Nocean you're damn right man... such a bautifull world full of idiots who don't even see the fucking difference between what's good and wrong...love mos def he's a great and a "real" artist
Overlord Sweg It only becomes a problem when these people who listen to mainstream bullshit call THIS stuff shit and the stuff they listen to "good". I seriously showed this idiot in one of my high school classes "God's Bathroom Floor" by Atmosphere, the dude laughed, called it shit, and then put on "Wassup" by ASAP Rocky and told me that THAT is good music. Yeah, lets throw millions of dollars at artists who spend a total of 10 minutes writing an entire album because it's simply a load of garbage bragging about their money and the girls they fuck but leave *real artists* who make *real* music and put *effort* into their music struggling to even sell a fraction of how much music mainstream artists sell. Yep, sick fucking world. You can't deny in any way shape or form that the majority of music people listen to now is worthless trash. Everybody needs lyrics spoon fed to them, so they bag on stuff like this that requires you to have some knowledge and think about what the artist is trying to say. Play on words, references; nobody gets that shit anymore. They need everything spoon fed to them in "Pussy, Money, Weed" format for them to appreciate and recognize as music. Sad. Plus, don't make this into "people's lives", this isn't about their lives, it's about their shitty taste in "music".
@@amarildopires2979 At the beginning of both verses of this song, Mos Def has lyrics that count up from 1 to 10. 1st verse: Yo, check it 1 for Charlie Hustle, 2 for Steady Rock 3 for the forth-comin' live future shock It's 5 dimensions, 6 senses 7 firmaments of heaven and hell 8 million stories to tell 9 planets faithfully keepin' orbit, with the probable 10th 2nd verse: Yo, it's 1 universal law, but 2 sides to every story 3 strikes and you biddin' for life, mandatory 4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years I ain't tryin' to be the 5th when the millennium is here Yo, it's 6 million ways to die from the 7 deadly thrills 8-year-olds gettin' found with 9mils It's 10PM, where your seeds at? What's the deal?
It goes mos def j cole then whoever else after . Real lyrics real rap . Real heart . Intellectual . Only thing that breaks my heart is this song and panties is so timeless i just wish he had more . The panties mathmatics sunshine and kalifornia baby ❤
You can't really say "the idea of surveillance" portrayed though those books means his line wasn't legit. I mean when did they start wiretapping? Once that happened you don't need to take from fiction.
Crazy MusicFreak Hm i dont think I have, Im from Canada but depends on the expression I guess but yeah it's pretty ridiculous how much goes to military spending, and it increases each year, more money spent on defence than the next 8 nations combined and every other problem in America gets shrugged off or immediately outraged like "Yeah where are we gonna get the money!? (Gee I wonder) You aint takin my guns or our military's either.." lol Guess how much money NASA's budget is? When Neil degrasse Tyson asks people, most will guess around 10-20% which is what it should be if we were interested in space exploration and the advancement of our species..but it was actually 0.5% and now 0.4%
I loved Mos Def as a kid because his rhythm and the beats were so good, but coming back to his music almost two decades later looking for some nostalgia, I’m realizing that by focusing on the hip-hop I was missing out on an incredible message and mission. I always thought he was underrated, but now I know for sure that he is.
When I was back then, I wondered why most of my friends didn't really hear the messages I was hearing in Hip Hop of that time... Now, it makes sense why most people didn't notice when the message was all but erased from modern day, so called "hip-hop" which I refer to as "pop-hop". Lol😢
"The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black front liners got they gun in your back bumble and crack ; jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty and end up in the global jail economy. Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence. Budget cut backs but increased police presence but even if you get out of prison still living join the other 5 million under state supervision this is business! No faces just lines and statistics from your phone your zip code and ssi digits.." This is probably one of the greatest set of bars in the history of hip hop. Every time I recite it I get chills because this song is how old? And these lines still ring true. And more than likely, in another 20 years they will still be true!
+Errol Neal the best comment posted. You can tell who awake and who is sleep. These "funny comments" ain't funny. It's real life and it's not a game out here.
+Errol Neal "sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack..." This whole track still gives me the chills. It's like the best mathematics lesson that should be taught.
"16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to a ki, a 5 minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free" is a great way of remembering that weight conversion. Seriously, it's helped me out many times.
@@Ze_Moose he's talking about the weights of drugs. Get caught with a kilo of drugs, it's a 5 minute court hearing and then you've lost your freedom = sent to prison
Conscious Hip Hop at the highest possible level. World class rappers today may be more versatile and have more options to express themselves as artists but Hip Hip in its unpolishedness has reached its peak in the 90s with masterpieces like this.
The whole wide world has lost its conscious Even if it ever had one son Don't deny it people Just feel the steel As it cuts you wide open again Hotter than Broadway n Myrtle
Black on Both Sides and The New Danger are both wildly experimental for their time. Mos Def new how to explore his creative limits while still keeping his music squarely in the hip-hop genre.
