This song reminds me of my childhood, listening to my uncle playing all of the great EJ tunes.
These early 70s tunes were classics, words and music match beautifully. Bernie Taupin deserves more credit for writing some of the best lyrics of all time. Thanks for posting.
TO: my screechy...I feel the same way! My Great Grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee...but I have the white blood in my veins...it feels like a curse! I've been listening to this song since I was a young girl...I'm 52 now...I love this old song...thankyou for your honesty...PEACE V from your Sister!
I sometimes truly feel ashamed to be a white when I see what was and is done to the true NATIVE AMERICANS. It also hurts me to see what was done to the African Americans. I just wish none of it had ever happened but unfortunately it did and is still happening just not to the same degree. This song is beautiful and so is the video. Thank you!
@jemjoy2007 Nitsiitapii is what language others might recognize? Blackfeet, I believe? We're Akimel Oodham (Authum) means 'River People' or known as Pima, closely related to Thono Oodham, means 'Desert People' or known as Papago in Arizona, USA. We can educate others about Native Americans this way, like why Blackfeet and not Blackfoot, or is it? The average mainstream American knows less about NAs than Europeans like British white boys Elton & Bernie when they wrote this song in the 1970s.
everything around is not invented by europeans. europeans may have improved on said inventions. europeans did not invent the most important tools, ones used for farming, they copied other races tools and technology. but they did improve alot of these inventions and in the end they used these inventions only to manipulate and control the people and destroy our world.
@filmgrabber and why is it so easy to abuse and dominate you people? Maybe because you have developed nothing beyong stoneage technology. Everything around you was invented by Europeans. without "abusive slavery" you would still eat fecal cakes in a mudhut
I heard this song growing up but it wasn't until I was older that I really understood the significance of this song. I listened to it again for the first time in a while and I got chills like I was hearing it for the first time.
I have been blessed with quite a few Native American Friends in my 32 years here on Earth. My hat is off to all of them. I dedicate this song to all of them from the bottom of my heart!!!!!! What a story Elton John tells in this couple of minutes he calls "Indian Sunset". It is nothing short of brilliance in my opinion!!!!!!1111
Wow, lotta' dumbass comments on here. The song's not meant to be literal, yes it sucks (in short) for what happened to the indigenous people of North America (and to a lot of other native tribes worldwide, really), but it was so long ago, let's just focus on getting along in the here and now, okay?
@superspongenova I like how Americans always say, 'but it was so long ago', does it make you feel better? And yet, when it benefits you, you deplore the past actions of Germans, British, Russians and Japanese at every turn.
Are you that stupid? Fact is the Native Americans are still fucked over. Their religion suppressed, their lands still stolen, the laws and Constition written often with the one goal of disenfranhising them and the majority live in poverty. You don't know these things? Sad.
@Lukege15 I have never once in my life "delore[d] the past actions" of any country. I am Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, AND Cheyenne. My great-great-grandfather was a translator in Oklahoma. You need to shut up and stop trying to bleed out something that DID happen a long time ago. If you want to go out and physically help the people still being subjected to these misfortunes, do it. Stop being a dick on Youtube and learn to focus on getting along on the here and now than guilting innocent people
@Lukege15 Oh very nice you're badmouthing the very people you're trying to save. Okay. I am genetically descended from members of those tribes. As I am from other ethnicities. And yes those people are ignorant, but so is your method of "enlightening" everyone else. Choose your battles, man, don't you get they're probably just TRYING to piss you off because you react so aggressively? You're not coming off as someone I'd choose to represent a cause.
@superspongenova So you basically admitted your not a Native American, but a 'descendant'.
I'm a descendant of Genghis Khan, does that make me Mongolian? As well as Italian because a Roman soldier was my great-great-great* grandfather. See? Drawing conclusions such as that make you look stupid.
@Lukege15 -- And so as such, since I am not entirely native American, my right to argue your methods isn't allowed. You are a complete and total idiot. Your heart's in the right place, but, sir, you are a complete and total idiot.
@superspongenova Why did you bring up your distant, distant ancestry? You meant it to be an argument in your favor. That makes you an idiot. Not me.
'Oh very nice you're badmouthing the very people you're trying to save' - because I disagree with some ignorant white boy? How pathetic are you?
You've thrown a lot of insults my way, but I've seen nothing substantial from you. You have no reason to reply, you're just raging, and you're argument is basically 'don't get pissed'?
@superspongenova If you do happen to be a member of those 4 nations - fucking decide who you want on your side. White supremacists Vs people that are actually educated in the issues of past and present Native Americans.
Shit's still happening to Native Americans, and the fact that you don't know it makes me even more suspicious of your apparent heritage. You're no doubt a white that doesn't know nearly as much as you think.
