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  • Her voice breathes life.

  • Also if not already done so, do yourself a favor and listen to her later material: Bravebird, Morning and Lovely Standards. The concept of this video is great also. I think only the abstract appreciate it the most.

  • This song comes from an album equally fantastic!!!! Definitely worth every dollar. The vibe amd sound of it is timeless!!!!

  • AWE MAN I REMEMBER SEEING THIS VIDEO BACK WHEN BET HAD INTEGTRITY ! ( DAMN , THAT'S BEEN A MINUTE ! ) B.e.t and it's greatness:1989-2001 rip

  • listen to the lyrics. she got me

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  • feeling this!

  • Nedd more real vocalist like Amell instead of this T-pain voice over "CRAP" and thats keepin it real!!!!!

  • damn miss this song lol really soulful

  • true song luv it

  • she is so pretty. this is who the rock should have been with, instead of that lauren hashadian. But too bad she is already married to laru larrieux.

  • Her being underrated is an understatement.....id go as far as saying that she pretty much top 10 best artist of the 90s period in any genre....she is so talented not to mention she sexy as hell lol

  • Wow I've been listening to this song since i was a kid in the 90s. Had some good memories. Mom would be blasting this on her stereo while making pancakes and watching Xena

  • this should have been my wife,.forget Norah Jones.Amel should have mad grammy awards by now!

  • She's so underrated...

    This song was such a classic...

  • <3 this

  • time 2 get up people of God; the standard has already been risen. get up.....

  • you outta control..this song rocks!!

  • I think Paul Dateh's version is better but i have to give it to her for writing this awesome song.

  • Good music is not gone, although the 90's and early 2000's are. You just have to put in more effort to find music with soul like this. We are the ones who still appreciate gifted people like Amel Larrieux. YouTube views, likes/dislikes aren't a way measure who a good artist is or should be. Get up y'all.

  • I love this song, and I swear to me this video fits the song so well.. I love how they did it, so trippy and laid back.

  • THIS SONG IS SO IMPACT WITH TRUTH....SUM PPL JUST DNT GET TRUE ARTIST LIKE THIS.....SOULFUL!!!!

  • Dang she fine as hell!

  • i rise in surprise distant ranges constant fazes tryin ta break me down in size, im the mastermind of mankind in a disguise created one of a kind well defined strike on the mentally blind like a shrine, with a world scope at the best time souls regained by my pride don't cry poisonous tears drop like tribes ta the physical minds of crimes ALL TRUE NO BULLSHIT
  • I cannot think of a better song that embodies our current spiritual, economic, and political state in our world. This song is timeless!

  • I see a "Like" button.....But where's the "LOVE" button at??

  • LOVIN IT!!!THEY DONT MAKE MUSIC LIKE THIS NO MORE....ITS A SHAME

  • this still applies to this day damn i feels this song just like the first time i heard this jam when are we gone get up especially in this time and era for real shit

  • one of the best female singer

  • I remember as a 13 year-old not understanding the art of the video, but LOVING the hell outta the song.Amel is beautiful and gifted.Still luv the music even now:)

  • @aBLACKGIRL1986 i knoow i was like 8 or 9......i used to love the hell out of this song!!!!!!!!! still dude

  • ....and that's why "You Showed your Ass" makes my skin crawl every time I accidentally hear it. No talent...piece of...Keep doing your thing Amel. Much Love.., and financial support to you.

  • I love Amel and the video and song is just AMAZING!

  • LOVE IT.....A MESSAGE OF TRUTH......

  • most underrated voice in the world

  • @kvirgo07 I agree 100%

  • I love this song. I am so glad my city has an NEO-Soul station(Birmingham, AL 102.1) that plays music like this 24 hours a day. This song and the song Keep Tryin she made with Groove Theory are great songs to motivate you when u are going through life situations.

  • I rate this10 on my cool-shit-o-meter!!

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  • 31 people are down and need to stay down.

  • @LilBenki Seriously....Ilove this song!

  • This is My sHit tO tHe full3sT i lov3 aMel

  • LOVE THIS SONG

  • 30 people can't get up...

