@@jqcbie2018 Just imagine I live in whatever part of Mississippi where you can still find ropes hanging from trees if you walk too far into the forest.
My cousin was killed he was tied too a cotton machine and thrown down too the deep deep river and couldn't breath all because he tried too be nice and kiss a young ladies hand and she helped him with something and he was only😢😖
this song brought tears to my eyes , I can’t believe so many black people were hung and killed for being a person of color . So many innocent people || don’t say no insensitive stuff if u coming from tiktok
when you start breaking down kanye's music for people and who he samples and why he chooses certain lyrics.. and people start to realize kanye deserves more credit for his music.
@@rowdysnook5754 my nephew was born in the wrong era, he be trapping and shit...so I sat him down and broke down hip hop for him. Kanye is on his playlists now
This song breaks my heart. My ancestors went through that pain and suffering. Brought tears to my eyes. That’s the most realest saddest song I ever heard in my life.
Strange Fruit" Southern trees Bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves And blood at the roots Black bodies Swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' From the poplar trees Pastoral scene Of the gallant south Them big bulging eyes And the twisted mouth Scent of magnolia Clean and fresh Then the sudden smell Of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit For the crows to pluck For the rain to gather For the wind to suck For the sun to rot For the leaves to drop Here is Strange and bitter crop
In her words lie the map to our sad history, in the melody sounds the pain of lives lost, in the pain lies the truth, in the pain there we lie, left to hang back then, still being hung today. Blood on the leaves then, Blood on the streets now. The scent of gunpowder in the air as bullets dissect the body of an innocent boy, the taste of injustice as his killer escapes untouched, his soul leaves his body as God looks down and weeps, a mother is left to face this cold world, another black life joins the angels in the sky. Another strange fruit paying the price for seeds sown by force and watered by hate. "I can't breathe" a man utters, as he looks death in the eye and can only imagine the pain he will leave behind as his neck is strangled by deep rooted hate for a colour he did not choose, his six kids flash before his eyes as he begs for air to breathe, but they care not for fruits they do not need, stepped on and trampled as if there is no worthy soul in his vessel, a man takes his last breathe as the world watches, injustice committed in plain daylight, unfortunately he's a few shades too dark for lady liberty to care. "I can't breathe" no "we can't breathe" they want to choke us all out, but this time the world wouldn't allow ropes, so they use their hands and aim at us tools that take life and cause pain, all while playing images on the screen that make the world think we deserve it. Blood flows as anger grows, for you see the seeds you sowed and watered with hate, violence, rape, slavery, has now grown into a tree itself. We will have no more...no more fruits will be hung from your trees, for now we have a voice and we will be heard, change will come.
Billie Holiday -> Nina Simone -> Kanye -> yungchris This just shows how amazing music is and the unlimited amount of possibilities for new sound Ppl think I’m ranking these artist. I was jus tryna say the order that these songs were made and sampled
I've been listening to this song ever since I saw the documentary of Emmett Till, and it still reminds me of him... His appearance.... His innocence.... I feel like the song basically described his ending-story...
this is the song i was looking for! people are making trends and dances to it like its a happy thing. it’s disgusting that people will think its okay, and the fact that people gatekeep it aswell..
@Trinity I know the situation, and when he apologized and said he wouldnt release the song he did it anyway because he still got backlash after apologizing, that's what I call petty.
@@dr.r1skt4k3r bruh you’re stupid, she literally expiranced slavery and lynching and still was alive in the 2000s. It’s not that long ago that slavery was at its peak. Educate yourself
My body hurts listening to this , I just feel my insides rumbling 😰Jesus this shit is real man but all we care about is jewelry, rap etc it’s over with for us but we can’t surrender
@@mileshayter7440 Depressing is an emotion and an adjective and reality is what youre in now. That was a depressing reality, black ancestors werent jumping up and down cheering because theyre brothers and sisters got lynched. It is depressing....
i love nina simone im kind of dissappointed that i never heard this song and kanye had to be the one who showed me this song no disrespect to kanye because he knows good music and sample material but i should of known about this song before he showed me :(
That shows how deep songs and other accounts of truth have been buried if it takes new leaders and musicians from whole other eras and generations to wake us up
This song makes me cry like a baby but I love it because it makes me feel. It motivates me to work harder when I imagine the bodies swinging from the tree branches.