@Lukege15 I am. On both sides of my family. I'm choosing to focus on the here and now and not separating race. Shit's still happening to a /lot/ of people, and it's horrible, but sitting here telling people to choose sides makes you look more like a hick than these supposedly white oppressive folk you're rambling at. I don't need to go through my family's history with you, or prove my nationality. I am human, over all. Again, if you wanna help, go out and do something instead of raging online.
SQUIERLUKE81, We the whites of this country dont need to worry about anyonemaking us look bad. We have committed so many horrible acts against natives that we have shown what we are quite well
bummer. until now, i thought that elton john wrote his part on ghetto gospel particullary for that song. but it was allready made alooot off years before :P
i don't care who you are.. this is an awesome song!! no need to compare it to anything, except itself. the invading "settlers" did a terrible injustice to native americans and it doesn't matter what color any of them were.
@Robotdrummerzzk How disgustingly ignorant. Tupac is one of the greatest artists to ever walk this earth. It's sad that people are so ignorant enough to not realize that.
It is a shame this song got niggerized in ghetto gospel. Typical niggers, I knew that the piano part in that song had to have come from a white person
@joel053 ur a fucking douche bag. in case u havent noticed, the greatest modern artists of all time have been black Michael Jackson, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur. if u don't like any of those 5 black men just because u were raised by confederate bitches, u sir are an asshole
Why do African-Americans always have to be brought up?
This song is all about Native Americans, let's enjoy it for what it is.
All you Americans could learn a lot from this song. What a great many diverse and vibrant nations were on this land before being replaced by a generic culture, Walmart and parking lots
Are you one of those people that live in America but hold on furiously to your immigrant status, and cry 'I'm not American!' at any given chance? WAS I EVEN TALKING TO YOU?
Still, you should respect the natives of the land you're on. Saying, 'Oh, but my parents weren't from here' doesn't give you reason to be ignorant. You're on their land, learn or fuck off to Korea if you don't like it (LOL at you not even knowing if it's called South Korea). Fucking idiot
@Lukege15 trolol im sorry my race was more advanced and was able to overpower natives? gf tomahawks- every race has commited acts of taking over land get the fuck over it. being on youtube bitching on a song people only come to because they like ghetto gospel is making u look even sadder :o and before u say it yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with. but atleast my race won :)
@Sperix1 HAHA! Oh my, you're a failure on so many levels. The idea that you think you're superior at anything...
Your race? I'm white too genius. Why is that rednecks assume if your supportive of another race, you're either that race or a race traitor. It was our disease that allowed you to be a fat, lazy bastard sponging of your mother on stolen land. I feel that if you were faced with an opportunity to be powerful or 'win', you're pea-brain would probably implode. You're an embarrasment.
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat idiots an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
@Lukege15 yes us fat fucks who made it to the moon first invented computers, won every major war weve been a part of and developed the first nuclear bomb, were dumbasses over here. anyway have fun in your shit country, hopefully your atleast in one of the nice ones who dont bitch endlessly .. oh fuck nvm
I'll give you the nuclear bomb. But what's the point? It was concieved from the research of a certain German scientist - Einstein. The creators became depressed, and some committed suicide knowing they brought something like that into the world AND it's never been used, well done!...
Fact is, I know more about the US than you ever will. You're scared of facts-ignorance is bliss, after all. It's also a cage.
So often we here people actually doing covers . So often they don't stand up . I would love to heare Pearl Jam get Eddie Veder wrap his gnarly tonsils around this and I think it would be tops. . Itsstill a masterpiece. 1st heard it in 1975 .
this is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. Although it was originally aiming at the native american race, i feel as though it also is now speaking to the european americans. "and now you ask that i should watch the redmans race be slowly crushed" I feel like you can now switch redman to whiteman since all this multiculturism in mcdonalds, dj hero commercials and so fourth in the media is really trying to eliminate the white race... (and not to mention the black population aswel
Most Native Americans have lost their language, way of life, architecture, homes, history -every element of their culture. White (most definetly) and black people have no comparison.
this is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. Although it was originally aiming at the native american race, i feel as though it also is now speaking to the european americans. "and now you ask that i should watch the redmans race be slowly crushed" I feel like you can now switch redman to whiteman since all this multiculturism in mcdonalds, dj hero commercials and so fourth in the media is really trying to eliminate the white race... (and not to mention the black population aswel
@SodaPopJohnson Not really man, this is about wars between the whites and the Indians and how they were losing their land and slowly becoming endangered.
Whites aren't being killed off, and they still make up the majority of the population.
