The Roots feat. Common - Act too (Love of my life)

[cccxxxc]

favourite song ever.

[millfordsange]

i swear this is one of the "most beautifulest" pieces of hip hop I have ever heard.

[SuperChiedza]

I'm in love.

[MrGanjakush]

one of my favs of all times

[TheTallMan35]

This album cover is very disturbing...love the cut though. :>)

[jordanair383]

only 2 dislkes :D

[Meday972]

@jordanair383 yeah it's 2 fagoot !

[DJWilburC]

wow

[Cali1782]

shit i broke the replay button. SORRY GUYS!!!

[damocless100]

best song of this classic album

[sedcdf]

Common killed it. I listen to this song every single day. this my favorite Roots album.

[sedcdf]

This like the greatest song ever.

[meltedsunshine]

Love it!!!

[aaleyah5380]

AND IT SOUNDS SO NICE.....HIP HOP YOU DA LOVE OF MY LIFE........215 STAND UP!!!!!

[syman27]

this song gives me goosebumps especially when the strings come in....one of the best "ode to hip-hop" songs ever!



[iUpham]

<3

[GUEROMEXICANO831]

I dedicate this song to Jeannette Miranda from East Salinas, CA. She's the love of my life, like hip hop. Thumbs up if you gonna dedicate this song to the best lady of your life like hip hop homeboyzzzz!!!

[KiddRogers]

After listening to this song and watching Brown sugar again...i realized this is part 2 "I used to love h.e.r"

[a59799]

I think for real son that Malik was the baddest lyricist in the group. The roots was like the 90's bulls. Had the two best players in the game on the same team a la Jordan and Pippen.

[MrGanjakush]

gettin ate in sections where i wouldnt eat her the under the counter love so silently i treat her her daddy a beat her wow..

[eachneverydaynosleep]

dam only 190k waht a shame

[Hetkanookanders]

Real music, made by real people for real people. It,s important that we dont forget what the true esscense of Hip-Hop is.

Hip-Hop is the voice of those who don,t have a voice.True Hip-Hop is liberation and revolution of the soul. I,am asking everyone to boycot all Hip-Hop artist who projecting hate, violence and materialism. Stop buying or even download music of these artist. educate yourself with real music and books.

One World, One love from Amsterdam, The Netherlands- Hetkanookanders

[88OHA]

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[GeneralSleezTv]

I love this song. This song explains Hip Hop better than any other rap song out. Black Thought is one of da most under rated emcees But to me he is one of da best emcees. I nknow to each his own but give credit where it's due. If u doubt that( him being on of da best ) no disrespect, but u dnt know Hip Hip. Listen his verse again & tell me i'm lyin'

[tklotttklott]

one of the best songs ever! common is unconscious on this one...

"in her i found peace, like malcolm in the east!"

[HipHopByThePound]

''Had to watch my back,my front plus my sides too/when it came to gettin' mine i ain't trying to argue''

[MrCalculus999]

yeah he is right if wasnt for hip hop i would of probably blown my brains out long time 

[MrGanjakush]

legendary roots crew black thought is in my top 2 greatest rappers of all time plus a live band.bigup to you

[alphanumerik]

hip hop, you the love of my life

[re6ter]

one of the sweetest hooks ever 

[Enem3andEuryHaze]

A lost gem

[martinakizZz]

smooooooooooooooth <3

it reminds me of a greek old school rap of ffc with similar meaning..

[DNYCEisBackagain]

Man this song and beat is amazing 735 of these views was probably me

[wonderataoldotcom]

you cant not like songs like this

[czarsul]

Damn Good, and of course Notic 2.

[mrgolem33]

3:02 wao

[allyoursmokingneeds]

I love this song....beautiful song for all hiphop heads.

[JamesBaldwinLover]

This song's orchestration is so beautifully lush and smooth. I can listen to it over and over...

[dcbandnerd]

So smooth. 

