Your a pastor that representing the colonializers concepts if your aware of it or not, Sorry homey I don't think so... Excuses is what you giving as hope...
"LEST we NEVER forget !! Why should I forget....Will "they" EVER forget their so-called Holocaust!!? HELL NAW !! There is no TRUE number of lives lost during the Middle Passage and during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade....They tell us to forget about it....I say to them F'you and "KICK BRICKS !!" They profit off our holocaust even TODAY.
Ship Ahoy is a very deep song. I hope and pray that you don't allow this song to haunt you anymore. When you think about it be encourage that our ancestors prevailed under such dismal conditions. When you actually think about Ship Ahoy, remember the truth in the word of this song. Our ancestors were strong and we must be strong also. Lest we forget their struggles. Be strong.
I love this song and now I'm gonna listen to it again for the Libyan revolution victims that again were you black folk. Down to Italy, down to Algeria, down to Malta, down to Niger and else .... :'(
Black society today has taken some major steps backwards and we should be ashamed of ourselves for where we are today and what we have allowed our young to accept has cool. The black family is almost extinct and we have yet to get to a point where smart, intelligent and articulate is accepted in the hood. When a black person is well-spoken and smart we too often say they're trying to be white.....thats is the ultimate insult to ourselves to reject smart and accept this thug unlearned mentality
THE TWO GUARDS AT THE GRAVE SITE ARE ASLEEP, COME UP OUT YOUR TOMB (america) BLACK MAN AND WOMEN AND WALK INTO THE LIGHT (TRUTH) THE ISRAELITES ARE AWAKING. PRAISE YODE HEY WAW HEY YAHWEH
I'm a black man and this song will always remind me of the hardships our ancestors suffered on those filthy boats and the harsh treatment they received once they reached land. It's ashame that a race of people would deny an individual his basic rights. All men and women have the right to be free and not to be represented as a piece of property. Thank GOD for the civil rights movements of the 60's.
Those ancestors of ours that SURVIVED the journey . . . I swear man those who didn't make that brutal transatlantic trip were the lucky ones, save for those who did and were eventually emancipated. Still, it is one of the greatest travesties in history. I do appreciate living in America but it's so hard not to take for granted my entire existence . . . shit blows my mind.
It's a shame that the niggers of Africa sold their fellow nigger brothers and sisters to the whites into slavery for a few glass-beads, isn't it?
I never understood why whites are solely blamed for slavery. There was a ready supply meeting demand. Slavery was the nigger way of life long before the whites arrived, and remained long after slavery was outlawed by the white man.
Besides, the descendants of the slaves are better off today then the Africans.
@MrWHun Your prejudicial manner makes me feel utterly sad for you.
Funny how your so called four fathers had to use a gun because they cringed at the sight of the most dominant figure in the world. Those people are who you call "black" people. I mean it's obviously true, why else would you be sitting behind a computer screen splattering that poison you call an education which is the cause of your own ignorance. If you had any self respect or dignity, you'd say what you say here among people.
In life "prejudice" is knowledge, based either on personal experiences or on information received from others.
I'm not sure who you call the "most dominant figure in the world". Did you mean Hitler? I have 1 father only. And my forefathers never cringed!
You know as well as I do that what I have written are historical facts. And I won't jump on an airplane just to shout the truth from your roof-tops, half the world away.
Its going to take more than the mere 47 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of '64 for black society to find its way after well over 375 years of cruel and mean-spirited abuse and discrimination.. If what we see today in white society, business and life in part can be attributed to the massive advantage afforded them via their ancestors, how can we not see the same spinoff that black society is suffering through the massive disadvantage and denial over those same hundreds of years.
There are many reasons why white society is so far ahead of black society. Many falsely claim its because of superiority, but truth has more to do with slavery and the massive advantage white culyure has had over the centuries. Hundreds of years to work and build white infrastructure, culture, lifestyle, education, religion, etc. and the luxury of doing it uninterupted from outside influences. Blacks in this country can never say it was the same for them. Whites had a massive advantage
Many nations profited from the slave trade...fortune 500 companies were built on the foundation of slave labor,yet few employ minorities....or even women of ANY race, for that matter.
This is beautifully put together and so touching, a legacy of a people enslaved with chains anf by Jim Crowe, fastforward today and the chains worn by those slaves has been transferred to the African American youths minds and heart , what a tragedy, But this does not apply to Condi Rice, Allen West, Michael Steele , Ward Connelly, JC Watts and the other so called self made succcess storyies, Oh the man in the mirror laaughs at them.
The idiots are not dead as you state....They continue to live on. If you want to be blind and state that then: LET THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND. Reality can be very traumatizing....... Every time I come across my past it make me remember not to forget the evils in this world and fro whom they come. I can even use the word "Hate" regarding these evils AND THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE EVILS. I HAVE NO FORGIVENESS FOR THIS..... If you forget your past then you will repeat it.
my dad was black, i was a white kid growing up in the black neighborhoodd, i wanted to learn my past thru my dad, and how ashamed i was to be white, but how proud i became being a part of the black african history, and what i learned made me even prouder, thanks dad for teaching me to stand for what i believe and for teaching me to look beyond who i was to who i am and what is also a part of my history, i love you dad
Franz Fanon in his book "The Wretched of the Earth" examined the cruelty of the colonizers to other racial and ethnc groups across the globe and the part played by violence in liberation. To put these images to vivid scenes read Douglas Hall's book "In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750 - 1787"
History provides us with the substrate to develop our sense of purpose and self determination. We must love each other with a sense of purpose.
Wow look what are ancestors endured, sold by their leaders into slavery, then we have the civil rights movement and all the blacks suffered, endured, and overcame, and now we don't have the KKK lynching blacks, it's black puuting the shackles of slavery on themselves. Rappers blatantly using the n-word, black on black crimes, the Church in the black community not protesting against the horrendous crimes in our communities. Blacks today are their own worst enemy, wake and CHANGE black folk.
@truth1disciple I agree with some of what you wrote, but you are inaccurate on many accounts. Blacks are still being killed by the KKK, and by Skin Heads. Do some reading and you will see the truth. We are not our own worst enemy but we are hurting each other. Not all black churches are silent. I am a Pastor and mine isn't and I know others that aren't. Racism hasn't gone anywhere, it has only been disguised. We are further ahead and then again, we're farther behind. Marinate on that a little.
