Mos Def - Auditorium Ft. Slick Rick

[alanklug1991]

love this song, slick rick doing it again!

[lotus11668]

This track deserves more views. This is a real song right here.

[KINGBEASTBLOOD]

WATT IT IS NIGGGAS!!!!!!

[Kiranmpat]

This beat is taken from an Indian song.

[JavierOllllO]

Dude it only music who gives a f!@&$!!!!

[JavierOllllO]

What it is son!

[CazHattrick11]

Uh uh uh... DAMNIT NOT AGAIN!

[MrCommenterguy]

@andrewfogan ok keyboard warrior

[CelaMayne]

Dude I'm feeling this song so much. The beat is mesmerizing and the lyrics are nothing short of spectacular. Can someone inform me of some other good Mos Def songs or his best albums? Much appreciated

[arcsouljah]

@CelaMayne Mos' hasn't release a tonne of albums black on both sides, the ecstatic, true magic are some of the best.

[arthurex]

mind is a vital force, soul is the lion's roar, the voice is the siren, i swing 'round, ring out and bring down the tyrant, chop a small axe and knock a giant lop-sided. the world is so dangerous there's no need for frightenin'

[sanjay122499]

sampled from a  hindi movie awesome!

[koopaking45]

@bonagol24 People Talk Shit Because They're A Sad Person In Real Life

[jeremyelliot]

Like if your the sort of person who Likes things because you've been told to.

[khiron62]

@MetamorphosisUK

Maan you right, sounds like krs-one speaks

peace out from France my man

[jajababy13]

SUCH A SKATE SONG!

[djccchouse]

Alex Bellemare, Level 1 Productions.

[bonagol24]

Why do people come and talk shit to each other, when the reason why they're here is to enjoy this song!!!

[187jd]

wow so ill lyrically 

[birdcantfly15]

Anyone know any other songs like this with dope ass beats and legit lyrics? I just want a whole buncha new songs to listen to.

[TMARRiiN]

@birdcantfly15 pez - lost

immortal tech - dance with the devil

army of the pharaohs - suicide girl

jedi mind tricks - uncommon valor

snowgoons - starlight

diabolic - behind bars

360 - tormented kid

i'm guessing you've probably heard most of them though (all of the artists have multiple amazing songs)

[Reachwun]

He's the Ruler for a reason...

[emirhandilege7]

DEPLASE KEYİFLER

[EliGPromotion]

YO MAN GIVE THIS A LISTEN

Eli G - Don't Need Your Love

[jeremyelliot]

this song is much too short

[discosinner]

Hip-hop dead? hah hah... Its alive and flourishing more than it ever has.

[MrDersimKurdistan62]

Best Song from the album.

[MrGeorgeyS]

Fucking hate when people say hip hop is dead. If you still listen to tracks from the 90s the true hip hop will never die. Saying its dead is an insult to the great artists you are all too lazy to find who release great hip hop today. Fuck man, the Roots released one of their best albums yet just last year. Atmosphere have been keeping hip hop alive for years and even Mos here or yassiin bey as he's now known is keeping it alive. Get out of your arse and keep hip hop going

[hello120494]

@MrGeorgeyS I feel the same way. People need to wake up - Yasiin, Doom, R.E.K.S, The Roots, Black Star, even Nas is releasing a new album this year! All these artists are still releasing quality work... Hip Hop is alive and well, you just need to look in the right places.

[97kills]

Got to listen to this at least once a month...2 times in a row...for the rest of me life..peace

[mikeymikefresh7]

i was bumping this shit hard during the summer

[Harvsey]

Hip hop is all about the lyrics, it doesn't matter if the beat is whack or not.

check out the critics ratings. they rated Mos Def's album better than Lil Wayne's shit

yet Wayne got more sales than Mos Def. it's really sad that people only care about the beat and not the lyrics.

[afromadness]

@Harvsey are you implying that this beat isn't good cuz this beat is fucking amazing

[PhatSmurf1]

@Harvsey hip hop should be a blend of beats and lyrics, I agree, I think the lyrics have been lost in mainstream hip hop, and yes sales don't translate into talent.

critics give their opinions though, doesn't mean shit. people can make up their own minds about what music they like, don't need someone else to do it for them.

[MNeshev]

true lyrics, great song!

