Nina Simone: Hip Hop's Secret Weapon 

I don't know if you're talking about the Montreux '76 version, but if not, then I highly recommend you listening to ''How it feels to be free'', live in Montreux 1976

She's definitely going down in the history books

Yea, if you DID mean this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--sEP0-8VAow.html I just went and watched it, and thank you for mentioning it

Yeah ..Cosign everything you said. That song brings me to tears every time I hear it. Her soul is so alive in that piece that it literally inhabits it and imprints itself onto all who bear witness.

@@TheArmchairist they are talking about the one she performed at village gate. It’s a religious experience.

And that transition into Sinnerman, damn...

Her version is outstanding, but Billie's is always one that I come back to

I got chills only reading the poem. There something about those words that feel so real. It's really disturbing how words can be so horrific, so revolting, yet so beautiful at the same time.

It's one of those songs that's hard to listen to.

@Tabitha M You should check out the following version. *Jeff Buckley - Strange Fruit (Live at Sin-é, New York, NY - July/August 1993):* ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mdnfuA8wJkI.html&app=desktop

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There's a reason she cried power

REPENT AND FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST.✝✝✝

How old are you now? Have you witnessed any other singers more talented/gifted than her so far?

Jeff Paris what a great experience. She was a true artist. Lucky dude👍

Cool!

Dang are you 90

Only 5 people in 67, that seems far fetched

Charly Somni'sAsh Clark point well made

yeah, but Jazz is originated from black pepople so I don t understand her feelings. Can you explain to me?

pietro amato As it says in the video, “Jazz is a White Term to define Black People.” The term didn’t address the artists with any of the respect she felt they were owed, it was just a catch-all roundabout way of saying Black without acknowledging them as a people, like what “Urban” has come to mean today.

Yeah it might be hard to see the connection today where Jazz has become a studied subject in universities and has many prominent white musicians, but back then it probably had a different connotation.

Dominic Airola Exactly

Thank you for this request Peace be with you, brother

Hell yes, "Paint it Black" is a masterpiece in the impact of simplicity.

I was not expecting more fans of Gil Scott-Heron. A video on him and his influence would be so rad!!

The revolution will not be given its own video

Yes please

Benedict Umeh that’s one thing that blew me away. I can’t imagine the amount of time it takes him to make these videos

Dr. Lecter agreed but also agree that it pays off.

Vox esque video editing

Who the fakk refer to black people as blacks

Same here.

@@poetsummerbreeze4663 Mississippi Goddamn hasn't aged a day.

Eddie Richmond ahhh that's so good! I need to paint, but get the essence. Art is quite the savior if one takes it serious.

Where can I hear your shit broadie?

Incredible song. Definitely one of my all time favorites too. An absolute magnum opus of a song.

yep, I get hating the guy, hell even some kanye fans hate him as a person. but kanye the artist is a completely different thing, the dude is a genius.

i dont like his music, i dont care about the person

@@hanszacapa7921 I think you use the term genius rather loosely.

@@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy do you think Im the only one with this opinion? the dude is called a genius by pretty much everyone on the hip hop scene, not just me and his fans.

Kanye as a person has rubbed me the wrong way for years, but he's a musical genius and I certainly appreciate that aspect of him.

Yeah, Ms SImone hated that reference.

@@carapo66 Sad since a group as talented as the Fugees were simply paying respect. Lauren Hill was such a legend.

I can see where defecating on anything would not be the lyrics I want to be drawing parallel with as I look towards easing into retirement lol. Honestly I can't believe there is literally no reference of lauryn hill in this short clip. I literally own a 2 LP underground mashup of songs sewn together on vinyl. Definitely worth checking out... Pretty damn impressive: RU-vid › watch. Lauryn Hill & Nina Simone - The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon | Mix ...

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Panamera Boomin bbyrose has a voice pretty similar.

!!!! Two of my favorite female singers !!!!

Chiamaka Ekwegh SAME!!!

Omfg yes funny you say that Amy and Nina r my absolute fave musicians❤️

Gil scott heron is the grandad of hip hop

One of my favorite songs ever

Shooter Sanoff thank you.

I’m on it

Wow! What a great compliment!! I love reading positive posts.

For real.

bombdroppa posse understandable and my problem, too, along with the silly roasting of each other where important issues could be addressed. Luckily, Hip Hop has grown since then. Sadly, Simone didn't get to hear that.

@@jasonjames6383 but commercial hip-hop doesn't incumbent 90% of of we call "hip-hop".

@@mannysikario but what we call 'hip hop' and the majority of people call hip hop might be 2 different things. The 10%' is what is heard or listened to by 90% of the population. Of course, there is better underground hip hop but how many people hear it? Most of the 'popular or commerical' newer hip hop I hear is either guns, drugs, bitches & money or rapping about themselves and 'fame' or something ridiculous like that. Of course there is differnt types of hip hop but the majority of what the majority of people here is the guns, drugs, bitches & money stuff and the me, me, me stuff. There is no PE, Tribe, Gangstarr or De La etc in the mainstream like 25-30 years ago to counter this,. As much as I love Strtaight Outta Compton and I beleive it is a great album, it has a lot to answer for haha. It wasn't the first but it made 'gangsta rap marketable.

@@jasonjames6383 we have artists now like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Kanye and J-Cole which I would are far more commercial than the likes of Lil-Uzi, Lil-Vert, Lil-etc. Just look at the billboards stands. Trash might still be popular, but it gets easily overtaken by more positive hip-hop songs. Look at To Pimp A Butterfly, incredibly commercial and it's full of positive messages.

This current 'very popular' form called Mumble rap is the worst music I've heard in my life. Seriously! Let's get f-ing real about it. I've worked many shows as a sound engineer and ain't nobody up on that stage sayin anything constructive or positive. It's all a self-degrading minstrel show and very demeaning of women. And the kids pack rooms eating that s*** up. But on the flip side, I'll work shows where they have more socially conscious hip-hop, with some real musical instruments, artist spitting out rhymes without repeated use of the n-word and you can hear crickets chirping because the room is so empty. It's sad..

For real.

I would rather say please World forget about her already.

@marlene riggs I don't think she'd appreciate your misogyny and nastiness while trying to defend her...

marlene riggs Kanye is undoubtedly one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time regardless of what his social or political life is like.

wilfing nasty, yeah, he has it coming, though. Misogynistic? No.

Can we not associate Nina Simone and Rihanna. Nina Simone is legendary. Rihanna is Katy Perry......... POP

It really should