They on the same team. That metaphor is poor and you disrespected that movie and this track by comparing the two. I think there should be hip hop teachers all over the internet correcting your essays. Imagine if ?uestlove instilled some advice on your insights and gave you a B minus?
"You cried all your tears out, and one page of your diary can tell you what your year about, thats a lonely place." - that was one of the deepest lines ive heard in a long time. Jay Elec is the truth.
I believe that more of of these seemingly rare gems exists than the corporate airwaves will allow the masses to believe. Music is power=>hiphop is truly a language universal=>the suits in the big offices don't want empowerment amongst the impacted commoners (the core fans)=>said big suits make sure to promote bullsh!t that confuses=>the mainstream rap game in 2016 and beyond.
JayBeaTz3000 not by me. Section 80 was good. OD was cool. Ive heard a lot of singles that sound terrible and kendrick lamar lp was not mastered well. Also his carter 3 redo sounded trash.
What other rapper starts a verse with “Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad, it was a struggle everyday not to regret your past?” Thanks Jay Elec
my favorite bar of the track. Also like 'I was lost like simba after the death of muffasa, no hog no mere cat, hakuna_matata by day-time, but at night i fought to hold my tears back. how great ft chance the rapper
fmuniya I spit on a Tidal it’s tidal waves, I spit on a Apple and kill a worm, a fire in Cali will swallow a valley for every African village burned...
Jays verse is so good, one of the best ive ever heard. "im just a sleepwalking robot thats out of gear, i stick my nose out the water to the sky for air, Lama sabachthani, im tryna see the light but the devil tryna blind me, the grim reaper walkin with a shovel right behind me, tryna introduce me to the untimely, unkindly"
[Verse 1: Jay Electronica] Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad It was a struggle every day not to regret your past Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag And you was speeding down the highway when your threshold pa** When you cried all your tears out And one page of your diary can tell you what your year 'bout That's a lonely place My mama said “Son, why such a lonely face?” Because the pressure's on me Plus I feel like Bill Murray trapped in Punxsutawney Dr. Phil told me that I can sell crack or hit the army Look at where we live at Tell me you don't hear that Tell me you don't feel that Show me to the way out Tell me when pastor Raphael gon' reveal that If not, man I'm outta here I'm just a sleep walking robot that's outta gear I stick my nose out the water to the sky for air Lama sabachthani I'm trying to see light but the devil trying to blind me The grim reaper walking with his shovel right behind me Trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly I Walk the line finely like Johnny Cash But I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past So I spark another L then I go to the pad [Bridge] [Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar] Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad I'm a thinker not a drinker but still I hennessy drag Alcohol numbs the pain like with novacane stabs In your arteries pardon me but my city go mad Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em Colors corresponding to gangs upon us Common corrupted crip & piru's cripple the city Triple the crime, Bible nor the Qur'an can save Welcome don't be afraid, your city similar right? Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights Stare at the sky wonder will you live to see 25? I'm 22 at 20 I knew I was against the odds This kid named Jonathan was monitorin' His momma & sister, his older cousin he honoured him Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishin' To Johnny he might have been a modern day rider then He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member Pull out a mac 11, now his eyes is big Fascinated by mayhem, what's his cousin to say now? He wanna be from the hood that he's from and thats one More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC Crip crazy, rocking matching t-shirts that says “the hood made me” No love just spread slugs thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy Now shorty do-wap, holdin a ou-wap, hanging with rah rah's with blah blah's That sit on the block catching fades, hitting licks, going on missions with lunatics A 9th grade menace thugging for 6 months, smoking like 6 blunts An hour the power of banging, he was walking… *3 Gun Shots* Little Johnny [Outro: Malcolm X] I think you'll find, sir, that there will come a time When black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough to think for themselves As other humans are intellectually independent enough to think for themselves Then the black man will think like a black man and he will feel for other black people And this new thinking and feeling will cause black people to stick together And then at that point you'll have a situation Where when you attack one black man, you are attacking all black men And this type of black thinking will cause all black people to stick together And this type of thinking also will bring an end To the brutality inflicted upon black people by (black people) And it is the only thing that will bring an end to it No federal court, state court or city court will bring an end to it It's something that the black man has to bring an end to
jay electronica is not a "rapper." Nay, he is a poet. He does not have an "act" nor does his work speak to a cultural fad or a trend. This is timeless. This music is a mixture of some of the best combinations of words that our language has to offer. This will live forever. In a 100 years the people will need light for guidance and THIS music will be the source. Not rack city. Not twerking trap lords. But this.. thank you jay electronica. I know your new album will be nothing short of incredible.
