Heard this for the first time on Fight Night Round 4. The game alone brings me back to those days, but once this song hits it just teleports me to a timeless place....one of the greatest tracks of all time.
Same here bro, man that game was my shit in high school. This song and a few others from that sound track are timeless classics. That Brooklynn we go hard track
As a 40+ man, i have a lot to say about hip hop vs rap vs gangsta rap vs trap rap vs mumble rap. This man here is the rebirth of HIP HOP! To bad (just like Sean Price) I've outgrown hip-hop and missed out on this when it was new. I trully missed out.
29 here. I’ve thought I’ve grown out of hip hop or so I’ve thought several times. This guy was recently recommended to me and I gotta say he’s a direct clone of other artists like Nas and MF Doom. Their flow gets boring after a while. As a 40+ check out Aesop Rock. He’s around your age and is more his own breed of musician than he is a rapper - although he’s arguably the greatest of all time at straight up rapping
47 here. I hear you on that RB. The decline of actual talent, creativity, musicianship, and diverse thought in rap along with my own evolution as a man, husband and father, keeps me away from listening to it but it's refreshing to know that someone else is out there giving a crack at something different.
@@maxwell3814 hip-hop has been sold and sold out. Now it's just a tool to keep young Black male feminized and stupid. Feminized outfits, garbage subject matter and little to no flow. Very few artists are actually artists. And the few who are, go nowhere. The baddest rappers I'm hip-hop based on lyrics and subject matter are Tom McDonald's and Marlon Craft. No diss to J.Cole and Joyner Lucas, but as of lately compare lyrics and tell me who are the better more well rounded artists. And be honest.
@@RB-ub9ht Lmao dude your main issue with hiphop rn is its keeping young black men down, then you go and recommend a clown like Tom Macdonald? What? And as for modern hip hop "feminizing" people, artists have been playing with gender in their outfits for 50+ years now, its nothing new. Prince, Little Richard, Michael Jackson, and even white artists like David Bowie, the whole glam rock era, etc. Millions grew up on that stuff in the 70s & 80s and it didn't "feminize" anyone. Its artistic expression dude. Sorry its not what you grew up on, but its nothing to be afraid of
I know better, but he does not sound like a New Orleans rapper. No disrespect to New Orleans but his delivery, topics, and flow is one of the dopest I've ever heard
@@BongiJewu-rg7npthat’s not why lol .. that’s just like saying Mac from No Limit spent his time in the east coast and he didn’t even wanna sign with Def Jam.. Mac, Jay, and Mystikal just know hip hop but still kept it true to their New Orleans roots
Going to Israel at the end of the year have truly given my life over to the most high just turned 40 let a wife. This song always made me think about God even when I was in my early 20’s when I first heard it not it means so much more. I pray I can like prophets and Yeshua but o hope I can leave something deep for the next generation like this man jay electronics left for us
So much of what you write goes unnoticed. The sound of slot machines in the background. "A $2000 government *cheque from FEM-.* I swam down, *shits creek,* and came up, clean." *$Cha-Ching$* All in a song with a constant theme of gambling. Genius.
"life is like a dice game/one roll can land you in jail/or cutting cake/blowing kisses in the rice rain. Still to this day is the most powerful bar I've ever heard...and I'll happily die on that hill. That and the Shawshank bar are top 2 ever. This song was so important for hip hop back then it's ridiculous.
Upload the full mastered version with Mos and your extra verse please "the elegant art form of rhyming's just blinding" This is the best hip hop beat of all time btw. thank you
Have you ever listened to just a beat that you cried so warm in your heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Respect a Goat
Absolutely a beautiful track. Just Blaze’s production is one of his best. He’s still progressing after all of these years. And the montages just add to the intelligent carnage that Jay just blessed us with. This joint is for real.
Now go google ever person on this song and understand what he was saying that what make this song so special and no one can take that away best song any rapper ever put out
WAIT A MINUTE! I have heard this song before! I thought I had never heard Jay Electronica before today, but I didn't know the name or artist of this song!- Wed, Oct 14 2020
Jay’s music makes the world a better place and that is the definition of success!!! 🛸 I can’t wait for the day I can work with Jay Man!!!! Salute sir 💎🧘♂️🍵👁🌳☀️🙏🏻✌️🎤📻🕺
They built my city on top of a grave. Im from Tampa and theyre still discovering graves that were Old Black Cemetery's. On MacDill Air Force Base, King High School and black neighborhoods. Do your research.
