Bob Dylan - Hurricane (First Time Reaction) OMG!!! 😅😂😲 

It's a true story about Ruben Carter, a middleweight boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder. The song helped get him a retrial and he was eventually freed.

Racial prejudice was rampant in those days. Yay Bob Dylan for his guts to write this song. 👍👍🤟🤟⚘⚘⚘❤

Bob Dylan - always a social commentator and sang truth to society no matter what

Keep BOB coming..he has hundreds..no joke.m

This is exactly why *context* is so important. I understand he got around to understanding later, but knee-jerk stopping mid-lyric just stirred the confusion.

Strongly recommend the movie Hurricane, where he is played by Denzel Washington. Carter was eventually freed by an appellate court decision, but it took years.

Bob never shies away from telling the truth in the language it needed to be spoken in.

Bob is thoroughly pissed off on this one. That's about all the swearing you'll ever hear in any of his recordings.

It would be goodto read background of the story behind this song. Great reaction. Dylan has been around a long time and gone through many changes. Many of his socially conscious songs are from his early days and then switched from folk music to rock in 1965 and all hell broke lose.

The movie was great too.

Really glad you played this song...and heard Bob for the first time...a good one to be introduced to him with...I liked your honest reactions and commentary...Bob's the man...

Those consecutive albums Blood on the Tracks and Desire were masterpieces. But so much of his stuff is beyond description.

They’re just words. Dylan meant them to be shocking because he was defending an innocent man who was rotting in a prison cell. Eventually, and partly because of this song, the Hurricane (aka Reuben Carter) was released from prison. The Hurricane was a champion middleweight boxer.

And he sang this on live TV as well!

Great reaction.. We love to hear BOB tell a story!!! D.Miller W.P.B.

A great introduction to Dylan

his song Masters of war is a must listen, 60 years old and still so relevant today!

He spoke up often - this is one of his many protest songs

Incredible song. Enjoyed your reaction.

An excellent choice Dyce! Great reaction! Written about the boxer that was wrongly accused and convicted. Been loving this man since the sixties. Keep on rocking brother! 👍👍🤟🤟

Bob had something to do with him finally being released. If you haven't seen the film, you must see it. The Hurricane with Denzel Washington. Greetings from Norway. 😀

Next up from Bob Dylan. Try out LIKE A ROLLING STONE! Go man go!!!

Hurricane is.. Reuben 'Hurricane'Carter Middleweight boxer...

Oh, and if anyone wants to know more about Ruben Carter, there was a pretty good film made about him in around the turn of the century.

Read the lyrics over and maybe look up the story of Ruben "Hurricane" Carter online and give the song another listen. Hurricane wasn't on any crime spree. He was innocent. The song is the story about the people who framed him.

Pretty good reaction my good man. If you want to know anything about American music you NEED to check out this genius. HE influenced EVERYBODY! Simply put , Bob Dylan has been the hippest dude on the planet for over 60 years!

You've got a picture of Bird [Charlie parker] on your set Respect !

Ya gotta understand the story. Peace on earth.

Check out..the movie.. HURRICANE..starring Denzel Washington..

Reuben 'Hurricane'Carter.. Check out movie... Hurricane.. starring Denzel Washington.!!!

masterpiece my channel, bob is a top 3 artist in all genres off art, something unique in his soul and voice , tnks from brazil

This really happened!

I'm NOT CRYING!

Powerful song. Now I'd like to see you react to a song that Dylan had wanted to cover and the performer who wrote it- "I Could've Had Religion" by Rory Gallagher. Check out his audio of the 1978 performance of the piece at the Agora Theater. It's killer raw blues by a master. Enjoy!

If you listen a few more times you will give the track 10/10.

Bingo..you got it .1960+1970.. Racial tension..

I wish reactors would pull up the lyrics to songs while they listen. I think it helps so much in understanding what the song is about rather than trying to guess what the artist is saying

Surprisingly, I don't believe it was very controversial. Because we were used to bands that actually sang about something back then, for one thing. And also, he was only recounting exactly what happened, as it turns out. So, you know....don't shoot the messenger. I think he played it live on PBS even. It was a less sensitive time.

I want that poster of Alicia Keys. Saw her live once in Sweden

You won’t get de-monetized over this song. I promise. A few curse words won’t do it. Also no one can cancel you over this song, you can listen to this song on RU-vid. BOB IS TELLING YOU HOW EASY IT WAS TO FRAME A INNOCENT BLACK MAN. AND THIS PARTICULAR MAN WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOXERS OF HIS TIME, IF NOT THE BEST.

Bob Dylan is addressing racism in this song as well as corrupt cops. In this case a famous boxer is framed for a triple murder in New Jersey with the help of the actual murderers. The hurricane is one person. Bradly was a robber (white guy), and the actual killer. THE SONG WOULD BE REAL CONTROVERSIAL IF IT WASN’T 100% TRUE.

