The Roots - Dear God 2.0 ft. Monsters Of Folk

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  • Опубликовано: 29 июн 2010
  • Music video by The Roots performing Dear God 2.0. (C) 2010 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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  • @brentdonhauser
    @brentdonhauser 4 года назад +136

    This is what hip hop was intended to be. A message being spread through music. Not the garbage you hear on the radio. The Roots will always be in my rotation.

    • @corylackland8377
      @corylackland8377 3 года назад

      Mine too.✌🏾
      ruclips.net/video/f3a_si4A1vQ/видео.html

    • @bruja212
      @bruja212 Год назад

    • @duArtj
      @duArtj 8 месяцев назад +1

      yes, and leave the video making professionals.

    • @duArtj
      @duArtj 8 месяцев назад

      *to*

    • @DellBot
      @DellBot 4 месяца назад

      Why do old heads always hate anything new, music isn't stagnant.

  • @YOGABEYO
    @YOGABEYO 4 года назад +40

    Back here 10 years later during COVID19 and it’s fallout. Hello old friend

    • @peezyface
      @peezyface 3 года назад +3

      and more relevant than ever ... my fav is "mad marijuana, oxycontin, and kolonopin, everybody out of it ..."

    • @Nick-xc3qh
      @Nick-xc3qh 2 месяца назад +1

      True

  • @aqilakiah-el165
    @aqilakiah-el165 Год назад +31

    He speaking nothing but facts💯🔥🔥🔥🔥He said this over 10 years ago.Now look what's goin on in our world now 🙏😇

    • @MailOrderGamers
      @MailOrderGamers 3 месяца назад +1

      This song will always be relevant because it's timeless. It connects with people on a spiritual level because we've all questioned faith, and evil things have been happening since the dawn of time.

  • @creoleboy911
    @creoleboy911 Год назад +7

    Took me a minute to find this gem on youtube, only line i remember from years ago on BET was "I get off work, right back to work again " classic.

    • @sindisophood4319
      @sindisophood4319 2 месяца назад

      Just to think, this z the line that brought me to this song

  • @rachelzack4479
    @rachelzack4479 10 лет назад +15

    I've been meaning to check out the roots for so long. Boy am I glad I finally did. Unreal..

    • @skipperdabio
      @skipperdabio День назад

      They really are unreal. Very well put. Black thought is the best rapper/writer of all time. Just incredible.

  • @flashcat945
    @flashcat945 8 лет назад +216

    AMAZING!! This is what rap is all about, social consciousness, enlightenment, and great music. It doesn't get better than this! 1Love, Peace

    • @robertbautista5880
      @robertbautista5880 5 лет назад +1

      Flash Cat correct

    • @user-xs1th8yk3h
      @user-xs1th8yk3h 5 лет назад +4

      Nope, this is not what rap is all about. Rap could be about anything.

    • @michielvdvlies3315
      @michielvdvlies3315 4 года назад +5

      @@user-xs1th8yk3h no offence its not personal but this is "my" rap!!! it depends what you want to listen too. where do you want to go, what is life to you! i dont want to hear about mo money and "bitches" all around that's not the reality!!! people want fantasy but reality is what they need!! its good and nice to have dreams but im not sleeping 24/7 ;-)

    • @bwalker5933
      @bwalker5933 4 года назад +2

      No disrespect but this is Hip-hop music not rap... Turn your radio on if you like rap lol. Hip Hop's the roots, tree trunk and rap is an extension of the foundation. Blessings

    • @rh7074
      @rh7074 3 года назад +1

      👏👏💯👆🤛

  • @jp198404
    @jp198404 10 лет назад +19

    every time i work a double shift at my heavy factory job this song plays in my head "i get off work than right back to work again, im probably gonna need to get my head exam" love it.

  • @PLBoogie
    @PLBoogie 8 лет назад +42

    The art of hip hop. This is why I love the culture. True Headz know true hip hop from the riff raff.
    Represent!!!!

  • @lachicasexy84
    @lachicasexy84 13 лет назад +22

    Tears to my eyes as this sound flows through my ears and beat reaches my heart.

