For those Talib Kweli fans who live in Southern California, I have tickets to see him LIVE in Santa Ana on Nov 25th tickets are only $20 don't miss out message me if interested.
"what becomes of a dream deferred, that doesnt make it to the world to be seen or heard, do it breath, do it got a heart beat, is it alive do it leave, only to become a star in the sky/ i believe, scratch that i know this aint my full potiential only useing ten percent of my mental on instrumentals"
talib from every where...got fam in philly new york chicago, all the same... like i always post on his shit...talib can get lyrical, hard 2 find nowadays
Talib kweli's flow is 10 times better though. and I think that more people can relate to this cause they so busy struggling and they cant philosophize what Canibus and Immortal Technique have to say. First we need to bring the love back, pray and God will handle the rest.
So many different views and opinions of what Hip Hop really is. The truth of the matter is that it's eternal definition can be rendered with two words... "Talib Kweli" - Top 5 MCs of all - time for sho!!!!!
i often wonder just how much better can an intro to an album be than this. between Queens get the money and jay z intro on kingdom come these had to be the best intro in recent hip hop. kweli proves why je underrated that much more than ever on this one. lyrically he ranks supreme but will always fall short due to lack of promotion, no "bitches", liquor promoting in songs, and his love for real subject matter.
bro, he would murk you in a battle, has more respect in the game than you, so you cant really say shit
plus the music i saw on your page obviously dont take much skill, hip hop is about innovation and originality, and Talib kweli has set himself apart from the rest, while theres probably 1000 other rappers who could make the music on your page
bro, he would murk you in a battle, has more respect in the game than you, so you cant really say shit
plus the music i saw on your page obviously dont take much skill, hip hop is about innovation and originality, and Talib kweli has set himself apart from the rest, while theres probably 1000 other rappers who could make the music on your page
I'm a hustler, I'm a gangster and a rebel with the rank of a general In the battle between God or the Devil. I lay claim to your spirit, your religion, your belief system I'll do your hit in your kitchen and you're relief pitchin
Sorry I must disagree with you on Nas. You really had to be at least 30 today to truely know and be feeling Nas and his skills. Back when he was young in 90's you'd feel a great connection between this track and One Love; different worlds but still fo real life; different times!
honestly....we all have hearts lungs and brains...right now what matters more than the owners being black or white is their intention behind owning such a large corporation. Can they use the position of power to spread love throughout the world or are we gonna get more of this bullshit Drama TV....i mean reality TV. Our job, be the positive change we wish to see in the world by changing ourselves for the better. Best of luck brother.
mr. fantastic55 is wat makes soldier boy and 50cent, wat happened to rappers telling us that we can make it OUT of the hood, talib and common and all of these "poets" are the ones reviving hiphop from the deep slumber she was in for the last couple decades...in other words mrfantastic cannot be 40 because most 40 year olds know what hiphop was, and see that she is dying
You know what forget the Hood. the Hood let Aye Bay Bay....and Solider Boy...and Walk it out...become what most people younger then 15 think Hip hop is all about...what happen to the days when N.W.A could rock the same concert with BDP...and Big Daddy Kane and the JB's could share the same stage as Ice T
(side not you know Tim Dog was a member (unofficial) of Ultramagnetic MC's right...you know Kool Keith and them....those MC's with the space age..non-gangster (although still hardcore) lyrics
And please don't go there with your attacks on the burbs...because best believe it was someone not from the Hood...that gave the final say so to let most of these "hardcore" MC's get a record deal (and they tell these cats when they can and can't put out a album). It wasn't someone from the "hood" that started Def Jam...The main reason why your favorite artist sell records is because a lot of "Yuppies" etc by those records.
Tim Dog, 50 cents, Mobb Deep's style of hip hop represents a small portion of what is going on in the hood but represents 97% of what hip-hop has become.
My problem with your Hood comment is that you fail to realize that Talib's style of HH is really needed in our black community (society as a whole) Marvin Gaye was from the Hood...Curtis Mayfeld...Isaac Hayes....all from the hood....but there music inspired people to do better...I don't care what you say but if you take most of the records that you like at face value they do not help the situation.
