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  • One of the greatest songs EVER! Period.

  • @mjk2442 Yes!!! Genius I love how he changes his voice to show a hard life. I'm from NYC and you see this everyday

  • The illuminati are awesome, I love them. I'm a member

  • I think usher sampled this song. that would explian why it sounds so similar to Lil' Freak

  • @JamminJoeVids JUST noticed that.......o_o this song just got weird.

  • Good stuff !!

  • Great tune!

  • before the illuminati heavily infected music

  • @stardelorian the REAL illuminati made lyrical music... not that government conspiracy stuff ppl made up and the one ur talkin about.. Illuminate= illuminators=teachers=Gods

  • @PACMonopoly --i know youre not trying to school me on anything......

    when i mean illuminati...im not talking about the illuminated ones...and um...its not a conspiracy....smh....DO YOUR RESEARCH AND YOU DECIDE.....

    schooled....

    and dont respond cause youre ignored...

  • @stardelorian no need for a actual reply, cuz u made yo self look and sound ignorant

  • The Intro......... Phenominal!!!!!

  • Is it me or this song kinda reminds me of MJ's billie jean?

  • @Tony132GR billy jean no way check your ears bro

  • @samueldenson1 When it starts, the piano thing i meant, not the whole song!

  • song goes with everything lol

  • This is one of the best R&B selections which inspires the songs and artwork of my artwork and videos

  • The kids today are "LEMMINGS"

  • It's all manufactured crap today..has been for ages.

    Music lacks personality behind it.

    There are no more gifted visionaries, poets, etc like Mr Wonder, Hathaway, Scott-Heron, Sly Stone, Weldon Irvine.

    I'm sorry to have to say this.

  • Stevie Wonder at his BEST!!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing this :)

  • Oliver and Company

  • i love ths soulfulness of the his voice!

  • Beautiful

  • Personally, I think it's the best thing he ever did. It is such a tough, beautiful piece. Thanks for posting.

  • This is a great piece. 

  • gbob 

  • What happened to the end got cut off prematurely

  • Today, January 18th 1989, At just 38 years old, Stevie Wonder became the youngest living person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other inductees include The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Otis Redding and Dion DiMucci. ... Hot Damn what a lineup that was

  • You would have to to MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES to dislike this

  • why did they refuse to use this song for the good times theme?....would of fit right in man

  • 15 People STILL haven't lived for the city!!

  • By the way, this is not a good song it's a great song!! Perhaps his best!

  • Loved all of Stevie's 70's stuff but when he started up with "Part Time Lover" and "I Just Called To Say I Love You" I had to immediately tune him right out. Great musician, played with many legends but record company execs put the kabash on good music post 70's!! All they want now is ballads.

  • @EnlightenedRogue Those songs weren't that bad. Don't get me wrong, I like many other songs by stevie so much more than his 80s fare. However, I was a child of the 80s and if weren't for those songs, I would probably never would have listened to Innervisions or Talking Book.

  • @mohinderbauer MTV and record company execs did alot of damage to music. Everyone started posing for the cameras instead of concentrating on writing great songs. Musicians are like athletes; they grow, they peak and then the slide happens. McCartney's collaboration with Wonder was dry heave material and the video (even as a 16 year old) brought me douche chills. Can't compare to these classics.

  • Stevie and WonderLove played "Living for the City" at the Spectrum June 72 opening for the Stones and blew the roof off the place.The opening chords on the keyboard we're imprinted on my brain.Later as I got older I realized the truths,inequalities and injustices right here in the USA.Never heard the end part of getting on the bus in NY until I was in the Navy.Last base I worked was in Biloxi Missisippi and believe me it was not harmony(2005).Perserverance is what I get from this song.GREAT song

  • SOME OF US!!!

  • WE ARE BORN SOUFUL!!!

  • i remember seeing him perform at age 8 my life started then.....

  • just enough.just one of the best songs in the key of any life. say him at the boston garden with gil scott herring in 1982.

  • Love this song, even though it reminds me of Samuel L Jackson smokin crack with Halle Berry in Jungle Fever...

  • Lots of people can relate to this, especially with the state of the world economy right now.

  • please don't let colour be an issue,we were poor whites but still enjoyed Stevie's music

  • @kramyelir theres nothing wrong with whites listening to this, music shouldnt be discriminating

  • @OpabinaSr Correct. Good music should bring all people together. Music has no color so what's the point in forcing one on it?

