This song breaks my heart. My ancestors went through that pain and suffering. Brought tears to my eyes. That’s the most realest saddest song I ever heard in my life.
@@jqcbie2018 Just imagine I live in whatever part of Mississippi where you can still find ropes hanging from trees if you walk too far into the forest.
My cousin was killed he was tied too a cotton machine and thrown down too the deep deep river and couldn't breath all because he tried too be nice and kiss a young ladies hand and she helped him with something and he was only😢😖
this song brought tears to my eyes , I can’t believe so many black people were hung and killed for being a person of color . So many innocent people || don’t say no insensitive stuff if u coming from tiktok
when you start breaking down kanye's music for people and who he samples and why he chooses certain lyrics.. and people start to realize kanye deserves more credit for his music.
@@rowdysnook5754 my nephew was born in the wrong era, he be trapping and shit...so I sat him down and broke down hip hop for him. Kanye is on his playlists now
Strange Fruit" Southern trees Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the roots Black bodies Swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Them big bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia Clean and fresh Then the sudden smell Of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the leaves to drop Here is Strange and bitter crop
Billie Holiday -> Nina Simone -> Kanye -> yungchris This just shows how amazing music is and the unlimited amount of possibilities for new sound Ppl think I’m ranking these artist. I was jus tryna say the order that these songs were made and sampled
In her words lie the map to our sad history, in the melody sounds the pain of lives lost, in the pain lies the truth, in the pain there we lie, left to hang back then, still being hung today. Blood on the leaves then, Blood on the streets now. The scent of gunpowder in the air as bullets dissect the body of an innocent boy, the taste of injustice as his killer escapes untouched, his soul leaves his body as God looks down and weeps, a mother is left to face this cold world, another black life joins the angels in the sky. Another strange fruit paying the price for seeds sown by force and watered by hate. "I can't breathe" a man utters, as he looks death in the eye and can only imagine the pain he will leave behind as his neck is strangled by deep rooted hate for a colour he did not choose, his six kids flash before his eyes as he begs for air to breathe, but they care not for fruits they do not need, stepped on and trampled as if there is no worthy soul in his vessel, a man takes his last breathe as the world watches, injustice committed in plain daylight, unfortunately he's a few shades too dark for lady liberty to care. "I can't breathe" no "we can't breathe" they want to choke us all out, but this time the world wouldn't allow ropes, so they use their hands and aim at us tools that take life and cause pain, all while playing images on the screen that make the world think we deserve it. Blood flows as anger grows, for you see the seeds you sowed and watered with hate, violence, rape, slavery, has now grown into a tree itself. We will have no more...no more fruits will be hung from your trees, for now we have a voice and we will be heard, change will come.
this is the song i was looking for! people are making trends and dances to it like its a happy thing. it’s disgusting that people will think its okay, and the fact that people gatekeep it aswell..
@Trinity I know the situation, and when he apologized and said he wouldnt release the song he did it anyway because he still got backlash after apologizing, that's what I call petty.
I've been listening to this song ever since I saw the documentary of Emmett Till, and it still reminds me of him... His appearance.... His innocence.... I feel like the song basically described his ending-story...
@@dr.r1skt4k3r bruh you’re stupid, she literally expiranced slavery and lynching and still was alive in the 2000s. It’s not that long ago that slavery was at its peak. Educate yourself
Nina was a deep soul sista thru her music & soul especially when she wrote (To Be young Gifted & Black) I remember learning & singing that in grade school & us children really sang it hard & loud thank you Queen Nina for the music from your soul R.I.Paradise with the Ancestors one love
Ive heard Kanye's "Blood on the Leaves" so many times that this gives me goosebumps everytime I listen and I can hearit's lyrics in my head and even drop a tear... Kanye is such a genius, some people don't like him because they are too ignorant to even understand him, and being eccentric is the only way to be heard for him
Wow. Heard Kanye's Blood on the Leaves before this. This is so much more powerful. This speaks to the true sorrow, and pain inflicted on innocents. This gave me chills throughout the song. Beautiful, powerful and devastating at the same time.
Hurts my heart that people are making dances to this song that was meant for my black brothers and sisters. R.I.P to the black ancestors that had to go through this. ♥️
This song makes me cry like a baby but I love it because it makes me feel. It motivates me to work harder when I imagine the bodies swinging from the tree branches.
