Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Butter” RIP Phife Dawg

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[Verse One: Phife Dawg]

1988 Senior Year, Garvey High
Where all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly
Loungin with the Tipster, Coolin with Sha
Scopin out the honeys – they know who they are
I was the b-ball playin fly rhyme sayin
Fly girl gettin but never was I sweatin
Cause when it came to honeys I would go on a stroll
Until I met my match – her name was Flo
Yeah – I messed around with the one called Flo
All the troopers round the way used to call her a ho
But deep down in my heart I knew that Flo was good to go
Cause I thought it was me – like Bell Biv Devoe
But little did I know that she was playin’ with my mind
The only thing I learned is, good girls are hard to find
I feel like Heavy D I need somebody for me

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Bonita Applebum”

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1990, A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bonita Applebum, California, Chapel Hill, Charles Stone III, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive Records, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Mr. Muhammad, New York, New York City, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Queens, Sacramento, St. Albans, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, Underground hip hop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Intro: Q-Tip]

Do I love you?
Do I lust for you?
Am I a sinner cuz I do the two?
Could you let me know
Right now, please
Bonita Applebum

[Chorus:]

Bonita Applebum, you gotta put me on [x4]

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

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It?”

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A Tribe Called Quest, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, ATCQ, Atlanta Braves, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Can I Kick It, Dumb D.J. Towha's DewDrop Inn, Golden age hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, If the Papes Come, jazz-rap, Jive/RCA Records, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, Malik Isaac Taylor, MC Love Child, Mr. Muhammad, New York, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Phife Diggy, Q-Tip, Queens, St. Albans, The Abstract Poetic, The Five Footer, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hey y’all, we is havin’ a ball
And you know they ask me to get on the MIC
And they ask me
Can I kick it? Word yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Can I kick it? Yes you can
Well I’m gone, gone
Can I kick it?
To all the people who can Quest like a Tribe does
Before this did you really know what life was
Comprehend to the track for its wide ‘cos
Gettin’ mentions on the tip of the vibe buzz

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Beastie Boys feat Q-Tip – “Get It Together (A.B.A. Remix)”

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1994, A Tribe Called Quest, A.B.A. Remix, Abednego, Abstract, Ad-Rock, Adam Horovitz, Adam Keefe Horovitz, Adam Nathaniel Yauch, Adam Yauch, Adrock, alternative hip hop, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Arista, Atwater Village, bass, bass guitar, Battery, Beastie Boys, Bell Communications, Biz Markie, Bloach, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Buddhist, Capitol, Capitol/Grand Royal, Chachi, Country Mike, Def Jam, Director, disc jockey, DJ, Drummer, drums, Eugene McDaniels, Evan Bernard, Farmers Blvd, film distributor, G-Son Studios, Get It Together, Get It Together (A.B.A. Remix), good music, Grand Funk Railroad, Grand Royal, guitar, Guitarist, Happy Days, hardcore punk, Headless Heroes, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ill Communication, Ione, Ione Skye, jazz-funk, jazz-rap, Jewish, Jive, Joanie, Joanie Loves Chachi, John Holmes, John Starks, Jonathan Davis, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, King Adrock, Ma Bell, Manhattan, Mario Caldato Jr, MC, MC Love Child, MCA, Meshach, Michael Diamond, Mike D, Moog, Moog Machine, music, musician, Nathanial Hörnblowér, Native Tongues, Native Tongues Posse, New York, New York City, New York Knicks, Nothing Is the Same, NY, percussion, Piano/keyboards, Q-Tip, Queens, Queens New York, Rap rock, rapcore, Rapper, Rapping, Rat Cage, record producer, Sabotage / Get It Together, Shadrach, sitar, songwriter, Sp-1200, St. Albans, The King of Lunch, Tin Pan Alley, Turntables, U.S., United States, Universal Motown, US, USA, Vassar College, Vocals, Young and the Useless

[Q-Tip]
One-two, one-two, keep it on
Listen to the s–t because we kick it ’til dawn
Listen to the Abstract, got it going on
Listen to the ladies, come on and let me spawn
On your eggs, then you go up the river
Listen to the abstract, that freaky n—a

[Ad Rock]
Now I’m Ad Rock and I shock and I tick and I tock
And I can’t stop with the body rock

