Eddie Murphy - I Was A King Lyrics

Whenever Eddie Murphy sings, he sounds absolutely nothing like himself

Eddie Murphy killed Shabba’s career with this train wreck

Yep, WE WERE KINGS AND QUEENS OF THIS WORLD.. EDDIE WAS AHEAD OF THE TIME WITH THIS

Much respect to Haile Selassie and Marcus Garvey

The song also applies to black queens as well

Larry Blackmon from Cameo on drums.

That bassline.

What’s with the guitar? A tambourine would be much more believable!

This is another one by Eddie M. I haven't heard. Nice beat.

Smdh how in the hell did I miss this one too from 93?? Sum ain't right!!!

Is this not the corniest video u have ever seen?

I caught the meaning when I was 11..

I came here for Shabba

🍇 only here for Shabba

i rememba winn this video featured, Eddie & Shabba were incredible on this song & video bacc in "93" even Eddie rub off a lil swag on Shabba in tha video but eye opener, Eddie couldn't shoot that video in U.S. he had 2 go 2 Jamaica were Shabba was from bcuz ov the message, u c, winn u been in Hollyweird half yo life especially as a comedian, the powers that be will never take u serious, USA is my country but it was built on $ & racism, sad but tru.

In these divisive times we need the wisdom of Shabba Ranks to unite us

watch the amount of view ..why ?

Damn Eddie is real yaw see Malcom and Garvey he's still king

Don't sleep on my boy Ed Murph he may be funny at times but he music is fire

I have new found respect for Eddie. Growing up I thought this song was trash.

Eddie seem like hes joking or playing

🔥🔥🔥

This was my shit back in the day Eddie was sexy hunny 😂

any1 here from windsor mtn Rivers 2023 Mr Maroghini?
is it him 3:26 ?

Crazy thing is everybody and anybody who has a problem with this video chances are they probably all racist white people and then I can understand the uncomfortableness of watching a video.

Eddie Murphy has a song called. "OH JAH OH JAH" it's really nice and "Red Light" f/Snoop Lion

The white/red man(Satan) hates blacks/Negroes/Hebrews because blacks are the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Heaven and the kingdom of God is promised to the children of Israel, descendants of African/Egyptian sun-slaves and those scattered to the four corners of the earth by slave ship(transatlantic slave trade).


Stop worshiping satan. Cesar/Cesar Borgia is NOT God. Revelations 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Zondervan’s Bible Dictionary: Ham – The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; not the Negroes, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.

Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

Song of Solomon 1:5-6 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as black as the tents of Kedar, as black as the curtains of Solomon. Job 30:30 my skin was black upon me. Lamentations 4:8 my skin was blacker than coal. Isaiah 47:1-2 we had dreadlocks. Acts 13:1 I was called a nigger. Daniel 7:9 burnt bronze skin Revelations 1:13-15 hair like wool skin like burnt bronze. Song Of Solomon 5:11 My dreadlocks are black & bushy. Enoch was a pitch black Ethiopian. Moses married a black Ethiopian and passed for a black Egyptian and Pharaoh son. Baby Jesus, Mary, & Joseph fled to Egypt to hide. Jesus walked the desert for 40 days. Israel is on the continent of Africa. The real Jews were Egyptian sun-slaves and have always been black.

Acts 7:6 Then the LORD said to Abraham, "Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. Deuteronomy 28:15-68.
Daniel 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Jeremiah 17:4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Lamentations 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Luke 21:24 They shall fall by the edge of the sword and be taken captives into all nations. Jerusalem will be trodden down by gentiles until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Ecclesiastes 4:14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Isaiah 45:17 But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Revelation 21:12 And The New Kingdom of Heaven had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Romans 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.
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Please don't take my word for it. Check Biblical Prophesy. See what the Talmud says about Jesus and Mary. Everyone should read The Synagogue of Satan By Andrew Carrington Hitchcock, The International Jew by Henry Ford, The Protocols of The Elders of Zion, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Israel's 5 Trillion Dollar Secret, The Invention of The Jewish People, The Thirteenth Tribe, The Bloodlines of The Illuminati, Into Egypt Again With Ships: A Message To The Forgotten Israelites and From Babylon to Timbuktu to name just a few.

