@@Mop_Deep It wasn't really an era just a minor shot in the arm for rap only because of TDE and Kendrick , even he fell off after GKMC If we're being honest. Outside of one or 2 great albums every now and then Hip Hops long been dead since the late 90s or early 2000s at best.
I Imagine these these 2 and others like them tried to grow hip hop vertically and it by itself and new artist and the wave there was grew horizontally it’s like different dimensions fr
Seeing Kendrick body this shit just makes me emotional man. It’s all he wanted. Mans saw California Love being made. Came from them times. Worked his ass off. Bless. Love you Kendrick and AB. #blackhippy
I know for a fact, I could hang out with most people in this thread. Like minded people who feel life on a different level. This kinda music hits harder than ever in today's climate.
I used to live in LA, now im in southern Chile. Life changes, everything changes. Shit…. This nostalgia feels real. Now i have a daughter and a family. Thank you God
This record is proof that hip hop is still alive and well can't wait to grow old and play this song to my grandkids and show them what real music sounds like ,💯🙌🏽💪🏼
Ab Soul and Jay Rock dont get enough love for the skill they have. Saw them both live. both amazing. and you best believe jay rock can do a concrete backflip cuz homie can do that shit on stage no problem. 1 love
@@pasekamlotshwa2540 yes ab soul was the first person to call himself the goat. do even listen to rap bro. it must be one of the most used sentence in the rapgame
The year was 2010, I was on cloud 13 accompanied by marie jane and psylocibin chillin with some homies when this dude showed up, he wanted to buy some, we invited him to blaze one up with us, then he asked if we're into hip hop and if he can put on a song that we might like, I'll never forget that day, he put on this gem and I felt like I was falling in love with hip hop all over again, ever since that day I've been on TDE and studied all their tapes. Thank you dude who's name I forgot who just wanted to buy some weed, mvp.
Ha, always the random stuff we end up being grateful for. Weed dude got faded and you got laid. Not jus laid but a life changing lay..let's jus say you got blessed there homeboy🎼🎶🎵🔥💯
THIS SO COLD!!!!!!! No one will probably see this!! BUT IF YOU READ THIS! Can You Put A "Thumbs Up "So Others Can See. I Just started rapping seriously Type in ( Lunden Ivory - No easy way out ) people will ignore this! but if you don't can you listen, comment and subscribe! Thank you all God Bless
Who else listening to this after hearing Kendrick’s new album. Just reminiscing on the days where him and the whole tde crew were still on the come up. Great times 🔥 wish we got more Kendrick and soul collabs
This comment has aged perfectly, full circle. Once again he’s released another album as if the 22nd of November 2024 and I’m back here listening to this heat.
Me & my dad grew a closer bond when I played this in 2012. He played it every time I seen him cause he was just relived that there were still actual rappers that cared about the craft. ❤
I miss these days. Damnn man makes me ponder. No worries, either that or I was to young to notice I was worrying. Now it's nothing but money and viruses. God bless you all
Kendrick Lamar fought for his place in the world. He became exactly what he wanted to to become. This is inspiring..one of one in a few decades. This guy is a gift..
I'm filled with nostalgia, i used to play this track on repeat during 14-15 when i first discovered this gem, skilled emcees like soul & kendrick. life is not same today. but music brings me back to that time. One love & peace.
Life _suuuuckss._ I just want to build cars. I should've at least had some sort of start 5 years ago but it's whatever... Anyways, keep ya guys' heads up :P
I had to think about when I was 14-15, putting me in 9th grade, and who really ripped sh!t up at the time. KRS was the one. Blaze his own records AND the guest features! LL, Cube, Kane, and Brother J could challenge, then Busta comes along and wins me over as well. I wouldn't hear Brand Nubian for another year to add them to the list. So Kris had the title in my book.
This beat just speaks to me. It makes me feel some type of way. Top notch lyricism. An underrated gem right here. Still bumping this in 2021 and beyond because the nostalgia is surreal!!!!
