It's always great when a guy whose entire job it is to rhyme words rhymes a word with the exact same word. It shows a wonderful command of the language & verbal creativity.
For me it's 'Something bout the way that Nina Simone piano flow, it's like if Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou and gave it to a sick poet for they antidote, if music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope.' Like yholy fuck what a scheme
@@nyflo718 Why are you mad? Relax my guy. Everyone is just trying to be themselves or figure that shit out. Don't shit on this jam trying to be "cute".
Then you heard Jay.The guys an utter prick.Its ok for him sat in his palace telling peeps how he wouldn't work for min wage when so many folks have no other choice,disrespectful prick.
It's been 20+ years...I will still rep this ish...back when ish was normal...Mos Def, Kanye back in the day doing his beat, Jay-Z on the track talking truth...Talib ( I bought your albums when you and Mos were BLACKSTAR...Busta Rhymes ending with his fire...🔥 🔥
You see, this is real Hip-hop. These are the types of songs that defines the true definition of Hip-hop, not what you hear now. It's a shame what rap has become. Believe me, i am not a hater, just someone who knows what sounds good and what sounds like DO DO.
'Nina Simone, piano flow, it's like a Michealangelo, painted a potrait of Maya Angelou, and gave it to a sick poet, for their antidote, and if music get you choked up, this is the treat and Iwrote - Kayne! Classic!!!!
@@niravvyas4025aba and Mick Jenkins are not lyrically equally to Talib Kweli or Mos Def 😂 they're Better than average and the bar is so low now. Saba, Mick, Kendrick, Cole, Ab-soul Joey Badass are nice tho. Better than what's out now
I'm from the Bronx...I listen to this ...it dint matter where you from we keep holding shit up for our families and for ourselves..keep your dreams to anyone who listening to me... ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
This is that shit that gets you through your worst days & lifts you even higher on good days. So much raw emotion & flows from the legends of East Coast...so legit still in 2021!!
But let’s be honest… when Jay jumped on the remix EVERYBODY was on it just cuz of Jay.. Kanye was nobody yet at the time, the real Kweli fans loved it cuz it brought light to his career. Mos, Busta, Talib, Ye and Jay all has fire verses
Yooooo, I'm crying right now.... I mean the flow from beginning to end is crazy....Jay Z- Naw, I'm a poster for what happen seeing your moms doing five dollars worth of work just to get a dime.... 🤯 most people in the hood can relate to that😭😭😭🤞🏽♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ God bless these Kings!!!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Mos, Jay, Ye, Talib, Busta.....🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Kanye the only dude not from NY but now seeing how he moved makes all sense why he was rapping with a bunch of NY dudes n stood out heavy. Just differeny
I dont think I've ever heard this remix of this song and I love it! Watching Dave Chappelle's Block Party made me wanna listen to the original and here I am enjoying the hell out of this!
This song is legendary, for so many reasons, but one of the more important being that it shows that in hip hop there isn't a solid boundary between underground and mainstream. And Kanye. Kanye is another reason.
track full of legendary MCs and Kayne rips it the hardest. that's why I think he's a legend in his own right, and don't get me started on a lot of his old production. he was once dope rated and that's a fact. the sad truth is times change and some people change with em :/
+Brendan Falls word kanye used to be a genius in my book. im 17 now, but back in these days i would listen to kanyes music and even though i couldnt understand everything he talked about, I could tell it was fucking genius. His music reached the soul you know? Sad that kids these days only gonna hear the yeezus ye'
+Cristian Reyes nah man every youngster getting into hip-hop is recommended kanye's old albums anyway, they're bona fide classics and very accessible... as for yeezus, i love that shit, do you dislike it?
2025 is here, and this classic still got that perfect balance of heat, street , and technique!! Who still listening! Va 434 still locked in post your state!!✌🏾✊🏾
This is the truest epitome of black men in my opinion. There's so many things about the upbringing that is similar and so many things about their view that are similar but at the same time their mindsets can be canyons apart
I had to pause and write this after I heard Kanye say..."if music get you choked up ... this is the tree and the rope..." This is was I call a micdroppable line!!!! Wow. This level of lyrical precision is so underrated and unappreciated in today's world in my opinion. But from some of what I've seen recently I think there's a generation of rappers that are lyrical fundamentals that will bring hip hop back to this level of wordsmith'ing. Thoughts? Share them in a reply.
