That is the Green line on 43 st between calumet and prairie on the Low End! My old neighborhood but now it is known as Bronzeville..Much love and peace!
wow its great to read people s comments on common videos you can clearly see that the people watching common videos are way ''smarter\normal'' than for example Lil wayne watchers. anyway this track is just another tite tune from common. he s really stepping it up.keep doing his thing.
i think you can find rap talent all over the us whether it is the south, east coast, west coast. i just think the industry is putting out too much fakeness and production is bad. (i.e. dream, soulja boy,...lost track of other names) its not the location, its the industry putting talentless ppl out there
Dude stays in my brothers building lol but thats hwo it is out here in chicago we got flavor that no one else has seriously idk but it seems as if most southern rappers and east coast rappers have lost sight on whats true in hiphop east coast aint shit but a competition (whos the king of new york) and the south aint shit but drugs (with an acception of a few) but in chicago its a different vibe as yall can see...with rappers like GLC KANYE LUPE AND COMMON :)
Preach on... Like NO I.D. says Chi town where we dont fight over coast cuz the one thats in the middle is the one that sees the most... Rap Game is Lockdown in the Chi, Common, Lupe, Kanye Rhyme-fest, They all rep the chi Luda doesnt rep it for shit i dont understand that he was born here... Commons new album is poor excuse for hip hop not his style he is doing for the money but I'm not hating hes doing his thing
you know whats wrong with yall right.... yall hate to see the youngsters make music just to make money. yall gotta face it , its not about the love of music o more its all about money. its millions of athletes that make it to the pros and its billions that cant even play sports,but they know how to be the life of the party and ENTERTAIN people. basically FUCK HIP HOP IT DONT MAKE MONEY NO MORE
dude the reason why it doesn't make money anymore is because it isn't being marketed well. Example: De La Soul tried to release their album the grind date to the mainstream market. BET wouldn't play it because "it didn't apply to their audiences" Now who the hell has the right to blow off living legends. It has nothing to do with seeing youngsters make money.(FYI I'm 18... So i didn't really grow up with half the shit i listen to). It's Bull that people can have a career without any talent.
but talent left in the nineties when people had to start making money think about 50cent .... to me hes talentless.... but his i respect hios drive to become a top contender in the rap game. just because u say they are talentless doesnt make it true. im from texas and i jam ol texas shit but they never got major and they have better songs than ones today. oh and yea i didnt like soulja boy at first but he gained my respect by being him and grindin with HIS music .
fair enough. well within your rights. I mean bro, what I'm objecting to is the fact that there are STILL people with talent today. Yet they don't get their share of the commercial sucess. Take De La Soul, their last album was straight up amazing. Not one video played on MTV, BET, VH1. That seems wrong to me.
yea and i know thats right because in texas its a million people that been trying to get into the game. but look what gets played STANKY LEG please. BUt then agian thats where diversity comes in because if you cant reinvent yourself day after day then your a ghost. but just to say De La Soul got something. but its about MONEY ALL MONEY. like LUPE SAY YOU GOTTA DUMB IT DOWN
Luda was not born in Chicago....He was born in Champaign Urbana...2 hours south of Chicago....He couldn't rep it if he wanted to....He knows he'd get called out.
a' joe yes luda was born in champaign but his family is from tha city so if he rep it he wouldnt have no problems ya dig know what you talkin bout before you get on here typin joe
um...that sounds dumb.... If I was born in hmm... let's see, Springfield but my parents are from Chicago... the only time I really see the city where my family is from is family reunions and funerals then I leave and move to Atlanta... I wouldn't rep it either... because IM NOT FROM THERE. He would not be able to rap about Stony Island like he does Ben Hill or East Point. I know that someone...desiring exposure will call him out(hmm.. a 50 cent type)... You cannot speak for 3 million people
the reason i said that is just becuz he was born down state dont mean nothing be he was actully living in the city for years 87th ashland and his majority of his family born and raised in the city and to this day he still be making moves in the city and not down state so he more city plug than he is champaign plug
but i mean if want to say about that about Luda look at K.west hes from oak lawn a suburb of Chicago, i live closer to chicago than he did and he doesnt get called out for it
ur wrong about the east coast nobody is talkin about who is king of ny right now. look how hov and nas put the nonsense aside cuz niggas dont really care about that in ny. anyway we r more in tuned with our boros than the whole actual city. as 4 the south i cant speak 4 them cuz im not 4rm there
oh yeah we got artists like mos def, talib, joell ortiz, saigon, papoose, az, nas. you cant say those dudes lost sight of what is true hip hop. and again no one is currently after a king of ny title
the only thing southern rappers talk about is drugs is because thats how we came up .. u cant walk down the street and get a deal or go pursue a acting career ... we gotta do it on our own .. and mcdonald's aint paying enough to put into a company so whats left ..... dont talk down talk up cuz we all tryin to get there
Benefit, Mos Def, Common, Aesop Rock, CunninLyngists, Afu-Ra, Andre 3000, Army of the Pharaohs, Atmosphere, Black Star, De La Soul, Deltron 3030, Murs, The Fugees, Gang Star, Jurassic 5, Nas, Lost Boys, The Roots, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Typical Cats, People Under the Stairs, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef Jean.
holy shit u know whats up. its so rare to find people who actually know what hip hop is. damn thats one of the best list ive seen nice. but i really dont like the roots that much.