Ab soul one of the top rappers today lyrically but he is highly underated....his lyrics are deeper than what people think its like u really got to listen to get the full effect...hopefully one day soul brother#2 gets his recognition
Yo ab soul is alrite theres way better out there KING LOS ,DICKY JONYER LUCUS , B.O.B , big krit, K.A.A.N , KYLE BENT, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES , COLE , LAMAR Check or texas underground remember what jay z said U.G.K is his favorite and when his cousin said that there aint many of us jay said less is more thats plenty of us check out Z-ro ,slim thug and lil keke texas we the funkiest Y so mamy e drake make a DJ
I took this era of music for granted in high school. Glad to say I experienced one of the best periods of time in hip hop live but it really took all this time and looking back on it to see how good these guys were from the start.
It’s 2023 almost 24 and I’m sitting here reminiscing the time I discovered this 10 years ago with my friends, a simpler time just smoking weed and worrying about school
Man this shit reminds me of my childhood friends and those young kids growing up on them basketball courts where I’m from. It was always open from kids to adults and we went at it every night. I can still remember in the heat of a pick up game dribbling down the court hearing this song while tryna win the game. Wow
I use to listen to this man in his prime. I was vibin ab soul all throughout high school pullin in the senior parking lot with terrorist threats bumping through two twelves in the back of a 2002 Honda accord EX coupe. Things were just easier back then. I was so young and lost. Now its almost 2023 and i still find myself looking back on the good times i had, and the lessons ive learned. Ab soul really got me through the good times and the bad, and i find myself coming back to his music at least once a year. Soul… if you are reading this, i need your guidance again. I need your wiseness and will to keep going. I need you back. You touched a generation and that generation is lost without you.
If you guys wanna hear some fresh music check out Joe Caine, he’s gonna blow up soon mark my words. He has a mixtape called lucky 7 that recently came out and I gotta say chief it’s the one
To everyone out here feeling like life is a huge misfortune remember there's no testimony without a test...TDE thanks for being my friends I can dial up on the TUBE when I wanna change my mood from sad to happy... Timeless piece,too clean ,too spiritual and too therapeutic..I visit this song on a daily for psychological healing I'm a broken soul with so much hope ..
Long term and Long Term 2 were absolutely incredible mixtapes. They had the bars and wordplay, the concepts, the passion, the structure and the sonic resonance of some of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
Genuinely one of the best hip-hop songs ever made. The vibe and energy this gives is unreal. 2014 I found this song and listened to it in the pool at the house I shared with my Uni mates after work for an entire summer and haven’t stopped since
LYRICS Yeah, come come now Soul brother number two, I'm the one now Sun up to sun down, still kickin' that shit Put your gun down I come in peace like a extraterrestrial being Eat me a meteor and walk across the moon barefeet But don't nobody rhyme like this no more Call me the 2010 Rakim I got soul, there's more in store Feel like a CVS, open 24 Spent nights tryin' to overshadow my shadow For niggas tryin' to block my light like a solar eclipse I bring a knife to a fist fight and when I cut a record So when I cut the cheese, shit you know what it is Mr. Absoulutely the most incredible at this So adjust your bass, your treble and then [Hook:] Yo, turn me up some Yo, turn me up some Yo, turn me up some Turn me up some, turn me up some [x2] Finna break this blunt down and burn me up one Then sip on this Remy 'til it turn me up some For me it's more difficult to be simple than it is to be complex As a lot of apartments You niggas comedy, I'm laughing at you probably We are not the same, there's no strand of monotony Between you and I until we die Revelations say you either fry or fly And it's hard to find God when you ain't never seen Him It's pie in the sky and there's bodies on the cement And I know you lookin' at me like, "You don't speak English" I bring the heat like a phoenix, a son under Phoenix sun And I'm rootin' for the Lakers when they play the Phoenix Suns I ain't really into sports, that's just where I'm from Long Term Two And if it's in your possession then follow the directions my dude [Hook] [Kendrick Lamar:] Come come now Pac told me fuck the world, I'm 'bout to cum now I've been a pro, but now I'm profound Propane on posers, restraining from the doja Imagine if I smoke, I probably come up with a quote So heavy you'll forget every album you heard from Hova Or 2pacalypse I'm Hub City's novelist Come and get your scholarship, I'm taking kids to school A pool full of spit, dive in, I'm 'bout to drool You'll drown trynna backstroke on concepts that I wrote I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat And I'm 'bout to elope, married to the game joe This is hip hop at its finest, where'd you find this? In a Ziploc Til the wheels fall off, fuck a pit-stop or what not Where my tear drop? I murdered it My pot-holes is turbulence I'm in the sky wit it When you listening to Kendrick, just [Hook] This for my niggas that really rap all night No sleep, do it with your eyes closed I can see your vision from Del-Amo Poppa took the television, but left the radio Ill niggas, wack niggas, what's the ratio? Is this shit degrading or inspirational? I'll have you know I must've wrote about a thousand rhymes, a thousand times I give you my word [Kendrick Lamar:] Cause I just gotta be heard I just gotta be heard I just gotta be heard Said I gotta be, yes sir I gotta be Heard, heard, heard, heard [Hook]
I remember when this came out.. It was on repeat and i still bang this. YOU KNOW YOU LISTENED TO GOOD MUSIC WHEN YOU GET THE GOOSEBUMPS! this song was the equivalent of therapy for me.
