Rappers React To System Of A Down "Hypnotize"!!!

[@keithwatkins7908]

Great to hear a SOAD song that is not on everybody's playlist. Glad that you continue to enjoy their music, keep them coming.

[@kratos_agiota]

Hypnotize is my favorite SOAD song

[@allahbless2278]

This song def is on everyone's playlist,it's top 10

[@M_reapr]

I fucking love this song. The lyrics are so powerful definitely one of their better break up era songs.

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

"I'm just sitting in my car waiting for my girl" is in reference to a guy who got questioned by police in the parking lot nearby Tienamin (not sure about the spelling) Square. He told the officers he was just sitting in his car and waiting for his girl. His girl didn't come back......

[@lawrencefine5020]

Hard to believe this song is almost 20 years old. I have lots of Metal head friends who can't stand SOAD because they hated the singer. It's bewildering. No band has come out with anything so original since SOAD's last album. Love em or hate em, the one thing you can never accuse SOAD of is originality and just great sounding songs. It's too bad they can't get along long enough to put some new material out. STILL no other band sounds like SOAD. They are their own genre.

[@sinisterking6009]

I agree on that

[@danieL_07074]

Him hated daron or serj?

[@stonyb4046]

Come on Hollywood Daron literally sings on like every song

[@bbyjscx]

I've seen soad twice and they are so so good! The singing in this track is unreal. You are 100% right on serj voice, his voice is so unique!

[@thedominator87]

they actually did a version of wu tang clan's song shame, with the wu years before the tech n9ne collab. the song you are referring to is Lonely Day, it was either on this album or mezmorize (whch was released another album released 2 days lator)

[@TheLordNathaniel]

You guys definitely got the idea down of it being about how corporations and government use media to hypnotize and placate the masses, honestly I really love this song. Also, since you were wondering, the "I'm Just Sitting In My Car, Waiting For My Girl" lyric, by all accounts that's actually just what Daron Malakian, the lead guitarist, was doing when he wrote the song, and they just kept it in. I kinda like that about it. Also since you were talking about Covers and Similar songs, Linkin Park has a song called Rebellion which features Daron on it as a guest guitarist, and it does kinda sound like if Linkin Park were singing a SoaD song, at least it does to me. Love the videos guys, keep it up, and sorry if I start spamming requests down the line, love what you're doing.

[@M_reapr]

Tienamin square was where China gunned down a stadium full of highschool and college students with live rounds and automatic weapons killed God knows how many. There were journalist who filmed most of all the incident but obviously the footage hasn't been showed because obviously who would want to see such an atrocity. The main footage that leaked was the man who walked in front of a moving tank in protest and the footage cuts out but the tank did run him over and it was filmed. It's easily one of the greatest atrocities ever committed. There are many documentaries on this I highly suggest learning about it. I imagine they suggest to ask the kids of tienamin square because there was a media black out and all journalist were captured and forced to erase footage. It's a miracle the incident left china. The kids at tienamin square were lost due to media influence in China and even to this day it's forbidden to bring it up.

[@AmberPearcy]

Love this song! Only problem is I wanna sing both parts simultaneously. 😂

[@jgsrhythm100]

Black History Month called Curtis Mayfiield- Superfly ( 72) 🔥 Judy got another channel to check it & loved it. Nothing but positive comments across the board !!!

[@HappiSwede]

Talking about combining Rage against the machine and Cypress Hill, have you guys listened to Prophets of Rage? They were active 2016-2019 and consisted of three members from RATM, two members from Public Enemy and B-Real from Cypress Hill. They played a big festival here in Sweden and the energy was amazing.

[@mattboselli1099]

This is one of those bands that your like what are the lyrics for sure. Great reaction

[@Tre1386]

I would love to see you guys react to Scars on Broadway “they say” it’s the band Soad’s Darin Malakian and drummer created when soad went on hiatus. Darin writes most songs for soad, he is the sound and Serj is the voice! Darin is a genius

[@michaelward5370]

Good call, Trevor Harris, that is an awesome song!!

[@Robisquick]

There's only about 10 songs that have given me full body chills and fall into complete ecstasy... and this was one of them and often still is. Just perfect.

[@mattblatchley2061]

LOVE that Mediterranean flavor they sprinkle on their music...for real.

[@Beepboop1092]

Do you mean Middle Eastern lol? Armenians are considered middle eastern. Daron tunes his guitar into Phrygian that’s why all their songs sound a bit exotic

[@mattblatchley2061]

@@Beepboop1092 well...Syria, Israel, Egypt and many other middle eastern countries lie on the Mediterranean lol

[@mattblatchley2061]

@@Beepboop1092 right. Israel, Syria, Egypt and many other middle eastern countries lie on the Mediterranean... including Turkey which Armenia is attached to...