[kenny083004]

This song will remain TIMELESS it's a masterpiece.

[rayallen0]

The way the band decided to reinterpret this rather popular sample is interesting

[SuperNumber777]

Feels so right. That's how Hip-Hop should make a Soul feel, baby.

[SwoopsFilms]

THIS IS REAL TRUE HIP HOP

[Baaaaaaaaadboy]

lil wayne n gucci mane disliked this song

[tripod4000]

the most beautiful hip hop song ever.  the Roots are truly legendary

[ShayaaNaturalTV]

I'M BOUT TO TAKE IT TO THE TO THE TO THE TO THE ....AND IT SOUND SO NICE ....HIP HOP YOUR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!

[carsonkent]

this track is the answer to any doubter....hiphop is rhythm, melody, and artististic expression. those who appreciate it realize that it's LOVE

[Rakabash]

@carsonkent As Rakim once said on "Follow The Leader" "rap is rhythm and poetry"

[HipHopWLD]

great flow....... great work...... great CD

[TheSneakafellaz]

HIP-HOP YOU THE LOVE OF MY LIFE !

[Nicole9507dr]

Real hip hop will never die...it's up to us that appreciate hip hop in its realest and truest form to keep it alive>

[MAG1CMAN69]

this is up there with some of the greatest hip hop songs !

[stevenr105]

REAL HIP AINT DEAD..ITS JUST SLEEPING!

[VCthaGOATdunker]

yall need to give Common some more credit. We all know the Roots are some of the GOAT, but Common was at his best ever in this song.

[Vince77F]

Indémodable !!! Toujours autant de plaisir à l'écouter ! Greetings from France !

[Eanime]

HIP-HOP HIP-HOP HIP-HOP HIP-HOP HIP-HOP

[dinckyboyy]

2 people never had love for music!!

[chu1111111]

best album of all time, any genre. trust me iv checked

[Protzer39]

Love it.

[mygodjustwork]

the start of this song... 1st minute is amazing 

[fmlhoquei47]

@mygodjustwork YEAH.. your right ^^ amazing

[sofuknossum]

@mygodjustwork it's better than common's intro to be and i don't care what anybody says

[robertbutler714]

@mygodjustwork the first 4 minutes and 55 seconds of this song are amazing

[TurncoatTony]

@mygodjustwork The entire song is amazing. The album is fantastic. Malik and Blackthought are so sick with it. I wish they still had the lineup they used it.

[ADSLOWW]

REALLLLLL SHYTTT RIGHT HEREE

[TasterzChoyce]

You know, I always wonder to myself time and time again about who the person was who thought it was brilliant to put the garbage that is on the radio nowadays. It's pollution. How could anyone not appreciate this art form in it's purest form. Back in the 90s right after Big died, Puff came out with bullshit tracks along with Mace to corrupt it. Then the "Make em say UUUuuhhh" movement came through with the dirty south garbage. Next thing you know, some joker said it was good and the rest is ..

[yojop]

@TasterzChoyce well said man. It really is pollution. It's disgusting.

[OblivionWarrior97]

This is real Hip-Hop shit right here. They need 2 put songs like this on the radio instead all of the garbage we have nowadays!

[MaxMalone]

The Roots: Keeping ethnocentric whiteboys interested in hip-hop since the 90's.

[1AshantiWood]

thank you God for these brothers and their dream to fulfill the musical needs of the world!

[Thequeeng2u]

THANK GOD someone posted this song..THE ROOTS ROCK!! I HOPE THE GET VOTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!!

[DrKushBurns]

@Thequeeng2 YOu Kidding? The Roots WILL BE HALL-O-FAMER'S

[be4tbybl4ck]

@DrKushBurns they ARE hall of famers

[Thequeeng2u]

THANK YOU TO WHO EVER PUT THIS SONG ON YOUTUBE!!! I SWEAR THE ROOTS ARE THE BEST!!!!!! I hope they get voted into THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!