Benefit, Mos Def, Common, Aesop Rock, CunninLyngists, Afu-Ra, Andre 3000, Army of the Pharaohs, Atmosphere, Black Star, De La Soul, Deltron 3030, Murs, The Fugees, Gang Star, Jurassic 5, Nas, Lost Boys, The Roots, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Typical Cats, People Under the Stairs, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef Jean.
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you people are dickriding so hard,
there's no confidence to his flow in this, it sounds like some newbie freestyle shit. It sucks because Common is such a great artist, this is terrible.
this song made me start liking common's music, I used to think he was soft, but when I saw this shit I was like that nigga hard, plus this video was shot around my crib
he didnt find common, he helped make common's career even better after the passing of J dilla (R.i.P.). anyway, ur right about common and kanye being gd rappers and hip hop never dieing
not only am i white, im irish. but a man can only stand back and appreciate such an intelligent and smart tune. Great lyrics. with a great beat, if only all rap was as poignant, relevant and as clever as this tune
DatkooKid and Chubbya2z please read this whole comment. You guys took the words out my mouth, did u notice NAS, one of the greatest rappers ever born said that HIPHOP aint HIPHOP no more he said HIPHOP is dead!!!!!!!!!!! When the greatist rapper of all time says HIPHOP is dead, best beleive HIPHOP is dead... Cause of retarded rappers like Lil Wayne, you know Weezy F. Baby, HIPHOP is courrupted by his wackness or how you say lack of talent and probably lack of intellegence Rap music sucks now.
Nas said @ the end of his album that Hip Hop is dead, Nas just said for a gimmick so he can sell albums, just like his last album he made, he made such a big deal of what he was gonna call his last album all just for controversy.... Nas is old school and it sucks to sya but the new school is taking over evrybody has their time...
i kinda feel u man. im just a big common fan so i accept his new shit lol. universal mind control is just some new unique type shit. im still gon cop his new cd
I said that to my dude the other day, he said i was a fake fan, but i put it as, i like the way he spoke to me in songs like this, and he is free to go his own way creativly but i think id like to rest on these songs and wait till he comes back to the way i listen to him.
LUPE, COMMON, KANYE, MOS DEF, TALIB, MURS, BLACKALICIOUS. hip hop will never die theres too many people fighting for it
You just spoke THE fuckin truth.. Everyone you just named is on another level but dont forget about Andre 3000, Slum Village, Madlib & Nas. There's alot of other REAL MC's out here but they just get over shadowed by all the " Lil' Wayne's" and their millions upon millions of GROUPIES.
Nas said hiphop is dead because of the corporate big whigs who runs the show and get all of the money. People infered that he was talking about the music. besides, haven't any of you ever thought that hiphop is splitting into 2 different subgenres? its not dying its evolving.
talib and mos def would have did the song just but you can relate better to the song if you stayed in the chi stony island is one of those street you can almost get killed crossing
would anybody agree with me if i were to say that 2 wonderful collaborators for this track would've been talib kweli and mos def? it just sounds to me like these two very great but widely underrated mc's would've taken us a little deeper with the message, no disrespect to common. i still love this song though. common, kanye and yhe last poets did their thing putting this one out!
all the talk about 'real' music, etc etc, cats are lookin at it the wrong way, its a different genre, hip hop is dead i accept that, just like 80s rock is dead, but that doesnt mean a select few arent bangin out some good tunes every once in a while.
Todays genre.. hip-pop and club music isnt hip hop, i really wish theyd change the genre.
I never thought I'd see the day I would say 'I cant believe what kids listen to these days' but now I do. Sound like my fuckin pops, but times change I guess
You'd think after all today's rap cats here how bad catz talk about em they'd change they stylez up and get back to the Truth. but Nooooo.. Still pumpin out hot garbage. Common and cats like em is the Truth! Hip-Hop ain't dead, Cats is just sleepin on her!
When u can rhyme about something other than hoes or shooting somebody and have a good beat behind it a rap about something meaningful or funny then u got my ear
to say one type of hip-hop is bad is to hate on all hip-hop, If all MCs sounded like the rappers out of the chi or NY then hip-hop would get stale, all that crank-that music and crunk music are a needed evil, because whether or not we like them, they are still rappers and a part of hip-hop, lil wayne is a random ass mofucka but he thinks of rhymes that no other MC could, solja boy is a peice of shit BUT you need the crappy to see how good the rappers like common talib kweli and mos def are
they do that in nigeria, africa too...the rich ppl sometimes/often tear down the super poor projects to build new high rises for the rich elite (often foreigners)
im 14 and i agree. my generation is not used to real music so we are brainwashed into thinking soulja boy and others are good. thats all we experience. i however think all of them is garbage.