@Terryman1960 Pastor I have marinated on what you said to me 8 months ago and the Holy Spirit has given me "biblical" insight and knowledge about the black race and the black church. Did you know that blacks belong to the tribe of Judah? Also did you know that Elohim's covenant with the Tribe of Judah was broken by blacks blatant disobedience and disregard for His covenant? As you well know, I hope, that because of this God cursed the Tribe of Judah which the curse still stands today? Marinate
@Terryman1960 on that a little? The problem in the black community can be resolved (if) the churches and their church leaders would cease "playing church" and be the "model church" depicted in Acts 2:42-47;4:32-37. But the black church and as you said you are a pastor, IS NOT taking care of Kingdom business in the 'hood. In your community is crime a major problem pastor? If it is UNSHACKLE the people, by marching weekly through that area, praying for the people i.e Joshua 6. Go to Curse 1/10
@Terryman1960 Now Terryman1960 do some BIBLICAL research, Isa.28:10-13; 2 Tim.2:15; 2 Tim.3:16-17 and please, please go to the Youtube site created by a black man who INFORMS those who SEEK TRUTH about the curses of the black race and the site will explain "precept upon precept, line upon line, her a little there a little, the TRUTH OF THE CURSE ON BLACKS . Remember pastor Hosea 4:6 accurately depicts this curse, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...". Don't agree with Curses 1/10??
I have always loved this song!!! The middle passage was one of the most horrific ordeals that people had to suffer. I know that my ancestors were on that voyage or a similiar one. We can only remember and imagine what they went through for us to be here!!! Never forget them and the endurance they displayed!!! We must also display the same endurance just to live our lives!!!!! We must pass these lessons on to our children and grandchildren and future generations!!!!!
@TheMrrick58 It is important to teach your children that we were subjected to an atrocity that cannot be quantified.
We were striped of our Culture, our Language, our History & our Religion. We put such a great emphasis on the torture, rape, enslavement etc., that we don't really understand the full psychosocial impact that this had on us African People.
Everytime I hear this song it get me angry we as africans in this world still going thru our holocaust in this time world wake up we part of god family we started everything remember that. We also patented thing that everbody use peace.
One of the first concerts I ever saw was when they came to Kalamazoo MI along with George Clinton and Parliament back in 78. The O'jay's came out to this song. It was an awesome sight. First you heard the roar of the sea, then you heard the whip of the slavemaster. then thru the smoke (fog) you saw the O'jay's dressed in torn clothes .. they tore it up!!!
As a child, my siblings and I would spend our summers on our grandparent's farm in Tennessee. They grew cotton on 90 acres; all they needed came from the earth.. I remember a pictuce of my great-grandparents; one was born free(1878); other ,born in bondage(1860).
I went to ancestry.com, viewing census records; his father was named, "Sippio," a slave from the Senegal/Gambia. This summer, we will visit Goree Island to take the African back home in spirit, for I am Sippio's seed.
It takes all I have not to get angry when I listen to this song. The atrocities that were perpetrated against my people could never be forgotten. I liked the song because I'm a fan of the O'Jays music. I feel ashamed I didn't know about what it referenced. The Middle Passage was just a horrific journey. I want to teach my children so their sacrifice is not forgotten and the future enlightened to what happens when good intelligent men, and women convince themselves a person can be property.
Rwemember you heritage people. And how much as a people we still struggle in 2011. Even with a brother in the White House we as African-Americans still struggle now!!
Oh yes, but don't forget today. You have a white pope telling you how to live from Vatican. He decides on condoms, he decides how they're going to live their lives.
This song reminds me of that. DOn't forget that at that time we all were the slaves of Vatican. Just google on st. Dominc. Benedict, patarens, bogumils and other people in Europe. We are still on their slave ship.
"This song tells the story of how we "the black people" were enslaved against our will and how we should appreciate our lives today. "Yeah to the O'Jays they are the BEST! mELLY7117 IN Cleveland, Ohio 2011 Happy New Year!!!!
"This song tells the story of how we "the black people" were enslaved against our will and how we should appreciate our lives today. "Yeah to the O'Jays they are the BEST!
you so called blacks stop crying for them to understand our pain and go open your bible. its all there god said he will harden there hearts. so dont expect these people to be sympathetic or have any compasion for us. but i can tell you this ESAU IS THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE NEW BEGGINING AFTER ESAU IS JACOB AND OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST. WE ARE JACOB AND THEY KNOW THIS BUT WE JUST DONT. REMEMBER THE WHITE MAN IS A LIAR AND A CHEAT SO DONT LISTEN NOR BELIEVE NOT A WORD THAT COMES OUT THE DRAGONS MOUT
wow it still sounds as powerful now as it did when i used to listen to it back in the 70s,the ojays were a class act, thanks for posting this good music, from a life long ago.
wow it still sounds as powerfull now as it did when i used to listen to it back in the 70s,the ojays were a class act, thanks for posting thisgood music from a life long ago.
if you dont think that black people go through more problems then white people you are as dumb as the day is BRIGHT!!!! LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR SHOULD I SAY TRYING TO DO THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!! I AM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT I SEE IT EVERY DAY!!!! WE AS BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO WORK EVEN HARDER!!!!!!!!!!!! THINK BEFORE YOU POST A COMMENT!!!
it pisses me off how white ppl today including our government officals try to act like this never happened to our ppl for the whole 470+ years we were here in america. their excuse today is, you're not a slave now, that was long ago you should get over it, i always tell them you the ones who need to get over it because you're the ones who keep the racial tensions going, limiting blacks in the workforce, killing us, jailing us over false claims, and racial profiling.
@mrknowitalllt1 Well said! It's sad but true. Systematically black people have been held down. Yes some fall through the cracks & are successful, but many don't get there because of the obstacles. I'm not saying that those of us who don't try deserve to have things handed to us, but those of us who are making a difference in our lives & the lives of others should at least have a chance to make it here in this country. We have to keep fighting & pushing for the same rights that whites have.
i love this song because it gives us a view as to what some people went through for liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. i don't fully understand the WHY of it all, but, this song carries your mind to a level where you can kind of put yourself in their places.
