After listening many times I got what he meant with the "okay" at first i thought he was saying "okay" as in saying OJ is stupid for saying he's just OJ. But after nth times I got it. Jay is simply saying that there is no point in arguing with some people and just worry about building you and those around you. How much time have people spent trying to change another persons mind. OJ is not about that at the end he says it that this advice ain't free, it's worth millions but you can buy for 9.99. Or maybe I'm reading into it too much.
YB lmao I responded very fast, but that’s very true, because I’m black my self and the reason I said that because O.J. Disrespected him self and the black community, like he was afraid of being black, risk taking almost because of all the shitty things that happened to black people
YB the fact is that black people are there own people yet we act like stereotypes because that’s what the white community portrays us as, and no matter if we break that we still Niggas that’s why it’s so powerful like “danm life just suck!”
YB that isn’t true at all, and yes some black people act hood and "Ghetto" yet we dont wanna be them because every time we do something life changing we do get some credit yet we are shut down again and again, we don't wanna blame everything on white people, but they do it to us and other race's like some white blame blacks, Hispanic, jews, asian for all the fucked up shit when its them. And black people dont wanna be below but there not offering jobs for African American that why people get in to drugs and crazy shit, even though they dont want to. We are just try to provide for our self with the little we have and we aren't ungrateful just dissatisfied that we are still treated poorly
Yep wealth inequality from two centuries of slavery and decades of legal discrimination. That's were most other problems stem from. Not just in America either.
@@zagzagel420 cuz everyone act so snobby bout it we’re overthinking the images right in our face. And the simple to the point lyrics. It took me coming back to this with a clear mind years later to gain new perspective from the first watches.
@@zagzagel420 like him walking from the ship bunkers where they caught us to the standing at attention for him on an S.S. In the same scene. Or that lil boy excited at the end while the grownups stare with a straight face, that hits the subconscious in a special way
Bro this is the realiist song ever made. Life and history collide. Listen mortgage advice art investing re investing in your community and family wealth all In one song
“Y'all on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah”. this bar is so simple but one of the hardest bars I’ve ever heard in my life
realist? Bullshit, Jay didnt mention how all of the "niggas" hes talking shit about are the reason for his success. He want to be "real" and help financially wake the "niggas" then start offering business loans to African Americans, WTF he need 810 million for?
@@bbertsamson8118 well Jay is someone who made his money off his and other people's music. He always talks a big game about "buying back the block" and "giving back to the community" which he pretty much didn't do himself accept for a couple of donations and a basketball court. Saying "don't kill each other" isn't deep, everyone knows gang wars hurt the community, but there is a reason gangs exist and that reason is systemic. He takes the blame off the system and puts it onto poor people who are it's victims. People don't start selling drugs because they just want fun, they are desperate and poor, growing up around constant violence and abuse. His advice boils down to "invest the money you don't have and maybe you will be rich in like 20 years", which isn't just useless, it's insulting. There are so many deeper ways of looking at these problems, he'll Kendrick did it better in GKMC without ever being this explicit.
@@Cyborg_Lenin Why is it the most surface level social commentary in your opinion? And why is it hypocritical? I'm not trying to argue the point. Just interested in your reasons.
Don't oversimplify, that comment about Jewish people is ham-fisted. This is far from a "masterpiece", but it's still good and still has an important core message.
@@thatoneweirdo4092 Don't throw your life away banging for your hood that you're only in because of shitty situations outside of your control. There been a hundred guys before you and there'll be a hundred guys after you getting shot over who owns a street corner that they don't actually own.
I think Jay-Z is acknowledging his own mistake of buying V12 cars instead of real property. And that is what makes this even more real that he is humble enough to do so in his art. I see why Jay-Z is at the top.
Check out Young Black America by Meek MIll. He released it a week ago and it's powerful just like this video. People sleeping on Jay Z and Meek Mill on the conscious tip
Feel like some people missed a big part when he speaks on art going up in value and says can’t wait to give it to his children. That’s generational wealth and how the rich pass down their wealth to their family without having to pay the tax! Amazing
@@bolshevikbuffoonery414 The game keeps playing around you whether you like/think it's fair or not, so you might as well learn to play it well while it's here.
But how you getting the wealth. Not everyone can just invest and make money. When you're living pay check to pay check your stuck in a system with no way out.
The song motivated me to clean up my credit card debt and be smarter with my spending. No more buying labels wasting money trying to keep up with an image.
@@justinhunstad1760 I’ve been cleaning up my credit since 2019 I was almost 20K in debt now it’s summer 2022 and I’m only 6K in debt (due to home repairs). My credit score is 735. That 6K is nothing to pay off. I would advise all young people to start a line of credit and BE SMART!!! buy and pay the balance, buy and pay the balance don’t let it build
The OJ-Ok Line is hands down one of Jay Z's best lyrics ever. Even though it's so simple, you just feel how much meaning he packs into that pause. Honestly the comedic timing is just gold. It's absolutely brilliant.
@@kiwiintheskywithdiamonds7611 you dont understand the meaning of this song dude. and people using the clown emoji to insult someone are the most fucking cringey childish people on the internet ever. grow up hjahaha
People got triggered because he said something positive about Jewish people and they don’t appreciate the art/ aka the black caricatures. Damn it too many super pansys on earth.
This whole song is the truth. "Financial freedoms my only hope. Fuck living rich and dying broke". I've lived my life based on this line since I heard it.
@@MANI_EMMXT Jay is basically saying put yourself in a position where your money isn't dependent on your boss. If you get fired, it doesn't matter because you're making money other ways and doing so in a way that it continues to grow so you're not broke before you die. If you think about retirement, people save their whole lives and retire with a million dollars but because they have no other income and their money isn't growing, that million dollars continues to deplete. So by the time they're on their death bed, all of their retirement funds have been used up and they have nothing to leave to their children.
This is how a music video should be done. Subliminal, meaningful, and artistic. EVERYTHING from slavery to the slums of yesterday, the director of this video didn't shy away and that's what makes this video beautiful.
