Music video by The Roots performing Dear God 2.0. (C) 2010 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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@brentdonhauser4 жыл бұрын
This is what hip hop was intended to be. A message being spread through music. Not the garbage you hear on the radio. The Roots will always be in my rotation.
@corylackland83773 жыл бұрын
Mine too.✌🏾 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGTEkKafaaZkrLM
@bruja212 Жыл бұрын
❤
@duArtj10 ай бұрын
yes, and leave the video making professionals.
@duArtj10 ай бұрын
*to*
@DellBot6 ай бұрын
Why do old heads always hate anything new, music isn't stagnant.
@YOGABEYO4 жыл бұрын
Back here 10 years later during COVID19 and it’s fallout. Hello old friend
@peezyface3 жыл бұрын
and more relevant than ever ... my fav is "mad marijuana, oxycontin, and kolonopin, everybody out of it ..."
@Nick-xc3qh3 ай бұрын
True
@aqilakiah-el165 Жыл бұрын
He speaking nothing but facts💯🔥🔥🔥🔥He said this over 10 years ago.Now look what's goin on in our world now 🙏😇
@MailOrderGamers4 ай бұрын
This song will always be relevant because it's timeless. It connects with people on a spiritual level because we've all questioned faith, and evil things have been happening since the dawn of time.
@creoleboy911 Жыл бұрын
Took me a minute to find this gem on youtube, only line i remember from years ago on BET was "I get off work, right back to work again " classic.
@sindisophood43193 ай бұрын
Just to think, this z the line that brought me to this song
@flashcat9458 жыл бұрын
AMAZING!! This is what rap is all about, social consciousness, enlightenment, and great music. It doesn't get better than this! 1Love, Peace
@robertbautista58805 жыл бұрын
Flash Cat correct
@user-xs1th8yk3h5 жыл бұрын
Nope, this is not what rap is all about. Rap could be about anything.
@michielvdvlies33155 жыл бұрын
@@user-xs1th8yk3h no offence its not personal but this is "my" rap!!! it depends what you want to listen too. where do you want to go, what is life to you! i dont want to hear about mo money and "bitches" all around that's not the reality!!! people want fantasy but reality is what they need!! its good and nice to have dreams but im not sleeping 24/7 ;-)
@bwalker59334 жыл бұрын
No disrespect but this is Hip-hop music not rap... Turn your radio on if you like rap lol. Hip Hop's the roots, tree trunk and rap is an extension of the foundation. Blessings
@rh70744 жыл бұрын
👏👏💯👆🤛
@jp19840410 жыл бұрын
every time i work a double shift at my heavy factory job this song plays in my head "i get off work than right back to work again, im probably gonna need to get my head exam" love it.
@rachelzack447910 жыл бұрын
I've been meaning to check out the roots for so long. Boy am I glad I finally did. Unreal..
@skipperdabioАй бұрын
They really are unreal. Very well put. Black thought is the best rapper/writer of all time. Just incredible.
@Diarmuid-pf8pf2 жыл бұрын
This album was a classic
@WildfireWiffler449 жыл бұрын
Black Thought is hands down the greatest MC of all time and if you disagree, go do your research.
@belladsenso9 жыл бұрын
100% true. Philly stand up.
@TheAllArounder9 жыл бұрын
One of the most underrated lyricists of all time.
@Jlhines198219 жыл бұрын
WildfireWiffler44 He's underrated for sure, but GOAT? nah.
@WildfireWiffler449 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Hines Then who is better?
@scrawled_inblack98829 жыл бұрын
+Jeremy Hines NAS IS BETTER.
@naomid37024 жыл бұрын
"If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?" "Weak world economy, stock market toppling." These bars relate to this Corona Virus pandemic so damn much right now 😳 All the lyrics of this song is timeless, most of Black Thought's lyrics are. I bet he's having deep thoughts on this pandemic, I hope he shares those lyrics with us.
@peezyface3 жыл бұрын
yeah this whole song.
@l3ftpocket3 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@lachicasexy8413 жыл бұрын
Tears to my eyes as this sound flows through my ears and beat reaches my heart.