Capolavoro assoluto dell'Elton "primordiale".La fame era tanta in quegli anni ma dalla sua aveva l'entusiasmo di chi fa della Musica la sua vita.Per me Elton in quei primi 33 giri ha dato quasi tutto del suo talento.Poi diventa una saponetta con i coccodrilli e il suo rock and roll anni 50 riciclato.Qui Elton è stratosferico.Insuperabile.
I think this is the best '' Elton John '' - Song ever made ! The Moral is soooo good and fits sooo good with the music, which is BEAUTIFUL all the way from the first Note to the Last note D chord !
The magic of Bernies writing is his abilty to capture americana from any point of view. Here we see such insight and retrospect into a culture he only experienced through cinema as a child. His ability to transpose to any situation is truly one of the great parts of his writing...Great job on the Vidi here nice representation of his words!
A masterpiece, like Tiny Dancer and Levon from the same album. Now Elton has a great new album The Union, with Leon Russell, rightly gets 5 stars in Rolling Stone
Love the song, love the sentiment and have for 40 years. But the part about Geronomo is inaccurate. He did not get shot down whlie trying to surrender. He had long surrendered and become an alcoholic. He was found dead in a ditch.
In February 1909, Geronimo was thrown from his horse while riding home, and had to lie in the cold all night before a friend found him extremely ill.[6] He died of pneumonia on February 17, 1909, as a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.[11] On his deathbed, he confessed to his nephew that he regretted his decision to surrender.[6] He was buried at Fort Sill in the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery.[7]
@JunkTeeks Actually, the song isn't inaccurate about Geronimo, it never claims he was shot when surrendering. Only "i heard from passing renegades"; so while it could be taken as an error by Bernie Taupin, it could also be an interesting point on rumour and myth making, distortion of reality in history, or the reliability of renegades!
I don't get this. Why did the americans have to try and kill the Indians? The Indians were facinating and amazing. They didn't deserve what they got. If the americans wanted to build a railway line from east to west, why not? But they shouldn't have disturbed the Indians on their way though. They had nothing against the americans, to my knowlage anyway. It wasn't as if they enjoyed the killing. They were people in their own right. But, you can't change history.
just waiting for that part that was in Ghetto Gospel.
iFenceU 3 days ago
like this if ghetto gospel brought you here
cohockeyjones98 1 week ago
This song reminds me of my childhood, listening to my uncle playing all of the great EJ tunes.
These early 70s tunes were classics, words and music match beautifully. Bernie Taupin deserves more credit for writing some of the best lyrics of all time. Thanks for posting.
Peace
flormtr1 3 weeks ago
♥ BEAUTIFUL
shir052 4 weeks ago
TO: my screechy...I feel the same way! My Great Grandmother was full-blooded Cherokee...but I have the white blood in my veins...it feels like a curse! I've been listening to this song since I was a young girl...I'm 52 now...I love this old song...thankyou for your honesty...PEACE V from your Sister!
Phllpsmary 1 month ago
I sometimes truly feel ashamed to be a white when I see what was and is done to the true NATIVE AMERICANS. It also hurts me to see what was done to the African Americans. I just wish none of it had ever happened but unfortunately it did and is still happening just not to the same degree. This song is beautiful and so is the video. Thank you!
myscreechy 1 month ago
SHUT UP AND ENJOY THE MUSIC AHOLES!!!!!
dreamcaster4eva2011 1 month ago
MY GHETTO GOSPEL!
TheSlim1999 1 month ago 10
im here becuz ghetto gospel brought me here...!
Kadafi2Outlaw 1 month ago 2
if Britain won the war of independence, then maybe the natives would still have had their land
joc69uk32 2 months ago
@Oldzz i know, eminem used aerosmith as well
joc69uk32 2 months ago
Feather Swag
NecroFilmz 2 months ago
im nitsiitapii translate to' real people.' politcally correct first nation or native american, welcome to our country
jemjoy2007 2 months ago 2
@jemjoy2007 Nitsiitapii is what language others might recognize? Blackfeet, I believe? We're Akimel Oodham (Authum) means 'River People' or known as Pima, closely related to Thono Oodham, means 'Desert People' or known as Papago in Arizona, USA. We can educate others about Native Americans this way, like why Blackfeet and not Blackfoot, or is it? The average mainstream American knows less about NAs than Europeans like British white boys Elton & Bernie when they wrote this song in the 1970s.
canucee 1 month ago
2pac! (L)
Minkvdg09 2 months ago
Thumbs up if you came to this song after listening to 2PAC's "Ghetto Gospel"!!
smartslikechicken 3 months ago 12
does that guy realise people are only liking his comment because his username is bigwilly8804
Susil89 3 months ago
Listening to this song brings gay emotions to me, gay as in happy, not as in homosexual like Elton.
ledvand 3 months ago
3:48 Ghetto Gospel sampling.