  • @Bagface Yes indeed

  • @Bagface Exactly

  • 04:25

    Word to your Mother!

  • @johnny0g : honestly I think its because although legal discrimination has been banned, private discrimination by individuals has unfortunately continued. but I think just as race relations have gotten better in this country, they will continue to get better. positive changes take time after all. I wholeheartedly agree, any group that discriminates is scum; but it seems to me the worlds growing more hostile to these types of people :)

    there's only the human race, we're all the earth's children

  • @dinosaurwalker The song climaxed as I read this and I started to cry a lil. Soo true man.

  • i don't get it it i'm white, but why are black people still oppressed especially in the south. i think if slevery was still legal in the deep south you will still have them. the KKK is really the scum of the earth. it should not matter what color your skin is, only if your heart is pure!

  • @johnny0g my opinion is that the problem isnt cause of the slavery, cause slavery is all over the world. the problem lies with the segregation, discrimination, and lack of equality and proper judgement of a man cause of the color of his skin

  • Stevie Wonder is as inimitable as the mountain is high, he is as qualified as the valley is low, he is very very much a genre in himself x

  • I love this song, i also really like Jonny langs version of it!

  • @ecsisof3 u mean jonny langs is like the version of stevie !!

  • This has real rythm thanks TheJstone2

  • damn right

  • skill

  • Usher sampled this in Little Freak! This is the real thing though!

  • @akemp1993 , aw man get off it we talkin the prime and you come on wit dat shit

  • @bear022013 fuck out if here! shut up the fuck up!

  • Genius xxx

  • Stevie Sang Songs That Applied To Everyday Life. I Refuse To Listen Todays

    BullShit

  • @BlackPride1000 aint that the truth :)

  • @BlackPride1000 i so agree. that's how i feel about the modern my little pony. they act like dorks compared to the older ones. it's boring :/ ! ! ! ! !

  • @BlackPride1000 That just about sums up how i feel 100% !!

    It's a plastic world now.

    Thank you!

  • Powermusic/music. When this came out on vinyl way back in 70's, it was a hit! I was a 'plastic'hippie; meaning ; going to an Art Academy and working in a mental hospital. When I face todays world, NOTHING changed, it is even getting WORSE!! This song is still UP TO DATE!!!

  • Love It

  • @Makiba08 not everybody my friend, you cant generalize like that

  • so in 11th grade in modern world history class during summer school my teacher actually played this to describe the cultural aspects of the impoverished ghetto and their motives in those areas for protesting in the civil rights movements. all the other kids in my class sat and listened and i was the only one who sang along to myself cause i already knew all the words. talk about the head of the class.

  • 2011 needs acts like this real music to love!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Fuck all the autotuned chart crap! this is real music!!!!

  • Best version except for the one with Ray Charles...

  • BEFORE ALL THE ACTS WHO STOOD ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS,STEVIE WAS THE PIONEER!FORGET ALL THE MANUFACTURED ACTS WE HAVE NOW, THIS IS THE REAL DEAL......SUPER COOL!

  • usher who?

  • True music of the soul. Universally appreciated and in tune with all of humanity; a true resonating harmonic fashioned for us by a once in a lifetime genius.

    The 20th century Beethoven whose music will be appreciated for just as long, no doubt...

  • Coming this Tuesday to Rock Band. JOY!

  • So ground breaking at the time it's crazy.

  • it's stevie good !! 

  • this man is a genious!

  • Sandra Dee Lawson.

  • Please don't argue under this song, the whole point of this song is to promote understanding. Namaste, all.

  • Rap muziq finest. I know alot of people think their favorite artist come up w/their own lyrics, but they're recycled

  • Check this one:

    /watch?v=EhgLGmM_XEo

    Taj Mahal scene from film "Jungle Fever". Spike Lee made a good choice to pick "Living for the city" for that poweful scene.

  • Thanks! Haven't heard it in a while.

    Just listen to the basses - drum & guitar.

    You can feel it in your chest.

  • <3

  • This song hits so hard with the current economy!

  • @rich5248 my mans stevie is a psychic lol

  • Classic !!!!!!!!! Classic, What else can you say?

  • Like Michael Jackson said - This song is the key of life......

  • this is just crazy anyway you look at it,crazy talented

  • im over 50..sho nuff brings back the young days

  • @kmars21 I'm well over 60 (68) and have followed Stevie's career from the get go. His music will no doubt outlast me! Along with the Beatles, Stevie changed contempory music for ever. Thanks to them all.