[@MarcyRavenManji]

​​@@Beepboop1092Daron does not tune his guitar to Phrygian... he still mostly plays in Drop C or Drop C#. He plays Phrygian Dominant/Mixolydian flat-6 scales sometimes, sure

[@ot44ever54]

08:30 I mean, there's actually some people who actually DOES sound like Serj, there's a guy on YT where he did some famous songs if they were sang by System of a down, and honestly he did such an AMAZING Job with Serj and Daron's voice (I'm not even kidding, he literally sounds exactly like Serj and Daron) but his covers he does from system of a down's prime era in their toxicity album, so the songs have some heavy riffs and some screams, also he uses literally riffs from soad songs, this makes the songs even more similar theirs, but serj actually has different voices thru the years 08:22 he actually doesn't have that nasal tone in their 1st 2 albums, he does sometimes, but he has more of a clean young tone, his voice was more clean than nasal if this makes sense Also u still need to see system of a down WEIRDEST songs, their hit songs are always the "tamest" ones, their weirdest and wtf songs are their best imo, almost their whole discography is like "bruh this is so weird but in a good way", "such a weird song and weird lyrics but it's good" Didnt u see in the last soad reaction they taking about "Pull the tapeworm out of your s" XD, the next reaction HAS to be MIND, song from their 1st album, 6 minutes of pure weirdness

[@budgetbladereviews9361]

This is literally one of my top 3 songs by them. The sad thing is SOAD could of done so many I mean SO MANY more great things then what they did. There was just such a big gap where they didn't do anything. Like their drummer said it sucks when you are this good and you can do so many great things and you just don't.

[@tysonwilson7588]

IMO soad stopped making albums at the perfect time think about the bands of the time Korn Slipknot .etc they all over time made progressively worse albums SOAD made 5 perfect albums then said yeah we will just tour those occasionally yeah it sucks but I feel like if they made an album today it would be a 4/10 compared to what they've done before

[@matthewkuffler3680]

​@tysonwilson7588 I get your point but if they came back and did 1 amazing same Ole SOAD album then that would be great. We don't need 2 or 3 more like others do I'd they do an amazing album matured for how they are and from what they were just an album of what they become and made it same Ole system then I feel like that would be enough. They cut it quits to soon, cane back with a fire ass album and then said there you go enjoy. I'm cool with that, unless their comeback album is so torch then we gotta have another one I'm down with that too. But yeah rock on brother the ones we got are God tier live it up

[@KenBober]

Pychostick has a Christmas song that's a parody soad byob, it's called n.o.e.l. they are as close to soad timing you can get. Even serj would be proud of that parody. This song was about government manipulation. Kinda like what's going on now, remember no political talk on this channel!

[@Blackwaterjack]

Great group also they make a lot of sandwiches 🥪

[@KenBober]

@@Blackwaterjack "it's a song!!!!!" NO ITS A SANDWICH

[@KenBober]

@@Blackwaterjack I feel like hollywood and Smokey need to check out obey the beard. Just to get an idea of the minds of pychostick. When people ask me why I have a long beard I play that song.

[@Blackwaterjack]

@@KenBober 100% agree with you on this

[@IAMDAVIDuRNOT]

I like that you mentioned that you like the bassist (Shavo) and later on mentioned Cypress Hill. They actually collaborated on a song and he performed live with them at the Nascar Clash race a few weeks ago.

[@BigHomieSteveTheMetalHead]

This song has a special place in my heart, I remember the first time I heard this song on MTV. It blew my mind and I was instantly hooked, I looked forward to hearing this song every morning on MTV before going to school. This band is fkn amazing, I don't think another band can replicate their sound and get it right, very unique band for sure! Great reaction as usual guys, more SOAD please!! 🤘🤘🤙🤙

[@sinisterking6009]

No ffs heck no, enough of these turds, time for real metal

[@Brando-Lee3725]

Daron sings in a great bit of their songs ! He does something in almost every song lol ! How have you missed that fact ? You have reacted to plenty vids where he is singing or doing vocals . They both have distinct styles yet they harmonize so well together .

