This is one of my favorite songs from the Isley Brothers. I can listen to this over and over again and I'm just 18 years old and know all the words. :)
If anybody that has a heart beat with love in it should not be sayn they don't like this song.... Unless they got a dead one.... WHATS WRONG WITH YOU????????? I love this song..
Everytime i hear this song i cry, i remember the first christmas without my grandaddy when this song came on my mother started throwing dishes falling on the floor crying *in tears
Now see this is what a love song is suppose to be about these young cats could learn something from singing groups such as this one that is always my jam
this is such a beautiful Love song I'm so in Love with this man he is all I need and want there is nobody else that I want to spend the rest of my life with and he feel the same way that I do now that's real Love
mannnnn this is memories from my childhood..when isley brothers was playing it was either a really good night or a really bad one... I thank my mom and her crazy ass ex husband for putting me and my brother and sister up on GAME :)
When the Isleys made this and all of their other slow jam hits in the 70's they were all in their late 20's early 30's. These youngstas nowadays think thats OLD!! These were MEN!! who made records like this. Until so called R&B gets made by older mature artist things will never change. The record companies believes that these teen artist nowadays speak for this generation.
@brothaman101: I must agree with your sentiment. As a child, when the Isley Brothers (and many others) were at their creative peak, I was spoilt for choice. I never thought that things would have come to this :-(
Oh my goodness, this song reminds me of cruising through Beaufort SC on a late summer afternoon after coming in from town. The smell of that fresh country air, the cool breeze coming off the water, the blue-orange sky made by the setting sun, with this music is just pure perfection.
This is my all time favorite song and group. If you know real soul music, this is what it looks like. I love me some Isley Brothers. There music will never die
i love this song why we cant hear music this good n e more im really trying to get my man to understand this is real music old school is the new school
You are soooo right my friend. As a 27 year old brotha it saddens me immensely to see today's situation. Most of the younger ladies today don't even know how to be talked to or treated. Every single lady that I have ever spent time with was completely oblivious to full body massages, bubble baths, foot rubs, candle light etc,. I literally found myself in the position of having to teach them the difference between simply being a lady and actually being treated like one...
@drumsticksNnunchakus Lakerherb I really appreciate you in as young as you are it seems you get how to treat a woman...I agree its very sad today that the so-called MEN even in their 40-50"s dont know how to communicate or express themselves to their woman...Being able to to talk to your woman or women requires a heart, brain and eyes...the rest takes care of itself...If you have a good woman and still dont communicate or show her your care about her, its only a matter time b4 she's GONE~
"Love was in the air when this song was out back in the 70's and love is missing from our lives today"! "We all need this kind of music back on the radio to promote love, in this generation"! "Tell someone today you love them and mean it"! :Love is like water to a plant, you can't live without it or you will wither"! "Isley Brother well just sang the damn song"!!! "Love is all you need or I need"!!! "I love this song"!!
@REALSOUL4 you are so right, this generations does not know nothing about this and they never will at the rate that they are going. they need some guidance on whats up!!!!!!!
IN MY OPINION,THIS IS AMONG THE MOST ENCHANTING SONGS EVER MADE!!
JUST LISTEN TO THE WORDS,THEY ARE ALMOST HYPNOTIC....I CAN ONLY HOPE AS WOMEN WE CAN LEARN TO ALLOW A MAN TO FEEL THESE KIND OF EMOTIONS FOR US WITHOUT CAUSING HIM TO FILTER OR DISREGARD HIMSELF!!!........ ISLEY BROTHERS ALL MY ADMIRATION & RESPECT.. XOXO IMANI W.
@BRAINSBEAUTY206 Well Said !! I love my woman so much she is amazing. I Love You Lovemuffin!! LMAO:)Thank you Isley Brothers for making such beautiful and meaningful music. Respect.
They are so smoothe. I love the majority of all of their music. I think only two of them are still alive. Maybe three. Their music will live on for future generation's to enjoy.
By the way, I love that there is diversity in the human race. Without diversity, this world would be so boring! Every race brings different flavors to their music and I love it!
Why is everyone making a big deal out of race... Every race has their distinguished influential people, but every race has a whole bunch of stupid people too. I belong to one race, the human race. And I dont use my heritage as a crutch for pride. I dont ride along on the accomplishments of another hispanic man. I dont use things that I had no control over to prove myself better than anyone else.
Why do racist come over to Black videos lookin to strike some "white is right" propaganda. Ruining a good time, but thats your history , they ruin everything they touch. African Americans dont go to white hillybilly videos, disrespecting whites. If we don't like it, we stay away and so should you. But i guess the web is the only place to vent your frustrations and short cummings. So have it!
Integration gets the benefit for my insight, my work and work ethic, my sense of empathy, my mind--it is a mutual trade, they also benefit from my creativity, and those things are valuable to any culture who admires free thinkers. whites and most other races love to be around me, even as I defend and explain being black to them--integration allows me to understand some of the position of the Middle East and of Africans and of Whites--it helps to teach EACH of us the other persons perspective.
You complain of a dilemma about the hood--but you have no fix--and when you mock or deny the benefits of integration--you actually condemn your hood--or do you think whites should continue to throw millions at our hood and fix the stuff we tear up when we don't want anything to to with them? you cannot have it both ways.
