BlackStar - whats beef (live on chappelle show)

[2blakandbold]

it's Always your own people sometimes it's your own people!

[zingthing321]

Hey guys I really want to find this video with higher quality. Any success?

[beautysouthservices]

And Added 2 Favorites ! ;)

[Oakurim]

Fuck a name, fuck tradition, religion, we learn Jesus!

[jzilla666999]

pay me nigga

[itlentertain]

this may be one of the best lyrical performaces ever

[chuc9600]

Beef is GOPolitics! Word Life!!!!

[KhMErTRiAd]

wish they didn't bleep out "fuck".. powerful song though.

[pogistarr]

yO, i MISS bLACK STAR!

[BillytheKess]

last night in philly they said new album coming in 2012

[Putaspellonyou]

@BillytheKess hope it comes true...

[KingKoopa98]

this is probably my favortie song they did and its quality is shit. damn still great but man someone needs to upload it with better quality!!!!

[AngryCakeProductions]

waters1993 u are retarded

[hoganiswrestling]

ill shit right here...Mos def is one of my favorite MC's and talib is so underrated..I never hear anyone mention him as one of the top MC's right now...

[peppertree7]

nice

[ELoQence]

ILLLLLLLLEST SHIT RIGHT HEEEEEERE!!!!!!!! YOU BETTER FUCKING RECOGNIZE BIIIIIAAAAAAAAAATCH

[cracktober]

For real, if you need to listen to hip-hop to get "educated" you must be dumb, and will believe anything. I'm not saying they're wrong, but you need to get your facts straight from multiple sources. I'm a college drop-out and listen to these lyrics ain't news to me, it's reality.

[dc5dreamz]

anywhere i can find this song with the same exact beat??? this is so sick!!!!!

[jim0watkins]

@dc5dreamz go to flvto dot com, put the link for this video and press enter, it'll download the audio into an mp3 file and voila! that's what i did lol

[dc5dreamz]

@jim0watkins thanks for the heads up, i'll be checking into this!!!!! love this song..... good lyrics, strong message and tight beat.... wish hip hop was more like this..... if it was i would quit listening to old school hahaha

[dc5dreamz]

@jim0watkins Thanks!!!!!!

[tuliocoolioshmoolio]

This is Mos Def's song "Beef", but with a Talib Kweli verse entered in the beginning.

[jim0watkins]

americans = terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their presidents, their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent

[MMartian1]

"When a soldier ends his life with his own gun/Beef is what to figure out what to tell his son"  Damn, Mos!!!! These young bucks R scared of this!!! It'z 2 REAL!!!! I'm a grown a** man & all but....... REAL HIP HOP 4eva n me 2 da death of me!!!!!

[AJWinford]

Unfortunately, spitting truth isn't marketable enough.

[yngspizzle]

What instrumental is that ??? Please in need of this ASAP ....

[MMartian1]

@yngspizzle Nobody beats the Biz By Biz Markie

[chrisense1]

"I was sold to sick european by a rich African..."Damn!

[MrStocktonian]

if rap could back to sounding like this again i bet alot more people would care about what rappers would have say but i have heard mos def talk hes a really smart guy

[zingthing321]

is there a version of this song with higher quality somewhere?

[abstractbard]

that's hip hop

[therealprimo]

face to face motherfucking truth from the land where pain flows in rivers

[319productionsss]

Hell yeah, yeah ya yeah yeah...

[Prologick]

I was sold to an sick european,by a rich african battlin/

middle passages I cant go back again/

Battlin,years of denied history lies of mystery's wives/

misty eyes,watchin they niggas get beat viciously.. (BROOKLYN)

Talib killed it.. siick.

[thezoombini]

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKLYYYY­YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYN

[jednamala17]

BEEF IS NOT WHAT JA RULE SAID TO NAS!!! (OR FIFTY)

THUMBS UP IF U AGREE!!

[thebetterhalf37]

@jednamala17 "beef is not what JAY (Jay Z) said to Nas" dont ask for thumbs up when you get the lyrics and message wrong.

[RSixBoy]

@jednamala17 Negged for epically failing idiot lol

[pretibrowniss]

manicured hand sayin pay me ni****

[pretibrowniss]

MOS DEF RIPPED IT 4REAL...

[Reddragonluke]

if there's an instrumental, for this, I'd rap off it

[daskorpian]

the gospel truth

[HUSSTLE2BUBBLE]

blackstar and Dave chappelle? now that's entertainment

[jemiho]

This is still one of the greatest, most relevant rhymes period !

[maximoyear2005]

real horror show like

i viddy much

[T14JM]

What's Beef/Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep/Beef is when I see you guaranteed to be an ICU/What's Beef/ Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep/Beef is when I see you guaranteed to be an ICU

[AnonPhenom]

Those who would trade freedom for protection deserve neither/

F*** a name, f*** tradition, religion, and learn Jesus

[with33]

damm mos def just wow all i gotta say

[sriig]

Mos Def dropped one of the coldest verses of all time, period.

