Rap Videographer FIRST TIME Reaction to Johnny Cash - Hurt W/

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Rap Videographer FIRST TIME Reaction to Johnny Cash - Hurt W/ @joeesparks7
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[@BetterGreta13]

His wife, June Carter Cash, sitting above him in the vid, passed after this video came out. He passed three months later. June was herself a prominent music figure in the Grand Ol' Opry circle of the 1950s and 1960s. Their relationship is legendary among those of us who follow music and pop culture. She got him off drugs. Their son was kidnapped (but survived). The story goes on and on......as does the music.

[@tomemig7465]

Google his last live performance.

[@JohnSheehan72]

and why I think a live duet with both of "Jackson" is a must to see.

[@brettg274]

The Carter family was Country Royalty before they ever crossed paths with Johnny, but he became the brightest star

[@mrs.miller8309]

She passed in May of 2003, he passed in September of 2003

[@toodlescae]

This is an old man reflecting on the pain of past mistakes and saying goodbye. When his daughter heard it she told him it sounded like he was saying goodbye and Johnny said "I am". That last shot of him closing the lid on the piano like the lid on a coffin just hits me hard every time. I've been listening to Johnny Cash my whole life and there was something very final in that.

[@lao5960]

Lol , me too i get irritated when reactors stop before he gets to close the piano key top 😄

[@ColbyAzimuth]

Final is absolutely right. When they filmed the closing of the piano lid, that was actually the last time Johnny touched that piano. That WAS the end, not a dramatization.

[@markwise9138]

Johnny has a history of battling drug use, back when he hung out with Waylon Jennings and such. He overcame the addiction thanks to the help of June (his wife) and rehab. This was filmed in his house shortly before June passed away. She heard him singing and came downstairs to check on him. The director asked her to stay for a few minutes to be in the shot.

[@ermakers1297]

As another twist, the place where a lot of this was filmed, The House of Cash, the Johnny Cash Museum burned down shortly after their deaths.

[@markwise9138]

@@ermakers1297 A little correction, The House of Cash museum is ok. It was the actual home of Johnny Cash (where this was filmed) that burned down thanks to Barry Gibb of the BeeGees fame. He bought it and was renovating it. It caught fire during rennovations.

[@godsfault]

I’m an eighty year old man. As a Southern California white boy digging on the early Elvis, I bought the “I Walk The Line” 45 single when the song was a hit on the radio.. And I can play and sing “Hurt” today. And yet, watching this video and observing your reactions, I couldn’t stem the tears. Life can be and is a tragedy. I know of no other performance that expresses this so deeply, so profoundly.

[@jonathancapps1103]

"Everyone I know goes away in the end." I'm sure Trent Reznor was saying something about abandoned friendships, and possibly about being so down in your own depths that you push everyone away. But Cash singing it evokes a similar sentiment to what my Mom had recently, when she said "I'm at the age where I have more friends in Heaven than I do on Earth."

[@vidpie]

My mom last month, "Guess how many Christmas cards I received this year." ..."One." She's had two brothers pass away in recent years. An older sister is in a nursing home in another state. It makes my mother sad that she doesn't remember my mother (as in her memories are lost). My mom sends her a gift though because she can't bear the thought of other residents opening gifts and her sister not having one.

[@TehZombish]

Hopefully Joe E. sees this as well... So Johnny Cash may have used Trent Reznor's song, but the lyrics could have been about Cash. He was the definition of a hellraiser. He did a LOT of drugs, had all kinds of run ins with the law, was definitely a wild one... so it's so fitting that he's singing these lyrics, looking back on such a tumultuous life.

[@LordVader66]

Well even Trent himself said that once he heard Cash do the song, it was officially his song now.

[@mauraleib]

This hits hard every time I watch it 😢

[@davidgross990]

I agree, and I think that the video was done so that you could see Johnny's life in the lyrics. I'm getting close to 70 and have listened to him and other storytellers for many years. Another that will get to you is Sam Stone by John Prine.

