Phonte - The Good Fight (Official Video)

[@_SaXoN_]

My aunt committed suicide last year and I still remember putting this on her mp3 player years ago and her saying she liked it and that this is what life is so thank you Phonte for helping us some people just cant handle fighting the good fight but us that can gotta keep strong.

[@anthonyserra4926]

Sorry for your loss…

[@blackermarket123]

My dude. I'm so sorry. I hope you and yours are good.

[@_SaXoN_]

@@blackermarket123 thank you for that we are doing better everyday 🙏

[@TheJiGenius]

Real one🫡 when life gets real there is no blueprint

[@dontaybell5902]

This song aged very WELL!!!! 'Every morning you wake up there's a legitimate/ struggle of doing the right thing or just doing n!gga shit"

[@zshakur]

This has aged beautifully! Still poignant, still relevant. Still DOPE! Timeless music!

[@FLEETWOOD1017]

Indeed it has..in 2023

[@TIMELESSBEATS]

youtube TIMELESS BEATS

[@inoquematangalane2774]

Phonte, is one of the best Rapper that I will always respect in my Life. Greetings from Mozambique in Africa. Salute yo

[@eddyx8218]

"Everybody prays for the day they see the light, but the light at the end of the tunnel is a train". Damn

[@baserocks1]

the anthem for 4 years straight.

[@thedaystockers]

If Phonte isn't in your top 10, you don't know Shit.

[@MadfresH21]

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train, realest shit ever.

[@shaunarzu4558]

MadfresH21 that bar was crazy

[@p.atrickclarke]

can u please explain that line to me

[@p.atrickclarke]

"don't ever sellout, but what is selling out if nobody is selling" Could you elaborate this for me too please.

[@ssgootyj]

@@p.atrickclarke people say there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel being whatever current circumstance or problem they're going through and the light representing the end of the tunnel, end of the hard times. That they made it through the tunnel/difficulty. To say that the light at the end was a train, means that hope that you had, that you thought you saw, was just a train coming toward you, to crush you after all the bullshit. No hope. Just misery and then the end.

[@mrdeadpool8656]

@@ssgootyj amen brother

[@lasnumber]

New Tiggalo New Tiggalo New Tiggalo!!!

[@BlancoDasMe]

Definition of real rap! Phonte one of the greats! “Single friends saying your family’s beautiful if y’all only knew what it cost me!”

[@joaquinmiches8695]

Deep

[@Dasalsim]

11 years and this is song is still speaking facts. Nothing has changed.

[@thescentprofiler5539]

Not a damn thing!!

[@Daltz77]

'Everyday we wake up there's the legitimate struggle between doing what's right, and just doing some nigga shit.' Phonte

[@classiql]

Everybody prays they see the light at the end of the tunnel But the light at the end of the tunnel is a train 🚉

[@superjigga2004]

"Everybody prays for the day they see the light, but the light at the end of the tunnel is a TRAIN". Must be Top 5 or at least Top 10 most TRUTHFUL lyric of the last 20 years.

[@geebo76]

“This sh*t don’t come with no blueprints, And with every change, It seems more like a game you can never win, I tell my peoples I ain’t rich, But this harvest is the farthest, From broke a ni**a ever been” for me, that is as profound a definition of parenthood as you'll find anywhere. this song is greatness on every level.

[@bpthegreatt]

te raps the shit that a regular working man would say if we rap

[@BRobMint]

"Boss hit me with the news like a box cutter under the jaw". Love that line.

[@jamalconnor6551]

this is one of my everyday jawns, "they said your family is beautiful, I'm like man if you only knew what it cost me!!!..too real

[@Thepaperroute94]

Financially and mentally when you deal with bm drama

[@on10toes]

It’s crazy I was listening to Phonte as a teen. Went through my ain’t shit phase and now I came back full circle as a grown man n relate in a crazy way dawg. This sweep the front porch shit.

[@agracianoorduno34]

Real hip hop forever .

