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  • I love this song. The drum solo intro is so sick and the lyrics are on point! It is so typical of 70s funk!

  • this is my 1 of moms favorite songs

  • this is me after ending a 5 year relationship just before valentines day. I FELT SO FREE!

  • thumbs up if MADEA's BIG HAPPY FAMILY PLAY brought you here!

  • kidding ME just started cry for JOY:

  • Say it, brotha!

  • When I first saw the covers in my moms collection, I was floored..I didnt know black women could be so sexy without being trashy! Still going to do one of these poses (honey and all) for my own personal use!

  • @TheFaithfulDee As a black woman, I guess thanks would be the best reply?

  • @joyjoy70301 OMG!!! I'm so sorry! Forgive me please!

  • This is my official theme song...

  • anyone know where to find the names of models on the covers of these albums? REAL SEXY BLACK WOMEN!!

  • hands down the players had the best album covers of all time!!!

  • numver one record to play at the divorce party!!!

  • 1 of my pops favs, don't get betta...

  • I WANT TO BE FREE!!

    

  • LOVE THIS SONG..IT HELP ME GET THROUGH ALOT OF BS..

  • my favorite record

  • this reminds me of my papa bear sitin on the couch rockin his head reliving his past great shit

  • This is a song of true feeling... i remember feeling like this a few times...

  • SNOOP DOGG-THA LAST MEAL INTRO sampled that !

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  • Say it Brother!!

  • who cares what era its in....A TRUE SONG NEVER DIES IT WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME chris brown crap dosnt

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  • beautiful soul music. Enjoy "Joggyn Smyler" music and videos

  • I'm gonna be FREE 2.

  • THIS IS IT! I TOTALLY LOVE THIS MIX. I'M GONNA BE FREE!!

  • When artists gave you your money's worth! nearly 7 minutes of truth!!

  • THIS SONG IS 4 MY X WIFE NOW IM HAPPIER THAN I WAS WITH HER RAT AZZ!!!!

  • All I can say is ... I remember my bro playing this song on a reel-to-reel player. OMG ~ that was high-technology at the time - albeit a short-lived technology as far as I know, Nonenetheless, I will NEVER forget this song or what I was doing at the time either! :)

  • Love the Ohio Players !!!! Absolutely Fabulous!!!!

  • This is my theme song!!!

  • Lol! alot of people nowadays don't know what this song is about.

  • Skating at Northland, and skateland...chillin at belle isle....Detroit Nupe was just a kid....Now n DC...also HU Grad...but we know why the "D" is famous....Big ups to the U of D High...

  • i love da intro

  • chris brown can't fuck wit this

  • @macthusm .

    Leave Chris Brown alone! Thats utterly unfair to compare Brown to this band. Different era altegether.

  • TWO MARRIGES IV PLAYED IT EVERY TIME I LET THEM KNOW IM READY TOO GO

  • @ecbattles88 that is so hilariously sad...lol

  • @ecbattles88 OMG! Your comment is priceless! I've never beenn married or even dated that but now - thanks to you - I know what to do when it's time for them to get to steppin! LOL! Good thing I just recently bought Ohio Players Greatest hits

  • @ecbattles88 that's so messed up and funny

  • I want to be free Man they don't make music like this anymore.

  • one of the greats songs and group at all times

  • classic

    

  • classic

  • Hey ,I was just four years old when this came out ..my daddy was the DJ for the whole neighborhood. He had every album and 45 you could think of...Ohio Players was among them. One of the coolest groups !!! Ran Ran

  • Prom night 1974 :Detroit Northwestern High ,on my way to Howard University, I WAS FREE.....!!!!!!!!

  • I was in the 10th grade and this album cover was like porno back then!

  • I love this song truely they have a style of their own , one of the songs that will never get old it will keep comming back.

  • immediately out of high school, that summer before starting the fall semester at MSU (Memphis State) a guy we called Hokie-Wolf ran a combination crap-house/ smoke-house in the Bunker-Hill section of Memphis, and this must have been the only album he had...cause I must have heard this song and that album at least 5,000 times there alone...! but time marches on, most of the old gang has faded-away (literally) and The Wolf has been in and outta the joint repeatedly... but I still love this album

  • Damn that shit goes hard!

