This song got me through such a hard time in life. I was sleeping in a laundry room and struggling with addiction. I would play this song on repeat. Looking back im so grateful for never giving up and for this Track. ✌
I'm on an upward growth coming from the same place. Thank you ,2 years later and sometimes just glad to see someone make it through dark places like me punctuate my personal focus pushing this man to do better.
Songs like this pulled me up out of my years struggle with both PTSD and some self medicating alcoholism, and furthermore inspired me to write some of my own similar pieces incorporating into them some of my many traumas and the things I've been through.
Swear!!! I remeber recording in over a live guitar for the first time in Louisville Kentucky. It was almost insulting to the guitarists because he was only playing small notes for the background of the beat. So finally when we're about to mix it down he sincerely asked to play a solo at the outro. WAS SOOOOO worth the extra studio time Lol. 🎸🎧🎛🎶🎶🎶
I remember when I heard this song on the DirecTV radio station back when I was in 4th Grade in 2006. That was when I first fell in love with Hip Hop !!!
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This song was the soundtrack to my life at one point. I was tired of a lot of shit at the time. Still a tough tune hadn't heard it in a long time until today. Pretty ugly's verse always touched my soul.
I had to search hard to find this track again. Could not remember names like these. Lol. Yes first time I heard this track on the radio I taped it and now I am amazed it's actually on youtube. I used to think that was Nate Dog in the chorus. Sounds like his vibe! It's hard to find rare classics like this one anymore now that Napster is gone and radio don't play jams like this anymore. I love this track forever.
Man this one here, that guitar 🎸 solo, I close my eyes, and it just goes straight to my soul, I can feel my whole being escaping from this madness , the verses plays the movie 🎥 in my head , I've been bumping this track the past 17 yrs !
you know the feeling when life fucks you up in every fucking aspect that's possible? that's when you need that real good sound, that real good rhyme, expressin shit you woulndt be able to in a thousand years goddayum.
Now personally, I don't give a fuck who forget about me when I'm dead and gone Cause most of the people who don't care won't even hear this song I been a lot of place's I thought I'd never ever be And I seen a lot of things I thought I'd never ever see My momma told me that these streets gonna be the death of me I've been in situations from murder's to the burglaries I'm a pretty dude, why ugly dudes always be testin me I'm a skinny dude, why big dudes always be testin me I make it happen real fast, unexpectedly My hood shootouts be exactly like the Westerns be I tell a judge and jury I was just defendin' me And intimidation is no relation, only kin to me I usually ride by myself, there's never men with me I'm a grown man, I don't need no men to send for me Cause it ain't no vest on me, don't think you got the best of me That ain't the way I'm supposed to die, that ain't my destiny
2021 still here, going thru hard time at very time but I remembered a relief song and just came here bumping the entirety of the this classic. Divine One keep the benedictions upon for making soul relieving music. Bless the gods HiTek, Bun, Dude and Killa verse Pretty Ugly
I don't know u brother but I wish u and your daughter all the best ...this is first comment in here that got my notice ..I feel what u sayin . Nuff love
man I wanna say I stumbled onto this around 2007 and I tried to put my people on it. They won't feelin it. I think this was around the time lil Wayne was dropping all those mixtapes
My baby moma thinks im constantly cheating on her cus of her past relationships. I never have and never will. Hurts she hardly trusts me despite me doing nothing to make her feel that way. Listening to this song and pounding 40's of old English makes me feel like its gonna be ok.
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Tek is on of the most underrated producers in hip hop history
Absolutely!!!!
*hi-tek***
This song got me through such a hard time in life. I was sleeping in a laundry room and struggling with addiction. I would play this song on repeat. Looking back im so grateful for never giving up and for this Track. ✌
jr how is life now??
Sheng Long is back!!! I've actually been married for almost 4 years and have 2 kids, in my own house! Things get better !
@@countryboy41789 so someone could argue that you wasnt that tired. Good for you bro, keep it up!
I'm on an upward growth coming from the same place. Thank you ,2 years later and sometimes just glad to see someone make it through dark places like me punctuate my personal focus pushing this man to do better.
This is very awesome to see. Thank you for sharing!
I listen this song when I was 7 years old in October 2006 & now I’m 24 years old
Man this brings back memories. Hi-Tek did his thing on this beat.
Songs like this pulled me up out of my years struggle with both PTSD and some self medicating alcoholism, and furthermore inspired me to write some of my own similar pieces incorporating into them some of my many traumas and the things I've been through.
that last verse with Pretty Ugly gotta be my favorite
MrSecretSentai word
Mine as well
Saved the best verse for last for sure
Real ones know. I discovered this song in middle school and still bump it at age 27
I discovered it when the cd came out I was in high school. I'm 33 now. Still bumping it
Shieet. I'm 42. And I'm actually getting tired so tired. :)
Discovered this song in college and still bump it at age 35
@@TheSyndicate09 I'm . No. M.m💭
@@terrancejohnson6639 huh?