  • @Diarmuid-pf8pf
    @Diarmuid-pf8pf 2 года назад +12

    This album was a classic

  • @iAmTonySaint
    @iAmTonySaint 7 лет назад +31

    Such a powerful song, and message.

  • @JDTHEWALKA
    @JDTHEWALKA 8 лет назад +11

    One of my all time favorite hooks/choruses ... Musically genius!

  • @naomid3702
    @naomid3702 4 года назад +57

    "If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?"
    "Weak world economy, stock market toppling."
    These bars relate to this Corona Virus pandemic so damn much right now 😳
    All the lyrics of this song is timeless, most of Black Thought's lyrics are.
    I bet he's having deep thoughts on this pandemic, I hope he shares those lyrics with us.

  • @lukaszepesi
    @lukaszepesi 10 лет назад +103

    Only 1 million views wtf? The Roots make some of the best music out there, but I guess people would rather listen to 2 chainz and Wiz Khalifa telling them about their gold chains and their bitches, because that is so creative. I'm glad that the roots didn't change to make more money, because they could if they wanted to. I've seen them live 3 times and their live performances are so great I'm really glad I got to see them. I don't get the trend in Hip Hop right now that rappers make their lyrics as stupid and bad as possible, it's really not working for me.

    • @JishnuJagajeeve
      @JishnuJagajeeve 10 лет назад

      You said it!

    • @sakogekchyan7366
      @sakogekchyan7366 9 лет назад +2

      Seriously
      I do a bit of emseein myself and I know a good lyricist when I hear one
      I also wrote a verse about the big man upstairs
      There is no Christ but the one who lives inside you
      Gasping for air under the filth that deprives you
      Long is the road on the journey to find the one who
      Brought into being the very things that define you
      Always in space but never in time he can't be defined the father the mother creator of all that is benign
      Some have said that to order his holy name is a crime but Elohim comforts his children the sick and the dying
      The week and the blind not one of us shall be left behind in his eyes every child is precious and one-of-a-kind
      This is a God that many of us have long forgotten
      And the son who dared to stand up to the crooked and rotten"

    • @sakogekchyan7366
      @sakogekchyan7366 9 лет назад

      I apologize if there are any typos,I use voice dictation and it tends to fuck up a lot

    • @toastedjambread
      @toastedjambread 9 лет назад

      Wait till you hear, Coco by O.T. Genesis. All that nigga does is sing about how he is in love with cocaine and selling it like it's a thing to be proud of. That shit has over 44,000,000 views and it's one of the most ignorant songs I have heard and people eat that shit up. I don't know why.

    • @mr.berries4060
      @mr.berries4060 9 лет назад +1

      toastedjambread it's because people are idiots =D

  • @WildfireWiffler44
    @WildfireWiffler44 9 лет назад +182

    Black Thought is hands down the greatest MC of all time and if you disagree, go do your research.

    • @belladsenso
      @belladsenso 9 лет назад +10

      100% true. Philly stand up.

    • @TheAllArounder
      @TheAllArounder 9 лет назад +20

      One of the most underrated lyricists of all time.

    • @Jlhines19821
      @Jlhines19821 9 лет назад +4

      WildfireWiffler44 He's underrated for sure, but GOAT? nah.

    • @WildfireWiffler44
      @WildfireWiffler44 9 лет назад +3

      Jeremy Hines Then who is better?

    • @scrawled_inblack9882
      @scrawled_inblack9882 9 лет назад +3

      +Jeremy Hines NAS IS BETTER.

  • @Blaque2pi
    @Blaque2pi 14 лет назад +7

    Dear God, please don't let this song end!

  • @twiklight
    @twiklight 13 лет назад +3

    The Roots stay true to who they are. How can you not love them.

  • @simplemanGifted
    @simplemanGifted 14 лет назад +11

    "when the sky's the limit, for this high percentage, a second is a minute, every hour is INFINTE." Tariq "BLACK THOUGHT" Trotter

  • @stylez987
    @stylez987 14 лет назад +6

    Man i cannot get enough of this song.... This is real hip hop!!