@@ciegosanchez5289 Thanks for the reply. It implies that the country presents itself as attractive but is ugly underneath - just as the modern city paves over the ugly past
When I first heard this, it was a moment that sticks with me till this day. Timeless music! This came out and then I went to see at the Jazz Cafe London about a month later. This must have been back in 2009. Memories!
2024 classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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All day
Tru Realigion
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If he does NOTHING ELSE ever again, there's always this.
And over 100 other songs we good Ohio stand up
Yep
He just disappeared when Jay-Z signed him
@@dreddabarber6315 pretty much
@dreddabarber6315 cause he helping jay write his shit
The song that started the long, and winding trip down the rabbit hole...
Frank-Robert Akubuilo ever since I first heard it in fight night round 4 back in 2009
Lol yep. Fight Night Round 4. I remember vividly.
This is my theme music on every WWE 2k game and Fight Night Champion
Jay Electronica is the GOAT
@@chriscurtis5616 how do you play it in fight night champion?
One of the most underrated spitters ever.
“You can find the Christ where the lepers and the lames at….”
APTTMH 🔥🔥👑👑
@@bobbypittmanjrttee1001 Cold Line!!! 🥶
That’s that 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That Shawshank bar is one of the coldest punchlines in hiphop history.
Which line was it?
@@robliberachi “I swam down shits creek and came up a clean with a new lease on life like Andy Dufresne”.
@@Unclejack328 FIRE!!!!
@@proprince244 Bars!!! It really hits because of his backstory dealing with Katrina.
It truly is. This whole song is more gospel than hip-hop.
Piano ending hits too hard, what a masterpiece of a song.
No doubt
Heard this for the first time on Fight Night Round 4. The game alone brings me back to those days, but once this song hits it just teleports me to a timeless place....one of the greatest tracks of all time.
Same here bro, man that game was my shit in high school. This song and a few others from that sound track are timeless classics. That Brooklynn we go hard track
Respect the architect never test the Elohim 🤯🎶💪🏾
Such an incredible song, easily the most underated artist of our generation
no question
I agree but he kinda did it to himself. Wasn't dropping anything.
@@SaudiSymbol if he really was dating that rothschild woman then I don't blame him. He already won.
@@SaudiSymbolI don't feel like he have to. We should be happy with what he's blessed us with
I can’t say he’s underrated but AMAZING for sure
Man i thought Elect was about to BLOW
All we can do is thank this man
That all 😮
Playin fight night round 4 brought me back here 🔥🔥
Fight night 4 will always be special in my heart 💯
This song is amazing
"I'm sittin pretty spitting FLAMEs
Grippin grains.. Aint A Dayum thang changed "!
As a 40+ man, i have a lot to say about hip hop vs rap vs gangsta rap vs trap rap vs mumble rap. This man here is the rebirth of HIP HOP! To bad (just like Sean Price) I've outgrown hip-hop and missed out on this when it was new. I trully missed out.
29 here. I’ve thought I’ve grown out of hip hop or so I’ve thought several times. This guy was recently recommended to me and I gotta say he’s a direct clone of other artists like Nas and MF Doom. Their flow gets boring after a while. As a 40+ check out Aesop Rock. He’s around your age and is more his own breed of musician than he is a rapper - although he’s arguably the greatest of all time at straight up rapping
47 here. I hear you on that RB. The decline of actual talent, creativity, musicianship, and diverse thought in rap along with my own evolution as a man, husband and father, keeps me away from listening to it but it's refreshing to know that someone else is out there giving a crack at something different.
@@maxwell3814 hip-hop has been sold and sold out. Now it's just a tool to keep young Black male feminized and stupid. Feminized outfits, garbage subject matter and little to no flow. Very few artists are actually artists. And the few who are, go nowhere. The baddest rappers I'm hip-hop based on lyrics and subject matter are Tom McDonald's and Marlon Craft. No diss to J.Cole and Joyner Lucas, but as of lately compare lyrics and tell me who are the better more well rounded artists. And be honest.
