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  • I have to wake up for a major physical fitness test in seven hours and I just started writing a three-page paper. My girlfriend may or may not be pregnant. I have no plan for life and no drive. This song makes all those worries fade away.

  • nice

    

  • epic lyrics !!!

  • i'm glad we both stumbled across this dope music- LIKE!!!!!!

  • sample?... i don't think it's from four tet cause there is no drum in it

  • you boys need to chill

  • I get on to watch this music video and I see comment of people fighting about america and canada? I don't even..

  • why is there logging pics in the video. Of a tree farm? fail

  • oh man ive been trying to figure out the name of this song for forever, and i only remembered one line so it was pretty damn difficult..

  • I like the fact that hes whippin an 80's volvo

  • I personally don't give a fuck what Canadians think of me for being American, nor do I care what anyone else thinks about me for being American; not even my own countrymen. If you decide to slap a label on me and judge without having actually met or talked to me personally, then you are a lesser person then me as I would never do that to anyone else. You are free to go ahead and bash on my country and the people who live in it, but just remember, I love Canada and everyone I've ever met there.

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  • @everyone - were all human

  • they should call themselves the sweetshop union.

  • #occupywallstreet.

  • @carlosx77 Speaking from Occupy Ottawa

  • I just created a blog for underground hiphop, should check it out and share some tracks, get the ball rollin' - go to Underground-junction.blogspot

  • @oveid you are one fucked up individual.

  • But the thing about it is we can't just sing about it,

    We can't just sit around and wait until they thin us out,

    We figure out where we're going while we live in doubt,

    If you want my truth, listen now and just think about it,

    The thing about it is we can't even think about it,

    Can't afford a minutes time to figure how to bring about a change,

    So, take a second, and shake your head,

    And take a step ahead and think about it,

  • Troll officially describes a fictional character. Canadians and others who put faith in television, scream TROLL! when they become filled with fear of the power of ideas which they cannot refute. Just like a coward screams INSURGENT! CONSPIRACY THEORIST! or a mangina screams RACIST! DENIER!

  • @oveid you're being the fucking troll on this video, and no one gives a fuck about a word you say, same as you don't listen to a word anyone else says on here. If you disagree with the way things are, then there are far more productive ways of making change than bitching on youtube comments. Try spreading the message with your own art. You keep repeating yourself over and over and over. Your opinion doesn't fucking matter. Nor does mine, that's the whole point. Just be.

  • @chrystianshanye You say troll means people trying to piss others off, then that it constitutes whatever peoples opinion is of it. You are correct. It is tyranny. and you prove my point again. I can tell, what you're really battling here is the fact that I'm right, and you can't cope.

  • @oveid obviously you're just too retarded to understand that I agree with you for the most part. But for some reason you think I'm arguing with you, which makes me question your intelligence. Therfore, everything you say is fucking irrelevant to anything.

  • @chrystianshanye Please stop watching television. 

  • @nikkiann47 You're political opinion is less than worthless.

  • @oveid his opinion is worth exactly the same as your opinion. Opinions in general are worthless. Just shut the fuck up, you self-righteous douchebag.

  • Every last one of you arguing over some pointless view should not be watching this. This song and video is trying to a convey a message of unifying the world through peace. This is exactly what every major government wants from us, to divide and conquer by keeping us arguing. United we stand, divided we fall.

  • @chrystianshayne Useless and stupid are a matter of opinion. WRONG however, that is for God to decide. In your last sentence you help prove my point and contradict your first sentence.

  • @oveid God is an opinion in itself, seeing as one can't prove it's existence. And wrong is not for God to decide, It's for us as a race to decide, and so far, seeing as the world's in the state that it is, I as well as anyone else can easily deduce that we've got it wrong. So wrong, stupid, and useless are all a matter of opinion, as well as what everyone thinks constitutes a troll. So in this instance, you believe, as do I, that these people are not trolls, based on what you think makes one up.

  • Your point is saying that troll is a word that describes radicals, free thinkers, radicals, when really it's just a word that describes anyone posts anything that you disagree with. So really, we're all trolls to some people, because you're not going to agree with everyone. Also, originally, the word Troll was made to describe anyone who posted things on the internet with the sole purpose of pissing people off. So learn your shit before you try correcting people.

  • TROLL is another smear word for people who hate free speech and hate truth that isn't PC. see : denier, insurgent, conspiracy theorist, racist, radical.