[andrewfogan]

LIKE THIS IF EVERYONE NEEDS TO STFU AND LISTEN TO THE SONG

[MrCommenterguy]

@andrewfogan This is a comment section bro...you comment on it.

LIKE IF YOU THINK EVERYONE SHOULD STOP BEGGING FOR LIKES (joke, don't, I just said that to get across my point)

[andrewfogan]

@MrCommenterguy includes you. STFU

[MrCommenterguy]

@andrewfogan I said I was joking, I don't want people to thumb me up, you can thumb me down if you want, I dont give a fuck.

[andrewfogan]

@MrCommenterguy stfu

[GreatScottPilgrimage]

Proof that some rappers actually have something to say.

[Anrkist713]

People dislike this song just to piss me off. I'M ON TO YOU!

[walidb123]

ecstatic

[wwwdotsoldotcom]

I think people becoming confused hip hop and rap, people like soulja boy is hip hop as his music is about dance, along with cali swag district etc. However rap is purely about lyrics and used to be about real life struggles, which the people supressed by the fucked up government can relate to, but now it's about how many bitches lil wayne has, and how much money drake has. Check out some british grime though that's still real.

[MetamorphosisUK]

@wwwdotsoldotcom no...no...no... Hip Hop is a culture, involving Emceeing (rapping), DJ'ing, Dancing, Graffiti artists, clothing/style and of course beatboxing. Souljaboy's music is commercialized crap encouraged by capitalistic arseholes.

[NathanCrumrine]

@MetamorphosisUK Almost everything here in the states is commercialized crap encouraged by capitalistic assholes, and as we have one of the biggest cultural forces in the world (hollywood) get used to it. Or stop buying it, which is unlikely

[Miloshevits]

@MetamorphosisUK you sound like KRS-One. You are so right though

[MetamorphosisUK]

@Miloshevits lol you must learn from the teacher.

[Trillosopher]

@MetamorphosisUK Soulja Boy IS still hip-hop... shitty hip-hop, sure. But hip-hop regardless.

[arcsouljah]

@Trillosopher No. Soula Boy is a pop star who uses rap (a part of hip-hop cuture) as a medium to produce POPular music.

[Trillosopher]

@arcsouljah you're the reason why i hate most hip-hop fans.. you ALL hip-hop artists to be good. and if they're not, they're considered "fake" or "pop". i guess by your logic, 2pac, jay, biggie, kanye, etc, aren't hip-hop.

[arcsouljah]

@Trillosopher Dude I think you got riled up enough to cause some flaws in your grammar! There's very little reason to use words as strong as hate and making assumptions on my opinions on certain artists without asking for them is a little childish don't you think? Try again without all the aggression then ASK me what I think about certain artists. It's the reasonable thing to do if you want to have a serious discussion and not just shoot of at the mouth.

[arcsouljah]

@arcsouljah off*

[Trillosopher]

@arcsouljah yeah not having perfect grammar on youtube means i must be riled up. nice logic, bruh. it's true though. for the most part hip-hop fans are pretty ignorant. they expect all hip-hop artists to be good. they don't want to admit that there will be more wack rappers than good ones.

[SixxNinee]

@wwwdotsoldotcom They are not neither rap nor hip hop . They are a separate category called Pop music and R&B . They should call it Mainstream brain washing .

[chalevra]

I just want to delete slick ricks part from this and make it instrumental. WARNING! Do not read further past this comment. There is days worth of arguing down they between whose better or what not...

[WobblyWheelzMoviez]

holy shit! there is good rappers and bad rappers of every generation! music changes over time! sorry! all of you need to just shut up, Respect and listen to the good ass old school music, but also if you dont like new rap, shut up and listen to what you like!

[TAHMURI]

The way I feel? sometimes it's too hard to sit still...

[540Films1]

Hip hop is a branch of music, Music is the root of the seed of Self Expression. -OZ

[JavierOllllO]

I agree this his best song i ve heard luv the beat + slick rick

[MrCommenterguy]