This song just aged like fine wine 🍷 🤌🏼 2023 🔥
Agreed
The amount of times I come back to this songs is easily in the thousands
Turn me up some
Facts
Omm
"Come, come now, soul brotha number 2, but im the one now" shit gives me chills everytime
This song is timeless. Brings me back to a time with my closest homies back in high school, doing dumb shit. Complete strangers now the 3 of us.
Nigel Moye damn my g literally came to the comments to see if anybody else thought the same thing when hearing this song again.
That’s literally the sample name “timeless”. You hit it on the head
Yea man thats life bro.
That’s Life homie my circle small now ,
cherish those u still got. loyalty is royalty
This Kendrick kid has potential i hope he makes it one day
I can feel his hunger to Change Hiphop
Its kendrick lamar.....
@@AnestaGallantjoke flew right over your head
@@AnestaGallantits called a joke
@@tweakrr_sorry i actually dont get it lol. someone explain the joke to me haha
Who’s listening to this absolute gem in 2024?? 🙂🎙️🎶🔥🔥🔥
CANT STOP WONT STOP
I will play till i expire FR.
I wish this was on Apple Music but I’m here!! 😂🔥🔥🔥
🙋🏻♀️
We here‼️
Who still bumping this in 2020 ? 🔥
i'm still bumping it!!!
Why isn’t this in Apple Music?
2021
EVERYDAY
Hellyeaaa
Man what an era of rap this was.... Beat's so clean and the lyrics are insane! Always come back to these tunes every year.
I don't even think this was an Era. This was just the TDE sound around this time. Drill rap would come out a year or two after this video dropped.
@@Mop_Deep this song I listened to a lot during days alone in my army barracks kept my head boppin through some hard times
@@Mop_Deep definitely an era not just TDE
I always say 2007-2013 was an insane era for rap.
@@Mop_Deep It wasn't really an era just a minor shot in the arm for
rap only because of TDE and Kendrick , even he fell off after GKMC If we're being honest. Outside of one or 2 great albums every now and then Hip Hops long been dead since the late 90s or early 2000s at best.
Almost feels like I'm peeking into a different universe, the vibe and the delivery was perfect.
Alternate dimension , we shifted
@@paretalksi’m not into all dat but we really did
Kendrick changing it back
I Imagine these these 2 and others like them tried to grow hip hop vertically and it by itself and new artist and the wave there was grew horizontally it’s like different dimensions fr
This is was in a different universe that’s the thing we shifted
Seeing Kendrick body this shit just makes me emotional man. It’s all he wanted. Mans saw California Love being made. Came from them times. Worked his ass off. Bless. Love you Kendrick and AB. #blackhippy
Kenrick destroyed this track. some shit so heavy youl forget every album, you heard fro m Hova. Holy shii
made it to a solo super bowl halftime performance... shit is genuinely crazy
@@WavyKid13 fr. it was always for him. appreciate him so much.
Mr. Ab-Soul is Absolute Bliss from the Soul
" was the black sheep and now I'm just the goat" has aged perfectly over the last 14 years
I’m here after the pop out I WISH AB SOUL DID THIS MAN I WOULD’VE CRIED
I was waiting on it. Not a big enough mainstream hit though. Solo too big for the big stage.
