Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Lil’ Kim feat The Notorious B.I.G. – “Drugs”

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1996, Atlanta, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Big Momma, Big Poppa, Biggie, Biggie Smalls, Black Widow, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, Christopher George Latore Wallace, Christopher Wallace, Drugs, East Coast, East Coast Hip-Hop, Georgia, Hard Core, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Kimberly Denise Jones, Kimberly Jones, Kimmy Blanco, Lil' Kim, music, New York, New York City, Notorious K.I.M., Queen Bee, Queen Bitch, Rap, Rapper, Sacramento, The Hit Factory, The Notorious B.I.G., UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[BIG] Never a flaw
[Kim] A different kind of high
[Kim] Ya know, feel me on this, huh, uhh

Ladies and gents
Your dopest host presents extravagance
In the ladies’ frame, leaving c-m stains
N—az remain in awe, when I brought a Dillinger
Throw it to ya jaw, uhh
Never a flaw
Never before, have you seen such magnificence
In the black princess, yesss
Flow’s Phenom, I’m the bomb-diggy
Ask Biggie, keep a dedicated squad wit me
Call us the Gabbana girls
We dangerous, b—hes pay a fee just to hang with us
Trust, n—az lust

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – The Notorious B.I.G. Feat Method Man – “The What”

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Bad Boy Records, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Christopher Wallace, Clifford Smith, college, Duo, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hockey, Key Yemaya Walker, Method Man, music, New York, Ready to Die, Shaolin, Staten Island, The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan

[Verse One: Notorious, Meth]

I used to get feels on a b—h
Now I throw shields on the d–k
To stop me from that HIV s–t
And n—-z know they soft like a Twinkie filling
Playin the villian
Prepare for this rap killin
Biggie Smalls is the illest
Your style is played out, like Arnold wondered
“What you talkin bout Willis?”

Blue Lines Blog: RIP Notorious B.I.G. 15 Years

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1997, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Biggie Smalls, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Key Yemaya Walker, March 9th 1997, music, New York, The Notorious B.I.G.

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 – Total (feat The Notorious B.I.G.) – “Can’t You See”

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1996, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Key Yemaya Walker, Music Mondays, New Jersey Drive Vol 1, New York, Seeley, The Notorious B.I.G., Total, UB, University Of Bridgeport

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.

30 Day Song Challenge – Day 7 – A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event – The Notorious B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”

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1997, 30 Day Song Challenge, A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Blue Lines, California, Day 7, Funeral, Hypnotize, Key Yemaya Walker, Life After Death, Los Angeles, March 9th 1997, New York, Queens, Rene Cecil Sotolongo, The Notorious B.I.G.

In 1997 while driving from Atlanta To New York for my Family Patriarch’s funeral, around Charlotte the information came across the radio that B.I.G. had been killed. Later that evening, as my family had cleared the Holland Tunnel, New York’s Hot 97 played “Hypnotize” back to back on repeat, while they played rememberances of Biggie by different artists. My Grandfather’s passing, will always be tied to this, in my mind.


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 – The NOTORIOUS B.I.G. – “I Got A Story To Tell”

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112, 1997, Al Green, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Big Poppa, Biggie Smalls, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Era, Brooklyn, Buck Wild, Buckwild, Carlos "6 July" Broady, Chucky Thompson, Clark Kent, Club, Daron Jones, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, DJ Enuff, DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, Frank White, Havoc, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, I Got A Story To Tell, I'm Glad You're Mine, Jiv Poss, Kay Gee, Key Yemaya Walker, Knicks, Life After Death, music, Nashiem Myrick, New York, New York Knicks, Notorious B.I.G, Paragon, Robbery, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, RZA, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Sean Combs, sex, Stevie J, The Notorious B.I.G., U.S., Vashtie Kola

The Late Great NOTORIOUS, from the 1997 album Life After Death.
Photo of Vashtie in New York Knicks Spiziked Jordans by Vashtie Kola.
Lyrics include Mature content.

Who y’all talking to man?
Uhh
Check it out, check it out
This here goes out
to all the n—as that be f–king mad b—hes
in other n—as cribs
thinkin s–t is sweet
N—a creep up on your ass, hahaha
Live n—as respect it, check it

I kick flows for ya, kick down doors for ya
Even left all my motherf–king hoes for ya
N—as think Frankie p—y whipped, n—a picture that
With a Kodak, Insta-ma-tak
We don’t get down like that, lay my game down quite flat
Sweetness,
Where you parked at?
Petiteness,
But that ass fat
She got a body make a n—a wanna eat that, I’m f—kin’ with you
The b—h official though, d–k harder than a missile yo
Try to hit if she trippin disappearing like Arsenio
Yo, the b—h push a double-oh
with the five in front, probably a conniving stunt
Y’all drive in front, I’m a peel with her
Find a deal with her, she f–k around and steal, huh?
Then we all get laced

Blue Lines Blog – Album Review – Watch The Throne – Jay-Z and Kanye West

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Album Review, Angie Martinez, Atlanta, Bad Boy Records, Beyonce, Big Daddy Kane, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Lonnie Liston Smith, Marcy Projects, Myla Wyndham, New Jersey, New York, OutKast, Q-Tip, Ralph McDaniels, Sean Carter, Show & Prove, Shyheim, The Notorious B.I.G., Tracey Lee, Watch the Throne

It was a late fall day in Bridgeport, Connecticut listening to Angie Martinez on Hot 97 in New York. The days were short, and the sun began to set in the gritty northeastern city around 4 pm, just before the end of class, but making it very dark before dinner. Night I vaguely remembered from a childhood stint in New Jersey. At the time Wu-Tang still ran the local airwaves, along with Biggie and Bad Boy remixes. I infected the campus with the hometown sounds of Outkast, but this night, the light piano of Lonnie Liston Smith’s “A Garden of Piece,” wrapped this amazing opus from an unknown artist we had last seen on an appearance on Big Daddy Kane’s “Show & Prove.” Believe me I know, being a Wu-Tang fan from high school, I knew tracks they or affiliates, Shyheim, appeared on.

