Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddam (Official Audio - Live)

[@joserenetorrescarrizoza4838]

“I ain’t ‘bout to be nonviolent, honey!” As relevant as ever on this past days.

[@michaelkylow4411]

Yup, everybody knows about Minneapolis, goddamn! I remembered that song when the first piece of news came out.

[@wyliehughesmdiv]

"The King of Love is dead, yall..." Breaks my heart, and I wasn't even there.

[@patrickmarble3265]

Damn mama never said Nina was a gangsta, lol I love this woman

[@voiceofreason1613]

This song never gets old and it does go down in history

[@kyleyakich3800]

'I ain't BOUT to be non violent honey. Awuh. Awuh!! Awuhuhuhuhuhuh!!!' Such a VIBE lmaoooo

[@MizterMissile]

I adore that part! Yes!

[@EuphoricImpact]

Yes this is even MORE powerful today. Missing your energy!!!

[@briansykes3213]

EuphoricImpact Was just thinking that...Who is possessing this energy that's hiding and needs to come forth, because best believe God has provided.

[@wcares8062]

For sure

[@camturp2197]

Shut up you pretentious pisshead. Simone is rolling in her grave at your nonsense right now. MORE prevalent? Are you kidding? Of course it’s prevalent today. But you’re making a stupid point with no evidence to try to sound smart. Which would be fine if it didn’t negate just how important and mind blowing the message in this song was to hear sung live on a stage by a powerful black woman at that time. There’s no comparison. It was more prevalent then, not now. And I apologize for coming after you in this manner, but I feel disrespected on Ninas part.

[@stevieray56]

"Mississippi Goddamn" was banned in several Southern states. Boxes of promotional singles sent to radio stations around the country were returned with each record cracked in half.

[@Dobviews]

Shows how bad their taste in humanity and damn good music was... terrible.

[@C-Rex1]

Truth hurts

[@premroawwwready29]

AwwwReady

[@celesasheldon6931]

Because bigots are strong in many places. Still

[@femtometre]

dang they had bad taste in music

[@CarlaSophieMar]

Truth is... she was years ahead of her time! And how much she was needed back then. A true activist through her music! Art was her weapon of choice. She was fearless, and fierce! 🖤⚡🔥

[@Dobviews]

Nina, it is still "Too Slow" for change. We miss your voice, vitality, strength and conviction of hearts. Thank you for being my inspiration for 44 years to see your dream come true.

[@Metamophisis]

God bless Nina this song 🎵 should have millions of views! 🕊🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎧🎤😎

[@auntieog5754]

Goddam today, has anything changed? Real song thanks Nina God dam long live tthe King and Queen

[@ducklyndimpelledumplings]

We still need this in 2023😢

[@AmbersWorld]

Such a beautiful song from a beautiful artist

[@isaicolocho3054]

A few months ago in my country, Guatemala, something very relatable to this happened, almost 40 girls were awfully killed in an Orphanage. They were all burned to death because they wanted to escape. They were constantly raped and beated up, that's why they wanted to leave the place. All i could do that day was to listen to Mississipi Goddam all day long.

[@Dobviews]

So sad to hear of the terrible loss your community has suffered. Please, if you know of a bank taking funds for the families please post here. We would like to support.

[@Rambutan.]

What an absolute tragedy from start to finish. It's not fair that it took them to be dead until they reached a point that nobody would hurt them ever again. Those girls should have had laughter and joy in their short lives.

[@MizterMissile]

2022 cause this song never stops being relevant to Amerikkkuh.

[@SplatterInker]

Wow, this recording is so different to the recording I've gotten used to. Blimey, she was angry then, she just sounds so crushed here. :( Oh Ms Simone, you will forever be a legend.

[@fallinginspace]

This is such a brilliant and powerful song. This performance was just days after MLK was assassinated. You can really hear her pain and the pain of the members of the audience. The Americans who cannot comprehend the what has been happening in the US forever, need to hear this song and listen to the pain in the voices in this recording.

[@incognitoicecream]

Thank you for adding context - I will be sharing this song at -gatherings- we need it 🫡

[@zyzzrestinpeace]

love these lyrics

[@hrbro]

"...that we will have songs that go on in history..." / Thanks and congratulations for achieving.