Tek is such a good brotha.... was cutting his hair when this album was out
The guitar is getting murdered at the end. I love that part too
agreed.....I love it when instrumentals end with a guitar solo!
I play Air Guitar at the end lol
Swear!!! I remeber recording in over a live guitar for the first time in Louisville Kentucky. It was almost insulting to the guitarists because he was only playing small notes for the background of the beat. So finally when we're about to mix it down he sincerely asked to play a solo at the outro. WAS SOOOOO worth the extra studio time Lol. 🎸🎧🎛🎶🎶🎶
And so eloquently 💯
FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pretty Ugly's 16.. CLASSIC without a doubt!!
Da 16"s was mean! This song is underrated.
I remember when I heard this song on the DirecTV radio station back when I was in 4th Grade in 2006. That was when I first fell in love with Hip Hop !!!
Yeah all day! Mine is when I heard playa fly for the first time in like 99 lol
2018 listening to this track love it I've probably played it about 300,000 times lol
Yulema Nunez tell me about it !
Yes!! I feel the same way about this song! Guitar solo at the end sets it off.
december 20th, 2018 🔥🔥🔥
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You will like them 2
I'm here in December 2019... We bringing this shit into the new decade!
who ever didn't like this song was born rich and don't have any vices in life
Facts
not true im a multimillionaire and have never had any pushback in my life in anything i have ever done and this song is pretty chill
Being rich is aight, but it doesn't mean shit if your lonely and ugly.
I used to sleep on this track a lot becuz I wasn't used to HiTek producing these type of tracks but now I see the light.
E-Live Da God Yeah man.. Tek a boss.. golden days.
Frfr💙💙💙💙💙
One of my favorite songs of All Time
This song was the soundtrack to my life at one point. I was tired of a lot of shit at the time. Still a tough tune hadn't heard it in a long time until today. Pretty ugly's verse always touched my soul.
We all got songs that take us to a dark place when we listen back... they might be good but the feelings that come with it, nah
@@J.Sandhu2 yea thats true. Reminiscing too much
Feel your pain 🌷
Pretty ugly could spot. Too bad he didn't make more music.
Devin and pretty ugly killed it but everyone showed up tbh. 😊
Loved this song since 2006. Everyone I have played it for since then LOVES this track. It's a classic now. Especially that guitar @ the end!
Hip hop heads only on here
I heard this track on Devin the dude Pandora and was like wow this track is gold! Loving pretty ugly verse! Thumbs up added to my favorites!
The Dude sets it off...
+Fatboy they bark orders and u scamper around bringing home dead rabbits
This is one of my favourite songs of all time, lyrics, beat, everything is on point
Top 6
Standard
This reminds me of me at 16... I'm 31 now and still one of my favorite songs of all time still
🔥
I had to search hard to find this track again. Could not remember names like these. Lol. Yes first time I heard this track on the radio I taped it and now I am amazed it's actually on youtube. I used to think that was Nate Dog in the chorus. Sounds like his vibe! It's hard to find rare classics like this one anymore now that Napster is gone and radio don't play jams like this anymore. I love this track forever.
Everybody on this track legend
This one of those songs that kept you going and you could never get *tired* of it
still hot and will be in 10, 20, 30 yrs.
Wit no signs of slowing down
Pretty ugly killed it
Man this one here, that guitar 🎸 solo, I close my eyes, and it just goes straight to my soul, I can feel my whole being escaping from this madness , the verses plays the movie 🎥 in my head , I've been bumping this track the past 17 yrs !
i am a grown man so i dont need know man to stand for me, dope music A.K.A timeless music
Been coming back to this since middle school , I’m 25 turning 26 now
🎶 Still listening 🎶
you know the feeling when life fucks you up in every fucking aspect that's possible? that's when you need that real good sound, that real good rhyme, expressin shit you woulndt be able to in a thousand years goddayum.
the dude kills it
this shit brings memories big time
Ohhh that guitar at the end.... long live DJ Hi-Tek
Such a chill song.
I just love bun b so chill. love hi tek.
Me 2 doll. Were we meant for each other?
Pretty Ugly went innnnn
Now personally, I don't give a fuck who forget about me when I'm dead and gone
Cause most of the people who don't care won't even hear this song
I been a lot of place's I thought I'd never ever be
And I seen a lot of things I thought I'd never ever see
My momma told me that these streets gonna be the death of me
I've been in situations from murder's to the burglaries
I'm a pretty dude, why ugly dudes always be testin me
I'm a skinny dude, why big dudes always be testin me
I make it happen real fast, unexpectedly
My hood shootouts be exactly like the Westerns be
I tell a judge and jury I was just defendin' me
And intimidation is no relation, only kin to me
I usually ride by myself, there's never men with me
I'm a grown man, I don't need no men to send for me
Cause it ain't no vest on me, don't think you got the best of me
That ain't the way I'm supposed to die, that ain't my destiny
crazy how this only has 300k views. im like 1k of them
ikr!!! its so fucking dope!!!! he even says it at 3:02 ^^
me 2
Best verse
I'm probably another 1k lol
I swear cuhhh... me to my guy... love to wake n bake to this joint... bun and Devin both come in tuff. Gotta love that Texas flow.....
