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  • absolutely love, infatuated, can't stop listening to it deep, wonderful, brilliant, lyrics i can relate to, enchanting voice...i could go on and on

  • real nice!!!!

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  • Any one knows part of what album this song is from

  • @jaca228 it's Doomtree...False Hopes

  • no one else like her...her music is beautiful and i just wanna listen to it all day long!

  • Personally if someone like Eminem heard her I think they would have a perfect part for her style, but I say go your own route and make MSP your own stopping grounds it's time for a new Prince(ess)! Shit, I bet he would especially if it was a Sheila E remix! Like S McLaughlin did back in the day use Dub-step or {new wave(whatever u want to call it)} like Neon Indian, Holy Ghost!,Cut Copy,Prefuse 73,Boards of Canada, or those sounds to get the name out. She is too good not to hear of that voice!

  • @XCFeaR, she is something that is very marketable, but she needs that hit that becomes viral and in my opinion it would be to take advantage of the great bands that come through the area that could use a great female lyricist. I would say Dubstep but you also could go the route of someone like Neon Indian, MGMT, Solid Gold(who I personally thought would have made it by now) but also even someone like School of Seven Bells who I know the last time was having problems with one sister.

  • Eat a dick, sorry but that is a classic comment. I remember I said it to my sister and was tackled from behind into a coffee table and split my head open for saying that, luckily u have the computer to protect u, no offense as I used the same comment. The only negative I would have is it seems like she has just had relationship issues. Which are great for creativity but to relate to the common person u need more heartache, nothing a great writer can't fix.

  • @BigTuna24241 lmao

  • this song gives me major wonderful chills....i hope its performed in october at lincoln hall...(hint hint wink wink)

  • first time i heard this a tear rolled down my face

  • If I have to burn the whole thing down...

  • -3 -3 -3

  • dessa if for whatever reason you read this give the doomtree group my regards! your guyses music gets me through every day of my life

  • check my music on my page, i need views like this :(

  • @XCFeaR but dessa is tight. ur not. i mean... you do get interest from a certain audience; which happens to be douche bags and wannabes but other than that ur not gonna get views by commenting on a much more superior, on all levels i might add; artist than you. sorry.

  • @saintsmurf the thing is..i mixed and mastered this song, AND PUT IT UP, so obviously im a fan...instead of being a dickface about (which you can suck my dick by the way) take your wack ass opinion, load it into a gun and put in your mouth and squeeze it you butthurt little faggot :), thank you for the plays.

  • @XCFeaR I feel sorry for dessa, that such a poor person put up her song

  • @RicHimself eat a dick friend

  • @RicHimself you obviously have no sense of music whatsoever if all you listen to is overpaid, assanine celebrities

  • She reminds me of a hotter Sarah McLaughlin, as far as voice is concerned(grew up to the rave scene in the late 90's in MIA and she totally capitalized on it for good or bad but to me her voice was amazing). If she used that to her advantage she could really break out. I can see the emotion and struggle in her and the creative side wanting to burst out but she just needs what all great artists need is motivation/inspiration/insanit­y. Just please do not sell out, you have such a beautiful voice.

  • @XCFeaR,Big Ups!As we say down South or mad props.Great job, if U know

    the artists I was talking about earlier like Neon Indian/Com Truise you'll know what I was saying how I think her voice would blend perfectly with that sound and right now that movement is missing a female vocalist,similar to McLaughlin and the late 90's.Dessa is so much more versatile than she was but it's something to use to get her name out. I'm guessing u know how strong the D-step scene is there and if u could blend it.

  • @BigTuna24241 dessa is really one of a kind i agree

  • Is this trip hop?

    This reminds me of this one song I heard a while ago... But, I kinda like this! = P

  • Anyone know wher to get the lyrics?? The usual suspects (lyrics.com etc) dont have them...

  • @likeiwould23 should be easy enough to write em down! thats always a good experience, and helps you memorize it, if you really don't want to, get back to me and i'll post em on my tumblr

  • this is really great, dessa has quite the voice. sounds beautiful

  • Doomtree in the room, please...assume peace

  • did she do anything else like this?

