The O'Jays - Who Am I (Official Audio)

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  • @wonder6789
    @wonder6789 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Can you say Masterpiece?

  • @ricoraheem3135
    @ricoraheem3135 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    you know who seen me cry a lot? my mother man... i cried a lot around ma dukes

  • @patradavis2112
    @patradavis2112 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Im sooo glad i was born in the 60's . I know what good music sounds like and I experienced when life was grand. No shooting. Killing for nothing. God i thank you ❤

  • @mr219gip5210
    @mr219gip5210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The Dipsets sample this song with the same title, great song!

    • @tenslider6722
      @tenslider6722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      YEa tha HeatmakerZ butchered the sample. smh

    • @jordanlong8394
      @jordanlong8394 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nipsey also used it

    • @whyterhyno17
      @whyterhyno17 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Atmosphere - little man also used this sample

    • @LCBULLDAWGS30
      @LCBULLDAWGS30 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Larry June Organic Tears

    • @curtisbrown2558
      @curtisbrown2558 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Loved it

  • @spotmusic7345
    @spotmusic7345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "WHO AM I" Sampled by some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop, THANK YOU OJAY's your sound lives for many generations !!! ❤️✌️

    • @That_KidShady
      @That_KidShady ปีที่แล้ว +10

      DIPSETTT

    • @BuddyBoo123
      @BuddyBoo123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@That_KidShady LOL

    • @spotmusic7345
      @spotmusic7345 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@That_KidShady ❤ Dipset is what got me in here !!!!

  • @kristalprice9064
    @kristalprice9064 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Missing my. Papaw playing these gem 💎 while. 🎴 cards drinking. Brown liquor 🥃 the smell off cigarette 🚬 smoke 💨 may 14. !! 2023 Sunday. Happy mother day ❤

    • @MEEZYFROMPG
      @MEEZYFROMPG 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like an all American black household right there! My Grandfather from the SC was same way, Blasted this while always working on his 64' Impala. Miss him as well. God bless!

    • @terranmoore4924
      @terranmoore4924 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dipset?? What song

  • @raulflores2313
    @raulflores2313 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    You need to appreciate the love songs of 60s 70s 80s and 90s O’Jays are one of the best love soul singers that I know

    • @darrylwarner6
      @darrylwarner6 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Period

    • @rare.3540
      @rare.3540 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ✨♥️

  • @annpleasants9378
    @annpleasants9378 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm here cause I have older siblings and my oldest sis played every song on all the albums she brought ,I was 12yrs old and that song there, it got ME !
    🎶Who am I, a fool without an alibi 🎶
    Whoa !
    Sing it Eddie ,sing it ! ❤

  • @g.j.mcgriff117
    @g.j.mcgriff117 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Love this song! Takes me back to the 70s I'll era. When music was finessed!!!

    • @Sok10253
      @Sok10253 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      U got that right

    • @marianrobinson7467
      @marianrobinson7467 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The best era ever!!!!

    • @verenasample57
      @verenasample57 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can identify and was in love, dreaming.

  • @marcusjones8965
    @marcusjones8965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    My uncle played this so much.. Ojays are legendary

  • @Kenny-c9i
    @Kenny-c9i 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The O'Jays! My Favorite Group From The Begin' From The 60's To The Present! Cleveland

  • @laurencemooney8760
    @laurencemooney8760 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    50 years later and it still hits hard. My jam!

  • @conradford7493
    @conradford7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Came out in 1972 and it's still 🔥. This whole album is outstanding.

    • @tyronebell4313
      @tyronebell4313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mt very first concert the Ship O'hoy album I was a junior in high school, Blue Magic and The Independents were on this billing

    • @conradford7493
      @conradford7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tyronebell4313 You were bless, those were great groups. Especially Blue Magic.

    • @conradford7493
      @conradford7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love Blue Magic. Ted Mills Jr. was the truth.

