Atmosphere - Trying To Find A Balance (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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2023 and still slamming this jam! Dude is 10000% underrated
underrated af
Yo...I remember this off a ""white chocolate" highlight reel...love this track
A classic . What this generation is lacking
2024. Just a reminder so you listen to this friggin banger. ( yeas i no cuss. SPHERE is an elder much respect) he's an 70s deuce. Year was a classic ;b
100%
14 years later and I'm still trying to find a balance.
We're always going to be!
This song never made sense to me. Fourteen years later, I still don't, but I know what he's saying.
@@captainfox-6932 l
I totally understand what he’s saying
You're still here, and trying.
Most underrated hip-hop song of all time. An absolute banger!
Still hits! I dedicate this to my brother who introduced me to you and your music. Back in the day when he lived on Garfield, we'd be out front. See you ride past on your bike, you raised your hand and nod at us as you passed. I smiled. I asked my brother "Who was that?" He said "Slug from Atmosphere." Now my brother has passed away a few days ago. I will always listen to your music, and imagine him just vibin'. Rest in peace Clarence Evans. 🙏🏼
prayers
My brother passed away 6 years ago, he also introduced me to Atmosphere. That’s a very special connection to have to an amazing music group. Your brother and mine will live on through the raps 💜
💙
Awh! I also live on Garfield! ❤️ But in Huntington Beach.
@@thismightgetloud yes indeed. Bless up 🙏🏽🕊
Picture this, you're 14, there's no school today, just loaded up tony hawks underground 2. The only worry you have is finishing the Boston level. Life is good
Fucking this.
Now we're all trying to find a balance. 😒
Yeah 100%. Miss those days. Hope ya’ll have found the balance✌🏼
Damn, you literally spoke my words.
Right^^
Ten years later still better than today's mainstream.
I've been to four of his shows and he never fails to amaze me.
+CPG Isn't that the effect of shit going mainstream? It killed every music genre that got popular so far. Rap/Hip_hop is just talk about how rich you are music 9/10 times. Dubsteb got so abused barely anyone can listen to it (Every song of every genre had elements of it. Trap and bass is what is now "Mainstream" so expect to see that in most songs in the radio. And If I can do somewhat of a predictment I assume bass/future bass will be next. (Check the growth on bass nations channel)
And you know what I think is the worst part is?
Shit like atmosphere / grieves etc gets buried under the "Mainstreamed" songs and will never get the recognition I personally think it deserves.
That said : I am so fucking happy I threw my radio out and only hear it now and then at work. This made me able to "preserve" genres without playing them to death at which point you get bored with them.
+CPG
Good is good, it doesn't matter what decade.
+FU MF THANK YOU!!
Fuck mainstream!
After years and years of fanboying, I am seeing him perform live at a gig in Amsterdam tonight. I had a horrible day, week, month, year at work.
I honestly cannot express how i feel about tonight. Love and peace always.
How was it?!
15 years ago I used to play this to friends in my car and at parties. It was so underground and nobody could understand. Crazy that 15 years later I’m listening to this now and people STILL don’t get it……
we will always appreciate his music though, fuck everyone else who can’t understand it
Playing this at parties is fucking insane lmao. You need to learn what context to play music 😂
It has 15 million views
You weren't special or interesting for listening to the song back then and you still aren't
Still one of favorite songs
I feel you bro , then I moved to the bay area San Francisco and everyone knows and jams to atmosphere
15 years later and this still hits harder then what's out now.
Fr
Whoever you are damn right!
This is soooooo much older than 15 years. I remember being in high school waiting for this to show on MTV
Was bumping this off an mp3 my step dad gave me when I was 11, instantly loved it. I miss when most hip-hop had a real message and good delivery
This guy is so much hype. 😅 Lol!
Old, but still up to date... Things never change.....
BUT REMEMBER EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE, THINGS DO CHANGE........
THANK GOD
Yo, check out Golden oldies by R.A. Rugged man Feat. Slug. He still keeping it 💯
I'm still trying to build this balance 43 years old fan since 95
This just never fails to hit. The beat is chaotic and he fuckin gave it the approach it needed. One of the biggest unsung legends in terms of creativity and skill.