@dontrush17602 жыл бұрын
The Roots have always been my spiritual guide in hip hop
@PLBoogie8 жыл бұрын
The art of hip hop. This is why I love the culture. True Headz know true hip hop from the riff raff. Represent!!!!
@shellyh14478 жыл бұрын
PL Boogie man p
@kingsam729829 күн бұрын
I was 15 when I fell in love with this jam, I’m 30 now.. 2024
@itsTonySaint7 жыл бұрын
Such a powerful song, and message.
@lukaszepesi10 жыл бұрын
Only 1 million views wtf? The Roots make some of the best music out there, but I guess people would rather listen to 2 chainz and Wiz Khalifa telling them about their gold chains and their bitches, because that is so creative. I'm glad that the roots didn't change to make more money, because they could if they wanted to. I've seen them live 3 times and their live performances are so great I'm really glad I got to see them. I don't get the trend in Hip Hop right now that rappers make their lyrics as stupid and bad as possible, it's really not working for me.
@JishnuJagajeeve10 жыл бұрын
You said it!
@sakogekchyan73669 жыл бұрын
Seriously I do a bit of emseein myself and I know a good lyricist when I hear one I also wrote a verse about the big man upstairs There is no Christ but the one who lives inside you Gasping for air under the filth that deprives you Long is the road on the journey to find the one who Brought into being the very things that define you Always in space but never in time he can't be defined the father the mother creator of all that is benign Some have said that to order his holy name is a crime but Elohim comforts his children the sick and the dying The week and the blind not one of us shall be left behind in his eyes every child is precious and one-of-a-kind This is a God that many of us have long forgotten And the son who dared to stand up to the crooked and rotten"
@sakogekchyan73669 жыл бұрын
I apologize if there are any typos,I use voice dictation and it tends to fuck up a lot
@toastedjambread9 жыл бұрын
Wait till you hear, Coco by O.T. Genesis. All that nigga does is sing about how he is in love with cocaine and selling it like it's a thing to be proud of. That shit has over 44,000,000 views and it's one of the most ignorant songs I have heard and people eat that shit up. I don't know why.
@mr.berries40609 жыл бұрын
toastedjambread it's because people are idiots =D
@twiklight13 жыл бұрын
The Roots stay true to who they are. How can you not love them.
@JDTHEWALKA8 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorite hooks/choruses ... Musically genius!
@stylez98714 жыл бұрын
Man i cannot get enough of this song.... This is real hip hop!!
@antoniogambardella7852 жыл бұрын
timeless classic 🔥💣🎙🔝☝️
@Blaque2pi14 жыл бұрын
Dear God, please don't let this song end!
@Pragueism27 жыл бұрын
Holds up and will hold up 100 years from now.
@cjwalk34206 жыл бұрын
Had come back to this in 2018.
@theherbpuffer9 жыл бұрын
Hip Hop with a message! How it should be
@Nerodz4 жыл бұрын
Yes! If you like this, be sure to check out the late Keith Edward Elam a.k.a. GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal) Album: Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality. Song: "Looking Through the Darkness"
@chadericsneed661010 жыл бұрын
songs like these are classics people know what is being said in the songs instead of listening to the beat lyrics maters in rap songs we need to keep the movenment alive before mixtape, underground wack music take over credit to the roots.
@alexjasso32039 жыл бұрын
Underground wack music the wack music is the mainstream to keep the 85 the same.
@yelenarodriguez8732 жыл бұрын
Too late
@chillydotjeff14 жыл бұрын
This song REALLY touched my soul. The lyrics remind me of what I often think about.
@simplemanGifted14 жыл бұрын
"when the sky's the limit, for this high percentage, a second is a minute, every hour is INFINTE." Tariq "BLACK THOUGHT" Trotter
@zuko377111 ай бұрын
It's 2023, 4am and I woke up with this song playing on my head, Black thought is the greatest mc to ever touch the Mic, they really do make timeless records
this is one the best songs ever known to hip hop and it has 172, 634 views! Just goes to show how little people know about REAL music, real hip hop. Hip Hop aint dead, it's just not being supported by the viewers as much as the other mainstream crap. Roots = hip hop at its finest.