Anyone interested, this song was originally just Jay Electronica spitting on an unfinished track with a bunch of speech samples from 2007. Kendrick dropped his version on one of his mixtapes from 2010. This is both merged together. Also, IIRC the beat was released by itself on one of Just Blaze's beat tapes from 2005.
If you're having a tough time in life and need to listen to rap you can relate to - jay's verse. It's got that depressed with a hint of hope type of feel to it - that's how I feel right now.
Jay's verse is Godly....'look at where we live at....tell me you don't hear that, tell me you don't feel that, show me the way out, tell me when Pastor Rafael gon' reveal that?'....chills
I've waited since 07/08 for this brother to drop and I'm still waiting. His music is still needed by the culture. I love this shit..come on brother and drop that album.
***** I knew you'd attack the weakest link in the lineup. Notice you aint say shit about the other emcees. Truth is mixtape Drake has dropped some of the illest/unique bars EVER. Rumors are that he ghost-wrote most shit on Carter III, and that album is straight legendary. That really isn't farfetched and I believe he did. Drake maybe a young Garnier Fructis ass fool but you cannot deny both him and Weezy absolutely raped the game in 2008 - 2012. And the nigga essentially created his own punchline style of rap (hashtag rap). Jay E is great but saying he's top 5 is ignorant.
You're ignorant. You just take lyrics at face value, you don't know shit about the intricacies of substance-rap. Listen to songs like Sing For The Moment by Eminem or Failure by Lupe. Or Lose Yourself by Em and the same freestyle by Lupe. Kendrick's shit too is damn near mind-blowing. Or anything by motherfuckin NAS Those emcees you mentioned are pioneers but can not hang with the fuckin heavyweights of today. You know nothing.
millachipmunk True indeed. If someone can add Big L on a top 5 list and leave off Rakim, their list is nonsense. And Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Black Thought, Common, JayZ, Big Pun, Andre 3000, B.I.G. and Jay Electronica should be able to make the list on somehow as ties at whatever spot. Drake aint nothing but a Kanye clone. And if you goin off the strength of his mixtapes; then you need to throw Papoose in the mix. Same style and same type of punchline delivery. This is just coming from an old school cat that calls gats toolies...
I'm here from Donda sadly but better to be here late then never. Damn I was Kendrick number one fan I knew all his features but never heard this this was an ear game for me
Its crazy how people have critisized him for years for not putting out an album...yet now days these dudes doing the same thing...droipping singles here n there but not always an album n nobody says a word...Jay Elec that dude regardless
I listened for that part when I read your comment. That was Malcolm X. Funny how he didn't live past his 40's and yet he had answers to problems we face today 50 some odd years later...Amazing how his mind worked. Brilliant.
Say what yall want, but Mr. Lamar can spit dope rhythms. Dude is dope, now he is going to survive. On the other hand that mumble shit can be like Ether James, at last.
Tha4thWonder DNA, YAH, LOYALTY, HUMBLE, LOVE, even XXX all are way shallower than any of his older songs except for No Make Up and Real. Do you honestly disagree?
@@counterstrike1110 Whole heartedly disagree, I'm wondering if you even know what shallow means. YAH, he discusses his place in the cosmos and whether or not a generational curse has plagued him and his people, DNA is raw lyricism, craft, anger and frustration against those who explicitly hate him and blacks as a whole but proclaims that we have royalty in our DNA. XXX is profound and highlights the hypocracy in his standing as a influential figure, he may preach a message of tolerance and nonviolence to kids but in his own city there may be someone he wants revenge against. Theres depth to each of these songs and I could go on and on. Just because the music on DAMN. is more accessible and utilizes a more trendy and modern style in its beat selection and just because hes not "underground" anymore doesn't mean he's compromised his artistry, in fact its the contrary he continues to evolve and elevate his art and time continues.
Life is illmatic = Life is ill-willing??? because matic would mean ''Will'' as in for e.g. automatic = self-willing Anyone else derive a different meaning?
