Common - The Corner ft. The Last Poets
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2009
- REMASTERED IN HD!
Official Music Video for The Corner performed by Common (ft.The Last Poets).
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This song is fucking legendary. Pay attention to the rhyme schemes in each of the verses. Verse 1: All 1 syllable rhymes with the same vowel sound, Verse 2: is 2 syllable rhymes and Verse 3: is 3 syllable rhymes. Common is one of the most skilled lyricists to ever live.
Never peeped that!! Make him even more sic
+JOHNNY STORM dope
peep game
this was always was ill to me but thank you so much for pointing that out damn now it's 10x as hard
+Funkypotato14 Real Heads still exist!
black is beautiful. black is beautiful.
Kanye and his soul beats was on another level I swear
ThatDude7132: 10/19/21.. Still SLAPS. . .after all these years
Right? He so much better when it’s just him a dope soul or funk sample and a drum machine
Ye outdid himself on the production of this beat and Common went off the rail with the lyrics...... nothin short of a MASTERPIECE!
Ye went insane on this
Facts 💯
Sometimes I get the feeling that I am beginning to hate Hip-Hop but then I listen to older stuff like this and I remember why I fell in love in the first place.
YES! 😏
I feel ya. Listen to the old school hip-hop and you will never go wrong.
Just like that
only thing wrong with this is it only has 2.4M views.. smh
I'm 19 and already feeling this way. Makes me so sad sometimes that I feel like I missed out on when hip-hop was REALLY hip-hop. I caught a glimpse at the end with stuff like this
I live in Chicago and I love how they pay homage to our city....It's ruthless, lawless, and mostly corrupt....But we can always come to "our corner" and become poets, politicians, and or just shoot the shyt....Black creativity and spirit at it's finest...Good Job Kanye on capturing the gritty essence of Our Chicago!!! Love
I love your comment even 10 years later
Big facts respect Queen what up Chicago .
All Truth!
BIG FACTS !!!! & THIS IS STILL A JAM! 🎵‼️ #ChiTown here !!! 87th!!!
Greatest city on earth 💙🤍❤
076N The Island 🏝 Crazy
near "The school of the MOES"
"We make songs about wrong because it's hard to see right" word 2 mother🕊️👩🏾🎓🕊️🌹
That first verse is just on a whole other level. Common is a genius.
Absolutely. ✌🏾
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It was dope how he just gave the four corners in a black p stones love
@@jasonwilson8671real talk
This was written by Ye
Verse 1, each line ends with 1 syllable words,
Verse 2, 2 syllable words,
Verse 3, 3 syllable words, Common is a genius
How did I never notice this (although not 2 syllable words, same two syllables rhyme)
that's crazy
Nehemiah Cavazos I saw that other comment too
Nehemiah Cavazos Incorrect. Verse 1 is 4 syllable rhymes, verse 2 is 2 syllables, and verse 3 is 3 syllables.
omg
Kids nowadays don't even know how great Common is. it's sad
Guilty Simpson I do
Guilty Simpson
It's "Common Sense" you stupid Millennial.
Kreepy Pasta its both you hardly hear anyone call him Common Sense in the video it says starring Common it doesn't say starring Common Sense
Guilty Simpson I'm 13 years I listing to common he is great
Chicago a beautiful city!
"We write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right" 🔥💪🏾💯
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Oh My God! How many times have you begin to read the comments and as SOON as you do, you see the lyrics that were typed by a musical genius (this time it is @tone9016) AS THE ARTIST IS SAYING THEM?!? One Love!☮
Now that’s a bar.