Hip hop is alive.Peace to Nas kanye west Ksr-one,common,mos deff,L.Hill,Eruka .B,Ice cube,Wu tang clan,Onyx,stick fingaz,NAS,NAS,NAS,Dipset alitte,and me some day Treyvon bryant AKA freefall.From the cold Sky city Denver colorado east colfaxs saving hip hop 4 life. FUCK ALT MUSIC it sucks,real talk.
No Atlanta did not destroy Hip-Hop. Consumers destroyed hip-hop. In songs today, all we hear is money, cars, and hoes, and snapping yo fingers, and what we do, we SUPPORT IT. Fuckin wack ass rappers like Soulja Boi, Shawty Lo, D4L, V.I.C, and other niggas gon mainstream like 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, are running the industry and we support them.
Dont forget about DIPSET. They played a BIG part in makin hip hop wack. with tracks like BALLIN and all that other cornball club music. They shouldnt even call it hip hop just call it club music.
For those that dont know , it has always been BULLSHIT in hiphop ! It just was not so many people rushing to copy some bullshit that some clown did to get on ! Hip-Hop's main ingredient is and always will be ORIGINALITY !!! Only a few artists COMMON , LUPE , MOS DEF , THE ROOTS , NAS , and a few oyhers strive for that !!!! Until that trend gets back to status quo we'll be forced to deal with this garbage they call music !!! Its OUR fault !!!
I agree with you Quisha0902. Some of the people now don't know anything about Hip Hop. They only know the music which is showing on the radio, TV and other media, that's really sad.
i don't think atlanta destroyed hip pop (im from ny by the way). i think the industry is putting out too many untalented crunk artists. just so happens crunk is southern. thats why most southern rappers are wack
atlanta really started the bullshit rap movement and other niggaz from other places are playing them selves to get on.iust like that nigga from ny. the nigga so trash i dont even know his name he got that song hi haters how it seen niggaz from all over are trying to make southern music. to follow the bullshitin trend. we need more leaders than followers
theres only like 3 good hip hop artists left common k os and kanye west...even if u disagree about kanye common and k os are the best cause there just so profound
Common, your music is amazing as always. I'm from Dominican Republic and I recognize how U send your positive message to the people through the rap. My respect and regards for U.
its true about kanye...before he used to be like common and not care for the fame...but now he just forgot about it and hes acting like hes bigger than everyone...common atleast stood with it
late registration was garbage too could not agree more. hes better when he sticks to makin beats cause he's a subpar mc at best. im gonna get tons of thumbs down for this comment. but people who know hip hop, and not mainstream rap pop know what im talkin bout
diamonds are forever is a great beat. a good message too. but i would have liked to hear an mc with mad skills spit over that track. not a big fan of lupe but his lyrics over that beat are far better than kanye's. we all have our opinions though. kanye did his thing on be though, wish he would do more production like that. city vibe style. sorry just not a fan of his current style. he was one of my favorites back when he was with the roc
its true about kanye...before he used to be like common and not care for the fame...but now he just forgot about it and hes acting like hes bigger than everyone...common atleast stood with it
Ur right, and most of rappers 2day come out jus like that and act like they betta than everyone. Keep in mind that im from new orleans and listen 2 dis shyt.
Great lyricist love the beat.
tammylee09 2 years ago
the beat's sick
common's dope
d vid gets 5mics
& dat big booty chick @1:58 jes makes a nigga feel randy!!!
rappadapp 2 years ago
That is the Green line on 43 st between calumet and prairie on the Low End! My old neighborhood but now it is known as Bronzeville..Much love and peace!
shonuff3479 2 years ago
under rated
cutthroat53 2 years ago
isnt that the king dr green line station in the background he is near
kid707 2 years ago
CHICAGOOOOO
JSM9393 2 years ago 2
Dope song.
99sumrs 2 years ago
stop listening to mainstream pop shit
Tennisers 2 years ago
thank god for the surviving breaks and rhymes of common. keepin it humble and real in the spotlight.
CAHNKRETE 2 years ago
The Jam
SirEricmicheal 2 years ago 2
wow its great to read people s comments on common videos you can clearly see that the people watching common videos are way ''smarter\normal'' than for example Lil wayne watchers. anyway this track is just another tite tune from common. he s really stepping it up.keep doing his thing.
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hiphop31337 2 years ago
i think you can find rap talent all over the us whether it is the south, east coast, west coast. i just think the industry is putting out too much fakeness and production is bad. (i.e. dream, soulja boy,...lost track of other names) its not the location, its the industry putting talentless ppl out there
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Stefanotto1 2 years ago
Midwest too....
