Mos Def - Got

[dcrasta]

High postin when you far from home ..

High postin when you all alone..

Sombody need to share this with Chopper City from making the band. Glad you didn't die homie.

[getgoodusa]

"And while you Cristal sippin', they rubbin' up they mittens

With heat in mint condition to start the getti-gettin'"

fucking dope.....I can picture this shit.

[mon3ybagz]

C L A S S I C . . . .

[NastyNas2801]

what does it mean when you got GOT? please explain anyone.

[mon3ybagz]

@NastyNas2801

It means when someone gets robbed or set up to get beat up. We say in NY you got GOT.

[getgoodusa]

@NastyNas2801 how you got Nas in your name and don't know this?

[NastyNas2801]

@getgoodusa Please respect the fact that i've never been in America. I'm Norwegian.

[dcrasta]

@NastyNas2801 they (someone) got you.

you got hacked (you got got)

you get robbed (you get got)

Predator GOT you.

[HelloKellen]

this is awesommeeeeeee!

[locksofwisdom29]

Like f--- that

Picture them telling

Run that

So nice mos!!!

[stillphil]

girl from Pink Houses says I like you a lot. GOT.

and that last verse?

so classic.

[detredlaw]

if you are going to rip hip hop rip country too. Honeysuckle, Moonshine, Riverside, Ripped Shorts/Jeans etc. I like both but hey why should i be able to like this and that. Little Wayne aint for me but more power to you if you like it. Puts me to sleep.

[larma7]

This song is really funny. Even the refrain alone and the mocking tone just gets me laughing. Stuff like this is why this album is so good.

[frak916]

Maybe my favorite album of all time. To bad the rest of his albums were some of my least favorite of all time.

[osarsour]

@frak916 Really? The Ecstatic is something spectacular.

[frak916]

@osarsour Ecstatic was pretty good. Nothin compared to black on both sides, and it came out over a decade later and almost everything in between was terrible.  Still one of my favorite mc's based on this, blackstar and compilations alone.

[LarryFlynn22]

How to make a modern day rap song.....

Say the words.......

-Bitch

-Swag

-Stuntin

-Rich

-Weed, Blunt, Swisher, (any drug related word)

-Also. Make multiple references to expensive clothing lines.

-Then above all. Refer to yourself in the first person using the words: I, Me, and My 50+ times (like in this song.)

Use these words to form extremely self-centered verses and you have a modern day rap song. Congratulations! Thank you Lil Wayne

[TheDiahpyles]

Down with real underground hip hop? Peep my channel DIAH PYLES. Music for the world!!!!!

[wordizbon]

This album was my shyt!!

[nem700]

the last verse is hiphop hall of fame.

[d0peboimagic2]

"that style never last long

The harder you flash, the harder you get flashed on"

Waka Flocka, he only lasted a year and is gonna retire...

[d0peboimagic2]

I need to get this album...

[HelloKellen]

boooop boop booop

[bdickerson86]

Black On Both Sides best mos def album of all time!!

[vivalasosaTV]

Mos Def - Beauty in the Dark (Music video by SOSA REAL)

[lxrodrigoxl]

buena musica muy rica

[jettcenterfold]

This is How You Get GOTTTTT !!

[RasDaRadarMan]

i Need to put this back on my I-pod

[9800tank]

6 People high-postin when they all alone.

[Chicagoxx187]

Now i like to have nice things just like you, but im from CHICAGO and theres certain things you just dont do. Prime example of what suburban kids listenin to wayne and wiz and all these other clowns dont understand.

[TheAbdullah23]

@Chicagoxx187 chi city stand up thats word is bond

[mistashay]

9 of you clowns were Out in Brooklyn late night flashing all of your rocks

[cougheebrotha21]

SXSW 2011...ol lady got Mos' autograph on the plane jus cuz the girls were going crazy...my patna bought the autograph from her for 10 bucks....GOT!

[francrizo25]

perfectly illustrated

[1982bugglife]

this is how u get got

[vdeliello]

Not enough people have heard the smooth flow that is Mos Def. Greatest beats ever!

[ampcanable]

@vdeliello this would be seem to be clear common sense.....This shit is dope!!!! Even today!!!!

[DerfRellim11]

420th like;)

[Candace25339]

nice... one of the few realist out there...

[afrosheen6]

Mos def-initely the shit, turned out straight...

[PandaRyuk]

mos spits the truth right here with good melody, honest word, and mellow flow

[4040Jared]

Classic!!!

