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  • the intro voice is cool... she has a nice english accent

  • ...Plus, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is a famous autobiography about struggling to overcome racism and rape by Maya Angelou.

  • this just makes me think about my future situation with my girl, she is always mean

  • This beat is beautiful.

  • Who's versions better?

    Atmosphere - Bird Sings Why The Caged I Know?

    or

    Binary Star - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

    lets the arguing begin! :D

  • Why would you people think you could get into Slug's head just by YouTube. You people have no clue. We can make guesses, but make it into your own. Take this song and make it your own personal meaning.

  • Fucking trolls everywhere. That's great. The backtraced data being collected should be quite useful , I would Imagine.

  • like most other commenters i thought this song was about an ex girlfriend, but i read somewhere that slug wrote it about george bush, which makes sense too (he refers to everything as she/her in all his songs so you cant get hung up on that). then again, its slug, so really it can be either one, or both, or neither...

  • @dksoccerman ive never seen slug try to send subliminal political messages in his songs.

  • @SPquigger71 well i know 'your glasshouse' is about Iraq (check out /watch?v=19iJHEdGepM ) so he's done it before, but even if this one isn't about GWB its still impressive that those connections can even be made in the first place

  • its about letting a bird (girl) you love go, because she wants to be free. at first you do it because you want her to be happy, but the second you see her flying in the air (enjoying life without you), you feel angry, jealous, confused. you say you hate her and you constantly speak the worst of her, but in the end you still love her. you miss her and want her back. (my beautiful bird has gone away)

  • @idkwhat2puthere

    You got it, but the bird can be replaced by whatever you want. The song could also be about people who are not yet freed (like the caged bird which has been freed).

  • i heard this song is about bush

  • Everytime I see a bird, all I can think of are the screams from the end of this amazing song...

  • whats janis joplin's song titled?

  • s7ven travels #3

  • this is a fucking sick song, damn this guy have such an incredible vocabulary.

    he expresses every single word in a way that makes him look so... fucking angry, was the first two words i could think of. Peace to atmosphere for making such heavy hiphop.

    by the way.. the seven individuals disliking this video is the birds, it must have been the birds! disguting critters, it must! we should have known better then trust! This disease infested ball of lust and carnage! Pieces of garbage!

  • to you 7 people who disliked this song.. BURN IN HELL ..

  • sevens travels def

  • What album is this from?

  • @brothahezekiah sr7evs travels i thnk

  • @brothahezekiah sad clown bad dub 7

  • am i the only one who loves the trippy singing at the very end of this song

  • fuck that bird kill the bitch

  • this song is about him letting a bird free (or girl), you know the whole "if you love something set it free" and then it starts fling away beautifully and he just wants it back at any cost. Its freedom and beauty makes him jealous or angry and he feels worse about him self. He doesn't actually hate the bird, "my beautiful bird has gone away". Slug explains this in a video on here at a live concert.

  • @Bmp1113 Can I see the video you're talking about please?

  • the most hilarious lyrics in the game!

  • stupid birds! get 'em!

  • Check out "kanzovision" for the live version of this track! 

  • this song helps me get over any heartache caused by a bird let out of its cage...love the metaphor makes so much sense

  • This makes me think of my crazy schizo bitch ex girlfriend. Hahahaha

  • idgaf sean daleys the best!!! he always paints u a picture. and he sexy af!

  • honeslty atmosphere is amazing and everyday i find another song thats the dopest thing i ever heard. i want to find some songs from 2011 though.

  • @funnyfulable my key or any of the songs from the family sign

    but slugs older shit is pretty good

    i like it more than his more recent lyrics

  • well I think this song is about the fucking ass hole crows that have been eating my trash while im at work.

  • This is easily my favorite Atmosphere song.I haven't had a song hit me so hard.The story is fucking amazing. I love this to fucking much its creepy.

  • &eleeed0099 it came out on "Seven's Travels" it came out in like 2005-8

  • the bird is THE word!

  • is it just me....or does it looks like the picture is moving?

  • wut album is this song on ???

  • where did you get that pic?

  • Okay, best rap group. Btw, these guys are amazing live. Check out Soundset.

