@NeoRwing Whoa WTF?! You must have done your research to have found the only song written by two black men about a black woman. Whose really dumb? I think its you! You wanna call somebody dumb? Go call George Bush dumb, go call those brokers on Wall Street stupid, go call sarah palin ignorant, But don't you dare come here and say 'dumb nigger' when your the dumbass.
Oh and the President can invite who ever the fuck he wants to the whitehouse he's the fucking President same as you or I can invite anyone we want to our house.
@GUNS4MIKE1234 Totally agree with you there, but thats not really the argument. The argument is your haracter or who you are can be defined (slightly) based on WHO you invite to your house or in Obama's case the whitehouse. For example, if you, hypothetically, allowed a klu klux klan member into your house than I can assume you are in agreement of his opinions about people who don't like him.
See what i'm saying? But I' in full agreement with your statement, just wanted to clarify the argument
@ThaKang0f713 Ok but this isent the Klu Klux Klan this is a song writer and a singer that voiced what he beleived as a injust action it isent a hate group or song just a singer.
Um ok whats the big deal about this song? this isent a hate song it's what he believes a women unjustifyably inprisoned ok and? weather she was or not he can sing about what ever he wants this isent a evil thing just what he feels I hope if she is innocent they allow her back to her home but hell if I was her I would'nt come back anyways if it's true idk you really can't get real information anymore like JFK it's just kicking a dead horse but I hope truth is found and he is entitaled to sing
Black people are still bitching about slavery, even through they are more free then white people, mexicans, asians, chinese, koreans of north and south, REAL africans, all europians, and the japanese.
@CaseyBaby84 Because I live in america, and black people think that we owe them because their great great great *whatever* grandfather was a slave.. Unless they are slaves themselfs, they are fine.
I been to all the countries listed above *ecpt korea*. Koreans can't leave their own country.. How can that feel?
@hellow533 wow...stop bitching....thanks for showing decency for my ancestors....we are still affected of because of lack of knowledge of self...if you don't understand that i feel sorry for you. all the best to you.
@7thAFC This song is more agenst all of america. I saw this on the news, and they cound't even sound the whole song. You need to start thinking before you speak, african americans are free more then 90% of the world. Tell me they aren't free. Fight in the military, serve your country, and tell me that any human in america, black or not, is not free.
@hellow533 wow..."still bitching"....thanks for showing decency for my ancestors....we are still affected of because of lack of knowledge of self...if you don't understand that i feel sorry for you. all the best to you.
@hellow533 Yeah, it sucks when African Americans complain about slavery, doesn't it? What a thorn in your backside to have to remember the pain and suffering their ancestors endured, and even though African Americans are a minority in America who have been historically disenfranchised and ignored(Presidential election in Florida and Hurricane Katrina), what a pain to have to listen to it in the form of hip-hop's most popular and positive rapper, right?
@hellow533 are you a fucking idiot or simply retarded? was grandad called boy or a nigger or have the kkklan harassing him? did your forefathers endure 400 years of slavery? was your family degraded & deprived for that long? are you being racially profiled 24/7?have your people being placed in ghettos where education and health care is virtually non exsistant? what the fuck do you mean by blacks are more free? you are either free or not. Get bill orileys dick out your mouth brain dead fuck
@hellow533 Look its not about your who was a slave and who wasn't . Black people in this country are now born into disadvantaged circumstances. Many of us grow up in poverty with poor schools, few positive role models, and an unfair criminal justice system (which has been proven in studies) among many other things.
@hellow533 At the times we have tried to unify our leaders have been killed or organizations systematically taken out by the government so there is little unity. Many of these problems stem from not only slavery, but from oppression that continued much much later.
@shannonigan9 This is truely the dumbing down of America. I feel that you have not understood anything of what I am saying. The blacks think they have it hard:
**-->(NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW)<--**
But NOW they have it easy, but they still complain about something in the past.
Surely you do not think that just because their ancesors where slaves that they are any worse off.
They have it so easy in this free land, and they can move out of the ghetto whenever they want.
