Mos Def Talib Kweli ft. Common - Respiration

[izik950]

spitta was bumpin this in his King Kong video

[DRE141418]

Damn they dont make/do hip-hop like this no more

[Jakssontupac]

bom som bacana

[pacandbiggie1]

this whole damn album was badass

[CarlosEnrique408]

"Hard to be a spiritual being when shit is shakin what you believe in" exactly what i feel ttalib. exactly what i feel.. shit is reaal homie

[sexysniper232]

def's verse on repeat

[EmCeeMG]

hey itd mean alot if you guys check out my link i made a song to the instrumental of this song. if you got time let me know what you think id really appreciate it

/watch?v=C2T95-qSKWA&context=C­3f49348ADOEgsToPDskIsurBnGKxAP­oV9th4YYuNb

[SwhatleyD725]

This is KNOWLEDGE !!!

[bigdigga0]

this is hip-hop

[Veiwtifullmind]

Orange and Torrence rhyme. not perfect rhyme, but near rhyme.

[wutang439]

i like it how we cant c the red in the dislike bar

[Raymondnihles]

@wutang439 thats cuz it shouldnt exist

[RouthSaw574]

escuchala NIGGA

[airborn101st]

Why is mac miller in the related videos??

[ShookOnes92]

@YoungRapper700 there a couple of tracks hes made in 2012 type in mos def 2012

[Scarr0Corps]

The beat the feal where the hell it go....Music turned to shit....Revolution my ass it's just trying to get the limelight....This is a real beat mos feal no fake nothin about bitchez ande hoez just about life and the world...Mos Def 2Pac Notorious....God Love and The Comunity....Thats Honor mostly none of them ever lived the life that say they live most of them came from the hood getting whipped or in the suburbs acting tuff.....

[dragunovful]

@Scarr0Corps BRO WE GET IT! Every video I go to i gotta see this. ITS CLEAR.

[Quanchi50]

REAL MUSIC

[wilzusuki]

REAL HIPHOP

[sofuckinndope]

youtube dot com slash watch?v=GV7yFqfZtSk

[SmokinLogan92]

There is too much awesome on this track...

[TheChriSomerset]

@leatherwhistle i read on the web it was common and nas as they have done a few tracks and r linking up on callab album whats due to drop in feb i think

[xHaveFateNerdx]

”At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise”- Mos def

[DoctorSess]

@xHaveFateNerdx yeah that was talib yo

[TheChriSomerset]

i must have had my head under a pillow i havent heard about this nas and common album !!!! should be epic !!!

[LeatherWhistle]

@TheChriSomerset I thought that was Talib.

[scoobydubi]

this track is real deep, defs part about economy and corruption, talibs part about the gettos and harsh living, commons part about losing someone dear to him,, super deep,, "mercinarys is paid to trade hot stock tips for profits,thirsty criminals they pocket,hard knuckles on the second hand of working class watches"

[tpodomik]

..i wish more people knew about these classic.. d-_-b

[ColinouRugby]

Read the lyrics to this song I DARE YOU! Motherfuckin' poetry.

[cashew175]

can we stop judging other rappers and listen def

[TheMikenice1]

search iotos, he like a young mos def and common. listen to jammed up and 4th and inches

[vonbonzai]

dope shit

[jasup2010]

what year was this?

[ThaKatastrophyHD]

@jasup2010 1998

[SPUNKinHERtrunk]

we need a new primus album

[SPUNKinHERtrunk]

we need a new primus album

[kingvladeus]

@rb42371 There WILL be BlackStar 2 album coming next year...It was confirmed at RockTheBells! Look out for a Common and Nas collabo album next year also, with their solo's late this month. Peace.

[maurofcpedrosa]

@kingvladeus awesome news

[littlelonnie14]

We need: Another Black star album, a new Rage Against the Machine album, and the new Roots album just dropped so we're good on that.

[benjamm1nn]

shinin' like who on top of this?

not many...this is one of my all-time favorite songs

[rb42371]

We NEED another Blackstar album ASAP!!!!

[themostchronickush]

@rb42371 heard there was supposed to be one in 2012

[discoverIntelligence]

wow what a nice song

[onpoint206]

curren$y did a rap on this beat to.... both ill as fuck. love the original tho

[vangbouly614]

Rawkus Records had hip hop on lock down back in the day

[mhkjggg]

Please 95. 3 listen to this so u can know what real music is

[fread51]

deep thinking aka smoking music

[robertbutler714]

this song fuckin knocks

[lumberjackegg]

two people are gay for eachother.

[chessinfantry]

@lumberjackegg <--------lamer

[FROMANJEFF44]

when this come out? i like it

[jarbon5]

This is an outright classic!

[nickels9254]

One word for this "Classic"

[DWANEM]

2 people don't know shit about hip hop

[chessinfantry]

@DWANEM <----- lame

[chessinfantry]

@chessinfantry ha yeah, cause everybody knows that men who study the art of war and infantry tactics for a living are lame, cmon kid why send me personnel messages, u scared to be woooped in public dipshit?

[PsudoPoodle1324]

cant put these three guys on the same song...it aint fair for everyone else

[reecy95eya]

Constant replay.