I love this song. It is very beautiful and powerful. It reminds me of Jacob Holdt's show: Amarican Pictures, where it also was played in the beginning. This show was one of the biggest highlights of my entire life. I cried and laughed with the people he introduced in his show. I felt their pain in a way that I could not imagine possible!
we all loved this song and this album as kids in high school, it was and is great music. but listening back now as a late middle-aged adult, it takes on a whole new
relevance. this is extarordinarily great music. had no idea what we were missing at the time. man, this is some powerful stuff... in every way!
Makes me think. We must look at the historical record and the current actions of the Western Powers. Greed. Bloodshed. Lies. Mental control. One day they will give an account for their sins.
SamaraG100, it is what it is and you may not want to except that fact that this is not an excuse but in fact it is the truth and maybe you need to open a history book or two and figure out what this song is really talking about!!!
I've oftened wondered if there is a race of people that exist that has come into contact with white people at some level and hasnt paid a dear price for it. Why does it always have to be about power and superiority? What was wrong with allowing each people to live and exist in their own world. I would consider myself "weak" if i always needed to have my foot on someone else's head to make me feel powerful and superior.
DEEP.... wow really makes ya think about life & prior family members what they went through. What that piece of paper has done & still to this day continues to generate.. nothing but greed,hate & power. This will never be shown in history class in the USA. Thats swept under the carpet.
Everything involving some kind of excuse as to why things have happened, is absolutely irrelevant. What ever we though life was gonna be like never is. People are cruel. Injustices have happened to every race. EVERYWHERE. Its sad that people be be soo blinded and not see that we are all one. I am your sister as you are my brother. I pray that he keeps us and see that we are worthy of walking this Earth because right now we are destroying on another and can only blame ourselves. He is Alive!
Everything involving some kind of excuse as to why things have happened, is absolutely irrelevant. What ever we though life was gonna be like never is. People are cruel. Injustices have happened to every race. EVERYWHERE. Its sad that people be be soo blinded and not see that we are all one. I am your sister as you are my brother. I pray that he keeps us and see that we are worthy of walking this Earth because right now we are destroying on another and can only blame ourselves. He is Alive!
Thank you for your statement of love and faith. The depiction of aspects of Black History are not meant to blame others, or to diminish the injustice visited upon others All the best to you.
@SamaraG100 Hi slavery was one of the worst injustices in history and I won't allow anyone to minimize that. No one is dwelling on it but it happened and it's history. Torture, Cruelty, slave labor, MURDER, RAPE, dehumunization,, etc. Should I go on?
happy new year y'all - glad to see you thinking positive thoughts, living in the moment, and rememberig the magic magic word ... happy happy days!!!!!!
it was another passage that people don't understand, mississippi black people were slaved to chicago,alabama black people were slaved to detroit,georgia and points north were slaved to new york,it was systematic and calculated,if you don't believe it ask your grandparents,oh i,m sorry they probaly don,t know ..........thanks ojays
Those who financed the SLAVE TRADE set forth a cruel NEW WORLD ORDER then. What is going on now is an extension of it...BIG BANKS, BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES...crooked politicians. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY..some people do things....do things...do bad things...
Dr. King warned us that AMERICA MAY GO TO HELL ....
I love the OJ's songs, but it is my first time to hear this one. I think the apartheid government here must have banned it. Thanks for this posting. I wept.
Dueteronomy 28:68 "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
This is the O'jays at that best with a song you either love or hate. I think it's great and you can feel the pain of those people in those ships who were so badly treated.
The O'Jays were famous for mostly dancey stuff, but these guys really could really do terrific soul songs. Love 'em to bits
look how far we have come as a nation now i beleive that african americans are the root to this world and without us this world cannot funtion. do not let them put us back in this horrible situation ever.....
What an album this comes from. The best thing they hhave ever done in my opinion. I don't like their dancey stuff much, as their ballads really dig deep into your guts
Oh snap thats the sample for tony/montana. This song is great. Makes me wish I was born in the 70s..."Lifes design is already made, so young and so strong they just waiting to be saved". Those lines alone made me look for this song.
If one cannot feel the rythym of the drums, and the sound of the whips, and the tears running down their face, that person is cold, dead, and soul-less.
I was 22 years old when this album came out. I don't think another song has ever been as poignant.
I loved Curtis Mayfield's "We People Who are Darker than Blue," but this song is where it all started.
I can still remember the first time hearing this song in my early teen years while going through my parents old records. I listened and wondered why no one ever played it for me earlier.
Why can't we understand this? the Willie letter is working even to today. I ask myself why I am sitting in this fighting hole at a disclosed location fighting for nothing and I can shot 41 times when I go home. It doesn't make sense! I now see with third eye and I am one with myself. You can't use your religion to scare me anymore!
Even though at the time, I didn't know wha they were talking about, I was 2 years old in 73 when I had the red 8-track AND the album...which I still have...along with the CD...lol
Hey! I came to this after listening to " For the Love of Money. " Must've been my ancestors, BOTH NATIVE and
AFRICAN American, with just a few drops of IRISH roots tugging at me to get a brief and gentle reminder of who I am, and who came before me. Thank you honey for posting. Very nice job!
I heard this song back in '04 and liked it very much. I asked the the perosn to make me a copy of it but didn't. Now 5 years later I find it here and it took 30 seconds to be added to my favorites. Seker4me thanx for posting this. A very powerful song and one of ojays best true classics.
This is a powerful song ,one of the o,jays best. A deep song for America to reconize, and remember that our forefathers ,as black men suffered ,great humilation ,and injustice and were robbed of the right to be a man. They were subjected to imminent death ,at the wim of the slave owner. America owes ,the black man in america ,just like they paid the indians ,and the japanese during ww2. But when it comes down to the black man ,they always find a excuse ,to not be fair .just my opinion
@terrybrinston Yeah, you've got a valid point. I've always wondered will they ever make a slave movie about Nat Turner, because in my opinion based upon what I read, the brutal events surronding his life were a critical turning point during slavery. I always thought someone like Spike Lee or even Quinten Tarrantino would attempt 2 tackle that sensitive subject matter but maybe a lot of racist folks of 2 day wouldn't be ready 4 that one?