  • @barber747 They cannot comprehend...Remember the album is entitled "Infinite Possiblities"

  • Amell iz the fregin sizzle...

  • SO TALENTED! :) beautiful x

  • SOME PEOPLE GIVE A VID A THUMBS DOWN, NOT THE SONG ITSELF.  LET'S FOCUS ON THE THUMBS UP.....THIS SONG IS SO POWERFUL AND REALLY SPEAKS TO THE SPIRIT. IN SPITE OF OUTSIDE CIRCUMSTANCES , THERE IS A POWER WITHIN THAT WILL OVERCOME! ANOTHER CLASSIC, AMEL!!! LOVE IT!!

  • Oooooh, definition of this song:POETICALLY JAZZY!! I can right songs and versus to this all day...maybe even talk to to people with this in the background...I could the be the biggest homeless man...as long as I have Amel's song in my head, EVERYTHING GONE BE ALRIGHT! One love from Los ANgeles!

  • OOOOMMMMGGGG THE video is shot in my school..U of T Scorborough...

  • I came across her and Esthero on pandora and I have been jammin for the past 3 weeks. Great voice here!

  • I lik this song its just so smooth nd jazz lik nd i luv Amel's voice

  • man it took me a while to find this song ii remeber when i was lil just sitting eat popsicles just listening to her ... :)

  • I remember hearing this song when I was young and thinkn this woman must be beautiful and poised. man was I RIGHT she is the definition of grace and I love how she portrays that in her music.

  • forgot about this song.I am now listening to it everyday cause i always find a new meaning in what she saying.That people try to pull the wool over your eyes why they want to profit from your demise"IS so real so so so real and the rest of that verse just speaks to me in so many ways.I just hate that she is not more mainstream than"tell me" cause her and lauryn have a way of saying things and sining a note.We need soul not SEX to comeback.we love sex but Not every song gotta be about Ass

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  • R.I.P. to my sister Donna. This was one of her favorite secular songs... I love the message in the song as well.

  • @higgieme2 I do skate to this :D

  • Wow... 2000. I was in first grade when this came out.. SMH at all the other first graders watching Barney when I was listening to this with my mom and step-dad in the car.

  • Another jam for the skaters.

  • you mean people like kesha are overrated?

    and people like amel are underrated?

    what the heck!?!??!!?

  • makes me feel good :)

  • This is a very positive song and artist. Hey anyone...this song was played in the movie: Barbershop 2--Back In Business. The scene outside the shop where Ricky is being questioned by some young chick...she asks, "What's a subdefudge?!!" It's actually subdefuge. Man...these silly ghetto ladies...

  • gotdamned classic if i heard one

  • LOVE this song! HATE that I slept on it for ten years (even after hearing it in Barbershop 2).

    I'm up now!!

  • @speakyatruth When I heard her album "Bravebird," it touched my soul. A MUST HAVE

  • Love this song and this video! Creativity in music just isn't like this anymore in the world of music.

  • iNSTANTLY FELL iN LOVE WiTH THiS SONG WHEN iFiRST HEARD iT! <3

  • I agree with lisaray101. The people who didn't like this song must have died and that's why they didn't get up. lol lol

  • Great artist, love this song. Her song 'Even If' is such a CLASSIC - and a lost classic at that. If Alicia Keys had done that, it would have been a global hit. No disrespect to alicia but Amel really deserves her due.

  • She is Soul.

  • @FourTeller

    Thank you so Much for the Posting of This Classic. I will Play it Every day In your Honor.

  • Too underrated. Now that's sad

  • this song came out when i was fairly young and back then i didnt understand REAL music cuz my ears was filled with stupidity and noise at that time. but coming back to where it all made sense, this is a beautiful motivating song. cant find much like this nowadayz,,

  • i use to listen to this song for motivation....

  • love this cut

  • I am so glad she kept her style and never changed. Its a good thing she didn't go commercial or that commercial never accepted her because if it did, she wouldn't have the musical freedom that she has now. She would've ended up like Mariah Carey who was great on her first two albums and then commercialism got a hold of her and has made crappy albums since

  • I loved this song!