  • @oveid no, Troll is a legitimate term, usually reserved for those who fill the internet with useless, wrong, or stupid bullshit that has no use being there. People here are just using it in the wrong context, because most of the people on here are speaking the truth.

  • <3 <3 <3 Sweatshop Union!!!

  • THINK FOR YOURSELF!

  • Anyone know who the first rapper is? the blond haired guy.

  • volvo 240, hell yeah.

  • fawk cough

  • that riff is from a Four Tet song

  • JERRRRY JERRRRY JERRRRY !

  • can u survive in a world with a wife and a child

  • Why is it that the whole world called the US the land of the free? do you think they were being given free stuff? I'm well aware that we enjoy most of their freedoms but we still have no republic, no constitution, no bill of rights and when our DEPENDANT economy is hit by the USA's default/bankruptcy, well, even you television-educated sports fan's can guess what's next.

  • "So, take a second, and shake your head, And take a step ahead and think about it, This is a time of growth for those that know, And it's a time of hope for those that don't, But if your mind is open you'll get shown." Ergo, stop with the stereotypes, open your mind and learn to appreciate peoples differences. No one is perfect, we should all strive to improve. Listen to the music, and learn to truely appreciate it.

  • Canadians and Americans only fight when people from other countries arent around to hate

  • canadians and americans are the same fucking people moron. Just that one is missing a scrotal sac where one should definitly hang.

  • why dont you all just listen to the great music that these people make to listen to, instead of bitching about being canadian or american and calling people cowards because were canadian or hating cuz people are american, just fucking listen to the music and enjoy it

  • THAT rap is coming from da underground! ***LOVE***

  • Now THIS is rap.

  • UGGHHHH please don't lump all Americans together. So one was a complete dumbass. that's him. not the whole country. I'm tired of going on Sweatshop Union videos and Classified videos only to find stereotypical slurs about Americans in the comments. We are not all the same. and it's not just Canadians against Americans, but the Americans against Canadians. no need for insults. Just listen to the music and let it bring you past countries.

  • @XxWeccaxX gotta agree, your country's goin down the drain, and if you don't realize that yet, then you haven't done your homework. Not that I'm blaming all of the citizens for this but seriously, your government is trying to keep you people ignorant so that you don't force them to change the way they do things. They're fucking tyrants.

  • @chrystianshayne Almost every country on this planet is going down the drain. Either Economically or Morally. Dark times these, and most of the worlds population is still oblivious to it.

  • @XxWeccaxX well said. How can anyone hate on the States. You guys gave us Hip Hop in the first place.

  • @XxWeccaxX Speaking as a Canadian, for the most part Canadians and Americans are the same. For the most part save a few exceptions people r brainless drones that eat up all that bullshit propaganda brought to u via the idiot box by the corporations and governments. We r taught not to think for ourselves and to be sheep or we r labelled as radical extremists. Its not an american thing, its a man vs corrupt system thing. All the stereotypes r a way of controlling the way we think

  • @sensfan22 Big ups from your brother across the border. This is what Sweatshop union makes music for, this is what the message of this song is. It isn't about left vs right, US vs canada, Islam vs Christianity, none of that BS, it is about solidarity with your fellow humans. Do not let their false perceptions of separation rule your life.

  • @XxWeccaxX i disagree. im american and i see blind ignorance and constant trend following sheep everywhere i go. like 90+% of america is in a dreamland and although it may not be you... you cannot deny that most of america is a disgrace to the concious chunk of us left in america

  • a troll is someone who posts the same phrase over. trust canadians to turn it into a smear word that they can use to avoid debate. how many more ways do canadians have to prove what COWARDS they are?

  • @oveid okay listen you jackass stop posting shit all over sweatshop unions videos no one gives a shit, its just anoying having to hear how great America is, land of the free home of the brave? more like land and the assholes and home of the idiots , representing Puerto Rico!!!! ;)

  • @GhostFox410 Not to be that guy but Puerto Rico is an American Commonwealth. So when you said land of the assholes and idiots combined with the ignorance you have about your own countries relationship to America, I believe your previous statement applies to yourself more than me, an American.

  • @oveid TRRROOOOOOOOLLLL

  • @ToProFoYou how is that trolling? He's telling the truth. It's the whole theme of the song dumbass.

  • J-Roc baby.

  • im gonna see these b holes at komasket music fest cuz it's by my house anyone going?

  • how do you justify bitchin about the economy, and then negativly portray logging...these are bc boys, and clearly logging is a huge part of our economy. good track tho.

