Every day I woke up hoping to die... I remember feeling this so hard as a single mom of 5 who finally escaped her abuser. By god, I got up on my feet and let go over every excuse. Thank God theyre grown, healthy and thriving. Glory to God.
@@VillaDan praising myself of acceptance of praise from others is not always the easiest thing for a survivor. I know who I am and what I'm made of. I am proud of the choices I made to get myself and my children up out of that situation. But I give glory to God because without HIM, none of it would have been possible. I don't believe in coincidence and too many times, I witnessed the impossible, on my journey out of hell on earth. I will always give God the glory HE deserves. I appreciate your recognition of my efforts but I'd never tell you what to believe or not believe. That's up to you.
This song taught me more about practicing safe sex, treating my girlfriends right, and some of the tragic truths about things that are happening to innocent kids out there everyday. It managed to teach me some MATURE lessons when I was, what? 12 years old when this song came out. If you're reading this and out there suffering or just dealing with some harsh times in life, I LOVE YOU.
It's incredible how this song flew under the radar given its heavy subject matter and its message of trying to get out of rock bottom even if the odds are heavily stacked against you. Profound, inspirational and grossly underappreciated
Flew under the radar? I was there when this song was the biggest thing out. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing this. And as much as I love this song...they lyrics are kinda ass. Here you have a girl who's life is complete shit and she's doing everything she can to make them ends meet, and they're like "Oh well, my mama didn't do that," like shut the fuck up dog. Who cares how she gets it...she doing what she gotta do
There's honestly so many amazing songs like this that exist that people just dismiss because "rap". My favorite artist is logic because he constantly sings about the struggles of poverty, how he made it out and how he wishes he could help out all those he has seen struggle in the past.
I was struggling with my own personal hell, which is addiction when this song was popular. I would turn it up SO loud & promise myself that I would get my shit together. I am sober now, almost a year & a half!!!
Well done buddy. Keep it up fam. Addiction isn’t easy. I see it a lot with my clients. Wishing you all the best. Surround yourself with a good support system and never let hope die. 🫂
When this song came out, I was a single mother in my early 20s, dancing for a living. I never went farther than dancing, and my son was never hungry. This song still brings me tears every time I hear it. It's so real. The judgement I faced for dancing, when that's all I did :( The worry that your baby will suffer. The fleeing from familial SA. All too relatable.
You know it's a sad weird world when the dude in Denver eating soup with no kids comment gets more likes than yours of relating to this song in one way or another.. I'm not tryna start somethin but I just find that odd 🫤 but hey atleast you did what u had too to take care of you & yours 🤷♂️
Honey you're not alone. My mom will be gone 5 years in June. She danced her whole life up into her early 40s. She got us this home that I'm in now. She kept us 4 kids fed, clothed, raised in church, raised with chores/in the country life and respectful. NEVER be ashamed. Much love to you ❤️
WS an adult who had a 2 year old son and just split from his biological contributer was working at a strip club in the Bible belt. Got kicked out of church for waiting tables so the next Monday tried out for dancing
Back in 2001, I held onto this to get me through the toughest year of my life. Found myself in a position that I shouldn't have to be in. So the words "Stop making tired excuses", made me wanna do better for myself. Want a better life and be more stable. To get away from the abusive relationship I was in. A couple of days 9/11 happened. I lost my best friend. He was a fire fighter. His last words to me : You know I love you. And I am proud of you for standing on your own. I gotta go, we just got a 5 call alarm. Save me plate, I will call you later." That call was the first tower hit. And the last time I ever heard his voice.
Right! I heard it when I was little too, but knew what majority of it meant, cause I grew up the same way. My mom did everything she had to do. Worked as a podiatrist, and lab assistant, as well as another job. She raised up all six of us.
Listening to this as a 36 year old man is way different than a 16 year old. These lyrics are great, and a lot of people are living like this. Keep your head up you'll get through this!!
It’s hard to listen to this song in 2023. I remember being a kid listening to this and singing along, and crying a bit as i listened to this it made me think of my mom and her addiction, how my father and her split and left me and my two brothers alone with her. I hated her for choosing drugs, but I see her perspective and how she tried to do anything she could to supply us with food, and sometimes it didn’t happen. She was hurt and in pain and used as a way of escape. She was and still is my mom and I do love her. Much love and respect for all the struggling moms out there.
Amber was right, being a single mother, working 40+ hours to make ends meet or stripping to support your family, nobody has the right to judge. But this is still an amazing song
Agreed! Love the harmony but the lyrics are so self-righteous. Men are enjoying strippers in the video but get to judge the stripper! Horrible double standard.
I loved the song but never 100% paid attention to the lyrics, so realizing that the song was in _favor_ of this dickhead narrator berating a stripper for doing the thing he _literally paid her to do_ made me lose my fucking mind lol
@@curtiswilliamsjr.m.div.9600 but she addressed that in the song. For you this is just a good time,but for me this what I call life. This line is saying you are enjoying yourself and I am trying to live.
@@Joeybsmooth the self-righteousness was not addressed by that line. Calling the stripper a hoe and not agreeing that being there made the men hoes is not addressing anything, it's literally just exhibiting a double standard.