[@solomonhillfleet]

"Well I'm from the South, where if you aint snapping or rapping bout trapping you a freak of nature. Such an anomaly, speak so well, but talk so collegedly" Phonte

[@johnh5660]

You could basically quote every line in this song . Its just beautiful life lyrics beginning to end . Beautidul track . Classic Phonte

[@alextuch4captain353]

Man Drake bit this mans whole style 🤣🤣

[@dylanhannigan423]

This track is among my favourite songs of all time. Phonte is a WRITER! Flawless..."To my mans still hustling hard, tryna get it at whatever the cost, wherever you at, or whoever you are....That's me... "

[@rodtknight]

I hope this brother keeps fighting the Good Fight. This keeps me listening to hip hop. I'm trying not to give up.

[@Cason40]

Never give up. Take a break if you have to, but never quit. It's in you

[@lone_eye_4107]

Haha facts. Just know there's always some dopeness out there somewhere. Whether it's getting plays or not

[@soundscool771]

The reall will survive

[@zevlove]

THE GOAT

[@rondariushall4758]

Bars is bars is bars

[@roaches23]

"My single friends say Tay your family is beautiful, only if you knew what it cost me" I can relate. I got the family, house, kids. Living the dream but fuck this waking up at 4am every day. Just so we can live comfortably. It's killing me. It feels like every day is the same.

[@soundsosincere]

this was my anthem in 2012 and in part still is. i kept fighting the good fight and it paid. never lose hope.

[@Gstone899]

I'm a white boy and I love this song. I feel this. Phonte spits the truth.

[@agracianoorduno34]

I’m brown & I love this 😊

[@AI-ff9ir]

This whole lyric....reflects the actual life of ordinary, average or under average people like me toooo much. Not like rich players, Not like thugs from the hood, but just a man with the sense that all average guys have.

[@reeelBKFLATBUSHnyc]

I guess the 41 people sippin on expensive champagne doubted this was going to be a hit SMHH. THIS IS RAW, UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC *REALITY* MUSIC....PHONTE'S lyrics are more BONE CHILLING and FEARFUL than the TRACK ITSELF....AN UNDERRATED MODERN DAY CLASSIC FROM AN UNDERRATED GIFTED ARTIST...SALUTE.....

[@wander2720]

2019, and still fighting. 💪🏾

[@TeamJJ4MO]

Make that 2020...

[@afrodude4782]

Keep on fighting brother, 2020

[@baconweave5159]

Right there with you brother

[@willemvanheusden7081]

2021💪

[@thescentprofiler5539]

It's like chasing a high You just wanna get a hit just wanna get a taste just wanna benefit Every day you wake up There's a legitimate Struggle between doing what's right or just doing some nigga shit!! ........truest words ever recorded.

[@kcmiz1270]

All of Phonte's tracks are gold! Still surprised he never blew up, Little Brother was one of my favorite groups.

[@JoshuaC0rbit]

Saw them live in Dallas and didn't mind being the only white dude in the room dancing my ass off.

[@ernestiechevalierchildprod1586]

it's cause people are dumbshits

[@paulbrumley5632]

Agreed so under rated

[@renakhim286]

Why you hearing this song....you are Awakening. Why no fetty and Durk...dumb down music destroyed Young Life.

[@prlito9mm]

My alarm ringer is this song!

[@GerardGousman]

Just added this to my Dad Jams playlist

[@baldswagg79]

It baffles me how Phonte didn't blow up hell even Little brother as a group with Big Pooh. Their lyrics have always been on point. bc its another mc that's from NC Phonte can rap circles around that dude.

[@baldswagg79]

***** True

[@jshannon777]

becouse he makes songs that make sence. now if he was rapping that negga shit he would sell records

[@jshannon777]

Legendary Super Savage 9000 AF becouse he saying something with substance

[@mic_derin]

Because he doesn’t want to sell his soul

[@Jay-ue2ic]

He’s playing the long game (a real career, voiceover work, writing TV scripts, an R&B career, acting) that’ll allow him to make a life out of this. Not just a few hits.