Again, I first heard the amazing “Dead President’s” which eventually accompanied the B-Side track, “Ain’t No,” closed out my tenure in school up north, as I thought I was listening to another underground regional artist the likes of Tracey Lee, Akinyele, etc. my homegirl waited, as I affected, sat and listened to the entire track, likely penning something as we most likely left her room, my hideout, before eventually landing at Famous Pizza.

Later, he would release an album, I heard that Biggie had appeared on the track, and my friend Myla Wyndham who was a buyer at Tower Records told me he was coming to the store. As a good friend and I attended, we walked past the empty table, scanned the album, laughed and then waving to her, I left, knowing I would see her during another visit. Little did I know.

Beginning school again in Atlanta, I befriended a pure Atlanta resident, who would play, “Reasonable Doubt,” nonstop. It was then that my appreciation grew for this unheralded artist. At this same school, I would meet the same girl that our conversation consisted of, the obvious as Reasonable Doubt played in her car as she dropped me off at Marta.
“Do you like Jay-Z?” I tried to break the ice.
“Yes,” she simply stated.

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – B.I.G. – “Hypnotize”

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Atlanta, B.I.G., Bad Boy Records, Biggie Small, Blue Lines, Brooklyn, Busta Rhymes, Christopher Wallace, Coogi, DKNY, East Coast, Funk Master Flex, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hypnotize, I-85, Key Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, March 9th 1997, Moschino, New York, North Carolina, Puff Daddy, Queens, Rene Cecil Sotolongo, Sean Combs, Starsky and Hutch, The Notorious B.I.G.

Wow, I can’t believe that it has been 14 years since March 9th, 1997. It is funny how the events around that Sunday served as the preface that would eventually lead to my writing Blue Lines.

I can remember that early morning as we drove from Atlanta to New York for our family emergency. I had to abruptly leave school, and while my younger brother and sister sat on the back bench of the rented van, my mother had taken over the driving duties somewhere on I-85 in North Carolina, actually the worst leg of the trip between Atlanta and New York. My father slept, as my mother, surprisingly composed due to her state the days before. When I heard her mention, they just said on the radio Biggie’s dead. My ears perked up, and I raised from my college student form being sprawled across the middle bench of the van.

“Damn,” I thought as she turned up the radio so that we could get more details. A very shaken Busta Rhymes was reached by phone, and he said that all East Coast rappers were trying to get out of L.A., that proved that this was senseless violence. My heart sank, and at the moment I thought of how my family tragedy and the murder of Christopher Wallace would be tied from that moment forward. The events of that weekend would eventually lead to my meeting the future subject of my future manuscript, and future novel Blue Lines.

I have chosen “Hypnotize” as this week’s installment of Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays submission, because as we finally made our way into New York and Funk Master Flex was playing Biggie’s new single back, to back, to back.

Music Mondays – Puff Daddy feat The Notorious B.I.G. – “Victory”

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1997, actor, Bad Boy, Bad Boy Records, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Big Poppa, Biggie Smalls, Bill Conti, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Busta Rhymes, Christopher George Latore Wallace, Christopher Wallace, Diddy, East Coast, East Coast Hip-Hop, entrepreneur, Frank White, Going the Distance, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Interscope, Jr., Key Yemaya Walker, Leaders Of The New School, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Most Expensive Video, Mount Vernon, music, Music Mondays, New York, New York City, No Way Out, P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Rapper, record producer, Rocky, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Sean John Combs, Singer, Steven "Stevie J" Jordan, The Hitmen, The Notorious B.I.G., Trevor Tahiem Smith, U.S., Uptown Records

Fitting for going to get this workout in.

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 Yo MTV Raps Final Episode Freestyle

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"Fab Five Freddy" Brathwaite, actor, African-American rapper, André "Doctor Dré" Brown, André Brown, Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brentwood, Brooklyn, Brown University, Chubb Rock, Clifford Smith, Club, Craig Mack, dance, DJ, DJ Skribble, Doctor Dré, Dr. Dre, East Coast Hip-Hop, Ed Lover, electronic, Erick Sermon, Extra P, Fab 5 Freddy, Fred Brathwaite, Funk Dr. Spock, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hollis, House, Jamaica, James Roberts, Johnny Blaze, Key Yemaya Walker, Kingston, KRS-One, Long Island, MC Search, Method Man, MTV, MTV VJ, music, musician, National Merit Scholar, New Jersey, New York, Producer, Queens, Rap, Redman, Reggie Noble, Reginald "Reggie" Noble, remixer, Richard Simpson, rock, Scott Ialacci, Special Ed, Trenton, United States, Who's the Man?, Yo MTV Raps, Young Black Teenagers

Way too much to quote altogether, enjoy one of the Classic Hip-Hop Moments in Hip Hop history!!!

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.