Dr. Evil no you’re wrong. The song was made in 1999. It didn’t officially release on their album until 2001. It’s literally in the movie Life which came out in 1999
Angela Taylor Dr. Dre sampled it from David McCallum’s “The Edge” which I’m sure you can find here on TH-cam. No beats in Hip Hop are original per say. They’re all sampled from various works of composers. From there, City High included it. But this song was definitely made in 1999
I copied & pasted that Everlast song into the search and listened to it for the 1st time because of your comment. I have to admit that it is a very real song indeed! Every line of it is "real life reality" type talk. Peace and light to you. :-)
My mum sang this song to me, As a child I knew what was going on. Gotta feed the kids right? and I’ll always love and respect you for that. I never went hungry and I would never choose another. I miss you, Mum. R. I .p Rought ignorant pigs.😂❤
Amber Ruffin just gave me a rundown of this song. its the only reason i listened to it. She, Amber, is so good as a comedian. I wish her Emmys and joy and safety.
Kai. A. I feel you, I do. But we still have writers and those artists putting poetry to music. Sometimes, they just don't catch a shine because the industry is what it is right now. But their season will come again
I MISS THE STORY-TELLING SONGS, U WILL NEVER HEAR POSITIVE/UPLIFTING SONGS ON THE RADIO THESE DAYZ😔 THE INDUSTRY IS A MFKN FREAK SHOW NOWADAYZ FILLED WITH ALLLLL OF THE CIRCUS CLOWNS😑😔 #CITYHIGH 4 EVA #ICONIC🔥
This song didn't exist when you were 12 (like 1997 or 1998 I assume). It's from the early 2000's. In fact City High wasn't even a group before you were a teenager. You were at least 15 when this song came out in 2001. I remember my friend had their album when I was in 7th or 8th grade and let me listen to it so even I was probably like 13 when I heard this and I'm younger than you.
I remember listening to this when i was a kid, didn't make any sense then, hell i didnt even think about that there was any meaning to it. But now 13 years later, i understand it, and it really is deep no matter who sings it.
I honestly just thought about this song and started singing it in my head then out loud....if you really listen to the lyrics it's powerful and still to this day you wonder what these woman or even young girls out on the streets have been through in their life. It's sad
My sister and I really liked listening to this song. We were about that age then. Our parents hated it though and always would change the channel. lmao
This song really was such a bop but it truly changed my perspective on life. Don’t make excuses. If you choose the right way God will provide. It looks bleak but God is a God of miracles. Keep your head up single mothers.
I lived this..I was in survivor MODE..started dancing at the young age of 15😢.. Went through more shit mentally than I ever was prepared for . TODAY I help young woman to leave that Life ❤
Only people who ever heard of this song is literally 21 and older, Good lord i miss the early 2000's and the late 90's. My parents would always tell me not to grow up so fast and i was going to miss my childhood and i took their words for granted I finally understand now, wish I could restart my life over like a video game.
Actually really insane to think we jammed to this song and it was filled with so much pain and never paid attention to the lyrics until 20 years later😮
I remember this song, they used to play this on 106.1 KMEL like all day long hahaha! Most random video ever in my sidebar. One of the singers ended up on that show Intervention if I remember right.
This was me, my first sons new beginning of life. This song got me through them days. I was an orphan who barley new how to achieve anything, the only way at the time I knew was too make $ they way I knew. This song told me I had options for me and my son I just had too find them. Today, I have a degree and 3 sons. I will never forget what I came from what my first born went through "picture perfect" laying on the bed room floor. Thank you for speaking into the life of a women's struggle.
Love this song, sometimes it's hard to do the right thing so we as a society need to relax and remember everyone problems are different and before we pass Judgement "WE NEED TO TAKE A WALK IN THAT PERSON SHOES ".
I was 13 when I heard this song. So catchy and good. Never hit me the true meaning of it until I became a mother. Heartbreaking. Beautiful message. Pure art
You guys should see the look at the looks on my family's faces and strangers' faces when they hear me feeling myself singing this like I have lived this life. This song is more than a song, it's a story.
This is the first song that I ever memorized word for word when I was only 8. It's crazy how fast time flies. It's been 16 years since then. It feels like I'm getting old y'all lol, but this definitely makes me feel young again.
I still relate to when I was a kid to this song as I do today as an adult. And I still love the truth to this song. And still sing it super loud, the speakers loud, and no voice when I'm done singing it ! Lol!! But, that is life for people younger now and as adults and in all reality it's worse now with social media, phones, and life in general now. If the 7 billion people on this planet was normal then we would all be crazy. But we are crazy because we aren't normal "but for me this is what I call life" Ha!
I love how people argue over different types of music, but it also pisses me off. If anyone had any knowledge about music, they would be able to appreciate all genres. Both versions are good for different reasons. If only people started using their heads to appreciate the music they listen to, rather than just follow one artist and claim that they are the best in the world
Am I the only one who don't even know who Bastille is? How about just listening to the music and enjoy it instead of spreading hate and bitching all the time. Why is that so hard to do. Just about every single video on TH-cam there are people bitching about it for this reason or another. What happened to just enjoying the music?