  • @NavjotGraphicDesign
    @NavjotGraphicDesign 14 лет назад +2

    this is one the best songs ever known to hip hop and it has 172, 634 views! Just goes to show how little people know about REAL music, real hip hop. Hip Hop aint dead, it's just not being supported by the viewers as much as the other mainstream crap. Roots = hip hop at its finest.

  • @gnapsack1459
    @gnapsack1459 3 года назад +7

    technology turnin people into zombies

  • @illthought-real
    @illthought-real 10 лет назад +78

    this is one of them songs you gotta unlike just so you can like it again. big respects.

  • @XXnoblev2XX
    @XXnoblev2XX 11 лет назад +1

    this is real music. old school rap, today Hip hop ain't shit. Just know that

  • @antoniogambardella785
    @antoniogambardella785 2 года назад +6

    timeless classic 🔥💣🎙🔝☝️

  • @Pragueism2
    @Pragueism2 6 лет назад +9

    Holds up and will hold up 100 years from now.

  • @theherbpuffer
    @theherbpuffer 9 лет назад +61

    Hip Hop with a message! How it should be

    • @Nerodz
      @Nerodz 4 года назад

      Yes! If you like this, be sure to check out the late Keith Edward Elam a.k.a. GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal)
      Album: Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality.
      Song: "Looking Through the Darkness"

  • @chadericsneed6610
    @chadericsneed6610 10 лет назад +36

    songs like these are classics people know what is being said in the songs instead of listening to the beat lyrics maters in rap songs we need to keep the movenment alive before mixtape, underground wack music take over credit to the roots.

    • @alexjasso3203
      @alexjasso3203 9 лет назад +1

      Underground wack music the wack music is the mainstream to keep the 85 the same.

    • @yelenarodriguez873
      @yelenarodriguez873 2 года назад

      Too late

  • @GodPolymath
    @GodPolymath 14 лет назад +1

    THE GREATEST UNDERRATED MC EVER!!!...Black Is So Raw With His.

  • @D_Nice_2022
    @D_Nice_2022 6 лет назад +5

    The Roots. Black Thought. My top five rapper/group/musicians foreva.

  • @cjwalk3420
    @cjwalk3420 6 лет назад +12

    Had come back to this in 2018.

  • @dontrush1760
    @dontrush1760 2 года назад +2

    The Roots have always been my spiritual guide in hip hop

  • @chillydotjeff
    @chillydotjeff 14 лет назад +4

    This song REALLY touched my soul. The lyrics remind me of what I often think about.

  • @frankwright2469
    @frankwright2469 10 лет назад +19

    This is the shit that should be iclouded onto devices worldwide..

  • @NaranjaBoy305
    @NaranjaBoy305 4 года назад +14

    Still goes hard in 2020.

    • @corylackland8377
      @corylackland8377 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely.✌🏾
      ruclips.net/video/f3a_si4A1vQ/видео.html

    • @SuperLepraCon
      @SuperLepraCon 3 года назад +2

      Still goes hard in 2021

    • @cool89
      @cool89 2 года назад +4

      Even harder in 2022🙏🏾

    • @y3v1k
      @y3v1k Год назад +2

      It's smacks all over 2023

  • @rhcp00084
    @rhcp00084 7 лет назад +15

    How has this been out for almost 7 years and I'm just now hearing this beautiful song??
    I feel like I've been committing a sin every moment I did not hear this wonderful collaboration.

    • @samn3276
      @samn3276 Год назад

      Listen to the whole album if you haven’t yet! Thank me later (“How I got over”)

  • @newday20111
    @newday20111 7 лет назад +2

    How can this not be one of Hip Hop's greatest songs? Black Thought, hands down pure dope! Like a black prophet, he keeps his ear close to the heart and mind of the street and speakes to those who are awake.

  • @SusanJones-de4mb
    @SusanJones-de4mb 10 лет назад +2

    I was in love with this song when it aired on TV when the album first came out. Dear God was my ring tone for almost two yrs. until my phone broke. I'm just now seeing the video for the first time! Wow ! It puts a whole new twist on how I hear the son now. I love this song ! I love this video !

