-Here with a special performance of "Ex-Factor," "Survival,"
and "Praise Jah in the Moonlight,"
give it up for Ms. Lauryn Hill
and YG Marley.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
-Ah. Can we take it back?
We're gonna take it back.
♪♪
♪ It could all be so simple, yeah ♪
Whoo!
♪ But you'd rather make it hard ♪
Yeah.
♪ Loving you is like a battle ♪
Hey.
♪ And we both end up with scars ♪
♪ Tell me who I have to be ♪
♪ To get some reciprocity, yeah ♪
♪ No one loves you more than me ♪
♪ And no one ever will ♪
♪ No matter how I think we grow ♪
♪ You always seem to let me know ♪
♪ It ain't working ♪ -♪ It ain't working ♪
-♪ It ain't working ♪ -♪ It ain't working ♪
-♪ And when I try to walk away ♪
♪ You'd hurt yourself to make me stay ♪
♪ This is crazy ♪ -♪ This is crazy ♪
-♪ Oh, this is crazy, yeah ♪ -♪ This is crazy ♪
-Glorious be to the Jah Rastafari.
New York City! -I need y'all to make some noise
for YG Marley.
-Are you ready for YG Marley?
-Come on.
♪♪
Whatchu doing? -Make some noise
for YG Marley. -What's up?
-♪ They don't want us to be ♪
♪ Who we're supposed to be ♪
♪ But we are who we are ♪
♪ That's the way that it's going to be ♪
♪ They don't want you seeking for the truth ♪
-Hey -♪ Ooh-ah ♪
-♪ And it's hard to find it hidden right in front of you ♪
-♪ Ooh wee ♪ -♪ Ooh wee ♪
♪ Ooh wee ♪ -♪ Ooh-ah ♪
-♪ Whoa ♪
♪ And they're showing us to fight through every struggle ♪
♪ Never ever let them put you in a bubble ♪
♪ And the brimstone will rain from our fire ♪
♪ Tell me if that is what you desire ♪
♪ Control, control, control ♪
-♪ Shoobee doobee ♪ -♪ Control, control, control ♪
-♪ Shoobee doobee ♪ -♪ They want control of we ♪
♪ And they want control over me ♪
♪ Over me ♪
♪♪
♪ They keep on fighting us now ♪
♪♪
-♪ Keep on surviving ♪
-♪ Even though they push us to the ground ♪
-[ Rapping ] That same bullet killed Lumumba.
That same bullet stole Fred Hampton's thunder.
That same bullet put Sam Cooke six feet under.
That same bullet took Medgar Evers out, Bobby,
another Kennedy split the nation inside up the enemies.
That same bullet traumatized would-be men,
turned would-be revolutionaries into Barbie and Ken.
That's all Peter and a heater, we lost so many,
many turned on time to time.
Afraid to get shot down like Malcolm X at the Audubon.
The same bullet took so much young black potential
just 'cause they're black, they're perceived as a threat.
The premature deaths have just walked down the street
for resisting arrest.
To the homies just for taking a breath
of a dare and a dream of having success.
This construct is tricky and made for fuel.
If you don't hold your peace, it'll come after you too
that same bullet is a population control.
And we all have to face that dark night of the soul.
If you walk on your soul, if you haven't been told,
you're gonna have to have faith that's calculated and cold.
That same bullet tries to control the appeal.
I mean, like you were mentioning this man, Bobby Seale.
That same bullet even shot at Bob Marley
for preaching "One Love" as a single authority.
And that bullet doesn't have to be literal.
They try to take a man down just for being political.
Assassinate character with the click of their thumb like a gun
to make the people go deaf, blind, and dumb.
So overcome to be content with the crumbs,
I keep reminding my sons that's how business gets done.
I'm reminding my daughters to watch for verbal assassins
should they decide not to cash in.
They like puppets, they control the string, levers, and pulleys,
and if seduction don't work, they'll be back to bully.
-♪ Control, control ♪
-Said they'll be back to bully. -♪ Control ♪
♪ Control, control ♪
-They'll be back to bully.
-♪ Control away ♪
♪ And they want control over me ♪
-Let's go. Come on.
-Whoo! -Yeah.
♪♪
-As we proceed.
Y'all want some more YG Marley?
Make some noise. Let's go.
♪♪
-Yeah! That's right!
-The number one reggae record
of the century. -All my Bob Marley fans
make some noise. -Let's go!
-Yeah!
-♪ But in some people world ♪ -Tell him, son.
-Yeah. -♪ It never shine at all ♪
♪♪
-♪ These roads of flames are catching on fire ♪
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah-ah-ah ♪
♪ Showed you I loved you, you called me a liar ♪
♪ Oh, no-no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Baby, tell me where you gone, gone, gone? ♪
♪ I've been fiendin' for your love so long ♪
♪ We can praise Jah in the moonlight ♪
♪ Oh, baby, if you with me, better do right ♪
♪ And I've been gone too long ♪ -Too long.
-♪ And I'm hoping that you sing my ♪
-♪ Sing my songs ♪
-♪ I've been on this road for way too long ♪
♪ I've been hoping that we all get along ♪
-Come on.
-♪ These roads of flames are catching on fire ♪
♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah-ah-ah ♪
♪ Showed you I loved you, you called me a liar ♪
♪ Give Jah the thanks and praises ♪
♪ I've been on my own, own, own ♪
♪ But we ain't never left alone, 'lone, 'lone ♪
♪ And if I'm tellin' you the feeling is wrong ♪
♪ Relax a little friend, this won't take too long ♪
♪ And when you're feeling alone ♪
♪ You can call my phone ♪
♪ Is there a better way to go? ♪
♪ Teach them something before they lose their soul ♪
-Teach 'em. -♪ Oh, no-no, no ♪
♪ Freedom is the road ♪
♪ Oh, no-no, no, coming in from the cold ♪
-Tell 'em, tell 'em. ♪ Tell them not to sell it ♪
♪ It's worth more than gold ♪ -And what?
-♪ And guiltiness will catch them in the end ♪
-♪ Oooh ♪
♪♪
-♪ Give Jah all the thanks and praises ♪
-♪ Oooh ♪
♪ Give Jah all the thanks and praises ♪
-Come on, sing! -♪ Give Jah ♪
♪ Thanks and praises ♪
-♪ Let's give Jah all the thanks and praises ♪
-♪ Give Jah thanks ♪
-♪ Oh ♪ -♪ Praises ♪
-♪ Give Jah the thanks ♪ -♪ And praises ♪
-Make some noise for YG Marley!
Happy 10th anniversary, Jimmy Fallon.
-Give it up one time for Ms. Lauryn Hill, YG Marley.
-Ms. Lauryn Hill, YG Marley.
Catch Ms. Hill this summer as she resumes her
"Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" 25th anniversary tour.
YG Marley's new song "Survival" is out now.