Yes, and Nas - illmatic (the album). Double entendre right there. The “illmatic” tracklist has been said to be a life story that most of us relate to. (“Life’s a Bitch”, “The World Is Yours”, “One Love”, “Represent”, and so on)
The issue is this.... Talib Kwele, Mos Def, and Common been on the lyrical mountian... but the hip hop community was not ready for solid rap, (like dark chocolate), it took understanding society from ground up. Listen to songs like "Respiration" word for word...one of the greatest hip hop songs ever made. Kendrick and Jay are next gen to these guys.
How? He hasn't surpassed Section 80 even....🤡 Mainstream music is garbage either way which Kendrick is a part of & Contributing to. I'd argue tho that Jay electronica.. All his body of work prior to signing with the record label is superior to section 80. Lupe fiasco, Eyedea, K Rino destroy him in terms of lyrics, subject matter & Impact.
Johnny don't want to go to school no more. Johnny said books ain't cool no more. Johnny wants to be a rapper like his big cousin. Johnny caught a body yesterday out hustling.
Could listen to that intro all day Reminds of a time where times were simpler. Sitting on the porch sipping your hooch with your loved ones But here’s the irony, it’s NEVER been simpler for African Americans EVER I sip tonight for my people Before me and to those who reign once I’m gone
Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad It was a struggle every day not to regret your past Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag And you be speeding down the highway when your threshold pass When you cried all your tears out And one page of your diary can tell you what your year bout That's a lonely place My mama said son why such a lonely face Because the pressures (depression) on me Plus I feel like bill murray trapped in Punxsutawney Dr phil told me that I can sell crack or hit the army Look at where we live at Tell me you don't hear that Tell me you don't feel that Show me to the way out Tell me when pastor raphael gon' reveal that If not man I'm outta here I'm just a sleep walking robot that's outta gear I stick my nose out the water to the sky for air Lama sabachthani (translates to 'why have you forsaken me') Trying to see light but the devil trying to blind me The grim reaper walking with a shovel right behind me Trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly Walk the line finely like johnny cash But I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past So I spark another l then I go to the pad.
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad I'm a thinker not a drinker but still I Hennessy drag Alcohol numbs the pain like with novacane stabs In your arteries pardon me but my city go mad Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em Colors corresponding to gangs upon us Common corrupted crip & piru's cripple the city Triple the crime, Bible nor the Qur'an can save Welcome don't be afraid, your city similar right? Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights Stare at the sky wonder will you live to see 25? I'm 22 at 20 I knew I was against the odds This kid named Jonathan was monitorin' His momma & sister, his older cousin he honoured him Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishin' To Johnny he might have been a modern day rider then He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member Pull out a mac 11, now his eyes is big Fascinated by mayhem, what's his cousin to say now? He wanna be from the hood that he's from and that's one More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC Crip crazy, rocking matching t-shirts that says "the hood made me" No love just spread slugs thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy Now shorty do-wap, holdin a ou-wap, hanging with rah rah's with blah blah's That sit on the block catching fades, hitting licks, going on missions with lunatics A 9th grade menace thugging for 6 months, smoking like 6 blunts An hour the power of banging, he was walking Little Johnny
this body of work Jay is truly amazing,the formed together of both you and K dot even if made in different times makes a person like myself look,see and understand that what faces us in this day and age can change. And you are not the only one who thinks it can. stay true to your mind,hart and soul. SAGE.
Jay Electronica track feat. Kendrick Lamar? As the joker told batman, This is when an immoveable object meets an unstoppable force.
They on the same team. That metaphor is poor and you disrespected that movie and this track by comparing the two. I think there should be hip hop teachers all over the internet correcting your essays. Imagine if ?uestlove instilled some advice on your insights and gave you a B minus?
Physics ahoy
I lightweight understand the metaphoroc reference. He's just saying ain't no stop whatever flow this is
That’s us
@@ahmadsakallah9460 man stfu with that bullshit.
"You cried all your tears out, and one page of your diary can tell you what your year about, thats a lonely place." - that was one of the deepest lines ive heard in a long time. Jay Elec is the truth.
its good to see people diggin this type of music. I don't feel alone in this world. =) real hiphop
Trust me brother, you ain't the only.
yea til we walk outside again
oooo old school fwendz
in all truth i dig this lol
I believe that more of of these seemingly rare gems exists than the corporate airwaves will allow the masses to believe. Music is power=>hiphop is truly a language universal=>the suits in the big offices don't want empowerment amongst the impacted commoners (the core fans)=>said big suits make sure to promote bullsh!t that confuses=>the mainstream rap game in 2016 and beyond.
