@@hushup8692 so why you think the industry didn't promote his music? He was signed to a major label and they ain release 100s of his tracks, its because music like this isn't what they want to be promoted
This song brings me back to a time and a place in my life that can never be replicated, duplicated, or lived again. Music is a Time Machine. Still one of the hardest tracks ever in 2023.
I remember running the streets doing anything I could to survive this song played in my ears every day. Deaths of friends, seen terrible situations. I'm sober now clean from drugs. I'm a father. I'm so grateful I'm still alive. This song kept me going in those times. Crazy to listen to it know an have flashbacks of all those days in hell.
Polo is a legendary, I'd say premier-esque producer. They don't make any music like this at all anymore. It's sad because rich boy was criminally underrated. And he actually had something more meaningful to say Then the typical nonsense.
I still listen to this record. Gives me goosebumps and chills still. Some of the realest shit said on a record ever since Pac died. Artists dont make songs like this anymore, and if there are rappers out there making inspirational music like this, they get pushed to the side. We have to wake the fuck up because just like Polow said on here, all we do is play right into the Devil's hands. Honest, soulful, inspirational music right here. Salute Rich Boy!
you could hear the hunger in his voice man!!!!! he was country as hell but man i respected it and this is coming from an east coast dude. His debut was dope as hell
Us Southerners is very misunderstood the south is where it's at mane we get slept on very hard and overlooked we may not have the appeal of a NY or LA or Chicago but it's that southern hospitality in us that make us who we are and we known hustlers my G
Martin Lee Anderson's case was so alarmingly sad. I cried when I finally realized and researched who he was referring to. This song is seriously underrated.
Song really touches me like I want to Cry for some reason.... All I can think about every time I get chills..... I think about my kinfolk lock down and my potnas and Uncle in the Pen... And my dead homies... Song is too Deep.. Rich Boy is so under rated its ridiculous... This is the reason you should at least Buy or have this album!!!
Don't think all Americans are the same, the general public knows what you are going through every day when you wake up over there. I think about 65% or more of Americans want our soldiers home, you guys have been fighting over there since before the Jesus days, our soldiers being there is not going to affect a war that's been going on before America was even born as a nation. You are a true warrior to live in a place like that, I know that, some Americans know that. Some of us have respect for you no matter what your religion is or where you live. A true intelligent person understands without judgment of any kind. Respect from Alabama :)
I spent 10 years in the pen ive been freed man for 3 now still on parole this song go hard love the message trust me peeps you get one swing at this thing called life dont make mistakes like i did all yall stay blessed
I remember when I was 12 yrs old and I first heard this song it was only for the beat. Here it is now that I'm 20 yrs old and I'm deciphering what this song is talking about. Song has a deep message if you listen to it with a clear mind
back in the day I use to only like this song for the beat and the flow but looking back I realize I was to young to see the problems with the world but now we done put a few years on us same shit happening we just got some sense now to see this world fucked and it's always been fucked up and always will be . anyways this song makes more since coming back and playing this ever now and then to remind me the world is a fucked planet
Rich boy we still feeling you in 2021. Talking about poverty we understand. We suffering all across the country from Brooklyn to Alabama bro. Stand tall rich boy!!!
3/2021 still here! One of the greatest songs in my era growing up. Shit I used to have this on replay 10-15 times in a row back in the day. GET THIS PAPER!!
I love at the end of the album Rich boys says that he wants to say thank you to anybody that got the CD wether it was the bootleg or CD you can tell rich boy ain't tripping he just wants his voice to be heard he's a sick ass rapper
“Trying to make out the ghetto. Life aint gotta be this way!” - I moved out the ghetto 13 years ago. Got my college degree, moved to a suburb and started a family. Now I’m working in the corporate world still feeling the same way. You see the ghetto aint just a place you live. It’s a place of unfairness and inequality. “Trying to make out the ghetto. Life aint gotta be this way!”
It's crazy how just recently y'all started caring about the black coummunity and what's going on in Alabama and all these southern states where police brutality is happening and kids are dying, but Rich Boy talks all about the shit your hearing nowadays, 7-8 years later, in this song right here. News didn't care bout this shit back then.