Lots of people (including my parents) say that when I was very young, I was very sweet--that was before I had to fight my way to school and back and before I had men trying to drag me into cars and police men trying to get in my pants. In fact, that was before I became indoctrinated--I remember too--and I remember how acceptable I became the harder I got--positive reinforcement for neg behavior--now consider the training for those who grew up that way and never knew any other state of being.
summer: I hear that--but what is acceptable in a man in all cultures (hard and callous) is not acceptable in females--unfortunately that is the template that predominates in the hood--I know very few sweet black girls--some in the church but they have other issues (like a lot of sexual abuse etc) I know a lot of quiet girls too--but they often are evil as hell--when it comes to sweet, fun and feminine, I don't know very many--I DO know some from the burbs--but not the hood--not around my way.
in this indoctrination for others what I have never been able to do is mistreat other women or girls or accept bullying by anyone to anyone else. I always step up and say something or in the old days--I fought to protect others from bullies--male or female (I was quite the fighter) why did I participate if I understood the negativity of such training? If you do not have another place to hide or protect people--you teach them how to survive where they are--not where you'd like them to be.
I find myself going just as "ghetto" as a person who never left the hood. The training is rigorous and strong, not unlike the indoctrination one might experience in a prison or other separate, controlled environment--the reward for assimilating and emulating is acceptance --(ie not being targeted and attacked) the negative is that for me, it remains a learned and not a natural state of being--but HOW it begins is almost from birth on, I have observed this and indeed have participated in this --
and/or appreciate this paradigm are those who are not inured by it--usually because we have not been in it since birth or haven't totally assimilated for some reason. I was shaped and raised outside of this environment so that by the time I was exposed to it--I had a separate sense of self and identity OUTSIDE the hood which let me know of both the potential and possibilities of myself--this enabled me to not only leave, but achieve a sort of equalibrium--nevertheless under certain conditions,
Very few people rise above their environs unless they expect to leave that area--why would they? If what they know helps them to survive, why would they cultivate anything else? I am well aware of how many black females act as well as how many black males act--but I am also aware of some of the reasons why--are YOU? The key for you is how do you find that gem that has not been so horribly mishandled that you cannot reshape the facets? Or else, how can you learn to like other stones..
It is a simple fact of genetics/biology that in order to adapt to the physical parameters of any environment, humans change and modify their behavior--over time a lot of the modifications become genetic. Blacks have been raised in certain environments for almost 500 years--and for at least 10 generations, they have been raised in ghettos all which include a lot of violence, crime, sex, drugs and fighting--you do the math and figure out what kind of girls or boys you expect from that.
When black females are raised away from established ghettoes--they often act just like white girls--why? Because their environment helped to shape them--of course these girls tend to date and marry outside the black race too--why? because they often cannot relate to the hood behavior and are not accepted by the hood unless they "come hard" This is our dilemma, created and maintained by us--but the next time you see a mean sistah--ask yourself why--look at her hood - her parentage--is it soft?
Here is wisdom--if you walk only on silk and handle only soft things --you will only have soft hands and feet. If you are made to walk on gravel and harsh things and handle harsh things you will have horny, hard feet and callused hands--because you will adapt. So it is with people--think about it--where in the hood can a nice soft, sweet, quiet, graceful and feminine girl survive and prosper? When it happens it is IN SPITE of the environs--NOT because of them--create the right environs--or ..
be more careful and picky where they plant those seeds in the first place. Take a good look at the women they choose to lay with and think about what a combination of her and you (not just in looks but in actions) would be--and think about her raising that child--if black men wanted different females--they would help to raise and shape them--and that starts with changing the environment they grow up in--don't sit under the apple tree, never weed, then complain when you don't get apricots.
Bring up a child in the way they should go--and when they are old, they will not depart from it" Many Black males are not bringing up anyone in any way--they are humping and leaving--even their biracial babies--this leaves the hood to raise them and the hood is "survival of the meanest and the hardest" to change that--black men must stop acting like they did when they were not allowed to be fathers or husbands by white slave masters--they need to INVEST in where they put their seed and be --
more than any other group--children feel a need to belong--to a family, a group, a church a community--this is the lure of gangs--and it is the reason for the way black girls act--we do not have more testatarone--what we have is the need to survive in the environment we are in--in the hood, most are NOT in a protected or nurturing environment--if black men want sweet ladies--then they ought to stick around, protect and raise their daughters and sons to impart what they want--the bible says --
at the same time. Most blacks do not think about this conundrum--they just live and navigate it--by doing so, we are also protected from a lot of criticisms from the white society--after all--we have our own world--who CARES what white people think, do or say? The casualties are things like the stats who claim black women are aggressive and less feminine or desired and an entire gen of females watching as brothers seek out white females while using but never marrying them or those white girls
The problem urban blacks have --is how to straddle the requirements of 2 very different society without incurring that modern indictment of being "phony or fake" to do this--they usually cultivate a way of speaking on the job and in the burbs or stores--and a different way of acting/speaking/thinking when they go to get some ribs or get their hair done or go see family. It gets real crazy when they meet up with hood people in public--because they must maintain their cred but their assimilation
my take that where we are (as both men and women) in the hood is a direct result of social guidance, initially perped by whites by reinforced and directed by other blacks whose sole purpose is to maintain a separate identity that eschews all white societal niceties--even when they are a needed and good thing. Why? You can't have a fiefdom or kingdom if people assimilate--as long as we engage in neg. behavior we maintain the need for a separate lifestyle, outlook and neighborhoods. Mission ..