This track is genius on every level, lyrics, beat, delivery, subject, composition. Not many songs achieve this level of perfectly balanced. Mos def & primo is a perfect combo. Honestly primo makes the perfect tailor made beat for everyone, like an expensive suit. Straight nuclear fission 🔥
Damn, listening to this at 40 years old knowing it was probably written in his early 20s realizing how intelligent some of these rappers were at the time for their age. Wow
@J Talanian IQ is in comparison to the rest of the population. If you start preparing for an IQ test whilst said "rest of the population" hasn't, you're basically cheating, and the result if that test is no longer able to tell you anything about your intelligence.
Raphael Granger I bet he was from and went school in New York like big pac jay z busta nas big pun and so on those English and music teachers in New York in the 70s and 80s needed a damn raise 🤣
This was mine friend a favorite song, when we was a little punks who were just listening everyday almost old school raps, then freestyle and so on, mine friend, he had this song on his phone when everyone tried to call him, he made a suicide, whenever I listen this song, it memorizes to me a moment when we was a kids who was everyday out playing basketball and enjoying our lives, such a gold old days....
This song (and album really) could have been written yesterday. Sad how most of the disturbing trends described here are still going strong heading into 2015
When I was a senior in high school back in 2015. I had a history advisor that could only play instrumentals in class no lyrics. This was the first beat I ever heard from mos def, shout out to Mr. Protz
Groups like Wu, Tribe, Pharcyde, Mobb Deep, and many others were spoken to to preserve all the true methods of emceeing in a couple of classic books, *HOW TO RAP* & *HOW TO RAP 2*.
Complexity laid bare it's all mathematics 😁👌 I revolve around science "what are we talking about here" awesome all round composition with a message that stands the test if time.
I met Mos Def. I was hanging out in Central Park, Manhattan and Mos walked up to me, smiled, sat down and played a guitar with a big happy grin on his face. The music we were all dancing to was very good music. They were pumpin' old school disco beats in the skate park and there were girls and interesting people everywhere. He was lovin' the music. I told him I was a fan, but I didn't want to bother him for any kind of autograph. He's a star and it isn't cool to run up on a person when they are enjoying themselves. I didn't want people to rush him and ruin this experience for him. We all just enjoyed the music. He's got Brooklyn humor. Mos and his friends talked like people I know from Brooklyn. He's a cool person. In my mind, Mos Def is #1 rap with crazy flava. Mos has a creativity and spirituality that is very tangible. The music is missing this element now. Mumbles. WTF?
A lot of people think this song was prophetic or predictive when it is really accurate and descriptive. Some things still ain't changed, and some things never will. Mathematics indeed.
@@hanssolo6107 i might be looking to hard into this but I don't think I am, "Numbers is ... real" = real numbers real numbers do indeed have application limits, most notably complex numbers however they also have pure mathematical limits as exampled by 0.999... = 1
@@hanssolo6107 There are also numerous examples of "limits" in mathematics, in exponential functions, derivatives, integrals, graphing in general, it's a multi-faceted line for sure.
One of the best songs ever written. (Not just in Hip Hop.) Everything from the content, flow, cadence, wordplay, substance, sheer lyricism and delivery. Mos needs to drop an album or at least we need to see that Blackstar 2 album. Mos is undeniably top 10 ever!!!
For me it's "Working class poor better keep your alarm set Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream For cats get they cha-paow, you dead now" That fucking gets me every time.
Most Def is my favorite conscious rapper. He knows what he's talking about at a pretty deep level and it shows. I can take his political and social commentary more seriously than 99% of rappers.
Yaasin Bey(mos def) voluntarily allowed himself to be waterboarded. Christopher Hitchens did the same shit. They both called it torture yet Hannity is still spitting bullshit. And he is still thoroughly not waterboarded. Mathematics.
Mos Def has a talent for thoughtful and clever lyrics. There's layers of meaning to uncover but it's a great song even if you don't listen to the lyrics.
Don't want to diss Kanye considering I used to listen to some of his stuff, but yes, lately artists like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest are the one's I feel connected to (at least that's what my playlist tells me), other stuff (sadly 'mainstream' stuff) seems so shallow and just there to "WOW" you for 2 or 3 weeks, til it gets pushed off the Billboard list.
"Working class poor better keep your alarm set Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream But you chain cats get they CHA-POW, who dead now Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow" one of the most ill verses ive ever heard
Ay man, i met this dude in Observatory, Cape Town a couple of years ago. In lower maine street. He was in SA and in trouble with our law here so was grounded here. He came out of one of the hang out places in Obs n my friend saw him, he proceeded to give me his phone said..." Take a picture" and ran to man like a groupie. Anyway, man didn't wanna take a picture cos he moved around unnoticed, which I respect. We greeted n Mos went his way. I'll never forget that day. He was just like regular dude but yet he's legendary.