  • I am the one whose points are being reaffirmed by all the cowards who fear debate and loathe the truth. It's ironic how canadians always tell you nowadays that they are better than the US because they aren't americans. this is exactly the kind of attitude that makes people dislike americans. Beware cowards, you can't afford to be assholes, you have no rights.

  • @oveid  HAHA TROOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL

  • @oveid Jesus Christ man I cant find one sweatshop video on YouTube without your dumb ass

  • @LongboardBC Trolls be Trollin'. Ignore 'em.

  • yu know its a real hip hop video wen he walks past the ferarri andhops in the ghetto volvo, much respect =]

  • this guy should make some more songs thumbs up if you agree

  • this gut should make some more songs

  • 17 people don't understand 'the thing about' hip hop...

  • Canadians have proven themselves unworthy of America. 150 years without a republic No guaranteed freedom, liberty, justice and yet we entered every war alongside America besides Vietnam and Iraq. WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE AGAINST FREEDOM??? This questions is the reason Bush gets away with so many lies... COWARDS.

  • why are we fighting..Canada and the states should have each others BACK!!!

  • "...so if the message ain't shit, then fuck the records you sold. Because If you go platinum, it has nothing to do with luck- it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck."

  • I'm reminded daily of a world gone crazy: guns mean safety for orphan babies.

  • Look in the mirror Canadian at an American who doesn't even have the remnants of a constitution to guarantee him freedom liberty or basic human rights. When Americas economy goes under Canadas dependant one will already be a corpse.

  • you were taught history in your Canadian classroom wereyou? mabey you were taught how many Armenians died in the Armenian Genocide and Ukranians in the Holodomor or how many white christians were murdered in the russian gulags. No and you don't know how many tens of millions died in WW2 unless we single out only those who are Jewish, then you know the EXACT number don't you Canadian? oh and I said Canada WILL BE a communism fuckwad and I gave evidence : Once again search - 9/11 MISSING LINKS

  • @oveid haha nerd

  • isnt common market using this beat, or a beat similar to it. Maybe im wrong. thumps up.

  • @blu3leg3nd naw i dont think so. wouldn't it be fresh if these guys did a song feat Ra Scion? Lol Sweat Shop Markets

  • reaaaal good

  • 17 people are ignorant.

  • Canadians are not to be taken seriously most of them still call their commonwealth "country" a peace -keeping nation while they are still invading foreign country s and torchureing innocent s porogueing government to hide it's shame. Canadian children are no longer taught art or history in school . Canada will probably be a communism with flourishing gulags by the time Americans wake up to 9/11 Missing Links

  • @oveid Where are you getting these facts from??? I've been in Canadian schooling my entire life, and I've been taught art AND history from grade 4 up until grade 12. Our government system is nothing close to Communism nor did we have any impact on 9/11 or the conspiracies you theorize about.

  • @oveid Americans like you are so fucking ignorant. Your the reason people believe Americans are stupid assholes. You chirp things that you have no idea what your talking about. If we are gunna chirp governments i believe yours is a fucking mess. And history and art is a mandatory class in high school you fuck. And you cant actually be serious about invading countries and shit, you blow trillions of dollars on your army a year to fuck up the world. fuck i hate you, and faggot Americans like you

  • @oveid your a stupid American. Brainwashed by your government. Thanks for being a good example and reaffirming it to the world.

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  • this song is tooo dope......i cant even explain it.

  • canadian version of the herd

  • "How can we be free when the water we drink is owned by some company?"

  • nice old brick

  • "self sufficiency replaced by cloned, copy-written seeds" man these guys were ahead of their time for sure, aware

  • Amazing

  • That was beautiful...

  • Asked it before and I'll ask it again -- Why are these guys not HUGE?

  • @McKleeny why do they need to be? as long as you and I know then its all good

  • @dcshoes222 So that they are rewarded for their gifts and able to continue, I suppose. And so that more people may enjoy them. : )

  • @McKleeny They didn't sell out.

  • fack i love how he reps the volvo

  • Sweatshop Union and Jedi Mind Tricks are the only things i need on my I pod. Deep Lyrics and messages, what music was about before Slapping hoes with dicks and acting like holding a bottle in a music video meant you could hold your liquor....

  • 666 likes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The message hear is on par with some of Immortal techniques stuff. I wish it had more than 246,869 views. (at time of posting of course) great job guys. great way to reach the youth.