Just heard this song in a reel and had to come watch the video! Man this takes me back... haven't even thought of this song in like 17 years, lol. Still great!
Hi sweetheart I love 💕😘 you're comment you are right but this happens in real life 🧬 I miss you I love you xxx kiss ooo hugs love 💕 always little Debbie cakes that was a very good comment
I may be a man but this song hits real deep especially when it describes your life to the letter. Glad I no longer have to hustle like that. What people don’t understand is that it is a sad reality for a lot of women and men still to this day. It’s a very cruel world and sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do even if you know that you don’t want to but you do what you have to do to survive. No one has the right to judge anyone’s life choices until they are in their shoes.
I was 12 yrs old when I first listen to this song. & I loved this so much & always lip synced this song whenever I hear it on the radio (fake lyrics, because English isn't my language & I've never watched the song) the radio hosts always used to say this song is so meaningful but I didn't understand why. time went & I start to forget this song. so now, at the age of 30 few weeks ago I randomly found a clip of this song from a 2001 song collection video. my memory just went back to the past & I start to search the lyrics of this song right away. now I'm like damn! this song really IS meaningful & it's heart-breaking as well.
I loved this song as a teenager/young adult, and still love it now that I'm 44. Even though I've been fortunate enough not to have to live that life, I refuse to judge anyone who has or is living it. As a mom, it especially hits home. If I had no other choice, I would do whatever it took to feed my girls (although one is adult now and out on her own).
When I was younger I loved this song never knew when I grew up this would be my reality but hey God is good he kept me and my children now we on the brighter side of life people act like it's just so easy to anything in life without that strong support 😭😭😭 thankful in 2020
I'm sorry that you had to go through that. To feel that alone and desperate is hell without little mouths to feed. I'm very happy for you that you made it and things are brighter. You're a strong woman that did what she had to do but didn't settle for that. I'm genuinely proud of you!! God Bless you and your family!! 💜
I remember jamming this when I was in 5th grade and my mom telling me I was never allowed to listen to that song again lol. Here I am 15 years later still jammin to it...you tried your best mom lol
This reminds me of Tupac's "Brenda's Got a Baby." Both songs about the unfortunate but very realistic experiences that some young people have to go through. I'm sure that there are multiple songs about the same topic, but that's what came to my head.
Valentino 411. This song " What Would You Do" song was from the 1999 film " Life" soundtrack by R&B group " City High" with singer and actor Ryan Toby from the " Sister Act" films. Sister Act 3 is greenlit.
There’s 3 levels of feeling another’s pain as if it were your own. The most basic is Sympathy, the more profound is Empathy, and the most rare of all is Compassion This song teaches you compassion for our sisters who find themselves involved in this lifestyle because you don’t know what it’s like to be in their shoes or what could have possibly pushed them to strip or prostitute themselves to strangers for money
They had that other hit song, "5" 5' with brown eyes, smile like the sunrise " I forget the name of it. They dipped bc the girl was involved with both of the men (not at the same time)
It’s wild how we all sung this song with our chests as children but now as adults we realize the severity. 🥺
Girl... and the girl's story is just heartbreaking.
Yea it's sad I'm about to be in tears 😢😢
Devastating 😢
I got off my k bus singing this and take a puff pass it to me now that was in 2003-2004
Yes I dropped a few tears listening just now.
I had no business walking around singing this as a child. Hits so different as an adult.
Unless you were actually going through it
As a Samantha too, I know girl, I know!
I never listened to all the way through .as a kid . 😢 Now I know why ...😢😢😢 As an adult 😢😢😢
The hustle of a 10 year old is tough
@@willn8664this wasn't around in 90's so I can't imagine.
I got out of prison in 2001. I remember this song as if it was playing on the radio today. Been out 18 years! All thanks and praises to God! ❤
Thats awesome! Congrats!
🙏💛🙏💙🙏
Amen praise God give yourself credit for hard work 👍
♥️♥️♥️
ALLAH'S BLESSINGS...
I think this song implanted an early seed of empathy and I have never forgotten it
AMEN ❤❤❤❤
The only thing that stuck with me was the “you trying to tell me your girlfriend couldn’t just go out and get a regular job?”
Ditto
Amen!
True.
This song is extremely profound. We all like to judge others but we have no clue what is it like to be in someone else's situation.
That's a fact that's y i don't judge nobody...you jus never know
2023 still here for thisssssssss ❤
Never judge a book by it's cover. You never know what's going on when you scratch the surface
On God Herself. 🫂
Exactly!!!❤
Every day I woke up hoping to die... I remember feeling this so hard as a single mom of 5 who finally escaped her abuser. By god, I got up on my feet and let go over every excuse. Thank God theyre grown, healthy and thriving. Glory to God.
Good job mamma!!!