Some Real !! Some Real Crown Heights , Flatbush , Bushwick , Canarse, East New York and All Brooklyn, New York Black American/ Caribbean ( West Indian ) People Hip -Hop !!!
The Real Brooklyn, New York ( New York City, New York ) Music Hip- Hop ( Rap ) Music!! Happy 50 th Anniversary of Hip Hop ( Rap ) the Original Hip -Hop Rap Music From New York City, New York!!
I use to catch the holy ghost when this by chance and happen stance came on in public l felt all these lyrics/beats rom the souls of my feet to the spirit of my soul !
If there was a hip hop hall of fame....this gotta be the theme song as you're walking thru the gate late,just looking for the master,cover more ground than prime in his prime,it's prime time&the crime was anemic- Nihilis Darkseid
"If music get you choked up / this is the tree and the rope"
Kanye's verse is pure fucking fire
Wonder who wrote it
Kanye is thr goat
@@365Cani ur mom
@@365Cani I wonder who made the beat?
@@wishiwassleeping8382 Kanye West produced this track FYI
This song was influential in keeping my spirit alive during my lonely interstate homelessness of 2021 as a penniless 25-years-old man.
🙏🙏🙏
Bless up brother praying on better things for you
Thumbs up if you still feeling this real hip hop. Balance of heat, street, and technique 2024
Fuck yo 2 months
@@osarioeggleston5478 🤔😕
Always Love
❤🔥Who’s still listening in 2030 🙏❤🔥Just a great song.💯🎖💪🏾🐐
👍🏾
Busta Rhymes could read a phone book and it would be a hit. He's a fucking intuitive musical genius
@@STEPHANIEPadin-yb8mmEverybody loves Busta.
super percussive with it
Right 👍
No it wouldn't
“Good morning Vietnam” is possibly the hardest opening line of a song ever written
And taken from a movie starring Robin Williams.
@ If only Robin Williams lived to segue into rap
Kanye knows to bring his A game with real rappers
One of the illest lines that represents Kanye's drive back then: "This is love or hate it music, but at least we made it music."
Word
It's always great when a guy whose entire job it is to rhyme words rhymes a word with the exact same word. It shows a wonderful command of the language & verbal creativity.
@@mmarco8787 you missed the point
For me it's 'Something bout the way that Nina Simone piano flow, it's like if Michaelangelo painted a portrait of Maya Angelou and gave it to a sick poet for they antidote, if music gets you choked up this is the tree and the rope.' Like yholy fuck what a scheme
Wordddd
this, this is the real hip hop music...
Kanye, Jay-Z, Mos Def, and Kweli - we are not makin' songs no more, we're makin' history!
This comment flop for dissing Trevor
@@gravestone93 It's a literal quote from the song...
@@dylanp552 judging from her picture she don't know she just trying to sound different from a basic bitch that listens to lil baby or whatever
@@nyflo718 Why are you mad? Relax my guy. Everyone is just trying to be themselves or figure that shit out. Don't shit on this jam trying to be "cute".
❤🔥Who’s still listening in 2030 🙏❤🔥Just a great song.💯🎖💪🏾🐐
That piano in the background….exquisite.
“Nina Simone - Sinnerman” for the original version 🔥
Ye the best sampler in the game
Sounds like the piano is layered with a guitar too
One of Kanye's greatest pieces of work
Yup
He is my favorite producer and rapper ever
Mos Def is one of the greatest ever. Extremely under-rated.
Yasiin Bey is the truth!
He Mos DEFinitely is. A King and Legend.
He’s not underrated. Either people have heard his music or they haven’t. When they do, he’s way up there.
Under rated or slept on by fake hip hop heads
I bump Brown Sugar no less than once a week...
Yasin & Talib are timeless.
Blackstar!!!!!!!
This kanye is untouchable
Well illuminati touched him pretty good. They gave him the fame he signed for now he's mad cause he's gotta pay the Piper... 😂😂 I miss the old Ye frfr
1 thousand percent agree. Kanye at his prime.