2010 - 2014 was a golden age in rap, almost comparable to 1992 - 1996. We need another era like that.
That real hip hop yerp
facts i feel you
The last years of HIP HOP
well, I think there are little colder nuggets being spread out through our lands.
Word
I know for a fact, I could hang out with most people in this thread. Like minded people who feel life on a different level. This kinda music hits harder than ever in today's climate.
right
Damn right man
No lie I haven't met a person I couldn't vibe with who listens to TDE
Factsssss
Facts
I used to live in LA, now im in southern Chile. Life changes, everything changes. Shit….
This nostalgia feels real. Now i have a daughter and a family. Thank you God
This record is proof that hip hop is still alive and well can't wait to grow old and play this song to my grandkids and show them what real music sounds like ,💯🙌🏽💪🏼
I’ll admit, I was not there. In their era. I knew nothing about any of TDE besides Jay Rock. But that’s the beauty of classic music. I’m here now.
Soul deserves more recognition..TDE didn’t miss till they signed REASON. Cause he sounds too generic tbh.
Seeing Kendrick and Ab-Soul at Pop out Concert, while performing 6:16 in LA🔥🔥 reminded me of this Jam😩🔥they should’ve performed it
I need a Kendrick and ab-soul collab album. Hip-hop needs that more than a J Cole and Kendrick album.
Start a movement
Go listen to Black Hippies
For sure they can't let Ab die out! Dude is just ahead of his time.
Ab Soul and Jay Rock dont get enough love for the skill they have. Saw them both live. both amazing. and you best believe jay rock can do a concrete backflip cuz homie can do that shit on stage no problem. 1 love
Put Isaiah Rashad in there too🥺🙏
Still fire 15 years later. Boys was spittin
I WILL NEVER STOP LISTENING TO THIS MASTERPIECE
The good old days when life was better.
@@HectorPerez-ue3wq nothing but facts
Jcfv5
Facts brother.
My friend....I do not blame you.
Song still gives me chills after 10 years
Goosebumps going crazy!!!! Soul really was/is nice!!!
Timeless music right here🔥
"I was a Black Sheep, but now I'm just a 🐐" - King Kendrick made it come true 11 years later. One of our greatest emcees ever
This was 2010... Did he start the Goat thing before it started trending?
@@pasekamlotshwa2540 🤣🤣 nooo
@@pasekamlotshwa2540 yes ab soul was the first person to call himself the goat. do even listen to rap bro. it must be one of the most used sentence in the rapgame
"Where my teardrop, I murdered it"
@@pasekamlotshwa2540goat has been a thing for over 20 years...
turned into a real classic time flies thats crazy. underrated
The year was 2010, I was on cloud 13 accompanied by marie jane and psylocibin chillin with some homies when this dude showed up, he wanted to buy some, we invited him to blaze one up with us, then he asked if we're into hip hop and if he can put on a song that we might like, I'll never forget that day, he put on this gem and I felt like I was falling in love with hip hop all over again, ever since that day I've been on TDE and studied all their tapes. Thank you dude who's name I forgot who just wanted to buy some weed, mvp.
Ha, always the random stuff we end up being grateful for. Weed dude got faded and you got laid. Not jus laid but a life changing lay..let's jus say you got blessed there homeboy🎼🎶🎵🔥💯
As a stoner this nearly made me cry.. Bless up to the both of y'all.
Man this takes me back. Some of the best songs I've ever heard happened that way 💨 best memories
I feel that
Im that kind of a smoker brah i always put on some fire music when smoking with or without other ppl
the beat and kendrick's verse made me feel some type of way. This is hip hop. Its all about the feel.
Yeah it gave me some next Vibe like I'm on a different planet
come on my dude...soul just killed 2 verses
Bra what about soul brotha #2, you gotta recognize that talent.
Notorious Coz it
THIS SO COLD!!!!!!! No one will probably see this!!
BUT IF YOU READ THIS! Can You Put A "Thumbs Up "So Others Can See.
I Just started rapping seriously Type in ( Lunden Ivory - No easy way out )
people will ignore this! but if you don't can you listen, comment and subscribe!