[@rknrlgrl6146]

Incredibly sad that this song still is as prevalent today as when it was written :(

[@bubbaclark4355]

Greatest song ever

[@yakwtfgo6218]

Just discovered this song been listening to a couple of her songs for about 2 years now and this is by far the most touching

[@onelove750]

Wow i just heard this on the radio and had to search i believe my guides sent me here 🙏

[@avalon9386]

2023 & I enjoyed this song. It really had a message also. Yes peace to all. I totally agree! Especially the non-violent approach…

[@MrSwish702]

2024 ❤❤❤❤

[@jamesvinson4489]

And what's so crazy wild about this is the tune the melody itself is so upbeat

[@universaldollie]

Nina was genius!

[@frankjames4743]

For all those that preach for incremental change, when was this song first recorded? 2021 and we are still fighting

[@premroawwwready29]

AwwwReady

[@marieblue]

A classically trained pianist, Nina Simone wrote hundreds of songs, but seldom put lyrics to them. When she did, it was often to speak out against racism and injustice. She authored “Mississippi Goddam” (1964) in the wake of the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi in 1963, and also of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which claimed the lives of four black girls in 1963 as well. Simone claimed : “When I heard about the bombing of the church […], I shut myself up in a room and that song happened. Medgar Evers had been recently slain […]. At fist I tried to make myself a gun. I gathered some materials. I was going to take one of them out, and I didn’t care who it was. Then Andy, my husband at the time, said to me, ‘Nina, you can’t kill anyone. You are a musician. Do what you do.’ When I sat down the whole song happened. I never stopped writing until the thing was finished.” Simone was born in South Carolina in 1933. She got so frustrated with America that she left the country in 1969, living in several countries the rest of her life. In the March 24, 1986 issue of “Jet”, Nina Simone stated that her protest compositions hurt her career. She further added that, of all the protest pieces she released, “Mississippi Goddam” probably hurt her the worst. 💙🎹💚 May you rest in peace, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a.k.a. Nina Simone (1933 - 2003)… 🌹

[@handlethis_ffs]

How have I never heard this before tonight?

[@Shannongirls1]

Profoundly sad and such a brave woman speaking out at a time when she would've be attacked for expressing her own point of view. God bless Nina x

[@user-br2rx9pb6u]

That still happens

[@arcticwinds2371]

Love a good song with history ingrained into it

[@faithrichard2263]

Great song ❤🖤💚

[@forveterans49]

WOW! Powerful!

[@karl5501]

Excellent

[@karinaholanda9471]

Nina Simone incredible artist for his music and his activism

[@lewisanthony1237]

+karina Holanda i dont mean to be a dick, but HER music and HER activism

[@lewisanthony1237]

Fuck off, Coleman .

[@oliver1888]

Point proven I think.

[@ВикторТкачев-й1ы]

2023❤

[@kamatarinokatamari9704]

Everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam〜♪

[@charllandsberg]

Her best song ever! So very very relevant right now

[@tawdryhepburn4686]

...how have I never heard this song before?

[@katarina3711]

“Why don’t you see it?! Why don’t you feel it?!” That sums it up right there. For segregation, for systemic racism, imperialism….I could go on….

[@peaceloveluz]

✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💪🏽✊🏽💜🌟

[@feyokuhara]

It feels so good

[@so9205]

Minneapolis Goddam!

[@theboldandthebeautiful3729]

😥

[@markomilojevic8122]

Goddamn Alabam 👌🏻🍻🤟🏻

[@mitchclark1532]

Amazing

[@geojohnson8558]

it's absolutely sad this song is still relative in 2k16

[@Swijah]

2k18 nothing changed... :/

[@GMDark]

@@Swijah 2018 & getting worse / moving backwards. VOTE! 2020 VOTE!

[@lamper2]

democrats always tried to promote the KKK that's true!

[@inkoinfinity2]

Relevant

[@ALJSFKDAJIF]

no

[@MonicaSilva-nr1dd]

Happy birthday

[@raquelsfaria0710]

Love 💗

[@skaanner1417]

Goddam!

[@mariellerosecaturza3170]

Someone watching in 2020

[@Suzz60947]

Listening in 2022 💞

[@DeborahAbelha]

@@Suzz60947 same

[@justafanofgorillaz]

2023

[@larryrichardson5735]

2023

[@Cxstxwxy]

2023

[@ColleenJousma]

Wow. 💜

[@ahal_gokdepe]

2024

[@romaint5176]

Lourd

[@adnanegadjiev4639]

Vous avez écouter tout

[@reimalushi8168]

Des barres

[@NOnielTube]

Rolón !!