I was 19 years old and a college sophomore the year this song came out. I'm sure every person of color can relate to this because nearly all of us had an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement 😢
Damn this was my fav track on the album! Memories, I remember being the only person in NY bumping Rich Boy!! It’s 2022 going into 2023 Now let’s go get this paper…
Love is my motivator... When the money gone you gone... But love abides forever... But RICH BOY spitting the truth... And the truth never dies... Keep this shit in rotation... R.I.P Trayvon Martin and all the other brothers killed due police brutality... What goes around comes back around... Remember that.. =_=..✊🏿BLACK NATION✊🏿...
I was randomly talking to my wife about Martin Lee Anderson since it happened where we live and she had never heard of him. It made me think of this song so I had to play it one time. He was a troubled child but they did him wrong. This song was my motto in the early 2000's, fresh out of high school.
Ofng dis still da truth in 2k19. As a young G growing up in Chicago aka chiraq I remember playin dis song when we was shawtys trynna slide on oops.. shoot outs erday, been shot 4 different times n I’m still here. God and music like this helped change my life. 29 yrs old na n showing dis to the youth.. facts
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2024 checking in
I'm here
Been here
Always 😊
Yessir
"Takes another dog to hear my silent, cries."- ƊMX
This is literally one of the realest and hungriest tracks I've ever heard in my life. Rich Boy shoulda got way more respect in the game man
Facts!!
He was too real to sellout
Thats how i feel !
thats the truth brother
He's inconsistent
One of the most slept on songs ever...this song was and still is the truth
check that vbe syco out stay focus
+Jeffrey Arnold agreed
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Real talk, my man. Only the real can recognize 🙏✊
Indeed
People need to show some more respect to rich boy as a rapper this song is a classic
Jacob Aaron 💯
@King Savage then why tf u here over a decade later fuck nigga
They should of been spamming this song instead of throw some D's and He could of made it. Or whatever he had airing.
Jacob Aaron facts 3 years later
King Savage 🛑
This song is untouchable. Still relevant till today. We don’t owned anything. We all gonna die and leave them here 👌🏾
The industry dont wanna hear music like this.. they wanna hear about: Money, bitches && drugs. RichBoy was speaking the truth.
What ? The industry has music like this. Dude needed promotion . Do yal know the industry ? Just he talking
truth
@@hushup8692 so why you think the industry didn't promote his music? He was signed to a major label and they ain release 100s of his tracks, its because music like this isn't what they want to be promoted
I still know all the lyrics. This will be a classic to me.
Very true ✊🏿
You are so pretty
+Hamza M thank you!
u alright
Lei yes 💯💯💯💯
This song brings me back to a time and a place in my life that can never be replicated, duplicated, or lived again.
Music is a Time Machine.
Still one of the hardest tracks ever in 2023.
shit always goes hard i was actually mutual friends with martin he lived right down the road from me that shit was so fucked up what they did to him
A men time doesn't stop but a good song brings the past back even if just for a few min God bless bro.
I remember running the streets doing anything I could to survive this song played in my ears every day. Deaths of friends, seen terrible situations. I'm sober now clean from drugs. I'm a father. I'm so grateful I'm still alive. This song kept me going in those times. Crazy to listen to it know an have flashbacks of all those days in hell.
Legendary brother memories will last with memorable tunes. 💯
Homie I'm proud of you. True story.
This track right here is a certified classic... After all these years, it still slaps harder than ever...
I’m playing it now
Thass wassup
Same bro, I just remembered it and I have it on loop, pure fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Whoever produced this madness is a legend.
Polow da Don!
Polo is a legendary, I'd say premier-esque producer. They don't make any music like this at all anymore. It's sad because rich boy was criminally underrated. And he actually had something more meaningful to say Then the typical nonsense.
@@seangleason260Fax The blueprint of Metro boomin
Polo
Facts
This song was way ahead of its time
And right on time.
