Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – De La Soul – “I Am I Be”

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1993, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Buhloone Mindstate, California, Chicago, Dave, David Jude Jolicoeur, De La Soul, DJ, Eddie Harris, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, I Am I Be, Illinois, James Edward Pryor, James Willis Ponder, Jefferson Starship, Jimmy Ponder, Keep Your Fat Mouth Out of My Business, Kelvin Mercer, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Lambert, Long Island, Los Angeles, Lou Rawls, Maceo Parker, Maseo, Miracles, Mississippi, music, Native Tongues, New York, New York City, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Plug 1, Plug 2, Poem, Poet, poetry, Posdnuos, Producer, Prose, Rapper, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shades of Brown, Shortie No Mass, Snooky Pryor, Terressa Thompson, The Bronx, The Next Band – Music: Brother Soul Pt. 1, The Soil I Tilled for You, Tommy Boy, Trugoy The Dove, Vincent Lamont Mason Jr, Vocal, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Records, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, You've Made Me So Very Happy

[Verse 1]
I am Posdnous
I be the new generation of slaves
here to make papes to buy a record exec rakes
the pile of revenue I create
But I guess I don’t get a cut cuz my rent’s a month late
Product of a North Carolina cat
who scratched the back of a pretty woman named Hattie
Who departed life just a little too soon
and didn’t see me grab the Plug Tune fame
As we go a little somethin’ like this
look ma, no protection

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Black Moon – “Who Got Da Props?”

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1993, 5ft, A3C, A3C Hip-Hop Festival, Blue Hurt, Boot Camp, Boot Camp Clik, Brooklyn, Brothers who Lyrically Act and Combine Kickin Music Out On Nations, Buckshot, Buckshot Shorty, Bushwick, Chapel Hill, D&D Studios, Da Beatminerz, DJ Evil Dee of Da Beatminerz, Drew "Dru Ha" Friedman, Duck Down Records, E1 Entertainment Distribution, East Coast, East Coast Hip-Hop, Enta Da Stage, Evil Dee, Ewart Dewgarde, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Kenyatta Blake, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Life, music, Nervous, New York, New York City, North Carolina, Priority Records, Rawkus, The BDI Thug (Beady-Eyed Thug), UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Who Got Da Props?

[Verse 1: Buckshot]
Put up, what up, BO BO BO!
Suckers want to flow but they got no show
So I’mma grab the mic, flip a script, and leave ya stunned
Buckshot’s the one that gets the job done
Mic check, I get paid to wreck your set
Get ready and jet, cause I’m a threat to your fret
No holds barred, and complete move fakers
Best to play the back and watch your girl, I might take her
If she’s a crab I’mma diss her then slide
If she try to riff I got my Smith on my side
Word to God, here I come so make way
Rugged and rough, killing your set every day
Microphone check 1, 2, here we go
And I’mma let you know, who got the flow
Spitting my verbs like an automatic weapon
Suckers keep stepping, cause I’mma let you know

Music Mondays – Sting – “Shape of My Heart”

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1993, Argentina, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Buenos Aires, California, Chapel Hill, Classical Pop, Dominic Miller, England, Eric Serra, Georgia, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, Jazz, Jazz Rock, Jean Reno, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Leon, Leon the Professional, Luc Besson, music, Music Mondays, Natalie Portman, pop, Pop rock, Sacramento, Shape of My Heart, soft rock, Sting, The Professional, Tyne & Wear, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University Of Bridgeport, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wallsend

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – Bjork – “Like Someone in Love”

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1944, 1993, Björk, Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Cover, Cover Songs, Covers, debut, Dinah Shore, Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Like Someone in Love, Love, MTV, Music Mondays, Reykjavík, Sacramento, Unplugged

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Electric Relaxation”

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1993, 1994, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Alternative, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, conscious hip hop, East Coast Hip-Hop, Electric Relaxation, Five Foot Assassin, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, Malik Isaac Taylor, Malik Taylor, MC Love Child, Midnight Marauders, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, Phife Dawg, Phife Diggy, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, The Abstract Poetic, The Five Footer, Underground hip hop

Relax yourself girl, please set-tle down [4X]

[Verse One: Q-Tip, Phife Dawg]

Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized
With your black hair and fat-a-s thighs
Street poetry is my everyday
But yo, I gotta stop when you trot my way
If I was working at the club you would not pay
Ayo, my man Phife Diggy, he got something to say

I like em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Haitian
Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu Nation
Told you in the jam that We Can Get Down
Now let’s Knock the Boots like the group H-Town
You got BBD all on your bedroom wall
But I’m Above the Rim and this is how I ball
A pretty little something on the New York street
This is how I represent over this here beat
Talking bout you

New To You Music Sundays – Neneh Cherry – “Move With Me”

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1992, 1993, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Booga Bear, California, Cameron McVey, Cherry Bear Studios, Cover, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, Don Cherry, Georgia, High School Crush, Homebrew, Jonny Dollar, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Monica "Moki" Karlsson, Move With Me, music, Music from the Motion Picture Sliver, Neneh Cherry, Neneh Karlsson, Neneh Mariann Karlsson, New To You Music Sundays, pop, Sacramento, Sliver, Stockholm, Sweden, trip hop, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virgin

Featured on the same soundtrack as Cover Sunday. Neneh was a High School Crush.