[@kenkennaz5941]

2022 still listening to this gem

[@AndreBoyd1981]

“5 dollar gas and poverty rates …are raising much faster than your hourly rate”. Gas is DESTROYING my budget right now

[@bert3163]

Why do I have to dig through KZbin to find this? This type of hip-hop gets not 30 minutes of spin, because - what - 23.5 hours per day of Migos and Nicky isn't enough!!?

[@TheBeats4ya]

“Everybody gotta do a job that they hate!!” Love how real Phonte/Lil brother keep the 🎵. 👏🏾👌🏿

[@MrMetalsi]

When i listen at this song, makes me think about a lot of things

[@gbwordbond]

For all those people out there struggling keep your head up. It all seems hopeless but trust it will get better. Thanks Phonte for making this song a beacon for what's going on.

[@superjigga2004]

Even if you dont like the song try to understand the message behind it. This paints a picture on the working man's life who is struggling to make ends meet and has had the carpet rug pulled from him

[@JoshuaC0rbit]

Greatest East coast rapper to ever come out of the South.

[@oboii88]

THIS is grown folks music. This is what we need... music that speaks to us and we all can relate to.

[@elbriffo]

Grown men music.For those of us that pay bills and have families to look after.Love the album.

[@s2knott]

WHY AM I JUST HEARING THIS NOW! Views should be more than triple! Get this dude out there.

[@elizabethvaughn5694]

Saw I had quoted this song 9 years ago on Facebook. Glad for the memories to bring me back ❤️

[@ElianCepero]

Y isn't he more famous. Damn this dude speak the truth

[@budyroejenkins577]

Google Man you answered your own question.. they don't want to hear the truth...want you to lie to um make it sound fly to um...

[@AlMorris78]

The second verse to this song make the hair on the back of my neck stand up

[@Cason40]

Phonte is the peoples champ.

[@scottyrob82]

The intro to this song is what I say to myself every morning. This is my new theme song and my theme album.

[@darylegranderson3332]

Mane was watching this when them Foreclosure letters was coming.... God Is Good Cuz We Sold B4 They Fold.... Damn where the Real Go....💙💙✊🏽😞💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥American Dream turned into a nightmare Real Quick..👁👁

[@bqc20]

11 people lost the good fight, how could you dislike this???

[@jeretron0]

this is what hip hop should sound like.

[@numberstreet3othboyqt758]

This song warms my soul

[@hollywoodgrand9381]

This song is better than 98.21% of any shit out there. Good to see u and 9th reunited for a minute

[@DredScott2010]

Aged well my friend

[@tylerlindsay6021]

"Look yourself in the eyes, and say FUCK YOU. Fuck your hopes, fuck your dreams, fuck all the good you thought this life was going to bring you." Listen to this on repeat.

[@Nagoat221]

THE GOOD FIGHT CHANGED MY LIFEEEE, MAY GOD BLESS U PHONTEEEE

[@denzeldon2007]

I'm in my 50's, but this REAL TALK regarding what's happening in our country right now if you're listening...

[@JayceeRyder]

I like the Chris Rock quote in the beginning...so real...so real...

[@LeoElTico1]

I was getting tired of stupid ass rap songs and then I found this. Thank you Phonte.

[@dddey]

Wow, just... how many people in this country could relate? A ridiculous percentage. Great song, not because the circumstances described were anything happy, but because it definitely did a good job describing the true hurt, suffering, and REALITY of families all over this country.

[@daoneirieb]

let me tell u this, before j cole, it was this man phonte right here, even drake said that he was his favorite rapper, i miss the flow man, phont if u reading this my dude put some new shit out and i will buy, not stream but buy!!!

[@johndodson6509]

No News Is Good News album coming out this year. Plus The Foreign Exchange dropped Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey last year bruh

[@satura4113]

And in 2017 we are still waiting for No News Is Good News

[@lyrics2challenged]

Before Cole it was Phonte, Elzhi, SV, Mos Def and Talib Kweli, Gang Starr. Meanwhike Cole super fans think ANY rapper spitting anything poetic, real or just different from the wave is "trying to be J Cole". It's annoying. Buddy not even the best outta NC

[@YardratZ]

@@lyrics2challenged Cole the best from nc Imo. I love lil brother, justus league, Edgar Allen flow, 9th but come took all the styles and combined it

[@lyrics2challenged]

@@YardratZ I love him to death myself, but he just doesn't compare to Phonte for me. Each their own. He is seemingly finally getting into the higher level as of last year, but I wiil say this- Feature cole (imo) has more consistent quality than main song Cole. His features have never come close to disappointing me. He should be talked about more when newer rappers or even older are looking for that connecting feature with the other part of the audience. I don't think he's trash by any means. I respect what you're saying though man.