2019 Still listening this track never get old classic..
Yea man a true classic, had the song stuck in my head for weeks. So glad I found it again.
2020 still bumping this track
Classic
2021
This is REAL.....
2022 Still listening this track never get old classic..🔥👌🏾
My friend showed me this while I was on a SoCal trip in 2007. Everytime I hear this song it's as good as it was back then.
Getting high to this track gives me such amazing inner peace
Last verse💯 🔥
this is eargazm! hip hop at it's best
Love the beat. Mr untouchable documentary put me onto Tek. Hidden gem!!
I remember playing this for my homies when we used to all chill and smoke. Had this and music for life on repeat.
The line up in this song is so dope. Gotta love damn near any song with Devin the Dude.
2019 going into 2020 soon and still bumping. Will never get old forever a classic...
2022 here still jammin
...and those guitar chords at the end.💣
Listening from Capetown South Africa 19;51 pm
1:32 someone is coughing...?
I love this shit.... oh my! I'm not tired but still enjoy this... ❤
Will always cherish this track
## Salute 🫡 Hi Tek 🫡
2021 still here, going thru hard time at very time but I remembered a relief song and just came here bumping the entirety of the this classic. Divine One keep the benedictions upon for making soul relieving music. Bless the gods HiTek, Bun, Dude and Killa verse Pretty Ugly
On repeat!!!
This album is soooooooo tight!
Nipsey snapped on his version too 🏁#TheMarathon
Love this track. Everybody went ham on this Hi Tek track. I really love Devin the Dude verse. He always kills hooks and his verse.
I found this typing in "so tired" because that's how I feel rn. sick song tho.
literally stumbled upon buried treasure!
Song always makes emotional. Sounds the best on rainy days
Still listening
If it weren't for my Hip-Hop loving uncle, I wouldn't even know about this song
R.I.P to my homie TJ miss you g
Don't take it bad but I hope you don't go mainstream, you're too good for that.
This is real hip hop , real music.
Real Hiphop! Killin it Hi-Tek
Dammmmnnn my boy D from Alabama put me on this... Lol the memories Dubuque 08
David Marbury... U remember... Clyde Thompson.. Chris Bolden....
My work, shit is also playtime
When I punch in I roll a sweet then I say rhymes-Devin The Dude
This song is my life.
1'st verse is a cla$$ic!! we know the names.. speaking on this track,,, only real talk
2021 and im still tired but im still movin forward for my daughter.
#rollOne 💯🙌
I don't know u brother but I wish u and your daughter all the best ...this is first comment in here that got my notice ..I feel what u sayin .
Nuff love
I wanna hear nipsey verse added to the end of this.
My work is also playtime… I was hooked. Devin is something else. So underrated.
Classic.the fade out is so hard.
This some real ish frfr
Miss Red word tho
Beat perfetto
🤔
beat malvado, e essa guitar no final?
man I wanna say I stumbled onto this around 2007 and I tried to put my people on it. They won't feelin it. I think this was around the time lil Wayne was dropping all those mixtapes
Dean Slegos you're not lying boss! Man. Like it was yesterday bro.. how that time goes by. People were all on Wayne though haha.. Rick Ross too
It was. Don't forget Jeezy and DJ Drama had the streets on lock as well. I stumbled upon this song on Directv on channel 846 during my 4th Grade year.
Exactly. Real ones were in the back of the bus with a hoodie and ear buds on listening to this
Goodbye chase.💚
A strees relief song
I remember this 2006 xm radio on direct tv Leo g and Ms kitty good ole days I swear I miss those days man s 😔😔
This song and album are very underrated
This song hella slept on
He definitely got da thought process on lockdown in regards of an individual that's on their grind.
Real shit right here
My baby moma thinks im constantly cheating on her cus of her past relationships. I never have and never will. Hurts she hardly trusts me despite me doing nothing to make her feel that way. Listening to this song and pounding 40's of old English makes me feel like its gonna be ok.
Be patient with her. Keep showing her you love her. I bet she loves you much more than you know.
@@crystinamarie1 8 months later were no longer together lol. Shit happens I guess. I'd be lying if I said I didnt care or that I'm not hurting.
Glad I found this song again 🔥🔥
And for me to see tomorrow by any means is a must!
Bun B spoke the truth...
He nailed this... I repeat his verse 10 times before letting the song to the end ;-)
Still banging this out in 2021
Best track ever made
what a tune!!!
Classic album! Hi tek production always on point
I'm from new Orleans i love this song rns
This Is Where I'm At Right Now! The Epitome! #Classic!!!
2021. Cincinnati stand up. Hi Tek a legend round here.
Shout to pretty ugly because showed the pain men have that we can’t say find pretty ugly give him his Flowers
Came back to this in 2018 cause I'm tired so tired.
This songs so on point.
Personally IDGAF who forget about me when I'm dead and gone.
2019 and this song still hits. Timeless