Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Black Star “Twice Inna Lifetime”

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Black Star, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Twice Inna Lifetime

[Talib Kweli]
Yo, we been through this before right? (Word, word…) So we
figurin’, if we gonna do it, we gotta freak it, y’know what I’m sayin?
(True, true, true…) Cuz everything gotta go up from here, right?
So Hi-Tek, turn it up a notch…

[Jane Doe]
Hail Mary, ‘matta fact hail Jane
Niggaz take my name in vain/vein like I was cocaine
My affirmations kill emcees like assasination
Bringin’ you pain until you wish you had a vaccination
Or vaccine, I shine like Vaseline
Gas plays like petroleum, walk over them like linoleum
My vocab expand like a rubber band
Walkin’ nekkid through the motherland, give the finger to my brotherman
Niggaz just don’t understand my reasons, I transcend like season
And scar these rappers like legion
It’s treason, my suspension attract attention
I’m ventin’, givin’ these chickenheads detention
Did I mention my name, yo, go by the Jane Doe

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Outkast – Aquemeni

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1998, A Tribe Called Quest, André "André 3000" Benjamin, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Andre Patton, Antonio M. Reid, Aquarius, Aquemini, Around Lenox, Atlanta, Babyface, Big Boi, Black Star, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brand Nubian, Busta Rhymes, David "Mr. DJ" Sheats, Donny Mathis, Drug Addiction, Dungeon Family, emancipation, Gemini, George Clinton, Goodie Mob, Gwen Stefani, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Janelle Monae, Jay-Z, Key Yemaya Walker, Killer Mike, Mos Def, Mr. DJ, music, neo soul, Organized Noize, OutKast, Raekwon, Sleepy Brown, Talib Kweli, The Foundation, The Love Movement, TLC, Tower Records, Vol 2: Hard Knock Life

Aquemini…I remember the night we went to Tower Records at Around Lenox for the midnight sale. Called by some, Hip-Hop’s greatest release date Jay-Z’s Vol 2: Hard Knock Life, A Tribe Called Quests The Love Movement, Brand Nubian’s The Foundation, and Mos Def & Talib Kweli’ Black Star were also released that night.

I miss Tower Records.

[Hook]
Even the sun goes down heroes eventually die.
Horoscopes often lie and sometimes “y”
nothin’ is for sure nothin’ is for certain nothin’ lasts forever
But until they close the curtain
it’s him & I Aquemini

[Big Boi]
Now is the time to get on like Spike Lee said
get on the bus go get your work
and keep your beeper chirpin’ is a must
Is you on that dust or cornstarch
familiar with that smack man
The music is like that green stuff