Renegade Bond Why is slavery still relevant? It's been over 150 years... Our country itself is only about 241 years old. 62% of all US history is post-slavery. We are about 7 generations removed from the practice. Do you realize just how far removed that is? We are talking the last member of your family who MIGHT have been born into slavery just before it was abolished would have been your great great great great grandparents... And we are talking they MIGHT have made it to about 10 years old before it was abolished so even they lived their entire adult lives free. Do you even understand in biological and economic terms just how far back that is? Do you know how many great great great great grandparents you had? Well, you had 2 parents, each of them had 2 parents, and so on. So that gives us about 2 to the power of 7... Or 128... 128 great great great great grandparents. Do you know any of their names? You shouldn't given how most of them probably died about 90 to 100 years before you were born when you account for the shorter lifespan back then, hence why you never realized you had so many of them... I mean sure... You could argue that they were set back economically after slavery ended, but inflation is kind of the great equalizer in that regard... I mean, monitary wealth just simply doesn't age well on its own given how, for example, the $5 meal you probably buy for lunch today would have only cost you about 34 cents back when slavery ended, but hey... That is just a 1470% increase from inflation... I am totally sure if they had been given the reparations everyone likes to talk about back then that they would at least have been enough by today's standards to order a pizza or something. I mean, odds are 90%of everything that factored into your development financially was all earned by your parents, and the other 9.999% by your grandparents leaving only 0.0001% as having anything to do with eveyone before that combined. Seriously... When are people going to put the topic of slavery to rest? Or are they just going to keep pressing the issue until we finally get a generation of white people who tell them where to stick that BS?
Chris R I honestly respect your opinion on this topic, but I must say that Slavery should always be relevant. I completely understand where you are coming from and we don’t need to live in the past but we can not forget the past. No one can act like slavery didn’t exist, its embedded in our brains. Like i said I respect your opinion but i just do not think we should just forget that slavery ever happened. We should know about it and make it relevant so everyone could see how much we have grown as people.🤞
He's saying don't rep a neighbourhood you don't own. Talking about territorial gang wars , conflicts and disputes, saying they are not worth it when it's all just owned by white people anyway and you and yours have always just been tenants. It's also a metaphor for African American experience in America in general. Dying, slaving for a place at the very best, doesn't care about you just to make the old masters more money.
main point: don't be selfish, think of your communities. make investments, accumulate wealth that builds with time and pass wealth to your future generations so that your people may flourish collectively.
@@SC-xt8lz i said, top 3 all time. Meaning arguably on top 1, 2, 3 not, the third best. You misinterpreted it. It's like me saying he's one of the 3 best rappers of all time.
“Y’all think it’s boujee I’m like it’s fine, but I’m tryna sell you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99.” So much there and I feel like that line alone isn’t talked about enough.
Correct me if wrong To those who don’t know where the “I’m not black I’m OJ” quote came from .During Ojs football years , someone was telling him and other black athletes how important their voices are for black civil rights moments and why they must participate in civil rights .Oj replied saying “I’m oj I’m not black “ Source: OJ made in America Documentary
@@thatonezeldafan5275 he's intelligent cuz he gave us RD, 4:44, the blueprint or the black album. Any of these albums could fit in hip hop top 100. Name a rapper who could do better
@@thatonezeldafan5275 Jay has been very wise for a very long time. But he understands people don't wanna hear too much at once and spoonfeeds gems to fans. He said it in an interview.
People missed the all point he is talking about even if you are a light skin ,dark skin,poor or rich black person you are still a black person you are still a «nigga» to them and OJ is representing some black people who try to run away from their “blackness” people who don’t want to be assimilated to black people. And he is giving money advice to the black community because most of the time they spend it on non essential things.For those who are offended by the way they draw the black people he did it on purpose for people to be shocked (and to remind us that was how they saw us before and that’s how they use to draw us).
@@Rtbj335 cartoon is a old cartoon rip off from the 40s also a play on what he’s saying. If you knew Jay z you know he’s a subliminal guy and not someone who’s in your face with what he’s saying. The cartoon isn’t a slap in the face it’s a reminder of how people use to think and still think. Also it’s a reminder that not to long people actually made images like this.
@@Rtbj335 there are people still alive today who watched cartoons like the ones seen in the video as a kid. We can't just ignore problems that are in our day-to-day life. If you can't handle that then log off the internet
@@Rtbj335 What's racist about it? It literally just shows trully how it used to be in the America historically. If you get offended by something like that maybe not the cartoon is the problem bro
"I'm tryna give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99." He's dropping life gems all throughout this entire album. Life advise. Financial advise. This isn't a Jay-Z album. This is a Shawn Carter album. One of his best. Grown folk rap.
I’m A Latino and over the past 5 years or so I have come back to this song for first verse. I think of my culture and Mexican Americans who have no sense of pride or appreciation for their family who work their ass off to come here to America. They turn their backs on it. They try to achieve some sort of approval from white america. Which they might think they do but will never realize that in their eyes they always still that🫘. SMH
"Y'all on the gram holdin money to yo ear there's a disconnect we don't call that money over here" this nigga dissed 90% of the era rappers we have today😂💀
Hes saying that rappers flex all that advance money they get but what does it even matter when it's mostly all the labels making the real money....Jay gets his own money and never flashes it on media
Also a play on the holding money to ur ear like ur making a call with ur money but then he says there is a disconnect like a disconncting the phone call and then we dont call that money over here is another reference to call like phone call
I think he's referring to the average person here flashing a stack of 20s on Instagram that they made from either working a 9-5 or illegally. He's saying that whatever they made doesn't even count as money because it's nothing compared to what he's made through business deals. The disconnect he mentions restates the fact that the average person doesn't understand his motivations for making money. There's a misconception that he makes money in order to flaunt/enjoy it, so others do the same. He doesn't make money to flaunt; he makes money in order to strengthen his legacy. That was my first thought on these lines.
People may have different opinions... here is my first thought as I watched the video. I thought it as black people refuse to invest their money and they hold it instead "behind their ear", money is worthless unless you use it for something. It makes sense as he earlier stated "this building was worth 2 million... now its worth 8 million" and the painting scene. What he may be trying to convey is that (black) people are "dumb-o" because they do not invest their money, they hold it instead for useless crap. And that is why Jews are rich but not them. I may be totally wrong, but this was my first thought
This is still relevant in 2024 all the images in this video this is our history thank you jay for putting a mirror up and letting us learn where we come from our history is painful and harsh let’s not keep sugarcoating the past like it didn’t happen
The scene at 3:31 hits hard. The man walking out of the ship happy as can be, ready for freedom. Then taking a glance at what is around him... what is happening. He was manipulated into thinking he would be going to the free land.
Free as long as you dedicate 20 years of your life to schooling, work 40 hour weeks every week all year for 40 years then yes, you’ll have about 10-15 years of freedom assuming you still have the energy and health at 65.
I feel like the fact that black people were slaves and so masters would sell them at auction meant he's the business. Oh my... That... Was... Deep... As a black person I swear that hit me
More like Warner bros. Look at the old bugs bunny cartoons from the 40's haha. I can't recall any old disney cartoons like this. However, to be fair, the white gloves on old disney characters are rumored to be inspired by minstrel shows
Corefront Games, Yes! BRILLIANTLY sampled. Especially when going back to the original Nina Simone version and hearing how they piece together her lyrics to make the background for this track. Super super DOPE!