The Jews are the so-called Negroes scattered throughout the world via the Transatlantic Slave-trade funded by the Caucasian Revelation 2:9 jews. It's a fact.

Jesus isn't so-called white and the Caucasian jews in Israel are Satan worshiping impostors and the devil for putting himself up to be God and for the murder, rape, theft and enslavement of hundreds of millions of God's Chosen.

https://youtu.be/Su_8w33ZHZU


Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

https://youtu.be/vccqdA90GO4

I wish this song was on I tunes

FOR DONALD TRUMP'S AMERICA!

In the words of Rick James (Mad TV).... “Eddies other songs where crap, Put your mother on me.. crap, I was a King..CRAP, and that song he did with Micheal Jackson wasn’t nothing but a big ole piece of kangaroo crap 🦘 💩

This song is ass

Everything about this song is HOT.......except Eddie.....Eddie is garbage........BUT this was pioneering in the art of autotune

Music was never Eddie's strong point.

I have to keep it real. As a kid I thought this was straight wack. As a grown man, I realize this is one of the realist songs of the past 20 years. Yo, read the lyrics. Eddie is speaking the raw truth that needs to be heard.

I make that Fire at folly house I was part of this video

Wid stupid religion dem try to fool us,
Wid bad education dem try to school us

The world wasn't ready for that song at that time. Especially the establishment.
... AND STILL AREN'T!

I feel the message but this nigga really think he could sing lmao 😂 wowww

Physical in bed . physical in bed .

This shit was jammin back in the day and NOW!

I laughed at this when I was a kid but Eddie was a King

Leaving Babylon going to Mount Zion

The song takes you to new Awakening after 400 years

“That boy is good!!”

“Mmm hm good and terrible.”

Decent song, cringy video.

BLACK FIST RAISED....RESPECT TO MY PEOPLES IN THE STRUGGLE...LOVE YOU!!!

If only black men knew who they were....and still are...look in the mirror hard enough you will see it...."King"

We got to get these KINGS to their feet!!! BROTHERS YOU ARE WARRIORS!!! WHEN YOU RISE...THE "WHOLE" NATION RISES WITH YOU...WE FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE "WITH" YOU!!!

Kings of what?

one of my favorite songs even though people laughed and trashed it originally. now you see the song was on point

I use to love this as a kid and what’s up with mj

I wassssss a king who liked to party all the time party all the timeeee ohhhh yeah

I remember when this premiered on fox.

Omg I remember this video on Fox

This is a very informative song that Eddie Murphy did with Shabba Ranks dealing with issues on black history and what we can do as a people to change as well as fix things. Well done, fellas!!!! This came from the 1993 album, LOVE'S ALRIGHT. By the way, Eddie Murphy has just turned 57 years of age today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, EDDIE MURPHY!!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!

Yess♥️💯

Love the song it's one of my favorites off the CD. However I really don't like the music video too much. But it's all good though. And yes I'm 100% pure white and I love Eddie Murphy song right here I was a king.

This is funky...blazin hot...King

Eddie was woke

was indeed. until that shrek money starting rolling in, divorced his wife and got with the blondie he’s with now 😒

@CaapriceTube what's wrong with white girls? Lol

Yes he was but definitely trash singing though

...Unlike me for most of this song ;)

Yeah, woke up in that white woman.

Powerful Song!

I still like him and yes he can really sing, his music has a purpose...to enlighten, inspire, and be self awareness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiFzKfuPMk

after many yrs i have a new respect for this song.

Same here brah .....all the way woke now.

