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  • How to Hustle and Win by Supreme Understanding brought me here.

  • ❤❤❤❤

  • my right ear started to bleed from the truth.lucky my left ear dint listen to this

  • Everyone who likes this, check out "touchtone terrorist tommy" on youtube. I was in the vid as a captive being waterboarded. Cold day w/snow in Atlanta that day!

  • well played mr buttons, well played

  • I recently got to share the stage with this talent a few weeks back in Georgia and he's the truth!!! Amazing poet among us

  • He seems a TAD bit unsober.

  • gotta love Tommy Bottoms. I saw this video at least four years ago, but each time I see it, the words ring just as true as the first time.

  • It aint bout wa u got Its bout wat u can KEeep

  • your awesome and very smart from wat i can tell

  • thats tha shit right there

  • He's telling the truth there is TOO MANY legit ways to get payed out here you just have to have the drive to seek the knowledge that will allow you access to the cash.

  • Snaps snaps

  • That's true. Unfortunately what he said about the felony on one's record impeding their ability to get a job, in many cases “forcing” people back to the streets or their old ways is in part a factor for the high recidivism rates observed.

  • He's smart

  • There arent too many poems that, when I hear them i immediately click repeat. This is one of those poems, its too much knowledge to digest in one hearing you need to hear it about 4 or 5 times

  • Im so glad to hear this poem again, I heard it back in 2003 and been looking for it since! This is the realest....THE REALEST.... information i ever heard in my whole life, it was life changing for me!!!! Everything he said....thats me! Thats my plan,he had great ideas!!!!! use them skills for good, God blesses honest money more! When i get people to understand that....the world is gonna be a more productive place.

  • WHO ARE THE 26 IDOTS THAT DISLIKE THIS............

  • @babyblueslove You said it yourself, idiots. lol

  • @babyblueslove they're broke.

  • Just meet this dude, he super cold on the mic wish he the best! good dude.

  • Right on brotha

  • This is far, far better than most of the stuff on Def Poetry Jam.

  • Ejaculation only comes easy!! Lmfaoooo he's good!

  • Real Shit!

  • I can't say how many times I have listened to this poem and been just like "Wow". Heavy

  • That's what's up!

  • Consistently beasting like always. I just saw him perform last night in DC. He is definitely the truth.

  • wow this is going to be added to my favorites

  • i cant understand a word hes saying, but the bits i do, i understand-i think

  • Check out My Channel, and Let me kno what you think, Any Feedback is Appreciated, and SUBSCRIBE, SUBSCRIBE

  • i want to learn every words of that poem!!!! every brotha on the street should learn that poem

  • Nicely done bro.

  • one of the most amazing poems I have ever heard in my life, but why the hell does that text keep coming up over my brother, that's infuriating

  • OMG, westbakutsa took the words outta my mouth. Amen.

  • You know this is one of them poems that you just run up on and it make you just smile....thank God, somewhere there are some more brothas thats seriously thinking

  • "chuuurch"

  • This is my fav...I think I've watched it at least a hun times!!!

  • This right here is mad stupid he get all my props this was great I write also mine stupid deep jus like his i put yall on game one of these days

  • The Truth!!!

  • nice...nice...

  • Economics is economics. He gets it. Most sheeple dont. He is very creative.

  • "Just find a market, you wanna target. Produce a service and / or a product.

    And you revenues, minus your expenses, gonna equal your profit". Nice!

  • Some real s***

  • F'in awesome... dudes got spirit

  • Straight Raw!!

  • some of you still dont get it. Your world is changin and you dont even know it. Its Basic economics.

    WAKE UP AMERICA

  • Come on...he was hot! (two snaps for you!)

  • from the bottoms up !

  • lovin this dude

  • woow thats sum deep shit probably why hes called bottoms

  • real recognize real. I respect the talent. watch the one on my page and let me know what u think

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  • This is aite

  • When i watch these Def Jam Poetry clips, i love to look at the reaction of the people in the audience. It's half of the show for me (oke maybe not half :D)...

  • yea i kno wat u mean.....sum of the looks an sounds they make b real funny an helps u kno if the poem is enjoyable an stuff

  • tommy bottoms is the truth... I saw him more than a few times here in the A... it never gets old hearing him spit.

  • OMG....dis dude is the truth for real...and he is so smart...lyk for real....not only does he write a poem about how to make money the good way....and he speaks of how to make it the wrong way, then decifers the similarities...."You got the right mind, just on the wrong grind..."

  • this poem speaks the truth. so what if you don't a felony on your record? make you less credible? so, if you have a felony, then you're cool and worth listenin' to? that don't make any kind of sense.

    DOPE ass poem.

  • my previous comment was made in response to the ignorance and naivety of GenesisRockwell made 3 weeks prior to mine.