0:01-6:45 A great song.
tlm19670 3 months ago 8
thanks to 2pac i know this beautiful song :) ,now i listen 2 this song almost everyday
shadylady75ifty 3 months ago
everything around is not invented by europeans. europeans may have improved on said inventions. europeans did not invent the most important tools, ones used for farming, they copied other races tools and technology. but they did improve alot of these inventions and in the end they used these inventions only to manipulate and control the people and destroy our world.
byusfuku1 3 months ago
@byusfuku1 AC. There i said it.
requiemhelena 3 months ago
@Choraligame -Some people prove that trash comes in every colour!
filmgrabber 4 months ago 4
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filmgrabber 4 months ago
Before they saw fit to abuse the Black Man they took what they wanted from the Red Man...
filmgrabber 4 months ago
@filmgrabber and why is it so easy to abuse and dominate you people? Maybe because you have developed nothing beyong stoneage technology. Everything around you was invented by Europeans. without "abusive slavery" you would still eat fecal cakes in a mudhut
Choraligame 4 months ago
@Choraligame Who said it was easy to dominate black people? Sorry, but that's your opinion
ViamReviews 4 months ago
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3:44 .. Enough Said
jackass4bmw 4 months ago
3:44 .. Enough Said
jackass4bmw 4 months ago
this is elton at his best he was a mad man a cross the water
gerry13079 4 months ago
this is elton at his best he was a mad man a cross the water
gerry13079 4 months ago
" It ain't about black or white cause we're human"
ParisSud91 5 months ago 12
"Hit em with a little ghetto gospel."
polopolopolo95 5 months ago 139
@polopolopolo95 such a good song...this and Ghetto Gospel...
AvengedTallica44 5 months ago
these words are deep, only if you really listen will you understand
pitsteelers713 5 months ago
I heard this song growing up but it wasn't until I was older that I really understood the significance of this song. I listened to it again for the first time in a while and I got chills like I was hearing it for the first time.
abbrunette 6 months ago 2
3:44 - 3:54 and 5:53 - 6:05 for the parts Tupac sampled for Ghetto Gospel
ColorfulHyena 6 months ago 5
@ColorfulHyena for the parts eminem sampled for ghetto gospel....Eminem created ''ghetto gospel'' 9 years after 2pac had died...rip tupac shakur
PJMGvidz 5 months ago 2
taupin wrote the lyrics before tupac was born.
ekahiway 6 months ago
ghetto gospel? thumbs up if youre here for elton
THESEXYBEAST2312 6 months ago 4
What the fuck is "Ghetto Gospel?" i came here becuz i wanted out of the Ghetto....
XBrokenwingsX98 6 months ago
@XBrokenwingsX98 "what the fuck is ghetto gospel?" Really!? WOW
MrVGarcia94 6 months ago
3:29 for tupac fans
IsmoLmao 6 months ago 5
thumbs up if your here because you like elton john
119besties1 6 months ago
Thumbs Up If You Knew This Song Before Ghetto Gospel.
boyley97 6 months ago 3
I have been blessed with quite a few Native American Friends in my 32 years here on Earth. My hat is off to all of them. I dedicate this song to all of them from the bottom of my heart!!!!!! What a story Elton John tells in this couple of minutes he calls "Indian Sunset". It is nothing short of brilliance in my opinion!!!!!!1111
MrLDEVIOUS 6 months ago
I cry every time i hear this.
benloe1 6 months ago
One of my all-time FAVORITE tunes ever! Thanks for putting that together
scrimmerman 6 months ago
12 people should go to prison
aeverett3333 6 months ago 7
I'm here because Indian Sunset brought me here
bigwilly8804 7 months ago 63
@bigwilly8804 lol right on bruh. dont people just fucking piss you off sometimes
DaBossk 6 months ago
@bigwilly8804 lol I thought you were gonna say tupac
ViamReviews 4 months ago
uhhh im here cause i fucking like elton john
mr76dukestah 7 months ago
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the parts from Ghetto Gospel (in THIS order):
3:44
5:53
5:49
alonsegal1992 7 months ago
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alonsegal1992 7 months ago
Wow, lotta' dumbass comments on here. The song's not meant to be literal, yes it sucks (in short) for what happened to the indigenous people of North America (and to a lot of other native tribes worldwide, really), but it was so long ago, let's just focus on getting along in the here and now, okay?
superspongenova 7 months ago
@superspongenova 'The song's not meant to be literal' - WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN?
