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  • I'm not on the outside looking in. I'm not on the inside looking out. I'm in the dead fucking center looking around.

  • Martial Law shit drop we gon' ALL GET GOT! So true..

  • SOUL!

  • Those horns are sick!

  • Waaaaaaaay underated.

  • Ab soul's flow is ridiculous

  • i spent 23 years on this earth searching for answers, till one day i realized i had to come up with my own.

  • My mind turned into a song. Can they both just become my spiritual bestfriends?

  • i cant listen to this high...i get an anxiety attack.

  • @KyleAlexDude im not a smoker so the first time i got so blowed and my brother played his song i was like goin on a ride, it was takin me on a trip, i felt like i was going to hell, i was startin to see devilish features everywhere come out of those who sang along, i felt like i was bein controlled, i listen to this song now to try to get rid of the fear, but i agree wit u 100%

  • @lpo7297 it's trippin me out just thinking about it

  • @lpo7297 i Feel the same way trippy as Fuck..... but i start my day wit nippsy hussel -i dunt give a fucc Blazin is must when ma nigga nip hit ma speakers

  • I loved his lyrics, and the jazz is majestic, but I don't like how the two fused in this song

  • hahah im on a trip 35.009 oh no wait wtf this is real :o why man kendrick is fuckin great

  • i wish Soul rapped like this of other songs

  • who could ever dislike this?

  • People like quoting that cheesy punchline rap or Drake lines (Huge Drake fan) but this music right here... Revolutionary!

  • Pauly from rocky voice: I dont care what them damn judges said this is the best album of the year. BIG UPS TO ADELE THO REAL MUSICX KICKING ASS

  • SOUL!

  • i think i saw this aired on the morning news, then i woke up.

  • love the jazz man HIIPOWER

  • I love this beat so much, anyone got any suggestions of more rappers over legit Jazz? I love how intense it gets around 3:30

  • "that martial law shit dropped we gonna all get got"

  • Ab Soul is so underrated, actually properly listen to what he's saying, I'd say in some ways his lyrics are better than Kendricks.

  • @rebelwithakeyboard Ab-Soul is preaching some absolute truth on this track. His lyrics are so damn good. Plus his flow is nasty. Just get a sip of this elixir, before they crop us out the picture. I never seen a crop circle but I've seen cops circle the block"

    So nasty.

  • @rebelwithakeyboard u Ab definitely a problem im feeling him

  • kendricks songs are like rap on jazz beats lol

  • @austinluther27 listen to guru jazzmatazz thats exactly what he did

  • @austinluther27 That's the direction hip-hop originally started heading towards and it was gorgeous. But we completely moved away from it, sadly. THIS is where rap needs to go. This is where rap needs to be. Something with meaning, something with some actual instrumentation, something with some soul.

  • @IntegralProd lol hip-hop's always had that direction and you do realize that genres evolve, right?

  • @teethofghosts I do realize that but the thing is, it's evolved into a clusterfuck of club bangers, meaningless lyrics, and sex and partying. Hip-hop used to stand for something, a civil movement, something to express the hardships of the ghettoes, the projects, the lower class. I understand that there still were jazz-rap acts back in the 90's and such but it is very rare to hear something like this these days which is sad, because this is soul right here. Anyway, gonna go listen to Black Radio

  • @IntegralProd ERG wrong. Hip-hop started as party music. And just because something isn't conscious jazz rap talking about struggles doesn't mean it's bad, and there's still plenty of that today. You have to look at music in its context. A lot of Club Bangers can be great, and lyrics about sex/partying never was equivalent to less quality. Just because folk isn't a bunch of hippies singing about the Vietnam War as much doesn't mean the genre's evolved in a bad light.

  • @teethofghosts Folk also isn't mindless nonsense talking about girls shaking asses and taking shots of robotussin or lean or getting as fucked up as you can. Folk songs actually tell a story. My point was, the Hip-Hop industry today is very lack luster, much of it sounds the same, and it's all dumbed down. Compare today's rappers with Big L, Big Pun, Ice Cube, Tupac, Biggie, Wu-Tang, etc. I'm not saying everything should be "conscious jazz rap" but when everything is brain dead club music . . .

  • @IntegralProd it's moving away from where it should be going. It's almost as if it's devolving, which is sad. A lot of the great rappers out there aren't in the mainstream market, they're underground. A lot of the mainstream market is saturated with two-bit wannabe thugs and people with no real direction or message. When was the last time you heard a rap song on the radio that DIDN'T have to do with drugs, buying a shit ton of stuff you don't need, or getting laid and really fucked up?