[@mysticalbuttmonkeys4058]

If you are gonna check out more Johnny Cash then "Cocaine Blues" is a must!!

[@josephdoyle9865]

These aren't Johnny's words but they are his life. He struggled a long time before he made peace with himself and he regretted the pain he caused. That's why this song is so in his voice.

[@jonathanlocke6404]

An extremely rare thing...Saying goodbye and leaving a testament that will last forever...

[@darthbadger2730]

So June Carter, his wife, is in the video crying and died in May of 2003. Johnny died Sept 2003. Best cover song of all time.

[@iesickboy]

Closed his piano just like a coffin. Dang.

[@williamparrish9954]

Jonny cash was an ordained minster

[@avi8r66]

Yeah this was essentially Johnny's swan song, his final message to the audience. And he knew it. The man lived a helluva life, all the ups and all the worst of the downs.

[@davidterry6155]

Folsom Prison Blues. It was super counter culture and dangerous for him to perform in prison in front of the inmates

[@CaptainMcCall]

I have that on DVD. Such cool history.

[@justinskullhead]

I love the line " you can have it all, my empire of dirt"...at the end, we can't bring anything with us and it's meaningless. The only thing that matters in the end is love.

[@davidterry6155]

Johnny had a troubled pass but was a very religious man. His wife passed away 5 months before he did

[@pillar81]

Despite this being a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”, once Johnny Cash sang this cover, Trent’s words were,"that isn't mine anymore". high praise indeed. This version hits so much harder because of Cash’s delivery AND the years behind his performance. It hit’s especially hard after watching the movie Walk The Line, based on his life.

[@tracynolan7135]

Johnny Cash, country music's “Man in Black,” died Sept. 12, 2003, of complications from diabetes, four months after the death of his wife, June Carter Cash, herself a member of a legendary musical family. She was his everything. Everyone knew he wouldn't want to continue was she was gone.

[@myreviews8099]

Get Johnny's catalog and pick a song. You won't be disappointed.

[@blindeyedog01]

I'm 56, I had a record player as a kid. Most my 45s were Johnny Cash. Love his music. ❤❤

[@probellum8844]

I always feel like Ain't No Grave is always a perfect follow up to Hurt.

[@wescallion]

No one ever talks about it but the symbolism of him opening the piano for one last performance and then closing the piano as he comes to his end

[@firecracker187]

Johnny Cash had a lot of struggles in his life. So he definitely is putting that into the song

[@christinalehman8862]

he died of a broken heart.. he couldn't live without her.. you must watch Walk the line..

[@mlong1958]

Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails, the author of this song, said that watching Johnny perform this felt like someone was kissing his girlfriend. He also said that it wasn't his song anymore and that he just carried it for Johnny for a while. Johnny was addicted to drugs for a long time in his early life. You can get a good sense of it by watching the movie, "Walk The Line" with Juaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

[@aaronz9410]

Johnny himself battled addiction, yes by the time he recorded this he was in recovery but truly I think that is what makes it so real, he himself has faced the demons of addiction.

[@lll9416]

Trent Reznor's original was about drug addiction. Johnny made it about life's regrets. RIP to The Man in Black..🙏🙏

[@MrMojoRisin13]

Back in the late 80s, when I was 21 or 22, I attended a party and they started playing Johnny Cash. These were NOT country music-type people, so I was surprised by the music choice; all I knew about Cash at the time was that he was a "country" singer. One of the attendees, noticing my lack of enthusiasm, looked and me and asked, "Don't you like Johnny Cash." I shook my head and he answered, "Then man, you've got NO soul." I will always remember that, because he was right lol. I'd like to think that I've got soul now that I've come to understand that music is music, and all music that has soul is great music. I will always feel grateful for that lesson.

