City high- what would you do (lyrics)
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(lyrics)
[1st verse:]
Boys and girls wanna hear a true story?
Saturday night was at this real wild party
They had the liquor overflowin' the cup, about
5 or 6 strippers tryin to work for a buck
and I-took one girl outside wit me, her name
was Loni, she went to Junior High wit me,
I said, Why you up in there dancin for cash?,
I guess a whole lots changed since I seen you last
She said..
[Chorus:]
What would you do?, if your son was at home
crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cuz he's hungry
and thee only way to feed him is ta sleep wit a man
for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin' rock now, in and out of lock down,
I aint gotta job now, so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what I call life
[2nd verse:]
Girl you aint thee only one wit a baby,
that's no excuse to be livin all crazy
then she looked me right square in the eye
and said everyday I wake up hopin' to die,
she said- nigga I know about pain cuz,
me and my sista ran away, so my daddy
couldn't rape us, before I was a teenager
I done been through more shit, you can't even
relate ta!
[Chorus]
Ooooo
Then she said, What would you do? if....
Get up on my feet and let go of every excuse
What would you do? if....
Cuz I wouldn't want my baby, to go through what
I went through
What would you do? if....
Get up on my feet, stop makin tired excuses
What would you do? if...
Girl I know if my mother can do it, baby you can do it
Oooo, oooo, oooo-(yea, yea, yea, yea)
[Chorus]
What would you do? if yo son was at home,
crying all alone on the bedroom floor, cuz he's hungry
and the only way to feed him is to sleep wit a man
for a little bit of money, and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin rock now, in and out of lock down,
I aint gotta job now, so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what I call life (Come on)
[Chorus]
Why was we vibing out so hard to this song?! This girl was going through ANGUISH and we was all dancing.
When you're young you focus more on the beat and melody. I had no idea this song was this sad growing up..holy shit..
Nigga ain't no sweat
This was my jam when I was like 11 🧐😳
Ya kno in the hood we all felt we knew her pain. It was cool to jam out too- most us girls had a daddy/step daddy or (like in mine, plus most the girls I knew, case) just a random man our mom was dating - liked to spend so much time with us, he ended up enjoying sneaking into our bedrooms at night- after our mom passed out or made themselves too numb to care. Sadly that’s what so many- I say probably at a minimum of 1 in 3 girls go through this kind of abuse in the one place they should be safe, home in lower class, broken family and in project developments. So ok we all felt that shared pain together and this song voiced it and brought that ugliness to light and was the one to speak up for those to afraid to speak. It was almost like finally ppl get it but they didn’t it went over their heads faster than a jet plane. We still felt empowered but it starts to suck when u go from empowered to now ur sitting here sleepless night after sleepless night and this classic comes on and u now can relate to more. Like when the father of my kids really turned out to be so shitty I kicked him out and now he’s literally gone and really is somewhere smoking rock last I heard he stepped up to shooting it. He is in and out of jail and leaving me no longer able to have a 9-5 and able to take care of two young children - can’t give them the amount of care they need and don’t trust nor could I afford day care so I can’t be at home taking care of children and working daily for most of the day at the same time …and suddenly, I too, didn’t have a job. I’m lucky I didn’t have to sell sex but my situation could **easily have gone** that way. Never imagined so much of this song would really be “what I - and countless other woman - call life” it once seemed like it was raw and needed now it just seems like the sad reality many face some to the T
This song z just sad..May God help all mothers out there
Man we was 8-10 years old singing this song word for word .. not knowing how many of us would actually relate to this song later in life 💯 whether it be personally, family, or friends.
Can't relate.
I just saw this song a year ago
Seriously 😞
🎯🎯
🤯
Crazy as a kid you know all the words. But as adult these lyrics hit hard
Totally agree! Now as an adult I understand the lyrics and I must say this song is pretty heartbreaking.