Hip Hop is about representing yourself, it's a representative culture, artists represent themselves, not just through rap but mostly so. So Soulja Boy talking about whatever the fuck he's talking about whilst making dance music, is not hip hop. Rick Rpss talking about selling drugs, when he's actually an ex-correctional officer, is not hip hop. Drake talking about 'catching bodies' when he is an outgrown child actor, is not hip hop. Y'all get my point.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy definitely disagree. canibus talks about many things that arent real like walking barefoot in the desert looking 4 shade. doesnt mean hes not hip hop. most stuff rappers rap about is fictional. it would b boring as fuck if they rapped about what they did in their everyday life.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Not all verses have to be representing yourself, but yeah, hip hop artists have to represent themselves much of the time. You're telling me Canibus doesn't have many songs where he expresses his view or tells his story? Plus, I personally dislike Canibus, his flow and voice is annoying, and all he really talks about is how good he is lyrically (from what I've heard), he's just a battle rapper, that's why he can't make a good album, average at most.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Hip Hop is a representative culture bro, I aint lying, it started in the ghettos of South Bronx and artists used hip hop to rebel against authorities (through the different forms of graffiti, rapping, breaking, DJing), it was to voice their struggles. Then the Black Panther Party used it and accelerated it into a music, adding in elements of spoken poetry to influence rapping style. Gil Scott Heron is a pioneering poet who influenced hip hop. It's not just rhyming words.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy rip the jacker is a classic. the rest of his albums just had shit production. he doesnt just talk about battling but he has a stream of consciousness style and his songs usually have no format but he still says stuff apart from battling. rick ross and drake r just playing a part. theyre just actors. theyre still hip hop even if theyre not good. biggie was fake but that doesnt mean hes not hip hop.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Rick Ross and Drake aren't Hip Hop, they don't represent themselves. Hip Hop is a representative culture, we are one of the only genres where the artists write their own lyrics, unlike Pop, most RnB etc. Why do you think fake artists are so frowned upon? Biggie wasn't fake, he sold drugs, sure he didn't shoot people, but he grew up in the streets of Brooklyn, where people got shot, so he was telling that story.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy lots of rappers have ghostwriters like will smith odb etc. sugarhill gang stole other rappers lyrics for their song rappers delight. biggie grew up in clinton hall. an upper class area which wouldve not had as much crime as other places. he lied when he claimed he was from bedford. his mum said he lied in most of his songs. but i dont mind cuz if he told the truth about his life his songs wouldve been very boring. he just rapped mafioso so he would b more sucessful commercially

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Will Smith and Sugar Hill Gang both made party music. It is generally frowned upon for a lyricist to have ghostwriters. Biggie went to a school in rougher areas, and grew up around friends and such who were probably poorer. And yeah, he often rapped about other peoples stories, which would circulate through word of mouth around Brooklyn. And he did deal drugs, he was arrested once because he got caught.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy lol he was a small time drug dealer. theyre everywhere around were i live. in his songs he gives off a much bigger gangsta impression talking about shooting people. and u saying he rapped other peoples stories shows that he didnt represent himself he represented other people. rick ross and drake r basicly doing that as well.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang There's a difference, Biggie lived around that stuff, probably heard about murders all the time in school etc. Possibly even knew guys like that. Rick Ross was a damn Correctional Officer, he stole his identity from a REAL drug dealer. Drake is an ex- child actor, and talks about 'catching bodies'. Doesn't make sense.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy 2 bad he was from clinton hill. biggie was a momas boy. drake and rick ross just took the commercial route like biggie altho biggie is much better than them. rick ross was around criminals and probably used their stories just like biggie using other peoples stories. drake is just acting out what he saw on tv. theyre all just rappers acting out a gangsta fantasy world that fascinated them and they probably wanna live it out in their songs cuz they think their everday life isnt

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang worth rapping about

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang He was a mommas boy? Says who, his momma? LMAO, you're just assuming shit now. If you go by fact Biggie got arrested twice, sold drugs, went to school in a rough area and obviously must've got in the wrong crowd. He had connections to bad people according to some accounts (read Notorious C.O.P). Drake grew up in Canada, a mixed race child actor. Ross was a Correctional Officer who literally imitated a real drug dealer.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy biggies mum and his close friend nico said that biggie rarely rapped about his life. instead he made up stuff or used other peoples stories similar 2 rick oss t drug dealers story. biggie did become a more of a gangsta after his first album. still doesnt stop the fact that he took most peoples other stories and put them in his song. i dont c how rick ross is doing any different