Blessings
That's all your doing and no one else's, you should be praising yourself not God
@@VillaDan praising myself of acceptance of praise from others is not always the easiest thing for a survivor. I know who I am and what I'm made of. I am proud of the choices I made to get myself and my children up out of that situation. But I give glory to God because without HIM, none of it would have been possible. I don't believe in coincidence and too many times, I witnessed the impossible, on my journey out of hell on earth. I will always give God the glory HE deserves. I appreciate your recognition of my efforts but I'd never tell you what to believe or not believe. That's up to you.
Amen 🙏🏾
This song taught me more about practicing safe sex, treating my girlfriends right, and some of the tragic truths about things that are happening to innocent kids out there everyday. It managed to teach me some MATURE lessons when I was, what? 12 years old when this song came out. If you're reading this and out there suffering or just dealing with some harsh times in life, I LOVE YOU.
🫶
Love you too mud5377❤
Needed to see this ❤ love you xx
Yess well said ! Love you too Mud5377
That's really sweet ❤❤❤Good for you 😊
City High was ahead of its time ❤
Yea they was❤❤❤❤❤😊
Fr ❤
Yeah they were
2024 anybody here?
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2025
Yup
Yes sir
Here
It's incredible how this song flew under the radar given its heavy subject matter and its message of trying to get out of rock bottom even if the odds are heavily stacked against you. Profound, inspirational and grossly underappreciated
Imagine if music with a message was promoted today.. I guess some slip through the cracks, but back then we had quite a few songs that made you think.
Listen to runaway love by Ludacris and Mary j blige
Flew under the radar? I was there when this song was the biggest thing out. You couldn't turn on the radio without hearing this. And as much as I love this song...they lyrics are kinda ass. Here you have a girl who's life is complete shit and she's doing everything she can to make them ends meet, and they're like "Oh well, my mama didn't do that," like shut the fuck up dog. Who cares how she gets it...she doing what she gotta do
Under the rug?? This song was everywhere when it came out 20 something years ago.
There's honestly so many amazing songs like this that exist that people just dismiss because "rap". My favorite artist is logic because he constantly sings about the struggles of poverty, how he made it out and how he wishes he could help out all those he has seen struggle in the past.
I was struggling with my own personal hell, which is addiction when this song was popular. I would turn it up SO loud & promise myself that I would get my shit together. I am sober now, almost a year & a half!!!
Well done buddy. Keep it up fam.
Addiction isn’t easy.
I see it a lot with my clients. Wishing you all the best. Surround yourself with a good support system and never let hope die. 🫂
Congrats. That's great 👍
Congrats I’m happy for you
When this song came out, I was a single mother in my early 20s, dancing for a living. I never went farther than dancing, and my son was never hungry. This song still brings me tears every time I hear it. It's so real. The judgement I faced for dancing, when that's all I did :( The worry that your baby will suffer. The fleeing from familial SA. All too relatable.
You know it's a sad weird world when the dude in Denver eating soup with no kids comment gets more likes than yours of relating to this song in one way or another.. I'm not tryna start somethin but I just find that odd 🫤 but hey atleast you did what u had too to take care of you & yours 🤷♂️
Sis, I hope things are better for you now.
I love song it was my sister favourite song god bless her soul
Honey you're not alone. My mom will be gone 5 years in June. She danced her whole life up into her early 40s. She got us this home that I'm in now. She kept us 4 kids fed, clothed, raised in church, raised with chores/in the country life and respectful. NEVER be ashamed. Much love to you ❤️
No shame in doing what you need to do woman! Hope you are doing better now!
You know as a kid this song didnt hit as hard as it does now that I'm grown with two sons I would do ANYTHING for them ♡
Fam my square ass was singing this and dancing as a kid. Literally one of the realest song out
I got $50!
Yes same!!! I hear this song in a whole other way now. I feel bad that I used to judge women who stripped and etc.
@@poppaluv Hahaha ha right fucking send it. 😂😂😂
@@poppaluv woa you know $40 is standard, stop driving the market up mannnnn
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真相を知ってしまった外国人｢なんだこれは…たまげたなぁ…｣
This song hits different as an adult.
Facts
@M3l203 Younger kids don't understand the lyrics as well as adults do.
Totally agree
Fucking straight up
Facts
I can't believe this was 24 years AGGOOO. SO MANY AMAZING MEMORIES. THANKS FOR POSTING
This song is so deep, never knew a childhood song that we use to bop to could be a reality today for some
stace J yeah I definitely did not understand it as a kid lol
During that childhood, some of us lived word by word this song
@@twinkletwinklelittlebat thank you I was gon say the same thing smh
@@lilvizyena people hear the words but will never understand the feeling. Hopefully never will that is.
WS an adult who had a 2 year old son and just split from his biological contributer was working at a strip club in the Bible belt. Got kicked out of church for waiting tables so the next Monday tried out for dancing
'In and out of lockdown, I ain't got a job now'.
Takes on a new meaning in these troubled times.
😂😂😂 I’m in and out of lockdown
Then it switches to so jus chill till to the next episode . Which is now
Lmaoooo
Honestly the worst thing 2020 did was give you losers a reason to reword this comment on ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING you watch
@@skankhunt-wy9wy
The irony is palpable; I almost choked on it.
