I have beeeen trying encouragement, examples, outcomes both optimal and dismal....do no avail.....I'm an older soulful sister.....there just doesn't seem to be any indwelling hope for some of our young people....then again some of the problem is that they don't have teachers like Mr. Hathaway, Mr. Mayfield, Mr. Hutch..et., al
Little ghetto boyhoyy..... playing in the ghetto street... what you gonna do when you grow upppp... and have to face responsabilities.... *epic bass groove*
Right now the our black community need to do more to take care of our young blackman in the ghetto we find a way take care our young woman let it the same for the blackman peace.
All right people. I agree that the artists today are not the same. But some of them, like Alo Blacc an Sharon Jones are really good! What we have to do to help good music is give suport to theese guys and ignore tha bad music!
Listening to REAL music like this reminds me of how terrible today's music is. The truly talented artists get no shine, while autotuned crap constantly makes the top 40.
Some teachers is CPS had children write essays on what this song meant to them. That's how powerful the message was. In Chicago, it was the real beginning of the BAD drug culture. They were selling whatever the drug of choice was in those days I guess. A lot of guys from Viet Nam were getting involved in that crap and dying after fighting such a deadly War. Yes, this song has relevance til this day...maybe the teachers should discuss it in Music. For real! It should be considered classic.
I say it again , no one can sing like this guy even Marvin and Stevie, I know what I am talking about !!!!!! Marvin and stevie are listening when he is singing !
@lonlywolfish Of course they don't sing like him, they have their own unique voice. There is no best, its all subjective! Go on a Marvin Gaye video and you'll hear the same thing about Marvin being this and that. Go on a Stevie Wonder video and it will be the same. Go on a Sam Cooke video and it will be the same. Its all opinion not fact. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway are genius artists with an incredible body of work. Same with Curtis Mayfield. We all have our favourites.
Mr Hathaway was..is...always will be a G*****DAMN GENIUS!!! Feel the HOLY SPIRIT of Donny Hathaway..RIP....We really really really really really miss U! ~sheddin' a tear~
@prettybashful773 He actually did some work as an arranger for Curtis's label. Curtis wanted to sign him to Curtom, but he went with Atlantic records, who also had a great track record with artists like Ray Charles.
Was waiting to pick my son up from the railway station at 11 pm on Monday and caught a brilliant programme on bbc radio 2 about the life and work of the great Donny Hathaway. What a talent! Gone too soon and a very sad loss. Way ahead of his time. I wonder what treats he'd have had in store if fate hadn't took a turn as it did. We will never know.
Dammmnn this is the shit... now this real music...this is where ur mixing music comes from.... he has message that he say's Everyting 's got to get better,,,, Little Getto boy.....
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
One of the best bass performances ever done. An absolutely first class example of melodic and rhythmic bass playing. Donny's voice is also phenomenal. One of the finest live albums ever made.
who stole the soul. Black musicians made music from the heart then. I was once a little ghetto boy. I didnt know when i was playin in those ghetto streets that this white supremist system existed nor that it would be against me and my peers.
who stole the soul. Black musicians made music from the heart then. I was once a little ghetto boy. I didnt know when i was playin in those ghetto streets that this white supremist system existed nor that it would be against me and my peers.
Donny was a tremendous talent. And at the time the only R&B Bass player that was better was Sir Bootsy Collins. As much as things have changed, 40 years later and nothing's changed.
What a lot of aggressive nonsense from various contributors .... folks .. listen to Willie Weeks here and rejoice .. hen if you can take your ears off Willie for one second the greatest of all times .. Donny Hathaway
Classic! Everything about this song is just perfect: the vocals, the arrangement, the lyrics, and it's not overly produced. Just pure and raw talent and soul.
I'm 14, and I love this song. I wish all kids my age would listen to REAL hip hop from the 90s, Soul, Jazz, and Reggae (At least Bob Marley). It would probably make the world a much better place.
@CookieWalka That is sad. Dre perverted Donny's song to a point that sickens me. This song is supposed to be about changing, becoming a man, respecting yourself and your community. Dre and Snoop rapped about selling drugs, drinking, and killing other black people. Their message was infantile and irresponsible, not to mention its filled with cursing and racial slurs. Hopefully you understand the difference.
@TheMisterNiggles You are very close minded and clearly have never experienced real ghetto living, have you ever even been to one? Have you ever even listened to Dr. Dre's rendition of this or even read the lyrics, it's not about selling drugs or killing others, it's talking about the horrors of living in the hood, like youngns packin' heat, niggas gettin' shot left right and center, not to mention junkies beggin' change everywhere, they aren't promoting violence or drugs in that song..
