Black Star - So Be It (Official Music Video)
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On Saturday, November 12 , 2022, we joined host Dave Chappelle on SNL as musical guests.
"So Be It" was one of the first songs Black Star recorded with Madlib for No Fear Of Time so it definitely set the tone of the project early on. The song is a lyrical exercise, bars on bars, but we are not rhyming for the sake of riddling as the great Chuck D might say. This song is a call to action. It's a prayer. It's a manifesto.
The visuals that accompany it are simple, but strong. Our value is in our performance and how we connect with our audience. We wanted to provide a visual that showcases that for the core fans.
I'm a fan of comedy and I grew up on SNL so this is a career milestone for sure. I can't recall seeing a more hip-hop, a more independent group than Black Star to ever do SNL, so I'm definitely excited to represent for the culture.
Black Star is back. My favourite duo is back after 23 years.
okay zarar
They been back. The album is only available thru Luminary tho.
this is taking me back 35 years....when i drove around listening to EPMD. thanks, dynamic duo.
They never left ♥
@@jojosaylor8996 sincerely since the linen factory days 🤯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽moved to planet Brooklyn Flatbush 🙌🏽 n Brownsville. NYC borough traveling journeys. Up The Lions of Hip-Hop whyoooh!
Through their music, Black Star taught me as a teenager that it was ok to be myself, when I didn't fit into the norm. Years later, that was one of the greatest lessons that I have ever learned and its made me who I am today. And for that, I am forever grateful to them.
Cool, man. I feel ya. Are you ok to share your favorite Back Star tunes ?
@@Profilba
Respiration is forever the GOAT
Thieves in the Night
Astronomy (8th Light)
Brown Skin Lady
Little Brother
Fix Up
o.G
So Be It
Yonders
are all my favs
Mos Def, Yasiin Bey, Black Dante, Pretty Flaco... call him what you want he is hip-hop and those bars were 🔥. This was like a time machine taking me back to '98. Salute to the real ones, Mos and Talib. 💥💥💥✌✊
Mos Def the Whirling Dervish at 3:50
@@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 I thought he was gonna teleport
Amen... todays current pop culture hip hop doesn't even come close to this track.... it's like listening to this track is akin to nourishing your brain with vegetables and high quality protein versus todays current main stream hip hop feeding our brains high calorie dense mental - junk food lots of calories zero nutrition
Word!
When he's rapping he still Mos Def to me. He can be Yasin Bay in his private life. Respectfully.
That bollywood sample though! Madlib came thru 🙌🏽
Bombay the hard way Shadow/Automator
Madlib flipped the old "Don" theme and made it sound like an old Blaxploitation film score. Genius!
The Don Theme is MESMERIZING!
I never knew that was from a Bollywood movie. I first heard it as part of the opening theme to the "American Dad" episode "Tearjerker" (one of two episodes that parodied the James Bond movies. The other one is "For Black Eyes Only").
Don bolte✌🔥
Madlib took an old Bollywood theme and made it sound like a Blaxploitation film score. Awesome production!
One of my favorite beats of 2022!
Dan the Automator did this 20 years ago
@@trapmouth Not familiar with him. What song?
@@romilrh Dan the Automator _ Theme from Don [Bombay the Hard Way, 1998]
@@romilrh Yes you are! Produced the first Gorillaz album, as well as both Deltron 3030 and the Dr. Octagon Records. He's done work with Tribe (b-side remixes) and is half of HBMS with Prince Paul. He also has a fantastic underrated album with Mike Patton, Jennifer Charles and Kid Koala called Lovage.
He's been everywhere, yet no one knows his name. I think these days he does movie soundtracks.
Love y’all! Can I buy the album? Not subscribing to another service just to listen, and then lose access to it when I choose to no longer subscribe. Who thought I’d ever miss record stores and physical copies?! Sell it to me. Don’t rent it to me!
Word
Support these brothers man they deserve it.
@@WhosAr7z it’s not about supporting them or not, it’s crazy to have to subscribe at $5 month to listen to one album and not be able to have it in a catalog with other music without jumping through hoops.
Sometimes I like listening to entire albums, sometimes I like to put my shit on shuffle. Know what I’m sayin ?
@@TheRealSuperskunk right fk the dumb..
@@TheRealSuperskunk Fr, fr! But did you really think you wouldn't miss record stores and physicals?!? Going to the record store used to be a great thing... imo.
Man Def is so fresh.
That first BlackStarr album was a foundational moment in my life💪🏾👌🏾
This beat right here….🔥🔥🔥❤️the flow just took it to that next level,underground hip-hop and real lyricist will never fade.
Man can you imagine Doom on here with them!?!
@@charlestheawakened R.I.P to the legend.