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Biggie rapped about other peoples lives, but he grew up hearing or being around these people. He also rapped about his own life (Respect for example). He represented where he was from, Brooklyn as a whole. In his stories he would often portray the mentalities of the characters, like in Suicidal Thoughts, Everyday Struggle, Me and My Bitch. All his stories explored the thoughts of the characters, they were often deep and emotional, gritty realism at it's finest.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Rick Ross mostly glamorizes and romanticizes the stories of drug dealing, simply because he has never experienced it. His stories are shallow and more generic, since he hasn't experienced that life at all. Biggie has, he grew up around these people or that environment, he dealt drugs himself, he did go to jail etc etc

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy lol biggie was just a much superior artist with more imagery than rick ross. thats why his stories were deeper. it was all still fake tho. rick ross will probably start commiting crimes in the future 2 get a bigger rep as a gangsta just like biggie did

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang naah, I also think it's because he knew the details of the street life. Ross doesn't.

If you honestly think Hip Hop is rhyming words, I'm sorry, it's much more than that. Why do you think fake rappers are frowned upon so hard?

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy wtf hip hop isnt about rhyming words but being real doesnt make u a better rapper.

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang Of course it doesn't, it makes someone a better hip hop artist though.

[rakimkoolgrapwutang]

@MrCommenterguy not really. dr ocatagonecoloygst was all fictional but keith was an amazing artist on that album

[MrCommenterguy]

@rakimkoolgrapwutang I'm judging artists by a whole, not individual albums. And also I'm speaking generally. Mos Def, Nas, Kweli, Tupac, Black Thought, Andre 3000, Common etc all these guys are dope hip hop artists, partly because they represent themselves through their music, driving their concepts and rap content.

[MrCommenterguy]

@Coolio2406 The beat is always the same? You haven't heard much. And there is plenty of good hip hop today, not just Old School, you have to look in the right places, underground mostly.

[ChiVic64]

Fucking Madlib... dope

[igotdough5]

whats real hiphop? does it matter. whos the best artist? does it matter. whats genre? does it matter? is he better than 50 cent ? does it matter. is soulja boy fag? does it matter.

can you achieve nothing with youtube arguments? does it matter...

i like the beat btw

[BB2LB]

@igotdough5

good point(s)!

[BlackIce700]

Soulja Boy is Hip POP

Mos Def is Hip HOP.

There is a difference.

[LafayetteMayne]

i can't believe i read these comments..go weed!

[Garcia951321]

this is mos def's finest work

[mxm3133]

haha souljackass boy is the definition of a puto mixed with some pooch action. Mac Dre vato, LEFT COAST

[TriviumOwn666]

@mxm3133 Fuck westcoast, eastcoast is REAL.

[XxXxXJerseyKidXxXxX]

Did my senior project on Hip Hop Culture and I scored a 98. Funny thing is I did all my work and research in a week but trust me i been a hip hop head since i was 10 so i knew most of the stuff i researched.

[justintimberlake100]

@XxXxXJerseyKidXxXxX why does anyone care?

[BlackIce700]

@justintimberlake100 Hey! you uploaded sunshine!

[HobobotheClown]

here's a lesson to you egotistic nerds who think you know it all, rap is an element of hiphop.. hiphop is something we live, and rap is something we do... get it right.. btw sick ass song

[TPlink91]

who cares rap or hip-hop. . . great song :)

[wrinklypoptart18]

this is rap not hip hop u faggot

[lubui2583]

that comment at the top is exactly the type of shit im talking about. dumbest fucking question ever. 

[rengim]

thrills over my spine errytime i hear this tune. thats my word

[jcfreeski]

2:37 SOUNDSS SOOO GOOODDD <3

[Antwnhs92]

Who made that beat???

[martinisthe3rd]

@Antwnhs92 madlib

[VatoXamo5]

2175 likes - real shit

22 dislikes - kids who listen snoop dogg

[Mysterhead]

@VatoXamo5 old snoop don't hate

[solavAseliM]

Sick beat!

[dpop91]

This is featuring Ruler, not Slick Rick. Slick's the shit though

[whathehellbombit]

@dpop91 Slick Rick is the Ruler, do some research before you give the audience your "facts"

[LAwLkillalawl]

ah man what happen nothing sounds like this now QQ

[slambamdancer]

if i was a professional boxer, I'd come out to the ring with this song

[forttrres]

Real Hip Hop isn't real; hip hop, just like all art, is subjective.

[Zellodine]

eeeehhhh slick rick is still on fire

[Vertex1994]

@Skaterrocker842 i'm 17 too and I love older hip-hop. Fuck Newschool!

