It technically is because he deleted these songs a long time ago you jus wanna tell people that this his first song cuz you wanna think you a og fan...
He needed more space on his soundcloud account since on a free soundcloud account you can only have 3 hours of music up at 1 time. It was one of the final XXX (unmastered) songs still up and he left it up for a lot longer than some of the other tracks but he finally deleted it April 12 2015. It was up for like almost 2 years
@@Swampertman that’s his later excuse through 2015 but back in the every early stages it was just cos there was no space or he thought the song was ass
@@Swampertman Fr, he knew that it would also create more hype and mystery to his music. As X said himself "If you have too much fucking ice cream you're not gonna want any more ice cream if you have too much of me you're not gonna want too much of me if you have too much of Ski you're not gonna want too much of Ski. Too much of anything is a horrible thing, none of nothing. If you don't supply and there's a heavy demand when you drop anything, or you give out it's gonna phew.. Skyrocket."
9 7 don’t just go around callin new x fans “fake” they were just a little late to find his music, x wouldn’t want u to go around spreading negative energy, call me fake if u want but I’ve prob been a fan longer than u and I prob know more of his songs than u (everyone knows abt news/flock)
for everybody asking why this song is so rare even tho its his first the answer is that it got bought 1 month ago and got leaked from the buyer of the song. it was lost for 3-4 years.
@@serzel9134 in your opinion. But that’s not what everyone thinks. You’re free to say what you want it’s just... I don’t care. I’m trying to uplift someone and here you go. Let me have my opinion.
@@SocialsTEA I didn't say you couldn't. I just said I thought he wasn't as good as everyone thinks. that's my opinion just like you have yours. also, I didn't say he was trash or bad. he is good, it's just that I think people say he's better than he really is.
Sure you could say he is a genius. You can also hear the pain in his voice. He is speaking from experiences. X was a hurt boy. And died a hurt man. We can all learn from his place of darkness. #LLJ
“Better yet beyonce, had to take her top off, gun shots pop off, I don’t fuck around with them boys, them boys get cut off, tell his boy to go to his girl and suck his bloodclaat”
@@calyrexcolress2088 obviously he let it play for a couple of friends and shit. what im saying is that there was a 'fan' thet has listen to this back in 2013/14 and is hearing it again after years.
Firstly want to say this is a great first song by X. In some ways it reminds me of Dance With The Devil by Immortal Technique and the transition shows inspiration from Odd Future both obviously the beat but perhaps even more-so the vulgarity of the lyrics. Very stylish in the mixture of sounds on this for his first song. Very telling of his later work in many of its collective aspects. Vice City will probably always be my favorite earlier song from X it just has some magic to it. This has something special to it as well. Found out about this from Trap Lore Ross and its weird because I saw the X interview on No Jumper when he first talked about this song but didn't remember hearing him mention this because at the time to me he was kind of just another rapper being interviewed on the show. I got into the music after but missed this track until now. Its cool to discover the early stuff like this. The beat is sparse and bizarre, I like the backtracking and thinking that maybe his mother made him do that or maybe he chose that for some reason. The flow is more like classic boombap and well told you can tell he wasn't singing but his Jamaican roots were coming out early on here which is surprising and almost reminds me of Matisyahu for some reason even though Matisyahu is not Jamaican. Even the album artwork shows a bit of influence for his aesthetic. This song was really like a seed for his career's work. At 15 talking about these topics shows an awareness to some heavy subject matter and also an understanding that life isn't always fair. It shows a sort of wisdom or coming of age and growing up fast in a way but also seems dialed back like he wasn't rapping for shock value.
OHHHH I GET IT, it's called NEWS / FLOCK because it's 2 songs in one, News was made from something that came on the news about a Navy killing his wife and baby, Flock is a complete different song
@@joeroganshort nah, he had Facebook losts that we unfortunately will never be able to see. This technically isn’t his first song although its the first song released that’s available to us. I heard the facebook losts were all on his old laptop, and I guess the laptop must’ve broke or become inaccessible because someone would’ve leaked it by now.
