"I don't know what the fuck it means. I am just singing, ain't I?" - Intellectual honesty in its purest form, only a genuine artist can afford such a statement.
Everyone who knows, knows, right..I dont mind that the mass of Bellends don't get his message would be nice for the sales tho, seems to have been quiet now for a while
One time I met him in a Concert in Berlin.I was so exited that I said :You are great, you are the best british rapper I know.Than he gave me a sign and I´m just gone. What I want to say:He is a great rappper and entertainer, and its difficault to say anything if you meet a true rapper like him... greetings from germany
That I wanted to listen to this song popped into my head about 40 seconds ago. My whole body felt a rush of warmth and good vibes rising as I typed the title into the search bar. A little smile started to play at the corner of my lips of its own accord. There's something about this track, that evokes a wonderful sense of ease, engagement and way of being.
i wrote one hope one quest on my skin. Married my wife with dreamy days on the background. now and then i play this tune when i need it. Roots is a serious part in my life. Thank you my man.
Roots Manuva is a god he deserves allot more publicity then those crap gangsta rappers these days come on where are the days when people listen to real music roots rocks big time hope he comes whit more albums
Mister Rodney Smith Roots Manuva and he's music touched the way I think see and many times unveiled that there is more to realise and understand.More than music for me special relationship with all he's stuff.Thank you!
In an age of intense American cultural imperialism, where so many London artist, that should know better are looking like a poor man’s JayZ and Kanye. There stands such a pure example of a London thing. For years this guy has made tunes that reek of where they are from. And he is up there with the greats. Now joined by Little Sims in flying a culturally diverse flag while keeping it real. Meanwhile some people are wrapping about Rolexes and Probation. Rodrick Manuva! Thank you for taking me back to driving through London streets anytime I choose.
Hierarchical, successive, sequitar ordered triangles are not without echelons. We are, so I assume my Lord kind of knoweth thee. Endureth roots. Viva paradise. Amen and Amen innit St Peter.
"Whats the song about? Whats the song about? Whats it mean? I dont know what the fuck it means, im just singing aint I?" Should be every artists response, the music can speak for itself.
2019 I'm back again... The Spirit is moving me... The Levels know me? Got to be Thoth... The Levels definitely know him... Let the Spirit move you... 1 Tree Many Branches... 1 Love.
So you think that when you're dead, that's just it? That all of existence is just this bizarre freak occurrence? Just blind matter? If so, then why waste time on this crazy society thing? You're going to be nothing soon, and you're wasting your precious time on this nonsense, slaving away, paying tax, helping your civilization to fund war and exploitation? The clock is ticking. Soon you'll not exist.
@@simonkohli107 none of us truly know that's the truth. I believe we go somewhere else. But what about the life they can prove was on earth 4 billion years ago... Wheres that gone, where did it come from. Biological particles floating in space? We don't know but all religions are fiction... Only Buddhism has the right idea, there is no god. That's my opinion. But you can still be a deep spiritual person without prescribing to one religion
@@sasamagrasa Exactly. And yet you waste your time paying taxes, chasing things, watching your screens etc. Your materialism is phony. You don't really believe it. It's just a fashionable opinion to have. You can't even explain what existence is, where it came from, what consciousness is etc. You just pretend to be this nitty gritty realist, when in reality, your own ignorance scares you.
Don't have to believe a specific religion in life, I'm the same its all nonsense it cracks me up how ridic it is but that don't mean there aren't other things going on. We've barely scratched the surface
Same, true natural spirituality and love doesn't come from some artificial place, where you are bound by rules made by men who seek control and conformity in the name of.. But from the kindness, positivity, love of good humans just appreciating nature and each other, doing right by others, acknowledging the wonder of every single thing that surrounds you, micro-universes existing within universes, within universes.
Let no man? "The divine" is open to interpretation, true natural spirituality and love doesn't come from some artificial place, where you are bound by rules made by men who seek control and conformity in the name of..
Rrroooootttsss!!!!! Man I’ve been listening to you on and off for years!! And I’ve just found the Lorde!! My saviour Jesus Christ and iam hearing you in a whole new light!!! Much love bro!!!
