Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez (R.I.P) : "Whoever said these are the things that you can do And the things you ain't supposed to So am I further when I think I'm getting closer That's when I tend to think of Rosa How was it Took a seat to make a stand But now in standing we've gotten more demanding They never thought in planning That a wish for us to sit would be a dose of This fucking rollercoaster Whether tradition or religion Why you question my decision Why you spend up all your time trying to Get into my mind Why everybody and they mama Gots to add to all my drama mad drama Hell if i'ma keep my dominating feministic hell Creating crazysexycool black ass In the palms of your player hater's stands My only chance of being free is to fly within me And it's illegal to kill a fucking eagle A bird is never more important than my people I guess we didn't need him so I took away his freedom" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Bars!
A lot of Black Female Artists now a days, don't have the guts to do what these strong powerful black women did! I'm glad there is still some examples of a real black women out here!!!
@@leomartin5965 To be fair some of these artists did, including Left Eye, although they still had knowledge of self and also tried to show uplifting positive messages as well.
Damn Lisa Killed it, if I had to use one word to describe her part it would be "REPEAT" !!!! I herd the version with all the black female singers of the 90's but the female rap version hit me harder. oooohhh I wish that black women were like this today, expressing their creative talents together and not hatting each other!!! Lisa's part hit me the most she always went straight to the point and didn't sugar coat it R.I.P Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes
Exactly all this hate and jealously among black females today isn't necessary.We have to stick together and empower each other. Life is too short to waste our energy on hate and envy.
You have to support independent artists. The only ones you see visibly are owned and controlled by corporate media. You have to literally boycott all corporate owned and controlled rap artists and entertainers.
My Black friend Leonard said: The Brothas don't need anymore muff diving going on while they tryin to get their "Mack on". In other wards, female rappers that like men should stick together and let the "other ones" do their own type of Rap somewhere else.
Left Eye swung hard on this one! I've always felt she was extremely underrated in the rap game. She could spit fire bars with the best of em! Rest in peace to a legend-in-the-making. 😞🙏🏽
The feminine lyrical power on display here is LEGENDARY!!! Makes me feel bad for today's generation. All they have is Nicki Minaj...that should say it all...smh.
Everbody missing the point , we are supposed to stick Together, hence the name of the song, dont matter if you dont like the new generation , its their time now, olders need to teach!🤔
Nicki minaj is a fucking m c. She isnt the only female rapper yet u keep bringing her up. Your so proud of music like this but couldnt keep them relevant think about that
L. Austin Wasn’t about keeping them relevant. People move on and do other things producing, etc. They can’t keep rapping forever waiting on someone to come with some common sense. These young ones fell for the okie doke (male and female, sex and violence).
I've been looking for this track for the longest time! I need to download it before it disappears. Every single black female needs to listen this at least once a day. Quality without a doubt.
Salt n Pepa absolutely slayed it.They kept their rhymes simple,strong,true and all the while looking good and sexy.They are truly the pioneers and queens of the rap game!!!
+Kevin Diyoka You mean some young girls. The some young girls that let today's way of life corrupt them and drive them to being lost. Not every girl of this generation is brainwashed.
I’m Brazilian (mixed) American so with a dad who is white but grew up with this hip hop, he show me a lot of music like this and told me if I’m going to listen to this I need to know the meaning ! That’s what I did ! It’s why one of his favs from Tupac is keep yo head up! If u listening to that and ain’t even respecting the actually pottery and TRUTH u shouldn’t be listening to it . Same with some many songs like this . Even other songs cult of personality, he made me sit on the tv and watch it while still paying attention to those lyrics .
L-Y-T-E showed why she's in the books, and Left Eye did what's natural to her, but Nefertiti caught me off guard first time I heard this one. This is power. This is what it should be!
#LaurynHill was a relative unknown in the music world back then (in 1995). Although, she may have been more known as an actress (or the little girl who got booed on {Showtime at the Apollo}), most people didn't know she made music even though she released an album with her group #Refugees , later known as The #Fugees . It was until a year or less later that she (with her group) achieved her breakthrough.
