Reacting to "Black on Both Sides" by Mos Def
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You’re having a positive impact on all of us by just letting us experience music with you, that’s beautiful. and Bob best believe im waiting on that song about my city Bakersfield
Mr. Bigweld
2023-03-21 04:26:19 +0000 UTCI've been getting pestered a lot for RTJ3 lately :)
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:58:30 +0000 UTCThanks for joining along for all this time :)
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:57:54 +0000 UTCThey still sit very high on the list. I like the idea of doing an Earl "Super Friday" and knocking out a lot of his remaining projects
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:57:14 +0000 UTCI appreciate it/am happy to hear it
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:56:23 +0000 UTC🙏
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:56:02 +0000 UTC😂
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:55:40 +0000 UTCThis is exactly what he song has been doing to me... calming. It's been great. I'm so happy it's come into my life
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:55:08 +0000 UTCI think this is a good thing. You can join the journey :)
Bob_the_Poppop
2023-03-20 00:03:23 +0000 UTCyou have to continue RTJ3 and 4
Raul Valencia
2023-03-19 22:39:55 +0000 UTCWith new world water it's about the importance of one of our most purest resourses and how industry has capitalized on it and potentially will/has control populations with it
Matt
2023-03-19 18:47:40 +0000 UTCWrong
Mahmood Al Mardi
2023-03-19 10:02:47 +0000 UTCI thought this album was bloated when I first heard it but all of the tracks have grown on me since. Habitat was a mediocre track to me at first but now it's one of my favourites. It gives me a big feeling of sonder - "realizing that every one, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it." The last verse on Brooklyn feels like an intro to Habitat that links the songs (it starts with "Brooklyn my habitat..."). After Yasiin Bey paints a picture of Brooklyn and shows his love, Habitat talks about how home isn't necessarily a physical location but a feeling. Shouting out other cities reminds us that there are people all over the world living in different places that still share that same feeling of home despite having their own unique environments and experiences. That's my take on it anyway, I can't help but ramble about this album whenever it's brought up
Famous Amos
2023-03-19 01:47:58 +0000 UTCThis is a bit of a full circle moment for me Bob. I found your channel by chance a year ago looking for a Black on Both Sides reaction. Despite pestering you to react to this album from day one, I’m glad you listened to it at this stage of your journey. Your channel has helped me discover new music and appreciate albums I love in new ways. It’s also been great getting takes on social issues and life from an open minded individual who’s seeking understanding. Not to mention the community you’ve created and showing that it’s a strength to be vulnerable. That’s being a positive in my books.
Famous Amos
2023-03-19 01:09:25 +0000 UTCLove the video. Great reaction. U should listen 🎧 to Kendrick Lamar’s cover of Umi Says. It’s one of my fav from him.
Jay Dog
2023-03-18 16:40:18 +0000 UTCThankyou for your dedication to this journey Bob <3
Josh
2023-03-18 15:42:18 +0000 UTCYou posting these videos and making thousands of peoples days even just a little better every week is more than a lot of people can hope to do in terms of helping others.
Isaac Robichau
2023-03-18 15:27:42 +0000 UTCLove this reaction, but you never did any other Earl albums!
Sam Murray
2023-03-18 14:49:53 +0000 UTCHope you do The New Danger and hopefully the Cool by Lupe!!!!
Timothy Payton
2023-03-18 13:32:20 +0000 UTCYou are part of the solution Bob, thanks for being you! I think a lot of people look up to you.
Sjur Kvam
2023-03-18 13:10:39 +0000 UTCDon’t have the patience
Antonio Macias
2023-03-18 09:28:18 +0000 UTCHe's got to start with Do You Want More??!! and go thru most of their discography then end it with Undun.
Tim Marlowe
2023-03-18 07:45:38 +0000 UTCAfter a long day at work a good bob rant was just what I needed. Amazing video and brought my eyes to a new album I had not discovered before.
paula cherry
2023-03-18 07:22:04 +0000 UTCJust started the video now, crazy day at work. I'll report back if I remember
Alex VonBerg
2023-03-18 05:36:05 +0000 UTCWhat do you think?