This song really helps me out when I'm going through a hard time.
It helps me when I´m out of balance...
Always
Yessir
Used to listen to him in 15 years ago when I was in high school. Forgot how great he was. Takes me way back.
Yea one day I'm gonna leave the same comment as you. I'm a senior this year
It's actually "Them". Yea, I still feel you bro. They are great artists!
I'm just the next door neighbor, working hard and trying to stay sober. beautiful song.
Tangible Darkness me and you both
An unmoved witness.
Amen.. don't think and keep looking back at how many times you've fallen.. focus on the times you didn't stay down and got right back up. Some may fall again, as long as you get back up and push forward and stay positive, you ain't a coward.
17 years later, and this is still the most relevant thing and music
"I'm not insane. In fact I'm kinda rational. When I be asking "yo where did all the passion go?"
One of the hardest lines ever.
I love it too. Tell me what it means ? I really love his deep lyrics that so hard to understand and the more difficult it to understand the better it is
@@SashaBykovskaI feel that it means the realer you are in a world that gets further from reality the one who speaks the truth will be viewed as insane. I don't know. Just my interpretation.
@@loganmaddocks4703 oh I see. Yeah that makes sense . I like it since I feel like I don’t wanna become like everyone else out there in that case I rather just be called insane
wow it’s 2019 and im still listening to this legend.
pattibjee damn man how does it feel?
@@123456bmx Like Atmosphere is still relevant. You know Rhymesayers dropped his newest track... yesterday?
I'll still be in 2020 ehhe
This shit never gets old... He doesn't claim to have a timeless song yet but this is one of them.
Lovely is DOOOOPE
2024 .anyone here?
For the ATL BY WAY OF CHXCGO
Still trying to find a balance
In this fuckin crazy World
Yee
Forever❤
2020 still trying to find a balance.... Take me back to these shows
First song I ever heard by atmosphere. Playin Tony Hawks underground 2 on ps2. This was always my favorites track on that game, and now I'm fan of slug and atmosphere.... Thank you Tony hawk...
True, that's where I heard atmosphere at first too. THUG2 had in my opinion the best soundtrack out of all the tony hawk games.
Definitely.
not trying to fan boy, but i would say best playlist of any game in general!
There are other soundtracks to games that I can consider pretty damn solid, but the amount diversity in the tracks of thug2, has to make it the best in my opinion,
+Antwon Mianus
Yet the very best THPS song is Superman from THPS1. But I agree overall THUG2 had a pretty solid soundtrack, THPS2 had the worst one (which was still decent).
T.HU.G 2 introduced to me 20 years ago.. and i still rock this song..
I still rock the game on gamecube!
Aaaah them good old days 😊
I think I originally heard Atmosphere at a party in my 20s, I asked who they were, and that was it. Hooked, lined and sinker I've been stuck on RSE for years. I'm so fucking happy, it saved me and introduced me to "real" hip hop.
Dude 14 years later and this still on my Playlist. Slug is so above everyone else
This song got me through deaths, my parents Divorce and my break ups. When you put this song blasting and you get so hyped, you put have motivation again.
thanks Slug. Changing lives with your music!
im going through something really bad right now and the first thing i thought was to come listen to this song.. my brother showed me atmosphere andi feel like it’s still like we’re listening to this and im 12 years old in the backseat of his truck looking out the window and everything is ok.
I used to always call into my college radio station to request this, now it's 2023 and still one of my favorite Atmosphere songs
U hear of Tony Hawk Underground 2 Tony mustve been a big fan of Rhymesayers cause a lot of their songs were on his soundtracks this one was on UG2
Atmosphere is Anthony and Slug.
It's a group.
The rapper you see is SLUG. His producer is Ant/Anthony.