Thank you all God Bless
Who else listening to this after hearing Kendrick’s new album. Just reminiscing on the days where him and the whole tde crew were still on the come up. Great times 🔥 wish we got more Kendrick and soul collabs
Real recognizing real after Coast Contra and seeiing Kendrick 3 times live in Europe, greetings from Amsterdam
This comment has aged perfectly, full circle. Once again he’s released another album as if the 22nd of November 2024 and I’m back here listening to this heat.
Me & my dad grew a closer bond when I played this in 2012. He played it every time I seen him cause he was just relived that there were still actual rappers that cared about the craft. ❤
2019 who rockin with me?? Real music... it's TIMELESS!
Already, shieeeet *turn me up sum*
I appreciate the sample refference.
Maaaan
yuppp
Im here brother
“I was a black sheep 🐑 but now I’m jus a goat” 🐐
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥2020
fire punchline
I miss these days. Damnn man makes me ponder. No worries, either that or I was to young to notice I was worrying. Now it's nothing but money and viruses. God bless you all
You too bro ✊✊ that shit hit hard
Bro🙏
Peace and blessings ✊
word up
No era like this Pro era ,Flatbush zombies, TDE, A$AP … real music
You feel me?? That time period for underground rappers blowing up was a different feeling
TISA hats lol
This is an era time forgot
12 years later, listening to Herbert and still smoking to al Ab Souls shit man.. time is flying
Me toooooo 🔥🔥🙌🙌
Same here yo!😶🌫️ fuck this song will always slap 🙏
Kendrick Lamar fought for his place in the world. He became exactly what he wanted to to become. This is inspiring..one of one in a few decades. This guy is a gift..
Who’s still having this on repeat in 2022?🔥
HERBERT SOON
This Gon be on repeat for ever
Here
SALUTE
🙋🏽♂️
Took me back to my senior year of HS when I discovered Ab & Kenny 🙌🏾😭❤️
"I come in peace like a, extraterrestrial being. Eat me a meteor and walk across the moon bare feet" I love the syntax of that line
Soulo is the only rapper that can paint a picture in my head, his albums control system and do what thou wilt are like reading a good book
Derek Cavender but don’t nobody rhyme like this no more
Ab underrated af
@@whatshappenedhere1784 Control System is untouchable.
@@MypronounIsKing yeah they do
Legendary song even after more than 10 years. Ab-soul should have been more famous he’s a genius
Soon. Trust the story.
💯
facts
They can't handle his content on mainstream.
famous or successful? whats the ratio? "should have been" man still living, god still writing . bot
I'm filled with nostalgia, i used to play this track on repeat during 14-15 when i first discovered this gem, skilled emcees like soul & kendrick. life is not same today. but music brings me back to that time. One love & peace.
💯
ur not alone
Life _suuuuckss._ I just want to build cars. I should've at least had some sort of start 5 years ago but it's whatever... Anyways, keep ya guys' heads up :P
Same here brother, luv cuz
I had to think about when I was 14-15, putting me in 9th grade, and who really ripped sh!t up at the time. KRS was the one. Blaze his own records AND the guest features! LL, Cube, Kane, and Brother J could challenge, then Busta comes along and wins me over as well. I wouldn't hear Brand Nubian for another year to add them to the list. So Kris had the title in my book.
Just vibe out to the old gems. Miss this era
This beat just speaks to me. It makes me feel some type of way. Top notch lyricism. An underrated gem right here. Still bumping this in 2021 and beyond because the nostalgia is surreal!!!!
Fuckkk... Exactly dawg this shit takes me back to highschool sellin droe in the hallways them nick nacks💯
knew ab soul and kendrick music work for a long time now but never heard that song i guess its better late than never
Beat and flow. 🔥🔥🔥
Still bumpin 2022 🔥
weirdo
All the old TDE songs and Kendrick Lamar songs hit different when you in high school
9 years later, this song hasn't lost one bit of wisdom in this day in age.
