One of the greatests artists ever , singing , writing, all around entertainers . I AM A YOUNG GUY AND WOULD RATHER LISTEN TO OLD SCHOOL THAN A LOT OF WHATS OUT NOW !
Memphis Tenn Athem Hit me we be West wood orange monde Rally frayer or Hollywood where the Tru Gee live Henry Gee from Florence Ky facebooked me Hollar USA O.G. music Award.......
Curtis Mayfield is the best. I'm only 29 years old but listening to his music and growing up in the hood really can make me relate to his day and time back then. I guess much has not changed in the world if he was singing about this bull!@#% back in the old days.We all just have to pray for a better day.
@MrChevy205 right with ya. I'm 35 and Curtis is in my top 5 fo sho. It's like the industry is conditioning sheep for the slaughter. What happened? It's up to us to bring it the way it's supposed to be.
@SuupeRLiciouS Fuck Marvin? Seriously you must be out of your mind. I can accept liking Curtis more but to out right disrespect Marvin Gaye, you no longer get a vote. Off to the kid's table with you.
Realist album cover ever made to date...We started from nothing, who else started with what is needed in this world...."There is that maketh himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase." Proverbs 13:7
This tune couldn't be any more relevant when I look at the economic situation in the UK and the U.S., but then we are listening to the genius that is the late great Curtis Mayfield.
I WISH PEOPLE WOULD QUIT WRECKIN CLASSICS ! ludacris hit it with that hard times , but if soulja boy or wayne hops on tha track im killin myself twice.... check out my soul playlist i got a lil isaac hayes , bootsy collins, james brown and some other ol school classics like this that need to stay original
Thanks to this awesome jam, which Geto Boys sampled, their song "Murder After Midnight" became a classic.
Much respect to the original forefathers of hip-hop that laid the foundation for the sampling resources that recreated them to more modern equipment and treatment!
@Tazrahzeljr - Curtis signed Baby Huey to Curtom Records and (I think) produced 'The Baby Huey Story', so I guess the song was probably owned by Curtom Records.
@0rangesk7, he did produce baby huey story, and baby huey also covered a version of this song, and Huey's version has more beat to it. After Baby Huey died in 1971, the album was finally released
LISTEN THE FUCKN LYRICS!!!!! SRT8 REAL SHIT.....SUPER SAD BUT TRUE. I BUMP THIS ALL THE TIME AND EVERYTIME I TEAR MY ASS OFF BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE STUGGLN N MY BROTHAS N SISTAS OUT AROUND THE WORLD STARVIN FOR FOOD AND STILL GET MISTREATED. ALSO SEEING BLK FOLKS STILL DOGGING EACH OTHER WORSE THN THE MAN HIMSELF. IN THIS DAY N AGE WE ARE STILL DOING THE SAME CRAP WHILE EVRYBODY ELSE IS GETTING OVER ONE STEP AT A TIME. WE NEED MORE MUSIC LIKE THIS TO SPREAD REALISM, LOVE, UNITY, ETC
Although I'm filled with love I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride. So I play the part I feel they want of me & I'll pull the shades so I won't see them seeing me having HARD TIMES!
Wich one is the original? this one or the Baby Huey's one?? thx for the answer!
brebzz 1 week ago
there is no MUSIC today when you listen to this!!! It is clear that these days in music it's all about the marketing and the CASH!!
Old skool is all I listen to!!!
78capps 3 weeks ago
One of the greatests artists ever , singing , writing, all around entertainers . I AM A YOUNG GUY AND WOULD RATHER LISTEN TO OLD SCHOOL THAN A LOT OF WHATS OUT NOW !
BUSTERBOY1971 3 weeks ago
Man you dont have to smoke or drink to the music, But just listen! your eye get red automatic Award
xXiSHANKuXx 4 weeks ago
Memphis Tenn Athem Hit me we be West wood orange monde Rally frayer or Hollywood where the Tru Gee live Henry Gee from Florence Ky facebooked me Hollar USA O.G. music Award.......
xXiSHANKuXx 4 weeks ago
Now this is a bad ass steppaz kut!!
BF6ct 3 months ago
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i can dig it baby
queenandgoddess2 3 months ago
Man that album cover is sick. Classic my man. Dig that.
electricalcj 4 months ago
@electricalcj what is the album title? and i agree w/ you on the album cover
1940semochild 4 months ago
Somebody probably already asked this but did this version come out before Baby Huey's?
BumpyJonas74 4 months ago
Such a great song and I love his guitar work on this one and that bass guitar is kicking butt!