Nacho773 2 years ago
Dude stays in my brothers building lol but thats hwo it is out here in chicago we got flavor that no one else has seriously idk but it seems as if most southern rappers and east coast rappers have lost sight on whats true in hiphop east coast aint shit but a competition (whos the king of new york) and the south aint shit but drugs (with an acception of a few) but in chicago its a different vibe as yall can see...with rappers like GLC KANYE LUPE AND COMMON :)
MamiGoneMusicKrazy 2 years ago 2
Preach on... Like NO I.D. says Chi town where we dont fight over coast cuz the one thats in the middle is the one that sees the most... Rap Game is Lockdown in the Chi, Common, Lupe, Kanye Rhyme-fest, They all rep the chi Luda doesnt rep it for shit i dont understand that he was born here... Commons new album is poor excuse for hip hop not his style he is doing for the money but I'm not hating hes doing his thing
j92orrico 2 years ago
and we got erykah badu luda chamillionare paul wall mike jones david banner outkast i can keep going talk what you know
disassterus 2 years ago
other than EB and outkast, nobody else on that list has any talent.
xtybe33 2 years ago
you know whats wrong with yall right.... yall hate to see the youngsters make music just to make money. yall gotta face it , its not about the love of music o more its all about money. its millions of athletes that make it to the pros and its billions that cant even play sports,but they know how to be the life of the party and ENTERTAIN people. basically FUCK HIP HOP IT DONT MAKE MONEY NO MORE
disassterus 2 years ago
dude the reason why it doesn't make money anymore is because it isn't being marketed well. Example: De La Soul tried to release their album the grind date to the mainstream market. BET wouldn't play it because "it didn't apply to their audiences" Now who the hell has the right to blow off living legends. It has nothing to do with seeing youngsters make money.(FYI I'm 18... So i didn't really grow up with half the shit i listen to). It's Bull that people can have a career without any talent.
ahmad312 2 years ago
but talent left in the nineties when people had to start making money think about 50cent .... to me hes talentless.... but his i respect hios drive to become a top contender in the rap game. just because u say they are talentless doesnt make it true. im from texas and i jam ol texas shit but they never got major and they have better songs than ones today. oh and yea i didnt like soulja boy at first but he gained my respect by being him and grindin with HIS music .
disassterus 2 years ago
fair enough. well within your rights. I mean bro, what I'm objecting to is the fact that there are STILL people with talent today. Yet they don't get their share of the commercial sucess. Take De La Soul, their last album was straight up amazing. Not one video played on MTV, BET, VH1. That seems wrong to me.
ahmad312 2 years ago
yea and i know thats right because in texas its a million people that been trying to get into the game. but look what gets played STANKY LEG please. BUt then agian thats where diversity comes in because if you cant reinvent yourself day after day then your a ghost. but just to say De La Soul got something. but its about MONEY ALL MONEY. like LUPE SAY YOU GOTTA DUMB IT DOWN
disassterus 2 years ago
Luda was not born in Chicago....He was born in Champaign Urbana...2 hours south of Chicago....He couldn't rep it if he wanted to....He knows he'd get called out.
BitOHoney1983 2 years ago
a' joe yes luda was born in champaign but his family is from tha city so if he rep it he wouldnt have no problems ya dig know what you talkin bout before you get on here typin joe
lilfocuss 2 years ago
um...that sounds dumb.... If I was born in hmm... let's see, Springfield but my parents are from Chicago... the only time I really see the city where my family is from is family reunions and funerals then I leave and move to Atlanta... I wouldn't rep it either... because IM NOT FROM THERE. He would not be able to rap about Stony Island like he does Ben Hill or East Point. I know that someone...desiring exposure will call him out(hmm.. a 50 cent type)... You cannot speak for 3 million people
BitOHoney1983 2 years ago
the reason i said that is just becuz he was born down state dont mean nothing be he was actully living in the city for years 87th ashland and his majority of his family born and raised in the city and to this day he still be making moves in the city and not down state so he more city plug than he is champaign plug
lilfocuss 2 years ago
but i mean if want to say about that about Luda look at K.west hes from oak lawn a suburb of Chicago, i live closer to chicago than he did and he doesnt get called out for it
j92orrico 2 years ago
ur wrong about the east coast nobody is talkin about who is king of ny right now. look how hov and nas put the nonsense aside cuz niggas dont really care about that in ny. anyway we r more in tuned with our boros than the whole actual city. as 4 the south i cant speak 4 them cuz im not 4rm there
youngfase5 2 years ago
oh yeah we got artists like mos def, talib, joell ortiz, saigon, papoose, az, nas. you cant say those dudes lost sight of what is true hip hop. and again no one is currently after a king of ny title
youngfase5 2 years ago
the only thing southern rappers talk about is drugs is because thats how we came up .. u cant walk down the street and get a deal or go pursue a acting career ... we gotta do it on our own .. and mcdonald's aint paying enough to put into a company so whats left ..... dont talk down talk up cuz we all tryin to get there
disassterus 2 years ago
this is a real music video
str8drop757 2 years ago
stupid censures
Pakkkmatikk 3 years ago
More POWER to the PEOPLE who USE it POSITIVELY & RESPONSIBLY!!! PEACE & LOVE!!!!!!!
JTeegy 3 years ago
mtv kills me with the unnecessary censoring...but this song is ill none the less...