  • One of my favorite things about the way Slug wrote is his ability to leave interpretation open. At first I thought about how this is about a girl, but listening closely, I kind of started to relate it to The United States. We are kind of an arrogant country but the worlds leading super power. We cause a lot of jealousy and hostility from other countries, and because we are at the top we are that bird. Just kind of my interesting interpretation, I guess.

  • One of my favorite Atmosphere songs. It's a damn shame the direction this group turned... some call it selling out, some call it maturing as an artist. Either way it isn't the atmosphere I fell in love with. Whatever happened to the poetry, the beats, and the emotion? It just sounded so raw and unfiltered, like nothing before it. Oh well. I still got that underground atmosphere I know and love.

  • @FootToTheThroat I feel the exact same way, bro. You're not alone in your opinion at all.

  • @barxcodedxloser That doesn't have anything to do with what he said, does it? Saying Atmosphere is the best rapper is like saying Iron Maiden is the best singer.

  • Thumbs up if you found this on the Punk-o-rama 8 CD!

  • @ZoomJoke55 No shit Sherlock. He wrote the song though. Check it out if you don't believe me and then you can talk. (: Or you could ask him, like I did personally.

  • Who's screaming in the backround?

  • @weirdwoogie P.O.S.

  • @weirdwoogie

    Who knows. If you're asking because you are hoping to hear more of it, just look into Jersey hardcore bands or something. Probably just Slug in the screaming sample though.

  • @weirdwoogie JANIS JOPLIN: WORK ME LORD

  • @Gregforganja idk thats what it sounds like to me

  • @megotvtec

    It's on Sevens Travels and why don't you just buy the album and support indie rap dick.

  • Awsumness song peoplzzz

  • Chuck Norris merked 2 people

  • what album is this on? i would like to download it

  • i think this a about a girl who used to be a good girl, but grew an ego, and put herself on a pedestal, and theinks she is better than everyone..

  • me

    

  • Sooo...who else thinks that Atmosphere is the best rapper of all time?

  • @barxcodedxloser Atmosphere is the group...who you hear on the Mic is Slug

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  • @barxcodedxloser Correction. Slug is the best rapper of all time. Ant doesn't rap. And Spawn left atmosphere after OverCast.

  • @barxcodedxloser well.. atmosphere isnt a rapper, but nonetheless yes, slug is the greatest emcee

  • my beautiful bird has gone away..........

  • Hip hop finally has someone to rely on

  • im the bird -.-

  • It must have been the damn bird!!!

  • Is it weird if I found this so powerful and beautiful that I almost cried?

  • what does the french lady say at the beggining? :)

  • @cesinis look at the cute serpent say hi to the serpent

  • @cesinis look a cute snake, you die snake, goodbye

    either one, i think

  • classic....damm, i even memorized the entire song

  • wOOow

  • @IndonesiaNegaraKu NA! Keep that icp crap outta here!

  • slug as clown > insane clown pussies.

  • @IndonesiaNegaraKu no, he reprsents the hate relationships an everyday life has brought him

  • @IndonesiaNegaraKu lol is this sort of dumbass competition that ruins the rap industry.

    mexico > indonesia

  • @syngar99 haha yeah i thought that problem was done with when i moved here but yeah your people are slaves. indonesians get slapped with dicks for cheap manufacturing. you probably too

  • The fucking beat is pretty sexy.

  • I know why the cage sings bird.

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  • my beautiful bird has gone away...

  • cool beans

  • she says look at the cute sepon say hi to the sepon

  • @Acatjump thank you very much ;)

  • does anyone know what the lady in the very beginning of the song says. i tried translating it but i got nothing. :(

  • Damm Foreal bro all that Drake and Taylor gang bullshit is all the same atmosphere is real. Shit

  • damn i wish i knew what he was rapping about. what i think of when i hear this is either the goverment, mainstream hip hop, or those fucking bitches in highschool that have their noses turned up to everyone and diss cats like me on the reg.

  • @PAINTHOSELEMONSGOLD

    sometimes art is vague so that it can represent the thing that is closest to its audience. This song is an example of someone who did that right.

  • Can anyone tell me what the french woman at the beginning is saying?