@hellow533 Did I strike a nerve or something? Our definitions of the word "now" can be different, and I'm guessing you mean this very second. My definition refers more to a historical context, and we could both agree that Assata Shakur is very "now," since she is still alive in Cuba as a refugee.
And African Americans don't choose to live in the "ghetto", as you call it, they are put there because of current socioeconomic disadvantages.
B) Whoa, i guess you have been through it all. Huh? Please get whipped to death, set on fire and beaten to death and then maybe I'll take your opinion into account.
C) None of the sh*t your talking about makes sense, WTF ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?
D) Your the one b*thcing over something that isn't even clear.
@Niambiification So YOU have been whipped to death, set on fire and beaten to death buddy? I guess every time you steal something you are set on fire just like people in Kenya are. Oh wait, you're not. You are not a slave, you need to stop bitching about something that happened to somebody you have never met. So what, your great great grandpa was a slave. My great great grandpa was too, in poland. My great grandpa was killed in the holocaust. My grandpa was in ww2 and was a POW.
@hellow533 your basically saying that we should not care for our ancestors and the miss treatment they suffered and also your saying if i dont know someone then fuck them they can go die they can get burned to death beaten to death, is this what your saying? thats highly immoral and i hope karma fucks you in the ass
@chickenmaster66 What I am saying is you act like we still owe you for something nobody in 100 years has done. You act like just because I am white I am a huge racist who wants all blacks to die. Let me give you an example, I was at the store the other day and this black man comes up to me and sais "Sup cracker", obviously twards the fact I was white. I reply, "Nothing nigger". Somehow, he gets offended and sais I am a racist. I told him I was only talking like him, yet he still got upset.
@hellow533 haha thats a funny story lynches still happen today black people still get dragged on the streets by racist muther fuckers then get hung lots of niggas like me are ignorant to the fact that not every white person is racist and we havnt done anything to really stop the stereotype of a young black male i mean shit thugs run rampant were i live and you cant go back after you get in so deep
@chickenmaster66 hate to tell you hellow is right.... This shit does still go on ... you just don't hear about it. Yes I am white and I am also half lakota soiux and I by far from being a racist... I love everyone equally but unfortunately they're still whites that persecute not only African Americans but also Mexicans, Asians, Chinese, and etc and even Native Americans. The only difference is today these racist faggots hide like the little bi***es they are
@booboo2777 i think its better if you read more carefully to what we both said hellow is basically saying that our history and ancestors are not important im saying they are and that racism DOES still happen today and how do i sound racist?
Your name is Joanne Chesimard, you were convicted for the murder of NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster. There is a $1,000,000 bounty on your head. You will be brought to justice.
Cant forget the price of our so called freedom, we have all this "patriotism" but Assata Shakur is still in exile and Mumia Abu Jamal and Sundiata Acoli are still victims of the prison system and im suppose to give a fuck about Bin Laden? Nah dude there is so much convoluted bullshit that I find it hard to sift between truth and fabrication in this so called land of the free home of the slaves
@sundiatasoulbefree Your statement so echos my thoughts, and whilst I have never been to America or Africa, some 20 years ago I wrote a rap that I think is still relevant even now, and I think the tribulations of my ancestors is embedded in 'our' genes. Additionally I feel that little has changed since the inception of and deception within much of that which is slavery, it just has a more brutal and subtle undertone, and it's such a sad thing that the truly good people are powerless to erase it.
"Freedom, you asking me about freedom... you asking me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole lot more about what freedom isn't than about what it is. Cause I've never been free, I can only share my vision with you of a future about what freedom is. The way I see it freedom is the right to grow, is the right to blossom. Freedom is the right to be yourself, to be who you are, to be who you want to be..."
Well done! Here's a challenge for more artists to come forward and do their duty to get the word out about all of our political prisoners, whether in jail or exile.
I read her autobiography in a sociological course on American society. Excellent book about a sensitive girl's experience growing up in racist America.
Assata Shakur - true African-American revolutionary.
To all members of Shakur family: Assata Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Lumumba Shakur(peace be unto him), Zayd Malik Shakur(peace be unto him), Mutulu Shakur and of course Tupac too.