@@smoothwater11 If my understandment is correct the fact that OJ Simpson said that, literally has him reject his own race and just "accept" his role as a piece of meat for the consumption of white people.
Educate2Empower Inc. this is about black history he's teaching us about our history . And maybe if "whites" back in the day didn't call us that or treated us like that. He wouldn't probably have to say it but it don't matter because that's how "whites" look at us anyway. So before you judge him get his message first !
Educate2Empower Inc. I'm sorry my friend, but if that's all you took from this video then you clearly missed out or didn't understand all of the quirky points that were made in the video.
ya not listening, ya vibin. it's NOT a good message. between the lyrics and the imagery, this piece is addressing directly how the western ideal of past slavery has lead us to the current systemic issues of relating to racism in this country. it doesn't matter the color of your skin to get that. Jay-Z got no answers, he's just taking a full frontal attack at "all lives matter", "the civil war was about state's rights not slavery", "keep politics out of football", and so on. it's not a good message, he's not saying everything is ok, he's not saying how far we've come as a society, he's not saying the issues of racism and antisemitism have brought NY together. he's saying there's a problem. there's always been a problem. and long after Jay-Z gone, there still gonna be a problem. the only good in that message is that he isn't turning a blind eye towards those scars. he's forcing you to look....but that ain't "good" either. ........unless you feel warm and safe in the violence of this systemic racist imagery burned into our countries history from slavery, to Jim Crow laws, to All Lives Matter. i guess if you need to point out your race, you vibe on that too.
You are exactly right. And guess what, it hardly got any props or media when it dropped cuz I am just now finding it due to my work on racist cartoons by Disney. Just remember Bro, Disney was the biggest and worst offender out dem all while portraying themselves as pro-kid & pro-family. Only white families as now we can see light of how they brainwashed us as kids as these cartoons ran in full until 1967! Rem, don't spend your money on ANYTHING Disney as they should be boycotted forever & shut down Son!
recite this prayer continusly a maximum out loud or whispering : very healing : Morrnahs Prayer " Divine creator, father, mother, son as one…If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness…Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations, and transmute these unwanted energies into pure light….And it is done. "
I just shed some tears.... This brought back some memories from back in the day in music class and sports day.... When I was a young gal back in the day, Hair is all white now homies have grown old, My fam went, the people in the school went and I sit back and think about all the times we would run away from class and skip and talk about stalkers and stalk and talk, I would remember those days sitting at home waiting and the immense anticipation for the next day as well as the arrival to arrive at school as all the memories are in the shades of the video.... All black and white...
Donovan Mclean-Smith Thanks mate. Am wondering why everyone is fight over race yet the man just gifted us with knowledge. I have to assume that everyone fighting over race because of this song is either a child who can't really grasp the meaning or they are just ignorant. I tip my hat off to JAY-Z on this one. It sure is a worthwhile investment for $9.99.
Word, I hope everybody listening gets this message. Jay really be telling how to mot waste your money and accumulate wealth. He never left the streets he still there raising people through this
JAY-Z's energy on this track is insane! With a little guidance from the video on my channel about how artists are blowing up, he is now getting the attention he deserves.
How much you think drug dealers make.. seriously. If he couldnt buy a block selling all the drugs he said he sold.. fuck make you think shit will happen in this day and age.
No the issue is the money they make from drug money just goes back into the drug business. They don't realise the amount of money they're fucking with and how it could easily be invested into the black community to internally generate wealth. Green is still green everywhere.
Ever wonder why Jay-Z owns all the property in America? Selling music riddled with racial slurs and profanities to a primarily white audience, mostly at black peoples expense. That's how he did it.
@@maxlurya4227 This is an example of how to completely ignore a song's meaning and just get offended because it says "nigga" and has a typically offensive drawing of black people and completely ignoring the deeper meaning of why
The delivery of that fucking “............Okay” gets me every time
Facts
Same
lol, I’ve watched this song for a million times just to watch that part of “Ok”😂😂😂😂
still here in 2021 breaking my neck to that..."okay"
After listening many times I got what he meant with the "okay" at first i thought he was saying "okay" as in saying OJ is stupid for saying he's just OJ. But after nth times I got it. Jay is simply saying that there is no point in arguing with some people and just worry about building you and those around you. How much time have people spent trying to change another persons mind. OJ is not about that at the end he says it that this advice ain't free, it's worth millions but you can buy for 9.99.
Or maybe I'm reading into it too much.
“ I’m not black, I’m O.J”
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“Ok..”
Powerful
why
hankock09 because oj wasnt part of the black community for a long time, it was like he forgot about being black.
YB lmao I responded very fast, but that’s very true, because I’m black my self and the reason I said that because O.J. Disrespected him self and the black community, like he was afraid of being black, risk taking almost because of all the shitty things that happened to black people
YB the fact is that black people are there own people yet we act like stereotypes because that’s what the white community portrays us as, and no matter if we break that we still Niggas that’s why it’s so powerful like “danm life just suck!”
YB that isn’t true at all, and yes some black people act hood and "Ghetto" yet we dont wanna be them because every time we do something life changing we do get some credit yet we are shut down again and again, we don't wanna blame everything on white people, but they do it to us and other race's like some white blame blacks, Hispanic, jews, asian for all the fucked up shit when its them. And black people dont wanna be below but there not offering jobs for African American that why people get in to drugs and crazy shit, even though they dont want to. We are just try to provide for our self with the little we have and we aren't ungrateful just dissatisfied that we are still treated poorly
That ".....Okay." is legendary
Venomous Vince how..?
It's just a great line. it's simple, but it works.
lool i think i say that "okay......" almost everyday
Now all of black twitter has a gif to use to make it seem like they’re right now.😂
Yea xD
YOU ARE HIDING A CHILD, LET THAT BOY COME HOME ‼‼🐐🐐
thats the story of adidon 😭
@Albern4 I know but it has the same beat
@@OldPets. then why comment it here 😭
deadbeat…
DEADBEAT MUTHAFUCKA PLAYIN BORDER PATROL
The most important song Jay ever made
True shit
That would be d'evils
I swear to g
Facts!
Yep wealth inequality from two centuries of slavery and decades of legal discrimination. That's were most other problems stem from. Not just in America either.
This is literally a work of genius. Both the song and maybe the visuals even more so.
people don't quite get this song
@@zagzagel420 cuz everyone act so snobby bout it we’re overthinking the images right in our face. And the simple to the point lyrics. It took me coming back to this with a clear mind years later to gain new perspective from the first watches.