[@jotham777]

Johnny's daughter saw this video (or perhaps just heard the song), and she said to him, "It feels like you're saying 'goodbye' in the song." And he said, "I am."

[@karenlaneville8074]

You should see the movie Walk the line ,it explains the darkness he had to walk through starting from when he was a kid,much pain

[@melindabaker710]

I was raised on his music and knowing his personal history him doing this cover it was like this song was written for him ...

[@davidpowell2356]

Boy Named Sue, One Piece at a Time, Man in Black. So many bangers. Love when y'all react together.

[@canadiankin]

He did prison time and sang and performed in prisons a lot. Such a legend. Made great movies, too, all worth seeing.

[@busher69]

React to "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Johnny was dying from cancer when he recorded this. "Further On Up The Road" is another song from this session. Johnny lived a very hard life especially when he was young. Drugs, booze, prison you name it he lived it. Eventually he got past all of life's sh.t, found his wife, found God, took a concert for the prisoners at Folsom Prison and became the legend he is today. There's few people I respect more than the man Johnny Cash was. He was a real as dirt.

[@TXplowgirl]

Johnny never had cancer, he died from complications of diabetes and a broken heart from losing June a few months earlier. As to his release of the song Sunday Morning Coming Down that was in 1970. Get your facts straight and do a little research first before posting.

[@busher69]

I stand corrected on cause of his death. I don't see where I put a date on the release of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" Should I run all my posts by you for your approval and proof reading before I post in the future or can a wing it as a non-perfect human being. Which do you prefer ? @@TXplowgirl

[@renee5748]

You were correct about this being his goodbye song. In an interview with his daughter, Rosanne Cash, she talked about the day that he showed this video to her before it was released. He asked what she thought about it. She said tearfully ,“ It sounds like you’re saying goodbye dad“. He said that he actually was.

[@jonathanlocke6404]

I really like the comment about the artistry of taking someone else's pain and putting it in your own language...I like that a lot...

[@CleverPolarBear]

His daughter said in an interview that when she heard this she asked Johnny, "Dad, it sounds like you're saying Goodbye?" He told her, "That's because I am." He passed a few days later.

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

His wife June (in the video), said "You sound like you're saying goodbye" - he said, " Yes, I am".

[@TXplowgirl]

Actually, it was his daughter Rosanne who said that to him not June.

[@user-zu6ir6kj5g]

@@TXplowgirl Yep, my mistake.

[@goatkiller666]

Yeah, when Trent wrote this, it was about addiction. When Johnny covered it, it was about age. He played it for his daughter before it was released… she said “Dad, this sounds like you saying ‘goodbye’.” He answered “I am.” A couple months after the song dropped, his wife passed (you see her for a second in the video), and a couple months after she passed, he joined her. I’m a grown-ass man, and I tear up every time I hear Johnny’s version. I’ve been a Nine Inch Nails super-fan since the early 90s, but I don’t cry to their version of the song. This hits me that hard. And when he closes the piano at the end…

[@chrissibersky4617]

When you cover a song, don't you chose something that connects with you? I'm sure Johnny felt this represented a side of him. Not everyday but in dark moments.

[@TheBunnyb0y]

nothing matters, no items.. no power.. has value, when you are out of time.. only those you leave behind

[@MrRizzo1961]

Johnny Cash's first wife was a woman of color. His last wife June Carter cash wrote ring of fire. She was a part of a prominent family of musicians and sings June Carter and the Carter family ✌️❤️

[@tfodthogtmfof7644]

Nashville record industry forgot that they were built by artists like Johnny Cash. There was a reason Nashville was called the house that Cash built. By the early eighties Nashville record executives and the Country Music Association were telling Johnny he was over, nobody wanted to listen to him anymore. In the early 90s Rick Rubin approached Johnny and convinced him to create the 6 albums for American Recordings. Rubin produced Metallica, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, and LL Cool J. This video won a VMA award but the country music establishment did not even recognize the records. It was a massive vindication to introduce Johnny to a whole new generation of fans and have them love him as much as my generation did. Hip hop and metal gave Rick the clout to get these 6 albums done and make Johnny Cash a 90s and 2000s pop/rock star for these great albums.