Every MC can't talk about the same negative/materialistic ish album after album...in the hood you have folks up to no good but you also have a lot more folks who live a positive life....The Last Poets said it best Nigg@s want to just party and bullish!! Life is not all about that...and Hip-hop can't be all about that (and didn't start out like that) (money clothes and hoes is all a brother knows = a recipe for disaster.
In response to your "lay terms" comment: you have a point Hip-hop was created by folks from the Hood's of the USA...but it was created as a way to escape the gang violence...in alt to that street culture. Don't you see that Talib and MC's like him are as much a part of Hip-hop as 50 cent?? The pain and glory right...good times and bad times right?
...the reason why this video may look like it was made on such a low budget is because it most likely was...i'm pretty sure the money for his new videos came out of his own pocket but i think thats amazing for an artist to do and u can relate to it so much more...plus i like videos like this much more than wat u c typically
to that mrfantastic guy...u don't have to like his music...but u r being very ignorant when you asked who listens to it...people in Afghanastan/Equator??...obviously i c ur over exagerrated sarcasm but the truth is that he has a huge fan base right here in North America...not just around the world... and of course most of his music wouldn't be played at parties...just because it may not pump u up does not mean its shit
We need more tracks about supermaning hoes, shooting people, getting shot, selling crack (which subsequently destroys the "hood"), and Ice (that the majority of my brothers and sisters in the hood do not have, and therefore cannot relate to).
Ghetto Streets in all its pain and glory=The birth and saga of hip-hop music.
Backpackers, Bookworms and Suburban America =The degeneration of REAL hip-hop and its integrity by yuppies who would try to censor, water down, & commercialize it. Listen to my man Tim Dog's album, Penicillin on Wax. He'll tell you what it's all about!!
Regardless of what you consider real hip hop, the thing to learn from this is that, as you have said, you are conditioned to Hood Rap from a young age, and so that is all you know. As that is the rap you know, when you hear other hip-hop you consider it not from the streets, because it just happens to be something you didn't hear while being conditioned to your rap. When you can drop your pre-wired conditions of what is and isn't rap, come back, revisit this song and rethink your PoV.
Very funny. I've got to laugh at that one myself. Although it ain't funny 'cause I'm not 40 years old, or a thug for that matter. but I WILL beat yours and anyone elses ass with these hammers for mits!!!
(blame you tube!!! for making me cut this up) ....EPMD...Rakim hasn't rolled with Eric B for how many years..(did you just throw those names in for nostalgic purposes???) and style of dress.....G-unit gear???? seriously!!??? Mobb Deep's best albums came out before the G-unit stuff...and you call Talib's stuff generic!!!???
I call all his music generic because it's not real. When he can spit reality rap about real issues concerning blacks in the ghetto and stick to the subject matter,over real,hard, raw beats, then I might stop dissin' him. He's more of a poet or spoken word type of dude than a rapper.
And if we are talking about Lyrics....some of the cats in your cd player can't really rhyme their way out of a paper bag...if you are talking about beats...then I don't think you are talking about the most recent stuff from KRS-ONE (although I liked the album with Marley Marl) and NAS
You must agree with me that he's wack. I didn't hear you say anything about his album(s) and how good they are(were).Who knows any of Kweli's lyrics to any of his songs???? Who's bumpin' his music in their cars or at parties???? Probably in Afghanastan or on the Equator he's hot, not here!!
....Chuck D called hip-hop the CNN of the ghetto...if that is true then based off the MC's you like and the amount of money these cats talk about having in their videos....then Black People (esp in the Hood)would be in a better place then they are today.
Once again let's be realistic. A hand full of nuevo riche millionare rappers can't save all of Americas' ghettos. And FYI black people ARE in better shape than the were 10-15 years ago because of rap music. Hip-hop has created an untold amount of jobs and cash revenue for blacks, but white america CAPITALIZES from it. CUT IT OUT!!!