[@thubalakhe1]

i wish more hip hop artists were as socially conscious Phonte

[@static1736]

I love this song...If this ain't the working man's anthem, I don't know what is...

[@GeneralWisefool]

grown man music....phonte is the ambassador for all those in a struggle

[@christelekiwi]

This is my weekly anthem , this is right here is the truest statement ... tired of fight the good fight since 1997

[@EFreezy716]

"I know it's not the same, But naw, I'm just sayin' Everybody prayin' for the day they see the light But the light at the end of the tunnel is a train." Too fuckin' real. 💯

[@Bsk8erzero]

Phonte one of best rappers of all-time, so underrated.

[@EricG-bv2ui]

".... Fam in my ear and they yelling keep it real Te don't ever sell out. How the fuck you sell out when they nobody selling" very true.

[@Vegiamer]

Best intro in hip hop.

[@adammajette2595]

I have a hard day at work, this is the first thing that comes to mind. Brilliant track!

[@goodsavage2254]

i play this song everytime i go to job hoping that my hard work will pay off much love for the realness phonte we gotta collab one day

[@dylanhannigan423]

Was just here two weeks ago, and thinking the same thing....this is one of the best songs of all time. Top 10. Let go.

[@homiesoprano13]

this man really talkin to a nigga soul

[@garytucker3563]

Yo, when I first saw this, like at age 15, I straight up started giggling and juggling my head like that, LOL! MADNESS!

[@gs_elite_apparel]

Being a Lyricist (hailing from N.C) myself.....All I can say is I've listened to this track 1000 time in one week!lol...REAL LIFE HIP HOP!!...Peace.

[@FuNati]

Tay's so dope... his point of view on life is just.... the truth....

[@cptheartist]

This is what Hip-Hop is missing!!!! Rappers that relate to us.

[@mrwahh44]

1.44 "Everyday you wake up, theres the legitimate, struggle between doing whats right and just doing some nigga shit" BARZ lol Damn Phonte is one of the most underated Mcees of all time.That realness!

[@atdubya9576]

This and the Minstrel Show need to be on your playlist if you love real hip hop!

[@djseanp]

Phontigga is the too real! Too real for this pop life folks live. Thank you for speaking what we feel! Pay this man! Put millions in his hands and pray he keeps rappin the truth.

[@peteranthony6387]

Real HipHop at its rawest form. Pure and uncut.

[@bboycook]

North Carolina changed my life and made me a better producer I spent 2 years there working on music and building a sound I love it there I made my best music there so far lots to say love you North Carolina

[@blaycetherapper]

Damn bro this is still inspirational to the day

[@crosask]

This is what rap music should be...

[@TracksInTheLab]

Phonte is one of the most under-rated artists

[@bassthumper]

im not gonna hate on other rappers..it jus makes me appreciate Phonte more.

[@cherokeewilliams6068]

Truth and just plain old common sense doesn't sell. People would rather rock to fake things in life. PREACH my brotha. They are lost souls.

[@shmackay1]

How does this not have a million views? People have no taste. Big up Phonte!

[@lamontricks1074]

Phonte is so realistic when he rhymes

[@sebastianoxp]

real rap music...classic phonte and 9th wonder

[@down1plus2]

Thank you Phonte for good music....Imma miss Little Brother, but this is definitely a good fix

[@reginalddawson1655]

Art is to be discovered. This is for the 5%.

[@tamisambiri8597]

This is real hip hop. Groups like this always seem to get held back.

[@Jenissuperhero]

This song hits home. So many people today can realate to this. The past was and happened and now the future is obscure and filled with uncertainties. Good message.