  • I love this poem!!

  • He said  "it ain't about what you got its about what you can keep" wow this guy is one powerful poet , orator , emccee whatever

  • this is the shit

  • werk nigga!

  • praying that they don't get shot and are blessed to live another day. so TELL ME that you wouldn't temporarily lose your mind and commit a felony by accident out of blind rage and/or hopelessness, or even do things that would make you question yourself, but still do them as a means for survival.

    solution: stop being an idiot, trying to play some fake ass, ignorant educator role and try putting yourself in another shoes imagining their hectic, struggling situation?

  • and are forced to drop out of school do to lack of teachers who care, low teacher/student morale for success and insufficient funding/lack of adequate supplies necessary for obtaining the proper education one needs to survive in the real world. ON TOP OF THAT, insufficient health care funding and having people trying to dodge bullets,

  • this was amazing.

  • Uhh wow ..!!

  • This was so nice, i had to hit that replay button, twice!

  • SICK

  • this nigga is sickk...do ur thingg papii

  • thats sum hot shitttt!!!

  • problem is, why did you get the felony? thats not a perpetuated cycle of oppression, thats judgement pure and simple.

    solution: don't commit a felony?

  • lmao you have NO idea what its like being trapped in the ghetto, do you?

    sometimes, stress really bottles up inside of someone impairing a mans judgment which can turn into an accident, which one will later regret in the future. (this stress associated with how to make enough money to survive in a broken down, project building and distributing just enough to supply and provide food for your family while people are forced to work minimum wage jobs

  • haha. owned.

  • hahaha jeah

  • you are an ignorant, self-pityin' ass fool. i know plenty of people who made it out the ghetto. ya, they WERE trapped, but the difference between them and people like you? they don't make excuses, they don't pity themselves for their situation, they make their own situation work for them. it's only a trap if you let yourself stay trapped, otherwise, it's only a stepping stone.

  • werd

  • Get Emmmm

  • WOW

  • See the only way to survive in this society is to have a hustler mentality. See as long as youre working for your money, your money is not working for you; youll for ever be a slave. Bill Gates did not stack all that cake to sit around waiting for a promotion or raise. Now he got the whole game on lock and he aint worried about prison time.

  • So if you can flip a 16th to an ounce and an ounce to a key then seems to be no reason to me you cant exert that same amount of energy and learn to hustle the Dow Jones industrial.

  • See you need to be fucking with that Nasdaq and leave that crack alone. Or you can just invest in a duplex home and rent to two different tenants and use the rent money and payoff the loan half the time. Or you can continue to grind and hustle them drugs in the streets. But peep, aint about what you got its about what you can keep.

  • You see when that task force sweep, best believe they taken the cars, the rims, piece, the cash, the crib and the platinum Jesus piece. End up getting sentence to a ten piece and get released and try to look for peace but you cant get you a piece cause that felony on your record got you marked as a beast. You gotta go back to the streets so you can cop you a piece so you can take you a peace thats why the street dont see peace

  • Thats just one of many vicious cycles that compromise the struggle. Understand we cant all do it like Dr Heathcliff Huxtable. So dont stop hustling, just change your hustle. See America is design for you to get rich. (6) There is a million and one ways for you to get paid off in this bitch. And most of them is legit. Just find a market you want to target, produce a service and or product and your revenue minus your expenses gonna equal your profit. See its just basic economics.

  • (7) As long as you have the haves, youll always have the have nots. So its up to you to decide weather or not you happy with what you got. And if not, you got to get ***** its gonna raise the stock and be willing to hustle and grind from sun rise to sun drop. Cause believe me, ejaculation is the only thing that comes easy.

  • (8) Too many cats who play the lottery think the stock market is too risky. Now I know I spit this poem with a whole lot of ebonics, but it dont matter who say it or how its been said, its still just basic economics.

  • (1)Now lyrically my game is nice. I can steal a rhyme without your mind and sell it back to for half price. I might even do it twice. Cause see I spit precise powerfully poem paragraphs that will penetrate the pituitary gland to make your mind expand. Make you understands its a very short hop between slangn rock and trading stock. See its basic economics. Buy low sell high. Your price is determined when demand meets supply.

  • (2)See most of us dont want to admit it or even hear it. But see being a drug dealer is the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit. See capitalism breeds capitalists. So if its a demand for a product best believe somebody gonna supply it. See they got the right mind but the wrong grind. Cause see really, even (Eli Liddy?) sell drugs of all kinds but dont have to worry about packing nines, whos tapping their phone lines cause they got politics and public opinion on their side.

  • taht was AMAZING, he spoke not to black people, put the prolitariete as a whole, and the last line Killed!

  • NOT 2b FUCKED WITH!!!

  • and im STILL broke.