[@necro_nomicon]

check WU-TANG with SOAD "SHAME" :D

[@wonderwomanmillow2281]

One of my favorite songs of SOAD! Pls react also to Radio/Video! Greetings from Germany❤

[@Tony_G05]

Great reaction! So happy you’re doing SOAD again, you guys should try holy mountains if you haven’t already

[@KatSnow11]

Bass player is Shavo Odadjian (I hope I spelled that right!) and he is so rad. Check out what he’s doing these days! I needed some System today. Thanks, Guys ❤️

[@kristaspecht]

Morning guys! Ya, I love this song! It's short but real. The words "mesmerized the simple minded, propaganda leaves us blinded" are real words for sure...I love SOAD!! 🤓❤️

[@elmiguel17]

the trash talkers never actually talk trash ... bad service *leaves the room without tipping* ok no x) love u guys

[@Plastikdoom]

And oh, he’s sung lead, with serj doing back up vocals before, he’s great also. And definitely should do “Dreaming” by them, or holy mountains any of the ones along those lines, and rarely ever gone over by anyone.

[@ty_the_RetoVideo_guy5543r]

Have you guys never done The Guess who? that actually kinda surprises me

[@iAmThe_SYSTEM]

Me n My dad went to that show. Our first SOAD concert. So cool to be apart of one of their videos. They played hypnotize twice in the setlist. Thanks for all your SOAD reactions!! Love the channel

[@loudnoises213]

System of a Down does do covers, Wu Tang's "Shame" for instance, or Black Sabbath's "Snowblind" to name a couple.

[@Th3Kn0w1ngSt4r]

And "The Metro" by Berlin

[@davidmassey6332]

SOAD did a remix of ‘Shame on a N****’ with The RZA

[@jummyran]

Song was amazing back in the day when it first came out. Both mesmerize and hypnotize were phenomenal albums and sadly their last so far.

[@turtleyee4599]

React to SOAD - Shame

[@Brando-Lee3725]

That is really cool yall discuss some of these songs and lyrics after camera goes off . I respect that a lot . Good to hear brothers .

[@cn2490]

To me "sitting in my car waiting for my girl" show how small and powerless we are againts the system that can run over us anytime it wants. The down ward tone and romantic ending shows beautifully how we are just "bro" and "dude" trying our best againts basic stuff in life as a whole before something so brutal and foreign happens everywhere like in the first verse.

[@grantnealon5101]

Hi Guys.. You still reacting?? Excellent, haven't seen you for ages.. It's about time you did some more Lovebites and Nemophila... Also Hagane, Aldious, Trident, and Gacharic spin, 4 more for you.. So many great bands out there with so much music.. Your reaction to Miyako's solo in Lovebites song Shadowmaker is still one of the best on the internet... And I quote.."Bro.. That don't make no sense"... Lol You are right, it doesnt.. Ha ha, shear brilliance. Think of it every thime I hear this song.. The truck driving "shadow person" story in the beginning was dope too Best wishes from France...

[@aaronlethborg]

Rage against the machine, b-real and chuck d have a band called Prophets of rage

[@Madcat1776]

KICK ASS. SOAD is the one band I’ve never seen that I’m dying to see, but they’re always in Europe and everywhere else. So thrilled for this reaction - and you guys crack me up. Blessings this Monday and always to you guys. Rock on. 🎸🙌🏼🕊️

[@mmakeup_mmama83]

Do shame by soad. U won’t be disappointed

[@1rexrex]

To add to your post vid convo. Went to a concert years ago. Cypress Hill, White Zombie and Beastie Boys. The last song CH did was WZs 1st song in their set. Then WZs last song was BBs 1st song in their set. Was crazy to hear Rob Zombie rappin to Sabotage. Also crazy hearing B Real and Sean Dog singing More Human Than Human.

[@sandokansendy]

finnaly SOAD ! soad have so much songs to need reactions . i reccometed live videos where is not videoclip .

[@MsNewsted]

Good morning East Coast! :)

[@kristaspecht]

Serj with tech n9ne song is called "straight out the gate". Great song and music video btw!

[@sinisterking6009]

So how many times you wanna react to the same "metal" bands brothas? Trash Talkers: Yes.....

[@airun130]

Of course Smokey likes the bassist, he looks just like Shavo!

[@jasonduvall6565]

Scars on Broadway

[@an1malsr0ck]

Another amazing song, I don't think I've ever seen the video for it before though. Great reaction!

[@thejesseayy]

Serj and Daron have some of my favorite harmonies in all of metal

[@Moncada10]

Check out radio/video- system of a down. It's a catchy song that will blow your mind 💯

[@lowpointfair4653]

Great reaction. Atwa is a pretty good song by soad. Not gonna lie i thought this song was about a tragedy in china, people going about their day then they were no more.