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Thats the kind of songs that really hurt me as a rap fan, i don't care about idiots rappin bout drugs and bs but someone i respect trying to defend murderers like the BLA and racists like Farrakhan.
"Read her biograhpy", "the pigs"...Gandhi didn't kill anyone, MLK didn't kill anyone,
Sun Ra said it best:"Some force is having a good time [manipulating black and white people] and looking, enjoying itself up in a reserved seat, wondering, "I wonder when they're going to wake up"".
@musiqchick02 WERD, we only have to look at Dr Malaki Z York, Julienne Assange, and countless others, I truly know that one of the devi'ls stronest 'device's is to 'deceive' by means of accusing the innocent of your own sins.
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here here man speak up! how come black people get away with making such statements and songs, its like me praising the ku klux klan. she is a fuckin a murderer as far as i'm concerned, COMMON CAN BE A TIT!
Clearly you never read a book about Assata but did you even listen to the song? If you've not done either then why even post this? Just keep it movin. why even open your mouth and prove what a fool you are? From our perspective the pigs are the murderers and you are an apologist for them and thus the real bitch in this syllogism. Do yourself a favor and stfu.
Common is such a great artist...he read Assata's autobiography about 4 times, traveled to cuba to get a feeling of being there without being there, before he could right this song...beautiful music.
yo i see da previous argument there is no way Assata Shakur cKan B cKompared to charles manson..... She was defending the rights and equalities of a people, her people, a nation of people opressed and mistreated, manson killed out of greed envy and anger, yall need ta talk what yall know real talk, hot song, chi- town strikes again.....
she also can tbe copare because there is no evidence that she kille anyone a physician sai it was physically impossible for her to have shot the officer because she was shot and paralyzed and there was also no gun powder residue found on her hands.
Imposing fear is not free, entertaining fear is not free, duality and balance is free, WE are FREE in Liberty, WE the people are Free, battling fear is free, we are all human beings...
Free All Political Prisoners! Set Yourselves Free, those who don't believe, that all should have the right to be free, live equal and horizontally. Mercy on you, Peace be with you, as I wrestle to forgive you, learn to love your self and you will feel me, will feel humanity, just be, we are all human beings, born to be free, free to live, free to love, free to breath, free to walk in Justice. We all manifest our own reality, fear is not free.
i didn't know common had a song 4 assata until i did a paper on her i luv her book i think everyone should read it...and just to let u know dontodda tupac's mother's name was afeni shakur not assata they share the same last name but there is no blood relationship.
Why is it that you are unable to conversate without insult and belittlement? Are you truly that ignorant? I think you are not. Don't let your anger, fear and frustration control your thoughts and words. It is a weakness.
Whoa....If you are going to state these kinds of things make sure it is indeed fact. Where are your sources? What innocent people did they murder? PLace direct me to these facts.
so lets leave the ignorance out of this. The video is meant to edcuate .I have a low tolerance for ignorance and racism especially when people like to wallow and perpetuate it. Because of this I'm going to ignore any signs of those things that are posted within the comments.SOOO comments by people like nalcomp and nickfromwyo are dismissed from my attention.
you obviously dont know your history. she was a student/activist you dumbass. she spoke of equal rights and equal opportunity you fuckin dumb ass. get a life and leave that bill orilley attitude at home!!!
Are you honestly going mto sit and compare the two? Charles Manson gladly admits to his beliefs and participation in his "family's" murders. When is it asserted that Assata directed someone to kill for her. Get the story straight. It was first said that she pulled the trigger, it was later recanted. Hmmmm ponder that. That recant came under oath from an officer of the law.
Now the FBI calls Assata a "Domestic terrorist", because she wanted a change. Bush and Cheney kills kids every day and were supposed to call them are heroes. FUCK THAT
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EscobarCOL 6 months ago
God damn. I wish I knew the truth you know. You just don't know whether she did or didn't. It's just impossible to know what's true....
jtsmizzack 9 months ago
dumb nigger.
