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  • THANX for sharing - in this way - HIS Energy!

    I really LOVE his kind to express his wishes. SO in a very impressive kind of performace, because NO Music, ´cause WITH Music - sometimes- can distract from the Story he wanna tell to the Audience. He´s a CLEVER Performer!

    LIVE LONG and PROSPER xxx

  • this piece is articulated very well! "mother fuckers" better recognize

  • Soldier Boy>>>>>Saul Williams

  • absolute hero. love him

  • damn i dont get it :(

  • Damn he's sick!

  • fucking genius

  • the dead emcee scrolls. read it.

  • hmm...its obviously none of my business, but I don't think Saul would approve of his work being viewed by people that above all somehow create any sort of ignorance in responsive comprehension only to show the irony of how his work instead of opening eyes to his conjecture, actually open the mouths absentminded faulty.

    And seriously I don't see how at all you're making anything better at all by arguing or talking shit. Politics aren't doing anything right, and neither are you.

  • a little too much focus on using big words there, chief. reign in your diction a bit and make more sense.

    'open the mouths absentminded faulty'?

  • right on.

  • Saul is amazing.

  • saul williams is definitly a genious

  • Every minority needs allies, otherwise nothing changes. If opinions aren't spoken, they aren't ever called out if they're wrong.

    It doesn't matter where anyone comes from or where they're at, Saul's message is a message for ALL people. So was MLK JR's and Harvey Milk's. It's irrational to think that people can 'leech' heroes.

    I do find it interesting that so many white people like him. It seems easier to listen to him if you're white; he's more specifically critical of black culture.

  • :rolleyes:

    "We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.

    Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.

    Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to

    uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World."

  • bwahaha, do you really think white and black cultures are that easily seperated?

    you've got a lot about the world left to learn my friend

  • Yes, actually I KNOW that black and white cultures ARE nothing alike. White people know NOTHING about black culture simply because they dont have to. If they did, I wouldnt even be writing this, and there wouldnt be any racial tension. Black people are so complex we dont even know oursleves half the damn time! So its very arrogant to think that you know black culture, because you dont, no offense. You can appreciate black culture, but you can never UNDERSTAND black culture..Keep it real.

  • So amazing that you keep referancing "black culture" as if its one person. As if an entire race has to have the same beliefs and opinions. And that whatever person represents white culture cannot understand the single entity that is 'black culture'. Only because 'black culture' is standing there saying "You cant understand me". Try lowering your fist instead of trying so hard to be the underdog, and see what happens.

    And as was said by Cody Weber; "Gays are the niggers of America". KEEP IT REAL

  • Its so ignorant that you accept a small pocket of white supremisists to be representitive of every white person. The equivalent to that, is me thinking that all blacks are ignorant racists like yourself. MLK was about integration, when all you're doing is pushing the races away. Its people like you that prove that great mans work to be in vein. White America just elected a black president, while white America is pushing ahead Proposition 8. LOVE is LOVE, and HATE is HATE, no matter who you are.

  • Im not attacking you, Im just defending the people that arent racist, that you are grouping in with the racists. And at this point, your backed into a wall, right? Well Im not being racist, but where did blacks come from? Africa, right? Well if you want a black country, why dont you just move to Africa, instead of thinking you're being beat down in America? And by the way, have you ever tried to start a business, instead of wasting your time voicing your opinions on youtube?

  • I'll move to where the fuck I want, when I want. This is entire planet is due to the African. Everything Europeans have is stolen. Ask Saul Williams about that. And no I have not attempted to start a business, that takes money and knowledge. Both of which are generally foreign to me by design. Instead of studying economy and politics in these Euro-peonized schools, we were learning "Gym". And "the greatness of the white man" Suggesting I should be an entrepreneur is the only logical thing u sed.

