Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Pulitzer Prize Kendrick Lamar feat Rihanna – “LOYALTY.” C Week

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1986, 1987, 1988, 2017, 2018, Ab-Soul, Aftermath, Alternative, Anderson .Paak, Atlanta, Barbados, Black, Black Hippy, Black Panther, Black Panther Soundtrack, Bloody Waters, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brandon Paak Anderson, Breezy Lovejoy, California, Carson, Chapel Hill, Compton, Dacoury Natche, DAMN, Def Jam, Def Jam Recordings, Del Amo, Digi+Phonics, DJ Dahi, drums, electronic, Enfield, England, experimental Hip-Hop, Ferrari, Footprints, Funk, Georgia, Glock, Hail Mary, Harmonimix, Herbert Stevens IV, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Interscope, Jamaica, James Blake, James Litherland, Jazz, jazz fusion, Kendrick Duckworth, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Killmonger, Korean, Kung Fu Kenny, London, Los Angeles, Mark Spears, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, North Carolina, One-Take Blake, Oxnard, percussion, piano, Pop-Rap, post-dubstep, Pulitzer Prize, R&B, Ralph's, Rapper, Rihanna, Robin Hannibal, Robin Hannibal Mølsted Braun, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, Roc Nation, songwriter, Soul, Soundtrack, Sounwave, Stones Throw, synthesizer, T'Challa, Terrace Jamahl Martin, Terrace Martin, The Lox, Top Dawg, Top Dawg Entertainment, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Music Publishing Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vocals, Zacari

Last years glo-up, Pulitzer Prize winning artist and album (2018).
[DJ Dahi:]
I said I’m geeked and I’m fired up (fired, fire)
All I want tonight is just get high up (high, high, high)
Girl, you look so good, it’s to die for (die for)
Ooh, that p—y good, it’s to die for (on fire)

[Kendrick Lamar & Rihanna:]
It’s a secret society
All we ask is trust
(All we ask is trust)
All we got is us
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty
Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty

[Kendrick Lamar:]
Kung Fu Kenny now
My resume is real enough for two millenniums
A better way to make a wave, stop defendin’ them
I meditate and moderate all of my wins again
I’m hangin’ on the fence again
I’m always on your mind
I put my lyric and my lifeline on the line
And ain’t no limit when I might shine, might grind
You rollin’ with it at the right time, right now
(Only for the dollar sign)
[https://youtu.be/Dlh-dzB2U4Y]

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Ab-Soul, Anderson .Paak, & James Blake – “Bloody Waters”

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1986, 1987, 2018, Ab-Soul, Aftermath, Alternative, Anderson .Paak, Atlanta, Black, Black Hippy, Black Panther, Black Panther Soundtrack, Bloody Waters, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brandon Paak Anderson, Breezy Lovejoy, California, Carson, Chapel Hill, Compton, Del Amo, Digi+Phonics, drums, electronic, Enfield, England, experimental Hip-Hop, Footprints, Funk, Georgia, Glock, Hail Mary, Harmonimix, Herbert Stevens IV, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Interscope, Jamaica, James Blake, James Litherland, Kendrick Duckworth, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Killmonger, Korean, London, Los Angeles, Mark Spears, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, North Carolina, One-Take Blake, Oxnard, percussion, piano, Pop-Rap, post-dubstep, R&B, Ralph's, Rapper, Robin Hannibal, Robin Hannibal Mølsted Braun, songwriter, Soul, Soundtrack, Sounwave, Stones Throw, synthesizer, T'Challa, The Lox, Top Dawg, Top Dawg Entertainment, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United Kingdom, United States, Universal Music Publishing Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vocals, Zacari

[Ab-Soul:]
Meet the man in the mask
Meet the man in the mask
[James Blake:]
All those days and all that stays and
I don’t keep it
I won’t be here for it
All those days and all that stays and
I don’t keep it though
I won’t be here for it

[Anderson .Paak:]
Yes Lord, huh
Hail Mary’s in the sky
Bossed up let’s get buried alive
Head on the throne ’cause that’s where I reside (reside)
Ways of the world that we won’t survive
Something’s in the water
My n—a we lawless (lawless)
Please move with caution
Who set the fair way? (fair way)
Damn right I need all this (all this)
Yeah Jack I need all this, eyy