  • Although the "Honey" album cover is pictured, this came from the "Fire" album. Loved it, Great drum rolls, lol.

  • kings of comedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • They had the best album covers..truly a very talented band..now this is real music

  • @MsBklynstar Their album covers ushered me through puberty. Me and my first girlfriend used to sit on her couch listening to this album holding hands. Then one night she fell asleep with her head on my shoulder. 34 years later I still feel her head on my shoulder whenever I reminisce about our innocence. This song is the soundtrack to my reverie. Bless her and Bless the Ohio Players.

  • PLEASE GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME!!!

  • I remember buying Ohio Players albums but because of the pictures of these super sexy black women,I hid them in my other albums or my mom would have done something ridiculous like, throw them out! I was just a kid with excellent taste in music! What can I say?

  • @cozy3952 WORD.so did Iandwhen I got older,I'm really glad I kept them

  • @cozy3952 ... right on

  • @cozy3952 i was telling someone the other day about how i missed album covers. stevie wonder, the isleys. although some of the ohio players were damn near soft porn

  • @cozy3952 i did the exact same thing in ohio that bald model was bad

  • shoop shoop shoop shoop...

  • My anthem!

  • loved the music as a 70's kid but mostly remember the photos on the album covers...first time I thought my own brown skin was beautiful

  • @rosebud8029 because in the 70's at the band concerts they would like up a joint and pass it down the whole row for everyone to get their buzz on and enjoy themselves - in the 70's so much sharing - you could get 10-15 decent joints out of a nickel bag back then lol two tote tilly here - that's I'll I needed :-)

  • @rosebud8029 Maybe cause in the 70's at the concerts they passed the joints down the row so everybody could get their buzz on - we shared will all back then - of course you could get 10-15 joints out of a nickel bag lol

  • Yes indeed - I'm a 70's baby so u know I know - we had a lot of jammin bands back then - it's sad that no more today - luckily we can still go to some oldhead shows - real talent that produced their own sh*t!

  • YES!

  • @c11393 U know rt! - I grew up in the 70's and I don't care what anyone says the music was better than all later decades!

  • This is one of the great funk groups out of Dayton Ohio. Amongest the many funk groups out of Dayton Ohio. Dayton OH has some great music talent. That was a time when musicians regardless of your musical style, you had to be a master of your instrument. And read music well. These were some special years. Never will see the 70's again. Miss that time.

  • do uoi hear them sweet strings!!

  • @rosebud8029 LMAO!!!!

  • @rodans100 because the were at the concerts the bands played at passing them down the rows

  • ppl need too free themselves of the drama that goes on in their life...life to short...I want to be free.... I'm free.......eliminating all the bullshit including ppl....

  • 7 people are not free

    

  • @rjwsr314 I like that comment!

  • Thumbs up if " Madea's Big Happy Family " brought you here !

  • i remember hearing this on the "Kings of Comedy"...but i always loved this song....played this when i didnt know what to say to my X who felt like he was god gift to women...now im truely and unconditionally happy!!!

  • fo' sho!

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  • thumbs up if your listening to this because of madeas big happy family

  • you can be free when your heart and mind are in tune. I love this message

  • being a teenager back then was the BOMB. I love the funk era. the song speaks for itself. ' I WANT OT BE FREE' hahahahaha,

  • i want to be free

  • umm I brought myself here...My dad used to kill their "Fire" album...I remember being so young, I would sneak and listen to their album...If you didn't know, back then their album covers were consider to be "risky"....To this day this is still my favorite song off that album...

  • @Queenmadame Amen amen!!!! I didn't need to see any movie to come to this video. :D

  • This is the Jam! No Drum machines here!~ ~ it took real skills to do Drums like this!~Another one of my favorites !~Heaven must be like this ,the flip side to this one!~meaning the Two jams that they touched on the highlighting the good and bad side of love! and they DIDI IT RIGHT~ Can i get a RIGHT ON!~Hey fellas if you meet a fifty something beautiful woman and she's still single and no kids! let me suggest you get as far ! and as fast as you can from that crazy bitch !~Can i be free? LOL!

  • Unsung really brought this group to life for me! I have always been a fan of the sexy 70's bands but this one is one of the best!!