  • @Vetter07
    @Vetter07 10 лет назад +31

    Real hip hop lives here

  • @EndoFury1
    @EndoFury1 14 лет назад

    I've been playing this song in my car on loop practically. It's refreshing. The song is written from the point of view of someone questioning why they should have faith in an impotent God, just shy of shaking off the last remnants of dogma. In the end, notice that the chorus omits "But God, I know you have your reasons." I take this to mean that there aren't any reasons to know. The truth is that God isn't there. Not only can't he mind read, he doesn't exist. The blind are leading the blind.

  • @718jef
    @718jef 4 года назад +1

    Black Thought, dare I say, is a modern day Marvin Gaye. So much soul while giving an incredibly and depressingly accurate world. g.o.a.t.

  • @experimenteight4550
    @experimenteight4550 7 лет назад +63

    Why does Black Thought's lyrics seem more appropriate to now?

    • @muggledon1
      @muggledon1 6 лет назад +11

      Because there is nothing new under the sun and his lyrics are timeless.

    • @GK-qc5ry
      @GK-qc5ry 5 лет назад +7

      Was relevant were it was released 8 years ago and still is now....like the previous comment said timeless.

    • @drewd6983
      @drewd6983 4 года назад +1

      We talking almost 11 years later

    • @Jerzeejaylive
      @Jerzeejaylive 3 года назад +1

      @@muggledon1 Word up! I was gonna say cause time had to catch up to him.

    • @GMPGMP-jp5ut
      @GMPGMP-jp5ut 3 года назад

      Because The Roots have been way ahead of their time.

  • @arat8508
    @arat8508 3 года назад +4

    god i fucking love tue drums on this

  • @IndependenttRecords
    @IndependenttRecords 11 лет назад

    really appreciated reading that comment. good to see more open minded people out there listening to more than just a catchy beat. But what is being said as well. Cheers!

  • @ralph1881
    @ralph1881 7 месяцев назад +1

    Dopest BAND EVER...annnd HIP HOP LEGENDS...top 5 for me NO DOUBT. The Roots are Timeless.

  • @Nerodz
    @Nerodz 4 года назад +5

    The Roots album this tune originates from, "How I Got Over", is AMAZING. A must-listen before you die. Your life before listening... &Your altered life after listening. The entire album is this good.

    • @samn3276
      @samn3276 Год назад

      Big Facts! I’m trying to tell anyone listening! Truly flawless album

  • @onenonlynino
    @onenonlynino 5 лет назад +4

    I swear I gotta hear this a couple times a month 💯✊🏿🔥

  • @GMPGMP-jp5ut
    @GMPGMP-jp5ut 3 года назад +1

    The Roots are one of the best groups ever, their entire catalog is legit. I've seen them live a few times back in the 90's and early 2000's, they were amazing. I've been listening to their albums all weekend.

  • @michaelhinton2738
    @michaelhinton2738 Год назад +2

    2023 and black thought is the best emcee alive

  • @user-rh5bd6yt9b
    @user-rh5bd6yt9b 10 лет назад +5

    There is a chilling vibe that's strangely alluring within this video something ancestral?.!!!

  • @JScruggs94
    @JScruggs94 9 лет назад +11

    I can't believe I'm just now finding out that Jim James was on a Roots song!

  • @WizzillWill
    @WizzillWill 11 лет назад +1

    How I got Over is one of the gratest classic hip hop albums ever. Timeless music.

  • @premediesel
    @premediesel 14 лет назад +2

    this song reminds me of why i fell in love with hiphop when I was a kid. this is real.

  • @Fevhar
    @Fevhar 3 года назад +3

    I’ve always loved this record....

  • @marcos_rosa
    @marcos_rosa 5 лет назад +4

    pure masterpiece song

  • @zuko3771
    @zuko3771 10 месяцев назад

    It's 2023, 4am and I woke up with this song playing on my head, Black thought is the greatest mc to ever touch the Mic, they really do make timeless records

  • @kidchrist35
    @kidchrist35 11 лет назад

    Amen, tired of ppl talking about hip hop being dead when there are still groups making real shit- all we can do is support it as much as possible. Radio is what it is, and u couldn't ever find hip hop there, not in the old school, not in the new.

  • @hellololita89
    @hellololita89 10 лет назад +18

    This song is so deep it hurts!

