Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – The Fugees – “Nappy Heads (Remix)”

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1994, Atlanta, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Blunted on Reality, California, Clef, Code Red, Columbia, Croix-des-Bouquets, fugees, Georgia, Guerrilla Entertainment, Haiti, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Walker, L. Boogie, Lauryn Hill, Libra, Mona Lisa, Ms. Hill, music, musician, Nappy Heads, Nappy Heads Remix, New Jersey, New York, New York City, Prakazrel Samuel Michel, Pras, Pras Michel, Queens, Rapper, record producer, reggae fusion, Ruffhouse, Sacramento, Salaam Remi, Soul, South Orange, Stephen King, The Fugees, Tranzlator Crew, UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, United States, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Van Gibbs, Wyclef, Wyclef Jean, Wyclef Jeanelle Jean

I couldn’t in right mind use 2 Chainz feat Kanye West “Birthday Song.”

[Wyclef]
Yo Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?
And if you’re busy, I wouldn’t mind taking
Saturday-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay
Round up de posse, Fugee comin around the way

[Wyclef] Yo, hey nappy head
[Lauryn] Yo whashup?
[Wyclef] Whatchu got there?
[Lauryn] Hah, I got some of that lyrical cheeba cheeba
[Wyclef] Worrrrrd?

A cheeba cheeba y’all, well I’m a Libra y’all
A cheeba cheeba y’all, well I’m a Libra y’all

New To You Music Sundays – SZA – “Teen Spirit”

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'Teen Spirit', Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Fredo Tovar, Key Yemaya Walker, Maplewood, Missouri, neo soul, New Jersey, New To You Music Sundays, Scott Fleishman, Singer-songwriter, Solana Rowe, St Louis, SZA, Top Dawg Entertainment, UNC Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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 – Rudimental – “Ready Or Not” Fugees Cover

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Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Cover, Cover Sundays, East Orange, Fugeesz, Hip-Hop, Key Yemaya Walker, Lauryn Hill, New Jersey, Pras Michel, Ready Or Not, Rudimental, The Fugeezs, Wyclef Jean

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.

Foto Fridays – KAWS Companion Passing Through in Atlanta

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1974, 2012, Atlanta, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brian Donnelly, Brooklyn, Companion Passing Through, Foto Fridays, Georgia, Graffiti, Graphic design, High Museum of Art, Instagram, iPhone, iPhone 5, iPhone Post, Jersey City, KAWS, Key Yemaya Walker, New Jersey, New York, New York City, OriginalFake, Painting, School of Visual Arts, Sculpture

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.

Text Tuesdays – Assata Shakur – Poem – “No One Can Stop The Rain”

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Assata Shakur, Black liberation Army, Black Panther, Civil Rights, Cuba, JoAnne Chesimard, New Jersey, No One Can Stop The Rain, Poem, poetry, Prose, Text Tuesdays, Words

Featuring someone else’s work.
No One Can Stop The Rain
By Assata Shakur

Watch, the grass is growing.
Watch, but don’t make it obvious.
Let your eyes roam casually, but watch!
In any prison yard, you can see it – growing.
In the cracks, in the crevices, between the steel and the concrete,
out of the dead gray dust,
the bravest blades of grass shoot up, bold and full of life.
Watch, the grass is growing.
It is growing through the cracks.
The guards say grass is against the Law.
Grass is contraband in

Blue Lines Blog – #PhotoADayAug – Day 24 – Path (Train) New York

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#PhotoADayAug, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Day 24, Fat Mum Slim, Instagram, Key Yemaya Walker, New Jersey, New York, Path, Path Train, Train, World Trade Center, WTC

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 feat Biz Markie – “Lovely How I Let My Mind Float”

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1994, Amityville, Biz Markie, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Breakadawn, Crash Crew, D. Jolicoeur, Dave, David Jude Jolicoeur, De La Soul, Egg Harbor Township, Ego Trippin', Ego Trippin' (Part Two), Ego Trippin' 2, Golden Age, golden age of hip hop, High Power Rap, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, K. Mercer, Kelvin Mercer, Key Yemaya Walker, Long Island, Lovely How I Let My Mind Float, Mase, Maseo, music, Native Tongues, New Jersey, New York, P. Huston, Plug 1, Plug 2, Pos, Posdnuos, Prince, Prince Paul, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, The Diabolical Biz Markie, The Markie Kidd, Tommy Boy, Trugoy The Dove, V. Mason, Vincent Mason

I loved “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” sample in the track also, grabbed me instantly.