Kendrick goes hard. One of the few artist that I like their underground terribly mastered songs as well as there major releases.
His stuff before signing with interscope has been praised for the engineering .....
JayBeaTz3000 not by me. Section 80 was good. OD was cool. Ive heard a lot of singles that sound terrible and kendrick lamar lp was not mastered well. Also his carter 3 redo sounded trash.
@@MrEherndon5 your hairline is terribly Mastered lol.
@@brashadcarr6759 dude it was 7 years ago cmon
@@brashadcarr6759 lmfao
What other rapper starts a verse with “Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad, it was a struggle everyday not to regret your past?” Thanks Jay Elec
The grim reaper walking with a shovel right behind me trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly...
i walk the line finely like johnny
cash but I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past so I spark another L and I go to the pad
my favorite bar of the track. Also like 'I was lost like simba after the death of muffasa, no hog no mere cat, hakuna_matata by day-time, but at night i fought to hold my tears back. how great ft chance the rapper
G shit family
fmuniya I spit on a Tidal it’s tidal waves, I spit on a Apple and kill a worm, a fire in Cali will swallow a valley for every African village burned...
Jays verse is so good, one of the best ive ever heard. "im just a sleepwalking robot thats out of gear, i stick my nose out the water to the sky for air, Lama sabachthani, im tryna see the light but the devil tryna blind me, the grim reaper walkin with a shovel right behind me, tryna introduce me to the untimely, unkindly"
One, if not the his best verses ever. I can relate to Jay for real sht was fire. Two of the best in the culture. Perfectly composed.
🔥🔥🔥
That shit is golden. So gifted with the pen.
Jay has so many masterpieces, they’re hard to come by, but if you dig deep enough there’s a whole museum of them 🖼 🖼🖼🖼 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rip Brotha Minister Malcolm. We love you and miss you and hear you.🙏🏾✊🏾
#whathaphukizaJelectronica 💯
For everybody asking: I mixed Jay electronica - dear moleskine with kendrick lamar - little johnny.
Hope yall enjoy
literally nobody asking
Banana Phone You mean you've got nuts AND a vagina? lol.
Banana Phone Admitting it is half the battle, son. Hahahaha...You're not very good at this, are you?
Futureworld X are you jealous?
So kendrick replied to jay elect on little Johnny cause started his verse the same way which made me believe the song was real
[Verse 1: Jay Electronica]
Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad
It was a struggle every day not to regret your past
Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag
And you was speeding down the highway when your threshold pa**
When you cried all your tears out
And one page of your diary can tell you what your year 'bout
That's a lonely place
My mama said “Son, why such a lonely face?”
Because the pressure's on me
Plus I feel like Bill Murray trapped in Punxsutawney
Dr. Phil told me that I can sell crack or hit the army
Look at where we live at
Tell me you don't hear that
Tell me you don't feel that
Show me to the way out
Tell me when pastor Raphael gon' reveal that
If not, man I'm outta here
I'm just a sleep walking robot that's outta gear
I stick my nose out the water to the sky for air
Lama sabachthani
I'm trying to see light but the devil trying to blind me
The grim reaper walking with his shovel right behind me
Trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly
I Walk the line finely like Johnny Cash
But I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past
So I spark another L then I go to the pad
[Bridge]
[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
I'm a thinker not a drinker but still I hennessy drag
Alcohol numbs the pain like with novacane stabs
In your arteries pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em
Colors corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted crip & piru's cripple the city
Triple the crime, Bible nor the Qur'an can save
Welcome don't be afraid, your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights
Stare at the sky wonder will you live to see 25?