Back in 2001, I held onto this to get me through the toughest year of my life.
Found myself in a position that I shouldn't have to be in.
So the words "Stop making tired excuses", made me wanna do better for myself. Want a better life and be more stable. To get away from the abusive relationship I was in.
A couple of days 9/11 happened. I lost my best friend. He was a fire fighter.
His last words to me : You know I love you. And I am proud of you for standing on your own. I gotta go, we just got a 5 call alarm. Save me plate, I will call you later."
That call was the first tower hit. And the last time I ever heard his voice.
That story brought a tear to a grown mans eye.
DAMN. I'M SO SORRY 😭😭😭
So sorry 😪💔
Damn ur story brought tears to my eyes .
That is so so sweet
This song is a great example of the greatness of music in The '90s.
It's a classic.
This song came out in 2001
@@mattsmith3835 It was recorded in 1999.
2001
@@trindellbrown It was recorded in 1999.
@@btetschnerIt was a hit in 2001.
Why can't we make music like this anymore
Make songs about having sex for money ? They definitely still make music like this lmao
Because this shit is corny
@@TonySlick69 who?
@@TonySlick69 it isnt corny because some people genuinely relate+; this was the normal music when this was made
Cuz no one has an identity any more. Social media and internet destroyed originality. That's why everything from our past gets reused and rebranded.
2020 who still listen 👂 to this music 🎶 never get old
I just found this and it's amazing
I always play this song wen I was little didn’t understand it until I got older
Right! I heard it when I was little too, but knew what majority of it meant, cause I grew up the same way. My mom did everything she had to do. Worked as a podiatrist, and lab assistant, as well as another job. She raised up all six of us.
I am I love it
Yeah we still rocking with- "CITY HIGH" HAPPY NEW YEAR! 😊 WHAT STATE WAS THIS MUSIC VIDEO RECORDED?
Listening to this as a 36 year old man is way different than a 16 year old. These lyrics are great, and a lot of people are living like this. Keep your head up you'll get through this!!
It’s hard to listen to this song in 2023. I remember being a kid listening to this and singing along, and crying a bit as i listened to this it made me think of my mom and her addiction, how my father and her split and left me and my two brothers alone with her. I hated her for choosing drugs, but I see her perspective and how she tried to do anything she could to supply us with food, and sometimes it didn’t happen. She was hurt and in pain and used as a way of escape. She was and still is my mom and I do love her. Much love and respect for all the struggling moms out there.
Damn..
Amber was right, being a single mother, working 40+ hours to make ends meet or stripping to support your family, nobody has the right to judge. But this is still an amazing song
These were great times, but Amber brought me here also.
(Good times music wise)
Agreed! Love the harmony but the lyrics are so self-righteous. Men are enjoying strippers in the video but get to judge the stripper! Horrible double standard.
I loved the song but never 100% paid attention to the lyrics, so realizing that the song was in _favor_ of this dickhead narrator berating a stripper for doing the thing he _literally paid her to do_ made me lose my fucking mind lol
@@curtiswilliamsjr.m.div.9600 but she addressed that in the song. For you this is just a good time,but for me this what I call life. This line is saying you are enjoying yourself and I am trying to live.
@@Joeybsmooth the self-righteousness was not addressed by that line. Calling the stripper a hoe and not agreeing that being there made the men hoes is not addressing anything, it's literally just exhibiting a double standard.
Fun Fact: They actually did this song in 1999 for the Life soundtrack, but gave it a proper release a year later. So, imo, this is a 90s song.
I was thinking the same. This is definitely a 90s song. A lot of people just didn’t hear it until 2 years later
This song came out in 2001 not 2000
Dr. Evil no you’re wrong. The song was made in 1999. It didn’t officially release on their album until 2001. It’s literally in the movie Life which came out in 1999
so did dr. dre steal the middle part for the next episode? or did they steal it from him?
Angela Taylor Dr. Dre sampled it from David McCallum’s “The Edge” which I’m sure you can find here on TH-cam. No beats in Hip Hop are original per say. They’re all sampled from various works of composers. From there, City High included it. But this song was definitely made in 1999
This was just a bop to me as a kid. Hearing it as an adult has me in a whole new feeling... This really is life for some people.
If you were born in the 80s, you’re blessed.
AMEN 😂❤❤❤😊❤Thank you GOD lwas AMEN
Amen ❤
1979
@@RapFanatic4ever that counts 🫡.
This is still one of the realist songs ever. This and Everlast- what it's like. Two of the realist songs everyone needs to hear. ❤️💯
I copied & pasted that Everlast song into the search and listened to it for the 1st time because of your comment. I have to admit that it is a very real song indeed! Every line of it is "real life reality" type talk. Peace and light to you. :-)
Shout out to single Moms holding it TF down
Jelani Price. Thx
Damn I didn't even realize what I've been doing... I just do it! If I can do this any woman can 💪🏽
@King Delevingne how you get on a song talking abt single moms and you tryna shame this women for having sex. Get out of here square ass
Dez Dandy thank you!!!
King Delevingne I'm actually quite proud of myself....where is the hate coming from?
