I dare everyone to listen to this song and not shed a single tear.

[SL33TBL1ND]

Not a single tear, bro. It takes more than 'Homie grew up in the ghettos. Shit's sad, yo' to make me feel something.

Did you even bother listening to the whole song? I don't think you did and if you did you didn't really listen to it. Its not just "Homie grew up in the ghettos. Shit's sad, yo" and if you think so you are just an ignorant person as well as being racist.

I did, and I fail to see how I'm being racist when that's what the song's actually about.

That's not what its about its about the struggles of everyone and especially those in the black community who think their only way out is being a thug and selling drugs to make it. Which is continuously pushed by those in the media and the music business. You're clearly ignoring the struggles of those in the "ghettos" when guess who put them there white people. Guess who tries desperately to keep them there? White people like yourself by being ignorant and oblivious to the issues. Try to tell me I'm wrong when white people put black people in the situation they are in. The least you can do is listen to the whole song and put a little more thought into your response.

Woah! That was the damn biggest piece of projecting I've ever seen here.

As far as your initial challenge goes, not a single fuck was given.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I didn't cry, but it did give me that tell tale feeling in the gut near the end. You all know what I mean.

 

[Dimitriov]

You know what takes real artistry? Rhyming monosyllables. Yeah. That was just a bad song about bad people.

News flash: You don't commit crimes because someone else put you into a certain position, and you don't commit crimes like that because you are a certain race either. You do it because you are total fucking piece of shit.

Why would I feel sorry for him? That was not a sad song.

 

[NotYetForsaken]

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURHG MY BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN. IT HURTS. THE STUPIDITY AND LAMENTATION OF SOMETHING THAT IS ENTIRELY HIS FAULT BURNS IN THE HEAD. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAURHG. WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE A SONG LIKE THIS!?

OT: Nyeh, it's pretty bad. Not the scenario, but that actual song. It's a tired tale of redemption and an Aesop that no longer works. I have no sympathy for this kind of thing.


However, if it was on the violin and about the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs then maybe I would just care a bit. A Dance with the Devil, bah. The Devil isn't a thief or thug or villain, he's a warden.

 

[silversnake4133]

There's a sad undertone here, but it seems the artist is using very abusive words to tell this story. I'm sorry, but how this guy throws around curse words, he's not winning any sympathy from me. I usually don't mind rap/R&B, but I really can't stand those guys who need to have half of a song's lines made up of nothing but "dirty, street language". Also the piano kind of seems out of place here with the brevity of the lyrics. Sorry, but it's kind of hard to feel sorry for "rapists, drug dealers, and gangsters", especially when a lot of them choose to live that life-style. :/

 

[minuialear]

The song only has meaning for people who understand what life before the mid 90s was like for minorities (particularly the black community) in the US, which probably disqualifies most of the people on this forum. Between that and some of your responses to other people's (albeit sometimes narrow) posts, I don't get what you were expecting to achieve from this.

Also:

A short list of songs that elicited more sadness in me than this one:
...
The aforementioned Gangster's Paradise.
...
"Hotel California" by The Eagles.
...
Any Linkin Park song ever.
And dozens upon dozens more!

Linkin Park? Are you goddamn serious?

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

The song was so terrible I couldn't stand to listen to it so I just looked up the lyrics, and I go nothing. Why am I suppose to feel sad? Because he had a tough life and killed his mother and felt bad about it afterwards? Gee why not think about that beforehand. Almost all of it was his choice. He could of chose differently but didn't. I might feel bad if it was a tough decision, but the stuff he did was just plain stupid and he got to deal with the consequences.

He's the kind of song that makes me cry:

I've heard it over 100 times and I still tear up every time.

You know you basically just said that a kid's first pet dying is more tragic than the situation of black people living in ghettos struggling to survive. I can't really explain in words how fucked up that is.

Most people find it a lot easier to relate to dead puppies than ghettos. A dying pet is something more people have experienced, and thus it brings back strong potent childhood memories of what was likely your first real experience of death. Ghettos on the other hand are experienced by a small minority hence the term "minorities", and it's such a cliché subject in rap/hip-hop music, that most have been desensitized to it.

BOOM! Logic Bomb!

 

[WhoaItsBrett]

I didn't cry. That being said, this song IS very emotional. It's just it takes a lot to make me cry. Zoe Jane by Staind is one of those songs. Just the raw emotion in his voice combined with the lyrics, it just get's me.

Others being Someone like you - Adele, and Where'd you go by Fort Minor.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Snip

Yes it is sad, but not tears worthy sad, because it is a story of kid that was in a bad situation, but decided to let a bad situation take hold of him, instead of working against it. He was bad and the situation wasn't to blame, it was the kid that didn't have the guts to change and become a better person.

It would be 100% more sad if the kid had actually changed and made something of himself and ended up being killed by something from his rocky past.