I'm 22 at 20 I knew I was against the odds
This kid named Jonathan was monitorin'
His momma & sister, his older cousin he honoured him
Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishin'
To Johnny he might have been a modern day rider then
He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a mac 11, now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem, what's his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that he's from and thats one
More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy, rocking matching t-shirts that says “the hood made me”
No love just spread slugs thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy
Now shorty do-wap, holdin a ou-wap, hanging with rah rah's with blah blah's
That sit on the block catching fades, hitting licks, going on missions with lunatics
A 9th grade menace thugging for 6 months, smoking like 6 blunts
An hour the power of banging, he was walking… *3 Gun Shots*
Little Johnny
[Outro: Malcolm X]
I think you'll find, sir, that there will come a time
When black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
As other humans are intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
Then the black man will think like a black man and he will feel for other black people
And this new thinking and feeling will cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you'll have a situation
Where when you attack one black man, you are attacking all black men
And this type of black thinking will cause all black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also will bring an end
To the brutality inflicted upon black people by (black people)
And it is the only thing that will bring an end to it
No federal court, state court or city court will bring an end to it
It's something that the black man has to bring an end to
Thanks
Thank
I’m trying to see the light, but the devil tryna blind me “
jay electronica is not a "rapper." Nay, he is a poet. He does not have an "act" nor does his work speak to a cultural fad or a trend. This is timeless. This music is a mixture of some of the best combinations of words that our language has to offer. This will live forever. In a 100 years the people will need light for guidance and THIS music will be the source. Not rack city. Not twerking trap lords. But this.. thank you jay electronica. I know your new album will be nothing short of incredible.
twerkin trap lords?? lmaooooo
...He's a rapper.
Parker Thom Was that seriously the best you could do.
Was that ugly child the best your parents could do? Wear a mask from now on you monster
Parker Thom A'ight, kid.
Jay Elect ⚡️+ K Dot + Malcolm X 🔥🔥🔥
Anyone interested, this song was originally just Jay Electronica spitting on an unfinished track with a bunch of speech samples from 2007. Kendrick dropped his version on one of his mixtapes from 2010. This is both merged together. Also, IIRC the beat was released by itself on one of Just Blaze's beat tapes from 2005.
+MasterJaceBeats Thank you big brotha
Nathan Lewkowitz Compton State of Mind
Song is called Little Johnny
+MasterJaceBeats u mean Jay wasnt even listening to this beat?
+UTlonghorns32 word
also captain murphy (flying lotus) used it in the ritual
“I’m trying to see the light but the devil trying to blind me” Jay Electronica
This is absolute genius in every way.
So much so that I don't believe most of the Hip-Hop "Fans" are even deserving of poetic magnificence like this!!!
Yes sir
@@jerryhubbard3007 ruclips.net/video/KC1AOSZnlq4/видео.html
If you're having a tough time in life and need to listen to rap you can relate to - jay's verse. It's got that depressed with a hint of hope type of feel to it - that's how I feel right now.
One of my favorite Jay Electronica songs. Truly a masterpiece.
their alot better jay e songs out there, everyone needs to hop off kendrick's nutts. he's mediocre
louis cipher chill dawg, he's far from mediocre.
Damn why you tubers so aggressive cuh. Bishes love the stache
fell off? you're high as hell. hatin' ass.
louis cipher BOI
I found this when i was 14 i didn’t know my future self was sending me a message I’m 23 now this is an affirmation
is that not a premonition?
My Negus
Aquaticspastic P no he’s affirming what he believed at the age of 14. Times passed but the concept is still the same
Same
i have the same experience when i was 17, 18, 19 etc. im 24 now realised i was receiving messages from now
A Jay electronic and black thought song would do my soul justice
Jay's verse is Godly....'look at where we live at....tell me you don't hear that, tell me you don't feel that, show me the way out, tell me when Pastor Rafael gon' reveal that?'....chills
malcolm at the end... too powerful #2016
To me that's the most real thing Malcolm ever said
2024 still enjoying this. Man how time flies.
One of my favorite songs of all time. Possibly number one
Lama sabachthani
Oh...my...BasedGod...Jay Electronica and Kendrick Lamar on this beat is just PERFECTION!!
I think the infuriating thing about listening to Jay is that I really have to dig through RUclips just to find his music.
Ilistray it's part of his allure, his mystique. It's what makes him so special
@@jansennewman9 bullshit. He's just lazy.
@@cbchansey6866 naaaahhh, the man literally TOOK KATE. He's the closest "public" figure I've heard of that's gotten mad close to the pindar.
@@417hzAday naaaah, this man literally assassinated his own career before it even started. Fuck is you talking about
@@cbchansey6866 still think the same?
This hits different after all these years! We’re finally getting the album. #2020
De La Soul - Sunshine. But Jay kills it on anything and everything! Jay, when you gonna drop that verse? Man you're taking long!