Favorite thing about this song. When this album dropped in 03’ it had very mixed reviews. Accusations of selling out. This song in particular was treated pretty harsh. Since then if you’ve been any of his shows you know he always closes with this song and the crowd goes nuts. In my head that’s his huge middle finger to the haters and critics
Listening to this in 2016 after remembering the days of Tony Hawk games on the ps2, this song still goes hard
Facts bro. The good ole days😀😎💯
+shawn cole 💯
+Avasi Lucas, Wow!! you took me back to when I was little playing it with my brother my goodness :( reminiscing :)
+Erin Aldrich same I used to play with my sisters
My dad passed away this year...
"You can't achieve your goals if you don't take that chance,
so go pry open that trunk and get those amps, you know?" Nice one!
Yeah the guy who introduced the song to me had his amps stolen
Slug, I found that balance... Sean, bro, all the times I've sat and had a beer with you at the Abby has properly shifted my balance. So many profound conversations we as teens shared with each other built my life a foundation where I sit today... And today, in fucking balanced! Bravo Sean, slug, atmosphere, whatever and wherever, I hope you've found a balance. Much love!
I remember this from so long ago with also following eyedea. It’s 2024 and I still wish the world 🌎 would find a balance. WOW. Our music was good when double kick flipping 12 steps
Dear slug. I ve been listening to your words and feelings since I was 18 yrs old. I m now 34 and I m not a native Englisch speaker but I believe that you have influenced me in a positive way and I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please keep sharing your thoughts and thank you for doing so the last years. Sending you love and light. ✌️
I heard this for the first time back in '04 on Yahoo! music. For many years Atmosphere was about the only rap I liked listening to, because it was so different from the mainstream. 18 years later, they're still my favorite rap to listen to.
I remember having to stay up late on a school night just to catch this video on a local music channel long gone now. ❣️❣️❣️
Oh the good ol days
MTV
Much music?
I still remember being incredibly surprised and happy that Atmosphere was finally starting to get some attention when this aired on my college campus' music video channel in 2003 -- had been a huge fan for a few years prior.
This is as underrated as rap gets
I just went to his concert 2 days ago! I've been listening to him for so long, it was great to hear Atmosphere on stage again.
@Beausephus Hartstein yes he's back to doing it! He said he only stopped because of covid.
Saw Atmosphere 6 years ago at Camp Flog Gnaw. Atmosphere topped and ended their performance with this song... I was crying and looked around and everyone was tearing up as well
It's amazing how I can play this in front of anybody who calls themself a rap head and they are not even phased...they genuinely can't hear the passion in this?
Wow that's unbelievable
21 years since hearing this and still a regular on my playlist.
If anyone is wondering, Atmosphere sampled the song The Mirror by Spooky Tooth. Classic Progressive Rock song.
Also the lyric at 1:00 "I'm not insane, in fact I'm kinda rational..." is a KRS-One lyric from "My Philosophy"
Spooky Tooth is so underrepresented when people talk about "prog rock." Respect!
"Yeah i got some last words...fuck all of y'all"
Ice Cube I believe.
Love this song
Doug
stay humble
This man and his music has been with me for life. Rhymesayers has been so crucial to my upbringing, and such a foundation to my life. Thank you Sean, thank you Anthony, and thank you to anyone else who has been part of this journey
Thank you for everything Sean
My first time watching this was in 02-03 junior in high school watching the video during computer class. I moved back from a smaller town where my mom lived to where I grew up 40 minutes south from the twin cities. My friends already were into Atmosphere and they said to watch the video. You could barely see Slug's face at 144p but the music was clean. Now 21-22 years later living in south Minneapolis, watching the video on my phone while my 5 year old is watching it with me has me remembering that first time. Damn.
THUG!!!! So nostalgic to me!!! I love this Atmosphere track so much!!! such a classic!!! Never trust anyone who doesn't feel this track!!!
This song will never get old
2021 still no balance this seems to make more sense every year I listen to it.
For over a decade I've listened to this song on the morning of major life events, starting new jobs, Integrating into new friend groups, buying a new car, buying my first house. It's always been grounding, in this fucked up life I'm just trying to find a balance
I hear yah dawg loud n clear
This song speaks to me on a lot of levels.