It pretty blatant it's Elton John's singing about the trial and tribulations faced by North America's First Nations.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 Uh, no fucking duh, man. I'm talking about a specific and literal event in history, not the overall history. Christ.
superspongenova 7 months ago
@superspongenova I like how Americans always say, 'but it was so long ago', does it make you feel better? And yet, when it benefits you, you deplore the past actions of Germans, British, Russians and Japanese at every turn.
Are you that stupid? Fact is the Native Americans are still fucked over. Their religion suppressed, their lands still stolen, the laws and Constition written often with the one goal of disenfranhising them and the majority live in poverty. You don't know these things? Sad.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 I have never once in my life "delore[d] the past actions" of any country. I am Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, AND Cheyenne. My great-great-grandfather was a translator in Oklahoma. You need to shut up and stop trying to bleed out something that DID happen a long time ago. If you want to go out and physically help the people still being subjected to these misfortunes, do it. Stop being a dick on Youtube and learn to focus on getting along on the here and now than guilting innocent people
superspongenova 7 months ago
@superspongenova 'guilting innocent people'... Get the fuck out of here.
Innocent people? Did you see who I was arguing with? A white guy, whose comments included,
'im sorry my race was more advanced and was able to overpower natives? gf tomahawks', and,
'i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with. but atleast my race won :)'
You're not a member of 4 First Nations (maybe Cherokee, but they let everyone in).
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 Oh very nice you're badmouthing the very people you're trying to save. Okay. I am genetically descended from members of those tribes. As I am from other ethnicities. And yes those people are ignorant, but so is your method of "enlightening" everyone else. Choose your battles, man, don't you get they're probably just TRYING to piss you off because you react so aggressively? You're not coming off as someone I'd choose to represent a cause.
superspongenova 7 months ago
@superspongenova So you basically admitted your not a Native American, but a 'descendant'.
I'm a descendant of Genghis Khan, does that make me Mongolian? As well as Italian because a Roman soldier was my great-great-great* grandfather. See? Drawing conclusions such as that make you look stupid.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 -- And so as such, since I am not entirely native American, my right to argue your methods isn't allowed. You are a complete and total idiot. Your heart's in the right place, but, sir, you are a complete and total idiot.
superspongenova 7 months ago
@superspongenova Why did you bring up your distant, distant ancestry? You meant it to be an argument in your favor. That makes you an idiot. Not me.
'Oh very nice you're badmouthing the very people you're trying to save' - because I disagree with some ignorant white boy? How pathetic are you?
You've thrown a lot of insults my way, but I've seen nothing substantial from you. You have no reason to reply, you're just raging, and you're argument is basically 'don't get pissed'?
Lukege15 7 months ago
@superspongenova If you do happen to be a member of those 4 nations - fucking decide who you want on your side. White supremacists Vs people that are actually educated in the issues of past and present Native Americans.
Shit's still happening to Native Americans, and the fact that you don't know it makes me even more suspicious of your apparent heritage. You're no doubt a white that doesn't know nearly as much as you think.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 I am. On both sides of my family. I'm choosing to focus on the here and now and not separating race. Shit's still happening to a /lot/ of people, and it's horrible, but sitting here telling people to choose sides makes you look more like a hick than these supposedly white oppressive folk you're rambling at. I don't need to go through my family's history with you, or prove my nationality. I am human, over all. Again, if you wanna help, go out and do something instead of raging online.
superspongenova 7 months ago
SQUIERLUKE81, We the whites of this country dont need to worry about anyonemaking us look bad. We have committed so many horrible acts against natives that we have shown what we are quite well
suzanrhodes 7 months ago
@suzanrhodes You tell him brother!
Lukege15 7 months ago
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Ghetto Gospel part: 3:43, 5:50
yuofin 7 months ago
R.I.P. 2Pac i hope someone can do an official remix of ghetto gospel and use more of this song :)
Sento35 8 months ago 7
my ghetto gosple !!
chrisvidz89 8 months ago 6
What I don't get with this thread is ...what's wrong with just appreciating a piece of musical poetry from some who was on tthe top of his game?
NickDusting 8 months ago
Ghetto Gospel FTW !!
Valoxification 8 months ago
@Valoxification This is an Elton John song about Native Americans...
Do yourself a favour and fuck off.
Lukege15 7 months ago
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@Valoxification This is an Elton John song about Native Americans...
Do yourself a favour and fuck off.
Lukege15 7 months ago
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@Valoxification This is an Elton John song about Native Americans...
Do yourself a favour and fuck off.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@squierluke81 your an idiot. hes using free speech to create song lyrics. this isnt a propaganda song.