Yo like totally I cannot believe that there's a lot of people out there still to this day. do not think that Eddie Murphy has music CDs out when he does.+ The other thing is a lot of people think that Eddie Murphy cannot sing at all either. I have to say that is freaking bullcrap like seriously for real I am being. Let me tell y'all something for those non-believers out there. It's like this Eddie Murphy can sing when he really wants to. Trust me on this he sure can sing his butt off when he wants to. I have couple of his music CDs and they're pretty much fantastic. The song right here that he did. I was a king it is a fantastic song. Eddie Murphy did an outstanding job doing this song. True that non-believers. With all the music that Eddie Murphy did over the years this one right here. I was a king is my is and will always be my number one favorite song that he has done. And my favorite second song that Eddie Murphy kid is party all the time. Don't get me wrong he has a lot of great songs out there they're all fantastic. But these two right here I was a king and party all the time are my favorites that he did. You know it's a shame that Eddie Murphy did not continue to make music or CDs anymore. Eddie Murphy is a talented and fantastic singer his music is like out of this. World. I seriously do like his music much better than his movies he has ever done. I think that Eddie Murphy should continue to sing for good this time and continue to put CDs out.

i agree

The White Supremacist hate and trolling is heavy in the comment section!!!!!

Why do you hate us?

Ummm the message of this song is incredible. I laughed at it when I was a kid but now my opinion is different. Eddie and Shabba

Agreed brother

The message was always dope yje singing still remains garbage

Me too. I look at this much differently now.

Such an interesting accessory Eddie's wearing.

Oh! It's a guitar? Nevermind.

we wuz kangs n shieet.

Exactly what i was thinking lol

Kangs? Naw, naw, naw, don't get it twisted! Y'all wuz PIGZ and shieet!
...AND STILL ARE!

Whether you like the song or not!... I DO!, if they put this song on at a cookout you would get up and shake your ass because the beat is funky as Hell.

that look like Saint Antonio parrish

Eddie Murphy is singing too softly and I can hardly understand what Shaba Ranks is saying, but I love the beat and the timing of the large screens.

I still love Eddie,
but this song was terrible..(Ugh!)
No no....
I take that back.
Shabba Ranks killed it...

damon mitchell Sorry brother you blinked and missed the whole damn thing. Self identification and self pride. Who are you and where are you from? Futhermore where are you going this song talks to my soul can you relate?

the lyricsI Was A King"

World-ah right up
Painted across the sky
Black man, first Kings.
Black Woman, the first Queen
Eddie Murphy sing and Shabba chant, Scene.

I was, I was a king
You brought I to your land in chains
You forced I to work by the rod
You taught I to worship your God
You stripped I to the bone
You raped I, took my soul
Abused I, records show
You bought and you sold and you killed I
Your blood was cold, disgraced I
Why do you hate I why do you hate I why do you
I was, I was a king

A little?
White nation black nation who's the? Caribbean?
Wise up wise up my brother wise up
Rise up rise up my nation rise up
Wise up wise up my sister wise up
Get-up an' up Eddie says wise up
Get-up an' up Shabba says wise up

I was, I was the first
Of all man to walk on this earth
You're from I or did you forget
Your father deserves some respect
You use I to the bone
You hurt I, took my soul
You cheat I, records show
Your nation was built on my sweat why
Why do you hate I why do you hate I
Why do you hate I why do you
I was, I was a king
Look at me now
Lift every voice and sing
'Till love in heaven, yeah
Ring in harmony
O-oh, please

Wise up wise up my brother wise up
Wise up wise up my sister wise up
Rise up rise up my nation rise up
Stop fight stop fuss that only kill us
We stop hear religion that try to fool us
We buy? Any system? that try to school us
Get up?
Wise up wise up my brother wise up
Shabba Rank him say wise up
Wise up wise up my sister wise up-a
Eddie Murphy say wise up
This is the time that we all stand up
Malcolm X try to let us wise up
Fought to see the conscious and pay the cost
Martin Luther try to let us wise up
Fought to see the conscious and pay the cost
Each one teach us not to kill us
This-a tell-a that one not to hurt us?

Stop your fighting stop all your fuss
Find you conscious you must an' up
Rise up rise up one nation rise up-a

DJ B-1 This would make a better spoken word.

Hidden lies by the jew

after 15 years i decided to look up the lyrics and i was like damn i had this record all wrong

DJ B-1 haahha

This video was shown after an episode of Roc..

salute to roc!!!!