My body hurts listening to this , I just feel my insides rumbling 😰Jesus this shit is real man but all we care about is jewelry, rap etc it’s over with for us but we can’t surrender
R.i.p to all our ancestors who were tortured. Thank you all who fought for our freedom and rights to be equal tho we still fight to be seen as equal till this Day
@@mileshayter7440 Depressing is an emotion and an adjective and reality is what youre in now. That was a depressing reality, black ancestors werent jumping up and down cheering because theyre brothers and sisters got lynched. It is depressing....
this song is so unsettling because it had such a big meaning behind it. the way some of our own ancestors have went through this just makes my stomach turn. there’s so much pain and meaning behind the lyrics.
This has to be the most sad song in the world. I've heard the original version by Billie Holiday (and others), but this one tops it (all). I'm not personally related to the topic, being a white (caucasian) European, but from the first seconds on I have to cry. Cry. So sad. This song …
The original was made by a white european who lived in new york it was initially a poem. Even someone not attached to those experiences saw and felt their agony and wrote one of the darkest poems ever
Southern trees Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the roots Black bodies Swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Them big bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia Clean and fresh Then the sudden smell Of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the leaves to drop Here is Strange and bitter crop
@@butterballshorts2994 I’m not 100% but how I interpreted it was like how an apple hangs from a tree well instead of an apple it’s a human.. that’s a strange fruit. Just like forbidden fruit is a metaphor for a women’s lady bits
I don't care whose version is better, the lyrics in this song always brings rage and tears to my eyes. This should be the loudest song in every public venue known
@@tyronegibbins913 no it’s disrespectful. Thai song is about the lynching of black people in the south. The people who sang songs like these who harassed and sometimes assassinated by the FBI. Look up Billie Holiday. It’s very disrespectful to rap about fucking women and killing folks while sampling a song about the killing of innocent black people in the south. Tbh I really didn’t care about it cuz that shit was 🔥 🥵
i love nina simone im kind of dissappointed that i never heard this song and kanye had to be the one who showed me this song no disrespect to kanye because he knows good music and sample material but i should of known about this song before he showed me :(
That shows how deep songs and other accounts of truth have been buried if it takes new leaders and musicians from whole other eras and generations to wake us up
@@avawilbon1314 I know bro and god bless them all, I’m just really focused on America right now , this stolen land filled with stolen ppl (us coloreds) and bamboozled into turning on each other it’s fuccn mind blowing 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
@Dead Lyf3 bro if you don't think the black community is suffering in different ways then you're choosing to be ignorant. You don't need a chain or lashings to be a slave Anymore.
I feel terrible, knowing that so many people where killed for no reason, just because they were viewed differently, it makes me sick to know that this truly happened in history, life isn't fair
I mean respect to kanye for having a good ear and taste using this as a sample but its crazy how many comments are about his genuis while listening to this track. You are literally listening to nina simone possibly the most and definitely one of the most incredible female African American artists of all time doing a beautiful rendition of billie holidays incrediby deep and moving song "strange fruits"...yet most the comments i see are about kanye, it just doesnt make sense to me. I dont want to bag on your taste in music and im not saying the song kanye sampled this into was bad by any means, but if you truly believe its an improvement on either this version or the original you may just need your head checked.
Seriously, there’s so much disrespect to the original artist by bringing up Kanye. I love yeezy but he has nothing to do with this song, he just sampled it. People gotta give her more credit
@@menacetosociety6401 pretty sure people do care, racism is still a huge part of society. And this a woman singing about the injustices her people have gone through, history is important loser. I don’t have a option on the Chris version but don’t say people don’t care when this has major history embedded into.
love it so much - incredible she got all this from holiday. i love west but can't believe he sampled a song about lynches in such a selfish way! so so good
Lol really hahaha maybe bc he's a black man growing on America, segregation still echoes through America, it's their history, their culture, their struggle
If I'm not mistaking, one of Kanye's parents was a black panther. So I'm sure the conversation and exposure to this type music was normal for him. His mom was very intellectual if that helps..
Theres actually a spot in the pine barrens in new jersey where there was said to be lynching all the way up until the 1930's and if you sit there even during the day if you sit completely quite you can hear screaming and only one tree will sway in the wind its pretty crazy
The fact that Kanye West used this song to make a parody, but never said a thing about historical context of this song. This song is horrific and powerful.