@mommymarz Жыл бұрын
🙏💚
@D_Nice_20226 жыл бұрын
The Roots. Black Thought. My top five rapper/group/musicians foreva.
@WizzillWill11 жыл бұрын
How I got Over is one of the gratest classic hip hop albums ever. Timeless music.
@Vetter0710 жыл бұрын
Real hip hop lives here
@BigMeeks51213 жыл бұрын
The Roots is True Hip Hop To The CORE! Black Thought The Most Underrated,its Sad
@frankwright246910 жыл бұрын
This is the shit that should be iclouded onto devices worldwide..
@XXnoblev2XX11 жыл бұрын
this is real music. old school rap, today Hip hop ain't shit. Just know that
@illthought-real10 жыл бұрын
this is one of them songs you gotta unlike just so you can like it again. big respects.
@MusicLover-ko1mq6 жыл бұрын
illthought amazing song
@conniemartin936216 күн бұрын
Went to their concert last night! Had a BLAST!!! ❤😊
@rhcp000848 жыл бұрын
How has this been out for almost 7 years and I'm just now hearing this beautiful song?? I feel like I've been committing a sin every moment I did not hear this wonderful collaboration.
@samn32762 жыл бұрын
Listen to the whole album if you haven’t yet! Thank me later (“How I got over”)
@premediesel14 жыл бұрын
this song reminds me of why i fell in love with hiphop when I was a kid. this is real.
@Nerodz4 жыл бұрын
The Roots album this tune originates from, "How I Got Over", is AMAZING. A must-listen before you die. Your life before listening... &Your altered life after listening. The entire album is this good.
@samn32762 жыл бұрын
Big Facts! I’m trying to tell anyone listening! Truly flawless album
@GodPolymath14 жыл бұрын
THE GREATEST UNDERRATED MC EVER!!!...Black Is So Raw With His.
@onenonlynino5 жыл бұрын
I swear I gotta hear this a couple times a month 💯✊🏿🔥
@speednwargo2 жыл бұрын
This song never gets old
@Fevhar3 жыл бұрын
I’ve always loved this record....
@ralph18819 ай бұрын
Dopest BAND EVER...annnd HIP HOP LEGENDS...top 5 for me NO DOUBT. The Roots are Timeless.
@marcos_rosa5 жыл бұрын
pure masterpiece song
@qlintdwayne90444 жыл бұрын
Listen, I connect spiritually with this jam
@SusanJones-de4mb10 жыл бұрын
I was in love with this song when it aired on TV when the album first came out. Dear God was my ring tone for almost two yrs. until my phone broke. I'm just now seeing the video for the first time! Wow ! It puts a whole new twist on how I hear the son now. I love this song ! I love this video !
@newday201117 жыл бұрын
How can this not be one of Hip Hop's greatest songs? Black Thought, hands down pure dope! Like a black prophet, he keeps his ear close to the heart and mind of the street and speakes to those who are awake.
@ashleyiverson84784 ай бұрын
The lyrics still holding up in 2024
@sahirsarica10 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest songs ever
@user-rh5bd6yt9b10 жыл бұрын
There is a chilling vibe that's strangely alluring within this video something ancestral?.!!!
@GMPGMP-jp5ut3 жыл бұрын
The Roots are one of the best groups ever, their entire catalog is legit. I've seen them live a few times back in the 90's and early 2000's, they were amazing. I've been listening to their albums all weekend.
@hellololita8910 жыл бұрын
This song is so deep it hurts!
@deeughfolte57706 жыл бұрын
Nat B. Pain is just a monetary sensation of new neurological connections taking hold. What you are describing is Black Thought literally changing the very making of your brain with his poetic and prophetic words. First time I consciously and fully realized that this was happening, I was listening to Tupac... He said "Plus this alcohol increases the chance to be deceased I'm movin you stupid b****es, vicious telekinesis Am I reachin your brain? N**** how can I explain?" - From, "No more pain - All eyez on me". Hip Hop is more powerful than most realize, look around you. Look at what it has done to reality with just passion, poetry, love, hate, truth... It really is everything that encompasses life. This is not a far fetched exaggeration... Embrace the pain, it's growth. Be blessed. No! More Pain! 😉
@YouHEARTDee12 жыл бұрын
This song ain't nothing but the TRUTH !