[Mike D]
See, I’ve got heart like John Starks
Hitting mad sparks
Pass me the mic and I’ll be rockin’ the whole park

[MCA]
Well, I’m the M to the C to the A and it’s a must
The rhymes that we bust on the topic of lust

[Q-Tip]
And my Moms is not butt, but f–k it
Let me get down to the rhythm
Yes, I get funky and I’m shooting all my jism
Like John Holmes, the X-rated n—-r
Listen to the s–t cause I am the ill figure
Nobody’s getting any bigger than this

*Get it together*
Get…
Phone is ringing, oh my God
*Get it together, see what’s happening*

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

Blue Lines Blog – Questions for the Author of Blue Lines Part I

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In recent readings, I read Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever, and chose to answer the questions she offerered at the close of her novel. Over the coming weeks, I will offer my answers to her questions (some tailored to address my manuscript) in respect to work, Blue Lines. These questions were answered some time ago, earlier this year. I am providing them in that form.

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?
2. Is Blue Lines a true story?
3. How did you write the story so authentically?
4. Did you, and if so, why did you decide to include yourself as a character?
5. Where we’re you when you first started writing Blue Lines?
6. Which character did you create first?
7. How did you write the manuscript, what method?
8. Why aren’t all of your characters Black?
9. What were you trying to achieve with the novel Blue Lines?
10. Will there be a sequel novel?

1. Why did you choose to focus on your book subject?

Around 1995-96 I had wanted to write a work that centered on Hip-Hop music, a love for Hip-Hop and wanted to build that as the backdrop with a love story between a young aspiring artist and the woman he sought and loved, using them as the metaphor of the larger underlying story. With the time periods music ranging from the current Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas and Common, and echoing back to the Golden Age of A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and post artists like Wu-Tang Clan, I wanted to you h the 90’s elements in relation to the story’s timeframe. Over the next few years, I developed only five pages of sparse content with space to fill in a story. Honestly, I did not “feel” or have a connection that compelled me to write. Though I wanted to write a book and loved Hip-Hop culture. I wanted to create a valid and quality narrative that would speak to readers beyond a specific genre and target audience. I wanted a well written project that conveyed a universal story.

Hip Hop Quotable Wednesdays – A Tribe Called Quest – “Can I Kick It”

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1991, A Tribe Called Quest, Abstract, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, American hip hop, ATCQ, bass, Battery Studios, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Calliope Studios, Can I Kick It, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Dance of the Knights, David Porter, DJ Pete Tong, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Dr. Lonnie Smith, drums, Dumb D.J. Towha's DewDrop Inn, East Coast Hip-Hop, Five Foot Assassin, Fried Okra, Garden Seeker Productions, Golden age hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hot Chocolate, Ian Dury, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jive, Jive/RCA Records, Jonathan Davis, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Lou Reed, Malik Isaac Taylor, MC Love Child, Mr. Muhammad, music, Native Tongues, New York, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Phife Dawg, Piano/keyboards, Q-Tip, Queens, R&B, sampler, Sergei Prokofiev, Soul, Soul Con-certo, Spinning Wheel, St. Albans, Sunshower, The Way You Do the Things You Do, Turntables, U.S., United States, USA, Vocal, Vocals, Walk on the Wild Side, What a Waste, You Sexy Thing, Zomba

[Q-Tip]
Can I kick it? (Yes, you can!) *7X*
Well, I’m gone (Go on then!)

Can I kick it? To all the people who can Quest like A Tribe does
Before this, did you really know what live was?
Comprehend to the track, for its why cuz
Gettin measures on the tip of the vibers
Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug
Afrocentric living is a big shrug
A life filled with *HORN* that’s what I love
A lower plateau is what we’re above
If you diss us, we won’t even think of
Will Nipper the doggy give a big shove?
This rhythm really fits like a snug glove
Like a box of positives is a plus, love
As the Tribe flies high like a dove

Best Of 2012…Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – De La Soul – “Buddy”

