two strong Greek American Parents who taught me there will be people who will not like you because of who you are. Ignore them. And NEVER use your detractors as an excuse for YOUR failures and short comings. Cowards do that. Playing the race card = cop out. No one can break you down, don't let them. It's not an option.
@DUSTYBASS By your mitigation, you pretty much prove my point. You're saying only your own experience is genuine while everybody else must be the "race card".
@Stablemable2 That's quite a stretch Mable. I'm looking directly at my reply, at NO time is there a mention that only my experience's are genuine and everyone else's is "race Card". Actually it's you who believes your experiences are only real by the merit you are Black. You show insensitivity when you replied to the narrow minded racist stereotyping I recieved from Black people solely on the clothes I happened to be wearing. Things will never change by playing a perpetual martyr.
@DUSTYBASS In all honesty, it appears the you and stablemable are just arguing now. We have all agreed that racial prejudice is wrong and detrimental to society, so what's the debate? lol. I think that as long as ppl keep bringing up racism and over-analyzing art to assume that there are racist implications in it, racism WILL NOT go away. Take the title of "black person" or "white person", and completely erase the first word.
@jiggrgermy You're right, let's not bring up the race card or who's White or who's Black. Let's just try to be civil to each other. Those that live in the past are destined to repeat it.
@Stablemable2 Come on Mable. You want things to change??? Starts with you my dear, I'm not asking you to ignore an indignity but not every comment or action has some veiled dark intent behind it. ALL CRIMINALS ARE PORTRAYED AS THE BOGEYMAN. Should I be angry because Dhamer, Gacy, Manson, Peterson are portrayed in a negative light?? Hope not, that would make me look pretty stupid by believing they're portrayed as the bogeyman because they are White and not by the heinous crimes they commited.
Hey the guys are some great people and they put out some great tunes theres nothing wrong with them there music is alright with me, and I thought funny vibe was a cool tune'
lol the white kid couldn't dance like the black kid so he started doing the head bobbing thing with the snaps. If you ever watched eddie murphy's stand u performance you would understand lol.
@Doodorz: Okay. I'm just tired of talking about it. It is a good song and I was just talking about a few things that bothered me. I'm sorry that i offended so many people because it wasn't my intention. I'm sure they are good people and I don't want to seem like this conversation reflects on my personal views. LC does have a right to be mad about being treated in this way. Love and forgiveness are the best way to fight hatred, not violence or hateful words.
@Kharn8181. I do not believe that any of the members of LC were slaves, so that has nothing to do with it. A lot of white people were brought over as slaves, but I wasn't and neither were you. I refuse to be mad at a whole race because of past mistakes. Life is about forgiveness, not holding a grudge. If your father killed my father, I have no right to be mad at you, and I wish that every race would think like that. I am not being stupid, i just think you can't see out of your little box.
OK....in this video you see the black kid teachin the white kid to dance..then you see a white kid teachin a black kid to dance...the clothes are absolutely neutral......this video is promoting EQUALITY...NOT RACISM
good call abelashes. Most of the retards commenting on here having got a fuckin clue. Living Color were so ahead of their time, and ultimately they just FUCKIN ROCKED
Ah, the ultra-rare Prince Paul remix featuring Daddy-O of Stetsasonic. First time hearin' this, and I like it a lot. I guess VEVO is good for something after all - whodathunkit?
Paul Williams looks so good in this video! I can't understand why he is not more known on T.V. He is the Male Model in all the different Scene's with the Superfly Hat on in the begining! A Shot Out To Paul! He is also in The Women of Brewster Place with Jackee at the Block Party! Okkk
cj4b2 does NOT a have a valid point. Living Colour are not black supremacists. They are multiculturalists. Listen to the lyrics. This video is inspired by the very real situation that existed in NYC in the late 80s where cab drivers of all races (as this video depicts) were refusing to pick up black folks. Auslander is another song with a video about something that was happening in the news at the time. Neo-Nazis in Germany were beating Asian immigrants to death in the streets in the early 90s.
