Simone, Nina - Do What You Gotta Do Lyrics

I just wanted you to know, I loved you better than your own kin did from the very start.

Classic....she like you just tell me what’s up..it is what is...

Another Jimmy Webb classic, best song writer in the world!

Kanye wrote these lyrics in 1968. He used a time machine.

*GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG*

I remember this song from the top ten in the UK around Christmas 1968.

Anyone else here because of avengers 2???

I made that bitch faamous

Thanks for sharing the original

Nina wants you to be free of New Kanye (even though it's the same Kanye).

Hey kanye sampled this but this song is actually beautiful

Oh my sweet Lord, what a genius You've created. She waits, then walks deliberately into her groove and while you're following each sweet syllable she abruptly shocks and tasers you and you're a sobbing, sopping mess on the living room floor.

A very beautiful lady !!!

In a dream ,I was at my former job and this was playing.... somebody tell me what that mean.

Everyone talks about her singing but These lyrics are fucking amazing also🔥
ive never heard another woman talk like this

Love it ^^

Written by Jim Webb for the Johnny Rivers album "Rewind" in 1967 which he also wrote the strings, brass, and woodwind arrangements for.

I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex

loverly NINA bless you and thanks for everything j vincent edwards hey my pal JIMMY WEBB wrote this classic

😌 just... just so beautiful

My mom loved this record, now I love it too.

THE GOAT brought me here

God bless your voice Nina!! 😍😍😍

This is not used on Kanye West's FAMOUS - or rather - the song is, but it isn't Nina Simone singing it. Listen carefully and you will hear.

Fuck commercial fake ass Kanye West. Hooray to real '90 underground hiphop. Hooray to the best female artist ever lived Nina Simone and hooray to the real Four Tops, who own this classic like no other. Love real music - the finger to all commercial mainstream followers

Nina always brings tears of joy to my eyes.

"I gotta lot of livin' to do before I die and I ain't got time to waste. Now let's make it. #50 😍😍 love you NINA!!

Kanye? I'm here cause 50 Cents Wanksta and cause i love Nina but every time I hear Wanksta i come back to this.

Made that bitch famous

Who was here before life of Pablo

Flipped https://soundcloud.com/thierblanc/memory-lane

NINA MARAVILHOSA!

Nina Shop

This song is good but I'm not gonna do what I gotta do lol

This song was written by the great Jimmy Webb and he is not credited for the hundreds of times it's been "sampled" (stolen), nor is he eligible for a Grammy despite it being the backbone of Kanye's "Famous."

Thank you Jimmy Webb.

how did kanye sample Famous part without vocals?

for Most of the song famous you can tell the vocals are still playing but very low in volume

0:25 The Part Of Famous Thank Me Later

who else came here after they found out kanye sampeled this song in famous

Angel Sanchez meeee

Angel Sanchez me.

Angel Sanchez Me!!

I'm here for 0:24-0:31

The picture shows her sadness. I love this song!!

WAKE UP MR. WEST

Fuck 50 Cent. Who give a shit about some fucking rap song

I am really digging this!

we all here for the same reason

#Kanye2020

wanksta from 50 cent has the same beginning

"I got a lot of living to do fo' I die and I ain't got time to waste" -50 Cent

So technically Nina Simone has been making KANYE famous... Hmm

Mr. Horrible lmaooo SHE made that bitch famous.

CheesecakeLasagna hahha on the point

I feel like this is a statement Kanye west would 100% agree with, which is kinda funny.

TLOP brought me here. Never heard of her before, so gooooooooddddd!! Almost shed a tear listening to her. Sold.

if you like this version you should hear the Roberta Flack version

nobody writes like Jimmy Webb

Todays music is nothing but recycled music from back then.....get with it...learn your history. This is why shitty singers and rappers are what tthey are because of who they sample and steal from.

Kanye putting this generation on to the passion of the past. Love my generation cuz I enjoy it all.

😍😍😍😍😍

"I loved you better then your own candyyy"

wether what she said i dont know but being a Jimmy webb fan i know what was written

***"i loved you better than your own kin did"

It's "I've loved you better that your own kin did" fam

Literally look up any lyric video for this song lmaoooo

It was a joke...🤞

That moment when she doesn't blame you much for wanting to be free but she just wanted you to know.

shit this touched me in the heart man.

I can't breathe by the time she gets there, then I'm done for.

I'm looking for a WAV-file (or good quality) of this song to play at my mother's funeral in two days, including that first line: "I got a lot of living to do before I die and I ain't got time to waste". Does anyone have an idea wher to find it or on which album the song was released with that line?

Thanks so much in advance.

+slectmans I have this version off of 'The Essential Nina Simone.'

+stevenjm12 Thanks! I found a copy of that album and got a good quality file now :)

And I always thought 50 cent made up the "I got a lot of livin' to do before I die and I ain't got time to waste lets make it" on Wanksta

Lana del rey is not the Only nina fan <3

Rihanna is actual garbage

Actually Kanye West didn't bring me here,I already knew Nina Simone

I made that bitch famous

Stop 😂

WANKSTA!!!!

I BE PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE FLOATING! !!!!!!!