The fact that anyone thinks anyone is less than human because of their skin tone is disgusting. I’m still trying to figure out why people were so stupid back then…
The high pitch screech in the background is actually the sample of the original song by Nina Simone also called “Blood on the Leaves”.. its basically a call back
A song that speaks true to black pain. And like clockwork there are those who appear to degrade and undermine thinking they know something we don't. Yet we still keep on
@@ryanreed8120 I got a bad azz bih in the crib (but we understand the essence of the song. And we must respect this powerful black woman and here strength to speak on this where others would hold their tongue)
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This song gives me chills..
cause she kept it real. And it hits hard because it's still very relevant.
18HazelMan Real talk this song gave me chills
Same 🥀🥀💔💔
18HazelMan me too
18HazelMan same
How does Kanye discover this shit
This song breaks my heart. My ancestors went through that pain and suffering. Brought tears to my eyes. That’s the most realest saddest song I ever heard in my life.
Spaghetti
She has a beautiful voice. But a haunting song.
It haunts me how disgusting everything was and is.
I’m so sorry for how your ancestors were treated. 🖤
@@ashleytel6621 Not for me.
@@sexoffenderpete939 what’s not for you
@@sexoffenderpete939 I didn’t see your last message I’m sorry. I mean I’m sorry how all blacks (African Americans) were treated. It’s horrible. 🖤
This hits different when you live in Mississippi and suddenly feel the true weight of the song.
I actually shed a tear.
Damn … but what part of Mississippi
@@jqcbie2018 Just imagine I live in whatever part of Mississippi where you can still find ropes hanging from trees if you walk too far into the forest.
@@Monomogames wait so you found a body before…
@@jqcbie2018 nah, just old ropes. If I found a body anywhere and haven't reported it to anyone, then I definitely wouldn't be here talking about it.
My cousin was killed he was tied too a cotton machine and thrown down too the deep deep river and couldn't breath all because he tried too be nice and kiss a young ladies hand and she helped him with something and he was only😢😖
this song brought tears to my eyes , I can’t believe so many black people were hung and killed for being a person of color . So many innocent people || don’t say no insensitive stuff if u coming from tiktok
So sad how we kill eachother
and the fact that they made this song a trend on tik tok 😒
@@desiree8152 fr
@UC0apEHsjOkvfgJrFViwk7pQ aye do me a favor shut yo a$$ up 😹😹
@@kanyhepalmersimmonds516 The government wants all that to happen just like they could care less for you .
the fact that I know MY ancestors actually went thru this brings tears to my eyes
Antwuan Smith you are a Israelite that the Bible speaks of then
TSupraLano lol stop
Shut up
Antwuan Smith everyone’s ancestors been through it
Def Operator wrong
when you start breaking down kanye's music for people and who he samples and why he chooses certain lyrics.. and people start to realize kanye deserves more credit for his music.
Exactly what I'm doing for my little brother right now.
Exactly
@@rowdysnook5754 my nephew was born in the wrong era, he be trapping and shit...so I sat him down and broke down hip hop for him. Kanye is on his playlists now
@@bongumusamwandla3165 thank you
Mahboi got 21 Grammies.... I think he got plenty credit for his legend status
whos here after chris not wantin to drop his snippet 😭
me i never knew that was what the song was abt😳
Honestly this song kinda sad
LMAOOOO I’m lowkey hurt he ain’t dropping it
@@monicabahdoo8869 when i say tears was in tears 💀
pause he’s not dropping it ?
This song is basically about how black people were hung and it’s so sad rip to our ancestors who did no harm 😞
now some dumbass is releasing some weird rap cover. He apologized, but now he’s dropping becausee he got his account banned. so racist.
@@luq146 he’s racist for using another black womens. Song as a sample? You sound dumb & soft asf😂😂
@@LiveTrickyy DO YOU EVEN KNOW TJE FUCKING MEANING YOU BOZO
@@luq146 yes and he’s not racist for sampling it calm down you fucking soft ass snow flake😂
@@luq146 he’s black tf?? and the songs fire it’s just a sample y’all need to chill
Strange Fruit"
Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'
From the poplar trees
Pastoral scene
Of the gallant south
Them big bulging eyes
And the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia
Clean and fresh
Then the sudden smell
Of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the leaves to drop
Here is
Strange and bitter crop
Haunting
Nermin Abbasli
RIP Ryuzaki
Nailed it
Nermin Abbasli thanks
so much pain in the lyrics
So true
Ong
@@Web497 don’t use God’s name like that bro
@@word2madukes
Godamn
@@ClodnerPierre1 goddamn
Billie Holiday -> Nina Simone -> Kanye -> yungchris
This just shows how amazing music is and the unlimited amount of possibilities for new sound
Ppl think I’m ranking these artist. I was jus tryna say the order that these songs were made and sampled
Yung Chris need to drop his song
I got a m16 on my body I tell that lil nigga to FREEZE
@@tigergokrazy9877 he’s probably working on ownership with the sample rn
nah yung chris solos all these niggas if you disagree your just lying
@@satasaintt You’re dumb the person wasn’t ranking them, just showing how the sample was passed down.