@abelashes, excellent put, I totally agree. LC's lyrics had a social and political meaning most of the times, concerning other matters as well. They are great lyricists and free spirits.Vernon Reid was one of the founders of The Black Rock Coalition ( a U.S.-based artists' collective and non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creative freedom and works of black musicians)
@abelashes I didn't say or imply that they are black supremacists. I was just trying to point out that 90% of the "bad guys" in this video and other videos like "Elvis is Dead" are white people. Is that not a stereotype? @kurtizzyflush: Why the hostility? I am not being mean, I am simply doing the same thing that Living Colour is doing: questioning what I see. I have a lot of respect for them, but I bet a white band could not get away with making multiple videos about how other races treat us.
@abelashes I think that cj4b2 missed the whole point about what the lyrics to the video is saying. As a black person, we all have been given that "funny vibe" by people, who think that black people are one way, and are not diverse in their opinions, education, and way of life.
@faceman68 I don't know if this has been addressed, but there are Black folks out there that throw that race card when someone of another race disagees or who's opinion differs with theirs. And if you've got someone who's afraid of being percieved as a racist, he'd rather tell you what you want to hear instead of how he really feels. Which is lying. And there will always be opportunists who will play you like a fiddle to attain their goals. FACTS....it is what it is. Dig for them, attain them.
I think they are a good band, but just about every video i watched of them has a white guy as a bad guy. Isn't that just as racist as what they are trying to fight? What if white people made a video that had all black people as the bad people and talked about the way "ALL" black people treat white people? This video implies that "ALL" white people are racist, which is a stereotype in itself. I just want to see if anybody sees my point?
@cj4b2 your are wrong because living color promotes equality, not racism if you are comparing that a white band to do the same with other races because the white race was not enslaved for over 400 years and live in those years where being black you're being discriminated your are being stupid with all due respect
@Kharn8181 Quit bringing up the same old tired shit.. You're NOT a slave, shut the fuck up. I've never been a racist who stays up all night plotting your demise or failure you paranoid fuck. If the news reports Blacks commiting crimes is it the White guy's fault because he's reporting it?? NO, IT'S THE BLACK GUY'S FAULT. When Drew Peterson went to jail for murder, it was his fault not an indictment on Whites CATCH MY DRIFT BRO??. Start to see reasons...NOT EXCUSES for your failures. Wake up.
.I LOVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THIS PLANET OR ANY PLANET. MY HEROES ARE THE MILITARY. I FLY THE FLAG EVERY DAY AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT, YOU CAN KISS MY ASS.
that's all I need to know, go on with your blind patriotism that will get you nowhere, you do not deserve anyone's respect
@Kharn8181 I'm a hater? Because I love my Country and respect the people (OF ALL COLORS AND BELIEFS) who protect our Country??? You have issues or maybe NOT enough fibre in your diet... because you're full of shit.
@Kharn8181 Hey Kharn.... WHO SAID YOU WERE BLACK?? HEY THAT'S PRETTY FUNNY.... I said you weren't a slave... it's good to see how your "mind" processes info. I'd love to see you do the association game.
Bye bye this music, hello to the total corporate control of shit we have today
JagjeetMann 2 weeks ago
@JagjeetMann Crying fucking shame that is.
kilki1231 1 day ago
This is the real shuffle haha.
BlaqNinjaw 3 weeks ago
What freakin version is this? This is terrible. Where's the original Funny Vibe?
fubar1217 1 month ago
BHP vibes
beatstormz 3 months ago
I saw the title of this song and assumed it was about marijuana. I was so wrong.
SlippyGraaz 3 months ago
3 viewers were givin funny vibes towards this video.
VenRose5 3 months ago
the wight basterds
stateof90ass 4 months ago
great
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Anlimema 4 months ago
vernon reid never ceases to amaze me. what an amazing player!!!