  • These are the last two messages I will send, because its pointless arguing with someone who wont listen. Now look, you want a black country, and its there for you, but you wont take it, because of the white man. You want black owned businesses, but the system did you wrong, so now you wont even try, or learn how to. Face it, you're lazy. Why not take responsibility for YOUR OWN LIFE instead of pointing the finger at everybody else just because its convinient. I know you can do whatever the fuck-

  • you want, you just have to get off your ass and do it. You have to prove yourself, prove that your not just some oppressed 'nigger', like the white man wants you to think. The white man is laughing, because hes got all the black men saying 'cant'. Well stop saying 'cant'. And start saying 'WILL'. Be an example for your children, and your childrens children, and say "I WILL". Let them see the strong figure that is you, winning points for the black man, telling the white man "I WILL, SO FUCK YOU".

  • I am not validated by the white mans standard of success. This is the type of inferior thinking that has enslaved us. Assimilation does NOT mean equality. And your comments are disrespectful to all my heros who "did", but consequently had their fucking heads blown off by some jealous cracker. Need I Identify? Saul does a pretty damn good job of naming them off in this video. All avenues have been traveled by blacks in this country, and they all lead to the same destination; slavery and death.

  • whoa you uckin kkk racism bitch

  • Racist fuck.

  • Gays rule Amerikka. Fuck Cody Weber

  • What do you know about black culture?

  • Im just saying, its time for white people to stop leeching off of Black Heros and start becoming Heros, Like the Great John Brown, Arguably the greatest white person ever!

  • Where is the line where anti-racist sentiment like yours becomes racist in itself? If you can't see that skin is skin-deep then how are these "white people" you speak of supposed to see that?

  • now-a-days i like to think that there isnt races but classes instead, its not racist to not want to die. you shouldn't be angry at white people oppressing black people but the rich oppressing poor people.

  • Wow that was racist in saying there are no racists... how you did it, I don't know.

  • So if white people arent racists, then why do they sit around as Black Men are systematically Destroyed by white supremacy? Prisons,Crack,Guns etc. All of which Blacks have NOTHING to do with the production of, Yet we get all the blame,from whites and Brainwashed Blacks. What up with that?

  • It's the same reason why black people can't do things to help: whites are not living in a paradize either. BTW it's very hard for me to even try to contribute to a humane solution from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. I am not powerful in that regard. It beats me why American opportunists don't do anything, white or black. You can make me eat my words, though.

  • I think you may be confused. Its not just black people being screwed over by the USA it is poor people. The white people who do have sentimental value for poor people are usually unable to do anything, because of poverty or middle class. The only way to truly see what poverty is like is to be in poverty.

  • Well, that would be relevant littlefinger if poverty were the only issue I proposed as genocidal destruction on behalf of white supremacy. I cleary listed crack,guns,gangs,prison,unempl­oyment,POLICE BRUTALITY etc. Which DISPRPORTIONATELY affect blacks. Both racism and classism exists, snd white people like to discount racism just because they have experience the same poverty blacks have masterfully endured for hundreds of years. Who's the "whiny" one now?

  • he is an actual GOD!!!!!

  • Saul said this about God: "he lets me call him me!" in Amethyst Rock. This is just as true in any sentient being's case.

  • If I get good enough at Latin... I'll translate it into LATIN and post it on Youtube!

  • when a given norm is changed in the face of the

    unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

    Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season

    can someone care to explain clearly what that means? i could so far as to ask for a SYNOPSIS but i don't think anyone would want to lol so could you just give me that line there... :)

  • LOL I think he's onto some kind of systems' theory (?), and "Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season" ties into it as a practical application. I could way off, though. Peace.

  • It is really sad when people use this medium to argue over who is or is not racist. An idea has come to me: Enjoy Saul's work (as I do) or go away.

  • "When are some whiteys gonna start dying for the cause?"

    Saul named an ample number of them, if you payed attention.

  • keilyngodson..........you are a genuine racist. Congratulations.

  • Unfortunately, that can be considered correct. What did he mean by an irrelevant devil?