  • I wanna be free aw lawd,oh chile, (sanggggg)

  • The true 1970's Music

  • Ohio Players...old skool playas.

  • Man i was a freshman at Ohio University when this album came out :D. Man what a time we were having. Thank god i was from Cleveland where real players are born.

    I remember all those shitty AKA's what a bunch of sluts...

    :D

  • @jazzynet1

    ain't nothing changed. them A.K.A.'s still the same.

  • s.n. double o. p

    

  • snoop snoop.....snoop..snoop snoop....snoooooooooooooooop.

  • the trumpet is niice.

  • THE SEXY MEN OF MY LIFE FOREVER THE OHIOPLAYERS ARE THE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC IN MY LIFE

  • This song is truely timeless...."I want to be freea"!! The Ohio Players...So far ahead of their time!!!!

  • 6 people dont want to be free>>>

  • i wana be freaky(rght now )out there can you help(need a freak a.s.a.p

  • good times....this the kind of music that will allow u to be u

  • @MsFancyOne Say it Sista!

  • Sugarfoot was TELLIN' IT on dis joint.........must have been hittin' some of dat killa' Sly Stone was smokin' when he laid this down. Drums are tight!!

  • 6 people don't want him to be free. ಠ_ಠ

  • one of my favs!!!!!

  • The guys in the background had the falsetto working to a "T"!!! Shoop, Shoop, Shoop, Shoop, Shoop!!! I want to be free!!! Oh yeah!!!

  • @shakmac0509 Dey was killin' it, what'n dey!

  • The guys in the background had the falsetto working to a "T"!!!

  • omg best song ever

  • OOH CHILD!!!! I WILL NEVER FORGET THEM DAYS BROTHA!

  • Sho you right Sugarfoot. There will be another one like him. There are many who have tried to imitate him but he cannot be duplicated.This is one of my favorite songs by the Ohio Players. I am living this one right now. "You don't know how it makes me feel chile to be able to walk away from your smile. I'm gon be alright after while. I think the Lord done gave me the strength now..."

    Preach boy

  • Can't touch THIS...It's the bomb!

  • ONE DAY I'M GONNA FREE HONEY...

    WOO WOO WOO!

    CLASSIC!

  • my pops use to always play this back in the day, even though we didn't have much but we did have some booming ass speakers.

  • GREAT MUSIC 

  • - i wasn even bein thought of when this song came out , but hey : its da sht to me ! lol

  • I broke up with one of my girlfriends just so I could sing this song bac in tha day. Weed will make you do some crazy sh..

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    lmao

  • Diamond is puttin foot to ass on this cut ! God bless the drums only solo you ever heard on a slow jam! " I Want To Be Free! What yall know bout the blue light in the basement!

  • Diamond is puttin foot to ass on this cut ! God bless the drums only solo you ever heard on a slow jam! " I Want To Be Free!

  • Love them for they had so much talent also....

  • shoo be do be do be doo...

    can't mess with it

    UHh.

    lol

  • I REMEMBER LISTENING TO THIS SONG OVER N OVER AGAIN WITH MY EX... GIVING HIM HINTS! IT WORKED!!! LOL

  • If it took u to watch "Unsung" to watch and enjoy this song idk who u people are hanging around musically..smh this song has been a classic for awhile now way b4 a show called "Unsung"

  • @nilee114 I agree.....but the beauty of Unsung is putting them back where they belong.....on top. Unsung now "educates" those who missed out.....Much love.

  • @BLKDIVA1908 Yea ur rite!!! and I appreciate u using the word "educate" lol

  • @BLKDIVA1908: Unsung is my favorite show since it started!  It is wonderful that it gives them much needed exposure...maybe they can make some royalty money...they worked so hard :-(

  • Man this is the best music in history. They don't make music like this anymore, no B's and H's in this music. I grew up with this music (born in 64) so I know we had the best of times with this music. Thank you Unsung for bringing these guys on and letting the world know who the Ohio Players are.

  • "like" if Unsung brought u to enjoy this song.

  • im only 14 and dis is sum gud music and if u dislike dis u dont kno music

  • I heard this song the night i left my ex..and it was liberating

  • When a man MUST get away....Has there been any other manly breakup song that is sung (and drummed) with so much anger, emotion & relief !!