  • THATS SO SAD CAUSE I LOVED THIS SONG THEN AND I STILL DO I LOVE HER SOUND

  • THATS SO SAD CAUSE I LOVED THIS SONG THEN AND I STILL DO I LOVE HER SOUND

  • Brand-new 90's flavoured Hip-Hop remix of "GET UP" on my page...come and check it out, i'm sure you guys are gonna dig it! ;-)

  • She is soooo underrated..

  • I looooooooooe this song i havent heard this song since i 14 yrs old i could never find her songs on different music web sites thanks for uploading this up!!!! i love it!!!

  • Super sexy woman! 

  • One reason you can tell the radio is whack!...

    is that they use to play this (instrumental) in the background. They should have been playing the song. I was praying for them to JUST PLAY IT! (They let me down, but Amel didn't)

  • Wow... i cant believe 26 people disliked this song!!!! Mustve been Lady Gaga fans landing on this channel by mistake. Its a shame talent like this never gets appreciated...her vocal range is unbelievable and she combines it with beautiful soul. There are other singers with skill(i.e. Christina Aguilera)but rarely with soul/sound that TOUCHES you.

  • @djslimm74

    I love Lady Gaga, however, I'm just now discovering Amel, and i have to say, she's quite amazing.But don't think that Lady Gaga's little monsters are musically retarted, and don't know good quality music when we here it ♥

  • @djslimm74 Correction, it's now 31. 31 people think Justin Bieber makes real music.

  • this is real music unlike the bull they plaing on the radio

  • when im down i listen 2 this song and it lifts me up

  • has several metaphorical meanings...black man black people GET UP

  • FINALLY!!!! i have been looking for this since i heard this on barbershop!!! gosh i am so glad i found this...i love this song!!!

  • 6am, gettin' outta bed again. Can't get back in cause they ain't gonna pay no rent. Day to day, they got you workin' like a slave. Taken credit for the work you gave & stealing your raise but I know you're down but when you gon' get up. I see you down but when you gon' get up.

    If that ain't explaining with the music industry is in a nutshell, I don't know what is.

  • this song is helping me get through a tough brake up.

  • love this song!!! so smooth...her vocals are AMAZING too!!

  • when you gon get up? when you gon wake up? is the question

  • shero music

  • when you gon' get up?

  • I love you Amel Larrieux.. I wish i can have a clone of you:)

  • Sickkkkkkk Jam!!!!

  • omg i love this song. it takes me back to be 17 sittin up watchn late night videos. i love songs that take u back. i remember what girl i liked then, where i was in life, and how i felt. smooth song.

  • God! I love amel larrieux! Someone stole this cd from me...oh well good music is a plus!!!!!!! 

  • One of the most underrated vocalist I have ever seen. Her vocals are as smooth as silk with just the right amount of sultry sexual appeal. She is the bomb!!!!!

  • @lisaray101 LMAO!!!!

  • sh'e beautiful...and her music is refreshing and organic...only for live show viewing...to get the intire experience

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  • This music video...Made me feel reeeeaally weird. 0_o

  • @ThuedeeVang They got pills for what ails you. Find them and take the whole bottle. At once.

  • @blewis9505 Was that supposed to be funny? 0_o Or amusing? Because I fail to see the point of your comment at all.

  • @ThuedeeVang That's because you're a, well, f.a.i.l.u.r.e. Funny? Yes, but you're still a failure (LOL)

  • @blewis9505 Okay dude. You don't even know me and you call me a failure? Such a quick jump to judge tells a lot about someone. You're pathetic. I don't even know why the fuck you're trying to start shit. But ey, if you're that low and you gotta randomly start shit for no good reason online to make yourself feel good then go for it. You're just trash. So okay. Whatever. I'm gonna stop because you're not even worth my time. ;] Have fun being pathetic.

  • @blewis9505 must you go around ranting like a child?

  • This was the first song I've heard from Amel since Tell Me from groove theory... She's the ultimate in jazzy neo-soul!

  • One of the best songs I've ever heard - love this music video - some type of nostalgic feeling about the summer time in the late 90's =(( i miss it very much... (92 baby) LOVE everything Amel does!.