  • shit doubt you'll get this girl, but since you posted your own song i figure there may be a chance you will. You have amazing talent and a beautiful voice. as a fellow poet i got nothin but respect for you keep it up you'll make your dreams come true.

  • 7 people are mad because Dessa makes there favorite rappers sound like children

  • @PeteGK08 their*

  • damn, this is sick

  • WOW dessa is awesome and hot!

  • Does anyone know where I can find the lyrics to If and When?

  • Freaking love her voice. Amazing.

  • much love to you....i swear the realness is dissapearing... if only people had half this feeling... so raw and emotional...

  • I want that hoodie

  • This song always makes me shiver

  • Wowsers, really awesome song. Missed this one.

  • Hey Dessa - You have a BIG fan in Norway!!! :D :D :D

    N. N.

    Ps; - thank God for artists like you, - who have some emotion in their songs... and you are very talented to, - keep up the great work!!! :)

  • this room gets smaller with every coat of paint, nobody ever got better this way... my favourite song lyric of all time <3

  • coming to see you tonight in toronto woo ha

  • @JCG82 that was an amazing show

  • this is actually very good, i like it.

  • This is like the avatar the last air bender, like the puld fiction , like the FUKING god of war 3 of music in other words: THE BEST THERE IS

  • @suppawill avatar the last air bender??? I hope you mean the tv show not that piece of crap movie cause that movie is the best there is...of the worst movies of all time; actually it's at the top of the friggin' list of worst movies of all time.

    rant aside: the music is aight...It's nice.

  • Dessa please marry me. I'll make you happy.

  • I luv MN. Like Big Frost MN

  • Damn it, this song has been stuck in my head every second of every day for a week now. Its soft and quite melodic, I love it.

  • This is a amazeing story about a women waiting for her husband who has gone on a long journey im thinking war? but its all about how she leave the light on so he can find his way home and and threw out the song she slowly loses her confidence and does more radical to keep the "becon" burning for his to return but we find that he ahs died and this is her reconsiliation with that

  • It's so blunt, yet mysterious. It's like a melodic haze.

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  • Differant from what I listen to normaly.

    But I think I like it.

  • Awesome. Female voices in hip-hop are always welcome. Quality stuff.

  • Where i can find this song? Is it on some album?

  • @outlawnigga1990 As Dessa wrote above, this song is on the album "False Hopes," which can be found on Amazon and iTunes. You should check out the rest of this album too...it's very good.

  • @MShepherd88 Thanks. I thought it is on album of Dessa but it's on Doomtree's album

  • I love the way she puts her songs together. Excellent artist, she deserves to be mainstream.

    BTW to those ppl that keep making comments about how mainstream female hiphop artists are "whores". Ya'll need to shut up, do you know these artists in person? No I don't think so. Dessa isn't necessarily better than mainstream ( though I personally prefer her style over most mainstream) it's just underground music is different from mainstream styles.

  • @Arqera No I Don't Know any Of these people personally but who does? i guess you don't get out much, all the mainstream artists ARE whores from any point of view. If Dessa were to become mainstream she would never be able to make music like she is now. Record companies tell you what to sing about and restrictions like that make the artists complete sellouts. So Yeah That Would make Her BETTER Than Mainstream whores.

  • @Cassita17 How can you label someone a whore if you don't know them? To call someone that you'd have to know alot more about them then just watching some music vids or listening to their songs. BTW I DO get out alot, I probably listen to alot more music than you've ever heard. Hip-Hop is meerly one of the many genres I like.

    Also since the mainstream artists are such whores, would you care to elaborate what those points of view you mentioned are, I'd like to hear them so I may debase them.

  • i uv dis song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • pretty dumb? so now you're insulting me for a comment? i'm just thinking how the little girls would be if they had someone to look upon to like dessa, instead of those 'whores'.. im sorry your mind doesn't go further then insults and words like underground and whores, i think that's the same shit rihanna and gaga use haha

  • I hope this gets mainstream, oh the funzies i would have.. rihanna for the party girls, gaga for the fashion and 'art' and dessa,for the smart and underrated.. just to have a nice life ever after..