@@robbylebothaschizophrenia
Jay should've kept that gremlin in the basement.
"If music get you choked up this is the tree and the rope" -Ye 🔥🔥🔥👀
Kanye at his Peak DGAF - and making beats that every MC wants to flow over. He certainly made a killing
Ye is a beast with the bars.
CYHi definitely wrote that for him 😂
I must have scrolled through 100 comments and NOT ONE MENTIONED NINA SIMONE!
She is the musical foundation of this song. I mean, listen to that piano!
.... As she is on so many amazing hip hop tracks 🔥💪🏾 kudos to u for knowing real music my friend
Even Jesus got stoned before receiving the throne, Rest in peace Nina Simone!! Bars..
RIGHT!!!❤❤💯💯💯
Honestly man idk how people don't find the sample more impressive
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can't lie... Just closed my eyes and listened. Bought tear to my eyes. Anthem to the Life of the Black Man. 2020 still getting by... Peace.
❤️👍
Then you heard Jay.The guys an utter prick.Its ok for him sat in his palace telling peeps how he wouldn't work for min wage when so many folks have no other choice,disrespectful prick.
❤🔥Who’s still listening in 2030 🙏❤🔥Just a great song.💯🎖💪🏾🐐
BIG FACTS! Get by homie
@@english1midlands Stop it. Dudes a legend
Another Kanye-Produced piece of perfection
Talib Kweli is so underrated. But the man is beast
This just may be the greatest piece of hip-hop ever created. Just one man's opinion but holy shit this is phenomenal.
Dirty Bert Murgle is a sick name 😝
Not close to the greatest but it's pure Hawaiian flowing lava
Picture of my fav hip-hop mc & producer in one spot. This joint is a thing of beauty.
It's really great
Bold statement. Respect.
One of Kanye hardest beats, One of the best remixes ever made - BUSTA RHYMES - What!!!
It's been 20+ years...I will still rep this ish...back when ish was normal...Mos Def, Kanye back in the day doing his beat, Jay-Z on the track talking truth...Talib ( I bought your albums when you and Mos were BLACKSTAR...Busta Rhymes ending with his fire...🔥 🔥
You see, this is real Hip-hop. These are the types of songs that defines the true definition of Hip-hop, not what you hear now. It's a shame what rap has become. Believe me, i am not a hater, just someone who knows what sounds good and what sounds like DO DO.
About every line on Kanye's verse is quotable! It's literally THAT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!💯💯💯
"We are not making songs no more were making history!" ENOUGH SAID!
Busta Rhymes and Mos Def both have such unique voices...great collaboration
Kanye on Netflix brought me back.
Man!!! This was my child hood.
Damn! I'm old!!!😂
Damn, Jigga throwin' hard Rs up in here.
lol I always wondered why lol
Still amazing after two decades...
'Nina Simone, piano flow, it's like a Michealangelo, painted a potrait of Maya Angelou, and gave it to a sick poet, for their antidote, and if music get you choked up, this is the treat and Iwrote - Kayne! Classic!!!!
aldeb456 *this the tree and a rope
BIG FACTS
@@rdfronheiser good ears bro!!!
*tree and a rope
Correction 'This is the tree and the rope'
Here from Jeen-yuhs ...I forgot how much I loved this song...
Respect to these Kings..so glad I grew up in this era of hip hop
BLESSINGS 🎁🎁🎁🎤🎤🎤💯💯💯
Bianca B, thank you 👸 👑
Well we got saba so 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
@@niravvyas4025aba and Mick Jenkins are not lyrically equally to Talib Kweli or Mos Def 😂 they're Better than average and the bar is so low now.
Saba, Mick, Kendrick, Cole, Ab-soul Joey Badass are nice tho. Better than what's out now
Mos Def is a blessing to hip hop. 👊🏽
"In My Absence You Feel The Presence". 🔥
I'm from the Bronx...I listen to this ...it dint matter where you from we keep holding shit up for our families and for ourselves..keep your dreams to anyone who listening to me... ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
Still one of the dopest collabs of all time.
HOV being on this was incredible. And he ripped it
This is that shit that gets you through your worst days & lifts you even higher on good days. So much raw emotion & flows from the legends of East Coast...so legit still in 2021!!