    • @spotmusic7345
      @spotmusic7345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @ conrad Ford. The history of this beautiful song lives on in other generations, sampled in hip-hop. ✌️

    • @conradford7493
      @conradford7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spotmusic7345 I know and I am so glad. I'm 66 and I ❤️ old school.

  • @MsTeamBrisk
    @MsTeamBrisk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I love The O’Jays ❤Eddie Levert has such an amazing voice 🥰

  • @obession3able
    @obession3able ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This song really takes me back......☺☺

  • @lees3117
    @lees3117 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    At a time when music made you think and listen to the words. When grown folks were grown folk.

  • @TheMorgmelia
    @TheMorgmelia ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song has been in my head for about 2 weeks. I truly lived in the best Era of music.

  • @prod.awwfull
    @prod.awwfull ปีที่แล้ว +7

    2 TONE GLOCK WHEN HE WALKED IN 🗣️🔥💯

  • @arvisclark6179
    @arvisclark6179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    One of the GOAT groups 🙌 in my opinion

    • @kennethanderson1710
      @kennethanderson1710 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They Come No Better! Ohio's Own!

    • @thomassimmons6032
      @thomassimmons6032 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes who am i on my way to parris island for boot camp a few months before when it came out. When i heard it i grab me a lady nature rise just call me daddy😅 we both was out of control to me that is the awesome slow song O'jays ever made like i said that's how i feel i was young black folks seem like we finally on the right track with each other at least in naptown. It was just a time in my life was good music pumping sisters was fly call them that B word back then it would be your last.Thank God for the life i lived and times i will never give up this music and all that spoke out on this one love

    • @thomassimmons6032
      @thomassimmons6032 ปีที่แล้ว

      U rite your opinion we all know what that's like

  • @portcitygoblin6306
    @portcitygoblin6306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This song is 50 years old.....facts!!!!!....still hot like fuckn fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @emmanorwood2235
      @emmanorwood2235 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it is bc imm 66yrs and I mm still listening 2023 ❤ 😍

  • @wreckteamtex4460
    @wreckteamtex4460 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nipsey "All Get Right" #LLNH 🙏🏿🕊️👑👑🏁

  • @beatrixxkiddo3572
    @beatrixxkiddo3572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thinking of my daddy. R.I.P Clyde

  • @jeromeodagreat6201
    @jeromeodagreat6201 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In the 80's, Eddie Levert's (of the OJAYS) kids formed a group called Levert and they did their version as "I've Been Waiting". It's fire too!

  • @yeledyahubenisrael3929
    @yeledyahubenisrael3929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This song is so deeply meditative on so many frequencies. All about life in general, past, present and future. With the biggest mystery of all: who am i?

  • @wedge4hire
    @wedge4hire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    R & B exhibits come no better than this one! Eddie held nothin' back!!

  • @MsSuperSchultz
    @MsSuperSchultz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Will always remind me of my daddy. He played this album out when I was a girl.

  • @raulflores2313
    @raulflores2313 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thank you OJ for all the love songs and bringing couples together and love

  • @grandmasterbre
    @grandmasterbre 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This song is a passport to clarity.

  • @nettek-low3599
    @nettek-low3599 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Love the O'Jays every since they came out with A Stand In For Love.
    One of the best concerts I've been too 😀

    • @mrstanbmw
      @mrstanbmw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Still sweeter than I was yesterday, Look over your shoulder, I never let you go, so many other hits before the Philly years, what a great career this group had

  • @khalilmujahid6559
    @khalilmujahid6559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    I just heard this song on Euphoria and that’s what brought me here📺 When the song said “i had a very hard head” immediately i knew i was going to like this song💙 🎶 1/9/22

    • @oi9865
      @oi9865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      🙋

    • @joyceg7859
      @joyceg7859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      !!!!!!!!!!! That whole scene was ….. just …… amaziiing everything !!!

    • @wellzinthemiz8140
      @wellzinthemiz8140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      here! here!

    • @Hplalosal
      @Hplalosal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yall sleeping on the sample from diplomat immunity Jim Jones and Juelz santana!