>Bri
rnbsweetheart 3 years ago
Making hip-hop alive =)
asapee222 3 years ago
fuck yes. god thank god people kow what fuckin hip hop is
mug04life 3 years ago
Benefit, Mos Def, Common, Aesop Rock, CunninLyngists, Afu-Ra, Andre 3000, Army of the Pharaohs, Atmosphere, Black Star, De La Soul, Deltron 3030, Murs, The Fugees, Gang Star, Jurassic 5, Nas, Lost Boys, The Roots, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Typical Cats, People Under the Stairs, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef Jean.
sexysniper232 3 years ago
holy shit u know whats up. its so rare to find people who actually know what hip hop is. damn thats one of the best list ive seen nice. but i really dont like the roots that much.
mug04life 3 years ago
this is straight music
talks about real shit
not just money they got or money
common nd them old school dudes do it right
sil2k8 3 years ago 2
true words
mug04life 3 years ago
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Benefit, Mos Def, Common, Aesop Rock, CunninLyngists, Afu-Ra, Andre 3000, Army of the Pharaohs, Atmosphere, Black Star, De La Soul, Deltron 3030, Murs, The Fugees, Gang Star, Jurassic 5, Nas, Lost Boys, The Roots, Snoop Dogg, Talib Kweli, Typical Cats, People Under the Stairs, A Tribe Called Quest, Wyclef Jean.
sexysniper232 3 years ago
THE WINDY CITY!!!!!
pepeja001 3 years ago
listen to krs ones hip hop lives
jizay147 3 years ago
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you people are dickriding so hard,
there's no confidence to his flow in this, it sounds like some newbie freestyle shit. It sucks because Common is such a great artist, this is terrible.
msteelmsteel 3 years ago
This was for the brothers on them corners, running them streets of Chicago.Its understandable that you didnt get it
LVst1978 3 years ago 3
maybe if you looked up the lyrics youd understand
Grafman52 3 years ago
Man this incredible, you don't hear good music like this too much anymore.
jesusfollower1993 3 years ago 3
fuck 50 cent and other commercial shit, only true rap.
LoStilePolaccoTV 3 years ago 7
Greetings from Poland
I love this song, this and nas - nas is like are my fauvorite songs.
cheers
LoStilePolaccoTV 3 years ago 4
"nas is like are my fauvorite songs"
6Nutsack9 3 years ago
SAME HERE! This song really got me into Common... BEAUTIFUL SONG! :)
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stereomysticworld 3 years ago
True Hip Hop here. None of that uneducated bullshit that is being played today!
5504berry 3 years ago 2
this song is so sweet. i love this song, made me love common.
common is sick!
dalboy83 3 years ago
this song made me start liking common's music, I used to think he was soft, but when I saw this shit I was like that nigga hard, plus this video was shot around my crib
thablackprince2 3 years ago
Mr. Kanye West is a genius.
LcnHnm 3 years ago 3
"reality's a bi@ch and i heard that she bite"-comm sense
dieumer1991 3 years ago
Kanye West is IMO the reason hip hop will never die, because he found Common and will continue to find artists and he himself is a very good rapper.
Quagmire97 3 years ago
he didnt find common, he helped make common's career even better after the passing of J dilla (R.i.P.). anyway, ur right about common and kanye being gd rappers and hip hop never dieing
BassBeatsProductions 3 years ago
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TALK TO ME
i cant watch this video kR
Grvirus 3 years ago
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ForgottenEmoGurl 3 years ago
everyone this is one of the best songs in history or historia
for those who hablar or speak spansish boysss
llllolllz nsd
Guitarman996 3 years ago
favortie song
Guitarman996 3 years ago
not only am i white, im irish. but a man can only stand back and appreciate such an intelligent and smart tune. Great lyrics. with a great beat, if only all rap was as poignant, relevant and as clever as this tune
romac82 3 years ago 10
look up IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE ON YOUTUBE THEN YOULL GET WHAT YOU WANT
robinlue2008 3 years ago
DatkooKid and Chubbya2z please read this whole comment. You guys took the words out my mouth, did u notice NAS, one of the greatest rappers ever born said that HIPHOP aint HIPHOP no more he said HIPHOP is dead!!!!!!!!!!! When the greatist rapper of all time says HIPHOP is dead, best beleive HIPHOP is dead... Cause of retarded rappers like Lil Wayne, you know Weezy F. Baby, HIPHOP is courrupted by his wackness or how you say lack of talent and probably lack of intellegence Rap music sucks now.
nbk305 3 years ago
Nas is wrong.
Your wrong.