  • @IntegralProd So? Subject matter isn't correlated with quality whatsoever. There are plenty of great songs about hitting dat ass and getting throwed. It just seems like you take it too seriously. You complain about it being really homogenous subject matter-wise, but Big L almost rapped about the same overall stuff. And a lot of "conscious" rappers and 90s rappers are guilty of the exact same thing, you just have a personal preference for those subject matters because you feel they're "deeper".

  • @IntegralProd And there's Marvins Room. I'll concede that it's R&B and it does involve getting drunk but it's actually pretty damn artistic once you dissect it. It's not just Drake crying over his ex, it's just this flow-of-consciousness spiral into pathetic drunkenness and trying to call his ex but as it gets further, you just catch so much subtext. And I'm pretty sure it got a lot of radio play and the rapping parts did have a lot of internal rhymes.

  • he's just dropping logic... fuckin genius

  • The lyrics are amazing this guy is sooo talented hate the beat though.

  • Tupac - Life's A Traffic Jam

  • this shit left me speechless

  • This just makes me so hyped ahhhh

  • Pushing boundaries. Respect.

  • I think everyone can agree that Kendrick has resurrected Hip-Hop on this song. Gott Damn

  • what sample is this from?

  • @LittlJohn

    tupac did a song for a movie he was in called gridlocked .... the name of the song was called life is a traffic jam ... life is a traffic jam was sampled for this song

  • @WolfpackMusicGroup then what song is life is a traffic sampled from because this is a Jazz song, I want the jazz song, it sounds like Joshua Redman or Kenny Garrett, but I'm not sure

  • @WolfpackMusicGroup okay you're not even close lol, Life is a Traffic Jam sampled the bass line from a jazz song called Calling Ms. Khadijah by Art Blakey with Lee Morgan. This song interpolated the chant Life is a Traffic Jam. But the actual I guess "beat" cause its not a beat, their rapping over an actual song. Its a jazz song. But I can't figure out which one. Unless they used live instrumentation and this is not a sample. Which with absoul I wouldn't be surprised.

  • @LittlJohn Think this shit was made fresh with session musicans for the album. I know thats Terrance Martin on the horn anyways...

  • @taaffeman132 if it was thats crazy loco lol, Kendrick either has friends or money to pull that off cause this a crazy Jazz song. Whose Terrance Martin???

  • @LittlJohn Terrace Martin is a producer. Has been producing for Kendrick for a while now and Kendrick has a few features on his Terrace Mixtapes. Look up "Here, My Dear" & "The Sex EP"

  • reminds of me of some classic slum village

  • @fingerboardingrocks8 Maybe a little bit of nas in there?

  • This song just fucked me up ..... FUCK!

  • why is this one song cleaner than everything else on k. dot album

  • Why is it only showing my views?

  • Odd Future diss @ 1:43 . Black Hippy > OF

  • @OG818KUSH He said OddFuture is iight but our future's not...

  • @BigzDesignzHD He said "OddFuture's odd but our future's not..."

  • @BigzDesignzHD "OddFuture is iight but our Future is not, if that marshall law get Dropped we gone all get got" ab-soul is the truth with kendrick

  • @OG818KUSH The real west coast is black hippy

  • Cathedral, church, ism!

  • This is SOO Powerful!!

  • Kerndrick and Terrace!!

  • Ab-soul is a lyrical monster.

  • MOS DEF / TALIB KWELI/KENDRICK LAMAR

  • @fingerboardingrocks8

    Black Star and K. Dot would be awesome.

  • thank you terrace martin

  • got love for Jazz & hip Hop..

    always knew the two sounded perfect together. !

  • anyone knows which composition goes background?

  • I'm in love with the singers

  • Who tha fuck iz not feelin this katt man...Krazy...

  • this is that real right here...hip hop and jazz..

  • Why does Ab soul not sound like Ab Soul??

  • this nigga just RAPPED OVER JAZZ.

  • @acdavis18 Lupe did it too...and Soul Khan. Nothing crazy.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic Not like this! this guy is on another level. get on now or get left behind!