    • @miguelalejandro4357
      @miguelalejandro4357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Soul music for life ! Hear some, billy Paul - me and mrs Jones Al Wilson - show and tell . Aaron Neville - tell it like it is

  • @shenisee11
    @shenisee11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Was so shocked to hear this on euphoria ❤️❤️loved that

    • @sherylclayborn76
      @sherylclayborn76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wonderful song that immediately took me back to the days of albums and record players. My oldest sister had just about every album that the O'Jays released. Of course I'd forgotten this song and how good it sounded from the Backstabbers album when I heard it on Euphoria recently. ❤️😍😍

    • @adampierannunzio1827
      @adampierannunzio1827 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's amazing they play songs like this. Especially with the audience the show has. These kids finally get to hear some great music for once. Hip Hop, Rock, Blues, etc. 👏

  • @wolfgangz7542
    @wolfgangz7542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    one of the hardest scenes on euphoria

  • @shirleystanford5633
    @shirleystanford5633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    O Jay's are one of my favorite groups.

  • @mrpals7614
    @mrpals7614 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Here because Juelz. Love the original samps. This is fire

  • @fanandlovu7020
    @fanandlovu7020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And also my uncle he used play it full blast,and me now blast it, those legend O'Jays.

  • @williamdavis8590
    @williamdavis8590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was just thinking about my past and I listen to the song when I was in high school.

  • @ethelsteele-robbins337
    @ethelsteele-robbins337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    They killed This!!!

  • @servo5651
    @servo5651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Been listening since 1985
    Good old days

  • @4399gman
    @4399gman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This record is relevant now as it was when it came out in 1972 i play this to my first love back then when we fell apart

  • @DKingII
    @DKingII 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This song reminds me when I was in rehab,and one of the therapist asked me this. It messed me up... I didn't have an answer. A fool with no alibi. That second verse used to really punch me in the chest. Working on 5 years sobriety now. I found myself .

  • @thehawaiianjap
    @thehawaiianjap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    RIP our boi Ashtray. We loved him like a brother, and when shit went down...
    *He'd go to War like a brother.*

  • @farrahc7055
    @farrahc7055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    These guys are too damn smooth O'Jays for life. 🖤💋🖤 1.7.2020

    • @USMC-Veteran73-77
      @USMC-Veteran73-77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I agree, I've been an O'Jays fan since the early 70s. At 65 yrs old, still love their music, and I'm a white guy from South Charleston, West Virginia.

    • @alberthurt2059
      @alberthurt2059 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm lost for words love your music so much

  • @jfitz608
    @jfitz608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Juelz Santana - Who Am I
    Nipsey Hussle - All Get Right
    🔥🔥🔥

  • @darrylwarner6
    @darrylwarner6 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is a classic hit baby Who am I

  • @kingj7606
    @kingj7606 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hammer time 🔨

  • @debraburton9146
    @debraburton9146 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Omg 2023 still Until will be an Amazing Song,,The Mighty OJays❤️😀😌🌍

  • @xNoScOpErZx
    @xNoScOpErZx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nipsey Hussle - All Get Right

    • @luluchelor5496
      @luluchelor5496 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oyeh I forgot that one too !! Crenshaw

  • @terrancecromwell284
    @terrancecromwell284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nipsey hussle all get right got me here

  • @soulmuchsoul
    @soulmuchsoul 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I played this on Soul much soul radio!

  • @xavierreivax9932
    @xavierreivax9932 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this reminds me of when my grandfather died in the early 70,s

  • @Sok10253
    @Sok10253 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love this song bad Album still have mine from the 70’s

  • @patradavis2112
    @patradavis2112 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All you got to hold on to is da memories 🌹

  • @beverlyjohnson9034
    @beverlyjohnson9034 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "EXCUSE!" ME!" .... DAMN!" SOME GOOD LOVEMAKING MUSIC RIGHT CHEA!" ..... WHO AM I?" EVERYONE STAY SAFE! 🙏😷💝