My mum sang this song to me, As a child I knew what was going on. Gotta feed the kids right? and I’ll always love and respect you for that. I never went hungry and I would never choose another. I miss you, Mum. R. I .p Rought ignorant pigs.😂❤
If you know Kelli it’s actually her partner, Aaron commenting, and didn’t realise sorry lin for the confusion 😂
Its hard I got you
Rip mom ❤😢
"Everyday I woke up hoping to die".. I felt that
i felt that way
Your life is worth living!❤️
I pray whatever you going through you get through it with your chin held high 🙏
Me too
Have u heard of joy division
I remember the look on my moms face when she heard me singing the chorus when I was like 6 lol
😂😂😂😂😂
Lmfao same here🤣
oh dear lmao
Hahaha that made me laugh 😂
sad! why was you even allowed to watch BET or MTV videos at that age?!
This has to be one of the happiest sounding songs with sad lyrics i've ever heard!
James Michael Harding clearly you've never heard hey ya by Andre 3000.. saddest lyrics ever
You want to listen to Bullet by hollywood undead
Crumbly Man my thoughts exactly!
electric avenue
Stephanie McClure quay d d grayand squawk I oya
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I don't have a kid, or even a girlfriend. I'm just a guy eating soup in Denver, yet somehow I relate to this.
Lol
I'm In Denver Too 😁
Lol
me too
hahaha
Amber Ruffin just gave me a rundown of this song. its the only reason i listened to it. She, Amber, is so good as a comedian. I wish her Emmys and joy and safety.
She reminded me of it - I'm glad she did! Love her!
Tegrrl, you beat me to it. I just discovered the show. If you habe not seen Amber Ruffin on Drunk History, you're welcome.
Back when music STILL told a story... Damn I miss days like these
Kai. A. I feel you, I do. But we still have writers and those artists putting poetry to music. Sometimes, they just don't catch a shine because the industry is what it is right now.
But their season will come again
Kai. A. Right
Kai. A. FACTS!
Facts!!!
There's tons of artists today telling stories through music, you just have to look for it.
June 2024 who still listening???? come on what would you do?
I just listened to Next Episode, and it reminded me of this song. Had to introduce my coworker to this
I didn’t realize that he was apart of Sister Act. The reunion brought me here but City High was my band. The more you know.
Real struggles
Keep listening
Survive is the only answer
This song kept me in tears.
Me t✌ ❤😊
I MISS THE STORY-TELLING SONGS, U WILL NEVER HEAR POSITIVE/UPLIFTING SONGS ON THE RADIO THESE DAYZ😔 THE INDUSTRY IS A MFKN FREAK SHOW NOWADAYZ FILLED WITH ALLLLL OF THE CIRCUS CLOWNS😑😔
#CITYHIGH 4 EVA
#ICONIC🔥
Vanity Belle
dumbing down is real bro
Slick Rick is the king of storytelling
Circus clowns: The most accurate names for today's rappers.
Positive and uplifting.... yeah thats how i feel when i hear this song
To all the mom out thery keep yo head up
This is why don't judge single moms 💯
I'm 38 years old, and I have been singing this song before I was a teenager.
This song didn't exist when you were 12 (like 1997 or 1998 I assume). It's from the early 2000's. In fact City High wasn't even a group before you were a teenager. You were at least 15 when this song came out in 2001. I remember my friend had their album when I was in 7th or 8th grade and let me listen to it so even I was probably like 13 when I heard this and I'm younger than you.
Me too😊😅😂❤
One of the greatest songs of all-time. Big up's to all those single mom's out there doing what they have to do to give their kids a future. Thank you.
✋ Single mom, with twin daughters 👩👧👧👩❤️👩 15yrs old now..🥹 oh my how time flies! 🫰🫶😉#singlemomsclub ❤️
This hits different as an adult tragic we didn’t get more of city high for real
For real. I wish they kept making music after their debut album. I loved that album was an elementary school kid, haha.
I remember listening to this when i was a kid, didn't make any sense then, hell i didnt even think about that there was any meaning to it. But now 13 years later, i understand it, and it really is deep no matter who sings it.
That really is true. Wise words, my friend :)
Who’s here April 2024
Yep
Still slaps 👋
I'm here because I just heard a country song stolen the lyrics
Me too
Here
Bastille wouldn't have had a song to cover if City High didn't write it first. Respect all the music.
Right. It's not about what's better. That's subjective anyway. Just acknowledge the originators and respect the art.
This group and Lyfe Jennings really had us trying to figure it out as teens. We need more songs that will make the youth think again.
Gosh I thought those artists were so much further apart in the time they came out
If there was TH-cam back in the year 1999, we all know this video would have close to 1 billion views lmao. This was a huge hit back in the day.