MLGxDiGiTaLFear 8 months ago
bummer. until now, i thought that elton john wrote his part on ghetto gospel particullary for that song. but it was allready made alooot off years before :P
grindmaggots666 8 months ago
i don't care who you are.. this is an awesome song!! no need to compare it to anything, except itself. the invading "settlers" did a terrible injustice to native americans and it doesn't matter what color any of them were.
63miamonkey 8 months ago
3:43 + 5:53 ghetto gospel!
rucula2 9 months ago 6
It's a shame this song is associated with that Tupac crap.
Robotdrummerzzk 9 months ago
@Robotdrummerzzk it's a shame when people call music, they don't listen to, crap
vrblitz 8 months ago
@vrblitz I did listen to it. And as you gather, it was crap.
Robotdrummerzzk 8 months ago
@Robotdrummerzzk How disgustingly ignorant. Tupac is one of the greatest artists to ever walk this earth. It's sad that people are so ignorant enough to not realize that.
certise 8 months ago
@certise Because I have a different opinion? Fuck off.
Robotdrummerzzk 8 months ago
It is a shame this song got niggerized in ghetto gospel. Typical niggers, I knew that the piano part in that song had to have come from a white person
joel053 9 months ago
@joel053 ur a fucking douche bag. in case u havent noticed, the greatest modern artists of all time have been black Michael Jackson, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur. if u don't like any of those 5 black men just because u were raised by confederate bitches, u sir are an asshole
WumbMasta 9 months ago
@WumbMasta Tupac LMAO
Robotdrummerzzk 9 months ago
Why do African-Americans always have to be brought up?
This song is all about Native Americans, let's enjoy it for what it is.
All you Americans could learn a lot from this song. What a great many diverse and vibrant nations were on this land before being replaced by a generic culture, Walmart and parking lots
Lukege15 9 months ago
@Lukege15 "all you americans?" i'm korean....
WumbMasta 8 months ago
@WumbMasta Good for you... I guess?
Are you one of those people that live in America but hold on furiously to your immigrant status, and cry 'I'm not American!' at any given chance? WAS I EVEN TALKING TO YOU?
Still, you should respect the natives of the land you're on. Saying, 'Oh, but my parents weren't from here' doesn't give you reason to be ignorant. You're on their land, learn or fuck off to Korea if you don't like it (LOL at you not even knowing if it's called South Korea). Fucking idiot
Lukege15 8 months ago
@Lukege15 trolol u sound mad :D and if its there land.. my property deed is a lie D: oh wait. forgot about colonization oh well :)
Sperix1 7 months ago
@Sperix1 And you sound like a special needs case, verging on the medically retarded. We all have our weaknesses, I guess.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 umad?
Sperix1 7 months ago
@Sperix1 uspaz?
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 trolol im sorry my race was more advanced and was able to overpower natives? gf tomahawks- every race has commited acts of taking over land get the fuck over it. being on youtube bitching on a song people only come to because they like ghetto gospel is making u look even sadder :o and before u say it yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with. but atleast my race won :)
Sperix1 7 months ago
@Sperix1 HAHA! Oh my, you're a failure on so many levels. The idea that you think you're superior at anything...
Your race? I'm white too genius. Why is that rednecks assume if your supportive of another race, you're either that race or a race traitor. It was our disease that allowed you to be a fat, lazy bastard sponging of your mother on stolen land. I feel that if you were faced with an opportunity to be powerful or 'win', you're pea-brain would probably implode. You're an embarrasment.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
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@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat idiots an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
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@Sperix1 'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
'yes i know im a spaz nerd with no life. 35 in my moms basement. and and idiot who doesnt deserve a computer to begin with', the first step is acceptance.
Do I really need to waste my time on you? You know you're a fucking waste of space.
If the Native Americans ever wanted to claim their lands back, they wouldn't need weapons. They could just send all you fat fucks an algebra problem or a Charles Darwin book in the post, then just watch as your heads collaspe into themselves.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Lukege15 yes us fat fucks who made it to the moon first invented computers, won every major war weve been a part of and developed the first nuclear bomb, were dumbasses over here. anyway have fun in your shit country, hopefully your atleast in one of the nice ones who dont bitch endlessly .. oh fuck nvm
Sperix1 7 months ago
@Sperix1 You didn't invent computers...
You didn't win every war you were part of...
I'll give you the nuclear bomb. But what's the point? It was concieved from the research of a certain German scientist - Einstein. The creators became depressed, and some committed suicide knowing they brought something like that into the world AND it's never been used, well done!...
Fact is, I know more about the US than you ever will. You're scared of facts-ignorance is bliss, after all. It's also a cage.
Lukege15 7 months ago
@Sperix1 actually, it was britain who invented computers
joc69uk32 2 months ago
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@WumbMasta you said michael jackson twice...