@@hermanshula9449 for instance , if someone shot 6/20 ik off the top of my head that he shot 30%. Or 6/16 = .375/38%. I can’t show you over text well but yeah. Just ironic because depending on the mind you can learn from anything. It helped me pass math through school.
A lot of ppl say this song “predicted” things such as mass surveillance, or wage theft, or the prison industrial complex. But Mos didn’t predict any of this stuff. He reported on it; they were always there, just took people decades to figure it out. He’s top 10 all time 🤞
***** thats a couple of languages mixed, somethings are said differently in other cultures, like I could not translate ''fuck you'' to my native language it won't make sense, but I told him to blow himself..
I can't get over how sharp of a lyricist Mos Def really was in 1999. It's the level of quality where it actually makes you mad, not because you're jealous, but because you didn't even realize someone could be that good. It defies all logic.
I like how he added Gringos right in the beginning. Thank you mang, sick of being hated on because of my classification .... I'm sure other people might hate this comment. Ive had a hard fucking life being white in the ghetto. Especially lately because of this cop and black lifes matter. Man, it aint a racial thing its a income thing. The cops are paid to repress all of us under a certain pay graid.
Fuck all that.. I'm latino and grew up with everybody. We dont hate on you guys at all. Ignore the assholes. You'll find them in any race. Mantronix said it best: "For the blacks, Puerto Ricans and the white people too!" UNIVERSAL
damn imagine how every other race feels for the whites hating on every other race that isn't white been going on for thousands of years . *cough *cough
an injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere. more power to you brother, no matter your race, religion, sexual preference or any other stupid fucking social restraint these Bitches try to judge you by.
Lowkey? This type of math is available for everybody to see and learn. However, like most people doing a math homework, they don't want to sit for themselves and do the numbers. Great song but it's as explicit as it can get.
“ _Even numbers got limits, why did one straw break the camels back here’s the secret, the million other straws underneath it, it’s all mathematics_ “ 🔥 🎤
@@balle733 It was just wisdom. "how could that happen" It only looks like one thing caused it, when variables are in the millions to accumulate to one event. The line was dope in the context of this song.
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Sucks that we live in a world where this stuff is less appreciated than songs about getting wasted, making money, and having sex.
Nocean So true man.
Nocean you're damn right man... such a bautifull world full of idiots who don't even see the fucking difference between what's good and wrong...love mos def he's a great and a "real" artist
Overlord Sweg Yeah man...fuck the comformist!!
can you not read? i'm saying that you guys are idiots.
Overlord Sweg It only becomes a problem when these people who listen to mainstream bullshit call THIS stuff shit and the stuff they listen to "good". I seriously showed this idiot in one of my high school classes "God's Bathroom Floor" by Atmosphere, the dude laughed, called it shit, and then put on "Wassup" by ASAP Rocky and told me that THAT is good music.
Yeah, lets throw millions of dollars at artists who spend a total of 10 minutes writing an entire album because it's simply a load of garbage bragging about their money and the girls they fuck but leave *real artists* who make *real* music and put *effort* into their music struggling to even sell a fraction of how much music mainstream artists sell.
Yep, sick fucking world. You can't deny in any way shape or form that the majority of music people listen to now is worthless trash. Everybody needs lyrics spoon fed to them, so they bag on stuff like this that requires you to have some knowledge and think about what the artist is trying to say. Play on words, references; nobody gets that shit anymore. They need everything spoon fed to them in "Pussy, Money, Weed" format for them to appreciate and recognize as music. Sad.
Plus, don't make this into "people's lives", this isn't about their lives, it's about their shitty taste in "music".
I hope someday young music listeners hold Mos Def in the same light as they do 2Pac.
IMO Biggie, Nas and L are better than Pac. His message was good but he's a little overrated
Brandon Henderson I do
Brandon Henderson Bro I'm only 12 and I know almost all the songs and "Black on both sides" album so you better believe I look up to Mos Def
i do and im 15
Brandon Henderson He and his work deserves to be covered in a textbook with a whole chapter dedicated to this song alone.
“Young bloods can’t spell but they can rock you in PlayStation” man this aged so well
"40% of Americans own a cellphone" didn't age so well
@@zachary2750 it’s all mathematics
@Winston Thomas 🤝
@@Yah.get_it Indeed it is
@Winston Thomas the Mighty Mos Def
Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Slick Rick, Pharcyde... the early 90's in general. I miss story telling hiphop, I miss when it meant something...
Thank you Mos def, i passed calculus because of this tutorial math video.
Same
even more impressive
I passed mathematical logic
I solved the problem down there.......