I honestly just thought about this song and started singing it in my head then out loud....if you really listen to the lyrics it's powerful and still to this day you wonder what these woman or even young girls out on the streets have been through in their life. It's sad
They don't make music like this no more
FR or life Jennings SEX song is also really good
Exactly and it's sad they don't make Music like this anymore ❤thank you GOD for it all❤❤❤❤😊
we need more of this in the music world these days
Exactly!!!! But it’s nothing real out now like back in the days I miss it so much
I was 11 when this dropped lol I remember the whole school bus scream singing this out loud on our way to school.. AND I MEAN THE WHOLE BUS😂 #MEMORIES
weird lyrics for 11 year olds to be singing
Wtf lmao 😂
Kids today singing crazier shit 💀
Sis sammmmmeeee didn’t even know what we was singing about
My sister and I really liked listening to this song. We were about that age then. Our parents hated it though and always would change the channel. lmao
This song really was such a bop but it truly changed my perspective on life. Don’t make excuses. If you choose the right way God will provide. It looks bleak but God is a God of miracles. Keep your head up single mothers.
I was jamming to this song when I was younger but damn, I had no clue what this song was about
I'm with you...
Lol yupppp!!! I just realized this also hahaha
Jay Low The "sleep with a man for a little bit of money" wasn't a clue?
I was young jamming to the beat and it was catchy so "No"
Me too!! It's pretty sad :/
I lived this..I was in survivor MODE..started dancing at the young age of 15😢.. Went through more shit mentally than I ever was prepared for . TODAY I help young woman to leave that Life ❤
I’m glad you’re doing better now ❤❤
@wendykirschner
Only people who ever heard of this song is literally 21 and older, Good lord i miss the early 2000's and the late 90's. My parents would always tell me not to grow up so fast and i was going to miss my childhood and i took their words for granted I finally understand now, wish I could restart my life over like a video game.
Actually really insane to think we jammed to this song and it was filled with so much pain and never paid attention to the lyrics until 20 years later😮
I remember this song, they used to play this on 106.1 KMEL like all day long hahaha! Most random video ever in my sidebar. One of the singers ended up on that show Intervention if I remember right.
Yeah it was Robbie the first dude singing!
Fancy seeing you here Splatter
You must be West of Mississippi. Anything East of that starts with a W and anything West starts with K
This was me, my first sons new beginning of life. This song got me through them days. I was an orphan who barley new how to achieve anything, the only way at the time I knew was too make $ they way I knew. This song told me I had options for me and my son I just had too find them. Today, I have a degree and 3 sons. I will never forget what I came from what my first born went through "picture perfect" laying on the bed room floor. Thank you for speaking into the life of a women's struggle.
💪. Congrats Mama good for you
Love this song, sometimes it's hard to do the right thing so we as a society need to relax and remember everyone problems are different and before we pass Judgement "WE NEED TO TAKE A WALK IN THAT PERSON SHOES ".
I was 13 when I heard this song. So catchy and good. Never hit me the true meaning of it until I became a mother. Heartbreaking. Beautiful message. Pure art
The lyrics to this song are very deep
You guys should see the look at the looks on my family's faces and strangers' faces when they hear me feeling myself singing this like I have lived this life. This song is more than a song, it's a story.
ommmgggg. i remember this song !!! THROW BACK SONGS ARE WAAAAAY BETTER THAN SONGS TODAY !!!
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I like the message of this song. View yourself as a survivor abd not a victim and jump start your success story.
This is the first song that I ever memorized word for word when I was only 8. It's crazy how fast time flies. It's been 16 years since then. It feels like I'm getting old y'all lol, but this definitely makes me feel young again.
TheKnowledgeSeeker happy birthday
Or belated birthday
my nigga i see that quran in your pic, yo muslim ass cant listen to muslim thats haram, get yo ass out of here cuz 😂😂💔
TheKnowledgeSeeker true talk I'm a single mother of 6 and everything I do is for them no matter what or how its done numba one #mykids....
TheKnowledgeSeeker. when starting to like this tried to find on single
Amber Ruffin brought me back here. I hope City High still getting their royalties. Maybe Ryan Toby will be in Sister Act 3! ❤️
Boy, did this song stir up some memories. Good ones. The message is heavy, and they present two perspectives. I love it.
good point
Yeah, the compassionate perspective and the dickhead one. One clearly more appropriate than the other.
I still relate to when I was a kid to this song as I do today as an adult. And I still love the truth to this song. And still sing it super loud, the speakers loud, and no voice when I'm done singing it ! Lol!! But, that is life for people younger now and as adults and in all reality it's worse now with social media, phones, and life in general now. If the 7 billion people on this planet was normal then we would all be crazy. But we are crazy because we aren't normal "but for me this is what I call life" Ha!
I love how people argue over different types of music, but it also pisses me off. If anyone had any knowledge about music, they would be able to appreciate all genres. Both versions are good for different reasons. If only people started using their heads to appreciate the music they listen to, rather than just follow one artist and claim that they are the best in the world
I like Bastille, but I prefer this. It seems like they have more emotion.
thats what i mean pretty much. its the people who insist that one is far better than the other
Am I the only one who don't even know who Bastille is? How about just listening to the music and enjoy it instead of spreading hate and bitching all the time. Why is that so hard to do. Just about every single video on TH-cam there are people bitching about it for this reason or another. What happened to just enjoying the music?