@DavySupafried Clearly, you can make assumptions but are terrible as a psychic. I am not "very closed minded" not is it correct that I have never experienced "real ghetto living" (as if there is some generalized stereotypical experience that meets the discription). I have heard Dre's song and you must be terribly idiotic to hear it any other way than a glamorization of the thug life that he made so much money from. One doesn't even need to hear the rest of his degrading work to realize .
@TheMisterNiggles When I hear Dr. Dre's rendition of this I don't hear anything glamourouzing "thug life", and btw there is nothing glamorous about street life in fact I find it sad, b/c the song is the story of many ppl living and dying in the ghetto, most ppl don't get out of the ghetto before they die b/c they die an untimely death or get locked up b/c they are forced into that lifestyle from a young age and by the time they are grown that is all they know.
@TheMisterNiggles I just want you to understand that that song is not from the perspective of Dre or Snoop, it is from the perspective of a youth from the ghetto and a grown convict, go on a lyrics website and read the actual lyrics, if you still hold the same opinion, I really don't know what else to say to you.
@DavySupafried Not to mention that fact that you have no problem flippantly using "nigga" much like Dre. Yeah, I must be so "very close minded" to demand that such epithets and racial slurs not be used against, or when refering to, a black man, regardless of the race of the person using the word. P.S. I am sorry for calling you an "idiot." "Ignorant" would have been more apt.
@TheMisterNiggles Very hypocritcal, I don't use the word "Nigga" as a racial slur, prehaps you do, but where I'm from, I call my friends my nigga's, it's used as a term of endearment, but ppl like you always take shit out of context, the word NIGGER is nothing like NIGGA, one is slang for my brother, one is hang and take a picture.
@TheMisterNiggles I am not saying Dre and Snoop don't glamourize that lifestyle to some degree, the album "The Chronic" was basically about thug life and slangin' drugs but this specific song is about the hardships, sadness, and reality of ghetto living. And btw you ARE very close minded, you refuse to consider anybodies opinion but your own, why don't YOU do some research before you "pop-off" my friend.
@DavySupafried By your definition of "close minded," you are such. Just because I disagree with you does not make me "close minded." Second, you must think I'm slow to try to pull that "nigga-as-an-endearing-term" bullshit. The same rappers that are calling their "friends" that word also use it when refering to their enemies. Not only that, if a white person used it, you know I, as well as every other black, would be pissed. It's inappropriate and hateful. Shame on you for perpetuating it
@DavySupafried As Dre was no reporter. He carelessly portrayed the darkest, stereotypical aspects of "ghetto" life and did so for lots of money. He spread this to not only his people, but largely to the middle-class white suburbia which either glamorizes it or looks down up it. Regardless of which, its incorrect. The white kids that bought his albums are now at an age where they no long listen to such pop music, but the stereotypes linger. He perpetuates the rift between the races.
@TheMisterNiggles dre perpetuates a rift?? friend it is white folk who created and maintains any rift between not only black folks but all folks... sadly only black folks in america love them too much to see it.. no dre is more a victim of his image than he is an exploiter. at the top there is always a white man raking in the doe and pulling the strings.. who gives a damn about what white folks think. freedom can let it go. we need to get out of the white mans mind in get into our own mind.
@oldschoolsituationz You obviously haven't read all of my comments. It is your sad, ignorant, victimized, finger-pointing mindset that also has our people chained to the early twentieth century instead of moving into the twenty-first century. I might be your "brother" but you are no friend of mine speaking nonsense like that.
Brothers even though Both of you may have a difference of perceptive ,we have to see our commonalities rather than our differences. I believe the Main point is that this song still reigns true concerning the going on is the inner city. As men we Should be concentrating our efforts in creating a change, In any way we can.
@oldschoolsituationz I Totally Absoulety Argee. i feel the Black man in america really doesnt have his own idenity. To this day, we allow white folks to think for us. They say one catch pharse we take it own as our own. Its the 21st century we need to begin adopt our own ways of thinking . We need to move towards freedom beacuse many of our people are still mentally enslaved.
@oldschoolsituationz Brothers even though Both of you may have a difference of perceptive ,we have to see our commonalities rather than our differences. I believe the Main point is that this song still reigns true concerning the going on is the inner city. As men we Should be concentrating our efforts in creating a change, In any way we can.