    • @deeughfolte5770
      @deeughfolte5770 6 лет назад +1

      Nat B. Pain is just a monetary sensation of new neurological connections taking hold. What you are describing is Black Thought literally changing the very making of your brain with his poetic and prophetic words. First time I consciously and fully realized that this was happening, I was listening to Tupac...
      He said "Plus this alcohol increases the chance to be deceased
      I'm movin you stupid b****es, vicious telekinesis
      Am I reachin your brain?
      N**** how can I explain?" - From, "No more pain - All eyez on me".
      Hip Hop is more powerful than most realize, look around you. Look at what it has done to reality with just passion, poetry, love, hate, truth... It really is everything that encompasses life. This is not a far fetched exaggeration...
      Embrace the pain, it's growth. Be blessed. No! More Pain! 😉

  • @daedae647
    @daedae647 12 лет назад +3

    Now this is True to the core....Real music...Hip hop is not dead!!!!!

  • @ashleyiverson8478
    @ashleyiverson8478 3 месяца назад +2

    The lyrics still holding up in 2024

  • @jiggyjazzman
    @jiggyjazzman 13 лет назад

    Not a coincidence the cross section of people who get in the cab. The ending is tough. Very well done. This is why I've been a fan of these guys since 1994.

  • @cool89
    @cool89 9 лет назад +30

    Realest track ever, I know atheist wont agree but God still loves u hahaa legendary track right here

    • @lukaszepesi
      @lukaszepesi 8 лет назад +12

      +cool89 I'm a atheist but I can still enjoy music with religious content, like DMX - Lord Give me a sign or Yelawolf ft. Eminem - Best Friend etc. I still appreciate a good song even if I don't think God exists. And I don't think this song is just about God it's about society and where we're headed. If you don't believe in God you can still think that things are headed in the wrong direction and try to change them or at least live your life differently.

    • @GabrielLopez-pi4xs
      @GabrielLopez-pi4xs 6 лет назад +2

      You don't need someone who loves you,
      When you love yourself.
      Btw This Track is more then legendary

    • @raphealsmith8305
      @raphealsmith8305 4 года назад +2

      True dat. Only god that loves us is a bad god,atheist me too.

    • @cool89
      @cool89 4 года назад +1

      To my atheist friends, be honest with yourselves and ask why you truly don't believe in God, and if after researching the history of God and why you have been programmed to not believe thru the media, government and catholic church ironically enough ask the good lord to reveal himself to you with an open mind and heart, in the mean time I will pray for you guys because the deception from the truth is real and only by following Yahshua aka God's son can you be saved, God bless you all 💯🙏🏽

    • @notsure5876
      @notsure5876 3 года назад

      lukaszepesi solid comment ✊🏽

  • @SubzeroWeather
    @SubzeroWeather 6 лет назад +5

    Legendary song by a legendary band.

  • @Ginga
    @Ginga 14 лет назад +2

    Another great song from The Roots. Few rappers can make you stop and listen the way Thought does. Love the video too.

  • @YouHEARTDee
    @YouHEARTDee 12 лет назад +2

    This song ain't nothing but the TRUTH !

  • @Vinladen82
    @Vinladen82 7 лет назад +4

    I get off work and right back to work again!! Lord forgive me for my short comings!!! B. Thought one of the illest

  • @thebloggertribune
    @thebloggertribune 13 лет назад +3

    So deep lyrically it give me the chills...and the video perfectly captures such sadness in the world. LOVE THE ROOTS!!

  • @BigMeeks512
    @BigMeeks512 13 лет назад +1

    The Roots is True Hip Hop To The CORE!
    Black Thought The Most Underrated,its Sad

  • @jevinday
    @jevinday Год назад +1

    ...so I'm just finding out that this track exists. I'm kind of mad at y'all for not telling me. This is incredible. Jim James in the back of the cab like a BOSS

  • @americanslime
    @americanslime 9 лет назад +14

    Holy shit, I could have sworn they were doing kind of a dramatization of Ferguson, until I remembered this was from 2009. So many eery parallels.

  • @DaGrymReefer
    @DaGrymReefer 5 лет назад +4

    So real it hurts. Still listening in 2019.