@@zagzagel420 like him walking from the ship bunkers where they caught us to the standing at attention for him on an S.S. In the same scene. Or that lil boy excited at the end while the grownups stare with a straight face, that hits the subconscious in a special way
I like how it was likely inspired by that one line about Dumbo and they just rolled with it
and timing
The Juice has been squeezed y’all
*R.I.P. OJ the Goat* 🐐
@@RA-xd1ckthe goat? Of what? Getting away with murder?
@@MrScubajsbhe was accused
@@Historybrickfilms we all know he did it
@@MrScubajsb we’ll never know
Wow this was such a beautiful song and such a beautiful piece of art… thanks Hov !!
Why is no one talking about this imagery?? It's fantastic! Taking old stylized stereotypes of black people and turning it on it's head is so clever.
Chelapop I think he chose it because this was the cartoon style used back then and sometimes mocked blacks
Don’t underestimate the intelligence that JZ has!
IKR!
@@janetmccoy2192
He most likely had nothing to do with the music video
everything about this is gold, the beat ,the samples,lyrics ,message!
That "Okay" is perfection
Absolute perfection!
Yes
why? would that be?
@@abramslion1 the tone, you can feel the disappointment and tiredness from his voice I guess.
Like “really?…. ‘k….”
This song is a masterpiece, the visuals, the flow, the cadence, the beat and it packs one hell of a message, Jay still got it.
indeed, first time i've heard it. The most american song I've ever heard.
The lyrics are shit. He just says nigga over and over again. The animations are really good though.
@@yasashii89
You miss the point. Listen to it again.
Jay Z is 52 now
And racism was in the 50's
@rnarayanan2023 I don't know
Bro this is the realiist song ever made. Life and history collide. Listen mortgage advice art investing re investing in your community and family wealth all In one song
Na realest shit was what when 2 Chainz said "she got a big booty so I call her big booty"
And all these idiots heard was the money phone line 😭😭😭😭
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“Y'all on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here, yeah”. this bar is so simple but one of the hardest bars I’ve ever heard in my life
Low key
One of my favourite bars ever
One of the realest bars I’ve heard
It’s like a quadruple entendre lol
Please explain
This song should have had the same impact as “this is America”
its too bad he took the concept from Big Kick's track Nina from his debut album Blue Lotus.... look at the release project dates.
KingMuchy this is america was so popular because it was a meme
KingMuchy this is America was stupid and petty
slope. ?
Amiibo Farmer look it up
will go down as one of the realest song Jay-Z ever wrote
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Not wrong there
RANSOM JR its refreshing, the truth, he's able to reach those who can appreciate it
well he doesnt write...but i feel u
realist? Bullshit, Jay didnt mention how all of the "niggas" hes talking shit about are the reason for his success. He want to be "real" and help financially wake the "niggas" then start offering business loans to African Americans, WTF he need 810 million for?
Jay-Z's social commentary is so elevated. Every time I hear this song again, I walk away with more than I had before.
It's the most surface level social commentary when it comes to race and wealth. And it's pretty hypocritical coming from Jay
@@bbertsamson8118 well Jay is someone who made his money off his and other people's music.
He always talks a big game about "buying back the block" and "giving back to the community" which he pretty much didn't do himself accept for a couple of donations and a basketball court.
Saying "don't kill each other" isn't deep, everyone knows gang wars hurt the community, but there is a reason gangs exist and that reason is systemic. He takes the blame off the system and puts it onto poor people who are it's victims.
People don't start selling drugs because they just want fun, they are desperate and poor, growing up around constant violence and abuse.
His advice boils down to "invest the money you don't have and maybe you will be rich in like 20 years", which isn't just useless, it's insulting. There are so many deeper ways of looking at these problems, he'll Kendrick did it better in GKMC without ever being this explicit.
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@@Cyborg_Lenin Why is it the most surface level social commentary in your opinion? And why is it hypocritical? I'm not trying to argue the point. Just interested in your reasons.
The clean version is the instrumental
Now that's what you call a certified bruh moment
Woah
Truuueeeee
@Atlas Bennett lmaoooo
It's dope 🔥
The ignorant will take offense, the wise will take a lesson..
Exactly!
The wise don’t watch jay z videos on RUclips homie.
JBOM9000
Wise people come in all shapes and sizes. Some wise people are students to the game of hip hop.
JBOM9000 Speak for yourself my brother.. I see you’re here.. I would HOPE you consider yourself, and whoever liked this comment as “Wise” 🤦🏾♂️
Don't oversimplify, that comment about Jewish people is ham-fisted. This is far from a "masterpiece", but it's still good and still has an important core message.
“Please don’t die over the neighbourhood that your mama rentin”. That shit hit deeep!
I don't get it
@@thatoneweirdo4092 Don't throw your life away banging for your hood that you're only in because of shitty situations outside of your control. There been a hundred guys before you and there'll be a hundred guys after you getting shot over who owns a street corner that they don't actually own.
@@ethanalspencer7294 Damn that explanation... absolutely fucking perfect!
Seriously
@@ethanalspencer7294 that's a nice explanation, i thought it was more about not lowering property value for them landlords
This is quite simply a fully realized masterwork. An artist at the absolute zenith of their game.
I remember when in high school I decided to write an essay explaining this song. Have to say it got me an A in history, thanks Jay.
That sounds sick could u send it or upload it somewhere
Do you still have it? I would like to read it
i would pay to read this
me too
Yo yeah I’d jump on this as well
Everything, the artstyle, the beat, lyrics, the sampling of Nina Simone and Kool & the Gang, the social commentary, makes this a masterpiece.
Wuz just here myself ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 power to my people
Gotta agree with you on all counts here boss! Truly a modern work of art.
I was curious what the sample was from Kool & the Gang?
Shit gave me goosebumps!
@@m1lky1337 Sample is Kool is Back
@@m1lky1337 ye my bad, I mixed up kool is back by funk inc with KatG.
"You're on the gram holding money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we don't call that money over here!"
One sweet ass line.
JayOrigins !!!
son, that was the hottest and illest line of the song.
genius ! now on the next album let's explain race, nationality and status
JayOrigins word that line was ill
its over hear
I think Jay-Z is acknowledging his own mistake of buying V12 cars instead of real property. And that is what makes this even more real that he is humble enough to do so in his art. I see why Jay-Z is at the top.
Concept. Delivery. Message. Perfect.
running fromadults AGREED
Check out Young Black America by Meek MIll. He released it a week ago and it's powerful just like this video. People sleeping on Jay Z and Meek Mill on the conscious tip
running fromadults yea, he fed some mfas minds w/ this 1
this isn't a diss track at all, it's an uplift track
LaNisha Jackson exactly, this a wake yo ass up track
If that “...okay.” Doesn’t go down in history as one of Hov’s best lines/moments, then we’ve failed him as a fan base.
That or the # don't forget about the other B ....
😂💀
@@judedupera9399 🤣🤣🤣 and the other b!