Ha ha you are showing your age. I’ll never forget the debut of this video. I was already a Shabba fan so when it came on after Roc I couldn’t wait. I remember thinking Eddie tried to hard in the video but who ever wrote the song was awesome!

eddie this is like a good song but do u need all the effects and other singers? also it doesnt really work with the film clip. maybe something more minimilistic im thinkin kele "the boxer" or sinead "nothing compares". u know ur such a beautiful and funny person I'd love to see u having more fun with ur music. anyway cheers.

He recorded and filmed this 23 years ago...

Wise Up....

This record was garbage!

my poor black sister..wise up rise up...Smmfh

@patrick Edmknd Who you calling a poor black sister? I know a whole lot more about life than you do. Smh

I love it!

Michelle McDonald The album was not trash your just too uneducated to recieve the message.

this song is 4:20 long

Eddie sure tried to be a rock star didn't he.

Prince 2.0.

Bonnie N indeed

He had the voice just really bad songwriting. Gotta have a catchy hook. That's #1 everything else is secondary.

powerful...

This was made before Mercedes Benz the 1994 series

This is fire! I like this.

"Why do you hate I?" Man, who talks like that???
I know Eddie never talks like that.

Maybe you don't know Eddie Murphy as you think you do.

Donald Davis, WTF?

IIIII was a king , that is what that plays on

kenterminatedbygoogle its a song goofy. Poetry set to music. Don’t be a jerk for being a jerks sake.

I usually find Eddie Murphy funny but I don't get it

He was dead serious here. Lmao

This is a history lesson not a joke blacks were kings and queens before coming to gay azz America

Afrocentricity is retarded.

RabbiBabyDick Why is that?

Raw Fruit and Vegetables..........

What the hell was that man doing up there!?...(great message though).

Still a hit

QUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Arsenio Hall lol!!!

Szuper :) 

Szintén örök kedvenc :) Nem tudom megunni 

Basszus, 94 óta ismerem ezt a zenét, most meg már tudom, ki követte el és miről szól. Érdekes dolgok ezek. :-) De hogy rajtam kívül más magyar ember is, az azért elég kemény :-D .

az elsők volt amit felvettem ,mikor bejött az MTV, még gyesen voltam :) azóta őrzöm ,már nagymama vagyok de a jó zene nagyon fontos nekem .

Szerintem hasonló forrásból lehetett nekem is. :-D Van még pár hasonló, olyan is, amiben Shabba Ranks szerepel szintén, a szöveg is megfejthető, de egyszerűen nem leli a Google. De hát ez a szám is..Eddie énekelt? Ez nekem teljesen új. :-)

Igen Ő énekel , volt egy közös lemezük .Ez a szám slágerlista vezető volt akkor az USAba igy óránként lenyomták . Jól énekel + jól gitározik :)

i know Eddie with this song and then all the movies

I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS I WAS A KING

Fuck you eddie!!!

Tell me something...."Cleo Patra"...you that you so gloriously....bleat (!!!)...do you know what is the meaning of the name you're using for your "Avatar"? Or even better.....do you know what language is it?....No?...You don't know?....You can't answer that?...Can you?...No....I wouldn't think so. Therefore...keep bleating....'cause that's the best thing you can do in your miserable life!!!
Oh...By the way....your name there...IS GREEK! Fool!

bla bla bla

This is so Great :-)

This is funny as hell

...back in the 1950's will persuade even the most doubtful among you people! Therefore, I suggest you just...cut the bullshit, and go on and pick on them and not to us! Your beats are WITH THEM....NOT WITH US!!! Got that moron?! You should be ashamed of doing such a thing! But then again heah?...As we say here in Greece...."Who lost the shame around here, so that you jack asses, can find it at the end?!!!".....yeah...right!

...because of the terrible inferiority complex you have, thanks to decades of white oppression against you, and within your tiny brains you MISTAKENLY believe that this way, you'll take revenge upon them! Unfortunately for you though, the whites who oppressed you back then WERE NOT GREEKS but ANGLO-SAXONS who however, ALSO OPPRESSED GREEKS IN THE PAST AS WELL!!! Maybe not the same way they did to you, but oppressed us also, anyway! A simple look at the independence struggle of Greek Cyprus...