Both did justice to this track,but Kendrick....Goddamn!!
one of my favorite records Unofficial/mashups of all time...i can say this now without shame
🙏🏾
This is why I love hip hop.
thank you Kendrick lamar, for not only beeing so dope. but for showing me Jay Electronica
Timeless music....thank you Jay Electronica
shot out to Kendrick for the pac rah rah reference "how old are you?" "I'm eleven"
old comment but I been bumpin MATW alot lately and Outlaw prolly my fav song on the album
Dallas
This Song & A Blunt Is Life No Cap, Ill Forever Love This Song. Kdot Snapped
Bro Jay did (and still does) it different. Need more from you soon brodie
KDOT X JAY ELECTRONICA = FIRE COLLAB. BLACK BRILLIANCE
I've waited since 07/08 for this brother to drop and I'm still waiting. His music is still needed by the culture. I love this shit..come on brother and drop that album.
William Teague its now been 10 years dude lol
Keep waiting. Greatest waste of potential
Jay Elec is too dope. If you don't think he's top 5 today you're crazy.
Eminem, Nas, Big L, Kendrick, Lupe, Immortal Technique, Drake (mixtape Drake, dude has ill bars)
I don't see where Jay E would fit in her bruh...
***** I knew you'd attack the weakest link in the lineup. Notice you aint say shit about the other emcees.
Truth is mixtape Drake has dropped some of the illest/unique bars EVER. Rumors are that he ghost-wrote most shit on Carter III, and that album is straight legendary. That really isn't farfetched and I believe he did. Drake maybe a young Garnier Fructis ass fool but you cannot deny both him and Weezy absolutely raped the game in 2008 - 2012.
And the nigga essentially created his own punchline style of rap (hashtag rap). Jay E is great but saying he's top 5 is ignorant.
You're ignorant. You just take lyrics at face value, you don't know shit about the intricacies of substance-rap.
Listen to songs like Sing For The Moment by Eminem or Failure by Lupe. Or Lose Yourself by Em and the same freestyle by Lupe. Kendrick's shit too is damn near mind-blowing.
Or anything by motherfuckin NAS
Those emcees you mentioned are pioneers but can not hang with the fuckin heavyweights of today.
You know nothing.
NahDudeFkThat I like your opinions. But if you're talking about substance I don't see how you can NOT include Jay Electronica as one of the best.
millachipmunk True indeed. If someone can add Big L on a top 5 list and leave off Rakim, their list is nonsense. And Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Black Thought, Common, JayZ, Big Pun, Andre 3000, B.I.G. and Jay Electronica should be able to make the list on somehow as ties at whatever spot. Drake aint nothing but a Kanye clone. And if you goin off the strength of his mixtapes; then you need to throw Papoose in the mix. Same style and same type of punchline delivery. This is just coming from an old school cat that calls gats toolies...
ASE......
✊🏽💋🔥💯🎶
This is art this is feelings. Meaning in music is so needed nowadays salute to these two great artists!.
I swear I can relate to Jay's verse so much helps me get thru some hard times
Kendrick is very lucky to work with Jay Electronica , this should be live.
Jay is just different his rapping is more like poetry dude is deep for sure one of my favorite rappers
RIP LiL Johnny !! This song just goes toooo deepp
This beat would heal this country, if they would listen
I'm here from Donda sadly but better to be here late then never. Damn I was Kendrick number one fan I knew all his features but never heard this this was an ear game for me
2017.... still one of realest rap song ever created 💯
#Facts!!!
All of Kendrick's Music has a recurring theme.Everything connects with him.I cant wait to see how progresses after Damn.
Its crazy how people have critisized him for years for not putting out an album...yet now days these dudes doing the same thing...droipping singles here n there but not always an album n nobody says a word...Jay
Elec that dude regardless
People are spoiled.
Na Bi BRO NOBDOH SPOILED WE BEEN WAITING 10 FUCKIN
I listened for that part when I read your comment. That was Malcolm X. Funny how he didn't live past his 40's and yet he had answers to problems we face today 50 some odd years later...Amazing how his mind worked. Brilliant.
Say what yall want, but Mr. Lamar can spit dope rhythms. Dude is dope, now he is going to survive. On the other hand that mumble shit can be like Ether James, at last.