I agree
Agreed
Agree 🔊
Totally fckin agree.. I remember when they first came out too 😩
Dope who's listening in 2024
June 6th 2024 this song brings back memories tho
Here
Here
I used to sing this song as a kid happy, now having lost my job being a mom in this pandemic I actually cry to it
It will get better fr even in the struggle love is still free
Hope you're doing okay
@@stevechamberss3237 you know what isn’t free? A home, food, healthcare, therapy. And do you know what happens to children who aren’t provided those essentials? They are taken from loving parents and put into a system where they’re abused and neglected.
u could do what lonnie is doing
i blame the parents
Me and my friends did a dance routine in front of the school to this song when we were 13 and I’m realizing it probably wasn’t too age appropriate lol
OH MY 🥴🤦🏽♀️🤣🤣🤣
OMG I’m dying I did strawberry wine when I finished middle school😭😂😂
Looool 50 cent candy shop was my jam😂🙃
LITERALLY SAME. Finding this now, at 30 something and remembering the words to a T... it's.. uh strange haha
⁹999
Still vibing to this 2019 anyone else.
Absolutely !!
yepp
Olivia Tarantola same here
Oh yeah!
Same
2020 IM HERE💯 THIS SONG STILL HITS HARD AND IT'S ALL ABOUT REALITY
Yo 2020 has made this song look more real then ever
I love this song ever though makes me cry .unfortunately I cud relate to quite a bit of it years ago. I much prefer songs that have real stories and meani gs x
2022 and hitting hard
Imagine you’re a stripper going through your regular shift ,just trying to feed your kid and a nigga you haven’t seen since 7th grade drags you outside and say stop stripping like he bout to pay your bills
It does come off as condescending AF...
I’m a man and choose less “illegal “ options to make money. Either way if I’m a WOMAN, I’d still choose said less “illegal “ options to make said money.
💯 though
We've all been there 😎 that's why this song's so relatable 😉
We've all been there 😎 that's why this song's so relatable 😉
It’s so crazy because nothing is black and white , it’s easy asf for a person to tell you what they would do but it’s never as easy 😔 for all the women who really had to get it out the mud to survive and provide for they family at any cost #june2021
This song is all about survival and that mums will do absolutly anything to feed and clothe their children. x
Yt
Yt
Yt
Ytyyy
Except get a job
2019 here I am an goin into 2020 wit it ♥️♥️
😂😂😂🤣 Yh 2020 is great 😂🤣🤣😭😭
@@coreyjayboxergane2017 Yeah that shit escalated quickly....
@@Nightwishmaster Really quickly
Preach
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90's baby bumpin this in 2019💓
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Emmy Oglesby fuck yes!!!! This is shit
Sad when my own kids relate this song with my life😰
True 90$ bitch here..... What would you do !!!!! .....🍩
Yesss
I thought this was a happy song as a kid untill now when im older and know the lyrics...
Christofer T same here im sitting here shocked and heartbroken
Oh, I remember singing along and now I'm shook
Christofer T its a bitch huh sad to say i can relate to this song
The same. Remember one time hearing this particular song on an old episode of Soul Train back in 2001 on WATL 36, and recall how deep and moved I felt hearing it and nearly every time after that. Naturally, the clean version. I was 24 at the time, and this was long before my brothers and I could afford to buy such luxuries as actual CD's (not bootlegs), and I could understand what all the artists were singing about through their lyrics. Sadly, this is the very first time, I'm regrettable to say, hearing these lyrics, on RUclips, in 2019, and I wouldn't get my own personal legit CD until 2008, with a copy of the Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits, the singles, (lyrics booklet and all) and by that time, City High, far as I knew it to be, had long fallen off the musical map with me since. I still love this song though.