2024 anyone?
edit: i’m seein ya’ll!! we all here 🙏🏽
HERRREEEE
Present
@@TeddyBear-uh2ey yessir
@@BigEdd let’s gooo
Always gotta come back to the classics broski
one of ab soul's best songs
True. And his best verse is “The End is Near” with Mac
Ab soul one of the top rappers today lyrically but he is highly underated....his lyrics are deeper than what people think its like u really got to listen to get the full effect...hopefully one day soul brother#2 gets his recognition
Dick Dansom i think it was a pretty fresh album, nothing to souls standards tho.
Dick Dansom these days wasnt that bad
Tony People just aren't checking for this.
Edit: Didn't realise it's been 3 years.
his music is boring, it's been done over and over sub standard at best. Chief keef, Lil Pump, Fredo Santana etc are really good rappers.
Yo ab soul is alrite theres way better out there KING LOS ,DICKY JONYER LUCUS , B.O.B , big krit, K.A.A.N , KYLE BENT, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES , COLE , LAMAR Check or texas underground remember what jay z said U.G.K is his favorite and when his cousin said that there aint many of us jay said less is more thats plenty of us check out Z-ro ,slim thug and lil keke texas we the funkiest Y so mamy e drake make a DJ
2023 and I’m still here. This shit means so much to me. Thank you Solo and Dot…this song makes my heart full 😭❤️
2024 basically hear and I am still banging the hell out of this wish there was more music like this rn fr love from Scotland Edinburgh 🏴 ✨✨
2025
One of the best songs I heard. I miss this Kendrick but I’m happy for him
Still sounds the same to me
@@PetarMilanZijicgo listen to no sleep till NYC mixtape jay rock and kdot.. tell me he sounds the same.🤣🤣 you must be out ur damn mind kid.
He's on a whooole other level of art now.
But he never switched though, the difference is constructs way more than before, been an artist first,not just rapping
He's been swallowed up by fame and the music industry, it's natural though
One of my favorite songs ever, gives that 90’s rap vibe I think that’s why I like it so much , even ab soul said no one raps like this no more
The beat just keeps taking me places
Absolutely
It sounds so trippy
T.D.E music from 2010-2014 had a different feeling
Produced By: Tae Beast
@@prof3ssor178🙌🏼🙌🏼
I took this era of music for granted in high school. Glad to say I experienced one of the best periods of time in hip hop live but it really took all this time and looking back on it to see how good these guys were from the start.
thank god for making me remember this nostalgic work. this shit still hits hard.. danm...I miss my old days..
A song that takes me back to a less stressful time. Very nostalgic. Classic.
Individually, the members of Black Hippy are incredible, United, they're unstoppable
Couldnt have said it better!!
If u unite them they become nwa I might get hate but fucc it
itzyelowfusionYT I think better nwa. Let’s not underestimate these new cats
Wish they did more stuff together, like Beastcoast.
Ab soul was who got me into TDE with Control System. He doesnt focus on making hits so he doesn't get the shine he deserves.
This song makes me cry. Good times ♥️
Kendrick just stated he’s leaving TDE after this last album!! This will forever be History now🔥🔥🔥🔥
It’s 2019 and Soul still underrated smh. He’s in my top 5 to ever do it idc
tresterling2 same
Not top 5 best rappers but definitely top 20 and top 5 most underrated rappers.
Top 5 might still be underrating him.
He's gonna b the greatest one day
Facts
It's nice how all they're flows compliment each other
Still here! Sun up to sun down, still kicking this shit.
This is one of Kendrick's most underrated features.
All of his features on Ab tracks are so good. This and his verse on Illuminate are possibly my favorite Kendrick verses period.
@@9LivesDeepDives yeah. Illuminate is crazy too. I was playin them both through out highschool bout a million plays each.
In my opinion Ab soul is the best TDE member of all of them lyrically. People sleep on Soulo too much
Right!!
It’s true, ab soul is the best
Where the hell has he been lately? Dude ain't put out nothing since DWTW but that song on the Black Panther album
even though Kendrick went mainstream can't deny he is the most lyrically gifted though, don't agree with that pop shit he was doing
@@mrsm4172 Ab-Soul the best lyricist on TDE, yes he lyrically better then Dot
It’s 2023 almost 24 and I’m sitting here reminiscing the time I discovered this 10 years ago with my friends, a simpler time just smoking weed and worrying about school
Never fails to make you think about old times.