  • @mrwhatever213 Kendrick on another level from Lupe? get off the dust bro. lol.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic get of the dust?? yo thats swaggy explain to me wat this means lol

  • @mailboxman201 Like angeldust. Im saying get off the drugs. Kendrick and Lupe are on the highest level of lyricism ever seen in the game. But to say kendricks better than lu is still crazy talk.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic Lupe at his peak (F&L I) is better than Kendrick Lamar when you look at songs like Hurt Me Soul, American Terrorist, and Conflict Diamonds. But Lupe's peak was at the beginning of his rap career. Lu can still rap, but overall product is no where close to where it used to be. Compare Section 80 to Lasers or FoTP and... there's no comparison. Even comparing this to "The Cool", Sec 80 is still close when looking at Reagan Era, Rigamortis, Outro, & Hiiipower to name a few.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic In what song(s) did Lupe ever rap over jazz? If you're talking about "Paris, Tokyo", as a guy who plays jazz (drums), I can tell you that "Paris, Tokyo" and this Outro are two different levels of music. What Lupe rapped over was light jazz. Musically, this is just the more difficult of the two.

    Although both songs are in straight 4/4 time, imo Kendrick is rapping with a more complex flow than Lupe.

  • @AlphaAccount Lupe Fiasco - Life Death And Love From San Francisco.

    Look it up.

    I'm a drummer too so im completely aware. Go listen, and reform your opinion.

    I'll wait.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic Cool, will do.

  • @MatthewHoustonMusic Rapping over Coltraine... smooth. To be honest, I hopped around on the mixtape, didn't like the tracks I hit (sounded like dubstep), and didn't listen to the whole thing. Definitely my bad since I missed that song. If Lupe did songs like that for F&L 2, I'd be onboard. That's what I wanted to hear when I was waiting for Lasers to drop. I want 06-07 Lupe where every song on the album was great (and most on the mixtapes).

    You've reformed my opinion, I favorited that song.

  • WOW!!!!!! WHAT DA FUCK DID I JUST HEAR?!?!

  • I'm not on the outside looking in. i'm not on the inside looking out. I'm in the dead fcking center, looking around. @ 3:09

  • Kendrick has a purpose not some bullshit

  • Cool

  • the amount of views this has is the worst part

    this music is genius!

  • wolf gang

  • Music for the Soul

  • absoul man dammmn

  • Im writing a paper on this shyt, I never realized how much these guys packed into this till i got to the 4th fuggin page, Staight up SPEECHLESS, revolutionary

    THUMBS UP FOR REAL MUSIC not jus hip hop

  • TERRACE MARTIN YOU FUCKING JAZZ BEAST YOU !!!!!!!

  • This is a classic.

  • There's still hope for Hip Hop after all....

  • gents and ladies i think we found our nas and az right here

  • @90mv they sick but you need to chill...

  • @ceaso21 Im not saying there on their level  though just saying these two work well together

  • @90mv good analogy but, lyrically not as Advanced as Nas & AZ....yet

  • Life Is A Traffic Jam

  • ....whoa

  • idk what i like more Ab-Soul's Verse .....Kendrick Lamar verses...the nigga at the end or Terrace Martins production

  • this is so real its fucking absurd. WOW.

  • "Ab-Soul's" {Intro} to the fucking [Outro] is #CRAZY alone!

  • this is incredible. so innovative, i love it. weezy could learn a lesson from this.

  • this an homage to a 2pac track from the gridlock'd soundtrack "life is a traffic jam"

  • This left me speechless I don't think I have ever heard a "rapper" which i will no longer refer him as....go so intellectual...no rhyming just pure conscious thoughts wow! From here on out he is an "artist"

  • 3 Fingers in the air for HiiPower

  • this is FUCCIN music, shit...i fucced up my mouse from replayin this son bitch

  • this right here is amazing. Salute Kendrick Lamar Salute Ab-Soul

  • if ppl dont like or understande kendrick they dont understand me!

  • @trese113 haha same here bro. Niggas think Soulja boy and Gucci Mane are good rappers in the D. or doughboys cashout.

  • Soul needs to blow man

  • I think of 2Pac's "Words of wisdom" off of 2Pacalypse Now .

  • HII POWER, IM SO PROUD OF MUISC GOONDOCK SAINTS N DA BUILDING

  • "I'm not on the outside looking in; I'm not on the inside looking out; I'm in the dead fucking center looking around." Wow, Kendrick's spoken word is superb.