Soulman785 4 months ago
Express personnel thats alot!
hohappiepappie 4 months ago
He was cold as ice!
sexygreem 4 months ago 2
Cold cold. Eyes. On me face. Stare!
sexygreem 4 months ago
woooooooooooow!!!!!! gooooooooood!!!!
kctarowhb00 4 months ago
Dude was wayyyyyyyyyy before his time.....Anthony Hamilton....DeAngelo....and more all have this dude's style!!
dabishop31 5 months ago 2
UnionRockYard gave props to Baby Huey. I, too, grew up on Huey's brief career.
Dsheik911 5 months ago 2
I'm sure this is where Arrested Development derived People Everyday from, as well as Sly Stone of course. Great tune - as Curtis always did.
ImaniHekima 5 months ago
Lots of People dont know what Hard Times Really Is PIR Curtis
TheKraut59 5 months ago in playlist Curtis Mayfield/There's No Place Like America Today
Not Bad.
stuis50 6 months ago
American Pimp...
arkansoul 6 months ago
I DIG.
guevara7E 6 months ago
great cover art
deliman 6 months ago
100/100 ♥
firdaws1977 6 months ago
Hot stuff
myleswmiller 6 months ago
Ha she sure did!...thank God somebody watches DN!
getatme1on1 7 months ago in playlist curtis mayfeild
Amy Goodman played this on Democracy Now! today, August 8, 2011.. Very Funky, and so right on..
bizakis9 7 months ago 2
Geto Boys Sampled this song for the track,
'Murder After Midnight', from the album "Til Death Do Us Part."
cen1276 8 months ago
@cen1276 How could you not sample this song, its gold dust to a dj
uani69 7 months ago
I love this song!
fruityblack 8 months ago
well, we are really living in hard times, gas, food, rent, (bills) (bills) lord have mercy. jeremy 3:33 God bless you all.
ActualNews4People 9 months ago 3
yea it s funky too but hes speaking of what it is right now just like back then
thosenuts 10 months ago 2
Curtis Mayfield is the best. I'm only 29 years old but listening to his music and growing up in the hood really can make me relate to his day and time back then. I guess much has not changed in the world if he was singing about this bull!@#% back in the old days.We all just have to pray for a better day.
MrChevy205 10 months ago 3
@MrChevy205 right with ya. I'm 35 and Curtis is in my top 5 fo sho. It's like the industry is conditioning sheep for the slaughter. What happened? It's up to us to bring it the way it's supposed to be.
Kurtiz76 8 months ago 6
ahhhhh this that shit, /g rap sampled dis
pimplife88 10 months ago
@pimplife88 Everyone who samples has sampled Curtis...he is on the short list with James and George.
djosephj 9 months ago 3
@djosephj damn right and it would be nice if more musicians were born. How many times can we keep sampling the same stuff?
Kurtiz76 8 months ago 2
Real soul music only if u know what hard times are really about
MrSkeeterroc 10 months ago
DUUKAAAA !!!!!!
ebinhokeys 10 months ago
N!!!!!!CE
kinstube 11 months ago
Real music when music was music,i dont know what its called know,confusic...lol
locsta06 11 months ago 3
@locsta06 maybe you can call it "ba-dong"?
TheOREGON1859 11 months ago
Curtis wrote it, but Huey performed it first and best. Both men are the very height of what this fair city has produced.
UnionRockYards 11 months ago
very funky, but I liked Baby Huey's version a little more
eddiemurphyfan100 11 months ago
THE BEST FUCK MARVIN FUCK LUTHER FUCK THE OJAY DIS RIGHT HERE IS WHAT IT IS
SuupeRLiciouS 11 months ago
@SuupeRLiciouS Fuck Marvin? Seriously you must be out of your mind. I can accept liking Curtis more but to out right disrespect Marvin Gaye, you no longer get a vote. Off to the kid's table with you.
Mayhem5150 2 weeks ago 2
this was on Mr. Untouchable
OneTrillNigga07 1 year ago
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Realist album cover ever made to date...We started from nothing, who else started with what is needed in this world...."There is that maketh himself rich, yet has nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase." Proverbs 13:7
REALCLASSIC1 1 year ago
& theres still no place like america today full of hard times enuff 2 DRIVE U CRAZY BABY
RIP CURTIS MAY
yb1707 1 year ago
R.I.P. Mr Mayfield.
Mat2001uk 1 year ago
THE ALBUM COVER SAYS ALOT, LOVE CURTIS
AlfredoJAZZ 1 year ago 5
This tune couldn't be any more relevant when I look at the economic situation in the UK and the U.S., but then we are listening to the genius that is the late great Curtis Mayfield.
ezekielthemack 1 year ago
this shit is good, but its not has hard as the Baby Huey version. That shit is hardcore!
tigerjonn 1 year ago
HE DROPPED THA FUCKER HARD ON THA 1!
keltonkng 1 year ago
Staten island is known to bake cakes - CAKES!!!!!