Me too
For context I'm a 31 white straight male 😂 but in all seriousness I love this song but it makes me tear up every time I hear it but I can't help but listen to it every time again. Moral of the story is you never know what someone is going through or has been through so please no matter what show everyone respect and be kind to everyone please for the sake of our humanity. Some of these lyrics hit me so hard it's unreal so next time you think of judging someone remember you don't know how their day was how their life was what they're going through just love all I cannot say it enough and I cannot say please enough we all need to learn respect for others and love for others no matter the race or religion or whatever it doesn't matter we're all human
Just self respect
@@audreymarlow7776 so are u saying that u should only respect yourself and no one else? Just asking cuz ur comment was vague
Very nice comment @Mike Miller. I feel your words and agree with you wholeheartedly. There's an Indian movie called 'anda kanoon' it means 'blind law'. A woman had a baby, the baby was crying and hungry so the woman slept with a man for alittle bit of money, went out and immediately got milk for the baby then the cops came and arrested HER for prostitution. Now she's in jail and will probably never see her baby again. I know it was just a movie but things like that happen every day in the real world. This song reminds me of that movie.......I just wanted to share that with you and thank you for your beautiful comment
I wrote a comment that was meant for you Mike Miller but it got lost in there somewhere. It was a long comment (a nice comment). Please let me know if you see it. If you don't, I'll write it again. I forgot to tag you so now the comment is mixed up with the rest
The only time we should look down on another person is when we are offering a hand to help them up.
This song is so deep and beautiful. I wish rappers would rap more about life and crack, wealth and women.
Lmao
The saddest part of this whole thing is I actually know someone who's life is unfortunately going the same way.
I was only 5 when this song came out and my sister was a teenager, she used to play this non stop so I knew basically all the words. Listening to this now and actually understanding the lyrics is crazy. It gives me shivers.
I'm 32 years old. I haven't heard this song since I was about 11 years old. I didn't understand the song, but I used to sing and dance to it. I totally forgot about this song until I just came across it on another video.
The tune is just as incredible as I remember. The lyrics are absolutely heartbreaking.
Man, this songs going on 25 years old. I remember being nine years old seeing this music video on MTV at my best friends house. Made me think about big problems i had never been confronted with in tiny Rootstown Ohio. Sadly, a lot of tragedy and bad decisions weren't as far away as we would have liked.
Anyone on here still listening to this legendary song in 2024 bring back this kind of music. ❤
This song is sad... I'm now a dad of the most perfect little 3 year old boy in the world... and I balled into tears when I thought about my son crying alone cause he's hungry... thank God I never had that problem, and I hope I never do
My boy died 17 months and 6 days ago....... Tell me about it 😔
"I love you my beautiful baby boy, my georgous boy I miss you so much and miss you every second" xxxxx
😥😪
Not from drugs I was a great dad he had a reaction to a medication I just wanted to heal him and trusted a Dr, I'm messed up now I'll keep it to myself enjoy your son........x
@@EZ-D-FIANT Disgusing, Dr's dont even know their own proffession.
Good luck sir, May you find the Lord.
I saw a tiktok about how when my generation was younger, we’d sing along to this song without realizing what we’re singing, and listening to this song fully as an adult has given me chills, lol. There’s a LOT going on. It’s still a good song, though.
It's funny cause I saw the same thing, but...I ALWAYS knew what this song was about. It was real and powerful then and it still it today.
Holy shit this song hits different a decade later after becoming a parent then it did back when it came out.. Why the fuck were our parents allowing us to sing along to this shit??! This shit is right up there with the macarena 😂
This song came out when I was about nine or 10 and even then, it would always leave me a sobbing mess. While my situation wasn’t exactly the same growing up, there were some identical/related elements. even now, I can’t listen to it without getting choked up.
I'm the same as some, thought this was a banging track as a kid. Now I'm 32, this unfortunately is real life for a lot of women. Still can't stop listening to it
TAKES ME RIGHT BACK TO 6th GRADE!!!! Song is a Classic!!!
R&B was still good in 2001.....after like 2004 I dunno what the heck happened.
It’s 2019 let’s bring OG music like this back 🖤✌🏼
I will never forget about this bamd!! Every few years it will randomly pop into my head and I blast it for months straight.
Summer 2001 classic, 22 yrs later and it is still 🔥and relevant. Used to repeat this song all the time even when it wasn’t on Everyday at 14 rushing home to catch this on bet, 36 years old and I feel the same.