I loved how people directed videos like this. I wish hip hop had that hardcore look and baggy gangsta style fashion with a thuggish attitude . Like yeah people do old school style tracks today but they never make the videos hardcore and gritty like this. It’s just always the slow motion HD style
J Cole “Might Delete Later”
@@joshwilliams6517 now that’s shit I’m talking about.. it looks so much more gritter and hardcore looking asf if only they made music videos like this more often or imagine they made a hardcore old school style track with that video directing.. I love it. Thanks for recommending it.
His lyrics really have a lot of meeting, this is one of their best.
2020 Virus Pandemic era. This song is still helping fight the depression. Epic !!!
One of the most underrated rappers ever
Period
This song should be forcibly played on every radio station that exists, all at the same time
Loud
lmfao the soccer mom's would be like..OMG! Did he just say a curse word? plug your ears kids..
hahahahahha I concur 111%
I saw this dude in concert few years back and blew the roof off the place him and his DJ 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Slug snapped on this. Throws me back to my junior year in hs. Been listening to them for a few years by that time and this came out on the radio… I was pissed like everyone’s gonna start listening to them now lol
Still listening in 2023
Badass is badass regardless the year
Was never big atmosphere fan but I always respected their approach to hip hop. It certainly was rather unique. In my opinion this is one of the best tracks they ever recorded.
I'm trying to build a balance!!
2020 and we still play atmosphere. 👍 No one even lights a candle to this legend
Still trying to find a balance in 2019
#2020
Hell yeah bro
Hits harder than ever and I’m still trying to find a balance
Im trying to find a balance!
15 years later and its still better than most mainstream music
_I'M TRYING TO FIND A BALANCE._
*I'M TRYING TO BUILD A BALANCE.*
Wow I'm 38 and played this game when i was in my mid 20s. I see the balance he's trying to build. Dope. When i listen to music I listened to back in the day. They have so much more meaning now. I think my Playlist is phenomenal. Especially with this song in it.
This son was our anthem lol remember beers after dealing with long lines and dirty theaters lol
15 years later and this is still one of the sickest beats
Still better than today’s music 🔥💯
Atmosphere finally made a good record
+The_MCPE_Miner Yeah right, that shit ALMOST sounds convincing.
+Alan Zepeda u know?
Alan Zepeda whether or not you believe in it
And Atmosphere finnaly made a good sandwich
all their songs are good
This song and God loves ugly, got me thru hard times, now all I listen to is atmosphere, dax, and Tom mcdonald, and maybe some tupac. Wishing there were more like them.
TRUE STORY i used to skate with this kid back in 06.. he was always freestylin n beatboxin and we all clowned when he was done ( especially me since I was the only chick that could blade with these fools) but forreal he always killed that shit. Too bad you don't get paid putting out real art rather than the mainstream bullshit that makes infants rich today but glad I can still hear it!!!
Erica Jordan lol atmosphere was a well known act well before 2006. At least match your lies up with timelines
@@aidandean-jones4029 shes not talking about slug dumb fuck
@@aidandean-jones4029 so many years later and this comment still makes me lose brain cells
Damn I didn't know this dude was white. Had this song on my computer for years, and never looked up the artist until now.
Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure he's 1/2 white, 1/4 black, and 1/4 Native American
Davy Whitezel you're right
Same haha
@@DavyWhitezel blood quantum is stupid but I heard he's multiracial yeah.
Re-discovering this song when it used to be your favourite on Tony Hawk's Underground 2 after some 18 years now is WILD... Massively underrated tune..
This song been gettin me hyped for 17 years...used to Listen to God Loves Ugly in High School Art Class n turned half my high school into atmosphere fanatics.. that wad over 22 years ago. Slug is a genius. Atmosphere is underground uniqueness and intellectual hip hop at its absolute FINEST.
I first heard this song from playing THUG2 back at 2008 without a clue who the artist was and finding it again in 2017 really brings me back a lot of good memories after all the difficult struggles... this song makes me feel awake yeah know? I got so pumped hearing this again man!
2021 and I'm still trying to find my balance. But I won't give up.
Respect from Italy 🙏✌🔥💣👊🎙🔝🎧
Vibes af. Timeless. Energetic
"Hello ma'am, would you be interested in some sexual positions and emotional investments" One of Slug's greatest lines.