This song genuinely makes my spine tingle, absolutely hypnotic.
Na like Fr you Right tho this song lowkey gives me absolute chills
Omm dis shii weird asf.
@@braylangreen6591 deadass it gives me chill
It’s terrifying and heartbreaking
Bro this woman got killed soon as this song came out
I absolutely LOVE Nina Simone. May she rest in peace
I love her too I wish I could meet her, but RIP Nina❤️
She wrote this song about killing black people bruh.
@@dhizzle5856 she wrote the song about black people being killed*
@@wuspoppinjimbo9865 same thing
D Hizzle it’s not like it’s racist she’s just singing what black ppl have been thru it’s not like she’s saying she’s gonna do it
In her words lie the map to our sad history, in the melody sounds the pain of lives lost, in the pain lies the truth, in the pain there we lie, left to hang back then, still being hung today. Blood on the leaves then, Blood on the streets now.
The scent of gunpowder in the air as bullets dissect the body of an innocent boy, the taste of injustice as his killer escapes untouched, his soul leaves his body as God looks down and weeps, a mother is left to face this cold world, another black life joins the angels in the sky. Another strange fruit paying the price for seeds sown by force and watered by hate.
"I can't breathe" a man utters, as he looks death in the eye and can only imagine the pain he will leave behind as his neck is strangled by deep rooted hate for a colour he did not choose, his six kids flash before his eyes as he begs for air to breathe, but they care not for fruits they do not need, stepped on and trampled as if there is no worthy soul in his vessel, a man takes his last breathe as the world watches, injustice committed in plain daylight, unfortunately he's a few shades too dark for lady liberty to care. "I can't breathe" no "we can't breathe" they want to choke us all out, but this time the world wouldn't allow ropes, so they use their hands and aim at us tools that take life and cause pain, all while playing images on the screen that make the world think we deserve it. Blood flows as anger grows, for you see the seeds you sowed and watered with hate, violence, rape, slavery, has now grown into a tree itself. We will have no more...no more fruits will be hung from your trees, for now we have a voice and we will be heard, change will come.
beautifully said.
That was beautiful
Change has come. You do realise that right ?
@@duncanalastairgeddie2418 no?
Beautiful
this is the song i was looking for! people are making trends and dances to it like its a happy thing. it’s disgusting that people will think its okay, and the fact that people gatekeep it aswell..
Ygng Chris didn't know the meaning behind the song
@@zontszn Listen to the lyrics...
@@うちはマダラ-y4x we know, Chris didn't know.
@Trinity I know the situation, and when he apologized and said he wouldnt release the song he did it anyway because he still got backlash after apologizing, that's what I call petty.
L
This song is dark but feels weirdly nostalgic.
Right
Cap
Kanye west
@Trinity what song
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
Half of y'all don't even know what she saying. Deep deep lyrics RIP all of our BLACK ANCESTORS
😢😑😠✊
Its really not that deep, its pretty easy to understand
bro she said black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, we know
Lol yeah your such a deep thinker
Lol exactly
yvngchris and Ye murked this shit. Nina blessed the original vocals with pure plight and pain, turned beautiful poetry.
Billie Holiday***
Yeah let's talk about murdering people using a sample about literal black lynchings
@@PretendMushroom me and you both know he didn’t intend to talk about that
@@PretendMushroom 😐
@@PretendMushroom he didn’t even talk about this subject
I've been listening to this song ever since I saw the documentary of Emmett Till, and it still reminds me of him... His appearance.... His innocence.... I feel like the song basically described his ending-story...
I hope I ain’t the only one who gets scared of this song cause of the real terrifying things that are true she is speaking about
Same bro
I’m petrified
I think it’s funny
Lol it was scary when i first heard this song and seen photos of black people hanging from trees when I was 8/9
@@sierra8309 I was laughing lol
This song makes me cry everytime, so deep.