These young kids don't know about music like this
+J Cole I'm 13 what do you mean.
im 12 and i love rhis song i also love Aaliyah Tlc Shaggy destinys child and way more My dad named me after Aaliyah and i technically grew up with this music my dad loves it
+FlawlessPurnell Just cause your dad loves it doesn't mean a thing just cause you are named after Aaliyah doesn't meant a thing no matter what you will never have grown up with this kind of music cause you weren't a live when it was made.
Yeah but when i was young it was all i listened to so technially i did
+FlawlessPurnell I'm 12 too and right here
THIS IS MUSIC!!! Real rap real shit 2000-1010 was the best decade
Nah started getting trash around 2008
i listened to this song and feel so lucky tht when my mom divorced my dad when i was 2 she finished college and got her nursiing degree and i feel so lucky im not tht kid crying on my bedroom floor cause im hungry. So of course when i heard this song i bursted into tears
got ya sis
Thats corny
Right.. silver spooners. Know nothing about life!!!
@@Garrettsamuel98 live their life go do it I dare u disrespectful child
still bumping 2k18 🔥
this song reminds me of my old foster carer who died of cancer and me and her used to sing to this song together whenever i saw her. i of her still and i miss
Aww I'm sorry for your loss 😢
Touching my grandmother was a foster parent who passed when I was 12
😢
December 15th 2019 9:26 pm still listening
This song hits different listening to it as an adult
2019 still jammin to this ❤️
As kids, we knew the lyrics but as adults, we *know* the lyrics.
I keep listening to this over and over again. I've seen this shit live and we all gotta help these kids and families. Ima make a change the best I can, I hope yall are with me.
Wow this was such a bop back in the day..now listening to it ,and it's still so good and catchy I can sing all the words but the tears are just flowing ..wish music was still like this, So powerful and talking about and bringing light to some actual real shit
Almost 2020 still bumpin this ❤️ as we get older the song hits us different
Facts
Onngg 😭 when I was younger I just used to like the melody this jawn hit diff now
My dad is a bouncer and tells me that strippers aren't horrible. I met a few of them. they are mostly in this postion. it breaks my heart.
Ty As
Well thats very true. Being a stripper doesnt make someone horrible. Thats such a stereotype. My cousin was a stripper and the sweetest soul out of most people i knew. She respected herself and made others. She eas extremely beautiful so many men and women alike practically worshipped her. She was able to pay to go to a reputable college and get her RN nursing degree, bought her own car, paid for her wrdding and bought a house. Dtrippers and prostitutes and escorts are all very different. People tend to assume they are grouped together.
@@AimeQueenLeo amen they do what have to do to survive and make a living
In my experience strippers are fantastic
NOT QUITE exactly THERE IS G00D AND BAD THERE, TOO. Read into it.
In and out of lockdown I ain’t got a job now, who can relate 😂😂
Not me 😂😂😂😎
Depends in and out of lock up since 14 and 1 job I'm 30
Not Kool me
LMAO! Quarantine man, I tell ya....2020 something else. City High been knew. lol!
Yall she was referring to quarantine, not jail and smoking rocks 😂
Woke up from a nap with the melody in my mind! Had to find it and i finally did!!! 15 year old me loved this song and still do!
I’ve just found this after all these years. I am 35 and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the song and the lyrics seemed faded in my head and I was trying to sing it but my head couldn’t remember and today I can’t believe it. My head just started singing lyrics and I googled it and boom. This song brings back so many memories
Some of you ppl on here act like Bastille's version is the original and that's just crazy. Bastille is decent, but City High is what I grew up on. I personally prefer the contrasts here between the music and the lyrics and the added female vocals. I think that because a lot of black music is birthed out of painful experiences, the beats are used to provide some kind of contrast against the lyrics. Bastille's cover was so depressing that I had to come back to the original. But some music isn't for everyone.