Deep music during this time. Lots of messages like Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership Connection. Marvin Gaye and Gil Scott Heron sang alot of songs with truth too.
My brain does not even want to believe what I have no doubt these poor people went through.
It makes me sick---literally
ibpink2 16 hours ago
Your a pastor that representing the colonializers concepts if your aware of it or not, Sorry homey I don't think so... Excuses is what you giving as hope...
AceofLords 3 weeks ago
"LEST we NEVER forget !! Why should I forget....Will "they" EVER forget their so-called Holocaust!!? HELL NAW !! There is no TRUE number of lives lost during the Middle Passage and during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade....They tell us to forget about it....I say to them F'you and "KICK BRICKS !!" They profit off our holocaust even TODAY.
mssquirrely 1 month ago
soo sad ,but so tru, jes trey,this is it, hallo from vienna !
audia8technoquattro 1 month ago
so sad but so tru
trey8218 1 month ago
Ship Ahoy is a very deep song. I hope and pray that you don't allow this song to haunt you anymore. When you think about it be encourage that our ancestors prevailed under such dismal conditions. When you actually think about Ship Ahoy, remember the truth in the word of this song. Our ancestors were strong and we must be strong also. Lest we forget their struggles. Be strong.
mrdev101954 2 months ago
I love this song and now I'm gonna listen to it again for the Libyan revolution victims that again were you black folk. Down to Italy, down to Algeria, down to Malta, down to Niger and else .... :'(
josipmickovic 3 months ago 3
Black society today has taken some major steps backwards and we should be ashamed of ourselves for where we are today and what we have allowed our young to accept has cool. The black family is almost extinct and we have yet to get to a point where smart, intelligent and articulate is accepted in the hood. When a black person is well-spoken and smart we too often say they're trying to be white.....thats is the ultimate insult to ourselves to reject smart and accept this thug unlearned mentality
summersbr1 4 months ago in playlist summersbr1's favorites 4
THE TWO GUARDS AT THE GRAVE SITE ARE ASLEEP, COME UP OUT YOUR TOMB (america) BLACK MAN AND WOMEN AND WALK INTO THE LIGHT (TRUTH) THE ISRAELITES ARE AWAKING. PRAISE YODE HEY WAW HEY YAHWEH
dbleed84 4 months ago
Check out 'Good Bye Uncle Tom It is the closest depiction of our tribulation that continues today!!.
chizwop 4 months ago
I'm a black man and this song will always remind me of the hardships our ancestors suffered on those filthy boats and the harsh treatment they received once they reached land. It's ashame that a race of people would deny an individual his basic rights. All men and women have the right to be free and not to be represented as a piece of property. Thank GOD for the civil rights movements of the 60's.
mrdev101954 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The O'Jays
@mrdev101954
Those ancestors of ours that SURVIVED the journey . . . I swear man those who didn't make that brutal transatlantic trip were the lucky ones, save for those who did and were eventually emancipated. Still, it is one of the greatest travesties in history. I do appreciate living in America but it's so hard not to take for granted my entire existence . . . shit blows my mind.
KoldShadow 4 months ago in playlist KoldShadow's favorites
@mrdev101954 That song haunted me when I first heard as a kid.
MadAngelKonneckshun 2 months ago
@MadAngelKonneckshun
It's a shame that the niggers of Africa sold their fellow nigger brothers and sisters to the whites into slavery for a few glass-beads, isn't it?
I never understood why whites are solely blamed for slavery. There was a ready supply meeting demand. Slavery was the nigger way of life long before the whites arrived, and remained long after slavery was outlawed by the white man.
Besides, the descendants of the slaves are better off today then the Africans.
MrWHun 2 months ago
@MrWHun Your prejudicial manner makes me feel utterly sad for you.
Funny how your so called four fathers had to use a gun because they cringed at the sight of the most dominant figure in the world. Those people are who you call "black" people. I mean it's obviously true, why else would you be sitting behind a computer screen splattering that poison you call an education which is the cause of your own ignorance. If you had any self respect or dignity, you'd say what you say here among people.
DaWoOdPrInCe 1 month ago
@DaWoOdPrInCe
"Prejudice" doesn't exist in racial questions.
In life "prejudice" is knowledge, based either on personal experiences or on information received from others.
I'm not sure who you call the "most dominant figure in the world". Did you mean Hitler? I have 1 father only. And my forefathers never cringed!
You know as well as I do that what I have written are historical facts. And I won't jump on an airplane just to shout the truth from your roof-tops, half the world away.
MrWHun 1 month ago
@MrWHun
Shut your dumb,ignorant ass up,you may think you are speaking fact,but it's not!
EarthlyGoddessOya 1 month ago
@EarthlyGoddessOya
Please explain: which are those facts I have written which were not true and why? Good luck! :)
MrWHun 1 month ago
Its going to take more than the mere 47 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of '64 for black society to find its way after well over 375 years of cruel and mean-spirited abuse and discrimination.. If what we see today in white society, business and life in part can be attributed to the massive advantage afforded them via their ancestors, how can we not see the same spinoff that black society is suffering through the massive disadvantage and denial over those same hundreds of years.
summersbr1 4 months ago
There are many reasons why white society is so far ahead of black society. Many falsely claim its because of superiority, but truth has more to do with slavery and the massive advantage white culyure has had over the centuries. Hundreds of years to work and build white infrastructure, culture, lifestyle, education, religion, etc. and the luxury of doing it uninterupted from outside influences. Blacks in this country can never say it was the same for them. Whites had a massive advantage
summersbr1 4 months ago
@summersbr1
*CO-SIGN* . . . I couldn't have articulated better myself, honestly, and I'm an eloquent fucker lol . . . REAL TALK!
KoldShadow 4 months ago in playlist KoldShadow's favorites
Many nations profited from the slave trade...fortune 500 companies were built on the foundation of slave labor,yet few employ minorities....or even women of ANY race, for that matter.
nvet1953 5 months ago
Lord, have mercy. Blessings to the ancestors.
NyckeiXXIV 5 months ago
I love this song... but Lord, it makes me so sad. I weep for my people. I swear I do.