I love this song, it represents Black PEOPLE MATTERS and we're all a UNITY, and it expresses that black women is so strong like black men!! LOVE the song, it's so empowering and love all the rap verses by Queen Latifah, Salt 'N Pepa, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, MC LYTE, YO-YO and love the vocals from everyone!! ❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊
Now this is what hip hop is all about not what we have today.....back then they touch on real issues and not foolishness that current rappers rap about today. Im 16 but I know real and good music when I hear one.
Rachel Ray young Queen it's so refreshing to see a comment from an awakened soul that can hear! Kiss yo mama baby girl and tell her that she has been doing her duty correctly and someone in the 313 sees.. Stay conscious little one...loving you!👑
I am a 40 year old white woman and this is the music my friends in my teens introduced me to. It is timeless and I will be forever grateful to those that turned me onto rap artists from that time. I still listen to this day. The sophistication today has been lost, but the feel of this and artists alike will always be felt.
Lisa "LEFT EYE" Lopes verse oh my goodness 🔥🔥 may her soul forever rest in peace Back when female rappers sticked together and made Hits and not this modern beefing over nonsense
Queen Latifah, MC LYTE, Yo-Yo, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Salt N Pepa and all the talented black female music artists did this song so great!!! ❤😊😊❤ 😄 They all did so fantastic and amazing on this inspirational and empowering song!!! ❤😊🤩 ❤❤❤😊
Lisa Left-eye Lopes always had a hard flow and switched flows a lot 1:47 - 2:29 . She rapped better than half of all these women on this cut here. They’re legends to but Lisa was something else. Her tone and flow is something else. Anytime she raps T-Boz & Chili always smiled because they fed off her energy. I always loved her flow rip 🫶🏾.
Left Eye slayed it! A bird is never more important than my people!!!!
Thats right
Yes. Yes she did.
The Bread....
The Bread is never more important than my People.
She 🔥🔥🔥 that track i always loved her flow
left eye killed this song. she was too real.
Yep & she was WOKE a long time too.
so relavant right now :/
Trees she did.lyrical homicide
Cussing And All
She snapped
Damn I'm glad I grew up in an era when real female MC's kicked the knowledge. Queen Latifah, Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte , Monie Love, Eve.
Yessssssss
🛐💐💗
Speak honey!
Patra bahamadia salt n pepa
Me 2
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez (R.I.P) :
"Whoever said these are the things that you can do
And the things you ain't supposed to
So am I further when I think I'm getting closer
That's when I tend to think of Rosa
How was it
Took a seat to make a stand
But now in standing we've gotten more demanding
They never thought in planning
That a wish for us to sit would be a dose of
This fucking rollercoaster
Whether tradition or religion
Why you question my decision
Why you spend up all your time trying to
Get into my mind
Why everybody and they mama
Gots to add to all my drama mad drama
Hell if i'ma keep my dominating feministic hell
Creating crazysexycool black ass
In the palms of your player hater's stands
My only chance of being free is to fly within me
And it's illegal to kill a fucking eagle
A bird is never more important than my people
I guess we didn't need him so I took away his freedom"
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Bars!
Absolutely! She's gonna be my wife in heaven!
Ayanna_72 I’m so glad you put this on here cause I couldn’t hear most of her rap, I’m bout deaf 😂
*Lopes
Lisa was killed.If you guys think otherwise you're doomed
WiseMan Max she most definitely was
Left Eye was spitting that real!
morena101 Yees she always have. But this song she blazed her verse. Miss her so much. One of my favorite Geminis! 🤗🤗😍😍🙇🙏🎵🎶🎤🎼🔥🔥🔥👑👑💗💕
She was soooo freaking cute!!!!!
right lolzzz
Left Eye burned the house down....lawdhamercy. 💎💎💎💎💎
Left Eye's verse gives me chills. As always.
I love your voice.
U ain't neva lying
For some reason, I always thought from an intellectual/lyrical aspect...Left Eye was like a "female" version of Tupac.
I always get chills when i hear left eye say “a bird is NEVER more important than my people!!!”
THIS IS WHEN ALL FEMALES USE TO STICK TOGETHER IN THE GAME
Where's Roxanne shante tho
Look at what they have now...
Damn, we have fallen off something bad.
DIMETRIUS HILL
Shits over anything Cardi B, Minaj put out💪
Some.