Jso003 8 months ago
@WumbMasta hey jackass, you said MJ twice. Also i wouldnt say those were the "greatest", i would put some other people on that list.
MLGxDiGiTaLFear 8 months ago
@joel053 racist saying n word a lot do ya
SideWaysiscool 8 months ago
i dunno why but i think he sounds asian sometimes in this song, but live he sounds normal, but like in ghetto gospel i though first an asian sing it
Arnodude53 9 months ago
So often we here people actually doing covers . So often they don't stand up . I would love to heare Pearl Jam get Eddie Veder wrap his gnarly tonsils around this and I think it would be tops. . Itsstill a masterpiece. 1st heard it in 1975 .
eppeywonder 9 months ago
3 min 44 there starts the song till 4 min. and then at 5 50 till 6 06
IJustice7 9 months ago
this is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. Although it was originally aiming at the native american race, i feel as though it also is now speaking to the european americans. "and now you ask that i should watch the redmans race be slowly crushed" I feel like you can now switch redman to whiteman since all this multiculturism in mcdonalds, dj hero commercials and so fourth in the media is really trying to eliminate the white race... (and not to mention the black population aswel
SodaPopJohnson 9 months ago
@SodaPopJohnson what the hell are you talking about????? Multic-culturism has nothing to do with imperialism/genocide. You're weird.
hihihihihihihihihify 9 months ago
@SodaPopJohnson You're an idiot.
How can you fucking compare the two?
Most Native Americans have lost their language, way of life, architecture, homes, history -every element of their culture. White (most definetly) and black people have no comparison.
I agree with hihihihi, you're weird.
Lukege15 9 months ago
@SodaPopJohnson wow. that is one paragraph stuffed full of bullshit there
ruideng111 8 months ago
btw do u ppl reaslise 2pac didnt "make" ghetto gospel..the beat was layed over his lyrics AFTER he died..like many of his songs..
mrdk216 9 months ago
Fighting with my weiner is like fighting with my weiner
Even if my weiner is a weiner it is a weiner
Cruelhazard 9 months ago 6
@Cruelhazard Philosophical shit.
TheCaptainShepard 9 months ago
@Cruelhazard best comment on here
ruideng111 8 months ago
2PAC,you cared about good songs I see...awesome song by the way,thanks 2PAC!!
macio000 10 months ago
One of EJ's greatest !!!! His songs of his early years were much more serious/dark than those of later times. Awesome, though!
5171967cafk 10 months ago
elton john is the man. rest in peace tupac
amorycumbia 10 months ago
Tupac knew what was good.
poopoos 10 months ago 21
@poopoos Someone with a brain, 2pac use's Phil collins, Elton john, etc'
So i quite agree with you :)
mukkohaha 4 months ago
3:43, 5:53
chkmtman 10 months ago 3
3:43
Md2802 10 months ago 6
tupac brought me here
9swisstech 10 months ago 114
Thanks to Ghetto Gospel by Tupac. Because of that song I discovered this one!!
montel111 11 months ago 9
Damn, 11 deaf people. This song is good!
clanerin 11 months ago
Thumbs up if you are here because of Ghetto Gospel.
massmozz 11 months ago 512
@massmozz Of course
1337gam3r07 11 months ago
this is probably one of the greatest songs ever produced. Although it was originally aiming at the native american race, i feel as though it also is now speaking to the european americans. "and now you ask that i should watch the redmans race be slowly crushed" I feel like you can now switch redman to whiteman since all this multiculturism in mcdonalds, dj hero commercials and so fourth in the media is really trying to eliminate the white race... (and not to mention the black population aswel
SodaPopJohnson 11 months ago
@SodaPopJohnson -- It's a song about the plight of the Indians told from the viewpoint of a fictional man -- don't dig too deeply. It is what it is.
kayshkorn 11 months ago 2
@SodaPopJohnson Not really man, this is about wars between the whites and the Indians and how they were losing their land and slowly becoming endangered.
Whites aren't being killed off, and they still make up the majority of the population.
MilwaukeeFtw 11 months ago
@SodaPopJohnson
dj hero... lolwut
LilKepi 11 months ago
I remember hearing this for the first time in the 70's, me and my girlfriend sat speachless and silent for a long time, made a huge impact on me
bluestreakbuck 11 months ago 3
@Guerillaradio Who cares?!?!
Perry064 11 months ago
Eleven people are racist against Native Americans...
Perry064 1 year ago
@Perry064 hah ur funny
guitarshark22 11 months ago
@Perry064 god that joke sucked
Guerillaradio13 11 months ago
So 2pac's version is just a copy-paste?