Bars 🔥🔥🔥
The way Com wrote his verses STILL amazes me. His name ain't mentioned enough when top 5 rappers/lyricists are mentioned
Soultronics idk about top 5 but top 10-15 definitely
nope 5-10 no lower
He's true. He knows the people that matter the most (those of us who live and love hip hop) important folks know and love him. I've a feeling you must lose alot of morals to be on TV and radio and be pushed like Kanye was, Jay-z(Hawaiian Sophie-haha.Easy to talk tough with paid security) is, and the greatest stopped being in the 90s. Pro black? No exposure. Just normal, not negative gangsterism? Soundcloud and small clubs. Better be shallow, materialistic, and telling on yourself for stuff you've never done or the corporate will block anyone seeing you on a large scale. You black? Act dumber and a bit gaudy and tactless. You might get a chance. Ye went the materialism route. Without that, he'd be like Com, DOOM, Lord Finesse, a million others. Financially stable and safe(not rich), respected, and happier.
my man J D, can you explicate your words deeper? Would like to know what are you really saying.
just the impression i get. i know i wouldn't want to have my music bbecome so valued materialistically that people around me tried to influence it, nor decide which pieces the public saw, thus forming a false image of me.
Common "HAS TO BE" in the top 5 of storytelling, this is hip-hop at it's finest
He's really so good and has no cursing words in his raps. That's what our kids needs.
Common is one of the best mcs to come out....
One of the greatest songs in hiphop ever .
It's very sad that many people dont appreciate great artists anymore. Common is easily one of the best rappers ever. He's a complete artist but never got the recognition he deserves. He's been doing what everyone is applauding kendrick for. Legendary artist.
But he's calm about it. When someone shouting it in your face (K.Dot) it different. You don't have a choice but to hear it. But common so cool about it a lot of 90's and 00's babies would hear the opening bars to this, think it's "wack" and keep it moving. Sad, really. They missing great art...
And it's actually so similar to Like Water For Chocolate. Even some of the producers on TPAB worked with the Soulquarians around that time. Like Tony Rutledge Jr said, Common did the same thing and IMO probably did it better and in a less commercial way
Tony Rutledge Jr
yeah, definitely more than ever
How isn't common getting the attention he deserves? He's highly regarded as one of the GOATS of rap in many communities.
because his talent could make him on Jay's level of fame, but he won't throw his dignity and ethics away enough. That's my suspicion.
This could quite possibly be the greatest hip hop song ever put down. I mean that.
Tony DeGregorio this and I Used To Love H.E.R. by Common too haha the man is an underrated legend 😤😤
You might be right
The People
I agree
Hey definitely top 5 in BARS he went nuts... on this joint...
I miss THESE Chicago winters! They tell the best stories, & make the best movie scenes.❄️💨🌨🌧🌬🌨
I used to kick it with Common at the car wash in Hyde Park, a real down to earth brother and this video shows Chicago in the true sense of its urban life.. I been to or lived near or drove thru Every place in this video.. Power to the People..
Commons first verse is one of the best verses of all time
Sam Smith yes sur!!
When opinion becomes fact
One of the hottest tracks of all time
Local African one love
Local African the coner
Period
10/19/21:Local African, because of your comment, is why I tune-in in to this video countless times over these MANY years.
Chicago! my city man! Midwest! Where Legends are born!
This album stayed in my cd player all year . Common is the illest
. . . Same. ---->>>>
@@DrMoriole biggie smalls is the illest remember that
Illest matic
Common looks like he's still gonna be rapping at age 92 and be pretty darn dope at it.
For real
Sean Lane Dude's an authentic Hip-Hop head and really talented.
I definitely agree with you on that
Maka Velli: Second...... that.....POV!!!!
CocoaFemme 1015 Common is that nice
I wish Chicago rappers would go back to rapping like this.
If you’re from Chicago you can literally feel this song #southside
Yesssssssuuuurrrr #englewood
FACTZ 82nd Auburn Gresham killaward checkn 💯🤙🏾
SOUTHSIDE SOUTHSIDE
71st from Rainbow Beach to Pulaski#mylove
Not from Chicago but I've been there so I feel this
"The corner, where struggle and greed fight... we write songs about wrong because it's hard to see right."
That's why I keep saying... gangsta rap ain't nothing but an extension of the blues.
People ask me why I listen to country music. I tell them it’s white blues music
Man this has got to be one of my top 5 Common songs. This really fun to learn the lyrics to this and rhyme with him. This was so well written, the beat perfect and the poetry in the middle.... Man this makes me proud to be from the south side of Chicago.
TooMany Gamez great track but for me Respitation - Black star & common is one of his best
+TooMany Gamez I feel you dont know whats going on, but thanks for joining.