[steeltownbrown52]

Hey ya'll I'm a ignorant Dilla fan. Ali Shaheed Muhammed didn't produce this track, it was J Dilla. J Dilla produced every single Tribe and De La song ever(and he might be Q Tip's dad too). Dilla invented the steam engine, the cell phone and the traffic light. And while Dilla did "Little Brother" for Black Star for The Hurricane soundtrack, he also directed The Hurricane(Norman Jewison took all the cred). :-P

[TheSKSpecial]

@steeltownbrown52

LMAO. The sad part is that there are some Dilla fans that probably do think that.

[TheSinghFIRE]

@TheSKSpecial they must not know what Dilla sounds like then. lol

[meowsthi]

@steeltownbrown52 Invented the traffic light? Well fuck that guy!

[Moo206]

9 people got got while viewing this song

[NSellati]

to the 9 ppl who disliked this...wat r u on? pure skill right here

[SoalaJohn54]

True shit

[HUSSTLE2BUBBLE]

classic.

[LeekSAW]

this song should be for souljia boy and all those dumb rappers that like to show off they shit

[supastaroftokyo]

immaculate 

[ribtor]

I go to work everyday for 40 years, and wasted my life. That's how I got got.

[juniornac1]

love mos def, but even he got 'Got' by a stripper chick lol

[Ginga]

@juniornac1

Is she the mother of some of his kids?

[mx6lover]

This is how you get GOT !!!

[tife192]

real



[MrDotTv]

9 nigga's got "Got"

[angelabz2469]

@MrDotTv Just what I was thinking LOL

[pedro911212]

best song of the best album.. so far

[ThisIsNasir]

"YO! im Nasir, im a rap artist, and i just put my 2 newest songs up on youtube

**-Nasir - La La La La (REMIX) {MUSIC VIDEO}

**-Nasir - Mamma Said Turn Down The Music**

**-Nasir - The Introduction**

Check them out!! And please SUBSCRIBE to my channel for more music!!""

[CoolGuy95ya]

@ThisIsNasir you dumbass faggot there's already a rapper named Nasir

[Quagmire97]

@CoolGuy95ya

LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! OWNED

[vyrgo84]

SIIIIIICKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[Ginga]

Thinking the shit on the radio is quality...GOT!

[tljjjr99]

it's produced by Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest

[jermain703]

ali shaheed muhammad on production

[bolf4000]

eminem should make a song featuring this quality....not featuring low quality like lil wayne

[Kiran7991]

@bolf4000 WORD. although he says he will collab with raekwon and tech

[thedonorlandom]

@bolf4000 hes a fag already too

[lawofspike]

i'll tell you how i i got got,by being addicted this song

[jp246810]

... now what most ppl fail to realize is that UNDERGROUND DON'T AUTOMATICALLY POINT TO HIP-HOP AND VISE VERSA WITH MAINSTREAM MUSIC!!!

i see artist like Lupe Fiasco and Nas to be HIP-HOP and there's some underground artist like MGK (Machine Gun Kelly) that's cut dry RAP. without going into much detail anyone can see what i'm shooting at.

the misconception happens when things become commonplace.

[jp246810]

my way of putting it:

u got HIP-HOP that account for everything that's under the sun if u get what i'm saying (like b-boyin', emceein', djin', and etc.) but sub-genres fall under HIP-HOP.

like how there's ALTERNATIVE ROCK and all that but it all fall under ROCK as a whole.

u got HIP-HOP that's in the same tier as RAP. how do a person tell it apart? RAP

- LIES

-------

HIP-HOP (sub-genre version)

wanna party with the mainstream stuff. u got RAP...

[shahizo]

im from Brooklyn..its certain shit u just dont do

[guerilla619]

@shahizo like jhigh posting when your all alone or like high postin when your far from home. <--- hope i got it rite

[beaverman17]

@shahizo ha true nuf

[JBTINY]

GOT, THIS IS HOW YOU GOT GOT!

[SkitterNSnicklez]

Look up illogic, he raps like this, I wouldn't say mos def is a genre in his own.

[o0OMistahTeaO0o]

Mos has no rivals, no peers. He's a genre/level in himself. No one better. Only true conscientious rapper.

[DamnIwannafck232]

Ali Shaheed produced this track. hes from a great hip hop group called A Tribe Called Quest. if u like mos def and this tracks beat u'll def like A Tribe Called Quest check em out

[sunphoenix26]

@DamnIwannafck232

Damn, I'm so glad that I'm not the only one today who knows about the Tribe man~

[paperorpaper]

I've noticed that Mos always has good beats to his songs.

[TruhbleMan]

I love the melody switch in the chorus "Don't get me, don't get me, don't get, ge-, ge-, ge-, ge-, get me". This beat is incredible.

[VisibleEnigma]

CERTIFIED MOS DEF CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!