  • @TwoFiveOhProductions look at the cute snake

    snake do you bite hello ?

    ... at least thats what i got from it...

  • When i listen to this i ask myself

    why this isnt in the radiooooo????

    Fuck Mainstream

  • he is soooooooo DOPE!!! daym!!!

  • what is she saying in the first part?...is it french?

  • I love the raw emotion in this song. The energy in this song pulls meaning from your very inner self. Like if it was an emotional prism when your mind passes it's own light through it. You take it as your own no matter how you listen to it.

  • i love that p.o.s. is the one screaming at the end of this. <3

  • Atmosphere saved my life tonight... literally. I love him, and all of his music. Thanks for this amazing song, and all of your amazing music.

  • someone add "the old style" by atmosphere plz

  • People love Atmosphere because it is so easy to relate to the music. Every time I hear this song it reminds me of night I partied hard as hell and when I was on my way home the birds where chirping as the sun came up and I hated it because I knew I'd already blown a day that hadn't started. You don't get that from all the FAKE ass dopeboy music and the only people that like that shit are FAKE ass/ wanna be dopeboys.

  • @raiderfan513 word up.

  • i don't like slug, i like atmosphere. slug is only as good as the beats that he spits on, and ants beats are fucking crazy!

  • Gotta love the emotion in this one. It's...strong. Gargantuous. SHOOT HER DOWN!

  • i agree! fuck lil wayne & all those others, slug hands down is thee best

  • this guy is by far the best rapper. hands down

  • also, a track from Eligh called "the dragon" from his album "as they pass", relates to this one

  • f*cking Reptillians=nibiruancouncil. com

  • no joke, i think hes talking about the reptillians/winged serpents/lizards(lizzies)/drac­onians which are from the planet in the Alpha Draconi star system of the Orion Constellation and created by the their parent race The Carians.

  • Damn, I added this back when that bitch fucked me over, you take whatever YOU want from the song, doesn't matter what slug was trying to say.

  • @koertwig such is the true beauty of good music....

  • @koertwig subjective track. lol

  • despite what the songs true meaning is, i still feel the song is beautiful, full of emotion and in a way can relate. when u hear a song that you feel you can relate to even tho that isnt what the artist intended its still ok because in a way art is meant to be experienced different from creator to viewer and that no two people will percieve anything the same!

  • Form of art!

  • he is rapping from an evil perspective allthough he may not actually be into that shit. the singing bird is us as people screaming for bettermant.

  • This may be the most compelling song Slug has ever sang. He's just so pissed off the whole time, I love it.

    What I got out of it, is that he's pissed at someone who thinks she's better than him.

  • all these songs are about his ex girlfriends, its modern day blues, he expresses his frustration about his relationships, thats y it is dope

  • lucy is satan!! duh

  • @emanuelquijada17

    lucy is acid

  • suree. LUCY FORD - LUCIFER??

  • @emanuelquijada17 have you listened to fuck you lucy?

  • i dont think slug likes birds very much

  • doesnt litteratly mean bird you know right?

  • @emanuelquijada17 or does it.....

  • It seems to me that this song is a response to Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Maya Angelou is a world-renowned African American poet, and her poem is a moving portrayal of the beauty of freedom. This song expresses the animosity and frustration of people who are NOT YET free, to whom the free bird is insulting and offensive. It might not be the author's personal view, but it captures an important viewpoint that definitely exists in our culture.

  • very deep and very true

  • @laviniariley thats beautiful

  • @laviniariley

    nicely said. Atmosphere has more soul than a sock with a hole.

  • @laviniariley "Binary star" also had a song called "I know why the caged bird sings" check it out

  • @rykertcowpeople Thanks for mentioning "Binary Star." They are truly talented and doing important work.

  • well put :) Write live love and question!

    

  • @laviniariley

    Well said.

  • @laviniariley I would have to totally agree with you.

    But this does sound to me like a very angry man who let his bird get away from him and now is very regretful that she is free and he still remains in her cage of love. With the end "My beautiful bird has gone away [x12]" and reference "This disease infested ball of lust and carnage-Piece of garbage with wings and she has the guts to sing" says she cheated and he is now realizing it was his fault as well - hence the regret and anger.