Also-"I'm in my own world"-"I can't believe it:I got shot!"hahahahaha-brilliant, good man
Im from LA and I'm one to say that I recognize a bar legend , poet ,a true mc . one of the best ever.
My favorite Song he made
Who Still Bumping This In 2020
✋🏾 2020 and beyond. ✌🏾
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We will be bumping into the ages.
I listened to some Imiri Baraka and some Kanye Cortez,, last night. Mother Cortez , she influenced the Watts Prophets, who started around the same time as the Last Poets. All on Utube. Have you heard Brotha Keepa, Amon Rashidi, Quiet Rage, Maj You're, The Original Woman, Mutabaruka, Oku Onua, Sister Binta Breeze, Warrior Griot, Sekou Sundiata and others ? I have found some of the Last Poets work under their homes individual names. There were 7 members, plus the percussionists. Let me know if you want more people, to go with the great music, in your collection. Blessings to You and to The Great Ones. I am jamming with Fela Kuti next, then Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti and Sonny Okosum. Also look up Jamaican Reggae poet , Micheal Smith, titled. My Caan Believe It. Recorded in the early 1980s
Me... And sharing it, explaining to my Children & Grandchildren who the The Last Poets were & are. What they meant & mean to OUR PEOPLE & the REVOLUTION!!!! 💛✊
Correction. Jayne Cortez,. Also I found. Nikki Giovvani. Titled Ego. Tripping. Amiri Baraka. Nation Time on line
This is so dope, I can feel the cold air coming off of the screen.
Thought I was the only one. ✌🏾
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2023, still a classic! Nobody can deny Common's talent (except nowadays kids)
Perfect beat, deep lyrics, storytelling with the touch of the last poets' spoken words...
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2024 and it will FOREVER “BE” a classic.
Real lyricism with the perfect delivery for the beat
The song will forever be on my playlist.
"The Street.... Ain't SAFE cuz they ain't knowing the CODE." This shit is lyrical ingenuity.
“It’s so Black!
Packed with action that’s affirmative!” 🔥
I don't know about these young boys today but I'm 36 and this video embodies the essence of a Chicago winter. Every scene is reality in the Chi. The train yards where we used to break in carts and do grafitti. The pimps and macks, the liquor stores on every corner, old schools, vacant lots, tenements, L-trains running through the city like blood through the veins, the hustlers, the subways, the rooftops, the skyline, the lakeshore, the Southshore, gangs, the Mob, the Nation of Islam, Muslims, rappers, hoopers, the poets, the fire side trash cans, whinos, the cold, the warmth, the love. It's Chicago.
Common the best Chicago rapper hands down.
Ever heard of Kanye?
Ever heard of Twista?
Lupe?
He said what he said.
James Anderson right, he said wtf he said
I cannot express in words how much I love this song!!! 🙌🙌🙌
I wish I could give you this feeling lol
🙌
The whole album
yo Common DESTROYED this!! Geez!! 1st verse rhymed 1 syllable, 2nd verse 2 syllables, 3rd 3 syllables! Lotta People ain't catch that
I wish I could give you this feeling. Its that Midwest Chicago Detroit Cleveland feeling.
Its that ChiTown sound homie its funky and stylish homie.
Thats cool homie
nikko garcia I wish I could give you this feeling. Its that Midwest Chicago Detroit Cleveland feeling.
Hell Ya I remember this jam man you need to come join our facebook group its called the chill spot hold up i'll get the link
John Jacobs You know what.. I hear you on the Midwest thing, biut I’ve always felt that this record was for every hood, in every urban area all around the country
Common BODIED the first verse.
Yeah he definitely destroyed the whole song but the first verse might be the best Bars I ever heard.
The whole damn thg 😜👁️❣️🔥
#Word! My boo did ❤️🖤💚😘💥💫
@@beaszze The wind is cold and it blows...that shit cut deep lol
@@Closedeyewilly Fam you got to be from Chicago that wind in the winter make yo ass go back inside lol
Common legit one of the most underrated Rappers. That old school story telling hip-hop. His verses are always on point
Never underrated. Just slightly underappreciated
No other song can capture Chicago from the mid 2000s perspective...