  • @aPoetAfterAll

    Your Pretty Dumb For Including Dessa In The Same Sentence As Those Whores What The Fuck Is Wrong With You It Wouln't Be UNDERGROUND Anymore.

  • Paid Dues 2010 Was The First Time I Heard Dessa Live. It Was Fucking Amazing!!! She Has Talent Beyond Any Mainstrem 'Female 'Hip Hop" Artist. I'd Definitely Recommend Buying Badly Broken Code(GENIUS)

  • @Cassita17 im soooo jealous you went to paid dues. i didnt get to go this year or last year D:

  • @NdeeUhh

    Don't Want To rub It In But It Was The Best Shit i've Done in my life tickets were sixty and vip was 120 i think. You Missed a good show But there is always next year=)

  • just brilliant

  • the midwest is where all the rappin is nowadays. ist all the hoods of minneapolis. ahhhh, how i wish i still lived there........fuck NJ(where i live now), long live minnesota

  • @chuckkicksass yeah mn is where its at. not only is it a sweet state in general but the rappers are sick. last weekend doomtree had a free show in northfield(hometown chya), and it was AMAZING!!!

  • I won't lie, I usually don't care for this type of stuff, but doomtree and company totally changed that.

  • beautiful song

  • Hint: If you cannot find this song under the title "If & When," try just "If." That's what it says on my copy.

  • copy of what? which album is this on?

  • Doomtree - False Hopes

  • Dessa and POS chicago mrch 18th, gunna b amazing, i cant wait, beatiful voice to match a gorgeous woman

  • beat is tight.

  • i want that hoodie!

  • OMG! Hey Dessa. Philly March 7th, can't wait!

  • is this track wrongly named? i cannot track this track down on any record? what the hell???

  • Her voice is too sexy, I would calmly sit through her nagging and screaming with a smile.

  • Wow, I seriously couldn't have put that any better....

    I wish more women had voices like this

  • i just seen her last week live in missoula montana she killed it

  • does any one have the lyrics to this sound i cant find them anywhere?????

  • listen to the song over and over. win win situation

  • Ahh I love this woman D:

  • pretty much cant stop listening to this song

  • This track is on False Hopes - Doomtree

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  • does anyone else get shivers when they listen to this?

  • yea man... she's tweakin' a cord. i feel like she's still holding it all back, Its like listening to the first raindrops of a flash flood.

  • @akinsb11 totally.

  • @akinsb11 Consistently.

  • im in love

  • So where can I get this from? I looked her up and it doesn't seem to be available on either of her albums.

  • on the doomtree album false hopes

  • whats the track title? i have the disc but "if and when" isnt on the tracklist, and i cant be bothered digging it out

  • yep, no such track exists, plz give link to album track list, or give some tip, it is impossible to figure out for me on what album is this track...

  • Hello erybody. Thanks for the kind words. The song is called 'If & When' and it's on a album called False Hopes by Doomtree-available on iTunes if you're inclined.

  • thx for the info,..

    btw you could be a savior of femc ^^, looking forward to hear more,.. big love!

  • @dessadarling I think it's awesome that you take the time to respond to comments on here.

    Your music is amazingly inspiring and I hope you continue doing it forever!

  • @dessadarling .Hands Down...you are the most Remarkable,Sophisticated,Class­y,and beautiful musician ive ever heard in my LIFE.your music means so much to me ..i listen to you and Doomtree daily with a select few other artists...You are the dopest female MC to do this shit now .along with some of the best vocals ive ever heard.So Thank You Dessa.Thank you for showing people just cuz ur a female mc you dont have to be a slut ..you can be smart and beautiful. signed,John.ILY DESSA ! lol.

  • @dessadarling :) thank you for being you!!!!!!

  • @dessadarling you're amazing...stay you

  • Yo, her voice is incredible, she reminds me of when I heard esthero for the first time. Seriously Dope!!!

  • she sounds like slug from atmosphere when she raps.

    Dope.

  • Y'think? Elaborate on that...

  • And I (i`m still) I'd stop (waiting??)

    but the pilot light's the only guide to call you home,

    And I (i`m still) I'd stop (waiting??)

    but the pilot light's the only beacon in the snow. Is there "waiting" in chorus after "i`d stop", right?