  • and judging to the responses to this video of men referencing certain women in their lives and what they did to the them. ..I would have to say this is to be an accurate point of view. I am not sure if the anger that is continued after she flew away is actual anger or their own regret? One would have to wonder.

  • my beautiful bird has gone away my beautiful bird has gone away..... i love atmosphere

  • it could be anything. i never put together the "lucifer" thing tho so i feel like an idiot now. but i honestly think lucy was originaly his on-and-off gf (cuz he says so in an interview) but i think its evolved into meaning all the bullshit in life. idk hes a genius though. honestly the greatest rapper ive ever heard. thats why i have like 200 of his songs haha.

    Atmosphan for life!

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  • @elmer4life ya it started out meaning his ex gf he says that in an interveiw he also saysthat in later songs it did change tohavemany different meanings, from goverment to war to MANY other meanings.

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  • I heard that names that begin with the letter "S" are the names of Snakes

  • Lucy Ford. Say it fast. Lucifer. There are a few different explanations about who Lucy is. Some say his cat, some say his ex gf's. Some say a metaphor for any of the bullshit he dealt with. No one can really know so all these theories are odious.

  • @Stetz1010 he's said in multiple outlets that Sean is the asshole, Slug is the artist, and Lucy is hip hop.

  • No, its about one of his Ex's (there all refered to as Lucy, the female Devil) The thing is, Sean isn't an innocent in all the case's. He is unhealthy in a way (hense all the unhealthy relationships) He lets you on some of this with a few lines; "We should have known better then to trust"(refering to both of them), "Well I'll shake her from her branch, tear apart her nest

    Break her skinny legs and fry her eggs up for breakfast" (His over-reaction twords the situation).

  • totally agree, everyone's got their demons and sluggo's no different. Hence the discography full of references to unhealthy relationships hes been involved in.

  • I don't think it's about a girl. I think it's about society in general. When we find individuals who are actually happy and free, we envy. It's part of the human condition. Such hatred for those with the things we wish we had!

  • Not trying to shut you down, but it has nothing to do with society. Its just an analogy for his relationship. Also, "A Bird" is british slang for a bitch. Hes just an amazing MC with intelegence between his shoudlers. Always (well, use to) have great metaphores/analogys.

  • @TheObicha

    I don't think any of us can really know unless we sat down and talked to Slug about the song. It could mean a lot of things at once.

  • @1MissConstrued

    Thanks. I had another idea but yours makes so much more sense.

  • Its about his gurl breakin up with him and bouncin out on him!

  • Its probably actually about female troubles Sean had, like most of his songs.

  • fuk this guy m akes me say fukk lil wayne fukk drake n fukk kanye this dude should win rapper of the year for ten straight consecutive years

  • @shnikka94

    How can you even compare him to those rappers. This guy is the man, they should play him on the radio.

  • @shnikka94 He should win it for life. Never disappoints.

  • @shnikka94 Halelujia someone understrands common knowledge, this guy rocks my socks

  • @shnikka94 exactly bro. i wish i could meet cats like you. imma sophmore in highschool so all i ever hear about is how fucking great drake and lil wayne are. its bullshit dude, theyre rapping for money and theyre songs have no meaning. theyre just rhyming words together, theyre not telling stories. it pisses me off this mainstream bullshit.

  • @shnikka94 SHIT THATS ALL!

  • What is this song about? what is the deeper meaning?

  • Just listen, its not about birds that fly, I'll tell you that.

  • @DoggieDOH It's about envy and how people will hate someone just because the person has something they want.

  • Damn this song is Beautiful. Wish Atmosphere would go back to making stuff like this..

  • which track was sampled?

    does anybody know?

    thanx

  • work me lord by janis joplin

  • I'm not sure, but it could be they sampled and distorted some parts out of Abbey Lincoln's 'I know why the caged bird sings', it would make sense in light of the title and content of this song.

  • @mellowmellowrighton Janis Joplin - Work Me Lord

  • both inherit / inhabit makes sense in a way

    "inherit" is a more or less subtle reference to "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth"- Meek meaning something like humble or patient