Jay needs to hurry up with his album. Been waiting for a minute now.
Greatest Hip-Hop song ever!!!
Jay Electronica is whats needed in hip-hop right now. Need more music like this farealz
This track is so good man 🔥☄🌅
I don't know what people are talking about I think Jay Electronica got it on this one... his flow is too smooth!
Real recognize real.
Jay Electronica is one of the greatest for sure.
Damn this collab is fire. I miss the old Kendrick Lamar
KingLos Same Kendrick exists, just more commercial more often.
crazy how he goes from something as deep as this song to something as shallow as DAMN
@@counterstrike1110 Lmao, DAMN is shallow? What in the world. Swear mfers and just talk and don't listen.
Tha4thWonder DNA, YAH, LOYALTY, HUMBLE, LOVE, even XXX all are way shallower than any of his older songs except for No Make Up and Real. Do you honestly disagree?
@@counterstrike1110 Whole heartedly disagree, I'm wondering if you even know what shallow means. YAH, he discusses his place in the cosmos and whether or not a generational curse has plagued him and his people, DNA is raw lyricism, craft, anger and frustration against those who explicitly hate him and blacks as a whole but proclaims that we have royalty in our DNA. XXX is profound and highlights the hypocracy in his standing as a influential figure, he may preach a message of tolerance and nonviolence to kids but in his own city there may be someone he wants revenge against. Theres depth to each of these songs and I could go on and on. Just because the music on DAMN. is more accessible and utilizes a more trendy and modern style in its beat selection and just because hes not "underground" anymore doesn't mean he's compromised his artistry, in fact its the contrary he continues to evolve and elevate his art and time continues.
Listening to this five years later and it still is one of the most special mixes I have ever heard since dear scar tissue. I love u all!!!!!
great Norah Jones sample by JUST BLAZE
this aint no norah jones sample
yes it is, look it up
Bayeté - Free Angela look it up bruhh
Boogie Mashina Norah Jones - Seven Years, look that up. We're referring to two different parts of the song. Just used both samples.
stan clark no he didnt mate...norah jones song is similar but its not the sampled part..u are most def wrong..
This is SICK! Some of my favourite artists. This is real hip hop.
Kendrick Lamar killed Dat shit
This is a real tight mix! Two of my favorite storytelling poets! Thanks for making this!
Life is illmatic = Life is ill-willing??? because matic would mean ''Will'' as in for e.g. automatic = self-willing
Anyone else derive a different meaning?
Yes, and Nas - illmatic (the album). Double entendre right there. The “illmatic” tracklist has been said to be a life story that most of us relate to. (“Life’s a Bitch”, “The World Is Yours”, “One Love”, “Represent”, and so on)
Jay Electronica is a poet under the guise of a rapper how this man ain't hit yet is a travisy.
This is wavy....
Stumbled upon this dudes music back in 09. That mixtape as a whole was 🔥
Section 80 Kendrick...
This is raw 😢 ❤
what happened to this dude? he coulda been one of the best artists of all time, i hope he’s still got it in him to deliver greatness
I have a feeling he gets paid major money to ghost write thus why he’s out Of the spotlight. I think he writes for jay z
@@linvol20 this aged pretty well
good job on the mash up bro!
ive had this on replay for like a week!
TDE!!!
I’m here again -
Jay Electronica is back. Thats all that matters.
THATS MALCOLM X RESPECT HIS WORDS DO YOUR RESEARCH
One of the Dopest rhymes EVER.
Captain Murphy :)
your thinkin of flyin lotus
riley mapes same peoples
Troy Cherry swag swaggg
Jay Electronica is pretty damn good too. Both those verses are unbelievable
Way to jack that De la soul beat
...nigga its called sampling. Its hip hop
The issue is this.... Talib Kwele, Mos Def, and Common been on the lyrical mountian... but the hip hop community was not ready for solid rap, (like dark chocolate), it took understanding society from ground up. Listen to songs like "Respiration" word for word...one of the greatest hip hop songs ever made. Kendrick and Jay are next gen to these guys.
Who's here after K-Dot officially claimed the title of "King Of Hip-Hop"???
Been that since 2013. Nigga was literally ranked as the second greatest of all time in 2022 before the beef I don't get this sudden crowning 😂😂😂
How? He hasn't surpassed Section 80 even....🤡
Mainstream music is garbage either way which Kendrick is a part of & Contributing to.