"....since when did the community or hood become all about drugs, sex, killing...since when did hip-hop become so generic and predictable....I thought the culture of hip-hop was about "self-expresion"...you need to do your history...Hip-hop comes from all over the place...and its roots go way beyond "the hood" Bottom line you just don't like Talib...which I am cool with...hey to each his own....but don't feed me that Hood mess
I never said that hip-hop equals sex, money and murder.I said that the "hood" is where it started from, the ghetto streets, a lifestyle to which for many is the reason why people buy rap music. Rap is from the streets. Kweli is not street.
AT FIRST RAP was about the emcee. to hype the party and have a good time. It was also about reportin on whats goin on in the hood (the message-grandmaster flash) that gangsta style rappin didnt come till much later with NWA. in fact..hip hop was created by Africaa bam. from the zulu nation to get people out of gangs and murderin and shit/ in conclusion talib is closer to the ROOTS of hip hop than weezy is. and do you know for sure he's not from the streets. are you his mum?
I never preached this is what's good in the hood. I'm from the hood, so I am conditioned to listen to street level music. I can't relate to someone who's not from the hood concerning rap music. You're on the outside trying to rap your way in without any experience or insight as to what's really going on in the streets.
you are right I am not from the Hood. But seriously if you are saying that 50, g-unit, etc speak for the whats really going on in the hood then I don't think you have been there either. (and if that is what you are saying don't you see a problem with that) I am not going to get into it with you about who you like etc etc...
Let's not forget that we are talking about lyrics, beats, style of dress, and of course, where it all comes from. Obviously you're not from the hood, so you will accept a generic brand of rap music such as this shit here. JAY-Z, NAS, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.., 50 CENT, G-UNIT, LLOYD BANKS, TONY YAYO, MOBB DEEP, BIG NOYD, EPMD, ERIC B & RAKIM, KRS-ONE...I'm an Accounts Payable supervisor.
lol you put nas and yayo in the same sentence? if nas is generic then who is original? Lil wayne? lil boosie? drake? the only way you can redeem yourself with that comment is by saying Binary star , doom or optimus rhyme or somethin...
The Hood????? Please tell me your 12 years old with comments like that. Yeah the video may not be the hottest thing out there but this song is very very good....what are you listening to in your car?....what r you doing with your life?
Shit is weak!!!! What's wrong with yall tree huggin' backpackin' negros? Wack lyrics, wack gear, beat is aiight, but where's the kick, the boom bap, THE HOOD??? He's been in the game too long to be making shit my 10 year old little brother could make. He's always been a mediocre, over-rapper. Too many lyrics, but ain't sayin' shit. GARBAGE!!!
Yea your right man. We need some more violence and nonsensical lyrics. Talib is whack he talks about shit that actually matters. I want to hear more about supermaning some hoes. Degrading women is awesome. Go kill yourself you ignorant dumb ass.
As for you Mr. Softee, you need to grow a pair. You sound like a housekept wuss. If you can't handle raw hip-hop music then you do't have to listen to it. But don't shove that "I can solve the world's problems thru poetry" bull down my throat. So tell me, how come nobody knows the fucking lyrics to any of his songs????
Talib ain't gonna dumb down his lyrics for unintelligent peeps like yourself. I feel you on the raw hip-hop line but dawg you can't discredit an artist for trying to connect with people on some positive shit. I don't feel like listening to cats talk about shooting people. I think everyone can agree that the aforementioned "hood" has had enough of that shit. ONE
I will agree with you to a certain extent, but you can't take what's embedded and conditioned in a person and change it to something else just because that's the way the wind is blowing.He paints too much of a flowery, abstract picture of our struggle. He ain't never struggle,tussle,fought carried or shot any weapons anywheres. That black power shit gets no play in my ride!! We are done with the 1960's Civil Rights movement!
Great song, but the video looks like the uncut kinda level of video (not content, but how the video looks). I mean, if that's what he was goin' for, the down-to-earth type feel, that's understandble.