NyckeiXXIV 5 months ago
I love this song... but Lord, it makes me so sad. I weep for my people. I swear I do.
NyckeiXXIV 5 months ago
Deut 28:46-68
BOANERGES56 5 months ago
underdogs on top south africa superior race hitler didn.t say that i saw hess in berlin have a nice day jesus is still lord son of the father
kaseyla50 6 months ago
This is beautifully put together and so touching, a legacy of a people enslaved with chains anf by Jim Crowe, fastforward today and the chains worn by those slaves has been transferred to the African American youths minds and heart , what a tragedy, But this does not apply to Condi Rice, Allen West, Michael Steele , Ward Connelly, JC Watts and the other so called self made succcess storyies, Oh the man in the mirror laaughs at them.
norfleetw 6 months ago 2
Wow, you´re making me feel YOUNG ;-))))))))))
valrhooona 6 months ago
kto od małpy łapka w górę xd
BePower94 6 months ago
@BePower94 Spierdalaj małoletni przygłupie!
LukaLiciousPro 5 months ago
The idiots are not dead as you state....They continue to live on. If you want to be blind and state that then: LET THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND. Reality can be very traumatizing....... Every time I come across my past it make me remember not to forget the evils in this world and fro whom they come. I can even use the word "Hate" regarding these evils AND THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE EVILS. I HAVE NO FORGIVENESS FOR THIS..... If you forget your past then you will repeat it.
jmpwdp 6 months ago
my dad was black, i was a white kid growing up in the black neighborhoodd, i wanted to learn my past thru my dad, and how ashamed i was to be white, but how proud i became being a part of the black african history, and what i learned made me even prouder, thanks dad for teaching me to stand for what i believe and for teaching me to look beyond who i was to who i am and what is also a part of my history, i love you dad
tjwood265 9 months ago 2
@tjwood265 more power to ya !!!
silverback808 6 months ago
Franz Fanon in his book "The Wretched of the Earth" examined the cruelty of the colonizers to other racial and ethnc groups across the globe and the part played by violence in liberation. To put these images to vivid scenes read Douglas Hall's book "In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750 - 1787"
History provides us with the substrate to develop our sense of purpose and self determination. We must love each other with a sense of purpose.
beckyo59 9 months ago
Wow look what are ancestors endured, sold by their leaders into slavery, then we have the civil rights movement and all the blacks suffered, endured, and overcame, and now we don't have the KKK lynching blacks, it's black puuting the shackles of slavery on themselves. Rappers blatantly using the n-word, black on black crimes, the Church in the black community not protesting against the horrendous crimes in our communities. Blacks today are their own worst enemy, wake and CHANGE black folk.
truth1disciple 9 months ago 3
@truth1disciple I agree with some of what you wrote, but you are inaccurate on many accounts. Blacks are still being killed by the KKK, and by Skin Heads. Do some reading and you will see the truth. We are not our own worst enemy but we are hurting each other. Not all black churches are silent. I am a Pastor and mine isn't and I know others that aren't. Racism hasn't gone anywhere, it has only been disguised. We are further ahead and then again, we're farther behind. Marinate on that a little.
Terryman1960 8 months ago 7
@Terryman1960 Pastor I have marinated on what you said to me 8 months ago and the Holy Spirit has given me "biblical" insight and knowledge about the black race and the black church. Did you know that blacks belong to the tribe of Judah? Also did you know that Elohim's covenant with the Tribe of Judah was broken by blacks blatant disobedience and disregard for His covenant? As you well know, I hope, that because of this God cursed the Tribe of Judah which the curse still stands today? Marinate
truth1disciple 1 week ago
@Terryman1960 on that a little? The problem in the black community can be resolved (if) the churches and their church leaders would cease "playing church" and be the "model church" depicted in Acts 2:42-47;4:32-37. But the black church and as you said you are a pastor, IS NOT taking care of Kingdom business in the 'hood. In your community is crime a major problem pastor? If it is UNSHACKLE the people, by marching weekly through that area, praying for the people i.e Joshua 6. Go to Curse 1/10
truth1disciple 1 week ago
@Terryman1960 Now Terryman1960 do some BIBLICAL research, Isa.28:10-13; 2 Tim.2:15; 2 Tim.3:16-17 and please, please go to the Youtube site created by a black man who INFORMS those who SEEK TRUTH about the curses of the black race and the site will explain "precept upon precept, line upon line, her a little there a little, the TRUTH OF THE CURSE ON BLACKS . Remember pastor Hosea 4:6 accurately depicts this curse, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...". Don't agree with Curses 1/10??
truth1disciple 1 week ago
Although I regret that our ancestors suffered such a dark and unjust past,
I do love the heartfelt power of this song which is a history lesson within itself.
I can still remember the pivotal scene in the film 'Amistad' when actor
Djimon Hounsou stood up in the courtroom and profoundly chanted,
"Give us us free!!!"
(meaning 'Give us our freedom!!!")
The images in this posted video is just as powerful
Well done,...thanx 4 sharing.
shadowmixx 9 months ago 2
wooooo that shyt is bad!!!!!....how embarassing to know that their 4fathers discrased every race and stole this land ....can i say that?;/
MrCastellamarese 10 months ago
wooooo that shyt is bad!!!!!
MrCastellamarese 10 months ago
All the idiots that did this are dead now and very very few that are alive today support this kind of treatment of human beings.
DanaVanHeerden 10 months ago
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armymomma58 10 months ago
I have always loved this song!!! The middle passage was one of the most horrific ordeals that people had to suffer. I know that my ancestors were on that voyage or a similiar one. We can only remember and imagine what they went through for us to be here!!! Never forget them and the endurance they displayed!!! We must also display the same endurance just to live our lives!!!!! We must pass these lessons on to our children and grandchildren and future generations!!!!!
TheMrrick58 10 months ago
@TheMrrick58 It is important to teach your children that we were subjected to an atrocity that cannot be quantified.
We were striped of our Culture, our Language, our History & our Religion. We put such a great emphasis on the torture, rape, enslavement etc., that we don't really understand the full psychosocial impact that this had on us African People.
sekhmetbastet 10 months ago
MAŁPA !
kajan1 11 months ago 4
Everytime I hear this song it get me angry we as africans in this world still going thru our holocaust in this time world wake up we part of god family we started everything remember that. We also patented thing that everbody use peace.