  • yeah!

  • SING THAT SHIT SUGARFOOT...THE ONE AND ONLY YOU FLY ASS MAH FUKKA!!

  • One day child, i won't have to listen your lies

  • 2 People Dont Wanna Be FREE!

  • @8gradeeej oh boi!

  • @XxLargoBoi94xX fuck uu dis shit crank

  • "You don't know how it makes me feel child, to be able to walk away from your smile, yes I can and I'm going to be all right after awhile, I think the Lord done gave me the strength now." This jam used to be played in the dorms at EMU whenever someone would break up with their significant other.......if not "Free" then it was Millie's Jackson's breakup jams........MAN I MISS THE 70'S......that's when the best R&B was created !!!!

  • @Seashelldiver .. you are so right.. I love the 70's too.. I love the way they dressed.. heck..everything about the 70's..

  • AGREE ...........THIS IS REAL MUSIC!

  • @PaulGreen GOT DAMN man i'm so sorry. If that was me i would have kept you. She was nothing but a hoe, sorry to say it but its true. All they want is your money, as soon as you wanted to spend time with her she started to act funny huh. smh

  • OK this is Real Music!!!!!!!!!

  • so this is where Snoop got his track #1 sample from on Tha Last Meal.....this shit is funky as hell thanks BearRilla33

  • @StarDust062: Thanks, Star! I gave this woman everything I had. I quit my federal job, moved across country, and was loyal to her beyound reason. She cheated on me and had the nerve to tell me about it. I can only thank God Im not behind bars now. Someone may ask, "What did you do to her." I Swear to God; All I did was go to work and come back home Everyday for 5 years. I asked her to go out on dates with me, she wouldnt go. But she found time to spend out all nite with her mother.

  • I dedicate this song to the love of my lifetime and soon to be ex-wife, Debra Angelique, "...and now I think I can put you out of my life."

  • Yeah man, so like I was thinking about my name and I want it to be like razor sharp, like it could almost cut somebody and then it hit me after looking up at this neon sign that like totally blew up because the name was just so powerful...........DIRK DIGGLER!!!

  • This song is purely for the GROWN AND SEXII!! You YOUNGSTAS don't know nothin' about this!!

  • TV One's Unsung is finally doing an episode on The Ohio Players on July 4,2011 if the date doesn't changed.

  • i'm gettin' away from you honey! right on brotha!

  • Thumbs up if Madea's Big Happy Family Stageplay brought you here

  • This brings back lots of memories!

  • "You don't know how it makes me feel child, to be able to walk away from your smile, yes I can. And I'm gonna be alright after awhile, I think the Lord done me the strength now. I'm gonna be free" Best break up song EVER written. Sugarfoot was a 70's genius !

  • I came here because of Madea

  • This is one of those joints U play when ur woman starts acting up. CLASSIC!!!

  • prince sang this in concert and did it up

  • i love this 

  • THIS SONG BRINGS THE MEMORIES, SOME I WISH HAD NEVER HAPPENED. THERE IS A LADY IN UTAH THAT I AM SO SORRY I PLAYED THIS SONG FOR. MAG THIS POST IS FOR YOU, ONLY I WISH I WASN'T FREE,,,,,,,,,,,FROM YOU,,,,,,,,GIRL I STILL LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MrFunkyatfifty I feel you. Kinda reminds me of a time when I slipped up and let this girl hear Morris Day's "Don't Wait For Me" when I'd left the room. Our relationship was a done deal after that.

  • who knows where i can download this for free?

  • What ever man says at lest on time during marriage well also the wife.

  • this song funny kuzz he talking about leaving some woman... man.... this shit knocks

  • does madea's big happy family ring a bell for anybody?? lolz :)

  • lol, recently, my little sister told me to really listen to these lyrics, and I finally did, and I was crackin UP!!!! LOL I thought this was a peaceful and beautiful song and he talkin bout gettin away from a crazy woman

  • @bun223 - That's they knew how to communicate thoughts with class (hint, hint dedicker100). But, when did someone decide it wasn't cool to write songs like this? Guys used to like this music because it said what some of them didn't know how to express.