Still a GREAT song, and I wish more cats put heart & soul n their music like this cat.
Talib is a K-rafty W-ordsmith who is among the E-lite and is extremely L-yrically I-ntelligent.
mpass09 2 months ago
@mpass09 fuck you you creative faggot
grawrdpg 2 months ago
For those Talib Kweli fans who live in Southern California, I have tickets to see him LIVE in Santa Ana on Nov 25th tickets are only $20 don't miss out message me if interested.
zully87 3 months ago
tha motherfucking GOAT
ThaSubzstance 4 months ago
Thank You Talib kweli
For Making Real Music
23LJKing 5 months ago
fuckin deep, and he also made a colaboration with Nach, a rapper from spain,
The rap song is called "Los Elegidos" look for it, you won't regret how cool the rap song is.
xxgiancarlo21xx 6 months ago
Nice sample from Daybreak - Everything Man....
One of the best songs on the album........ I like "More or Less" and "Listen" also. :D
SugaMister 2 years ago
Talib's BALD? *gasp*
Rucks90 2 years ago
@Rucks90 that is the first time i have ever seen him without a hat on!!!
lotrman91 7 months ago
Eardrum, overlooked great album
TreyCH11 2 years ago 3
This is a really good song. Well done Talib
Pluetry 2 years ago
Kweli/Madlib, good chemistry right there. (aka Liberation)
mhaze210 2 years ago
...only using 10% of my mental on instrumentals.....Kweli won't truly be recognized as a poet of our era until his passing. That's how society works.
twenty5psi 2 years ago 17
jlstark you r so right. i think that if kweli was more present in the mainstream he could reach out to so many people.
nassor1323 2 years ago
* from chicago as in much love for Talib Kweli in the midwest.
AZrapKGball 2 years ago
"what becomes of a dream deferred, that doesnt make it to the world to be seen or heard, do it breath, do it got a heart beat, is it alive do it leave, only to become a star in the sky/ i believe, scratch that i know this aint my full potiential only useing ten percent of my mental on instrumentals"
Much love for Talib Kweli from chicago!
AZrapKGball 2 years ago
talib from every where...got fam in philly new york chicago, all the same... like i always post on his shit...talib can get lyrical, hard 2 find nowadays
moejonz 2 years ago
give me BASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YEAHHHHH ............FEEL the beat.....cologne greetz
felwng 2 years ago
u guys r crazy canibus or immortal technique would kill this guy off lyrically
platinumjoe87 2 years ago
Talib kweli's flow is 10 times better though. and I think that more people can relate to this cause they so busy struggling and they cant philosophize what Canibus and Immortal Technique have to say. First we need to bring the love back, pray and God will handle the rest.
jlstark23 2 years ago 2
Maybe if I wanted to rap about shit a 14 year old cares about.
Mutakaliim 2 years ago
So many different views and opinions of what Hip Hop really is. The truth of the matter is that it's eternal definition can be rendered with two words... "Talib Kweli" - Top 5 MCs of all - time for sho!!!!!
poetryselite 2 years ago
i often wonder just how much better can an intro to an album be than this. between Queens get the money and jay z intro on kingdom come these had to be the best intro in recent hip hop. kweli proves why je underrated that much more than ever on this one. lyrically he ranks supreme but will always fall short due to lack of promotion, no "bitches", liquor promoting in songs, and his love for real subject matter.
poeticjae2tha 2 years ago
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man is this what hip hop is coming to things like this
what a shame
king0ric0 2 years ago
what are you talking about? this is exactly what hip hop needs...
matatbatbenjamin 2 years ago 7
bro, he would murk you in a battle, has more respect in the game than you, so you cant really say shit
plus the music i saw on your page obviously dont take much skill, hip hop is about innovation and originality, and Talib kweli has set himself apart from the rest, while theres probably 1000 other rappers who could make the music on your page
kosg90 2 years ago
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bro, he would murk you in a battle, has more respect in the game than you, so you cant really say shit
plus the music i saw on your page obviously dont take much skill, hip hop is about innovation and originality, and Talib kweli has set himself apart from the rest, while theres probably 1000 other rappers who could make the music on your page
kosg90 2 years ago
mano talib manja muito ,pra mim é uns dos melhores rappers q ja existiu.....
levitonin 2 years ago
mad love to talib kweli from santiago, Chile... representing south america...