@cool899 жыл бұрын
Realest track ever, I know atheist wont agree but God still loves u hahaa legendary track right here
@lukaszepesi8 жыл бұрын
+cool89 I'm a atheist but I can still enjoy music with religious content, like DMX - Lord Give me a sign or Yelawolf ft. Eminem - Best Friend etc. I still appreciate a good song even if I don't think God exists. And I don't think this song is just about God it's about society and where we're headed. If you don't believe in God you can still think that things are headed in the wrong direction and try to change them or at least live your life differently.
@GabrielLopez-pi4xs6 жыл бұрын
You don't need someone who loves you, When you love yourself. Btw This Track is more then legendary
@raphealsmith83054 жыл бұрын
True dat. Only god that loves us is a bad god,atheist me too.
@cool894 жыл бұрын
To my atheist friends, be honest with yourselves and ask why you truly don't believe in God, and if after researching the history of God and why you have been programmed to not believe thru the media, government and catholic church ironically enough ask the good lord to reveal himself to you with an open mind and heart, in the mean time I will pray for you guys because the deception from the truth is real and only by following Yahshua aka God's son can you be saved, God bless you all 💯🙏🏽
@notsure58763 жыл бұрын
lukaszepesi solid comment ✊🏽
@gnapsack14593 жыл бұрын
technology turnin people into zombies
@spider1972813 жыл бұрын
I loved this track before I watched the video...now I love it even more!!!
@daedae64712 жыл бұрын
Now this is True to the core....Real music...Hip hop is not dead!!!!!
@VisionoftheGods14 жыл бұрын
Best Album I've Heard In A Long Long Time.
@DaGrymReefer5 жыл бұрын
So real it hurts. Still listening in 2019.
@ramokatilentobaki97375 жыл бұрын
the roots always kept it real ...gotta respect this crew
@SubzeroWeather6 жыл бұрын
Legendary song by a legendary band.
@michaelhinton2738 Жыл бұрын
2023 and black thought is the best emcee alive
@JScruggs949 жыл бұрын
I can't believe I'm just now finding out that Jim James was on a Roots song!
@eternallyminded79 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Scruggs word!
@Ginga14 жыл бұрын
Another great song from The Roots. Few rappers can make you stop and listen the way Thought does. Love the video too.
@experimenteight45507 жыл бұрын
Why does Black Thought's lyrics seem more appropriate to now?
@muggledon16 жыл бұрын
Because there is nothing new under the sun and his lyrics are timeless.
@GK-qc5ry5 жыл бұрын
Was relevant were it was released 8 years ago and still is now....like the previous comment said timeless.
@drewd69834 жыл бұрын
We talking almost 11 years later
@Jerzeejaylive3 жыл бұрын
@@muggledon1 Word up! I was gonna say cause time had to catch up to him.
@GMPGMP-jp5ut3 жыл бұрын
Because The Roots have been way ahead of their time.
@ImamuLives14 жыл бұрын
knock knock do u hear da screams behind da door sayin please let me in please let me in Lord but he turns to n say i dnt kno u n shuts da door in ur face n da person turns around n sees da remaining of our human race see we get side track of wat we really want in stead of wat we really need i understand everyone wants to achieve but da real thing we need to start doin is believe in He-Jus J
@thebloggertribune13 жыл бұрын
So deep lyrically it give me the chills...and the video perfectly captures such sadness in the world. LOVE THE ROOTS!!
@Aquaus11 жыл бұрын
This is still as visually compelling as when I first saw it 3 years ago.
@zungu198128 жыл бұрын
this pulls at the heart like guitar strings
@maltinka33313 жыл бұрын
i can;t stop playing this song over and over. roots!