Lls
That is now one of the trending sounds on TikTok
beat go so hard
J white made iy
Unbreakable kicks. Woot. I watch your vids all the time. Best Jordan collection on RUclips except for jumpman bostic.
Beat goes well with Drake diss🔥🔥
Yeet
It’s more subtle
If this is not the most important/impactful song written by Jay Z, idk what this even is man...
Also what an great song, amazing job Jay Z my man!
Feel like some people missed a big part when he speaks on art going up in value and says can’t wait to give it to his children. That’s generational wealth and how the rich pass down their wealth to their family without having to pay the tax! Amazing
I think this song is great because it’s not pro capitalism per say, it’s just good advice for the system we live under.
💯
@@bolshevikbuffoonery414 The game keeps playing around you whether you like/think it's fair or not, so you might as well learn to play it well while it's here.
But how you getting the wealth. Not everyone can just invest and make money. When you're living pay check to pay check your stuck in a system with no way out.
@@KyleDevy U can't change the system
The song motivated me to clean up my credit card debt and be smarter with my spending. No more buying labels wasting money trying to keep up with an image.
Smart
Respect
Cleaning up your credit card debt is like an investment with 20% return. How is your score doing now a days?
@@justinhunstad1760
I’ve been cleaning up my credit since 2019 I was almost 20K in debt now it’s summer 2022 and I’m only 6K in debt (due to home repairs). My credit score is 735. That 6K is nothing to pay off.
I would advise all young people to start a line of credit and BE SMART!!! buy and pay the balance, buy and pay the balance don’t let it build
Don't get involved with the wrong woman. A toxic woman will bleed you dry financially.
The OJ-Ok Line is hands down one of Jay Z's best lyrics ever. Even though it's so simple, you just feel how much meaning he packs into that pause. Honestly the comedic timing is just gold. It's absolutely brilliant.
ruclips.net/video/4G6e4TaJxkI/видео.html.
He says "shit" and the n word the 80% of the song, that's not great lyrics lmao 🤡
@@kiwiintheskywithdiamonds7611 you dont understand the meaning of this song dude.
and people using the clown emoji to insult someone are the most fucking cringey childish people on the internet ever. grow up hjahaha
Accept Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior in your heart
@@landothecomando no lol
Hits harder today!!!
No Cap!
Seems appropriate to re-visit this.
*R.I.P. OJ the Goat* 🐐
@@RA-xd1ckno way bro said oj was the goat he killed somebody 💀💀
This and role model by Eminem
Yep ...that's what lead me back here.
@@Spaglo Goat at killing somebody
Can we appreciate how smooth the animation is tho?
And the message is incredibly amazing too, I really wish this would be more famous
Jubz Jubz shut up satan u killed my baby.( jokes asides this video really is cool)
it has 70 million views and is a meme i dont think it could get anymore famous then this.
no
People got triggered because he said something positive about Jewish people and they don’t appreciate the art/ aka the black caricatures. Damn it too many super pansys on earth.
Jubz Jubz I heard it for the first time at the Beyoncé/Jay-Z concert two days ago, and I really was impressed by it
This animation is like 50% of the experience.
You know Pascal?
Skoda La Skoda but do you know Barook?
Ayman Daij what about them?
Only 50? cuz I'm really not getting that much from the song.
it's at least 70%
I mean, it feels appropriate to re listen to it now
Economic freedom is the only way to break free from the chains of the past. Best way to describe this song.
fake
@@vicentegomezsantana2386 Lame
@@hunterrrdrives perfect. You hit the nail on the head
@@hunterrrdrives You both got it right, and there is still more to add
Literally not the message
This whole song is the truth. "Financial freedoms my only hope. Fuck living rich and dying broke". I've lived my life based on this line since I heard it.
I dont understand please explain
@@MANI_EMMXT Jay is basically saying put yourself in a position where your money isn't dependent on your boss. If you get fired, it doesn't matter because you're making money other ways and doing so in a way that it continues to grow so you're not broke before you die. If you think about retirement, people save their whole lives and retire with a million dollars but because they have no other income and their money isn't growing, that million dollars continues to deplete. So by the time they're on their death bed, all of their retirement funds have been used up and they have nothing to leave to their children.
@@chidianuforo3670 and what can we do to change it?
@@GABRIELGON1 learn to invest
ON GOD
This is how a music video should be done. Subliminal, meaningful, and artistic. EVERYTHING from slavery to the slums of yesterday, the director of this video didn't shy away and that's what makes this video beautiful.
Renegade Bond Why is slavery still relevant? It's been over 150 years... Our country itself is only about 241 years old. 62% of all US history is post-slavery. We are about 7 generations removed from the practice. Do you realize just how far removed that is? We are talking the last member of your family who MIGHT have been born into slavery just before it was abolished would have been your great great great great grandparents... And we are talking they MIGHT have made it to about 10 years old before it was abolished so even they lived their entire adult lives free.
Do you even understand in biological and economic terms just how far back that is? Do you know how many great great great great grandparents you had? Well, you had 2 parents, each of them had 2 parents, and so on. So that gives us about 2 to the power of 7... Or 128... 128 great great great great grandparents. Do you know any of their names? You shouldn't given how most of them probably died about 90 to 100 years before you were born when you account for the shorter lifespan back then, hence why you never realized you had so many of them...
I mean sure... You could argue that they were set back economically after slavery ended, but inflation is kind of the great equalizer in that regard... I mean, monitary wealth just simply doesn't age well on its own given how, for example, the $5 meal you probably buy for lunch today would have only cost you about 34 cents back when slavery ended, but hey... That is just a 1470% increase from inflation... I am totally sure if they had been given the reparations everyone likes to talk about back then that they would at least have been enough by today's standards to order a pizza or something.
I mean, odds are 90%of everything that factored into your development financially was all earned by your parents, and the other 9.999% by your grandparents leaving only 0.0001% as having anything to do with eveyone before that combined.
Seriously... When are people going to put the topic of slavery to rest? Or are they just going to keep pressing the issue until we finally get a generation of white people who tell them where to stick that BS?
Chris R I honestly respect your opinion on this topic, but I must say that Slavery should always be relevant. I completely understand where you are coming from and we don’t need to live in the past but we can not forget the past. No one can act like slavery didn’t exist, its embedded in our brains. Like i said I respect your opinion but i just do not think we should just forget that slavery ever happened. We should know about it and make it relevant so everyone could see how much we have grown as people.🤞
rare finding logic on youtube.
Renegade Bond So true👏👏😍. Its a shame most don't understand this vid or meaning behind it!
This song is so relatable. From "then" to now. Good track J. 👍🏻👍🏻
I love this song. Tells me we are all brothers. No one is bigger than the others.