(J)
juampixJPX 2 years ago 3
I dig u Talib. Lots of love from RSA. Dis is ma shit man. PEACE!!!!!!!
Hlaks7890 2 years ago 6
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Everyone who likes beats like these should check out Jimi productionz and his song called Make em lean. It would be perfect for Talib Kweli.
seaniceking 2 years ago
My lord this guy....is MUSIC!
sundiatasoulbefree 2 years ago 9
Spiritually DEEP...kweli is something else.. Everything man!!!
thearmyfc 2 years ago 4
Everything man from Daybreak
great sample!
MetaOracle 2 years ago
this is a really good song.
xjaskix 2 years ago
finally this video is back on youtube!
great music
nugus 2 years ago
happy this aint removed!
:D
XxmohammadXx 2 years ago
i gotta find this sample
Marceles45 2 years ago
This is a kinda intro track on Eardrum album. Nice nice. ilu Talib ;D
MOCCALUDER 2 years ago
'All city all night I'm enjoyin the fame
I'm a hustler, I'm a gangster and a rebel with the rank of a general In the battle between God or the Devil. I lay claim to your spirit, your religion, your belief system I'll do your hit in your kitchen and you're relief pitchin
Jaggabone 3 years ago
This is sick man...I love it...My fav!!
JasonMorais 3 years ago
Jaggabone....the song says "I'll do your hitting, your catching and your relief pitching..." not whatever you said about the kitchen haha
chitownphilly21 2 years ago 3
just so chill
you really get lost in this track
just wish is was longer
great upload
onigun05 3 years ago
damn dis dude actually sounds ok.
redevil858 3 years ago
Where the frack have you been?!
Jaggabone 3 years ago
i'm sayin! musta been livin under a rock
jbpanther20 3 years ago
the real deal right here... I love introducing these songs to my friends who are all like who's that??
rondinsk 3 years ago
I think rza sucks... Im not a fan of him or nas.
Talib Kweli, Madvillain, Souls of mischief are the best.
Also including Company Flow.
GraffitiNwok 3 years ago
maybe plus lupe n common n i totally agree
Buxdehoode 3 years ago
Sorry I must disagree with you on Nas. You really had to be at least 30 today to truely know and be feeling Nas and his skills. Back when he was young in 90's you'd feel a great connection between this track and One Love; different worlds but still fo real life; different times!
Jaggabone 3 years ago 3
Because it's RAP City.
Soius7 3 years ago 2
Why the fuck this isn't on BET Rap City??? Un-fucking-believable!!
STLGrimm 3 years ago 4
BET is on some fucked up shit nowadays. you don't usually get tracks like these on there no more.
dablesser10 2 years ago 7
Tell me why white people own BET, that shit is messed up.
jlstark23 2 years ago
honestly....we all have hearts lungs and brains...right now what matters more than the owners being black or white is their intention behind owning such a large corporation. Can they use the position of power to spread love throughout the world or are we gonna get more of this bullshit Drama TV....i mean reality TV. Our job, be the positive change we wish to see in the world by changing ourselves for the better. Best of luck brother.
seespizzle 2 years ago
the like the other track that was up here... still a really dope song.
love and light.
sharedfaith 3 years ago
mr. fantastic55 is wat makes soldier boy and 50cent, wat happened to rappers telling us that we can make it OUT of the hood, talib and common and all of these "poets" are the ones reviving hiphop from the deep slumber she was in for the last couple decades...in other words mrfantastic cannot be 40 because most 40 year olds know what hiphop was, and see that she is dying
shameen0 3 years ago 2
yep dat was RZA
wukillah92 4 years ago
Nice joint, Res sounding and looking good.
akindele13 4 years ago
was that RZA in thie vid??
cambyman21 4 years ago
in the beginning of the video...rare intant u will see Talib Kweli not wearing a hat
Jeremy12323 4 years ago
Madlib does it again!