@PauletaPorreta10 жыл бұрын
So powerful...
@SeductiveSinn13 жыл бұрын
Amazing song. I'm addicted.
@arat85083 жыл бұрын
god i fucking love tue drums on this
@Ford_animates14 жыл бұрын
One of the BEST albums of their career. Looking foward to seeing this album still kicking 20 years from now. It's that good
@americanslime9 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I could have sworn they were doing kind of a dramatization of Ferguson, until I remembered this was from 2009. So many eery parallels.
@TakeABowAlaEncore13 жыл бұрын
XTC '80's MTV - Classic - Redone & certainly modernized. Brought a tear to my eye... & I know - Big Boys Don't Cry... Love it. Keep the Great Music Coming.
@Vinladen827 жыл бұрын
I get off work and right back to work again!! Lord forgive me for my short comings!!! B. Thought one of the illest
@IndependenttRecords12 жыл бұрын
really appreciated reading that comment. good to see more open minded people out there listening to more than just a catchy beat. But what is being said as well. Cheers!
@Skeptik-pe6ze4 жыл бұрын
I cant get this chorus out my head 2019
@klap215philly44 жыл бұрын
Same here
@kincamell2 жыл бұрын
Heavy Gratitude.
@MeghanMcDonald7 жыл бұрын
SOOO GOOOOOODD THANK GOD FOR ART
@nmes8012 жыл бұрын
Luv this, feel this, this is what life is. Love you Roots! Dear God.....
@Califormula9 жыл бұрын
This is. . .good music!
@audrisrozelle12 жыл бұрын
This has to be one of my favorite songs of all time....I have this as my ringtone
@EliJahFedgo4tr10 жыл бұрын
So REAL
@danielkaunda67213 ай бұрын
This our of those lyrical masterpieces ever curved on a drum
@tmh2k510 жыл бұрын
I don't believe in a God, but god I love this song
@Josh_GnG13 жыл бұрын
This video is so deep, moving, and intellegent. I just cannot stop watching and listening to it.
@johnpineau92268 жыл бұрын
Such an amazing song, even if you don't believe in anything greater... and the video compliments the song well... wish there was more of this and less of the stupid shit we hear on the radio.
@JackBNimbleify13 жыл бұрын
Two completely different groups coming together for one song. But all the musicians involved are talented, so it works.
@Seeuinoz9 жыл бұрын
Jim James
@EndoFury114 жыл бұрын
I've been playing this song in my car on loop practically. It's refreshing. The song is written from the point of view of someone questioning why they should have faith in an impotent God, just shy of shaking off the last remnants of dogma. In the end, notice that the chorus omits "But God, I know you have your reasons." I take this to mean that there aren't any reasons to know. The truth is that God isn't there. Not only can't he mind read, he doesn't exist. The blind are leading the blind.
@Longfellow124 жыл бұрын
Who's here cos of this corona virus
@krystalriollano82894 жыл бұрын
Calm down
@greghampton52143 жыл бұрын
I'm here because it's a Great Song...
@ChristopherDSims14 жыл бұрын
a beautiful urban ballad. people need to slow down and listen to.
@zaidabueisa52854 жыл бұрын
2020-Covid-19
@jiggyjazzman14 жыл бұрын
Not a coincidence the cross section of people who get in the cab. The ending is tough. Very well done. This is why I've been a fan of these guys since 1994.
@Peeps868 жыл бұрын
Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?
@ulicesvalle87357 жыл бұрын
Peeps001 he made man in his image not the world
@Kianmp7 жыл бұрын
Peeps001 He gave people a free will, so god got nothing to do with that shit. The people are fucking this world up.
@SolidSnake2407 жыл бұрын
Kian Fidder but he had to know what giving man free will would do so what's the point of all this shit
@Kianmp7 жыл бұрын
Ryu Hyabusa You don't want to live in a country with a dictator neither, don't you?
@certainlyjoel77787 жыл бұрын
Peeps001 The Bible says that Humans are made in God's image, not the world man and because Adam sinned we are now shaped into sin from birth.