[MrTravelstuff]

"Give me my oil, get the F out of my country."

[MrBighate]

I actually think Slick Rick's verse in this song is better. but Mos Def definetly represent real hip hop

[GibbothyDaniels]

Care more about the music and less about the comments

[RansonK]

Hi kiston



[RansonK]

thumbs up if a homie sent u here n u are fuckkkkin gratefullllllllllll

[DoubleAA3000]

Peace Peace Peace...Bow! That's all I gotta say

[EfsProd]

Thumbs up if Level 1 sent u here!

[CallMeBaus]

I'm 14 and I listen to real Hip-Hop and I'm proud to say that.

[lizanoken]

@CallMeBaus Yes, yes... start at a young age, stay that way. Fuck what your classmates listen to. Heed my words for the rest of your life, and keep real hip hop alive from 1978 to forever.

[djmasterparra]

@lizanoken word ma nigga thas was up

[JoySarah91]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS KIND OF MUSIC.. AHHHH<3

[96QQB]

This beat is so legit

[MuzeTV]

The speech is from the great movie of battle of Algiers 3

[VictorVonDoom909]

Yassin Bey is an artist. Black Star!

[lil0ze]

@VictorVonDoom909 please don't call him that

[poptrashskank]

for one i condemned nobody secondly im not your son so dont call me that,thirdly your boring and so is your argument so leave me alone think what you want about a poxy comment or me whatever i dont care your boring,goodbye

[alexoc949]

@poptrashskank i really hope you're 13 years old. No grown person should be as dumb as you.

[mmagabe561]

@alexoc949 His last comment makes him sound illiterate..But I don't judge the handicapped

[poptrashskank]

@alexoc949 and i severely hope that your not a no job loser who sits around his mothers basement masturbating and crying over peoples youtube comments

[poptrashskank]

and yes i know analyze is missing a e before you trip over yourself to point that out to me

[poptrashskank]

i wasnt trying to make a political statenment about the world and music today it was just a fucking comment i wasnt trying to change peoples opinions or try and incite a music war it WAS A POXY FUCKING COMMENT you youtube dicks who have to over analyz EVERY FUCKING COMMENT you get get on my nerves.You like mos def and you came to this page because you wanted to hear the song yes? so do what you came to do and fuck off

[TriviumOwn666]

I personally think Mos Def's flow is nicer than slick rick's, deeper too

[SIGsogger]

@TriviumOwn666 two completely different styled writes, but yeah mos deffently spits fire on this track

[chalevra]

Slick ricks blows, BAD. Mos is a god tho

[DiZzybot22]

@chalevra you are crazy

[poptrashskank]

@chalevra all i have to say is :o !

[WhItEcHaPeL95]

slick rick is great hahaha

[Dexcellence]

I'm a guy and I used to work at Aritzia and they had this CD there. I told the girls to play it all the time. I stole this CD when I quit and I don't regret it whatsoever

[poptrashskank]

@Dexcellence this made me lol :)

[bushboibeats]

this music doesn't belong in this era

thats not a criticism of the music, thats a criticism of this era.

[utubeaccount00]

2000th like for this video.. bitter sweet because I know that this should have a million likes :\

[CuzCanHawaii]

I need more songs like this!

[DJEyvee]

it's volumes and scriptures when i breathe on a beat

[n1ckf00c]

Thumbs up if level1 brought you here!

[JBZ3111]

Slick Rick killed this!!!

[TruthSavant]

mad liberator death operator

[vicprisma]

@TruthSavant yo, just to correct you, its not death operator, its def operator. you know? madlib, mos def... kinda makes sense

[TheCruzzybear]

when hip hop was still hip hop....

[jakalare]

time is so real



[trolls4lolz]

yeah this is sick

[BB2LB]

Madliberator aka madlip together with mosdef is mosdef pure dopeness! they should have made more tracks together

[thagangjafarmer323]

yassin is on a whole nother level man.

ps i cant believe yall mothafuckas even brought up gagas name on a track like this, get the fuck outta here man

[Entysin]

I don't even understand why lady gaga's name is even being mentioned period. Are ya listening to this track?

[TheWrenaissance]

This beat is nuts, Madlib!

[Jrodsgirl77]

get goosebumps just listenin to the intro lol

[ColeWorld00]

Suttins tryna hide like the struggle won't find 'em

& the sun bust through the clouds to clearly remind him its everywhere