Facts
Left eye and salt n Pepe ATE 🔥🔥🔥
SALT-N-PEPA‼️❤️‼️ 🔥 🔥
A lot of Black Female Artists now a days, don't have the guts to do what these strong powerful black women did! I'm glad there is still some examples of a real black women out here!!!
And they aint walkin around talkin about how good they are in bed .. Like these millennial girl rappers.
Dis guurls tooo busy fuxxx around an beeing foolish😏🙄
Untrue they don’t have the green light. This song was a soundtrack for a film directed and distributed by blacks.
They are all clones now being told what to do and say
@@leomartin5965 To be fair some of these artists did, including Left Eye, although they still had knowledge of self and also tried to show uplifting positive messages as well.
Queen Latifah, Yoyo and Salt-N-Pepa's verses were my favorites
LISA LEFT EYE LOPES IS A BEAST
This is still my all time favorite video. This generation of black females could never understand what’s it like to come together like this… UNITY
latifah,YOYO MC Lyte Nefertiti..I know what to expect from them...but Left Eye?...holy shit.
Much respect to left eye she did her thing
RIP Left-Eye 🙌🏾
There wasn't a weak link in that cypha. Loved it then and I love it now!
not nary a one!!!
two thumbs for left eye because she spoked the truth
Damn Lisa Killed it, if I had to use one word to describe her part it would be "REPEAT" !!!! I herd the version with all the black female singers of the 90's but the female rap version hit me harder. oooohhh I wish that black women were like this today, expressing their creative talents together and not hatting each other!!! Lisa's part hit me the most she always went straight to the point and didn't sugar coat it R.I.P Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes
Yeah I agree this version hit me harder!
Exactly all this hate and jealously among black females today isn't necessary.We have to stick together and empower each other. Life is too short to waste our energy on hate and envy.
Yes, that is very very true... people need to stop hatting and start congradulating one another.
You have to support independent artists. The only ones you see visibly are owned and controlled by corporate media. You have to literally boycott all corporate owned and controlled rap artists and entertainers.
which one was lisa
When black artists would come together ❤
that REAL BLACK SISTAHOOD! :)
Salute
I miss this type of comradary amongst female artists. Once Kim and foxy couldn't get along it's been all downhill since smh
Left Eye snapped.
Patra killed it on the hook.
It was giving Black on Black solidarity regardless of country !! I love this song ngl
Left Eye took it!! She snapped hard on this one!!!🔥🔥🔥
Sistas anthem!!! Let's be that ladies, steady uplifting eachother... Bring this kind of hip hop back, seriously!!!
My Black friend Leonard said: The Brothas don't need anymore muff diving going on while they tryin to get their "Mack on". In other wards, female rappers that like men should stick together and let the "other ones" do their own type of Rap somewhere else.
Yoyo and Left Eye absolutely murdered this
Lisa rap went so hard!! she killed it tho... miss you left eye! 😩❤😘
mad respect to black panthers ✊✊
✊🏼✊🏼
Fuck the black panthers.
@@keelyleilani1326 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Keely Leilani fuck u, u black face wearing bitch. There’s racism all over u. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
Meshell Ndegeocello is the soul of both versions and Left Eye brought that fire.
The Meshell Ndegeocello riff is everything on this track.
“A bird is never more important than my people” - YES 👏🏽 LEFT EYE 👏🏽
Left Eye swung hard on this one! I've always felt she was extremely underrated in the rap game. She could spit fire bars with the best of em!
Rest in peace to a legend-in-the-making. 😞🙏🏽
90s hip hop woman RESPECT !!!! None of this shit today
2paacalipse fr
This Song explodes the 'Black Women ' and our Generational Growth. This Song makes A loud statement!
Queen Latifah Flow is from another planet
Let em know
❤Fighting for UR Children 😢, 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉" WAPENDANE❤.SAD!!!LOL WOW
LEFT EYE ATE omg😭
Nearly forgot about this song. What an epic posse cut.
3:02 The legendary Nefertiti 🖤💚❤️👊🏽👊🏽
The feminine lyrical power on display here is LEGENDARY!!! Makes me feel bad for today's generation. All they have is Nicki Minaj...that should say it all...smh.
4 years later now they have cardi b, it got even worse
Everbody missing the point , we are supposed to stick
Together, hence the name of the song, dont matter if you dont like the new generation , its their time now, olders need to teach!🤔
EXACTLY. That's I'm watching these women again.