My mom grew up with City Hall
High*
Preach. I grew up on this version and I’m sorry but Bastille slowed it down way to much. Original version is always best. 🤷🏻♀️
Will Lee I'm white n I grew up living n seeing all this go down this song was alwayz tru n lit
This is real. That bastille garbage is pretentious.
this was my fucking song when i was like 8
oh hell yeah
Somebody might say please bring this kind of music back
Never heard of this song til I came across it on the radio. Really grabbed my attention
Never gets old this.... 2021 💪
2021 still rocking this... it's been reality for ALOT OF PPL
still bumpin in 17' . 💯
timeless song, it will always be as good as when it first came out
It gets better and better
Still loving this in 2021
This song will always be a legend. I don't care if the subject matter was terrible, especially since I was only 11 when this song came out. No wonder my grandparents looked at me weird when they heard we singing this song, loud proud.
i love this song. this should teach people to respect money and be thankful for that they have because some people dont have that at all..
Still Blasting This Song 2019 💯🤩
this is an excellent song. it helped to teach me never judge a so-called "ho." good luck and best wishes to all those in similar situations! this song is going out to you, with
These hos ain't loyal
@@timyac like anyone’s ever given you the time of day, lmaoooo
@Mucky boys nah never trust these hos now days.
@Mucky boys nah never trust these hos now days.
@@muckyboys6658sounds like you don't have a baby daddy paying for your child now, and you don't wanna job now. Get ya only fans goin
I was 12 when this song came out but I never paid attention to what the lyrics meant and as an adult now that I have I must say this song really hits me in the feels. Especially when someone told me that some single moms actually have to do this, to provide for their loved ones when they have no other choice.
Still vibing to this in 2021.... Anyone else ☺
It upsets me that some people have probably only heard the Bastille version...I like the Bastille version don't get me wrong, but this song is like childhood. Love this so much!
TheDeepBlueDreamer I honestly only found out about that one today. I've been listening to this for about 5 years
yup
I have I use to listen to this song as a kid growing up I'm 28 just made 28 so happy to see another year god bless me Jesus
This song smacked me in the back of my head just now I’m crying listening in 2019
I think that the original and bastille's convey completely different meanings with the tone. It isn't necessarily about which is "better". One is showing how a man is viewing this woman's choices, and he hears her voice as the someone spouting the same excuse again and again, and the man isn't taking her position seriously. In the Bastille version an outsider is looking at the whole situation and it's tone portrays how he views the story from everyone's side as very sad. I personally like this version because it shows me their story from a different point of view
1998 jams hmmmm wayyyy those days was the best
I'm 43 and still love this song..... All the rap, all the song, don't even care.... Keep singing and dancing everyone x
And their daddies gone … somewhere smoking rock now, in and out of lock down - I ain’t got a job now -So for you this is just a good time but for me this is what I call life …
Loved this song since I was too young to even be listening to it never knew that one sentence would ring true years later
2019 been looking for this song
This is the truth. People go through it every day ❤
Hits different 20 years later. Still great!!
One of my mamas jams I can remember from being little I miss my mama soooo much rest easy mama 🙏 💕
❤️❤️❤️
Bastille's cover of this doesn't even compare to this and never will
because bastille's cover its better
yes, but Bastille reminded me of this song again that I never would've remembered to look up, so I give them props. The whole point of a cover is to mix it up
jayde lovesgod bastille's is much better
1:26 - 1-56 why this version is complete trash compared to Bastille's version.
jayde lovesgod WHAT?!!?
Who still bumping in 2019? 🔥🔥🔥
Interesting, shes getting judged because she is at the strip club to make money but the guy judging her is at the strip club supporting the girl's job by going to the strip club and paying strippers for a service. What about him? Why don't they say in the song that they guy isn't helping her "get up" because he is also going to the strip club to see strippers.
I know this comment is old af. But I had the exact same thought like it's different because it's someone you know. Like okay faux knight in shining armor
Still listening in 2020 didn't understand the lyrics as a kid but still loved it but decided to play some old favs from childhood
I feel like I manifested this on myself 😂😂 I was singing this word for word now it hits home fr . I had no idea 🙄😂
Today? September 2019 going onto October 2019? and then some more?