Nut on the leaf, bitch I been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil * to creeeeaaam
@@truthplaguer2196 why man
@@truthplaguer2196 you arent funny
@@truthplaguer2196 yvngxchris better
the backstory to this song is so heartbreaking, and the fact that it wasn’t even that long ago and she died in 2003 makes it sadder💔
Dat’s hella long it’s 2021😐
@@dr.r1skt4k3r bruh you’re stupid, she literally expiranced slavery and lynching and still was alive in the 2000s. It’s not that long ago that slavery was at its peak. Educate yourself
@@tecumsehzacateco8798 gues who cares. Yu not me. Educate yurself and leave me alone😁
@drxco. definitely not 15
Thanks fa likin my comment tho 😝😝😝
this songs scares me… this really happened to our ancestors
Yeah i feel so bad
yup and it’s still going on. 😔
Why can’t us black ppl never get what we deserve 😭😭
L
@@mosestha1104 stfu ur racist
Wow an amazing interpretation of an amazing and powerful song. The incomparable Nina Simone!
When her voice strained at 2:26 it gave me chills
You could tell she was so nervous
Nerves or passion?
Vibrato actually @@jkhv16
Nina was a deep soul sista thru her music & soul especially when she wrote
(To Be young Gifted & Black)
I remember learning & singing that in grade school & us children really sang it hard & loud thank you Queen Nina for the music from your soul R.I.Paradise with the Ancestors one love
This was originally a Billie holiday song
Give respect the original woman who made this song and died because of it! Say thank you to billie holiday for making this masterpiece.
@@ryanshields5904 abel merropol actually
@@noahforty4227he wrote it. He didn’t sing it.
Ive heard Kanye's "Blood on the Leaves" so many times that this gives me goosebumps everytime I listen and I can hearit's lyrics in my head and even drop a tear... Kanye is such a genius, some people don't like him because they are too ignorant to even understand him, and being eccentric is the only way to be heard for him
Kanye's sample of this song downplayed the seriousness of the pain and passion Kanyes version was a goofball version
@Nugget 💀💀 you think kanye of all people put that much thought into it , shits very fucked up and sad but it sounds good , hence why he used it
This isn’t his song
Nut on the leaf, bitch I been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil * to creeeeaaam
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
Wow. Heard Kanye's Blood on the Leaves before this. This is so much more powerful. This speaks to the true sorrow, and pain inflicted on innocents. This gave me chills throughout the song. Beautiful, powerful and devastating at the same time.
beautiful song, it took me 5 plays to realize the content, wow, amazing piece of history, we are still suffering from it.
Such emotion in this piece.
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
@@truthplaguer2196 not the time and place...
some songs just shouldn't be made into a trend song
It was fire🤷🏾♂️
@@plutosarchangel it was
It's sad cause that song is fire I just didn't know the meaning
@@BigPLilD thats not what his song was about
@@262RAW ik he didn't know the meaning
Realizing my ancestors probably went through that this song gave me chills and almost brought me to tears.
Hurts my heart that people are making dances to this song that was meant for my black brothers and sisters. R.I.P to the black ancestors that had to go through this. ♥️
This song makes me cry like a baby but I love it because it makes me feel. It motivates me to work harder when I imagine the bodies swinging from the tree branches.
The way this song made me feel omg 😢
right
You look fine asl. Where you from?
@TitansHub shut tf up
My body hurts listening to this , I just feel my insides rumbling 😰Jesus this shit is real man but all we care about is jewelry, rap etc it’s over with for us but we can’t surrender
Can’t believe people are making dance to a song like this.
Exactly hurts my heart
Most people didn’t know tbh I ain’t know it was this song originally
some people don’t know just like I didn’t.
They don’t know unfortunately. That’s what the devil does. Disguises things
For real people are sick
R.i.p to all our ancestors who were tortured. Thank you all who fought for our freedom and rights to be equal tho we still fight to be seen as equal till this Day
Wow this track is really grimm and depressing, I had idea it was about lynching victims.
Itz Not depressing its truth of what my people went thru an going thru to this day
@@mileshayter7440 Depressing is an emotion and an adjective and reality is what youre in now. That was a depressing reality, black ancestors werent jumping up and down cheering because theyre brothers and sisters got lynched. It is depressing....
Thank you Kanye for bringing this song to the modern age. God bless you brotha.
The Birth of a Nation brought me back here...great movie.
great movie
J. Maine same here.
@J. Maine Luv That Movie , I cried in the end thou,think ima watch it later
JMaine518 tales from the hood brought me here
Me too
Rest easy to all my ancestors. This song is sad.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Nut on the leaf, bitch I been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil * to creeeeaaam
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
@@truthplaguer2196 your not funny.