my mind--but most did not--they loved my shape and my looks and my hair but they also liked their women very quiet (like dolls) things to be admired and used and to cook for them and spread for them (skills in bed were a huge plus) but if I wanted to muse about quantum physics or discuss the thrust of Ayn Rand's arguments on existentialism or even indulge in my love of rare books, antiques or porcelain--forget it--the "whats wrong with you gull? Came right out and the stare downs started--so
The one thing that stuck out was that other races appreciated my intelligence, blacks were suspiscious of it--and even "for a strong black woman" there was criteria for that--any deviation from that was met with group censure--NO man likes a woman who is too smart--feeling the necessity to "bring her back down to her proper place" this usually implies force. When I finally found my "nice guy" after decades of thugs--he was not black and loved my mind--not that a black guy could not have loved..
.etc, like the girls I hung around with. I learned to fight (always a plus) and I did not take any sheeeet--that earned me "respect" the hair had long been cut to only be shoulder length (more acceptable) and I went from wearing frilly dresses to jeans--a fro, and snapping gum--but inside I was still an intellectual and knew the new me was merely a facet and not the sum--I learned where to be myself and where to be what was expected--survival skills--a lot of blacks do this
..acted "white" due to my years of living all over the world (airforce brat) and I was dark but had long hair. In the early 1970s--if you had long hair you were already singled out (my hair was almost to my waist) my "lessons" also included not being friendly as friendly people were immediately suspect and to be happy for no reason, signaled to my peers that I was "not from here" THAT is another thing not to be in the hood--by the time I was 15, I could scrap and necktwist and roll my eyes..
"Sweet behavior" is targeted by molesters, and the 'pack" even quiet men are targeted in the hood--it is as if there is a template for being "black" and to survive and/or thrive, we all are forced to become snarling, dangerous predators or at least act like we can be. My own metamorphosis and indoctrination happened when I was 12, and was able to live among blacks for the first time--I thought it would be a homecoming--instead it was a gauntlet--and I had strikes against me--I talked and ...
Men would be surprised how many uber "girly" girls in the hood have morphed into hard sistahs by the time they are 15--this is survival behavior. Take a good look at black girls around 6 or so--among the hard, acting like they are 25 little girls (who emulate their moms or aunties) are little girls who are very innocent and happy and friendly and just very feminine--but to survive, that 'ideal' is not allowed to just exist--not in the hood--because it indicates nonconformity and is targeted.
Peer pressure is strong in the hood--girls have a choice--to be either quiet (so no one knows what you are capable of--or to come hard, and loud to let the others know you can hold your own) if any teen tries to just be ebullient or friendly, she is usually checked by the group she is hanging with and we all know to be told we "look, act, dress, talk, sound, "white" is the kiss of death and will include months of being singled out and picked on" PACK behavior--conform or be attacked.
@iamthequeenbee100, my concerns are for black america and black america only. i dont feel the need to be bombarded with some notion that white americxa and "true' intergration is needed and we should learn from it. Whatever that means....have a great day
Masculinity and a degree of aggression are generally characteristics attributed to men that we dont particularily desire to see in women. For too many women, especially our sisters, have traded in their feminity and gracefulness for the hard and raw disguised as strength. Her being strong and independent shouldnt compromise her dignity as a real woman. Loud and obnoxious doesnt equate to strength and never will. Feminity carries its own power and nobody admires a woman that acts manly or raw
This is what you call real music!
Luv337 5 hours ago
mr biggs look like john weatherspoon a lil
yungstunnaandjetfly 14 hours ago
almost makes me cry because i doubt i'll ever find something like what inspired this amazing song
1dillontaylor 1 day ago
This is one of my favorite songs from the Isley Brothers. I can listen to this over and over again and I'm just 18 years old and know all the words. :)
TheMizzvanti 1 day ago
My favorite all-time Isleys song, along with Voyage to Atlantis. This track is for love & VTA is for heartbreak....greatest R&B group ever
ShadrockMarciano 2 days ago
i just love the isley brothers period such lovely melody and the song just make you want to say um um um
ebonychera 2 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
Love this...
Tricialuv35 5 days ago
If you put this tune on and don't get lucky, that's a YOU problem!!
guiterry 5 days ago
If anybody that has a heart beat with love in it should not be sayn they don't like this song.... Unless they got a dead one.... WHATS WRONG WITH YOU????????? I love this song..
rororo1100 5 days ago
Ultimate bone crusher!!
sula496 1 week ago
This is a classic!!! Make me wanna get married :)
toria1ful 1 week ago
This is a beautiful love ballad that doesn't require the word 'love', or blatant sexual references. Wow.
itsniquenique45 1 week ago
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I love this..
ttomas2424 2 weeks ago
I love this.
ttomas2424 2 weeks ago
The refrain is the best part.
HippieGoddess142 2 weeks ago
damn didn't kno i was writingun my bfs name.....follow me @msmonts
Marvinnnnnn 2 weeks ago
@drumsticksNnunchackus your last commentmade me fall in love with you. ...