Still one of the hardest slept on songs ever I swear
Kavon Derrell 100% bro
#Facts
Kavon Derrell swear bruh
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Kavon Derrell he didn't sell out so he was slept on but real ones like me and people in the comment section know the real
Just like everybody else said.... this is the meanest hardest most slept on track ever made.
This dude really left his soul on this. Still got this track on my playlist.
This is true Hiphop. Addressing real issues affecting our people.
One of the top 5 underrated songs ever recorded!!!
Yeah
True
This nigga jus took the words outa my mouth.
Bham Alabama bitch 295 sside homie
205** all day
Florida repin 863 by the way of the great state of Louisiana 337 Lake Charles
I still listen to this record. Gives me goosebumps and chills still. Some of the realest shit said on a record ever since Pac died. Artists dont make songs like this anymore, and if there are rappers out there making inspirational music like this, they get pushed to the side. We have to wake the fuck up because just like Polow said on here, all we do is play right into the Devil's hands. Honest, soulful, inspirational music right here. Salute Rich Boy!
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On God!!! Bruh!!! I get goose bumps 2 every time!! No 🧢
Worst now
Always so underappreciated. So glad I randomly just thought of this song. I used to play this track over and over
Exactly the same here
Same so slept on
I had this on my myspace page in 2007. 12 years later and I’m still bumping it just as hard. Classic track
Real talk💯💯💯
Miss them days playa 🥹💯
was your profile raining dollar signs?
Polow da Don really killed this beat. Everything about this song is hard! RIP Pooh Bear!
One of the HARDEST beats I ever heard
you could hear the hunger in his voice man!!!!! he was country as hell but man i respected it and this is coming from an east coast dude. His debut was dope as hell
Us Southerners is very misunderstood the south is where it's at mane we get slept on very hard and overlooked we may not have the appeal of a NY or LA or Chicago but it's that southern hospitality in us that make us who we are and we known hustlers my G
Alabama is tha impossible but we game!! Its alot of talent here. Yal check my fam xay Capisce. He 🔥🔥
The beat was feeding his hunger pains! #buffet
I'm from New York in I tell YOU I feel this I FEEL THIS ALABAMA RESPECT 💯
much love bru 💯from mobile to ny
Same here from a whiteboy in hick ass upstate NY we ain't all racist scumbags
Mobtown to NY
This song is a classic for sure and was picked as the Jam Of The Week on MTV Jams back in 2007. That's how I always remember the song.
I remember it being jam of the week. They played it every hr. The good times.
"they shipping boys off, the fighting in Iraq/ got soldiers in that war that ain't never gonna make it back" - damn, too real.
one of the BEST rap songs of all time period .
Ain't it crazy how just about everyone listening still gets chills listening to how good this is
Martin Lee Anderson's case was so alarmingly sad. I cried when I finally realized and researched who he was referring to. This song is seriously underrated.
Facts Martin Lee Anderson is from my city
He was very slept on SMH
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Rich Boy will forever be etched in hip hop's heart with this song alone.
Song really touches me like I want to Cry for some reason.... All I can think about every time I get chills..... I think about my kinfolk lock down and my potnas and Uncle in the Pen... And my dead homies... Song is too Deep.. Rich Boy is so under rated its ridiculous... This is the reason you should at least Buy or have this album!!!
Lmao!!!! Don't tell nobody, but me too, a few thug tears lol
I live in Baghdad n I start my day with this song every day..
thank you for being my true motivation
Ayeeee you the MVP of the comment list
Damn Baghdad is crazy
CLEVEN11 i know right? -_-
Don't think all Americans are the same, the general public knows what you are going through every day when you wake up over there. I think about 65% or more of Americans want our soldiers home, you guys have been fighting over there since before the Jesus days, our soldiers being there is not going to affect a war that's been going on before America was even born as a nation. You are a true warrior to live in a place like that, I know that, some Americans know that. Some of us have respect for you no matter what your religion is or where you live. A true intelligent person understands without judgment of any kind. Respect from Alabama :)
Christopher Brown thank u for sayin the truth man... few people know about that
I spent 10 years in the pen ive been freed man for 3 now still on parole this song go hard love the message trust me peeps you get one swing at this thing called life dont make mistakes like i did all yall stay blessed
There's no money in this world, no fight to be won, no revenge to be taken that is more worth than your very freedom. Hope you stay out of the system.