I can hear either DOOM,BLACKTHOUGHT,or PLANET ASIA on this with them.
Everyone sayin this album needs to be on Vinyl, they're right, but you know where else it needs to be? Tape! The bassiness of the album, the abrasive high-ends, the dark, airy feel. Shit'd sound amazing on a good ole cassette.
Let's all pray for a vinyl release soon! Such a killer album, brutally awesome cover art! This is already a timeless classic!
🙏🏼🤲🏼
The cover is so powerful
supposed to be coming soon
Big shout out to Kalyanji-Anandji who composed the original music for the sample. It was made for a 70's gangster flick called 'Don' (this was the theme music) starring Amitabh Bachchan. The loop digger strikes again.
YES!!! I think Madlib did Auditorium?
@@jabuabraham correct lol
Another great sample from a Bollywood flick!!
From the first time I heard this beat, couldn’t help but hear DOOM on it.
knowledge knowledge !
How they age like wine but light that mic up like 100 proof moonshine, black star 🔥🔥🔥🔥
To hear this in 2023 gives me great hope for music!!!!
For anyone wondering, the beat is a sample from the 1978 Hindi film 'Don.'
Yasmin’s flow if flawless. Pure liquid!
Why am I today years old hearing this?!!!! This joint is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥#Blackstar
So Dope! Black Star keep shining!
Crowd looks old
Brooklyn rappers are the freshest in the GAME they lyrics be dope AF 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Thank u word up
I would most definitely buy the physical copy of the album
Love the word play. Most definitely
Top tier, high level rap. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥
So be it means, AMEN which is what Yahsiin sings in the end.
Dope traxx.
🔥👑❤️
Kweli's verse: Look what I'm plannin', plannin', I'm plannin' to
Do all this while ya panickin'
And you're lookin' and starin' at mannequins
And I'm goin' to Fanagans
Trying to get up a plan against
All of the blana-kazana-ka-fam-bam-bannigans
While of all the bana-kazanika Hanna in a cabana
You're in a cab-
I'm in a cabana and a Janet
I'm in a cabana chantin' all this standup banter
While you don't got the stamina, you're lackin' the stamina
You're lackin' the stamina while you're divorcin' Harrison Ford
And I'm in a Porsche on the floorboards
While I'm world tourin'
You usin' way too many napkins, papkins
Lapkins and chapki-
You using ChapStick and napkins while I'm bapkin'
Flappin' around like a bapkin'
Flamminababbitapannitajampkin
Dammit, a can of pada-
Wtf 😂
@@Quantum_015 If you know you know
@@SensoryAlchemy Oh I know Lol . Kweli is my Fav MC 👍🏽
Respect from Chechen Republic Ichkeria!❤
Please put this out on vinyl/CD soon! 👏👏👏
_Please!_ 🙏🏼🤲🏼
That beat is stupid crazy!!! The two deadliest MC’s ever!!
MADLIB is of a dying breed of producers that actually PRODUCE!!! (SURE WISH I COULD HAVE THIS ON MY APPLE MUSIC PLAYLIST.......)
Dave Chappelle brought them out in Palm Springs, I was working the event but best believe I was tapping this and the black star tracks they were bumping.
Got paid to karaoke essentially, fucking timeless.
BEY!
Rose petals=giving us fans our flowers for supporting since day 1. BLACKSTAR THANK YOU.
Can't lie... looking at Yasiin doing the helicopter had me like: Yeah that's how freedom feels😂🔥
🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼 Fr, fr!!! 🥰🥰🥰
White drapes dropped like 12yrs ago and the bars still hold up…..real fans iykyk
Yasiin’s verse on this is the *HARDEST* on the whole album & I’m standing on it. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
#YouCanTalkTillYouDIEAndYouAintSaidThis
I don't know my brother I always kind'a felt Mos was a little nicer than Kweli and I like Kweli "Reflection Eternal" is a classic album but Talib murdered his verse on this track maybe not better than Mos verse but definitely same level of dopeness just my opinion but respect to you my guy for listening to real roots hip hop, stay up ✊🏾✌🏾
@@jimmybootz1277 so you agree with him ? 🧐
I agree…
it's about time. Gratitude.
Huge Madvillain vibes. Damn they smoked this!
So I just watched Nas "Michael & Quincy" video, then Westside Gunn "Mac Don't Stop & Nigos Louis" joint..now this..I'm lovin it!!🤗🎤🔥☝🏾❤
Nas new album is dope
Clearly some of the best lyricist of our time! The Love is real ❤
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Neither of them are even in that conversation and neither are very lyrical at all. Mufuckas just been dumbed down. 💀
th-cam.com/video/1ax3p7ISFbU/w-d-xo.html
Of all time*
@@lyrics2challenged 🤡
Blackstar was my shyT in 98'!!!!!