I'd argue tho that Jay electronica..
All his body of work prior to signing with the record label is superior to section 80.
Lupe fiasco, Eyedea, K Rino destroy him in terms of lyrics, subject matter & Impact.
Still jamming in 2021
Johnny don't want to go to school no more. Johnny said books ain't cool no more. Johnny wants to be a rapper like his big cousin. Johnny caught a body yesterday out hustling.
Could listen to that intro all day
Reminds of a time where times were simpler. Sitting on the porch sipping your hooch with your loved ones
But here’s the irony, it’s NEVER been simpler for African Americans EVER
I sip tonight for my people Before me and to those who reign once I’m gone
Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad
It was a struggle every day not to regret your past
Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag
And you be speeding down the highway when your threshold pass
When you cried all your tears out
And one page of your diary can tell you what your year bout
That's a lonely place
My mama said son why such a lonely face
Because the pressures (depression) on me
Plus I feel like bill murray trapped in Punxsutawney
Dr phil told me that I can sell crack or hit the army
Look at where we live at
Tell me you don't hear that
Tell me you don't feel that
Show me to the way out
Tell me when pastor raphael gon' reveal that
If not man I'm outta here
I'm just a sleep walking robot that's outta gear
I stick my nose out the water to the sky for air
Lama sabachthani (translates to 'why have you forsaken me')
Trying to see light but the devil trying to blind me
The grim reaper walking with a shovel right behind me
Trying to introduce me to the untimely unkindly
Walk the line finely like johnny cash
But I keep getting visits from the ghost of the past
So I spark another l then I go to the pad.
Yeah I can reconcile being depressed real bad
I'm a thinker not a drinker but still I Hennessy drag
Alcohol numbs the pain like with novacane stabs
In your arteries pardon me but my city go mad
Via Compton California, corners with coroners and karma on em
Colors corresponding to gangs upon us
Common corrupted crip & piru's cripple the city
Triple the crime, Bible nor the Qur'an can save
Welcome don't be afraid, your city similar right?
Where the choppers kidnap the night and police silence your rights
Stare at the sky wonder will you live to see 25?
I'm 22 at 20 I knew I was against the odds
This kid named Jonathan was monitorin'
His momma & sister, his older cousin he honoured him
Anonymous bodies on his burner was astonishin'
To Johnny he might have been a modern day rider then
He walking outside again, he see the lifestyle of an active member
Pull out a mac 11, now his eyes is big
Fascinated by mayhem, what's his cousin to say now?
He wanna be from the hood that he's from and that's one
More gangster under the family tree, took em under his wings like KFC
Crip crazy, rocking matching t-shirts that says "the hood made me"
No love just spread slugs thats the policy, the leader and the prodigy
Now shorty do-wap, holdin a ou-wap, hanging with rah rah's with blah blah's
That sit on the block catching fades, hitting licks, going on missions with lunatics
A 9th grade menace thugging for 6 months, smoking like 6 blunts
An hour the power of banging, he was walking
Little Johnny
These two are the future.
Fly Lo uses this beat for Captain Murphy, doesn't he?
This is amazing production! Amazing work!
Well what do you know, hip hop does live
A A Ya but he's in fuckin hiding, not droppin shit lol
I just appreciate good Hip Hop. Thank You!
Kendrick's beginning verse was an deep version of alliteration.
The best without a album, Jay is,that dude deep you heard me...
Kendrick is the best ever.
facts
no but he good tho.
Not quite
facts
Not even the best on this track
this body of work Jay is truly amazing,the formed together of both you and K dot even if made in different times makes a person like myself look,see and understand that what faces us in this day and age can change. And you are not the only one who thinks it can. stay true to your mind,hart and soul. SAGE.
K dot was spitting like this back then ?🥶
U did a great job on this mix it sounds real really god job maine
Happy black history month
I'm still here since this came out always go back and reconnect
IM SO UPSET WITH JAY. HE MAKES ME FEEL LIKE HE STOLE FROM ME BY NOT RELEASING MUSIC
Here's a song on his channel if you wanna support him. The more support he gets the more likely he will drop some hot shit
ruclips.net/video/hg3zWG033Ss/видео.html
Factssss
40 days hopefully 🙏🏿
@@blackmamba4494 Where did you hear 40 days?