Ive heard Kanye's "Blood on the Leaves" so many times that this gives me goosebumps everytime I listen and I can hearit's lyrics in my head and even drop a tear... Kanye is such a genius, some people don't like him because they are too ignorant to even understand him, and being eccentric is the only way to be heard for him
@@avawilbon1314 I know bro and god bless them all, I’m just really focused on America right now , this stolen land filled with stolen ppl (us coloreds) and bamboozled into turning on each other it’s fuccn mind blowing 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
@Dead Lyf3 bro if you don't think the black community is suffering in different ways then you're choosing to be ignorant. You don't need a chain or lashings to be a slave Anymore.
R.i.p to all our ancestors who were tortured. Thank you all who fought for our freedom and rights to be equal tho we still fight to be seen as equal till this Day
Nina was a deep soul sista thru her music & soul especially when she wrote (To Be young Gifted & Black) I remember learning & singing that in grade school & us children really sang it hard & loud thank you Queen Nina for the music from your soul R.I.Paradise with the Ancestors one love
Hurts my heart that people are making dances to this song that was meant for my black brothers and sisters. R.I.P to the black ancestors that had to go through this. ♥️
This has to be the most sad song in the world. I've heard the original version by Billie Holiday (and others), but this one tops it (all). I'm not personally related to the topic, being a white (caucasian) European, but from the first seconds on I have to cry. Cry. So sad. This song …
The original was made by a white european who lived in new york it was initially a poem. Even someone not attached to those experiences saw and felt their agony and wrote one of the darkest poems ever
A lot of them not even black that’s why 🤦🏿♂️ I heard this song many years ago, it literally set my heart on fire. Song should never be touched again not by Kanye or anyone.
@@tyronegibbins913 no it’s disrespectful. Thai song is about the lynching of black people in the south. The people who sang songs like these who harassed and sometimes assassinated by the FBI. Look up Billie Holiday. It’s very disrespectful to rap about fucking women and killing folks while sampling a song about the killing of innocent black people in the south. Tbh I really didn’t care about it cuz that shit was 🔥 🥵
Wow. Heard Kanye's Blood on the Leaves before this. This is so much more powerful. This speaks to the true sorrow, and pain inflicted on innocents. This gave me chills throughout the song. Beautiful, powerful and devastating at the same time.
I mean respect to kanye for having a good ear and taste using this as a sample but its crazy how many comments are about his genuis while listening to this track. You are literally listening to nina simone possibly the most and definitely one of the most incredible female African American artists of all time doing a beautiful rendition of billie holidays incrediby deep and moving song "strange fruits"...yet most the comments i see are about kanye, it just doesnt make sense to me. I dont want to bag on your taste in music and im not saying the song kanye sampled this into was bad by any means, but if you truly believe its an improvement on either this version or the original you may just need your head checked.
Seriously, there’s so much disrespect to the original artist by bringing up Kanye. I love yeezy but he has nothing to do with this song, he just sampled it. People gotta give her more credit
this song is so unsettling because it had such a big meaning behind it. the way some of our own ancestors have went through this just makes my stomach turn. there’s so much pain and meaning behind the lyrics.
Kind of sad and yet peaceful song. Like one of those you sing when you look back at the bad shit you've come through in life. You feel happiness through the sadness because you survived.
I feel terrible, knowing that so many people where killed for no reason, just because they were viewed differently, it makes me sick to know that this truly happened in history, life isn't fair
Lol really hahaha maybe bc he's a black man growing on America, segregation still echoes through America, it's their history, their culture, their struggle
If I'm not mistaking, one of Kanye's parents was a black panther. So I'm sure the conversation and exposure to this type music was normal for him. His mom was very intellectual if that helps..
I don't care whose version is better, the lyrics in this song always brings rage and tears to my eyes. This should be the loudest song in every public venue known
Theres actually a spot in the pine barrens in new jersey where there was said to be lynching all the way up until the 1930's and if you sit there even during the day if you sit completely quite you can hear screaming and only one tree will sway in the wind its pretty crazy
@@ryanreed8120 I got a bad azz bih in the crib (but we understand the essence of the song. And we must respect this powerful black woman and here strength to speak on this where others would hold their tongue)
@@menacetosociety6401 pretty sure people do care, racism is still a huge part of society. And this a woman singing about the injustices her people have gone through, history is important loser. I don’t have a option on the Chris version but don’t say people don’t care when this has major history embedded into.
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