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  • she would do great for trip hop hooks, not that i dont like her raping, just noticing

  • @shimeluchin I'd love to see her raping :D

  • raping who?

    coz watching her rape a man would be quite desturbing

    on a lighter note watching her rapping would be funny to?

    for all you cunt that dont know this is a joke.

    its a joke, like your mum saying womens rights

  • @shimeluchin

    I agree she'd be even more amazing with someone like Tricky or Massive Attack!

  • shes amazing enough on her own

  • cool shit.i'll keep an eye out

  • this is with hieruspecs right?

  • Dessa's fuckin' raw...she can rap and sing really well. Without a doubt the best female MC in the game right now, for whatever that's worth. There are so few of those...

    Does she have a solo album somewhere that I'm unaware of?

  • It comes out on the 19th. There's a link to her first video from it on her myspace.

  • @cavelatin

    release party at fineline next friday, 13 bucks.

  • @cavelatin this friday. oops.

  • @cavelatin Hey cavelatin, I see you wrote your comment 5 months ago about whether Dessa has a solo album, so you might already know what I'm about to say. She just released her first solo album "A Badly Broken Code," and it's available on the Doomtree website, Amazon.com, iTunes, etc. I really like it (as have many others), but some have been disappointed that there isn't more rapping on it (she sing-raps a lot of the tracks). She also has a great "False Hopes" EP with 5 songs on it.

  • Wonderful voice, can't wait to see her live!

  • shes a beast.. and she needs way more credit

  • EVERYBODY just settle down and enjoy the song.

  • Replace 'the song' with 'smokinrodney's mom' and you have a deal.

  • that's pretty funny. i would probably think of stupid shit like that to say but i'm not a faggot that says retarded shit to people on youtube for no fucking reason.

    but what do i know i guess i'm not the one everyone is hating on here because i have no fucking life. hit me back when your balls drop.

  • Does not compute!

  • @superbadlucre I remember when "your mom" jokes were funny that week in elementary school. You need to get a life fuck face, outside of talking shit on the Internet.

  • Why?

  • @superbadlucre Because I'll fuck your mom if you don't.

  • oicwhiutudidthar

  • @markb9051 hahaha i agree with what you said about superbadlucre (retarded fucking name). i bet his dad is like GOD DAMMIT... i should have just kept trying to get her to do anal...

  • where can i find the lyrics to this song?

  • this woman has so many reasons to believe in herself. great songwriter, artist, and person it seems. Just amazing. damn.

  • When you say she is a 'great person', you're just saying she's really hot, right?

  • Don't be absurd. She has substance in her art and definitely in her personality. Life can throw some weird shit your way and I feel like she portrays that well.

  • Well, that may very well make her a good artist, but I don't believe that you know what kind of person she is. Ergo, you'e just saying it cuz shes hot. No big deal.

  • Go fuck yourself. Who are you to tell me what is or is not inspiring? She paints a picture in your head if you let her. It's just music and well made music for that matter. Just because you are obsessed with vanity does not mean every one else is.

  • lol oh I see - why didn't you just say you're gay from the get-go? Gay dudes get a pass on respecting women. it's kinda their thing, yeah?

  • If I asked you if you were happy, would you say yes or no? And more so, would you answer truthfully to yourself? Please try to understand your negativity is not going to get you anywhere in life. Your ego is a reflection of what a bullshit culture has turned you into, perpetuated by a bullshit lifestyle that revolves around conflict like the one going on between you and I right now. Until you can think of a way to undermine this theory, I bid you adue. The time is NOW. Think bigger.

  • haha dude I get it, you like the cock, get on with your bad self. I'm not one to cast aspersions on your choice of sexual partners. btw how does a fine upstanding homosexual such as yourself avoid learning the word 'adieu' at some point in your festive travelings? and here i thought french and fag were the same language. sacre bleu!

  • really?

  • yes?

  • @superbadlucre How ironic that an artist who is vehemently averse to using the word "faggot" in any of her work now has a song playing host to an argument so one-sided that the losing party has to result to baseless attacks on one's sexuality. A shame.