7/30/2023 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember when this dropped. Every DJ from Kayslay to Clue to Red Alert was broadcasting this jam. Man I am getting old. Brings back memories
What sucks is I'm from a City where this NEVER came on the RADIO....damnnn...
But let’s be honest… when Jay jumped on the remix EVERYBODY was on it just cuz of Jay.. Kanye was nobody yet at the time, the real Kweli fans loved it cuz it brought light to his career. Mos, Busta, Talib, Ye and Jay all has fire verses
Kanye kills this beat. What a legend in the producing scene
'Daaaaaaaark!!!!!!!' Real HIPHOP heads rise -Up! 🙌
This track: every one played their part but Jay-Z is on his level...
Yooooo, I'm crying right now.... I mean the flow from beginning to end is crazy....Jay Z- Naw, I'm a poster for what happen seeing your moms doing five dollars worth of work just to get a dime.... 🤯 most people in the hood can relate to that😭😭😭🤞🏽♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ God bless these Kings!!!!✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Mos, Jay, Ye, Talib, Busta.....🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!!!
Couldn't take my finger off the 'replay' button - damn that was good!
Its funny how money changes everything, They are some of the coldest MCs
Ultimate hip hop in its purest form. This song has everything
Kanye the only dude not from NY but now seeing how he moved makes all sense why he was rapping with a bunch of NY dudes n stood out heavy. Just differeny
Oh thank god i thought you said he was FROM NY!! 🤦♀️ my bad lol
These Youngster 's don't realize what Real HIP HOP is
If this don't give you chills....Everytime!
A strong argument in favour of this being THE greatest advert for hip-hop, I'm really not exaggerating.
Mos Def has that classic grimey 90s type voice 🤌 severely underrated. If Mos had Premier or RZA make all his beats he'd be alot bigger
Def one of Kanye's most underrated beats back when he was in beast mode before Kim came along..
I never get enough of this song
They teach’n and building at the same time..., music the soundtrack of our lives...
bUiLdInG
This track with this lineup is legendary, it was a instant CLASSIC 🔥🔥🔥🔥
i care what no man says. Mos and Thought are the 2 greatest to ever do it.
This is the modern day “Good Times” theme!! Yes yes
Profound
That’s an ultimate mike drop statement...👏🏽
❤🔥Who’s still listening in 2030 🙏❤🔥Just a great song.💯🎖💪🏾🐐
Legends never die. 2023 and still better than most everything out there.
This tune just came into my head from back in the day...and lifted my spirits right up. Real music, real hip hop
need tune like this 2023. bring back these time. brother love sister love.. oneness.. on on far ever burn out vampires energy. free soul music 🎶
Collaborations aren't strong now, not like this. I don't think it was about money back then, it was a battle in the studio.
With love from the motherland. Still one of the best tracks of all time.
I dont think I've ever heard this remix of this song and I love it! Watching Dave Chappelle's Block Party made me wanna listen to the original and here I am enjoying the hell out of this!
This is the first version I ever heard and I've just rediscovered it! This is the best version!
This will never ever get old
Blasting out my work truck , home speaker, job site , Audi Q7 EVERYDAY !!
It is helping me get a by
This a soundtrack to life right now…
Who's here in 2025
In HERE!!!! 🎉
Tune 🙌🏻
I'm here bro
Me.....lived for the day I could sing this hook and it actually be my truth
🙌🏾
I never knew this fantastic song had a remix. Great remix 👍👍
Me neither
This Song is the TRUTH 100% I Miss Real Music Soo Much😢😢
This song got me through sitting in a clinical waiting room, while a quick solution sat outside
Hip Hop is colorblind , The Mic is unbiased , Rhyming is Freedom!!
They used to tell me toughen up, put some bass in your voice
They used to tell me lighten up put some mase in your voice
This song is legendary, for so many reasons, but one of the more important being that it shows that in hip hop there isn't a solid boundary between underground and mainstream.