[HighMeditation]

Real Talk!

No joke

1

[MrGeoffb5]

who the fuck is lil wayne? some prick with shit flow thats what. method, gza, biggie thats the realest. truth.

[quovadimus02]

3 Justin Biebers didn't like this.

[pawndominance1]

demonstrating hip hop as a true artform and true artists

[Damndot]

You canNOT listen to this and NOT like it.....and if you do, hip hop might not be the game for you...

[MadeInDC1983]

CHURCH! 

[AlmsAudi1]

3 dislikes: Lil Wayne, Drake, T Pain

[Remus0387]

Mos Def and Talib Kweli are dope, no doubt.

[glennadelaware66]

preaching the truth to the masses

[CJames410]

BROOKLYNNNNN

[TTRCT860]

Important Brothers!!!! True MCs!

[xTomTrinh]

Is there a better quality version of this? and uncensored?

[saalakhanREBORN]

Brooklyn to the rescue, This is how True Mcs sound on the corners,in the ciphers and in the hundreds of battles I have been a part of and witnessed over the past 30 years. Peep the Knowledege in this jewel, Real spit right here with out faggoty production or southern kiddie ish like souljah boy...BROOOKLYYYYYYNNNNN !

[knotwell75]

3ppl gave this thumbs down..........wow!

[kimberlyannj]

Raw !

[VenoM1ft]

I thought hip hop was dead.....until I heard this. Keep the faith.

[curryboy7]

I think i just had an eargasm

[blanoz]

Pls, don`t compare this rappers with lil wayne and 50 and shit..no more, pls, no more.

[PKJTNB]

2 of the most talented, underrated rapports in the game. Could fuckin school 50, Wayne an faggot who said he was raw.

[PKJTNB]

2 of the most talented, underrated rappers in the game, period.

[jcsmithvip]

two of da best on a real subject

[702CitY]

I got dave chappelles first season where they performed this. they make a great group. mos def

[SuperYummy26]

I love it.

[jbzzzle]

favorite song by far

[marsminusstar]

that was the realest shit i've heard in awhile...

[waters1993]

are they making another album or what? they've got to

[almostXdaewon]

Talib said that he'll find Mos Def himself and get him on video saying that there will be a new BlackStar album, 'cause Talib's already said it and Mos Def has allegedly said it. So expect it before too long.

[cryjesuscry]

@almostXdaewon what the fuck no way

[thezakhan]

@almostXdaewon how do you know that?

[thezakhan]

@almostXdaewon

[kingdibbs]

@waters1993 no need to make an album ..

[ghettoManga]

aaaaahhhhh... that's what's up.

hip hop does the body good!

[MrBlamesociety]

hip hop is fiending for more of this

[angeloloving]

Have u heard the ecstatic? theres always more of this.... u just gotta seek it.

[NicholsComedy]

one word "realest"

[yourpalshawn]

realist *

[eamonnkm]

realist and realest are two different words, he used the correct one

[yourpalshawn]

oh well my bad

[jahwinter420]

P.S. If anything, these dudes are Rastafari, they take the Bible the Koran and the Torah equally as seriously, one step below smoking blunts and being free.

Its Red Black and Green, if you wanna be a cow you gotta deal with being a hamburger too.

-Wac Arnorlds

[angeloloving]

I actually Mos is Muslim brotha

[jahwinter420]

shit son. talib kweli and most align themselves with revolution, beef is the revolution of earth on its axis, instead of aligning themselves with religions, and fake christians such as jwork here who hate on others because of ingorance and elitist hilter bullshit. Rappers know that a white dude with money can twist their word to mean anything they want. The point is that white dude is only fooling himself and passing on lies to his children.

[SnakeyDex]

Any idea if a studio version of this was ever cut? I can only find this or the one on Mos' album.

"Yo I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin' ". That's even better than his line on Get By "we sell crack to our own out the back of our homes". It's so refreshing to hear intelligent lyrics in rap rather than materialistic, violent and/or racist black-nationalist bullshit.

[jwork23]

Everytime I listen to this song I hear something new. This is an awesome piece. I don't like that Jesus diss tho. Besides that, it's all good.

I don't know if ya'll know but they're really coming down hard on white people.

[qbforce12]

I wouldnt say that they're "comming down" on white people.

[freezecup]

What jesus diss?

[jwork23]

"F*ck a name, F*ck tradition and religion. You learn Jesus."

He's talking about European invasion of Africa.

[Jh768]

I wouldn't really say hes dissing Jesus, since history really proved that Europeans pretty much tried to convert people wherever they went

[jwork23]

Yeah, you probably right.

[freezecup]

He is saying study how Jesus lived and what he was about, not just going to church(tradition) and calling yourself a christian(name).

[jwork23]

NOOOO HE'S NOT! Listen from the first bar until then. Mos def and talib are muslim. They believe that Christianity is the "white mans" religion.