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics – “Sally Got a One Track Mind”

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1969, 1992, 88-Keys, Big L, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Born To Be Blue, Bronx, Buckwild, Chemistry, D.I.T.C., David Perez, Diamond D, Diamond D & The Psychotic Neurotics, Diggin' in the Crates, Diggin' in the Crates Crew, DJ Mark the 45 King, drum machine, Fat Joe, hip hop producer, Hip-Hop, hip-hop group, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, It's a New Day, Jack Bruce, Jazzy Jay, Joseph Kirkland, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Lakim Shabazz, Large Professor, Lord Finesse, MC, Mercury, music, New York City, O.C., PolyGram Records, Producer-MC, Q-Tip, sampler, Showbiz, Showbiz & A.G., Skull Snaps, Sparkling in the Sand, Strings, Stunts Blunts and Hip Hop, The Yeezus Tour, Tower of Power, Turntable

I met Diamond D at the Kanye show the other night, so why not post the legend’s 1992 single.

[Hook]
Sally got a one track mind
It doesn’t matter if it’s yours or mine
Cause if ya getting dough and you wanna get with her
Yeah (YOU CAN HIT HER!)

[Verse 1]
I knew a girl named Sally who’s tastes were exquisite
Saks Fifth Avenue, bad made or is it?
When she was a child, her parents had money
She was spoiled rotten, and how things has gotten
Worse, she’s a professional (uhh!)
She’ll start to switch if her palms begin to itch
I watched her grow into a neighborhood ho
Ran around town with every Tom, Dick, and Joe
Quite amusing, but little did she know
That word got around that Sally was down
Sweet 16 but she looked 21
If the price was right, she’ll be twice as nice
Dissed her friends for a man in a Benz
Then he cuts you off when he hits the skins
Now you got another one, he drives a Beamer
Wake up girl, don’t be a day dreamer

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

Music Mondays – The Black Keys – “My Mind Is Ramblin'”

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1999, 2006, Akron, Alive, Alive Records, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues rock, Capricorn Records, Chulahoma, Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, country blues, Dan Auerbach, Daniel Quine Auerbach, David Kimbrough, drums, Fat Possum, Fat Possum Records, Garage rock, guitar, Hill country blues, Holly Springs, Hudsonville, indie rock, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, juke joint blues, Junior Kimbrough, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, music, Music Mondays, musician, My Mind Is Ramblin', Nonesuch, Nonesuch Records, Ohio, Patrick Carney, Patrick J. Carney, Producer, songwriter, The Black Keys, The Salesman, United States, US, V2, V2 Records, Vocals, Youtube

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 – 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

Music Mondays – The Black Keys – “Meet Me In The City” – Junior Kimbrough Cover

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1999, 2006, Akron, Alive, Alive Records, bass guitar, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues rock, Capricorn Records, Chulahoma, Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough, country blues, Dan Auerbach, Daniel Quine Auerbach, David Kimbrough, drums, Fat Possum, Fat Possum Records, Garage rock, guitar, Hill country blues, Holly Springs, Hudsonville, indie rock, juke joint blues, Junior Kimbrough, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, Meet Me in the City, Mississippi, music, Music Mondays, musician, Nonesuch, Nonesuch Records, Ohio, Patrick Carney, Patrick J. Carney, Producer, songwriter, The Black Keys, The Salesman, United States, US, V2, V2 Records, Vocals

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.

Cover Sundays – Martina Topley-Bird, Mark Lanegan, WarPaint – “Cristalised” The XX Cover

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1964, 2012, 4AD, alternative rock, art rock, Beggars Banquet, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, blues, California, David Orlando, dream pop, drum machine, Ellensburg, Emily Kokal, England, grunge, guitar, Honest Jon's, Independiente, indie rock, Isobel Campbell, Jenny Lee Lindberg, Josh Klinghoffer, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, keyboards, London, Los Angeles, Mad Season, Manimal Vinyl, Mark Lanegan, Mark William Lanegan, Martina Gillian Topley, Martina Topley-Bird, Massive Attack, Michael Quinn, musician, November 25, pop, Psychedelic rock, Queens of the Stone Age, Rough Trade, Screaming Trees, Seattle, Shannyn Sossamon, Singer-songwriter, Soulsavers, St. Pancras, Stella Mozgawa, Sub Pop, The Gorillaz, The Gutter Twins, Theresa Wayman, Tricky, trip hop, ukulele, United States, Violin, vocalist, Vocals, Warpaint, Washington