Why do you call him slug
I still like that quote
If you are brave enough.. you can also use it for the girl you might like.. After all many say how they wish a honest guy :)
With that quote you are being quite honest haha
@@Yourewrongimrightnothingelse that's his name
@@Yourewrongimrightnothingelse Slug is the MC, Ant is the DJ, together they are Atmosphere.
One of my favorite lyrics all time. That one and " God bless America, but she stole the "B" from bless, and kept it" = God - Less America
i'll always love slug, but there was something so raw about his energy back then compared to today
He grew up. Not so angry anymore. Dudes got a family
Can't believe that more than 10 years after hearing this I'll be back and just relate to the lyrics with a better understanding of English as a native French... Depicting a loyal picture of our degenerated world...
First heard this track in '08 & from then on I wouldn't allow myself to listen to ne thing main stream. In a way I felt that I was somehow betraying all underground if I turned on the radio. Any chance I got to introduce somebody to Atmosphere/Slug you'd best believe I'd play this track. And here we are 13 years later & these lyrics still give me chills.
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 memories comeback every time I play this song; the good days.
What an amazing song this is. Over the years, I've listened to this for so many problems. It is my go to when I'm frustrated. I appreciate the work he did with this. Can't wait to see Slug live again.
First time hearing this as a kid on launch.com in 2002... the old yahoo music site lol. atmosphere finally made a good record ... yeah right, they’ve made plenty good records. Been hooked since 2002. Haha, my fav group ever
I wonder if this is one of the earliest Videos on youtube that still exists
The oldest videos I can think of are Angry Video Game Nerd's, that's 2005.
Unfortunately (I say this with hesitation) I believe Souljah Boi-Crank Dat is the oldest/first music video on UA-cam. Dont quote me but I think I heard that through the years somewhere.
Wow,I remember this when I was in high-school
2020, I will build my balance
Yeahh boiiii
Then 2020 turned out to be a train wreck lol
@@beauboy76 yuup kinda hard to accomplish anything stuck in the house lmao
You can still accomplish a lot while stayin in da house, which you usually dont a have a chance for. And remember, if 2020 is a train wreck, you can always turn it into a trainwreck of electro swing!
@@Zeewman ayyye i like your outlook!
my favorite atmosphere song
14 years later …..still better
thug2 where i discovered most of my fav songs
i was too young back in the thug1 days to notice the music all i remember about that game as that dick eric, atleast i think that was his name
Tony's Series hands down had the best soundtrack of all time for basically all the games
Eric Sparrow LMAO
Same here
I was like 9 when i first heard this in thug2, randomly found this somewhere and man the nostalgia. Had to look it up
Thank you for posting this. It's saving my sanity and not to be dramatic but I feel my life today thank you @atmosphere
Tony Hawk Underground 2
Yep
It's been years since I last heard this song and I still know the lyrics.
Fight night round 3
Ash Reprobite yea man me too. It's crazy
Trav in the Box im looking up songs from THUG 2, the good old days, me and my friends used to play that as kids in the garage
hearing this live on LSD & Ecstasy was an amazing feeling that i'll never forget.
+skigh45 okay
+skigh45 nice combo haha
+skigh45 okeh
skigh45 You sound like one of those drug using puppets at a rave chasing a glow stick much like a dog chasing a hub cap .
yerwrng you sound like you're a blast at parties....jk i imagine you're the guy who calls the cops on people having fun.😂😂😂
Always tryna find a balance even in 2024 where life is very CRAZY what a awesome banger Track still in 2024 remember when it drops back in the Day what a Blast!💪💪
Shit still hits as hard as it did when I was in highschool. First band I ever saw in concert. Best line ever, " I got some last words, fuck all of y'all stop writing raps and go play volleyball."
Man...takes me back to when i was about 15...shredding the skateparks with the homies...going to the gas station for a soda and some munchies chillin with the homies
I used to deliver pizzas blastin this shit in my cavalier z24...
Still trying to find a balance in life. Still banging this while i think