Uh.... they do; The roots, atmosphere, living legends, soul position, gift of gab, heiroglyphics, murs, talib kweli, jurassic 5, just to name a few... America has a diverse hip hop selection and just because it's not in the mainstream doesn't mean its not there. Look around and see for yourself, there are more hidden gems out there then you'd think.
You know what's ironic is people who know hip knew these guys are the best at the end of it all... I know a lot of hip hop and rap and in my world this is a legend with he's own style. I will keep you in my top 20 at least
same goes for me - I mean, I had heard of Roots Manuva before, but never actually heard him :) that is, until about a month ago - since then I must have listened to this song at least a hundred times! In other words, Again & Again :)
+SeriouStuff You can hear a lot of the sounds and synths used in metronomys albums. They produced this song, and a lot of their style comes into the beat .
Half of the comments are middle to upper class Christians who would happily spit on any other member of the British hip hop industry. Thumbs up for the true believers! Believers of HIp-Hop
"I don't know what the fuck it means. I am just singing, ain't I?" - Intellectual honesty in its purest form, only a genuine artist can afford such a statement.
Doesn’t matter. My presence is a super power. I can use it like a credit card😁
Seriously the most underrated musician ever!!!!
He really is.
Everyone who knows, knows, right..I dont mind that the mass of Bellends don't get his message would be nice for the sales tho, seems to have been quiet now for a while
@@SniffMyDeadwax even bellends are your brothers... especially bellends!
#truth
Yaaaas!
Let the spirit soothe you👍👍👍🕊🕊🕊🕊 greetings from California thank you for your gems man still listening to them
🇬🇧💫
2021 ..... still beliving init......
probably one of the most powerful songs ever
Exactly mate
One time I met him in a Concert in Berlin.I was so exited that I said :You are great, you are the best british rapper I know.Than he gave me a sign and I´m just gone.
What I want to say:He is a great rappper and entertainer, and its difficault to say anything if you meet a true rapper like him...
greetings from germany
💐
Very true my friend ❤️👊
What an absolute tune this still is.
Roots, one of the greatest ever.
Just now hearing it for the first time - LOVE IT! - God bless
Been recommended this rapper by a chill, nice black dude in a dream of mine last night. No regrets. Thank ya fam, whoever you were. ❤️
Getting Metronomy to produce was a stroke of genius. Roots + Metronomy = Gold.
Real warrior in this music ting.
That I wanted to listen to this song popped into my head about 40 seconds ago. My whole body felt a rush of warmth and good vibes rising as I typed the title into the search bar. A little smile started to play at the corner of my lips of its own accord. There's something about this track, that evokes a wonderful sense of ease, engagement and way of being.
Instantly one of my favourite tracks of all time.
When your eyes are truly open to the world the more sense this tune makes.. Trust
True...not into the whole Catholic thing nee ting myself.
Ron has never moved from his roots, king of UK hip hop!!!!!!!!
2015 and the spirit is still moving me
almost 2018 spirit still going!
@@BoluzB2 2019 Still letting said spirit move me.
2022 head nodding still 🔥
Roots Manuva is the man. No bollocks... just a proper genuine geezer
i wrote one hope one quest on my skin. Married my wife with dreamy days on the background. now and then i play this tune when i need it. Roots is a serious part in my life. Thank you my man.
Roots Manuva is a god he deserves allot more publicity then those crap gangsta rappers these days come on where are the days when people listen to real music roots rocks big time hope he comes whit more albums
Always live with me in Barcelona when Hes Here :)
Really Nice guy
The strength that break the shackle and the chain
The strength that break the shackle in the brain
Epic
Mister Rodney Smith Roots Manuva and he's music touched the way I think see and many times unveiled that there is more to realise and understand.More than music for me special relationship with all he's stuff.Thank you!
Definitely my favourite Roots Manuva song!
2020 still in love 🔥
This is a film tune, a tune for a GAME, a tune for your timelist play list. The beat is epic... EPIC.
Epic
Roots manuva is such a legend.
bumpin roots manuva all the way out here in california.... all damn day. big up!