 

[Victor Kwak]

Wow... What an absurd topic. This long rant is in reply to the post's author. I only read the first page of the thread, and am responding to that. First off, I didn't shed a tear. I can't really relate to what it's like living in the ghetto or being really poor. You know why I don't know what it's like to be really poor? Because my parents found a good spot to settle, and worked hard. I moved to America when I was four with my parents, and while my father, who now hold two doctorates, was in school, my mother found a job in a budding industry, and worked 70-80 hours a week. Being able to prioritize and being realistic is what works in life. This whole white people are racists, even though they don't mean to be, is stupid. And no, I'm not white. Sure, some are born with more privileges than others. I was born with competent parents, while some weren't. And, some were born into a LOT more privileges than I can realistically hope for in life. Tis' the way it is. I am NOT racist because I was born with better stuff than people in the ghetto. As far as I'm concerned, people in the ghetto had more than my family did when we were starting out in this country. A country where we had very little money, didn't speak the language, and had a completely different culture, we now live better than a lot of people who were better off in the beginning. All this song tells is a story. A story that may or may not be true. There are real problems in the world. I acknowledge that. Calling people racist because they don't agree that a song that rapist wrote (according to his song, apparently he did the deed) is emotionally moving, is not the way to do it.

 

[Dimitriov]

The song only has meaning for people who understand what life before the mid 90s was like for minorities (particularly the black community) in the US, which probably disqualifies most of the people on this forum. Between that and some of your responses to other people's (albeit sometimes narrow) posts, I don't get what you were expecting to achieve from this.

Also:

A short list of songs that elicited more sadness in me than this one:
...
The aforementioned Gangster's Paradise.
...
"Hotel California" by The Eagles.
...
Any Linkin Park song ever.
And dozens upon dozens more!

Linkin Park? Are you goddamn serious?

The operative part being where he said it caused "more sadness in [him] than this [song]."

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

heard this years ago, and yeah, it was a bit of a "shocker" to listen to it thoroughly at the time, i didn't shed a damn tear then or now, and judging by your horribly ignorant and racist comments from all angles, i am quite glad we don't have similar opinions on this.

i'll let jackie chan face up my thoughts on this:

 

[Loonyyy]

Even if you don't like hip-hop you have to listen to this song. It is one of the only songs that has ever had me speechless after first hearing it. Its such a tragic story and I find myself on the verge of tears at the end of it. Its just that powerful of a song and this is what real hip-hop should be not all that shit about swag and partying, but real shit that has a message.

I didn't shed a tear, but it's certainly moving. Something that rhymes and means something? Surely this violates the rules of bad rap. But seriously, good song, thanks.

 

[minuialear]

The song only has meaning for people who understand what life before the mid 90s was like for minorities (particularly the black community) in the US, which probably disqualifies most of the people on this forum. Between that and some of your responses to other people's (albeit sometimes narrow) posts, I don't get what you were expecting to achieve from this.

Also:

A short list of songs that elicited more sadness in me than this one:
...
The aforementioned Gangster's Paradise.
...
"Hotel California" by The Eagles.
...
Any Linkin Park song ever.
And dozens upon dozens more!

Linkin Park? Are you goddamn serious?

The operative part being where he said it caused "more sadness in [him] than this [song]."

I'm aware. But still. The dude ought to be ashamed.

 

[Badong]

Yes, the entire story is quite sad and disgusting. Reword it and deliver it in a different way, then one might make me sad inside.

 

[Drakenian]

The song only has meaning for people who understand what life before the mid 90s was like for minorities (particularly the black community) in the US, which probably disqualifies most of the people on this forum. Between that and some of your responses to other people's (albeit sometimes narrow) posts, I don't get what you were expecting to achieve from this.

Also:

A short list of songs that elicited more sadness in me than this one:
...
The aforementioned Gangster's Paradise.
...
"Hotel California" by The Eagles.
...
Any Linkin Park song ever.
And dozens upon dozens more!

Linkin Park? Are you goddamn serious?

The operative part being where he said it caused "more sadness in [him] than this [song]."

I'm aware. But still. The dude ought to be ashamed.

To be honest, "In The End" did provoke a more emotional response the first time I heard it than the song he asked us to listen to.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

Didn't cry, the song was alright, but couldn't take any of it seriously since it probably wasn't true. And even if it was, why would i cry at some idiots self inflicted pain? Best solution to escaping the ghetto? By foot, not rape murder and drugs, i won't cry for idiots

 

[Nazulu]

Sorry bro, wasn't saddened at all. Good riff and all but just not heavy enough if you know what I mean.

This one hit me a lot harder. Can't believe I just found this recently.


OT: Sorry to put it like this, but I think it's because the guy sounds so bland/unemotional. Plus Eminem used key words that make it more dramatic, using them as he gets louder/angrier to make it more relevant.

 

[universaltraveller]

TBH I listened to the OPs song and as a comparison I also listened to:

The song was so terrible I couldn't stand to listen to it so I just looked up the lyrics, and I go nothing. Why am I suppose to feel sad? Because he had a tough life and killed his mother and felt bad about it afterwards? Gee why not think about that beforehand. Almost all of it was his choice. He could of chose differently but didn't. I might feel bad if it was a tough decision, but the stuff he did was just plain stupid and he got to deal with the consequences.

Here's the kind of song that makes me cry:

I've heard it over 100 times and I still tear up every time.

And the latter almost made me tear up. Though the first I though was a allright song in all, but I couldn't get over the whole killing of Henry Mancini's Love Story Theme.

 

[Imper1um]

Sorry, I'm going to have to go with the "Meh" crowd. Its not a song, just someone talking in rhyme (aka a poem). He was in a bad situation that he caused himself. If he just realized he was doing something wrong, he could have avoided it, but, you know what, it is his fault. *shrugs*