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JohnnieleebehlinIII 3 weeks ago
This music makes darkness turns to light; if you like the darkness with this sensuous song, it makes the dark very soothing and enjoyable ummmm
Tinaorangeful 3 weeks ago
yea i also love this isley song one of they best
markieeeee100 1 month ago
Hip Hop Hooraaaaaaaaaayyyyyy, Hoooooooooooooo, Haaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy, Hoooooooooooooooo
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I love this track. One of my favourite Isley tracks.
JimmyGreenRules 1 month ago
USACC Ft. Ritchie, Maryland ya!!!!!!! man this was (is) the Jam.....
MrBenelx 1 month ago
Did anyone notice Bone thugs n Harmony sampled this beat for Crossroads?
babybluedreams1 1 month ago 5
@babybluedreams1 yup lmao, that how i found the song lol, gotta admit the got beautiful taste in music dont they
YoungLurkkMusic 1 month ago 5
@babybluedreams1 and im gonna miss everybody im gonna miss everybody
sonicx305 1 month ago
SMOOOOOOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY NO MORE
onemanshow512 1 month ago
top notch Isley song ever
tasan215 1 month ago in playlist ISLEY BROS
these guys know how to sing some love songs. I will always love their music
ediaby43 1 month ago
LOVIN THIS ANYTIME. SO SMOOTH AND SEXY.
nelly21133 1 month ago in playlist More videos from love112489
if your not in love you just want to be when you hear this.
loyawife01 1 month ago
Everytime i hear this song i cry, i remember the first christmas without my grandaddy when this song came on my mother started throwing dishes falling on the floor crying *in tears
R.I.P. grandaddy, i know u are
nishaluv1 1 month ago
Now see this is what a love song is suppose to be about these young cats could learn something from singing groups such as this one that is always my jam
toreyaabron 1 month ago
One of the best groups of all times. So many good memorys
thohunt 1 month ago in playlist More videos from love112489
Hell yeah!!!
313Renee 1 month ago
Speed this beat up and u will get hip hop hooray by naughty by nature.
bonadash 1 month ago
Say it, say it, say it, say it! Tell them how you really feel.
mashaya8 1 month ago
Im so glad to see good music.. opps i mean Real music still exsist even today.. Good job people !! :)
ParisAdoresPink 1 month ago
this is such a beautiful Love song I'm so in Love with this man he is all I need and want there is nobody else that I want to spend the rest of my life with and he feel the same way that I do now that's real Love
b7ray32 1 month ago
mannnnn this is memories from my childhood..when isley brothers was playing it was either a really good night or a really bad one... I thank my mom and her crazy ass ex husband for putting me and my brother and sister up on GAME :)
lilmamidougiie 1 month ago
My parents had this album. I love this song, from a time when music was real. This is how it should be done.
TriniDaughter 1 month ago
34 didlikes? Who the hell would say they What crack heads would say they don't like this song? Play on baby..
TheNiteowll 1 month ago 2
@lindadee1000 the Isleys' will make you do sum different thangs
713GOHARD 1 month ago 5
the isley brothers make this lesbian sister wanna reconsider men one more time...
lindadee1000 1 month ago 27
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lmao..I don't mind playing this for my wifey at night either :)
SourAppleKandi 1 month ago
@lindadee1000 i love this.
TheDross706 2 weeks ago
I love all the Isley brothers songs but this one is definitely ma fav!!!!
Yolireals1 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Isley Brothers
I grew up to this music thanks to my parents. I am grateful. This is music here!
Aletheaagain 2 months ago
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Enzo2284 2 months ago
Make love music !!!! Enough said
Soready601 2 months ago
When the Isleys made this and all of their other slow jam hits in the 70's they were all in their late 20's early 30's. These youngstas nowadays think thats OLD!! These were MEN!! who made records like this. Until so called R&B gets made by older mature artist things will never change. The record companies believes that these teen artist nowadays speak for this generation.
brothaman101 2 months ago 4
@brothaman101: I must agree with your sentiment. As a child, when the Isley Brothers (and many others) were at their creative peak, I was spoilt for choice. I never thought that things would have come to this :-(
toinettearea7 1 month ago
I just called all children to hear Mr. Big as we know him....they want to hear more
Dickie9028 2 months ago
by far one of the best Isley brothers songz!!! I LOVE IT
esmalls74 2 months ago
Oh my goodness, this song reminds me of cruising through Beaufort SC on a late summer afternoon after coming in from town. The smell of that fresh country air, the cool breeze coming off the water, the blue-orange sky made by the setting sun, with this music is just pure perfection.
lamarjlp914 2 months ago
This is my all time favorite song and group. If you know real soul music, this is what it looks like. I love me some Isley Brothers. There music will never die
kattnippster 2 months ago
Beautiful song........speaks volumes ! Simple and Plain ,Yes Indeed !!!!