NeoRwing 9 months ago
@NeoRwing Whoa WTF?! You must have done your research to have found the only song written by two black men about a black woman. Whose really dumb? I think its you! You wanna call somebody dumb? Go call George Bush dumb, go call those brokers on Wall Street stupid, go call sarah palin ignorant, But don't you dare come here and say 'dumb nigger' when your the dumbass.
Niambiification 7 months ago
Oh and the President can invite who ever the fuck he wants to the whitehouse he's the fucking President same as you or I can invite anyone we want to our house.
GUNS4MIKE1234 9 months ago
@GUNS4MIKE1234 Totally agree with you there, but thats not really the argument. The argument is your haracter or who you are can be defined (slightly) based on WHO you invite to your house or in Obama's case the whitehouse. For example, if you, hypothetically, allowed a klu klux klan member into your house than I can assume you are in agreement of his opinions about people who don't like him.
See what i'm saying? But I' in full agreement with your statement, just wanted to clarify the argument
ThaKang0f713 9 months ago
@ThaKang0f713 Ok but this isent the Klu Klux Klan this is a song writer and a singer that voiced what he beleived as a injust action it isent a hate group or song just a singer.
GUNS4MIKE1234 9 months ago
Um ok whats the big deal about this song? this isent a hate song it's what he believes a women unjustifyably inprisoned ok and? weather she was or not he can sing about what ever he wants this isent a evil thing just what he feels I hope if she is innocent they allow her back to her home but hell if I was her I would'nt come back anyways if it's true idk you really can't get real information anymore like JFK it's just kicking a dead horse but I hope truth is found and he is entitaled to sing
GUNS4MIKE1234 9 months ago
Black people are still bitching about slavery, even through they are more free then white people, mexicans, asians, chinese, koreans of north and south, REAL africans, all europians, and the japanese.
hellow533 9 months ago
@hellow533 How the hell would you know???? Are you black?
CaseyBaby84 9 months ago
@CaseyBaby84 Because I live in america, and black people think that we owe them because their great great great *whatever* grandfather was a slave.. Unless they are slaves themselfs, they are fine.
I been to all the countries listed above *ecpt korea*. Koreans can't leave their own country.. How can that feel?
hellow533 9 months ago
@hellow533 you don't understand....you are lost...simple as that...p.s. im white
7thAFC 9 months ago
@hellow533 wow...stop bitching....thanks for showing decency for my ancestors....we are still affected of because of lack of knowledge of self...if you don't understand that i feel sorry for you. all the best to you.
7thAFC 9 months ago
@7thAFC This song is more agenst all of america. I saw this on the news, and they cound't even sound the whole song. You need to start thinking before you speak, african americans are free more then 90% of the world. Tell me they aren't free. Fight in the military, serve your country, and tell me that any human in america, black or not, is not free.
Please, you need to grow up some.
hellow533 9 months ago
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@hellow533 wow..."still bitching"....thanks for showing decency for my ancestors....we are still affected of because of lack of knowledge of self...if you don't understand that i feel sorry for you. all the best to you.
7thAFC 9 months ago
@hellow533 Yeah, it sucks when African Americans complain about slavery, doesn't it? What a thorn in your backside to have to remember the pain and suffering their ancestors endured, and even though African Americans are a minority in America who have been historically disenfranchised and ignored(Presidential election in Florida and Hurricane Katrina), what a pain to have to listen to it in the form of hip-hop's most popular and positive rapper, right?
shannonigan9 9 months ago
@shannonigan9 Yes, what a shame, let me bitch about my great grandpa from poland being a slave, and my great whatever cousin being whiped constantly.
WAIT! I didn't endure that pain, and from family and ancestors fighting in the military, I am as free as those african americans.
They never lived until they have seen what I have. They should see another country, any other country, in person.
hellow533 9 months ago
@hellow533 are you a fucking idiot or simply retarded? was grandad called boy or a nigger or have the kkklan harassing him? did your forefathers endure 400 years of slavery? was your family degraded & deprived for that long? are you being racially profiled 24/7?have your people being placed in ghettos where education and health care is virtually non exsistant? what the fuck do you mean by blacks are more free? you are either free or not. Get bill orileys dick out your mouth brain dead fuck
sinduda 9 months ago
@hellow533 Look its not about your who was a slave and who wasn't . Black people in this country are now born into disadvantaged circumstances. Many of us grow up in poverty with poor schools, few positive role models, and an unfair criminal justice system (which has been proven in studies) among many other things.
