Saul Williams - Skin of a Drum

[gleader]

saul and trent could flip hip hop on it's ass if they wanted to. it could change everything.

[Juggalo4eva313]

This is my favorite song on the album!

[blahblahblahman]

This song is fucking AMAZING.

[RAFAELDUNCANFILMS]

I agree dude. Lovin TRENT, SAUL WILLIAMS,EL-P, B.DOLAN, and ALLFLAWS

kind of all on a mad type of level

[ChaveeBleu]

amazing!

[labrat420]

i love how theres a thumbs down for the right answer and nobody thumbs down the wrong answer..its not list of demands its black history month. get your saul bars up!

[CaptainSolid]

you get a thumbs up AND a comment. cause people should know this. cause they should BUY the freaking album instead of always listening to it on youtube :)

[shonuxs]

What is the song at the begining?

[dougstewartorg]

I don't remember exactly, but I believe it was from the first track of the same album.

[labrat420]

@dougstewartorg black history month

[sergeantsmeg]

Black History Month

[prometheusjohnson]

list of demands

[thesunna]

list of demands =)

[SpookyDS]

@shonuxs it's black history month

[ArchSynDrum]

@shonuxs "Black History Month" from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

[DreadAle]

@shonuxs Black History Month

[zipppit89]

@shonuxs "black history month" if you haven'

t found out since posted this comment last.

[skoneintex]

@shonuxs

The first 5 sec if from list of demands

[skoneintex]

@shonuxs The first 5 sec are from list of demands

[hckr4evr]

@shonuxs "List of Demands"

[acsmilf]

@shonuxs it's called black history month 

[TallNegro]

@shonuxs: the song in the beginning was called 'Black History Month'. it was the first track of the album 'The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust'.

[merauxshere]

@shonuxs Convict Colony

[newunited0606]

@shonuxs Black History Month from The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

[COOPstercopter]

@shonuxs Black History Month.

[simonk512]

@shonuxs its list of demands

[Opheliac666]

Beautiful song.

[wonnatryit]

Trent Reznor, Saul Willims, EL P and new comers AllFlaws and B Dolan.

all so fresh and talented

[sickmessiah]

@wonnatryit tRENT REZNOR HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 20 + YEARS .. tRENT IS nin

[Canteatpancakes]

I love this song :)

[musudi]

umbrella seance is the greatest rapper alive

and poet

[ceedog76]

its just so... good!!

[reefrugger]

and the Fragile was an amazing album.....i like that saul williams is trying to bring his music to a new level and bring in new influences

[afrikahnoir]

great job!

[Anjiruu]

skin of a drum = the fragile gets hijacked by hip hop

[dougstewartorg]

Truly, in some cases. In an interview with Trent, he said that unused pieces from the Fragile sessions or pieces that never fit with NIN albums were used on Tardust. Saul is a great MC and poet, but I think a lot of the music on his albums has been collaborative.

[thePolerin]

hijacked? Bull. This was a collaboration, purposeful and focused. Hijack gives the feeling that something unnatural and criminal has occurred. Because hip-hop HAS to be about crime right?

Beyond that I don't know that this can be qualified as hip-hop. While the vocals are indeed rhythmic, they are not characteristic of rap in pattern or intent, and Reznors beats aren't really hip-hop in nature.

So if the vocals and the music aren't hip-hop... why do you call it that. Gee. I wonder.

[dougstewartorg]

I took his use of hijack to be a positive thing.

It's not about you or what you define things as. And where you took offense to the single use of 'hijack', another could easily take offense of your willingness to assume what someone else believes when they use the word.

Another possibly positive comment ruined by people trying to define the world and words of others under their own terms. Keep up the great work!

[CaptainSolid]

except that hip hop isnt a defined genre.

hip hop is able to fuse nearly all other music genre's into it, you can use an electro beat, rock melody, whatever. and still turn it into hip hop.

and saul's vocals are definitely hip hop in this song,

it may not be the "gangsta rap" you associate with hip hop.

and furthermore, why did you have to pull out the crime card?

noone mentioned hip hop being about crime at all.

stop creating arguments where they dont need to be and just appreciate the music.

[Anjiruu]

@thePolerin i see what you mean, and, if my vocabulary interpretation, and if the comparison irked your sensibilities, i apologize.

truly, today i realized i used to be very ignorant, and that i've only become a more self-aware variantt of the such.

