Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

[PoisonDames]

seeing them this weekend fuck yes

[spobrien2012]

nostalgic song but soon u hip hop heads will find the true rap

[ruend]

i love the harry nilsson sample.

[MrPrinceOFpa]

i dont care for this. but if it was good it should be called WHITEALICIOUS

[misterkushoneluv]

@MrPrinceOFpa you stink blackalicious is gr8

[BBoyDTM3]

one of the best MC's ever to live.

[danzinwolf]

A good rap song makes me feel uncomfortable in an amazing way. Its like my heart is being pushed to go faster. Great song.

[thejenyus]

this reminds me of high school.

[MrGordzing]

I used to be an adventurer like you... Then I took a Blazing Arrow in the knee

[TheSlinkybeaver]

@MrGordzing

fuck of.

[MrGordzing]

@TheSlinkybeaver I know that doing an "arrow to the knee" joke sucks, but, really, this one was awesome....

...Well... Maybe not, in fact...

[bbr55555]

@MrGordzing Dude this song deserves and arrow to the knee joke lol

[MrGordzing]

@bbr55555 Of course it does !

[AnaticulaeIratae14]

What's Lil' Wayne?

[vijaygodard]

i tried to sang this and then i got the blazing arrow to the knee

[MrGhetosmurf]

You should check out the original version of this song written by HARRY NILSON. Obviously different but you gotta give respect to the man who wrote it. Not just the man who remixed it. Peace!

[TheDeppo]

This is were it's at. This is the defination of Hip-Hop/Rap. This is what it started as. Is the new black eyed peas REALLY doing it for you? Is it? Is waka flocka flames new mixtape your "jam"? Lil wayne is the only new era rapper i have respect for. But this, is were rap was, and should be.

[ermoney14]

bubbles

[DiggityDoli]

Amazin' phase your days, your hazy ways, my blazing arrow.

[obliojones]

INredible flows, love sample from the point! Such a great song... Just played it on the Air here in Moab, UT on KZMU, Utah's last all independent all volunteer community radio station! Feel it!

[TurnerOund555]

Amazingly lyrically superior!!!

You just don't get that these days...

[Thedarkheritage1]

Gift of Gab of Blackalicous

went thru his ways-of MCing for --HOW --TO --RAP --

..that there is the name of

the book with every dope MC you can name

droppin science to document-tha art form,

spectacular boook

[ayoitsmeeeh]

reminds me of  typical cats - anyday

[TAmonkeyy]

SHREDDIN'!

[liaamcoates]

unreal.

[MrJc189]

im navajo



[OSSIM123]

dude at the beggining im like oh kool at the end im like WTF x-x JIZZ

[anonaly222]

Hooray for Oblio!!!

[dgould47]

@ant1ph0n1 i feel that! the movie they sampled this from was a big part of my childhood memories too

[soavyse]

How many mc's must get rippd b4 everybody says don't get flip with the gift?

[ant1ph0n]

feel like i need 2 get stoned 2 this again 2 relive my 'highschool memories' [via reminiscing]

[skullfokker01]

haha , fuckin killin it

[warpool]

haha, I was just going to put that I found out where this is sampled from. I was so stoked to find out too. I thought I was the first person ever. haha. Harry Nilsson is so weird.

[mirracles123]

AWESOMENESS!!!!!!!!



[boyindacorn3r]

Anyone know where to get an instrumental for this?

[stuwiitube]

numnums for the ears! :)

[Greggo2]

I've recently got into this, but I put the rhymes on the high shelf with Del or Q.

[funkyonesj]

@Greggo2 Gift of Gab is amazing. Back in 2000, I saw a show with Blackilicious and Del after NIA had just dropped. Blackalicious at that show was better than Del, at least he got the crowd more engaged and his flow was ill.

[beetlebum1990]

They couldn't change the chord :////

[2222busdriver]

If anyone doesn't like this song, you need to brush up on your hip hop. Doesn't get any better than this song and this CD.

