Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam (Reaction) 

She wrote this after the Alabama Church bombing in 1963 where four young black girls died. Nina Simone was a brave and strong woman who will always be remembered for fighting for what was right.

You truly can't go wrong with Ms. Simone. She earned every bit of her legendary status, and then some.

Never heard this!!! How brave she was to sing about WHAT was happening WHEN it was happening. This is a real woman; strength through her talent and her words. Another thing missing in music today. I can think of some female "artists" who should see this and re-evaluate what and how they put out there.

Nina Simone. Always FIRE. Always real talk. RIP.

Nina Singing Facts 🔥💯 ❤

Hell yeah! Great choice whoever requested this. This is her most subversive and rebellious song imo. So powerful!

Nina Simone was a powerhouse!! 👊✊👊✊

Such an amazing and important song!

There's a really great documentary on Netflix you should check it out. I love how angry she was during this performance too. Had to say that.

Truly a singular talent, and it might be the poignant and powerful song title of all time. Love it.

That is one strong woman.

You would appreciate her performance of Ain’t Got No/I Got Life.

The one and only!

She was a special woman and no one could deliver like she did.

Get 'em Nina.💛

Her version of "Strange Fruit" is a must!!!

Absolute Empress.

That was brilliant,band were kicking and Nina Simone was class.sure it was Mike Scott(waterboys)who said the more things change the more they stay the same✌️

Mississippi Goddammit was seated by Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being culturally relevant, historically significant.

I've heard her music but never seen video; it adds a different dimension to the piece in its' entirety. Note how she presents herself: Impeccably dressed, straight- backed & smiling as she takes her bow before exiting. Compared with some of todays' female singers? There is none. Class cannot be bought.

💜💜💜 Greatest voice of the 20th century.

You should also check out Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." Nina did a cover, but check out Billie's first.

If you have Netflix, there’s an excellent documentary about her.

Nina only wrote a handful of songs but this one stands out.

oh man, it's such a f-ing tragedy that Nina Simone is so frequently left of the list of artists whose music powered the civil rights movement. She was a powerhouse and 100% in the mix. Look for "To be young gifted & black" and "I wish I knew (How it would feel to be free)" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vq3sdF0YXkM.html

Came straight to this one first this morning! Just Had to. GOOD ONE Matt ! 👌

Wow the part about Sister Sadie I didn't understand...(so I googled it) "Sister Sadie was a character in Mark Twain's book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Sadie, the wife of a runaway slave, was a cook and a healer -- a stereotypical strong Black woman who kept her pain, anger and frustration to herself and didn't talk back. Nina Simone would never be a Sister Sadie."

Released in 1964 and Goddam here we are today. Too slow!

Watching her you are watching the work of genius. True genius with a capital G. One of the absolute all-time greats. There is no higher echelon.

Try Strange Fruit

Nina was in deep with the civil rights movement. Things were changing very quickly. A saying by those who agreed with equality but were afraid of the change would often say "slow down" if you read a lot of Malcom X, Martin Luther King, etc. people of the time you'll hear references to this and arguments why they shouldn't be going "slow". So in this song Nina turns it around and says "too slow" and she lists off the reasons why.

Love Nina.....check out Baltimore by Her. Full studio version..

“Hickory Dickory Dock, this shit’s a fucking bop...” with the perfect message, then and now. If not this, how?! if not now, when?! She’s amazing to be this strong in 65 To feel it and know it, but to express it like this... goddamn!

Nina is a legend. Her prose was always so moving and it was a testimony to all she had endured, always inspirational and thought provoking. Nina always spoke the truth, a true Queen in life. R.I.P. Thanks Matt for a great request. -Patricia 🔥🙌😎👍❤️🎶🎧🎶

Great!

I love this song, I haven't heard it in awhile. It may make people brush up on their history. Some things don't change except for the names of the politicians. Please "discover" Ruth B. Rod Wave sampled her song "Mixed Signals" on his track "Street Runner". Please listen to Ruth B "If I Have A Son" featuring the Harlem Gospel Travelers. Thanks

The incomparable Nina. I’m unqualified to recommend others, but she’s worth looking into. She did some Dylan covers.

Love this lady. We need a million more like her.

Miss Simone ......bruh she a Lioness ! U need to watch some of the docu that d whities were hurrassing her for this song .....that was the time of d sivil right movement! She is was and will always be a LEGEND !

We've been digging Nina Simone since she hit, I guess this is another seminal American artist they forgot to tell you about during black history month.

It's like Nina's singing it at a kindergarten to the little babies. They don't understand. They can't possibly understand.

Brilliant and brave.

DAAAAYYYYUUUMMMM!!!