@@RB-ub9ht Lmao dude your main issue with hiphop rn is its keeping young black men down, then you go and recommend a clown like Tom Macdonald? What? And as for modern hip hop "feminizing" people, artists have been playing with gender in their outfits for 50+ years now, its nothing new. Prince, Little Richard, Michael Jackson, and even white artists like David Bowie, the whole glam rock era, etc. Millions grew up on that stuff in the 70s & 80s and it didn't "feminize" anyone.
Its artistic expression dude. Sorry its not what you grew up on, but its nothing to be afraid of
Let's Hope the Genius Mind of Jay Elec Blesses Us All With A Holy Tome of THE Album SOMDEDAY. FAITH.
timeless lyrics, timeless production that sold me.
this is probably thee most underrated rap I've ever heard
"They built our city on top of a grave
Niggaz die niggaz get high and watch the parade"
The fade to piano at the end is lovely
Brings tears to my eyes it's so beautiful
U guys think hes ever gonna come back again?
sadly, no
Maybe but probably not on the level of this era
He’s not even on this planet anymore.
Still crazy how this changed my flow forever.
This track is a masterpiece
Jay electronica is living art.
On Gawd!
🧘🏻♀️ 🧘🏽♂️ 🧘🏿♀️ ॐ
They build my city on top of a grave
Simple but so much food for thought
I'm having this played at my Funeral..🙏💯
🥴
One of the best woke out here Jay Elec!! I'm listening to anything you offer! 🔥
I know better, but he does not sound like a New Orleans rapper. No disrespect to New Orleans but his delivery, topics, and flow is one of the dopest I've ever heard
He spent a lot time on the East Coast, so
I get what you saying But the whole song bout the N.O.
@@bwheel2962 No doubt.
@@BongiJewu-rg7npthat’s not why lol .. that’s just like saying Mac from No Limit spent his time in the east coast and he didn’t even wanna sign with Def Jam.. Mac, Jay, and Mystikal just know hip hop but still kept it true to their New Orleans roots
what is this beautiful scenery and sick rhymin'
here we are, legend with the legendary masterpiece
exhibit A is timeless
The greatest to ever come out of New Orleans
I remember the first time I heard this song.
Went to the local guitar store and they gave me a copy of this song.
Am I the only person that listens to this song at least 50xs straight every time my ears come across it cuz… I can never het passed it smh
Dude spits like nas forreal!
Going to Israel at the end of the year have truly given my life over to the most high just turned 40 let a wife. This song always made me think about God even when I was in my early 20’s when I first heard it not it means so much more. I pray I can like prophets and Yeshua but o hope I can leave something deep for the next generation like this man jay electronics left for us
2020 Still rocking this hit !
Timeless, important.
2021 till infinity. This God level rap
2022 here and still as good as the first time I heard it
Fight Night Round 4 introduced me to this song, and Jay Electronica in general back in 2009.
2022 and still coming back to this song to this day.
2023
2024 my ears are still eating this masterpiece!
Here listening to 🔥 2024
Jay electronica dwells in the 7 heavens n thanx that he descended from the highest pick to come deliver this
2022 still the best hiphop song it goes straight to the soul. Rastafaria
Hey brotha what is the name of the symbol in your profile photo!?
@@TheMoran2118 Gye Nyame..one of the Adinkra symbols...
@@lbjishere thank you bro! ☥
So much of what you write goes unnoticed. The sound of slot machines in the background. "A $2000 government *cheque from FEM-.* I swam down, *shits creek,* and came up, clean." *$Cha-Ching$* All in a song with a constant theme of gambling. Genius.
"life is like a dice game/one roll can land you in jail/or cutting cake/blowing kisses in the rice rain. Still to this day is the most powerful bar I've ever heard...and I'll happily die on that hill. That and the Shawshank bar are top 2 ever. This song was so important for hip hop back then it's ridiculous.
I love the piano at the end
Hello children 👋
This is hip hop
Upload the full mastered version with Mos and your extra verse please
"the elegant art form of rhyming's just blinding"
This is the best hip hop beat of all time btw.
thank you
You can’t even argue with that. Shit bump from a donk to a big body benz. Damn…
This shit is pure fire
We need your extra verse and Mos's verse as well
The best of the exhibit series!