@DavySupafried Lastly, you side-stepped most of my comments. You think he's a reporter just portraying the facts. I say he is portraying a stereotype that millions hear. He could have been more responsible and rapped about the old woman with 3 jobs, 4 bastard children, living off of government hand-outs and a permiscuous 13 year old and it would have been just as stereotypical, but it wouldn't have glamorized drug or prison life. He probably still would have called them Bitches, though.
@DavySupafried Sir, I guess we need to just agree to disagree. If my disappointment and disgust with your naivety and ingorance regarding Dre's recklessness and utter disregard for the image of his people is "close minded," well then, I guess I'm close minded. If my distaste for others using a derivative of the slur used toward an enslaved people, regardless of the person using it, is "closed minded," well then, I guess I'm close minded. If this is the case, I wear that title proudly.
@DavySupafried Did you know that Dre "never experienced real ghetto living?" He lived in a suburban area where he attended junior high school. He attended a high school in Compton as a freshman for a few months, but was later transfered to another suburban highschool that was described as "much safer." After high school, he used his Dad's business contacts to start up his rap group, with his brother Warren G. You still think he was trying to communicate life experiences in his work? Wrong.
I SAID THIS ON THE "WERE STILL FRIENDS" PAGE BUT I WILL SAY IT ON HERE....GOD DAMN. MOTHER FUCKIN DONNY HATHAWAY IS THE FUCKING BUSINESS. BOTTOM LINE. THIS IS WHY MY BAND AND I JAM THIS SONG. DONNY HATHAWAY IS AN LOCED ASS OG GANGSTER.....AND IF ANYONE IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET THE ORIGINAL VINYL IT IS FUCKING AMAZING. LONG LIVE DONNY
40 years and we are still singing about the agony that created this song. As if the lyrics and pain were craved into the asphalt. Who's fault? Everything has to get better! Donny like James Baldwin saw it all so clearly. Read an listen my children.
40 years and we are still singing about the agony that created this song. As if the lyrics and pain were craved into the asphalt. Who's fault? Everything has to get better! Donny like James Baldwin saw it all so clearly. Read an listen my children.
Actually, this is a song on social issues. The words are ingrained in my mind. It was the beginning of drug trafficking in the cities. Some young people actually had to write papers on this in school during the 70s because it had such social significance. So to put all that meaning into words was the work of a genius. No one knows how we mourned Donny's passing because of this 'anthem' of a sort. We lived through it. Thanks again. Peace :D
Soul Musik
yungrasta34 1 day ago
massive
ghizzle14 3 days ago
when did dre sample this?
gvalt21 4 days ago
wu TANG
knallbirne3000 5 days ago
υπέροχο!!φανταστικό.real music..Greetings from Greece.
frankyproject2 6 days ago
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Bubinga5 6 days ago
smooth..
pimpedvw 6 days ago
Lovely
Loscobeats 1 week ago
woke up jumped out my bed!!!!!!!
bumcheeks101 1 week ago
who dislikes this, those 2 people who did must have strange taste in music.
TheChap2011 1 week ago
Wow....I'm so glad dr dre kept the sound and feel real than butcher the song.
djjd707 1 week ago
I still cry when I think of Donny. Loved/love him like a brother. Some people just make you feel that way about them.
Annettesmusic 2 weeks ago 3
Give me a thumbs up if you grew up in the ghetto like me and know exactly what he is talking about.
dvharris75 2 weeks ago
@dvharris75 i thumbed you up even though I never lived the ghetto
alpha520mec 1 week ago
@alpha520mec Thanks.
dvharris75 1 week ago
This whole night was one full of great performances. And Willie Weeks brought the noice on the bass on each song.
Tdubs2u 3 weeks ago
Killing me softly with his songs. Telling my whole life with his words.
hasbey1 3 weeks ago
WHOEVER THAT ONE DISLIKE IS,,, NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR 204,500 PLUS LITTLE GHETTO BOYS,,,WITH ME INCLUDED!!!!
ocas5000 3 weeks ago
@ocas5000 lol ya betta know it! Iloveit
marianance 3 weeks ago
1 dislike! WHO IS THAT FOOL! REVEAL YOURSELF!
msinfinity1 3 weeks ago
@msinfinity1 That is funny. Kinda remind me of Uptown Saturday Night when Sidney Poitier called out Little Seymour
pocu2005 3 weeks ago in playlist 70's Grown Folk Music
@msinfinity1 who are you faggots that give a shit what other people think about music you like? REVEAL YOURSELF!