[@jamiesucie2685]

Not enough people give the video the credit it also deserves. I’m glad that was the first thing touched on at the end.

[@BAYBAY_316]

I read recently that Johnny's daughter said to him after making that video she said to him it seems like you're saying goodbye and his reply was " I AM"

[@oakland-as-diehard6717]

“ Johnny Cash - One piece at a time “ is the SLEEPER track. It will have you rolling. Trust me 🤛🏼💯

[@scottluvisi9941]

Please start at the beginning of his career and watch him grow

[@tmbanker464]

Cash was also an author. He wrote a book called “ The Man in White” that was about the Apostle Paul. The title was a play of off the moniker “The Man in Black and referred to how Christ changed him and Paul. Interesting read

[@terrywyatt8304]

He did this song because it was his life story! He was singing about his self! Cash had a life long battle with amphetamine. I grew up thinking as I was a musician myself What a lucky guy. I didn't think he was that talented. But his last few albums he showed me he was right where he suppose to be! And I apologize, Mr Cash was indeed an artificer of music❤

[@sandramoore]

Johnny Cash's daughter Roseann, upon hearing this said to him, "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." Johnny said he was. He must have known he didn't have much time left. His wife June died right after this was filmed. Johnny died 2 months after June.

[@enkeli19]

My grandma's 90, she plays the car and sings I Walk the Line

[@barbarafrazier3242]

So for me Johnny Cash really embodied the songs he was singing and I believe that’s why everyone connects to him even if you’re not a big country fan. Many of his songs have a bit of true life experience for him and people instantly connect with him….. that’s why he is so great. Much of his career was going against the grain, not always adhering to normal expectations. For gods sake the man recorded a full live album in a prison where the audience were all inmates. All the higher ups at the record company were against it but he did it anyway. Live at Folsom Prison went on to become extremely popular and won him a Grammy. He was extremely good at connecting with people! That why his fan base is all over the place, young or old, rock or rap or country…. Doesn’t matter! Everyone loves Johnny!

[@k9raven960]

Johnny Cash has been a legend in the CW community since the 60's for a reason.

[@rebeccarains5830]

He was singing from a place of knowing, he struggled with addiction for years, found god an his wife so that’s real emotion❤🤟

[@patdonnelly9392]

Great reaction, Gents! Johnny Cash was born poor and lived a very hard, painful life from the get-go. Fame, success and money did nothing to alleviate that. He had issues with the law and addiction. That's why he sang and preformed for the oppressed, did live concerts in prisons. He connected with the down-trodden. I think he saw his wife June and his Faith in Jesus as all that kept him going in his later years. Did he think let them down somehow? Such a great, yet tormented man. Much respect.

[@Juggernuts]

whenever i want to feel anything i listen to this song on repeat, it makes me feel every possible emotion, and sometimes you just need to feel

[@debbers]

Make sure he watches the "A Boy Named Sue" that was filmed at the prison! That's the best one! Great reaction fellas!

[@lumina1104]

Johnny had his own troubling experiences with substances. He chose the song because he identified with it.

[@floresincometax9112]

He was arrested several times for drugs. One of his best selling albums was recorded in a prison. He was a wealthy man, but never forgot where he came from.

[@firecracker187]

Boy named sue was written by shel silverstein

[@Popson2wheels]

Check out his song Jackson, live on the Ralph Emery Show 1967. Show him and his wife June Carter Cash performing and hamming it up. Hurt hits harder when you know about his story and life. He did have struggles with drugs.

[@Desu-Desu-Chan-San]

As for the question on if he was a user. Yes, both Cash and Reznor used, the song fit them both.