I WATCH THIS VID AT LEAST ONCE EVERY 2 WEEKS AND NEVER TIRED OF IT. SO GROOVY. SO GOOD. SO TRUE.
Genius. Love you Mr Smith.
In an age of intense American cultural imperialism, where so many London artist, that should know better are looking like a poor man’s JayZ and Kanye. There stands such a pure example of a London thing. For years this guy has made tunes that reek of where they are from. And he is up there with the greats.
Now joined by Little Sims in flying a culturally diverse flag while keeping it real.
Meanwhile some people are wrapping about Rolexes and Probation.
Rodrick Manuva! Thank you for taking me back to driving through London streets anytime I choose.
I'll second that.
Well said bro!
Ive just discovered Roots. He's pretty f*n awesome - love this track the most.
Don't breathe out ;)
i like the fact that he looks like he just woke up in this video! great tune and an absolute hero!
Hierarchical, successive, sequitar ordered triangles are not without echelons. We are, so I assume my Lord kind of knoweth thee. Endureth roots. Viva paradise. Amen and Amen innit St Peter.
"Whats the song about? Whats the song about? Whats it mean?
I dont know what the fuck it means, im just singing aint I?"
Should be every artists response, the music can speak for itself.
2019 I'm back again... The Spirit is moving me... The Levels know me?
Got to be Thoth... The Levels definitely know him... Let the Spirit move you... 1 Tree Many Branches... 1 Love.
"does your lord know me"
Top BOY , simple . My guy make bangers for years , come on .
Beaming with love 4 U ~X~ Such a brilliant vibration. ~X~
Never gets old
Thank you Roots, you are a game changer.
i love this music. i love roots music.
.. from Poland
SPIRIT MYSTIK IF DEM SEE IT......ROOTZ AH REBEL SLEW DEM SOULJAH
I don't believe in any anthropomorphic or interventionist deities.
But this tune really makes the spirit move me.
nuff love rod.
Same but this is just good humans sharing their energies with you, roots manuva's feeding you his enegry! let that energy move you!
So you think that when you're dead, that's just it? That all of existence is just this bizarre freak occurrence? Just blind matter? If so, then why waste time on this crazy society thing? You're going to be nothing soon, and you're wasting your precious time on this nonsense, slaving away, paying tax, helping your civilization to fund war and exploitation? The clock is ticking. Soon you'll not exist.
@@simonkohli107 none of us truly know that's the truth. I believe we go somewhere else. But what about the life they can prove was on earth 4 billion years ago... Wheres that gone, where did it come from. Biological particles floating in space? We don't know but all religions are fiction... Only Buddhism has the right idea, there is no god. That's my opinion. But you can still be a deep spiritual person without prescribing to one religion
@@simonkohli107 wasting time? The lack of an afterlife makes every second alive more worth living.
@@sasamagrasa Exactly. And yet you waste your time paying taxes, chasing things, watching your screens etc. Your materialism is phony. You don't really believe it. It's just a fashionable opinion to have. You can't even explain what existence is, where it came from, what consciousness is etc. You just pretend to be this nitty gritty realist, when in reality, your own ignorance scares you.
'you still gotta keep believin' innit?'
No Rod. You can open your heart and mind beyond mythology.
I always heard "They shall all know me".
2 much 2 soon is also goergeous, roots manuva is still obviously the king!!
Still love this track. Mean as brother.
Roots is doin his thing, what a legend.
Birmingham, Birmingham everybody Birmingham!!!
I still can't believe that he had concert yesterday in Poland. Now I'm addicted from this tune. For me is the best rap song ever!!!!!
Im absolutely in love with this tune - big ups manuva, your new album is ace!
Gotta love roots manuva
I am not religious but I am feeding off Root's energy!
Don't have to believe a specific religion in life, I'm the same its all nonsense it cracks me up how ridic it is but that don't mean there aren't other things going on. We've barely scratched the surface
Same, true natural spirituality and love doesn't come from some artificial place, where you are bound by rules made by men who seek control and conformity in the name of.. But from the kindness, positivity, love of good humans just appreciating nature and each other, doing right by others, acknowledging the wonder of every single thing that surrounds you, micro-universes existing within universes, within universes.
