Common - The Corner ft. The Last Poets 

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!

Ye went insane on this

Facts 💯

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 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"

Absolutely. ✌🏾 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3a_si4A1vQ.html

It was dope how he just gave the four corners in a black p stones love

@@jasonwilson8671real talk

This was written by Ye

He's really so good and has no cursing words in his raps. That's what our kids needs.

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

ThatDude713:10/19/21.. 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

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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 🔥🔥🔥

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.

Sam Smith yes sur!!

When opinion becomes fact

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

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

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.

People ask me why I listen to country music. I tell them it’s white blues music

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.

. . . Same. ---->>>>

@@DrMoriole biggie smalls is the illest remember that

Illest matic

Thought I was the only one. ✌🏾 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3a_si4A1vQ.html

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...

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

✋🏾 2020 and beyond. ✌🏾 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3a_si4A1vQ.html

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

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.

Ever heard of Kanye?

Ever heard of Twista?

Lupe?

He said what he said.

James Anderson right, he said wtf he said

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

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

❤️✊🏽

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Straight conscious fire 🔥

I wish I could give you this feeling lol

🙌

The whole album

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

Never underrated. Just slightly underappreciated

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Imagine 2pac on this one

No doubt

And I'm from the west side

@@johnwhite960 homecoming by ye

+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

😢😥🙏🏽🤲🏽💪🏽❤️🖤💚✊🏽

❤️🖤💚🙏🏽🤲🏽💪🏽🧠💯💥✨💯🔥🔥🤯🤯

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✊🏾

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.

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

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

The USA dumped on it too