    • @GSeven-yc8gu
      @GSeven-yc8gu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haven’t came across that type of love but I know what u saying true

    • @omoroomoro
      @omoroomoro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m about to grab one of these little sexies for a slow drag, but they might think it’s a ME TOO moment. Nope, it’s just how we used to dance at the peaceful house parties, with the red light in the basement 🕺🏿💃🏽

  • @richboyant2378
    @richboyant2378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Another classic

  • @omoroomoro
    @omoroomoro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m about to grab one of these little sexies for a slow drag, but they might think it’s a ME TOO moment. Nope, it’s just how we used to dance at the peaceful house parties, with the red light in the basement 🕺🏿💃🏽

    • @HunterGibson6969
      @HunterGibson6969 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yea im from cleveland yall, we would slow dance with the women and I used to stick my shit in em on the dancefloor and get them pregnant, while they dancing

  • @hehet1036
    @hehet1036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yea, losing a good woman will make you question the core, the essence, of man. 'Who am I?'

  • @funktron4
    @funktron4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For the people who don't know: This masterpiece was actually a "B" side. That's how stacked this group was. Bench so deep, they could afford to make this one the flip side of Love Train. Unbelievable talent.

    • @anthonydale9183
      @anthonydale9183 ปีที่แล้ว

      Written by the Great Walter Bunny Siegel!

  • @barbarashaw7190
    @barbarashaw7190 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is one of my all time favs. I can never listen just once. On repeat maybe five times. I love love love this. Makes you think. WHO AM I?

  • @xanaxvisuals9371
    @xanaxvisuals9371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Dude I needed this song, I've been hooked on it so bad

  • @MarlonBryant-xh9un
    @MarlonBryant-xh9un 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fell in love with this song the first time I heard it back in the 70-s the first time I heard it

  • @kiker0909
    @kiker0909 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He wondered how his Grandma would handle a guy like Nate. But he didn't have his Grandma. Ash was his brother. He loved him like a brother. And when shit went down. He'd go to war like a brother.

  • @ptrco5
    @ptrco5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Heard this song today for the first time. Took me back to many good times. Also heard the sample used for Nipsey Hussle, all get right 💙

  • @kennethanderson1710
    @kennethanderson1710 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Favorite Group Of All Time!

  • @fatimahmuhammad3220
    @fatimahmuhammad3220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    heard it for the first time...i think...yesterday. played it on repeat for hours. listening now.

  • @tarshawatkins6856
    @tarshawatkins6856 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who Am I..The Chosen One

  • @RODNEYGREENSR
    @RODNEYGREENSR ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:57 THIS IS THE SONG THAT I WILL ALWAYS LOVE AND KEEP MY HEART AND SOUL AND LIFE FOREVER AMEN

  • @TheFantasticCrap
    @TheFantasticCrap 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Skeamo polo king of Australia 🧢👕👟

  • @arvisclark6179
    @arvisclark6179 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I agree 👍 💯 one of my GOAT group Shiiiii

  • @kenyacathey1938
    @kenyacathey1938 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song really put u on point in a relationship

  • @kaplowysmurf
    @kaplowysmurf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    your the best thing since candy - Deeper in love - Who am i. right before and during the Backstabbers era. Oh yeah!!

  • @yvonnegilbert6612
    @yvonnegilbert6612 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My brother played this song on the piano all night if you didn't see him singing you would think it was the ojays

  • @tysonanderson7232
    @tysonanderson7232 ปีที่แล้ว

    This Reminds ME OF Juelz Santana Tho!!! God Bless The O'Jays!!!

  • @AWAKENINGMINDSET2025
    @AWAKENINGMINDSET2025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Damn this song Right here just easy my mind it's Deep

  • @miguelmejia4998
    @miguelmejia4998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    The best song in euphoria

    • @judywin6
      @judywin6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Right

  • @colinbodle-mz6jm
    @colinbodle-mz6jm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Brilliant

  • @chriskringle5191
    @chriskringle5191 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've been looking for this song... Thank You.