[1AshantiWood]

This song is Orgasmic GOOD! Never heard this in my life!

[liviti]

Damn, can't believe it's 12 years since "things fall apart" dropped. I memorized every single line from its songs....hip hop's official band - the best that ever did it.

[JayCooll7]

Shout out to those who know and appreciate real hip hop!! May it live forever!

[BonitaAppleGee]

still a little snottttttttt nosed <3

[iam01]

Hip Hop you the love of my life!

[kitt998]

Hip hop, you the love of my life!

[jerrymill89]

1 of the best hip-hop songs ever made 

[NeoDaOne]

hip hop at its finest...

[kobi628]

no dout hip hop iz the real shit man the 2 wo sad u disliked this song.FUCK U MOTHERFUCKERS. ripoff yur dick and shove shove it in yur ass.asshole

[guerrillabeast2010]

one of my favorite of all time!!!!

I miss the days of real hiphop

[jabron1973]

THAT ALBUM COVER IS POWERFUL ON SO MANY LEVELS

[Imnawaahla]

@jabron1973  have 2 say yyyeeeess, it is on so many levels, also a beautiful story of a people thats about to return home very soon.

[mikewhomikeyoung]

in her I found peace, like malcolm in the east

[khasm13]

the 2 jack wads that don't like this song are retards.....

[chet732003]

Top 3 of all-time... This is and "I Used To Love Her" are each others dopplegangers... And both rank 2 & 3 in my book.

[jorgetokesalot]

@chet732003 that's cause Common knows true hip-hop ;)

[stevenr105]

i live in LA, and i go out alot to hollywood, and theres a bunch of spots(whiteboy clubs) that play a bunch of that garbage music. most of those spots are wack & there all a bunch of people who buy into all that new shit on the radio. but there are spots in LA that still keep it real.

[stevenr105]

all this new shit coming out on the radio and tv shouldnt be even labled as hip hop, there should be a new name for all the new shit out! i call all the new shit hip pop

[tommyboy042]

@stevenr105 Wow dude, I didn't even read your comment and responded to a comment above saying the mainstream shit is really just hip-pop...how weird haha.

[tastingleadonmylips]

hip hop isnt dead, its just hard to find i think if you check out a group called CYNE you would agree the music is still out there but you gotta look for real artists and not industry puppets cuz anyone whos in it for the money (weezy) will do whatever the label tells them to with their music

[redblazerpea]

@tastingleadonmylips yeah CYNE is great. i also recommend substantial, pase rock and shing02

[janalyn629]

on repeat.

[litesho]

acadia1106, I agree with your comments about hip hop sucking now. I used to love it, but the scene in general sucked all of my love for it out of me.

But n regards to the origins of techno, I've heard varying things in regards to its roots, but I believe that it came from the UK, as did its close friend ecstacy. From the UK it spread to the US and made various off-shoots: gabber, darkcore, trance, jungle, etc...

I read a great book called "e" once. Very illuminating. Check it out its great

[ChrisPR88]

"hip hop....u the love of my life."

[fknHbomb]

why has this had so little views? the shit people call "hip hop" these days makes me fkn sick. this is the real shit

[chet732003]

the beat make this cut pop... One of my top 5 anthems of all-time.  This cut is better than 5hr energy drinks. Damn!!!!

[Bexly]

the kings!

[JGmon14]

there's still a lot of conscious hip-hop artists out there that care more about quality than swagger.. sucks that everything went so commercial but there's guys like black thought, common, talib kweli, mos def, classified and others always keepin it real.

[Bozkicksyourface]

@JGmon14 Needless to say, Dilla was one of those.

[ChernovitzAlimoe]

Two fucking gays dislike vid....

Respect from Ukraine! Hip hop is a internatinal religion without borders.

[Bozkicksyourface]

@ChernovitzAlimoe WORD.