JTBLACKMAN43 11 months ago
wow - i never knew this song was about the slave trade.
Teaches me to listen to the words not just like the beat.
aMadhuve 11 months ago
One of the first concerts I ever saw was when they came to Kalamazoo MI along with George Clinton and Parliament back in 78. The O'jay's came out to this song. It was an awesome sight. First you heard the roar of the sea, then you heard the whip of the slavemaster. then thru the smoke (fog) you saw the O'jay's dressed in torn clothes .. they tore it up!!!
rosss1959 1 year ago
As a child, my siblings and I would spend our summers on our grandparent's farm in Tennessee. They grew cotton on 90 acres; all they needed came from the earth.. I remember a pictuce of my great-grandparents; one was born free(1878); other ,born in bondage(1860).
I went to ancestry.com, viewing census records; his father was named, "Sippio," a slave from the Senegal/Gambia. This summer, we will visit Goree Island to take the African back home in spirit, for I am Sippio's seed.
clarkkent51 1 year ago 3
we did this song in 6th grade for black history month
ladyjaye3 1 year ago
It takes all I have not to get angry when I listen to this song. The atrocities that were perpetrated against my people could never be forgotten. I liked the song because I'm a fan of the O'Jays music. I feel ashamed I didn't know about what it referenced. The Middle Passage was just a horrific journey. I want to teach my children so their sacrifice is not forgotten and the future enlightened to what happens when good intelligent men, and women convince themselves a person can be property.
StarbaseLakota 1 year ago
the arrangement of this piece of music is amazing......gives me goosebumps. Never forget your heritage but keep on pushing for better.
stonyhillpo 1 year ago
very well put together.
mrantman441 1 year ago
Rwemember you heritage people. And how much as a people we still struggle in 2011. Even with a brother in the White House we as African-Americans still struggle now!!
mrantman441 1 year ago
THIIS WAS A VERY POEWERFUL SONG BACK IN THE DAY AND NOW IN 2011. BLACK AND SEXY
deadra48 1 year ago
Oh yes, but don't forget today. You have a white pope telling you how to live from Vatican. He decides on condoms, he decides how they're going to live their lives.
This song reminds me of that. DOn't forget that at that time we all were the slaves of Vatican. Just google on st. Dominc. Benedict, patarens, bogumils and other people in Europe. We are still on their slave ship.
pjubagoni 1 year ago
@pjubagoni
PREACH!!
dapianoman76 1 year ago
Thank God for the melanin in ME!!
nekaybaw21 1 year ago
"This song tells the story of how we "the black people" were enslaved against our will and how we should appreciate our lives today. "Yeah to the O'Jays they are the BEST! mELLY7117 IN Cleveland, Ohio 2011 Happy New Year!!!!
melly7117 1 year ago
"This song tells the story of how we "the black people" were enslaved against our will and how we should appreciate our lives today. "Yeah to the O'Jays they are the BEST!
melly7117 1 year ago
you so called blacks stop crying for them to understand our pain and go open your bible. its all there god said he will harden there hearts. so dont expect these people to be sympathetic or have any compasion for us. but i can tell you this ESAU IS THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE NEW BEGGINING AFTER ESAU IS JACOB AND OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST. WE ARE JACOB AND THEY KNOW THIS BUT WE JUST DONT. REMEMBER THE WHITE MAN IS A LIAR AND A CHEAT SO DONT LISTEN NOR BELIEVE NOT A WORD THAT COMES OUT THE DRAGONS MOUT
MrBydapound 1 year ago
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wow it still sounds as powerful now as it did when i used to listen to it back in the 70s,the ojays were a class act, thanks for posting this good music, from a life long ago.
2656paul 1 year ago
wow it still sounds as powerfull now as it did when i used to listen to it back in the 70s,the ojays were a class act, thanks for posting thisgood music from a life long ago.
2656paul 1 year ago
if you dont think that black people go through more problems then white people you are as dumb as the day is BRIGHT!!!! LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE DOING OR SHOULD I SAY TRYING TO DO THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!!! I AM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT I SEE IT EVERY DAY!!!! WE AS BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO WORK EVEN HARDER!!!!!!!!!!!! THINK BEFORE YOU POST A COMMENT!!!
evss20 1 year ago
it pisses me off how white ppl today including our government officals try to act like this never happened to our ppl for the whole 470+ years we were here in america. their excuse today is, you're not a slave now, that was long ago you should get over it, i always tell them you the ones who need to get over it because you're the ones who keep the racial tensions going, limiting blacks in the workforce, killing us, jailing us over false claims, and racial profiling.
mrknowitalllt1 1 year ago 5
@mrknowitalllt1 Well said! It's sad but true. Systematically black people have been held down. Yes some fall through the cracks & are successful, but many don't get there because of the obstacles. I'm not saying that those of us who don't try deserve to have things handed to us, but those of us who are making a difference in our lives & the lives of others should at least have a chance to make it here in this country. We have to keep fighting & pushing for the same rights that whites have.
SheBQueen4eva 1 year ago
Gamble and Huff had such concept on writing this song. It was real poignant.
Quaisheezy 1 year ago
Thanks man for this, so relevant yet so forgotten!
souldisciple 1 year ago
i love this song because it gives us a view as to what some people went through for liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. i don't fully understand the WHY of it all, but, this song carries your mind to a level where you can kind of put yourself in their places.
TheMattiehart 1 year ago
Hurt me...
MrRelax49 1 year ago
real !!!
Ashween070 1 year ago
VERY powerful...GREAT VIDEO !!!
MsESQusiteAKA 1 year ago
I love this song. It is very beautiful and powerful. It reminds me of Jacob Holdt's show: Amarican Pictures, where it also was played in the beginning. This show was one of the biggest highlights of my entire life. I cried and laughed with the people he introduced in his show. I felt their pain in a way that I could not imagine possible!
Thanks for this video.
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MegaDisanayaka 1 year ago
Magnificant song!!
g74ui78ll88ermo 1 year ago
Elementary school dance recital. Still so effective.
Auntkekebaby 1 year ago
Good music
OxnardSoCal805 1 year ago
This level of consciousness in music is sorely missing today...when we need it most...
