Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - 'NY Is Killing Me' 

This song is my go-to headphone and speaker benchmark test

This moves me to almost tears each and every time. So powerful.

The very best of old skool meets new skool!! CLASS AAAAAAAAAAAAA

after 10 years, listening to this song during a global crisis. sublime.

Thank you Cult Crew

best remix i've heard in a long time... Jaime is a talented kid.

this reminds me of moments like this never last

these are a few of my favorite artist /sings

freaking amazing

knowing the genre is useful for finding similar music if your new to a particular scene. That is the whole point in 'genres'

Ive come back to I'm New Here. Again. Jamie XX is a genius

R.I.P. love from canada

I have no idea why, but whenever I listen to this tune, I think of bouncing and wanting to bounce.

Best thing thats ever entered my life.

amazing!

try listening to this song when your really sleep deprived, its so good. You go into a little bit of a trance

I like that beat... It sounds so goood...

after listening for 3 mins my head is blowin' up

The original and Jamies version, both produced very very nice

RIP GIl Scott Heron!

Powerful track, christ

KING!!!

R.I.P.

R.I.P Gil Scott-Heron....

RIP Original One!

@taurtue '1 : Kick 3: Snare' you just described the basic drum beat used in most popular music. It doesn't matter what genre it is, its just good music. Doesnt make a song any better if it is one genre or another, music is music.

This song is a old, but is realy good :)

@ibeprofen its a genre called post-dubstep.

Can you imagine?

R.I.P.

Rest in peace Gil Scott-Heron

holy shit this issss great

Check out Jacques Green, Jack Steadman, Joy Orbison too

GIL SCOTT-HERON REST IN PEACE

2024 still here

Madness Track

mad drop

itunes radio brought me here from the xxyyxx station :D

I’m from ny

is this avaible in flac? I just downloaded a different version that has no wubs at all.

AMAZING! Gonna use this beat in my next graffiti video. Detek gnsk 559

Ooh

Nardwuar and Whitney Cummings bought me here.

Where is that beat from? I know I've heard it before and it's killing me.

@ljessim I did the same thing today, I just found his amazing music.

just this one particular tune no in general haha , but fair enough man !

2:30 it's only starting to warm up 2:55 ouww

NAURDWAR brought me here

best shit is best

HOW HAVE I NOT FOUND THIS EARLIER. FUCK THIS IS GOOD.

Here 8 years later and this still giving me the chills

In 2010 when I was 10 years old I remember my dad playing this tune, that had just been released, thank goodness he did, and I’m still appreciating it now at 21 feeling like I’m 10 again

Half the folks in the comment section are tripping their fucking balls out lol

jamie xx's work is pure genius. such an underrated artist

How can people say Gil Scott-Heron has a terrible voice. He was one of the best American soul and jazz musicians!

Just found this 9 years late....I guess better late... than never 🙏🏾🙌🏾

Oh my gosh. Just stumbled across this gem for the first time in my life. I’ve played it 10 times in a row so far. Goosebumps! WOW.

MAkes u wanna take an e in a dark club with lots of reprobates

I love progression of this track.

This song arrests me. I love the kind of music that consumes me to the point that listening becomes a singular activity. That's how people used to listen, anyway. They were not multitasking with 10 other tabs and texting. Just feeling, just hearing. This is good.

The bounce. Its almost too much for me.

this is probably the best last breathe of an artist. surreal

It hits me harder and harder as the time goes. But hey! Don't forget people: this is just a ride.

Almost a solid decade later, still more boss than anything out today. TIMELESSNESS EXEMPLIFIED

Nostalgia!! smoking blunts in the staircase, then hanging out on the Gil-Scott Heron mural in Manhattan 2012!!

This track is killing me

Remember sitting in I.T class making games having this play and going into my own little world.

fuckin trippy sick track, just how I love'em

this is what euphoria sounds like

Jamie has a way about him. He does what he does very well. No apologies, no excuses, no half-stepping, merely what he does. All good stuff. One heck of an artist!

When I first heard this song, I was commuting to and from Los Angeles, and I felt the same. "Big city livin' ain't all it's cracked up to be..."

the perfection of the last minute of this song makes me wanna cry!

Must have been inspired by Mala - Hunter. Absolute classic.

Thank you Whitney Cummings and Nardwuar! Now can someone please show me more music like this? Like at least 60% similar... I know this is unique, but I need mooore. I feel weird going on repeat 24/7 ...

COVID-19 is killing me

good to see the past and the present making the future!

It only took me 0:37 to 0:40 and I knew that this song was a classic...RIP Gil!

I love running to this track

today. when you still hear this track, still sounds like tomorrow

Dat old school dubstep vibe doe

Quarantine is killing me!

Yeah, its RIP Gil. I love how he made 2 versions of I'm New Here. In a way I feel as if it was to introduce the new generation to him in a form that we'd understand before he left us so we could better appreciate what came before it.

Only just been turned on to this, love music it’s the only language I truly understand. I’m amazed I can still be amazed after getting to my age…. Any body know of any more like this

Spent some time in NY and this song kills! Love Gil so much~RIP!

I’m here because of ally beardsley and I didn’t know what expect

felled in love in 2023

I made my way to NY 4 years after hearing this song, and I finally understood Gil. Rip soul man.

Such an unexpectedly perfect collab. The legendary Gill Scott Heron over hot and sultry xx beat with a strange provocative video by Chris Cunningham.

Timeless banger

Ny is killin' me, in 2018!❤👏

10 years later, still sitting in my room smoking joint after joint and listening to this song and enjoy it

11 years later still slaps

10 years on and this still hits hard

This is music to ride a motorcycle through a city to like a night club while looking disinterested the whole time to

its taken 4 years but ive made it here!

Its so great the jamie xx is doing al lot of tribute to Gil Scott Heron. May he have peace now. And dont have to struggle in this cruel world.

2:55 My robotic brain is dancing, transforming waves into chemicals.

I always knew the kid had it in him. Playing the drums the way he does for the xx. This is a track of the year.

Ally Beardsley and Adventuring Party brought me here. Whattup gang?! ✌🏻

Gil Scott Heron is a very unique jazz music artist who was/and still is amazing in many fields even wrote some superb books which go into great depth of things which have evolved around his life. Back then he was judged harshly on his drug abuse but overall he has came out on top and still is as an amazing part of the music industry and spittingbloodhc is so right. The light within Gil Scott Heron didn't die it was transferred to those who were and still are inspired by him such as Jamie xx