REAL HIP HOP....R.I.P.

[resino92]

This is original hip-hop not like todays' crap..

[giibby1]

dont ge ge ge ge get get m,e

[jerelforeal]

2 2 2 deep, real talk. brick city 4 ever. dont get GOT.

[Sibalnom22]

ilikeit

[BrooklynTony1]

ahh shiiit

[ApprxAm]

Brooklyn's own....nuff said---don't git got, Kid. Keep them rocks and ice hidden.

[Apathy132]

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME POETRY MUTHAFuKAS??

[Peruvianboogie]

Ali Shaheed Muhammad produced this track so thats just a plus for any song.This song is super bomb!

[duranward]

@Peruvianboogie damn really? dope

[grooveskin]

Mos Def = Most Intelligent MC

[KingVirmire]

Mighty Mos Def. song makes alot of sense. dont flash ya shit in the hood, and do illegal shit in broad daylight, you will get robbed. thats why i keep a low profile.

[afrosheen6]

@KingVirmire Damn straight...

[guerilla619]

this is tight as shit, mos did it again

[duhboss1]

I think that this is a song about humility.

Beautiful song.

[jordanmerida]

mans a genious

[nemesis700]

mr fashion. they harder you flash the harder you get flashed ON

[tgilgannon]

Old rap tunes are the shit..

[teeznutz0]

been listening to the def fo many many years i always enjoyed his , looking for an old school tune of his not light but something with similar title or possibly light is just a word in the lyrics but anyhow my search continues

[Tradewindow]

dont get MAD

[PHILLYHEAT215]

@Tradewindow

No...its Don't Get ME. he just pronounces it "Dont Get Mey". Why would he say mad? thats not the definition of what "got" is..

[jigggy95]

I ... AM ... IMPRESSED

[ShakaDelic716]

hey guys, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD PRODUCED THIS! not Tip!

[rustyhawkeye]

this is good. forever.

[Migas128]

dont get me!

dont get me!

don't g-g-g-g-g-get me!

[Tradewindow]

it's mad!

[19CASSELLS91]

watta fucking tune! shout out 2 mos!!!!!!!

[duhboss1]

Does "got" mean get robbed?

Fuckin awesome song, anyway.

[MachuPicchuTours]

MOS...... ONE OF THE BEST OF HIP HOP

[planck17]

@MachuPicchuTours you're right!!

[free2bpoppie]

The man has a message that is worth hearing, and he does it with a raw-tinged intelligence, that forces you to at least consider his point of view!

It's really genius, ( I don't like to use that term loosely, but it is appropriate here!)

[merkseason09]

My favorite rapper of all time!!!!

[Percepti0nIsReality]

I wish all hip-hop was this good.

[MCKN1989]

Young berg needs to listen to this song...dude just keeps gettin' got lol (robbing isn't funny folks....)

[demoremda]

haha this is such a funny song

THIS IS SO UNFAIR haha

[Unstucked]

word.

[Thierrymasters]

The Is The Rap we grew up listening to. The rap the New Music Industry killed...

[manwomanboogie]

Yup...damn shame man. It hurts for real.

[wrzlprzopzl]

agree!!! and its so sad... teenagers are lissnin to flo rida and dj khaled instead of mos def or talib kweli...

[oiNsTiiNcTz]

lots of teens listen to him. you're older than me and you can't spell listen?

[Teefless]

This mothafucka spits it real.

[spaceeskimo11t]

i recently realized that rap is awesome, its the new stuff that kinda threw me off.

[moirystoirm]

@spaceeskimo11t Good for you man. Every side has a story to tell. Fuck ignorance.

[omgwtf1234567]

@moirystoirm word bro

[fireworksinmusic]

@moirystoirm your prone to have ignorance at sometime.

[moirystoirm]

@fireworksinmusic

Is that the truth?

[majikninja07]

@spaceeskimo11t  ill just say corporate rap is just as bad as corporate media

[duranward]

@spaceeskimo11t this is hip hop. fuck rap

[spaceeskimo11t]

@duranward mos def is definetly rapping

[duranward]

@spaceeskimo11t this is not rap.. this is called hip hop. soldier boy, lil, wayne, jeezy, thats rap.

[760ArcAngel]

@duranward No this is rap. lil wayne tries to rap but he cant he rhymes. hip hop is a way of life. rap is a music genre. Hip hop died in 2004 rap is underground.