[Shoney38]

@2222busdriver i feel you on this but i'm a true hiphop fan it the only music beside the old school that i put on my computer and those who don't like don't have to listen to it more good music for me

[stackerzgame14]

crazy the chorus me and my arrow part is taken from my favorite song as a kid

[spideymayne]

@stackerzgame14 What song is the hook from??

[stackerzgame14]

@spideymayne me and my arrow

[EnclosedSilence]

The Point.

[jusfruckinaround]

gaurantee if u like blackalicious u will like this guy check uncledropsi on myspace

[jusfruckinaround]

@tysong2010 lol ive seen this same comment on top of almost every blackalicious vid from like 30 dif people gotta be good ima check it out :P

[Landyachtz12]

The verbal God, I throw a murder all my foe and kill 'em

But learnin all and so I'm gorowing while I'm learnin wit em

Infernal I'll explode returnin out the globe about to blow

Now get up out here yo, see head on out the zones that I patrol

Rock and roll might tear you out the soul like blunts and alcohol

I knock your whole toboggan for a loop and now the doubt will flow

I'm not the pro you wanna knock cause on the real I got the glow

[cs302208]

how does stains make any sense?

[cs302208]

i think that one line says

'Im like a laser ray keepin the stage awake'

maybe meaning lasers at concerts and what not

[lanktoogle]

@cs302208 its actually stains i think



[FathomZero]

Sick Nilsson sample. Hahah.

[MCPotRoast]

evil flow, too fuckin ill son

[tnielsen84]

been a fan years......some goodz. no doubt.

[Toomanyvideogames]

Sick!

[HyperLeafBlower]

probably one of my favourite samples in hip hop.

[pezdude333]

fuckin love this song

[Mountainbiking100]

Legit rap, mad flow, plus a crazy beat with sick effects

[MrDerfinator]

His beats solid and his flow is fuckin amazing-and all whilst being clean at the same time(I do like shit with profanity though) throw some Wu-tang or N.W.A. Ghetto Boyz, Comptons Most Wanted with some T.C.Q or some Public Enemy-Oh hell yeah

[MrZacJohnston]

@MrDerfinator dude, you say this on every video

[meatgristle]

sampling Harry Nilsson is totally 'like' worthy :)

[pandaman77]

this is my first time hearing this song. after i read the first line on the lyrics, before he even starts rapping i favorited it and thumbsed up it

[xlThaXrampagelx]

its hurting my brain ! this is like getting hit with lyrical fusion !

[Hitscam]

Harry Nilsson sample and liquid swords influence makes for a fantastic beat ^^

[TanWeiHou]

hip hop is not about drugs and shit,fuck it

[andy486]

yo guy i just blazed a giant joint to this guuyyy its the illest yoo

[hunterthomas56]

@andy486

the rapper's name is Gift of Gab, Blackalicious is the name of the group.

[MFcordero]

if youre against this guy's flows, you either like sucky rap or you rap and suck

ive 'stolen' a few rhymes off this to learn how to rap faster

[SRPang89]

Just watched The Point, narrated by ringo starr and this song is the shit. go see that movie, keep playing this song!

[ithinkkyouareparis]

@SRPang89 Thank goodness someone else knows where "Me & my Arrow" came from <3 <3 <3

[HeyImKli4d]

Harry Nilsson is who he sampled off by the way. I really think you should all check out the original Nilsson song. It's actually got a decent hip hop beat on it's own. Both Geniuses.

[cattigano]

@HeyImKli4d - saw a documentary on Nilsson and he is a class act - genius and brillaint artist - it was no wonder he later worked with the Beatles and John Lennon moreso.

[hardlinemonk]

WOWWWWWW!!!!

[aidinharper]

a whole new level- speechless...

[TheUnbreakableOtaku]

I don't know if I've heard a rapper than can quite match this.

[kulludar]

@TheUnbreakableOtaku Mofuckn Woodie wood dog and if u dont know em look up Woodie-tales of a killa

[BMDubsKid]

@TheUnbreakableOtaku Talib Kwali.

[horayforboobieszxr]

a bong sounds a bit different

[bostonian314]

I like the ending...

[JesusACruz64]

Arrrooooowwwwww........