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 – Lords Of The Underground – “Chief Rocka”

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1993, Alvin Cash, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Born To Be Blue, Cassette, CD, Chief Rocka, DJ Lord Jazz, DoItAll, East Coast Hip-Hop, Elektra, G.I. Joe, golden age of hip hop, hardcore rap, Here Come the Lords, High School, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, House of Pain, I die for the funk, I live for the funk, Jack Bruce, Jersey Kidz Records, K-Def, Key Yemaya Walker, L.O.T.U.G., Lords of the Underground, Machine Gun Funk, Marley Marl, Mr. Funke, music, New Jersey, Newark, Pendulum, Pendulum Records, Pendulum/Elektra, Ready to Die, The Notorious B.I.G., Twine Time, Underground hip hop, vinyl

Verse One: Mr. Funke

Boom shaka laka yo here comes the Chief Rocka
Rock it down so jump up off the tip you’re not my nucca
For sharper type to battle make the people say ooh ahh
Think I won’t curse I’ll break down and say puta
Now fam a lam I’ll be damned, slam jams the weak
Could it be the skunk weed that makes us oh so funky?
Now hold it let me choose, couldn’t be the booze
No it’s the shoes (the shoes?) It’s gotta be the shoes!
Cause girlies, they clock, they stand around and jock
so I say boom shaka lak, grab the microphone then rock
To think I’m the troop, when on the mic?
I’ll say it, it ain’t the shows kid?
Like drunk and a grump and sound over some uhhhh!?
The Cat in the Hat and the mouse ran up the stairs
“That doesn’t make no sense!” C’mon who cares?
See even without the gift there’s yours so don’t be tryin to knock me
I say what I want to say, as long it sounds funky
Some MC’s wanted to buy me, so they try to take stands
But they don’t understand, I’m the motherfuckin man
I amaze and astound, rhythm up and down
Smack a group of them around, let them know who wears the crown
Who’s-the-tip-of-the-top, the-cream-of-the-crop, the-best-under-the-sun?
I’m the Lord Chief Rocka, number one, Mr. Funke, uhh

*Lord Jazz cuts ‘The Lord Chief Rocka, number one, Chief Rocka’ 8X*

New 30 Day Song Challenge – Day 22 – Song You Can’t Listen To Without Singing – Biz Markie – “Just A Friend”

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1989, 30 Day Song Challenge, actor, Beastie Boys, Biz Markie, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Cold Chillin', Cold Chillin' Records, Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros., comedy music, Digital Underground, Egg Harbor Township, Freddie Scott, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Music, Juice Crew, Key Yemaya Walker, Lionel C. Martin, Long Island, Marcel Theo Hall, Marley Marl, music, New 30 Day Song Challenge, New Jersey, New York, Producer, Singer-songwriter, The Biz Never Sleeps, The Diabolical Biz Markie, The Markie Kidd, Tommy Boy Entertainment, Warner Bros.

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 – Cypress Hill – “Boom Biddy Bye Bye [Fugees Remix]

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1996, Adil Omar, B-Real, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Boom Biddy Bye Bye (Fugees Remix), California, Columbia, Columbia Records, Cuban, Cypress Hill, Cypress X Rusko, Deadmau5, Diamond D, DJ Muggs, EMI, Everlast, Fergie, Funkdoobiest, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, House of Pain, Ice Cube, La Coka Nostra, Lauryn Hill, Lyrics, music, New Jersey, Pras Michel, Priority, Psycho Realm, Rage Against The Machine, Ruffhouse, Ruffhouse/Columbia Records, Rusko, Sen Dog, Slash, Snoop Dogg, Sol Invicto, Sony Music, Soul Assassins, South Gate, South Orange, The Fugees, Tom Morello, Travis Barker, U.S., United States, Unreleased and Revamped, vinyl, Wyclef, Wyclef Jean, Xzibit, Young De

[Wyclef] Refugee camp, with Cypress Hill
[B-Real] Yo, bringin it on
[Wyclef] Cubans meet the Haitians
Perfect combination, check it

[Verse One: Wyclef, B-Real]

[Wyclef] You say guns
[B-Real] I say pistolas
[Wyclef] Well if you got beef son
[B-Real] Callate la boca
[Wyclef] Go meet me on the island where the Cubans meet the Haitians
[B-Real] A bullet beats the verbal lyrical assassination
[Wyclef] From L.A. to Brooklyn why you doin all that talkin
[B-Real] Think you got a soul but you’re a Dead Man Walking
[Wyclef] Yo toast the host from coasts’ we boast
When we meet again, I will be Casper that Friendly Ghost
[B-Real] You’ll hear shots, like the show Cops
Things are still the same, I’m still growin crops
[Wyclef] Wyclef with B-Real, let me build better yet
[B-Real] Killa bee kill
[Wyclef] Yo B-Real watch your grip

[Chorus: B-Real, Wyclef, Lauryn Hill]

[B-Real] Hi, boom biddy bye bye
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhhahhh, ahhhahhh
[Wyclef] You open up your eyes you’ll be the next one to die
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhhahhh
[B-Real] Boom biddy bye bye
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhhahhh
[Wyclef] Ohh as simple as they come as simple as they die
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhhahhh
[B-Real] Boom biddy bye bye
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhhahhh
[Wyclef] Yo who told the boy, to pack a forty-five
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhhahhh
[B-Real] Boom biddy bye bye
[Lauryn Hill] Ahhahhhh, ahhahhhh
[Wyclef] Now he rest in the place that they call paradise