  • Well, terrible sentence structure aside, allow me to rebut:

    a) The song isn't 'playing host' to anything, argument is immaterial. Also, I am a modernist, the artist's own predilections do not color my consumption of said artist's products

    b) Baseless? Hardly. Look at what a big gay fruity fucker he is - LOOK! Sheesh, it couldn't be any more apparent if he was painted dayglo pink and running down the street with a chicken up his ass.

    c) You are fat, so shaddap.

  • ok, homophobe. SHUT UP.

  • You are a cunt, in mind and spirit. :D

  • I wish the quality of this was better tbh, and @everyone with their MY OPINION OF GOOD MUSIC IS VASTLY SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF THE WORLDS You should all choke on a dick of landfills. This song is decent though... Quality just seems way off ;\

  • yeah quality sucks, fades in and out, but maybe its just the youtubez fault, i should really buy this album and support some decent shit for a change - though i did just buy 'never better'

  • This song haunts my days and im dedicating a wall of my apt to it, not just here for probably always. possibly tattoo, keep one light on ill always find my way...chills

  • how you going to get a tattoo of a rap lyric for christ's sake - write something of your own, you twat

  • I do write my own shit you ignorant fuck, I'm just not conceited enough to tattoo something of my own on me. And have you nothing better to do than go through comments a month old and call ppl you dont know names?I digress to argue with a fool proves there are 2

  • @abombesq holy fucking goatballs lmao 'I digress to argue with...' haha you *digress* to argue, do you? Really, you pig-simple halfwit? You've never read a book, have you?

  • and then she talks about a drifter being found dead in a barn, wearing the same clothes as this "person" whoever it may be, that she's been waiting for. obviously it was him who was dead, but she will only accept that its a stranger in his clothes. that's my interpretation at least :) either way she's amazing in every way. so is this song.

  • i think it's about not being able to let go of somebody, not being able to accept the fact that they're gone...."a girl whos decent would long be in her blacks by now, im no young widow like they're calling me in town"

  • I think your pretty much spot on...

  • fucking. amazing.

  • i think i've finally figured out the meaning to this song...i think..if no tis beyond me. but i think its about her breaking up with an ex husband? ex someone...

  • I think this only has 13,000 views, because very few people know what good music is these days.... This song's amazing 5/5

  • its hard to define ''good'' music actually, everyone has unique tastes.

  • if i could turn my radio on and hear music half this amazing the world would be 10x better

  • Amen

  • And this isn't about being from MN or NY or LA.

    This is dope music and that's all that needs to be said.

    Just like the fact you can't tag a meaningless genre on something dope.

    Music is just that and needs no labels.

  • extremely dope

    production reminds me of portishead or tricky

    and shes definitely got some cryptic shit goin on

    i wonder why this only has 12,000 views?

    oh wait, could it be the fact that this actually good?

  • This woman is amazing, period.

  • this sounds like it should be in a movie

  • damn this is sick... does anyone know what album this is from/where i can get this?

  • I do believe it's on the Doomtree album...Along with "Veteran" another dope Dessa solo track....

  • Yeah, it was the crew album before their "official" crew release. I think, technically, it was False Hopes 11

  • Yeah, False Hopes by Doomtree. The entire album is flippin brilliant.

  • Hell yeah, I just found the album today and have listened through it at least 3 times man... I was skipping through some records, saw the cover and I thought it looked, well... unique, so it caught my attention. And it's fucking fantastic.. worth every second.

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  • the lyrics are missingb i tore the pages from your book and then i took myself upstairs and your stright razor to my braids.

    after keep onbe light one ill always find my way. and in the background of im still the second time each chorus she says i stoped. dessa is mad sick

  • dessa 4 life

  • When I exhausted all the tinder the house was dark for days. Since I thought to remove the oven door I've been kneeling here guard this flame. The neighbors have stopped calling now their children come throw stones and the papers from the bankers say they doubt you're coming home. They found a man you know, a drifter in the barn last year. While I was sleeping, must have made it to the house, they found him frozen in your clothing dear.