Nicki minaj is a fucking m c. She isnt the only female rapper yet u keep bringing her up. Your so proud of music like this but couldnt keep them relevant think about that
L. Austin Wasn’t about keeping them relevant. People move on and do other things producing, etc. They can’t keep rapping forever waiting on someone to come with some common sense. These young ones fell for the okie doke (male and female, sex and violence).
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes bodied this track. Her bars🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Queen Latifah and Left Eye on one song? Sicker than all your viruses.
They even have jamacian dancehall, hip-hop and reggae artist, Patra! 💚💛🖤
BLACK GIRLS ROCK!
If this isn't THE song for the International woman's day, I don't know ❤
❤
Latifah's intro was dope
I'm glad I grew up in the 80s r.i.p to my father thank him for introducing me to hip-hop freedom to our people ✊🏾
Yo left eye tho…I’m still dissecting her rhyme💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿👸🏾🕊
I remember this left eye literally stole the show and embodied her verse you felt it from the depths of her soul.
You won't catch that many female artists come together and make great music anymore too many prides an Egos
I'm 17 years old and someone posted Lisa's part on Instagram a few days ago I've been listening to this song for 3 days and I'm in love this
Lisa fully kills this track. Best verse in the whole thing
I've been looking for this track for the longest time! I need to download it before it disappears. Every single black female needs to listen this at least once a day. Quality without a doubt.
Salt n Pepa absolutely slayed it.They kept their rhymes simple,strong,true and all the while looking good and sexy.They are truly the pioneers and queens of the rap game!!!
Never heard this song before, Patra Meshelle, Mc Lyte, Tlc, Latifa on a song together,what! Cant get better than this.
I feel sorry for the young girls in our generation have no respect for real music like this. They're lost.
kiddkevo
Who do they have representing them? Nicki Minaj...that's it!!!!
kiddkevo Only the girls??
+Kevin Diyoka You mean some young girls. The some young girls that let today's way of life corrupt them and drive them to being lost. Not every girl of this generation is brainwashed.
its true but not onlu girls!
Left Eye brought that HEAT!!!
Damn Lisa went ham in her verse!!!!!!
I’m Brazilian (mixed) American so with a dad who is white but grew up with this hip hop, he show me a lot of music like this and told me if I’m going to listen to this I need to know the meaning !
That’s what I did ! It’s why one of his favs from Tupac is keep yo head up! If u listening to that and ain’t even respecting the actually pottery and TRUTH u shouldn’t be listening to it . Same with some many songs like this .
Even other songs cult of personality, he made me sit on the tv and watch it while still paying attention to those lyrics .
Left eye killed it!!!
L-Y-T-E showed why she's in the books, and Left Eye did what's natural to her, but Nefertiti caught me off guard first time I heard this one. This is power. This is what it should be!
Yay to see my favorite artist females: Queen Latifah,Yo Yo, TLC, Mc Lyte and Salt n Pepa but Left Eye killed this damn beat soo dope! R.I.P.
THEY ALL KILLED IT!!!
Amazing Lineup!! Left Eye made my jaw drop with her rhymes. I miss her very much.
I love the respect lefteye getting 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Back when HipHop was talking real life & reality..not money, sex, & bitches. 🙌
Its attractive when girls can spit flows like tht
+Athenaaa' Mae. Hip Hop still spits that real. You just ain't got your ears tuned to the right outlets.
It's funny when people say things like that after listening a song called freedom, y'all fucked up
They been talkin about money sex and bitches since the eighties where you been
Jy Z
No actually since the late 50s early 60s
All Legendary Female MC'S Kept It 💯 On This Track. RIP Left Eye 🙏
Now in 2022, still no songs like this to UPLIFT the people, the music not what it used to be, mindsets all wrong.
They all came out to eat on this!!!!!!!
THIS is the ultimate female rap song!!
1:43 - Left EYE snapped!! REAL HIPHOP ✊🏿✊🏿 RIP Chick! You definitely was a REAL one! Love black women with class and intellect!
lauryn hill should of been in this one
i can see her freestyling to this
#LaurynHill was a relative unknown in the music world back then (in 1995). Although, she may have been more known as an actress (or the little girl who got booed on {Showtime at the Apollo}), most people didn't know she made music even though she released an album with her group #Refugees , later known as The #Fugees . It was until a year or less later that she (with her group) achieved her breakthrough.