[almfan]

DEAR GOD! My sister gave me this album long long ago but I never really listened to it- I'm French and I didn't speak English well enough at the time to understand a thing on it :) Now I'm just getting so addicted, this is amazing!

[dacypher22]

@galept I would have to assume he is for Gift, considering that Gift could never even mildly be considered to do those things.

[ilongboardNlax]

illl

[FocuzHD]

win.

[sodoi12]

this. is. fucking. awesome. period.

[NoProtect]

Damn thats hot

[JoeDaDamaja]

i like how they use the sample from the point cartoon

[xxXMrFoxXxx]

blackalicious is genius he is one of the most talented rappers ever

[RowanTRobinson]

beast!!!!!!

[HyperLeafBlower]

probably one of my favourite samples in hip-hop, blew my mind when i heard this hook for the first time

[djgambitron]

love the intro, hate the rap

[xxXMrFoxXxx]

@djgambitron u may hate the rap but he has mad skills

[djgambitron]

@xxXMrFoxXxx

i refuse to accept rap as a "skill" anyone that can talk can rap. there's no REAL skill in rapping, just writing a rhyme & practicing it.

DJing (cutting/scratching/juggling etc.), b-boying, & writing graffiti ALL are REAL skills that not everyone can do well and take a lot of work to master.

rap was the LAST element of hip-hop on the scene, but took over everything. i hate rap. you never hear stuff like chinese arithmatic & pump up the volume since rap ruined hip-hop forever

[Randy21021]

@djgambitron Dude If you Hate Rap Why are You On this geez Go listen Something Else if you Don't Like It 

[djgambitron]

@Randy21021

i'm here because i love the beat, used it in my "battle disc" so DJs can mix it, and WAS going to add it to my favorites until i heard yet another rapper stinking a song up by opening his big attitude mouth.

tell the public you hate rap and it's attitude and what do you get? more attitude every time.

deal with people hating what you like why don't you?

[djgambitron]

it's the same bullshit as trying to find the instrumental to "echo leader" by musicians with ACTUAL talent. try to get to something with real MUSICAL worth, and all you get is a bunch of useless punk ass rappers running their mouths when they don't even fucking know that REAL hip-hop is POSITIVE and about ending gang violence etc. but all these lil bitches stole hip-hop and dragged it back to the gutter.

when was the last time you heard a DJ on a record or an MC say the word PEACE? fuck that!

[djgambitron]

i was b-boying in '83 before rap ruined hip-hop. i was there when the positive energy was STOLEN by scumbags with big mouths bragging about their 9s, money & ho's

i still believe in hip-hop (POSITIVITY) and no punk ass thug is ever going to take that away from me or get ANY respect for it.

learn your history & ask DJs, b-boys & graf artists what THEY think of crappers coming to the party after it already started, grabbed the mic & running their mouths.

can i get an old school witness?

[xxXMrFoxXxx]

@djgambitron ur dumb cunt not anyone can rap evry1 can talk but u cnt just write poems and be this gd plus wat about his freestyles some of them r sick an u cnt just say he practices them so evry1 can do them cos there freetyle

[jointsmokinsamari]

@djgambitron If I understand correctly which I doubt I do seeing how you're making no sense at all, you're saying that Gift of Gab raps about money, hoes, and guns? Someone needs to do a backround check because last time I checked blackalicious was about good vibes and rhymes which is one part of hip hop thats important. Don't believe that blackalicious has a message? Check out make ya feel that way, sounds positive to me, just saying.

[rusteepipe]

@djgambitron realize blues was in america long before we were born. many mainstream artists took southern blues and commercialized it at radio stations. soul rose with the rise of afrcan american presence in america. funk evolved from this new aspect of liberation of minorities especially afro mericans within the music industry, but before that, disco fucked that up and became present. hip hop was an offshoot of that and was almost a cry against that. new shit will always come in and out

[djgambitron]

@rusteepipe

i'll take even BAD disco over gangsta crap EVERY TIME and rap in general.

i'll never forgive rap for ruining REAL hip-hop forever. rap is the enemy.