  
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Cover Sundays – UB40 – “Can’t Help Falling In Love” – Elvis Presley Cover

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(I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You, 1961, 1993, ACC, Ali Campbell, Alistair Ian Campbell, Astro, Atlanta, Birmingham, Blue Hawaii, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brian Travers, California, Can't Help Falling In Love, Cover, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, DEP, Dub, Duncan Campbell, Earl Falconer, Elvis Presley, EMI, England, George David Weiss, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Graduate, High School Crush, Hugo Peretti, Jimmy Brown, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Love, Luigi Creatore, Mickey Virtue, music, Music from the Motion Picture Sliver, musician, Norman Hassan, Promises and Lies, Reggae, Robin Campbell, Sacramento, Singer-songwriter, ska, Sliver, songwriter, Terence Wilson, UB40

This takes me back to the year between junior and senior year. This was a constant in talking to girl, and also in my Georgia Tech summer program.

  
The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Cover Sundays – Lana Del Rey – “Heart Shaped Box” Nirvana Cover

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1993, 2012, alternative rock, Australia, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Courtney Love, Cover, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, David Grohl, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, grunge, guitar, Heart Shaped Box, Heart-Shaped Coffin, In Utero, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, Key Yemaya Walker, Kurt Cobain, Lake Placid, Lana Del Ray, Lana Del Rey, Lana Rey Del Mar, Lizzy Grant, May Jailer, Minnesota, model, music, musician, New York, New York City, Nirvana, Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, pop, Singer-songwriter, Sparkle Jump Rope Queen, Steve Albini, Sydney, trip hop, U.S., Vocals

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Award Tour” requested by Promoter Ike’s World

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12" maxi single, 1993, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Jones-Muhammad, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, bass, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Braves, Brooklyn, Chinatown, Dallas, David Jude Jolicoeur, DC, De La Soul, Delaware, digital download, DJ, Dove, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Houston, Jarobi White, Jazz Merchant Music, jazz-rap, Jive Records, Jonathan Davis, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, L.A., Large Professor, London, Long Island, Malik Isaac Taylor, Malik Izaak Taylor, Maryland, Midnight Marauders, Motown, music, N.C., Native Tongues, New Orleans, New York, New York City, New York Yankees, NJ, Nodlew Music, November, NY, Oaktown, Phife Dawg, Producer, Q-Tip, Queens, Queens New York City, Rapper, S.C., sampler, San Fran, Skeff Anselm, Spokane, St. Albans, St. John, Tokyo, Trinidad and Tobago, Trugoy, Trugoy The Dove, Turntables, Unichappell Music Inc., United States, Universal Music - Z Tunes LLC, USA, VA, Vocal, Weldon Irvine Jr, Yankees

[chorus Dove from De La Soul:]
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
New York, NJ, N.C., VA
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John

[Q-Tip:]
People give your ears so I be sublime
It’s enjoyable to know you and the concubine
N—az, take off your coats ladies, act like chorus Dove from De La Soul:
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
New York, NJ, N.C., VA
We on Award Tour with Muhammad my man
Going each and every place with the mic in their hand
Oaktown, L.A., San Fran, St. John

[Q-Tip:]
People give your ears so I be sublime
It’s enjoyable to know you and the concubine
N—az, take off your coats ladies, act like GEMS
Sit down, Indian style, as we recite these hymns
See, lyrically I’m Mario Andretti on the mo-mo
Ludicrously speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo
Heard me in the eighties, J Beez on the promo
On my never ending quest to get the paper on the
Caper

Music Mondays – Lenny Kravitz – “Spinning Around Over You”

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1993, actor, arranger, Atlantic, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, clothing designer, composer, Funk rock, guitar, hard rock, harmonica, interior designer, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Lenny Kravitz, Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz, Leonard Albert Kravitz, Lyricist, music, Music Mondays, music producer, musician, neo soul, neo-psychedelia, New York, New York City, percussion, Reality Bites soundtrack, Roadrunner, rock, Romeo Blue, Singer-songwriter, sitar, United States, Virgin, Vocals, Youtube

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.