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  • Who dislikes this? Really?

  • Preach, Stevie preah!!! living just enough for the city.

  • Most people only know Stevie from his 80's hits..I personally pretend like I just called to say I love you never happened.

  • When I made this film back in '86, I tried to capture editorial spirit of Stevie Wonder's comment on the early 70's. Alas, it seems as pertinent today as it was then.

  • omg @2:03

  • Excellent brings me back

  • Damn this was the era when there was something to fight for. All we have now is Occupy Wall Street.

  • at this time , this song is like 35 or so years old and still great

  • stevie wonder is a musical genius!!!

  • 1:26 thats the sample from usher little freak

  • to me this song is about a kid from the south who moves up north and realizes that the same shit he experienced down south is pretty much what he'll experience in the city.

  • Wow New York , just like I pictured it ... skyscrapers 'n'everything !

  • I had it with my city, too, come on Obama, you ain't done nothing yet

  • @fairfax17 What the hell do you expect a president to do about something that's ben in the woks since 1912? Americns are so stupid

  • Nothing's changed much since then Stevie.Many black/brown and needy people still work 14 hour shifts just to get the necessities of life, educate their children and feed their families.The T-shirt has been worn by many and I can testify to that myself ( still wearing it! ).

  • CAPITALISM IS WORST THAN SLAVERY. SLAVES GET A PLACE TO STAY AND EAT. CAPITALISM YOU GETS NOTHING. YOU LUCK TO GET A PAY CHECK.

  • It was so surprising at 2:03.

    

  • PUT THAT BUILDING DOWN, (you dont know where its been)

  • My favorite part of the song 1:27-1:41!!!!! and bye the way this is a great song it should have hit 1,ooo,ooo views years ago!

  • @candyapu3 MATE, THE REASON THIS HASNT GOT 1,000,000 HITS IS BECAUSE THE NEW GENERATION THINKS THE PEOPLE ON X FACTOR, AMERICA,S GOT TALENT OR AUSTRALIA,S GOT TALENT ARE THE NEW ROCK GODS , NONE OF THEM COULD WRITE MUSIC OR PLAY A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TO SAVE THEMSELVES. JUST WEAR SOMETHING OUTRAGIOUS ON STAGE AND YOUR NO1 ITS SO PATHETIC.

  • "to walk to school she's got to get up early, her clothes are old but never are they dirty."

  • 0:41 Fail watermelon

  • Such a feel good song!.. Never fails to impress.

  • a timeless classic; as relevant today as ever

  • NOOOOOOOO NOT THE WATER MELLON!!!!!

  • Just enough was good enough once... we have become should an instant gratification society.. we you tube the best music from every generation!

  • Can't contain myself as I listen to this song.  Can't type either, GOTTA DANCE!!!

  • 2:03 OH MY GOD

  • No other artist can TOUCH!! A classic like Stevie Wonder!!!

  • Has anything really changed since the '70s??? Awesome song, good footage. Can be used in today's world.

  • September 11, 2011 was the first time I heard "Living For The City" on the radio during the Super 70's Weekend on K-earth 101.

  • 1973 - 2011 nothin changes except the faces. quality tune mr wonder.

  • and fuck cars

  • @communistfun

    :O i think it would really hurt to fuck a car

  • never knew this guy was so good, i was always turned off by that name :P

  • The Official Recession Song of 2011 & beyond.

  • @26Deacon Couldn't agree more

  • @kramyelir i really feel this song cause even tho i no longer live in poverty now, i did grow up in poverty here in Chicago at the former Cabrini Green housing projects in the 70's & 80's. i feel blessed now as a middle class government worker but i'll never forget where i came from. real talk.

  • Awesome video, perfect match for the music.

  • @GeneralKarl this song is also a perfect match for our hard economic times. this is the real recession song right here. real talk.

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  • do yall see where we come from (black people) so stop actin like idiots

  • i was born in 62 i remember all the strife this country was experiencing, this song exemplifies the grit and grind of the inner city. no i phones no i pods no laptops just real people struggling to exist. witout all these so called entitlements

  • @johnclohr amen brotha

  • God 1973 was a turbulent time. You had Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who were too concerned with establishing relations with China to masquerade and make-up for their administration's unpopularity in the United States. Although times looked though (I was born in '91), there was A LOT of great music that came from this time!

  • @MPGaGa1991 that's an understatement. That time of Nixon was the start of the 'war on drugs.' The DEA is now probably of America's top 20 criminally funded governmental agencies. End the war on drugs, minimum. Free the non-violent prisoners/jailed ones. One last vote for me. Ron Paul. If not, I'm following Carlin's advice.

  • Genius , just enough Ha! Wisdom at it's most sacred.

    

  • this song is so underrated!!! 

  • @surgey74 you're moist

  • Are the lyrics around the 3.35 mark, "the Fucking crock is shitty"

  • Doesn't seem to far off from what's still going on today

  • another blinder from steves!

  • Can't you just FEEL the heat of a long, muggy summer in the city back in the 70s while listening to this song?