  • These guys are the best kept secret.

  • I've been a Sweatshop Union fan since the start, and it hurts to see all of you ignorant commenters on this video. You complain about people who enjoy mainstream rap, but the fact that you think it's all about fame and selling out, then you're the one who should learn a thing or two. Kanye West, for example, is big right now, and he writes some of the deepest lyrics out there. Just because you don't understand it, because it's a metaphor, doesn't mean it's bad music.

  • i love the Four Tet sample they throw in!

  • tell you what... theres alot of people missing out on this great music its a shame :(

  • Bang for Change! Overthrow the capitalist power structure!

  • eminem is garbage there are thousands of other white rappers that rap about there life.... eminem is just overrated and sucks....

  • @kingraider7 Eminem is very gifted at being able to rap very fast and annunciate his words very clearly. His life story is one of both sadness and hope for most people, which in turn makes him more appealing. I like a few of his early songs, but then his music got too different for me. His last CD however, has made me like Eminem once again, it's more serious, has better messages and is just more appealing. I've been a big fan of Sweat Shop Union since day one too.

  • thumbs up if these guys need to tour in Vancouver i really really want to see u guys live

  • dope does anyone kno wut album this is from?

  • @krondoeoner It's on Natural Progression from 2003

  • @LindsaySarah2413 good lookin out

  • saw these guys in concert best concert ive been to by far

  • Saw them in Tacoma Washington, there were 7 of us in the crowd. Sadface.

  • @SavedOne09 When? I never heard about it and I live right there.

  • Awesome!!

    Triballigation "RDT Original" Efficacious

    TTFN

    RDT

  • I was just posting my comment I guess as the post??

    Was never really meant to promote me!!

    But I do see where it could be seen that way!!!

    Sorry All!!

  • What I love to see is all these people commenting below me. It just goes to show me that this world isn't full of idiots tuning in the radio non-stop and letting that shit they call music brainwash them. Keep supporting great hip hop!

  • TheTruffleSniper Because they're good. :/

  • THESE GUYS SHOULD BE SUPERSTARS ON THEIR OWN LABEL WITH HOW GOOD THEY ARE

  • just found out of these guys!!1 there the best, check out blue scholars, there also aweomse!!!

  • saw this song live dopest concert ive ever been too by far

  • Need to marry you **busizz4me.info**

  • I like how he walks past the Nice car and gets into his. (strong message)

  • @rawry420 they got a good thing go.

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  • Legit sound but Don't agree with some of the ideas "how can we be free? when the water that we drink is owned by some company?" Free water is not clean. We pay for our water to be clean and safe so of course a company owns it. Do you personally want to supply clean water for free? I don't! You can drink from a mud puddle or pay someone to keep it clean. They seem to have other irrational claims too. I listen to them mostly for their insanely awesome sound.

  • @bruth52 Much of the water is unsafe due to industrialization in the first place... that's a circular argument, ya dig?

    Take China for example. In Shenzhen the factories have polluted the waters so much that the people who lived by farming and fishing by the river can no longer do so, forcing them in to factory labor (this is in one of China's special districts which is far more capitalist than the majority of the country).

  • You could argue that, but do you suggest china stays in the stone age? You say that like industrialization is a bad thing.

  • @bruth52 Well, it is. It's caused a population boom and it has destroyed many natural resources for life. The problem is, it's not sustainable. Our world-wide oil productivity is headed in to terminal decline and there is no energy source to replace it, let alone enough energy to discover and implement a new efficient energy.

    Industrialization, in the grand scheme, was nothing but a temptation to live far beyond our means.

  • @Nyder That's a very radical opinion. The original argument was about clean water right ? Third world(In the area of Human Development) countries are obviously not Industrialized. Do people in those countries still have trouble finding clean water? Of course it's a huge problem. Do some research on countries lacking in Human Development and see for yourself their lifespan(45-55).I like clean water and trustworthy health care-both impossible without technology. Industrialization bad?

  • @bruth52 Many of those countries are ex-colonies and overpopulated.

    And yes, it's impossible without industrialization. But you're talking about industrialization as a concept and not industrialization as it is. If we took that energy, and invested it in to clean renewable energy sources from day one, then perhaps we could develop to the level to have modern healthcare.

    Thing is, you've traded those things for our children's future. So, really, who cares what you like?

  • @bruth52 Not to mention, our healthcare is only half good. Many natural/dietary treatments that have been proven most effective are entirely ignored in favor of the pharmaceutical industry.

