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Is Ghostface Killah's - 'All That i Got is You', the saddest GOAT rap song ever?

the lyrics, the violins, chrous/outro, the sample, the video...

how could you not tear up listening to this, whether you're a hiphop listener or not?

Official Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvQW_-s_f0

Album/OG version with Mary J Blige on the Chorus & Long Outro
(best version imo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIAeO2IiZ8


Yeah, ohh yeah, this goes out
To all the families that went through the struggle
Yeah, from the heart
It was all from the heart, everything was real

[Mary J.]
All that I got is you
And I'm so thankful I made it through

[Verse 1: Ghostface Killah]
Yo, dwellin' in the past, flashbacks when I was young
Whoever thought that I'd have a baby girl and three sons
I'm goin' through this difficult stage I find it hard to believe
Why my Old Earth had so many seeds
But she's her own woman, due to me I respect that
I saw life for what it's really worth and took a step back
Family ain't family no more, we used to play ball
Eggs after school, eat grits cause we was poor
Grab the pliers for the channel, fix the hanger on the TV
Rockin each others pants to school wasn't easy
We survived winters, snotty nosed with no coats
We kept it real, but the older brother still had jokes
Sadly, daddy left me at the age of six
I didn't know nuttin' but mommy neatly packed his shit
She cried, and grandma held the family down
I guess mommy wasn't strong enough, she just went down
Check it, fifteen of us in a three bedroom apartment
Roaches everywhere, cousins and aunts was there
Four in the bed, two at the foot, two at the head
I didn't like to sleep with Jon-Jon he peed the bed
Seven o'clock, pluckin' roaches out the cereal box
Some shared the same spoon, watchin' Saturday cartoons
Sugar water was our thing, every meal was no frills
In the summer, free lunch held us down like steel
And there was days I had to go to Tech's house with a note
Stating "Gloria can I borrow some food I'm dead broke"
So embarrasin' I couldn't stand to knock on they door
My friends might be laughin', I spent stamps in stores
Mommy where's the toilet paper, use the newspaper
Look Ms. Rose gave us a couch, she's the neighbor
Things was deep, my whole youth was sharper than cleats
Two brothers with muscular dystrophy, it killed me
But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips
To wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit
Case worker had her runnin' back to face to face
I caught a case, housin' tried to throw us out of our place
Sometimes I look up at the stars and analyze the sky
And ask myself was I meant to be here... why?
Yeah, yo

GOAT Wu/rap song
 
Rap is the best genre. It's so existential and a great reference for future civilizations on how the Black race was treated in this country.

This song is one of Ghost's best.
 

ERotIC

Banned
It's sad but the "I came from nothing" premise is used by like 95 percent of rappers, so it loses a lot of poignancy.
 

Chuckie

Member
I don't tear up that easily.

That being said, Ghostface is fucking great and one of my all time favorite rappers.
 

Blackthorn

"hello?" "this is vagina"
Solace by Earl Sweatshirt is my go to sadboy song
[Verse]
Late for everything, my face to the cement
That's how I always seen it
I spent days faded and anemic
You could see it in my face, I ain't been eatin', I'm just wastin' away
Looks like the way that River Phoenix went gon' end up my fate
And when they drag me out the gutter, mail the ashes to my mother
Twist the spliff if I don't finish my plate
Slip a fist up for my niggas in chains, my mental was caged
See I ain't been to prison but the feeling's the same
Shared sentiment, winnin' if the pen hit the page
As of late, I've been watchin' every bitch on MySpace
Shit's just lookin' different with age
Try to make some sense of all this shit in my brain
One foot stuck in a tar pit of my ways

[Musical Intro]

[Verse]
It was like that the whole time, we'll be alright
Stayin' up all night, but it's alright
I been stayin up the whole night, but it's alright
It's me and my nibbling conscience
Nigga I'm fixin' to give up
I've been alone for the longest
It's trouble, the way that we're joggin'
Nothin' gon' save us or stop us
Me and my nibbling conscience
Nigga I'm fixin' to give up
I've been alone for the longest
This spliff, I ain't splittin' no time soon
My brain split in two, it's rainin' a bit
I hope it's a monsoon, my face in the sink
I'm seein' my mom soon, I'm faded, I stink
Stay in it...

Part 3:
[Verse]
I got my grandmama's hands, I start to cry when I see 'em
Cause they remind me of seein' her
These the times that I needed her most cause I feel defeated
And I buy nothin' by myself, my second thoughts, my hec...
My hands, I start to cry when I see 'em
Cause they remind me of seein' her
These the times that I needed her most cause I feel defeated
And I buy nothin' but myself, my second thoughts
My hectic process of thinkin'
And all my doubts and I think
I know Nak in there sleepin', he on the couch, that's my brother
Give me a boost when my confidence need it
So I love him, to tell the truth, I got a problem with eatin'
I be druggin', to tell the truth, I'm not supposed to be off in here
I'm supposed to be sleepin', but I be turnin' and tossin'
To tell the truth, I miss my partna dem
To tell the truth, you can't be loud when you're the wrongest, fam
To tell the truth, I'm at a loss of friends
Well time waits for no man and death waits with cold hands
I'm the youngest old man that you know
If ya soul intact, let me know
 
Common's "Its Your World"
Kendrick Lamar "Sing About Me"

These brothers are leaving Prothean artifacts for whenever aliens find an uninhabited Earth.
 
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