I was today years old when I knew the lyrics of “Somewhere smoking Rock now, in and outta lock down” 😵😅😂
What did you think it was😂🤦♀️
🤣🤣
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@@reanastafford6091 not too far off, I thought it was
"We're smoking RIGHT NOW" 🤦♀️😂 no problem with the
"5-6 strippers tryna work for a buck" 😂😂😂
@Adrian Reyes lols! Ngaaaaaw, No bub 😅
Holy shit I remember this song,throwback
2021 still my jam more then ever now that I'm older 💕💞💗✔️
Hip-Hop just doesn't have meaning anymore...
I'm so thankful to have grown up in the 90s & early 2000's
This song touches my heart everytime and makes me wish i could help my sister out who just had her kids taken from her cause she's and alcoholic. (not her fault she had a very rough up bringing) Although her kids were always feed, she was always drunk. She's stubborn and seeing some of these comments got me thinking.. Does anyone have advice on how i could try help my sis get clean?
This some came out when I was in pre school and I remember singing it but not truly understanding it.
I’m in 4th grade I know what it means
any one still loving this song in 2019 ? I am XD
Love it 2020 am still loving all these auld tunes xx
love this song! its 2017 and it still bagnz!
im here after Matty's instagram story lol
Same
Me tooo
Same ;)
I haven't heard this song in
A long time.
Time 5:20PM Wed 5/13/20
Yes! Matt m!
Such a great message, so catchy, and good singing.
Great song.
I would be giving her as much money as I possibly could. I would never let it go like that! she needs that money, to feed herself and her son; to keep her son at least alive. She needs something, maybe even friendship and support. So please, if you ever come across anyone with the same or a similar story to this one then help! The money, even $10 could keep them going, and let them know that they have someone that is there for them.
Kayla Crawford Ferguson amen sister!
But you are on RUclips instead of helping people. Time is money after all. Keep your moralism to yourself.
Still hitting it in 2017 yes!!
I’m so glad this randomly came back into my life.
This song will remain a classic
came here from a twitter thread 🧵😂
I was way to young to be singing this song the way I did 😂😂
never did i think when jammin tf out to this at 16 would later be my own similair story in my 20's for a short while . thank god i made it n alive for my babies today ❤🙏
I discovered this song in high school when Bastille covered it on their album then I listened to the original and thought it was so amazing, totally different vibe from bastille version, but this shit is amazing!!
I remember being little singing this song with my brothers friend who lived with us. Love this
You have obviously never endured a real struggle then.
I'm 15, I have "good" morals, but I would not judge a woman for stripping and neither should you.
You don't know her situation. Also, getting a "real job" isn't that easy either. America is having a problem with supplying the people with jobs right now and for all we know, she could be a highschool dropout. Many places don't hire dropouts. Don't judge until you know the whole situation.
You're 22 now. I hope life's been good for you bb
Me neither. And a lot of those girls endured sexual physical abuse and that destroys a person. Especially females and a lot of them have no respect for themselves and think the only thing they have to offer is their sexuality body. All their worth comes from the attention they can get from soliciting themselves. They want love and our culture anyway often sends the message that a woman's worth is based on what she has to offer physically. Plus a situation where a woman has little to no education and stripping is a way to make money it's terrible but that's also why I've never judged prostitutes or strippers. Those women need the Lord. He can heal those hurts and fill those empty places. This was my experience.
You are obviously a very loving and compassionate person. There are a lot of people who have no idea what these poor women have gone through and merely judge them and treat them like trash. Kudos to you.
The Lord wants to bring them help and healing.
Get up on yo feet and stop making tired excuses
It's insane cuz I remember jamming to this a years and years ago..now I relate to this song word for word I was in this situation for a very long time...it's truly sad..this song hits so different now
This song is one of my favourite songs!! Never judge anyone, you don't know what they're going through!!!
Banger back in the day still love it. The story telling of music back in the day is unmatched to today's trash why I stick with rappers and singers from back in the day who just still make music today