MsESQusiteAKA 1 year ago 8
@MsESQusiteAKA so sad but so tru
trey8218 1 month ago
and after all this that happened to the slaves, jews etc, you still belive that there is a God?
coz i dont
nenecaa 1 year ago 2
@nenecaa I feel sorry for you...It's dark and hell is HOT !!!!
MsESQusiteAKA 1 year ago
I know this song from some movie or something, maybe Simpsons and OMG I m glad I came across it again, this is an masterpiece!
I find this to your version of partisan songs we had over here in Europe.
pjubagoni 1 year ago
I WAS ONLY 15 WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS; IT MOVED MY MIND
PhillyGregA 1 year ago
4% neanderthal gene ---
tamaduni 1 year ago
we all loved this song and this album as kids in high school, it was and is great music. but listening back now as a late middle-aged adult, it takes on a whole new
relevance. this is extarordinarily great music. had no idea what we were missing at the time. man, this is some powerful stuff... in every way!
ajacqx 1 year ago
@ajacqx Amen
roquey44 1 year ago
beautyfull
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ifeness24 1 year ago
Love this jamm!! Thanx for posting
bmorehommie 1 year ago
Makes me think. We must look at the historical record and the current actions of the Western Powers. Greed. Bloodshed. Lies. Mental control. One day they will give an account for their sins.
77common66 1 year ago
SamaraG100, it is what it is and you may not want to except that fact that this is not an excuse but in fact it is the truth and maybe you need to open a history book or two and figure out what this song is really talking about!!!
greengemini23 1 year ago
I've oftened wondered if there is a race of people that exist that has come into contact with white people at some level and hasnt paid a dear price for it. Why does it always have to be about power and superiority? What was wrong with allowing each people to live and exist in their own world. I would consider myself "weak" if i always needed to have my foot on someone else's head to make me feel powerful and superior.
summersbr1 1 year ago
Thank you for this video!!!
m7a7b725 1 year ago
DEEP.... wow really makes ya think about life & prior family members what they went through. What that piece of paper has done & still to this day continues to generate.. nothing but greed,hate & power. This will never be shown in history class in the USA. Thats swept under the carpet.
port2344chester 1 year ago
love this dam song man
sassynotsweet1 1 year ago
Thank you for this post.
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Everything involving some kind of excuse as to why things have happened, is absolutely irrelevant. What ever we though life was gonna be like never is. People are cruel. Injustices have happened to every race. EVERYWHERE. Its sad that people be be soo blinded and not see that we are all one. I am your sister as you are my brother. I pray that he keeps us and see that we are worthy of walking this Earth because right now we are destroying on another and can only blame ourselves. He is Alive!
SamaraG100 1 year ago
Everything involving some kind of excuse as to why things have happened, is absolutely irrelevant. What ever we though life was gonna be like never is. People are cruel. Injustices have happened to every race. EVERYWHERE. Its sad that people be be soo blinded and not see that we are all one. I am your sister as you are my brother. I pray that he keeps us and see that we are worthy of walking this Earth because right now we are destroying on another and can only blame ourselves. He is Alive!
SamaraG100 1 year ago 15
Thank you for your statement of love and faith. The depiction of aspects of Black History are not meant to blame others, or to diminish the injustice visited upon others All the best to you.
seker4me 1 year ago 18
@SamaraG100 Hi slavery was one of the worst injustices in history and I won't allow anyone to minimize that. No one is dwelling on it but it happened and it's history. Torture, Cruelty, slave labor, MURDER, RAPE, dehumunization,, etc. Should I go on?
missstuff68 10 months ago 3
If anyone ever wonders why there's a Black History Month, watch and listen to this.
roquey44 2 years ago
@roquey44 black history month is the biggest insult to injury there is.
OkufuWarriors 1 year ago 4
5 stars ! *****
BillyKnockout 2 years ago 8
Wow, you're making me feel old.
seker4me 2 years ago
happy new year y'all - glad to see you thinking positive thoughts, living in the moment, and rememberig the magic magic word ... happy happy days!!!!!!
MongerelWood 2 years ago
A very dark era of our past don't ya' think!!
warrior00041 2 years ago 2
How ever, always the WHITE PEOPLE FROM EUROPE put there ass in other countrys and killed people with other colors!
AgentHunt47 2 years ago
it was another passage that people don't understand, mississippi black people were slaved to chicago,alabama black people were slaved to detroit,georgia and points north were slaved to new york,it was systematic and calculated,if you don't believe it ask your grandparents,oh i,m sorry they probaly don,t know ..........thanks ojays
alsmithjr633 2 years ago
Those who financed the SLAVE TRADE set forth a cruel NEW WORLD ORDER then. What is going on now is an extension of it...BIG BANKS, BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES...crooked politicians. FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY..some people do things....do things...do bad things...
Dr. King warned us that AMERICA MAY GO TO HELL ....
4edutainment 2 years ago
you are so right @4edutainment. Thas why Jesus said the LOVE of money is the root of all evil
IrrepressibleGuile 2 years ago
this is it brothers and sisters everyone can see and hear what they did i can not get over it ,DAMN. This Shit really Fucks with me.
djslam2012 2 years ago
dont forget the transatlantic slave trade was not one sided, europeans baught captives from african traders, so they are just as guilty
IrrepressibleGuile 2 years ago
I love the OJ's songs, but it is my first time to hear this one. I think the apartheid government here must have banned it. Thanks for this posting. I wept.
mabhekaphansi 2 years ago
The Motherland......this song means sooo much.....it's eary how you can hear the ship and the whips...My God
MsMelzy 2 years ago 3
yea this song gets in your soul, that is are connections as black people... I can feel you sister.
judgedeborah7 2 years ago
Inhumanlty to man
D12DD3 2 years ago 2
Dueteronomy 28:68 "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
yawanathanbon 2 years ago
this is one hard rock stone track,that will
be in the heart of every living soul who was there in sprit,BABYLON MUST FALL.
can you feel iiiiiit jah live
djAceFranklin 2 years ago
your crazy, they mad e some of the best dance music out there, money money and more..