[duranward]

@760ArcAngel @760ArcAngel lmfao ur slightly confused.  hip hop is not only a culture but is a type of music. mos def is emceeing. something that rappers can not always do when they rap. lil wayne can wrap. he is not good enough to emcee though you feel me? the majority of hip hop died a lil before 04. this lp was put out 99 i think

[p0money0ediot]

@duranward do you even know the real difference between hip-hop and rap? Hip-hop is culture, rap is an expression of hip-hop. I think you mean with "fuck rap": fuck todays rapshit :)

[duranward]

@p0money0ediot wrong. rap is not just a verb. its a type of music. hip hop is not just a culture. its a type of music. this is hip hop. not rap.

[icedaddy27]

@duranward what your saying is wrong on every level... there is one generally accepted definition of hip hop and rap... the one krs-one made... and that is rap is music... and hip hop is culture...

but nothing irritates me more than when white kids who really have no idea what their talking about start defining rap or hip hop based on content... its just so non-sensical... how do you even draw the line between hip hop and rap... its completely arbitrary

[duranward]

@icedaddy27 krs one also said dont fear the nwo. im 10000% right and ill argue with anyone on the planet about what im saying.

hip hop is not just a culture it is a genre of music specifically created by a subculture of listeners like me.

and if ur assuming i'm white then ur mistaken. i hate dudes really try to break down this hip hop shit to me like they know what the fuck it is.

rap is bullshit non conceptual egotistic plastic beat music. hip hop... is this.

bodied

[icedaddy27]

@duranward dude u are fuckin insane... i seriously would love you to say that mos def or andre 3000 or common... or any head... "hip hop is a subculture created by LISTENERS like me" i seriously always try to use pragmatism and logic when dealing with arguments over rap... but your so lost and in your own world theres no point.

[ksbrandt]

@icedaddy27

Yeah, totally agree. Hip hop is created by those who make the music, not by those of us who just listen to it. If you really wanna contribute to hip hop music (other than buying other people's music, and supporting their art), then rap or produce - and try to be good at it, because there's a lot of garbage out there.

[duranward]

@icedaddy27 u mis quoted me. u completely missed what i said. there is no argument here. hip hop is a culture and a genre. done

[compella1]

@spaceeskimo11t Lots of really good rap out there man, don't let the media feed you their caricatures, if u like lyricists, check out Aesop Rock...won't hurt to check out Compella too ;) Mos is the fuckin man.

[UGADawgs555]

@spaceeskimo11t i feel the same way.

[SpasianPride]

@spaceeskimo11t  new stuff is pop-hop not hip-hop... thats just my opion tho

[DocSkribblez]

@spaceeskimo11t Naw it ain't the new stuff more than it's the WACK stuff that threw us off

[verdemanthe1]

@spaceeskimo11t yeah stay away from all that new dance music auto tune shit that passes for hiphop on the radio nowadays nobody really likes it(ok some girls really like it)but it aint hiphop

[The3Answer1]

@verdemanthe1 white girls haha

[thatstheguy07]

@spaceeskimo11t YES

[spaceeskimo11t]

hell yea

[PoeticTragedy65]

Ah, if only rap was still like this..<333

[spaceagejunkie]

dont get mad

[bxfabolous]

if your in community college, got this is how you get got !

[milkey23]

illmaticzz reel hip hop reel beat.. real musiq

[shadowpocalypse]

hmm

[008fox]

Beat is sooo sick!

[djslipdisk]

@008fox The drums are sick aren't they!

[vyrgo84]

@008fox HELL YEAH!!!

[Ihuffglue91]

I wish it was still 2000 so I could tag soho in the snow listening to this

[RasXcellent1]

klazzic joint, summer '00

[JSpine]

Lupe is the hair on Mos Def's nuts

fuck him

[greenfiend408]

lupe sucks

like really fucking bad

[artydarts]

nigga you must be on crack

[greenfiend408]

i just cant stand the pitch of his voice it sounds like he got kicked in the balls

[chasindacool]

not really...he may just need to dumb it down for u...

[nemesis700]

lupe is real pretentious. i hate that about him

[008fox]

Lupe is a great lyricist.

[Matthew235689]

the last half of the last verse is nasty, from "Mr. Fashion, that style never last long" on.. especially "There's hunger in the street that is hard to defeat

Many steal for sport, but more steal to eat"

[raggamm]

Now, this would seem to be clear common sense

But, cats be livin' off sheer confidence.

Sooooooooooo true

[4lifetupac96]

THIS IS HOW U GET GOT

[cbmuzik]

this has to be one of Mos sickest joints ever! Just listen to the lyrics...and you'll see this cat on some real. boom!

[resistir1]

Remember this jam vers!!!!!

[gohoya]

i wish music had taken this direction (and that of a tribe called quest) instead of the ice cream paint jobs that we have today :-(

[djraz22]

heard his 2004 album? its well different its all rock n shit aint too into it

[GyomYT]

lol