Soilbreaker 1 year ago
@Soilbreaker kinda
Eminem mixed the two together after tupac died
tupac's original didnt have the elton john part
LilKepi 11 months ago 5
Elton really loves the American West. He really gets into what the Native Americans were as people.
Raelspark 1 year ago
Capolavoro assoluto dell'Elton "primordiale".La fame era tanta in quegli anni ma dalla sua aveva l'entusiasmo di chi fa della Musica la sua vita.Per me Elton in quei primi 33 giri ha dato quasi tutto del suo talento.Poi diventa una saponetta con i coccodrilli e il suo rock and roll anni 50 riciclato.Qui Elton è stratosferico.Insuperabile.
Perfidia4ever 1 year ago
@Perfidia4ever Se ti piace questa cansone guarda "Ghetto Gospel" di Tupac prodotta da eminem
ReallyUnRealScape 1 year ago
thank you. love the visuals
shemanic1 1 year ago
nice song but historically inaccurate.
Mafumadora 1 year ago
@Mafumadora oh u were there?
MikeHDcod 10 months ago
listening to this song and looking at the pictures is heartbreaking
nikisayschill 1 year ago
i see they put justin bieber ads on a gay singer vid... xD
GREEDoverPEOPLE 1 year ago
@Dejimon I believe you mean Tupac Shakur.
de7652 1 year ago
@de7652 tupac wrote it, eminem produced it
PetThePossum 1 year ago
@de7652 Uhm, no, pretty sure he means Eminem
SuperZubov 1 year ago
@de7652 ghetto gospel was produced by Eminem a few years after pac died...
come on.
DJDisgust 1 year ago
Fighting on the internet is like participating in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
mjgc8755 1 year ago 99
@mjgc8755 Cruel but funny!
aburling7 1 year ago
@mjgc8755 lol you are so right!
MrHahahaonetwothree 1 year ago
@mjgc8755 so true....in fact not a truer statement has ever been made
okrabay 1 year ago
@mjgc8755 who 62 humanless piece of skunk liked this comment?
Peron117 9 months ago
@Peron117 I wrote it to quell the fighting that was going on under this video. Lighten up.
mjgc8755 9 months ago
@mjgc8755 stolen, but still, 69th like MUTHA FUCKAS
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willsmackyoudown 1 year ago
I think this is the best '' Elton John '' - Song ever made ! The Moral is soooo good and fits sooo good with the music, which is BEAUTIFUL all the way from the first Note to the Last note D chord !
mortenkul 1 year ago
Magnifique chanson
ery252 1 year ago
The magic of Bernies writing is his abilty to capture americana from any point of view. Here we see such insight and retrospect into a culture he only experienced through cinema as a child. His ability to transpose to any situation is truly one of the great parts of his writing...Great job on the Vidi here nice representation of his words!
spotsart 1 year ago 3
A masterpiece, like Tiny Dancer and Levon from the same album. Now Elton has a great new album The Union, with Leon Russell, rightly gets 5 stars in Rolling Stone
mizofan 1 year ago
@mizofan wow..thanks for he heads up bro..been out of touch...and i am one of ejs biggest fans
bathetcnow 1 year ago
Absolute masterpiece, matched with a beautiful video.
Shenanigans07 1 year ago
This is truly masterful work, absolutely amazing.
ad371978 1 year ago
Love the song, love the sentiment and have for 40 years. But the part about Geronomo is inaccurate. He did not get shot down whlie trying to surrender. He had long surrendered and become an alcoholic. He was found dead in a ditch.
JunkTeeks 1 year ago
@JunkTeeks your account is as inaccurate too
In February 1909, Geronimo was thrown from his horse while riding home, and had to lie in the cold all night before a friend found him extremely ill.[6] He died of pneumonia on February 17, 1909, as a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.[11] On his deathbed, he confessed to his nephew that he regretted his decision to surrender.[6] He was buried at Fort Sill in the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery.[7]
spotsart 1 year ago
@JunkTeeks Actually, the song isn't inaccurate about Geronimo, it never claims he was shot when surrendering. Only "i heard from passing renegades"; so while it could be taken as an error by Bernie Taupin, it could also be an interesting point on rumour and myth making, distortion of reality in history, or the reliability of renegades!
mizofan 1 year ago
I don't get this. Why did the americans have to try and kill the Indians? The Indians were facinating and amazing. They didn't deserve what they got. If the americans wanted to build a railway line from east to west, why not? But they shouldn't have disturbed the Indians on their way though. They had nothing against the americans, to my knowlage anyway. It wasn't as if they enjoyed the killing. They were people in their own right. But, you can't change history.
prettyprincessanime 1 year ago