Eman5805 4 years ago
This is my favorite song of of Eardrum..I wish it were longer though.....
nerdrich 4 years ago
You know what forget the Hood. the Hood let Aye Bay Bay....and Solider Boy...and Walk it out...become what most people younger then 15 think Hip hop is all about...what happen to the days when N.W.A could rock the same concert with BDP...and Big Daddy Kane and the JB's could share the same stage as Ice T
(side not you know Tim Dog was a member (unofficial) of Ultramagnetic MC's right...you know Kool Keith and them....those MC's with the space age..non-gangster (although still hardcore) lyrics
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago 3
And please don't go there with your attacks on the burbs...because best believe it was someone not from the Hood...that gave the final say so to let most of these "hardcore" MC's get a record deal (and they tell these cats when they can and can't put out a album). It wasn't someone from the "hood" that started Def Jam...The main reason why your favorite artist sell records is because a lot of "Yuppies" etc by those records.
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago 2
Tim Dog, 50 cents, Mobb Deep's style of hip hop represents a small portion of what is going on in the hood but represents 97% of what hip-hop has become.
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
My problem with your Hood comment is that you fail to realize that Talib's style of HH is really needed in our black community (society as a whole) Marvin Gaye was from the Hood...Curtis Mayfeld...Isaac Hayes....all from the hood....but there music inspired people to do better...I don't care what you say but if you take most of the records that you like at face value they do not help the situation.
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
Every MC can't talk about the same negative/materialistic ish album after album...in the hood you have folks up to no good but you also have a lot more folks who live a positive life....The Last Poets said it best Nigg@s want to just party and bullish!! Life is not all about that...and Hip-hop can't be all about that (and didn't start out like that) (money clothes and hoes is all a brother knows = a recipe for disaster.
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago 2
In response to your "lay terms" comment: you have a point Hip-hop was created by folks from the Hood's of the USA...but it was created as a way to escape the gang violence...in alt to that street culture. Don't you see that Talib and MC's like him are as much a part of Hip-hop as 50 cent?? The pain and glory right...good times and bad times right?
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
another long one coming up....
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
...the reason why this video may look like it was made on such a low budget is because it most likely was...i'm pretty sure the money for his new videos came out of his own pocket but i think thats amazing for an artist to do and u can relate to it so much more...plus i like videos like this much more than wat u c typically
Jeremy12323 4 years ago
to that mrfantastic guy...u don't have to like his music...but u r being very ignorant when you asked who listens to it...people in Afghanastan/Equator??...obviously i c ur over exagerrated sarcasm but the truth is that he has a huge fan base right here in North America...not just around the world... and of course most of his music wouldn't be played at parties...just because it may not pump u up does not mean its shit
Jeremy12323 4 years ago
To sum up mrfantastics view on hip-hop:
We need more tracks about supermaning hoes, shooting people, getting shot, selling crack (which subsequently destroys the "hood"), and Ice (that the majority of my brothers and sisters in the hood do not have, and therefore cannot relate to).
k0epke 4 years ago
Lyrics such as: "I'm a hustler, I'm a gangster and a rebel with the rank of a general
In the battle between God or the Devil".
should be done away with completely. Thanks for confirming what we already knew from your first comment. YOUR WACK
k0epke 4 years ago
No, let me sum it up for you in lay terms:
Ghetto Streets in all its pain and glory=The birth and saga of hip-hop music.