[flonga1]

This. Fucking. Flow. Makes me wanna back home in L.E.S so fuckin bad I miss my fuckin family man... Shit...

[nylikenike]

youtube dot com slash /watch?v=hpNTmqXvSY4

[XoAmiLL16]

SHININ LIKE WHO ON TOPPA THIS?

PEOPLE WAS HUSTELIN ARGUIN AND BUSTELIN

GANGSTERS OF GOTHAM HARDCORE HUSTELIN

[tjsimmms]

"Look in the skies for God, what you see besides the smog, is broken dreams flyin away in the wings of the obscene." THIS is the quintessential NYC track, not "Empire State of Mind". Jam this track while you walk up Broadway at night. You WILL feel the city breathin.

[MsFunnyStuffz]

FIrst verse by Mos is one of the best verses ive ever heard

[starkster12]

pure poetry

[MsFunnyStuffz]

@starkster12 my english teacher actually had Mos's verse on a Poetry test. I was so happy lol

[ilikethepoon223]

im 18 an im wonderin why nobody has introduced this type of music to me. im lovin it tho all these rappers now talk about the same thing on top of pop beats

[bigchas]

One of my favorite songs of all time.

[acorrales1380]

CLICK LIKE TO THIS COMMENT IF YOU SAW THIS PERFORMED LIVE AT ROCK THE BELLS 2007 MIAMI BY ALL 3!!!!

Wow... That was a while ago...

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 <-----------------------lamest

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry sez the ghetto chess nerd!

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 ha, yeah, so ur lamer than a ghetto chess nerd, congratulations kid

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry like I care what you think of me. You should worry more about not getting your ass kicked for your 10 dollar chess set by that neighbor crackhead you call your father for his next fix than taliking shit to someone you'll never have the balls to say what you just said to their face

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 ooooo a whole paragraph for me? stop taken shit to heart crybaby

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry You're such a gangster! I bet you're the toughest guy in your own bedroom when you beat the shit out of your dick to Justin Bieber every night! E-thugs are so CUTE! =)

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 justin biber? trying to be gangster? only lil teeneybopping teenagers talk like that, let me guess, ur like 15yo huh? ha, i can see ur faggot ass now with a mowhawk and skinny jeans dancing round like a jerk to kanye west haha

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry Lol I didn't say TRYING to be a gangster, you did! I said you WERE a gangster! Looks like you slipped up there E-thug...

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 pffft.....wow, yeah u really got me huh? so im a gangster that listens to justin biber, thats what ur saying? good one haha.... try again kid

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry Don't also forget who's a ghetto chess nerd who wastes his time calling people lame on the internet due to reason he keeps to himself. Everybody else knows its because he can't get laid, but he thinks he's fooling everybody...

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 ha, ghetto chess nerd, thx! is that suppose to be a insult? u are way to cool to play a silly game of chess huh? it would be really embarrassing for u to get ur ass wooped by a justin biber fan! ur outranked fuckin with me boy, ur still wet behind the ears

[acorrales1380]

@chessinfantry The hell is wrong with you?? Go find yourself a girlfriend or something... Is there one female out there who DOES NOT have a restraining order against you?? Geesh... your a bigger pain in the ass than a hernia.

[chessinfantry]

@acorrales1380 awww dont give up that easy kid, try again dipshit.....cmon dont let a chess nerd break u down killer

[UnchainedPsych0]

@MrJay697 What you said either makes no sense, or it's completely true.

[efil4aggin92]

damn i rember this use to be my joint

[blackbull1970]

They went ill on the metaphors.

Tight Ass Jam! Pure Classic!

[LiveRealSmokeChill]

Wise niggas rapping with their mind not like niggas now adays who just write catchy diarea to the ears...

[teresaSOlovely]

@LiveRealSmokeChill lmao catchy diarhea?? hahahahahaha.

[inigo4688]

Why do I always find stuff this good ten years late?

[89soxguy]

i love real hip hop

[BBlackRedneck]

check out this new video from BLACK REDNECK ENT, bringing that real shit into the 21st century

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[pyromegalomaniac]

My friend doesn't think that good rap exist anymore, so to prove it to him i showed him common, talib, mos def, lupe, and b.o.b. where was this video when i needed it

[J0KAHs]

@pyromegalomaniac wait why the fuck did u show him b.o.b he blows

[MsFunnyStuffz]

@pyromegalomaniac wtf b.o.b nigga you aint better than your damn friend listenin to that shit

[GunnerStJohns]

Hey it does look like a face,.wierd!! :P

[Rafat12able]

zoom out and look at the album pic, as it gets smaller it starts to look like a face!

[mrawsomepants355]

I wish Common would just join Black Star. Also if he joined the Roots that would be ok too.