This is actually a country song released by Johnny Rivers, written by Jim Webb. Released one year prior to Nina Simone, lyrics the same.

esttres no it was actually a r&b/pop song released by Al Wilson . IT was indeed written by Jimmy Webb and was on Johnny Rivers "Rewind" album but never released as a single by Rivers...btw Johnny Rivers was pop not country

Lmao this is the original

who else tears up every time they hear this song?

im not crying, you are! 😭😭😭

Swizz beats and Kanye brought me here.

kanye west brought me here

Kanye brought me here.

+Jena Daza You here because you never knew good music :) its okay your honesty counts

@Chris Woodard she knows good music because she knows kanye

The Four Tops version was far better I think

Rihannas voice is nothing better than this

True, that's why Kanye ended the song with Nina's vocals instead of riri's lol

thanks so much kanye, as soon as i heard rihanna singing those words, i.was.blown away. no way i thought, this has to be from somewhere, this isn't rihanna, though her voice is just so perfect. ! When i reached the last 15 seconds of the song and i recognized nina simone's voice singing the same words as rihanna before, i lost it. no way, i thought, what is this song!! i had to google the words and her name, and now i am so in love with this song. i swear, i think i discover a new nina simone song every year. she is so amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqF738bBpSo
Lyrics and melody are mostly by the great Jimmy Webb and his being snubbed by the Grammy's, its a crime!

I love her

I think that was a man singing this that whole time, while listening to kanye

Plagiarism is called sampling nowadays...

@Maxime Beck Well, they still create their own lyrics and melody over most samples. It's like a remix. Nobody complains about remixes being unoriginal.

+Maxime Beck Dude, haven't u ever written a paper n quoted someone else before, basically the same thing.

Maxime Beck this is the dumbest take

Maxime Beck but people pay to use a part or best to a song. If they don't it'll be another Robbin Thick situation lawsuit

it is called inspiration, dude

The great Jimmy Webb brought me here. The songwriter is the genius you all are hearing in this song. Nina Simone is an excellent interpreter. Listen to jimmy sing it.

The life of pablo brought me here and I'm glad.

Am I the only 1 that caught that her intro to this song is what 50 cent said on the intro of the song wanksta? I learn something new everyday about music!!

@Yung Reggie lol it hasnt been on whosampled for a long time. i know this b/c im the one who uploaded it to whosampled

@stevenjm12 Ok. But I didn't say it's been there for a long time, I said "it's been there for quite a while".

@Yung Reggie that means the same thing

@stevenjm12 lol No it doesn't. Maybe to you it does but that's your business.

Yung Reggie dude quite awhile means almost exactly means long time..just take the L gracefully

I love people on the feed saying the new Kanye West album brought them here! That's why I love hip hop you find out where the samples are from and you find a new artist to love!

Maybe they should, but if they came here from Kanye West, there's nothing wrong with that.

I agree. I originally posted this song after I found out the intro to 50 Cent's "Wanksta" interpolates this song

and people talk crap about kanye...but he's still doing the work ;)

@Poison Ivy true

Ron Chambell thank you for being positive about that. So many people thank that they're above every one else just discovering these artists in a year like 2019 or 2020, simply on the premise that they've been aware of the artist longer. That just made me happy to see someone being actually positive about it

Kanye brought me here

TLOP brought me here, Thanks Kanye!!

TFLOP isn't the only reason I'm here.

so dope💯💯💯

Song is so soothing

ye has referenced and sampled Nina Simone NUMEROUS times

Actually, It was written by Jimmy Webb

@Randall Sly doesn't mean its his song.

Actually that's exactly what it means

@Randall Sly just because he wrote the song doesn't mean its his song. he wrote it FOR her. meaning he gave it to her.

It means it came out of his mind, and not anyone elses. Jimmy Webb is the writer, and everyone knows it. Nina performs it beautifully. The industry has never changed.

BOM BOM BIDOM BOM BOM

Wrong Place, Thats Famous (Sample: Bam Bam By Sister Nancy)

lool nice kanye refrence

ofcourse i know bam bam was by sister nancy

art garfunkel that's by sister nancy

Sister Nancy BomBom

life of pablo brought me here...nina being the real G

I just wanted you to know "waiting for the beat to drop"

+hi bob That beat is amazing I Love it

+hi bob it felt so empty without the drop and swizz beats grunting

Yeah, agreee. That's another level of music

TLOP brought me here and I'm glad it did!

wow Life of Pablo brought me here, but Nina stole the show from Kanye completely. What a performance!

I think he samples her a lot. I love her music

@Felipe Ricardo Nina didn't take anything from Johnny Rivers, didn't write it. She recorded a song written by Jimmy Webb, as others did. And, Jimmy Webb only references Nina's version. Lastly, you're here listening to it.

@Obsidian451966 Thanks for informing friend. Now I can finally sleep at night without this horrible confusion on who wrote what and who sings what! =]

@Felipe Ricardo You're more than welcomed for the angst.

:)@Obsidian451966

beautiful

thanks for showing me this kanye, cause it's better than your version! HAHA! HAHAHAH! OH MY WORD

+ZeranZeran He doesn't hve a version idiot

Go listen to Kanye West - Famous feat. Rihanna and tell me it was not directly based on this. I THINK WE'RE DONE HERE..

Thats a sample, not a version