Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays (RIP Prodigy) – Mobb Deep – “Trife Life”

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1995, Albert Johnson, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, East Coast, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, hardcore hip hop, Havoc, Hempstead, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Kejuan Muchita, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Mobb Deep, music, New York, New York City, Norman Connors, Prodigy, Queens, Queensbridge, Rap, Sacramento, The Infamous, Trife Life, You Are My Starship

Check it out now..
Word up Son, s–t is ill kid..
Knahmsayin? Bein that we livin the motherf–kin trife life
Don’t have another day right?
It’s only right
Let me put you on to what happens Son, never believe this s–t
Kick that s–t

[Prodigy]
It’s just another day, drownin my troubles with a forty
That’s when I got the call from this brownskin shorty
She asked me where’s my crew at? Said we could do whatever
She got her crew too, and said that we should get together
I said, “Aight — just call me back in a hour
so I can take a shower and gather up the manpower”
Then I hung up the horn
And I thought to myself that it might be on
Cause this trick ain’t pick up the phone to call me in years (Why?)
Ever since I left the hoe lonely in tears
Ain’t no tellin what her friends puttin up in her ears
Ideas of settin me up, I’m not tryin ta hear
(Check it out, Son) So we take the gats for precautions
Plus this trick live in Brooklyn, home of the coffin
She might got a whole batallion of Bucktowners
Waitin for us to get up off the train and surround us
Or maybe, I’m blowin this s–t out of proportion
But this s–t do happen, to n—az very often
So f–k it, a n—a gotta do what he meant to
My crew got my back, f–k the world is my mental
We put together five soldiers, the bitch called
My blood curdled, told me to meet her on Myrtle
Got to the plaza, we’re waitin for the G train
We put a plan together, just in case the beef came

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Genius/GZA – “Labels”

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1995, 4th & Broadway, Abbot, AM, Arista, Atco, Atlanta, Atlantic, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bobby Digital, Brooklyn, California, Cold Chillin', Columbia, Def Jam, Eastwest, Emerge, Epic, Gary Grice, Geffen, Genius, Genius/GZA, Georgia, GZA, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Island, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Labels, Liquid Swords, Loud, MCA, Mercury, Motown, New York, New York City, Next Plateau, Pendulum, Platinum, Prince Rakeen, Profile, Rapper, RCA, RIAA, Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, Rush Associated Labels, RZA, Sacramento, songwriter, The Genius, The RZArector, Tommy Boy, Tuff City, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Uptown, Venus, Warner Bros., Warner Brothers, Wild Pitch, Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang Clan

[Intro: RZA]
Lot of people, you know what I’m saying, they be getting misinformed
Thinking everything is everything, that you could just get yourself
A little deal, whatever, youknowhati’msayin you gonna get on you
Gonna get rich. and all these labels be trying to lure us in like
Spiders, into the web, knowhati’msaying. so sometimes people gotta
Come out and speak up, and let people understand, that you know you
Gotta read the label you gotta read the label if you don’t read the
Label you might get poisoned…

[Genius:]
Tommy ain’t my motherf–kin’ Boy
When he fake moves on a n—a you employ
Well I’ll Emerge off ya set, now ya know God damn
I show living large n—az how to flip a Def Jam
And Ruff up the motherf–kin’ House
Cause I smother you Cold Chillin’ mother f–kers are still Warner Brothers
I’m ruthless my clan don’t have to act wild
That s–t is Jive, an old sleeping Bag/Profile
This soft comedian rap s–t ain’t the rough witty
On the reel to reel it wasn’t from a Tuff City
N—as be game, thinking that they lyrical surgeons

Cover Sundays – Massive Attack – “The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game” Marvelettes Cover

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1995, Batman and Robin, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Cover Song, Cover Sundays, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, Massive Attack, Smokey Robinson, Tracey Thorn

  
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 – Tricky – “Overcome”

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1995, Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, Adult contemporary, Anglo-Ghanaian, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bristol, dance, Domino Records, Drayton Bird, Eastcote Studios, England, guitar, Honest Jon's, Howie B, Independiente, Indie pop, indie rock, Island Records, Jamaican, Kevin Petrie, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, Knowle West, London, Loveshack Studios, Mark Saunders, Martina Gillian Topley, Martina Topley-Bird, Martine, Massive Attack, Maxinquaye, mixer, Moonchild, music, Music Mondays, musician, Overcome, pop, Producer, Rapper, rock, Salvadoran, Seminole Indian, Shakespears Sister, Somerset, St. Pancras, Tricky, Tricky Kid, Tricky's home studio, trip hop, UK, ukulele, 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 – AZ – “Rather Unique”

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1995, Amar Pep, Anthony Cruz, Anticipation, AZ, AZ The Visualiza, Big Daddy Kane, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Buckwild, Doe Or Die, DR Period, East Coast Hip-Hop, EMI, Funky Drummer, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, Just Rhymin with Biz, Key Yemaya Walker, Koch, L.E.S., Les McCann, Loose, Lunatic Mind, Mafioso rap, Motown, music, N.O. Joe, New York, New York City, Noo Trybe Records/Virgin, Pete Rock, Queens, Quiet Money Records, Rapper, Rather Unique, Ski, Sosa, The Firm, USA, Vocals

Rock the house
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
To my n—a AZ to the fullest