Now this is what you call Boss MCing - did you hear the man said - Chuck D level 👏🏾 this is what it is. Loving This - pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥
Fr! Chuck D is the epitome of the HipHop MC, imo... he's still my GOAT.
Love to Yasiin and Kweli!
Only Mos Def could say his own first name when the song starts and sound so cool doing it. Yahsin Yahsin Yahsin
Nice to see Conway here too - been a huge fan for a last 3 years, big ups from Russia
_Absolutely!_ Great to see the top artists in the game supporting each other... nice to see Pharoahe Monch, too!
WOW, peace to the GODZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ & GODDESSSSSSSSSSSSSS planets yall bussin em slappin em poppin em wow we back FAM Damn!!!
Real MC'S!!!
No such thing
Black Thought x Mos Def Best Emcees Alive... Bettah be in yo Top 5. Yasiin killed this track.
They killed the beat with this flow !!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Yoooo
. Gotta luv da SupaHeated..HeatRocks...BlackStar...
🌋Zimbabwe 🔥RAlutes🔥&🔥MaXxXimum🔥RAspect🌋
Black Star! We give thanks for your return...
Man, y'all just smashed it on Saturday Night Live, brought back memories, still the greatest 🎤🏆
🤣 No.💀💀💀
@@tenderlungs2065 Mos Def will eat your favorite rapper alive
With Talib I'm feeling like I'm falling off a building with my life flashing before my eyes
When the fire blaze up!
Love that beat!
🤣🙏🤗😇😂😇
Most noise!!!!! Haven't heard from Brooklyn??? . I'm glad you came through, You truly made my day! $hout out from....... All dA way fr!m Z town BEY ALL THE WAY!!! MUCH LOVE
This aint artwork, This is medicine. It's time to heal the people 😎🔥✌
My goodness...I literally prayed after that blessing....I had to listen trice afterwards... thank you God for brothas like the dynamic duo we know as BLACKSTAR!!!! They are at their best when they're together.... Sword sharpens ⚔️
Absolutely! Well said...
DOPE IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT!
drop that vinyl, lords
#Common make my dreams come true!!!
Madlib put his whole foot in this beat.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Well...Damn. Thank you Brothers. This was sorely needed. Thank you. Flowers upon Flowers.
Listenin from Morocco - peace and love
OG TALIB KWELI#1 OG MOS DEF#1
OG BLACK STAR#1 LEGENDS#1
This is just pure rhyming 🔥
Mos and talib are 2 of the best ever...
Real hip hop. Black star forever
Peace Mos. Peace Talib. Peace Lib.🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Universal Shining! 🔥🔥🔥
What an awesome acknowledgement to Native Tongues fam. Talib x J. Rawls go hard.
that spin that Mos hits is legendary! 🕺
THIS IS SOME BULL$HIT !!!!! THIS SHOULD BE NO LESS THAN 1 MILLION VIEWS !!!!
Two lyrical juggernauts back at it again blessing the heads with bars of absolute FIRE.🔥🎙🔥
Mad props to the legendary Blackstar.👏Peace.
Respect to Madlib for bringin his magical touch to this joint too.👏
That distorted bass is so illlllll 💨🙏🏽🔥☄️🧯
[Intro: Yasiin Bey]
Haha
Bey
Bey
Bey
Yasiin, Yasiin, Yasiin
[Verse 1: Yasiin Bey]
Sharper than a straight razor shave
Cooler than a steel, I put the blade to a point
It's worldwide currency, they wishing well coins
It's high fidelity, bang, they speaker leak noise
And at a Chuck D level, y'all at petite level
How a gun do a chopper spread? Love beat devils
Walk soft and carry the cro magnum
Shots club and smash 'em, they show up any fragment
Breathe fire, spit smoke, blow away ashes
Smarten up, dumbass, this ain't bump class
Atmosphere above that, you can't touch that
Rеal, forever real, thеy can hate it or love that
It's bigger than hip-hop, hypes, and wicked government
Brooklyn award-winning, a not-give-a-f*ckingest
You in it for the most sucker-ish, dummiest
No getting love in this, some real riders up in this beyotch
Who's more bitch than bitch Reebox
They arms can't beyotch the base of a three-ox
These dudes dope dealing's detox
Turkey went clean up your act if you act like crack, ha
Hop in Aladdin, I will never be that
I got the right and exact and a trap for the rats
The liars and the saps, the posers and the hacks
Laying my mainline, your spine goes snap, Bey
Vanglorious, phantasmagoria
Crack-panned all y'all, each and every all of you
Whoever you can call, then you better start calling 'em
Then call the coroner, white drapes for all of you's
Greatest ain't greater than, strongest ain't strong enough
Biggest ain't bigger than a real small portion of
The legendary trilotary top rank officer
Get lost, big boss, this boss the boss of you
Chip on your shoulder, I'ma knock it right off you
Bey, torpedo, blast match the ego
Sniper on the range, sniper bang 'nuff, reload
RPG to give free power people, brrap
One clip in they evil, done with