“Please don’t die over the neighborhood, that you mama rented.” Damn, real shit
Went over my head for a little bit, just got it this time around listenin
@@psyilux could you guys explain the line? I've been trying to understand it but i'm failing at it.
@@FusionttvO.o no problemo, pretty sure Hes saying dont die in a neighborhood you dont own or that you just rent
He's saying don't rep a neighbourhood you don't own. Talking about territorial gang wars , conflicts and disputes, saying they are not worth it when it's all just owned by white people anyway and you and yours have always just been tenants. It's also a metaphor for African American experience in America in general. Dying, slaving for a place at the very best, doesn't care about you just to make the old masters more money.
@@psyilux oh so like don't be content with what you've achieved until your parents no longer have to pay for your spot?
main point: don't be selfish, think of your communities. make investments, accumulate wealth that builds with time and pass wealth to your future generations so that your people may flourish collectively.
Well said
@@toxickgames1786 ty
Nah that isn’t the point
@@deanvanhamersveld4231 how do you interpret this song?
There can be no meaningful liberation under capitalism.
This is deep. The message is so strong, the beat is so sick, the depth of this is like art. Jay Z is top 3 ever. This is sick, and it's good.
If he's top 3 who are 1 and 2
@@SC-xt8lz pac, em
@@SC-xt8lz i said, top 3 all time. Meaning arguably on top 1, 2, 3 not, the third best. You misinterpreted it. It's like me saying he's one of the 3 best rappers of all time.
@@Xiaolongbaokid16 lol em will never have powerful songs like this
@@Xiaolongbaokid16 where's t.i. in this conversation
“Y’all think it’s boujee I’m like it’s fine, but I’m tryna sell you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99.”
So much there and I feel like that line alone isn’t talked about enough.
That's true because it's so literally wisdom , it's so cold in truth 🥶
The level of artistry is "INSANE"🔥
Yeah fam. Next level shit
100…next level indeed!
yes.
U ain't lying
Artistry?.. you mean a fifth grader drawing something
Correct me if wrong
To those who don’t know where the “I’m not black I’m OJ” quote came from .During Ojs football years , someone was telling him and other black athletes how important their voices are for black civil rights moments and why they must participate in civil rights .Oj replied saying “I’m oj I’m not black “
Source: OJ made in America Documentary
@suenosdefrijoles wasnt he wearing plastic gloves underneath
Oh now I get it
I still laugh at that all day that's my favorite 🤣 part of the 🎵🎶
I can still remember my parents saying that back then when he originally said it . 👌🆗️ 😆🤣😂😹
@@kaleahcollins4567 lmao I feel ya .
This songs shows on not only talented Jay is as a rapper, but also that he’s incredibly intelligent. More intelligent than most rappers.
He makes one song and he’s somehow enlightened or some shit lmfao you’re lying to yourself
ThatOne ZeldaFan I’m also looking at his net worth of $1B
@@thatonezeldafan5275 he's intelligent cuz he gave us RD, 4:44, the blueprint or the black album. Any of these albums could fit in hip hop top 100. Name a rapper who could do better
@@thatonezeldafan5275 Jay has been very wise for a very long time. But he understands people don't wanna hear too much at once and spoonfeeds gems to fans. He said it in an interview.
M.T.S The Shark which he can’t take with him to the other side!
this is the greatest music video i've ever saw
People missed the all point he is talking about even if you are a light skin ,dark skin,poor or rich black person you are still a black person you are still a «nigga» to them and OJ is representing some black people who try to run away from their “blackness” people who don’t want to be assimilated to black people. And he is giving money advice to the black community because most of the time they spend it on non essential things.For those who are offended by the way they draw the black people he did it on purpose for people to be shocked (and to remind us that was how they saw us before and that’s how they use to draw us).
@@Rtbj335yeah but sometimes we don’t need to always be sugarcoated we need a rough wake up but I respect your opinion
@@Rtbj335 cartoon is a old cartoon rip off from the 40s also a play on what he’s saying. If you knew Jay z you know he’s a subliminal guy and not someone who’s in your face with what he’s saying. The cartoon isn’t a slap in the face it’s a reminder of how people use to think and still think. Also it’s a reminder that not to long people actually made images like this.
@@Rtbj335 there are people still alive today who watched cartoons like the ones seen in the video as a kid. We can't just ignore problems that are in our day-to-day life. If you can't handle that then log off the internet
@@Rtbj335 What's racist about it? It literally just shows trully how it used to be in the America historically. If you get offended by something like that maybe not the cartoon is the problem bro
This was an amazing synopsis seriously.
I refuse to believe that this is three years old.
Edit : who's here during quarantine??
Edit 2: four years now, wtf
Same🤔
prod. by VENDETT4 time flies
@@Silvercharm5555 true man. It hasn't even been that long and it feels nostalgic.
Aas a good summer
Timeless
“Passing power to your people, it aint nothing realer”
~Nipsey Hussle
Real recognise real
story of diddy gonna go hard
Only hearing this now and realizing it was out a year ago.
How I feel? Dumbo.
Lol
Jimbo Jones honestly I thought this came out at least 5 years ago
Hahaha funny guys
Jimbo Jones ..... Jimbo Dumbo.....lol....just messing with you....Peace
im just hearing it 2day. woww
May this song bloom in charts once again!
May it never,he sexually abused the little girl ria
@@MarjorieWong-ym3ftWtf u talking about?
@@aaaaaaaaaa520 Jay Z is connected to the Diddler's freak off parties.
Are you living under a rock or something?
This is honestly a masterpiece
Such a classic
This is a new classic for me. Thank you Jay
Natural Dada O.Jay ? 😂😂
ehehehehehehe
This is Pure Art. This isn't music. This is more of a story to a old school beat.
music is art
Do you even know the point of this song
Yeah Jay Z did this!!!!! Pure truth too!
"I'm tryna give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99."
He's dropping life gems all throughout this entire album. Life advise. Financial advise. This isn't a Jay-Z album. This is a Shawn Carter album. One of his best. Grown folk rap.
Isaiah Chavez sounds like a scam
Isaiah Chavez 💯
Isaiah Chavez na he don't give a rat's ass about you
Isaiah Chavez - Preach ✊🏾💯
Hazardous Lazarus He dont have to give a fuck about u to give advise or message
I’m A Latino and over the past 5 years or so I have come back to this song for first verse. I think of my culture and Mexican Americans who have no sense of pride or appreciation for their family who work their ass off to come here to America. They turn their backs on it. They try to achieve some sort of approval from white america. Which they might think they do but will never realize that in their eyes they always still that🫘. SMH
"Ya'll on the 'gram holdin' money to your ear
There's a disconnect, we dont call that money over here"
my man nem 😂 lookin forward to those embarrassing raps
NemRaps bruh ur my favorite youtuber
Those are real lyrics. Way over the heads of Migos.