Underrated gem 🔥🙌🏽
Cassie Fargo the biggest and absolute greatest
Facts
Yupyupyuuup
Fucken oath
Truth. Always come back to this one ✨🙌🏼
Man this shit reminds me of my childhood friends and those young kids growing up on them basketball courts where I’m from. It was always open from kids to adults and we went at it every night. I can still remember in the heat of a pick up game dribbling down the court hearing this song while tryna win the game. Wow
this is a golden track. I'm a well-educated listener. and it takes us to greater plateaus. well-done. great duo.
Hard to believe this is almost 11 years old now. Brings me back to middle school, NOSTALGIC memories!
How do I call myself a hip hop fan and am just hearing this for the first time. My God this is beautiful. This is what I feel Los Angeles sounds like.
man this track is fireeee brooo I feel!! you this is beautiful!
Of course this is a classic, true Hip-Hop at its finest. The bigger picture in a collage of poetic word flow.
I just rocked that joint last week, August Of 2023….This joint always puts me back in Center….Peace HERBERT, You A G.O.A.T2
Ab soul the best lyricist out
more collabs like this ! ab soul so underrated ! Kingz
I use to listen to this man in his prime. I was vibin ab soul all throughout high school pullin in the senior parking lot with terrorist threats bumping through two twelves in the back of a 2002 Honda accord EX coupe. Things were just easier back then. I was so young and lost. Now its almost 2023 and i still find myself looking back on the good times i had, and the lessons ive learned. Ab soul really got me through the good times and the bad, and i find myself coming back to his music at least once a year. Soul… if you are reading this, i need your guidance again. I need your wiseness and will to keep going. I need you back. You touched a generation and that generation is lost without you.
This song use to get me through college in 2014… damn memories
Early 2010s was the new golden era! TDE, mac miller, asap mob, beast coast movement, stalley, danny brown, action bronson etc. Who else?
Vince staples, odd future, curren$y
If you guys wanna hear some fresh music check out Joe Caine, he’s gonna blow up soon mark my words. He has a mixtape called lucky 7 that recently came out and I gotta say chief it’s the one
Freddie Gibbs
raider klan
wiz, cudi, da$h, retch, dom kennedy, casey veggies, shit even MMG was holding it down for a min lmao
To everyone out here feeling like life is a huge misfortune remember there's no testimony without a test...TDE thanks for being my friends I can dial up on the TUBE when I wanna change my mood from sad to happy... Timeless piece,too clean ,too spiritual and too therapeutic..I visit this song on a daily for psychological healing
I'm a broken soul with so much hope ..
Awee TP.
Ok
Hope you're still going strong, homie! This joint is medicine for the Soul, from the Soul. Timeless indeed.
Long term and Long Term 2 were absolutely incredible mixtapes. They had the bars and wordplay, the concepts, the passion, the structure and the sonic resonance of some of the greatest hip hop albums of all time.
Drake couldn’t even mess with this old Kendrick lets be real
No question 🙏🏾
He raped new one though 😂😂
Factz
He tried to mess with current Kendrick and got murdered.
Come on, we all knew Drake had no chance but Drake stans had no idea. Bet they get the picture now
The beat is a masterpiece with great artists spitting bars over it.. I miss those times man
Me a blunt and this song repeat all 2024
Verse 2 is a goat verse & just ONE example of why Soul is top 5 ever and it's not even close
Genuinely one of the best hip-hop songs ever made. The vibe and energy this gives is unreal. 2014 I found this song and listened to it in the pool at the house I shared with my Uni mates after work for an entire summer and haven’t stopped since
"was a black sheep now im just a G.O.A.T"
I can't believe I didn't catch that.