LadyEliza7 2 months ago 2
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LadyEliza7 2 months ago
When she gets home from work, The tub is full, candles are lit, the blount is rolled & the Isley's are playing,,,,,,
SuperShabazz1 2 months ago
thi is one of the nicest song in the world
rayray2248 2 months ago in playlist rachel
I love to hear a man express his love freely and boldly for a woman. One of the most beautiful things ever :)
zoielafitasquire 2 months ago 2
bone thugs must be an isley brothers fan.... they also sampled choosey lovers
edwinmichaelquiboloy 2 months ago
Make me say it again!!!! Your all I need baby. Dedicated to my man of 3 years
jsuga 2 months ago
oh yes, i feel ya!!
zackblackful 2 months ago
one of my favs
meosha66 2 months ago
sounds like mariah careys breakdown
bonidacci23 2 months ago
This song makes you want to just hold ya girl nd slow dance
MrCates1991 2 months ago 2
ｼﾞｬﾝﾋﾟﾝｸﾞ･ｿｳﾙ､そしてﾒﾛｳ･ｿｳﾙに浸りたい時でも､やっぱりｱｲｽﾞﾚｰ･ﾌﾞﾗｻﾞｰｽﾞかな!?～深く陶酔"MakeMeSayItAgainGirl"
blackandtanful 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Isley Brothers
one of the best
rayray2248 2 months ago
You start slow, then you speed it up.....the perfect song!
aRealJawjaPeach 2 months ago
Track 10 from their "Beautiful Ballads" collection. For anyone who needs a crash course in Isley Brothers music, get that CD.
marcphilos 2 months ago
Bone Thugs Crossroad
fd2009dtown 2 months ago
3 6 mafia caugt this endin good 973 newark
rideout207 2 months ago
I thank God for my Pop Rip Pop, he showed me what real music was, the Isley Bro's r one of the best there was!
manupprogram 2 months ago
This song really move some legs would u think so.
42lesbianlove 2 months ago
ur all i need........wow!
issues1on1 2 months ago in playlist saturday
i love this song why we cant hear music this good n e more im really trying to get my man to understand this is real music old school is the new school
ttred88 2 months ago
true love song
DOSSIEG 3 months ago
The 70's were just the best. There are great artists in every era, but the 70's...my Lord!
KrfNYC2 3 months ago
My fav Isley Brothers song ever! I never get tired of listening to it.
babydollbrooke09 3 months ago 3
Now THIS is how you make her give it ALL up, fellas... Betta get a record playa LOL
erikamdixon01 3 months ago
simply magic that's all i can say
blkchyld68 3 months ago
they where the stuff back in the days and still is to me , make u understad what love was all about
eekkiim21 3 months ago
This is when music was music....
MsBigchops 3 months ago
This song should not have slanted political ads at the beginning. Geez.
Interlussion15 3 months ago in playlist Interlussion15's favorites
31 dislikes? Its amazing if they ever get a real woman to drop them draws with out music like this...better take notes youngstas
Amunnakht 3 months ago in playlist More videos from love112489
I am still waiting for that "good" man.
bren312 3 months ago
Blessed and loved so very much!
c11393 3 months ago
I wish men still felt like this about a woman!
bren312 3 months ago in playlist bren312's favorites 2
@bren312 I feel you on this subject. All I can say is that are good men out there who still value the true woman!
I am a woman too and I know what you mean. There are still good people in the world both men and women.
c11393 3 months ago
Real music ....love...all about love. That's what life was about back then.
nosey32 3 months ago
one of the greatest songs ever made
igoldsmith16 3 months ago
THIS TAKES ME TO A NICE CALM PLACE. THIS IS SMOOTH.
gater200 3 months ago 2
livin illegel sample dis song in 96 da song was called confess check it out
MrJarry76 3 months ago
One of the Greatest Love songs ever!!!
carolann3321 3 months ago
didn't see anything about it.. but BTNH sampled this for their biggest selling single, to date, "Tha Crossroads"
justinm4175 3 months ago
this is one of the best clean good music these boys are the best.....
shortylove36 3 months ago
what year was this from?
fff1313 3 months ago
This makes me cry listening to it. The lyrics are so beautiful.
eyesley 3 months ago
Classic....
TROY0VANESSA 3 months ago
This song takes me so far back. This is real music.
5428631452 3 months ago
And not one b**** or h* mentioned!!!!
lakerherb 3 months ago 33
@lakerherb
You are soooo right my friend. As a 27 year old brotha it saddens me immensely to see today's situation. Most of the younger ladies today don't even know how to be talked to or treated. Every single lady that I have ever spent time with was completely oblivious to full body massages, bubble baths, foot rubs, candle light etc,. I literally found myself in the position of having to teach them the difference between simply being a lady and actually being treated like one...
drumsticksNnunchakus 2 months ago 3
@drumsticksNnunchakus Lakerherb I really appreciate you in as young as you are it seems you get how to treat a woman...I agree its very sad today that the so-called MEN even in their 40-50"s dont know how to communicate or express themselves to their woman...Being able to to talk to your woman or women requires a heart, brain and eyes...the rest takes care of itself...If you have a good woman and still dont communicate or show her your care about her, its only a matter time b4 she's GONE~
CRErocks 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
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drumsticksNnunchakus 1 month ago
Stokley from Mint Condition did much justice to this song!!
jwh1999 3 months ago
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I love this song so much,every time i here it i think about my baby Rodney.
gat113073 3 months ago
I love this song so much,every time i here it i think about my baby rodney.
gat113073 3 months ago
4:37 and on wowowowowowowowowowowoowwww
bigben1986 4 months ago
The Crossroads from Bone Thugs and Harmony sampled this :]
babyphatvixen10 4 months ago 3
"Girl you all I need"...man these guys really knew how to groove. Damn smh
xMPCxx 4 months ago
@xMPCxx .... You are so right!! This is REAL music!!
