Blackstar - Respiration ft. Common Appreciation

[We Major]

Just listening to the album for the first time in ages

Brown Skin Lady

 

[Rekkapryde]

My fav Blackstarr song of all time

Sent From My Nexus S 4G nikka!

 

[Ian1362]

Rawkus blessed us with much piff despite the whole nasty shift in their business model ala trying to make the Last Emperor look like 50 cent

 

[wise prophet]

Astronomy (8th Light):
Brown Skin Lady:
K.O.S. (Determination):
Respiration:
Thieves in the Night: :whew

Classic album.

 

[Ziggiy]

The album is fukking perfect

 

[newworldafro]

Just listening to the album for the first time in ages

Brown Skin Lady

I remember seeing this album in the store shelves when it came out...but at the time I wasn't familiar with Blackstarr although I probably had seen the video with them rolling through Brooklyn in the van....so I wasn't ready to spend my $14 on a group I wasn't familiar with......plus that good ole N.C. radio wasn't going to be playing a song like that, so although I liked the Roots, Common, Nas at the time, I still didn't know about Talib or Mos...............one of those album buying moments.....

Great song. Great album.

Where's the reunion ????

 

[DoubleClutch]

The question is who had the better verse. After all the years I still can't decide.

 

[Izanami]

Breathin in deep city breaths, sittin on shytty steps
We stoop to new lows, hell froze the night the city slept
The beast crept through concrete jungles
Communicatin with one another
And ghetto birds where waters fall
From the hydrants to the gutters
The beast walk the beats, but the beats we be makin
You on the wrong side of the track, lookin visibly shaken
Taken them plungers, plungin to death that's painted by the numbers
With crime unapplied pressure, cats is playin god
But havin children by a lesser baby mother but fukk it
We played against each other like puppets, swearin you got pull
When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes
Gettin knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise
Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog
Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene
Thoughts that people put in the air
Places where you could get murdered over a glare
But everything is fair
It's a paradox we call reality
So keepin it real will make you casualty of abnormal normality
Killers born naturally like, mickey and mallory
Not knowing the ways'll get you capped like an nba salary
Some cats be emceeing to illustrate what we be seeing
Hard to be a spiritual being when shyt is shakin what you believe in
For trees to grow in brooklyn, seeds need to be planted
I'm asking if y'all feel me and the crowd left me stranded
My blood pressure boiled and rose, cause new york nikkaz
Actin spoiled at shows, to the winners the spoils go
I take the l, transfer to the 2, head to the gates
New york life type trife the roman empire state

Talib bodied this tracks. mos and kwe sound famish on this album

 

[newworldafro]

The question is who had the better verse. After all the years I still can't decide.

you mean on this track or the whole album..........it's no way to decide......

 

[DoubleClutch]

On the track. I used to think Common but im more of a Mos fan now. Talib got the best lines. But it really depends on what style you prefer.

 

[OfTheCross]

Such a beautiful song

 

[The War Report]

Mos Def's verse gives me the chills.

 

[posterchild336]

Chronixx has a song on this beat...made me think of choreograph 7 steps to heaven verse when i heard the beat

 

[KravenMorehead™]

escuchela, la ciudad respirando...

 

[Cheech&Chong]

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Classic for real The entire Rawkus movement was killin it for a minute.

One of my favorite movements. I mean death row is head and shoulders above anyone next in line but rawkus is Top 5 for me. They were just dropping classic music at will, they epitomized hip hop