[rusteepipe]

@djgambitron take it easy, rap didnt "ruin" anything, hip hop is never "ruined" fucktard, just because a couple teenagers dress like the rainbows and make a song for dancing dont mean its the end of the fucking world, keep in tune with the radiowaves and vibrations made by real hip hop artists doing it to this day.

oh and blame the lust of man for money, not rap. i bet your favourite mc is good at rapping, which is rap technically.

[JoeDaDamaja]

@djgambitron yeah whats the deal? for or against

[joeysomers12]

@djgambitron ask little richard what he thinks of elvis(and everyone else) biting his style. we would be no where with-out people using/stealing others music. hip-hop was born from the music before, just adapted to the individual. capitalism was the near death of hip-hop.money will always fuck something up, for sure if it was grand to begin with, but where are we now? great artist are rarely realize in their time. piss on all this mainstream rap,... then again, who am i to say........

[zunez0rz]

@djgambitron I know what you mean totally. I'm only 16, but I take time to study music. The only music I like that brags like that, is the No Limit stuff. (1998-1999). Before 1998, they told alot of crime stories. Well more like 1990-1996 was crime stories, and a little in 1997.

But yeah, I'm a true hip-hopper.

[jerrycolf]

@djgambitron you are a stupid pussy.

[MusicCulprit]

who knows where that mee and my arrowww sample is from?

[djgambitron]

@MusicCulprit

it's from the harry nilsson song by the same name from the 70s animated movie "the point"

[djgambitron]

just type

me and my arrow

in the youtube search engine... easy

[MysteryMooseMan]

@MusicCulprit

lol, its from the song "me and my arrow" :P

[reallyghettovideos]

yes this song rules

[Black24Thought]

Gift of Gab please stop BLOWING MY FUCKING MIND

[CraIGZZzZZZzzzzzzzzz]

nice

[calapanpo]

His bow has the cylinder of a revolver.

Awesome.

[TheLimelightClique]

download for this on the site airmp3dotnet

raw song.

[egomers714]

Necro fuckin' blows.

[dudewithpants420]

Its ridiculous how awesome gift of gab is!!!! I'm happy there is still a few musicians out there doing real hip hop. Gift of gab and busdriver should do some music together.... that would be the best combo for me!!!!

[Zombyrider]

This is hip hop at its finest!!!

I live in Sacramento Cali, where all these idiots praise a retard called Mac Dre =(

I Honestly feel like im the only one who listen to the good stuff like NECRO,Atmosphere,Fatlip,Aesop Rock,Immortal Technique,Brother Ali, Vast Aire,Cunninlynguists,RjD2,Funk­doobiest,Hieroglyphics,Living Legends, Cool Calm Pete,A Tribe Called Quest,The Pharcyde,Blackalicious,Onyx, Slick Rick,Bus Driver, Jurassic 5 and bla bla bla. I can go on for days with hip hop that has talent.

[dudewithpants420]

@Zombyrider it is sad to see that people are losing there sense for good music, all of those artist you listed and more will keep hip hop alive forever!!!

[tossingmidgetsforfun]

@Zombyrider You forget Del tha funkee homosapien,Him and funkdoobiest are the shit

[mikeyskywalker]

@Zombyrider You forgot Madlib and MF Doom!!!!

[MrNapt]

@Zombyrider hahah i agree

[VikingsFN]

His flow is amazing

[MuzikJunkyAES]

THIS is the way to listen to Harry Nilsson! Peace.

[RickenbackerGalore]

i found this through harry nielson me and my arrow and found the best hip hop ever. technology 1 word of mouth 0

[beastlyza]

Saw Gift o Gab open for Mixmaster Mike in Dublin. Simply outstanding... and then Mixmaster Mike started. Double joy for one price!

[philoz08]

We from Rio de Janeiro salute you !

[philoz08]

We from Rio de Janeiro salute you !

[MimzySongs]

this song reminds me of Brazil.

[00sheehanc]

FLUH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

FLOOOOOOOOOOW!

Flows like a streeeeam man! TO MUCH.

