Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Beastie Boys feat Q-Tip – “Get It Together (A.B.A. Remix)”

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1994, A Tribe Called Quest, A.B.A. Remix, Abednego, Abstract, Ad-Rock, Adam Horovitz, Adam Keefe Horovitz, Adam Nathaniel Yauch, Adam Yauch, Adrock, alternative hip hop, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Arista, Atwater Village, bass, bass guitar, Battery, Beastie Boys, Bell Communications, Biz Markie, Bloach, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Brooklyn, Buddhist, Capitol, Capitol/Grand Royal, Chachi, Country Mike, Def Jam, Director, disc jockey, DJ, Drummer, drums, Eugene McDaniels, Evan Bernard, Farmers Blvd, film distributor, G-Son Studios, Get It Together, Get It Together (A.B.A. Remix), good music, Grand Funk Railroad, Grand Royal, guitar, Guitarist, Happy Days, hardcore punk, Headless Heroes, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ill Communication, Ione, Ione Skye, jazz-funk, jazz-rap, Jewish, Jive, Joanie, Joanie Loves Chachi, John Holmes, John Starks, Jonathan Davis, Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboards, King Adrock, Ma Bell, Manhattan, Mario Caldato Jr, MC, MC Love Child, MCA, Meshach, Michael Diamond, Mike D, Moog, Moog Machine, music, musician, Nathanial Hörnblowér, Native Tongues, Native Tongues Posse, New York, New York City, New York Knicks, Nothing Is the Same, NY, percussion, Piano/keyboards, Q-Tip, Queens, Queens New York, Rap rock, rapcore, Rapper, Rapping, Rat Cage, record producer, Sabotage / Get It Together, Shadrach, sitar, songwriter, Sp-1200, St. Albans, The King of Lunch, Tin Pan Alley, Turntables, U.S., United States, Universal Motown, US, USA, Vassar College, Vocals, Young and the Useless

[Q-Tip]
One-two, one-two, keep it on
Listen to the s–t because we kick it ’til dawn
Listen to the Abstract, got it going on
Listen to the ladies, come on and let me spawn
On your eggs, then you go up the river
Listen to the abstract, that freaky n—a

[Ad Rock]
Now I’m Ad Rock and I shock and I tick and I tock
And I can’t stop with the body rock

[Mike D]
See, I’ve got heart like John Starks
Hitting mad sparks
Pass me the mic and I’ll be rockin’ the whole park

[MCA]
Well, I’m the M to the C to the A and it’s a must
The rhymes that we bust on the topic of lust

[Q-Tip]
And my Moms is not butt, but f–k it
Let me get down to the rhythm
Yes, I get funky and I’m shooting all my jism
Like John Holmes, the X-rated n—-r
Listen to the s–t cause I am the ill figure
Nobody’s getting any bigger than this

*Get it together*
Get…
Phone is ringing, oh my God
*Get it together, see what’s happening*

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

Hip Hop Quotable Wednesdays (Late) – Redman – “Rockafella”

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1990's, 1994, 48 Hours, Afro, Atlanta, Blue Chips, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bob Fudjinski, Bob Morse, Bravos, Breyer's Ice Cream, Brick City, Brooklyn, Cali, Chicago, Chicago Bulls, Chocolate City, Clinton, Collins, Coney Island, Danny Clinch, Dare Iz a Darkside, Dave Greenberg, Def Jam, Def Jam Recordings, Def Squad, DJ Twinz, EPMD, Erick Sermon, Fantasia, Flashlight, Funk, Funky, George Clinton, Haywood, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Hurricane G, I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You, Illtown, Jeff Stewart, Jeff Trotter, Jeru, Jeru Da Damaja, Keith Murray, Key Yemaya Walker, Kraftwerk, Leon Haywood, Lyrics, Mike Bona, music, NBA Jams, New York, Newark, Nick Nolte, NJ, Noble, North Carolina, NY, Parliament, PPP, Q-Tip, Redman, Reggie Noble, Reginald "Reggie" Noble, Rock Box, Rockafella, Run-DMC, Shaft, Shaq, SkyPager, T-LA Rock, The Bronx, The Worlds Playground, Tony Dawsey, Underground, Underground hip hop, Worrell

Intro:

Aiyyo yo yo yo you better pass it
Aiyyo check this out
We coming to you live from that BOMB Chocolate City my man
Where the knotty headed n—-z and the Brick City brigade dwell
And if you don’t know your fool better ask
Aiyyo yo you better pass that blunt
And yo E we comin to you live with the Cosmic type stuff

Verse One: Redman

Well it’s that brother coming six billion feet from beneath
And you should be peep-in how I get smoked-out on the weekend
I swing it to my crew or down to my fans
Schoolin hell of stackas like final exams
Cause, it’s the Funkadelic, hit you with the irrelevant
elements, and it’s coming through your block
Can’t you smell it trick?
Wanna copy-cat my whole format
So you get funk tracks, punch lines and skull hats
Hoooo! Got a little Redman in town
Who’s that effin clown soundin wack with the frown??
I don’t know man, but you better wonder what I would do
While loud on this staff like birds one and two
My crew runs thicka than syrup from the burrow
You get hurt up, word up, Jam-med like Pearl
Knock off from blood clot puff on the rough block
Or I peep my man, Rockafella, it don’t stop

Chorus:

On and on, and it don’t quit
Redman rockin on to the funky s–t, c’mon
On and on, and it don’t quit
Redman rockin on to the funky s–t
I said Jersey’s in the house Jersey’s in the house
I said Brooklyn’s in the house Brooklyn’s in the house
I said Uptown’s in the house Uptown’s in the house
I said the Bronx in the hidouse The Bronx in the hidouse

Foto Fridays – 42nd Street Subway Station in Times Square

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1, 10036, 2, 3, 42nd Street, 7, and Q trains at all times, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, BMT Broadway Line, Broadway, Bus Pass, Foto Fridays, IND Eighth Avenue Line, IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, IRT Flushing Line, Key Yemaya Walker, Manhattan, Midtown Manhattan, N, Neon, New York, New York City Subway rapid transit station complex, NY, Paint Daubs, Photography, photoshop, Port Authority Bus Terminal, railroad north, Seventh Avenue, Times Square, Train, Transit, two island platforms

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.