Rashawn Antoinio I could see her singing to it too. ;)
2koolken Cool, but the rhymes though... she would have slayed everyone on the track. But Left Eye took this one lol.
sarah simpkins Not true the fugees was out back in 1993 or 1994.
Left eye 👁 n aaliyah I love them may they both rest in peace 🙏🏾
R.I.P. LEFT EYE
and Aaliyah, who's also in this crossover song.
Left eye kills it
THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHERE MUSIC SOUNDED SO GOOD
Over 20 years later and this is still very relevant, my black sisters stand together ✊🏾
I love this song all of the female rappers killed it, bit my favorite was left eye's part. JUST PERFECT
L.E.F.T E.Y.E Stop fucking playing with a real star!!!! Dont create them like that no more. RIP your missed ❤ 🤍
Bro was she also in TLC?
@@evanhainey2101 Of course lol the one with the black line under her eye
Beautiful black sistahs doing they thang
Left Eye always giving me the fucking chills.
Such an amazing collaboration!!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿💯💯💖💖💖 Would love if we saw more collaborations like this, beautiful, talented women speaking the real 💯
Real Woman i salute!!!❤
Props to Queen La and MC Lyte but Left Eye turned that ish up!!!
I love this song, it represents Black PEOPLE MATTERS and we're all a UNITY, and it expresses that black women is so strong like black men!! LOVE the song, it's so empowering and love all the rap verses by Queen Latifah, Salt 'N Pepa, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, MC LYTE, YO-YO and love the vocals from everyone!! ❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤😊
3:52 Meshell's verse is also a line from her song "Step Into the Projects"
M'eshelle drives the original! Her lyrics are from the depths of Our Black Generation! Love Her!
Salt N Pepa's verse was 🔥🔥🔥
SALT-N-PEPA‼️❤️‼️
Now this is what hip hop is all about not what we have today.....back then they touch on real issues and not foolishness that current rappers rap about today. Im 16 but I know real and good music when I hear one.
Salute, we need more youth like us to speak up on this im 18 and feel the same bruh
+terrius ''tlynch'' miller absolutely
Rachel Ray young Queen it's so refreshing to see a comment from an awakened soul that can hear! Kiss yo mama baby girl and tell her that she has been doing her duty correctly and someone in the 313 sees.. Stay conscious little one...loving you!👑
Respect to all you sistaz, love from East Africa. RIP Left Eye
Left Eye🔥😍💪🏾 & I love this song , we lacking this Energy in todays generation
Black is beautiful
Real Rap Girl Shit🔥🔥🔥 Damn Left Eye Was In Rare Form On Dis Joint💪🏾💪🏾
I am a 40 year old white woman and this is the music my friends in my teens introduced me to. It is timeless and I will be forever grateful to those that turned me onto rap artists from that time. I still listen to this day. The sophistication today has been lost, but the feel of this and artists alike will always be felt.
you don’t have to publicly announce that you’re white, we don’t care
Meshell N is always been underrated.
Needed to hear this song this morning....
September 2024 🎉
Patra and Left Eye Ate
This song needs to replayed today in 2021!! Still here for all the smoke.
Play it today in 2022✊️
Exactly
Lisa "LEFT EYE" Lopes verse oh my goodness 🔥🔥 may her soul forever rest in peace
Back when female rappers sticked together and made Hits and not this modern beefing over nonsense
Queen Latifah, MC LYTE, Yo-Yo, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Salt N Pepa and all the talented black female music artists did this song so great!!! ❤😊😊❤ 😄
They all did so fantastic and amazing on this inspirational and empowering song!!! ❤😊🤩 ❤❤❤😊
When women were about lyrical skills and not raunchy skills. Respect to the Queens.
Lisa Left-eye Lopes always had a hard flow and switched flows a lot 1:47 - 2:29 . She rapped better than half of all these women on this cut here. They’re legends to but Lisa was something else. Her tone and flow is something else. Anytime she raps T-Boz & Chili always smiled because they fed off her energy. I always loved her flow rip 🫶🏾.
Left Eye bodied this!!