Get off Mtv
HieroSkave 3 years ago
Nas said @ the end of his album that Hip Hop is dead, Nas just said for a gimmick so he can sell albums, just like his last album he made, he made such a big deal of what he was gonna call his last album all just for controversy.... Nas is old school and it sucks to sya but the new school is taking over evrybody has their time...
stardagreat 3 years ago
DAMN i love Common he the shit one of the last good rappers we have left
sashanina123 3 years ago
1 of da greatest songs in history
timotheezy17 3 years ago
Wow, the Chrono Trigger mixtape version of this song is actually BETTER than the original.
bseymour14 3 years ago
i miss real hip hop
jordan484 3 years ago
this is the real!!! leave that universal mind control alone
strother21 3 years ago
the universal mind control. jus playin
kizzle1203 3 years ago
alot of common's songs start with the. :
the light
the corner
the people
the game
the 6th sense
any more?
yeaboymanidude 3 years ago
the food is an amazng song with kanye its off BE
web98 3 years ago
Am I the only one not feeling his new tracks? This shit is where its at, not Universal Mind Control.
ripmeast21 3 years ago
i kinda feel u man. im just a big common fan so i accept his new shit lol. universal mind control is just some new unique type shit. im still gon cop his new cd
blackstonekid 3 years ago
I said that to my dude the other day, he said i was a fake fan, but i put it as, i like the way he spoke to me in songs like this, and he is free to go his own way creativly but i think id like to rest on these songs and wait till he comes back to the way i listen to him.
LUPE, COMMON, KANYE, MOS DEF, TALIB, MURS, BLACKALICIOUS. hip hop will never die theres too many people fighting for it
ChubbyA2Z 3 years ago 4
You just spoke THE fuckin truth.. Everyone you just named is on another level but dont forget about Andre 3000, Slum Village, Madlib & Nas. There's alot of other REAL MC's out here but they just get over shadowed by all the " Lil' Wayne's" and their millions upon millions of GROUPIES.
DatKooKid 3 years ago 5
I'm ashamed i left them out my bad dude, but thanks for covering for me
ChubbyA2Z 3 years ago
and what about Aesop,Black Milk, One Be Lo and Senim Silla of Binary Star, and Sole of Anticon?
HieroSkave 3 years ago
I love it, people keep giving me new rappers so my knowledge and faith in the life left in hip hop grows. Thanks Hiero.
KEEP EM COMIN PEOPLE
all suggestions are taken into account.
ChubbyA2Z 3 years ago
Apathy-Louis Logic- Celph Titled-Jean Grea-9th Wonder-Del-Mr. Lif- Rhyme Sayers- na hip hop is not dead it just went underground
johnnyp8x 3 years ago 2
Nas said hiphop is dead because of the corporate big whigs who runs the show and get all of the money. People infered that he was talking about the music. besides, haven't any of you ever thought that hiphop is splitting into 2 different subgenres? its not dying its evolving.
MickSwaggger 3 years ago
this is nice still
sil2k8 3 years ago
wheres the captions?
ayemy 3 years ago
looking 4 real 90's music? i have it all!
TheDonFieryOnKCrown1 3 years ago
this song brings back from memories
peoplemakememad 3 years ago
Oh, the COLD, the GRIT, the GRIME of my city! The Chi!
Success2gether 3 years ago 4
southside 079 chitown all day.
blackstonekid 3 years ago
HEADSHOTS 612 Mpls
kelcix33422 3 years ago
This punk been comin out wit sum wack shit by he still my nigga.Chi-Town nigga thats my city nigga.
MackLord25 3 years ago 2
it's just a little different
i noticed that also
lennyvilla 3 years ago
fuckin common snapped wit this song..showin what the chi about, not only the sights of downtown and our museums..show the hood and what we about.
cubsrule777 3 years ago
I've found it is physically impossible not to nod to this beat.
Jessenator 3 years ago 10
talib and mos def would have did the song just but you can relate better to the song if you stayed in the chi stony island is one of those street you can almost get killed crossing
aelt15aelt 3 years ago
makes no sense!
impreza0wrx 3 years ago
"we write songz about wrong coz it hard 2 c right" damn
mizbooboo 3 years ago 3
would anybody agree with me if i were to say that 2 wonderful collaborators for this track would've been talib kweli and mos def? it just sounds to me like these two very great but widely underrated mc's would've taken us a little deeper with the message, no disrespect to common. i still love this song though. common, kanye and yhe last poets did their thing putting this one out!
classy45chick 3 years ago
dey talk shit ,play lotto, and buy german beers.
tmkcurtis 3 years ago
cars mayne
franciso7 3 years ago
wtf would kanye no about the corner.
bfgoodrik 3 years ago
doesn't matter dude. this shit is just dam good. i'm not from anywhere close to projects and i'll still play this in my car loud.
intellectsoundss 3 years ago 2
so u cant relate to a word in this song, just enjoy and leave me the fuck alone
bfgoodrik 3 years ago
true thatt
jbdesi22 3 years ago
ok how can a fucked video piece of shit like "crank dat" n dat fag have millions of views n diz MASTERPIECE!! have less than 60,000 views?
damn! PEOPLE BEEN BRAINFUCKED!!
fuck commercial rap
fuck mainstrean hip hop
fuck wayne n his daddy
n specially n mostly FUCK SOULJA BOY!...dammit
WatchMyJordansBitch 3 years ago 19
only 53,000 views??
the212soul 3 years ago 6
sik that m8 :D
mctorres9 3 years ago
u did a crappy job edditing
u took one of the most important parts
sector9er 3 years ago
he smacks it all day everyday
Artisticz 3 years ago
all the talk about 'real' music, etc etc, cats are lookin at it the wrong way, its a different genre, hip hop is dead i accept that, just like 80s rock is dead, but that doesnt mean a select few arent bangin out some good tunes every once in a while.