  • @sosy1325 Put your headphones on turn the volume up close your eyes...and you're there my friend

  • @MusicforNeil i was doing just that my friend

  • Nothing like growing up outside of Detroit in the 1960's - wouldn't have traded it for ANYTHING.

  • 29 farmers

  • u see how it was the white who dropped the water melon?? hahaha

  • Thumbs up if you love The Dirtbombs' cover of this, too.

  • Песня класс! I Am Is Ukraine!UKRAINE! YES!

  • 0:41

    the most tragic event in all of african american history

  • @nirvana2297 how?

  • @RealGangstaFlo24

    because he dropped the watermelon

  • @nirvana2297 that means

  • @RealGangstaFlo24

    niggers love watermelon

  • @nirvana2297 im an AFRICAN AMERICAN and i hate watermelon

  • @RealGangstaFlo24 stop kidding yourself

  • @nirvana2297 im not i dont like watermelon ever since i was little

  • @nirvana2297 listen u should stop thinking that all blacks love watermelon because that is the stuipest thing i have ever heard now y don't u shut up and go get an education u really need to talk to someone about your problmes k. u r racest i hope u go to hell god will never for give u.

  • @selene2317

    Maybe the person who can't spell half the words in their comment should be the one getting an education.

    negro

  • Stevie Wonder is the greatest of all time.

  • @hyphiegirl12 honestly that's an very ignorant statement. You can't even stereotype all emcess who hail from the South as "Southern rappers".

    We have great musicians & bad artists just like any & every region. Where there's OutKast saying, "get up, get out & get something. How will you make it if you never even try?!", there's "Waka! waka! bow!"

  • how can you dislike this song? REALLY

  • @AlembicPools Only when the southren rappers took over

  • @AlembicPools

    and yes...mental-slavery is the worst. It completely obviates the need for guns.

  • @AlembicPools

    Well...be it futile or not, I refuse to accept the notion that we give up w/o trying our best. That is tantamount to conceding defeat without so much as firing a bullet. You must be highly intelligent. It is through the intelligentsia of our race that we can produce new leaders. Forget Sharpton, Jackson, these preachers, or the NAACP because they can't relate/don't care. I'm only 23. I can still relate to these children. They'll listen as long as you can relate.

  • @AlembicPools

    Problem is what can we do about it? I wouldn't even know where to attack this problem. Everyday positive male role models are almost non-existent for a great many young blacks here in the US. Many of these kids aren't that refractory when you can relate to them. I wish I had the wherewithall to be a leader myself, but I don't have the time right now in my life...

  • @AlembicPools

    It has become unbelievably ignorant these days, huh?

  • I LOVE ALL STEVIE WONDER SONGS

  • It never seem to amaze me on how ignorant people can be toward one another. Some of these comments are down right disrespectful. why is it that if someone says that they are ashamed of what their race or ignorant ancestors did to black people, they get disrespected? Instead of disrespecting try uplifting. We today as "black" people need to get out of the mentality of downing each other and other races. We need to be more like Dr King and show tollerence and respect to each others as human beings

  • 0:44 is that Apollo Creed's corner man?

  • I Just saw Jungle Fever, and I had just revisit this. lol

  • good old time

  • Classic!!

    

  • This song has power. We city people can feel it.

  • This song is real unlike so many songs we have now. It used to scare my sister and I (the one w commentary in middle) when we were little, it makes you realize how things sometimes work in this world. But that's what I like about it

  • 28 people aint living for the city.

    This song is amazing.

  • I highly doubt that any of today's music will be remembered and respected by anyone other than our generation, like these classic masterpieces are.

  • @Nessthegreat Totally agree with you, my firend!

    Peace

  • who the hell disliked this classic

  • @johnmayes04 Some retarded mofo!!

  • This was first shared with me by my best friend. What a thought provoking song. Feel the words. Love it!

  • I have always liked this song, but I admit I don't know exactly what Wonder means by the phrase "Living for the City." Any feedback would be welcomed.

  • @toopoable Look up The Great Black Migration in 1917, 1918 in the United States.

  • I Like this song!

  • Thumbs Up if Jungle Fever brought you here

  • 27 people live on farms

  • @FutureAbe Thank God! Somebody's got to grow the weed!

  • Fantastic song and it is timeless. It certainly applies today as well.

  • 2:02, best part ever:)

  • You know what ? To end racism in america, blacks and whites should return where they come from and let the country to the original native true american indians.

    Mouahahahahaha !

  • @olivierlauret974 Big grins.

    If only the world was big enough and fair enough, for all to live in our lives in our native lands.

    

  • Your full of bullshit summbrezzy27, I dont know ANY southern white boys who are ashamed of who they are. ME thinks I smell a RAT- or maybe somebody trying to be slick, you know what I"m sayin "brotha" ?

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  • Hey, nice editing!

  • I listen to this song just about everyday!

  • 1:28-1:45 was sampled by Usher "Lil Freak"

  • cover LoooL...youtube.com/watch?v=cL­WZOFJBIHM

  • Reminds me of the 70's phrase "You drive like old people ifyouseekay."

  • the year before i was born :)

  • 2:03 WHAT THE HELL????????