[ChristiSpelledWithNI]

sweet beatz

[jovanna242]

loooove this song! this is a great song to smoke herb too.

and the lyrics are on point.

[Smerfyswagg]

this is real hip-hop not fuckin flossin and trappin i luv diz classic and im only 13 freshhhh

[dbeezy3]

who made the beat?...Dilla??

[djjoshsnowden]

@dbeezy3 The Roots production team, "The Grand Wizzards"...it consists of Questlove, Black Thought, Anthony Tidd, Mel "Chaos" Lewis, James Poyser, Kelo and Richard Nichols.

[SargeKirby]

@dbeezy3 I'm pretty damn sure its Jay dee in the flesh.

[straightupkid]

One of my favorite songs of all time!

[hallsterr]

Black Thought is probably the best MC in the game.

[CRAZYREALNYCDC]

That album cover is the truth that shit is still happening but now you have your own people killing you with them crackers fuck them uncle toms spics and them yangs who suck the white man dick!

[CRAZYREALNYCDC]

REAL HIP-HOP!

[marvelitoss]

Italians know and love real HH too.big up

[somecoffeebeans]

that orchestral interlude is just off the fucking hook.

[GhettoBlaster100]

its so true!!!

[bcphillyva]

It's sound so nice! Real Hip-hop forever!

[1trl2]

I think that anybody can mediate to this track. Sounds so beautiful. REAL HIP HOP!

[delmarstraderjr]

@1trl2 i think its meditate? dumbass

[1trl2]

@delmarstraderjr so what i miss one T in the word. Thank you for the correction & now fall back jackass

[delmarstraderjr]

@1trl2 i think its meditate?

[acadia1106]

The first rap song is Sugar Hill Gang, Rappers Delight, get ur history together, and rap is actually rooted in the islands, formed out of rapso, which was formed out of calypso, which it's elf originated in the 1800's, as a way for former slaves etc to tell stories and political commentary without the ruling british authorities understanding what they were talking about. Forward 1980's Blondie Also, probably first "white" Rapper. And The Bridge Is Over, The South Bronx, put rap on map.

[fellinlove1]

@acadia1106 i believe the first actually was the breaks by curtis blow :)

[acadia1106]

Yeah, I stopped listening to anything basically produced after the early 2000's , hip hop is a joke these days, every genre has it's golden age, for hip-hop it was the 80's-90's. Kind of like RnB was 50's -80's. Electronic music is though slamming right now, ironically Techno was created by 4 black dj's in the early 80's out of detroit.

[Spooman11]

@acadia1106 you should check out Masta Ace´s A Long Hot Summer, it came out 2004 so you might have missed it, great album=)

[pick8lock]

@acadia1106 all good music is made by negro folk =)

[Corvallian]

@acadia1106

i used to have the same close-minded opinion, but if you dig through the superficial you'll discover a whole underground scene filled with fantastic hip-hop music. there is good rap today, you just have to look a little harder.

[1perle]

@acadia1106 Oh my Gosh you re so right respect!

[silnavi]

@acadia1106 everyone stands on the shoulders of those who came be4... dont forget about Kraftwerk's contributions to electronic music

[tommyboy042]

@acadia1106 I wouldn't even call the mainstream shit from the past like 5+ yrs hip-hop...it's hip-pop, basically just pop music with really shitty rap, no emotion, no intelligence, no meaning or message, I hate it man but I'm glad we can listen to shit from the golden age on youtube or else I'd be going crazy lol.

[unclegusyo]

@acadia1106 check out shad. trust me on this one

[jorgetokesalot]

@unclegusyo Shad's got good music no doubt

[CedRockstarr]

@jorgetokesalot Search "J. Dilla - The Beat: A Metaphor for Hip Hop" It's a continuation of Common's I Used To Love HER & The Roots' Act Too

[streeTkiDwannaBe]

@acadia1106 Mainstream hip hop is a joke. Great hip hop has gone back underground is all. Artists like Blu and Shad are proof of this.