[@joshuamcdowell1460]

Tiananmen Square Massacre. June 4th 1989

[@andycrewgaming9664]

If you guys wanted to hear more of Daron Malakian sing I highly recommend checking any song by Scars on Broadway absolutely incredible

[@mikaelohanyan4010]

Pls do react to system of a down-shame. It is rap song from SOAD

[@SoCalloweenNEWS]

As for the video meaning. I don’t think there is any. While on tour for “Mezmerize” (The first half of the double LP) they released only 2 music videos for “Hypnotize” (The 2nd half the double LP). Since they were on a global tour at the time, the music video for “Hypnotize” (the song) & later “Lonely Day” were seemingly shot during the tour as both videos only show the band either in concert footage or on a tour bus w/ additional non-band footage shot elsewhere with no real themes or elaborate set pieces unlike previous music videos.

[@mountainbikemayhem1833]

Daron writes a lot of their songs, and sings on most…Shavo (bassist) produces and directs most of the videos

[@jessicaadams1479]

This is probably my favorite song by SOAD. I love the harmonies. I’m not sure of the entire meaning behind the song but I think he’s referring to the Tiananmen Square Massacre at the beginning. Another great reaction, another great band!

[@catmanduu66]

Mezmerize and Hypnotize are my favorite S.O.A.D. album/s.

[@metalkkonaw9372]

Awesome love to see yalls reactions to great songs like this. SOAD actually did a cover of Shame on a N* by Wu-Tang Clan RZA is on it too pretty cool song yall should check it out

[@dvaderwasframed]

Love this song!

[@amenallah7267]

keep reacting them check out : forest / science / A.D.D / War all of them amazing songs

[@tonyr9389]

This is great! Haven’t even watched it yet.

[@christopherhammac2133]

SOAD did a song with Wu Tang. Shame On A N***A. Also check out Maximum The Hormone. They are a Japanese metal band with a SOAD influence. Dont know what they are singing about but their music is 🔥

[@KatSnow11]

There’s a compilation cd from the late 90s/early 2000s that meshes hip hop and metal. Rza from Wutang Clan and System collaborated on a song called “Shame” that y’all need to check out! Serj has collaborated with Tech N9ne “Straight out the Gate” I think is what it’s called, check both those out, Guys

[@shawnrayb]

Vampires on tomato juice are the closest I've heard to soad, they did a song with serj, their first album was free to download. They're pretty good.

[@hxcnoel]

A lot of SOAD lyrics play upon the juxtaposition between something political and some everyday life scenario. For example, BYOB talks about partying, but the rest of the song is about war etc. This song is similar. I think that juxtaposition highlights the stark contrasts and similarities between worrying about the state of the world and worrying about what's happening in your everyday life

[@jonlate4581]

This is almost 20 years old. Can you believe that?

[@lifeskill6500]

System of a down 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 best band ever

[@adamblakeney8446]

Guess who is a Canadian band. You should check some of their songs out. I recommend "these eyes".

[@stayinshadow78]

SOAD did a cover/remix of Shame on a N… with some of the dudes from Wu-Tang

[@ColinFurness77]

Yeah. Hard to figure what the lyrics are about. The only thing I keep thinking is that whomever is waiting in the car, might be waiting for the girl to come to America from China. Like a euphemism of some kind. Kinda abstract I know. Perhaps she doesn't want to leave China? (shrugs) By the way, you guys gotta react to the Guess Who 🇨🇦. They're one of Canada's biggest rock bands of all-time. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the original American Woman is vastly superior to the Lenny Kravitz version. They put out a lot of hits and were/are an international success. Others...These Eyes, No Time, No Sugar Tonight, and so many others. A little Easter egg: The guy who produced all the Guess Who albums (Jack Richardson) is the father of the guy who engineered the first Rage Against The Machine album (Gggarth R.).

[@sammitchell3657]

If you guys wanna hear a real treat. Check out System Of A Down "Shame" it's hip hop and metal mixed. You'd love it.

[@dvaderwasframed]

Speaking of bands sounding like each other, Ever heard Earshot? Earshot - Get Away Who do you think they sound like? Either way, its still a good tune

[@lifeskill6500]

SYSTEM OF A DOWN - DREAMING

[@leonidasneves7972]

06:20 "have we ever heard him sing?" Bruh, seriously? LMAO, u did TONS of times, literally one of your reactions was "Lost in Hollywood" this makes me think about what u guys said in your last SOAD reaction "I never heard Serj growl" "maybe was the back up singer" like, u literally reacted to "SUGAR" where he does some growls and screams, u reacted to P.L.U.C.K where literally the very first line is a growl (serj growls "DIIIIEEEE!)not really the very 1st line but is after the whispering"eliminations" also in P.L.U.C.K when Serj says "RestituTIOOOON" growled before the chorus, u guys reacted to the "Prison song" which serj does tons of growls, in the intros theres a growl "OOOAAAAARGH" and he does growls in the last 2 chorus, Plus Daron also sings in almost every single song along with Serj (not even kiddin after their 1st 2 albums, Daron started to look more of a 2nd lead/main singer instead of a back up singer, he sings like every lines of the songs with Serj) even in their 1st 2 albums he does some back up vocals