Music is the greatest vibration 💪🏾💯💪🏾💯💪🏾‼️
Have you ever listened to just a beat that you cried so warm in your heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Respect a Goat
Happy Thanksgiving, America 🇺🇸
I love how J Elec and MF DOOM have/had the most descriptive metaphors.
I discovered the meaning of life listening to this.
Understood it as soon as I read it...! 🫡
Shot out to Jay's conglomerates, for saving hiphop.
Absolutely a beautiful track. Just Blaze’s production is one of his best. He’s still progressing after all of these years. And the montages just add to the intelligent carnage that Jay just blessed us with. This joint is for real.
Architect of Rap ~ Jay Electronica
my dad played this song all the time when i was younger this song is fire
So now yall know why the hook on "Flux Capacitor" states "get the gat" , it's a ode to New Orleans bounce music.
Jashub Issachar I was thinking about that phrase in my sleep for some reason
Flux capacitor
Ohh my god
A remix with Nas would be 🔥🔥🔥 I could totally ear him on this type of instrumental
who gone bring the game back?
Favorite rap song of all time, play this when I'm gone
Does this song have a night time big city feel to anyone else?
I started listen to this type of hip hop all cuz I heard this on Fight Night
Ever since 2011 i've kept this has a soul searching love song.
I been sleeping on Electronica too long, should have listened to him after that Control song.
Fuck yeah
Johan pfp go hard
That's still too late
@@arnav3253 Nujabes pfp go hard
@@yuvrajpundir3713 Yessir
Now go google ever person on this song and understand what he was saying that what make this song so special and no one can take that away best song any rapper ever put out
This will never be topped.
Behold! The confectionaryyy behemoth!
A lot of kings seen death then turned queen
Fire
WAIT A MINUTE! I have heard this song before! I thought I had never heard Jay Electronica before today, but I didn't know the name or artist of this song!- Wed, Oct 14 2020
Let us begin
The flow is elegant like Miss Corretta scott king.❤❤❤❤❤
Crazy line.. 🤯
Jay’s music makes the world a better place and that is the definition of success!!! 🛸
I can’t wait for the day I can work with Jay Man!!!! Salute sir 💎🧘♂️🍵👁🌳☀️🙏🏻✌️🎤📻🕺
So much potential…..
2022 still pumping this hit!
This song was the reason why I started calling myself the Elohim when I rap. All respect to Jay Electronica
Legendary vibes. Hustlers anthem.
Still goes in hard
🎉😢😢
the fact this piece has yet to receive million view significance promotes impotence ...but life is hard
What yall know about FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4?!?!?!?!
Although this song doesn't need a feature, I would love to hear a Nas verse on this.
There's a few remixes with Most Def, Black Thought and Jay Z.
Dog through the internet and they'll pop up.
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Facts!..I was thinkin Freeway💯
2023, still crazy
Great lyrics. Classic song. #ExhibitA
They built my city on top of a grave. Im from Tampa and theyre still discovering graves that were Old Black Cemetery's. On MacDill Air Force Base, King High School and black neighborhoods. Do your research.
America will fail until it does right by us
That line gives me chills. Just like Black Thought's 'Lady America, face full of concealer' on his recent Stream of Thought Vol. 3. Pure poetry
@@90schildnostalgia i heard that line, what does it mean exactly?
@@ciegosanchez5289 Thanks for the reply. It implies that the country presents itself as attractive but is ugly underneath - just as the modern city paves over the ugly past
Why did I only now decide to peer in your life my peer..
This woke up my soul 💯
When I first heard this, it was a moment that sticks with me till this day. Timeless music! This came out and then I went to see at the Jazz Cafe London about a month later. This must have been back in 2009. Memories!
First time ever hearing this and wow
it’s good to be back
that interlude at 1:23, nostalgic
N.O. always, forever.
This the beat Moses or one of the Bible prophets wrote the scripture to.
Yes it's that kind of beat. Majestic
one of the greatest🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Classic
Beautiful track
Jay us one of the greatest rappers hands down Mashallah he is amazing
breathtaking
Sun gazzzing purple dots look here plasma