[xxSpearMonkeyxx]

@mrawsomepants355

I agree, they could do a lot together

[jwatt34]

These guys are poets not rappers... atleast by todays standards

[yBliz]

@jwatt34 nah they're more like emcees overall. Poets would be like murs, but some of black star's work is straight up poetry

[95civex]

the low amount of views worries me. shit is taking over the music world. more people need to listen to this

[ImanjCashaw]

Mos Def is the King of True HipHop...

today all these lollipop heads and jerks..nothing against them...

but Mos makes my mind nut just listenin to his words....

damn-

[higherlevel28]

hah been listening to mos def, talib, common, nas, az, big l, krs-one, an tha greatest Rakim, an all tha good ol school rappers but have never heard this song by mos an talib.. but it definitely dissapoin

[advthamonsta]

they need to do a song (all three of them) with lupe fiasco

[BishopBlueprint]

@advthamonsta was thinking the same thing!!!!

[xCaptxCrunchx]

why does it pause on the first second???..... anyways, sick jam

[MasterLinkz69]

i remember i first saw black star on chapelles show. Ive been complete ever since

[hkpopfan4lif3]

@MasterLinkz69

as a human, you're not complete if you haven't eat Ike's Sandwiches before

i just ruined it huh?

[MasterLinkz69]

@hkpopfan4lif3 haha you sure did man.

[sSEAWeLll]

who disliked this...? how come really its Langston hues 2.o



[KonstancyOfficial]

Check out "Konstancy - Respiration" Youll be surprised of how much talent a Palestinian rapper could have...Cant top the original though..One Love

[Dissociation13]

real niggas

[TheDavvede]

1 people of 400 are retarded

[ygopack]

Listen to this on a dark, rainy, drive home! Amazing.

[gta4333]

my dick vomited

[XavierCanRap]

im performin this song wit Kweli's son for the talent show lol

[Djrickyricardo95]

good shit..

[iubescmuzik]

I love this tune they allways keep it real. real hip hop for life.

[ubermicrolol]

1 sentence from this song has more meaning inbeaded in it than a whole album from weezy literally

[jenard0]

@ubermicrolol the comparison is kinda dumb...two different type of rappers

[truthbetold560]

Has been my favorite song for over ten years!!!

[ThinkingArt]

1000 views of this video are mine.

[727themastermind]

sawg. i dont liike thiis check out lil b

[trinidad128]

@727themastermind Lil B? He already sounds soft with a name like that. And let me guess, you're gonna say "Oh his music is real hip-hop... blahh blahh.." Well real recognize real homie. Black Star is as real as it gets.

[CAMisM3]

Im a new school rapper with a old school influence i grew up on this song. So i made a remix i guarantee i aint a wack rapper if u love this type of music support me please. if you dont like the song i guarantee youll love the skit at the end check out my page. If you like what you hear like this comment so you can help me spread pure hip hop, please.... i dont want to see H.E.R. (get it) die. thanks

[keos190]

shame you dont hear this on the radio no days.........

[Mulganic]

Mos's verse =one of the best ever?

[BellalAzimi]

@Mulganic All of Mos Def's verses are possibly the best ever.

[MultiMario2]

1 dislike - guy wich has no sense about the real groove .

[nye101]

I love this song.. I read the lyrics for the heck of it and it made me love it even more. CRAZY LYRICS

[TheStrangeMrTop]

thestrangemrtop

[wvj1992dgenerate]

This song is seriously amazing...especially listening to it on the train home...

[cloaked22]

1 person has herpes

[RandyCuddlesworth]

amazing right here!

[SkillNSkull]

black star is the only one make feels something when you hear these songs

[fashi0nistam0]

one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE SONGS and thats really saying a lot!!! real hip hop stand up!!

[fullmetalmonkey3]

Cheesy comment about hip-hop

[timetocomeup]

classic.

[Oshunlife]

This is what mainstream music should be like....* TRUTH*QUALITY*ENLIGHTENMENT*ET­C

[mrJDPittman]

sucks when youtube go out music like this will be lost

[Blackaveli1000]

One!!!

[sorlark22]

Three of my favorite artist all put together. This song its truly a Classic. IT wont die.

[moorishbelle]

Classic.

[mashrojo]

It's been a while..

[matt101071]

in like2007 didnt common/blackrob&like ten other hiphop groups do a song called massassassination? it was played on 88.9 wers boston mass,10pmtill2am every weeknight.. does anyone remember that song it was like ten minutes long.?????mattp

[okonokid]

like this better than the video...they cut off T.K.'s verse in the videos...

[TheMegaInferno]

FLATBUSH



[TheCavs6]

so much on my mind i just can't recline..

[Empha84]

Classic 1998 Black Star videos dropped in early 1999 when hip hop was hip hop

[DRAGOONRULZ123456]

i found out about this song taking my english benchmark. lol

[kazekage321414]

real shit

this is fkin poetry

the best shit i have ever experienced in my ears

ya'll rappers like lil wayne, drake and other mothafkers... you could use a lesson from these guys

[Taylorcoolzy1314]

I'm 14 years old and my friends wonder why I'm listening to this "corney" music, but it's the complete opposite of it! It's way better and makes more sense than these rappers today.

[sicky1226]

@Taylorcoolzy1314 SAME HERE! Haha glad im not alone

[Deadpok3]

black star the best dynamic duo

[1AshantiWood]

No dislikes! :)

[gregre80]

if you dislike this, your part of the sheople!

[MattafixTm]

Mos Def is the best hip hoper.