"used to wanna be a GOAT, but I'm the Ox now"
-Soulo
And I'm bout to elope, married to the game yo
Chris Jordan when I heard that line I had a stank face on 😂🔥
I Dunno just stop
“Finna break this blunt down and burn me up one and sip on this remy till it turn me up some” 🎶🎶 - Ab soul 🔥🔥
For me it’s more difficult to be simple than it is to be complex there’s a lot of apartments 🔥🔥
LYRICS
Yeah, come come now
Soul brother number two, I'm the one now
Sun up to sun down, still kickin' that shit
Put your gun down
I come in peace like a extraterrestrial being
Eat me a meteor and walk across the moon barefeet
But don't nobody rhyme like this no more
Call me the 2010 Rakim
I got soul, there's more in store
Feel like a CVS, open 24
Spent nights tryin' to overshadow my shadow
For niggas tryin' to block my light like a solar eclipse
I bring a knife to a fist fight and when I cut a record
So when I cut the cheese, shit you know what it is
Mr. Absoulutely the most incredible at this
So adjust your bass, your treble and then
[Hook:]
Yo, turn me up some
Yo, turn me up some
Yo, turn me up some
Turn me up some, turn me up some
[x2]
Finna break this blunt down and burn me up one
Then sip on this Remy 'til it turn me up some
For me it's more difficult to be simple than it is to be complex
As a lot of apartments
You niggas comedy, I'm laughing at you probably
We are not the same, there's no strand of monotony
Between you and I until we die
Revelations say you either fry or fly
And it's hard to find God when you ain't never seen Him
It's pie in the sky and there's bodies on the cement
And I know you lookin' at me like, "You don't speak English"
I bring the heat like a phoenix, a son under Phoenix sun
And I'm rootin' for the Lakers when they play the Phoenix Suns
I ain't really into sports, that's just where I'm from
Long Term Two
And if it's in your possession then follow the directions my dude
[Hook]
[Kendrick Lamar:]
Come come now
Pac told me fuck the world, I'm 'bout to cum now
I've been a pro, but now I'm profound
Propane on posers, restraining from the doja
Imagine if I smoke, I probably come up with a quote
So heavy you'll forget every album you heard from Hova
Or 2pacalypse I'm Hub City's novelist
Come and get your scholarship, I'm taking kids to school
A pool full of spit, dive in, I'm 'bout to drool
You'll drown trynna backstroke on concepts that I wrote
I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat
And I'm 'bout to elope, married to the game joe
This is hip hop at its finest, where'd you find this? In a Ziploc
Til the wheels fall off, fuck a pit-stop or what not
Where my tear drop? I murdered it
My pot-holes is turbulence
I'm in the sky wit it
When you listening to Kendrick, just
[Hook]
This for my niggas that really rap all night
No sleep, do it with your eyes closed
I can see your vision from Del-Amo
Poppa took the television, but left the radio
Ill niggas, wack niggas, what's the ratio?
Is this shit degrading or inspirational?
I'll have you know I must've wrote about a thousand rhymes, a thousand times
I give you my word
[Kendrick Lamar:]
Cause I just gotta be heard
I just gotta be heard
I just gotta be heard
Said I gotta be, yes sir I gotta be
Heard, heard, heard, heard
[Hook]
This song bro!😎🔥🔥🔥 Still bumping in '24.
i can have this song on repeat for the rest of my life
Brent Bowles it's on repeat # 5 right now
yeah
Brent_b aminnnn
How TF did I miss this banger
lmao 12 years after
It's a rabbit hole worth diving in, gotta play "LIVE AGAIN" right after this tho
I come back here a few times each year. If you’re reading this, I hope you find peace and love. God bless you. ✌🏾
Ab- Soul & Kendrick was always the illest duo to me..they force each other to be better
Remember being lonely as younger me and their music making me feel comfort im glad I found this song again
I'm upset that this only has 1,407,000 views, I love this, this song has helped me spiritually in every way
I remember when this came out.. It was on repeat and i still bang this. YOU KNOW YOU LISTENED TO GOOD MUSIC WHEN YOU GET THE GOOSEBUMPS!
this song was the equivalent of therapy for me.
Greatest group to ever grace the rap game TDE! THIS MUSIC WILL LIVE ON FOREVER AND Ab Soul and Dot on a track together is just pure artistry
I don’t even know where to begin! This song is absolutely gold. From lyrics to a phenomenally gorgeous beat!!! Ughhhh
This to me could be one of the best songs to some up TDE in this era. Still listening in in 7/21.
That feeling that everything will turn out right with time....this is what this tune does to my soul ❤️
Crazy to think this was them never needing the industry, they knew the power of the internet and youtube. 2024 & everything comes to light.