  • Give me a noose and a tree and I'll show you whiteys racist! Dont patronize me.

  • Counter-racism, to keilyngodson26, is LAME. We are not racists and I know that you are not too, but...

  • As if those crackas understood.

  • OH PLEASE! Integral theory is with us!

  • That is to say, the integral consciousness is with us all. Saul Williams is one integral artis out of an emerging and increasing amount of like-minded individuals!

  • Well, if that is the case, then go look up some irrelevant devil and stay the fuck off Saul's nuts. You whiteys think you're so smart, when we all know ALL of your "knowledge" is stolen.

  • Integral consciousness is with SENTIENT BEINGS, not just humans. I don't think whities are superior, even in civility, to all other human beings, who are non-whities. Knowledge need not be encepsulated in quote tags. Knowledge is knowledge. I am not prideful of being a whity. Anyway, it's not about race, it's about THE VERY CRUCIALLY NECESSARY IDEAS THAT SAUL WILLIAMS PROPAGATES. Sorry for being A WHITE man! Have a nice day (no sarcasm)! :) Are you saying that Saul is NOT FOT THE WHOLE HUMANITY?

  • Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.

    Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to

    uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT JUST BLACK PEOPLE, BUT ALL HUMANS! Wake up from your strange centeredness and you mother-fucker better realize that now is the time to self-actualize, not to attack the white people with words, but to uplift the consciousness of the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD!

  • Check out the channel this is posted on. :)

  • i'm not into rap and all that crap

    but saul williams is a god!

  • Superb performance...

  • Saul is a living legend. His dauntless and completely and inconceivably honest poems serve as a blatant inspiration.

  • that was awesome

  • Barack needs an Adviser; Saul are you available?

    Or, maybe it should be you and you appoint Barack as Ambassador to say, Ethiopia.

    There is work to be done.

  • Im feelin the reference to yoruba history in obatala, ogun and oshun.

    Listen to what he's saying people -

    "breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past"

  • Wow. He's amazing.

  • I just wanted to say that the poem is entitled "Co-dead Language"

    Go buy his books

  • One.

  • I wish my brain and ears were fast enough to hear/understand everything that he says.

  • you can find the lyrics on line google Saul Williams and coded Language

  • got the message

  • at 4:11. listen.

    if u must count to keep the beat...then, count. find your mantra...

    that says a lot. that dictates an entire view of reality, lifestyle. trip.

  • Saul Williams is a motivation and inspiration to people. The fact that he is not celebrated as one of the forefront of modern poetry is a travesty and a tragedy.

    Much love.

  • He gives me chills

  • He stuttered occasionally, but still an amazing performance. Also a great poem.

  • he rocks my socks

    i love the drum n bass track with this

  • why he was speaking english, plain straight foward talk.

  • He didn't really deliver this AMAZING poem as well as he usually does this time. Great poet nonetheless.

  • At least it was slow and understandable, but it was fast and passionate and powerful in the Def Jam spoken word poetry event.

  • croft got goosbumps!

  • My Hero!!!

  • amazing...

    many people dont appreciate his work, But saul williams is the man.. my idol.. execellent piece... -silla

  • One of my idols!!!!! Lyrical genius of unprecedented frequencies and flow.

  • ha im jealous

  • i heard him read this when he opened for nin in El Paso... that performance got me into him, he is an amazing artist

  • strange, but im not feelin it. lacks the emotion that is on the record. damn.

  • Saul Williams was the first spoken word poet I ever got hooked on. I am reminded of why. =DD

  • sounds like a horse race

  • lol, come to think of it, it does kinda yeah

  • the actual title is 'co-dead language'

  • I first heard this with DJ Krush.

  • Actually you probably heard this with DJ Krust, not Krush.

  • Great video, I love hearing the different ways he reads this poem (see the Def Poetry reading as a contrast). When was this reading?

  • Great Friggin Vid!! I love Saul.

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