[Jh768]

I'm pretty sure Kweli isn't a Muslim, listen to the song/poem give 'em hell, He stresses instead of labeling himself to a single religion or completely conforming to one belief, he'd rather have a direct more spiritual connection with his god

[jwork23]

You may be right. I admit that I was assuming only because Mos Def is.

[JCeiver612]

well if they group things together than they are not that smart....sad to say because Mos Def is my favorite but when you break lyrics down that much things can get confused. I think talib means

Who cares about your name or your traditions, only jesus can save us.(us meaning everyone in the world) "grouping things" i mean stereotyping is the most ignorant way to look at people. So i dont think they meant it by the way you put it because they are smarter than to focus on that useless shit.

[jwork23]

I'm not sure of what you're calling 'useless'. Please specify.

And I disagree with the middle part of your comment. I disagree because of what he said after that line.

Fuck a name, fuck tradition

Religion - you learn Jesus

Turn the other cheek

Inherit the Earth, just stay meek

Fuck the way you speak

Try to walk, we chop off your feet

This sounds like something an anglo would say to a African to prevent rebellion. I don't believe that Talib is a Christian at all.

[JCeiver612]

ya i guess that makes sense in a way. i think jesus and the lines "turn the other cheek, inherit the earth" is like telling us to follow jesus's teachings.

"Fuck the way you speak, Try to walk, we chop off your feet" Is Talib comparing what we do today. People will mutilate others for petty things like the way you speak, and that goes for everyone.

I bet hes comparing us today to Jesus' Teachings

[jwork23]

I might be with you if Talib is a christian but he's not

[JCeiver612]

i never said hes a Christian. by "us" i mean every person on earth. And all over the world, Christians, Muslims and Jews kill eachother over nothing so there is no difference except the prophets they follow.

[djdogjuam]

terrorists with etiquette who vote to kill their president, their capacity for evil so evident and prevailent

Awesome line

[tvdeskscreen]

ahhh man i miss chappelle show

[babyEroose]

On top of being hilarious, he has great taste in hip hop doesn't he?

[th3patsfan83]

except when he had 50 cent on

[babyEroose]

true that.

[mrwcb3]

to be honest, this song pisses on biggies song called "Whats Beef."

no disrespect to biggie (rip) tho but their defintion of beef makes more sense.

beef is real life not "fake bonanzas" (mos def song).

heres a key example:

beef is not the tupac and biggie dispute,

beef is the outcome...........

[ilovepoobs]

this is from chappelle's show?

[boobilz]

IT'S MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!

[Stn3dRaid3r]

word up brotha

[dariinChen24]

Its good.

[6663000]

Beff is not what Jay said to NAS,

Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs,

Instead of trying to find niggas to rob,

tryin to find some bigger guns for them to finish the job.

[Froggy1975]

people who know hip hop know how good this really is.

[starsky1012]

true hip hop geniuses, first time i heard this on chappelle's show, my mind was blown

[justino1956]

nice song best rappers .

[FRESHCOOLAIDE]

Good song. Nicely done. That's what you call true Masters of the Ceremony.

[yogie27489]

Def, Kweli & Common...

No one does it better!

[Vader579]

dead prez

[borisjefftrev]

anyone clicking on this will all ready know its better than 50, wayne and soulja boy but thanks for pointing that out anyway

[doktahpepper]

@borisjefftrev whenever u write that stuff on a real hiphop video all ur doing is promoting

[jacob3432]

@doktahpepper word

[54egator]

so much better than 50, wayne, soulja boy, and 90% of all other rapper out right now.

[6663000]

Mos Def is definatley underrated. One of the best MC's out there for sure.

[bklynsfynest2k3]

if that freestyle didnt break down real beef i dont know what did. Blackstar killed it...they should have put it on a record and released it as a single..

[skrunkhyphy602]

its on a mixtape somewhere.

[alphaf88]

Beef ain't the Summer Jam for Hot 97 ...

Beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic ....

True REAL hiphop ! Talkin real shit, damn! commerical shit needs to stop polluting peoples minds.....people needa stop listenin to braindead music... to hear wts realli goin on...

LYRICAL CONTENT PEOPLE!!! LYRICAL CONTENT!!!

[STUCKONSTOOPiD07]

Beef ain't Jay z & Nas, beef is when workin' niggas can't find jobs...

[ghendrick2001]

Beef is Oil Prices and Geo-Politics, Beef is Iraq, The West Bank and Gaza Strip.

[TruDru1978]

Blackstar should do one more Album Together

[wgbarnes101]

TruDru, this is one of the realist hip hop songs ever created. I agree with you.

[MrBlamesociety]

yeah they should. one of the best duos ever, like nas and az, gza and rza, outkast, etc.

[tubetime3]

i dnt think u should outkast in their

[GeniusHood]

yes they should... practically the best southern rap duo in Hip Hop... check back in the 90's.