@@smavi4133 facts
Stay blessed I hope you living well
I wish you peace of mind my brother
Hopefully you are still doing well and not taking freedom for granted. Stay up bro 👌🏾👌🏾
This song still gives me the chills!
The beat was murder them chops and the orchestra sound combo is vicious
yeah that shit was dope.
Polow da Don is the producer
The ending chorus made it biblically epic🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
one of the the most slept on tracks in hip hop history.
The realist shit I ever heard gave me chills
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This is the realist?? You might wanna go listen to Uncle Face(Scarface)
This track still tough though
This is for Ferguson, MO and those worldwide and in the states going through the struggle.
ferguson mo was a justified shooting
@@takeospikes5151 so wad me to your mother
This used to be my favorite song! I had this whole cd on repeat in 7th grade. ALABAMA stand up‼️
I remember when I was 12 yrs old and I first heard this song it was only for the beat. Here it is now that I'm 20 yrs old and I'm deciphering what this song is talking about. Song has a deep message if you listen to it with a clear mind
So true, I'm 20 as well. The album this is from was the first album I bought.
this video is 10 years old. I was your age when the video came out. I still love the song.
This song was so so slept on. One of the deepest songs and it still bears meaning 10 years later with all the police brutality going on.
One of the most underrated hip hop albums of the last decade. And this track is so sick.
On of the realest tracks ever
yes
[Serial Thrilla] bNmzm
No cap
back in the day I use to only like this song for the beat and the flow but looking back I realize I was to young to see the problems with the world but now we done put a few years on us same shit happening we just got some sense now to see this world fucked and it's always been fucked up and always will be . anyways this song makes more since coming back and playing this ever now and then to remind me the world is a fucked planet
Lance Isbell facts me to
man all these years later and this track still gives me chills. the message and the beat combined is so powerful. this song is underrated af
Rich boy we still feeling you in 2021. Talking about poverty we understand. We suffering all across the country from Brooklyn to Alabama bro. Stand tall rich boy!!!
yo this song was telling the future back then....
3/2021 still here! One of the greatest songs in my era growing up. Shit I used to have this on replay 10-15 times in a row back in the day. GET THIS PAPER!!
He murdered this. I had the whole album. It was fire but got slept on!!!
Welcome 🙏 🤗 back. Remember God's favorites have it the hardest 😢😅😂❤😊
13 years later…this will never get it old!!! #2021
Enough said
2022 still goin
I love at the end of the album Rich boys says that he wants to say thank you to anybody that got the CD wether it was the bootleg or CD you can tell rich boy ain't tripping he just wants his voice to be heard he's a sick ass rapper
Gotta be from the MOB to truly understand it was never about money. Mobile is fulla stars real neighborhood superstars
There is more talent in this one person, than the whole new generation of rappers
My favorite song by rich boy, no matter how old it is or how many times I hear it, dis song go hard! Free lil Kenny 💯
2020 still one of the hardest songs ever 💯🙏
This here is a Cult classic🔥 forever in This era #Richboy
THE SONG THAT THE MEDIA DIDN'T WANT TO PROMOTE...THE REAL.
My bunk used to play this. He was 18y old and he was in a place where he didnt belong and still stood tall.
“Trying to make out the ghetto. Life aint gotta be this way!” - I moved out the ghetto 13 years ago. Got my college degree, moved to a suburb and started a family. Now I’m working in the corporate world still feeling the same way. You see the ghetto aint just a place you live. It’s a place of unfairness and inequality. “Trying to make out the ghetto. Life aint gotta be this way!”
He was so ahead of his time. When he dropped this as a single, he was blackballed. He was next up as Dirty South Rap was dominating. Smh.
The melodies, beats, and lyrics in this song were everything 👍🏽 Too bad they don't make like music like this in 2023 😢
1 of the realest songs ever.. Straight classic.. Glad rich boy ain't sellout...