[pyza66]

Dobra rzecz :D

[DawajRespekt]

pogadane =D

[greengreyandblue]

Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow

The rays that range from Asia way to Rio De Janeiro

A craze you crave? but work today's the day that in a major way

I'll make you say oh look he saved the day and also paved the way (hooray)

Rockin? my crew like razor blades today and days away from now okay, okay

I'm like a laser ray keepin the stains? away

[greengreyandblue]

and dangerous ways rappin the phrase that pays

all things just ain't a phase but ageless ways a cagey great displays

yo hey, this ain't a game, so stays awake

cause if you came to play you'll all behave insane

After we change the game it won't reamin the same

(I'll fade away!!!) So make your disc and play this tape in your Camaro

Amazin phase your days your hazy ways my Blazing Arrow

[greengreyandblue]

The verbal God, I throw a murder all my foe and kill 'em

But learnin all and so I'm gorowing while I'm learnin wit em

Infernal I'll explode returnin out the globe about to blow

Now get up out here yo, see head on out the zones that I patrol

Rock and roll might tear you out the soul like blunts and alcohol

I knock your whole toboggan for a loop and now the doubt will flow

I'm not the pro you wanna knock cause on the real I got the glow

Cosmic flows as I suppose thats how its supposed to be

[greengreyandblue]

and got to go!!! How'd ya know? Intuition

I was on the old safe surface figure out your purpose that's impossible

But logic will disturb the thought or focus what its not is all about

the grow about the kind of onus only god can know

I rock it for the chocolate, for the awkward for the thoughtless

in your home or at your office

I'm your early morning coffee so who got the ball?

We roll with Navajos with double barrels

[MRzTWEEK]

this song puts a smile on my face

[r8pal]

same blud

[elquesodiablo1]

just started chillin with a blunt and found this. thanks for puttin a smile on this face, kidd. madd props bro.

[italllies]

dude this is a dope track, i suggest you check out their first album 'NIA' fuck its sick

[ThaReapa]

Melodica EP (1995) was their first album kid...

[italllies]

Shit dude I forgot about their EP, rad,

fuck mang you heard New Blackalicious album release date July 06, 2010.

Shake Junt son~!

[leechdick]

im a look up that fkick right now smokeandfly

[r8pal]

1:35-1:40 = killed it

[yohoothefirst]

this is gd shiiiit

[ant1ph0n]

well damn, if it isn't this track. i used to get blazed and listen to this back when i was in college.

[taius20]

there should be a 10 star option for special tracks like this

[hannahappiest]

amazing 8)

[TylerGraeber]

ooh thats smooth. beat is whats up. the end with the flutes. just yaaaaaa!

[pissaucul]

The first arrowpod for mcyaaa

[uksquall]

this is fucking crazy

[27smokeandfly420]

if anyone is interested, the samples in this song are taken from "the point", a crazy movie make in the 60's i think and is basically about a world where everything has a point to it (literally) except for one boy who has no point and sent away to the pointless forest

its full of obvious references to racism and general lifestyle choices and is one of my favorite childhood movies

"Me and my arrow, straighter than narrow

Me and my arrow, straight to the high road!"

[Xonater]

Great song

[serge2cool]

this is gd shiiiit

[anthonysmoshpadilla]

this is gd shiiiit

[allah12311]

sick!~

[187PhatNutz]

Underrate: To rate too low; underestimate.

You have to have heard the song to underrate it. I know few people who don't like it upon hearing it.

[187PhatNutz]

It's not underrated, just unheard of.

[skitzomonkey]

@187PhatNutz therefore that makes it underrated

[klenz138]

so underated

[TMundo]

Search: harry nilsson me and my arrow

for the sample

[suckafish80]

omg! I've wondered for so long!

[SocialDeviant77]

FUCK YES ! THANKS FOR POSTING THIS!

[ecomunky]

i found this record in an abandoned crack house ..unopened 2002 ben harper jarassic 5 freakn awsm the cops boarded it up shortly after but there are still 100s of records in the house

[nuclearnate]

I dont normally listen to rap but this songs awesome.