6Metal6Slug6 3 weeks ago
gone too soon
folkus74 4 weeks ago 2
92' Chronic
mcluvin28x 4 weeks ago
I have beeeen trying encouragement, examples, outcomes both optimal and dismal....do no avail.....I'm an older soulful sister.....there just doesn't seem to be any indwelling hope for some of our young people....then again some of the problem is that they don't have teachers like Mr. Hathaway, Mr. Mayfield, Mr. Hutch..et., al
yotjones 4 weeks ago
Little ghetto boyhoyy..... playing in the ghetto street... what you gonna do when you grow upppp... and have to face responsabilities.... *epic bass groove*
Ogilla 1 month ago 2
Soulful!
robbiemo10 1 month ago 2
beautiful song.
blacksultan85 1 month ago
this song will always make me think of nate dogg. rest in peace big nate
Funkdogg 1 month ago
It sampled by A2H, French Hip hop artist. The name of the song is : A2H - Getto street
Pokeshady 1 month ago
wutang killed this sample
Rocksteddybelmont 1 month ago
@socrates1818 I believe its Willy Weeks
chizjo 1 month ago
@chizjo yeah Willie Weeks!!!!
MultiJaylea 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donny Hathaway
Who in the hell is the bass player!
socrates1818 1 month ago
@socrates1818 I know Right...lol. One Badd Dude on it.
mphk55 1 month ago
mark ass disliker
TheDreamMunich 1 month ago
Right now the our black community need to do more to take care of our young blackman in the ghetto we find a way take care our young woman let it the same for the blackman peace.
JTBLACKMAN43 1 month ago 2
i feel like this is where Kool & the gang got their inspiration from for summer madness especially at :44
TheXtianVleeger 1 month ago
All right people. I agree that the artists today are not the same. But some of them, like Alo Blacc an Sharon Jones are really good! What we have to do to help good music is give suport to theese guys and ignore tha bad music!
Respect! From Brazil!
pepefontanari 1 month ago
Incredible recording. RIP Donny.
swede1one 1 month ago
Listening to REAL music like this reminds me of how terrible today's music is. The truly talented artists get no shine, while autotuned crap constantly makes the top 40.
How did music get to this pathetic state?
Take me back to the 60's/70's and leave me there.
CoffySarai 1 month ago
how could anyone dislike this?
clubland459 1 month ago
The baddest bass player in the country, Willie Weeks!
GentlemanBass 1 month ago
georges benson can go to sleep...
zgeninaway 2 months ago
Cut my musical teeth on this right here!
pah629 2 months ago
The one who dislike the vid must certainly be DEAF!
theocharis777 2 months ago
@theocharis777...or a Lady Gaga fan
diezelish 1 month ago
@diezelish: It's the same thing bro...
theocharis777 1 month ago
Some teachers is CPS had children write essays on what this song meant to them. That's how powerful the message was. In Chicago, it was the real beginning of the BAD drug culture. They were selling whatever the drug of choice was in those days I guess. A lot of guys from Viet Nam were getting involved in that crap and dying after fighting such a deadly War. Yes, this song has relevance til this day...maybe the teachers should discuss it in Music. For real! It should be considered classic.
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DJTUSCK 2 months ago
I say it again , no one can sing like this guy even Marvin and Stevie, I know what I am talking about !!!!!! Marvin and stevie are listening when he is singing !
lonlywolfish 2 months ago 2
@lonlywolfish Of course they don't sing like him, they have their own unique voice. There is no best, its all subjective! Go on a Marvin Gaye video and you'll hear the same thing about Marvin being this and that. Go on a Stevie Wonder video and it will be the same. Go on a Sam Cooke video and it will be the same. Its all opinion not fact. Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway are genius artists with an incredible body of work. Same with Curtis Mayfield. We all have our favourites.
bolder2009 1 month ago
Donny hathaway first, Marvin Gaye second and Stevie third, no one else !!!!
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@lonlywolfish Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder are second to no one. Its all subjective.
bolder2009 2 months ago
Mr Hathaway was..is...always will be a G*****DAMN GENIUS!!! Feel the HOLY SPIRIT of Donny Hathaway..RIP....We really really really really really miss U! ~sheddin' a tear~
exkeyboardplaya504 3 months ago
Class-@ss-S!ck!!1
BillionGODSun 3 months ago
WOW i almost disliked -.- that was a close one! i'd kill myself :) :D
AstekOst 3 months ago 35
@AstekOst that wasn't funny at all
bigddagenius 3 months ago
@bigddagenius who said that it shoud be? i actualy almost pressed dislike :P
AstekOst 3 months ago
@AstekOst no, the part where you said i'd kill myself, i have a sense of humor but that was in bad taste
bigddagenius 3 months ago
@AstekOst Well we can't hold you to a higher standard than the artist I suppose.