Wild 2k23 got ppl discovering this song.. 15 years later it’s still my stuff brought me through hard times
I shed tears every time I listen to this song. Rich Boy the truth.
Powerful song even to this day. Rich boy was my dude back in highschool
My favorite is always "i got millions and im still broke, cause that aint no money"
And it's so true!!
It's crazy how just recently y'all started caring about the black coummunity and what's going on in Alabama and all these southern states where police brutality is happening and kids are dying, but Rich Boy talks all about the shit your hearing nowadays, 7-8 years later, in this song right here. News didn't care bout this shit back then.
Elliot Racelis Ok cuz I promise coming from Mississippi as a young black brother da penitentiary is just part of your future as high school!!
this will be the best song from 2K23 when we look back at it
I was 11 years old when this came out. Such a strong song, the feel, the flow, the emotion in the voice.
I was 19 years old and a college sophomore the year this song came out. I'm sure every person of color can relate to this because nearly all of us had an unpleasant encounter with law enforcement 😢
Right! Got some bad news when this came out to say the least
This song was Rich Boy's Horcrux. He left his soul on this one.
Damn this was my fav track on the album! Memories, I remember being the only person in NY bumping Rich Boy!! It’s 2022 going into 2023 Now let’s go get this paper…
First time I heard this was a couple months ago in NBA 2K23. One of the best songs I have ever heard.
One of my top 10 favorite rap songs of all time. Do you hear the hunger and pain. They did Rich Boy’s career dirty after this one.
Song is even more relevant as time marched on... it almost feels like a lost song.
“I prayed a thousand nights, I did a hundred crimes. And now I’m beggin lord you don’t let me down this time.” Deep. Classic 💯
For those who don't know Polow the Don was making BANGERS, he was an elite producer.
Got it on replay, can't stop playing...2014 ain't sht change
Follw you
Same shit here, shoutouts from germany haha
2018 we still here.
2020 still bumping this. R.B underrated
Ain’t go lie 2k23 brought me here 🔥🔥 track
@@dennisholmes6232 wow 🤯 me too bro
Who the hell dislikes this? This is the realest... ANYTHING ever produced by mankind damn it!
Wow, never knew Rich Boy was from Mobile, Alabama! ❤️🙏🏾
Literally one of the most underrated and under-appreciated songs!
Rich boy aka dopeboy a ledgend Alabama to Memphis 🔥💯
wow this song makes more sense now that I'm older. wow welcome to the real America!
This track was so golden!!! Forever a classic and it’s how he spoke from his soul
Rich Boy Preached on this track man💯💯💯💯
THIS SONG WAS AHEAD OF IT’S TIME
Rich Boy forever got my respect with this one. 🔥 been one of my favorite songs since it came out!
I cried the first time I heard this in the Chevy!
This song Lives forever...
Greatest verses ever written!
Mozart of lyricists!
Much love from Alabama!
Love is my motivator... When the money gone you gone... But love abides forever... But RICH BOY spitting the truth... And the truth never dies... Keep this shit in rotation... R.I.P Trayvon Martin and all the other brothers killed due police brutality... What goes around comes back around... Remember that.. =_=..✊🏿BLACK NATION✊🏿...
This song still gives me chills
I still know the lyrics and it still gives me goosebumps. QUALITY MUSIC.
I was randomly talking to my wife about Martin Lee Anderson since it happened where we live and she had never heard of him. It made me think of this song so I had to play it one time. He was a troubled child but they did him wrong. This song was my motto in the early 2000's, fresh out of high school.
I'm here too one of the best songs in the history of rap genre
Ppl most definitely sleep on this song. Classic right here💯
Man this one of the realist songs out even to this day...hands dwn
I’m from the East Coast. I can unbiasedly say this is one of the best, realist rap songs I’ve heard in my life.
Ofng dis still da truth in 2k19. As a young G growing up in Chicago aka chiraq I remember playin dis song when we was shawtys trynna slide on oops.. shoot outs erday, been shot 4 different times n I’m still here. God and music like this helped change my life. 29 yrs old na n showing dis to the youth.. facts
Thank you NBA2K, for bringing me here!!!