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 – Nas feat Jay-Z – “Black Republican”

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2006, actor, Black Republican, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, C. Coppala, City of Prague Philharmonic, Columbia, Crown Heights, Def Jam, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Is Dead, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Jay-Z, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, L. Lewis, L.E.S., Marcia Religiosa, music, N. Jones, Nas, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, Nasir Jones, Nasty Nas, New York, Queens, Queensbridge, Rapper, S. Carter, sampler, Sean Carter, Shawn Corey Carter, The Jones Experience, U.S., Vocals, W. Coleman, Wyldfyer

I know you can feel the magic baby
Turn the mother**** lights down
Esco whuttup?
I mean, it’s what you expected ain’t it?
Let’s go
Turn the music up and the headphones
Yeah, that’s perfect You got to take your time make a **** wait on this mother****
You make **** mad and **** like
**** usually start rappin’ after 4-bars **** go in
Let’s start dancin’ in this mother****
Yeah, we just come outta nowhere

(Nas and Jay-Z together)
I Feel Like A …..

[Jay-Z]
black republican, money I got coming in
cant turn my back on the hood I got love for them
Cant claim my act has been good, too much thug in him
I’ll probably end up back in the hood like f**k it then
rumblin’ over the oven, we was like brothers then
though u was nothin other than the son of my mothers friend
we had nothin then, who would have thought the love would end
I suppose that happens to all good things
never known it was the same song that all hoods sing
thought it was all wood grain, all good brain
we wouldn’t bicker like the other fools, talk good game
never imagine all the disaster that one good brang
could bring, should blame the game and I could
its kill or be killed, how could I refrain
jealousy evil and pride and this brings
its all to a head like a coin, cha-ching
the root of evil strikes again
this could sting, now the team got beef between the post and the point
this put the ring at jeopardy

Hook by Jay Z

I feel like… Black republican, money I got coming in
cant turn my back on the hood I got love for them
Cant claim my act has been good, too much thug in him
I’ll probably end back in the hood like f**k it then

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Nasty Nas – “Halftime”

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1994, Anthony Drazan, Atlanta Braves, Average White Band, Battery Studios, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Boogie Down, Brooklyn, C.H.I.P.S., Chung King Studios, Columbia, Columbia Records, Crown Heights, D&D, Dead End, debut, DJ Premier, Extra P Large P, G. Byrd, Gary Byrd, Hair, Hair Japanese cast original soundtrack, Halftime, Harlem, Hawaiian Sophie, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ill Will, illmatic, Jaz-O, John Jay, Jungle Fever, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, L.E.S., Large P., Large Pro, Large Professor, Main Source, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, MC Serch, N. Jones, Nas, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, Nasty Nas, New York, Oliver Stone, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Queens, Queensbridge, R&B, Ruffhouse Records, sampler, School Boy Crush, Schoolboy Crush, Soul Travelin', The Colour of Love, Triumph Releasing Corporation, U.S., Unique Studios, Vocals, W.P. Mitchell, William Paul Mitchell, Zebrahead

Originally appearing in the soundtrack for the 1992 film Zebrahead.

(Right..) (Right..)
Check me out y’all, Nasty Nas in your area
About to cause mass hysteria

[Nas]
Before a blunt, I take out my fronts
Then I start to front, matter of fact, I be on a manhunt
You couldn’t catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer
That’s like Malcolm X, catchin the Jungle Fever
King poetic, too much flavor, I’m major
Atlanta ain’t Brave-r, I’ll pull a number like a pager
Cause I’m am ace when I face the bass
40-side is the place that is giving me grace
Now wait, another dose and you might be dead
And I’m a Nike head, I wear chains that excite the feds
And ain’t a damn thing gonna change
I’ma performer strange show the mic warmer was born to gain
Nas, why did you do it?
You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it’s halftime

(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Aiyyo it’s halftime
(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Yeah, it’s about halftime
This is how it feel, check it out, how it feel