MrStarstruck404 2 months ago
I keep coming back to this wonderful song. Donny will live on because of it.
TheGothicImp 3 months ago
Incredible talent who left us much too soon. We love you Donny!
TheGothicImp 3 months ago
Brilliant!
harmonicahero1 3 months ago
This is no punk shit here.
He is talking about real shit.
dvharris75 3 months ago
Willy Weeks on bass at his finest.
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boomerang905 3 months ago
708 likes w/o a single dislike, makes it fact imo
pitsett4life 4 months ago
Listen to this song people ghetto -blackman trust in yourself make better for other blackwoman too.
JTBLACKMAN43 4 months ago 2
best rating i've ever seen on a video
TheOfficialTone 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donny Hathaway 6
Dr Dre
TheJbeatsProductions 4 months ago
that high, breathy note Donny reaches at 4.00 just kills me every time
chris80413 4 months ago
this reminds me of curtis mayfield's little child running wild
prettybashful773 4 months ago
@prettybashful773 He actually did some work as an arranger for Curtis's label. Curtis wanted to sign him to Curtom, but he went with Atlantic records, who also had a great track record with artists like Ray Charles.
bolder2009 4 months ago
@prettybashful773 i had that same feeling hearing this too
chasingafterdeath 3 months ago
lock up me!!!!!
Diegee911 4 months ago
so yea first day hearing soul music , got a load of this one . never gonna stop sipping this good old funky juice
franciscobarcia 4 months ago
Was waiting to pick my son up from the railway station at 11 pm on Monday and caught a brilliant programme on bbc radio 2 about the life and work of the great Donny Hathaway. What a talent! Gone too soon and a very sad loss. Way ahead of his time. I wonder what treats he'd have had in store if fate hadn't took a turn as it did. We will never know.
clubland459 5 months ago 3
Now this, this right here...is it!! :)
LebLectic 5 months ago
Dammmnn this is the shit... now this real music...this is where ur mixing music comes from.... he has message that he say's Everyting 's got to get better,,,, Little Getto boy.....
lynda000 5 months ago 3
this that ghetto shit!
kaktusnadloni 5 months ago
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PurdieKim 5 months ago
Beautiful song and wonderful artist, thank you John Legend and The Roots for introducing me to such beautiful songs and artists!
veinivan7 6 months ago
everyone is strange
DanielleYvette 6 months ago
I mean the BASE!!!?
Neosh88 6 months ago
@Neosh88 No you mean the BASS.....
HaliB75 5 months ago 4
@HaliB75...O Yeah!! That Bass is the man!!
diezelish 4 months ago
Brilliant!Tragically died way too young...
harmonicahero1 6 months ago
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I Luv this Track
Chaos4ir 6 months ago in playlist Soul men
John Legend and The Roots do what is nearly impossible to do. Cover a great song such as this, and at the same time make it seem so original.
Metalfanmusicfan 6 months ago
３５年間に渡って聴き続けられる､このグルーヴの味～ﾀﾞﾆｰ･ﾊｻﾞｳｪｲ"LITTLE GHETTO BOY"~~C･ﾃﾞｭﾌﾟﾘｰも亡くなったんだな!(感慨)
blackandtanful 6 months ago
not sure whether I prefer this or the Dr Dre version. They're both incredibly tracks, very soulful.
tomcookies90 6 months ago
Now this is singing from the heart! Love me some Donnie Hathaway! Thanks for posting.
OLOPOP2010 7 months ago
I think this song is my best song that I feel.and If possible,I wanted to be here in live.
blackpop76 7 months ago
THANK YOU !!!!
kinstube 7 months ago
yall hebrews need to wake up
msalah2341 7 months ago
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Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
robertoamor2011 7 months ago
@TUTUS182 Wu Tang sampled this song too. The two yellow disc albums.
nomibe2911 7 months ago
One of the best bass performances ever done. An absolutely first class example of melodic and rhythmic bass playing. Donny's voice is also phenomenal. One of the finest live albums ever made.
Worf
TheWorfster 8 months ago 15
@TheWorfster hell ya!...willie weeks is absolutely amazing. in my opinion hes up there with jameson
sms1189 7 months ago
@TheWorfster woww, hadn' t even notice this was live, 'til you I read your comment...real music
cqgmickey 1 month ago in playlist Old School
@TheWorfster You're right, it's killin' for sure. Who was this on bass? Jamerson or one of the Funk Brothers? Jerry Jemmott? An Atlantic guy?
wrf1973 1 month ago
@wrf1973 Found it: Willie Weeks. I think he did some stuff for Aretha, need to check him out way more.
wrf1973 1 month ago
I love my people. I love being Black I would trade it for the world. ( My fist is up Baby!)