Talking like they want trouble and really want ****
They probably want trick like a skier on the strip
Get money and your Mrs. never (Hey) kill a pimp
Lie out my rhetoricals and they ain't said *
You can talk 'til you die and you ain't said this
Unless you repeating the phrase of y'all beesiest
Seventeen verse of the twenty-fifth Ezekiel
Leakiel, let us pray 'fore they soldier these suckers
[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]
Aight, I'm back motherfucker
Yeah, January, February, marching with the people
'April, may I have a Black Star sequel?' said the black caucus
June, July, the black August
September to October you find you a Black Thought is
November when we come for that office
The black POTUS
The black lotus flower fall in December, go ask the weatherman
Colder than the winter wind, day after December 10
We celebrating Yasiin birthday
Brooklyn, New York City, that's the scene of my birthplace
I'm so on top of this bop with the metropolitan frolic with the populous topplin' all the charlatans
My songs is knowledge to heroes that need honoring
A promise we demolishing all Confederate monuments
I'm noticing how these Nazis become Congressmen
It's softer than some Moccasins and way faker than collagen
It doesn't matter if these scholars have got doctorates
They're hiding behind fake names like Tommy Robinson, I'm bombing 'em
Plus the sleeve is monogram if I die and come back and perform as a hologram
Can't tell if it's a boy or a girl, get a sonogram
My name is floating up and down the ave like dollar vans
Fam, my syrup is maple leaf
Eatin' falafel in Morocco and packin' straight hasheesh
Pipe is a pass and I'm stabbing these fake emcees
It's sharp and making 'em bleed, got half of them make believe
I come from a place of peace but they only respect the violence
You get arrested for domestic silence
Rappers is vampires, we the Lycans
Even the Vikings know magic and some tarots from the conquered Alliance
Bring it together like a hyphen, just liars testing my patience
Never stop because my parents ain't never had a vacation
Relocating, looking at places along the ocean
Smoking trees and the trees as shady as rapper motives, calamities
Flash catastrophe, add an apostrophe, your whole philosophy is mediocrity
Atrocities committed in the name of owning property, monopolies
That's my hypotheses
Impressive!!
Real Hip-Hop!!!
I love hearing Black Star together.
had the honor to see these these two open for chapelle
Lava!!! So so hot. Black Star is top notch. I was blessed to have seen you in Denver this year and it was absolutely spectacular. Thank you thank you
The Nobles 👁 Black Star 🌟 🤴🏿🤴🏿✨🎇✨💥💥💥
Been listening to this masterpiece all day on repeat since the video came out
A new classic ❤
This joint crazy! That beat sound like MF Doom should have been on it.
100% would of been on here :(
Madlib Is the best producer ever
FINALLY! I heard this song like 5 months ago but pretty sad it wasn’t on TH-cam cuz that was my go to for music glad this is hear it’s one of my fav songs other than Freequency and no fear of time
"Yonders" for me , Yasin was spazzing on tHåt 1🔥, needa video 1 time, rS ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Vinyl! Vinyl! Vinyl!
I will buy it.
Oh ish! This gone be Mythological! Hip hop ology! Two legendary emcees
BLACKSTAR is back!
Yes love real hip hop
52 y/o senior here.. This reminds me of when I first caught the drop for fight the power.. this is up-top. Brooklyn's phinest.. Blackstar
Black Star keep shinin'!!
i have 30 playlists… each took about *2-3 years to fine tune* to how I want them to bang. Each for different moments.
This needs to be in my gym playlist!
*I love you Mos & Talib,* but if not bringing this to apple music I’ll listen freely on here. bring to apple, i buy whole album! *This is modern day version of Mathematics*
OoooohWeeee, Black Star just lit SNL stage on 🔥!!! SNL's performance of the year hands down, or hands up depends on how you see it! 11/12/22
This is golden right here no doubt about.
Excellent track, madlib is always golden with the sounds. This is going to be a dope album.
It's been out...
AN INSTANT CLASSIC.... NEED WE SAY MORE? AMEN
Killed it on SNL, this is so much clearer to hear the lyrics crisper. Even better!
Hip Hop str8 raw 📻They aint ready
I knew they'd come back! True Legends in Hip Hop Salute. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The way Yasin was walking on rose 🌹 🌹 petals
Goats
real relize real rapppp!!
Daaaaaamn, these 2 stay bringing explosive bars, untouchable delivery. 💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏✊✊✊.
Vainglorious Phantasmagoria 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