[@karl5501]

En cour d anglais c est trop bien

[@karl5501]

Tu veux me faire

[@julesonghena6806]

@@karl5501 quand tu veux même

[@titouandanto8702]

@@karl5501 on va te graille

[@antoninmesny5654]

Slt

[@adnanegadjiev4639]

Vous avez mis quoi à la B?

[@theanunakian64]

2023

[@stevieray56]

So what’s the secret to writing a great protest song? Well, you need to have the talent to elucidate some pressing issue with insight and ingenuity. A little idiosyncrasy goes a long way as well, since that can deflate some of the earnestness that often sinks music ripped from the headlines. The main ingredient, however, would have to be the fearlessness to present the material in such a way that can seem bracing or even discomforting to those in the audience. In that way, the artist can assure themselves of being heard. Nina Simone checked off all of these boxes when she wrote “Mississippi Goddam,” as scathing an indictment of black-white inequality that has ever been penned. She then added to the song’s embarrassment of riches by giving it one of her most indelible performances, a stunning 1964 live take in New York City that not only captured her unconcealed disgust and withering sarcasm but also inadvertently revealed the effect the song would have on audiences unprepared for that kind of candor. The ironic thing is that Simone had originally balked at recording topical material until the assassination of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi changed her mind. “Nightclubs were dirty, making records was dirty, popular music was dirty and to mix all that with politics seemed senseless and demeaning,” Simone wrote in her autobiography I Put A Spell On You. “And until songs like ‘Mississippi Goddam’ just burst out of me, I had musical problems as well. How can you take the memory of a man like Medgar Evers and reduce all that he was to three and a half minutes and a simple tune? That was the musical side of it I shied away from; I didn’t like ‘protest music’ because a lot of it was so simple and unimaginative it stripped the dignity away from the people it was trying to celebrate. But the Alabama church bombing and the murder of Medgar Evers stopped that argument and with ‘Mississippi Goddam,’ I realized there was no turning back.” Simone’s genius move was to deliver her stinging message amidst the comforting, bouncy backdrop of a show tune. After she mentions the title of the song on the live recording, the audience titters as if it’s some kind of joke before the opening lines assure them that Simone’s not playing. Name-checking three of the major Civil Rights battleground states, she sings, “Alabama’s gotten me so upset/ Tennessee made me lose my rest/ And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam.” In between the percussive repetitions of the refrain, Simone’s verses combine blues idioms like hound dogs and black cats with news flashes about the situation (“School children sitting in jail.”) There’s also stage patter playful enough, on the surface anyway, to give the audience a bit of a breather between her furious assaults. As the song progresses, Simone’s ire rises and she fires back at condescending do-gooders. “Don’t tell me/ I tell you,” she shouts, making sure her opinions get their rightful place in the conversation. “They keep on saying, “Go slow!’” she complains, referring to those who would drag their feet in pushing the nation toward racial equality. She enters into an ironic call-and-response with her backing band, who answer “Do it slow” to her frustrated plaints: “Do things gradually (Do it slow!)/ But bring more tragedy (Do it slow).” In the closing moments of the song, Simone leaves all equivocation behind, calling out the folks she’s addressing as liars and prophesying their doom. One wonders how the mostly-white audience at Carnegie Hall that evening felt about those lines. By the time Simone shouted out her last “Goddam” with a mix of gusto and exasperation on that fateful evening, she had managed to provoke, confront, and entertain. That’s every ingredient in the recipe for a truly unforgettable protest song. “Mississippi Goddam” is certainly one for the ages.

[@wcares8062]

If you the various versions she did are still face slapping to some.

[@knowvillepodcastnetwork]

2024 checking in

[@sassssss8175]

Someone listening in 2024 ✨

[@A.R-s6c]

Yes!!! 🥲

[@karl5501]

Coucou

[@feministnewsnetwork3742]

New Lyrics "Everyone Know About Texas ****G**D****

[@celestialnubian]

"We gave $1 million in federal welfare money to Brett Favre and another $5 mil for a volleyball facility at a racist university and we gave other millions to our rich friends. Texas ain't got sh** on us." -Mississippi

[@adnanegadjiev4639]

Qlc a compris

[@rachelkaricas1022]

every time she referenced Mississippi I thought of the Orlando shooting at the pulse night club. This song should not still be relevant and yet it perfectly sums up the struggle of the LGBT community and minorities today. What does this say about our society?