Backpackers, Bookworms and Suburban America =The degeneration of REAL hip-hop and its integrity by yuppies who would try to censor, water down, & commercialize it. Listen to my man Tim Dog's album, Penicillin on Wax. He'll tell you what it's all about!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
Regardless of what you consider real hip hop, the thing to learn from this is that, as you have said, you are conditioned to Hood Rap from a young age, and so that is all you know. As that is the rap you know, when you hear other hip-hop you consider it not from the streets, because it just happens to be something you didn't hear while being conditioned to your rap. When you can drop your pre-wired conditions of what is and isn't rap, come back, revisit this song and rethink your PoV.
seespizzle 2 years ago
mrfantastic55 = the 40 year old thug. hahahhahahhahahhaahhaha
k0epke 4 years ago
Very funny. I've got to laugh at that one myself. Although it ain't funny 'cause I'm not 40 years old, or a thug for that matter. but I WILL beat yours and anyone elses ass with these hammers for mits!!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
Yeah you cant please every body!!!!!! I like the grity documentary feel of the video. Feels like hiphop again. Good shit
Choicekuts 4 years ago
The WORSE Video I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Really makes me not want to buy the new album.
I even heard he was crying at 5o cents house after a fight with a girl.
Where is the Quality?
planetsx 4 years ago
He's a SUCKA, that's why. There never was any "Quality". EVERYTHING SUCKS!!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
(blame you tube!!! for making me cut this up) ....EPMD...Rakim hasn't rolled with Eric B for how many years..(did you just throw those names in for nostalgic purposes???) and style of dress.....G-unit gear???? seriously!!??? Mobb Deep's best albums came out before the G-unit stuff...and you call Talib's stuff generic!!!???
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
I call all his music generic because it's not real. When he can spit reality rap about real issues concerning blacks in the ghetto and stick to the subject matter,over real,hard, raw beats, then I might stop dissin' him. He's more of a poet or spoken word type of dude than a rapper.
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
And if we are talking about Lyrics....some of the cats in your cd player can't really rhyme their way out of a paper bag...if you are talking about beats...then I don't think you are talking about the most recent stuff from KRS-ONE (although I liked the album with Marley Marl) and NAS
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
You must agree with me that he's wack. I didn't hear you say anything about his album(s) and how good they are(were).Who knows any of Kweli's lyrics to any of his songs???? Who's bumpin' his music in their cars or at parties???? Probably in Afghanastan or on the Equator he's hot, not here!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
....Chuck D called hip-hop the CNN of the ghetto...if that is true then based off the MC's you like and the amount of money these cats talk about having in their videos....then Black People (esp in the Hood)would be in a better place then they are today.
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
Once again let's be realistic. A hand full of nuevo riche millionare rappers can't save all of Americas' ghettos. And FYI black people ARE in better shape than the were 10-15 years ago because of rap music. Hip-hop has created an untold amount of jobs and cash revenue for blacks, but white america CAPITALIZES from it. CUT IT OUT!!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
"....since when did the community or hood become all about drugs, sex, killing...since when did hip-hop become so generic and predictable....I thought the culture of hip-hop was about "self-expresion"...you need to do your history...Hip-hop comes from all over the place...and its roots go way beyond "the hood" Bottom line you just don't like Talib...which I am cool with...hey to each his own....but don't feed me that Hood mess
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
I never said that hip-hop equals sex, money and murder.I said that the "hood" is where it started from, the ghetto streets, a lifestyle to which for many is the reason why people buy rap music. Rap is from the streets. Kweli is not street.
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
AT FIRST RAP was about the emcee. to hype the party and have a good time. It was also about reportin on whats goin on in the hood (the message-grandmaster flash) that gangsta style rappin didnt come till much later with NWA. in fact..hip hop was created by Africaa bam. from the zulu nation to get people out of gangs and murderin and shit/ in conclusion talib is closer to the ROOTS of hip hop than weezy is. and do you know for sure he's not from the streets. are you his mum?
mc14halo 2 years ago
but brothers kill me when they start preaching that mess "this is whats good in the hood
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
I never preached this is what's good in the hood. I'm from the hood, so I am conditioned to listen to street level music. I can't relate to someone who's not from the hood concerning rap music. You're on the outside trying to rap your way in without any experience or insight as to what's really going on in the streets.