  • @speednwargo
    @speednwargo 2 года назад +2

    This song never gets old

  • @PauletaPorreta
    @PauletaPorreta 9 лет назад +6

    So powerful...

  • @MeghanMcDonald
    @MeghanMcDonald 7 лет назад +5

    SOOO GOOOOOODD THANK GOD FOR ART

  • @VisionoftheGods
    @VisionoftheGods 14 лет назад +1

    Best Album I've Heard In A Long Long Time.

  • @ItsMonsterWorldd
    @ItsMonsterWorldd 13 лет назад

    All praises are due to God, lord of the worlds. Please forget my sins and wrong doings. Amine.

  • @zungu19812
    @zungu19812 8 лет назад +3

    this pulls at the heart like guitar strings

  • @Califormula
    @Califormula 9 лет назад +6

    This is. . .good music!

  • @BlackBoxThirst333
    @BlackBoxThirst333 13 лет назад

    I don't know whats better, the song or the video... CLASSIC song, CLASSIC video, CLASSIC album. Black Thought is THAT dude.

  • @sahirsarica
    @sahirsarica 10 лет назад +1

    One of the greatest songs ever

  • @Skeptik-pe6ze
    @Skeptik-pe6ze 4 года назад +3

    I cant get this chorus out my head 2019

  • @johnpineau9226
    @johnpineau9226 8 лет назад +14

    Such an amazing song, even if you don't believe in anything greater... and the video compliments the song well... wish there was more of this and less of the stupid shit we hear on the radio.

  • @ImamuLives
    @ImamuLives 14 лет назад

    knock knock do u hear da screams behind da door sayin please let me in please let me in Lord but he turns to n say i dnt kno u n shuts da door in ur face n da person turns around n sees da remaining of our human race see we get side track of wat we really want in stead of wat we really need i understand everyone wants to achieve but da real thing we need to start doin is believe in He-Jus J

  • @godsbutterflys
    @godsbutterflys 8 лет назад +1

    I didn't think that there was Anybody out there who Really UNDERSTOOD what was/is going on. God Bless

  • @EliJahFedgo4tr
    @EliJahFedgo4tr 10 лет назад +9

    So REAL

  • @tmh2k5
    @tmh2k5 10 лет назад +11

    I don't believe in a God, but god I love this song

  • @chaosinorderrr
    @chaosinorderrr 12 лет назад +1

    Black Thought is a poet. One of the most underrated emcees ever.

  • @qlintdwayne9044
    @qlintdwayne9044 4 года назад +2

    Listen, I connect spiritually with this jam

  • @Seeuinoz
    @Seeuinoz 9 лет назад +6

    Jim James

  • @Longfellow12
    @Longfellow12 4 года назад +15

    Who's here cos of this corona virus

  • @JackBNimbleify
    @JackBNimbleify 13 лет назад

    Two completely different groups coming together for one song. But all the musicians involved are talented, so it works.

  • @Ford_animates
    @Ford_animates 14 лет назад +1

    One of the BEST albums of their career.
    Looking foward to seeing this album still kicking 20 years from now.
    It's that good

  • @zaidabueisa5285
    @zaidabueisa5285 4 года назад +3

    2020-Covid-19

  • @Peeps86
    @Peeps86 8 лет назад +24

    Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?

    • @ulicesvalle8735
      @ulicesvalle8735 7 лет назад +3

      Peeps001 he made man in his image not the world

    • @Kianmp
      @Kianmp 7 лет назад +8

      Peeps001 He gave people a free will, so god got nothing to do with that shit. The people are fucking this world up.

    • @SolidSnake240
      @SolidSnake240 7 лет назад +2

      Kian Fidder but he had to know what giving man free will would do so what's the point of all this shit

    • @Kianmp
      @Kianmp 7 лет назад

      Ryu Hyabusa You don't want to live in a country with a dictator neither, don't you?

    • @certainlyjoel7778
      @certainlyjoel7778 7 лет назад +1

      Peeps001 The Bible says that Humans are made in God's image, not the world man and because Adam sinned we are now shaped into sin from birth.