Original is best, plain and simple. Don't make your own version few years down the track like what bastille did. Let the song be.
jennifer greene true dat
The line "girl I know if my mother would do it baby you can do it" gives me chills.
This song hits different now that I'm a momma. I would do anything for my daughter. 10 toes down beside her
Just heard this song in a reel and had to come watch the video! Man this takes me back... haven't even thought of this song in like 17 years, lol. Still great!
This Gives me memories of the 2000 era
when rap was talking about true life and wasnt all about drugs and sex when music told a true story
+Brittany Straughan Rap back then had morals.
now it's just crap
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I may be a man but this song hits real deep especially when it describes your life to the letter. Glad I no longer have to hustle like that. What people don’t understand is that it is a sad reality for a lot of women and men still to this day. It’s a very cruel world and sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do even if you know that you don’t want to but you do what you have to do to survive. No one has the right to judge anyone’s life choices until they are in their shoes.
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I'm sorry u had to sleep with a man for alil bit of money just to feed your kid
this makes me cry every time
Oooo
I was 12 yrs old when I first listen to this song. & I loved this so much & always lip synced this song whenever I hear it on the radio (fake lyrics, because English isn't my language & I've never watched the song) the radio hosts always used to say this song is so meaningful but I didn't understand why. time went & I start to forget this song.
so now, at the age of 30 few weeks ago I randomly found a clip of this song from a 2001 song collection video. my memory just went back to the past & I start to search the lyrics of this song right away. now I'm like damn! this song really IS meaningful & it's heart-breaking as well.
I loved this song as a teenager/young adult, and still love it now that I'm 44. Even though I've been fortunate enough not to have to live that life, I refuse to judge anyone who has or is living it. As a mom, it especially hits home. If I had no other choice, I would do whatever it took to feed my girls (although one is adult now and out on her own).
This will forever be a classic. 😊😎
One of the realest songs made
Hits different when you actually have your own children after hearing it as a youngster x
When I was younger I loved this song never knew when I grew up this would be my reality but hey God is good he kept me and my children now we on the brighter side of life people act like it's just so easy to anything in life without that strong support 😭😭😭 thankful in 2020
I'm sorry that you had to go through that. To feel that alone and desperate is hell without little mouths to feed. I'm very happy for you that you made it and things are brighter. You're a strong woman that did what she had to do but didn't settle for that. I'm genuinely proud of you!! God Bless you and your family!! 💜
@@olivepoola9153 thank you so much
@@cayennepepper242 You're very welcome! 💜
I can’t believe this song has been out for so long I still jam to it
I miss these times when music told stories even if at that time we didn't understood quite frankly yet. Looking back they hit different
This chorus is always randomly popping up in my head for years now. Lol
me too... lolllll
same here...and every time it pops up i would come on you tube
Britney Lester ikr but for me it kept popping up in my head during my exam. oh dear god that was stressful
It's cause you got someone at home on the bedroom floor and he's hungry.
same here!!! Lol...
I remember jamming this when I was in 5th grade and my mom telling me I was never allowed to listen to that song again lol. Here I am 15 years later still jammin to it...you tried your best mom lol
🔥🔥🔥this was dooppeee bring back CITY HIGH 2019 who heree listening??
Never happening. Group became a mess after she dated both of them.
HEEREEE 😭♥️🔥 and yes I wish they would do a comeback 😭
Nanna Jan
Yup this can never happen even if they wanted to
Im here
Knowing wat I know now gets me going as the struggle I go thru u got to make life wat and grow as life progives
This reminds me of Tupac's "Brenda's Got a Baby." Both songs about the unfortunate but very realistic experiences that some young people have to go through. I'm sure that there are multiple songs about the same topic, but that's what came to my head.
rasheeda
Ryan Toby appeared on The View as part of a Sister Act 2 Reunion with Whoopi, which bought me here.
Same. I never knew this was him!!
Valentino 411. This song " What Would You Do" song was from the 1999 film " Life" soundtrack by R&B group " City High" with singer and actor Ryan Toby from the " Sister Act" films. Sister Act 3 is greenlit.
Me too
@@justjohnnaysame. Loved both and never made the connection. ❤
"one of those random songs that you vaguely remember from your childhood but can never recall who sang the song"
There’s 3 levels of feeling another’s pain as if it were your own. The most basic is Sympathy, the more profound is Empathy, and the most rare of all is Compassion
This song teaches you compassion for our sisters who find themselves involved in this lifestyle because you don’t know what it’s like to be in their shoes or what could have possibly pushed them to strip or prostitute themselves to strangers for money
We're missing these kinds of artists right now. Sad...
Nyani fddddddrree
Nyani n
Miya
Nyani music has been taken over.
Nyani yes realism and truths in music are fading fast
The chorus. Everyone can recite it. So deep and real. They should have wont that grammy
They really should have!
City High was dropping knowledge on me when I was 16 yrs old. 2019 and I fully understand! I love the vibes❣️
They dropped this banger and dipped real quick.
They had that other hit song, "5" 5' with brown eyes, smile like the sunrise " I forget the name of it. They dipped bc the girl was involved with both of the men (not at the same time)