I was able to create a high powered rocket engine thanks to this video. Thanks def :-)
My favorite ice cream flavors
1.chocolate
2.vanilla
3.bubblegum
4.strawberry
just my opinion
Rank 1 comment NA.
i don't really like bubblegum
yea mint chocolate chip is the real mvp
MMLP > Chocolate!
what's MMLP
Only just realized he counts from 1 to 10 in both verses. "There's ONE universal law, TWO sides to every story, THREE strikes etc"
Genius ass
Please explain curious
@@amarildopires2979 At the beginning of both verses of this song, Mos Def has lyrics that count up from 1 to 10.
1st verse:
Yo, check it
1 for Charlie Hustle, 2 for Steady Rock
3 for the forth-comin' live future shock
It's 5 dimensions, 6 senses
7 firmaments of heaven and hell
8 million stories to tell
9 planets faithfully keepin' orbit, with the probable 10th
2nd verse:
Yo, it's 1 universal law, but 2 sides to every story
3 strikes and you biddin' for life, mandatory
4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years
I ain't tryin' to be the 5th when the millennium is here
Yo, it's 6 million ways to die from the 7 deadly thrills
8-year-olds gettin' found with 9mils
It's 10PM, where your seeds at? What's the deal?
I’m here to support real hiphop
Say it loud 💯💪🏽
It goes mos def j cole then whoever else after . Real lyrics real rap . Real heart . Intellectual . Only thing that breaks my heart is this song and panties is so timeless i just wish he had more . The panties mathmatics sunshine and kalifornia baby ❤
"40% of Americans own cell phones/so they can hear everything that you say when you ain't home" Mos Def calling it years before Snowden
SUCH A GENIUS DUDE
I guess Micheal Jackson was right, you are not alone. O. O
Have you not heard of 1984 or Brave New World "D" ?
You can't really say "the idea of surveillance" portrayed though those books means his line wasn't legit. I mean when did they start wiretapping? Once that happened you don't need to take from fiction.
When the phone was invented,thats when wiretapping started...Na more like when Morse code was up and running Dakota.
Why are people bringing up Eminem on a Mos Def video? Sigh...Can't we just enjoy the fucking music.
Tev apparently not... young people who know F all about Hip Hop go around mentioning Eminem.
Tev rabu rabu rabu rabu rabu rap
Eminem is a shitty rapper
ItsNotSuperEffective name someone who is better please
jackbauer555 Jadakiss, Nas, Tupac, Biggie are all better than Eminem, that isn't to say Em is shit (I don't think he is) but he isn't the greatest.
Probably the best hiphop track of all time. Still relevant in 2023.
When will it not be relevant tho honestly it's a timeless bop to say the least
Mos def is the definition of hip hop..Happy 50th anniversary 🎉
HBD🤘🏽HipHop🗽🗽🗽🗽🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
Never has there been so much truth on one song
"Youngbloods can't spell, but can rock you on playstation"
whew
you better learn how to add
the irony of the ps4 commercial before this song
Pulkit t its a shame how its even more relevant now then it was back then...thank god i grew up when kids still played outside
'69 Billion in the last 20 years spent on national defence but folks still live in fear' - perfect, this song is just spot on in every way, g'damn!
+Danny MusicFreak True hip hop
+Danny MusicFreak I started reading this right when he said it.
+Crazy MusicFreak Kinda way off though, its 598 billion..per year. But great lyrics
+ChronicCuber Sheez.. No wonder people say 'it costs a bomb'. I'm in England, encase you've never heard anyone say that ha.
Crazy MusicFreak Hm i dont think I have, Im from Canada but depends on the expression I guess but yeah it's pretty ridiculous how much goes to military spending, and it increases each year, more money spent on defence than the next 8 nations combined and every other problem in America gets shrugged off or immediately outraged like "Yeah where are we gonna get the money!? (Gee I wonder) You aint takin my guns or our military's either.." lol
Guess how much money NASA's budget is? When Neil degrasse Tyson asks people, most will guess around 10-20% which is what it should be if we were interested in space exploration and the advancement of our species..but it was actually 0.5% and now 0.4%
I loved Mos Def as a kid because his rhythm and the beats were so good, but coming back to his music almost two decades later looking for some nostalgia, I’m realizing that by focusing on the hip-hop I was missing out on an incredible message and mission. I always thought he was underrated, but now I know for sure that he is.
Well said. I felt the same way when I went back to listening to Gang Starr. Guru was sending messages. Incredible!
Underrated for sure but respected by the respected
Word!
When I was back then, I wondered why most of my friends didn't really hear the messages I was hearing in Hip Hop of that time... Now, it makes sense why most people didn't notice when the message was all but erased from modern day, so called "hip-hop" which I refer to as "pop-hop". Lol😢
I believe Mos Def is the best rapper of all time.