  • @ramokatilentobaki9737
    @ramokatilentobaki9737 5 лет назад +2

    the roots always kept it real ...gotta respect this crew

  • @MrKazoozles
    @MrKazoozles 14 лет назад +1

    His first verse needs to be plastered on every corner of the world. Really, really powerful stuff.

  • @josuedelatorre35
    @josuedelatorre35 8 лет назад +3

    I've had trouble believing in God, even though my whole family is Christian. I want to believe there's a God looking out for me, but where's the facts that one exists or could exist?

    • @hugothepoet
      @hugothepoet 8 лет назад +9

      +Josue De La Torre It depends what you mean by God. If you mean like what is described in the religious texts of the Abrahamic religions - an omnipotent, omniscient, interventionist, anthropomorphic deity separate from the universe itself - I'm afraid there is no evidence whatsoever for this, and no decent reason yet to believe one exists. So if you really 'want to believe' in one, you will need what religious people call 'faith' - maintaining a non-rational belief, in spite of lack of evidence/ evidence to the contrary.
      On the other hand, if you consider the word 'God' to describe an immanent phenomenon, that encompasses all life and matter in the universe, and is basically a synonym for Life or All That Is, including you yourself, well, look around and look at yourself - your consciousness perceiving this universe is all the evidence needed for this belief.
      But be aware, this type of 'God' is not 'looking out for you' - that's your job, and the job of your friends and family, who should love you enough not to feed you comforting (for some), but ultimately deluded stories about a God who will. You are responsible for yourself, and also for existing in harmony with the rest of the cosmos, which taken together, can be considered 'God'. Enjoy, God!

    • @KBZB09
      @KBZB09 8 лет назад +3

      God is there he always has been but he won't force his way into your life only people for there beliefs on others about Him.
      As a Christian we always go through a point when we ask our selves the same questions you are asking. Just try him for yourself. don't listen to what others say. Build a relationship not a religion. Always ask questions and you will find the answers will come to you in the most amazing ways. God Bless

    • @Jrolling94
      @Jrolling94 8 лет назад

      It's called Apologetics The study of finding reasons to believe in God!

    • @FabioRibeiro22
      @FabioRibeiro22 8 лет назад

      +Josue De La Torre It's all about Faith. Sometimes a blind man have more faith in God than a doctor.

    • @Jrolling94
      @Jrolling94 8 лет назад

      Fabio Ribeiro It's called apologetics, the reason for faith.

  • @eclint
    @eclint 9 лет назад +3

    Gotta love the Roots and the timely messages they transcend. I wonder why they film most of their gritty type vids here in NYC and not Philly. It is a shame they are a part of the mainstream by doing that silly Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I mean they paid their dues and should be on everyone's list; but the childlike, sophomoric humor kinda makes them look bad. They engage in so well that they could loose their street cred. But then again I am on the fence to agree with why they were selected to be the band to lead such a legendary show.

    • @celtixfan111
      @celtixfan111 9 лет назад +1

      eclint first you call it a silly show, then you call it a legendary show.. so which one is it

    • @eclint
      @eclint 9 лет назад

      it is only legendary b'cuz of the history of The Tonight Show. But now it caters to a mindless generation.

    • @celtixfan111
      @celtixfan111 9 лет назад

      that's a pretty negative and pessimistic view... "a mindless generation"... very harsh. Jimmy's hilarious and he makes people laugh so I don't understand what could be bad about that

    • @Dookie926
      @Dookie926 9 лет назад +3

      eclint The roots could care less about "street cred"

  • @TakeABowAlaEncore
    @TakeABowAlaEncore 13 лет назад

    XTC '80's MTV - Classic - Redone & certainly modernized. Brought a tear to my eye... & I know - Big Boys Don't Cry... Love it. Keep the Great Music Coming.

  • @DaBadGuyCR
    @DaBadGuyCR 13 лет назад

    Dear God, I'm trying hard to reach you
    Dear God, I see your face in all I do
    Sometimes, it's so hard to believe it...
    But God, I know you have your reasons
    LOVE THIS SONG!

  • @spider19728
    @spider19728 12 лет назад +1

    I loved this track before I watched the video...now I love it even more!!!