[@gdubbya804]

Johnny Cash...country music hall of fame and rock and roll hall of fame. He was bigger than Elvis before we even had Elvis. What a ride his life was.

[@doomhunter697]

Another very moving 'last song/good bye' is Lazarus by David Bowie. He passed a few days after it's release from cancer.

[@cfr3830]

I watched an interview with the writer from Nine Inch Nails he he basically said that the song now belongs to Johnny Cash as it fit him and his life so well and he performed it so well

[@cherokeeroxyshewhoremembrs6344]

Johnny Cash Is THE Man Of The Downtrodden! Is What I Know! Listened To Him When I Started Walking! My Grandfather Loved Johnny!

[@PGoodmanCOG]

Joe, you commented how perfect the ending of the video was, with Johnny closing the piano. He never opened that piano again in his life, according to his daughter Roseanne. She said, "It's like you're saying goodbye." He replied, "I am." Guts me every time. Check out "Man in Black" and "Delia's Gone." A lot of folks have also given you some good suggestions; you can't really go wrong with what they've told you.

[@Indy1831]

Some say this is the greatest music video ever.

[@thewindle]

One of the few triple threats, member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Gospel Music Hall of Fame. This is his goodbye and you feel it.

[@hammertime615]

"Man In Black" -- (live college campus performance) lets you know everything you should know to understand the greatness of Johnny Cash.

[@tvann]

I just lost both my parents in the last 6 months so this song fuckin hit different, my dad introduced to Cash, and i hated hearing cash when i was a kid... lol... It all changes as you get older

[@briang6815]

This is easily my favorite Johnny Cash song.

[@SD-mw1hz]

It is like Denzel Washington said, "You will never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul", all these worldly things you worry over, fight over, lose friends and family over cannot go with you. Spend your time with those who truly care for you and love you and stop trying to make people who could care less about you such a priority in your life.

[@randomchord]

Isn't the power of good music incredible? The first reaction is to find everyone you know to say, :Have you heard this?" Seriously, check out One Piece at a Time by cash for a little positive fun.. Also, check out the history of his shows at prisons and how he dealt with both inmates, guards, and rules for the show. Cash is the original OG

[@mothermaclean]

These words can represent his life to he was quite whild in his younger years with drugs etc

[@Lunzatis_Palemoon]

Joee, the best way to look at this song is in two ways; The Young Man and the Old Man. The original version of this song by Trent Reznor and NIN, is about a young man dealing with Substance Abuse. The Johnny Cash version of this song is that same man decades later towards the end of his life. He looks back on his life and realizes that all the mistakes he made and all the pain he went through, even the Substance Abuse, he would not change anything because it's what made him who he is/was. He accepts his past and embraces it because it was part of the journey to who he became. "If I could start again, a million miles away. I would keep myself. I would find a way."

[@traceyvavrecan6714]

Johnny has some great songs, I'd recommend The Man in Black, The Ballad of Ira Hayes and for fun, One Piece at a Time

[@charlespeterson7502]

In reality Johnny is singing about himself and his life.

[@rowanmayfair9249]

I personally think you should check NIN version. Trent Reznor was at his absolute lowest point. Rock bottom. I think both are amazing.

[@shannonperry-burkley8798]

I also think his is better…nothing against Jonny Cash, but many time I like the original over the covers. Off the top of my head I can only think of maybe 5 covers being better than the original. However this video is better than NIN.

[@rowanmayfair9249]

@shannonperry-burkley8798 Yeah, I only have a couple of truly great covers off the top of my head. By far, this is the best.

[@connergohlke3098]

Mr cash had bad battles of drugs and addiction in his younger years,when trent wrote it,it was about battling addiction,when john recorded it,it was an old man on his last life looking back,and saying goodbye.this song as uncanny as it may seem was johns life

[@EarthyBlendPOV]

Look at that, 200k. I like the chemistry between you two.

[@jonathancapps1103]

I think you'd dig Cash's "The Man Comes Around."