NemRaps preach
NemRaps Bruh I ain't kno u like Jay Z
"Y'all on the gram holdin money to yo ear there's a disconnect we don't call that money over here" this nigga dissed 90% of the era rappers we have today😂💀
DJ 254 kodak mostly 😂
Triple entendre don't even ask me how
M. StV how
DJ 254 mainly these instagram stunters
Lol He's telling the truth,that money phone stuff is corny
“You on the the gram holding money to your ear there’s a disconnect we don’t call that money over here”.
Will always cherish that message
Dia. Basically he’s not flexing his riches unlike most rappers today.
Hes saying that rappers flex all that advance money they get but what does it even matter when it's mostly all the labels making the real money....Jay gets his own money and never flashes it on media
Also a play on the holding money to ur ear like ur making a call with ur money but then he says there is a disconnect like a disconncting the phone call and then we dont call that money over here is another reference to call like phone call
I think he's referring to the average person here flashing a stack of 20s on Instagram that they made from either working a 9-5 or illegally. He's saying that whatever they made doesn't even count as money because it's nothing compared to what he's made through business deals. The disconnect he mentions restates the fact that the average person doesn't understand his motivations for making money. There's a misconception that he makes money in order to flaunt/enjoy it, so others do the same. He doesn't make money to flaunt; he makes money in order to strengthen his legacy.
That was my first thought on these lines.
People may have different opinions... here is my first thought as I watched the video. I thought it as black people refuse to invest their money and they hold it instead "behind their ear", money is worthless unless you use it for something. It makes sense as he earlier stated "this building was worth 2 million... now its worth 8 million" and the painting scene.
What he may be trying to convey is that (black) people are "dumb-o" because they do not invest their money, they hold it instead for useless crap. And that is why Jews are rich but not them.
I may be totally wrong, but this was my first thought
This is still relevant in 2024 all the images in this video this is our history thank you jay for putting a mirror up and letting us learn where we come from our history is painful and harsh let’s not keep sugarcoating the past like it didn’t happen
This song reminds me of a memory I never had
Travis Scott Only Days is the best Laflame project
Ayman Daij Nah
@@aymandaij rodeo
Ayman Daij
1. Rodeo
2. Days before rodeo
flame - true
The scene at 3:31 hits hard. The man walking out of the ship happy as can be, ready for freedom. Then taking a glance at what is around him... what is happening. He was manipulated into thinking he would be going to the free land.
Thanks I had my eyes closed when i was watching the video
@@elmongoose oh shit
@@kyele8501 me too man
Free as long as you dedicate 20 years of your life to schooling, work 40 hour weeks every week all year for 40 years then yes, you’ll have about 10-15 years of freedom assuming you still have the energy and health at 65.
@@AJSchnell Damn you woke woke
I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man. -realest shii
FACTS..💯💯💯💯💯
Sounds similar to E-Dubble - Hampden Park
Obulus Cisco hits bluntttt
I feel like the fact that black people were slaves and so masters would sell them at auction meant he's the business. Oh my... That... Was... Deep...
As a black person I swear that hit me
when does it even say that boi
Woke Foke. 🙌🏾✊🏾 Kat
That’s what made me remember the song 🤣😭
are we bad people for collectively coming here straight after OJ passed?
Listened to Virginia by Clipse just now as well
😅
Nah, we ain't killing nobody.
No
Naw 😅
This the realest song to drop in a WHILE
Premiere Productions only a few tracks are like this. The only ones I can of now are the Blacker the Berry, and High for Hours.
it's a few songs on my page somewhat like this
Premiere Productions ...okay
*Lil God - most wanted* .
Premiere Productions have u even heard the bucket list project by saba or any song Joey badass is on and don't get me started on jcole
People get mad over the stereotypical cartoon. GOOD. That was the point. Since Disney, Warner Bros etc used them all of the time.
Tashayla Borden not disney warner brothers look up coal black and de seben dwarfs if u want racist shit even disney wouldnt ever pull
Tashayla Borden among others
summer stevens u tell them sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really Disney, the worst he did was Song of The South. Honestly it was the Warner Bros who made a lot of racist cartoons.
More like Warner bros. Look at the old bugs bunny cartoons from the 40's haha. I can't recall any old disney cartoons like this.
However, to be fair, the white gloves on old disney characters are rumored to be inspired by minstrel shows
As a teen i thought Jay-Z was just flaunting, as an adult now i realised he's giving us advice
I love the jazzy old school type beat.
Do you know any this type of musics?
Yalım Cinisli J.cole ville mentality
This was actually sampled off of Nina Simone's "4 Women". I think he did a good job, too.
Corefront Games, Yes! BRILLIANTLY sampled. Especially when going back to the original Nina Simone version and hearing how they piece together her lyrics to make the background for this track. Super super DOPE!
Yalım Cinisli jazzhop, chillhop, start with j dilla
“im not black im oj” yall must realize how deep that is
yeah
Same
RancidKari explain please
@@smoothwater11 If my understandment is correct the fact that OJ Simpson said that, literally has him reject his own race and just "accept" his role as a piece of meat for the consumption of white people.
Gerardo Aguas-Baterísta/Drummer damm thanks
Whoever animated this is a legend
Fr
why so racist animation tho
@@drinkingcontainercookedpas959 in which matched the message of the lyrics clearly
It was me
@@drinkingcontainercookedpas959 what
I don't give a fizzy whatcha say bout Jay he be spittin facts ya heard.
Powerful. Genius. Classic.
Mike Noir they were called the uncensored eleven!!! that's exactly what i said!
Blowing up the n-word? Never "powerful. genius. classic." Sorry, never that!
Educate2Empower Inc. this is about black history he's teaching us about our history . And maybe if "whites" back in the day didn't call us that or treated us like that. He wouldn't probably have to say it but it don't matter because that's how "whites" look at us anyway. So before you judge him get his message first !
You just don't understand the concept.
Educate2Empower Inc. I'm sorry my friend, but if that's all you took from this video then you clearly missed out or didn't understand all of the quirky points that were made in the video.
In all honesty the animation is amazing.
Word up historical
Colora Blue! weq
Colora Blue! wew
A flashback to black face minstrel show
I prefer this style of animation over today’s CGI. (not talking about the racist depictions obviously)
"I'm not black, I'm OJ
....Okay"
The complete doneness he has even in the cartoon
yes
What does doneness mean?
Yeah what is “doneness”
GRAKATA it means hes done with that shit. He's fed up.
Exactly
This track 🔥🔥🔥🔥
i've been listening to this song like 5 times.
i'm not even black
but god damn it's a good message.