[n0thank7]

@thePolerin The vocals are nearly hip hop(speaking poetry and then singing a hook )and the music isn't totally unhip hop. The verse part is very influenced by music that is very NIN/Bjork, and both of them are totally influenced by hip hop. Its very dancable. You're overly sensitive.

[inimical01]

@Anjiruu exactly!

[merauxshere]

@Anjiruu You clearly have never heard hip hop if you think Saul Williams is hip hop.

[iCruzader]

i love when that dark guitar tone comes in, truly amazing, and trent's tone does sound similar to his fragile albums

[crazyamerican187]

Favorite song off the album.

[vigilantmutant]

wundervoller Song

[afthefragile]

I saw him at his gig last year. Was right at the front the whole time and also got to shake his hand (twice! :p). Was the best gig i have been to!!

This guy is amazing!!

[slatonsun]

when u meet this man its like heaven on earth,

he is a genius and deserves to be praised as such

[fortunatebystander]

He performed as part of the oddity faire in March, and his performance blew my mind.

[Roooobb]

Saul is a genious. Pure and simple.

[molitor88]

for sure my favorite song off this album, probably my favroite song so far from Saul, great stuff

[theratking]

the instruments sound like an out-take from nin's The Fragile (this is a compliment), the percussion and those freaky sounding strings. i also like the ending with those female sounding vocals. probably my favorite track off this album.

[cronodob]

its even better than i had hoped this is some kind of incredible...

trent obviously knew somthing..

photography vs. timing and

insight takes flight....

you saul, have been one of my biggest inspiration's

i really listined.and i've really learned alote

to all the creators within this

and dougstewartorg for uploading

i thank you

[ngough]

This has to be one of my favorite songs off this incredible album...what an awesome collab.

[spitndecay]

these two are the next batman and robin, friggin they were made to collaborate this shit is giving me goosebumps

[kingafrokyle]

I almost wish he'd simplify his message?! I find his words so heavy and hard to unravel and digest.... which is part of the reason they are so great. I just wish there was a way to expose his truth and wisdom to a wider audience....

More catchy pop choruses Saul! Haha

[CelorElderOne]

Gosh, I hope he doesn't do that.

[unanimation]

I second that.

[afthefragile]

I find a lot of his lyrics hard to take in too but thats saul!!

I wouldn't like him if he was just another rapper with little depth in his lyrics and music!

[drewhadou]

awesome song. saul williams and trent outdid themselves with this one

[sarah12333]

Saul Williams lyrics and vocals go so well with Trent Reznor's musical style.

[DRIZZY2005]

Yea I freaked out when I heard they were working together...it's so good :)

[TropicalPrincessI]

Deep deep and more deep. The power words have when used properly. BIG UP SAUL

[lawjokel]

I forgot this video was unofficial while watching it, it's pretty jarring but that's what's good about it.

[vthokiefan0007]

when u meet this man its like heaven on earth,

he is a genius and deserves to be praised as such

[we232]

this shit encourages me.he talks bout reality and beyond any mans ideal and thinking.i wish i had a mentor like him.thanks saul williams.we need more people in the world like you.

[sulimon510]

haha this is so trent

[saint357saint]

good shit... peace

[mikieazz]

no

those are tadpoles

[SqueakNinja]

Def sperm.

[Mike209000]

tadpoles of progress born of sunsets, as Saul probably would put it.

[HairballandCo]

is that...sperm?

[daveglove]

great video! goes great with the song

this guy's music is the best.

[ErikBN3012]

i loved this. love is an honest word in this context. saul williams is a friend i've never met but have in my heart. beautiful. everything he touches.

[jbkbox]

Trent helping others to desolve trent and strengthen all of us

[sevenleggedinsect]

This is my favorite track off the album, next to DNA.

[213millst]

Good Job. One of my favorite songs on the album.

[alperoz49]

yep i like this song of course trent has hands on it

[deathneedslove]

I'm liking it a lot. It kinda reminds me of the drum circles friends of mine would have just to jam.

[Segmentorr]

This is song is very good, first heard this from a friend. Hope more good songs like this is coming.

[andsum1]

Yay!

[dougstewartorg]

It's unfortunate that the beginning is grayed out and blurry, but I guess it was a side-effect of the encoding. For anyone that can't read it, it just reads "Skin of a Drum / Saul Williams"