  • "Keep Trying" was always my fav. Amel/Groove Theory track...until this.

  • My fav song. Love it.

  • Love her music!

  • Auntie...I Love you

  • influenced by micheals video if anyone caught it

  • the real music here

  • Yes! I heard this on Barbershop 2! I love this.

  • Hotep Sista!

    You make some beautiful music.

  • 24 idiots who have no knowledge of real music hit the dislike button.

  • who ever click dislike should have their ears cut off!

  • this song go hard. Enough said

  • i was in the 5th grade when this came out brings back memories.

  • 24 people couldn't Get Up.

  • @Mikizzle15 LOL

  • i love her

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  • I only saw this video one time on bet.

  • @hustler843 Because BET now stands for bad entertainment television

  • 24 ppl dislike this song. Wow, I guess they don't want get up they wanna stay down.

  • @lisaray101 love the song, not the video so much...maybe that's the view of the 27 ppl

  • @JadeStone9 I think when you understand her as a person and artist, you will like the video more.

  • @lisaray101 Or they're just useless Homeless bastards.

  • @vyxtouch I don't think homeless ppl have internet access.

  • @eathg9 I don't mean to drag this link on but there are plenty of Internet Cafe's in this country where you only need to pay $2/per hour for Internet access. Just saying...*shrugs*

  • @lisaray101 I know thats retarded?!!?

    how do you not like this? I am heavily hip hop influenced and this is incredible! Some losers dont like GOOD music

  • love this song

  • cant get enough of this song. I love her voice. this is real music. she has beyonce and all the others beat by a long shot!!

  • love this song, amel is fantastic...i i i know ur down when ur gonna get up!!

  • Man this is so nice...........

  • I'm not even gonna bother stressing the fact that we need more Soul/ R&B singers like Amel around. . . .

    The only thing wrong with this song is that it ends >_<

  • Fresh!

  • In the NAME of AMEL LARRIEUX, ERYKAH BADU, DONNIE, D'ANGELO, RAPHAEL SAADIQ, RES, ESTERO, L BOOGIE, JILL SCOTT, AND SADE! I COMMAND YOU EVIL SPIRITS TO LEAVE THIS INDUSTRY!

  • @noirtriptyline agreed, but u forgot Lauren Hill to a otherwise perfect list..

    hehe ;o)

  • @Utsatin who did you think ' L Boogie' was

  • @Utsatin L Boogie= Lauryn Hill. That's her around the way nick name. :-)

  • @noirtriptyline o i c haha!

  • @noirtriptyline you made me laugh

  • @YahzMangoTr3e Its true, though...we need a musical exorcism.

  • @LaKulasa So true. Urban RnB has lost soul and has no more feeling...

  • Real Music <3

  • Those who disliked this song are those who dont know music, pain and simple. She has her clothes on, has skill and the music in teh background has GROOVE to it.

  • Brilliant video for a Brilliant Artist- Amel Larrieux, your music deserves more radio play than most of the artists out there today.

  • this song helps me when im down

  • Her name jus popped into my mind and I typed it, this is a time in music I luv'd, so earthy. Music now is trash, the beyonces and rihannas can learn a thing or two from this woman

  • how can u dislike a song like this???

  • @arsenalwilliams --those 23 ppl don't understand this is a mellow jam. there's no booty shaking and demonic looking ppl in this video. they ALL have their clothing on--even Amel.

  • MARVELOUS & THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY. SMOOTH.

  • love this song =)

  • Where's the "love" button?

  • One of the best artist to ever come out hands down!

  • BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS

    

  • Oh Lord, it's been 10 years already since this song came out. I was a teenager and at that time, you could still be a youngster and have access to wonderfully fresh music. God save Amel Larrieux!

  • this is my theme song every morning

  • she's talented and pretty

    where is she?

  • You guys should check out Paul Dateh's Version Its realllyyy good.

  • Does anyone know where to buy the type of clothes that she's wearing!?!?

  • SMOOTH

  • i luv neo soul

  • smooth, jazzy, sultry singer, cool

  • 2000 when this came out

  • When you got the blues, this is what you want to listen to. Don't you cry you got your

    PRIZE! =D

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