  • THIS will be motivation when I wake up Monday-Friday to go to class and get a step closer to getting my college degree. Last year was Ambitious Girl. #HiiiPower

  • woooo this shit!!!! anybody else get energyoff  this Damn..

  • I get chills listening to this...the jazz sound is so fucking beautiful. FUCK!!

  • This track made me open my eyes about shit in the world that we are living in!

  • Shout out to Jay Rock And Kendrick And the Whole TDE they was on 106 and Park!!!!! TDE Blowin im So proud lyricism back in mainstream!!!

  • I cringe when I hear this, damn.

  • BTW "Life Is A Traffic Jam" -- Lesane Parish Crooks(Tupac Shakur)

  • AB SOUL AMAZING

  • love that saxaphone

  • That's terrace martin playing saxophone...i kno his playing anywhere...

  • is there an instrumental verson of this?

  • My IQ jumped 3 points by the end of this song.

  • IF ANYONE DISLIKES THIS IMA KILL THEY ASS!!!

  • gave my goosebumps, beautiful song, amazing album.. will be downloaded temporarily untill I have the money to buy it, support kendrick lamar.

  • R.A.P.=Rhythm and Poetry, and this song is exactly that

  • @RDoubt96 I respect your opinion, but hood issues are just a fraction of what he talks about. I recommend listening to Vanity Slaves 1 and 2.

  • @adebisi20 I respect how you answered that comment. You answered very calmly and also pointed him the direction of something new like he asked for. So you were also helpful to him as well. And to that my friend I say congratulations sir congratulations.

  • @adebisi20 and listin to the album

  • @RDoubt96 "Because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, god, history all in the same sentence"

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  • @RDoubt96 smh wow no disrespect to you as a person, but i dont respect that opinion cuzzz,

  • @RDoubt96 lil wayne drake lil boosie, nicki are garbage.. Kendrick along with very few new artists out representing our generation are ass and non lyrical and don't have substance.

  • @RDoubt96 cause of your stupidity your comment has received to many thumbs down....suck my dick

  • Beautiful Song...

  • This is SO iLL

    This Track on some "Rapper Shit" no Pun-Intended for you REAL "Black Hippy" Fans

  • thank god some people still know what 'real music' is.

  • This song is crazy but its soooo dope

  • Poetry! That is all

  • Dead prez did da traffic jam hook first but dis song iz still hot

  • LISTEN

    ALL OF YA NEED TO SPREAD WORD ABOUT THESE DUDES SO THEY CAN BLOW UP AND BE BROUGHT TO THE MAINSTREAM SPOTLIGHT AND SHOW PEOPLE WHAT REAL "RAP" IS

  • Life is a traffic jam.........paying homage to our Don, Pac. Dope! #Section 80

  • life is a traffic jam......straight up aint nuthin but just waiting our by the way ab soul killed it

  • I was bumpin this at work today and someone said this is "garbage" and it "has no excitement" that it's "just poetry with a beat" . I just looked at them and couldn't help but laugh at them but then I took pity on the people that have no idea what music is. It's a sad truth.

  • @rafybass11

    LOL honestly that's just...dumb. I woulda laughed at them too.

    "Poetry with a beat" : the definition of music.

  • @rafybass11 REALLY THOUGH LMAO..Kendrick AB Soul, Schoolboy...Big Krit (R.E.A.L. G.O.O.D. MUSIC)

  • @rafybass11 that's when you tell that man

    "what's your life about, enlighten me."

  • @DropKnowledgeBombs They rather live on their knees though.. so I wouldn't even bother.

  • @rafybass11 he mightve been talking about kendrick lamar at the end

  • @rafybass11 lol thats with Rap is Rhythm and Poetry. R.A.P

  • @rafybass11_All you can do is laugh at the ignorant,theyre brainwashed,and just like were passing knowledge theyre passing garbage till the shit starts smelling so well!

  • This song is DOPE as fuck though.

  • That wasnt an odd future diss.....he's stated on FB he digs em.

  • He said "Odd future is odd..but our future isnt"

  • @TheUNKNOWNReal noooo... he said "Odd Future's aight"

    it makes more sense that way.

  • damn i didnt know ab-soul was as deep as kendrick, im amazed

  • Fucking amazing. Fucking AMAZING. Listen number 3 is the best so far. Everytime you notice somthing else. Whole album is krickta.

    Section.80 - HIIIPOWER

  • @NuggiezVEVO Hell yeah man

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