TerrorTown7575 8 months ago
Didn't Wu Tang sample this?
nomibe2911 8 months ago
@nomibe2911 it was sampled by Dr Dre- Lil' Ghetto Boy
TUTUS182 7 months ago
@TUTUS182 yes and wu tang too
AmericanGangsta303 7 months ago
Yeah !
the real ghetto boy...
respect for the real artist.
zynn92i 8 months ago
この歌すき ベースの低音よすぎ ♪
cutym0m0 8 months ago
追悼!～ｺｰﾈﾙ･ﾃﾞｭﾌﾟﾘｰ 様･･･････ﾀﾞﾆｰ･ﾊｻﾞｳｪｲ､ﾄﾙﾊﾞﾄﾞｰﾙ･ライヴより #jazzm
blackandtanful 8 months ago
Whenever I listen to Donny I always feel such a sense of loss. He died way too young. and we lost a tremendous talent.
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who stole the soul. Black musicians made music from the heart then. I was once a little ghetto boy. I didnt know when i was playin in those ghetto streets that this white supremist system existed nor that it would be against me and my peers.
blacrebel1 9 months ago
who stole the soul. Black musicians made music from the heart then. I was once a little ghetto boy. I didnt know when i was playin in those ghetto streets that this white supremist system existed nor that it would be against me and my peers.
blacrebel1 9 months ago
who stole the soul. Black musicians made music from the heart then
blacrebel1 9 months ago
I must have played this record 50 millioon times! R. I. P. Donny~
PapaJohnTheMessenger 9 months ago
I feel my soul when I listen to tihis I feel deep i mean deeeeeeeeeeep
TheGGG4 9 months ago
dr.dre lil ghetto boy
daniel299dani299 9 months ago
this man was just pure soul RIP donny,
sianhill89 9 months ago
wow. . blown away by this cats soulful voice man wooohooo im buzing right now
murdok620 9 months ago
Dr. Dre "Lil' Ghetto Boy" !
gahan101 10 months ago
@gahan101 by Nate Dogg !
ARMENIEN65 10 months ago
@ARMENIEN65 You mean the chorus? Actually, it was a vocal sample.
gahan101 10 months ago
My Sanctuary.....!
TheFatyBella 10 months ago
Damn Awesome... RIP DONNIE
fleet04 10 months ago
Donny was a tremendous talent. And at the time the only R&B Bass player that was better was Sir Bootsy Collins. As much as things have changed, 40 years later and nothing's changed.
Preach Donny!
TheBoneRanger1968 10 months ago
Love this version but also being blown away by John Legend + Roots version right now.
RemyHairBoutique 10 months ago 5
Wow! im completely blown away!
ngwakom 11 months ago
What a lot of aggressive nonsense from various contributors .... folks .. listen to Willie Weeks here and rejoice .. hen if you can take your ears off Willie for one second the greatest of all times .. Donny Hathaway
KeepinBuzzy 11 months ago 3
That's what I call MUSIC! Best album ever, miss you and your beautiful voice.
1950945 11 months ago
My nigga Dre sampled this shit so nice...
DavySupafried 11 months ago
@DavySupafried You perpetuate the "pain and misery" of which Donny sings by using such foul, inappropriate and hateful words. Shame on you.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
Classic! Everything about this song is just perfect: the vocals, the arrangement, the lyrics, and it's not overly produced. Just pure and raw talent and soul.
jkjkbell 1 year ago
29, white ....thats all
MrRizikoo 1 year ago
I'm 14, and I love this song. I wish all kids my age would listen to REAL hip hop from the 90s, Soul, Jazz, and Reggae (At least Bob Marley). It would probably make the world a much better place.
xBallTVx 1 year ago 4
Now this is real music and not the crap that goes around this days.
jogav90 1 year ago
The singing is impressive enough, but some don't realize he was a great musician too. The keyboard work is Donny too.
emmettk 1 year ago 25
wow, what a good voice
funkfanzzify 1 year ago
thanks to the Wu-tang Clan and Dr. Dre for introducing me to this
CookieWalka 1 year ago 62
@CookieWalka Thanks to Ben Barnes for introducing me to this. Indirectly via an interview of course, but still...
thenerevarine13 1 year ago
@CookieWalka That is sad. Dre perverted Donny's song to a point that sickens me. This song is supposed to be about changing, becoming a man, respecting yourself and your community. Dre and Snoop rapped about selling drugs, drinking, and killing other black people. Their message was infantile and irresponsible, not to mention its filled with cursing and racial slurs. Hopefully you understand the difference.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@TheMisterNiggles You are very close minded and clearly have never experienced real ghetto living, have you ever even been to one? Have you ever even listened to Dr. Dre's rendition of this or even read the lyrics, it's not about selling drugs or killing others, it's talking about the horrors of living in the hood, like youngns packin' heat, niggas gettin' shot left right and center, not to mention junkies beggin' change everywhere, they aren't promoting violence or drugs in that song..