  • Mr. South i could not have said it any better....

  • i'm having a moment here...i remember all the lyrics to each stevie wonder song i have listened to...his music will NEVER grow old. I love him with all my heart his sister's black but she is shonuf pretty.....my favorite part.....just enuf for the city....mmm her brothers smart, he's got more sense than many, but pretty soon he won't have any....MY GOD....he is a genius

  • I remember this song playing in the Taj Mahal scene in Jungle Fever.

    This song just captures that scene P e r f e c t l y. It made me tear up...

    Great Music Lives Forever

  • BRILLIANT GENIUS....

  • Black, white, brown what have you. This song is simply speaking to those who know what it's like to struggle to make ends meet. No matter what your background if you grew up poor this song hits home.

  • What's even more amazing to me about this awesome song is that Stevie Wonder played every instrument on this. Truly a "Wonder"!

  • Fantastic! As I lived as a young woman during this period I can tell you the lyrics are very realistic and represent all that was rotten in the cities of USA and many other major cities in the world.

    All this from a white, middle class woman.

    Great music with a true message

  • Come on everybody calm down. This song wasn't written to offend anyone in particular it was written about what was occuring at the time in urban areas. Even if you can't relate to the message you can relate to the genius of the music without the lyrics. Either way it's Stevie at his best. People from all walks of life love him-

  • wtf happened stevie? wtf happened?????????????

  • stevie onlyspeaks the truth listen you dummies if freedon change the world will soon be over

  • Pure genius. Great username, Windsor by any chance?  ;)

  • I want to see him live before it's too late.

  • I knew I heard this in Usher's song Little Freak, but I had forgot the name of this song.

  • I thought the radio was going to play this & got excited but it turned out to be something else & it was like reliving the good old days. Who the hell would dislike this song?

  • This is Musical GENIUS!!!!!

    Check out my song on my page Good Morning.

  • "To find a job is like a haystack needle"

    Just as true today as it was back in 73.

  • @iziahlights You are SOOOO Correct!

  • @iziahlights

    Agreed, just as relevant now

  • @iziahlights I think it's worse now than it was back in 73 ♥♥

  • @iziahlights 38 years later and sad to say, you're right!!!

  • I BOUGHT THIS NEW, WHEN IT FIRST HIT AND IT'S STILL REAL ...THEN AND NOW

    I'M JUST AN OLD BROTHER KEEPIN IT REAL. RIGHT LIKE STEVE THEN AND NOW

  • stevie wonder has been watching again and got lied to about where the like button is.

  • 13 people have never heard real music......

  • 13 dullards are living for the backwoods...:deliverance banjos:

  • AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

  • I remember lisiening this to this classic over 30 years ago....wow, its still incredible!!

  • @SpaceRocker75 Calm down Tex. I grew up in the suburbs too. We'll just say they're living for the wilderness....

  • Hey, I love Stevie Wonder (he's sooo great) but not everyone does. I can't stand almost all country music - yick - so I don't seek it out (ever). Oh well, different strokes, as they say.

  • come on guys, chillax!! nobody is a 'fucking dumbass' for not liking a song, did good ol' stevie never teach you anything??

  • what the hell is wrong with anybody with a problem with this song........it has a message that moves me and should move you.........stevie is the best, common

  • One of the best songs EVER written. Period.

  • I LOVE WHEN THE CHANGES COME IN ON 1:10,2:30,3:55 AND OF COURSE THE LAST ONE ON 6:20!!

  • there is 13 dumbasses who hate this song!!!

  • bon c'est tout vu, je retourne dans les annees 70. j'ai plus rien à foutre en 2011, ciao.

  • Hey Now, just another day in Wonder Land thanx brother stevie!!!!!

  • suburbanites .... who else would dislike this?

  • Why is this underknown? I only just found it :[

  • @The4JAMDUDE4 for one thing it's close to 40 years old, and secondly because good music like this has been replaced by rap crap!! oh and also because stevie wonder has about a million hit songs out there :) glad u like it

  • @bringbackreagan1

    40 years? Wow.

  • @The4JAMDUDE4 yeah, right??? i was around 7 years old when it came out so that really puts it into perspective for me. as a very young girl this song actually scared me. but so did "ironman" by black sabbath. LOL

  • @The4JAMDUDE4

    Hey thats the year I was born, its not 40 yet. 39!!! LOL!