223trailblazer 4 months ago in playlist 223trailblazer's Favorited Videos
It takes me to a relaxin place..
Chandeiz 4 months ago
This is the shit!!!
lenaedee01 4 months ago
back in the day u had to have this at the party or there was just no one u could get your freak on the slow way........................
lashawnbanderson2010 4 months ago
"Love was in the air when this song was out back in the 70's and love is missing from our lives today"! "We all need this kind of music back on the radio to promote love, in this generation"! "Tell someone today you love them and mean it"! :Love is like water to a plant, you can't live without it or you will wither"! "Isley Brother well just sang the damn song"!!! "Love is all you need or I need"!!! "I love this song"!!
REALSOUL4 4 months ago 3
@REALSOUL4 you are so right, this generations does not know nothing about this and they never will at the rate that they are going. they need some guidance on whats up!!!!!!!
lashawnbanderson2010 4 months ago
Respond to this video... to me all the way ISLEY BROTHERS, FOR U GUYS JUST KNOW HOW TO DO THE DAMN THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lashawnbanderson2010 4 months ago
i also love this song yes yes yes
parker52451 4 months ago
True love song
TheCountesscaramel 4 months ago
I LOOOOOVVVEEE This song...
Just rings... LOVE.... FREE... Geninue, TRUE... Like a Sunrise off of a Bahamian Beach
WOW!!!
MsNJLove 4 months ago
i dedicate tthis to lil mike and big mike your my loves
drea6187 4 months ago
I loooove this song!
jojaboi77 4 months ago
this is what i call lengendary music for the soul.
Rusty3224 4 months ago 2
A classic that is a lot better than "between the sheets".... just below "for the love of you".
Jkaneshige 4 months ago
IN MY OPINION,THIS IS AMONG THE MOST ENCHANTING SONGS EVER MADE!!
JUST LISTEN TO THE WORDS,THEY ARE ALMOST HYPNOTIC....I CAN ONLY HOPE AS WOMEN WE CAN LEARN TO ALLOW A MAN TO FEEL THESE KIND OF EMOTIONS FOR US WITHOUT CAUSING HIM TO FILTER OR DISREGARD HIMSELF!!!........ ISLEY BROTHERS ALL MY ADMIRATION & RESPECT.. XOXO IMANI W.
BRAINSBEAUTY206 4 months ago 11
@BRAINSBEAUTY206 Well Said !! I love my woman so much she is amazing. I Love You Lovemuffin!! LMAO:)Thank you Isley Brothers for making such beautiful and meaningful music. Respect.
19LyricalIntellect84 2 months ago 2
This song is so BEUTIFUL!!!!
lunah241 4 months ago 3
They are so smoothe. I love the majority of all of their music. I think only two of them are still alive. Maybe three. Their music will live on for future generation's to enjoy.
Atasham72 4 months ago 4
This remem mine me of my cousin bobby R.N.P LOVE U COUSIN
821fayes 4 months ago
Quoted the 1st lie to a young lady she was like your so deep, Thx Isley Bros you did it again
Hadoclub989 4 months ago
the ending part is that part i just close my eyes and zone out..
ROONIEGOONMUSIC 4 months ago 35
@ROONIEGOONMUSIC yes I totally agree!!!!! I can envision my man holding me tight and staring in my eyes during that part!
OptimizticDiva 4 months ago
This is gonna be on my wedding playlist...I'd be a fool to neglect this song.....BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!
OptimizticDiva 4 months ago 2
@OptimizticDiva .....let's get married?...lol.....
MsSagittarius777 4 months ago
@ROONIEGOONMUSIC AMEN!!! been doing it since I was 4 years old to this day!!
unique74muzik 3 months ago
@ROONIEGOONMUSIC I got it on a 10 minute loop lol it's musical crack yo
Enzo2284 2 months ago
This is that grown man shit right here.
trinistylz2002 4 months ago in playlist isley
it sounds like bone thugs n harmony crossroads
TheZKRecords 5 months ago
@TheZKRecords NO, bone thugs n harmony crossroads SOUNDS LIKE THIS.
TheZKRecords 5 months ago 4
@TheZKRecords Sampled
Enzo2284 4 months ago
@Enzo2284 yes i know it.
thx
TheZKRecords 4 months ago
I cant believe people are arguing on this video, just shut up and enjoy the music !
cecebaaby11 5 months ago 19
@cecebaaby11 Tell it! SHUT UP, because some of us are trying to make love!
joanogiff 3 months ago 3
@joanogiff lol
Ms29stephanie 3 months ago
By the way, I love that there is diversity in the human race. Without diversity, this world would be so boring! Every race brings different flavors to their music and I love it!
elguapodetamaulipas 5 months ago 2
Why is everyone making a big deal out of race... Every race has their distinguished influential people, but every race has a whole bunch of stupid people too. I belong to one race, the human race. And I dont use my heritage as a crutch for pride. I dont ride along on the accomplishments of another hispanic man. I dont use things that I had no control over to prove myself better than anyone else.
elguapodetamaulipas 5 months ago 2
@elguapodetamaulipas well said...
firstlady0817 4 months ago in playlist shonegood shit
Why do racist come over to Black videos lookin to strike some "white is right" propaganda. Ruining a good time, but thats your history , they ruin everything they touch. African Americans dont go to white hillybilly videos, disrespecting whites. If we don't like it, we stay away and so should you. But i guess the web is the only place to vent your frustrations and short cummings. So have it!