TALBROZMAN 2 years ago
this is real soul nuh dah chris brown shit and i born in 1990 we youths real missin out dread!
mobbstarr101 2 years ago
This is the O'jays at that best with a song you either love or hate. I think it's great and you can feel the pain of those people in those ships who were so badly treated.
The O'Jays were famous for mostly dancey stuff, but these guys really could really do terrific soul songs. Love 'em to bits
gusandspud 2 years ago 2
this is deep very powerful words
azgurl12390 2 years ago 2
look how far we have come as a nation now i beleive that african americans are the root to this world and without us this world cannot funtion. do not let them put us back in this horrible situation ever.....
101housecall 2 years ago
das ist der zeitgeist
jesudas1070 2 years ago
simplesmente incrível!!!!
mysterpaul 2 years ago
this video should tell all young black men not to get in trouble and give up their freedom . these men gave up to much for us .
lbwt57 2 years ago
one of my dads fav songs. mine too from them.
Apollo2003 2 years ago
What an album this comes from. The best thing they hhave ever done in my opinion. I don't like their dancey stuff much, as their ballads really dig deep into your guts
gusandspud 2 years ago
my song..took me some where deep and ready to confront..and like Malcolm said."make it plain"
TALBROZMAN 2 years ago
as a kid my dad played this on the way to the beach whenever we went. i never understood why unitl i got older.
Apollo2003 2 years ago
A dark, atmospheric, frightening masterpiece that'll send a shiver up your spine.
mayena 2 years ago 3
Oh snap thats the sample for tony/montana. This song is great. Makes me wish I was born in the 70s..."Lifes design is already made, so young and so strong they just waiting to be saved". Those lines alone made me look for this song.
icanatrix 2 years ago
Tears for fistly Africans, then Jews
rdavysimpson 2 years ago 2
"Listen to the Clock on the Wall"
RussellAthletics 2 years ago
Ahoi!
Jovolution 2 years ago
The track is real talk . . . love the O'Jays . . . no wonder they are constantly sampled by today's hip-hop artists!
KoldShadow 2 years ago 2
thats the best song i ve ever herd
jesudas1070 2 years ago 2
does anyone know where i can find the lyrics to this song. i need them for a report and i cant find them anywhere
3ginnypotter 2 years ago
If one cannot feel the rythym of the drums, and the sound of the whips, and the tears running down their face, that person is cold, dead, and soul-less.
I was 22 years old when this album came out. I don't think another song has ever been as poignant.
I loved Curtis Mayfield's "We People Who are Darker than Blue," but this song is where it all started.
marcuswelby57 2 years ago 3
then you must have lied about your age?
tanktube 2 years ago
Very nice, and moving dramatization.
starsugar20 2 years ago
Atruth to never be covered up or denied,
more important than the Jewish Holocaust,
The displacement of a race from one continent to another help contribute to the rapid growth of this Great nation.
mcmayspulliam 2 years ago 2
Same here, wdupar20
DWright24 2 years ago
My dad turned me on to this song when I was 11, now I'm 28.
wdupar20 2 years ago
I can still remember the first time hearing this song in my early teen years while going through my parents old records. I listened and wondered why no one ever played it for me earlier.
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mayena 2 years ago
Why can't we understand this? the Willie letter is working even to today. I ask myself why I am sitting in this fighting hole at a disclosed location fighting for nothing and I can shot 41 times when I go home. It doesn't make sense! I now see with third eye and I am one with myself. You can't use your religion to scare me anymore!
cmcdanie90 2 years ago
Even though at the time, I didn't know wha they were talking about, I was 2 years old in 73 when I had the red 8-track AND the album...which I still have...along with the CD...lol
shydmples 3 years ago
Hey! I came to this after listening to " For the Love of Money. " Must've been my ancestors, BOTH NATIVE and
AFRICAN American, with just a few drops of IRISH roots tugging at me to get a brief and gentle reminder of who I am, and who came before me. Thank you honey for posting. Very nice job!
peachfuzz1204 3 years ago
i love this song ,who els would dare,been looking for it for 3years thank you so much,msmary
mtagoone 3 years ago
you are so welcome enjoy
mtagoone 3 years ago
ay brinston don't ya even think of comparing Native Americans to african americans,... Wounded Knee ring a bell????????????????ya no nothing ..
MdNgtRyder 3 years ago
it is was it is
mtagoone 3 years ago
i saw this vid in my world history class! SAME EXACT VID
madeup7777777 3 years ago
I have gotten comments from history teachers concerning their use of the video. I'm curious: would you share the name and location of your school?
seker4me 3 years ago
J.P.Taravella in Tamarac FL... why?
madeup7777777 3 years ago
I heard this song back in '04 and liked it very much. I asked the the perosn to make me a copy of it but didn't. Now 5 years later I find it here and it took 30 seconds to be added to my favorites. Seker4me thanx for posting this. A very powerful song and one of ojays best true classics.
Bluesman471 3 years ago
What a powerful and great song!
johnnorvaisas 3 years ago
thanks for this song take me back i played it all the time i love the ojays and did get to see them preform this song and many more.
missfinelady 3 years ago 2
This is a powerful song ,one of the o,jays best. A deep song for America to reconize, and remember that our forefathers ,as black men suffered ,great humilation ,and injustice and were robbed of the right to be a man. They were subjected to imminent death ,at the wim of the slave owner. America owes ,the black man in america ,just like they paid the indians ,and the japanese during ww2. But when it comes down to the black man ,they always find a excuse ,to not be fair .just my opinion
terrybrinston 3 years ago 4
@terrybrinston Yeah, you've got a valid point. I've always wondered will they ever make a slave movie about Nat Turner, because in my opinion based upon what I read, the brutal events surronding his life were a critical turning point during slavery. I always thought someone like Spike Lee or even Quinten Tarrantino would attempt 2 tackle that sensitive subject matter but maybe a lot of racist folks of 2 day wouldn't be ready 4 that one?
therealraybaby 1 year ago
Deep music during this time. Lots of messages like Parliament Funkadelic's Mothership Connection. Marvin Gaye and Gil Scott Heron sang alot of songs with truth too.
v8diva 3 years ago 3
not to forget
delio07 3 years ago 3
this songs great very very deep makes you think real hard.
berlynn2 3 years ago 3