Fresh out in 24'!
Colossal insight, invites the soul
Let us never forget the first rule: Let no man come between you and the Divine.
Let no man? "The divine" is open to interpretation, true natural spirituality and love doesn't come from some artificial place, where you are bound by rules made by men who seek control and conformity in the name of..
@@sophiepooks2174 The Divine isn't open to interpretation, merely understanding.
Also, I can't understand how anyone could have the heart to dislike this song...it's so dope! Makes me wanna dance.
Okay, it makes me dance.
Yo just listening for the first time. Sick shit.
Rrroooootttsss!!!!!
Man I’ve been listening to you on and off for years!! And I’ve just found the Lorde!! My saviour Jesus Christ and iam hearing you in a whole new light!!!
Much love bro!!!
It moved me.
I LOVE ROOTS MANUVA
This was amaaaaaazing at leeds fest!
I love it from the first hearing
this is music for my soul. this plus spliff is bliss
Uh.... they do; The roots, atmosphere, living legends, soul position, gift of gab, heiroglyphics, murs, talib kweli, jurassic 5, just to name a few... America has a diverse hip hop selection and just because it's not in the mainstream doesn't mean its not there. Look around and see for yourself, there are more hidden gems out there then you'd think.
Feelin this. Roots Manuva is the man, nuff said.
the only UK stuff i listen to! Peace'n'Love from the Alps
Daily Rotation! The Spirit has moved me!! Thanks Roots! Awesome prod. by Metronomy as well...kudos!
If you no the struggle you can see his drunk as a wineo big up Roots
2024
love this
You know what's ironic is people who know hip knew these guys are the best at the end of it all...
I know a lot of hip hop and rap and in my world this is a legend with he's own style.
I will keep you in my top 20 at least
roots manuiva is god of hip hop... his lyrics are unbelievable, and his beats and stuff, so catchy so cool, so i dont know real? so catchy :D
My personal UK rap king!
Much love from Poland.
Why o why didn't pick up on this tune earlier, never the less its gone straight into my favorites now ..feeling this tune big time
A decade late,across the pond,white as the moon.I still fucking love this guy.
Best song for 2008 for so many reasons.
Here we go again, scandalously underplayed track 😉
Lyrically top tier
tis ONE man, from SOUTH WEST LONDON, big up! southside!
Roots in Genius!!!
I love this guy!!!
I love him x
Roots tears it up on this one. Rodney is the king of uk hip hop.
same goes for me - I mean, I had heard of Roots Manuva before, but never actually heard him :) that is, until about a month ago - since then I must have listened to this song at least a hundred times! In other words, Again & Again :)
It's not arrogant man , love this tune its gone in me mix :)
I can hear the Metronomy production
+BlackHoon what do you mean?
+SeriouStuff You can hear a lot of the sounds and synths used in metronomys albums. They produced this song, and a lot of their style comes into the beat
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that's because it's produced by Metronomy
oh my god what a glorious life affirming tune, sweet!!!
Super Groovy très très bon !!!
manuva at his best, so tight play it loud!
For years I thought the lyrics was "They shall all know me", and only today did someone tell me it actually "Echelon knows me"!
do yk the other two lines he says between the chorus lines
wicked show last night rodney , loved it , this new tune massive , sarra xxxxxxxxxx
Love how he's obviously completely battered at the beginning of the clip.
I'd love to hear Roots Manuva and Mos Def on a song together
Years and Years of Manuva Tunage. It's been bliss.
Always loved this song 👊🏾✊🏾
Just still great!
Roots Manuva 4 life! Big Up!
Big up Manuva...dis a tune!
Roots Manuva came back strong with this album.
im loving the balance of this song, roots manuva really does translate as True rap xD xx
nice tune , and he looks like nice person too , thanks for sharing
Lovely song
this is fking the best song
Half of the comments are middle to upper class Christians who would happily spit on any other member of the British hip hop industry. Thumbs up for the true believers! Believers of HIp-Hop
Thetriggzz what a horrible, cynical comment / the only negative response I’ve read
Shame on you
What a spiritually enriching vibe