JohnTheLegendary 1 year ago
@JohnTheLegendary a lot of wu tang fans here lool
yohanntimban 1 year ago
curt's funk was circular
roscoegino 1 year ago
DEEP SOUL
strobestatic 1 year ago
Hard Times
bub0176 1 year ago
Sorry Curtis. I love you and you are one of my favourites but I think Hueys version is the win!
SomaLFM 1 year ago
@SomaLFM i agree with you n_n
spikestrike91 1 year ago
I WISH PEOPLE WOULD QUIT WRECKIN CLASSICS ! ludacris hit it with that hard times , but if soulja boy or wayne hops on tha track im killin myself twice.... check out my soul playlist i got a lil isaac hayes , bootsy collins, james brown and some other ol school classics like this that need to stay original
MrPANDPKENNELS 1 year ago
love it..
rantanplan88pl 1 year ago
LovE Curtis!
catfishje 1 year ago
Noone talks about the hard-times today. Atleast this song will remind us.
visionimagify 1 year ago
@visionimagify Well, that, and John Legend & The Roots performing their kickass version every night of the week probably.
28g34ajbsd 1 year ago
i like hard times by john legend and the roots
TheSuperNESman 1 year ago
@TheSuperNESman
Check out the Baby Huey original
hocuspocius 1 year ago 2
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RevTimurphy 1 year ago
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RevTimurphy 1 year ago
This shit is funky!
blakdad 1 year ago 25
@blakdad Funky like damp socks at the bottom of a dirty clothes hamper...
arkansoul 6 months ago
@arkansoul I DIG dat funk.
lovok123 5 months ago
it is dope..........
xXiSHANKuXx 4 weeks ago
@blakdad sho is funky
BigZeb5 2 weeks ago
"There's gonna be a killing after midnight"
Thanks to this awesome jam, which Geto Boys sampled, their song "Murder After Midnight" became a classic.
Much respect to the original forefathers of hip-hop that laid the foundation for the sampling resources that recreated them to more modern equipment and treatment!
fleshnbone187 1 year ago 2
CAN YOU DIG IT?!
MR666SANDMAN 1 year ago 28
@MR666SANDMAN Yes and the Warriors didn't shoot Cyrus damnit ;-)
RikJamezBich 1 year ago
@MR666SANDMAN I can dig it, dig?
iamgregdojo 1 year ago
@MR666SANDMAN i can dig it
ganjastep 6 months ago
so who sampled who baby huey or curtis mayfiled def love both songs though lol
Tazrahzeljr 1 year ago
@Tazrahzeljr - Curtis signed Baby Huey to Curtom Records and (I think) produced 'The Baby Huey Story', so I guess the song was probably owned by Curtom Records.
0rangesk7 1 year ago
@0rangesk7, he did produce baby huey story, and baby huey also covered a version of this song, and Huey's version has more beat to it. After Baby Huey died in 1971, the album was finally released
eddiemurphyfan100 1 year ago
LISTEN THE FUCKN LYRICS!!!!! SRT8 REAL SHIT.....SUPER SAD BUT TRUE. I BUMP THIS ALL THE TIME AND EVERYTIME I TEAR MY ASS OFF BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE STUGGLN N MY BROTHAS N SISTAS OUT AROUND THE WORLD STARVIN FOR FOOD AND STILL GET MISTREATED. ALSO SEEING BLK FOLKS STILL DOGGING EACH OTHER WORSE THN THE MAN HIMSELF. IN THIS DAY N AGE WE ARE STILL DOING THE SAME CRAP WHILE EVRYBODY ELSE IS GETTING OVER ONE STEP AT A TIME. WE NEED MORE MUSIC LIKE THIS TO SPREAD REALISM, LOVE, UNITY, ETC
BLACKMAMBA52588 1 year ago
Yet another Boss cut from the King
theurbanmusicologist 1 year ago
thats mem,tn certified real shit
wataago1 1 year ago
Trinity Garden Cartel-Dyme Bagg
fenderjones 1 year ago
smooth melody but real life lyrics!!!
MrJamell21 1 year ago
Although I'm filled with love I'm afraid they'll hurt my pride. So I play the part I feel they want of me & I'll pull the shades so I won't see them seeing me having HARD TIMES!
therealraybaby 1 year ago
geto boys sampled this on murder after midnight
Illkiddbluez 1 year ago
sampled by the rza on the ghostdog soundtrack
halfrosamurai 1 year ago
My Favorite Curt song!!!
Flocko1123 1 year ago
enorme
firdaws1977 1 year ago
strictly dope
tevfikfikret67 1 year ago