I haven't seen a comment that responded to your question about whether that shocking word was socially acceptable to use in 1976 when the song was released. Especially by someone that wasn't Black. The answer then was that is it depended on how it was used. It was unacceptable to use it as a slur whether directly or indirectly. But it was acceptable to quote somebody using it (example: "Can you believe they just called that person a ******?) Or, as Dylan does here to describe a group of people that would use the word then (in this case Black people). I think everybody gets that the song Dylan is saying that he wound up in prison for 30 years because he was framed and nobody even considered he might be innocent. In the back half of the song he hits the cops for framing him and the only witnesses (career criminals who had been robbing the register when the murders occurred) for falsely accusing him and testifying against him. He hits White people for assuming the worst of him and he hits Black people for dismissing the possibility that he might be innocent. "And the media, they went along for the ride." In other words, even though there was no evidence, he didn't get a fair shake from anybody. In that line he's saying that even Black people didn't give him a fair shake. They just assumed he was guilty like everyone else. It was also socially acceptable in that era to use the word in a non-slur, poetic context like when John Lennon complained of the plight of women with his song "Woman is the ****** of the World." But the fact that it was considered socially acceptable, and completely unshackling, to use the word in 1976 and for anywhere between 10-20 years after that doesn't make it any less shocking or hurtful to hear it now, especially coming out of a White man's mouth. What Dylan did by writing and performing this song back then was unusual for how a White man stood against the fact that the system was rigged against Black people by White people. No other White popular musician was doing that then. And though it took a long time for Hurricane's conviction was overturned but the way Dylan brought attention to his case and made the injustice against him known to the world, so his intention was very righteous for those days. But even if it was socially acceptable and Dylan did a great thing by bringing attention to the case and the broader issue, I'm sure it hurt a lot of Black people to hear that word in any context in 1976 too. I think the societal context matters but I think that how it feels to hear it today matters more. It wasn't shocking then but it should have been.

"Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a great one.

Im glad you laugh at Rubin Carter and Bob dylan's attempts to free him ............poo poo on you

Some art works you need to study a bit before you try to understand. Hurricane a complicated story, you can't just listen to it and try to follow if you just expect any piece of music. It's like trying to get Bob Marley's Redemption Song by just listening to the rhythm, it doesn't work.

It was the 60s in America and race was an issue in places. "Hurricane" Reuben Carter was a black boxer who was framed for a murder that he didn't do. The song is in his behalf highlighting the injustice of the trial. This song was bold for sure! Loved watching your reaction when we knew what was coming. Reuben eventually was let free after many years in jail. Try- Like Rolling Stone, next!

Also to be clear a lot of the black community still felt that he was guilty and the sentiment was that he was just a crazy murderer. I think that the words make it more powerful, also he used the word specifically because it's a word that people were using and the song is supposed to be impactful. This song was a very powerful protest piece written in extreme anger.

this song is about rubin "hurricane" carter.

If you want to understand Bob Dylan's politics with race issues in America, listen to Oxford Town. As well as being an amazing poet (taking his surname from my compatriot Dylan Thomas), he is a champion of racial equity.

Ruben "Hurricane" Carter. Look him up. It's a bit disappointing that you didn't at least look up some information about this. I suppose you may want to go into these reactions blind, but when this was released, the Ruben Carter case was big news, so most folks knew about the conviction, but the news agencies didn't perform due diligence in telling the whole story, most likely due to his race. Dylan was a social activist/storyteller in times of great change.

Dude , read your comments. the people are explaining it .

It can be controversial now in this glass world we live in. It wasn't in 1975, when people used the proper words to Talk things. Stupid to judge a 70s song with todas eyes

men you the best

You need to listen... It's a story about police oppression against a black boxer. They frame the guy. You seem to think it's a racist song and that would be incorrect. It's a true story about Ruben "Hurricane" Carter who served 30 years for a crime he didn't commit.

Your misunderstanding everything

Hi could you please react to Bob Dylan's song 'Murder Most Foul' from 2020 when Dylan was aged 79, which got to number 1, thanks!!!

Dylan gets the N-word pass because this song is literally an angry protest song written with anger towards the racial injustices at the time. It's the equivalent of a white actor playing a racist person in a movie about racism. The whole point of the movie would be to show the systemic racism of the time and about how awful it was but part of that means that you have to show it. An actor portraying a racist person and saying the word isn't bad, same thing.

Did you not listen to the lyrics?

Bob Dylan is a double edged sword. He's known as the prophet and with reason. Perhaps you know he's a follower of Yeshua. If you like the fire of this man you should listen as well to Precious Angel, Property of Jesus or Along the Watchtower. For a starter that is.

You keep pausing it before you listen to the rest of the line about being black on the street. What is so hard to understand that he's sticking up for black people who are persecuted? I've seen a number of reaction creators react the same way, and others don't get all bent out of shape about it because they understand exactly what he's saying.

Unfortunately, things in America haven’t changed much.

Think about this. This song was written in 1974. Who would write a song like this today? Even if someone could write something like this he or she would never be allowed to sing it.