Todays genre.. hip-pop and club music isnt hip hop, i really wish theyd change the genre.
I never thought I'd see the day I would say 'I cant believe what kids listen to these days' but now I do. Sound like my fuckin pops, but times change I guess
xtybe33 3 years ago
man my city is the most beautiful. chicago is the only city where you can be from there and it still feel like an new experience when you go downtown
spoondilla05 3 years ago
remember back then when music videos also displayed creativity instead of just your sexual need?
haha,
good job common and kanye on the video!
jinunit 3 years ago
You'd think after all today's rap cats here how bad catz talk about em they'd change they stylez up and get back to the Truth. but Nooooo.. Still pumpin out hot garbage. Common and cats like em is the Truth! Hip-Hop ain't dead, Cats is just sleepin on her!
heavenlyblade 3 years ago
on the 5 tell me dat aint boby gore next to dat poet nigga fam
PlayBoiMaine 3 years ago
@ least common keeps it hip hop we need more these days its dead as nas says
beyo2120 3 years ago
reality is a bitch and i heard that she bites..
ericcontroversy 3 years ago 2
I luv 2 smoke mad bowls in Bump Common Sense! you can see his lyrics, he's dope..
JayriK562 3 years ago
I dont like Lil Wayne or any other of them lil's out there Hip Hop that is good and makes sense is mostly Kanye West, Common, Mos Def.
Soulja Boy is pretty much horrible
brad71forfsu 3 years ago 2
Very true. Soulja boy is more than terrible... its just... ridiculous.
manutd107 3 years ago
When u can rhyme about something other than hoes or shooting somebody and have a good beat behind it a rap about something meaningful or funny then u got my ear
I dont like this Lil Wayne stuff neither
brad71forfsu 3 years ago
to say one type of hip-hop is bad is to hate on all hip-hop, If all MCs sounded like the rappers out of the chi or NY then hip-hop would get stale, all that crank-that music and crunk music are a needed evil, because whether or not we like them, they are still rappers and a part of hip-hop, lil wayne is a random ass mofucka but he thinks of rhymes that no other MC could, solja boy is a peice of shit BUT you need the crappy to see how good the rappers like common talib kweli and mos def are
Juiceaholic 3 years ago 2
thats a very good point, you need the bad to appreciate the good. unfortunately, sometimes the bad is so bad it gives it all a bad name.
manutd107 3 years ago
its a shame only a few rappers can put out stuff this hot not that lil wayne or soulja boy shit
BWSinvasion 3 years ago 2
if you never been to Chicago, this video give you a good tour of it. To bad most of the pj are gone,69th and racine englewood stand up
kontender1980 3 years ago
they tore down the projects,so where the most of the people moved at
jordan484 3 years ago
they do that in nigeria, africa too...the rich ppl sometimes/often tear down the super poor projects to build new high rises for the rich elite (often foreigners)
cherriesandicecream 3 years ago
im 14 and i agree. my generation is not used to real music so we are brainwashed into thinking soulja boy and others are good. thats all we experience. i however think all of them is garbage.
xoxbabygrl911 3 years ago
im surprise you caught on at that age thats a good thing
jordan484 3 years ago
i been knew this stuff today was garbage when i turned 12
xKG24x 3 years ago
whats garbage?
jordan484 3 years ago
today rap artist even though i listen to them like soulja boy
xKG24x 3 years ago
yea i got cha
jordan484 3 years ago
YA TALL CHI TOWN all day! but have to agree with atl baby soulja boi and rapers like that suk
aquatics125 3 years ago
i luv this vid(cuzz chicago and east coast rappers r tha best)
blueplanetdrive2 3 years ago
Hip hop is alive.Peace to Nas kanye west Ksr-one,common,mos deff,L.Hill,Eruka .B,Ice cube,Wu tang clan,Onyx,stick fingaz,NAS,NAS,NAS,Dipset alitte,and me some day Treyvon bryant AKA freefall.From the cold Sky city Denver colorado east colfaxs saving hip hop 4 life. FUCK ALT MUSIC it sucks,real talk.
CS2Trey 3 years ago
No Atlanta did not destroy Hip-Hop. Consumers destroyed hip-hop. In songs today, all we hear is money, cars, and hoes, and snapping yo fingers, and what we do, we SUPPORT IT. Fuckin wack ass rappers like Soulja Boi, Shawty Lo, D4L, V.I.C, and other niggas gon mainstream like 50 Cent and Lil Wayne, are running the industry and we support them.
ATLBaby71291 3 years ago
Dont forget about DIPSET. They played a BIG part in makin hip hop wack. with tracks like BALLIN and all that other cornball club music. They shouldnt even call it hip hop just call it club music.