[@Damnitjim72]

Johnny cash is amazing. Check out Joey and Rory when I’m gone. Joey passed away from cancer. The song writer of this song is in video playing the piano.

[@leslieballard9709]

Love when you and Joe E Sparks get together

[@RubyGB]

Johnny did have issues with addiction to pills and alcohol which he was finally able to overcome, but during the last of his life he had severe diabetes and needed insulin injections. Two of his most famous concerts were in San Quenton State Prison (CA) in 1958 and Folsom State Prison (CA) in 1968.

[@jonathanlocke6404]

He has distinct phases and sounds: early on, he was near rockabilly and kinda moved into just a real, stark, edgy, minimalist country. He had a several year period in the 70's where he was produced much more like big time country, but that doesn't mean that he always cooperated with the industry very well. Establishment country kinda booted him out in the 80's. Then he put out several albums with producer Rick Rubin in the early 90's, the era this song is from. He did songs by people like Tom Petty and Soundgarden...

[@Tampahop]

You have to respect people in the industry who just do their songs their way even if the industry tells them do it differently.

[@MoreKellBellPlease]

Joe E, the videographer, is gonna love this one!

[@frankcastle6298]

he was singing about himself even though it was written by 9 inch nails Trent Resner after hearing it said it was Johnny's song

[@christopherturner2479]

I had the opportunity to witness johnny june and band When a kind person purchased a ticket for me , great show playing the hits storys lots of laughs they really tore the place up brilliant ! and then they introduced spiritual music. halve way through the night and that's when this performance really made a massive connection, the depth of soulful singing and melodies what a memorable evening i could never forget johnny & June R.I.P. ❤️ 🙏

[@user-vm6ze2pb4u]

Cash was presented this song by its producer Rick Ruben.

[@mattyball]

Probably my favourite reimagined version of a song like ever ❤❤❤

[@bubbydos111]

Johnny is legend because he can do any kind of song and do it justice. Love you guys doing his catalog.

[@joelmastrobattisto422]

A boy named, Sue, walk the line, Folsom, prison, cocaine blues, get rhythm, and a great duet with his wife, June Carter Cash, singing Jackson are some of my favorites

[@johnnyeproductions]

The one thing I see so many reactors leave out is this song is a cover of Nine Inch Nails - Hurt. Rick Rubin played the song for Johnny and said I think you should do this cover. Johnny didn't really like the song at first and felt that he had nothing to ad to it. However after more convincing from Rick and the more he thought about it he could relate some of his story to it and we were given this beauty!

[@BAYBAY_316]

He was alive after the song came out. I watched him in an interview with MTV about the video because he was nominated for an MTV video award

[@tvann]

Yall young bucks been missing out on some amazing music, glad you're finally finding it and giving it a chance.... Props to ya brothers

[@tvann]

Have you ever listened to the original Nine inch nails song version of this song? If not check that out to truly feel Johnny's version

[@NativeNYerChicHK]

BOTH OF YOU have to react to “One Piece At A Time” AND “Folsom Prison Blues”. They’re both Johnny Cash classics that I think you’ll really enjoy!!! And if you want to meet the absolute love of his life, his wife June Carter Cash whose pictures on the walls they went back to repeatedly throughout this video, then you have to hear their duet “Jackson” ♥️

[@denanebergall5514]

June's appearance in the video wasn't planned. She heard something in his voice as he was singing and came down the stairs to check on him, not knowing that they were recording. She wasn't acting. You should definitely listen to "Johnny and June" by Heidi Newfield.

[@vernonjaworskiartistry]

Your boy was tearing up at the end of the video..very impressed by his emotion

[@MommaOsoIrish67]

One of my favorites, he recorded with his wife June, is "Jackson."

[@ryantannar5301]

I've heard it said that the original is a young man having his wake up call moment, Cash's version is a old man wishing he'd gotten that moment when there was still time to change it.