Mahmood Al Mardi
2023-03-18 05:03:40 +0000 UTCPlease don’t feel like you don’t do enough. You have no idea how much you do for me everyday, coming home from work late at night and watching your videos.
VeganMilk
2023-03-18 03:43:08 +0000 UTCThe true G.O.A.T.
Paul Salvador Estrada
2023-03-18 02:34:24 +0000 UTCYou doing your part and its touching more people in so many ways you don't know. You ARE doing something great ......this channel is changing people in ways you can't imagine.....thank you.
PRINCE
2023-03-18 02:18:51 +0000 UTCHonestly after this Album Drake does seem kind of shitty in retrospect
Tyrone Ross
2023-03-18 01:57:59 +0000 UTCpretty sure that Fresno radio station is now either called The Wolf or Blaze I'm still in Fresno but i haven't listened to the radio in a while. Fucking loved the Bakersfield joke about a band can only be called either Oil, Smog, or Korn. Too accurate.
Captain
2023-03-18 00:10:55 +0000 UTCAlso, replacing "New World Water" with "New World Order" gives a lot of insight into the double entendre.
Unknown User
2023-03-17 23:41:34 +0000 UTCMore Nas when???
Tyler Johnson
2023-03-17 23:33:51 +0000 UTCI need "Undun" by The Roots soon
Antonio Macias
2023-03-17 23:17:07 +0000 UTCFor the Song "New World Water", it is literally about water and it's importance. How people need it to survive, how precious it is (droughts), how we do not understand the importance of it, how corporations monetize/pollute it.
Number16
2023-03-17 22:29:13 +0000 UTCUmi Says is what I like to call a "centering song". Sometimes we end up consuming so many articles, videos, tweets, speeches etc about how bad the world is in a variety of ways for a variety of peoples that it's easy to forget how good life is or can be, and it's easy to discount them - for some reason the overwhelming terror of the bad tends to outweigh the brilliant scintillating shine of the good, and it makes you feel like everything you've done is worthless or that you don't do enough or that you'll never be enough. But then Mos Def comes in and tells you to shine your light for the world to see, and his raw emotion and honesty centers you and you remember that the point is to exist, to be happy, and to help, and so long as you do that you're doing ok. The world has always had bad and good but keep shining and you become that scintillating good for all to see. I fell in love with that song the moment I heard it, ran out and bought the album, and I listen to it all the time, going on almost 25 years now.
Xavvi
2023-03-17 22:14:40 +0000 UTCBusta Rhymes - The Coming is a must
snooza
2023-03-17 22:01:55 +0000 UTCI was waiting for you to realize that the beat in Ms. Fat Booty is also used in Surround Sound in The Forever Story. Great video Bob!
Magnús Halldórsson
2023-03-17 22:01:48 +0000 UTC🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Livin Legin
2023-03-17 22:01:42 +0000 UTCI'm embarrassed to admit that this will also be my first time listening to this album as well
Alex VonBerg
2023-03-17 21:50:24 +0000 UTCI used to love this album back in the day when I was in highschool like 20 years ago. Find it boring now
John
2023-03-17 21:47:59 +0000 UTCThe Ecstatic is also great, his second best imo. But not on any streaming service for some reason
Erik H
2023-03-17 21:25:45 +0000 UTCpossibly one of the best albums ever. his next album (The New Danger) is a bit divisive but i love it. a lot of rock/blues influence on there.
snooza
2023-03-17 21:24:29 +0000 UTCbest day of tiptoe turkey's life
Callie D
2023-03-17 21:21:54 +0000 UTCThe day is finally here. Top 5 album imo
Erik H
2023-03-17 21:21:38 +0000 UTChappy friday y'all
ufo
2023-03-17 21:21:20 +0000 UTCWOOOOO
ZachTheMusicMan
2023-03-17 21:18:31 +0000 UTCYEAHHHHH
Deen Syed
2023-03-17 21:18:24 +0000 UTC