  • Damn that was amazing! Nice work son.

  • damn he is a damn beast and he is 2 damn real!

  • spread the word...time to go work

  • awesome

  • this was REAL!

  • `belive me, ejaculation is the only thing that comes easy`

    truesay.

  • This shit was deep!

  • wow this was amazing :)

  • love his work

    i listened to this three times to really understand his meaning

  • think he sounds like black ice a lil!!!

  • just think about it this shit is fo real

  • i like datttt

    if u work 4 ur money n ur money doesnt work 4 5...ur a slave>>>>

  • this guys is mental...damn!!!!

  • that was tight i like that so true

  • TOMMY BOTTOMS!!!!!!!!!!! that name speaks for itself, pure talent!!!

  • favorite lines...

    "But peep, it aint about what you got

    its what you can keep"

    &

    "America is designed to get rich

    Theres a million one ways to get

    paid up in this bitch, & most

    of them is legit"

  • yaaaa....

    i lik3 dis!!!

    poetry dats wuts up!!!

  • ive seen this vid b4 n its sick but its not workin now. wud be ace if you got it workin bud....peace

  • vid doesnt work

  • I'm luvin it.

  • How many people can reach the american dream without being sleep? Wake up people.

  • Fantastic!!!!

  • NICE.

  • DOPE!! DOPE!!

  • DOPE!

  • as long as there are haves there will always be have-nots so it's up to you to decide if you happy with what you got.

  • It's basic economics...just use 'ur head

    Evocative and Powerful..Great Job!

  • That was nice. With the way the rap game is today, I have to turn to poetry just to hear rymes that make since.

  • sense

  • awesome ending.. it's just basic economics

  • love it

  • dam we need guys that attend def jam to attend school to teach this to the youth who cant go anc see def jam to amke em realise..

  • that is good i love def poetry it great

  • I love it.

  • haha, word up.

  • "IT AINT BOUT WHAT YOU GOT IT IS WHAT YOU CAN KEEP"! Yes. Thank you for this, so true! Basic Economics

  • DOOOOOPPPPE.

  • So awesome, sorta reminds me of the book "Freakonomics".

  • true

  • everything that this guy says is so true everything in the world is basic economics thats the only way to make bank

  • that was awesome, you may not agree what he says, but he has some real lyrical talent

  • how could u not agree (not sayin u).. everything he sayin is positive and its all true.. and he got the lyrical talent 2 go wit it..

  • Yo, its mad funny that people take so literal to what he says and makes a huge commotion about it. All he is saying is there are better ways then the dope game to get paid. Period. All that full of flaws BS and integrating this and that u can put to bed...Hot Poem...definitely

  • you high aint u?

  • do you know what good poetry is...? obviously not

  • hes lyrical flow is cool, but i defenitely dont agree with what he says. what if u want to change the system, why is he implying that we have to integrate into the current economic system - which is full of flaws?

  • he aint sayin that...hes just sayin play by the rules cause theres too many niggas out there slangin dope...its evident thats his message because he says theres a million and one ways to get paid in this bitch...juss make sure its legal though...

  • i agree wit u dawg all he's sayin is u can still hustle an grind an work hard at sumthin other that slangin rocks theres lots of ways 2 get money but thers plenty legal ways is wat he's sayin an that its obvious but people dont see it

  • i agree wit u dawg all he's sayin is u can still hustle an grind an work hard at sumthin other that slangin rocks theres lots of ways 2 get money but thers plenty legal ways is wat he's sayin an that its obvious but people dont see it

  • Thats Watsup! He was speakin the truth!

  • genius.

  • Cool. 'Don't stop hustling, just change your hustle'....

  • deep

  • damn that was hot

    this stuff is gonna stay with me

  • damn this man speaks the truth

    "you ain't gotta stop hustlin, just change your hustle" is gonna stay with me for life

  • dam i feel you brotha! he speaks life

  • ME 2

  • damnnnnnnnnnn crazy shit

  • u aint gotta stop hustlin...just change ya hustle. I feel that

  • He is so right. People expect you to succeed and make better choices but how in the hell can you do that when jobs you could be perfectly qaulified won't hire you because you were a former inmate.

  • He talks fast to better illustrate the poem. It worked out quite nicely that way. You gotta have the "hustle mentality".

  • It's all about presentation. You have to use a language to get to the masses. He spoke in rap tone and speed so that the targeted audience could understand. That is why the people in the audience apluaded during his poem. He threw in a coupe of curse words to hold their attention and it worked just fine. Sometimes you have to say bad words to get the message across. Next time your arguing think about how many times you curse. It gets your point across.

  • I completely agree, I think it was a Lauren Hill line that went something like this:

    So even after all my logic and my theory

    I add a mother fucker so you ignant niggas hear me.

    GOOD SHIT