  • @QWERTY79091 That is something out of the cartoons lol damn

  • @QWERTY79091 Haha. Right!

  • her clothes are old, but never are they dirty...to find a job, it's like the haystack needle. cause where he lives they don't use colored people...i'd call stevie a genius, but that's too much of an under statement...

  • Is there no talent out there today, that can write and sing music like this? Wait...... silly question,,,,,,, forget I asked. :)

  • This is Stevie goin' street! Love this one!

    "Livin' just enough...just enough for the City!"

  • ive listened to this song 821,457 times :D

  • lol @ 2:02

  • lol @ 2:02

  • A beautiful tribute to hard working poor people!

  • where the fried chicken at

  • @MrIzzy2417 Please keep the stereotypes to a minimum. Thanks

  • I have listened to this song and so many times and over the years the one thing that I cant seem to find in lyrics and all that stuff is the word at 3:38 is he saying the fucking crowded city? or what is he saying.

  • Not another Like Stevie...GENIUS!!

  • 26 dumbasses got owned by the white man in 1973

  • did that lady really fall into the street? lol!

  • omg this song is so good.. whenever I hear it [especially the beginning] i get butterflies! so good

  • This is when you had to actually be good to be in the music business.

  • the lyrics are timeless...sounds too similar to what's goin on today...

  • @Lattimak11 you mean this song has anything to do with the crap produced today?

  • This is a classic! Stevies the man!

  • An awesome video to an awesome classic jam by the great Stevie Wonder! I was in elemantary school when this one hit the airwaves, but I still loved it and still do! Great job!

  • dislike this?! please go to the nearest mental hospital and check yourself in as soon as possible!

  • Cool video

  • we need music like this

    it keeps us positive as we struggle in this messed system

    mad love

  • Wow....same struggle ,different decade.

  • my mumma gave me love and affection

  • Why Couldn't This Be National Anthem.lol

  • THE LADY FELL THRU THE PUDDLE IT BUGGED ME OUT!

  • Um who could ever not like this?????!!

  • First heard this song on the dvd menu for Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing - classic film!

  • THIS SONG GOES OUT TO EVERYONE IN A STRUGGLE (GOD BLESS.) STEVIE IS A LEGEND .... HE STILL HAS IT GOING ON RIGHT NOW TODAY .... LOVE YOU STEVIE.

  • every stevie wonder song is just genous

  • Jungle Fever, 1991

  • @youandyamum yep that part was too intense for me. myy birth mom was crack head so iimagined her in that scene

  • @youandyamum yep that part was too intense for me. myy birth mom was crack head so iimagined her in that scene and the year it came out was when i was put in foster care

  • this song is deep. it reminds me of what my grandparents went thru when they migrated from Georgia to Chicago. it was rough growing up in Chicago back in the day but i love my city. Go Bulls! CHI-CITY!

  • @rachellegyx music is continuous and reinventing, obviously usher cant compare to stevie but the point of music is to be recreated and usher did a good job trying

  • Oh how I love thee Stevie!!!! :)

  • taylor hicks sings the song the best

  • @xxY2JLEDGENDKILLERxx did you really just compare someone from american idol to stevie wonder?

  • @xxY2JLEDGENDKILLERxx  seriously?!

  • They just don't make CLASSICS like this anymore....

  • @Byrd21320 Amen my friend....ain't that the truth!!!!

  • @Byrd21320 Thats because you can only make a classic once. Just like making a toaster or a light bulb.

  • thumbs up if the woman falling into the puddle made you jump a little bit

  • Stevie's version is obviously soulful while Durbin's is more rock but in the end...JAMES ROCKED THE HOUSE.

  • "Because where he lives...they don't use colored people" These lyrics have such profound meaning behind them.

  • @Summbrezzy27 You know I am deeply ashamed to be a southern white boy because the white folk mistreated the Afro American's horribly......I have always respected ALL races no matter what... thank God my Father raised me right.......POWER TO THE PEOPLE... RESPECT and HONOR.

  • @tenor175 I totally understand what you are saying and I totally respect you for that, I also respect all races even though I am black and white mixed. I just wish everyone had a point of view like us. God created us all equal

  • @Summbrezzy27  Amen my friend......God Bless :)

  • @tenor175 You should be ashamed.

  • @lisaraye212 GET SOME THERAPY, GET ON MEDICATIONS YOU DON'T KNOW ME YOU STUPID CUNT! MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!!!! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!!! DUMB ASS BITCH! GO FUCK YOURSELF!

  • @tenor175 Hi Summbrezzy27 you sound like the kind of southern white boy i would love to meet. I am a funky, whitty and fairly attractive afro carribean british girl who would love some southern lovin. We could get together some time, intertwine our bodies, and enjoy this sweet music from the 70's/early 80's. MsTreyb, Birmingham, England

  • @MsTreyb What the hell?...Tenor was replying to summbreezzy27....Tenor will be thinking wtf?

  • @tenor175 

  • @tenor175 wtf? stop being shellshocked. anyone who is still talking about race problems is part of the problems, go contribute to society with actions not some pitiful words

  • @tenor175 ..WELL WRITTEN !