@@errat1cc I don't recall saying I was, so shut the fuck up.
get well soon
2010: WE COULD OF BEEN SOMEBODYYYYY
2021: BITCH I BE KILLING THESE BEATS
2013*
i got a m16 on my body i told that lil ** to freeeze
@@loomziee7975 freeze
poor chris got his tiktok mass reported because he didn’t know the backstory of the sample
@@chilledbladi and he still released it 🤨
this song is so unsettling because it had such a big meaning behind it. the way some of our own ancestors have went through this just makes my stomach turn. there’s so much pain and meaning behind the lyrics.
Very true..
It’s hella funny lol
@@x__s4882 how?? You must be white. My family had to go through lynching and you're saying its funny?
@@x__s4882 You are disgusting
@@x__s4882 of course your fuckin name is "x_the_notorious"
This has to be the most sad song in the world. I've heard the original version by Billie Holiday (and others), but this one tops it (all). I'm not personally related to the topic, being a white (caucasian) European, but from the first seconds on I have to cry. Cry. So sad. This song …
The original was made by a white european who lived in new york it was initially a poem. Even someone not attached to those experiences saw and felt their agony and wrote one of the darkest poems ever
I like that yu pointed out that you’re European lol.. that wasz slick 😂😂
@@terrellwilliams168 I don't get your meaning. Where am I slick, and what would this be useful for (me)?
@@compleCCity Dang you replied 3 years ago lol
Fuck u cryin for yo people was doin the shit
Damn kanye making me expect a beat at 0:50
Moon Guy 😂🐣
Kanye is ⚡
🎺🎺🎺
Moon Guy I was waiting for that beat to drop on my face too😭😭😭
0:38 bru
This is amazing I listen to both versions with massive passion and sadness.
When I hear this song it makes my stomach turn and I feel like crying.
Fr like dang black people went through sm :(
Same
I just played it for the first time and it low-key just fill me with so much anger just thinking about what our ancestors went through
@@matiahhamilton3167everyone went through a lot
It makes me laugh lmfao
Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'
From the poplar trees
Pastoral scene
Of the gallant south
Them big bulging eyes
And the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia
Clean and fresh
Then the sudden smell
Of burnin' flesh
Here is a fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the leaves to drop
Here is
Strange and bitter crop
@Stori Martin how don’t you understand. The fruit it a metaphor for black people being hung. She’s singing about history
I don't understand either, what does she mean by strange fruit?@@pawtaski9112
@@butterballshorts2994 I’m not 100% but how I interpreted it was like how an apple hangs from a tree well instead of an apple it’s a human.. that’s a strange fruit. Just like forbidden fruit is a metaphor for a women’s lady bits
@@butterballshorts2994 She means bodies, short and simple
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
The lyrics are so painful. Imagine living in the south during the old times dawg‼️😖
Poor ancestors im genuinely sorry for what the world has done ‼️💯
I don't care whose version is better, the lyrics in this song always brings rage and tears to my eyes. This should be the loudest song in every public venue known
Of course the white person that did this song got overshadowed
@@landolonnie8811 Wait, that's what you took from this...
@@fodicky4 as you would
@@landolonnie8811 Nope... not me
@@fodicky4 as you would if you fit with they who would
0:14 if you here bro yvngxchris sample fire asf
It's Kanye west
yung chris sampled kanye who sampled nina simone
he getting canceled because apparently its racist 😭
@@tyronegibbins913 right bruh
@@tyronegibbins913 no it’s disrespectful. Thai song is about the lynching of black people in the south. The people who sang songs like these who harassed and sometimes assassinated by the FBI. Look up Billie Holiday. It’s very disrespectful to rap about fucking women and killing folks while sampling a song about the killing of innocent black people in the south. Tbh I really didn’t care about it cuz that shit was 🔥 🥵
i love nina simone im kind of dissappointed that i never heard this song and kanye had to be the one who showed me this song no disrespect to kanye because he knows good music and sample material but i should of known about this song before he showed me :(
+Michael Frank You can't know it all my friend, you gotta learn somewhere :)
Shut up
That shows how deep songs and other accounts of truth have been buried if it takes new leaders and musicians from whole other eras and generations to wake us up
Gustavo. G but he’s right
Kanye showed you this song personally? Or when you Heard the sample
this song is perfect for what is going on in the world rn, god bless you all and be safe we will all get through this together🙏🏿🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏻
Why? Who just wakes up and decides that this group of people are lesser humans and we’ll treat them this way for centuries🤦🏾♀️
To this day
@@360wiz3 even happening in other countries
@@avawilbon1314 I know bro and god bless them all, I’m just really focused on America right now , this stolen land filled with stolen ppl
(us coloreds) and bamboozled into turning on each other it’s fuccn mind blowing 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
@Dead Lyf3 the police killing us this day and age jus an example I could go on forever tbh
@Dead Lyf3 bro if you don't think the black community is suffering in different ways then you're choosing to be ignorant. You don't need a chain or lashings to be a slave Anymore.