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1989, 3 Feet High And Rising, A Tribe Called Quest, Abstract, Afrika Baby Bam, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, alternative hip hop, American, Amityville, Best OF 2012..., Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Buddy, Buddy (Native Tongue Decision), Calliope Studios, D. Jolicoeur, David Jude Jolicoeur, De La Soul, DJ Sammy B, East Massapequa, Golden Age, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jarobi, Jarobi White, jazz-rap, Jonathan Davis, Jungle Brothers, K. Mercer, Kelvin Mercer, Key Yemaya Walker, Long Island, Maseo, MC Love Child, Mercenary, Mike Gee, Monie Love, music, musician, Native Tongues, New York, P. Huston, P.A. Pasemaster Mase, Paul Huston, Phife Dawg, Plug One, Plug Three, Plug Wonder Why, Posdnous, Prince Paul, Producer, Q-Tip, Queen Latifa, Queen Latifah, Queens, Rap, Rapper, Sop Sound, St. Albans, The Bronx, Tommy Boy, Trugoy, Universal Zulu Nation, USA, V. Mason, Vincent Lamont Mason Jr, Vincent Mason, vocalist, Warner Bros. Records

DOVE:
Hello
Meany meany meany meany (Say What?)
Meany meany meany meany (Say What?)
Meany meany meany meany mean
Meany meany meany meany (Say What?)
Meany meany meany meany (Say What?)
Meany meany meany meany mean (Okay)
Hello it’s the soul
Troopin’ in wit the Jungle patrol
And this one’s about the KO’s the knockouts out there
Who’s holdin’ my buddy
Hold up
(wait a minute)
POS:
Now just wait
We’re gonna talk about Buddy on this plate
But before we let the herd out the gate
Make sure the all the levels are straight out the jungle
(The Jungle, the Jungle, the Brothers, the Brothers)
AFRIKA:
De La Soul from the soul
Black medallions no gold
Hangin’ out wit Pos hangin’ out wit Mase
Buddy buddy buddy all in my face

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Common Sense – “Soul By The Pound (Thump Mix)”

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"A Chorus Line", "I Like It", "Jazz (We've Got)", "Sneakin' in the Back" Tom Scott, "Tonight's Da Night", 1992, A Tribe Called Quest, actor, Author, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bruce Lee, Can I Borrow a Dollar?, CB4, Charles Barkley, Chicago, Chris Rock, Chris Webber, Clark Kent, Common, Common Sense, CommonSense, DeBarge, Downtown Julie Brown, Dr. Dre, Ed Lover, Fat Boys, FBI, good music, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illinois, Immenslope, Instagram, Jolly Green Giant, Key Yemaya Walker, LA Riot, Large Professor, Leroy Brown, Lonnie Lynn, Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., Los Angeles, music, No ID, Omen, Poet, Q-Tip, Rapper, Redman, Relativity Records, Soul by the Pound (Thump Mix), Think Common, Tim Dog, Tim Hardaway, U.S., Ultramagnetic MCs, Warner Bros., YNot

(Chorus)
Boom it and you boom it and you boom it in your jeep
Type of s–t that hit when you pump it in your trunk
Boom it and you boom it and you boom it in your jeep
Babum, babum, make the speakers pop

I’m as bad, bad as Leroy Brown, Brown
I’m a pro p-pro, but not a noun n-noun
If you got beef, beef, you get ground, ground
Cut up in soul, soul by the pound for pound
I’m going downtown like Julie Brown, I’m the brown mound
Not a rebound, but like a hound, I get down
Never wore a leash but I’m a show ya
How loose is my goose, got more soul than combat boots
(I got soul, you got it) That’s why I came
They keep calling me, man, they keep calling me, they call my name
And say, I can’t give it away, give it away now
Or say whiz, say what or say how
Sh, ok, between you and me, man it’s all this white rap
I got the power, hachoo, I’ll just bite snap
Bum ba-bum, bum bum
Think fast, cause I’m the Ramadan
Ahoy-he-hoy-he, I’m Fat Boy
Shibidabibidabee, boom boom, I’ll be the bad boy
Having a party, but I’m not a democrat
Spoiled as a child, but now I’m milk like Similac
Don’t have Cinemax because my cable’s pirated
Bug out with the rhyme, try to swat and I’ll get fly with it
For pest control, I suggest some soul
For a d–k I got it, but I have no breath control
So gimme a T-O, baby like um, Chris Webber
I got myself together
Now I’m straight, are you straight, if you straight, then I’m straight
Rock me tonight, just for old time’s sake