[@ot44ever54]

I'm starting to think maybe they don't pay attention in what they react, but maybe because they react to a lot of stuffs, perhaps they get confused, but saying "never heard SERJ Growl" and wondering if they heard Daron singing, is honestly concerning

[@iancollins65]

This is a great song! One of the more melodic SOAD songs. Since you got on the topic of metal singers rapping, you should check out the song “Mathematik” by Lindemann. Do the official video featuring Haftbefelt. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

[@ruddylopez2368]

You guys gotta check out “Lonely Day” one of the SOAD tracks Daron🎸 leads vocaly 🎤

[@gamer-gr7vs]

Dreaming please.

[@Shammrock62]

This whole album is fire Has BYOB on it as well And you can't forget the album name Which is steel this album

[@SquirrelSeb84]

Wait isn’t Hypnotize on the Hypnotize album?

[@Brando-Lee3725]

SOAD did Ol Dirtys song Shame On a N$gga too that was fire lol !

[@erickbalbuena8679]

Shame Wu Tang Clang SOAD enough said

[@Caca-yq2di]

You guys give so little credit to Daron!!! He comes out as a lead singer/does background singing in like 99% of all soad songs

[@Beepboop1092]

Not to mention the actual musical composition and writing all of the riffs

[@Remedy462]

So the song is about the incident of protest of tiananmen square between the communist government and the people, some were teenages, who wanted democracy. The song is about how the media distorts your meaning of freedom, such as materialism, and how these people wanted freedom of expression and vote to make actual change. As for the main character waiting for his girl, I assume it is them waiting for someone to join along to change things or someone wanting to ignore it for the classical nuclear family illusion. But at the end of the song, "she," has not shown up yet. So we may never know how it ends however it ends.

[@sakidickerson]

If you want to hear a cover or I should say someone attempt to cover a System of a Down song check out Machine Gun Kelly's cover

[@kornetic5]

Viza is a band like s.o.a.d. try the songs viktor and viktor's sister. Searj also sings on viktor's sister

[@munkeeBraynStoo]

Trash Talkers you should hear Mad As a Hatter by Larkin Poe. They're Edgar Allen's great grandkids, and they're awesome. Get the Covenant House version

[@roninakamai6325]

Another great video,,, I'd love to see your reaction to Infectious Grooves,, These freaks are here to party

[@kingdave2139]

ATWA

[@threeeleven3471]

Prophets of Rage - Hail to the Chief

[@kevinminich5715]

Love love love SOAD!! Check out: Mudvayne - Out To Pasture

[@Plastikdoom]

Well, I think the part about waiting for his girl. He’s sitting in his car, waiting for her, she’s in the store, so ties in with the consumerism, propaganda, being hypnotized by all the crap out there I’m guessing.

[@rahbeat9785]

musical Trip

[@adaocrvlho]

Soad is very unique. There's a band called "no one's project" that really try to do what soad does in music wich sounds weird and phony. but i like it anyway

[@valeriewilliams3238]

His name is Daron Malakian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@amenallah7267]

SOAD so unique never find band like them even rage against the machine . serj tankian opera singer too go check out he self project also daren malikian play in band called scars on Broadway

[@Rob_Infinity3]

You mentioned that you like the bassist, Shavo. You may be interested to know that he has a "side project" called North Kingsley where he is part of a trio that makes hip-hop songs. If you want a track to react to. Try "False Idols" featuring RZA from Wu Tang Clan. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqHOq4OFgrRres0

[@robertfury8960]

A chinese man drove his girlfriend to protest war at tianaman square, he stayed with the car. He waited and waited until he realizes that she died in the massacre, word is he's still waiting in his car.

[@zachm2331]

As a history nerd, I fucking love that they made an entire song about Tiananmen Square, and used that event to explain problems with government propaganda that still exist today.

[@R8drdave]

BYOB this band is amazing. Spiders.

[@GO_ACTREE]

Try to react Innervision dude, maybe you like it

[@tomaslongoria2449]

Its agent orange at the beginning or pretending to be… “Group X” are the only ones that have ever sounded something close to SOAD, also who ever did that one Zelda cover back in the Napster days.

[@AlexanderCano369]

Tank Man is real and I think he survived that