Such a powerful song, and it has meaning...... beautiful but also sad
This songs literally makes me cry
The evolution of this sample is amazing 🙌🙌 cant wait for yvngxchris to drop this song
bruh
He said he not dropping
@@babylilace why????
@@sectroh people are mad about the sample
@@cortjian yea he should’ve used a different beat or sample
I got chills, tears falling down, felt my soul lean to the side, visions of my people swinging.... Blood on the leaves. Angry ain't the word....
nut on the leaf, bitch i been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil ni-* to creeeeaaam
This is a powerful song and I understand why Kanye sampled it. The lyrics' meaning and the imagery accentuates the impact of the subject matter.
I feel terrible, knowing that so many people where killed for no reason, just because they were viewed differently, it makes me sick to know that this truly happened in history, life isn't fair
Yes welcome to reality
@@mikeywtf 😐😐
actual genius in these lyrics once you realize its meaning your stomach sinks
This song made my stomach break down 😔 it’s so crazy that people are using this for a tictok trend but doesn’t really know what the words are saying
He didn't know the meaning of the sample chill
He not even using the same lyrics or bash her song in anyway. Mind the business that pays you.
kanye knows how to sample !!
…
Lol 😅😅😅😅 not really tho classics where its at
Fr
Nut on the leaf, bitch I been killing these beans, I got a m16 on my potty, told that lil * to creeeeaaam
Kanye west killed the sample fr, people need to put more respect on his name
I bet my granny use to listen to this back in the day.
I mean respect to kanye for having a good ear and taste using this as a sample but its crazy how many comments are about his genuis while listening to this track. You are literally listening to nina simone possibly the most and definitely one of the most incredible female African American artists of all time doing a beautiful rendition of billie holidays incrediby deep and moving song "strange fruits"...yet most the comments i see are about kanye, it just doesnt make sense to me. I dont want to bag on your taste in music and im not saying the song kanye sampled this into was bad by any means, but if you truly believe its an improvement on either this version or the original you may just need your head checked.
@Nugget im a huge rap fan, just say your simple, ignorant and go away.
@Nugget i bet you even kanye prefers the original he was simply paying homage ✌
@Nugget ur weird
Seriously, there’s so much disrespect to the original artist by bringing up Kanye. I love yeezy but he has nothing to do with this song, he just sampled it. People gotta give her more credit
This song makes my soul hurt. My beautiful people went through all this and some people sit and mock what happened. May Nina rest in peace.
This song brought tears to my eyes
Damn this shit making me look around my room scared as fuck lol.
same my nigga
Mos Tez right😩
S
You don’t have anything to worry about. Put your faith in Jesus, and you’re good my friend
BRO same
Thanks for this sample💯💯
It’s crazy how such a beautiful piece of art can drive someone to such sadness
Y’all really think y’all funny in the comments😶.But this song is beautiful and it almost bought me to tears.
My heart aches listening to this . My eyes are filled with water. I can't take it . 😫
Haunting
Those times where 😪
Its truth
Brought tears to my eyes
wow. I have heard Blood on the Leaves tons of times....
i had no idea...
NOW WE GOT *blood on the leaves*
damn bro thats crazy as fuck!
@ActivistKrucial I was a virgin my nigga she made me a slut
@@luhcam-- she asked me like bae can I hold your stick I said bae is u crazy or what
bruh nobody should be mad at yvng chris for sampling this
fr
He talked about killing people on a sample where this black woman stands up for her culture to stop the killings of innocent black men
@@floeneo668 oh
@@floeneo668 sorry to interupt yo long ass paragraph but litteraly no one gives a shit bro, its a fkg song, nah not even its a "sample" like bruh😐
@@menacetosociety6401 pretty sure people do care, racism is still a huge part of society. And this a woman singing about the injustices her people have gone through, history is important loser. I don’t have a option on the Chris version but don’t say people don’t care when this has major history embedded into.