999eres 9 months ago
@hellow533 At the times we have tried to unify our leaders have been killed or organizations systematically taken out by the government so there is little unity. Many of these problems stem from not only slavery, but from oppression that continued much much later.
999eres 9 months ago
@999eres trust me, if you think you have it bad here, go move to a third world country. this is heaven.
hellow533 9 months ago
@shannonigan9 This is truely the dumbing down of America. I feel that you have not understood anything of what I am saying. The blacks think they have it hard:
**-->(NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW)<--**
But NOW they have it easy, but they still complain about something in the past.
Surely you do not think that just because their ancesors where slaves that they are any worse off.
They have it so easy in this free land, and they can move out of the ghetto whenever they want.
Dang.
hellow533 9 months ago
@hellow533 Did I strike a nerve or something? Our definitions of the word "now" can be different, and I'm guessing you mean this very second. My definition refers more to a historical context, and we could both agree that Assata Shakur is very "now," since she is still alive in Cuba as a refugee.
And African Americans don't choose to live in the "ghetto", as you call it, they are put there because of current socioeconomic disadvantages.
shannonigan9 9 months ago
@hellow533 A) That's not how you spell EUROPEAN.
B) Whoa, i guess you have been through it all. Huh? Please get whipped to death, set on fire and beaten to death and then maybe I'll take your opinion into account.
C) None of the sh*t your talking about makes sense, WTF ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?
D) Your the one b*thcing over something that isn't even clear.
Niambiification 7 months ago
@Niambiification So YOU have been whipped to death, set on fire and beaten to death buddy? I guess every time you steal something you are set on fire just like people in Kenya are. Oh wait, you're not. You are not a slave, you need to stop bitching about something that happened to somebody you have never met. So what, your great great grandpa was a slave. My great great grandpa was too, in poland. My great grandpa was killed in the holocaust. My grandpa was in ww2 and was a POW.
hellow533 7 months ago
@hellow533 your basically saying that we should not care for our ancestors and the miss treatment they suffered and also your saying if i dont know someone then fuck them they can go die they can get burned to death beaten to death, is this what your saying? thats highly immoral and i hope karma fucks you in the ass
chickenmaster66 5 months ago
@chickenmaster66 What I am saying is you act like we still owe you for something nobody in 100 years has done. You act like just because I am white I am a huge racist who wants all blacks to die. Let me give you an example, I was at the store the other day and this black man comes up to me and sais "Sup cracker", obviously twards the fact I was white. I reply, "Nothing nigger". Somehow, he gets offended and sais I am a racist. I told him I was only talking like him, yet he still got upset.
hellow533 5 months ago
@hellow533 haha thats a funny story lynches still happen today black people still get dragged on the streets by racist muther fuckers then get hung lots of niggas like me are ignorant to the fact that not every white person is racist and we havnt done anything to really stop the stereotype of a young black male i mean shit thugs run rampant were i live and you cant go back after you get in so deep
chickenmaster66 5 months ago
@hellow533 you sound like a bigot racist to me
booboo2777 1 week ago
@chickenmaster66 hate to tell you hellow is right.... This shit does still go on ... you just don't hear about it. Yes I am white and I am also half lakota soiux and I by far from being a racist... I love everyone equally but unfortunately they're still whites that persecute not only African Americans but also Mexicans, Asians, Chinese, and etc and even Native Americans. The only difference is today these racist faggots hide like the little bi***es they are
booboo2777 1 week ago
@booboo2777 i think its better if you read more carefully to what we both said hellow is basically saying that our history and ancestors are not important im saying they are and that racism DOES still happen today and how do i sound racist?
chickenmaster66 1 week ago
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Your name is Joanne Chesimard, you were convicted for the murder of NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster. There is a $1,000,000 bounty on your head. You will be brought to justice.