@@astral9022 I dont know if i am right about that but i think News/Flock was his first "professional" song which was uploaded to soundcloud. The facebook rares are made with bad phone quality. For News and Flock he used a old Snowball microphone he bought from ebay. It was deleted in the 1st half of 2015 from soundcloud which is why it was lost for about 4-5 years because a discord server called XXX & SKI HUB. They bought it for 4500$ which Cleo was okay with because they could use it for the Documentary i think. Reminder: I dont know if thats what i am saying here is a 100% true but i am quite sure that it should be right
@@elstic2318 you are correct, news flock was the first uploaded song on sound cloud. I think news and glimpse came before n/f but x didn’t upload those to soundcloud
Well if you look at it His first music video was Half Bullshit Half woke shit So was his first song (this) It's the duality of personality Especially his.
Its perspective based but the story could be one he's witnessed over his life either way you wouldn't want to understand things how x did cause its all pretty dark truths about reality that he comprehended.. The first verse anyway The 2nds just x exercising his demons
I feel like I grew up seeing the world in the same light that x did, what I’ve found is nobody wanna face the dark truth till its too late, I wouldn’t wanna be an willfully ignorant person, in a void of knowing someone you love is in pain in some way.. and do nothing, fuck think of all the pain that could be prevented from your loved ones experiencing, if you have insight about what could possibly affect and bring on your downfall, or theirs, and you can change and prevent that, would you? I would in a heartbeat..love, power, respect, and whatever u want.....ok let me put it like this so it makes better sense, whatever you want In life, be that love, clout, happiness, respect, money, fame, ect, ect whatever you want, it can be given to you, as quickly as it can be taken away, and...once you have it, whatever it is...you hold onto it, for dear life, and you never let go, if you’re in the gutter and you need out, grab ahold of the metaphorical rope, and climb up, hustle up fam, and don’t stop till you at the top, you may fuck up once or twice, but don’t let that shake you, do what you gotta do, bc theres always hope for those who are, motivated, I lost my motivation for only a split second and my grip slipped from what I loved...I know what it’s like to lose my soulmate, to lose that feeling..When you feel your soul click w her, in a way that no other person can top, and even after that love’s long gone, you’ll find that it never ever clicks the same again, at all, and you’ll miss it like fuckin crazy... miss it so much to the brink of insanity, where you’d give anything to have her back, and you’d take back all your fuck ups and mistakes..but you can’t, i can’t..I know what it’s like to lose, basically all that I had left to love, I know how it feels to be alone for what feels like forever, and isolated, perspectives that have come from haunted memories, seeing spectre like ghost’s of my younger self as I looked when I was 16 manifest in front of me as if I was really standing there, chasing after them hoping to talk some sense into myself, tell myself to “keep my grip tight on that rope till my knuckles are like white sheets”, I feel like I’m stuck in the Twilight Zone the episode called Spur The Moment, whatever y’all do DONT LET GO OF THAT ROPE wherever it leads for you, take my word for it, I lost my grip on love and fell from the top all the way crashing down. Hard...it’s not worth losing at all. If I could turn back time I’d go back to age 16 and start all over again...bc this ain’t no living this is straight eternal hell for me, being chased by the ghosts of your past..shit if I was an anti-hero or something I’d be Hell-Spawn Forsure
I’m so glad the full proper version is here. There was a time where this song wasn’t on the internet like this lol you had to be lucky to have downloaded somehow before Jah took it off his SoundCloud. This is the first song of his I heard and it was this song that I knew he would be my favorite rapper ever and there wouldn’t be another that’s better ever. That’s why I was genuinely heart broken when he was taken from us
I'm sure most of y'all are already familiar with the instrumentals but If you guys are curious about them, check them out here. News instrumental: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nK4Yw3_xAZQ.html Flock instrumental: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O03BvLHK5hI.html
Anyone who is currently listening to this can say they are an OG X fan. I'm not really a die-hard fan myself, but I've been reading a bit about his life and I ended up discovering this was one of his first songs. It's a shame he had to go so early, he was seriously talented. RIP
@@AngelPerez-ul7qe he died getting sticked up with alot of cash in a bag. What are the odds the first song he wrote says that? Somewhat a reach but out of all the words he could use thats what he says? Ur corny if u dont get it
You could already hear what was to come from this, he had a super original hook in the beginning when a lot of artists would’ve just started rapping. The versatility was already there
wow, his talent is unmatched, I don't believe we'll ever get to see an artist with such sureal music. It sucks people stop listening just because hes dead
Tbh this one song is better than a lot of his songs but if it was produced better it be his best... but he made it at 15 so I can understand y but still damn this is AMAZING
