Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – The Firm (Nature) feat Noreaga – “I’m Leaving”

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AZ, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Capone-N-Noreaga, Cormega, Dr. Dre, Foxy Brown, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, I'm Leaving, Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand, Jermain Baxter, Key Yemaya Walker, LeFrak City, Mafioso rap, Nas, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, Nasty Nas, Nature, New York, New York City, Noreaga, Noriega, Queens, Queensbridge, Rap, Rapper, Supergroup, The Firm, Trackmasters, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Victor Santiago Jr.

A Blue Lines era song, referenced briefly in the manuscript.

[Noreaga]
yo, Nori know this, and Nori know that
but Nori know gat (why)
cause Nori buck dat
Iraq’ll make you famous
throwing gang signs like it’s sign language
distinguish us from the others
kidnap your baby mothers
bringing drama to the deep covers
salute g, bust you down like a lucie
Jose probably lay with a gold uzi
crunk Italy, Africa and Sicily
n—az acting sissy see
pointing guns and missing me
([Nas:] “Yo son, it’s on son”)
hey yo there’s beef in the hood again
n—az came with hoods again
thinking that it woulda been
saw us, from what we first did
when we did
now we twist another wig, a mother lose another kid
but it’s beef now, keep it short
real brief now
strike vigorous, no intentions of missing it
they sent the message, or example, whatever
set it up man on man
only to score we apply the plan
quickly explain why you ran in this dark land
we lay you down in the sand
on the lines like the internet
many would come if you would pose off
against my set, there ain’t a n—a yet
smoke so much, n—az say I need nicarette
you say bogie but you used to say cigarette
nine-oh, a new religion, a new beginning

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – AZ – “Rather Unique”

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1995, Amar Pep, Anthony Cruz, Anticipation, AZ, AZ The Visualiza, Big Daddy Kane, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Buckwild, Doe Or Die, DR Period, East Coast Hip-Hop, EMI, Funky Drummer, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, Just Rhymin with Biz, Key Yemaya Walker, Koch, L.E.S., Les McCann, Loose, Lunatic Mind, Mafioso rap, Motown, music, N.O. Joe, New York, New York City, Noo Trybe Records/Virgin, Pete Rock, Queens, Quiet Money Records, Rapper, Rather Unique, Ski, Sosa, The Firm, USA, Vocals

Rock the house
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
East New York, East New York
To my n—a AZ to the fullest

We was already loyal to people’s minds and mulianis
Now we more f—ed up with a mayor named Guliani
You can try to bomb me analyze but can’t define me
My mind’s divine heavily entwined with Ghandi’s

Far from feeble, I leave your nostrils hard to breathe through
‘Cause my cerebrals are more of a higher plane than the Hebrews
Well my mic devotion brings out my deepest emotions
Overdosing wannabes posing sending them through convulsions

To hard to follow, you took a bite but couldn’t swallow
Your mind’s boggled but I’m as deep as Donald Goines novels
My whole persona’s kinda laid back like a recliner
And since my mama, I been f—ing with marijuana

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Raekwon the Chef feat Ghostface Killah – “Rainy Dayz”

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1994, 1996, Ain't No Sunshine, Barbra Streisand, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blue Raspberry, Corey Woods, Dennis Coles, Donna Summer, Ghost Deini, Ghost Face Killah, Ghostdini, Ghostface, Ghostface Killah, Ghostface Killer, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ironman, Key Yemaya Walker, Lex Diamonds, Lou Diamonds, Loud Records, Mafioso rap, Michael Jackson, music, New York City, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, P Tone, Pretty Toney, Raekwon, Raekwon the Chef, Rainy Dayz, Robert Diggs, Shallah Raekwon, Staten Island, The Killer, The Wallabee Kingpin, The Wally Champ, Tony Starks, United States, University Of Bridgeport, Wu-Tang Clan, You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good

Fits with the weather today in Atlanta…rain and tornadoes.
Intro: Blue Raspberry

Summer’s dream inside
Of how I’m gonna get mine
I’m thinkin bou-owowow-out so many ways
Of how to conquer, these raihahahahahny days…
[You sang beautifully just now]
[ I sang for him, and he isn’t here]
*birds craw and cackle*

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Big Pun feat Inspectah Deck & Prodigy – “Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy)”

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1998, Big Pun, Big Punisher, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Capital Punishment, Cypress Hill, East Coast Hip-Hop, Eric B & Rakim, gangsta rap, Gary Burton, Hamburger Hill, hardcore hip hop, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Horrorcore, Inspectah Deck, Key Yemaya Walker, Latin hip hop, Loud Records, Mafioso rap, Mobb Deep, music, Prodigy, Protect Ya Neck, Queensbridge, Raekwon, Rakim, Red Dawn, RZA, Scarface, Shaolin, Terror Squad, The Bronx, The Rebel INS, The RZA, Tony Montana, Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy), Wu-Tang Clan

[Featuring Inspectah Deck, Prodigy]
“Wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned…” –>
Rakim

(repeat 2X)
“Wake you up and as I stare in your…” (repeat 2X)
“I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned”
[Prodigy] Remember P, the one you got your whole style from?
“I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned”
[Prodigy] Remember me, the one you got your rhyme style from?
“I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned”
[Prodigy] Remember P, the one you got your rhyme style from?
“Yo it’s the P” *cut and scratched*

Verse One: Prodigy
Yo, disperse from off this, who the culprits
that claim to be the newest, rap n’ bulls–t
My rhymes, get Ruger endorsements, my song boost
and the tech sales through the ceiling, let’s talk with guns
Convo til the po-lice come
Give you a red shirt with the wet hat to match
First max like it’s Hamburger Hill for real
It’s Red Dawn when the Mobb get it on, my outfit
stuck on some wild out s–t, all about it
We move gambit, through the overcrowded
Forthwith, pull out long fifths, extended clips
Point the nozzle and shift your back disc
Me and the click-a, sit down and eat dinner
Wake up every mornin write a new banger
that strike harder than your best attempt to sound like P
or the H-A-V-O-C, n—a