AtlasObjectivist 9 months ago
Cant forget the price of our so called freedom, we have all this "patriotism" but Assata Shakur is still in exile and Mumia Abu Jamal and Sundiata Acoli are still victims of the prison system and im suppose to give a fuck about Bin Laden? Nah dude there is so much convoluted bullshit that I find it hard to sift between truth and fabrication in this so called land of the free home of the slaves
sundiatasoulbefree 10 months ago
@sundiatasoulbefree Your statement so echos my thoughts, and whilst I have never been to America or Africa, some 20 years ago I wrote a rap that I think is still relevant even now, and I think the tribulations of my ancestors is embedded in 'our' genes. Additionally I feel that little has changed since the inception of and deception within much of that which is slavery, it just has a more brutal and subtle undertone, and it's such a sad thing that the truly good people are powerless to erase it.
micljnes 10 months ago
"Freedom, you asking me about freedom... you asking me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole lot more about what freedom isn't than about what it is. Cause I've never been free, I can only share my vision with you of a future about what freedom is. The way I see it freedom is the right to grow, is the right to blossom. Freedom is the right to be yourself, to be who you are, to be who you want to be..."
kuongjah7 1 year ago
I LIK THIS SONG
Mizzluvable99 1 year ago
dAMNN Common's storytelling skills are just unbelievable...uncomparable.
RamboW4NN463 1 year ago 2
best song on the album
CyCast 1 year ago
I just did some research on assata shakur her life is more wild than any movie made
TheAngloman 2 years ago
LOVE this song. Couldn't be a better song for Black History Month
tiguy99 2 years ago 4
Common did a great job on this song
ShakurAfrica 2 years ago
This is REAL hip hop.
recognise fam.
SpraggaHatchet 2 years ago 2
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NateSpain1 2 years ago
Didn't J dilla produce this track for com?
JAYLIB03 2 years ago
No, James Poyser did. But Jay Dee did do around 8 of the songs on the album.
FunkiestHomosapien 2 years ago 2
Death to these got Damn Devils!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXTRABLK 2 years ago 3
Well done! Here's a challenge for more artists to come forward and do their duty to get the word out about all of our political prisoners, whether in jail or exile.
designpulse 2 years ago 3
Assata is reasonable safe in Cuba she will NEVER be safe in Amerikkka. May she live in peace in Cuba until her time comes to leave this earth...!
kongodoc 2 years ago 11
This is a truly beautiful song
JShr1234 2 years ago 16
@JShr1234 I love you, man
ShakurAfrica 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
steveygee1 = a retard with no brains or backbone.
Wrongly accuses Assatta of being a murderer and then praises the KKK -- which is actually made up of murderers. Dumbass, narrow asshead!
Chakam 3 years ago 7
"selflessness is true revolution" beautiful sound
nakiyah77 3 years ago 3
Assata Shakur is innocent, it's time for her warrant to be dropped so she can return to the USA peacefully and be with her family.
JShr1234 3 years ago 8
This song put me on to a small piece of history and the melody behind it just made me a fan all the more.
risingsun122605 3 years ago 5
me too...exactly the same
franciso7 3 years ago
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sweat of love, fire of truth, she's a shit poet just like her nephew tupac
steveygee1 3 years ago
nice job! keep'm coming! ty for posting!
badassboy99 3 years ago
I read her autobiography in a sociological course on American society. Excellent book about a sensitive girl's experience growing up in racist America.
tg343441 3 years ago
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA pull the fuckin covers from ya eyes
steveygee1 3 years ago
what covers are there to remove but those that were put over our eyes for 400+ years explain that
jdub21stp 3 years ago
Assata Shakur - true African-American revolutionary.
To all members of Shakur family: Assata Shakur, Afeni Shakur, Lumumba Shakur(peace be unto him), Zayd Malik Shakur(peace be unto him), Mutulu Shakur and of course Tupac too.
Respect, brothas and sistas.
Revolution.
zbisal 3 years ago 5
we'll win knowledge is power vida viva y amor ahora!