Only real hip hop heads know 💯
"The white unemployment rate is nearly more than triple for black front liners got they gun in your back bumble and crack ; jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty and end up in the global jail economy. Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence. Budget cut backs but increased police presence but even if you get out of prison still living join the other 5 million under state supervision this is business! No faces just lines and statistics from your phone your zip code and ssi digits.." This is probably one of the greatest set of bars in the history of hip hop. Every time I recite it I get chills because this song is how old? And these lines still ring true. And more than likely, in another 20 years they will still be true!
+Errol Neal Combat poverty
true
+Errol Neal the best comment posted. You can tell who awake and who is sleep. These "funny comments" ain't funny. It's real life and it's not a game out here.
+Errol Neal "sixty-nine billion in the last twenty years spent on national defense but folks still live in fear like
nearly half of America's largest cities is one-quarter black That's why they gave Ricky Ross all the crack..." This whole track still gives me the chills. It's like the best mathematics lesson that should be taught.
so true.
"16 ounces to a pound, 20 more to a ki, a 5 minute sentence hearing and you're no longer free" is a great way of remembering that weight conversion. Seriously, it's helped me out many times.
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I don't get this line 🤔
@@Ze_Moose he's talking about the weights of drugs. Get caught with a kilo of drugs, it's a 5 minute court hearing and then you've lost your freedom = sent to prison
@@leonrossiter2651 You're doing the work of Rap Genius. Appreciate it 👍🏽
Conscious Hip Hop at the highest possible level. World class rappers today may be more versatile and have more options to express themselves as artists but Hip Hip in its unpolishedness has reached its peak in the 90s with masterpieces like this.
That's a really good way of putting it. Conscious hip hop. That is what seems to be missing these days.
The whole wide world has lost its conscious
Even if it ever had one son
Don't deny it people
Just feel the steel
As it cuts you wide open again
Hotter than
Broadway n Myrtle
Black on Both Sides and The New Danger are both wildly experimental for their time. Mos Def new how to explore his creative limits while still keeping his music squarely in the hip-hop genre.
I agree but I'd add the first mayeb 3-4 years of the 00's
Hip Hop is concious, everything else is Pop.
This track is genius on every level, lyrics, beat, delivery, subject, composition.
Not many songs achieve this level of perfectly balanced.
Mos def & primo is a perfect combo. Honestly primo makes the perfect tailor made beat for everyone, like an expensive suit. Straight nuclear fission 🔥
Damn, listening to this at 40 years old knowing it was probably written in his early 20s realizing how intelligent some of these rappers were at the time for their age. Wow
Raphael Granger I think you mean mature, I’m not sure IQ change with time
@J Talanian IQ is in comparison to the rest of the population. If you start preparing for an IQ test whilst said "rest of the population" hasn't, you're basically cheating, and the result if that test is no longer able to tell you anything about your intelligence.
It is insane
Raphael Granger I bet he was from and went school in New York like big pac jay z busta nas big pun and so on those English and music teachers in New York in the 70s and 80s needed a damn raise 🤣
@@shrianeequestrian9110 you saw me mention anything about IQ?
2020 who else is rocking Mos Def with me
M.B. Pace me bro
Ayeeee, every week!
Mos Def is a great mathematician according to this song, and his equations will live long forever through human history.
Literally everyone watching this video.
Yes sir
This is just one reason why asking this pioneer rapper about his opinion of Drake is simply insulting. Respiration, Black Star, is another.
This was mine friend a favorite song, when we was a little punks who were just listening everyday almost old school raps, then freestyle and so on, mine friend, he had this song on his phone when everyone tried to call him, he made a suicide, whenever I listen this song, it memorizes to me a moment when we was a kids who was everyday out playing basketball and enjoying our lives, such a gold old days....
Hugs❤
This song (and album really) could have been written yesterday. Sad how most of the disturbing trends described here are still going strong heading into 2015
What's scary is that it seems to be getting worse.
Brandon Stumbo Word, Mos Def spat fucking molten lava on this track, props to him for speaking the truth and keeping it real at the same time.
513DJ Agreed. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Still applies today
This song is way out of it's time. Mos Def is one hell of a lyricist.
"Timeless" is what you are looking for.
The man is brilliant.
Sup zeke
Stellar!!
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Alot what he said, we knew back then. But I'm talking about us theorists, the real 1st gen woke. Not the joke woke of today.
This song predicted quite a lot of things extremely accurate, a masterpiece
You got it wrong fam. This wasn't a prediction. It was a description.
When I was a senior in high school back in 2015. I had a history advisor that could only play instrumentals in class no lyrics.
This was the first beat I ever heard from mos def, shout out to Mr. Protz
"... but you push too hard, even numbers got limits..." I was kind of impressed. Clever, clever.
Groups like Wu, Tribe, Pharcyde, Mobb Deep, and many others were spoken to to preserve all the true methods of emceeing in a couple of classic books, *HOW TO RAP* & *HOW TO RAP 2*.