  • @bruth52 Ya know, this really isn't the point though--point is, post-industrial society can't be sustained. It really can't. So it's not really a matter of what's good or bad--it WILL end and we're already in decline.

  • @bruth52 hey, we got it ourselfs, they can do it to... when shit hits the fan in africa, they all go sit in a white tent camp, and DO NOTHING. i never see em do much of their own, just waiting for us 'rich' western countries to come and help them.

    Maybe send shovels and let them dig their own wells for once.... doubt it'll happen.

    They are nice and cosey waiting in their tent for happy meals to drop from the sky

  • @ShadowMajestic , We got it ourselves? With no help from the french in the civil war? And our efforts are to train them to use the tools we give them. The missions teach them to purify water, how to build a community and how to prosper... to become self sufficient. Not to rely on others! And how many missions have you been on to see these people just sitting in their tents? How many starving men have you seen work themselves to death? You you posted here is an outrage!

  • Wow. This is really good...I'm pleasantly surprised :)

  • If your mind is open, you will be strong.

  • sweatshops has been in my top played playlist for a long time, they got talent how they can turn music into something positive instead of how to slang crack out on the streets and how your so g. check out Atmosphere sort of same idea of something positive

  • the sample used in this track is also used by four tet in his track 'everything is alright', from the album 'pause'.

    it took me so long to work out where I had heard this sample before. man, I'm relieved I found it, 'cus I think if I hadn't my head would have exploded.

    great track by both artists in my opinion. this is the first I've heard of sweatshop union, brilliant lyricism and great track. I will certainly be listening to more from them.

  • Just hoping this is that time sweatshop is talking about...

  • For real hip-hop there shouldn't be a "Dislike button"

  • @dig326553

    r u saying people shouldn't be able 2 not like something?

  • @TheSlappy95 I'm not saying that. Your saying that......cause i'm speaking for the people who listen to real hip-hop

  • @dig326553

    u said there shouldn't be a dislike button lol

  • @TheSlappy95 exactly..... because there shouldn't be one.

  • @dig326553 shit dude...you nailed that. completely agreee.

  • @XhiphopXis4life Thanks bro.... Just thought that i would speak the truth about these and other dope "real" hip hop rappers

  • @dig326553 i like that

  • listen people. this is true music with a purpose. "think about it"

  • thats real music

  • Dear Sweatshop Union, Tell us what you guys think about corrupted police. its only best to open all these fools eyes. Thank you.

  • The Collective!!!

  • WAKE UP PEOPLE - LETS REJOICE AND GET OUT OF THIS SLAVERY CALLED JOBS - SELF SUSTAINING LIFE IS WHERE ITS AT!

    Think about the lyrics..... "Self-sufficiency replaced by clone-copy written seeds,

    Now ask yourself, how can we be free,

    When the water that we drink is owned by some company"

  • Thank YOU for sharing such a beautiful light of Truth!

  • ahh all the best songs on my itunes come from bc

  • sucks bad

  • @spply why does it suck bad? do you prefer lil wayne? are the lyrics to overstanding for you to comprehend, would you rather have them rapping about cars money and sex?

    poor misguided child, Truth can be a scary thing, but in the end it'll set you free. one day youll overstand ;)

    Bless.

  • @autonomousthrace i can't stand lil wayne either but i'd prefer it to this gay whiteboy backpacker bullshit. beat is wack, rhymes are wack. who gives a fuck what they're saying when they sound gay as shit on the mic. maybe one day when you grow up you'll understand. go get back to your hakky sack, faggot

  • @spply lmfao your to funny man. good luck in the struggle fam, ull need it.

  • They rap like Tupac, about real issues in the world

  • his rap is so tight, amazing flow

  • The best most ligit song i have ever heard in my entire life if i had one song to listen to for the rest of my life it would be this one :D

  • Lol guess what. I played b-ball with them

  • I absolutely know what this song is about honestly world peace isn't hard all you have to do is care and love the stranger next to you and honestly if everyone can do that we won't need governments we won't need war fuck but people are so stupid that they can't even realize world peace is just a step away

    but like the song says the thing about it... is that we can't just sing about it

  • @Snowy123 World peace isn't "just a step away". World peace would be nice, and would make the world bettter. But will never be a reality, for the simple fact that people have free will. Meaning people have different opinions, some people will even fight to support their opinions. Which is the way it always will be.