JShr1234 3 years ago
Beautiful song, great accompanying video.
Everyone needs to read the autobiography and join the movement in the struggle.
elijahkuanwong 3 years ago 3
Lord have mercy!!!! free assata...NOW!
jahrastaluv 3 years ago 4
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Thats the kind of songs that really hurt me as a rap fan, i don't care about idiots rappin bout drugs and bs but someone i respect trying to defend murderers like the BLA and racists like Farrakhan.
"Read her biograhpy", "the pigs"...Gandhi didn't kill anyone, MLK didn't kill anyone,
Sun Ra said it best:"Some force is having a good time [manipulating black and white people] and looking, enjoying itself up in a reserved seat, wondering, "I wonder when they're going to wake up"".
Eurobubble70 3 years ago
you believe she is a murderer because white racists accused her of being one? maybe you need to educate yourself on what happened ...
musiqchick02 3 years ago 10
@musiqchick02 WERD, we only have to look at Dr Malaki Z York, Julienne Assange, and countless others, I truly know that one of the devi'ls stronest 'device's is to 'deceive' by means of accusing the innocent of your own sins.
The truth is a light. 1 Love
micljnes 10 months ago
@micljnes Its funny you mention Malaki cuz I never heard about him until a few days ago someone on the bus mentioned him
Sagefrakrobatik 9 months ago
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here here man speak up! how come black people get away with making such statements and songs, its like me praising the ku klux klan. she is a fuckin a murderer as far as i'm concerned, COMMON CAN BE A TIT!
steveygee1 3 years ago
@Eurobubble70 c'mon seriously.....
7thAFC 9 months ago
@Eurobubble70 - this assumes she is guilty. The evidence suggest that she was falsely accused and is actually innocent.
anarchopinko 9 months ago
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shes not inspiring, shes a fucking murderer. what the fuck is wrong with u people. good song, but still, this bitch is wack
NICKMAN112253 3 years ago
Clearly you never read a book about Assata but did you even listen to the song? If you've not done either then why even post this? Just keep it movin. why even open your mouth and prove what a fool you are? From our perspective the pigs are the murderers and you are an apologist for them and thus the real bitch in this syllogism. Do yourself a favor and stfu.
rbgrider 3 years ago 4
shalom lovely video
nakiyah77 3 years ago
Common is such a great artist...he read Assata's autobiography about 4 times, traveled to cuba to get a feeling of being there without being there, before he could right this song...beautiful music.
stludachris 3 years ago
yo i see da previous argument there is no way Assata Shakur cKan B cKompared to charles manson..... She was defending the rights and equalities of a people, her people, a nation of people opressed and mistreated, manson killed out of greed envy and anger, yall need ta talk what yall know real talk, hot song, chi- town strikes again.....
suwh0op1s0LdiEr 4 years ago 5
she also can tbe copare because there is no evidence that she kille anyone a physician sai it was physically impossible for her to have shot the officer because she was shot and paralyzed and there was also no gun powder residue found on her hands.
musiqchick02 3 years ago
She is a strong Black woman
need more like her
jabarnorman7 4 years ago 3
Stay strong Assata.
nasirjones123 4 years ago 5
so inspiring!
luganskymichelangeli 4 years ago 3
Imposing fear is not free, entertaining fear is not free, duality and balance is free, WE are FREE in Liberty, WE the people are Free, battling fear is free, we are all human beings...
LeaMoniqueC 4 years ago 3
looks like someone summed it up real nice here. take notes ppl
luganskymichelangeli 4 years ago
Free All Political Prisoners! Set Yourselves Free, those who don't believe, that all should have the right to be free, live equal and horizontally. Mercy on you, Peace be with you, as I wrestle to forgive you, learn to love your self and you will feel me, will feel humanity, just be, we are all human beings, born to be free, free to live, free to love, free to breath, free to walk in Justice. We all manifest our own reality, fear is not free.
LeaMoniqueC 4 years ago 3
i didn't know common had a song 4 assata until i did a paper on her i luv her book i think everyone should read it...and just to let u know dontodda tupac's mother's name was afeni shakur not assata they share the same last name but there is no blood relationship.
poohangl87 4 years ago
I bet no one knows who Joanne Chesimard is.