LEE DRILLY did such a good job sampling this song
Fr how does one even think of that
KANYE BETTER
Damn I wish they didn't go through that. I would kill to change that horrible pass
you would kill to stop people from being killed LOL
Nah bro , history is history for a reason. so humanity don’t make the same mistake twice 💯
@@tocopowerz3842 its still going on
Okay now I under why everyone is mad at Chris but I’m disappointed the song is not dropping now😔
kanye sampled this tho
@@antho7122 yea idk why people are mad a Chris when Kanye did the same thing😂
@@RareTheSage because Kanye’s wasn’t disrespectful 🤨
@@shuniahgreggs68 Chris didn't mean to be disrespectful either
@@shuniahgreggs68 kanye said slavery was a choice🤨
love it so much - incredible she got all this from holiday. i love west but can't believe he sampled a song about lynches in such a selfish way! so so good
The fact that i learned about this song from tiktok is extremely disheartening. Glad i found and finally could listen to this.
2:05 I felt the pain wen she draw out that note😣
This song took me some where I've never been before....
By the way.,....... how in the hell did Kanye come across this?
Lol really hahaha maybe bc he's a black man growing on America, segregation still echoes through America, it's their history, their culture, their struggle
Nina Simone is and always will be a musical icon in the black community as far as I'm concerned.
This song came from Billie holiday’s song strange fruit
What type of questions is that . Either you’re young or not black...or both
If I'm not mistaking, one of Kanye's parents was a black panther. So I'm sure the conversation and exposure to this type music was normal for him. His mom was very intellectual if that helps..
go in the woods at night while it's raining sit in a tree and keep one headphone out you can hear the screams
Zachary Dell he means screams of the slaves who died from lynching etc
Vice Versa and if u watch the birth of a nation, the slaves bodies were seen hanged from a Forrest with this song playing
you're stupid
Theres actually a spot in the pine barrens in new jersey where there was said to be lynching all the way up until the 1930's and if you sit there even during the day if you sit completely quite you can hear screaming and only one tree will sway in the wind its pretty crazy
mikey Sawchyn damn that’s crazy, it’s something I would want to experience but not at the same time lol
The fact that Kanye West used this song to make a parody, but never said a thing about historical context of this song. This song is horrific and powerful.
i think you need to look up the definition of parody😂 there was nothing comical about his version of the song lmao
here after snowfall
The fact that people genuinely thought they were superior because the different shade of skin they had.
And still do for some
The fact that anyone thinks anyone is less than human because of their skin tone is disgusting. I’m still trying to figure out why people were so stupid back then…
@@harlow9836 partly because of religion
I just need to clear my mind now
Its been racing since the summertime...
The high pitch screech in the background is actually the sample of the original song by Nina Simone also called “Blood on the Leaves”.. its basically a call back
And still have the strength to smile back then… I love my people
A song that speaks true to black pain. And like clockwork there are those who appear to degrade and undermine thinking they know something we don't. Yet we still keep on
Yo blood on the leaves😈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The way she said strange in the end… goosebumps.
just want to remind everybody that billie Holiday made this song and was killed for it
Is that the lady in the background
@@gotone2513 nah look up Billie
@King Trey’s WRLD Mashups it’s much more complicated than that… do your research
@King Trey’s WRLD Mashups if you’re gonna be intentionally dense and ignorant i’m not gonna go argue with you
Yes
This is sad asf when you realize this is what our ancestors wen through
yea
the fact they used this song on tiktok for a "trend" without knowing the story behind this song really makes me question reality... just sad
It was never meant on a racist way on titkok we didn’t know at first
@@localdrugdealer3512 ...
@@sadist8230 its fire
@@astro2662 ...nah ur just weird
@@sadist8230 but it's fire
Our ancestors were the strange fruit I didn’t understand the song until now and it made me cry
Can’t believe people r making dances to this. My heart hurts.
only good coming from it is the recognition of this song and its true meaning.
Bro he didn't know about the original song which is why he didn't drop it anymore and apologized stfu we get it now.
“I gotta m16 on my body”
@@Lukeskii told a lil n to freezee
@@ryanreed8120 I got a bad azz bih in the crib (but we understand the essence of the song. And we must respect this powerful black woman and here strength to speak on this where others would hold their tongue)