TheDjangojunkie 4 months ago in playlist 80's
This song remind me of Lenny Kravitz Mr. Cab Driver it talks about the same thing this just is hiphop and his is...i dont know the genre lol.
ebonypocahontas 4 months ago in playlist More videos from LivingColourVEVO
1:37 boy on the left
"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you."
mitchellvanvliet 4 months ago 3
22 years and still so current, sadly.
ej17117 5 months ago
1:40 heargasm !!!!!!
petipow06 5 months ago
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dhwood70 6 months ago
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dhwood70 6 months ago
Is the cab driver will smith?
TouchMyWeenis 6 months ago
3:27 great theyre trying to involve scottie pippen
halorunescaper 8 months ago
Fuck VEVO. Half of the time when I click on a VEVO video, the video won't even load because the ad at the beginning won't load.
tbone2872 8 months ago 3
@tbone2872 It's probably because you need to update your flash player. If that doesn't work then your connection is too slow. Good luck!
BANCA52 6 months ago 2
hip hop remix, not good
pedrodoon 9 months ago
WTF is this F***ED Up Mix??!!! Hiphop kills EVERYTHING!!!
tomigunn777 9 months ago
this band is amazing, and opened up the minds of many redneck white boys in the 80s and 90s. God bless LIVING COLOUR for writing and singing about the TRUTH. One of the best bands of the era, but "black rock" did not start with LC -- look back to the 70s with MOTHERS FINEST!
roccotanto 9 months ago 2
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this band hates white people.
lester5192 10 months ago
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Stablemable2 1 year ago
@Stablemable2 I don't think it's just White people, I think it's whatever makes folks uncomfortable. I live out in farm country (Indiana) grew up in Chicago 45 years. I get some pretty nasty looks from Black people because I may look like a redneck to them. Which makes me laugh pretty hard. Judge me AFTER you know me, not after you see me. Apply that to food, media, music...you're missing alot if you judge things by initial sight. Just remember how much fun 31 flavors was first time as a kid.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
@DUSTYBASS If Blacks controlled media and films and made most White people appear as "rednecks" or criminals or anti-American or worst, for a very,very long time, then I can sympathize with your experience.
It's about something deeper and solutions are being ignored.
Blacks(males) are frequently seen as boogedyman and its medias white-washing that contributes to it.
Stablemable2 11 months ago
@Stablemable2 Spike Lee comes to mind as one who runs his own film production company. In my opinion he's a racist. But again, I was raised by two strong Greek American Parents who taught me there will be people who will not like you because of who you are. Ignore them. And NEVER use your detractors as an excuse for YOUR failures and short comings. Cowards do that. Playing the race card = cop out. No one can break you down, don't let them. It's not an option.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
@DUSTYBASS By your mitigation, you pretty much prove my point. You're saying only your own experience is genuine while everybody else must be the "race card".
Stablemable2 11 months ago
@Stablemable2 That's quite a stretch Mable. I'm looking directly at my reply, at NO time is there a mention that only my experience's are genuine and everyone else's is "race Card". Actually it's you who believes your experiences are only real by the merit you are Black. You show insensitivity when you replied to the narrow minded racist stereotyping I recieved from Black people solely on the clothes I happened to be wearing. Things will never change by playing a perpetual martyr.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
@DUSTYBASS In all honesty, it appears the you and stablemable are just arguing now. We have all agreed that racial prejudice is wrong and detrimental to society, so what's the debate? lol. I think that as long as ppl keep bringing up racism and over-analyzing art to assume that there are racist implications in it, racism WILL NOT go away. Take the title of "black person" or "white person", and completely erase the first word.
jiggrgermy 9 months ago
@jiggrgermy You're right, let's not bring up the race card or who's White or who's Black. Let's just try to be civil to each other. Those that live in the past are destined to repeat it.