Salute
The world is cold , the block is hot as a stove. Real dope rhymes. This is true lyricism at it's best. This is what hip -hop should be. Common delivers the rhymes to the beat so smooth and the beat is nice. A person can bop his head to this beat. The conscious commentary by The Last Poets and the old Kanye West going in. I miss this music.
❤️✊🏽
🔥💯
Straight conscious fire 🔥
the rhyme scheme here is fantastic. Common is top five all time for sure.
Woah. I don’t think he can for sure be top five when there’s Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Rakim, Biggie, 2Pac, Big L, Andre 3000, Kendrick, Big Pun and a ton more
I’d say he’s top 25 for sure but not top 10. And this is from someone who has Common as one of their favourite rappers ever
We are passionate about this, huh? Maybe not top 5, but Jay is talented, no Com Sense to me.Likewise Pun.Big L, Kendrick, El-p, GHOST, RAE,Roger and brother GZA are all amazing-I still rock all Eric B & Rakim records. Vinnie from Phillie, so many.But-it's '95, we're drinking beers on the curb with our lil tape player:KRS or Rak?Why are we listening to Diamond Shell?
I totally agree with you!!! He is so underrated and deserves more recognition!!!
@@JDtimesten I'm sorry but lyrically Common is definitely better than Big Pun and Jay Z😔
@@africanbella28 I agree
I was born and raised in Chicago. It’s good to see someone from Chicago giving it a positive look. Common is one of the few rappers that I would listen to.
I wouldn’t say he’s giving it a positive look. He definitely is a diamond coming from such a pressurized city as Chicago.
The cold weather being implicitly expressed in the video is the symbolism for how cold the city is.
@@tysonsimmons2295 Chicago is like this we never have a fall, it’s goes from summer to winter, lol.
This song is textbook rap/hip hop. Common could teach a class on how to do rap the right way.
the last poets 🙌
❤️🖤💚🙏🏽🤲🏽💪🏽🧠💯💥✨💯🔥🔥🤯🤯
Legendary Track Right Here
I don’t know how that line went over my head all these years. “The streets ain’t SAFE cause they ain’t knowing the CODES” 🔥🔥🔥
Home. He’s talking about home for us Chicagoans 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
crazy how soulful this is. such a classic. and the story behind it is even more miraculous. Kanye showing up the studio 3 hours late after partying all night. telling common he needs a nap. common jus sitting around waiting for ye to wake up and when he does 2 hours later, ye busts this beat out within the hour AND drops the sample in it. common ripped his verses before they left. pure magic.
This beat rocks,especially with the speakers blasting.lyrics is incredible.
❤️
I was a kid and I remember watching the poets on the southside of Chicago shout out to common
Don’t care what anybody says, Southside is the Soul of Chicago! We influence the great culture of Chicago.
Common has the message here as usual but he does it in a much more technically lyrical way here than normal. What a true great MC.
you cant even touch this beat unless you spittin some hot shit
"fires raised as tribal dances & war cries broke out on every corner power to the people ,black power , black is beautiful ." rip george floyd
😢😥🙏🏽🤲🏽💪🏽❤️🖤💚✊🏽
This is pure,uncut hiphop
My shit!! Common went in on this, Lyrically!! Song is so dope!!! He brought the grid of the streets into song!! I love it!!
''We write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right, looking to the sky hoping it be light....''!!
+NellyBelle I saw your comments on Aaliyah songs earlier lol, great minds think alike
Bren Mitchell
thank you and yes we do!!
+NellyBelle You got to be kidding me! lol this has got to be the third time I ran into you in the comment section of my favorite vids
xldjvista
naw lol its me!!! lol you will see me on all of what is good music!!!
+NellyBelle thats was one of the best bar on the song
This is one of Common's dopest songs ever!!!
Imagine 2pac on this one
"The world is cold. The block is hot as a stove."
Greatness lies in the simplicity of expression.
4.6 million after 13 years on UA-cam is criminal. This song is a classic and deserves more views.
Common's lyricism...GODDAMN!!