  • So, fucking CATCHY.

  • Steve Wonder is the master of making lovely hits that remain in our hearts & souls forever & effects everyone from every culture throughout our world.

  • @aTime4UandMe Amen and amen!

  • love this song

  • Stevie Wonders a BAMF.

  • I have this album in my car. That says a lot considering I don't really have any albums at all. Just a great album!

  • @JBOtheMAN13 .I've got this album and i don't even have a car,i'm still saving up for a hi-fi!

  • @JBOtheMAN13 If you like this CD (Innervisins) you would love "Songs in the Key of Life" and "Talking Book". Trust me, Stevie's music will change your views on lfe and love.

  • A gritty, bluesy, funk sound!!! Love it!

  • 04:30 Everythang!

  • Turn it up!!!

  • Wow awesome song. Amazing lyrics especially.

  • So heavy - Love u Stevie x

  • Man, Stevie, such a creative and innovative musical genius. His soul is what makes the music live forever. Love you SW!!!

    Peace

  • how can you not like this you must be mad.xxx

  • How can anyone dislike this? Must be living for the suburbs

  • @luvtotruck nah, they just like to troll the classics

  • @luvtotruck I live in the suburbs, and you're right - I've never heard this before. In fact, I just heard Mr. Wonder's music for the very first time last week. It is really marvelous, you know. I wish all of us suburbanites would listen to music like this, because we are so ignorant and r*cist. It is too bad Jack Benny and Bob Hope are gone now, because they could do duets with Mr. Wonder. What a great collaboration between cultures.

  • @directech111 Bob Hope, Jack Benny but never heard Stevie Wonder? What does "all of us suburbanites" mean anyway? that actually sounds racist, I live in the suburbs and I don't know anyone who doesn't like Stevie Wonder or even Eddie Murphy doing Stevie Wonder, STEVIE IS A MUSICAL GENIUS! I bet more people know of Stevie Wonder then the vice president of the USA

    Also spelling r*cist? whats with that? get real!

  • @directech111 I always thought Stevie Wonder and Lawrence Welk would have been a great duo. LOL!! Everyone has heard of Stevie Wonder no matter where you live. Even in "Hardtimes, Mississippi".

  • Always awesome and still a strong anti-racism manifesto.

  • @Bamaboompa I'm not sure what your son listens to but I can assure you there are alot of very talented musicians in the metal scene.

  • Okay, so I'm an old white guy. From the South even. But I listen to this, and "Ball of Confusion" and pretty much anything by Curtis Mayfield.

    Then I hear (C)rap music and I just don't get it.

  • @Bamaboompa I invite you to try.  Curtis got his direction from Stevie. This is an invitation to participate. Let's t ry it out.

  • @Bamaboompa I'll clarify. There are some "urban" (?) singers that I think are pretty decent. Give me suggestions & I'll listen. It's the ones that come stomping up on stage like gang bangers and just yell crap and scratch vinyl that I can't stand. I put it in the same category as headbangers and the metal my son listens to. Doesn't take talent to bang chords on a bass and guitar and scream at the top of your lungs. But that's just my opinion.

    Like I said, make a suggestion and I'll listen.

  • @Bamaboompa look up the video "Jazz (We've Got)" by A Tribe Called Quest.

  • @Bamaboompa Definitely agree, i think metal in general doesn't require much talent but the people who play it must have talent otherwise they wouldn't be able to play much of anything. Banging chords doesn't make the music but its the rhythmn and overall feel. The feel of someone screaming at the top of their lungs like you say isn't my style.

  • @Bamaboompa What are you talking about "Crap"? Rap is pretty good. i'll say anything from 2004 to now is crap. But, have you heard of Tupac or Nas. People who rap about public issues. They rap about what goes on in the world. If it wasn't for "Crap" as you call it I wouldn't be on this video. Stevie inspired a lot of artist.

  • @jamice10000 Everybody's got an opinion about music - ours are different. Grabbing your crotch and yelling about "public issues" is not my idea of music. James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Guy made fantastic music about "pubic issues" . Temptations "Ball of Confusion" is a masterpiece and still has meaning today.

    Rap is just crap.

  • @Bamaboompa Grabbing your crotch makes you a rapper? And here I thought Michael Jackson was a pop artist. But, even he made good points in his songs. All I'm saying is you can't really judge a genre you know nothing about. That crotch thing is a stereotype.

  • ..is a Wonder!!

  • I love it..is Wonder!!