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 – Jay-Z feat The Notorious B.I.G. – ” Brooklyn’s Finest”

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1996, Biggie Smalls, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Brooklyn's Finest, Christopher George Latore Wallace, Christopher Wallace, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Marcy Projects, New York, New York City, Rapper, Reasonable Doubt, Roc-A-Fella, Roc-A-Fella Records, Sean Carter, Shawn Carter, Shawn Corey Carter, The Notorious B.I.G.

[Pain In Da Ass]
[gunshots] OKAY, I’M RELOADED!!!
You motherf–kers, think you big time?
F–kin with Jay-Z, you gon’ die, big time!
Here come the “Pain”! [gunshots]

[Jay-Z]
Jigga… (Jigga), Bigga… (Bigga)
N—a, how you figure… (how you figure)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, aiyyo

Peep the style and the way the cops sweat us (uh-huh)
The number one question is can the Feds get us (uh-huh)
I got vendettas in dice games against ass betters (uh-huh)
and n—az who pump wheels and drive Jettas
Take that witcha..

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?”

New 30 Day Song Challenge – Day 29 – Artist You Wish Were Still Alive – The Notorious B.I.G. – “Sky’s The Limit”

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Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, C. Wallace, Christopher, Christopher George Latore Wallace, Christopher Wallace, college, Day 29, Grandfather, Key Yemaya Walker, Life After Death, music, MW, Myla, Myla Watson, Myla Wyndham, New 30 Day Song Challenge, New York, Sky's The Limit, The Notorious B.I.G., Tower Records

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 – 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.