BIGHORSENUTZ 5 months ago
@BIGHORSENUTZ real talk ignore they pork eating no spiritual asses. Fuck um all peace
fortgreene31 4 months ago
damn im 17 but i sure got good taste in music lol
sly5722 5 months ago
Integration gets the benefit for my insight, my work and work ethic, my sense of empathy, my mind--it is a mutual trade, they also benefit from my creativity, and those things are valuable to any culture who admires free thinkers. whites and most other races love to be around me, even as I defend and explain being black to them--integration allows me to understand some of the position of the Middle East and of Africans and of Whites--it helps to teach EACH of us the other persons perspective.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
You complain of a dilemma about the hood--but you have no fix--and when you mock or deny the benefits of integration--you actually condemn your hood--or do you think whites should continue to throw millions at our hood and fix the stuff we tear up when we don't want anything to to with them? you cannot have it both ways.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Lots of people (including my parents) say that when I was very young, I was very sweet--that was before I had to fight my way to school and back and before I had men trying to drag me into cars and police men trying to get in my pants. In fact, that was before I became indoctrinated--I remember too--and I remember how acceptable I became the harder I got--positive reinforcement for neg behavior--now consider the training for those who grew up that way and never knew any other state of being.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
summer: I hear that--but what is acceptable in a man in all cultures (hard and callous) is not acceptable in females--unfortunately that is the template that predominates in the hood--I know very few sweet black girls--some in the church but they have other issues (like a lot of sexual abuse etc) I know a lot of quiet girls too--but they often are evil as hell--when it comes to sweet, fun and feminine, I don't know very many--I DO know some from the burbs--but not the hood--not around my way.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
in this indoctrination for others what I have never been able to do is mistreat other women or girls or accept bullying by anyone to anyone else. I always step up and say something or in the old days--I fought to protect others from bullies--male or female (I was quite the fighter) why did I participate if I understood the negativity of such training? If you do not have another place to hide or protect people--you teach them how to survive where they are--not where you'd like them to be.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
I find myself going just as "ghetto" as a person who never left the hood. The training is rigorous and strong, not unlike the indoctrination one might experience in a prison or other separate, controlled environment--the reward for assimilating and emulating is acceptance --(ie not being targeted and attacked) the negative is that for me, it remains a learned and not a natural state of being--but HOW it begins is almost from birth on, I have observed this and indeed have participated in this --
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
and/or appreciate this paradigm are those who are not inured by it--usually because we have not been in it since birth or haven't totally assimilated for some reason. I was shaped and raised outside of this environment so that by the time I was exposed to it--I had a separate sense of self and identity OUTSIDE the hood which let me know of both the potential and possibilities of myself--this enabled me to not only leave, but achieve a sort of equalibrium--nevertheless under certain conditions,
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Very few people rise above their environs unless they expect to leave that area--why would they? If what they know helps them to survive, why would they cultivate anything else? I am well aware of how many black females act as well as how many black males act--but I am also aware of some of the reasons why--are YOU? The key for you is how do you find that gem that has not been so horribly mishandled that you cannot reshape the facets? Or else, how can you learn to like other stones..
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
It is a simple fact of genetics/biology that in order to adapt to the physical parameters of any environment, humans change and modify their behavior--over time a lot of the modifications become genetic. Blacks have been raised in certain environments for almost 500 years--and for at least 10 generations, they have been raised in ghettos all which include a lot of violence, crime, sex, drugs and fighting--you do the math and figure out what kind of girls or boys you expect from that.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
When black females are raised away from established ghettoes--they often act just like white girls--why? Because their environment helped to shape them--of course these girls tend to date and marry outside the black race too--why? because they often cannot relate to the hood behavior and are not accepted by the hood unless they "come hard" This is our dilemma, created and maintained by us--but the next time you see a mean sistah--ask yourself why--look at her hood - her parentage--is it soft?
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Here is wisdom--if you walk only on silk and handle only soft things --you will only have soft hands and feet. If you are made to walk on gravel and harsh things and handle harsh things you will have horny, hard feet and callused hands--because you will adapt. So it is with people--think about it--where in the hood can a nice soft, sweet, quiet, graceful and feminine girl survive and prosper? When it happens it is IN SPITE of the environs--NOT because of them--create the right environs--or ..