Lol ish just don't add up
how come I always run into you How to Rap missionaries everywhere. youre doing a good job though so well done
DUFC321 Illmatic
"Mathematics" is mos definitely an exemplar of hip hop .
One of the sickest and most intricate rhyme schemes of all time, period.
Complexity laid bare it's all mathematics 😁👌 I revolve around science "what are we talking about here" awesome all round composition with a message that stands the test if time.
Another masterpiece from DJ Premier.
Semscure One of my favourite of his beats!
oh shit! I didn't know it was a dj premier beat! he makes some fire beats though
Semscure true! He is a poet
+Chad Mower wait... da fuck?
+Semscure Premo and Ant Banks take the cake. sorry dre lovers :)
mighty mos def
+GameMinds mighty af
simple mathematics..
+GameMinds Check this remix, "Mos Def in 2016 sound" :) /watch?v=PC8a10ykE0E
+RonanSkates 247 Spit Fyah
straight up nigga
One of my ALL TIME favorite HipHop bangers. Absolute fire 🔥
Listening from Kenya 🇰🇪
If these rhymes were relevant in 1999, then they are damn near prophetic in 2022.
The beat in this song kills.
Indeed ! Primo is a genius !!!!!
I liked his work with Group Home. Listen to suspended in time to hear some of Primo's best work.
Oh yeah.
Like a Sam Peckinpah film. :)
"my pencil so hot it burn through my journal " why is this so dope?
+3rdi RedemptionShotz It's dope because no one writes with paper anymore lol
Simplicity = elegance
its ink not pencil
Yeah, it's; ''my ink so hot, it burns through the journal''...
its the flow
I met Mos Def. I was hanging out in Central Park, Manhattan and Mos walked up to me, smiled, sat down and played a guitar with a big happy grin on his face. The music we were all dancing to was very good music. They were pumpin' old school disco beats in the skate park and there were girls and interesting people everywhere. He was lovin' the music. I told him I was a fan, but I didn't want to bother him for any kind of autograph. He's a star and it isn't cool to run up on a person when they are enjoying themselves. I didn't want people to rush him and ruin this experience for him. We all just enjoyed the music. He's got Brooklyn humor. Mos and his friends talked like people I know from Brooklyn. He's a cool person. In my mind, Mos Def is #1 rap with crazy flava. Mos has a creativity and spirituality that is very tangible. The music is missing this element now. Mumbles. WTF?
A lot of people think this song was prophetic or predictive when it is really accurate and descriptive. Some things still ain't changed, and some things never will. Mathematics indeed.
Underrated comment
"Numbers is hard and real and they never have feelings
But you push too hard, even numbers got limits" Bars upon bars upon bars.Much respect Yasiin.
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But they do not have limits
@@hanssolo6107 i might be looking to hard into this but I don't think I am,
"Numbers is ... real" = real numbers
real numbers do indeed have application limits, most notably complex numbers
however they also have pure mathematical limits as exampled by 0.999... = 1
@@hanssolo6107 There are also numerous examples of "limits" in mathematics, in exponential functions, derivatives, integrals, graphing in general, it's a multi-faceted line for sure.
bro no are of two type real no and complex no so as numbers is real... real no that mean real no too have limit and from there complex no starts
Young bloods can't spell but they can rock you in PlayStation
Pure gold
DOPE LINE!!
A surprisingly timeless line.
I heard that!
James Pascale can you please explain the bar to me?
@@piouseniola1337 really bro?
Mos Def underrated. He should be mentioned in everyone’s top 5
One of the best songs ever written. (Not just in Hip Hop.) Everything from the content, flow, cadence, wordplay, substance, sheer lyricism and delivery. Mos needs to drop an album or at least we need to see that Blackstar 2 album. Mos is undeniably top 10 ever!!!
he is called mos def.. haha
My top 5 ⚡🔥
This shit does go stupid hard.
Well it's here you got blackstar 2 yet?
@@MattWebz goes stupid hard but leaves you educated
I never looked at the view count, and my jaw hit the floor. 18 million views on a Mos Def vid? Holy fuck.
what, you thought you were a elite music listener. Mos Def is pretty huge lol.
quality of viewers not quantity of views
all audio too, no video
It's simple mathematics!
Madden 2002 is the answer you're looking for
this track is amazing.
Damn it is.
Mos was predicting the future 24 years ago. Insane.
For me it's
"Working class poor better keep your alarm set
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream
For cats get they cha-paow, you dead now"
That fucking gets me every time.
I went to the same high school as Mos Def, they have his poster in the hallways.
+Rondo TheStreets CAS in the village.
+Rondo TheStreets stfu bitch
***** Who do you think you are BTW saying I didn't go to school with him like you know me and him?
***** you're a bitch.
+Rondo TheStreets why are you everywhere
Young bloods can't spell but they'll rock you at playstation. One of the realest bars about todays generation
One if the greatest lyricist of all time!