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
you are right I am not from the Hood. But seriously if you are saying that 50, g-unit, etc speak for the whats really going on in the hood then I don't think you have been there either. (and if that is what you are saying don't you see a problem with that) I am not going to get into it with you about who you like etc etc...
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
Let's not forget that we are talking about lyrics, beats, style of dress, and of course, where it all comes from. Obviously you're not from the hood, so you will accept a generic brand of rap music such as this shit here. JAY-Z, NAS, THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.., 50 CENT, G-UNIT, LLOYD BANKS, TONY YAYO, MOBB DEEP, BIG NOYD, EPMD, ERIC B & RAKIM, KRS-ONE...I'm an Accounts Payable supervisor.
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
lol you put nas and yayo in the same sentence? if nas is generic then who is original? Lil wayne? lil boosie? drake? the only way you can redeem yourself with that comment is by saying Binary star , doom or optimus rhyme or somethin...
mc14halo 2 years ago
The Hood????? Please tell me your 12 years old with comments like that. Yeah the video may not be the hottest thing out there but this song is very very good....what are you listening to in your car?....what r you doing with your life?
yourtogrownforthat 4 years ago
best album of the yr of course second to 50
not
dfdon 4 years ago
Shit is weak!!!! What's wrong with yall tree huggin' backpackin' negros? Wack lyrics, wack gear, beat is aiight, but where's the kick, the boom bap, THE HOOD??? He's been in the game too long to be making shit my 10 year old little brother could make. He's always been a mediocre, over-rapper. Too many lyrics, but ain't sayin' shit. GARBAGE!!!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
Yea your right man. We need some more violence and nonsensical lyrics. Talib is whack he talks about shit that actually matters. I want to hear more about supermaning some hoes. Degrading women is awesome. Go kill yourself you ignorant dumb ass.
k0epke 4 years ago 3
As for you Mr. Softee, you need to grow a pair. You sound like a housekept wuss. If you can't handle raw hip-hop music then you do't have to listen to it. But don't shove that "I can solve the world's problems thru poetry" bull down my throat. So tell me, how come nobody knows the fucking lyrics to any of his songs????
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
Talib ain't gonna dumb down his lyrics for unintelligent peeps like yourself. I feel you on the raw hip-hop line but dawg you can't discredit an artist for trying to connect with people on some positive shit. I don't feel like listening to cats talk about shooting people. I think everyone can agree that the aforementioned "hood" has had enough of that shit. ONE
k0epke 4 years ago
I will agree with you to a certain extent, but you can't take what's embedded and conditioned in a person and change it to something else just because that's the way the wind is blowing.He paints too much of a flowery, abstract picture of our struggle. He ain't never struggle,tussle,fought carried or shot any weapons anywheres. That black power shit gets no play in my ride!! We are done with the 1960's Civil Rights movement!
mrfantastic55 4 years ago
nice vid, feeeeeeeeeeling it.
2FRsoul 4 years ago
The WORSE video I have ever seen.
Really makes me not want to buy the new album.
I even heard he was crying at 5o cents house after a fight with a girl.
Where is the Quality?
planetsx 4 years ago
Great song, but the video looks like the uncut kinda level of video (not content, but how the video looks). I mean, if that's what he was goin' for, the down-to-earth type feel, that's understandble.
Still a GREAT song, and I wish more cats put heart & soul n their music like this cat.
B
SoulnSong 4 years ago
Smooth! It's nice to see Res again.
OUTABODIES 4 years ago
This was my favorite song off of the new album.
Very good self-realization.
Props.
nick4man3 4 years ago
talib without his fitted? what?!
mixmastaraf 4 years ago
damn i this track is hot! the video is decent, could be better
bigjuicyg 4 years ago
I'm gettin' excited for the next Reflection (if it ever comes out...)
NATTI STAND UP!
evolgeniuz513 4 years ago
One of the best that ever laid hands on a mic..Hip Hop..Word up!!
AbbottSupreme 4 years ago