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
be more careful and picky where they plant those seeds in the first place. Take a good look at the women they choose to lay with and think about what a combination of her and you (not just in looks but in actions) would be--and think about her raising that child--if black men wanted different females--they would help to raise and shape them--and that starts with changing the environment they grow up in--don't sit under the apple tree, never weed, then complain when you don't get apricots.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Bring up a child in the way they should go--and when they are old, they will not depart from it" Many Black males are not bringing up anyone in any way--they are humping and leaving--even their biracial babies--this leaves the hood to raise them and the hood is "survival of the meanest and the hardest" to change that--black men must stop acting like they did when they were not allowed to be fathers or husbands by white slave masters--they need to INVEST in where they put their seed and be --
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
more than any other group--children feel a need to belong--to a family, a group, a church a community--this is the lure of gangs--and it is the reason for the way black girls act--we do not have more testatarone--what we have is the need to survive in the environment we are in--in the hood, most are NOT in a protected or nurturing environment--if black men want sweet ladies--then they ought to stick around, protect and raise their daughters and sons to impart what they want--the bible says --
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
at the same time. Most blacks do not think about this conundrum--they just live and navigate it--by doing so, we are also protected from a lot of criticisms from the white society--after all--we have our own world--who CARES what white people think, do or say? The casualties are things like the stats who claim black women are aggressive and less feminine or desired and an entire gen of females watching as brothers seek out white females while using but never marrying them or those white girls
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
The problem urban blacks have --is how to straddle the requirements of 2 very different society without incurring that modern indictment of being "phony or fake" to do this--they usually cultivate a way of speaking on the job and in the burbs or stores--and a different way of acting/speaking/thinking when they go to get some ribs or get their hair done or go see family. It gets real crazy when they meet up with hood people in public--because they must maintain their cred but their assimilation
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
my take that where we are (as both men and women) in the hood is a direct result of social guidance, initially perped by whites by reinforced and directed by other blacks whose sole purpose is to maintain a separate identity that eschews all white societal niceties--even when they are a needed and good thing. Why? You can't have a fiefdom or kingdom if people assimilate--as long as we engage in neg. behavior we maintain the need for a separate lifestyle, outlook and neighborhoods. Mission ..
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
my mind--but most did not--they loved my shape and my looks and my hair but they also liked their women very quiet (like dolls) things to be admired and used and to cook for them and spread for them (skills in bed were a huge plus) but if I wanted to muse about quantum physics or discuss the thrust of Ayn Rand's arguments on existentialism or even indulge in my love of rare books, antiques or porcelain--forget it--the "whats wrong with you gull? Came right out and the stare downs started--so
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
The one thing that stuck out was that other races appreciated my intelligence, blacks were suspiscious of it--and even "for a strong black woman" there was criteria for that--any deviation from that was met with group censure--NO man likes a woman who is too smart--feeling the necessity to "bring her back down to her proper place" this usually implies force. When I finally found my "nice guy" after decades of thugs--he was not black and loved my mind--not that a black guy could not have loved..
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
.etc, like the girls I hung around with. I learned to fight (always a plus) and I did not take any sheeeet--that earned me "respect" the hair had long been cut to only be shoulder length (more acceptable) and I went from wearing frilly dresses to jeans--a fro, and snapping gum--but inside I was still an intellectual and knew the new me was merely a facet and not the sum--I learned where to be myself and where to be what was expected--survival skills--a lot of blacks do this
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
..acted "white" due to my years of living all over the world (airforce brat) and I was dark but had long hair. In the early 1970s--if you had long hair you were already singled out (my hair was almost to my waist) my "lessons" also included not being friendly as friendly people were immediately suspect and to be happy for no reason, signaled to my peers that I was "not from here" THAT is another thing not to be in the hood--by the time I was 15, I could scrap and necktwist and roll my eyes..
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
"Sweet behavior" is targeted by molesters, and the 'pack" even quiet men are targeted in the hood--it is as if there is a template for being "black" and to survive and/or thrive, we all are forced to become snarling, dangerous predators or at least act like we can be. My own metamorphosis and indoctrination happened when I was 12, and was able to live among blacks for the first time--I thought it would be a homecoming--instead it was a gauntlet--and I had strikes against me--I talked and ...
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Men would be surprised how many uber "girly" girls in the hood have morphed into hard sistahs by the time they are 15--this is survival behavior. Take a good look at black girls around 6 or so--among the hard, acting like they are 25 little girls (who emulate their moms or aunties) are little girls who are very innocent and happy and friendly and just very feminine--but to survive, that 'ideal' is not allowed to just exist--not in the hood--because it indicates nonconformity and is targeted.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
Peer pressure is strong in the hood--girls have a choice--to be either quiet (so no one knows what you are capable of--or to come hard, and loud to let the others know you can hold your own) if any teen tries to just be ebullient or friendly, she is usually checked by the group she is hanging with and we all know to be told we "look, act, dress, talk, sound, "white" is the kiss of death and will include months of being singled out and picked on" PACK behavior--conform or be attacked.
iamthequeenbee100 5 months ago
@iamthequeenbee100, my concerns are for black america and black america only. i dont feel the need to be bombarded with some notion that white americxa and "true' intergration is needed and we should learn from it. Whatever that means....have a great day
summersbr1 5 months ago
Masculinity and a degree of aggression are generally characteristics attributed to men that we dont particularily desire to see in women. For too many women, especially our sisters, have traded in their feminity and gracefulness for the hard and raw disguised as strength. Her being strong and independent shouldnt compromise her dignity as a real woman. Loud and obnoxious doesnt equate to strength and never will. Feminity carries its own power and nobody admires a woman that acts manly or raw
summersbr1 5 months ago