StoogeWatcher 4 years ago
Assata's birth name, and the name the state of New Jersey seeks her under.
nawdeeboy 4 years ago 2
Speaks to My Soul....tha BLACK MAN`s SOUL....
MeejeeIncorporated 4 years ago
tupac real mother 100
dontodda 4 years ago
i am reading her book now..........how strong she is and everyone should have a aunt evelyn...........yes granmother yes grandfather
loreynolds 4 years ago
does assata know where tupac is?
makavelithedon2006 4 years ago
assata ur a beautiful strong woman. common ur a king for making this song. this video is great. i love the quotes. we need to help our sister.
itsmecherrelle 4 years ago
you are truly a dumb bitch. open yourmouth and out spills ignorance. Only the real and strong survive. God bless the dumb azzez!!!
realztok420 4 years ago
Why is it that you are unable to conversate without insult and belittlement? Are you truly that ignorant? I think you are not. Don't let your anger, fear and frustration control your thoughts and words. It is a weakness.
nalcomp 4 years ago
an activist is someone that is against murder you tard! you must of washed your brain with fox news nalcomp!
realztok420 4 years ago
No, many an activist have killed for a cause. The BPP killed many innocent people.
nalcomp 4 years ago
Whoa....If you are going to state these kinds of things make sure it is indeed fact. Where are your sources? What innocent people did they murder? PLace direct me to these facts.
nawdeeboy 4 years ago
so lets leave the ignorance out of this. The video is meant to edcuate .I have a low tolerance for ignorance and racism especially when people like to wallow and perpetuate it. Because of this I'm going to ignore any signs of those things that are posted within the comments.SOOO comments by people like nalcomp and nickfromwyo are dismissed from my attention.
ex286 4 years ago
you obviously dont know your history. she was a student/activist you dumbass. she spoke of equal rights and equal opportunity you fuckin dumb ass. get a life and leave that bill orilley attitude at home!!!
realztok420 4 years ago
an activist in a group that condoned and plotted murder.
nalcomp 4 years ago
You are so ignorant...the panthers never killed innocent people, they just defended themselves from the racist piggs.
DCox1204 4 years ago 3
As I stated previously. What are you basing your facts upon?
nawdeeboy 4 years ago
Common is # 1
Fr1g1der 4 years ago
assata didnt do shit bitch!!!!! where ya at!!! just another victim of terrorism!!!!
realztok420 4 years ago
Charles Manson did not kill either. He plotted and had others do it for him. Is he to be let free?
nalcomp 4 years ago
Are you honestly going mto sit and compare the two? Charles Manson gladly admits to his beliefs and participation in his "family's" murders. When is it asserted that Assata directed someone to kill for her. Get the story straight. It was first said that she pulled the trigger, it was later recanted. Hmmmm ponder that. That recant came under oath from an officer of the law.
nawdeeboy 4 years ago
your comment said it was first said. did she say or was it said? because according to her she never said.
1soulfulsista 3 years ago
Now the FBI calls Assata a "Domestic terrorist", because she wanted a change. Bush and Cheney kills kids every day and were supposed to call them are heroes. FUCK THAT
nickfromwyo 4 years ago 5
We love and support you assata!!!!ASSATA FOR PRESIDENT!!!1!!
realztok420 4 years ago
Beautiful song. Beautiful message. Beautiful topic. Beautiful woman. I want to be as beautiful and strong as her.
Dee3BoobTube 4 years ago
Not so innocent. Out damned spot.
nalcomp 4 years ago
Her hands are not free of blood. Malcolm was a man of peace, he understood.
nalcomp 4 years ago
what?
adultswimma 4 years ago
She knows what she has done.
nalcomp 4 years ago
one of my fav common tracks
speak123 4 years ago
Common is the Best
trutexan21 4 years ago
ASSATA, my mother i miss you!
swanky83 4 years ago
this video is beautiful. as is assata. u gotta luv common.
lauuraeliza 4 years ago