Fucking same
No one said you had to be Black.
As long as you don't try to sing along with the hook you good😁👍
@@beejay271 Im also a minority am I allowed to lol
ya not listening, ya vibin. it's NOT a good message.
between the lyrics and the imagery, this piece is addressing directly how the western ideal of past slavery has lead us to the current systemic issues of relating to racism in this country. it doesn't matter the color of your skin to get that.
Jay-Z got no answers, he's just taking a full frontal attack at "all lives matter", "the civil war was about state's rights not slavery", "keep politics out of football", and so on. it's not a good message, he's not saying everything is ok, he's not saying how far we've come as a society, he's not saying the issues of racism and antisemitism have brought NY together.
he's saying there's a problem. there's always been a problem. and long after Jay-Z gone, there still gonna be a problem.
the only good in that message is that he isn't turning a blind eye towards those scars. he's forcing you to look....but that ain't "good" either.
........unless you feel warm and safe in the violence of this systemic racist imagery burned into our countries history from slavery, to Jim Crow laws, to All Lives Matter. i guess if you need to point out your race, you vibe on that too.
Congratulations Jay Z! You are leading The 60th Grammy Awards with 8 nominees you're legend and I hope you win some.
I think he'll win at least 3
Dayvion Carter he will win album of the year
Christopher Mulvey nah kendrik will
if u are wondering the ''my skin is black'' is from nina simone - four women song
Umer Ali it's a sample
I just realized nina simone is the lady in the piano
Zugy wow im 52 did not know nina
Umer Ali
Great comments
Loner Nation animated music video inspired by The Story Of Oj (on channel) ericdelshun.com
This song goes over the head of so many people. Financial freedom is real freedom.
This is Jay-Z's best song. It is critically important to every African American. This is Jay-Z talking the talk *after walking the walk*
You are exactly right. And guess what, it hardly got any props or media when it dropped cuz I am just now finding it due to my work on racist cartoons by Disney. Just remember Bro, Disney was the biggest and worst offender out dem all while portraying themselves as pro-kid & pro-family. Only white families as now we can see light of how they brainwashed us as kids as these cartoons ran in full until 1967! Rem, don't spend your money on ANYTHING Disney as they should be boycotted forever & shut down Son!
African American 😂, we are BLACK AMERICANS 👌
@@timotheewilliams9086 🥱🥱🥱🥱😴😴😴
@@timotheewilliams9086 OKAY..
minus the fact that he portrays white people as the oppressors when africa is the one who sold all their people as slaves for money to america.
the imagery, the lyrics...its perfect.
Don't understand how People are Hating this, Jay is Possibly Giving you a Thousand dollars Advice, all you Got to do is Listen Carefully
People don’t like the truth it’s that simple
I’m taking 500k now than dinner with him. I can listen to his music in due time.
Advice for niggas like me
Who hating
Explain to us all how he’s giving us this advice (no hate this song still slaps)
Jay gave us a history lesson in four minutes more than anything we were taught in School history books
For real
Moral of the story, get financially literate.
Geo Ivery and take risks
To help ur people
recite this prayer continusly a maximum out loud or whispering : very healing : Morrnahs Prayer " Divine creator, father, mother, son as one…If I, my family, relatives and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness…Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies and vibrations, and transmute these unwanted energies into pure light….And it is done. "
Diligence and willingness to take risk are the two single biggest factors within your control when determining your financial success.
At this rate, Jay Z ain't even rapping lol.. He’s just talking. Which makes this song go even more hard.
fr
This song's like that old man you go see occasionally for advice... Timeless piece🔥💯
I just shed some tears.... This brought back some memories from back in the day in music class and sports day.... When I was a young gal back in the day, Hair is all white now homies have grown old, My fam went, the people in the school went and I sit back and think about all the times we would run away from class and skip and talk about stalkers and stalk and talk, I would remember those days sitting at home waiting and the immense anticipation for the next day as well as the arrival to arrive at school as all the memories are in the shades of the video.... All black and white...
He giving you knowledge he just said "I'm trying to give you 1M$ worth of game for 9.99" listen to his wisdom🔥⚠️🔥
Donovan Mclean-Smith
Thanks mate. Am wondering why everyone is fight over race yet the man just gifted us with knowledge. I have to assume that everyone fighting over race because of this song is either a child who can't really grasp the meaning or they are just ignorant. I tip my hat off to JAY-Z on this one. It sure is a worthwhile investment for $9.99.
what does it means when he say that tho ?
Alicia Traylor he's referring to tidal
Donovan Mclean-Smith Yall go check that Nigga Culture out ft Dr Wesley Muhammad ruclips.net/video/w6Y58uzSU5g/видео.html
This ain't a song...it's a damn manual.
Word, I hope everybody listening gets this message. Jay really be telling how to mot waste your money and accumulate wealth.
He never left the streets he still there raising people through this
The amount of facts in this song is insane
@Steve Edwards the word is censored .. juice
JAY-Z's energy on this track is insane! With a little guidance from the video on my channel about how artists are blowing up, he is now getting the attention he deserves.
i lost my hero
"Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood,That's how you rinse it" preach it, true words
i think he says rent sit.
How much you think drug dealers make.. seriously. If he couldnt buy a block selling all the drugs he said he sold.. fuck make you think shit will happen in this day and age.
But dont they make money by selling drugs in the same neighbourhood ?
No the issue is the money they make from drug money just goes back into the drug business. They don't realise the amount of money they're fucking with and how it could easily be invested into the black community to internally generate wealth. Green is still green everywhere.
How exactly do you use drug money to buy property??? Also how much is a neighborhood???????
“Please don’t die over the neighborhood
That ya momma renting “
Wish they understood that
What is ment by that? Sorry for my Bad english
Bereket beefing over neighborhoods (gangs)
@@michealtesfaye5391 its okay i don't understand Ebonics either.
Ain't hard to understand Bruh
@@JimHerbertOutdoors so? U hate on us? Cuz ppl's skin?
Today Jay-Z is announced as the first Billionaire in Hip-hop
Ever wonder why Jay-Z owns all the property in America? Selling music riddled with racial slurs and profanities to a primarily white audience, mostly at black peoples expense. That's how he did it.
Max Lurya what?
@@maxlurya4227 This is an example of how to completely ignore a song's meaning and just get offended because it says "nigga" and has a typically offensive drawing of black people and completely ignoring the deeper meaning of why
Dr dre was 😑
@@maxlurya4227 Nigga means an ignorant person, it's not always used as a racial slur. Still, most people agree it's still a bad word nonetheless
Please god dont let this man end up being a freak like diddy. I'll never be able to look at art like this the same.
who was IN the parties
Nah Jay Z 10000000% worse than diddy.