Shocked and amazed as a 60yr old white Aussie woman, that you've never heard or seen this before. So glad you now have. The unforgettable Nina Simone.

Nina Simone is the purest fire

There are other performances by her on youtube.

My Baby just cares for me is another one I know of Nina Simones 🔥😊

We need more artists like Nina Simone.

Sometimes she introduced this as a show tune -- for a show that "isn't written yet". Listen to more Nina Simone.

Singing about the years just before I was born and a bit afterward - this song was written the year I was born. HEADS UP: Texas tried to slip in a history school book that claimed the slaves were more like indentured servants and they received pay, room & board, and that they were HAPPY. When a young black student brought the book home and his black mother saw it, she demanded a response, and the school said, "Oops" and they had all the books collected up and returned and got better history books. Keep your eyes open for these shenanigans. But, schools in the south, Florida, in particular, are on a big censorship campaign and they want everything THEY consider to be Critical Race Theory (which doesn't exist in public grade school and public high school) to be tossed out and banned. No mention of Martin Luther King, Jr. or the Civil Rights Movement because they don't want their little white children to feel bad or guilty over the past. They want to erase parts of American History, including the Civil Rights Era and the Sexual Revolution that freed gays from the closet and led to marriage equality. The biggest cancel culture IS the Republican Party. If you still want to vote Repugnicant, you should know, they want to take away your Medicare and Social Security. Look it up! Donald Trump said in a televised interview, they would have to get rid of Social Security. The poverty, deaths, homelessness of the elderly and disabled (who earned their Social Security) would be commonplace in America, and none of these people would be living independently as many do now. The Republican dominated "Supreme Court [Extreme Court is more like it] has already taken away the right to privacy, and they plan on taking away much more... No one is safe from this rogue Sup.Ct. and everyone must vote these Republicans out, and Trump must pay for his many crimes, but mostly for an attempted coup. This is a really powerful song, and as Republicans try to take us back to the 1950s (when the GOP was far more liberal), this song may once again be poignant in the present day. God Bless - Everyone is Created the Same and is entitled to the Same Rights and Privileges.

She wrote this about the bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham. And the assassination of Medgar Evers. Listen to Dylan's "Pawn in Their Game". She was about civil rights.

Try her song I put a spell on you .

Legend

I’m an international student in US taking US history right now. In each class my blood boils. How can humans be like this. Oh my GOD!

Well, Ms. Simone, tell us what you think!

In 1932 she was admitted to juliard school of music at the from my some research was an all white school. More impressive she had a scholarship. The was an amazing lady sadly booze took over her but Stil dang a pioneer and always honest. She was able to slap your face with her music. Made you pay attention.

There is so much going on in this song!

Best version is on her Live at Carnegie Hall album. Not to downplay other versions like this. Substitute any disreputable state or locality with a 4 syllable name, from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma to Arizona. Simone even added California and both Governor George Wallace and his wife Lurleen.

I was hooked when I first heard this 25 years ago. This time I just felt sad at all the hatred this song represented and how much is still the same. It's like August 5th, 1959 when Miles Davis was beaten by 2 cops standing in front of a marquee with his name on it then charged with assault. He was a genius at the height of his powers but for America he was just black. My brother is a Wall Street banker. In 2018, (I actually haven't seen him in years. He disgusts me) he and his buddies, including a catholic priest, suck back $200 steaks and $500 bottles of wine and they're soooooo racist

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It’s too funny when people are commenting about her having “class” and saying todays singers don’t when she specifically sings about “respectability politics” and how it’s gotten her and her people nowhere. Trust me in the time they didn’t think it was “classy” to sing this song. But she didn’t let it stop her from saying what needed to be said. And now it’s like “she’s so classy.” Who cares if you’re classy? She’s singing about little girls being blown up in a church because of the color of their skin… how straight she is sitting up is NOT what she wanted us to go away and talk about. Goddamn.

Nina was vomiting out anger. I actually almost got fired for playing this in my own car

a protest song, like Strange Fruit

Search up Billie Holiday. The song is "Strange Fruit". Similar but even darker theme. And it predates "Mississippi Goddamn" by more than a decade. Initially, no recording label would touch it.

If this doesn't give one chills, one is on the wrong side of the issue.

it's ur momma haha your real momma

Check out Nina's “Revolution”; she wrote it as a response to John Lennon. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vo7AqaFJl44.html

Love that they showed the audience and some people not clapping. No doubt, Bible thumpers. Wonder how many of them are still alive. BYE!!!

FIF 1st!

Nina's doesn't sound like anybody else.

Sometimes "GD" is a prayer, and not blasphemy.

Interesting the truth. I never thought is was funny/

Well, goddamn? What's the matter Miss Simone? Wow? It ain't comical at all