  • @St3phenking13
    @St3phenking13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great music seems to only have a date when it comes to rap but a classic never stops being a classic. I heard this on Beezy's TH-cam channel for the alternative intros and the Diplomats sampled it. But the original is on another level.

  • @ThePrimesupect
    @ThePrimesupect 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This song is very precious to me forever, top 10 lifetime smash! 2024'

  • @proper_respect6050
    @proper_respect6050 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definitely on my playlist

  • @quentinanderson3470
    @quentinanderson3470 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nipsey brought me here

  • @derekthomas409
    @derekthomas409 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My man ashtray brought me here. Og hammer brother

  • @cartigayvamps8105
    @cartigayvamps8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    FEZZZZ THE GOAT ONGG

  • @hapaliia7358
    @hapaliia7358 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's really one of the sexiest songs in the whole world..

  • @jaylene.turner6524
    @jaylene.turner6524 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Written by
    Bunny Sigler
    and
    Phil Hurtt
    --------
    Lead Vocals:
    Eddie LeVert
    ---------
    Background Vocals:
    William Powell
    Eddie LeVert
    Walter Williams
    ----------
    Instrumentation:
    Bunny Sigler and
    MFSB
    ----------
    Arranger and
    Conductor:
    Norman Harris
    ---------
    Engineered and
    Mixed by
    Joe Tarsia
    ---------
    Produced by
    Bunny Sigler
    ---------
    Year:
    1972
    --------
    Album:
    Backstabbers

    • @Redboy4
      @Redboy4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for that.

  • @omoniyikaye
    @omoniyikaye ปีที่แล้ว

    DAMN, THE INTRO REMINDS ME OF THE LATE GREAT GERALD LEVERT TALK OF DNA I MET EDDIE LEVERT SR-A FEW TIMES AFTER THE JAYS CONCERTS IN LONDON HE HURT ME SO BAD I COULD NOT DISCUSS HIS BOY THOUGH I WAS A BIG FAN OF G.

  • @annettehenry7
    @annettehenry7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😊❤...what can i say.

  • @KinstonSessoms
    @KinstonSessoms 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We know how great Eddie and Walter were but William Powell shows off his great tenor on this track.

  • @MrKgbronx12
    @MrKgbronx12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Yes!!!! Sing it O'jays!!!

  • @Devonrgn
    @Devonrgn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Organic tears 💖

  • @daveenaclark9798
    @daveenaclark9798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What we stg8 grooved to 1977❤2013~2022❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @CliftonHarmon-iv7qs
    @CliftonHarmon-iv7qs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2024 and this song still has substance. Stands the test of time.

  • @BOBBYNiO
    @BOBBYNiO ปีที่แล้ว

    the richness and quality the emotion the soul and the expression ...you can hear and feel that ..before programmed beats before ai and computers digitalised...the feeling was there and it shines. thank you for the music

  • @crisgia
    @crisgia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Juelz killed this

    • @j.s.fmusiclounge9866
      @j.s.fmusiclounge9866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yes he did. Diplomatic immunity is top ten best rap album. The samples they used on that album was insane.

    • @luluchelor5496
      @luluchelor5496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never knew they sampled this till I watched this show

  • @outlawjbc545
    @outlawjbc545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nip sampled this for All Get Right 🏁🏁🏁RIP

    • @tribeofJudah251
      @tribeofJudah251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Facts! That's my favorite Nip song too!

  • @stacks72
    @stacks72 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Sauce Walka & Vado sample of this song

  • @khanmckay8312
    @khanmckay8312 ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy Birthday Edward 🎂

  • @ericragland1733
    @ericragland1733 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven’t listened to the o’jays years! Why??? I do not know🤷🏾‍♂️ Dec 2022

  • @phillipnero481
    @phillipnero481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We men should do this after a breakup,kind of self analyzing.

  • @molotulo8808
    @molotulo8808 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is totally awesome. Thank you for this opportunity to 😊figet into the O'jays!

  • @IParkerLewis
    @IParkerLewis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful...❤