Music Mondays – Kanye West feat Chris Martin – “Homecoming”

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2008, Atlanta, Baby Dubb, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chicago, Chris Martin, Cloud Gate, Coldplay, Def Jam, Def Jam Recordings, Georgia, Graduation, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Homecoming, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, Lyrics, Millenium Park, music, Please, Roc-A-Fella, Roc-A-Fella Records, Sacramento, Smiley, The Bean, Warryn Campbell, Warryn Stafford Campbell II

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 – 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 – Nico Segal feat Noname Gypsy, Chance the Rapper – “Warm Enough”

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2015, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chance the Rapper, Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, Chano, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Fatimah Warner, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illinois, J. Cole, Jermaine Cole, Jermaine Lamarr Cole, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, music, Nico Segal, Noname, Noname Gypsy, North Carolina, Rapper, Sacramento, Surf, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Noname Gypsy:]
Who are you to tell me
I’m not warm enough for summertime?
I know that I can decide myself
But you don’t know me like the sun you’ve never seen my horizon

[Noname Gypsy:]
If I was everything I never was
Drugs got me bubbly suddenly mumbling simile meant to be for you now
The futile go fishing for moon over roof top
A new style for praying to everything I ever loved
My black boy outer space looking like a rain child
But but my body move like the sun

Music Mondays – Chance the Rapper & Francis and the Lights – “Dear Theodosia (Reprise)”

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actor, Atlanta, Atlantic, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Broadway, California, Carnegie Mellon University, Chance the Rapper, Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, Chano, Chicago, Dear Theodosia (Reprise), Emmy Award, Francis and the Lights, Francis Farewell Starlite, Georgia, Grammy Award, Hamilton, Hunter College High School, Illinois, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, MacArthur Fellowship, Mixtape, New York, New York City, Oakland, Pulitzer Prize, Queens, Rapper, Sacramento, Singer, Singer-songwriter, The Hamilton Mixtape, Tony Award, United States, West Chatham

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 – Chance the Rapper feat Francis & the Lights – “Summer Friends”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Chance the Rapper, Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, Chano, Chicago, college, Coloring Book, Coloring Book (mixtape), Francis and the Lights, Georgia, Gospel Rap, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illinois, Jeremiah Felton, Jeremih, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, New York, New York City, Nico Segal, Rap, Rapper, Sacramento, songwriter, Summer Friends, The Meadows, The Meadows NYC, The Social Experiment, West Chatham

[Intro:]
Oh, oh, oh, incredible
I would… incredible
Everything…

[Verse 1 – Chance The Rapper:]
Socks on concrete, jolly rancher kids
I was talking back and now I gotta stay at grandma’s crib
Bunch of tank top, nappy headed bike-stealing Chatham boys

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Kanye West – “Real Friends”

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Adam Feeney, Adam King Feeney, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Boi-1da, Brooklyn, California, Canada, Chicago, college, Cydel Young, Cyhi the Prynce, Darren King, Def Jam, Def Jam Recordings, Frank Dukes, Georgia, Getting Out Our Dreams, Ghostface Killah, Glenda Proby, GOOD (Getting Out Our Dreams) Music, Good Fridays, good music, Havoc, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Houston, Illinois, Jalil Hutchins, Jamaica, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Kejuan Muchita, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Kingston, Larry Smith, Lawrence Smith, Life, Los Angeles, Matthew Jehu Samuels, Matthew Samuels, Michael "Mike" George Dean, Mike Dean, Mobb Deep, music, Mutemath, New York, New York City, Ontario, Prynce Cyhi, Queens, Real Friends, Sacramento, St. Albans, Stone Mountain, Texas, The Life of Pablo, TLOP, Toronto, trap, Ty Dolla $ign, Tyrone Griffin Jr, Tyrone William Griffin Jr, United States, Whodini

[Kanye West:]
Real friends, how many of us?
How many of us, how many jealous? Real friends
It’s not many of us, we smile at each other
But how many honest? Trust issues
Switched up the number, I can’t be bothered
I cannot blame you for havin’ an angle
I ain’t got no issues, I’m just doin’ my thing
Hope you’re doin’ your thing too
I’m a deadbeat cousin, I hate family reunions

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Kanye West feat Kendrick Lamar – “No More Parties In LA”

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2016, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, California, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Compton, Georgia, good music, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Illinois, inspiration, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Los Angeles, music, No More Parties in LA, North Carolina, Rap, Rapper, Rapping, Sacramento, St. Pablo, The Life of Pablo, Top Dawg, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

[Junie Morrison:]
La di da di da, da
I like this flavor
La di da di da, la
Let me tell you
I’m out here from a very far away place
All for a chance to be a star
Nowhere seems to be too far

[Kanye West:]
No more parties in LA
Please, baby, no more parties in LA, uh
No more parties in LA
Please, baby, no more parties in LA, uh
No more (Los Angeles)
Please (shake that body, party that bod-)
Please (shake that body, party that body)
Please (shake that body, party that body)

Music Mondays – Chance the Rapper – “Juke Jam”

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2016, alternative hip hop, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, California, Canada, Chance 3, Chance the Rapper, Chancellor Johnathan Bennett, Chano, Chicago, Chicago's Outstanding Youth of the Year, Coloring Book, Georgia, Gospel Rap, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Illinois, Jones College Prep High School, Juke Jam, Justin Bieber, Justin Drew Bieber, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, London, Ontario, Peter Cottontale, Preston Oshita, Preston San, Rascal, Sacramento, Save Money, The Social Experiment, Tokyo Shawn, Towkio, West Chatham

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 – Kanye West feat Jay-Z – “Power (Remix)” The Meadows NYC Week (I Guess)

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10/2/10, 2010, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, East Coast, East Coast Hip-Hop, G.O.O.D. Fridays, Georgia, good music, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, John Legend, John Roger Stephens, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Kasseem Dean, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, music, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, New York, New York City, Oahu, October, October 2nd, Ohio, Sacramento, Sean Carter, Shawn Corey Carter, Springfield, Swizz Beats, The Bronx, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yankee Stadium

I forgot all about this remix.

[Jay-Z – Intro]
Is this thing on?
Oh, I thought they silenced us, ‘Ye
Power to the people

We’re living in that 31st century, futuristic fly s–t
The penthouse is the projects and everybody flies private
New watches (you know what time it is)
Watch us (you see us)
They can’t stop us
The prophets
Be-otches!

[Chorus: Kanye West]
No one man should have all that power (Yea!)
The clock’s tickin, I just count the hours (Yea!)
Stop trippin, I’m trippin off the power
(“No one man should have all that power!” – [King Crimson])

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) – “Gotta Have It”

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Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, California, Chad Hugo, Chicago, Def Jam, Def Jam Recordings, East Coast Hip-Hop, Ferris Bueller, Fred Wesley, Georgia, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, James Brown, Jay-Z, Joseph Roach, Kanye, Kanye Omari West, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, KiD CuDi, New York, New York City, Pharrell, Pharrell Williams, Roc Nation, Roc-A-Fella, Roc-A-Fella Records, Sacramento, Sean Carter, Shawn Carter, Shawn Corey Carter, The Neptunes, Watch the Throne

[Kanye West:]
Turn my headphones up
Louder
Uh-huh, uh-huh

(What you need, what, what you need)
(What you need, what, what you need)
Oh (I got what you need)

Hello, hello, hello, White America, assassinate my character
Money matrimony, yeah, they tryna break the marriage up
Who gon’ act phonier? Who gon’ try to embarrass ya?
I’ma need a day off, I think I’ll call Ferris up