[@collinnc2001]

Rachel Karicas sadly it does

[@briansykes3213]

Rachel Karicas uh...no. Has nothing to do with lbgtbqhijk's

[@VideoWatcher2280]

The reply by Karicas is bigoted and a perfect example of how far we have yet to go. MLK’s family have come out clearly in condemnation of all forms of bigotry. #OrlandoGoddam is #MississippiGoddam.

[@asp1re530]

this song is not relevant anymore stop dramatizing, there are no black people lynching anymore, there are more black people in college then in jail but you probably watching FOX news or CNN and the LGBTQ community is not killed on the streets of America, they are lynched in the middle east! All of the black 'ghettos' are under democratic rule, the party that you love so much... grow up and start reading history books, stop watching the news, they manipulate you. Transgender suicide rate tops after the person goes through all of the transformation... isn't that interesting? the society is at fault? We are very liberal 90% places in the US will welcome you with open arms no matter what gender or race you are - the news only shows the bad apples turning you a negative person to hold you back so you can play the blame game! Wake up and leave the Democratic plantation! You have a brain, educate it yourself and use it don't let others wash it for you!

[@tawdryhepburn4686]

I respect and support LGBTQ+ struggles, but I must respectfully disagree. The civil rights movement was/is not at all similar to the movement for marriage equality. There were no Black Americans ‘passed’ as white and achieved the status of billionaire. The civil rights movement was a bottom up, legitimately grass roots affair. This does not lessen the importance of Marriage Equality, nor does it minimize the suffering of Queer youth. It’s just that the two are distinct and individual.

[@jalenthomas1673]

Listening in 2023?? 🤔🤔

[@melodymurdock459]

Watching in'2023

[@VincenzoAbate84]

2021?

[@callumbush1]

22

[@AAAASMAR]

that frantic piano though

[@AAAASMAR]

Why ?

[@cashmayes2343]

2022 same shit in Mississippi ask brett favre

[@romaint5176]

Dédicace Mrs D

[@eve-bluelg1361]

Jordan Neely 💔

[@FireypepperCP]

2/21/2019

[@eirenehenderson3504]

She could have recorded this yesterday.

[@geraldharris9337]

This’s spiritual revelation manifested through the soul… without remorse neither conviction. We don’t need to sit down-we need to get down. Let the people know that we didn’t call for no resurrection on the Capitol building… it was that nut that so many are willing to reinstate who did. Mississippi Gotdamm all over again. Stop the madness.

[@romaint5176]

T’as pas la réponse 2

[@AAAASMAR]

Don’t tell me I tell you

[@egecantalas668]

Which concert is this?

[@angelina.castillo.2072]

.....

[@ToofpickWill]

Westbury Music Fair NY April 7, 1968

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

@@ToofpickWill Just a few days after Dr. King's murder.

[@jeannepatterson5650]

Audio and no video

[@adnanegadjiev4639]

Wsh les 201

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

Tweak lyrics to be about any disreputable jurisdiction with a 4 syllable name. Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas. Substitute Kay Ivey for Lurleen Wallace. And more. "Tennessee Three got the right to protest." "Voter intimidation got me so upset."

[@IceMaidenxx3]

2024 and a genocide is raging amongst numerous conflicts, and neocolonialist created suffering. The song that always awakens you if you need a quick jolt, of the lingering importance of equity, justice, and human rights for ALL🖤🇵🇸

[@chiroiakuma]

Someone watching in 2023

[@terencejones9044]

CNN brought me here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AAAASMAR]

go slow

[@reclaimartistcollective6771]

Too slow!

[@ndf3]

free palestine

[@ernest747]

Everybody in the South is so damn religious. Is the song about that?

[@FungusMossGnosis]

*No.* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%9368)

[@chelseantovar7725]

The song is about the mistreatment of blacks in the south and about civil rights such as desegregation. Hence she says "desegregation too slow, unification too slow" and "you don't have to live next to me just give me my equality". During this time whites in the south became very violent and began bombing black churches and committing hate crimes such as the emmet till case.

[@ALJSFKDAJIF]

no

[@bettybender1733]

No...it's about how black people were treated like secondhand citizens.

[@bettybender1733]

Not exactly about religion...but racism.

[@romaint5176]

Slt

[@terrilljackson9882]

2024 checking in