[badazone1]

@acadia1106 yes derrick may detroit techno was spawned from hip hop so was chicago house

[Bulldog19892]

@acadia1106

Agreed, but techno was not created by four black DJ's in the 80's. Electronic music has been around for ages. I don't know who invented, but the group Kraftwerk is proof that is was around longer than the 80's.

[DJBlakePaul]

@acadia1106 I feel you, but you should really check out Curren$y, all his mixtapes really pay homage to the golden age, it's really hip hop (Higher than 30,000 ft, Return to the Winner's Circle, Fear and Loathing in New Orleans, Fast Times at Ridgemont Fly to name a few, I think you'd dig it, he's dope. J.e.t.s.

[zombieboy13]

@acadia1106

mmmm i wouldn't really condemn the 2000 and up. MF doom has been doing some good work along with MadLib.

[AutofireDev]

@acadia1106 There is good hip hop these days. Nas and Damian just dropped Distant Relatives last year, Cunninlynguists bringin game strong.. just dropped Oneirology (Dope shit.. if u want a great track look up "Cunninlynguists - Ember"). IMO Cunninlynguists are the next greatest hiphop group of all time. Lupe with Lasers too.. if u like it.. a bit more poppy than his older shit but ohwell. Delinquent Habits is another dope group still churnin out classic beats...Swollen Members dope group too.

[OldshcoolTypeSoul]

@AutofireDev I love CunninLynguist but they aren't even close of being as great as ATCQ, OutKast, Gang Starr, Wu Tang, Eric B and Rakim, The Beastie Boys, Company Flow, etc. etc.

[audi500a1]

@OldshcoolTypeSoul Don't forget De la Soul, Digible planets, Camp Lo, Black Star

[OldshcoolTypeSoul]

@AutofireDev Or The Roots! :)

[kguillou]

@acadia1106 I'm only going to slightly disagree with you there. There was lots of AMAZING R&B in the 90's (whitney houston, mariah carey, r kelly, lauryn hill, mary j blige, toni braxton etc etc). But your right man, hip hop is an absolute joke nowadays.

[KrfNYC2]

@acadia1106 I feel you. For me hip-hop golden age was from '93-'96 and Soul/R&B was basically the entire 70's.

[djjoshsnowden]

@acadia1106 you're missing out on a lot of good music if you gave up on hip-hop ten years ago.. *shakes head*

[MrMusicevolution]

@acadia1106 The great thing about hip hop is that we can argue that point..Because what you just said can also be said about the 70s and Herc..

[stevenr107]

This is real HIPHOP, that other shit that your hearing on the radio & see on Mtv is all fake garbage hip POP. it aint hip hop. this is hip hop, little wayne & drake and all that other crap getting ratings rite now should be labled as either hip pop or call it mainstream cuz this is an insult to the real hip hop culture, what happend to making your own beat & lyrics???

[neosouljazz]

great effort was put in this track

[mackbuddy67]

Hip hop for life.

[rssej]

Just heard the original sample for this song on the jazz radio station here but didnt catch the name. Can anyone put me in the direction of the sample used for this?

[jvinson]

Happy Birthday to Hip Hop!!

[cp1492]

it was all for you

from the door for you

[TheRickynow]

Still sounds amazing!!!

[12sky21]

real hip hop for life

[Eanime]

This is beautiful, ladies and gents!

[xBlazinBoyx]

this track gives me chill everytime im bumpin this real hip-hop aint dead its just burried like treasures im 21 and i only listen to the cream de la cream of hip-hop just close your eyes and listen to blackthought's first verse man gives me 2 many chills everytime i listen that track im tellin my self that hip-hop really do is the love of my life...

[manwomanboogie]

One of The Best Hip Hop Songs and Homages to the True Culture Of Hip Hop ever recorded...