Chicago is Common's hometown
Now I roll in an Olds with windows that don’t roll 🤴🏾🔥🎤🔥🎤🔥🎤🔥🎤🔥🎤🔥
That box cutty tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You can call this Chicago State of Mind. This is mad similar to N.Y State of Mind
the beat is everything
This is Chicago’s eternal theme song 🔥
No doubt
And I'm from the west side
@@johnwhite960 homecoming by ye
I’m 20 years old and I been listening to common since I was 7🔥🐐this is what you call underrated💯
One of kanyes beat beats
Only real OGs still listening to this In 2019😎
Common has amazing bars. No matter what neighborhood you’re from, the corner is today’s school for anthropological study. Not about skin, tone or location, location, location, but helping.
Common's flow is so methodical. It's like lyrical mathematics. Genius! I love him 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎶🎼🎵💖
Just got a "Be" literally day before DJing a streetball tournament. I didnt need to do any DJing. Just put BE Common this new album and they knew this is a Masterclass from start to the end. Faithfull to the end my mate Common. You such an inspiration
Music is mathematics
Only Kanye and J Dilla can produce such an amazing album.
He showing winter time Chi Town 💪🏾
Who is the greatest rapper? It has to be someone whose words mean something, and that puts Common head and shoulders above the usual contenders.
Real rap. Real poetry from the pavement. Common top 10 all time imo.
" The corner !! Where struggle and greed fights,we write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right/look up to the sky hoping it would bleed like ,reality a bitch and I heard that she bites, The corner "
✊🏽❤️
Common is a top Legendary Rapper, he doesn't gloat or glamorize hard times on the streets or any destruction, he is showing you what goes on in the urban areas of Chicago, Illinois. I have heard a few critics saying he isn't hardcore?? He is versatile and what is your definition of being hardcore? He is supposed to uplift not glorify any violence & this foolishness someone said about him being soft🤔is ridiculous.
@@seanlaseter8103 true dat.. Common was like Rakim in the sense they were both in the streets, but chose to not glorify the streets and the violence.
"Street lights in deep nights cats tryna eat right, ridin on no seat bikes with work to feed hypes". If that's not Chicago then I don't know what is. LOL! CHI-TOWN REPRESENTA!!! WESTSIDE K-TOWN!!! #MISSINMYCITY
Dope AF...
One of our great poets
Happy birthday to one of the Greatest MC's ever to touch a Mic!! Common sense!!
I used to walk to class from my dorm in the morning and listen to this. The Corner.
Nostalgia ❤️
Oh so we around the same age then lol
Do you remember what year in college?
2005 baby.
Lets go Chicago this that real Chicago music.
Common has still never gotten the recognition that he earned. Hes so damn good. He gets better & better after every verse on here. Hes so so so good!
I love how they used the cold weather to express how cold the city is socially,
So Chicago
That sample and beat are killin' it!
that L train took me way back to my Woodlawn days, 4 corner Hustlers and Black Stone Rangers ran the corners. All is well..Peace
one love
Yup.. Cottage Grove. It looks completely different since the gardens are gone.
Stone Run it, Stone Love 🔑20☝🏾🌎 ⭐️ 🤚🏾✊🏾 🛕 All iS well Red nation! PeopleS nation
Almighty
Solid joe✊🏾
The song encapsulates hip-hop in it's truest form. The editing on the video is remarkable.
I love Common great lyricists so poetic
Kanye vocals 🙌🏽 🔥🔥.. This song is so Chicago 💯
"Reality's a bitch and I heard that she bites". Common is a lyrical genius.
Damn I miss when hip hop fed my soul, motivated and inspired me
This is the soundtrack for the culture!
Thank you, Lonnie Lynn Jr.
Classic Kanye west beat
Hey girl I did not know you have a UA-cam
+Aurelia Blakney I really don't. I just like to comment on stuff
***** idk who you are
+Ayysia Dansby hey girl we still on for our date tonight
Facts I miss Kanye soulful beats like this
I feel the rhythm the blues the flow the tempo the enthusiasm the teamwork
What an amazing era the late 90s and early 2000's were. Common, Talib Kweli, and Yasin Bey/Mos Def.
This is lyrical rap skill!!!🔥🔥🔥