One of the best albums ever made in Hip-hop culture, in my opinion!
Yes Holmes, in the top five for the last 10 or so years
JulianJJM but dis is from 1999
John P it's all mathematics.
you clearly havent heard finally rich.
Pete Nguyen chief keef ha
This is the era where you had to listen to a record at least 3 times because it was so real..... #CLASSIC
Prince Mush the entire album too
Prince Mush Mos def us cut from another cloth of rappers LIKEBlack thought Pharoh Manorch
Most Def is my favorite conscious rapper. He knows what he's talking about at a pretty deep level and it shows. I can take his political and social commentary more seriously than 99% of rappers.
I remember this song on them And 1 mixtapes back in the day. Damn the early 2000’s is back in the day 🤦🏾♂️ at least to 80’s babies
this song is so fucking good my god
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dude dropping truth on cell phone tapping way back in 99, wow
That was even before the patriot act
@Lord Lucan 💯 King Zohar
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I was listening to this 20yrs ago sounds even better now it’s a hard track! Mos Def is Underrated
Yaasin Bey(mos def) voluntarily allowed himself to be waterboarded.
Christopher Hitchens did the same shit.
They both called it torture yet Hannity is still spitting bullshit. And he is still thoroughly not waterboarded.
Mathematics.
Facts!
One of the most perfectly penned songs ever created
PREACH
Agreed, still listening to these words!
One of the real masterpieces.
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Mos Def has a talent for thoughtful and clever lyrics. There's layers of meaning to uncover but it's a great song even if you don't listen to the lyrics.
i think it's safe to say that this is one of the most quotable songs that has ever graced hip-hop.
immortal technique harlem streets.
both of you are incorrect. the correct answer is just about any song on criminal minded or by all means necessary.
how did this turn into a pissing contest? lol, i said "one of," meaning, "one of many."
Isn't the most quotable song C.R.E.A.M. by the Wu Tang Clan?
***** Cream(Cream), Paid in Full(Dead presidents), or Shook Ones(aint no such thing as half-way crooks)
Best hip hop album of all time and one of the best songs of all time.
He up there with Pac , Nas and Wayne and other Top 10 lyricist
I can't hit the like button hard enough.
Gavin Davies looks like you used it on the caps lock key too! hahaha
mos def and kanye west are ahead of our time and will continue to push black people father by any means necessary
lol naw i wasn't comparing them i was just naming two people
***** learn what to compare is nigga
***** Not always, Kanye's music was the same till after Graduation.
Don't want to diss Kanye considering I used to listen to some of his stuff, but yes, lately artists like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest are the one's I feel connected to (at least that's what my playlist tells me), other stuff (sadly 'mainstream' stuff) seems so shallow and just there to "WOW" you for 2 or 3 weeks, til it gets pushed off the Billboard list.
mbreezy223 You're a fucking idiot.
One of my all time favorite Hip-Hop bangers.
Listening to this timeless classic from Kenya🙌🏾
More words in one song than a whole album from the top “hip hop” artists nowadays
"The streets too loud to hear freedom ring." Damn😯🔥🔥
Best line
@@Squizzle1000 nope. "killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow"
You really hot :)
@@unwichtig1179 the thirst is real
This math still adding up in 2020
Except pluto
Nobody saw that coming tho not even the scientists
Simple mathematics... Mighty mos def...
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This song is a singularity ripping blackholes apart to give way to light.
"Working class poor better keep your alarm set
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
Say evacuate your sleep, it's dangerous to dream
But you chain cats get they CHA-POW, who dead now
Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow"
one of the most ill verses ive ever heard
It’s a number game, but shit don’t add up somehow
The uploader couldnt do the simple mathematics of calculating how long this video should be
LOL
+SoarAxe hahahahaha
+SoarAxe hahAHHAHAha
i think he did. i always enjoy the pause after this lyrical masterpiece
hahhhaha
This was an instant hip hop classic the second it got released
I think he knew that xD
It was a classic as soon as they went into the studio.
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Ay man, i met this dude in Observatory, Cape Town a couple of years ago. In lower maine street. He was in SA and in trouble with our law here so was grounded here. He came out of one of the hang out places in Obs n my friend saw him, he proceeded to give me his phone said..." Take a picture" and ran to man like a groupie.
Anyway, man didn't wanna take a picture cos he moved around unnoticed, which I respect. We greeted n Mos went his way.
I'll never forget that day. He was just like regular dude but yet he's legendary.
“Killing fields need blood to graze the cash cow” love that saying.
This song is so relevant right now its scary.
Exactly. He knew decades ago
@@thomn8371 more like nothins changed
❤
Always been relevant brother
*He's a Prophet*
this is my neighbours favourite song , even if they don't like it.