DUSTYBASS 9 months ago 2
@Stablemable2 Come on Mable. You want things to change??? Starts with you my dear, I'm not asking you to ignore an indignity but not every comment or action has some veiled dark intent behind it. ALL CRIMINALS ARE PORTRAYED AS THE BOGEYMAN. Should I be angry because Dhamer, Gacy, Manson, Peterson are portrayed in a negative light?? Hope not, that would make me look pretty stupid by believing they're portrayed as the bogeyman because they are White and not by the heinous crimes they commited.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
Hey the guys are some great people and they put out some great tunes theres nothing wrong with them there music is alright with me, and I thought funny vibe was a cool tune'
zipzapjack 1 year ago
lol the white kid couldn't dance like the black kid so he started doing the head bobbing thing with the snaps. If you ever watched eddie murphy's stand u performance you would understand lol.
HatersNations 1 year ago
@Doodorz: Okay. I'm just tired of talking about it. It is a good song and I was just talking about a few things that bothered me. I'm sorry that i offended so many people because it wasn't my intention. I'm sure they are good people and I don't want to seem like this conversation reflects on my personal views. LC does have a right to be mad about being treated in this way. Love and forgiveness are the best way to fight hatred, not violence or hateful words.
cj4b2 1 year ago
@Kharn8181. I do not believe that any of the members of LC were slaves, so that has nothing to do with it. A lot of white people were brought over as slaves, but I wasn't and neither were you. I refuse to be mad at a whole race because of past mistakes. Life is about forgiveness, not holding a grudge. If your father killed my father, I have no right to be mad at you, and I wish that every race would think like that. I am not being stupid, i just think you can't see out of your little box.
cj4b2 1 year ago
this gutarist is badass
rockypc24 1 year ago
"Attitude is Everything" (for better or worse)
handymandan100 1 year ago
OK....in this video you see the black kid teachin the white kid to dance..then you see a white kid teachin a black kid to dance...the clothes are absolutely neutral......this video is promoting EQUALITY...NOT RACISM
jazztifiable 1 year ago
This band was so far ahead of their time !
echoeman 1 year ago
Racism sucks, so as that white stereotype 'bout afroamericans.
Dudeprelude69 1 year ago
good call abelashes. Most of the retards commenting on here having got a fuckin clue. Living Color were so ahead of their time, and ultimately they just FUCKIN ROCKED
rileyjackdane 1 year ago
Racism sucks. Living Colour rules.
jek21 1 year ago 3
Ha! I like this video. Its true not so literally but true. Good message.
jtorres133 1 year ago
This is the band, that joined rap, and metal, into an intricate weave.
imintowater 1 year ago
@imintowater really!? wow nobody was aware of that.
stevieVantanna 1 year ago 2
Ah, the ultra-rare Prince Paul remix featuring Daddy-O of Stetsasonic. First time hearin' this, and I like it a lot. I guess VEVO is good for something after all - whodathunkit?
LastBastion9999 1 year ago
Paul Williams looks so good in this video! I can't understand why he is not more known on T.V. He is the Male Model in all the different Scene's with the Superfly Hat on in the begining! A Shot Out To Paul! He is also in The Women of Brewster Place with Jackee at the Block Party! Okkk
shawnski2 1 year ago
cj4b2 does NOT a have a valid point. Living Colour are not black supremacists. They are multiculturalists. Listen to the lyrics. This video is inspired by the very real situation that existed in NYC in the late 80s where cab drivers of all races (as this video depicts) were refusing to pick up black folks. Auslander is another song with a video about something that was happening in the news at the time. Neo-Nazis in Germany were beating Asian immigrants to death in the streets in the early 90s.
