Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye

"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)", often shortened to "Inner City Blues", is from Marvin Gaye's 1971 album, What's Going On. Written by Gaye and James Nyx, the song depicted the ghettos of inner-city America as it discussed how the bleak economic situation would lead to someone wanting to holler and throw ones hands up. The song was recorded with Gaye playing piano.

In its unedited version as it appears on the album, the final minute of the song (and of the LP) is a reprise to the theme of "What's Going On", the album's first song, then segues into a dark ending.

[MrTheyankee]

One of the greatest artist of our time....what a song!

[davidrosemale]

The legendary Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr, an awesome song inner city blues. God bless his beautiful soul. Fly with the angels brother Marvin.

[BigSisterW]

God bless his soul. Another person who was apparently too good for this world.

[TheCodedtestament]

this song is so hopeless and empowering at the same time, big fan of him.

[danielmchale]

Brilliant job .marvin gaye song and video perfect combination

[briansharp]

Cool vibe, cool beat, never be another silky voice and talent like Marvin

[danielmchale]

Brilliant job on this video. May the soul of marvin gaye be in souls.

[Via]

Such a great Old School Song. Marvin Gaye was the Man.

[juanjoset]

Damn...!!!...how can I possibly been missing this great tunes all this time...?...this is just the purest music for the soul...!!!

[israelsumter]

Man, this pure heart driven music reaches generations beyond! The video illustrates the past music collided with the present struggle. A change will come but it starts with me. #justscribed #nicework #endless

[sonelwilson]

That joint right THERE!!!! Is soooo hot!!
Thanks for sharing!

[yamama]

I KNOE IM YOUNG AND ALL BUT I HAVE AN OLD SOUL AT HEART LUV THIS SONG...R.I.P TO ONE OF THE GREATEST MARVIN GAYE 

[michael]

Gaye's Inner City Blues resonates way beyond the confines that you seek to set. Understanding the spirit of Gaye's writing is not the preserve of quasi social historians and Gaye's message remains regrettably as poignant today as it was when Watts et al inspired him.

[kathyrodriguez]

Uggghhhh how he ends this song smh... Pure GENIOUS...

[Neferkit]

Excellent video. Thanks for making it. It's so sad that not much has changed since back in the day. We are running backwards at 1000 miles an hour, and in some ways things are even worse than they were when I was a young woman taking on the establishment. We were so hopeful then, but when I see the state the world's in now, it just makes me want to weep.

[ndEndingVintage]

Nice combination of Occupy footage with this tune. Well done. Very sad that this message still needs to be hollered 30+ years after it was written. Now more than ever, actually....

[sonelwilson]

That ending could go on and on and on and on👄

[wincanton]

As relevent today as was in the late 60s & early

[kjchicago]

This song was released in September 1971 on Motown's Tamla Records Label as Tamla 54209

[michaeltruthson]

the question is now, what the fuq has changed? Not  a got damned thing and it's worse than it was in 1971. I was 3yrs old when this song dropped and I am now 46, the disturbing fact for me is that this is the world I inherited.