DavySupafried 11 months ago
@DavySupafried Clearly, you can make assumptions but are terrible as a psychic. I am not "very closed minded" not is it correct that I have never experienced "real ghetto living" (as if there is some generalized stereotypical experience that meets the discription). I have heard Dre's song and you must be terribly idiotic to hear it any other way than a glamorization of the thug life that he made so much money from. One doesn't even need to hear the rest of his degrading work to realize .
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@TheMisterNiggles When I hear Dr. Dre's rendition of this I don't hear anything glamourouzing "thug life", and btw there is nothing glamorous about street life in fact I find it sad, b/c the song is the story of many ppl living and dying in the ghetto, most ppl don't get out of the ghetto before they die b/c they die an untimely death or get locked up b/c they are forced into that lifestyle from a young age and by the time they are grown that is all they know.
DavySupafried 11 months ago 2
@TheMisterNiggles I just want you to understand that that song is not from the perspective of Dre or Snoop, it is from the perspective of a youth from the ghetto and a grown convict, go on a lyrics website and read the actual lyrics, if you still hold the same opinion, I really don't know what else to say to you.
DavySupafried 11 months ago
@DavySupafried Not to mention that fact that you have no problem flippantly using "nigga" much like Dre. Yeah, I must be so "very close minded" to demand that such epithets and racial slurs not be used against, or when refering to, a black man, regardless of the race of the person using the word. P.S. I am sorry for calling you an "idiot." "Ignorant" would have been more apt.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@TheMisterNiggles Very hypocritcal, I don't use the word "Nigga" as a racial slur, prehaps you do, but where I'm from, I call my friends my nigga's, it's used as a term of endearment, but ppl like you always take shit out of context, the word NIGGER is nothing like NIGGA, one is slang for my brother, one is hang and take a picture.
DavySupafried 11 months ago
@TheMisterNiggles I am not saying Dre and Snoop don't glamourize that lifestyle to some degree, the album "The Chronic" was basically about thug life and slangin' drugs but this specific song is about the hardships, sadness, and reality of ghetto living. And btw you ARE very close minded, you refuse to consider anybodies opinion but your own, why don't YOU do some research before you "pop-off" my friend.
DavySupafried 11 months ago
@DavySupafried By your definition of "close minded," you are such. Just because I disagree with you does not make me "close minded." Second, you must think I'm slow to try to pull that "nigga-as-an-endearing-term" bullshit. The same rappers that are calling their "friends" that word also use it when refering to their enemies. Not only that, if a white person used it, you know I, as well as every other black, would be pissed. It's inappropriate and hateful. Shame on you for perpetuating it
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@DavySupafried As Dre was no reporter. He carelessly portrayed the darkest, stereotypical aspects of "ghetto" life and did so for lots of money. He spread this to not only his people, but largely to the middle-class white suburbia which either glamorizes it or looks down up it. Regardless of which, its incorrect. The white kids that bought his albums are now at an age where they no long listen to such pop music, but the stereotypes linger. He perpetuates the rift between the races.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@TheMisterNiggles dre perpetuates a rift?? friend it is white folk who created and maintains any rift between not only black folks but all folks... sadly only black folks in america love them too much to see it.. no dre is more a victim of his image than he is an exploiter. at the top there is always a white man raking in the doe and pulling the strings.. who gives a damn about what white folks think. freedom can let it go. we need to get out of the white mans mind in get into our own mind.
oldschoolsituationz 11 months ago
@oldschoolsituationz You obviously haven't read all of my comments. It is your sad, ignorant, victimized, finger-pointing mindset that also has our people chained to the early twentieth century instead of moving into the twenty-first century. I might be your "brother" but you are no friend of mine speaking nonsense like that.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
Brothers even though Both of you may have a difference of perceptive ,we have to see our commonalities rather than our differences. I believe the Main point is that this song still reigns true concerning the going on is the inner city. As men we Should be concentrating our efforts in creating a change, In any way we can.