abelashes 1 year ago 47
@abelashes, excellent put, I totally agree. LC's lyrics had a social and political meaning most of the times, concerning other matters as well. They are great lyricists and free spirits.Vernon Reid was one of the founders of The Black Rock Coalition ( a U.S.-based artists' collective and non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creative freedom and works of black musicians)
ioandes 1 year ago
@abelashes I didn't say or imply that they are black supremacists. I was just trying to point out that 90% of the "bad guys" in this video and other videos like "Elvis is Dead" are white people. Is that not a stereotype? @kurtizzyflush: Why the hostility? I am not being mean, I am simply doing the same thing that Living Colour is doing: questioning what I see. I have a lot of respect for them, but I bet a white band could not get away with making multiple videos about how other races treat us.
cj4b2 1 year ago
@cj4b2 Just shut the fuck up and enjoy the god damn music. I fucking hate people like you who always try to stir shit up over a good fucking song.
Doodorz 1 year ago
@abelashes I think that cj4b2 missed the whole point about what the lyrics to the video is saying. As a black person, we all have been given that "funny vibe" by people, who think that black people are one way, and are not diverse in their opinions, education, and way of life.
faceman68 1 year ago
@faceman68 I don't know if this has been addressed, but there are Black folks out there that throw that race card when someone of another race disagees or who's opinion differs with theirs. And if you've got someone who's afraid of being percieved as a racist, he'd rather tell you what you want to hear instead of how he really feels. Which is lying. And there will always be opportunists who will play you like a fiddle to attain their goals. FACTS....it is what it is. Dig for them, attain them.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
I think they are a good band, but just about every video i watched of them has a white guy as a bad guy. Isn't that just as racist as what they are trying to fight? What if white people made a video that had all black people as the bad people and talked about the way "ALL" black people treat white people? This video implies that "ALL" white people are racist, which is a stereotype in itself. I just want to see if anybody sees my point?
cj4b2 1 year ago
@cj4b2 You think? That's funny!
kurtizzyflush 1 year ago
@cj4b2 your are wrong because living color promotes equality, not racism if you are comparing that a white band to do the same with other races because the white race was not enslaved for over 400 years and live in those years where being black you're being discriminated your are being stupid with all due respect
Kharn8181 1 year ago
@Kharn8181 Quit bringing up the same old tired shit.. You're NOT a slave, shut the fuck up. I've never been a racist who stays up all night plotting your demise or failure you paranoid fuck. If the news reports Blacks commiting crimes is it the White guy's fault because he's reporting it?? NO, IT'S THE BLACK GUY'S FAULT. When Drew Peterson went to jail for murder, it was his fault not an indictment on Whites CATCH MY DRIFT BRO??. Start to see reasons...NOT EXCUSES for your failures. Wake up.
DUSTYBASS 11 months ago
@DUSTYBASS your info?
.I LOVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THIS PLANET OR ANY PLANET. MY HEROES ARE THE MILITARY. I FLY THE FLAG EVERY DAY AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT, YOU CAN KISS MY ASS.
that's all I need to know, go on with your blind patriotism that will get you nowhere, you do not deserve anyone's respect
damn hater
Kharn8181 11 months ago
@Kharn8181 I'm a hater? Because I love my Country and respect the people (OF ALL COLORS AND BELIEFS) who protect our Country??? You have issues or maybe NOT enough fibre in your diet... because you're full of shit.
DUSTYBASS 5 months ago
@DUSTYBASS jokes on you iam not black
Kharn8181 5 months ago
@Kharn8181 Hey Kharn.... WHO SAID YOU WERE BLACK?? HEY THAT'S PRETTY FUNNY.... I said you weren't a slave... it's good to see how your "mind" processes info. I'd love to see you do the association game.
DUSTYBASS 5 months ago
Great song/video/message.
AlanSessler 2 years ago 17
wow, it's like impossible to put any LC vids on and try to go on other websites with this as background music. You HAVE to watch the vid.
bryonshea 2 years ago 2
Vernon Reid slays
dutchfromhellven 2 years ago 4
Ah yeah ...
PurpleFunkLover 2 years ago