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4.3 ( 32 total votes )
With his version of Foster the People’s Pumped Up Kicks, Yonas put his mark on the biggest sleeper hit of 2011—and earned the Booth staff’s Best Remix of 2011 nod for his troubles. Not quite as ubiquitous as the aforementioned record but equally ripe for recontextualization in a hip-hop record, M83’s Midnight City gets a similar treatment on the Booth fave’s latest promo cut (making its exclusive world premiere!). As on Kicks, Sean Ross handles production duties, fortifying the French synth-pop sensation’s intricately layered electronic soundscape and iconic, studio-tweaked yowls (Yawps? Hoots?) with a punchier rhythm section. Yonas digs deep on the lyrical tip, exploring themes of mortality, spirituality, and the hustle in verses as rich in meaning as they are simple and direct in delivery. On the bridge, he sums it all up: “They say the perfect life exists right in them churches / I say the perfect life doesn’t exist where this earth is… I got a future full of soul and a past full of hearses / I resurrect ‘em in my verses.” Feeling it? Download this cut from the freestyle alum‘s Facebook page, and keep it locked you-know-where for all the latest dispatches from his journey to the top.
This song first appeared on the
Independent Chart
on January 30, 2012
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 128 |
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 Love Yonas. Love M83. So, this is something I could definitely listen to again.
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| Posted on Jan 23, 2012 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1217 |
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Damn, Yonas and Sean Ross are quite a team. This was epic.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Epic
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 11684 |
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Yonas doesn't make bad music, so you knew this was going to be excellent before pressing play on our stream.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 553 |
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I download a lot of music I find on DJBooth, but the Yonas songs always stay on my playlist for the longest time.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 394 |
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First time listening to this artist.... wow, I've been missing out!
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1306 |
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The day Yonas makes a bad song, is the day that the world will end.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Nmh;-)*
Epic |
| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 1645 |
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Great sample, production, and lyrics. This is quality music.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Nice song.
I have a question though.. isn't this the same beat as "This world ends" by lupe? |
| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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I've never heard a bad song from Yonas, and this one doesn't disappoint. Absolutely love the M83 too
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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It's either a hit or hit with Yonas. The man never misses and will always top my list as the most slept on artist until he gets that record deal (it's gotta be sometime soon)
What wrong with labels?!?!!!? |
| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 121 |
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Very good. It needs a compelling video with great visuals to really set it off.
Nothing generic or corny, but a really artistic video that would stand on it's own would blow up this song I think. With continued musical consistency and strong videos he could potentially be a cult following type artist. 4 stars |
| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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I like the Tupac reference on the first few words of the first verse. The beat is fast and kinda catchy. I like Yonas' flow on this beat. This is a good listen.
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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I came accross M83's Midnight city thanks to HBO's "How To Make It In America" and Shazam encore and discovred Yonas one year ago on Djbooth. The sample is definitely a good choice, but I didn't find the spirit of "Mindless", "I could" or even "fall back" in this song. This is more "Radio Flow" than "Nobody Else".
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 1069 |
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Yonas I still waiting on that album...mainstream sleeping on this man
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 380 |
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Dope song overall
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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| Posted on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Tastemaker  Total Ratings: 2919 |
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Killin' it
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| Posted on Jan 26, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Crew  Total Ratings: 385 |
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yessss yonaassss - kills it.
L.O.S.E.R. - Lyrical Operative Supplying Excellent Rhetoric :) |
| Posted on Jan 26, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 203 |
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This track is the definition of why Boothizens around the net love Yonas. The best part is that there's not actually any literal definition for what it is for a track to be a Yonas joint; why need one when it speaks for itself?
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| Posted on Jan 26, 2012 |
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| Posted on Jan 27, 2012 |
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playing it again and again,great track
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| Posted on Jan 29, 2012 |
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Good song by Yonas but feeling Lupe's version just a little more probably because of the substance within the lyrics..Still good song though
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| Posted on Jan 29, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 73 |
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Awesome Song!
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| Posted on Jan 29, 2012 |
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I've heard better from Yonas. I'd give it a B-
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| Posted on Jan 31, 2012 |
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Loved it!
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| Posted on Feb 02, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member Total Ratings: 1 |
Yonas , best artist alive.
In every new song , he brings something new. You guys should listen to fall back too , he will be posting a video on the 20th of Feb ! Thanks for the amazing songs , yonas |
| Posted on Feb 14, 2012 |
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This is why I keep comin' back to the djbooth site day after day, to hear music like this. This is brilliant! Real Hip Hop right here, another form of poetry, it's beautiful...
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| Posted on Feb 18, 2012 |
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Yonas is gonna go far...
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| Posted on Mar 20, 2012 |
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DJ Booth Member  Total Ratings: 106 |
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Dope!
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| Posted on Mar 23, 2012 |
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| Posted on Oct 16, 2012 |
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