TerrorTown7575 1 month ago
@oldschoolsituationz I Totally Absoulety Argee. i feel the Black man in america really doesnt have his own idenity. To this day, we allow white folks to think for us. They say one catch pharse we take it own as our own. Its the 21st century we need to begin adopt our own ways of thinking . We need to move towards freedom beacuse many of our people are still mentally enslaved.
TerrorTown7575 8 months ago
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@oldschoolsituationz Brothers even though Both of you may have a difference of perceptive ,we have to see our commonalities rather than our differences. I believe the Main point is that this song still reigns true concerning the going on is the inner city. As men we Should be concentrating our efforts in creating a change, In any way we can.
TerrorTown7575 1 month ago
@DavySupafried Lastly, you side-stepped most of my comments. You think he's a reporter just portraying the facts. I say he is portraying a stereotype that millions hear. He could have been more responsible and rapped about the old woman with 3 jobs, 4 bastard children, living off of government hand-outs and a permiscuous 13 year old and it would have been just as stereotypical, but it wouldn't have glamorized drug or prison life. He probably still would have called them Bitches, though.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@DavySupafried Sir, I guess we need to just agree to disagree. If my disappointment and disgust with your naivety and ingorance regarding Dre's recklessness and utter disregard for the image of his people is "close minded," well then, I guess I'm close minded. If my distaste for others using a derivative of the slur used toward an enslaved people, regardless of the person using it, is "closed minded," well then, I guess I'm close minded. If this is the case, I wear that title proudly.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@DavySupafried Did you know that Dre "never experienced real ghetto living?" He lived in a suburban area where he attended junior high school. He attended a high school in Compton as a freshman for a few months, but was later transfered to another suburban highschool that was described as "much safer." After high school, he used his Dad's business contacts to start up his rap group, with his brother Warren G. You still think he was trying to communicate life experiences in his work? Wrong.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@DavySupafried Do your research before you pop-off next time, and especially avoid slinging faultly assumptions and rhetoric.
TheMisterNiggles 11 months ago
@CookieWalka my brooooootheeeeer!
poger32 8 months ago
REAL R&B I love it.
chocotacojewboy 1 year ago
Thank you The Roots for introducing me to Hathaway's song!
blackstar21595 1 year ago
i want this cd so bad!! wish he could see how much his people still love him
mjjcng8958 1 year ago
everything is got to be better!!! yeaaaaaaaa
mslouis25 1 year ago
One o my fav old school songs ever!!
frostbyte901 1 year ago
Two Words.........REAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!
oneeye9426 1 year ago 3
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Wiggitywigg323323232 1 year ago
wu tang clan sampled this :D
WOWGeorge 1 year ago
Thanks--a work of true genius
jay1beaux 1 year ago
I SAID THIS ON THE "WERE STILL FRIENDS" PAGE BUT I WILL SAY IT ON HERE....GOD DAMN. MOTHER FUCKIN DONNY HATHAWAY IS THE FUCKING BUSINESS. BOTTOM LINE. THIS IS WHY MY BAND AND I JAM THIS SONG. DONNY HATHAWAY IS AN LOCED ASS OG GANGSTER.....AND IF ANYONE IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET THE ORIGINAL VINYL IT IS FUCKING AMAZING. LONG LIVE DONNY
northofthesun 1 year ago
40 years and we are still singing about the agony that created this song. As if the lyrics and pain were craved into the asphalt. Who's fault? Everything has to get better! Donny like James Baldwin saw it all so clearly. Read an listen my children.
Read and listen!
1146beaver 1 year ago
40 years and we are still singing about the agony that created this song. As if the lyrics and pain were craved into the asphalt. Who's fault? Everything has to get better! Donny like James Baldwin saw it all so clearly. Read an listen my children.
1146beaver 1 year ago
class, always sampled, never equalled.
jimhinch2007 1 year ago
RIP DONNY
17351villaboy 1 year ago
John Legend & The Roots did this track justice on Wake Up! Donny Woulda been proud
arnez8706 1 year ago
Actually, this is a song on social issues. The words are ingrained in my mind. It was the beginning of drug trafficking in the cities. Some young people actually had to write papers on this in school during the 70s because it had such social significance. So to put all that meaning into words was the work of a genius. No one knows how we mourned Donny's passing because of this 'anthem' of a sort. We lived through it. Thanks again. Peace :D
9876543217303 1 year ago 2
@9876543217303 THATS WHATS UP MAN....FUCK YEH
northofthesun 1 year ago
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9876543217303 1 year ago
Incomparable voice...but yeah wat bass on this :-)