DonLeoMarin 3 years ago
you right
jordan484 3 years ago
For those that dont know , it has always been BULLSHIT in hiphop ! It just was not so many people rushing to copy some bullshit that some clown did to get on ! Hip-Hop's main ingredient is and always will be ORIGINALITY !!! Only a few artists COMMON , LUPE , MOS DEF , THE ROOTS , NAS , and a few oyhers strive for that !!!! Until that trend gets back to status quo we'll be forced to deal with this garbage they call music !!! Its OUR fault !!!
quisha0902 3 years ago 2
I agree with you Quisha0902. Some of the people now don't know anything about Hip Hop. They only know the music which is showing on the radio, TV and other media, that's really sad.
alexflorencio1 3 years ago
i've seen alot of shit on the corner growing up...
slickkapone 3 years ago
i love this song
MissOakCliffUSA 3 years ago 2
im born and raised down south and i can say we got the worst rap down here atlanta destroy hip hop this is my favorite rap song ever
jordan484 3 years ago 3
i don't think atlanta destroyed hip pop (im from ny by the way). i think the industry is putting out too many untalented crunk artists. just so happens crunk is southern. thats why most southern rappers are wack
xoxbabygrl911 3 years ago 3
atlanta really started the bullshit rap movement and other niggaz from other places are playing them selves to get on.iust like that nigga from ny. the nigga so trash i dont even know his name he got that song hi haters how it seen niggaz from all over are trying to make southern music. to follow the bullshitin trend. we need more leaders than followers
jordan484 3 years ago 2
finally
sgcsc 3 years ago
SICK FUKEN SONG TRUE HIP HOP HERE
darkn1ggaboy 3 years ago 2
Dope song over a CLASSIC Temprees sample! The lady in the barber shop is unbelievably curvy!
SidewalksOfNY315 3 years ago
Kanye is one of the best producers in the game
bamafan682008 3 years ago 2
I love listening to this and Camron - cha ching cha ching on my ipod, fucking sick
Jarko123 3 years ago
CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!!
mrfreeze0054 3 years ago
HOTTEST HIP HOP TRACK EVER!!!!!!!!!
jordan484 3 years ago
the corner was our magic, our music, our politics, fires raised as tribal dancers and
war cries that broke out on different corners.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
BLACK POWER
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
philanderadriaan 3 years ago 4
memories on corner with the foes & the moes!amazing!
jackbasketballer 3 years ago 2
i dont see how people dont like common or even this song
T3h5h3R1f 3 years ago 5
anyone from any hood can relate
mikeswifey4lifey 3 years ago
theres only like 3 good hip hop artists left common k os and kanye west...even if u disagree about kanye common and k os are the best cause there just so profound
ajarcaroisawesome 3 years ago
K os
you mean krs?
stupidstuuf 3 years ago
no i mean k os like k os check him out...hes not some random guy i know hes actaully the sickest hip hop artist out there
ajarcaroisawesome 3 years ago
i wouldn't call him the sickest. he's sick but not the sickest. PHAROAHE FLOWS BLOWS SHOW'S LIKE AFRO'S..... PHAROAHE MONCH IS THE ILLEST. :)
truthspeaks01 3 years ago
thisis my shit!
Toocool4school1993 3 years ago 3
lol at 00:19, it don't get no more Chitown than that!!!!!!!!!!! a good representation of the Chi on that one!!!!!!!!!!!
slickkapone 3 years ago
this is a damn good song, sounds like some civil rights type shit...let's go get 'em man!!!
slickkapone 3 years ago 4
Common, your music is amazing as always. I'm from Dominican Republic and I recognize how U send your positive message to the people through the rap. My respect and regards for U.
Peace!
alexflorencio1 3 years ago 3
Thumbs down to the guy below me...
ur an idiot..
pistons2203 3 years ago 3
its true about kanye...before he used to be like common and not care for the fame...but now he just forgot about it and hes acting like hes bigger than everyone...common atleast stood with it
DiaryOfARevolution 3 years ago
agreed, kanye's newest album is garbage imo
liu11 3 years ago
late registration was garbage too could not agree more. hes better when he sticks to makin beats cause he's a subpar mc at best. im gonna get tons of thumbs down for this comment. but people who know hip hop, and not mainstream rap pop know what im talkin bout
thewalls23 3 years ago
late registration had a few good tracks, i love diamonds are forever and there were a few others
liu11 3 years ago
diamonds are forever is a great beat. a good message too. but i would have liked to hear an mc with mad skills spit over that track. not a big fan of lupe but his lyrics over that beat are far better than kanye's. we all have our opinions though. kanye did his thing on be though, wish he would do more production like that. city vibe style. sorry just not a fan of his current style. he was one of my favorites back when he was with the roc
thewalls23 3 years ago
DiaryOfARevolution
its true about kanye...before he used to be like common and not care for the fame...but now he just forgot about it and hes acting like hes bigger than everyone...common atleast stood with it
Ur right, and most of rappers 2day come out jus like that and act like they betta than everyone. Keep in mind that im from new orleans and listen 2 dis shyt.
blackandgold51 3 years ago 3
SICK!!! love it
dondriese 3 years ago 2
They need to chill on here wit that gangbanging crap on here.
nellzman 3 years ago
"these are the stories told by stony and cottage grove" : )
ronnya415 3 years ago