And Kanye. Kanye is another reason.
track full of legendary MCs and Kayne rips it the hardest. that's why I think he's a legend in his own right, and don't get me started on a lot of his old production. he was once dope rated and that's a fact. the sad truth is times change and some people change with em :/
+Brendan Falls word kanye used to be a genius in my book. im 17 now, but back in these days i would listen to kanyes music and even though i couldnt understand everything he talked about, I could tell it was fucking genius. His music reached the soul you know? Sad that kids these days only gonna hear the yeezus ye'
+Cristian Reyes My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of his greatest albums, and Waves sounds very promising so far
+Cristian Reyes nah man every youngster getting into hip-hop is recommended kanye's old albums anyway, they're bona fide classics and very accessible...
as for yeezus, i love that shit, do you dislike it?
yeah i didnt like yeezus but I agree his older shit was classic. And TLOP was dope
wow kanye really did better than the other but all kill it the track no doubt
2025 is here, and this classic still got that perfect balance of heat, street , and technique!! Who still listening! Va 434 still locked in post your state!!✌🏾✊🏾
Oh. My. God. I thought the album version was great, but this pure, holy fire!🔥🔥🔥
This is the truest epitome of black men in my opinion. There's so many things about the upbringing that is similar and so many things about their view that are similar but at the same time their mindsets can be canyons apart
One of the best hip-hop tracks of all time. Especially the original 💥💫⭐💯💪🏿👏🏿👏🏿💫🌠🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The chorus will put life back into your soul
R.I.P. to real hip hop 🙏
This is insanely fire✊️✊️✊️👍👍👍✌️🤞☝️❣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
One of the best hip-hop songs ever made
It's amazing how adding more talent to the song actually dropped it's quality. Talib's original version was lyrically superior on so many levels
I had to pause and write this after I heard Kanye say..."if music get you choked up ... this is the tree and the rope..." This is was I call a micdroppable line!!!! Wow. This level of lyrical precision is so underrated and unappreciated in today's world in my opinion. But from some of what I've seen recently I think there's a generation of rappers that are lyrical fundamentals that will bring hip hop back to this level of wordsmith'ing. Thoughts? Share them in a reply.
Once she found out I had chicks on my roster, her lip puff up like she allergic to the lobster 🦞
Who, please show me one ☝️
@@ahmedabderaman ok. Will do.
He's an example - ruclips.net/video/IdNxeepSpuk/видео.html
Meeee
Some Real !! Some Real Crown Heights , Flatbush , Bushwick , Canarse, East New York and All Brooklyn, New York Black American/ Caribbean ( West Indian ) People Hip -Hop !!!
The Real Brooklyn, New York ( New York City, New York ) Music Hip- Hop ( Rap ) Music!! Happy 50 th Anniversary of Hip Hop ( Rap ) the Original Hip -Hop Rap Music From New York City, New York!!
I use to catch the holy ghost when this by chance and happen stance came on in public l felt all these lyrics/beats rom the souls of my feet to the spirit of my soul !
If there was a hip hop hall of fame....this gotta be the theme song as you're walking thru the gate late,just looking for the master,cover more ground than prime in his prime,it's prime time&the crime was anemic- Nihilis Darkseid
❤🔥Who’s still listening in 2030 🙏❤🔥Just a great song.💯🎖💪🏾🐐
Fire! Mos, Ye' & Hov go off as always!!!!! this is classic right here.
Hip-Hop!
Corona evenings and this is my medicine 😄
yusuf erdoğan facts lol
Cheers
Absolutely ❤️
Oh yea lol
Aaa! Real hip hop… I swear it makes the blunt hit better!!!!!
I concur, mooooooooooooooost UNDER-RATED MC EVER, Talib Kweli....
Every time I hear this song
It's like the first I ever heard it.
🔥🔥🔥
Got me groove’n in my seat at work. 👑
KANYE got-damn!!!!!!!!!!! CHURCH
got that G.O.O.D Fridays vybe init.
You knew from the start it was going to be heat!
It's a ye beat, so u already know
Classic
The last of Great Calaborations ....❤
Fitty YEARS OF HIP HOP, HIP HOP!! LES GO!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Talib Kweli fan here...dude is amongst the best raw lyricists of all time!!
Hiphop 4 life ❤
Bro this shit is the type of banger I have been waiting on forever it seems like. ClASS sic.
Kanye's Netflix Documentary brought me here. 2/26/2022
Man this album was fire.