Black Star - Respiration (Flying High Mix) Lyrics

That instrumental is all kinds of crispy. Wow just breathtakingly amazing

Keep it movin in love...likes that

Talib Kweli absolutely killed this shit

One of Pete Rock's very best beats.

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DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never heard this before WHOA🎯🔥⚡

Just a touch of pure hip hop soothing to the mind and soul damn where has the time gone🤔💣💣💥💥💥

So pretty. PERFECT TO ME!

Pete Layed that out.

Pete really has another taste as producer, ohh man check the smoothness of the sound.. There's no crappy effects or voice changers. Just jazzy flow and straight rappers of the best ones. Fantastic, peace 🤘

I'm today years old when I heard this...... WOW

Just as good as the original.

Same level 💯

first time I hear this... what???

Still wasn’t reached a million views? WTF.

This is one of those joints that instantly takes you to your vibe and the headspace you were at when it was out. I was broke and struggling when this came on, it didn't even matter. This jump off was metaphorically a deep breath that removed me from that stress, and whenever I hears this I instantly go back there in my mind and smile.

One of the dopest remixes of all time

This beat feels like when you sit down and get your breath together.

...with the trademark PR dog pant in the background, lol. This one had ALL the elements. Supremacy.

So tough

Still amazing 🔥

Mos def is one of the most underrated MCs for sure....

This is why God gave us Hip Hop.

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Just amazing.

I need this shit like air, y'all don't understand. I'm a child of freshfest. It's in my veins.

This is real Hip Hop ... u know wa'm sayin

Straight 🔥

Too much wisdom for u keep watching ur change while i stay true 💨👀💀🐐👂

The original is super and then came the remix, I was these guys are really holding it down..Mos def on the hook !!!!🙏👌🏾👍🏽💪

Dope! Hey please show this brother some love he talented https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pceufymI7A

SPEECHLESS.

But BLACK THOUGHT’s lyricism is way sharper than an obsidian knife,this guy is seriously A LIVING RAP GOD...every joint he’s ever been on he’s murdered.

Tariq Trotter is indeed a G.O.A.T

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Mos Def, Talib, and Tariq? Over a flawless Pete Rock beat? Remix of arguably the best Hip Hop song ever yet IMO this IS BETTER... In other words this is arguably the greatest Hip Hop song ever made IMO!!!

This beat is so smooth reminds me of the R&B group Slave

HOW IN THE FUCK HOW I HAVE NEVER HEARD THIS?

Classic

Dr. John Henrik Clark #masterfulteacher

highs too crispy

When i listen to shit like this i enjoy reading the comments almost as much as I'd enjoy exposing the lames who are giving shit like this a thumbs down...who are you? How much 'hand sex' have you herbs been having to disrespect the artform...where's freddy fox when you need him so you suckas could get dealt with!?!

Too ILL

like sharks we can never be still _TALIB thats ill cause Sharks Never Stop Moving till they die.

"Live to get, and you only end up getting by.."

One of the dopest hip hop tracks of all time... if it’s not at your BBQ I’m not coming. #Classic

just imagine if black thoght and common had joined blackstarr.....it would have been fire

Mos Defs verse in this song alone is better than half the rappers careers that have come out since 1999. This is soul music.

"I pushed my pen and wrote this scribe,
Like the morning wouldn't find me alive /
I'm surrounded all day by the con and the cool,
Wise man and the fool,
Young guns in tennis shoes /
Ghetto classes include:
Get yours, get it right,
Get down, get paid,
Get ass, get it right,
Get on, get fly,
Get jig and get high /
Like to get - and you end up jjust gettin' by /
When the night time cover my city like a cloak,
I approach and assemble my hopes into notes /
Hard to sleep in the city that don't, cuz it won't
Let you rest, noises on your doorstep 'nuf to stress /
Police department raid the park bench on nonsense,
Cuz they fear to see the brothers conference /
Regardless, we born tight, and work all day to break night,
They like, 'why you living in death, that ain't right' /
This ain't right about my late night habits,
It's mad static, but the city so alive, I just gotta have it (reference to Ms. Fat Booty) /
The planet of Brook-Lawn is what I look on,
Ghetto chef rockin the place while you gettin your cook on / ..."

Masterpiece by Mos Def.His verse on Thieves in the night is timeless

@dynamic honestly that might be my favorite mixtape of all time front to back. Whole thing is just timeless soul food.

@Kyle Broussard real talk

If I could meet one MC it would have to be Mos Def. Dude just seems so grounded. I feel like he the type of dude who if he wasn't a musician would just be homeless because he loves the journey anf hates the material. Thanks for this soul music guys. Keep the voice of the Truth alive a bit longer in this darkness.

This music has gotten me through a lot of mornings where I thought I wouldn't wake up. "I push my pen and wrote this scribe, like tomorrow won't find me alive."

today is the first time I ever heard this song... damn i been missing out

One of the greatest remixes ever

2019??? 🎧🔊💯✌🙏

FUCK THE RADIO

So much on my miiiinddd! I... Just can’t recline! 2019

Listening in 2019 🙌🏾

Thought said you’re foeing where you friend at . Whew

This is high art...pun intended!

Great but Common should have a verse on it especially as he was part of the original.Masterpiece still.

Incredible lyricism by master lyricists

Ayo im from the year round shootouts,
The summertime cookouts,
The wintertime grind for the shawties on the lookout.
The chosen few know the rules, the rats threw the book out🔥

Straight Fire

Anyone know the sample ?

Hip-hop CLASSIC! Just heard it 4 the 1st time and I'm ashamed.....
Of all the names listed as dope DJs & producers, lemme b the 1st; Hank Shocklee & Terminator X.

Absolute perfection! Enough said!

tuuuuuune.........

Shit hits haaaard🔥🔥🔥🔥

Melanin 9 killed this beat on his track soldierz as well

Sooo slept on..wish this was mainstream

This is the soundtrack to my life.....one of my most re - played joints ever

This is the only time that we got Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Black Thought in a one track!!!

I remember having this cassette tape back in '98...still fresh for da '19

2019...and still music to my ears. This is a classic!!!

If you aint download this off Limewire, Bearshare etc at least once get the fuck out my face

Sick sick track...

Those dumb fucks at Apple Music put the lyrics to this version in the original song.

What 57 people DIDN’T like this?? Double you tee eff?

This the best hip hop song of the 20c

Still dope to this day. Everybody made their mark on this one. Simply classic.

55 people smokin boat.

Plus I love the original but nothings better than this remix with Pete rock

To be truthful every time I hear this song makes me want to cry to get my life together as a real hip-hop supposed to do that to you

Who's the 1st rapper.. He nice

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Classic joint

2018 August! Still Hot!!!

Forgot about this one. What a classic!!!!

Chocolate boy wonder......soul brother #1

Hip Hop in its truest form

Black Thought fucking destroys the mi!. Seriously he was so underated. "thirsty with they hook out"

O'll schooool

This my generation and I will say without a Doubt That there will be no other in competition, Quality, or Message. I Dare you to step up to this level. I actually Pray you do.

Preach.

curthn FACTS!

And feel inside

Just dance

Pete rock is the best old school producer all of times

Mos Def > Yasin Bey

His voice at the end though....damn

this was a cool remix but, Mos Def's verse on the original was pure art!!

Been looking for this for years now. Thanks for posting

Let's play the game, how many times can i listen to this and cry