We was already loyal to people’s minds and mulianis
Now we more f—ed up with a mayor named Guliani
You can try to bomb me analyze but can’t define me
My mind’s divine heavily entwined with Ghandi’s

Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through
‘Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews
Well my mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions
Overdosing wannabes posing sending them through convulsions

To hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn’t swallow
Your mind’s boggled but I’m as deep as Donald Goines novels
My whole persona’s kinda laid back like a recliner
And since my mama, I been f—ing with marijuana

Cover Sundays – Maxine Ashley – Glory Box – Portishead Cover

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#MoodSwings, 17, 1995, 20, 2013, Adrian Utley, Alex Gaudino, alternative rock, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bronx, Chad Hugo, Cover, Cover Song, Cover Songs, Cover Sundays, Covers, Devon, downtempo, Dummy, electronic, England, Exeter, experimental, Geoff Barrow, Glory Box, Go! Beat, Go! Discs/London, Isaac Hayes, JL Brown, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Key Yemaya Walker, London, Maxine Ashley, Neptunes, New York, Nose Ring, Pharrell, Pharrell Williams, Portishead, Star Trak, The Neptunes, trip hop, Xenomania

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 – GZA/Genius feat Inspectah Deck & D’Angelo – “Cold World (RZA Remix)”

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1995, 1996, 4th Disciple, actor, Allah Justice, Angeles Records, Babygrande, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Cold Chillin', Cold World, Cold World (RZA Remix), D'Angelo, Dot Da Genius, East Coast Hip-Hop, Frank Zappa, Gary Grice, Geffen, Geffen Records, Geffen/MCA, Genius/GZA, GZA, GZA Entertainment, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, In The Rain, Inspectah Deck, Jason Hunter, JUSTICE, Key Yemaya Walker, Koch, Life, Liquid Swords, Loud, Lyricist, Maximillion, MCA, Michael Eugene Archer, music, New York, New York City, Park Hill Projects, Plastic People, Producer, Rapper, Relativity, Rocket Love, RZA, songwriter, SRC, Staten Island, Stevie Wonder, The Bronx, The Dramatics, The Genius, the Head, traffic, United States, Universal Republic, Urban Icon, Wu-Tang Clan

Intro: (first three lines LP only)

I had a bad dream
Don’t be afraid, bad dreams are only dreams
What a time you chose to be born in…

Babies crying brothers dying and brothers getting knocked
S–t is deep on the block and you got me locked down
in this cold, cold world…

Verse One: The GZA

It was the night before New Year’s, and all through the f–kin projects
Not a handgun was silent, not even a Tec
Outside as I’m stuck, by enemies who put fear
and blasted on the spot before the pigs were there
You know hoods robbers snipers new in sight f–k blue and white
They escape before them flash the f–kin lights
Gunshots, shatter first floor window panes
Shells hit the ground and blood stained the dice game
Whether broke callisthenic, any style you set it
Beat n—az toothless, physically cut up like gooses
But with iron on the sides thugs took no excuses
Therefore, your fifty-two handblocks was useless
Links was snatched off necks, scars on throats
Jackets took, after bullet rips through coats
Against those who felt the cold from the steel made em fold
and squeal, once the metal hit the temple of his grill
Destruction worker, who was caught for his bomber
No time to swing the hammer that was hangin from his Farmer’s
And it’s bugged how some n—az catch slugs

New 30 Day Song Challenge – Day 10 – Society Of Soul feat George Clinton – “Blac Mermaid”

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1995, Andre 3000, Atlanta, Big Boi, Big Gipp, Big Reese, Big Rube, BlackOwned C-Bone, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brainchild, Bubba Sparxxx, Cee-Lo Green, Cool Breeze, Esperanza, George Clinton, Joi Gilliam, Key Yemaya Walker, Khujo, Killer Mike, Mr. DJ, Organized Noize, Ray Murray, Rico Wade, Sleepy Brown, Slimm Calhoun, Supa Nate, T-Mo, Witchdoctor

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.

New 30 Day Music Challenge – Day 2 – Favorite Cover Song – Cassandra Wilson – “Love Is Blindness” U2 Cover

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1995, Adam Clayton, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Note, Blue Note Records, blues, Bono, Cassandra Wilson, Cover Sundays, Craig Street, Jazz, Jr., Key Yemaya Walker, Larry Mullen, Love is Blindness, music, The Edge, U2

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 – Genius/GZA – “Liquid Swords”

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Intro Two: RZA

See, sometimes…
You gotta flash em back
See n—az don’t know where this s–t started
Y’all know where it came from
I’m sayin we gonna take y’all back to the source
We bounce, yo

Chorus: RZA, GZA

When the MC’s came, to live our their name
And to perform (forrrrm)
Some had, to snort cocaine (caiiinnne) to act insane (sannne)
with before Pete Rock-ed it on, now gone
that the mental plane (plaaanne) to spark the brain (brainnn)
with the building to be born
Yo RZA flip the track with the what to gut
Check em check chicka icka etta UHH

Verse One:

Fake n—az get flipped
In mic fights I swing swords and cut clown
S–t is too swift to bite you record and write it down
I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe
on some wild out s–t, to insert a fiend
But it was yo out the shop stolen art
Catch a swollen heart from not rollin smart
I put mad pressure, on phony wack rhymes that get hurt
S–t’s played, like zodiac signs on sweatshirt
That’s minimum, and feminine like sandals
My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
Energy is felt once the cards are dealt