Doing donuts blasting this and ju$t run the juels
Blast it yo lol
🧐🤣👏
At first I was like why would they be playing it if they don't like it 🤷♂️🤔......ohh🤣😂😆
lol
"Youngbloods can't spell but they can rock you on PlayStation."
I learned how to convert fractions into decimals playing 2k.
How did those Mathematics happen?
@@hermanshula9449 for instance , if someone shot 6/20 ik off the top of my head that he shot 30%.
Or 6/16 = .375/38%.
I can’t show you over text well but yeah.
Just ironic because depending on the mind you can learn from anything. It helped me pass math through school.
9 planets orbit possible 10th expand thr universe..what! My guy is the definition of bars
I'm glad to see a real hip hop vid on here with over 9milli views. Shouts out to all da real hiphop fans who recognize da real!!!
I promised myself I would listen to this once and then go to bed Here I am still awake :s
true that.
Yes thank you lol
^ ur cool
Mos Def contributed various
methods in that B0OK wich conserves the
classic tecniques of spitting-- H0;W .T,0- R-A P
same shit man xD
Man this guys got a heart-i got here via a interview of his take on the world, the usa, and humanity-bought me to tears...the guy is a genius.
Every bar in this song is aged like fine wine
"5 minute sentence hearing and your no longer free" it hits hard when you living it.
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I hope you and those you love are ok
Wow, just wow. Mos Def is a feckin legend.
actually he's kinda fucked now
he changed his name to Yasiin Bey
he wasn't brainwashed he is a muslim all the way and likes it
Wheresmy240 say that 8 more times. then say underated a million
Wheresmy240 Mos Def Presidency anyone?
Respect to anybody that’s still bobing the head to this it’s mean you got a personality that is true and not media fake
"Young bloods can't spell but they can rock you in PlayStation.." Wow!!
"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the Universe" ~Galileo Galilei
Oh Lord...I miss this kind of hip hop soooooo much 😢
A lot of ppl say this song “predicted” things such as mass surveillance, or wage theft, or the prison industrial complex. But Mos didn’t predict any of this stuff. He reported on it; they were always there, just took people decades to figure it out.
He’s top 10 all time 🤞
no lie no joke played this song before a maths test and got 95%
thats what happens when you listen to genuises, like a baby listening to mazart to become a prodigy
mazart lmfao
*Mozart. Clearly, you weren't one of them. JK.
hahha u mean muretzhart
*****
thats a couple of languages mixed, somethings are said differently in other cultures, like I could not translate ''fuck you'' to my native language it won't make sense, but I told him to blow himself..
I can't get over how sharp of a lyricist Mos Def really was in 1999. It's the level of quality where it actually makes you mad, not because you're jealous, but because you didn't even realize someone could be that good. It defies all logic.
Still listening in 2024! 🔥 Old skool music is the best!
2023 who else is rocking with this masterpiece
I like how he added Gringos right in the beginning. Thank you mang, sick of being hated on because of my classification .... I'm sure other people might hate this comment. Ive had a hard fucking life being white in the ghetto. Especially lately because of this cop and black lifes matter. Man, it aint a racial thing its a income thing. The cops are paid to repress all of us under a certain pay graid.
I know how you feel
Fuck all that.. I'm latino and grew up with everybody. We dont hate on you guys at all. Ignore the assholes. You'll find them in any race. Mantronix said it best: "For the blacks, Puerto Ricans and the white people too!" UNIVERSAL
damn imagine how every other race feels for the whites hating on every other race that isn't white been going on for thousands of years . *cough *cough
+Brandon Lucano FUCK U BUD,
an injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere. more power to you brother, no matter your race, religion, sexual preference or any other stupid fucking social restraint these Bitches try to judge you by.
Mos Def: lowkey makes a song about sociological statistics
Lowkey?
This type of math is available for everybody to see and learn.
However, like most people doing a math homework, they don't want to sit for themselves and do the numbers.
Great song but it's as explicit as it can get.
Low-key?
Like others said, I don't think you know what lowkey means
My man's is telling you facts point blank, nothing lowkey about it
These mathematics have been here before our we just add to the cypher
*High key.
One of my favorite songs of all time. Period.
"Budget cutbacks, but increase police presence " bars bro bars
“ _Even numbers got limits, why did one straw break the camels back here’s the secret, the million other straws underneath it, it’s all mathematics_ “
🔥 🎤
balle733
Me either
I just fw the reference
@@balle733 It was just wisdom. "how could that happen" It only looks like one thing caused it, when variables are in the millions to accumulate to one event. The line was dope in the context of this song.
Story behind every Revolution ever.......
Amen brother
@@slmeucalesa1 populist movement old as time
I've overlooked Mos Def for farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr too long
Oh nooooo you playing wit the game like that... Lol
1 of the sickest baddest ever!!! LEGENDARY!! ❤🔥💯💯💯💯💪🔥🔥🔥